It’s much simpler than explained.
The reason that Jesus asked people if they wanted to be healed prior to helping them is that He was offering them a chance to change from sinful behavior.
Swept clean is the absence of Love, the most important component of our soul. Love is the glue that hold the soul together. Sin creates a space or obstacle to Love in the soul. This is also the reason for the “house built on the rock” parable as when Love is present the foundation is solid.
There are several components relating to casting out a demon. First, the demon could not enter the person unless there was a wound in their soul. Many things can create these wounds. I am sad to say the a child being a victim can also create these wounds.
So the steps relating to removing a demon are:
1. Remove the demon from the person.
2. Process the demon so it cannot return to harm anyone else or this person. If you just cast it out, it is like taking a nail from a tire and throwing it back in the middle of the street. You must dispose of the nail properly.
3. Assist the victim in finding and healing the wound in their soul that created the opening for the demon. This is the hardest part. Many times I have done this and the person returned later with another demon asking for help again. I explain that the first time the work was done through me, but they did not change their ways... (A common event that creates wounds as this is an affair that is not needed. Every soul knows the difference between right and wrong. When the person returns to the affair it recreates the wound) (The same is true of abortion) This time it is up to them to change. Suffering serves a purpose as sin creates suffering. When the suffering is great, people tend to turn from sinning in the future.
So, the second time they return. It is up to them to really want to change or be healed.
4. Finally, in order for the soul to continue to be healed, the person must build and accept their own relationship directly with Jesus and not though me. It is very important that they realize that Jesus did the work with the Holy Spirit and not me. I was just a tool. All gratitude must go to Jesus...
A soul that is swept clean is an empty soul. In order to be protected you must be filled with the Spirit. You must be like a child... Not just clean or pure, but be filled with Holy Spirit. This is what puts the sparkle in a child’s eyes that they lose when they sin. A pure child cannot lie to you without you seeing it in their eyes immediately.
I hope this helps...
One other aspect of this... often a person has several demons of various levels in them. When a novice casts out the demon, usually the lowest level demon is sacrificed and put forth by the other boss demons.
Demon spirits can have other demon spirits embedded in them without knowing it. I have found them many levels deep, each embedded in another. There are many variations of this.
The reason that denying the Holy Spirit is the greatest sin is that you can never be filled and protected if you deny the Holy Spirit. You will be empty...
One other important comment...
Often when the demon enters, it enters through the bottom of the feet in the arches. They feel like a cramp or Charlie horse, except that they move around. When Jesus washed the disciples feet, He mentioned.. You know not why I do this..
They can move up into your lower body and lock it up with fear. I’ve had people who could not walk, and merely by pulling the demon out of the bottom of their feet, without ever touching them, they could get up and dance...
There is much more to this than I have time to share...
Sorry for the typo.. “ affair that is not needed.” should read.. affair that is not ended.””
**Assist the victim in finding and healing the wound in their soul that created the opening for the demon. **
This would take a lot of listening.
The tired old fiction that “sin causes suffering” needs to be put down. What did the family of the toddler do to deserve him being killed by an alligator at Disney World? What sin did the toddler commit to cause his suffering in being drowned by an alligator? Quit with this garbage.