The Triumphant ChurchSpirit manifested Himself through the gift of discerning
of spirits. That's the reason I knew it was an unclean
spirit that was governing this man."
If you have a revelation of the kind of spirit that is
present in a person through a word of knowledge, you
know what kind of evil spirit is present. If you have a
revelation of the kind of spirit that is present through
the gift of discerning of spirits, you see or hear what
kind of evil spirit is present.
Jesus explained to me, "Ordinarily, if there is only
one spirit and you command him to come out, he will
come out." Then Jesus said something that startled me.
He said, "I had already perceived or discerned that
the man had an unclean spirit, but when I commanded
the unclean spirit to come out, it didn't come out. So
then I asked him what his name was" (Mark 5:8,9).
We can see in Luke's account that Jesus commanded
the unclean spirit to come out, but it didn't come out
until Jesus found out its name and in this case, its
number.
LUKE 8:28-30
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell
down before him, and with a loud voice said,
What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of
God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
29 (For he [Jesus] HAD COMMANDED the
unclean spirit to come out of the man. For
oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept
bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake
the bands, and was driven of the devil into the
wilderness.)
30 And Jesus asked him, saying, WHAT IS THY
NAME? And he said Legion: because many
devils were entered into him.