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#266 The Exorcism


Note: Everything in the following incident (adapted from, The Power of Darkness, by Ray Comfort) happened exactly as it is written. I consider lying (and even exaggerating) to be a violation of the Ninth Commandment.

Two girls once approached me and said that they wanted to see me about "something personal." When I asked if it was about "demons," they were surprised, and said that it was. One of the girls was having continual blackouts. For apparently no reason at all, she would blackout at different times of the day. They became so frequent that the girls suspected something spiritual was involved. I told them to come to my office at 2 p.m. that afternoon.

Around that time, Sue (my wife) and I were running the Drug Prevention Center in the Dome of the Regent Theater building. They arrived at precisely 2 p.m. I was surprised they showed up. I ushered them into my office and began to question the one with the problem. Besides the blackouts, she was having suicidal thoughts and, after some probing, I found out that she hated her father. At that time someone came into the center, so I said I would pray for her after I served the customer.

As I stood at the counter, suddenly her friend burst from my office in tears and told me that the young lady was writhing on the floor. The customer left rather quickly. I raced back to my office and found her crawling on her hands and knees, groaning, screaming and making animal-like noises. Once again, my perception told me that this wasn't normal behavior for a young lady. I commanded the spirit to manifest and name itself so that I would know how to pray. "No, no!" it screamed.

When I persisted, it shrieked, "Hate, hate!"

I named the spirit of hatred and commanded it to leave (if you find this hard to believe, spare a thought for me. You are only reading about it. I found myself right in the midst of something supernatural, illogical, and irrational, but I couldn't deny its reality).

Another spirit named itself as "Suicide."

I said, "Those are personalities what is your name?" "Soal," it screamed.

"How long have you been in this person?"

"Twelve years."

"How did you gain access?"

"Easily!"

During the manifestation, the spirits referred to the teenager as "her," i.e., they were separate from her personality.

Finally, after about an hour of prayer, she came to herself and seemed free. I told her (we will call her Jane) to become a Christian, or she would end up in a worse state than she had been.

I began to question Jane about her past. She told me that about twelve years previously, at the age of seven, she began talking with a "friend." This friend was invisible, but very real to Jane – so real in fact, that she asked her mother if he could come to dinner. He used to tell Jane stories. They were bad ones that started off good if she was in a good mood, and good ones if she was in a bad mood.

A few days later, I received a card from Jane thanking me for praying with her. It said how she now felt free. On the card she gave a Bible reference of scripture that she said meant a lot to her. We turned to it and it didn't make sense as it was about the wrath of God. This remained a mystery until some time later.

I told her to get rid of everything that gave her contact with the occult. She was wearing occult bracelets, whi