Deliverance

Testamony

After our initial experience with the baptism of the Spirit i have an unusual experience one night in the barn that was on the property were we lived. I was told to go into the barn into the haymow and while i was there a large angel showed up in front of me. i had never seen an angel before and ended up on my face. It spoke to me but i don't remember what it said anymore.

Needless to say i was impressed by its presence. The next thing that happened was a friend of my wife's from Panama was having emotional problems and we started to help her. We unknowingly dove headlong into deliverance ministry. This was probably the most frightening and instructional period of our lives. We spent 18 months throwing many demons out and learning all about demons and the power of God.

The first experience we had with demons was when we were burning some records that she had purchased in Panama. The Lord had told her to destroy them so she gathered them up and gave them to me to burn. It was mid August and hot. It was about 4 in the afternoon when i stacked up the records up on a concrete slab to burn. i used to burn brush piles when i was a kid. i got about a quart of gasoline and poured it on the records (about 50 of them) and poured a 20 foot trail of gas out into the yard to light. i tried to light the gasoline and it would not light. i used about 20 matches and still could not get it to light. I moved right up to the gas puddle on the concrete and threw matches into the gasoline and it would extinguish the matches. This was very strange. She came walking out and i told her that i could not get the gas to light. She said that of course not because there was a demon there blocking it. i looked where she was pointing and about 4 foot from my face was a small cloud about head high about a foot in diameter and 3 foot high. When i saw it the hair on the back of my head stood on end. i asked the Lord what to do and He said to rebuke it, I did and it left instantly. i then light the gasoline trail with one match. It burnt until the next afternoon.

One evening i was laying on the couch watching TV and the Lord instructed me to go next door where she was living and see how she was doing. i went outside, saw her car, but the house was dark. i knocked but no one answered. i opened the door and called her name with no answer. i went on in and started turning on lights looking for her. i found her in her bedroom sitting on the bed with a large butcher knife in both hands pointed at her abdomen. Just as i saw her she said in a voice deeper than my own 'I'm going to kill her and you cannot stop me'. My first response was to lift my hands and pray in the spirit. i did not know what to do. i asked the Lord what i should do and He said that it could not kill her and that i had authority over it and to use it. So i told it what I had just been told. It argued with me for 5 minutes until it was convinced that i believed what i was saying then it/she tossed the knife across the room and I told it to leave her. She screamed and slumped over. i asked her if she was all right and she responded in her normal voice that she was. She said that that thing was trying to kill her but it was now gone.

The gal that we were working with had been baptized into white witchcraft through the Catholic Church in Panama. She had seven spirit guides that she recognized that had been sent to her to train her. The told her to read the Bible and study it, which she did. She studied the scriptures well. They would instruct her about them. One day she asked them about the man Yeshua in the New Testament. They told her now to worry about Him but to concentrate on the other books. However, her curiosity was peeked. She would ask about Yeshua from time to time and get the same answer...to concentrate on the other New Testament books. One night she was in bed and a large (about 6 foot tall) green iridescent cobra appeared on the end of her bed, threatening to strike. It scared her and she then asked that if the Yeshua was real that He would reveal Himself and help her. Immediately He appeared outside her second story bedroom window. He was standing there with His hands outstretched welcoming her to come. She could see the nail marks and the spear wound. She asked Him to help and the snake left. This was her conversion experience. This is where she was when we met her. She was baptized in water later.

We spend many nights up until 2 to 3 o’clock dealing with her spirit guides, convincing them that she did not belong to them but to Yeshua. We had casted out hundreds of minor demons but had great difficulty getting the powerful ones to leave and stay out.

One particular evening we had run into one that called itself the captain. This one would not budge. It would take complete control of her body, use her voice to speak in a deep voice and swear like a sailor. We spent a couple of long nights trying to dislodge it but to no avail. On the third night we were again trying to remove this thing when i said to the Lord that we did not have the power to remove this one. He responded that He would handle this one. (i was speaking to Him in my spirit not out loud.) i did not mention this to the girl or my wife. i looked up and i saw Him descending from heaven on His white horse with a flaming sword in His hand and a look of determination on His face. In about 10 seconds after i first saw Him the captain began to scream. It said "Oh *@!!* here comes that **#@$ Yeshua on His white horse with that **$#& sword. I watched as He got closer. The captain's swearing and yelling increased in intensity and volume. Then as Yeshua raised the sword and struck the captain gave one long scream and she collapsed on the bed sweating. I spoke to her and she spoke back. i asked her what had happened and she told us what she had experienced from her side. She too had seen Yeshua come down on His horse.

One evening i was relaxing in front of the news, if that's possible and the Lord said to remove the clip and move the ammo from a 22 pistol that i had at the time. This made no sense to me but He was insistent so i did. The next day I got a call at work from the girl, deep voice, telling me "i am going to kill her". So i left work and went home to see what was going on. i found her in her bedroom with the handgun in her mouth squeezing the trigger repeatedly. Of course it was empty. i came against suicide and she went limp and dropped the gun.

Another time she threatened suicide because she did not want to do what we had asked her, which was to minimize her contact with her sister who had moved to Lafayette and who was an active black witch. We realized by this time that the Lord does have life and death in His hands. So we told her to go ahead. It was about 10 o'clock at night. She jumped into her car and took off down our road, a rather curvy, hilly road, Jackson Hwy, with her light off. She squealed the tires as she left the drive. We put her in the Lords hands and waited. About ten minutes later she came back very upset and swearing. It seems that she had tried to drive off the road but could not, no mater how hard she tried. She was driving 70 to 80 mph but still could not crash.

At the end of 18 months of this she was actually free of demonic influence for about three days. I was amazing now pleasant a girl she was. The Lord required her to break all ties with her sister and to not go back into witchcraft...astro-projection, conversing with the dead, issuing curses etc. She had given up the dealing with satan's spiritual realm and had become very sensitive to God's spiritual realm. She was very accurate with prophecy. However, she could not abandon her sister. This proved her undoing. Over a period of a few years everything returned. We were all attending the Upperoom at the time. She left the Upperoom and went to a Nazarene church. Then a few months she left there and went to a Jehovah's witness church and then to the Mormons. We lost track of her then and still do not know her fate.

Not against Flesh and Blood

Principalities and Powers

Relationship between sin, soul and body