I thought that we were now on the road to complete and total deliverance for Alex even though it was taking a very long time. I was confident that we would get to that point eventually. Not only that, David had ambitions of coming back and also of going over to Canada to do deliverance. The devil would not stand for this. We were very ill prepared for the huge attack that we would all get to scatter us and destroy us all.
Alex came back the next week for a casual visit with the children and I. Then my daughter invited Alex and I to go with her on her field trip to Upper Canada Village. The field trip was just over the border. We figured we would just follow the school bus. We spent a very enjoyable day at Upper Canada Village. But when we tried to cross the border to come back into the states Alex was refused entry! I traveled to the field trip in Alex's car, but now I was left stranded at the border and had to try to find a ride home. There was no pity on me and I had to beg to use the telephone just to make calls in order to get a ride home. We should have known that this was no coincidence. We just had a deliverance conference at my house the week before. Alex was not even allowed to tell me goodbye. He was cruelly forced to leave. He felt shattered and disappointed on the way home. I was just numb from it all. Later on when I saw our pictures from Upper Canada Village I was shocked to see what looked like some sort of red entity in one of the pictures! The actual untouched photo is below.
Attack number two came when Sonya announced to us that a cancerous lump was found in her breast. Alex had two uncles that died of lung cancer and cancer had been a fear of his prior to this. His cousin getting cancer struck fear into him. However, he begged and pleaded with Sonya to continue to get deliverance with David's help. She continued to work with him over the Internet, over Skype. It was a difficult summer for Sonya. Alex was very standoffish towards her not because he didn't care. It was because he was scared. I asked her how her deliverance sessions with David went. She said that a spirit of Cancer manifested and that it came out tasting bitter. Sonya underwent surgery to remove her lump. By wintertime when she was retested she showed no signs of cancer anymore. The Lord had healed her.
Alex began to feel more and more depressed due to being stranded on the Canadian side of the border unable to even so much as visit me. He did not find a church to attend and had no fellowship with other Christian believers in Canada other than his cousin Sonya who newly came to Christ. Meanwhile the enemy was busy hatching a plan to kill Alex. He had a spirit of Insanity just waiting in the wings for its opportunity to strike. And strike him it did, and very hard. The Bible says that we sometimes have besetting sins and the enemy knows just where to strike. Pedro's was anger and bitterness. His family was a very angry family. They would fight and argue even when I was visiting their house. One day Sonya came to visit Alex. On this day they got into a big huge argument. Sonya became so upset that she was shaking while accusing Alex of being unloving. Alex felt emotionally assaulted. I didn't understand what went on but he claimed that something supernatural happened. He became very afraid of Sonya yet complained that their argument felt like a "break up". He struggled to forgive but felt all the more angry and bitter towards her.
He opened the door wide for spirits of anger to come into himself when he got back home. It's interesting that the verse below warns a person not to give place to the devil. In other words, don't let him move into you!
Ephesians 4:26 "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil.
Well, Alex let the sun go down on his anger way too many times and then got infested with anger, hatred and even murder. A friend once told me this, if you don't repent then the spirits progress to worse ones. Anger will let hatred in, and hatred will let in rage, and then rage will let in violence till finally murder will come in. The Bible says that anger is akin to murder.
1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
I was not wise and was disobedient myself. Here's where I pitched in. Alex and I had premarital sex. That opened up the door too. Finally Alex was in a seven times worse condition. God even withdrew his Holy Spirit from Alex for a time. He was double minded and not following God like he should have been. Then the demons accused me constantly through him always condemning me even though we were now totally abstinent. The devil is the accuser right? So Alex's once glorious deliverance sunk like a lead balloon.
The year was a living hell for both Alex and I. Insanity and Suicide really took him for a huge ride. God would not allow Alex to play the hypocrite either. He had prayed for the deliverance of a friend of his who had relatives with a Santeria background and she also complained of a spirit husband (incubus). He was able to even cast it out of her. Guess how much revenge that demon got on Alex because his armor was not on (no breastplate of righteousness). Alex got beat to a pulp like the Seven Sons of Sceva. (Acts 19:11-19).
He began to see that mysterious dark spot with his right eye once again. Gradually his vision became worse to the point where he could not focus properly with his right eye. Things appeared to be wavy as if looking at everything wrinkled. His vision became so distorted that he could no longer drive his car.
Summer had passed, then fall, and Alex wad deteriorating every day. It seemed all too familiar. He told me one day that it all began by hearing a buzzing noise in his ear. He felt as if something had come into his ear and lodged there. He began to get body aches and back aches. He did not sleep very well and smells and sounds in his environment began to be too much to bear. I would then ask God, "How long Oh Lord? When will his true freedom come?"
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