INTRODUCTION
Our long time friends, the redeemed family, Renda, wife of Troy, Marine officer, with daughters, are serving on Okinawa in these months. Renda asked the following question on how can the redeemed be tormented by demons? She read the testimony of our daughter Rebecca’s battle with the demon whose name is “destruction”. The demon sought to take credit for killing Rebecca in a car accident in February 1988 in Ontario, CA. Our Lord Jesus and Faithful Father delivered her by taking her home to glory with Him.
“If you cast the demon out of Rebecca, how was it able to keep tormenting her? Did she have the Holy Spirit? “He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.” (The demon was delivered from Rebecca through prayer and the power of our Lord Jesus and His blood testimony in December 1979.)
Dear Renda and Troy,
How can a redeemed be tormented by demons if they have the Holy Spirit indwelling in them?
The redeemed cannot be possessed by demons, but they can be attacked, demonized, by demons throughout their lifetime. You are in the battle of our Lord Jesus, near the frontlines of Satan’s warfare; you will know demons and fight them regularly!
Let me first share my own testimony of my battle for years with demons that had access to my life.
I was a missionary in 1975, and we had just returned from a four year tour on Okinawa at the Hansen Center and the Kadena Center. I was saved in 1959, graduate of Moody Bible Institute 1965, began with Cadence International mission, 1965, and I had been ministering to the Army, Marines, Sailors, Air Force on Okinawa and the Philippines since 1968. Our family was on furlough in Denver, Colorado, and I shared with Bob Bingham, a missionary with Cadence, served many years in the Philippines at the Clark Air Base Servicemen Center, and he has worked for years in demoniac deliverances. I shared with him that the deliverances we experienced in others were also affecting me, as I had disturbances also?
I asked Bob Bingham and Sid Henry, the missionary who led me to Christ Jesus at Subic Bay, Philippines, December 1959, to pray for me to see if I was demonized. Their prayer manifested several demons in me, and they were all related to my season of life before I was saved. I do not remember the whole incident, as the demons had me gagging, rolling on the floor, and in great agony. I remember one demon had to do with my grandmother who was into reading tea leaves in the bottom of a coffee cup – demonism. Another identified with the demoniac game, do not know how to spell it, that my parents and friends were playing in the other room of their friend’s home. My friend and I were playing in the next room, and we were quite young in age. They were raising the table by demons in answers to their questions. I do not remember the number of demons that were delivered from me that day, but I knew afterwards the great peace, freedom, and joy in my heart from their leaving me. I had been tormented by demons while at Moody Bible Institute, especially in the seeking of our Lord Jesus’ will on the question of the marrying of Wilma. I was greatly tormented in the Philippines where demons were very active in the City of Olongapo City, Subic Bay. At the time, I just believed this was the “normal Christian life” to be under attack, and I did not know how to be delivered or overcome the demoniac attacks that came at different times and seasons. After the demons left from Bob’s and Sid’s prayers in their claiming the Name of our Lord Jesus and His blood, I then enjoyed daily my walk with our Lord Jesus. My prayer life was free from the demons troubling my communion with our Lord Jesus, and it was glorious to have daily the freedom from their unending attacks. From that day, the living in communion with our Lord Jesus was so much easier, and I wondered how anyone could backslide from Jesus if they had this peace and freedom daily as I was then enjoying?
Renda, I have since through the years closed the doors in other areas of my life which were used by the demons to seek to control me. One does not only have the joy of deliverance from demons, but they also need to close the vows, oaths, commitments they have made to demons in their years before they were saved. They need to agree with our Lord Jesus and break their commitment and their entanglement in demonism in idolatrous Clubs, small groups who identify with Satan (Wicca etc), organizations (Masonic Lodge), especially their commitment to all areas of sexual immoral activity. Those commitments, if not broken officially between you and our Lord Jesus, are still open doors for the demons to have a right to attack your redeemed life. You made previous commitments to demons!
May this testimony begin to assist you in understanding how the redeemed are demonized, not possessed by demons. Christ Jesus our Lord was attack by Satan, Matthew Chapter Four, and He certainly had the Holy Spirit, He is God, Three in One! We are rejoicing with you in your deliverance of your daughter from a demon there on Okinawa, and I am praying for the Blood of Christ Jesus protection over your whole family. I pray this prayer daily for my family as they are “in the battle of our Lord!”
I did not know, Renda, for years how to close the doors to demons. Rebecca’s battle, our oldest daughter, with the demon, “Destruction” was never fully dealt with, and I believe the demon continued to control, invade, and persuade Rebecca to make several of her wrong choices in life till they took credit for killing her! I did not either know how to close doors to demons till many years after Rebecca’s death? I then had to work years on my own life in understanding also generational sins, covenant commitments, various strongholds of sin in my life which permitted demons to demonized me, etc. It took years to be where I am today in the true freedom in Christ Jesus. This is why I learned too late in life how important it is too fully, being lead by the instructions of the Holy Spirit, to close officially in yourself those doors which the demons have the right to your life!
Keep abiding in the glorious, powerful, covenant keeping love and Blood testimony of our Lord Jesus,
Ralph & Wilma Porter
THE REDEEMED CLOSE THE DOORS IN THEIR LIVES TO DEMONS AND THEIR ATTACKS
BY OUR LORD JESUS AND THE TESTIMONY OF HIS BLOOD, PRAY AND PROTECT YOUR WHOLE FAMILY
Job 1: 10 Have You (Our Lord) not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Job 1: 5 So it was when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them (Family) and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus he did regularly. (The Blood of our Lord Jesus protects our family through prayer)
Revelation 12: 11 (Tribulation saints) “And they overcome him (Satan) because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.”
WORHIP OUR LORD WHEN UNDER THE ATTACKS OF SATAN
Job 1: 20, 21, 22 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. (For the sufferings and afflictions from Satan)
OUR LORD IS OUR DEFENDER AND ADVOCATE BEFORE SATAN
Job 2: 3 … And still he (Job) holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me (Our Lord) against him to destroy him without cause.
Job 2: 4 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”
STAND AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF OUR ADVERSARY.
Job 2: 10 “Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
James 4: 7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double – minded.
I John 4: 4 You are from God little children (Christians), and have overcome them; because greater is He (Jesus our Lord) who is in you than he (Satan) who is in the world.