An Encounter

A rare but precious experience the Lord graced me last Saturday. I was in Jaipur to coordinate with the brother there. I had no specific agenda but submitted myself to the arrangement of the brother there. Since morning as we had fellowshipped, the Lord's anointing was sweet and dear. At about lunch time a new one came and that opened the door for a new experience of Christ.

He confessed that he believed in God, a generic God, the One supreme being and above all. As I preached the gospel systematically with the exercise of my spirit, from creation to the fall and to redemption, step by step, he could follow through and agreed without any doubt. And ultimately I asked him to pray and receive the Lord with me. At this point he was so reluctant, then I prayed for him and requested him to pray the sinner's prayer to receive the Lord, either by praying with his mouth open or in his heart silently. He preferred to do silently. But I was not satisfied and told him to confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in his heart. To help him further, I called upon the Lord's Name out loud so that he could follow. At this juncture of calling upon the Lord's Name, "Lord Jesus!" repeatedly, something began to manifest.

Suddenly he changed his countenance and stubbornly denied the Name of Jesus. Then I discerned he was possessed by demons. But I had no fear at all, I looked at his face straight, eye to eye and asked him to call upon the Name of the Lord Jesus. The demon manifested in anger and lifted up his hand as to strike me, perhaps. But I was not disturbed, I repeated, "Jesus is Lord! Christ is Victor!" Then, as he would hit me, he hit at the table upon which we faced each other. And suddenly he laughed out loud like a fool and then suddenly turned violent again; arrogant and angry, the demon looked at me with angry fiery eyes, and hit the table again, this time the table broke at the central portion. This act provoked my spirit so much, and I shouted, "Satan, leave P.....p alone! I command you to leave!" Then he changed his mood as to torture his body and shyly stared at me. All the while I said, "Jesus is Lord! Christ is Victor!"

Then, finally, everything became calm and normal, and the new one stood up, apologized saying, "Sorry for whatever have happened" and left. This encounter gave me a deeper sense of awareness of the spiritual warfare we are engaged in.

Later, I felt the urged to pray for him earnestly and prayed that the demons would fully leave him. I only regretted that we let him go so easily. I felt we should have stopped him and helped him to have a definite breakthrough. Anyway, we prayed, even with fasting that he be fully delivered. 

The next day we called him if anything had happened the previous night, because we prayed for him during that time and I personally felt that something had transpired as we prayed. He told that, some ladies disturbed him the whole night and that he could not sleep. When we prayed, the demons were terrified and that he had to torture him. I wanted to meet him again, and called up. But he never turned up. I still hope and pray that the Lord would fully deliver him.

Looking forward for another encounter, this time with a definite breakthrough.