thereselittleflower said:
The problem is, no matter what is said, if one does not want to believe it, they will find a reason to discount it .
I gave a clear discription of what my daughter saw . . i could give you descriptions of what I have seen and experienced in the past . . but it would not do anything to help you.
I believe that we must not be looking for demons under every rock, bush or tree, and I believe that people can get unnaturally fixated on them, to the detrimate of their spiritual health. Our focus is to be on Christ, not the enemy.
But that does not mean that we discount their presence altogether. There is a healthy balance.
If we do have an encounter, many times we see absolutely nothing . .but we sense something . .but we have to be careful here because we can be sensing something when it is nothing at all . . Sometimes we may see a fleeting shadow out of the corner of our eye when there should be nothing at all . . sometimes we might actually see something if God opens our spiritual eyes to see them.
The enemy wants to instill fear . . but perfect love casts out all fear. This is why we are to keep our focus on God . .
Peace in Him!
No, the problem is, we WANT to believe that spooks are what goes bump in the night, because it gives us a fun, creepy feeling...Sortof for the same reason that teens want to start reading Revelation before they read the Gospels. But demons are not spooks. Demons are serious combatants, in a SPIRITUAL WAR, NOT PHYSICAL ONE...they're not animals that go ranting and raving in the middle of the night. Cats and dogs go bump in the night. Sometimes, deer, bears, and opossums do that. Demons do not. That is a waste of their time. They're not here to dig in garbage cans and play hide and seek--they are here to destroy us. They are here to tempt us, baffle us, perplex us, confuse us, and, if possible, dominate us. If they had the power to leap around garbage cans, they would enter our homes and inflict physical harm on us. My problem with this thread is that before shout gave us ANY details of what actually happened to her, most of us are swearing up and down that what she saw was a demon. No cause for such a claim.
Neither is there cause for you to believe that your daughter saw a demon. Children tell wild tales, and they're serious about them. They see things. It happens. But that much is your business...back to the subject at hand.
Do demons enjoy our fear? Yes, most certainly, and they will instill it if they can. But can they
take form and go dancing around the place? If they could, why would they have any need for legion, or swine? If a demon is going to scare you in such a way, he's going to TRICK YOU! Not take some weird half-animal form and go sneaking around the place like an idiot on TV. Demons are intelligent. They aren't sprites from Greek mythology.
If God gives you a vision, ask him what it means. If a DEMON is tormenting you with images of things following you around, you should pray for yourself--not the nonbelievers across the street. We need to stop fighting shadows and ghosts. We need to stop wasting our time worrying about goblins and little green men that come into our house at night and breathe heavily--this is just a distraction to get our minds off of the REAL war that is raging. Do you want to know where the demons are? They're in your pulpits. They're sitting in your pews. They're visiting your house in BROAD DAYLIGHT. And when your hair is standing on end in the middle of the night, they're not out there in your yard, panting and running about. No, they're laying in the bed beside you, whispering in your ear, telling you lies about what they are...trying to convince you that they are not the smiling faces that greet you at church (as they are in truth), but rather, they are ranting monsters outside, ugly and shadowy, running from tree to tree.
It's ok for hollywood to believe that demons are hideous things with wings. Children of God should know better. Children of God NEED to know better. They our out for us more than anyone, and if we do not cast our SUPERSTITIONS aside and pick up the REAL word of truth, we will be defenseless against them. You want to know where they are? Look to things that DON'T scare you.
