THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING OPPRESSED OR POSSESSED BY DEMONS When a person is oppressed by demons they will hear demonic thoughts in their minds - which sounds like their own thoughts - often thousands of times each day (2005 - the National Science Foundation found the average person has 12,000 thoughts a day and 80% are negative). Some of the thoughts a person has from demons will be true because otherwise you would not believe them, but they will always twist something to get you to believe a lie in order to ultimately hurt you. The demons’ goal is to cause people to believe what they say which causes them to struggle with fear, anxiety, anger, regret, revenge, bitterness, condemnation, jealousy, lust, depression, mental disorders, suicidal thoughts, believing godly people are bad and to not be trusted and to believe ungodly people are good and are to be trusted. The demons want Christians to justify allowing sin to be common in their lives so they will stay walking in their flesh instead of changing to walking in the spirit. The demons ultimately want to take the person to hell by causing them to disobey the Bible and Jesus.  The Lord…

God loves it when people who are controlled, oppressed and abused eventually overcome those who are controlling, oppressing and abusing them.  When the tables are turned. Time after time in the Bible are stories of God’s people who were being hurt by Satan’s people for a season and it looked like they would be either stopped, shut down or even killed when at the last minute they overcame their enemies and in many cases were elevated in position over them and also promoted into top leadership over an entire nation.  God loves those who have His pure heart who have sacrificed and suffered greatly while doing His will to eventually be repositioned to a place of authority over those who were coming against them. Joseph was sold out by his brothers to become a slave in Egypt who ultimately received favor and got promoted over the household of Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials.  Potiphar’s wife tried to seduce him sexually but he did what was right in the Lord’s eyes and ran from her.  She then lied to her husband Potiphar about Joseph to blame him. Potiphar then put him in jail for over 2 years.  Things looked pretty dark…