Introduction

The coming days we will look at the question:

"Could a demon be controlling my life?"

Demon power is real.

Do you believe it?
I know you say that you do, but do you really believe that satan's demons could be controlling your life right now? (We write satan not with a capital, as satan is not a name, but a word meaning adversary, opponent, it is the other who stands in the way, or blocks the way. He, the enemy of mankind, is the one who temps mankind to do evil and be rebellious to God.)

I'm beginning to discover that even very dedicated Christians don't really understand what is happening to them in the spirit world. The other day I was concerned when I heard somebody say, "There's something about spiritual warfare that I just don't understand."
"What's that?"
"Well, Brother Schoemaker says that, "There is no total victory in spiritual war until we (as Christians) conquer our enemy who has already been defeated."
"Now I know that satan is our enemy, and that demons do exist. But if Jesus already defeated them at Calvary 2,000 years ago, why do we have to conquer them all over again? How could satan have any real power over Christians if Jesus has already won?"

Unfortunately this thinking is very common.

1. On one hand, Christians are living lives of torment - walking in bondage and defeat with no real spiritual power.
2. On the other hand, they know God's Word and have been trained in spiritual warfare, but have little idea of the power and the seriousness of the war they are in.

The bottom line of all their thinking is, "satan has already been stripped of his power. I'm safe because I'm in Jesus' hands."
Beloved, if this is what you have been telling yourself, you, too, have been blinded by one of the enemy's most brutal deceptions. Somehow he has convinced you that all the problems, illnesses, defeats, depressions, and anxieties in your life have nothing to do with demon powers; they are all caused by circumstances, your in-laws, the wrong vitamins, a bad childhood, or anything else you can think of!

But the fact is that demon oppression is very real in the Church today.  There is one demon spirit that controls, dominates, possesses, oppresses, vexes and torments eight out of ten people in the world today... including born-again Christians!
Right now there is an 80 percent chance that this demon spirit is secretly pulling you away from God, destroying your witness for Christ, and choking your growth in the Holy Spirit... and you don't even know it. Can you believe it?
 
I intend to prove it to you.
Let us now turn to the Word of God. For God's infallible Word is the same yesterday, today and forever.