DEMONIC ATTACKS FROM FAMILY

Evil spirits literally eat your family member’s brains. You can’t see them, but whenever something goes wrong especially when someone is yelling at you without a valid reason and without even listening to your side of the story and all the other family member’s come in their support and all unite to talk against you, it's time you should understand that it’s a demonic attack. 

Now, understand that whenever God tries to make a move in your life evil spirits go crazy. They attack you by feeding on people’s brains. They sit on their heads and keep releasing negative thoughts about you and eventually the attack begins. Evil spirits don’t have a body and so to attack you they will use your families bodies, to be specific "their brains". They will not directly take possession of their bodies, they are going to use them against you to hurt you very badly, it can be verbal abuse or can also go to the extent of physical abuse.   

They travel from brain to brain. It feels like a self talk to the person on the other hand (can be your mom, your dad , your siblings ), but it’s not a self talk if you observe carefully. Spirits take control of their thinking and induce negative thoughts against you and all of their anger erupts like lava on you. They often choose the weakest mind of all. Whatever is filled up inside our minds that we speak out. Some people have a strong judgmental mindset which evil spirits fail to manipulate but most of us do not belong to this category. People with feeble mindset fall very easily to this kind of evil spirit whisperings.    

Let me elaborate all this with my personal experience. I was struggling with my exams and was constantly seeking divine help, it so happened that eventually I started receiving help from God. 

I kept on doing fasting and asking Jesus to help me with my academics. Finally one day I heard a voice which firmly gave me a confirmation that God is gonna help you, you will not fail. I took a nap after that and saw in my dreams that a black cloud spread all over me was leaving me and vanishing slowly.

I woke up and to my surprise I could read and concentrate and also remember everything. I was delighted that my prayers were heard and I was preparing for exams. 

The attack began through my mother. There was a marriage ceremony my mom wanted me to attend with her, I refused because of my exams. My mom was caught by spirits and internally she was being poured with negative thoughts about me by spirits. After a few days relatives kept coming to my home and what I was doing is that I was politely greeting them and asking for their excuse and quickly rushing into my room to continue preparing for exams. A very close friend of my mom visited us, my mom started shouting at me at the peaks of her voice. What shocked me was her reasons. She was angry because I did not spend time with guests instead kept studying. She also yelled many things which were a complete shocker to me. I was being blamed for being rude and arrogant to guests, not giving importance and enough respect to my mom in front of them all. She was shouting so loud that all of the apartment could hear it. She told her friend that I was behaving like no one else on earth has exams, I am sleeping late night, I am not spending time with family and friends and that she shouldn’t have given birth to me because I was making her life boring.  Also mentioned that I am the rudest and most headstrong human she had ever seen. Not to miss, compared me with my elder sister which my parents have been doing very religiously since my childhood. 

Another family visited us, they came along with their toddler. The baby was crying out loud in the living room and I was in my room studying. Once they left, my mom just banged on my door and pulled me out and started shouting at me again. She was saying, "what do you even think of yourself ? my brother came home with his little baby, you heard that child crying so bad but still you did not care to come out and entertain the child for a minute". I said, "mom my exams are ahead why don't you just let me study". She said, "listen daughter, you are no good at studies, your sister is, it will be good for you if you accept this and just let go of all this effort that your putting". My aunt came at the same time and my mom was telling her, "look at this girl, I have never in my life seen such arrogance and pride, you know what this girls friends called me and were saying, she never talks to anybody in college, she wants everybody to come to her instead, I don't get it what makes this girl think so high of herself". My aunt replied, "her looks sister, she thinks she is the most beautiful girl in the whole world". 

My body went numb and turned cold while listening to their comments about me. I did not even know my friends call my mom to talk bad about me. Honestly, I never had pride in my looks, actually the sufferings because of ADHD Inattentive type were so over whelming that I could never cherish anything good in life.    

So on the whole, spirits were successful in disturbing me, confusing me, and spoiling my motivation for exams. They successfully had me getting lost in my emotions and thoughts. I was wondering all the time what wrong have I done. Preparing for exams and not wasting time is that all wrong. Why am I being called arrogant and rude for that and to my wonder there were people around me, my dad, my sister, other relatives and no one cared to support me. Instead all of them were giving me toxic looks and were nodding their heads to my mom's comments on me.

Let me explain the whole scenario here, everybody in my college and family knew that though being a Muslim I have started to believe in Jesus with a hope of receiving supernatural help with my academic's, now that God started interfering in my life and my scores were getting better and better, I became a threat to devil, for I would have attracted a whole lot of people to Jesus which was happening already. During all these years a bunch of my friends asked me and borrowed free bibles from me and many of them visited church with me. So I was a threat to devil and this is the reason behind all the attacks. I came to understand all this after a very long time. During that phase, my condition was nothing but worse. Always crying, not knowing what it was, not knowing why all of that was happening. I was always sick both in mind and in body.  

To the believers who are from other religious backgrounds, it gets a little confusing because in church you only hear bible verses like those from Psalm 91, "God is Almighty, nothing's gonna harm you, if anything has to attack you it has to go through God". "A thousand may fall at your side, a ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you". After attending church, you may feel spiritually uplifted, but when you return home, you can are only left to encounter attacks that leave lasting scars on your life.

Churches always exaggerate such script verses, but I strongly believe there has to be a shift in the way churches approach their audience, because I have personally experienced the devastating impact of demonic attacks on my life. I wonder why churches don't address the issue more openly and provide guidance on how to safeguard oneself from such spiritual threats.

Some most common attacks are-

1. Shouting at you

What you see is a complete shift in behavior, the family that loved you all along suddenly starts behaving like enemy now. The purpose of their yelling's at you is to vent out the anger being poured into them from demonic spirits.

2. Insult you

Insulting and mocking are another great weapons of demons. It's not always a gun shot wound that kills us, there are even better and easy was that devil uses to kill us and he does this slowly so he could enjoy all the crying part. Just as we enjoy the movie sitting in the couch and slowly sipping the drink, the Devil relishes in the suffering of people. Have you heard of the Solomon islands cursing tree story. The people in the village gather around the trees that are too big and thick to be cut down and they start cursing the tree every day at dawn for 30 days and the tree dies and falls off. Humans are made by the hands of God and we do resemble him in many ways. Our words have power. What the people of Solomon islands do is they kill the spirit of the tree so it falls off by itself. The same thing is happening to most of us and we are unaware of it. It took just a month for the tree to wither, but it takes at least a decade for we humans to wither and fall of. And then comes the phase were we hear voices that tell us, "kill yourself, kill yourself".

3. Attacking you when you're alone. 

When you find yourself alone with a family member, that's the perfect time for evil to feast on you. Just a small negative word comes out of their mouth, you respond and that's it- "What have I done to you?", "Can't I even say a word to you?", "Aren't we supposed to be a family?", "Don't I have the right to say something to you?"

Don't be naive, at least after reading all this. Let them not spoil your inner peace. Just learn to remain simply unaffected to people talking wrong about you. Go pat your dog, eat something you like or put the volume on high and listen to your favorite music. Learn to remain calm.  

4. Isolating you  

You will find the family is bonding like never before, but without you this time. They go to movies, malls, picnics and they will let you know about it later to induce a sense of guilt. At parties they take you along with them, but they will leave you alone at the dinner table. They will introduce all of your siblings to their friends and forget about you to make you feel like you don't even exist.

5. The victim card   

Whatever bad happens, like if their health is getting deteriorated, if they are not seeing growth in the financial condition of the family, if they suffer any loss- to every thing YOU are the reason, they make sure they don't leave a minute opportunity to blame you. According to them you are a curse to the family. They are suffering all because you must have committed some sin. 

Do not fall for such negative statements. Remember everything has an end, this too will pass.

6. Hates to spend money on you.

Whenever it comes to spending money on you they say they don’t have any, but when it’s the turn of your siblings or relatives and even recently acquainted friends they have lots of money. Now if you question them, you’re the enemy, you are the “curse”. So, don’t question them, just stay quiet. Are you observing that they are not saving any money for your future? They won’t do that, they don’t think it is necessary. Travelling is important for them. Spending money lavishly on self-desires is preferred by them.

So, what should you do if you have a toxic family of this kind? Trust God and keep focusing on your education, take a hobby that can make money for you in future, keep reminding God to give you a good job and to lead you towards it. That’s it. Don’t be engulfed with over expectations on God because this is a very frequently used tactic of devil to spoil your walk with God. Always keep your feet grounded.

How to protect yourself 

Whenever you receive any favor from God, remember to brace yourself for attacks, you can protect yourself saying “I cover myself with the blood of Jesus.” Every now and then keep commanding evil powers to stay away from you and your home, and keep saying “I cancel every demonic activity being plotted against me for all this day and all this night. Spirits follow your commands in the name of Jesus exactly as you say. If you command them to stay away from you for all the day they are gonna wait until sunset and get to action then onwards. So make sure you command them to stay away from you for all this day and all this night in the name of Jesus and repeat this every single day.    

Try to do a fasting prayer at least once every week highlighting your NEEDS not your luxury desires before God during that fasting prayer.

I had a friend who always prayed to God for everything she wanted. She thought she could ask for anything and God would give it to her. I remember she had a long list of things she asked for, like nail polish, makeup, and other stuff. She didn't have much money, so she hoped God would make up for it by giving her what she wanted. She even prayed for a husband who owned a fancy car.