By Santiago Huerta Figueroa Jr.
I had prayed for her before and as I did she had began to speak in tongues and lift her hands as if she was receiving a touch from God, but something didn’t sit right in my spirit with that, because she was severely under the influence of alcohol, (not that God cant touch one under the influence, but she hadn’t been delivered yet). Also, about this time or around it she admitted to knowing she had a demon and said that it comforted her I knew there wasn’t much I could do.
In the mean time I had a dream of trying to cast a unclean spirit spirit out of her, but in the dream it didn’t fully come out.
Out of the blue while my wife and I went over to visit her and see how she was. I could see she was heavily under the influence again and I had been praying for her regularly from time to time, but felt like we could only share the love of Christ with her.
Though as we began to leave she asked me to pray for her and I told her “it will do no good because you said the demon comforts you and like it.” She began to plead with me that she didn’t want it any more and that it tormented her. I told her “If I pray and tell it to leave and you let it come back you will be seven times worse.” She told me she wanted to change and I warned her that it was serious. She continued to ask me to pray and so I did. I set in my heart in love that I would pray all night if I had too and began praying.
I began worshiping the Lord with my hands up and said a prayer of repentance for all known and unknown sins. As I prayed I had my wife simply repeat after me.
The old woman’s hands began to lift as if to praise and I knew it was the unclean spirit that had fooled me before also she began to speak in tongues and I knew those tongues were not Holy Ghost tongues. I asked her to put her hands down and just be silent, that she could pray later, but right now we were going to pray for her.
After this I opened the front door and continued with harder prayer and said “Come out of her in the name of Jesus Christ.” At this point she began kicking and then screaming with her hands flying up and down. I told my wife to grab her left hand and leg as I grabbed the right leg and arm. I also told my wife to start singing amazing grace. The old woman’s friend ran in the living room startled and tried to shut the living room door, but I stopped him and told him to go back to the kithen.
I commanded “Peace be still, peace be still” and she began to calm down. I told her with a whisper “He speaks to you in a still small voice and loves you so much, he died for you to wash you clean.” An I continued ministering to her about the love of the Lord for her and lead her through a prayer of repentance.
Because of the circumstances I wasn’t sure if it all came out and asked the Lord, and later that night he shared this scripture with me.
An when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. Mark 1:26
Unfortunately this old woman only made an effort for about a week to serve God and then fell back in to sin and ended up in a hospital bed fighting for her life as her kidneys almost shut down completely.
Something I have learned in cases like this is that unclean spirits like to poses professed believers, it is as if the moment one even says they are a believer in Jesus they become a target of Satan. Remember Satan and his minions disguise them selves as angels of light and believers. Test the spirits, stay prayed up and read your word.
This woman that I have spoke of is still being prayed for and ministered to, unfortunately some take longer to truly repent.
If you have any questions feel free to ask. In a later blog I’ll talk about dealing with demons by name and what to do when a demon uses the name Satan, for it’s own.
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