Are there some odd ways people can be delivered? Yes, in my case there was no one around who did deliverance when I was younger. I became a Christian back in 1980. I accepted Christ after reading the book "How to Be Born Again" by Billy Graham. I was only fifteen years old. My mother refused to take me to church. All I had available to me to help with Christian growth other than God himself, was Christian radio. I also had a Christian bookstore that I would walk to and buy books from with my allowance. I was able to find a few books on deliverance. The books taught me how to break generational curses. So I denounced generational witchcraft and I broke the curse of witchcraft over myself because my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother had all been involved in the occult.
This was all fine and dandy, but I was caught with something. I had intense hatred for my mother inside me. I felt really bad about it because Christians are supposed to love one another. I could not seem to help it or overcome it at all. I would not feel comfortable even being in the same room with my mother. I just felt totally repulsed. I would find myself wishing she were dead. I felt so horrible about this and I didn't want to feel this way. I even thought once that if she were going to heaven then I would not want to be there because she'd be there! How totally awful is that? I could not stop feeling this way. I could not force myself to love her although I wanted to be able to. I got so frustrated with myself I finally said, "God, I don't have any love for my mother at all, please give me your love for her because I don't have any. I can't seem to stop feeling hatred. Please give me your love for her because I can't seem to change myself." When I prayed that I didn't even realize I had a demon of hatred. Here's how I got delivered of it.
Acts 8:7 For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
My mother later ran into an old childhood friend of hers who was now a Christian. She witnessed to my mother and invited her to church. Then my mother began to bring my sister and I to that church on a regular basis. One night that church was having a "family night" where they had someone playing songs on a guitar and they were talking about loving your family. Boy did I feel horrible! I felt so guilty, I felt like a hypocrite. Here we were singing these songs and I felt nothing for my mother at all. I felt like a fake!
Finally I stood there silently praying to God asking him to intervene and help me because I felt I could do nothing. Then I said to God, "I open myself up to you Lord and allow your Holy Spirit to come into me and do anything you see fit." I just stood there and opened the door of my heart just a crack. I was standing up at the time as everyone was standing up listening to the gentle guitar strumming.
Then suddenly right after I prayed I felt something invisible drop from the ceiling immediately and it dropped straight through the top of my head down to my chest and I bent over involuntarily and let out the loudest moan you can even begin to imagine. This noise came out involuntarily and it was so loud! I could not stop it. At that point something came out of me and I later realized it was a spirit of hatred. But at this moment I really didn't know quite what happened and I was totally embarrassed and ran out of the church.
My mother followed me and I told her that I loved her because I felt led to confess that although at the time I didn't understand why. I didn't seem to feel it yet but it was as if the Holy Spirit wanted me to confess that to her. Then she said, "Oh I already know that. Let's go home." Then we went home. In the days and weeks to come I noticed something amazing. I no longer felt that hatred anymore. It was totally gone. Did that church teach about deliverance? No, but God intervened anyway.
Some people simply have more demons than others. I came to Jesus early in life at the age of fifteen. I was able to avoid some dangers because I then learned about what to avoid that could open door ways to demons. I lived close to a Christian bookstore which was in my neighborhood. I would go to that bookstore on a regular basis and buy books to educate myself. I learned how to discern correct doctrine so that I was not prey to cults, the occult, or the New Age. I even learned to avoid the common dangers youth face such as horror movies, wicked music, drugs, drinking and premarital sex. I also learned to denounce generational sins such as sins of the occult and to break those curses upon myself in the name of Jesus Christ. I was fortunate enough to start going to a church at the age of sixteen where I joined a Bible Quizzing team. I memorized large passages of Scripture. This kept me safe from many of the perils that teenagers and young adults face in this evil day and age.
Alex however, picked up hundreds of demons due to the background he had. He had many childhood wounds due to the trauma of fleeing from civil war as a child from Angola Africa. Then going to an unfamiliar country and feeling rejected as a new immigrant. Early in adolescence he started to listen to Heavy Metal Satanic Rock Music and Trance music. He watched many horror movies. He also got involved in using drugs which opened more doorways. He dabbled into the New Age wearing a crystal and having a crystal ball as well. He dabbled into the occult unknowingly doing anything from color therapy to acupuncture. He got involved in multiple relationships, lived with women, and had multiple heart aches and break ups. This led to deeper and deeper levels of bondage.
It is Scriptural that a person is capable of having many demons, even thousands. Look at the Man of the Tombs, he had many thousands (Mark 5:1-20). Alex opened almost every major door a person could open in their life and ancestrally his ancestors opened many doors too. In fact, Alex's case has been so complex that the average deliverance minister has admitted to me that his case was really even too difficult for them to deal with. This has Scriptural precedence too. The Apostles came across a case of a young boy whose demon they could not cast out. Jesus rebuked the Apostles chastising them for not having enough faith.
Mark 9:28 "And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?"
There simply are those really resistant and strong demons that even some deliverance ministers cannot get out. Alex's cousin Sonya also had some pretty strong demons. She is a lovely delicate woman. That doesn't matter. I have seen little teenagers having horrible demons. Demons don't discriminate. Sonya's case was a very tough case like Alex's. What was I to do now?
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