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Serious question about demonic possession

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1050 **11/2/16 11:21 am**

I am asking the following questions in all seriousness.

Does the Church of God still believe that one can be demon possessed?

When was the last time you cast out a demon?

When was the last time you witness a demon being cast out?

Matthew 10:5-8 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Luke 4:33-37 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out. And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.

about 2 years ago

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1274 **11/2/16 11:59 am**

We won a man to our church who brought a whole bunch of people to our church. The mother of one of the families was a very interesting person.
She came to a dinner we had and somehow she found out I was the Pastor and wanted to chat with me. So, I sat at her table to talk and oh my goodness!!! Embarassed

the stuff that came out of her mouth was beyond triple X rated. I told her that her grandkids were close by and she stopped talking. She and her family continued to come to the church and the family really got in and so did she but this lady was really weighed down with sin in a way I have not ever seen before.
This woman had knowledge of many different religions and had melded them together to come up with this weird belief system. She was extremely jealous of her husband, she was seriously addicted to marijuana, she was extremely angry, extremely bitter, vicious when she would attack people, I believe she was schizophrenic, her children tried to avoid her, her siblings stayed away from her and she could come up with a lie on someone so fast your head would spin. I had never dealt with someone like this before.
One night, I was called to her daughter and son-in-laws house to help them deal with this woman. We sat down and tried to talk through some of the problems they were having. All of a sudden this woman went into a rage(demonic rage) and started accusing her daughter and son-in-law of all kinds of horrible things. We tried to get her to stop but she wouldn't she continued on for quite a long time. I told my wife and the couple to not say anything, not to listen to the lies and not to react to her just to pray. At some point, she must have realized what she was saying was not working and then she turned on me. Whoa!!! she came up with some stuff that made my hair stand on end.
As soon as she started in on me, my wife and I began to immediately rebuke this woman/Spirit with everything we had in us. After about 10 to 15 minutes of serious rebuking, praying and quoting of scripture she finally stopped.
Since this incident, I had to ask her not to come back to the church for a while and after that period of time she came back, we began working with her and the change in this woman is amazing. She is not perfect but she is nothing like what we first saw. God is so good!

Yep, them demons is real Ernie

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 15570 **11/2/16 12:14 pm**

On several occasions durin the ole timers ministry I've experienced em, an seen the demonized delivered. But NO, I ain't never seen a demon.

Too numerous to mention

Acts-celerater Posts: 935 **11/2/16 9:35 pm**

We have cast out demons many, many times in our ministry both overseas and at home. Primarly though we have dealt with demons where voodoo and juju are being practiced by local witch doctors. IN Venezuela santeria is practiced among the indigenous peoples, we have worked primarily with the Warao in the Delta Amacuro region along the Orinoco river. I have also cast out demons working with the Roma gypsy people in southern Serbia. Demonic possession and oppression is very real still today. Satan is real and while it seems more subtle here and in w Europe there are plenty of instances and need to deal with. GREATEST deliverance I have ever seen was a man in Gulu Uganda. We were doing a crusade and that night we were preaching about the blood of Jesus and deliverance. At the end of the service we began to pray over the crowd of about 9000 or so in tongues. As we did so, demons began to manifest. People dropped to the ground and began to writhe in the dust like snakes, moaning. We continued to pray and had the team praying with individuals. This continued for an hour as we tag teamed praying in tongues over the crowd and praying individually as well. THE next night a clean ans nicely dressed man came to me and asked to testify. I said about what? He said he had been mad but now he wasn't. I asked who he was mad about. He meant crazy. I gave him the mic and the crowd erupted with laughter as everyone knew the man. I later learned he was called the mad man of Gulu. He had even attacked the presidential plane at the airport the previous week. The crowd thought I was crazy for giving the mic to a mad man. He then began to tell them how during the prayer of the previous night he felt something leave him. AS he crumpled to the ground a local pastor came and helped him, took him home, washed him, clothed him and prayed for him. He said I want to tell you what Jesus has done for me, He has set me free. NOW the crowd really erupted with praises to God. Many more were saved and set free that night as a result. He was like the man in the Gaderenes. It was a powerful time in the Lord. A witch doctor got delivered znd we burned all his fetishes he brought us the next night. IT is still happening, I could tell you many more stories of how Greater is He who is in me than he that thinks he is ruling this world. To God be the glory, great things He has done.

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **11/2/16 11:19 pm**

In all honesty, in all my years I have never witnessed a demon possessed person, nor demons cast out. That is not to say I do not believe it happens.

I did once see a person "Try to cast out a demon" that he said possessed a man, The mansmiled and walked off, not a mean smile, nor what I would think was demonic, just a shake your head smile. He was never mean, just disagreed with the preacher. I felt sorry for both. Sad

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01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **11/2/16 11:22 pm**

I have never studied demons, but do they multiply like Rabbits? Are more created as time goes on? (serious questions also).

I know there is one Lucifer. He is not omnipresent. If the same # of demons are around now as in the time of Christ, they are spread might thin, aren't they? Confused

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Golf Cart Mafia Capo Famiglia Posts: 4682 **11/7/16 7:11 pm**

We had a girl recently who was possessed and we ended up helping her to be delivered through 7 demons.
The look on her face was amazing when she was fully delivered.

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