Chapter Five

Demons and Their Dastardly Deeds

Demons are evil personalities—spirit beings with no bodies. They have wills, knowledge, emotions, self-awareness, and the ability to speak. They are “knowing ones.”

What are the two main assignments of demons:

To keep you from coming to Jesus to be saved.

To keep you from serving Jesus effectively.

What is their objective? To tempt, deceive, accuse, condemn, pressure, defile, resist, oppose, control, steal, afflict, kill, destroy, and attack at any price.

All Problems are not Demonic

Learn to Separate: Flesh, Soul, Spirit

We must learn to discern whether our problems are the result of our own sins of the flesh or the result of spiritual disobedience to God’s Word.

“The root cause of all my affliction is caused in me” (Job 19:28). When you doubt any course say: “I choose the will of God in this.”

God's order is this:

The Spirit should be ruling and controlling the intellect, emotions, and all that makes up the soul.

The Soul Life is not to be killed or quenched but to be subservient to the Holy Spirit.

Your personality is not to be annihilated.

Nothing supernatural should be felt by relying on the senses but by listening to the spirit. Ask the Lord to show you what is “soul” and what is “spirit.”

When under spiritual attack, it is dangerous not to be on guard concerning the effect this attack is having on your spirit.

It may be a sense of disappointment, opposition, bondage, or pain coming into the spirit. You are down, depressed, and disturbed because the spirit is attacked.

Watch and be on guard at all times: For the most unlikely time is when it will happen to you.

How Do Demons Enter a Person?

Through open doors! How do we open doors to our demons? Through sin—either by omission or commission.

Galatians 5:19-21 lists the works of the flesh: adultery, fornication, witchcraft, hatred, wrath, strife, envy, murders, drunkenness.

When a person yields to temptation and the sins of the flesh, this opens the door not only to his fleshly desires but also to the enemy of his soul. As a result, his spirit life and freedom comes under attack.

Demons Have the Ability and Power to:

1. Entice you to do that which is evil.

2. Enslave you, causing you to lose your freedom.

3. Torment you continuously and without mercy.

4. Compel you to act. Whenever you lose control, you are under demonic control.

5. Defile your mind with unclean thoughts.

6. Harass you. They choose the weakest moment and weakest place in your life and in your body.

7. Deceive you with spirits of error and seducing spirits.

8. Make you uncontrollably restless so that you can't slow down to relax and enjoy life.

9. Control your emotions and attitudes in your relationships to other people.

Evidences of an Unclean Spirit

1. To be under the influence of an unclean spirit. “And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit” (Mk. 1:23).

2. To have an unclean spirit. “It was while we were on our way out to the place of prayer that we met a slave girl who had a clairvoyant spirit” (counterfeit power) (Acts 16:16; Lk. 13:16.) Beware of people who have “extra knowledge.”

3. To be demonized. To have many demons: legions like the demoniac. (Mark 5:8,9).

4. Deceived by a lying spirit. Acts chapter five tells how Ananias and Sapphira opened themselves to the spirits of lying and deceit and they were killed. This can happen to anyone who sins willfully.

Are You Under Demonic Control?

How can you know if a demon is active in you, or if some area of your life is under demonic control? Ask yourself these questions:

1. What controls you? Your flesh or your spirit? The flesh, the body of sin, causes you to rebel inside by nature: “For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Gal. 5:17).

Those who belong to Christ Jesus, however, have “crucified the flesh with its passions and desires” (Gal. 5:24).

You may be a sincere Christian, yielded in your life to the Lordship of Christ but unable to control yourself in certain areas. This is a general indication that a demon may have some control over your life.

2. Are you under the control of the “evil one”? Like vultures, demons will fasten upon your old nature. They smell out a carcass .

“We know” (1 John: 5:18,19).

The remedy for the old man is the Cross and crucifixion.

The Captive’s Seven Steps To Deliverance

1. Humility: You must be completely open with God's people ministering the deliverance, and you must trust them. Humility is not an emotion; it is a decision and attitude of heart. Some areas may be embarrassing, to acknowledge, but God is never embarrassed. He knows everything anyway.

2. Honesty: Any sin not confessed of you and your ancestors and with a sincere repentance in you regarding your own sin, gives the demons a right to stay. (See Ps. 32:5; Ps. 139:23,24.)

3. Confession and Repentance: Repentance is a decision to turn away from sin and Satan. It requires open confession of all sin and takes away all legal rights of the demons. Adultery and abortion must be confessed openly.

4. Renunciation: This involves the action resulting from repentance, and the forsaking of evil. It means a clean complete break with Satan and all his works and demons. To renounce simply means: To put away or to put off by your words of authority in Jesus’ name. Knowing that the Name and power of Jesus is sufficient to bring this about.

5. Forgiveness: God expects and demands that we forgive all who have injured us in any way. This includes past, present, and future and even those people who have died. Willingness to forgive is absolutely necessary for you to receive forgiveness. It is an act of the will. You are responsible to do it, and the Holy Spirit will do the rest.

6. Prayer: Ask God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost to deliver and make you free. By Jesus' blood, we are cleansed of every sin. By the cross we are free from every curse and work of the flesh. “I am crucified with Christ,” and I cannot have any problems. The provision, purpose and authority given to every believer over all of the power of the enemy is clear. Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. You cannot pray demons out of your life, you must cast them out, as Jesus did.

7. Warfare: Prayer and warfare are two separate and distinct activities. Prayer is toward God; warfare is toward the enemy. Use the weapons of submission to God, the blood of Jesus, the Word of God, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and your testimony as a believer. Identify the spirits address them directly by name in a commanding voice, and in faith command them to go in the Name of Jesus Christ.

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off the shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing” (Isaiah 10:17).

Break the yoke for deliverance by anointing with oil. The anointing destroys the yoke.

How to Protect Yourself from Demonic Power

Keep claiming the power of the Blood of Jesus (Rev. 12:11).

Pray for wisdom and face the past.

Resist the devil persistently in your spirit (Rom. 6:6-13; Col. 2:15; 1 Jn. 3:8).

Never give up hope that freedom will come.

Avoid self-introspection (Jn. 3:21). Examine and pray for light in your life.

Live and pray for others. This keeps your spirit in full aggressive and resisting power.

Reckon your “self” dead to sin; stand on Romans 6:11.

Submit to God, resist the devil ,and he will flee (James 4:7).

Live daily for others.

Permit no negative approach in any area of life or trial.

Praise and worship.

Petition and Supplication.

Give thanks unto the Lord for all things.

Intercession for others.

Spiritual Warfare to be done daily. Much Prayer, much power, little prayer, little power. NO PRAYER, NO POWER!!