Demonic possession is when demons take possession and are resident in the individual. An example is the mad man of the Gadarenes. (See Luke 8:26-39)

I have been exposed to demon oppression and not to demonic possession as you put it. My answer will bring clarity to the question.

I was born again, way back in 1967. When one is born again, the Holy Spirit of God takes up residence in the individual. A re-creation takes place.(See 2Corinthians 5:17)

Demons are bodiless foul spirits, who seek humans to inhabit.(See Matthew 12:43-45)

The Holy Spirit and the foul spirits cannot co-inhabit a person who is born again, because that individual is no longer under the jurisdiction of the forces of evil. (See 1Corinthians 3:16)

 As Bible says, God “…hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son” (See Colossians 1:13)

However, the newly born again individual has to go through the process of unlearning bad behaviours, while learning new ways of living as a Believer in Christ. 

During that process, the individual is likely to behave in a manner that can grant evil spirits (demons) access to demonize him/her.

 I said all that to say this:

Shortly after I was born again, my mom died. It was very traumatic for me. She fell ill through witchcraft projectiles, while I was away in boarding school.

Before she died, she wrote me a letter that chronicled all she was going through, as well as the names of those  responsible.

Both the letter and the news of her death arrived the same day. It was traumatic. All I could think of was revenge.

I wanted to avenge her death so badly that I sought help from  the occult world-

spiritualists, diviners, prophets of garment churches, etc. I had an aversion for shamans, I avoided those like the plague.

Before seeking these agents of darkness help with my cause, I talked to my pastor and my Christian friends. They all said, ‘forgive and move on’. That was so annoying.

I felt betrayed by the Christian community.

How can any rational person tell me about forgiveness, when i was hurting, angry, and wanted to murder everyone on the list my mom sent me? Besides, I had no knowledge of the doctrines of forgiveness, and I was a teenager.

I could have gone after these witches and wizards physically, but in that same letter, mom had asked me to please take care of my nine siblings.

My sense of responsibility kept me from going after them physically. So I sought to avenge my mom’s death, spiritually.

Even then, the spiritualists, false prophets, etc that I sought help from, all rejected me. They told me the fire surrounding me was too hot. I had no idea what they were talking about.

In fact, some of the satanists I went to pursued me. They accused me of coming to test their powers. According to them, they were no match for the Spirit they saw in me, and the spirits following me.

It was all so puzzling to me at that time. 

Not any more, for I am now aware that He that is in me is greater than he that is in the world. (See 1John 4:4) And that God has given His angels charge over me.

In my quest for revenge, I went into deeper studying of the occult world,  in order to occultly kill all those responsible for my mom’s death. I bought books by Lobsang Rampa in order to open the 3rd eye, etc.

Those thoughts and actions made me vulnerable to demonization. My heart attitude opened me up to demonic influences.

The demons, especially the familiar spirits, took advantage of the grief to influence me  to be angry and unforgiving. Which degenerated to bitterness and isolation from Godly counsellors.

Familiar spirits are evil spirits resident in families, crossing generational lines. They are familiar with the flaws, weakness, sinful habits etc, and reinforce them appropriately.

Those were dark years. 

However,  even though I was faithless, God remained faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. (See 2Timothy 2:13) His Holy Spirit did not depart from me, and so the demons could not take over my life.

Although the familiar spirits tried to use learned behavior and ingrained family characteristics to further the causes of satan; God’s faithfulness kept me from the edge of the precipice. 

There were certain things I could not do because the little Word of God that I knew, convinced me not to do it. 

Can you believe that I delved into kabbalah magic, Hinduism etc. and still kept on reading the Bible, especially the imprecatory Psalms. 

Eventually, God lovingly led me back to Him. The road to forgiveness and healing was a very long one for me.

The lessons I learned in occultism comes in handy when I minister to those under the influence of demons, and the demon possessed. Which is proof-positive that,’God causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him, those who are called according to His purpose.’ (See Romans 8:28)

I have since grown in my Christian walk. Now I counter evil with good and forgive without waiting for apology. I know who I am in Christ.

Important Information 

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Shalom

From Hephzibah Christly #theSpiritualWarrior