Why demons don't leave? Okay. The first reason why they don't leave is because you're not maybe
dealing with the demon at all. Now this may be a shock for some people but there are cases
and we've encountered that where you are attacking but you're actually not dealing with the demon,
you're dealing with the mental illness or you're dealing with a wound or a fragment of
their personality or somebody else's personality but you're not dealing with the demon at all and
when the only tools in your toolbox is casting out demons. You will treat everything as a demon
and it's not correct. Just because it looks like that or it shakes like that
it's important to not to jump to conclusions that it's a demon
and the opposite it's better to be skeptical than to be a hundred percent convinced that
if person coughed or they shook that it's a demon. Now I understand some of you like whoa,
everything is a demon. Not really. I remember one lady was shaking and people came out, out, out
and they brought me in, Vlad come over here, come over here, help her out,
help her out. Begin to deliver her and I said, I asked the husband, I said what is happening to her
that's all I asked and the husband said, oh she has a tumor and in her brain and she has seizures
anytime she gets exposed to particular lights and I said like lights we have on the stage? He's like
and so I asked the team, I said pull back. Now is it true that sometimes you can have
both mental illness and a demon 100 but it's important that you don't rush right away
and you take a little bit of time and find out what's happening. Do you remember when
they brought a boy to Jesus who had a mental illness. Jesus didn't rush to doing Deliverance.
He asked the father, how long this has this been happening to him? What's happening to him.
What has happened to him? What's the situation? What's the story here?
That's why it's important that we talk to people and sometimes instead of jumping in right away
then we actually ask them, Hey have you been to the doctor? Have you been diagnosed with
anything have you been put on medication, okay when was the last time you took that medication?
I remember praying for one case actually, I was a part of a conference where people were
praying for this girl who honestly haven't taken medication for three days because somebody had the
audacity to tell her to not take that medication and she was having a lot of mental illnesses
and no question that she had a demon. She probably did but in this case what they were dealing, they
were not dealing with the demon. It didn't respond to the name of Jesus whatsoever. It didn't respond
whatsoever to the authority of the name of Jesus. It cussed. It hit people and everything and a lot
of times and it didn't look, it wouldn't look in the Deliverance Minister's eyes and so these
four that I would call them three, four things when it won't look at my eyes when I command it
disrespects the name of Jesus because demons they tremble and they obey and it will physically get
violent, demons are violent but the moment it starts hitting you, demons can do that but it's
typically not the demons, it's the mental illness in the person or the person's will interfering
as well and wants to hit your split personality part and so and those are kind of the signs that
you would look for and there's many more that it's probably not a demon and so you would want to stop
and actually talk to the person and see what's going on and sometimes, you need to actually
help them to get in the healthy state so that you can deal with the demon not with the wound,
disorder or a personality split okay and this is more common than you realize, otherwise you will
spend eight hours straight or sometimes when we had that we prayed one time for one person you
know, we bound a person physically it was, we were praying for this cousin of mine actually
and during the night you know, he came and he did so much drugs. So he was so high and he took these
particular drugs that made him just hallucinate and act really weird and honestly you know, when
the only thing you do is Deliverance. You start Deliverance. So we had to physically bind him. The
reason why is because he would punch the walls. He would punch his mom and all of that stuff and
he would curse and lie and just like just really really nasty and so we did that for about I think
almost all night and then in the morning, we got tired. So we called the police but honestly they
brought him to a institution or whatever the thing that they put him into, put him into a detox. He
came out and then he eventually received his Deliverance. But he needed to go through a detox
because he was actually high in drugs and so, did he have demons? 100. But we were not effective in
doing the deliverance and it wasn't because we were encountering a stubborn demon is because
we were encountering a drug addict, somebody on drugs okay and so that's why it's important that
just because somebody manifests and you're not seeing the Breakthrough like ask the questions
is this person on drugs right now. Now, can God's Supernatural zap them out? 100 percent.
Does this person have mental illness? When was the last time they took their medication? Is this
person have a split personality as well and so there's a lot of other things. So I would really
be weary of just this is not us saying oh this is not our fault that we can't drive this out. Let's
blame it on somebody else. This is us doing our due diligence with difficult cases. The
second thing of maybe that demons are not leaving, they're stubborn, the second reason is that demons
are actually too strong. Now something that I want you to consider is the Bible says that,
when a demon leaves a person not as cast out but leaves a person, he goes and finds seven more
wicked, demons more wicked and that speaks in Matthew chapter 12 verse 45, seven more
or seven other more wicked that tells us that some demons are more wicked. Some are more powerful.
Some have higher ranking, have more power in them than others. Not all demons have the same power.
The fact that seven more, seven other more wicked tells us that some are less powerful. Now,
is the name of Jesus more powerful than any demon? A hundred percent. We're not dealing here today
with, Can His name, we're just dealing with the reality that you stepped into a battle where you
are dealing probably with something that is just more heavy than what you've experienced before
and that could just take a little bit longer or that could just take a little bit more of
homework or a little bit more of working with this person. But the reality is some stubborn
cases you're really dealing with more demons and more wicked demons. In the case of Jesus and the
demon-possessed man, I mean they had a legion okay even if they had the weak demons, you know put
6,000 weak demons and you have a pretty much a problem on your head you know problem that is not
no problem for Jesus. But it's still a problem for you and for me and it could take just longer and
more work with this person but sometimes you can have not just more demons within the person but
actually the more wicked demons that it could take a little bit longer for you to work with
this person to experience freedom and maybe you are on the receiving end and you just have more
and more wicked demons that it will just take not longer for Jesus to drive them out but it
would be longer for you to receive your complete freedom. So that's the second reason why demons
wouldn't leave is because number one is that actually maybe you're not dealing with the
demon. Number two is that you're dealing with something that is more demons and more wicked.
The third reason is lack of faith on your end. Lack of faith. So Jesus said in Matthew
chapter 17 verse 20, when disciples had a failed Deliverance, He said that because of your unbelief
that you couldn't drive this demon out. So sometimes what happens is that you have
no faith in Jesus's ability to use you to deliver somebody and so I really would encourage you
to not doubt God's Authority in you, when you're doing Deliverance. Because one of
the things that stubborn demons will test is actually your faith and if you yield to unbelief
and you begin to entertain these thoughts and though I don't believe that demons can really read
your thoughts without you giving them permission of course but they can project and they can see
your face, facial expressions and the tone of your voice and the firmness and the confidence in
your voice. The moment you yield into that, that this is not going to happen. Deliverance will not
happen. Man, I should have prayed more and all of this stuff then what you're doing is that you're
pretty much yielding to lack of faith and lack of faith can be the cause why you can't cast them out
and so don't doubt God's Authority inside of you. Don't doubt that the power of Jesus is
very powerful inside of you okay, the enemy will want to make you doubt that. We just had a Sunday
service, I think it was last weekend yeah and a person that came for deliverance and as I was
praying for deliverance you know nothing was happening and then I didn't leave this person
as I started praying more, Holy Spirit just kind of prompted me to linger a little bit
more with this person and you know the person start coughing and all of this stuff and then
and then the demon just threw this mocking laughter at me, you know like and then oh
you're nobody and all of this stuff and so and with me, I've done this you know not once or
twice and I've heard all kinds of bad stuff about me from demons so like that doesn't
doesn't affect me anymore and I actually started to laugh. I don't encourage you to do that because
Deliverance is a serious matter and I am very serious during Deliverance. I don't laugh.
I don't do this stuff but this time I just had this laugh inside of my spirit and it did come
out okay, so I wasn't like hysterically laughing but deep inside, I'm like you gotta be kidding me,
you're a demon, you have no idea this has nothing to do with me, my name. I don't have faith in
Vlad. I have faith in the Holy Spirit. I have faith in the name of Jesus and so I did let my
laughter come out just a little bit and within, I don't know a minute or something the demon was
on the floor and the person, I believe the person was delivered and so don't doubt Jesus's Authority
in you. If you do, some demons won't leave, they'll right away spot it. They'll spot it
in you, they'll see it right through you that you're not sure that you're not confident,
that you are doubting, that you are not convinced, that you're not sure and and they just won't
come out and so be sure be confident, stand your ground and the devil will make fun of you and say,
you're not powerful enough. I will never leave that's just theatrics that he just does that
to throw you off balance, stand your ground as sure as the rising of the sun, you are
supposed to be in this place and this person is going to be delivered in Jesus name Amen.
The fourth thing that happens of why demons don't leave is because your personal walk with
the Lord is weak. Matthew 17 verse 21 after Jesus rebukes disciples for not having enough Faith,
He says but this kind leaves by prayer and fasting. Now some people say that this kind
mainly relates to prayer to unbelief that unbelief is removed through prayer and fasting but I don't
really believe in that. The reason being is that unbelief is really dealt not with prayer
and fasting but it's dealt with trusting in God's word and standing on God's word. I do believe that
the difference between Jesus and disciples that failed in Deliverance is Jesus spent pretty much
24 hours in on the mountain fasting most likely because I don't think He was eating there and then
He spent time with God in prayer and disciples were just on the bottom of the mountain, you know
dealing with deliverance and they were not very effective and so this is not to take it personally
into ourselves and feeling guilty but if you keep seeing that you have a lot of failed deliverances
maybe it's time to kind of we look at your life. Are you walking with the Lord? Is there Purity in
your life? Is there prayer? Are you living a life of fasting? Are you living a life of commitment
to God? Sometimes, demons are too strong and other times we are just too weak. We have lack of faith
in Christ in us and sometimes when you have a relationship with God that's not good, it cripples
your faith you know because you lack confidence. Because you know that you're not pleasing to the
Lord. You don't live your life in a way that honors Him and so unfortunately, you can't
walk in great faith. I believe as a Christian if you know that you are living in compromise
and so now you can try to you know kind of fill yourself with this self-confession you know,
I have great faith you know Christ is in me and all of this stuff and and though there are verses
of people practicing lawlessness and casting out demons but generally it doesn't work consistently
okay you can't do this for a long time, you might do it once or twice but you can do this for a long
time. It will backfire if you live a conscious habitual life of prayerlessness and no fasting
which gives me an opportunity take a little pause and for those of you that are just logging in or
tuning in, I want to remind you that we are having a challenge, 21 day challenge in January and as
you're seeing that on the screen right now, we are doing a 21 day of prayer and fasting. So for those
of you who feel like your spiritual batteries are not where they're supposed to be. This will
be a good moment to start preparing for that prayerfully, I know not everybody can fast this
long. Not everybody can fast at all. But majority of you can fast something and for some time and
begin to prayerfully consider that to do that, let me walk with you during that season of building
yourself in prayer and fasting. All you have to do is just go to Pastorvlad.org/fastforward.
Sign up for Challenge and it's completely free. It costs you nothing to do that to be
a part of this group that will do this fast. Now the last reason why demons won't leave is
the person receiving Deliverance has not met conditions required for their Deliverance.
Sometimes it's as simple as they have not confessed a sin. They haven't renounced something.
The soul tie wasn't broken. Generational curses were not broken. Demonic objects were not removed
in their house. Sometimes you're doing a deliverance and they actually have a demonic
object in their pocket. Sometimes you're doing a Deliverance but this person at that present time
actually habitually and consciously lives in sin and they need to be repenting. They
need to renounce and they need to forgive. Sometimes if I am dealing with the case where
it's difficult. It seems like, I can't get a breakthrough. I stop the deliverance and
I ask the person, Hey is there anything that you need to repent as we're doing Deliverance? Is the
Lord bringing anything to your mind? Have you do you have any unforgiveness toward anybody?
Are you currently living in things that are not pleasing to God and if you know they say those
things, then I lead them through the prayer and then I go back and attack the demon. So if the
person hasn't met the conditions for deliverance and you're just going out, out, out, out, out,
out you know sometimes you just save your voice and just pull back and just talk to the person
and see what's happening there and then see if there's something else that needs to be
dealt with, something else uprooted, renounced and broken before you continue Deliverance.