Expelling Demons
Actually, Christ places casting out demons before the speaking with new tongues. There is significance in this order. The intention is that the people shall first be fully delivered from demons before they seek the baptism in the Spirit and the speaking with new tongues. However, through lack of discernment and understanding, this is not practiced in the church today. The result is that people nowadays are quite often baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak with new tongues but still need deliverance from demons after that. It is time for the church to devote prayerful, open-minded study to the subject of demonology.
The New Testament Greek word for “demon” is daimonion. This is the diminutive form of another Greek word, daimon. In Greek mythology and folklore, these words were used to describe a special class of beings to whom were attributed varying degrees of supernatural influence or power. Various cults and superstitious observances centered in these beings, and they played an important part in the daily life of the common people.
In the King James Version the Greek word daimonion is often translated “devil.” However, this is incorrect. The word “devil” is formed from the Greek word diabolos, which means literally “slanderer.” In Scripture, this normally is reserved as a term for Satan himself.
Associated in the New Testament with the noun daimonion is the passive verb daimonizomai. The literal meaning of this verb is “to be demonized” – that is, to be in some way under the influence or power of demons. Thus the meaning of the verb is very general. In the King James Version this verb is usually translated by some phrase such as to be “possessed” or to be “vexed” by demons or evil spirits. However, there are no distinctions in the original Greek text to which these various different English words correspond. Some preachers have worked out elaborate distinctions between possession, oppression, or obsession by demons. However, there is nothing in the original Greek to support these distinctions.
Two other phrases normally used in this connection in the New Testament are “evil spirit” and “unclean spirit.” A comparison of Revelation 16, verses 13 and 14, would seem to indicate that the two phrases “unclean spirits” and “spirits of demons” are used more or less interchangeably. There are three main elements that are associated with the concept of personality. These three elements are: knowledge, will, and emotion. It is important to see that all these three elements of personality are found in the New Testament picture of demons.
Demons possess knowledge. In Mark 1:24, the demon in the main synagogue at Capernaum said to Yeshua HaMashiach, “I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” In Acts 19:15, the evil spirit in the man at Ephesus said to the seven sons of Sceva, “Yeshua I know [acknowledge], and Paul I know [know about]; but who are you?” Demons possess will. In Matthew 12:14, the unclean spirit who has gone out of the man but can find no place of rest, says, “I will return to my house from which I came.” In Luke 8:31-33, the demons in the man of Gadarenes displayed very strongly their will not to be cast into the abyss, but rather to be allowed to enter into the swine. Demons possess emotion. In James 2:19 we read, “Even the demons believe – and tremble!”
Another fact that attests to the personality of demons is their ability to speak. This is recorded in many passages of the New Testament. We sometimes can attribute the concept of personality to anything that is able to express its meaning in intelligible speech. By every standard, therefore, we see that demons display all of the attributes of personality. This is of tremendous importance. Christian believers are in no position to deal with demons successfully until they recognize that demons, beings that God originally created as angels that chose evil and rebelled against Him, are beings, not things. A demon is not a habit or a mental state or a psychological condition. A demon is a spirit being!
One means by which the presence or activity of demons may be detected is with the supernatural manifestation gift of the Holy Spirit called in 1 Corinthians 12:10 “discerning of spirits.” Many Christians that have been baptized in the Holy Spirit manifest some measure of this discernment, but quite often they do not fully realize the nature of this operation of the Holy Spirit, and therefore they do not make effective use of it. Discernment of this kind needs to be cultivated with regular exercise. For this reason, we read in Hebrews 5:14 of believers “who are of full age [maturity], that is who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” In the church today there are all too few believers who exhibit this mark of spiritual maturity.
If Christians are willing to exercise their spiritual senses, they will soon begin to discover that there are many different symptoms that commonly indicate the presence or activity of demons. Some of the most common of these symptoms are set forth under two headings: first mental/emotional related primarily to the inner nature and personality; second physical related primarily to the outward bodily appearance and condition.
1. Mental/emotional
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- Persistent or recurrent evil or destructive emotions or attitudes that can dominate a person, even contrary to his own will or nature e.g. resentment, hatred, fear, envy, jealousy, pride, self – pity, tension, impatience.
- “Moods” – unreasonable, sudden, extreme fluctuations e.g. from talkative exhilaration to taciturn depression.
- Various forms of religious error or bondage e.g. submission to unscriptural doctrines or prohibitions, unnatural asceticism, refusal to eat normal foods, superstitious observances of all kinds, all forms of idolatry.
- Resorting to charms, fortune telling, astrology, mediums, etc.
- Enslaving habits e.g. gluttony, alcohol, nicotine, drugs, sexual immorality or perversion of all kinds, uncontrollable or unclean thoughts or looks.
- Blasphemy mocker, unclean language.
- Persistent or violent opposition to the truth of Scripture or the work of the Holy Spirit.
- Physical
- Unnatural restlessness and talkativeness, muttering.
- The eyes glazed or unnaturally bright and protruding or unable to focus naturally.
- Frothing at the mouth, fetid breath.
- Palpitation or unnaturally accelerated action of the heart.
- Shunning, recoiling from, or fighting against the power of the Holy Spirit.
In many cases one of these symptoms alone would not be conclusive indication of demonic presence or activity. But where several of these symptoms are found together, the probability of demon activity is extremely high.
In addition to these symptoms, the New Testament indicates plainly that demons are often the cause of purely physical sicknesses or infirmities. For instance, in Luke 13:11 we read of a “woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up.” As soon as this woman was delivered from this spirit of infirmity, her physical condition became completely normal Yeshua himself described her as “a daughter of Abraham” (v. 16). That is to say, she was a true believer. There is no suggestion that she was guilty of any special sin. The power of the demon was manifested solely in her physical body.
Again, in Acts 19:12, we read concerning the ministry of Paul in Ephesus, “so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.” Here “evil spirits” and “diseases” are associated together in a way that implies at times some kind of causal relationship between them. The following are some common mental or physical conditions that are sometimes caused by demons: insanity, insomnia, epilepsy, fits, cramps, migraines, sinus infections, tumors, ulcers, heart disease, arthritis, paralysis, dumbness, deafness, and blindness.
What are the conditions for deliverance from the destructive influence and power of demons? The first condition is a correct diagnosis. In 1 Corinthians 9:26 Paul describes his ministry as follows: “Thus I fight: not as one beats the air.” Where Christians are confronted by demons but do not realize the nature of their enemies, they are like a boxer who lashes out wildly with his fists but never lands his blows upon his opponent’s body. They may expend much time and energy, but they never make real “contact” with the unseen enemies who oppose them. For this reason, relatively little is accomplished. Once the presence and activity of demons have been correctly diagnosed, there are a number of further conditions for deliverance. Some of these concern the believer who is seeking to minister deliverance; others concern the person who needs deliverance.
The following are five important conditions that a believer administering deliverance, or “deliverance minister”, should fulfill:
1. The minister must recognize the authority delegated to him in the Name of Yeshua. Yeshua Himself said, “In My Name they will cast out demons” (Mark 16:17). Then, in Luke 10:17 we read, “The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your Name.” In Acts 16:18, when Paul spoke to the spirit of divination in the slave girl at Philippi, he said, “I command you in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach to come out of her.”
2. The minister needs the power of the Holy Spirit. In Matthew 12:28, Yeshua said “If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, sure the kingdom of God has come unto you.” He thus attributed His ability to cast out demons to the power of the Holy Spirit, the Ruach Hakadosh. Likewise in Luke 4:18 He attributed to the anointing of the Holy Spirit His ability “to proclaim liberty [or deliverance] to the captives … to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”
- The minister must understand and apply to each case the relevant principles of Scripture that define the conditions for forgiveness of sins and the legal basis of redemption through the Blood of Yeshua.
- The minister must often be prepared to provide both the time and place for intimate personal counseling. Generally speaking, the most unsuitable time or place is at the altar of a church during a public service!
- The minister must beware of spiritual pride in any form. He must be motivated by sincere, God – given passion for the one who needs deliverance. In all the outreaches of the church today, there is no more needy or pitiful class of persons than those who require deliverance from demons.
We may now turn to the case of the one who needs deliverance: the patient.
- Humility. The patient must, in humility, submit himself to God before he can resist the devil (see James 4:6-7).
- Honesty. This demands a full and frank acknowledgment both of the patient’s condition and of any sins that may have contributed to that condition (see Psalm 32:1-5).
- Confession. The patient must specifically confess to God all known sin (see 1 John 1:9). In addition, he may also have to make confession to the one who is praying with him for deliverance. This is implied by the words of James 5:16 “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another.” This speaks of confession not merely to God, but also to man. The order is first “confess” then “pray.”
- Renunciation. It is not enough to confess sin without renouncing it. “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy (Proverbs 28:13).” “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:7). This sinner must forsake not only “his way” (any inward sinful leanings or desires, even though these are not expressed in outward acts). “Forsaking” must come before “mercy” and “pardon.”
- Forgiveness. The one who desires forgiveness from God must first forgive his fellow men. Resentment and an unforgiving spirit are two of the most common hindrances to deliverance. In Hebrews 12:15, we are warned against “any root of bitterness.” Wherever bitterness has poisoned the heart, it must be totally removed, so that not even a root of it is left. There is special significance in the order of words in the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. First, “forgive us our debts [or trespasses] as we forgive our debtors [or those who trespass against us].” That is to say, our forgiveness from God is in proportion to our forgiveness from our fellow men. Then, “Deliver us from the evil one.” That is to say, forgiveness must come before deliverance. Without forgiveness, we have no right to deliverance.
- When the patient has met the above five conditions, he is then in a position to claim the promise of Joel 2:32: “Whoever calls upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved [or delivered].” Calling aloud upon the Name of the Lord Yeshua HaMashiach normally sets in motion the process of deliverance.
It is important to realize that deliverance is normally a process. This process may be brief or long and drawn out, it may be intense and dramatic, or it may be quiet and scarcely perceptible. But whenever a person is delivered from a demon, there is some definite experience or reaction. When there is no definite experience or reaction, it is questionable whether deliverance has really taken place.
In this connection, certain very simple common sense principles apply. If there is a demon anywhere within a person, then that demon must come out. Unless the demon actually comes out, there has been no deliverance. Normally a demon will seek to remain in hiding rather than be compelled to manifest its presence and come out.
A demon is a “spirit.” The Greek word for “spirit”, pneuma, also means “breath.” A person’s breath normally enters or leaves his body through his mouth or nose. The same is true of demons/evil spirits. When a demon comes out of a person, it normally comes out through his mouth. At this point, there is usually some definite manifestation. The following are some manifestations connected with the mouth that commonly mark the culmination of the process of deliverance: a hiss, a cough, sobbing, screaming, roaring, belching, spitting, or vomiting.
The phenomena of screaming or roaring are referred to in Acts 8:7: “Unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed.” However, these are only two out of various possible phenomena connected in some way with the mouth. Experience has convinced me that different classes of demons exhibit different types of behavior. For example, demons of sexual uncleanness normally come out with some forms of spitting or vomiting (and quite often large amounts of slimy, mucous material are brought up in the process). The demon of fear normally comes out with a kind of hysterical sobbing or whimpering. The demons of lying and of hatred utter a loud roar. The demon of smoking addiction comes out with a cough or gasp.
It sometimes happens that demons virtually set aside the personality of the patient and manifest and express their own personality through him. At times, they take control of the patient’s organs of speech and use these to utter their own words. Sometimes this causes an obvious change of voice. A gruff, masculine type of voice may be heard out of a woman’s throat. It sometimes happens also that the demon within a person may understand and speak a language not known to the person himself. In such cases, the minister may exercise the authority delegated to him through the Name of Yeshua and may command each demon to name itself, thus revealing its nature and activity. The following are some of the names that I have heard given: fear, hatred, lies, doubt, envy, jealousy, confusion, perversity, schizophrenia, death, suicide, adultery, mockery, blasphemy, witchcraft. I have also heard a number of other names too obscene to print.
Today, by divine providence, the veils of convention and carnality are once again being drawn aside, and the church of Yeshua HaMashiach is being confronted by the same manifest opposition of demon power that confronted the church of the New Testament. In these circumstances, the church must again explore the resources of authority and power made available to it through the Truth of Scripture, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and the Name and the Blood of the Lord Yeshua HaMashiach.
(C) 1970 Derek Prince Ministries International derekprince.org
October 15, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Attention Space Craft
5-28-05
Thru Vision
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God Spoke
It Is Among You Now
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October 22, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I have mind attacks which happen often when bad thoughts pop in my mind saying @#$% to God and when I try to pray keep getting confused mixed up thoughts also I have sexual thoughts that come to my mind
I cannot control these attacks I been to the doctors he has me on medicine for anixity and also belong to church and a bible study I have spoken to my Pastor she prays for healing over me
Nothing is working yet
I continue to pray for God’s healing and control over me
ALso when I call out to my Lord Jesus-Jesus saves me !!!
it helps me
Any help would be greatly appreicated
Gail
October 23, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Dear Gail; The Word says that we must first bind the strong man. This is what the Lord has taught me about this. First you say this out loud. In the Name of Jesus confussion I bind you in chains and cast you into the abbyss, you have no home here. Then you must do the same to the thoughts, don”t give them any place in your mind. Give NO place to the devil! You may have to do this many times as the longer this has been going on the better you are at hearing. Anything we do a lot is practise and we get good at it weather it is good or bad. You must also replace those bad thoughts with the Word of God. We will be who we practise to be. We must be like Jesus. The enemy recognises the Holy Spirit of God in you. Also you must have that Spirit spoken of in the book of Acts 2nd chapter. This is the way the people of that day spoke and acted when the Holy Ghost came in to them. It is still the same today. Also I want to tell you that in the day that we are living in you must bind the evil spirits and you MUST cast them into the abbyss. The Lord spoke to me specificately about the importance of this. The abbyss is the sides of the pit that goes into Hell. A bound demon cannot come back out if you will put it where he belongs. Now I want to tell you about the medication. The word tells us that one of the biggest problems we would face would be pharmacia. or prescription drugs. The type of drugs that are given for depression or hyper activity, bi-polar and many other problems are open doors to demonic activity. I know you probably don”t want to hear this , however the Word is true. The Word Commands that we are to study the word of God to show ourselves approved unto God, not man. When we study we gather information about the subjects we are reading about. There are a lots of evidence in other books about the history of the Bible. Don”t subject yourself to opinion of people. You cannot count on just going to church. You must have a relationship with Jesus where He gets to talk more than you and you get to listen to the awesome voice of the Most High. There is no greater pleasure than to hear Him say I love you and you are My friend. I pray that this will help you. When the victory comes I hope you will post a shout on this site as I would love to rejoice with you. God bless you in love, Joye
October 27, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I have a demon that molests me sexually, almost constantly and the molestation is not pleasurable. It rapes the uretha of bladder. I think I may have 7-8 (?) demons. I am vibrated, grabbed,helt back,weighed down grabbed by the spine when I lean over and walk about. Someone told me that they heard these demons MOCKING at a failed deliverance service. I have stopped all sexual sin over ten yrs. ago, still the demons stay and oppose the Name and Blood. When the deliverance fails, and it has so far for 15 yrs, the Minister will no longer have anything to do with me. Won’t answer phone or e-mails. I am a Christian. Does anyone have any idea waht is holding the demons in? I use tobacco orally (non-smoker) I know it is a stronghold. I also have a spirit of grief and anxiety. Any suggestions for me? I am desperate!!!!!I need help and can not do self-deliverance so far. I will be thankful if you can explain anything to me. I opened the doors to others spirits too. I am in HELL!
October 27, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I have demons that I need help in expelling. Too lengthy to go into but they mock at deliverance session.No one has been able to help me. but my faith is in the blood and victory of the cross.Does anyone have a comment? I need to write further.
October 27, 2007 at 9:14 pm
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October 27, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Danelle,
I would like to help you if I can, but the real help will come from the Lord, and from Jesus our Savior.
Why do you focus on the cross? The Lord finished his work once and for all. He is no longer on that cross. I know that I will probably get hammered by someone for saying that, but just hear me out…
Jesus came, lived a sinless life, gave his all for us, suffered on a cross, died and three days later was raised from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit. You know this right? So why focus on something that was made of wood? Was there any power in the wood, or did all the power dwell in the one who gave his life? The cross did not die for your sins, and no matter how well meaning the image is, you must focus on your redeemer, not on the wood, the nails, the spear that pierced his side or those who nailed him to the cross. All the power, glory and honor belongs to Jesus! Not to the cross! The cross was a fact, but so was the tomb he was buried in. I would like you to have a proper place to put your focus, or else it will be false worship. You can not look to the cross, you must look to Jesus and his blood shed for you. First you must remove all improper views of our Lord so that you can worship him in Spirit and in Truth.
Next, it is truth that when Jesus died on the cross, he stripped Satan of his power, nailing it to the cross and made a public spectacle of him. (I am paraphrasing). Again, Jesus did it. Your love, adoration and faith must be built upon the truth. Tobacco is not listed in the bible as a sin, but because it is a grey area, if you believe it is a sin, then it is a sin to you. (Others may not agree with me on this either)
Next, you do not need others to deliver you, Jesus will do that. Do not be quick to allow others to “lay hands” on you, because you do not know what they may have influencing them.
Now on to my story…
Twenty years ago, I became a believer, and for the first six months of my new life in the Lord, I was so deeply amazed with all scripture. I ate it up. During that time, I was married to an abusive man who claimed himself to be a “back sliden” christian who married me because I was not saved. He had deep conflicts within himself and claimed he was visited by demons. We were only married one year when I accepted the Lord, and I hid it from him because he was becoming increasingly violent towards me. But one day, as he was beating me, I just stood up and looked at him, and as he looked into my eyes, he said…You’re born again! And with that, he ran out of the house, and abandoned my infant daughter and I, draining our bank account and leaving us with nothing. But he left something behind…he left something spiritual, that stayed in my apartment. I could feel it. So I started to obsess over it. But the Lord was there too. I will give you an example… When my daughter was about eight months old, she used to love to cruise around in her walker. I had this large radio on top of the fridge…the cord was plugged in, and hanging down just low enough for my daughter to grab it. She was in her walker directly under the cord, and with a yank, pulled the radio off the top of the fridge! She was looking up at it and it was literally three inches from her face, when all of the sudden, a huge noise came from the radio as it was being smacked away from my daughters face…I did not do it. I watched as that radio, which was also plugged in, fly across the room with force, yanking the plug out of the wall and smashing into the wall across the kitchen. She was untouched, and not even phased by the event.
That is just one example. So I became even more obsessed, and the more I concentrated on it, the more it happened. It had gotten to the point, where I was attacked in the middle of the night, because I would wake up and be sunken into my bed, with what felt like 200 pounds on my chest. I could not open my mouth either. All I could do was pray to the Lord, in Jesus name. Then it would leave. But it would return. And I became even more obsessed. A year after I was saved, I was raped in my apartment by someone I was aquainted with. I did not know him well. I was a peaceful pro-life protester by this point and would often get arrested with my dad. At a demonstration just a few months before I was raped, a woman started shouting at me that if I were raped I would get an abortion! Boy, her words came to mind after I was raped. But I choose to carry the baby to term, and six months into the pregnacy three things happened to me. First, I sought a way to stop obsessing. I prayed and the Lord answered that prayer when I went to the book store and bought a book called “Satan is No Myth” by J. Oswald Saunders. After reading that book, I never obessed again. I fell on my face before the Lord and I asked him to forgive me for my obsession with things that were not of Him and asked him to touch me instead. As I was on my face, I felt this warm hand on my back, and I froze. It was a feeling I had never felt before. His hand then felt as though it had just gone straight through my skin and into my heart, and I felt peace and a love that I had never felt before. From that point on, I never had another attack from the enemy, nor did I pay attention to them when I could feel they were present. It was during that time that I decided to keep the baby inside of me. Three months later, I gave birth to a ten pound baby girl, who I appropriately named Hannah, which in hebrew means grace.
The second thing that happened, was at the hour of night that I always seemed to get spiritually attacked, the light on my nightstand would go on instead, and a scripture chapter and verse would enter my mind, so I would get up and go and find out what the chapter and verse said. When Hannah was born, the light no longer went on, and I no longer got up in the middle of the night…except to feed her! (I never told my children about this, and when my first daughter was pregnant, she started waking up to the light going on and the radio coming on…this scared her, and I told her, “the Lord is trying to tell you something, go open your bible and you will see.” So she did, and sure enough, she opened to a random chapter, but it spoke directly to her with encouragement and love, and she began to cry. This happened to her through out her whole pregnancy, and it stopped after my grand-daughter was born.
The third thing that happened to me, was that I discovered through that time that He had all the answers, all the deliverance and all the strength that I would ever need. I began to allow him to teach me, and when I would get home on a Friday night service, from listening to my rabbi’s message (messianic), I would ask the Lord to show me even more than what I had learned that day, and true to form, He would.
If you seek Him with all your heart, and understand that he is far more powerful then any “spirit” you may encounter, you will begin to rest in Him. When we do not understand something, we can become afraid. Give it to Jesus, and focus on him. When I say focus on Jesus, I do not mean just going through the scriptures and learning about him. That is like going through love letters. The relationship with him, combines his love letters to you, with experiencing the Lover of your soul. You have said that you stopped all sexual sin ten years ago, and if you have repented, then he has forgotten it, and so should you.
I will be praying for you Danelle. I hope that I have made a little sense, if not…sorry.
May you be blessed with the richness of his love that can build and strengthen your faith, bringing you into his rest, and delighting over you with his love song to you, and you alone.