An interesting experience…

Some people may find this story hard to believe if they’ve never had encounters with the overtly supernatural. I’ll just tell the story the way it happened and leave it at that…

At the end of a conference I led in Figueras, Spain the last weekend of September, a woman came up to me who had been struggling for years. She told me a monster came to attack and torment her regularly at night. During the day, it continued to be with her and cast an extra shadow that followed her wherever she went. Her sister, a devoted follower of Christ, said she’d also seen the shadow and had also watched once as something took this woman over and spoke through her in a male voice. Once, she said, she even went crazy and seven grown men couldn’t restrain her.

She didn’t actually seem crazy or to be making this story up, so I considered the possibility that this woman was being tormented by demons. I quietly told Karen in English to pray along with me as I prayed for the woman and to not be surprised if there was a manifestation of some kind.

As soon as I started to pray, the demons that had been tormenting her manifested. They started screaming out, and she went into convulsions and started foaming at the mouth. This woman had asked Jesus into her life, so I told the evil spirits in Jesus’ name that they no longer had any authority over the woman and they had no right to remain in her as she had surrendered to Christ. In Jesus’ name, I commanded them to leave. A piercing scream erupted from her throat, and then she briefly fell unconscious.

Shortly thereafter, she woke up, not remembering what had just happened but knowing that she was free. The woman praised God for her deliverance and then said, “Jesus is Lord! Jesus is Lord! Jesus is Lord!” The pastor and her fellow church members agreed to help her through this next phase of her life, as she leaves behind the things that had opened the doors to the demonic influences in her life and begins to follow the Lord, and everyone rejoiced at what God had done.

Later, I explained all that had happened to Karen. She had seen it but not understood the words as she is just learning Spanish and doesn’t understand a lot yet. Before I got to the last part, however, she said, “I knew she must be free when she said, ‘Jesus is Lord’ three times.” I said I agreed, but was then surprised when she said, “I thought it was interesting that she said it in English though. I didn’t even know she knew English.”

“She doesn’t know English,” I told her. “She said it in Spanish.”

As it turns out, however, Karen definitely heard it in English. When I asked her, Karen didn’t even KNOW the words for “Jesus is Lord” in Spanish yet. We shared that with some of the people from the church, and one said, “That must have been God demonstrating that it really was Him working.” On that occasion, Jesus demonstrated miraculously that He is indeed Lord, binding the power of the enemy and proclaiming His Lordship through that woman in such a way that the words could be understood in any language.

Again, some people will not believe this story. Others will find it offensive because it will clash with their belief systems. Yet, all I can do is tell it like it happened. The woman is free from torment now, and the shadow is gone.