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.

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⌉.