Distinguishing the Difference Between Oppression, Obsession,
and Possessionfinally allowed the devil to possess her thinking, and
she went totally insane.
In other words, first she was oppressed by the devil's
thoughts. But as she yielded to Satan's thoughts of
worry and fear, she became obsessed with those
thoughts, until finally she opened a door to the enemy
and allowed her mind to become possessed with an evil
spirit.
This minister's sister told us the following story.
When the woman minister had gone through
menopause, she began to be oppressed with worry. She
allowed herself to brood and became emotionally upset
and increasingly disturbed. She either consciously or
unconsciously yielded to a demon in her mind and
emotions.
This minister didn't keep her mind focused on the
Word; she became obsessed with worry. She allowed an
evil spirit to gain more and more ground in her thinking
until her mind was taken over by an evil spirit. Finally,
she entirely lost her mind and was possessed in her
mind by that evil spirit and became violently insane.
She tried to kill herself and others.
She was institutionalized and spent more than two
years in a padded cell for her own protection because
she was violent. She would try to kill herself by butting
her head against the walls. She ate with her fingers like
an animal because she tried to use a knife or a fork to
kill herself.
The sister of this insane woman wanted my wife and
me to minister to the woman, even though no one was
allowed in her cell. I said I would turn the matter over
to my prayer group so they could begin praying for the
woman. We had a group of women in that Farmersville