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Transcript 259A — Do Demons Have Power Over Believers?
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum.
CALLER: Yes. I would like to know. Do you think that there is such a thing as a witch board? Somebody brought one to me, and said, "What would you do with it?" And I said, "Burn it?" And he said, "Will you?" And the next day he said to me, "If you touch that board, you're going to be possessed by demons." But I told him that I didn't believe in that because I was already possessed by Jesus Christ. But I don't know. I've been running a fever every day, and I don't understand this. I'm weak, but I don't believe in this thing. Would you try to explain this thing to me, and also pray for me?
HC: Yes. Now the question you have raised is a very good question, because many people have been troubled by fears of Satan. Someone has come to you with this board they've called a witch's board, and they are telling you that because you touched it, therefore you're under some kind of demonic power. Now the question is: Are you really . . . does that witch's board (so-called witch's board) really have any power over you?
Your answer to them is absolutely correct. If you are a child of God, if you are born again, Satan has no power of any kind over you. You are no longer of his dominion, of his kingdom. You are a citizen of Christ's kingdom. You have been transferred out of the dominion of darkness into the Kingdom of His dear Son, as we read in Colossians 1:13. As the closing verses of Romans 8 puts it, nothing can separate you from the love of God, neither life nor death nor principalities nor powers (that would be references to Satanic activity), nor anything in all of creation, nor things present, nor things to come, nor anything at all can separate you from the love of God.
More than that, Jesus says, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." And so in your anxiety, you go to the Lord and you pray, "Oh Father, forgive me for my anxiety. If I'm running a fever, if I'm ill, that's part of Your program for my life. But I know that it has nothing to do with witches or with Satan, or with demonic power, because they have no power over me. I'm Your child, and I simply rest in You. If You want me to be ill, that's Your business. Could it be that the fragrance of Christ, the victory of the cross, might be seen through my illness. I just want to rest in You. And oh Father, forgive me that I might have any kind of ideas like this, that perhaps Satan can get at me. Forgive me for even being concerned about this."
Now wonderfully, in your anxiety you can go to the Lord, and you can just spill it all out to Him, you see.