Fighting Demons

The mind is the "battlefield," taught Prince. So are emotions. It is in these areas that spirits cause everything from confusion, anxiety, and indecision to insanity and suicide. Just about all suicides he came across were demonically linked, he asserted. They aggravate, do demons. They humiliate. Torment.

They bind and enslave.

"If you can't resolve [something, such as a bad habit], you can be almost sure you're dealing with a demon," Prince asserted.

They entice.

Often, he said, this comes in verbal form. There is an inner voice that tells us something is okay when it is not. We justify what we really know, deeper down, is not right.

Demons implant lustful notions, lewd images; fantasy; or they tempt us with excess food and drink. The most famous enticement, of course, was in the Garden. How quickly enticement can turn into disaster!

They harass. Who hasn't experienced this? They instigate us to anger. "They study you," said the deliverance expert. "They follow your movements. They know your weak moments. They know your weak places. They know just how and when they can get in."

Demons cause restlessness.

A person completely at rest and at peace probably doesn't need deliverance.

They discourage. They disparage. They compel. Almost anything compulsive may be demonic (of course, it can also simply be from the flesh). Compulsive eating. Compulsive talking. They enslave: If you still have a nearly uncontrollable urge to commit a sin you have confessed in the past, a sin you hate, you may be inflamed by a spirit -- or so taught Prince. Returning time and again to a sin can be a sign of this -- a sign that darkness has to be cast out in the Name (and by the Blood) of Jesus.

They addict. There are people even addicted to the smell of nail polish! (Upon deliverance, says Prince, the demon came out screaming). TV can be as much an addiction, he says, as alcohol.

They defile. They make you feel dirty and filthy. "You're just about to worship God and this dirty image is projected into your mind," he said. "Anything that rises up and opposes you as you are about to worship God or read the Bible is almost certainly demonic."

Spiritual forces from darkness will even cause drowsiness when someone is reading Scripture, he claimed; a "demon of tiredness." For your discernment.

They deceive.

And deception always comes in, said this learned man, through pride.

As we can see, we can all use deliverance from time to time, even often.

And so there is his outline of deliverance -- one of many long teachings Prince gave on the realm of the demonic, after traveling the world ministering and writing before dying in 2003 in Jerusalem.

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