Locked in a room with a naked demonized man...
On the recent trip that DJ has already written about, one day I accompanied three other brothers on a prearranged visit to a nearby village to pray for two demonized individuals.
In the first home, we were led to a room where a young Muslim man was kept. When we entered the young man was very still, and looked very serious. Then he began to speak rapidly and agitatedly, but his speech made no sense. We asked him (by way of translation) if he wanted us to pray for his condition, and he understood us enough to say "yes". So one brother (JM) put his hands on the young man’s head and just began to wait on God to show him what the problem was; he received a word of knowledge that a spirit of insanity had entered the young man while he was yet a child, through a wound of rejection. JM then began to pray, commanding this spirit to leave the young man. At one point JM said “I feel something like a poison entering my hand and going up my arm”. Before this could be translated into the young man’s language, the young man said excitedly “I can feel a poison leaving my head!” This was a physical confirmation of something occurring in the spiritual realm. When JM felt that the spirit was gone, he prayed a second time for the young man, cutting off any further access of this spirit to other members of the family. Then, JM prophesied a positive destiny over the young man, declaring that he would live a good, long life. By this point the young man was smiling and speaking normally. We felt that this mission had been accomplished!
We then went next door to another home, where we were led into a small room with a heavy metal door. The door had a small window through which food was passed. When we entered the room, the door was locked behind us with a thud!. Inside was a man, perhaps 35 years old, completely naked. There was a mattress in the room, and a thin blanket, and in the corner there was a squat toilet. We’d been told that he’d been locked up in this room for 25 years already, because at times he’d go into violent rages; during one, he’d injured his sister so severely that she had to be hospitalized for 7 months. The man did not speak to us when we entered; in fact, he curled up under his blanket, not even looking at us. He could not give us his consent, but we prayed anyway because his family had invited us to do so. This time JM had another brother (K) lay hands on the man’s head as we prayed. After a few minutes, K felt something coming into his arm - another confirmation that the spirit was leaving! We continued to pray for a while longer. At the end, the man seemed slightly calmer, though he ran out of the door into another room as soon as the door was opened. His sister helped him back into the room, and the door was re-locked as we left. We feel that something was set into motion, but the man was not yet “clothed and in his right mind” as we left him in his locked room.
I wept with joy at being able to represent the Kingdom to these two individuals in this remote little village. It was so beautiful – I didn’t know we as Christians could do some of these things! But how many others are locked away like this, a family’s shameful secret?
In the first home, we were led to a room where a young Muslim man was kept. When we entered the young man was very still, and looked very serious. Then he began to speak rapidly and agitatedly, but his speech made no sense. We asked him (by way of translation) if he wanted us to pray for his condition, and he understood us enough to say "yes". So one brother (JM) put his hands on the young man’s head and just began to wait on God to show him what the problem was; he received a word of knowledge that a spirit of insanity had entered the young man while he was yet a child, through a wound of rejection. JM then began to pray, commanding this spirit to leave the young man. At one point JM said “I feel something like a poison entering my hand and going up my arm”. Before this could be translated into the young man’s language, the young man said excitedly “I can feel a poison leaving my head!” This was a physical confirmation of something occurring in the spiritual realm. When JM felt that the spirit was gone, he prayed a second time for the young man, cutting off any further access of this spirit to other members of the family. Then, JM prophesied a positive destiny over the young man, declaring that he would live a good, long life. By this point the young man was smiling and speaking normally. We felt that this mission had been accomplished!
We then went next door to another home, where we were led into a small room with a heavy metal door. The door had a small window through which food was passed. When we entered the room, the door was locked behind us with a thud!. Inside was a man, perhaps 35 years old, completely naked. There was a mattress in the room, and a thin blanket, and in the corner there was a squat toilet. We’d been told that he’d been locked up in this room for 25 years already, because at times he’d go into violent rages; during one, he’d injured his sister so severely that she had to be hospitalized for 7 months. The man did not speak to us when we entered; in fact, he curled up under his blanket, not even looking at us. He could not give us his consent, but we prayed anyway because his family had invited us to do so. This time JM had another brother (K) lay hands on the man’s head as we prayed. After a few minutes, K felt something coming into his arm - another confirmation that the spirit was leaving! We continued to pray for a while longer. At the end, the man seemed slightly calmer, though he ran out of the door into another room as soon as the door was opened. His sister helped him back into the room, and the door was re-locked as we left. We feel that something was set into motion, but the man was not yet “clothed and in his right mind” as we left him in his locked room.
I wept with joy at being able to represent the Kingdom to these two individuals in this remote little village. It was so beautiful – I didn’t know we as Christians could do some of these things! But how many others are locked away like this, a family’s shameful secret?
Comments
Post a Comment