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The Christian and Demon Possession; Can the Christian become demon-possessed?
Christian Post ^ | 03/13/2018 | Samuel Parkison

Posted on 03/13/2018 2:03:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

You can’t be filled with the Holy Spirit and also filled with an unholy spirit.


21 posted on 03/13/2018 3:28:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MayflowerMadam

Anyone not filled with the Holy Spirit and who engages in activities that create pathways or entry’s for them can be oppressed or even possessed,

Also anyone who in any meaningful manner has ever impeded this activity is their enemy and will come under attack,


22 posted on 03/13/2018 3:34:54 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: sparklite2

I’ve done many hundreds of these sessions over the years. There is no need to touch the person in any way as they are afraid of the Light. Usually they try to hide until they realize it does no good. Many are similar to the movie Exorcist, which I found quite accurate having only watched it recently for the first time.

Prayer is the only tool that is needed as we alone are helpless. Often, even words are not needed as the Holy Spirit says it all directly.

I’ve found five primary circumstances where attachment occurs:
1. When drunk
2. When on drugs
3. When under general anesthesia (thus it is very important to pray unceasingly for folks having surgery)
4. When experiencing severe depression
5. When experiencing great fear

Sessions should never be done in public as anyone viewing is an open escape route for the spirit to enter as an escape when being removed from its host.

I’ve been stung, meaning they moved into me and tried to kill me. We individually are powerless as our strength comes through our weakness. It was a lesson I needed to learn through experience in order to have no fear.

If you ever allow fear to enter you while doing this work, you lose as you lower yourself to the level of the spirit attachment and become weak. It is not ego confidence that makes one strong, but God’s perfect Love that casts out all fear.

The reason that Jesus and His disciples emphasized Love thy enemy is that the Love radiating from you is the spirit attachment’s worst fear. It gives them a feeling as though they are burning.

Radiating Love is like clear water running from a spring. As long as it is flowing out, no dirty water can flow inward.


23 posted on 03/13/2018 3:39:51 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Not all spirits are demonic, some are merely misguided. This is often the case when a child is aborted in the womb. I’ve removed many such child spirits years after the event and encountered multiple child attachments in women where multiple abortions occurred.


24 posted on 03/13/2018 3:42:38 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

“Demonic Forces Exist in a Domain of Darkness”

Higher demonic forces have less fear of the Light, often being near the Light to fool us. They are great imitators of the Light.

Dark spirits do not radiate energy the way most humans do. Most souls radiate a warm vibrance that makes you smile. Dark spirits suck in energy and drain you rather than radiate.

Thus I must be careful when I am tired and worn down as I become more vulnerable, unless I immediately turn to prayer which invigorates me.


25 posted on 03/13/2018 3:47:58 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: SubMareener
The key to that parable is that the clean house means that the person has not filled his house with the Holy Spirit so it is subject to repossession.

Except that every believer does have the Holy Spirit indwelling him so the house is not swept clean. it now has the presence of God in it.

However, through sin and unforgiveness, the believer can give the enemy a foothold to operate from so that he experiences demonic attack within.

26 posted on 03/13/2018 3:48:31 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/exorcist-explains-the-demonic

Fr. Gabrielle says “yes”. He performed exorcisms for decades, so I tend to believe him.

I guess it also depends how one defines “a Christian”. If one believes one becomes a Christian at the moment of Baptism, then the answer is yes. If not, well I guess one’s mileage may vary (but I’m not going to go there, I’ll leave it to others who wish to virtually flog themselves debate that point ).


27 posted on 03/13/2018 3:50:19 PM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: tired&retired
Not all spirits are demonic, some are merely misguided. This is often the case when a child is aborted in the womb. I’ve removed many such child spirits years after the event and encountered multiple child attachments in women where multiple abortions occurred.

You are being deceived by the very spirits you claim you are casting out.

There are no other spirits and those you think are babies are demons impersonating them to you and you don't have the discernment to see the difference.

The many things you have claimed over the years show a great deal of demonic deception in your life.

28 posted on 03/13/2018 3:52:17 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: tired&retired

Matthew 13 is very accurate as to what is happening on earth right now....

Tares among Wheat
24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

25 But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed [n]tares among the wheat, and went away. 26 But when the [o]wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.

27 The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

28 And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’ The slaves *said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he *said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them.

30 Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

The Tares Explained
36 Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”

37 And He said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

38 and the field is the world;

and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom;

and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil,

and the harvest is the end of the age;

and the reapers are angels.

40 So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age.

41 The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness,

42 and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

THE WEEDS ARE HERE RIGHT NOW.


29 posted on 03/13/2018 3:54:27 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: metmom

“You are being deceived by the very spirits you claim you are casting out.”

Would satan cast out satan?

A house divided against itself will fall.


30 posted on 03/13/2018 3:56:25 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: FourtySeven

“one becomes a Christian at the moment of Baptism”

Baptism with water opens the soul so that a person is prepared for Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit cleans the House.


31 posted on 03/13/2018 3:58:12 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: metmom

“The many things you have claimed over the years show a great deal of demonic deception in your life.”

First, it is not me, but done through me.

Second, it is not about me or what I can do, but to give glory and to validate our Father’s teachings through His Son Jesus.

I am a sinner and as such I stumble and fall. It is only by the Grace of God that I survive.

I’ll be gone for about two weeks (beginning next weekend) as I am heading to a Benedictine Monastery for a period of prayer and fasting. My Love for God and His Son Jesus keep my heart yearning to be nearer Him. He is the most important thing, and the reason for my life.


32 posted on 03/13/2018 4:04:49 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: captmar-vell

“Also anyone who in any meaningful manner has ever impeded this activity is their enemy and will come under attack”

Very true. And God is our only refuge of protection.

In the beginning I had a tinge of fear when first encountering a dark spirit. Now, I sincerely thank them for reminding me to pray. They bring a smile to my face and I laugh at them for the wonderful reminder they give me to keep our Father within me, and I within Him at all times.


33 posted on 03/13/2018 4:11:14 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Maybe. And Satan will fall so that verse does not apply.

But it would certainly make sense that the enemy would deceive a person into thinking they had been delivered and the demon lay low and work in other nefarious ways.


34 posted on 03/13/2018 4:15:40 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: tired&retired
Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Jesus never denied that mighty works were done.

If Jesus never knew those people who cast out demons, then by what power did they *cast them out*?

35 posted on 03/13/2018 4:17:23 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: tired&retired

“2 Corinthians 20:21). This is why we can be absolutely certain that Christians cannot become inhabited by demons. The Holy Spirit has taken up residency in them (Romans 8:9-11). There’s no room for demons.”

Many Christians are like the Pharisees who speak the words but they are empty. They call upon Jesus, but He does not know them.

They ask Jesus to save them, so He teaches them His Father’s Wisdom and they still do not hear the words.


36 posted on 03/13/2018 4:18:47 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: metmom

Your words in red are excellent and true words.

As I recall from my memory, which is not as good as it used to be, Jesus said, Not everyone who casts out demons in My Name knows Me. Lessor dark spirits will fear and tremble merely by hearing the Name of Jesus, but stronger dark spirits can only be removed by prayer and fasting.


37 posted on 03/13/2018 4:23:00 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

This was in response to the disciples asking why they could not remove some spirits.


38 posted on 03/13/2018 4:24:17 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Angels or demons, there is nothing else.


39 posted on 03/13/2018 4:48:35 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: metmom

Spot on.

I also have seen a few posts which imply one isn’t saved til baptism. That’s also incorrect.


40 posted on 03/13/2018 4:51:41 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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