To Whom Should We Pray?

To Whom Should We Pray?; Who do we pray to, the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit?

Answer:

Without knowing to whom we are praying is like talking to a crowd without specifying the person. It is very important to know to whom we are praying and, to pray to whom we have to pray. Praying unlike is also a disobedience to God's commandments when bible makes it clear to whom and how we should pray.

Today people pray to Heavenly Father, Son of God and to Holy Spirit without knowing whom to pray. In bible, Jesus Christ makes it very clear that we should pray only to our Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ. No one person, No where in the bible prayed unlike that. 

Jesus Christ taught us in Matthew 6:6, When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Again, In Mat.6:9, “This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,...."

Jesus Christ is telling us why we should pray in His name in John 14:13, And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

We can also use the following Names of our Heavenly Father when we pray.

• Abba: "Father" (Mark 14:26; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6)
• El Shaddai: All Sufficient God (Rev. 1:8;  Gen. 17:1)
• El Elyon: The Most High God (Heb. 7:1; Gen. 14:20; Psalm 9:2)
• Elohim : God (2 Cor. 9:7)
• Avinu Shebashamayim: Our Heavenly Father (Matt. 6:9; Luke 11:2)
• Adonai Elohim: The LORD God (Acts 3:22; Gen. 2:4)
• Haggo'el: Lord God Almighty; Lord God of Hosts (Rev. 15:3)

NB: Only major names of Heavenly Father from bible are listed.

Praying to Jesus Christ:

It is very common for all of us(including me) to have a tendency to pray to the Son of God, Jesus Christ because of our love towards our savior who died on the cross for us. But the Better way to show our love towards Jesus Christ is to obey His commandment by praying to God, the Heavenly Father in Jesus Christ name. Because Jesus Christ said in John 14:23 "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching."

Some people confuse us with the oneness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But even when they are one, throughout the bible we can see that the supremacy goes to the Heavenly Father. Some people even says that the difference between Jesus Christ and Heavenly father was only before the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Absolutely No!. It is clear that  
Jesus Christ, Son of God gave supremacy to Heavenly Father even after resurrection from His own words in Revelation  3:12, 'He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.'

Praying to Anybody else:

Praying to Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ is the only method bible teaches us. Jesus Christ also clearly mentioned that, (Matthew 11:27) "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." If No one else knows the Father other than the Son, there is no other name than Jesus Christ in which we can pray to God.

A sample prayer:

'Heavenly Father, I pray to You that all people who read this article can understand to whom they should pray and the importance of praying to You in the name of Jesus Christ. Please give them the heart to pray likewise. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray.' Amen!

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Dedicating this answer to the questioner, Ann Vincent.

Sons of God Marrying Daughters of Men

 Sons of God Marrying Daughters of Men

Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Story/History Explained in my own words:

Human beings was increasing on the face of earth. The daughters born to man was very beautiful in those days. Angels(sons of God) which is also known as watcher angels or guardian angels fall in love with the daughters of men. A group such angels decided to leave their position as an angel of God because of their free will and left heaven and heavenly glory and came to earth to marry the daughters of men. They are mentioned in bible later as fallen angels.

When the left heaven, they also lost their angelic body and they transformed to a body like that of human being. (I don't know now if they were able to shift their bodies to human and angelic body according to their wish). Then they married the daughters of men and made sexual relationship with them. The daughters of men became pregnant by the angels of God and gave birth to a new kind of human beings called 'Giants'.

Giants had comparatively larger, mighty, skilled and intelligent than normal human beings. They have great knowledge about heaven, herbs, earth, secrets of earth, etc by the knowledge they received from their fathers, angels. Even though initially things were going smooth, later they became a threat to the pure human beings remained on the face of earth because of their evil acts. Thus God destroyed all the giants and human beings, except Noah and family by the flood and made the first group of fallen angels prisoners.

After a while when again human beings increased on the face of earth, Then the second group of angels fall in love with the daughters of men again and produced giants again on the face of earth. These giants are later destroyed by God by the Israelis after calling them out of the land of Egypt. The second set of fallen angels were also imprisoned by God then.

Angels are sons of God: It is clear from bible that angels are also known as sons of God. The term is found only five times in the O.T and every time it is used of angels.
1. Gen.6:1, 4(Current topic)
2. Job 1:6 sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. (If the sons of God, angels have to come to present themselves before the Lord, they will not be angels who are in the presence of God. Satan is in the face of earth since he is fallen and is also mentioned in Job 1:7 & 2: 2. If Satan have to come with sons of God, those sons of God, angels are also coming from Earth. , Job 2:1 Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord.)
3. Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. (Literally, when the Cherubims sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.)
4. Dan. 3: 25, 28: and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. ; 28 who has sent his angel.
5. We can also see something so much connected to these angels in the epistle of Peter and Jude. 2 Pet.2:4-5: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; 5 and spread not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing, in the flood upon the world of ungodly;
6. Jude 6: And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day. (We can see that Jude compare the sin of these angels as that of the sins of people of Sodom and Gomorrha and it is clear that their sin is fornication. That means the sins of angels are also fornication.)

Sons of God are not human beings or holy men of God
1. Seth did not have a son until 235 years after creation, and his son did not have  a son until 325 years after creation(Gen 5:3, 6, 9) Where did these sons came from? They could not have been sons of Seth, for these marriages took place when men began to multiply in the very beginning of the race before Seth had sons of marriageable age. The term sons of God proves that they were the product of God, not of Seth. They were the fallen angels of 1Pet.3:19; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6-7
2. If sons of God were ordinary men as daughters of men, it is naturally impossible to produce giants for a crossing of godly men and ungodly women cannot produce their offsprings as giants.

Fallen Angels Before and After Flood: Clearly there are two sets of fallen angels. Gen. 6:4 is a clear written evidence for that which says, ‘There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God’

It’s clear from bible that all living creatures except Noah and family is wiped out from the surface of the earth which literally means all giants are dead by the flood at the time of Noah. But we can still see giants after the flood. The possibility of a giant’s seed to remain in Noah’s family or the possibility for some giants to survive from the flood is null for the giants to come again of the face of earth after flood. And it makes it clear that there will be another set of fallen angels after that.

These second set of fallen angels again married daughters of men(from a generation of Noah’s offsprings) and thus the next set of giants started to born on the surface of the earth, who occupied the land of Canaan and nearby lands in advance of Abraham.

Giants were Sons of Sons of God: Gen. 6:4 makes it very clear and answer the question where do giants came from. When the sons of God married the daughters of men as before the flood, giants were again born to them.
1. The fact that  giants, or beings of abnormal size in body, have lived on earth is one of the most clearly stated truths in scripture. The Heb. nephil means giant, bully or tyrant (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33). That there were abnormal in bodily size is clear from the fact that men of Israel(normal human beings) were as grasshoppers in size compared to them. (Num.13:33).

The Anakims were a people great and tall in body (Dt. 1:28; 2:10, 11, 21; 9:2; Josh.11:21,22; 14:12-14). Anak himself was of the giants and if he and all Anakims were so big, we can be assured the other giants were also. (Num.13:22,33)

Ammon was the land of giants, for giants dwelled there in old time. (Dt. 2: 19,20)

The Emims were also great, many and tall as the Anakims. They dwelled in the land of Ammon from the old.(Dt. 2:19-21)

Og, the king of Bashan is described a a giant whose iron bed-stead  was about 18.5 feet long and 8 feet wide. (Dt.3:11, Josh.12:4, 13:12).

Repahim: All these giant nations came from a union of the songs of God and daughters of men after the flood. Beings of great stature, some of them even had 6 fingers and 6 toes on each foot and carried spears weighing from 10 to 25 lbs (2.Sam.21:16-22; 1 Chr. 20:4-8). Goliath whom David killed wore a coat of armor weighing from 10 to 25 lbs. and was about 13 feet tall.(1 Sam.17:4-6)

By the size of bed-stead of Og and Goliath’s height we can image that the approximate size of giants varied from 13 to 18 feet, which are about 3 to 4 times the size of human beings. In some books it was written that the giants among giants used to be of height up to 30 feet.

These are all the best information that can be fetched from the books included in the bible. For better information about the incident and its details, you can read the Book of Enoch which is also a book from which few verses in bible have been quoted and a very good book in my personal opinion. Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of Book of Enoch can tell you the detailed story of fallen angels and giants.

The Truth Behind Ouija board and Demon Possessing

What is the truth behind Ouija board and demon possessing? Is it safe to play Ouija board? How can a normal board game possess a person with a demon or evil spirit?

Ouija board is a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0-9, the words 'yes, no, hello, and goodbye'. It is a registered trademark of Hasbro Inc., which markets and distributes board games. It uses a planchette (small heart-shaped piece of wood) or movable indicator to indicate the spirit's message by spelling it out on the board during a séance. Participants place their fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words.

History: Introduced by businessman Elijah Bond on July 1890, the Ouija board was regarded as a harmless parlor game unrelated to the occult until American Spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining tool during World War I. Mainstream religions and some occultists have associated use of a Ouija board with the concept of demonic possession, and view the use of the board as a spiritual threat and have cautioned their followers not to use a Ouija board.

Ouija Board and Spirit of Dead:
An Ouija board can never bring a good or bad spirit of a dead when a person plays it. It is because even though human being is a spirit, it is not hanging around in the earth without a body as we think based on fiction. They are actually resting and will rise again at the coming back of Jesus Christ at the end times.

If someone was able to bring back the spirit of dead like that it would have been amazing because it can help to uncover many mysteries of the world by consulting them in the field of science, medicine, literature and so on. It will be also possible to capture the murderes and so many vast opportunities are there.

But even though it cannot being a spirit of the dead, it can create an opportunity of a demonic spirit to come and may be to also posses you. And unfortunately all demons are bad and there are no good demonic spirits.

Ouija Board and Demon Possessing:

Ouija Board can cause demon possession when a player(a user) plays in with an intention to speak to the dead or to a demon or evil spirit.

A demon can possess a person because of, 1. Demons Free Will, 2. By the Will of People, 3. Sorcerers, Spiritists & Witches 4. Will of God. To know more about reasons for demon possession, Please read the post 'Demonic Possession and Exorcism'

When someone play Ouija board with an intention to communicate to the dead or demon, they are welcoming a demon and making himself available to be possessed by the demon, by his own free will. If someone plays it only as a board game with no evil intention, fear or worries about speaking to the dead or demon, it can cause absolutely no demon possession to the player/user. The fact is, if anyone play any board games or speak or do anything with an evil intention, he is making an opportunity by himself to be possessed by a demon.

Another thing is everyone who play Ouija board will not be possessed. It depends basically on the will and availability of demon as well. No one can make sure that he will not be possessed because of their inability to tell when a demon is available or willing. Demons are a type of spiritual beings that exist on the face of earth. To know more about demons, you can read, What are Demons or Unclean spirits?

There are many people I know and uncountable number of testimonies I heard about people who are possessed by one or more demons because they opened a door in their life for the demons to enter. To be possessed by a demon is not a great thing to experience. There are many cases which resulted in severe diseases, death, mental disorder, murder and so on. To know more about the effects of Demon Possession, you can read my post, 'Demonic Possession and Exorcism'

So I encourage you to keep yourselves and others away from Ouija board or any such kind of things. And do not make yourself an opportunity for a demon to enter into your life by any of your words and acts.

For any more help, if needed you can contact me. Please comment and let me know your thoughts.

A picture of Ouija Board from Wikipedia is shown below.

Prayer Points for Beginners

Prayer Points for Beginners

1. Pray these prayer everyday for that that particular day. Do not pray for tomorrow, for a week, a month, a year, a decade, at once.
2. Pray to the Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ.
A Sample Prayer: 'Heavenly Father, I pray to you to bless me and prosper me in my spirit, mind and body. Thank you for hearing my prayer. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.' Amen!

List of Prayer Points

Thank God: Thank God, Lord Almighty, for the following things one by one.

1. For Creating you, 2. For Protecting you, 3. For Nurturing you, 4. For Guiding you, 5. For Loving you, 6. For Caring you, 7. For Healing you 8. For Jesus, 9. For Holy Spirit, 10. For Word of God, 11. For Helping you, 12. For Understanding you, 13. For All things Happened in your Life, 14. For Yesterday, 15. For Today, 16. For Life, 17. For Health, 18. For Wealth, 19. For Land/Property, 20. For Goodness, 21. For Peace, 22. For the opportunity to know God, 23. For Parents, 24. For Brothers/Sisters, 25. For Husband/Wife, 26. For Children, 27. For Family, 28. For Relatives, 29. For Food/Water, 30. For Clothes, 31. For Shelter, 30. For Friends, 31. For Teachers, 32. For Neighbors, 33. For Job/Salary/Income, 34. For Education, 35. For God’s Grace and Mercy (+ Things you Remember)

Repent for Your Sins: Repent for any sins you remember, you committed. Confess before God your sin; Apologize to God; Make Decision and pray for God’s strength to not commit the sin again and to remove Guilt; Thank God for forgiving.

(Adultery, Angry, Bitterness, Boasting, Complaining, Disobedience, Dishonesty, Envy, Fornication, Getting Drunk, Greediness, Hatred, Jealousy, Judging, Dishonesty, Laziness, Lying, Lusts, Pride, Mischief, Mocking, Murmuring, Rebellion, Selfishness, Smoking, Stealing, Taking Drugs, Unforgiving, Unthankful, Wickedness) (+ Sins you remember you committed)

Pray For Yourselves:

1. To Bless you and prosper your Spirit, Mind & Body, 2. To Protect you and Family from all Dangers, Evil, Sins, etc., 3. To Bless your Job, Finance, Assets, Income sources, 4. To help you to be Faithful, Fruitful, 5. To get a Loving, Compassionate, Helping Heart, 6. To help you lead a good life before God and Men, 7. To be a witness of Jesus Christ, 8. To get the Guidance and Advice of God in everything you do, 9. To bless and to take care of your future, 10. To grow in your relationship with God, 11. To obey God and God’s commandments 12. To Realize and to do Will of God, 13. To get a right life partner, 14. To Bless you with Knowledge and Wisdom, 15. To Bless you in the Ministry you are Involved, 16. To remain in Faith, 17. To provide you the daily bread, Shelter, Clothes etc. 18. To help you love God with all your heart, mind and spirit, 19. To get more of Holy Spirit, 20. To lead a Holy Life and to stay away from Sin.

Pray for a Prayer Life:
1. To teach you how to pray, 2. to give you things to pray, 3. To pray the will of God, 4. To pray from the word of God and to pray with word of God, 5. To pray the things according to the will of spirit of God, 6. To pray without ceasing and getting tired, 7. To pray in the Spirit and in the Truth, 8. To pray good Spiritual and Material things.

Prayer Regarding Bible:

1. To help you read bible Regularly without Fail, 2. To help you find Enjoyment in Reading word of God, 3. To Understand what you are Reading, 4. To Realize the inner Truths and Mysteries in bible, 5. To know the Will of God and to do the Will of God, 6. To Get good vision to read the bible, 7. To read bible many times, 8. To study the word of God, 9. To pray before reading, 10. To hear God Speaking through the Bible, 11. To Bless your Bible Reading.

Pray for Your Church:

1. To Bless your Church with Souls, 2. To Bless all the activities happening in your church, 3. To Bless all the services in Church, 4. For Strength and Faith for the Ministers, Pastors, Evangelists, etc., 5. For newcomers to repent, 7. For repented to be saved, 8. For saved to be Baptized, 9. For Baptized to be Spiritually Baptized 10. For Anointed to be Appointed and to be Fruitful, 11. For believers to be dedicated, 12. To meet the financial needs of Church, 13. To send ministers all over the world from your Church. 13. For the Blessings of your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters, 14. For keep your church to stick on the word of God and Spirit of God, 15. For the Worship Team, Prayer Team, Counseling Team, Ushering Team, etc.

Prayers Jesus Christ Asked Us to Pray:

1. To send out laborers into His harvest. (Matthew 9:38) 2. For the flight of Jews may not be in winter. (Mark 13:18) 3. For ourselves to be counted worthy to escape all the things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. (Luke 21:36) 4. To not enter into temptation. (Luke 22:40)
Lord, All in Jesus Christ name I pray. Amen!

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To Receive Spiritual Gift of Tongues from Holy Spirit

To Receive Spiritual Gift of Tongues from Holy Spirit

There are many Christians out there who do not have the gift of tongues of the Holy Spirit. Many of them are mistaken and confused as well. This will be the simplest set of solutions to start speaking in tongues.

1) Repent for your Sins

To repent from your sins of all kind, realizing that you are a sinner is the first turning point in a Christian life. It is also a point in which a person receive minute interaction with Holy Spirit and thus the first step to receive Holy Spirit.

2) Accept Jesus as your Personal Savior

Accepting Jesus Christ, the giver of Holy Spirit is very necessary. Very few people recognize the entrance of Holy Spirit in them when they accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior. Often people feel a special peace, happiness, hope, etc in them while doing so.

You can accept Jesus Christ just by praying this from your heart. 'God I am a sinner and I do believe that the Jesus Christ is the Son of God and died for my sins on the cross and was raised for My Justification. I Do Now Receive and confess Jesus as My Personal Savior.' Amen!

3) Baptize in Water

To take Baptism in water in the name of Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, fully immersed in water by a person who is already baptized, is a step of obedience as Jesus said and also a public declaration that you have decided to follow Jesus. (Matthew 28:19)

4) Baptize in Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit baptism is a result of desiring and waiting for God’s power and anointing as the disciples of Jesus did in upper room of the house in Jerusalem(Luke 24:49). Holy Spirit baptism or Fire baptism is a process in which God's Spirit enter into a human being's body to dwell in and with him. When it happens, we can feel it in our physical body and we receive the gift of tongues as a clear evidence.
NB: Some people used to receive Holy Spirit baptism before water baptism and there is nothing special in it and it is biblical as well. But waiting for Holy Spirit baptism to receive water baptism is not a great idea.

5) Believe it

You should believe in Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts and gift of tongues in order to receive it. It is very difficult or impossible to receive anything from God if you don’t believe. Bible says two things, (1) John 11:14; “BELIEVE and You Will See The Glory Of God” and (2) James 1:7; “Those who DO NOT BELIEVE should not think he will receive ANYTHING from the Lord”

6) Understanding Tongues
According to me, Holy Spirit baptism or Fire baptism is a process in which God's Spirit enter into a human being's body to dwell in and with him. When the entered Holy Spirit speak to God for your spiritual needs by taking control over your mouth is called speaking in tongues.

People say many things about the gift of tongues. Many of them are not correct. Just understand the things that you get from the bible when you read. It's not necessary that you should know everything about tongues to receive it. But you will understand everything when you receive it.

7) Desire and Pray in Your Own Language

Do you worship God, Praise God and Pray to God very well and daily in your own language? It is very necessary we should do that for our daily spiritual needs and to receive Holy Spirit. You should earnestly desire and pray to receive Holy Spirit with the gift of tongues. There is nothing wrong in desiring and praying for spiritual things as much as you want. If you can fast and pray, it will be better.

8) Equipping Yourselves

Even though if you started following all the steps mentioned above, still there are few things you should do in order to receive Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts.

a) Forgive: When accepting Jesus Christ as you personal savior you receive forgiveness for all your sins. What about those who committed sin to you and harmed you physically or emotionally. Are you waiting for God to take revenge upon them? I recommend you to read the parable from bible on Matthew 18:21-35. Read that and forgive to all those who sinned and did all bad things against you from your heart. If possible, directly visit them face to face and reconcile with the. This is one of the most important things God wants you to do.

b) Victory Over Your Weaknesses: You are saved, baptized, going to a church and followed all the things I mentioned. Are you still under any bondage? Is any weakness irritating you or destroying you? Is any previous actions or effect of an action in your past hunting you? Do you think you are under any curse? Do you think you are having a demon? Are you feeling not normal? Are you suffering any Chronic diseases or hereditary diseases? If any of its answer or any similar kind of questions answer is YES, you have to take victory upon it with the help of a spiritual counselor or minister of God or by fasting prayer with a group of spiritual people.

9. How to Receive?
In bible you can see that most of the people received Holy Spirit and the anointing from and with the presence of a man of God especially by the laying of their hands. Rarely Holy Spirit used to be filled in people also when they are alone. Thus praying for receiving anointing with the presence of a man of God will help you receive the anointing of God.

This doesn’t mean that you should go to pray near an anointed man of God whenever you see them. I will tell you a simple method. Keep on following the other steps I mentioned. You can know yourself the time in which your heart is really desiring to receive the Holy Spirit and anointing. On such an occasion, you can go to a man of God to pray for you. If you can do a prayer with fasting for some days and wait upon the Holy Spirit and anointing it will be more effective. If you are fasting with a group of people for some days with prayer and dedication, it will be even more effective.

10. Increase it:

Once you received the gift of tongues, be thankful to God and love and use the gift of tongues you received as much as you can. If you use it well, you can increase(to receive more) the gift of tongues you received. Increasing the received spiritual gift of Holy Spirit will help you to grow spiritually and to receive more spiritual gifts as well.

My Prayer to You: 
God I pray for this person. If he/she is a person who is praying to receive Holy Spirit and the Spiritual gifts from you, especially tongues, help him follow the steps which is written and please guide him/her to receive it as soon as possible. Provide them opportunity and time to practice the things mentioned. Overcome their knowledge and understanding with your grace and wisdom.

If he/she is a person who already received the Holy Spirit, Spiritual gifts and tongues, help them to use it faithfully without any doubt. Also help them understand its importance and to start loving it. Give them the best so that they don't think about comparing it with others. Help them to love it, use it and Increase it. All in Jesus Christ's precious name I pray. Thank you God

NB: All true Christian know this article is very simple, correct and to the point. If you feel like to find fault in and criticize it and still not able to get out from the confusions and misunderstandings about the same, understand you have to fix that as weakness.

Demonic Possession and Exorcism

How to know if a person is demon possessed? How are demons possessed? What are the symptoms? What are the remedies? How to cast out demons? How to do exorcism?

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Answer:

The presence or possession of demons can be basically identified by visible and invisible manifestations in the demon possessed and by the gift of spiritual discernment. Usually most manifestations are visible to everyone while some can be heard or seen only by the demon possessed and sometimes an exorcist can see that as well.

Demons can be possessed by following reasons:

1. Demons Free Will: Demons by their own free will can possess any person. Demons cannot possess people with God's grace, those who are protected by God and living in good relationship with God. Any person with wicked mind is an open door for all demons and demons are looking for people like that to abide or to possess.

2. By the Will of People: If a person desire to be possessed by demons and open doors by himself to be possessed, he'll be possessed. Inviting demons by their own words, doing or participating in any occult activities, practicing or participating witchcraft, divination, seeking omens, and consulting mediums and spiritists, playing ouija board, being adventurous to commit any evil practices, making pacts with Satan, dedicating your life to Satan or evil, playing with a demon possessed, etc can make you possessed by demons by your own will.

3. Sorcerers, Spiritists & Witches: Many people really don't know how sorcerers, spiritists and witches able to do paranormal things which they are doing to others. No human beings have are created with paranormal abilities. Sorcerers, Spiritists and witches do this by doing activities that pleases a demon to fulfill what he wishes.

4. Will of God: Demons are not created by God, but they know very well who the God Most High is and they worship Him as well. If God command them to torment a person, demons can possess that person and torment(King Saul is an example). Demons also used to beg God granting permission to abide in something(Demons from Gerasene man).

Manifestations of Demon Possessed Noted from the Bible:

When Saul was possessed with evil spirit, he was tormented mentally and physically and he felt very disturbed and even made murder attempts as well. Hearing divine music made him feel better (1Sam.16:14). Demon can make the possessed people so violent that no one could even pass near them (Mat.8:33). It can cause a person blind and mute.(Mat.9:32, 12:22). It can make the person suffer terribly(Mat.15:22). The demon can infect the person with seizures and make him suffer greatly and are also able to make the person fall into fire and water(Mat.17:14). Demon can make a person extremely strong that even the person can't be bonded with chains. It can also affect the common sense of a person and make him cry and talk aloud. It can make injuries in the possessed person(MK.5:1-5). It can even lift a person and throw a person(Lk.4:35). It can affect the persons common sense and make him even not to live normal by wearing dress. It made him leave the house and live in tombs, hills etc(Lk.8:27). It can also seize and throw the possessed into convulsions and destroy the possessed(Lk.9:39). It can make the person became sick(Acts 19:12)

Symptoms and Manifestations Noted from Testimonies of Different Demon Possessed People:

If you want to check yourselves or anyone is demon possessed, the following listed symptoms will help you for an extent.

Extreme Symptoms:

• Able to speak and understand in unknown and unlearned languages.
• Able to read other peoples thoughts, past and history.
• Able to sense things that are happened, happening or to happen far away.
• Producing horrible sounds of human and animals.
• Getting very violent, angry, threatening and trying to kill others.
• Trying to kill themselves by injuring themselves.
• Scratches and wounds appearing on body from nowhere or by themselves.
• Levitating in air and other paranormal activities, throwing yourselves in fire, water, to the wall, etc
• Unknown disease, severe body pain and mental illness.
• Hearing strange sounds and commands and feeling to obey it.

Major Symptoms:

• Feeling like being watched, touched or holded.
• Feeling like someone standing behind you.
• Seeing unknown shadows and strange visions.
• Hearing strange noises, sounds or murmuring in known or unknown languages.
• Feels like for real, doors, windows, shelves, drawers, etc opening and closing with or without sound.
• Lights, fan and other electric objects being turned on and off.
• Things moving or flying, appearing and disappearing, breaking and getting fixed.

Minor Symptoms: It is very hard to identify the initial symptoms of demon possession because it have resemble with normal disease symptoms.

• Sudden feeling to commit suicide.
• Getting angry often, especially for no reason.
• Severe depression and feelings of hopelessness.
• Feeling like some external force is controlling your thought, words or actions.
• Sudden Personality changes.
• Sudden dislike from divine activities, uncomfortable to sit for prayer.

EXORCISM

Exorcism or casting out demons is the practice of evicting demons from a person. Different religions practice different methods of exorcism. It's better not to practice no other method of exorcism other than what is mentioned in the bible. Because most of all non-biblical methods do exorcism by pleasing demons or Beelzebub by various acts. It's ungodly to do so and can make situation even worse. The complexity of non-biblical exorcism is the greatest evidence that it is ungodly.

There are basically two biblical ways of doing exorcism. The simplicity of the biblical exorcism method is the greatest evidence that it is Godly and there is no bad practice involved in.

Divine Authority: The permanent and most effective solution to do exorcism is to cast them out using the divine authority from God. This authority over demons can be received by fasting and praying and can be used to cast out demons even from severely possessed persons. The only thing this person have to do is to tell to the demons in the possessed person to 'Get Out'.

Jesus Name: There is power in the name of Jesus Christ. A person who accepted Jesus Christ the Son of God as savior and received Holy Spirit(With visible evidence to speak in tongues of Holy Spirit), can use the name of Jesus Christ to cast out normal kind of demons. The only thing they have to do is to tell the the demons in the possessed person to 'Get out in Jesus Christ name'. It's not possible to use this authority by grace of God to cast out powerful demons.

Even without these authorities, anyone can pray to God, speak out the name of Jesus Christ or read bible or sing divine songs to the demon possessed person. Doing so can make a demon possessed person comfortable and the demons in him uncomfortable. In some cases, this can cause the demons to leave the possessed person.

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What are Demons or Unclean spirits?

Questions:

What are Demons or Unclean spirits? Are demons real? What do demons do? How are demons originated? Who created demons?

Answer:

Demons which are also known as Unclean spirits are very real and they still exist on the face of earth. The details about demons are very interesting for those who have interest in spiritual things. There are many things we can understand from bible about demons.

Demons are a type of spiritual beings that exist on the face of earth (Mt.12:43). There are many of them and they go from one place to another by walking and they goes through dry places seeking rest (Mt.12:43). They are able to communicate to other demons and human beings (Mt.12:45, Mk.5:8). They have names, groups and specific tasks (Mk.5:9, Mk.9:25, Mt.12:45). They have grades based on wickedness and have unity with each other (Mt.12:45, Mk.5:12).

They are not visible to human eyes (Mk.5:9). They are able to go inside and abide inside a human being or an animal (Mk.8:8,12). Many of them can abide inside one human being or animal as well (Mk.5:13). They cannot do things in the physical world themselves. They can do things in the physical world and communicate by inspiring and controlling a living organism after entering inside it (Mk.5:3,9). They can affect the common sense of a human being and even increase the physical strength of a person when abiding in them (Mk.5:4,5,15).

They know very well that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and they even worship Jesus Christ (Mk.5:6,7). They know Jesus Christ will grand them what they beg(Mk.5:7,12,13). They know they will be tormented by Jesus Christ in the appointed time, which is the judgement day and they also know when is the appointed time (Mt.8:29)

These are the important information about demons from bible. If you found it interesting, it is even more interesting to understand what are these demons, how did they originated and why they remains.

Demons are first originated in the time of Noah. They were created by the death of giants who were born by the mating of human beings and fallen angels. We will get a partial understanding about this from the bible and clear understanding from the Book of Enoch. (Book of Enoch is not included in bible, but quoted in the bible, Jude 1:14, Deut.13:2,3)

The summary of what happened is as follows. A group of angels(sons of God) of God, fall in love(lusted upon) with the daughters of men who were fair and they decided to go down to the earth from the heaven. Angels have spiritual body which is kind of invisible for normal human beings and can transform into material bodies which is like similar to human bodies. They married the daughters of men.

The daughters of men who were conceived by the angels of God produced a new variety of human beings called giants. They were bigger, stronger and skilled than normal human beings. The spirit of these giants were different from that of human spirit which God created. Their spirit was neither human spirit, not the spirit of an angel, but a cross of human and angel spirit. They started doing lot of evil things with strength and skills better than human beings and wisdom and knowledge from their fathers, the fallen angels.

The whole earth became wicked because of them. So God decided and destroyed the first set of giants(produced by the first set of fallen angels) by the flood he made at the time of Noah. Then God destroyed the second set of giants(produced by the second set of fallen angels after flood) by his army of the people of Israel and gradually all of them are destroyed from the face of earth.

Thus physically they were destroyed and decomposed to earth as any other creature, but their spirit remained. God let their spirits to be on the face of earth until the day of judgement, for it is neither pure human spirit,  nor pure angel spirit. These spirits of giants are called demons or unclean spirits. In simple words, demons are the spirit of dead giants who once lived in earth.

The demons have similarity with human spirit which help them to abide inside human beings and to control them. With divine authority from Jesus Christ, it is possible to cast demons out from the possessed human beings. We cannot destroy them or send them to hell with that authority as some people suppose. Also demons are not fallen angels and both of them are different.

Demons cannot do anything in the physical world themselves because they are spiritual beings. They abide in human beings because of that. Their primary wish is to destroy human beings.

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More information about this can be found in the Book of Enoch: I'm quoting the main chapter below.

Chapter 14 : 1. And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. 2. And go, say to ⌈⌈the Watchers of heaven⌉⌉, who have sent thee to intercede ⌈⌈for them: "You should intercede"⌉⌉ for men, and not men for you: 3. Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? 4. And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those ⌈also⌉ do who die and perish. 5. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. 6. But you were ⌈formerly⌉ spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. 7. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling. 8. And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. 9. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; ⌈they shall be evil spirits on earth, and⌉ evil spirits shall they be called. [10. As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] 11. And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, ⌈but nevertheless hunger⌉ and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded ⌈from them⌉.

When God Do Nothing

Question: What to do when God Do Nothing? Will God give us more than what we can handle?

"When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future." -Ecclesiastes 7:14

There are good times and bad times in all of our life. In a positive way, good and bad times together make our life, real life. The simplest way of describing good times is as in Psalm 23:6. Wherever we go, whatever we do, blessings, prosperity, happiness, peacefulness, power, health, satisfaction etc follow us. Blessings will come out of adverse situations, we get many folds that what we expect and we will be a blessings to the life of many others.

But all of us have some worse time in their life. Bad times in our life is like, wherever we go, whatever we do, problems like a curse, poverty, sadness, worries, sickness, dissatisfaction etc follow us, one after other. It can be via disasters, death, diseases, financial crisis, personal, family, business, professional or educational issues. Mostly the victim alone and rarely the family only knows the severe pain through pass through the period of bad times. Currently I'm also going through bad times, a period of severe crisis in life one after another.

What make my situation worst is God I know living, loving and almighty act like a stone, doing nothing. If I didn't know God, I can easily imagine God is a myth and start to move on. If I don't know God much, will already come to a conclusion that God does not exist. But for me I'm more sure than myself that there is a living God. I have seen Him, interacted with him, heard His voice, felt Him in my body many times just like we can feel a fellow human being. I know Holy Spirit very well and I've the spirit of God and His anointing in me. Such a God I know when act like a stone for no reason or for some unknown reason is makes me and all who are going through so uncomfortable and bad in this situation.

I'll explain how I feel when going through this worse time in my life: I feel I'm losing all my hopes, aims and dreams about life, as something in my hands slipping out. I'm not able to even think about tomorrow because of severity to struggle today. There will be terrible and sudden mood swings often. Sometimes feel to quit all commitments and go to some lonely place without return or to die peacefully or to be taken to heaven by God like Enoch. Sometimes feel it would be nice if I wasn't born and will think what's the purpose with such a life. Even if laughing and smiling outside in front of others, very sad and crying inside thinking about the situations, fear of losing all dreams and hopes. Usually when alone it will outflow as loud or soft cry. There is no interest to do any kind of activities such as to go outing or for parties or to watch films or to play or social networking or eating, etc. The most satisfying things are to be alone(especially in bed or by looking unto infinity), crying by hugging pillow, making achievements by day dreaming. Lack of interest in eating and drinking healthy food affect physical strength. Emotional pain sometimes affect body by and feel it difficult even to take breath. The worst of that is the feeling that I'll collapse and finish(die) while walking or standing.

Not feeling much to pray, praise or worship thinking where was the answer of all prayers. Still pray like Hannah because of sorrowful spirit, by only moving lips and no voice heard. Many times feels like that prayer is what keeping the breath still inside making me alive. Not angry, but mad at God like a small kid mad at parents for not giving him something he wish and want badly.

Great men of God in bible went through such times. The best example might be Job even though there are other people such as Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Hannah, David, John the baptist, Paul and so on. The words of Prophet Habakkuk, 'Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.' Nothing in this world can inspire a person who is going through these situation like the book of Job.

Sometimes people try to help us by advices wise or stupid. It's easy for them to come and tell us the things which we already know very well, like the friends of Job came and told him. Whoever tell us whatever only we who going through the same know what we are going through. I've good knowledge in all these things and sometimes I get irritated when people advice things like we do not know all these. As we all know, it is easy to know and tell things, but difficult to practice and apply in life. Still I've decided to hold on to few very important things and to share that to those who are going through the same.

1. Not to Deny God
Job's wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” But Job said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?”

We should not only hold on to God when we receive the good things. May be we can not praise or thank God in adversity as much as in our good times due to our sadness, mental agony and so on. But if we do not deny God, that is the greatest thing we can do. We can consider all the good things and moments God provided in our life such as our life, food, water, air, relations, friends and so on. When Job was going through the worst situations, God always noted that Job did not denied God.

And if in case at an awkward moment, if you denied God, still God like you to come back to Him and He tries to restore you as well just as He restored Peter. Peter one among his 3 favorite disciples, who saw Jesus in flesh, revelation and glory, saw most of all the acts of Jesus denied Jesus and Jesus restored Peter with His love and He will restore you as well.

2. Release your Emotional Pain
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Share your emotional pain to God. If you do not feel to share it to God, give first priority to share it to your life partner and second priority to your children or to your close friends. If you don't have anyone to whom you can share, speak it our to yourselves. There is no point in holding your emotional pain, tears or loud cry inside you and there is nothing wrong in speaking it out. We can see Job released his emotional pain likewise and releasing the pain is always better than getting more irritated mentally by holding it inside.

3. Do not end yourselves
Paul said 'God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able'. I do not agree much to that because Paul himself said later that 'we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life'.
What I've to say is, no matter how worse our situations are, it won't last forever. Surely a day will come in which our situations are restored and good times again. The worse period can last for few minutes or hours or days or weeks or months or years or even few decades. No body knows exactly how long it will last, but everyone knows that if we end our life in between, we can't see those good days. Also this life in us is not ours to take and we should never take what we cannot give. Sometimes even I feel that I'll collapse and finish due to the mental agony. If so, let it be. But it's not right to take it.

4. Do what you can do yourselves
Many things we depend in God are things we can do ourselves with the resources God provided. Almighty God is not deaf and slow. If we prayed once or twice and it was not answered, there is no point in waiting for an answer without doing what we can. Suppose you are sick and you prayed for the healing and nothing happened, do not put yourselves on hold and make your sickness worse. Try to get the best available treatment you can as soon as possible and at least use the resources which God provided you. When God heals, He'll provide instant healing or a very progressive result because all the healing God did while He was in earth as Jesus was likewise. I just mentioned about disease as an example. You can do what you can in all cases if prayer was not answered.

In case, if you do not have anything to do, just hold on for God to act. I'm now waiting for God to act. I don't know how long it will take and I don't know how long I can be like this.

I wish may this post help all its readers to find peace if they are going through or when they go through hard times in their life.