God has been developing me in many different areas, but one specific area has really seemed to blossom the last few months. Well, over the last year really. God has gifted me in a very interesting way. He is defining my spiritual senses. Making me extra sensitive in the spiritual realm. And He has brought so much to me on the topic of demons over the last year… its crazy. I feel like i have been bombarded with books, teachings, conversations with random people and personal experiences about them. So much so that I knew that God was preparing me for something. Something big. A new kind of ministry that i had never even imagined for myself. Deliverance ministry.
Demons and the power of satan are more real to me now than I would have ever imagined. But God is rising up the warrior within me to fight such forces with a calm strength and boldness. He has given me a sound rock to stand on and weapon of truth to protect me.
“No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Isaiah 54:17
When I got that verse tattooed on my arm I had no idea how much it would come to mean to me. No matter what I am fighting against, be it a demon or satan himself, God is with and in me. And with the Holy Spirit truly no weapon formed against me shall prosper.
I am coming into my authority in Christ and He is teaching me how to do things the right way. My experiences are limited and by no means am i an expert on demons or spiritual warfare, but God is teaching me how to glorify Him through all things.
Our squad has had a few occasions where the enemy has shown up in ways that you would only expect in movies. And because I have had previous experience in these areas, all my squad mates look to me for knowledge and information. It feels like I have become J squad’s spiritual therapist. Which is something that God is teaching me in and growing me in as well. I knew the moment I signed up for the Race that God was going to use my experiences in ways to help others understand the spiritual realm a little more. And I’m glad i can shed light into their lives in that way.
So far in this ministry God has allowed me to look in the eyes of demons and tell them to leave in the name of Jesus. And I don’t say this to glorify myself in anyway what so ever. I know that God uses me to glorify Himself. And I am happy to do this. The term “Shyanne the demon slayer” is nickname/joke that my team mates have given me, because every time we have a situation (which is more often then you might think) people come running for me. But I want to remind everyone that the only power I have comes from Jesus. And His spirit lives in every Christian. Not only am I a demon slayer, but so are you! So is everyone on my squad! Because we all have the power of Christ within us.
All this being said, you should never naively say “i want to go cast out a demon!” That is ignorant and not using the judgment that God gave you. I have heard this on a few different occasions from a few different people and it baffles me that they take these things that lightly. But God is teaching all of us in different ways. But one of the first things that God taught me about all of this is not to obsess over it. I need to focus on Him and not be so obsessed with what the enemy is doing.
And i don’t want to write this blog to glorify anything that satan is doing. I guess i just want everyone to know that these things do exist, but we have nothing to fear because Jesus, the all powerful God lives with in us. That satan’s power is nothing compared to Gods! And he needs no attention for the evil things he does. Instead we need to focus on what God is doing.
This is the journey that God is taking me on. “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!”-Matt 8:10
And to always remember that:
“Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.”
1 John 4:4
