SID: Now this is unbelievable. A couple of years after this marvelous experience that Jennifer had with God, a couple of years later, by the way, can a Christian, a believer in Jesus, have a demon, not in their spirit, but in their flesh? For instance, if you ever read in the Bible there’s a spirit of infirmity, can a Christian get sick in the flesh, not in the spirit, but in the flesh? Of course. But two years after Jennifer became a believer, what happened to you?
JENNIFER: Well what happened is this. I had a tremendous honeymoon in the Lord. I was learning to live for God. I had parted ways with all my old friends. I really was living for Jesus as much as I knew how to do. And so I had peace. There was peace in my home. It was beautiful. And then what happened is it felt like peace left. It left me. It left my household. It felt like darkness was coming in. I hadn’t experienced that kind of darkness before I became a Christian. I remembered it from back in the day, but it seemed like everything was coming back again.
SID: You know, it says in the Bible that the devil might leave you for a while, like with Jesus, he left him for a while, but he would come back. That’s what happened.
JENNIFER: I believe so. And I was at a prayer meeting, one that I attended for quite a while, and this lady, she looked over at me with concern, and she said this to me, she said, “I see a spirit of sorcery standing over you.” And when she said that something picked me up and threw me against the wall, and it went into a demonic manifestation.
SID: Could you have stopped that if you really wanted to?
JENNIFER: No, there was no way. It was everything went out of control the minute she exposed.
SID: Did you know in your mind what was happening to you?
JENNIFER: I didn’t.
SID: Okay.
JENNIFER: I was not taught these things. This was not in our teaching. I just had to experience and work it out.
SID: Then what?
JENNIFER: Well I was, these were ladies who were ladies of prayer. They practiced the type of prayer where would call that spiritual warfare. That was how they prayed. And so they were trying to deliver me from this spirit, deliver me from this demon and they couldn’t deliver me. And so after about three or four hours of me manifesting demonically I was taken home, because I had calmed down enough, and I was pretty much left to figure out how to overcome this on my own.
SID: All the things you’ve learned in prayer and deliverance you learned by the Holy Spirit.
JENNIFER: I learned by the Holy Spirit. Basically what it boiled down to is I was going to have to have authority over myself. And so it was about three months or so where this spirit was tormenting me. I would hear screaming at night. My bed would shake. My doors would shake. I couldn’t sleep. It would follow me around. Other people would hear the knockings on the doors, the different manifestations. Other people would experience it, too. Now keep in mind, I had been praying, I had been begging God to set me free from this spirit, set me free, praying. And so one day that spirit actually walked into my bedroom and it came to torment me, and then something grows inside of me. It was the Holy Spirit. And I spoke out with authority to that demon, and I said, “I will not serve you. I will only serve the Lord Jesus Christ.”
SID: You exercised what you had all along, but did not realize what you had. The Holy Spirit gave you those words. I have to believe it.
JENNIFER: He sure did and that was the end of it.
SID: Really.
JENNIFER: Yes. I didn’t have any problem with that spirit again. Not only that, I wasn’t afraid of demons anymore. And also I’ve been able to deliver people from the very thing that I was delivered from.
SID: Why do we have such tremendous power with God if we pray? I thought it was just intercessors that are supposed to pray, an intercessor by definition of the word, praying for someone else. These are special people that they love to pray. We love TV, food. These are special people.
JENNIFER: Well everybody is an intercessor, who believes in Jesus, and that’s because intercession by definition, you’re just praying for another person and that’s because we have the authority to. We have the authority.
SID: Same authority you have for yourself.
JENNIFER: Exactly.
SID: To help others be free.
JENNIFER: Right. So you can pray for another person to be, let’s say, delivered of what I was delivered from. I would like to pray for some people right now.
SID: Please.
JENNIFER: In Jesus’s name, I break and sever every cultic connection and tie that you still have that is remaining upon your life. I break the torment off your life. I break the demonic torment and the demonic onslaught off of your life. You are free. In the name of Jesus that spirit of occult must leave you and never torment you again in Jesus’s name.
SID: That makes it special. It’s wonderful to pray for other people, but what if you’re loaded with problems. Your family is a mess. Your health is a mess. Your finances are a mess. Can you use that same power like you did for just yourself, not for someone else, in your own family?
JENNIFER: Yes. We all have the name of Jesus and we all have his written word. That’s our toolbox. That’s our weaponry. And so I take a promise from the Bible that I know he has spoken about my situation and I actually use it like a weapon. In other words, I actually speak to the problem with that scripture and it’s like a weapon against that problem, and it has to change. It has to come to pass because that’s the authority we have in Jesus Christ.
SID: Let me ask you something. I want you to talk to people watching us right now and I want you to tell them why it’s so important that they understand the supernatural principles of prayer and start operating in them and it’s not for someone else, it’s for them.
JENNIFER: Right. You were never meant to be defeated. Jesus didn’t die on the cross so that you can be defeated and live a defeated life. You’re a king’s kid and you’re supposed to look like it, and your life is supposed to reflect it. And so now you have to make a decision to choose to walk in your spiritual authority. You have it, but you need to get it on the inside of you that it’s yours and start using his work over your life. And everything you begin to speak out, it’s going to come to pass because you’re a king’s kid, you have his promises and he spoke the Word first, and now you speak in like manner, and it will happen. It will come to pass and you’ll see a change.
SID: Now I know you’re going to see a change. Now Jennifer has heard secrets by the Holy Spirit on how to be a winner, how to have your prayers answered. I want to hear a few of these secrets when we come back. Be right back.
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