Hi Andrew I fast forwarded and listened to Friday’s t.v. broadcast. You taught a Charis student about The Believer’s Authority instead of praying for her or going to her home to pray the spirits out. She took her authority and conquered, etc. It reminded me of when I was in school and I was getting frustrated that you didn’t mention the devil and his demonstrative power(at least that’s what I’d been taught) until you taught on Job. You see since I was a small child I had been severely tormented by demonic activity. I got excessively worse when I started attending Pentecostal movement church because they spoke of the devil as much as they spoke of God. Fast forward to bible school, once I heard you teach that the devil was a nothing, a nobody, stripped of all power and authority, a zero with the rim knocked off, I began to renew my mind to this. Not long after that while in a deep sleep alone in a basement apartment I felt that familiar evil spirit come to the foot of my bed as it was used to doing. I felt paralyzed and helpless, panicking within, but then I heard a still small voice from within the chaos say, “Perfect Love casts out fear and Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world.” I began to repeat those verses over and over in my mind until I was able to snap out of the comatose sleep. I sat straight up and pointed to this HUGE dark shadow that was as wide as my bed and as tall as the roof and said, “you can stay all night I don’t care, I’m going to sleep.” I fell right to sleep until morning.
You see in the past I would panic and turn all the lights on and call my pastor or just try to stay up all night for fear that it would repeat itself and that’s how I lived until I went to Charis at 40 years old. It has happened only twice since then and it was because I had opened the door (stupid). But now I’ve been totally free for many years because of the knowledge of God’s love and the authority He has given me to take charge of things myself. Thank you so much Andrew for teaching us these things. I love you and hope to see you in Riverside next month.
