To Pray or To Conquer

Prayer is a great method God has placed for us to submit our supplications before Him and to receive our needs. But prayer cannot give answer for all our needs because there are also things God want us to obtain by conquering.

It's quite easy to receive things by prayer because it is like spoon feeding and it's quite difficult to receive things by conquering because we need fight using our power and strength to conquer something. Learning to achieve things by prayer increase our faith, but learning to achieve things by conquering make us warriors. 

After all it's all a part of training by God. A perfect example for this is God leading the Israelites from Egypt. To lead the Israelites from Egypt, God heard their prayer. But in order to acquire the promised land, God wanted Israelites not to pray, but to conquer.

Lack of wisdom and understanding sometimes prevent people of God from realizing when to pray and when to conquer. Basically in order to receive things from God we need to pray. It is simply because it is not practical to conquer and achieve something from God like what Jacob did. Also our God is so good and gracious to answers to those who ask Him. It is clear from the words of Jesus, Matthew 7:11 "how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

But what about the things which is not under the superior control of God or in other words things God has released or given permission to us to go and get by conquering. A perfect example for this is Israelites conquering their promised land, given/released by God for them by war.

Likewise today God has given the permission and authority to conquer our rights, blessings, freedom and healings from all rulers, authority, power and dominion, of this dark world. By the way, the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:4)

Our weapons are,

Prayer: To pray and pray until you receive it.

Word of God: Use the word of God to pray and command until you receive the answer.

Name of Jesus Christ: Command in the name of Jesus Christ for your need to be released, to remove everything that is blocking your blessing and to change the adverse situations.

Proclaim: Proclaim to yourselves, others, air, situations, angels and devil what you believe with boldness.

Believe: Believe and believe that all the activities you do by faith will change the situations and hold on to what you believe and proclaim even on adverse situations.

Never Give Up: If you decided to receive something by conquering, never ever give up. Go forth until you receive it.

Do Not Imagine God

What is wrong with Imagining God?

It's quite human and natural to imagine things which we know and don't know. There are only few things which human beings cannot imagine, like the biggest number, the size of universe, etc. But there is only one thing man can never imagine. It's no one else other than Almighty God, the creator and sustainer of everything in the universe. 

Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God. An after effect of imagining God is why we can see today god limited to papers and metals as idols. Limiting God, the creator of whole universe, by creating any idols and thinking that an idol we create represent God on earth is utter foolishness. It's not a sin to think about imagining God. But it is foolishness as well as sin to imagine and conclude that this is God because God is ineffable. Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God.God is too great and too extreme to be imagined. The imagination of all human beings combined and the combination of all super computers ever made are not necessary to came to a conclusion after imagining God.

According to me, imagining God is an example for the limitation of thinking ability of human beings. They are putting limits to their own imagination and their imagination and maturity has not grown enough to realize that God is ineffable. A perfect example is that if we ask children of different ages or same children at different ages, 'what is the highest number?' Small children say 10 and little more big children say 100 and then 1000 etc. That is what they can imagine according to their age. It will take a while for them to be grown up and realize that actually there is nothing like a highest number because numbers are infinite. Similar to that, those who imagine and conclude that this is God or that is God are setting limitation to God by themselves.

This is why bible teach us to call upon the name of our LORD. It's not asking us to imagine God. Also bible makes it very clear that, God is Spirit and the creature cannot create back the creator. Wherever in bible, someone had an encounter with God, they are realizing themselves that God is ineffable and inexpressible. And what they witness as they have seen God is just a part of what God reveal to themselves, because no human can stay alive after seeing God and bible says no one has ever seen God as He is. When we pray, praise and worship God, all God is asking us to do is to do it in the name of God. LORD(also translated as Jehovah, Yah, YHWH) is His name. And other than Yesuva(Familiar as Jesus Christ), for our salvation, there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. In the period of New Testament, we have to approach Father God Yahweh in the name of Son of God Yesuva.

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.

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.

Please comment and let me know your valuable thoughts and experiences if any.

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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⌉.

Is eating shrimp a sin against God?

Is eating shrimp a sin against God? Did God Change the Law of Clean and Unclean Meats?

Eating shrimp is Not a sin. God explained and made it clear in the New Testament what to eat.

Jesus Christ very simply and clearly tells us about eating food. Mark 7:15-23 "15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man. 16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” 17 When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. 18 So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?” 20 And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”


Jesus said it so nice and it has great logic. Jesus also tell us even if we eat unclean food, it get purified when it goes through the process of digestion. This means we can eat any food shrimp or prawn, pork, hare or meat of anything they like.

Some people consider some food not pure. Titus gives a good reason for that. Titus 1:15, "Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted.

In Acts there was a voice from heaven saying, Acts 10:15 "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

I hope you understand it clearly. What are you waiting for now? Go and have a Marvelous Dish of Prawns. It's so Yummy !!!