Shared by Elijah Challenge worker in India
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“This took place at a special meeting where the keynote speaker was a well-known servant of God along with his team.
The wife of a high-ranking police officer who is the president of a district police association had been brought to the event. The woman is a government teacher and like her husband is a Hindu Brahmin. She had been possessed and tormented by 51 demons for nine months. She had lost her mind and would scream, shout, and cry at the top of her voice.
Her husband and family had spent a small fortune taking her to various sorcerers for deliverance from the demons, but none were able to do anything for her.
At that meeting I heard the demons screaming and speaking through her, telling everyone where they came from and why they came. They wanted to kill her.
Through some believers her husband had heard that a well-known servant of God would be present at the event. So her family brought her to the meeting to be prayed for. Following his speech, the servant of God went to pray for her along with his associates. He is known for his sermons in which at times he shares his reservations toward the ministries of healing and casting out demons.
In India, the Church of North India (CNI) and the Baptist churches do not support such ministries. In many cases they actually oppose ministry to the sick and the demonized. I personally have faced such opposition from mainline churches.
That evening the servants of the Lord prayed to God for the demon-possessed woman again and again. They asked her to take a drink of water, but she would not listen to them at all. Even after much prayer to God, there was no response at all from the demons.
Finally, I could wait no longer. I stepped forward quickly and before the Christians and non-Christians who were witnessing it, I commanded the demons to leave the woman with authority in the wondrous name of the Messiah Jesus. Within a minute the demons threw the woman onto the floor and then left her—after having possessed her for nine months.
After that both she and her police chief husband believed in Jesus as their Messiah—despite their being high-caste Brahmin Hindus. (High-caste Hindus look down on “Christianity” as the religion only for the poor and downcast.) I am planning to fellowship with them.
Later the well-known servant God who was the keynote speaker at the event admitted to me, “I have seen the power and the way you ministered to her.”
This incident helps to provide very clear understanding of the eye-opening contrast between humble prayer to God on the one hand, and on the other hand authoritatively commanding demons out of the demonized.”
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January 2025