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I’m going to get a jump on the New Year with some solid spiritual advice on how to live free in 2023. 2022 may have been a great year for you, or not. If not, then let’s fix it for next year. What I’m going to suggest may not point out the particular changes you need to make, but for most people, some of what I’ll say applies. I’m basing my advice on what I’ve witnessed in more than 1,000 virtual and in-person encounters this past year.

The most common problem causing people to seek our help is because they feel spiritual torment in some way. Some wonder if they have demons. Quite a few KNOW they have demons. Friends and loved ones have witnessed their aberrational behavior. Some have seen outright demonic manifestations. Here is what those seeking help want to know:

1) Why is it happening?
2) How do I stop it?
3) Is it me or is it demonic?

The most common issues that I encounter suggesting that emotional and physical problems are supernatural are these, in order of being more common:

1) Evil behavior in the bloodline. Much of your suffering may not be your fault. You could be suffering from what evil ancestors did decades ago or centuries before. Don’t try to solve it yourself.

2) Experimentation with the occult & New Age. A prayer partner needs to agree with you to break the spiritual connection of all occultism in your past. Usually, a Matthew 18 prayer of agreement is necessary to cut off the demons of witchcraft.

3) Sexual abuse and immorality. Self-deliverance won’t work here. Abuse brings trauma and that results in compartmentalized thinking that needs inner healing. You can’t do that on your own.

4) Drug use especially weed, meth, and psychedelics. Someone like me who deals with addictions regularly needs to help you identify why you got involved with drugs. What the drugs have done to your mind probably limits your use of will power to get free. You need mental healing and likely an exorcism.

5) Dysfunction in the family of origin. Most people who grew up in damaged homes are somewhat incapacitated from taking action on their own behalf. What was normal to you as a child may have been brutally damaging. To you it was normalized, even though it was horrendous. You need the prayers of someone who knows how to pray for wounded souls.

If one of more of these bondages has existed in your life, and you haven’t had effective prayers of healing and deliverance, 2023 may be a very bad year. But if you want to be free in 2023, get help now, even before you ring in the New Year. Our associate ministers and Do What Jesus Did deliverance team member are ready to intervene. I’m available for face-to-face ministry, virtually or in-person. Read our books to get started. Bob Larson University offers the educational courses you need to understand how the bad stuff got in your life and how to get free from it.

Let me give a warning. If you have one of the five factors I just mentioned, you likely won’t fix it by yourself. You can’t escape these bondages by determination from the inside out. You need an objective outsider, someone who is experienced in deliverance ministry to pray for you. Let us help. Don’t make next year worse than the last. Hasn’t your suffering gone on long enough? Determine that with the help of Jesus Christ, YOU WILL LIVE FREE IN 2023.

One of the most stressful times of the year is Christmas. How ironic. We celebrate the Prince of Peace, but for some, the holidays are anything but peaceful. One reason is the unrealistic expectation that the day will be celebrated with one, big, happy family. But remember that those relatives who fight all year long probably didn’t take a break at Christmas dinner. The obnoxious uncle or the rebellious teen may have been at their worst with the high tensions of Christmas. Also, there is a lot of pressure to be joyful when in fact life’s circumstances the past year may have made you depressed. The expectation of happiness at Christmas can put a harsh light on someone who has lost a loved one.

Christmas may also exacerbate differences and misunderstandings that already exist in the family. Plus, there is a lot of pressure to get the right gift, one that isn’t too expensive but also doesn’t look cheap. And did the person even like what you got, no matter the price? Add to that loneliness for the person at the Christmas table who didn’t fit in well, the older person whose friends have died, and the teenager who wasn’t around his or her peers. And then there’s the devil who is very active this time of year in ways I’m going to describe. Here are four things the devil does at Christmas. Read this and prevent suffering from a spiritual Christmas hangover.

FOUR THINGS THE DEVIL DOES AT CHRISTMAS

#1-He exploits spiritual oppression, depression, sorrow, and grief. *

*Suicides don’t increase during Christmas, but they shoot up afterwards in January, a delayed response. Watch out!

#2-He encourages commercializing the meaning of the season for the masses. *

*It’s the biggest commercial windfall of the year. Estimates this year are close to $1 trillion!

#3-He tries to turn this holiday season into a time of drunkenness and debauchery. *

*During Christmas liquor sales are up 24% and beer 30%.

#4-He wants to change the joy of the world into the merriment of sin. *

*According to statistics last year, people spent an average of nearly $1000 on gifts, 41% took on debt to do it, and $15.2 billion of gifts were returned as unwanted.

CHRISTMAS IS OVER – NOW PREPARE FOR THE AFTER-HOLIDAY LET DOWN

#1—As you reflect on the family gathering, remember those who offended you whom you need to forgive.

#2—Take stock of the generational curses in your extended family. Think about the all the evils of those gathered around the Christmas feast and determine not to repeat their errors.  

#3—Don’t let yourself spiritually be hungover by the thoughtless comments of dysfunctional family members.

#4—Consider any soul ties you have with family members that may still be spiritually hindering you even though you’ve gone separate ways.

There you have it, what you need to do now to prevent a Christmas spiritual hangover. Apply this advice and move on to a New Year, where you can GET FREE IN ’23!

No one really wants a demon. Well, almost no one, There are Satanists and black magicians who deliberately conjure demons for nefarious purposes such as money, sex, power, or control. But most people aren’t so sinister. It’s against the wishes and inclinations of basic human nature to want a demon. Several courses of Bob Larson University (BLU), especially our new College of Apologetics and Demonology, explain the ways that various world religions seek to expel evil spirits.

Conversely, some cults invite entities to enter, such as Haitian Voodoo, Brazilian Macumba, Hispanic Santeria, and westernized Satanic sects. These groups deliberately indulge in possession ceremonies. But these religious systems don’t believe that the forces they call forth are implacably evil; however, if you believe in God and the devil, angels, and demons, I have a warning for you. I’ll cite three ways that you may get demons.

These are doors to evil spirits that most people don’t understand are demonic. First, understand that the devil doesn’t play fair. It is possible that you can give uninformed consent for demons to enter. That’s because you’re unaware that your actions are an invitation to evil. The Bible in Second Corinthians 2:11 warn that we should not be ignorant of the devil’s devices. Remember the adage, “Ignorance is no excuse for disobeying the law.” If you’re driving 50 in a 30 mph zone and a police officer pulls you over, it won’t do any good to argue that you didn’t see the speed sign. If you’re going to drive, you are responsible to know the speed of your automobile and the speed limit. In spiritual matters you are accountable for knowing what the Word of God says and abiding by it. You can’t go through life living in sin and disobedience and claim unawareness or spiritual, cognatic dissonance.

Here are three basic ways people open doors to demos:
1) Traumatic abuse from family, friends, caretakers, lovers, spouses, or spiritual leaders.
2) Failing to recognize the power of family and generational curses and knowing the need to cancel these inherited or genetically acquired evils.
3) Delving into the occult through New Age, spiritualism, cults, or non-Christian religions.

Let’s explore these three reason a little more.
1) TRAUMA—Physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse are the main ways that trauma opens doors to demons. There isn’t time here to explore all these possibilities, but this is the key issue. The individual who has suffered such abuse needs counseling, therapy, inner healing, or prayer ministry. Trauma which isn’t processed, but remains buried inside the soul, is emotionally toxic. It can poison the mind with anger, bitterness, self-condemnation, false shame, and other negatively damaging falsehoods. This condition provides a doorway to demons.
2) CURSES: As we have repeatedly pointed out previously, unbroken curses can provide demons a legal right of entry. Once again, there isn’t space to explain how this works, so please consult our publications, Members Only Channel on YouTube, or enroll in Bob Larson University. This is especially important if you’ve never confronted the past evil of generations, both known and unknown. Breaking curses closes the doors of the soul to demons.
3) OCCULT—Our various publications, videos, and BLU list hundreds of demonic practices that are commonly accepted in our society, such as astrology, divination, energy work, psychics, yoga and meditation, fortune telling, and witchcraft. These evils must be renounced. In some cases, the demons attached to these occult indulgences must be confronted and expelled. If you need deliverance and/or an exorcism, please meet with me personally or virtually. Or we can refer you to one of our Associate Ministers or a local prayer team.

Take to heart what I’ve shared, and you’ll avoid common ways that people get demons and keep demons. If you’re reading this after the fact, and you are tormented, it’s never too late to resist the devil and make him run away (James 4:7). You’ll avoid getting a demon if you start by closing the doors of abuse, curses, and the occult.

It’s the most-watched cable TV, streaming show in history. Now in its 5^th season, the neo-western “Yellowstone” commands audiences of more than 12 million with some episodes. The series showcases a tough talking, hard living Montana family with a massive ranch, “Dallas” style (Remember that 80’s TV show?). The ranch, named Yellowstone, is supposedly the largest spread in the state. Four seasons had gone by before my wife and I finally tuned in to season 1, episode 1. Why? So many Christians had raved about it and claimed it was a must-see experience. We expected Hollywood to go gutter with sex and violence as in most movies, but we quickly found that Yellowstone was far worse that imagined.

After the first 15 minutes I lost track of how many times God’s name had been used in vain; how many crude sexual expressions, including the F word, had been tossed around in casual comments. Then there was a sex scene with two of the main characters. It was violent, abusive, and bordering on S&M. It was so bad that even the scoundrel Larry Hagman (remember him) must have rolled over in his grave. But what’s worse is the amoral universe of depraved values exhibited by each character. (If you’re not familiar with that word “amoral” it means totally lacking any sense of rightness or wrongness.) The word immoral supposes a standard from which character and behavior departs. AMORAL connotes being without ANY sense of consequence regarding actions and intentions. Let me repeat that. Amoral means having NO concern about the consequences regarding one’s actions and intentions. Psychopathic!

The themes of Yellowstone are murder, shooting victims not once but multiples times to emphasize the violence. Taking the law into one’s own hands; politicians bought and sold; betrayal; cutthroat manipulation. That’s Yellowstone. One character opines that the only way to stop evil is to kill it. The lead female character, Beth Dutton, daughter of Yellowstone’s owner, responds with the venom of a Jezebel demon, “The way to kill is to be meaner than evil.” Her self-interest and that of her rancher father is the only thing that matters. The character Rip, Beth’s lover, describes killing as “a favor.” Beth adds, “I believe in loving with your whole soul and destroying anything that wants to kill what you love.” For those lines, she has attained the status of a cultural heroine with a line of T-shirts saying, “Don’t make me go Beth Dutton on you.”

Yellowstone is a moral low point for American culture. It is cinematic proof of the biblical description in Judges 17:6, “Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” To which Proverbs 14:12 adds. “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” You may argue that “Yellowstone” is just a movie, but I warn you that if you become immersed in watching this series, you contribute to the moral demise of America and your soul may be in jeopardy of Hell!

There are at least three common mistakes made by deliverance ministers that need addressed. I’m not trying to be critical but helpful. I made a lot of errors in judgment due to ignorance when I started casting out demons. In those days, there were few books on deliverance and no public examples to model after. I was flying without radar and no landing field. But I learned from my errors and adjusted my approach year after year. That’s not saying that I now have the perfect method or all the answers after 50 years of ministry. But today’s deliverance advocates have the internet to disseminate information and share their thoughts and styles of spiritual warfare. They should be doing better, and for the most part they are. But there are still at least three mistakes that are made over and over.

1. INNER HEALING IS DELIVERANCE: No. It’s part of the process, but it doesn’t end there. Personally, I place high value on a supplicant’s emotional healing. Often it is the key to casting out demons. But it isn’t the end all, be all. It’s a piece of the puzzle of freedom from demonic bondage, but it can’t be a substitute for expelling demons. Unfortunately, some who value deliverance begin and end with inner healing and think that completes the process. It may be so sometimes, but in my experience it’s usually not conclusive. As I say in the teaching of Bob Larson University, “Demons don’t go until they are made to go.”
2. BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES MAKES DEMONS LEAVE: This can be true in a small number of what I call “minor possessions.” But the big demons aren’t leaving just because prayers of canceling bloodline evils are uttered. Curse breaking is usually crucial to deliverance, but it isn’t of itself deliverance. It leads to full deliverance. It breaks the legal rights demons have claimed because of ancestral evil. But like I just stated with reference to inner healing, just breaking curses doesn’t make the demons go. They must be forced out, because the generational curses have been revoked. The reasons some demons got there has been removed. But evil spirits still must be sent to the pit of Hell!
3. PROPHETIC WORDS ARE THE GUIDE TO DELIVERANCE: Words that those ministering deliverance may feel are prophetically from God shouldn’t guide the process. I believe that deliverance and exorcism must be a fact-based, methodical procedure. That’s what we teach in Bob Larson university. The emphasis in casting out demons should be on objectivity, not subjectivity. Facts are incontrovertible. Spiritual impressions may be helpful, but they may also be misguided by human inspiration. If someone is getting the names of demons and determining their legal rights ONLY by “prophetic words,” that is potentially misleading. Words of knowledge and wisdom (1 Cor. 12:8) are sometimes crucial. I often operate in that spiritual realm as a source of help to get past demonic roadblocks and a stalled deliverance process. We encourage our chartered Do What Jesus Did deliverances teams to follow this practice. If a member of the prayer group feels they have a word from God, don’t interrupt. Write it down and hand it privately to the lead minister who can then determine if and when to resource that information. We’ve found this to be a smoother more biblical model of healing and deliverance.

There is much more to be said, and further illumination is needed with each of these points. But being consistent with prayer procedures will lead to greater success in overcoming the enemy. Those in deliverance must remember, that it is not human effort which ultimately brings freedom. It is the authority of Christ and His work on the cross which prevails. Deliverance is crucial to the Body of Christ, and all who are involved in this much-need ministry need to be wise about how we approach the process. Many tormented people need to know there is hope and freedom in Christ. God give us the grace to do it wisely and effectively. And if you feel tormented by the devil, please contact us immediately so that I, or an Associate Minister, can confront the evil spirits blocking your spiritual destiny.

Are psychic gifts dangerous? YES! But not according to a university lecturer in England. Dr. Richard Sugg, author or 13 books, recently told Durham University students that they should welcome ghosts, poltergeists, and so-called lucid dreams. According to Sugg, these paranormal phenomena mean the recipient of such things is gifted with psychic abilities that should be tapped. Not surprisingly, Sugg has also written about cannibals, vampires, ghosts, and fairies. The writer lists 6 ways to know if you’re psychic:

1. Being spooked in a building.
2. Experiencing a poltergeist.
3. Seeing a ghost.
4. Having an out of body experience (an OBE).
5. Having a premonition.
6. Sensing something miles away.

Informed Christians should know that all such occurrences have demonic origins as forms of the occult.  Deuteronomy 18:9-14 lists several similar events and says they are all spiritually abominable. The biblical list includes human sacrifice, divination, fortune telling, sorcery, interpreting omens, witchcraft, spell casting, and being a psychic medium who consults the dead. The six items Sugg lists are covered by these biblical prohibitions.

Let me break down the professor’s list according to scripture:

1. BEING SPOOKED: This means you likely have a generational curse of witchcraft. The demons in you or the curses attached to you are reacting to the presence of demons around you.
2. EXPERIENCING A POLTERGEIST: The term poltergeist is a German word meaning a supposedly friendly or mischievous spirit. But these demons only appear harmless, like moving things or making sounds, to further lure you into the occult. Then you’ll be susceptible to more dangerous demons.
3. SEEING GHOSTS: This really means that your spiritual eyes are open to evil through an inherited tendency to witchcraft. Or it could mean that you have created spiritual portals by meditation, yoga, Ouija boards, seances, energy healing, astrology, tarot cards and such.
4. HAVING AN OBE: This is a certain indication you have demons. These evil spirits want you to separate soul and body so that when you’re out of the body demons can freely enter your soul.
5. PREMONITIONS: These are demonic, psychic intrusions offering you spiritual bait to go deeper into witchcraft because it seems so harmless. And it often appears helpful, like warning someone of an impending danger.
6. SENSING THINGS/A 6TH SENSE: If you feel that something is happening or about to happen this lure encourages looking into alleged psychic “gifts” to further develop them. This seems good but always ends up evil.

Professor Sugg, whom I mentioned earlier, may think he’s encouraging people to explore unknown abilities. He’s really luring people deeper into the darkness of witchcraft and idolatry. I deal daily with people who explored the six things I just mentioned. Most of them are now demon possessed and tormented day and night. Psychic abilities of any kind are pathetic substitutes for the true supernatural gifts spoken of in 1 Corinthians chapter twelve. Gifts of the supernatural that are not biblically based can lead to demonic bondage and eternity in hell. God’s gifts bring wisdom and comfort. Psychic gifts are dangerous and eternally deadly.

Until recently, getting a demon via the occult took some doing. Effort and investigation were necessary. Take President Abraham Lincoln for example. He served during the first major surge of spiritualism in America. Think things are bad now with online Ouija boards, yoga in churches, and online tarot card readings? A newly published book entitled, “In the Houses of Their Dead” chronicles the dramatic rise of interest in, what the Bible calls necromancy, seances and speaking with the dearly departed. During the mid-19^th century, when Lincoln was first elected President in 1860, there were an estimated 1.6 million spiritualists in a country of only 31 million people. That same ratio would leave us with about 20 million spiritualists compared to today’s population.

Spiritualism in the 1800s had taken such a hold on the nation that it was rumored Lincoln had visited a New Orleans witchdoctor for advice. When his first child died at age three, it was alleged that in 1830, Lincoln and his wife Mary consulted three witches to speak with the child. Two years later when a second son died, President Lincoln admitted to communicating with the child in his dreams. Mary dived deeply into the occult by attending many seances, some in the White House.

Today, followers of New Age spiritualism need go no further than their computing devices or cell phones. In addition to the assorted Ouija advocates and tarot enthusiasts, anyone online can quickly discover how to make a voodoo doll, cast a spell, or vicariously indulge in satanic rituals. If you wish, it’s possible to get an online Bachelors, Masters, or Ph. D. degree in “Mythology and Occultism.” Or you can strive for certification in Gnosticism, Esotericism, or Mysticism. There are live psychic chats with “immediate answers to life’s toughest questions.” Various so-called “mystery schools” offer tutoring in witchcraft and all things pagan and Druid. There is an online School of Witchcraft and a virtual Witchcraft Academy. A plethora of spell casters offer services for love spells and revenge curses. All this on iOS and Android.

It’s likely that Mary Todd Lincoln picked up some demons with her sojourns into spiritualism. President Lincoln may have done the same. And here’s something interesting. John Wilkes Booth who assassinated Lincoln was a close friend and drinking buddy of Charles Colchester, a famous spiritualist during Lincoln’s presidency. In fact, Colchester performed a séance for Mrs. Lincoln and was said to have brought forth her departed child Willie. Lincoln himself asked Colchester to perform for Joseph Henry, then secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Did that connection embolden, even give a spiritual legal right, to the demons that must have possessed Booth?

Seances, talking to the dead, and all forms of divination can be lumped into one biblical category: witchcraft. The Bible condemns all such investigations nearly two dozen times, whether for online profit or in the nation’s White House. The clearest statement is First Samuel 15:23: For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Every individual, rich or poor, politically connected, or ordinary citizen, sinner or saint, who summons supernatural help with online or offline witchcraft risks losing their soul. Perhaps even their life. King Saul died for consulting the witch of Endor, the spiritualist of her time. So, perhaps did President Abraham Lincoln who risked his life by seeking to talk to the dead.

The question seems straightforward. “What is an exorcist?” But the answer isn’t so simple. First, last week the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Krill, declared that President Vladimir Putin is the “chief exorcist” of the Church. Putin’s original invasion of Ukraine was called a “denazification” campaign, an effort to bomb and destroy the country in the name of ridding Ukraine of Nazism. That’s a lie. As many of you know, I have made more than a dozen mission trips to Ukraine and spoken in more than 50 Ukrainian cities. Like any country, there are small hate groups, but by-and-large the Ukrainians are God-fearing people. In fact, there are more evangelical Christians in Ukraine than any European nation.

Now, Russian tanks, Iranian-made drones, and conscripted troops are being sent from Russia for the “desatanization” of Ukraine. The claim is that Satan worshippers are running Ukraine. The assistant secretary of the security council of the Russian Federation says that hundreds of satanic sects are overrunning Ukraine and that it is Russia’s sacred responsibility to bomb the population to destroy these so-called “hyper-sects.” The satanic groups are supposedly forcing Ukrainian citizens to abandon the true Orthodox faith. Putin himself says that Western opposition to his brutal invasion of Ukraine is “outright Satanism.” Hence, the call for him to be the exorcist battling the devil. In response, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which split from the Russian Orthodox in 2018, now says that Putin is filled with the spirit of the Antichrist and compares him to Hitler.

So, what is a true exorcist? When, two decades ago, I began to refer to myself as an exorcist, many evangelicals were outraged. I was accused of being “too Catholic.” The term “exorcist” isn’t a Catholic word. As a noun it relates to the Latin exorcista and the Greek exorkistes, “an exorcist.” It simply means one who casts out demons, which is what Jesus did. A major evangelical website (belief.net) blatantly, and with extreme theological prejudice, declares, “Though some people [in Bible times] were given the power to rid the world of evil spirits, this wasn’t something that was meant to last through modern times. It was also never something that every Christian should feel like they had to do or learn how to do.” That is both an ignorant and a dangerous thing to say. It’s devoid of the empirical reality of present-day ministry. It’s a slap in face of non-western Christians who regularly cast out demons, and it is filled with anti-Catholic prejudice.

Millions of Americans involved in witchcraft, the occult, and the New Age are possessed by demons. Many are supernaturally tormented. Are we supposed to assume that by confessing Christ they will automatically be delivered from their demons? No one in deliverance ministry believes that myopic view. Check out the more than 1,000 videos on our YouTube site. Are they all disingenuous?

If some of my fellow Christians can’t agree on the importance of fulfilling the commands of Christ to cast out demons (Matthew 10:1, Mark 16:17, Luke 10:19, e.g.), perhaps we can at least agree one thing. Vladimir Putin isn’t an exorcist.

Many people seek my help for deliverance from voices in their heads. If you or a loved one suffer from this phenomenon, heed carefully what I am going to share. It could be lifesaving. If you’ve ever wondered, “Are the voices in my head demons?” there are crucial things you need to understand. The Bible doesn’t directly address this matter though it’s likely that people in the time of Christ suffered from auditory messages that were “heard” in the mind. Of course, people in Palestine wouldn’t have understood psychological explanations since these aspects of consciousness were not yet explored. We can assume that demonic cases such as Legion in Mark chapter five must have involved this form of mental torment.

Such happenings today are not rare. In fact, they are quite common. Those experiencing voices in the mind report that what they hear falls into one of several categories. The voices may be blasphemous, self-condemning, even encouraging. They may suggest immoral or violent acts. They may also claim to be God or the voice of an angel. How can you distinguish if what is going on is from a natural or supernatural origin, or whether it’s a malfunction of the brain, a form of mental delusion. Psychotic people, those who are mentally ill and out-of-touch with reality, hear voices. But perfectly sane and well-adjusted people may also experience these incidents from time to time. In my counseling and deliverance ministry experience, I’ve found that voices usually come from one of these sources:

#1—DEMONS: These voices curse, speak profanely, and seek to turn the victim from the Lord.

#2—MENTAL UNREALITIES: These voices suggest things which are factually inaccurate, such as “The government has planted a computer chip in my head to track my movements.”

#3—DISSOCIATED ALTER PERSONALITY STATES: These are disconnected aspects of the person’s own mind/consciousness and were likely created by some known or unknown trauma.

#4—DISSOCIATED SOUL TRANSFERENCES (DST): These are mind-control interjects of consciousness from a living person, such as individual seeking witchcraft revenge or trying to dominate the thoughts of the person they target.

#5—ANCESTRAL DISSOCIATED SOUL PART S (AGD): These voices are genetically inherited aspects of consciousness from a past ancestor, embedded in the DNA by being attached to a generational curse.

All these categories of explanation are discussed in the course studies of Bob Larson University.

It takes a highly trained deliverance minister to analyze what is going on. In the preliminary courses of Bob Larson University, we teach the finer aspects of evaluating mental health issues for the lay person. Sadly, most deliverance ministers jump to the conclusion that voices in the mind are demonic and immediately rebuke them and try to cast them out. That may be helpful if the source of the voices is demons, but what if it is an alter personality state or one of the mental conditions I have listed? Great harm can be done that might tip the person over the edge to greater mental instability.

Here are some quick questions to ask the person suffering voices:

Do the communications suggest ungodly actions? That is more likely demonic

Do the voices self-condemn? Self-recriminating voices may be dissociative disorder identities that accuse the individual because of false interpretations of past abuse.

Do the voices claim to be angels, aliens, past lives, or disembodied entities? These are almost always from a satanic source.

Does the voice claim to be from God or even an utterance of Jesus Christ? These are usually deceptions from interjections from evil spirits and must be forced to respond to the test of 1 John 4:1-3 to “test the spirits” regarding the incarnation of Christ. As you can see there is no simple answer to the sources of voices in the mind because there are so many variables and possibilities. Don’t try to understand this on your own. You likely can’t objectify your own thoughts to identify the source. I’ve dealt with thousands of such cases, and I encourage you to contact our ministry for a virtual or personal encounter with me or one of our associate ministers. We don’t have all the answers, but at least we know some of the pitfalls to avoid. A Christian counselor with mental health training can be helpful, especially if such a person understands dissociative identity disorder and deliverance. With good guidance and prayer, the voices in your head can be identified, silenced, and even expelled if they are demonic. But as the adage says, “Don’t try this on your own and don’t do this at home.”