Month: July 2022

Let me tell you the three best ways to get rid of demons. First, we must assume that the diagnosis regarding demonization is accurate. To get rid of demons presumes that there are indwelling evil spirits that need evicted. Determining that requires objective evidence, not someone’s prophetic word or personal assumption. If possible, the activity of demons needs to be confirmed by verbal identification by a person other than the host. 

There may also be some supernatural confirmations. These might include odd facial expressions, the demonstration of supernatural strength, or physical symptoms for which there is no medical explanation. Also, mental health issues need to be eliminated as a cause for the designated demonic behavior. Once the demon’s presence has been confirmed, then the victim/host can decide which course of immediate action is most advisable. If you are such an individual, consider these options for deliverance. 

#1 – FORCE THE DEMON OUT: This is sometimes referred to as “self-deliverance.” It’s a good place to start but likely won’t be successful if your case is egregious. Self-rebuking and binding of demons can be effective, but stronger demons won’t usually leave by this method. As a practical matter, they will take over the consciousness of the host, possibly trancing them. That can be dangerous. Also, if the demonization involves dissociate identity disorder (multiple personalities), it is impossible in a practical way to properly access one’s own internal alter-ego states without external help. The mind of the host can’t effectively dialogue with his or her own compartmentalized aspect of dissociated consciousness. A trained third party is needed to navigate this mental terrain. 

#2 – STARVE THE DEMONS OUT: Minor, weak demons will leave with this approach. Fasting, prayer, scripture memory, Christian fellowship, and reading classic Christian literature will help. Your goal is to irritate and frustrate lesser minions. But beware. Even though evil spirits may not like this opposition, it generally won’t make powerful demons leave voluntarily. There is benefit in diminishing the internal structure of the demonic system by spiritual discipline. Even though you may not starve out spirits like Lucifer or Leviathan, for example, any attempt by spiritual discipline to weaken Satan’s kingdom is beneficial. 

#3 – CAST THE DEMONS OUT: This is the only sure way to get the job done. And it isn’t something you can do on your own. It requires another individual to enforce God’s judgment on the devil. This is the biblical model. Never once did Jesus tell people to drive out their own demons. Those commissioned by His authority to remove demons were sent personally by Him, the two, the twelve, the 70. And in the Great Commission Jesus instructed all believers to engage this mission. Just as the gospel needs human hands and feet to spread the Word, it is the same with deliverance. That means your search for freedom from demonic attack must begin with finding someone who believes in the power of Christ to deliver and knows how to put that truth into practice. 

In summary, it’s a good idea to try to force out demons by self-deliverance or starve them out by more fully surrendering to Christ. But it’s likely that, unless you have what we call a “minor possession,” you’re going to need a deliverance minister, an exorcist, to enforce God’s will by casting out the evil spirits. 

Before I get to the point of this blog concerning abortion as a possible demonic doorway, I want to make a point that should be obvious. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturn of the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, the incendiary language and actions of abortion supporters has been alarming. A man intent on murdering Brett Kavanaugh was apprehended outside the Justice’s home. What also caught my attention was the persistent use of the F-word. The mayor of Chicago used it in reference to Justice Clarence Thomas. Pink used the F-expletive repeatedly in concert as did many other pop stars. Here’s what is ironic. 

The sexual act which this vile F-verb refers to is the reason most pro-abortion advocates are upset. Most abortions are sought as a form of post-coital birth control because of fornication. The Guttmacher Institute, not exactly a conservative Christian organization, states that 74% of women seek an abortion because having a child would interfere with THEIR education, THEIR work, or THEIR ability to care for a child. In other words, what drives the decision for most abortions is unwillingness to control lustful passions, not extenuating health issues. 

There is not enough space in this short blog to consider the nuances of abortion law and decisions regarding circumstances such as rape or incest. Neither will we address at what point an abortion should not be considered, whether after a certain time such as the first trimester. Sadly, some lawmakers and politicians refuse to condemn so-called partial-birth abortions. (That is a situation where the unborn child can viably survive outside the womb but instead is cruelly dismembered.) Some political leaders actually declare that a woman has the right determine whether a baby should live AFTER delivery, if the mother finds the newborn unacceptable for any reason. 

As an exorcist I deal every day with demons. Whether an individual has had an abortion is often a crucial issue pertaining to deliverance. Demons argue that life begins at conception and termination of that life at any point constitutes a right of demonic entry to the mother. Most woman who come to me for deliverance have repented of their abortion. But they still must face the issue of cancelling potential curses of murder and death. This process is separate from forgiveness for what has been done. In addition, I have discovered that an individual’s life can be cursed because their parents considered an abortion but didn’t go through with it. That consideration by itself brings a curse to the unborn child which can lead to spiritual misery after birth. 

Demons know when life begins—at conception. Any abortion considered or attempted beyond that gives demons the potential right to torment the mother. This is an issue explained in our International School of Exorcism. We point out that parental authority plays an important role in the life of a child, born or unborn. A parent speaks for their child from conception until the age of legal consent.

Certainly, coming to faith in Christ will mitigate what the devil can do to someone who has had an abortion. But salvation won’t necessarily terminate the entire curse of death until it is specifically broken. As Jeremiah 1:5 declares of the prophet, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I sanctified you.”  This is also true of every person born of women. Each of us is a God-ordained being infused with the breath of life at conception. We are not the product of an evolutionary process. Every human being is created by God and has the breath of life from the moment sperm meets egg. 

Scripture teaches this and demons know it, no matter what Taylor Swift or Pink may think and no matter what any political leader legislates. Termination of life from conception onward should be fearfully considered. In the event of a health tragedy, every attempt should be made to save the life of both mother and child if that is possible. James 2:19 reminds us that demons believe and “tremble” at the reality of God’s judgment. So should every person and politician who favors unrestricted abortion, the taking of a human life at any time for any reason! 

On July 4, 2022, Robert Crimo III unleashed a hail of bullets on a crowd attending an
Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois. He used a Smith & Wesson M&P 15
to carry out the attack, killing seven and injuring 47. He now faces at least 7 first degree
murder charges. The attack had been planned for weeks with detailed drawings of his intentions.
With a ladder he climbed to the top of a sporting goods store and began firing on innocent men,
women, and children below. Afterwards, his family said little, but his father issued a statement
saying, We are good people. Sorry, the facts dont support that. Why this kid killed isn’t all that
puzzling when you know the truth. Lets break this down by sharing facts about the killer and
his family. You’ll see that, not only was this evil predictable, but it was demonically rooted in the
family dynamics.

THE FAMILY IN GENERAL (The killer — Robert Crimo III; the dad — Robert Crimo II; the mom — Denise Pesina): Nearly a dozen calls to the family home were made by police over the years. Pesina gave contradictory statements about marriage problems, and Crimo II, the father, usually left for the night without arrests being made. The killer’s father claimed that his wife, Pesina, hit him with a screwdriver, scratched him, and threw his belongings on the floor. Both parents were frequently intoxicated. His father sponsored the gun permit used to buy the murder weapon because the killer was underage. He did so although his son had threatened to kill the family. Crimo II was cited for selling alcohol to minors out of a deli that he ran.

ROBERT CRIMO III: During his formative years he was traumatized. He was deprived of a sense of empathy for others because of how his parents treated him. His mother left Crimo III in a hot car as a toddler for 27 minutes. She was charged with endangering the life and health of a child and sentenced to 100 hours of community service. One must wonder what this trauma did to the infant. Crimo III, had been cited for underage tobacco possession and theft from a Macy’s store. He owned a sex doll he called Sophie and posted photos of the doll hanging by its neck in a closet saying, Sophie killed herself. He ranted online against black people, Jewish people, and denied the Holocaust. He tried to kill himself multiple times. Family friends warned the parents who did nothing. He also indulged in self harm. He threatened to kill his whole family and the police confiscated 16 knives from him in addition to a 24-inch samurai sword. His parents claimed they knew nothing of their son’s social media and his self-proclaimed rap career as ‘Awake the Rapper’ or his obsession with the number 47, linked to the day he committed the crimes.

But it’s his mother who gives us the deepest spiritual insights into why this happened.   

THE MOTHER (Denise Pesina, 48): Before marrying the killer’s father, she had an illegitimate child with a man named Steven Brown. In 1999 she sought a protective order against Brown claiming he sexually assaulted her 4-year-old daughter, the killer’s half-sister. Brown killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning. Whatever was already spiritually skewed in the life of Denise, this suicide passed on to her a spirit of death. In 2012 she was sentence to a year’s probation and 100 hours of community service for a DUI and a failed sobriety test. Though married to the killer’s father, she apparently had a boyfriend named David who once called the police claiming that Pesina had bitten him, drawing blood. He alleged that Pesina was hit by her husband, Crimo II. The murderer’s mother was immersed in occult witchcraft. Pesina ran a business named Trilogy Energy Systems, a Reiki energy healing enterprise. According to her Facebook page she studied Traditional Chinese Medicine at Shanghai University and Hindu occult medicine at the Ayurvedic Institute. The web site for Trilogy features the demonic eye of Horus, the Egyptian god, a symbol believed to have magical powers and used by the Illuminati. The site also claims that Pesina is a graduate of the New Age Spa Institute, belongs to Universal Life Church Ministries (a religious credentialing mill), and she also practices “Shamanic Indigenous Plant Medicine” from witchcraft in Peru and Brazil. To quote her web site directly: Trilogy Energy Systems is committed to the wellbeing of ALL energy systems. One person has the ability to influence innumerous lives. Beginning with your healing, you have the ability to emit higher vibrational frequencies affecting all of those around you. These vibrational frequencies are filled with healing energy affecting patterns of lower vibrations, thus changing thought patterns and cell consistency. The universal frequencies accessed through healing will reach a broader spectrum of space and time, opening up new levels of abilities and resources. These new levels of abundance will not only be accessible in your life, but in the lives of all of those you love, reaching ever so farther than you can imagine. Imagine intertwining these frequencies with others on a healing path, creating a web of transformation across the universe, healing all of those who cannot heal themselves.

Here’s what we can conclude from this tragedy. This horrible happening was preventable if one or more of the egregious circumstances had been different. Dad probably had demons. Without question, the mom had demons. And it’s unquestionable that the demons this kid inherited (and then picked up on his own) orchestrated the murders.  

1)This family gives new meaning to the word dysfunctional. Crimo the killer was raised with little empathy, emotional security, or core spiritual values. He was a murderer waiting to kill or cause bodily harm at some point.

2)The father seems clueless, disconnected, and devoid of sensibilities on how to raise a child. But being married to Jezebel didn’t help this Ahab. 

3)The mother is a full-blown witch in biblical terms. Some have suggested she has also embraced Mormonism which didn’t help matters spiritually. Whatever demons Robert Crimo III had a birth were augmented by the extra demons his mother’s beliefs piled on him.

Jeremiah 31:29 speaks of a generation whose fathers have “eaten sour grapes” and as a result the “children’s teeth are set on edge.” The evil of one geJeremiah 31:29 speaks of a generation whose fathers have “eaten sour grapes” and as a result the “children’s teeth are set on edge.” The evil of one generation visits the next. Obviously, Ephesians 6:4 was not a scripture known to the Crimo home: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath.” In the Crimo family, that is exactly what happened. And this Ahab father and Jezebel mother set the stage for immeasurable death and suffering. Politicians need to stop blaming guns and start demanding that American families get their homes in order. That’s the real truthful takeaway from the Highland Park Shooting.

How can you fight off demonic attacks? I spend much time ministering to people who are internally bound by Satan. In that case, an exorcism is in order. The presence of evil must, in most cases, be interrogatively confronted and cast out. It must be removed and expelled from an internal habitation. But what if a tormenting demon is “out there” somewhere, hanging around and looking for a right of entry? This is sometimes referred to as demonic oppression. Being dogged by a demon. Harassed. Intimidated. Influenced. 

In such circumstances the person still needs deliverance but not necessarily an exorcism. What approach should be pursued if this is the case? Most people who are spiritually attacked aren’t possessed. They are oppressed. The devil hasn’t gotten inside yet. So, the goal of spiritual warfare is to keep the devil out. There are three biblical ways to do this: resist, reprove, rebuke. 

RESISTANCE is a defensive action described in James 4:7: “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

REPROOF is referenced in Ephesians 5:11 which speaks of reproving evil and having “no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.”

REBUKING is an offensive action mentioned several times in scripture. Jesus did this on many occasions.

Here is more detailed breakdown of these three actions against the Evil One:

RESIST – – As previously stated, this is a defensive action. It is an exertion of opposition. You recognize hostility and declare against it. When we say to Satan, “I resist you in the name of Jesus,” we are drawing a line in the sand. We’re telling the devil to back off, that he can come no further. Resisting is not pursuing the enemy but ensuring he stops in his tracks. Resistance can be a verbal command. It can also be a decision of personal conduct such as no longer watching pornography or getting spiritual help to repair damaged relationships. To resist is to dig in, to make healthy changes in one’s life, or to stabilize spiritually in preparation for reproof and rebuke.

REPROVE — To reprove is to issue a strong reprimand, a harsh criticism. It is telling the devil that whatever actions he has taken won’t be further tolerated. It is a stronger step from resisting. A directive of reproof might be something like this: “I command you Satan, in the name of Jesus, stop what you’re doing. I belong to Christ and reprove you by the power of His blood. I declare that you must back away and not return to torment me again under penalty of the Holy Spirit.”

REBUKE — To rebuke is to repel. It requires doing something against that which is adversarial. You declare and assert yourself in a directional way. There is no passivity in rebuking. You are directly confronting a demon. In Mark 1:25 Jesus rebuked the demons possessing the man in the synagogue. In Mark 4:39 Christ rebuked a storm which could have taken His life and the lives of those with Him. In Matthew 17:18 Christ rebuked the demon possessed son of a man who sought His help. Jesus rebuked demons, He rebuked sickness, and He even rebuked Peter who spoke the mind of Satan when denying Christ should die on the cross (Mark 8:33).

All three of these action verbs may be needed to keep the devil at bay. Your choice of verb will depend on the severity of your situation, but when in doubt, do all three: resist, reprove, rebuke. The devil is stubborn and won’t give up easily, but victory is eventual through Christ. Satan has been defeated, he is defeated, and he will be defeated.