07-27-2008, 12:00 AM
And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is a lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the
water.
And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring
him hither to me.
And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
There are inorganics and inorganics. What this excerp illustrates is that there are some inorganics that are more difficult to get rid of.
Prayer and fasting seems to be a help with this kind and yet UNBELIEF seems to be the big key here. It does not say lack of faith, though.
It seems to require very little faith "as a grain of mustard seed."
Unbelief is rather something that is blocking the little faith that these diciples had. Jesus had no problem getting rid of the entity. Unbelief seems to me to
be some "withold" that is a part of our own selves. Some area in which we are not yet ready to relinquish our old beliefs or our old selves.
These disciples had no problem in casting out most demons they came across but this one was different.
My teacher used to say that "..of ourselves we don't have the power to blow our noses." This was a man who changed the weather, and had performed
many miracles, healings and had 400 volts measured coming out of his hands in a laboratory.
I had a real bad possession once that I tried to get rid of for several days on end. It took the form of a dragon in my mind's eye. It wasn't until,
completely exhausted and at the end of myself that I realized that I had been trying to command it using the name of Jesus. "I" had been trying to
command it. It was at that point that I said, "Jesus, I cannot do it. You do it."
Immediately a being of light came with a sword of light (that was the impression I had) and there began a battle within me that lasted about half an hour. My
spine undulated like a serpent,...in a way that I would have thught impossible for a human body to move. And the lights from the battle moved through my body
at lightening speed, first here then there as if my body were a battle ground.
I just watched in wonder at what was taking place within me.
At the end, the dragon was gone and I was left with a peace that I have never felt before or since.
The lesson for me was "Ego is a very small thing." (Small meaning that it is very subtle and difficult for us to see.)
Know this Ben. Until you begin to make progress they will pretty much leave you alone because they have you anyway.
If they begin to pay attention to you, you must be "onto something."
And don't worry too much. The entities you are dealing with are probably not too powerful. And besides, worry and fear are exactly the way they want you to
react.
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is a lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the
water.
And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring
him hither to me.
And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
There are inorganics and inorganics. What this excerp illustrates is that there are some inorganics that are more difficult to get rid of.
Prayer and fasting seems to be a help with this kind and yet UNBELIEF seems to be the big key here. It does not say lack of faith, though.
It seems to require very little faith "as a grain of mustard seed."
Unbelief is rather something that is blocking the little faith that these diciples had. Jesus had no problem getting rid of the entity. Unbelief seems to me to
be some "withold" that is a part of our own selves. Some area in which we are not yet ready to relinquish our old beliefs or our old selves.
These disciples had no problem in casting out most demons they came across but this one was different.
My teacher used to say that "..of ourselves we don't have the power to blow our noses." This was a man who changed the weather, and had performed
many miracles, healings and had 400 volts measured coming out of his hands in a laboratory.
I had a real bad possession once that I tried to get rid of for several days on end. It took the form of a dragon in my mind's eye. It wasn't until,
completely exhausted and at the end of myself that I realized that I had been trying to command it using the name of Jesus. "I" had been trying to
command it. It was at that point that I said, "Jesus, I cannot do it. You do it."
Immediately a being of light came with a sword of light (that was the impression I had) and there began a battle within me that lasted about half an hour. My
spine undulated like a serpent,...in a way that I would have thught impossible for a human body to move. And the lights from the battle moved through my body
at lightening speed, first here then there as if my body were a battle ground.
I just watched in wonder at what was taking place within me.
At the end, the dragon was gone and I was left with a peace that I have never felt before or since.
The lesson for me was "Ego is a very small thing." (Small meaning that it is very subtle and difficult for us to see.)
Know this Ben. Until you begin to make progress they will pretty much leave you alone because they have you anyway.
If they begin to pay attention to you, you must be "onto something."
And don't worry too much. The entities you are dealing with are probably not too powerful. And besides, worry and fear are exactly the way they want you to
react.