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my description of demons is persons
without
bodies it's very important to realize
you're dealing with a
person in the early years of my Ministry
I suffered from intense depression that
would come over me and rest upon me like
a dark cloud and shut me in keep me from
communicating and I struggled with it I
did everything I prayed I fasted I
reckoned myself dead I knew the
scriptures and the more I prayed and
fasted the the worse it got and I had no
remedy and one day I was reading Isaiah
chapter
60
61 and it said in place of the spirit of
heaviness the Garment of pray and the
Holy Spirit spoke to me and said that's
your problem a spirit of heaviness of
depression and when I knew that I was
dealing with a person and not
myself you see I've been blaming myself
for all of this when I discovered it was
another person I was 80% of the way to
Victory and actually I understood by
Revelation that it was a familiar spirit
that is a spirit that follows a family
up and I realized the Same Spirit had
affected my father for many
years so all I needed was one other
scripture let me share it with you Joel
2:32 it shall come to pass that whoever
calls on the name of the Lord shall
be
delivered I called on the name of Jesus
and I was delivered this thing it was
like a Heavenly vacuum cleaner came down
over my shoulders and just sucked this
thing out and I had struggled with it
for years until I recognized it was not
myself it was another
person seeking to afflict me and I want
you to understand when you once realize
you're dealing with a person who is not
yourself you're about 80% of the way to
Deliverance now as I understand it and I
let me say I've been dealing with demons
for more than 30 years I first got
involved in
1963 some people said well brother
Prince will soon give it up he'll change
his
Doctrine I have to say at the age of 80
I haven't given it up and I haven't
changed my Doctrine I tell you one
reason it's scriptural and number two it
works I want to offer you three
objectives that demons have number one
to torment and torture they are the
torturers number two to keep you from
knowing Christ as
Savior and number three if you come to
know Christ as Savior then to keep you
from serving him effectively
now we have to distinguish between two
things What's called the Flesh and
demons or evil spirits the flesh is the
old carnal nature that every one of us
have inherited from Adam all of us are
descendants from Adam and Adam did not
beget any children until he was a rebel
and every descendant of Adam has the
nature of a rebel in him that's the old
man now the other thing that we deal
with is evil spirits and it's important
to know know what you're dealing with
cuz the remedies are completely
different see I was dealing with a
spirit of heaviness and I was trying to
deal with it as if it were the flesh I
was trying to crucify it cuz that's the
remedy for the flesh but you can't
crucify a
demon nor can you cast out the flesh you
have to know what you're dealing with a
man came to me once and he said brother
Prince I want you to cast this demon out
of me I said what's your problem and he
began to tell tell me his difficulty in
relating to his wife I said I don't
think I can cast that out it's not a
demon it's your fleshly nature you have
to crucify it so we need to know am I
dealing with my flesh or am I dealing
with a
demon and I will give you a little list
of characteristic activities of
demons number one they
entice there's not a single person here
above the age of six who has not at some
time been enticed to do evil very often
it comes in words well you see that nice
gold pencil there pick it up nobody will
know if you dropped your pencil they
would do it to
you anything that comes to you in words
comes from a person so you know that
enticement comes from a person a
demon number two they harass or I think
we say in English harass I'm bilingual
and I have to remember which language
I'm
speaking anyhow harass or harass that's
what they do I have this little example
in my mind it's just not directly based
on any single experience there's this
businessman he's had a terrible day in
the office everything went wrong the air
conditioning failed his secretary didn't
type his letters right and then he got
in the car to go home and he got in a
jam in the motorway and he spent an hour
sitting in his car all the fumes and
finally when he gets home his wife
hasn't got supper ready and the children
are running around screaming and at that
moment as they say in America he blows
his stack he loses control he begins to
shout and scream and that demon of anger
that has been following him around all
day slips in and after that he's a
slightly different
person from after that at times
something comes over him and he wounds
the people he loves most his wife and
children
and his wife looks at him from time to
time and sees something in his eyes she
never saw
before and then he's repentant and
penitent and he says I'm sorry I don't
know what made me do it well we do know
what made him do it was the demon of
anger see it had harassed him or
harassed him and in the moment of
weakness slipped
in then demons torment they are the
tormenters they torment spiritually
with the suggestion God doesn't love you
you're not really saved that's a common
form of
Torment they torment emotionally with
fear they torment physically with all
sorts of horrible things like arthritis
and so on they are the tormenters and
Jesus said listen if you don't forgive
your fellow believer God will deliver
you to the
tormenters who are they the demons a lot
of Christians are in the hands of demons
because they refuse to forgive some
other
person then demons compel they make us
do things we don't really want to
do that some of the things they compel
you to do were really comical I had a
letter after a Deliverance service from
a woman aged 25 and she said for the
first week in my life that I can
remember I haven't been biting my
nails what made her bite her nails a
demon can you believe that I know it's
true and then demons
enslave they make you slaves you see
people can sin and stop sinning if they
decide for instance a man may get drunk
and then decide won't get drunk and he
doesn't drink anymore he sinned but he's
not enslaved but an alcoholic is a man
who can't stop drinking he is
enslaved now if you put compel and
enslave together you get the word
Addiction and in my personal opinion
almost every addiction of any kind is
demonic and there are a lot of
respectable addictions some very
unrespectable some respectable but if
you are addicted
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you have a
problem and your problem I think in 90%
of the cases is a
demon demons
defile they make us feel dirty and
unclean they project evil impure images
and thoughts and words into our minds
and I've talked with people at various
times who said just when I'm getting
closest to the Lord when I really want
to worship Him these horrible things
come into my mind and I said you can be
sure it's a demon anything that wants to
keep you from worshiping God is a
demon then demons
deceive they are behind all forms of
religious deception Paul said in 1
Timothy chapter 4 in the last times some
will depart from the faith that's
Christians giving heed to deceiving
spirits and doctrines of demons and
believe me my dear brothers and sisters
there are a lot of different deceiving
Spirits with doctrines that are demonic
and they're very near to all of
us finally demons make people weak or
sick or tired or kill
them I dealt with a woman
once this is a remarkable situation 72
different demons came out of her she was
a respectable woman she was a registered
nurse she was charismatic Pentecostal
but she had 72
demons I didn't count them but there was
a woman making a little note of the
names and in the middle of this it
lasted 5
hours she said oh I'm so tired I can't
go on I can't take anymore and I thought
well poor woman she really is tired and
then the Lord showed me that's not the
woman that's the demon I said you Spirit
of tiredness come out of this woman and
it said not the woman it said that's
right she's always tired she's tired
when she gets up she's tired when she's
going to bed she's too tired to read the
Bible too tired to pray when that Spirit
of tiredness came out of her she was no
longer tired we finished the
Deliverance demons make you go to
sleep there's a Spirit of Slumber it's
referred to both in the old and the new
test have you ever considered that you
can sit up till 2: a.m. watching
something that you probably shouldn't
been watching on the television but if
you decide to read your Bible you go to
sleep in 10 minutes that's is that right
that's not natural there's something
there that doesn't mind your watching
television in fact probably wants you to
watch it but does mind you're reading
the Bible or
praying all right those are some
activities of
demons now the main areas in which they
operate I have to give this in a very
condensed form you understand I'm
writing a book about it please pray for
me it's not an easy book to write I
discovered about 10 different kinds of
spirits or demons mentioned in the Old
Testament and about 20 in the new that's
30 but that's just a little sampling
there are hundreds of different kinds of
demons the main area that they affect I
believe is Mo emotions and attitudes and
behind every negative emotion and
attitude there is a corresponding
demon that doesn't mean you've got the
demon but the means of the Demons there
trying to get you for instance you can
get
angry and it's not a demon it's just you
it's your flesh but if you get angry and
can't control yourself and get angry
when you don't want to get
angry that's a
demon let me give you a list
of some of the
commonest names that I've dealt
with and another thing about demons is
they operate in
gangs when one gets in it opens the door
for the next and if you find certain
demons you can always look for their
friends let's take one
Pride
Rebellion Rebellion almost always
follows Pride
and then witchcraft or the
occult because 1st Samuel 15: 23 says
Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft
wherever you find Rebellion look for
witchcraft the great historical example
of this is the young people of the
United States in the
1960s almost a whole generation went
into rebellion and almost every one of
them ended in the
occult because re Rebellion is as the
sin of Witchcraft now I thank God I saw
scores of them gloriously saved and
delivered but I learned the
lesson then one of the commonest spirits
is the spirit of
fear Paul says God has not given us a
spirit of fear so it doesn't come from
God but fear is something that we easily
all of us give way to and it's followed
by other things like rejection one of
the commonest emotional problems in the
church and in the world today is
rejection it's a sense of feeling
unworthy unwanted nobody really loves me
I'm on the outside looking in and I
would say in my
observation at least
20% of professing Christians today that
I've met with need deliverance from
rejection it's really due to the breakup
of the
family because the thing that gives a
child the sense of
security is the love and the care of a
father and where that is missing there's
something that cries out I don't know
who I am I don't feel secure I don't
know that people really love me I want
to tell you one thing Jesus really loves
you but the devil will do his best to
convince you it's true of everybody else
but not not you