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Showing posts with label Demonic Strongholds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Demonic Strongholds. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

How Demons Possess People

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

HOW DEMONS POSSESS PEOPLE.

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Jesus then told me he was going to show me how demons get hold of people, even believers, if they will let them.  He showed me a man in a vision. I didn't recognize the man. I saw an evil spirit come and sit on his right shoulder. (There's no significance to the right shoulder at all. If there had been, the Lord would have told me.) The evil spirit began to whisper in this man's ear, and the man began to entertain its thoughts.

Then in the vision the man became as transparent as if he were made of glass. Something seemed to go into his head. It looked like a black dot and it was almost as large as a baseball. Jesus told me that this thing first came from the outside to attack the man, but because he had listened to it and had opened his mind to it, it had entered his thinking. He had become obsessed!

Then I saw this black dot go from the man's head down into his spirit. He told me that it now possessed him wholly. Then I saw a whole group of evil spirits come in. I saw the first spirit holding a door open, as it were, for all these other spirits who were swarming in. There were so many I couldn't count them all. They looked like big flies. The first one looked like a little monkey or elf.

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Jesus talked to me about that. He reminded me of the Bible account in Matthew 12:24 which tells how Jesus was accused of casting out devils by Beelzebub, the lord of flies. He said these spirits were lower classes of spirits. The higher class demon got in there first and got control and then let the others in.

Remember the man whose house was swept clean but the evil spirit came back with seven others and they all entered into him (Matt. 12:44,45)? The one spirit knew how to get in, and he took the others with him. Jesus told me this man was possessed of the first spirit which went into him, and then he let the others in. All of them were in there, but only one fully possessed him. He then told me the madman of Gadara had a legion of demons.

Jesus told me in the vision to walk up to the man I saw in the vision. I walked up to him, and the Lord told me that from that night on, when I was in the presence of one who was fully possessed, these spirits would recognize me. They would recognize that I had power over them.
He said when a person is fully demon possessed, the demon can use his voice and state that he knows who you are. The demons will know you as much as they knew who Jesus was.

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He said that through discerning of spirits, which is an inward revelation, I would know what kind of a spirit possesses a person. He told me that if the spirit did not come out when commanded to, I should ask what his name is and how many there are within. Some won't come out until you do this.

Then Jesus showed me some things I hadn't understood before. He talked to me about the man who came out of the tombs at Gadara. (Mark 5).  Jesus said if I had been there that day I would have heard, with my physical ears, this man talking. But it was really the demon who possessed the man doing the talking. (A person present wouldn't have heard all the demons speaking unless he had discerning of spirits.) This was what Jesus told me. He said because I had this gift, at times I would see and hear into the realm of spirits. That scares some people; I'd be lying if I said it weren't so.

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Sometimes I've had spirits speak to me before I've ever said a word. I hear them. People can hear me telling them to leave, but no one else hears them talking. Sometimes they say to me very emphatically, "I don't intend to go." I say, "Yes you do, and out you go in the Name of Jesus." I've seen them go. People will be delivered. I've seen too much of it not to believe it, and I know it works.

I don't just run and jump into something. I stop and think it over for a long time before I start using it. The Lord told me one time when He appeared to me in a vision that He would rather I be too slow than too fast. He said some people receive a little revelation, and they grab it and run. They usually end up with everything messed up. It's better to be careful.

I do not believe that God is going to take novices and new Christians who know little or nothing, equip them with these things, and send them out to turn the world upside down. That's out of line with His program.

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So Jesus told me to walk up to this man. When I walked up to him, the man immediately spoke out loud and said, "I know you; I know who you are." Without thinking I told him to shut up in the Name of Jesus. He hushed. Then on the inside of me I knew what kind of spirit was talking to me. It was a deceiving spirit.

I said, "You foul deceiving spirit, I command you to come out of the man in the Name of Jesus!" Nothing happened!  So then I asked the name and how many there were in there. (Deceiving isn't a name, it's just a kind.) He said there were 19 more in there besides him. That was all I needed to know. I then commanded him and all 19 to come out in the Name of Jesus. And they came out!


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William James Roop

























Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Demons In Certain Regions

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is an interesting article about spiritual warfare.


Demons and evil spirits want to possess man so they can find the widest range of expression in this world. If they can't find embodiment in man, they'll take embodiment in animals as a second choice. The spirits in the fifth chapter of Mark said they wanted to go into the swine so they wouldn't have to go out of the country. Jesus gave them permission and they went into the swine.

"And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered,
saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
And he besought him much that he would not send them
away out of the country.
Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great
herd of swine feeding.
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into
the swine, that we may enter into them."

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We see from this Scripture that demons do like to gang up in certain parts of the world or certain countries. In traveling, it has been easy for me to discern what kinds of spirits are in a locality. I can drive through a city and know what spirits predominate there. Sometimes there are immoral or occult spirits, or spirits promoting foreign religions. Small towns — not just large cities — can have spirits ruling over them, too.

Spirits in the Church 

My wife and I were in a town visiting her relatives one time, and the pastor of the church there said he wanted me to preach. I was on the field in evangelism, and he kept asking me. Finally I told him I wasn't going to do it. 

He asked me if there were something wrong with him and his wife. I told him there wasn't. But I explained I didn't want to preach in that town unless God definitely told me to. I told him the town was full of reserved, conservative people, motivated by stingy devils and demons. I told him these demons had gotten into his church and that the people wouldn't support me if I went there.

His eyes got big and his mouth fell open, and he asked me if anyone had been talking to me. I told him no one but the Lord.

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Whatever kinds of spirits are in a city will get into the church, because there will be someone who will let them in. For instance, look at the Church at Corinth. Corinth was one of the most immoral cities of the East. This immoral devil got into the church. There was a man cohabiting with his father's wife. It had to be dealt with!

First Corinthians 5:1 tells us, "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife."

Whatever spirits are predominant in a city will get into the church unless individuals and the church as a whole learn to stand against them. This minister decided to tell me some things. He said he had taken that church without promise of any set salary. Whatever came in as tithes and offerings on Sunday morning was to be his. The Sunday night and Wednesday night offerings would go for payments on the church building and utilities.

- Kenneth E Hagin ( The Origin and Operation of Demons ) 

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William James Roop






























Monday, January 1, 2024

Demonic Strongholds

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is something that I found that I wanted to share with you.


Where you find RELIGION you will always find PRIDE 

Where you find FEAR you will always find CONTROL

Where you find INSECURITY you will always find COMPETITION 

Where you find LUST you will always find SHAME 

Where you find BITTERNESS you’ll always find the desire for REVENGE 

Where you find CONTROL you will always find MANIPULATION 

Where you find CONDEMNATION you’ll always find ERROR 

Where you find UNFORGIVENESS you’ll always find ARROGANCE 

Where you find IGNORANCE you’ll always find STAGNATION 

Where you find DIVISION you’ll always find ABANDONMENT 

Where you find REJECTION you will always find SELFISHNESS 

Where you find FAKENESS you’ll always find DOUBLE MINDEDNESS 

Where you find ALCOHOL you’ll always find PAIN

Where you find ROAD RAGE you’ll always find IMPATIENCE 

Where you find a ABUSER you’ll always find SELF HATE 

Where you find ABANDONMENT you’ll always find SELF SABOTAGE!

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I could go on and on but the point is, you will never see a problem functioning alone! You will never just see one demon or one stronghold! They get the power of agreement with other issues! Where you find one thing you’ll always find something else. Don’t fear, get the accountability you need for your freedom! Your problem isn’t alone, you can’t win this battle alone! You need support, you need another set of eyes! God desires to heal you and deliver you not only so we don’t struggle but so He can get full glory out of our lives! Victory is around the corner!

 There is always hope! Jesus is Hope!