Deliverance

Dear faithful disciples of Jesus,

Jesus’ ministry on earth as we learn from the four gospels is about teaching the word of God and revealing God the Father and the Holy Spirit; performing miracles, healings and deliverance. As a faithful disciple of Jesus, with my limitations, I have always learnt to be like Christ. I am very far from being like Him but He has always empowered me to do what He commanded me to do. That is to preach His word, to perform miracles, to heal and to do deliverance. Especially the ministry of deliverance, I only did a few minor cases of demonic possession in my last 19 years of ministry. However, praise the Lord I have always been commissioned by Jesus to do it and I am always prepared to do it. I had equipped myself to do it. I read books (both in Mandarin and English, e.g., books by Neil Anderson) about it. I learnt from Baptist and charismatic lay people on deliverance in the early years of my ministry. I am not gifted in deliverance but I believe I am authorized by Jesus to do it. Before this deliverance in December, 2012, I even equipped some forty disciples of Christ to do spiritual warfare and deliverance in October, 2012! Eventually, one of them even joined me in the just concluded deliverance. Here is an account of it.

Demonic Manifestation

Many demons entered this Christian’s body! Actually before I came in, a team of pastors and lay people had done the deliverance. He is English speaking and I came in to participate (using English) in delivering the remaining demons.

On 25th December night, I only meant to interview the English speaking parents concerning the upbringing of their son and to find out unhealthy life habits and any bad relationships among them. Before this, I was warned that my style of interview might cause the demons to manifest. I told my fellow pastor and team members to be ready about it. The purpose of it was to prepare the demon possessed person for the deliverance the next day.

We interviewed the parents successfully. They were very cooperative and even confessed their sins before God and together we asked for forgiveness and prayed against all the curses and cut off all soul ties with the possible spirits. My one strategy of spiritual warfare in this initial stage is the teaching of Jesus, the truth will set you free. This fundamental principle requires all parties concerned, including the demon possessed person to be honest and open and tell the truth.

Then, we requested to interview the son. Using the same strategy, especially when I asked about if he had any anger, hatred, and unforgiveness in his life; he confessed to them. I asked if he could identify the person and there was no need to tell me the name. After I reminded him about his identity as a child of God, he should forgive the person. Then, he was not able to suppress the demons though he wanted to. In a matter of seconds, the demon manifested. I have not seen a serious possession like this before!

He lost control of himself. His eye balls turned white. The demon caused his whole body to become stiff; his face turned weird, mouth became lopsided and made strange noises; eyes opened and closed and not looking at you straight and most important of all, he was unusually powerful. When we called for his name, he could not respond. He was no more himself. Another power took over. We spent the next three and a half hour to do deliverance. The parents participated with us.

We sang the chorus, “In the Cross” for quite a few minutes and we prayed for God to direct us what to do. My fellow pastor being more experienced was our commander; we all listened to her instructions. She is experienced and gifted in deliverance. As part of the preparation, we confessed our sins, and I made sure all team members had no bad feelings or anything bad about one another. We asked for Jesus’ forgiveness and cleansing.

He was demon possessed seated. He continued to manifest despite our worship. We asked for the names of the demons in the name of Jesus. Demons spoke, “I am legion, legion, legion, many, many, ha, ha,…I am anti-Christ, I am the judge, I am the judge, ha, ha, etc”. A demon even spoke in some kind of tongues which we did not understand. It even sang in a foreign language. He was seated and we commanded the demon to come out in the name of Jesus for many minutes. Our effort was fruitless when we did the deliverance with him seated. We stood almost all the time.

Deliverance

Then, the Holy Spirit led the commander pastor to instruct us to lie him down. We did it in Jesus’ name as the demon refused to do it. Eventually, the demons gave way as we overpowered them and laid him on the floor. For many minutes, he was not aware of himself. But, praise the Lord, when he was on the floor, he seemed to be more calm and came to his sense. The biblical principles we used are: to affirm his identity in Christ and he belongs to Jesus; and to get himself to resist/ cast out the demons. This is part of the truth encounter strategy.

On the floor, when he came to his sense, we get him to say, “I belong to Jesus; and in the name of Jesus, demons out”. In this way, each time we identify a demon, we told him to repeat the phrase, the demon always struggled and he vomited and we believe some demons had come out. We always asked if there were anymore demons inside in the name of Jesus. If he did not answer, we always assumed there were some more and we asked for the name of the demons as they manifested. Sometime the demons pretended all were out by going to sleep and kept quiet. Our commander pastor would open his eye lids and noticed that the eyeball still moved about. It is a sign that the demons are still there. So, we did power encounter by commanding the demons to come out again and repeat the process. He vomited at least six times on 25th December 2012 night.

There was one time he made hissing sound. Our commander pastor discerned that he was possessed by snake spirit and he himself resisted it and it came out. He visited the snake temple when he was eight years old!

Towards the end process of the deliverance, we felt he was becoming better. I got him to follow my prayer on sins, about the gospel on the death of Jesus and how His blood was shed for his sin, died, resurrected, showed to 500 disciples and ascended to heaven to be with God the Father; and he belongs to Jesus… If the demons were still inside they always struggled and were vomited and cast out. In the end, I led him in a long prayer on the gospel, his identity in Christ and victory over the demons. There were no manifestations after a long prayer. I ended the prayer in Jesus’ name. I asked him if there were any more demons, to this he happily said there were no more demons inside. We were so happy and we reached home at about 12.30am the next day.

Deception

The next day, 26th December, both morning and afternoon, I did follow up and gave him biblical teaching on Christians inhabited by demons and how we can overcome the demons. Throughout the 5 hours of teaching and some prayers, there was no sign of demonic manifestation. In the morning, we plan for a thanksgiving prayer and testimony session at night.

At night, we began our thanksgiving by singing a few Christian songs. His parents also participated with us. There were about 40 brothers and sisters who were there who wanted to listen to the testimony. Eight BM pastors were also present. I was very happy to see them there as it was my wish to meet them in person. I will be preaching to their congregations in May and June, 2013.

Then, it was followed by my preaching on the demon possession and how we Christians could overcome the demons in Jesus’ name. I even proclaimed victorious battle over the demons. Then, it was followed by his testimony. He was brief and shared about how he heard demonic voices that told him to do harm things including taking his own life and he had overcome the demons in Jesus’ name. He thanked God and the deliverance team. Everything went well so far.

Then, our commander pastor called for prayer of blessing for him. As we laid hands and surround him in prayers, BM pastors also laid hands on him, demons began to manifest again! His hands started to shake and eyes looked abnormal again. Finally, he lost control of himself and his whole standing stiff again. In front of the congregation the manifestation happened. We were deceived by the demons when he said there were no more demons inside.

I quickly asked the congregation to stand and worship God in singing “In the Cross.” He was very powerful, I command in the name of Jesus to lay him down but it was a tough job. Four persons had to hold him and laid him down. This time all the deliverance had to do with the spirits of the computer games which he downloaded from internet.

The Spirit of Jesus led our commander pastor to request him to bring his laptop for cleansing purpose as she suspected there might be something not right with it. True enough it contained hundreds of computer games where a lot of them are about ghost, violence; and some horrible movies. As we asked him to delete the movies and computer games, demons manifested a few times. He used his finger to show to shoot and shouted “Bang, Bang.” One BM pastor received revelation from God he was fond of quotes and when we mentioned the word quote, demon manifested. I sensed the word violence, and demon manifested. We commanded the spirit of quote and spirit of violence to come out. He cooperated by declaring that he belonged to Jesus and he cast them out in the name of Jesus. There was one time, when he tried to delete a computer game called “Supernatural” demon manifested and he was not able to delete it. We went ahead to delete on his behalf.

He confessed he still had the external disk which contained the harmful computer games and movies. But, they were all not with him at that moment. We had to ask him to go back and took from home and we delete them in his presence. He actually felt sad and cried after he let go of the computer games and movies which were dear to his heart! He confessed it was hard for him to do it. But I kept telling him, if he did not let go, then, the demons still had a foothold in his life and the demons still remained inside. He had to make a choice. Praise the Lord he chose to delete them.

Meanwhile after he left to go home to take the external disk, we also ask some church members to go back as we expect to do deliverance until late night again. Only those who were keen to pray and learnt stayed back.

After the thorough delete where he only left a few games which are healthy and he promised to keep those games with the pastor. He would come back to take for the pastor when he fully recovered. I led him in a long prayer and the demons did not manifest again. This time when he was asked if there were anymore, he could not give a clear answer! A few days later, I called him to check on him if there was any recurrence, he said no and he did not hear any more voices also. We also arranged for a pastor to do follow up on him.

Lessons Learned

1. Demons really submitted to the authority of the name of Jesus Christ. Demons have to answer and give us their names when we ask in Jesus’ name. Demons have to come out when one resist them in the name of Jesus.

2. Demons are all lying all the time. Whatever they say is all lies or half truth. No wonder the bible called demons the father of all lies. Each time a lie was thrown at us, we countered it with God’s word and revealed their lies.

3. Demons’ tactics include lies and deception, teasing, criticizing and scaring us. They kept laughing at us. They even spit at our face to humiliate us. A demon said we blasphemy God more than it. A demon said it was the judge. Another said we lost, it won. A demon even called the lady pastor, “You are my princess.” Praise the Lord we are not scared, not humiliated and not give up on the deliverance. All of us who were involved had strong faith, including the parents.

4. Our application of biblical principles on affirmation of Christian identity and resisting the demons actually worked.

5. When we submit our willpower to the demons, example, by playing computer games, we can be demon possessed. We need to submit our willpower to Jesus, then, we can overpower the demons.

6. To fight the demons, both power encounter and truth encounter are very important.

7. Preparation of the deliverance team is very important. We agree to listen to our commander pastor and take instructions from her. We were united in trusting Jesus Christ to do the deliverance.

The whole process was really a great testimony of Jesus Christ our Lord, who was so faithful in empowering us to do the deliverance. Some brothers and sisters who listened to the testimony and saw the deliverance went back home and deleted their computer games. There was definitely God’s purpose in the whole process though we were deceived.

Prayer points:

1. Let us pray that Jesus is glorified in deliverance ministry.

2. Pray that disciples of Jesus are well equipped to do deliverance as the need arises.

3. Pray that disciples of Jesus do not give demons a foothold in their lives by playing computer games of all kinds.

4. Pray that the above testimony awakens the churches of the work of the demons and we must live holy life to avoid the demonic attack.

A Faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(Miri,Sabbatical, 1st January, 2012)

Posted By Teresa Han