Demonic possession of Christians

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Jepne
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Re: Demonic possession of Christians

Post by Jepne » Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:17 pm

I've sure enjoyed reading your posts on this. So sorry the young man died - that is so awful.

I have been around people who knew how to be nice on the outside but they repulsed me, and I used to feel guilty about it, but we have been given discernment, and it was some demonic thing - they only need help - they weren't made that way. But some demons carry with them a lot of friends who convince us we don't have a problem and it gets very complex, and near to impossible to help. Thank God for the Holy Spirit.

In my estimation, you are right, our salvation is so not like black and white. We meet Jesus and get filled with His Holy Spirit - get delivered from drugs or whatever and our whole world view changes radically. The hard part is learning to walk it out and truly become like Him.

Years into my walk, I had experience with demonic stuff. A man with a deliverance ministry once told me that people whom he'd helped stayed free of demonic problems when they stayed in prayer and the Word - filled up them empty rooms with the Spirit and word of God.

A real follower-of-Jesus Christian can get drawn into pornography through a prurient interest that was lurking in there since an incident in childhood, for instance, and one day when the wrong website came up, he was put to the test. Some tests we win right off the bat, some are a real trial.

Recently I had a test about my love of money which can carry demonic assistance - once I realized who the enemy was, it was a matter of praying for the strength to apply the teachings of Jesus and practise them, in this case, by giving away extra amounts of money. That was the fun part - it was like staring down that guy and saying "Out!"

I had an elder who used to ask, “Can a Christian have a demon?” Then he would answer, “Yes, if he wants one.”

Bless you all.
"Anything you think you know about God that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.” - anonymous

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