Demonic Oppression

[Desperaux]

He was not talking about the demon, he was talking about the unbelief of the disciples that prevented them from casting out the demon. in this passage, Did Jesus pray and fast or cast the demon out? Jesus plainly told them they could not cast the demon out because of their unbelief. Pretty simple, unless you try to complicate it.

That is exactly right.

[John 8:32]

He was not talking about the demon, he was talking about the unbelief of the disciples that prevented them from casting out the demon. in this passage, Did Jesus pray and fast or cast the demon out? Jesus plainly told them they could not cast the demon out because of their unbelief. Pretty simple, unless you try to complicate it.

Yes and the point is before you jump in and do battle, it may be well and good to do some preparation by prayer and fasting...

Act 19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Act 19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
Act 19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
Act 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

[One Fine Day]

Did any one see this intricate scripture based website on the subject? http://www.demonbuster.com/daily.html

[shepherdsword]

Has anyone ever been spiritually oppressed?If so, what kind of negative thoughts or struggles did you have?

I went through several years of severe oppression. I experienced physical attacks and extreme despair. Thankfully the Lord has removed this trail. I learned the power that is in his name. Demons have to flee when they are confronted with the name of Jesus. They cannot endure thanks and praise offered to the Father. It seems as if you were just asking a question so I will not assume you are going through this. Are you?

[Toner44]

I was under demonic oppression before I actually started hearing demonic voices.

I don't believe that's always the case but its the stages that occurred for me. Unlike the voices I never recognized demonic oppression because it just blended into my life struggles. I've lost three jobs and went into bankruptcy. I found out I had kidney disease and I suffered from depression. I would get huge amounts of anger..just supernatural amounts of anger that I should have realized was my body and I didn't have to carry into my conversations. I'm not sure if all the claimed symptoms are true. I wouldn't think every financial problem is spiritual.

The scariest part was people seemed to know me. Everywhere I went I felt like there was some kind of fan club or something. I was really insecure and isolated back then but peoples words started sounding odd. When certain people said certain words it sounded as if they were being sarcastic. It was a literal verse of the bible in my life because people would phrase their words to make good seem bad and bad seem good. Maybe its just the way my mind translated it but I do believe people's words can be manipulated to bother someone in a certain way. Most of the time when this happened I was at work and at work you're under stress and under stress you tend to say the first thing that comes into your mind. It was weird but no one noticed it but me and no one was tormented by it but me. It wasn't like the voices where I had a word to describe it.

Whatever it was was pretty crazy stuff. It would be easier to just tempt my mind into thinking it was happening but i donno...

talk to God as soon as you notice something odd