Experiencing Deliverance After Declaring Righteousness
Greetings from South Africa. I honor the Lord for putting the true gospel of grace in your heart and ministry! Over the past two months, your teachings on grace have produced more fruit in my life than everything I have done in my twenty years of being a Christian.
I gave my life to the Lord at the age of ten. However, I started experiencing demonic attacks during my sleep at night. My whole body would become paralyzed, my head would be in severe pain, and my muscles would go into spasms. These attacks would last for around thirty minutes and the only way to stop the attacks was to try to wake myself up, which was no simple task.
No one could help me. My parents also thought nothing of my cries for help and probably dismissed them as nightmares. I don’t blame them as no one knew any better. I continued to fear going to sleep and would often stay awake just to avoid the attacks.
Despite my family being religious Christians, I never really committed my life to Jesus and drifted far off. After varsity in 2007, I recommitted my life to Jesus but the attacks did not stop. Knowing that using the name of Jesus has power, I tried binding and casting out the demons in His name during these attacks. But I couldn’t do it as I felt paralyzed and couldn’t really speak. I called out the name of Jesus in my mind, but it didn’t work.
I sought help from a pastor who ministers in South Africa. He came from a culture that deals a lot with demonic activity and I underwent numerous sessions to cast out demons from my life. However, the attacks went from bad to worse. The more I tried to shout the name of Jesus, the more severe the attacks got. Any attempt I made to bind these demons failed. After a long time, the attacks finally subsided and I got my sleep back. But I left my church because the performance-centric preaching caused my life to be in absolute shambles—my finances, health, and relationships were failing. My knees had calluses from all the fruitless praying.
I then started listening to Pastor Prince. As I started listening to his messages on God’s grace, the Lord filled my spirit with the love of God. Sometime later, the attacks returned. I panicked and started trying to bind them in the name of Jesus, but only experienced failure after painful failure. Fear rushed through me as I realized that none of my own attempts to deal with this issue had ever worked.
One day, after another attack, I listened to one of your messages where you’d mentioned that the most powerful weapon in spiritual warfare is to direct the attention of the enemy to the finished work of Jesus on the cross. The cross is that which makes me the righteousness of God. That night, when the attack came again, out of habit, I started trying to bind it and cast it away. As usual, my efforts failed to work. Then, the Holy Spirit reminded me of what you said in your message.
I had barely finished declaring, “I am the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus,” when the attack just vanished. It instantly stopped. I was stunned. The enemy tried again three or four nights later, and once again, I looked to my unblemished Lamb on the cross that has made me the righteousness of God. Again, the attack stopped in the wink of an eye.
I cried that night. Not because it worked, but because I knew I had found the true gospel. All praise to our Lord Jesus Christ!
Ever since I started listening to and applying your teachings, the Lord has been supplying my every need in a big way. I am forever grateful for the God’s anointing in your life and the wisdom He has given you.
Thank you for being obedient to the Lord’s call and for sharing the true gospel in the way that you do. For the first time in my life, the Word of God is truly GOOD news.
South Africa