Dominating Another Is Demonic

Let me begin briefly by speaking about a situation in which one person is dominated by another. It is never the will of God for any human soul to be dominated by any other human soul. It is never the will of God for parents to dominate their children, for a husband to dominate his wife, for a wife to dominate her husband, for a pastor to dominate his congregation, or for any other person in any situation to dominate another person.

And yet, many people have grown up in life either dominating or being dominated by. I have discovered recently that one of the greatest single hindrances to people receiving complete deliverance is the fact that they have been dominated by their mother. Many mothers seek to control their children's lives, to plan their destiny, to arrange the vocation that they will follow, and to keep them under their control. This is extraordinary how far-reaching it is.

An evangelist came to me about 4 years ago, and he asked to counsel with me, and I spent some hours eating a meal with him and talking with him. At the end, we went back to his hotel room, and he asked me to pray for his deliverance. Before we prayed, I said this, “I only have one source of information about yourself and your family, and that is from what you have told me personally.” But I said, “On the basis of what you have told me, I have to tell you one thing. In my opinion, your mother is a witch.” And he said, “That’s what my wife said.”

And I said, “I agree with your wife.” Now, his mother was a good Pentecostal lady, sitting up in the front rows of a Pentecostal church every Sunday, and so on and so forth. Well, I prayed for that man, and the next 20 minutes, bringing up great strings of phlegmy fluid substance. I prayed with him for maybe 1/2 an hour, 40 minutes, left him, phoned him next day to find out how he was doing. He said, “I feel wonderful, but,” he said, “I feel as if I’ve just been through a 12-mile race. Every bone in my body is aching.” Well, I said, “That’s the result of deliverance.”

And then he said to me something which impressed me. He said, “You know, isn’t it remarkable? Yesterday, you and I had lunch together, and I ate fried chicken. But,” he said, “whatever I brought up, there was no vestige of chicken or anything else that I’d eaten in it.” He said, “Wherever it came from, it didn’t come from my stomach.” And that really made me think. Well, I’ve seen, I wouldn’t like to count the buckets of fluid that I’ve seen people bring up in deliverance.

And I’ve realized, let me say this, that as I understand it, this is not the demon, but it’s the nest that the demon has made in your body. And when the demon goes, its nest better go with it. Sometimes, people go on with this process of physical cleansing for 3 or 4 days or even a week. They’ll go on bringing up and bringing up. I say, “Don’t turn it off. Go through with it. Get your body cleansed. That’s not the demon. You don’t see the demon, but it’s his particular little nest that he’s built up in your body to inhabit.”

“He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”

This is a definite statement of scripture. And I believe, personally, that everybody that practices fornication invites a demon which builds its own unclean area of inhabitation inside that body. As a matter of fact, in many cases, I can tell people what they are being delivered from by seeing the form that their deliverance takes. Almost each type of evil spirit is characteristic in what it tends to produce.

To go back to this evangelist, then he said to me, “We have a daughter who has tremendous problems. She’s 13 years old, goes out all night with men, is on drugs, is attending a well-known public high school, and we can do nothing with her. Do you advise anything?”

Well, I said, “First of all, go home, talk with your wife, tell her what’s happened to you, get together in prayer, get to the point where you really agree in the spirit, and then take some item of clothing that your daughter wears, lay hands on it, and curse the demon.” So, that was what I told him. A year later, he was back in the area. He phoned me, and he said that he wanted to tell me how he was getting on. I said, “How are you doing?” He said, “Fine. Things are changing.” He said, “I’m not without struggles, but my ministry is quite different from what it was before.” I said, “What about your daughter?” He said, “She’s enrolled in an Episcopal girls’ school, has a scholarship, and is doing wonderful. Straight A’s all the way through. She’s straightened out and become a sensible girl.”

And I said, “What about it? How did you operate?” Well, he said, “We did what you said. We got a blue T-shirt that she likes very much, and without telling her, we prayed over it, and then just watched her wear it.” But he said, “There’s something more than that. One day, the girl’s grandmother, my mother, came to the house, and did something she wouldn’t normally do, offered to do some washing for my wife. And in the items that she washed was the blue T-shirt. And ever since my mother washed that T-shirt, she’s been a different woman.”

Now, the point about this mother was that with all the best intentions in the world, she was dominating her son, her son’s wife, and her son’s children. And she was using spiritual power to control an entire family. Now listen, witchcraft is the attempt to control people and make them do what you want by a power other than the Holy Spirit.