The Need for Deliverance

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Joseppi

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I had been led of God to minister to a man for about 3 months.

One day I went by to see him and he was upstairs at his neighbors place. I usually bought him a meal and talked with him awhile. This time he said he couldn’t go because he was watching his neighbor’s kids. As I was leaving he told me he he had a bad headache, and asked me to pray for him. I put my hands on his head and prayed.

A week later when I dropped by his single room apartment he came running out all excited. He told me that the next morning after I had prayed for him he woke up and found that he could read the Bible he had by his bed. I asked him what he meant. He told me that he’d been trying to read his bible for five years. Every morning he would wake up and try but the words would move on the page and he couldn’t read his bible.

About a month later I was at his friends home in the country and he and I were in the kitchen and everyone else was out back with the kids in the swimming pool. I was teaching him something from scripture and pacing as he sat in a chair. Suddenly he grabbed the back of his next in pain. I walked around the table and placed my hand on his next rebuking Satan under my breath while staying on teaching. He violently fell to the floor thrashing, then came up on his knees. He had long hair and a beard and while he was on all fours he looked and growled like a wolf. One of kids, a little girl, had just come in to go to the bathroom. She saw him as he stared at her ferral like and heard him growl. She gave a blood curdling scream and bolted out of the house and around back. The man ran out the same door but into a partly wooded area. I went after him thinking it might not be wise of me since he might lie in wait for me. And I couldn’t find him at first. He’d lain down behind bushes as I walked by looking for him. I called his name and he got up and stood in the shadow of a tree in the moonlight.

He said, Help me Joe reached out his hands toward me. I was led to not approach him nor take his hands. Instead I told him he needed to come out into the light. When he did I held his hands and began to pray, but he fell to ground clutching his chest in great pain saying, I’m having a heart attack! I’m having a heart attack!
I knew he wasn’t and rebuked the evil spirit.
He fell limp on his back. But then it was as if someone took control of his head and moved it into a position
facing me and his face contorted til it looked like saucer eyed with nose flared, and then his mouth contorted into a perfect circular O. Then his tongue came out of the center of the O and moved like a serpents tongue.
Then the devil said to me in an devilish voice, You think you are wise, but you don’t know _ _ _ _.
I rebuked the evil spirit and he thrashed and it left.

The people there had freaked out and I had to leave and take the man home. He sat silently in the back of the car. He didn’t remember nor know what had happened till I told him. He then reminded me his estranged son had contacted him and he was leaving on a plane the next day to Seattle. I got a call from him and his son a year later, he was fine, doing well, got new teeth, and held job etc
I had some previous experience and have the gift of discerment of spirits. But Inever had such a suddenly violent and strange one.

I introduce this topic with my testimony above because I’d like discuss the need for deliverance from the attack and control of evil spirits that manifest from time to time.

I would like others to share their experiences, if any, and discuss dealing with such occurrences and the circumstances of them.
 

breno785au

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I've seen people being prayed for, jump back, fall to the floor and slide slithering back like a snake hissing. I never thought that the human body could move in such a manner...
 
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some of your 'story' sounds believable, from what we have experienced, and most of it sounds
like pure 'drama'...be very careful in your telling or re-telling, for all will always 'come-back'
to haunt you...
 

tourist

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The rebuking of demons can come about only by fasting and prayer. I would not advise anyone to attempt to do this but rather pray to God for their deliverance. I don't doubt your story at all but very few could do this and not be affected themselves in some harmful way. I believe that the number of people called to do this type of work is very limited. The same probably holds true for those given the gift of healing. It is best to simply use the gifts that the Holy Spirit has given you rather than venturing outside of this scope into the unknown and attempting to do things that you are not qualified and experienced enough to attempt.
 

Jeaneine

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The rebuking of demons can come about only by fasting and prayer. I would not advise anyone to attempt to do this but rather pray to God for their deliverance. I don't doubt your story at all but very few could do this and not be affected themselves in some harmful way. I believe that the number of people called to do this type of work is very limited. The same probably holds true for those given the gift of healing. It is best to simply use the gifts that the Holy Spirit has given you rather than venturing outside of this scope into the unknown and attempting to do things that you are not qualified and experienced enough to attempt.

That is false... [h=1]Matthew 17:21 King James Version (KJV)[/h][FONT=&quot]21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

This KIND.. we should be continually rebuking demons..as they arise in our every day life. We should be analyzing and rebuking ourselves continually... as a part of repentance and self awareness to be overcomers... for instance spirit of anger, or infirmities.. we can rebuke them without fasting.. we would have to live in a constant state of fasting if that were true.. we are influenced by spirits alllllll day long, its just in being aware.. but yes... there are most definitely those KIND that are of heavy influence that require fasting and prayer..

That is not to say that there are some people not ready for deliverance of demons.. I think there is a difference between rebuking a spirit and delivering a person from one. Deliverance does require someone prepared as that spirit could leave that person and harm the other..that i will not disagree with.. I had to ask a pastor that was ministering deliverance or attempting to to remove children from a room.. I felt that was pretty unprepared..when facing a harmful spirit. [/FONT]
 
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I am happy he was delivered let God use you to do many things to set free the captives.
 

Joseppi

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A principle I follow is that if God leads you to do a thing, but then devil and/or man rise up to hinder you from doing what God asks you to do you are supposed to stand your ground and it’s the devil that has to cease his hindering.

So, if you’re preaching a message and a devil cries out then you are to deal with that situation with authority and power.

Now if you go where you want and do as you please without God leading you may find yourself in uncertain waters.