One particular book series you maybe interested in is the “Baptize by Blazing Fire”. It is on the same site. Take a look at the books and let me know what you think.

If you have more spiritual encounters, I welcome you to write a guest post and share them with the readers. Or you may not feel ready now, but if you do have more experience in the future, write for us! thanks

Sai Kit, thank you so much for your words of Wisdom!! Sometimes the answers are right in front of us and I thank God that He used you to tell me.. You are truly an inspiration and God is using you in ways that you would never know!

Thank you for being Willing…

I agree. This, I suspect, is how Satan train God’s people to be timid. I, too, feel that Satan reserve his best warriors for those who are about to experience breakthrough, or become a threat to his kingdom. He doesn’t seem to attack everyone equally. He would “punish” those who dare to reach their full spiritual potential. It’s stick and carrot strategy.

If he harrasses you all the time, you will become hardened. If he only gives you punishment when you “get out of line”, then eventually you will learn to behave.

It’s good to be a fighter, but also realize that you don’t have to be tightened up and yelling all the times, because a single command is enough when you have faith.

I say you need to be both at the same time. A weak fighter has to use all his strength on a weak target, but a strong fighter fights with ease unless he is facing an equal. Don’t let yourself get too comfortable, because an easy but mediocre life is not exciting.

You want your life to be meaningful right?

You might be gifted in spiritual discernment. You were able to see the spiritual realm, and I just read a book “Working with Angels” by Steven Brooks, which mentions this gift. God may want to use you to battle demons. There are a lot of wonderful ways to use this gift. For example, you may want to pray for the escort of angels. You can call for unlimited number of angels and see them working upon your request. You can also witness how the spiritual realm changes as you pray. This is a gift that I want to enjoy too, because it’s annoying to not be able to see your enemies when you have to fight them. I tend to forget their presence after a while since I don’t see them much.

I suggest you to go after the direction or joining or developing a deliverance ministry. It is highly needed, but under supplied in today’s churches. You need to work very hard to find the places and people who will allow you to do what you do best with the gifts you have.

Since I was 4 years old I could “see” things… I would see apparitions (ghosts I thought) sometimes, but I usually felt it. I grew up in a very loving home and we were taught a lot about Jesus (in the traditional sense), but I would always be aware of things looking at me and coming into my space which left me incredibly fearful for many years.. I used to be too afraid to go to the bathroom and never slept alone in my bed- luckily I have a younger brother who always kept me company!

As I grew older, things started getting worse with each experience – it got so bad in our home that we had to get a priest to come cleanse our home. If I had to tell you all the details, I will be typing for hours – literally! To sum it up – I usually prayed to myself (in my mind) when things would torment me – only finding out later in life how powerful a prayer out loud is! Things started getting the upper hand when I was at University and at the age of 21 I seriously started getting depressed and thoughts of suicide crossed my mind very often – which is so out of character as I have always been a fighter and an incredibly optimistic person. I then went through the whole Deliverance thing at a church, which truly helped me so much – I was told that our maid had put a spell on me when I was young- which kind of made sense, because as a white South African, we are used to people using Black Magic or Sangomas to get their way – whether it be for good or bad reasons.

After the Deliverance, the spiritual battles started getting worse, but I was much better equipped and I felt like a warrior. I had a dream one night – which was from God I’m sure- and I have to share it: I dreamed that millions of people walked on a narrow path in a line (2 people next to eachother) leading into a dense forest with a huge mountain in front of it. You couldn’t stray from the path because there were thorns and bear traps and beasts in the shrubs. My friend and I walked behind these people – being the last 2 people in the line, I felt this urge to not be last in line. I left my friend and started running – aiming for the start of the line of people… As I passed the thorns and beasts I prayed out loud and the beasts would run away and the thorns made way for me as I was running. I ended up first in line just as the millions of people started climbing up this mountain. I woke up! I immediately knew that this was a huge message and to this day I am not entirely sure what the meaning is..

I made peace with the fact that these weird happenings are part of my life – all I needed to do was fight it.. This wasn’t ideal, but I had to accept it, or I would lose my mind!

My turning point came when I was 26 and my cousin came to visit. At that stage I was a bit far away from God – didn’t really pray everyday etc.. We chatted in my lounge and all of a sudden God showed me that there was something attached to her (a demon). I wasn’t sure if I imagined it, so I started speaking about God to test her (it). She started to become incredibly drowsy and even fell asleep while I was talking to her! I then knew it was real.. I had become accustomed to chasing spirits (demons) away from me and in my home, but I have had no experience in praying against a spirit attached to someone. An incredible fear crept up inside of me as I thought about praying for her ( I watch too many movies) and had horrible pictures in my head about what would happen as I pray for her!
God really urged me to do it, but I couldn’t as I was too scared!!! I left it and felt incredibly bad for doing so. The next morning we chatted again and I told her what I saw. She started crying and told me that she knew something was wrong and something had a hold on her life (as she is also a strong believer in God)
I asked Jesus to show me what to do and he didn’t straight away!! I just held her hand and kept on asking out loud – probably for an hour and a half.. All of a sudden I felt that it was her turn to pray (obviously from God) and she couldn’t speak!
I then rebuked the spirit in Jesus’ name and she started talking directly to it.. A lot of things happened (not half as bad as I had imagined, but it did choke her) and after 3 hours of intense praying she just said: “I feel it leaving me” and so she thanked Jesus intensely.
A strange thing then happened- I woke up that night with a strange spirit in my room – knowing it was the one we sent away earlier. Anyway, I chased it away in Jesus’ name and all was fine.

After all of this I moved into a new place (for work) and I never felt totally comfortable there. One night I went to bed at around 11pm and I couldn’t fall asleep. I then started to feel a warm, tingling sensation on my right thigh which made me feel incredibly funny. True to my nature and years of not seeing everything as spiritually strange, I thought it could be my arteries or blood circulation. All of a sudden it left my leg and I felt a strange sensation on my right cheek (after supressing the overwhelming feeling of something trying to touch me). I started praying and as I did this, my cheek started to burn. I didn’t know what to do as this was the first time something strange was so close to me and actually in my personal space. I then ran out of the room and shout at God (I couldn’t feel His presence as I was praying) to send protection as I felt utterly violated and invaded. I must sound like a total lunatic, but after even considering that, I know it was all very real.
I got some oil and started blessing my house. I then calmed down and went back to bed. I even googled prayers of protection and said them out loud. I almost fell asleep and suddenly a Bible verse popped into my head (I honestly don’t really know the Bible that well)-
Genesis 12:1-3 “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

This gave me such a sense of Peace and Love and I knew this was a clear message from God..

After that night, some time passed and my cousin (whom I prayed for) came to visit again. This time she helped me!! I was really really tired of fighting these battles and it also started tormenting my boyfriend at night so needless to say I was just sick and tired of everything.

We prayed and asked God to just take it all away from me for good. Something tried to make us aware of its presence while we were praying and my cousin simply told it to go away in such soft words (I’m used to really fighting it) and I realised that all these things will go away by simply telling it to and then truly having faith that Jesus’ name is all-powerful. There really is no need to be such a fighter all the time. With a single word you can conquer all things that are not from God.

Since that night I feel like God has given me a break from Spiritual Battle.. It has been 8 months now and I feel like a normal person- I can sleep alone in a place and not feel a thing!

The reason for my story is this:
I now feel free from fear, but also far away from God. I have a strange idea that as soon as I move closer to God now, these things will become part of my life again and this just kills me!

I am speaking to God lately and trying to find out what the purpose of all this is. Did He make me this way? Am I supposed to be a warrior of His Kingdom in this very active way? Is this how it should be? Or did he want to give me a break from all of this to show me how empty I would feel without my intense Spiritual Warrior self?

I am honestly very confused at this stage and I would appreciate it so much if anyone reading this would pray for me – asking God to bring me clarity and understanding.

Oh my goodness I have typed forever! It must be such a long mail to read.. But if you are reading this I am sure my story caught your attention!

Hope some of you can relate!

Everytime I managed to open the Bible, or go online to browse for relevant Bible verses, and then pray over them, I would recover and see lights again. It works every single time.

in my experience the attacks are two folds, emotional a heaby attack of discouragement, bitterness to cause me to grumble, and depression always followed with these thoughts.

For example, a heavy feeling of dispair comes and lies hammered in your mind at the same time, “God won’t deliver you God’s a liar”, blah blah blah and than comes the doubt attacks–reminders of your past, circumstances where it appeared that God had dissappointed you, always trying to get you to focus on your circumstances not on his promises.

Clearly to sink you into dispair, now also interesting is while these are going on, the thoughts “it’s useless to pray comes”, and prideful thought of why should I have to keep quoting scriptures etc etc,

Clearly the purpose of the enemy is to drive you away from the only thing that can deliver you–God and his word. There’s only one truth and that is that it’s impossibe for God to lie, His word will come to pass.

I liked this article because it gave me some insight into my own battles and trials. Many times I’ve wondered why does God allow this to happen, and I believe its for several reasons

1. to teach you how to effectively resist the ememy
2. to grow faith in his word, by real experience
3. Allow us the opportunity to earn eternal rewards by our striving
4. so that he can bless us abundantly as our capacity to believe in his word grows with these encounters.

Spiritual atacks are hardly fun, but as king David cried in psalms it was good that you afflicted me as it taught me to obey, (not an exact quote)

Struggling against sin is very difficult, but regardless of our failures and how many times we do fall, the truth still remains we all have been redeemed by what Jesus has done for us, the battle is over, we don’t need to keep trying to win what’s already been won for us, We simply need to learn to accept it.