Uncovering the Gates of Hell

What in Hell?

That’s what I was thinking when I found myself doubled over a toilet, throwing up oddly shaped vomit twelve times.

I had just struggled mightily to read aloud a prayer I’d found online to renounce and break generational curses. As I began to read the words, my mind became hazy and a profound dizziness set in. I felt an internal resistance I’d never experienced before. It was as if something inside of me didn’t want me to form the words.

I forced myself to push through. That’s when the acute nausea set in.

I knew instantly what it meant.

Though I’d never been taught anything about demonization I knew that’s what I was dealing it.

Inexplicably, that first encounter with self-deliverance opened the veil between the earthly realm and the spiritual realm.

From that moment on, I’ve had sensory perception of the unseen - what was in me, on me, and around me.

But how was that even possible for a Christian?

What did it mean?

How did it happen?

These were the questions I found myself asking last October. That day marked the beginning of my education into the true nature of the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Darkness.

I was about to directly engage in a level of spiritual warfare that I’d never imagined, nor expected I’d ever have to experience.

Though in disbelief, I was confident that I could handle whatever it was. My arrogance, ignorance, and plain old stupidity about the demonic was about to prove otherwise.

But, before I began to unfold that story, let me back up a bit to explain how I came to the place where I was searching for deliverance prayers on the internet.

Just weeks prior I had observed things that had unsettled me. I couldn’t make heads or tails of what I’d perceived. I knew no one in my contact list could help me answer the question stewing in the back of my mind, so I turned to the internet.

The nagging question: Can Christians have demons?

That’s what I had put into the Google search bar. After scrolling and perusing what must have been thousands of websites, I settled on one in particular that caught my eye.

As I began to read the post to make sense of and process what I’d observed in my environment, a frightful realization began to dawn on me.

Many of the signs and symptoms of what was being described I had experience personally at different points in life from childhood!

Things like:

• seeing a deceased relative with my natural eyes as a pre-schooler

• sleep paralysis and the sensation of an evil presence trying to enter me as an adolescent

• witnessing unexplainable phenomena, like inanimate objects moving on their own

These experiences I’d simply brushed off as bad dreams or just my vivid imagination running wild. I never imagined they could be signs and symptoms of a spiritual problem.

Oh, but it was going to get much worse.

As I continued reading, I saw the ways in which people, even Christians, opened spiritual doorways to demonic oppression.

That list of activities was unfortunately all too familiar.

I read the names of organizations to which several of my ancestors belonged.

I read the names of natural health practices that I had not only used on myself, but also taught others as a Health Coach!

I read from the list movie genres I watched. Music genres I listened to. Practices and behaviors I’d participated in. Negative attitudes and relational patterns I had. Things I’d said carelessly.

Even traumas that I’d experienced decades previously were listed as being huge door openers into the demonic.

My thinking quickly shifted from being worried about what I had observed in others to being worried about myself.

That’s when I clicked on a link leading to self-deliverance prayers.

The subsequent puking only confirmed what I had suspected.

I was indeed demonized!

I would later come to know things were MUCH worse than I expected.

That was the bad news. As terrible as it was, it was this journey that led me in desperation straight to the Good News himself - Jesus Christ, my Deliverer and my Redeemer.

With God's help, I'm going to share with you EXACTLY what happened and how God has been working in my life to break every stronghold and every demonic chain in my life.

He is faithful and true! A friend to sinners. The savior of the world!

And He promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against his Ekklesia.

What he has done for me, he is willing to do for ANYONE. You only need to humble yourself, repent, and ask for his help.

Below is the link to the initial website I’d found with insight into demonic doorways and signs of demonic oppression. https://jesustruthdeliverance.com/demonic-doorways-and.../

If in you reading this you believe that you or someone you love might be spiritually oppressed or need deliverance, don’t despair.

Jesus is the light of the world. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What he did when he walked this earth is the same thing he can do for anyone in need right now.

He saves. He heals. He delivers. He makes whole. He restores. He blesses.

When you come into a relationship with him, his Spirit has the power to deliver you from darkness and the power of sin.

Call upon his name and he will answer. (Psalm 91:15, Jeremiah 33:3).

If you need prayer, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.