Serving the Body of Christ for Over 50 Years

Charles Carrin

Demons will sometimes integrate with a person's personality to the degree that the individual can no longer separate his self-identity from that of the demon. When this occurs, the person may legitimately feel that he "cannot change". The attitude becomes "This is just the way I am ... What you see is the real me ... Don't expect me to do what is not in my power," etc. This is frequently true with alcoholics who have accepted the idea that they themselves are the root-problem. Some even find comfort in taking the blame rather putting it on a spirit. Such an attitude is particularly frequent in the case of spirits that control the mind. They dominate to the degree that the person fears the change which deliverance would bring; the victim cannot comprehend his identity as continuing to exist apart from the one which the spirit has forced upon him. In many instances, the two have cooperated together for such a long period that in the victim's mind they have become indistinguishably one. In this case, it is much harder to gain the cooperation of the person and for him to recognize his need for deliverance. The best answer is to encourage the person to allow the Holy Spirit to make that judgement. Advise the party to drop all resistance, yield fully to God, and submit to the ministry. He is absolutely safe in trusting the Holy Spirit. When that is truly done, I have never known a deliverance ministry to fail.