As I sit here on my bed in a church in Poipet, Cambodia tonight there is a group of people in the room next to me exercising a demon out of a woman. I can hear the men talking to the demon.
The people of the church started a meeting right after the service and we could hear screams, vomiting and howling noises from where they were meeting. I wasn’t sure what was going on until my host mom, Lekena, came and got me and asked that our team start praying. We spent time praying and singing, asking God to relieve the woman from her pain and to deliver her, but the fight went on.
I knew God was going to have me encounter something like this on the race but I didn’t know when or where. I can honestly say that before I left the thought of someone who is demon possessed scared the hell out of me. I remember thinking ‘that stuff is freaky and I don’t want any part of it’. But now I know and understand that God is bigger than any of it. We bring the presence of the Lord everywhere we go and if we tell the enemy to leave in Jesus’ name he has to leave.
I remember a few years ago my sister went to Africa and experienced something similar. After she returned from her trip she told me that when the presence of The Lord is very prevalent in a place the enemy has to work harder, and so the enemy becomes more prevalent. This is exactly what I can see going on here where we are. People are praising God not just in church services, but throughout the day, we’re reading our Bibles and praying and the devil can’t stand it so he has a demon manifest itself through someone. But God is bigger than that and so the enemy has no place here.
The church here carries the presence of The Lord very strongly and everyone on our team does as well so when we tell the enemy to leave he leaves. There’s a lot of spiritual warfare here and I won’t be surprised if something like this happens again this month. The good thing is that no one here is afraid, fear isn’t from The Lord and we all carry His presence with us. Praise Jesus!
“For God did not give us a spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
2 Timothy 1:7
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