AEAMT - Angels Encamped About Me, Two!!

In 1986 I was living in a large 6 room duplex with my family. Many time in the scripture, Christ dealt with demons. I hope to show you that devils are quite real and still active. You may call them demons, evil spirits, or any other number of things. I tend to think of them as foul, slime ball entities sent from satan himself and are bent on trespassing on the turf of mankind. Especially the believer whose turf he must trespass on to get to you. Yes trespass. If you belong to God then the devil has no business being there so he must trespass.

Yes God does allow the devil to do that. Just look at Job in the book of Job, chapters 1:6-12,22; 2:4-6; 42:10,12-13. Also, look at Christ. He was not so big that He couldn't be tempted. The devil was all over Him, but Christ resisted him (James 4:7), therefore setting the precedent and manner for dealing with devils.

"But, Brother Snurr," you might say, "devils can't touch a believer. They only bother the sinner." Someone else may think, "If you are having troubles in your life that you think is demonic, then you better repent, because there's something wrong in your life."

I just don't see it that way. Look at it this way. If you already have a chicken, why would you want to fight someone to get it? In other words, if you're living for the devil (you're not a believer) then why would he care about fighting to get you?

I'll admit that if he thinks that you will go all out in working for him, he will live in you (possession), and work his evil through you.

On the other hand, if you are a believer, then you were won over to God's side and taken out of the hand of the devil. If someone takes something of value from you, you are going to be angry and do what you can to get it back. The devil is angry and will fight hard to get the believer back from God (1 Peter 5:8). Keep in mind, if the devil has you already, why would he have to seek you so he could devour you?

The devil can bother the believers and we are given instructions for handling those situations:

1 Corinthians 10:13 - "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

James 4:7-8a - "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you."

Matthew 4:1-11 - We can resist the devil by using the same tactics Jesus himself used. Christ used the scriptures.

Now back to the house. Everything seemed to go great. We were going to church and the kids were doing ok spiritually. Then it happened.

We thought that we would get a movie. The kids said that they wanted to see a particular movie which all the kids at school thought was great. I had even heard guys at work say how good it was. Here came my parental mistake; I got the movie: "Child's Play."

In the movie, we have a doll which had supposedly had the spirit of a criminal living inside it. This doll could walk and talk... and kill. He was looking for a human body in which he could live.

Later in the movie, this walking, talking doll stood over the boy. He would prepare to posses the child. He began chanting in another language. During this chant he said "Macumba." I believe I spelled that right. Never-the-less, it is pronounced [mah-coom'-bah].

This sounded very familiar to me. The pastor with whom I served, had told me about the time when he was serving as a missionary along the Amazon River in Brazil. He described a people (Amazon native tribes) who had a religion which was a cross between voodoo and Catholicism.

Now, I'm not attempting to demean the Catholic church. The fact is that Catholic missionaries had ministered there many years ago. Later, it had become tainted by voodoo which had also filtered in. Now it is a very powerful religion practiced among the native tribes.

From that evening when we watched that movie, we began having problems not only among the family members, but also in the house.

My oldest daughter, Dawn, had awakened one night and sat up on the edge of her bed.

After a while, the two younger girls (Krista and Robyn), had also awakened. They saw Dawn there facing the bedroom door and talking to someone... or something.

The next morning I asked Dawn about this incident. She explained that she saw a figure standing in the door which was talking to her. She described it as being about three feet tall, wearing a black robe which had a hood over its head and very wide sleeves. Its arms were crossed and the hands inside the sleeve of the other arm and you could not see its hands.

She said that its face was greenish in color and witch-like in its features. Its eyes were red. And and this thing stood there talking to her. She never did say what the conversation was about.

Also, about this same time, we began hearing noises in this sturdy old brick house. After viewing the movie, one bedroom became cold, dank and musty smelling. No one could sleep in that room. I was the only one who could come close to sleeping there... And then I would only doze for a while then wake up. After a bit I would doze again then awaken. There was definitely something spiritually wrong in the house.

Eventually, I had enough of it. I had no olive oil, so got out the Mazola. I anointed all the door frames and window frames and even the trap door to the roof in the attic.

As I did this I prayed, recognizing that the oil was a representation of the Holy Ghost and the Blood of Christ. Now I know it isn't the oil, but rather the Blood of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

When I finished doing this from the attic to the basement, I sat down on the sofa in the living room. To my right was the doorway into the dining room. This was one made of two wooden sliding doors which slid into the extra thick walls. We normally kept the doors out about 18 inches.

I began praying, "God, you know what is here. I claim the covering of the Blood of your Son Jesus, and the protection of your Holy Ghost. This house is yours."

Then I began talking to the one causing our problems. I said, "devil, you have no business here. You are trespassing on God's property because I have given it to him." Then I commanded him...

Instantly, the heavy wooden doors began to vibrate. I heard creaks and groans from throughout the house. Then the house became quiet. We could sleep like a baby in that once cold bedroom which was now warm as the rest of the house. Never again did we hear noises from anywhere in the place.

It only goes to prove to me that devils are still in the business of destroying mankind, and harass the believers (John 10:10). But we have the Authority of God through the power of the Holy Ghost to deal with each one of them.