Distinguishing the Difference Between Oppression, Obsession,
and PossessionAfter I explained that to the congregation, I laid
hands on the man again. When I did, the Holy Spirit
also revealed something else to me by a word of
knowledge. I knew by an inward revelation or word of
knowledge what had happened to him that let the evil
spirit into his body in the first place. The man had
opened the door to the devil.
I had what I call a "mini-vision." I knew that what I
was seeing in the Spirit had occurred two nights before.
I saw this man in bed in the front bedroom of his house.
It was midnight, but he couldn't sleep. I saw him get up
and walk through his house.
The back porch was screened in. There was a bed
out there, and I saw him just fall across that bed and
roll from side to side holding his stomach because it was
burning like fire. Then I knew by the Spirit of God that
something else was also troubling him, and I knew
exactly what it was. I knew all of this in just a moment
of time through the word of knowledge.
I said to the man, "Two nights ago at midnight you
were in the front bedroom of your house and you
couldn't sleep, so you finally got up and walked through
your house. You went back to the sleeping porch, and
you fell across the bed, rolling and groaning in pain.
You were holding your stomach because it was burning
like fire.
"But something else was bothering you too. Your
conscience was bothering you. Now I don't want to
embarrass you. But you are saved, baptized with the
Holy Spirit, and you have been a member of this church
for a number of years. Yet the Lord shows me that
you've never paid your tithes. You don't pay tithes, and
you never have paid tithes."