Mariwasa:
i could be one person you might want to talk about deliverance. no im not part of the deliverance team but i had been a victim of a demonic oppression, even demonic possession, so to speak. In medical terms i am diagnosed with schizophrenia. i had been a normal person, well a little bit unique in some ways; until i started feeling depressed over a broken relationship with my first love; u know, u dont eat, u cry all day and night. my family thought it to be a normal response to a painful experience until i started to become incoherrent in my conversation. i started hallucinating and gotten voilent. Onset of schizophrenia almost always accompanies a traumatic event in a person's life.
the unfortunate thing is, I was not taken immediately to professional help, the psychiatrist. instead, i was taken to local healer who prayed something like latin and spit saliva on my head. he chewed herbal leaves. i also have been to spiritist who displayed all kinds of statues of saints on her altar. it is believed that the spirit of God the Father descends on her. we been to more than 5 herbalist and spiritist. a priest has exorcised me but he cant come near me because i was too powerful. i would get cured but in time my illness would recur. How sad! Not only were you deceived, but I even wonder if the 'healer's themselves were deceived….they certainly were about the Blood of Jesus!
now we sought help of spychiatrists, and so diagnosed my illness with schizophrnia. the medications helped but i suffered sever side effectes like 18 hour sleep, body like dead log, uncontrollable mucles twisting on the face, pupils of the eyes dilate and so much more. by the time i begun to feel better and functional, i would stop taking meds. the doc has specifically told us that the medication will be for life. but i believed i was healed already.
unfortunately, im not. everytime i recur (recured almost 10 times since 1993 i 1st was dianosed) the symptoms would become worst.
however God led us to a healing and dleiverance ministry in our city. they minister healing on me in the name of Jesus, casting out the demons. i believe these spirits exist, they are in me. when the pastor thrust the sword of the spirit into me, i could feel it in my solar plexus and i vomitted very dark liquid.
there is so much to tell about my testimony sister maggie. i had struggled with my deliverance. painful struggle. not to say to criticize but some deliverance people has no discernment in the way they handle the victim. we are not fighting against flesh and blood. but spirits and principalities. sad thing to say, they wrestled me, 3 men against me and they had a hard time. i realized this shouldnt be how it should be. they had already locked me ina prison room, if only they had just rebuked the demon fromthe window outside, i wouldnt have been tortured physically as well. i told them if these men are men of God why cant they suppress my power. The answer to that is that while many SAY they believe in the power of the name of Jesus, they don't LIVE it. The demons know who are the real believers and who are not. The goal of every Christian should be to be a Threat (capitol T) to the kingdom of darkness and its functions. deliverance team must have discernment how to handle a victim absolutely!! as i said while ago
while i was in bible school i missed taking my tablets and i recured. Sir bill just called me my name gently and comanded the religious spirit to come out. He didnt have to shout at a spirit in me to come out, he didnt have to point his finger on me to command the spirit to come out. that is wht i call annointing. YES! This man didn't have to shout because HE KNOWS who he is in Christ…he lives it!
not only must deliverance team live a life of prayer, they must ask God for dicerning spirit and His annointing. So true!
many things to tell maggie but time to sleep here now. the good thing is we have tomorrow to talk again. God is good. Life is a battle, and we are empowered by our union with God. we draw our strength from Him. and we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. God bless us all
Read H.A. Maxwell Whyte's "The Power of the Blood", Bill Johnson's "When Heaven Invades Earth" and" Pigs in the Parlor" by Frank and Ida Mae Hammond. I truly believe that you are 'in training", spiritually. God will use you to help those that are experiencing the same things that you've gone through.
(FYI, my 2nd son was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 15. After that diagnosis, he receive two prophecies from two different ministries that when he is in his early 20s, God is going to launch him into full time marketplace ministry! It hasn't happened yet, but it is all in His timing.) So do not be discouraged! That would be just what satan wants…to keep you from your destiny!
We will talk more. You can email me at "Maggie_mye at hotmail dot com