Casting Out Demons

All demons are personal manifestations of fear. Any fear that I have embodies itself and presents itself to me for recognition and acceptance. If I don’t reject the manifestation, cast it from me into the sea of oblivion, it will take up residence in me as my personal demon.

But even if I am successful in ridding myself of one demon, seven more, more wicked than the first (Matthew 12:43-45), come to take up residence in me. For whatever is in my consciousness (that which I am aware of and believe to be a reality) is continually embodying itself.

To be free from all these manifestations which are causing me such physical and mental torment, I must be free from the fear which is producing them. There is only one means by which this can be accomplished:

1John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

2Timothy 1:7

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

I must know

Colossians 1:26-27  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

I must know that Christ is in me, living as me (Galatians 2:20). When I know this, I will know that this Christ cannot manifest as anything that can cause me to fear and therefore bring me torment.

I will understand that what I am experiencing has no power except that which I am giving it by accepting it as a reality. When I cast down that imagination which is exalting itself against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (2Corinthians 10:5), I am rejecting that fear which is producing all these unwanted manifestations and am receiving the love of the Christ within. That perfect love will cast out the fear, thereby relieving me of the torment.

Now for a practical application. I experience a symptom in my body which causes me to fear that I am catching the flu. I just heard on the TV that this is the worst flu season ever and that people are dying from it. Is flu a reality? Can the Christ who is living me manifest the flu? Fear is now embodying itself (as flu symptoms) and presenting itself to me for recognition and acceptance.

I can either accept flu as a reality for myself and others and experience that reality or I can use the power of the Christ given to me, the power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy so that nothing shall by any means hurt me (Luke 10:19). I can use that power (or authority) to cast out or cast down that devil (that imagination of my carnal mind) which has indeed exalted itself above the knowledge that I have of the Christ who is living in me. I do not have to accept that embodiment of evil which has presented itself to me.

This is not what we have seen in so-called deliverance ministries where there is a lot of taking authority and shouting at demons in an effort to cast them out. We can say all the words we want with no results; for it is not a matter of saying words, but rather of distinguishing between the truth and the lie, the reality and the imagination. It is only my belief in evil as a reality that can sustain it in my experience. As long as I judge by the appearance rather than executing righteous judgment (knowing that, in reality, there is but one power —God, who is love— and that it is always good), I will accept the evidence of my human senses as my reality.

But when I believe the truth, and only the truth —that all these evil manifestations are merely embodiments of the fear that is presenting itself to me for acceptance— I will know that the Christ in me is casting out all that fear as I stand still and see the salvation of the Lord (2Chronicles 20:17; Exodus 14:13). I become single eyed, taking my eyes and my thoughts off what appears to be evil and let the Christ in me dissolve all the pictures of evil that are being presented to me. It is not I, but the Christ (Father) in me, who does the work (John 14:10).

This is of utmost importance. I must, like Jesus, know that of mine own self I can do nothing (John 5:30) before I can experience that with God all things are possible (Mark 10:27). If I am continually checking to see if the appearances have disappeared, I am still believing them to be realities that I must rid myself of —and the fear remains, the fear which holds them in place. But if I know them to be merely imaginations of a fear-filled mind, I can loose them and let them go, not concerning myself at all with whether or not the appearance remains. Then, at a time when I think not (am not thinking about it one way or another), I find that it has disappeared.