Therapists and Counselors Confronting Demons
By Phil Scovell
Author's Note. The following comments were posted on an
electronic mailing list.
End Of Authors Note.
Thinking out loud, as it were, I was wondering this
afternoon as I thought about all that is being discussed on the
list, what the average Christian counselor, psychologist, or
psychiatrist would do if a demon manifested itself during a
normal every day counseling session. If the demonic infestation
was due to a strong hold, he very likely would literally speak
through the person's own voice. Sometimes they, the client,
knows it and sometimes they don't. Would some form of
medication be immediately administered, if they were licensed to
do so, or would they just consider that it was a multiple
personality manifesting itself in the person? Would they know,
Christian or not, how to tell the difference between an alternate
personality or a real demon? Do they even believe demons can do
such a thing? What if the counselor is scared spitless and the
demon is, in fact, a real manifestation of evil? Of course, at
this point, the unclean spirit would have the advantage over the
counselor because demons work in the area of fear and when they
see it, they go for it. What if, which happened to me once, a
demon does manifest itself through the person's voice and says,
"My name is Lucifer." A demon spoke through a client of mine
once and said to me, "We aren't leaving and you can't make us
leave." I wonder if the average Christian counselor would know
what was going on or what to do next? I wonder if even a
Christian psychologist or psychiatrist would know what was going
on and what to do next? I know some who would but not because
they got their degree from a secular college, university, or even
a seminary. To make the point even clearer, I wonder if the
average pastor was counseling someone in his church and this
happened, what he would do?
In one of Neil Anderson's books, he had a pastor in his
office with him with a lady from the man's own church. As soon
as the demonic manifestation came out, the pastor tried to run
out the door but Neil stopped him and taught him what to do.
Thank you Jesus for not leaving us defenseless against the wiles
of the devil.
Now the big question. Can a Christian counselor, which
some say that I am, or a Christian psychologist, or a Christian
psychiatrist heal you? They can help you and bless God they do
help lots of people. Most of what they do is help people cope
and they even use the Bible to help you cope. Ok, that's fine,
and there's nothing wrong with that. What if you could be
healed, though? What if your fear could be literally removed by
the Holy Spirit and your mind totally renewed. Wouldn't that be
better than coping with life as a Christian? What if Jesus
could, through prayer, lead you to a memory and the guilt and
shame and terror of that memory be totally obliterated to the
point it never comes back again? Yet you can return to the very
memory any time you wish and there is nothing there that can
hurt you any more? Wouldn't that be better than coping with life
as a Christian? How is it that a little girl who has been raped
by her father ever get over the fear and the terror and the
anger? Besides, isn't that justifiable to have those emotions?
If so, why are they in the counselors office at 40 trying to
find answers? Why are they on antidepressants? What if the
Lord God could impart to her memory and remove all, I said all,
the pain and doubt and fear and emotional pain and physical
pain, and the screams of that little girl, and the mother who
didn't care because she was too drunk to care, and the haunting
words of an evil father who threatened to kill her if she told
any one, and the nightmares she now has as an adult woman
because of what had been done to her 45 or 50 years ago, what if
a loving God could literally remove it all and replace it with
love and holiness and purity of mind and heart? Wouldn't that
be better than coping with life as a Christian? What if a
little boy is made subject to a Satanic cult where men in a room
forced human male excretions down his throat and made him
swallow everything and if he spit it back up, they beat him so he
couldn't even walk. Can God heal the broken emotions of that
little boy or must he live on drugs the rest of his life as a
half of a human being? If God could heal his brokenness and
fear and hatred for men and his homosexuality, wouldn't that be
better than just coping with life as a Christian? Where is God
when we need Him? Where is God when a girl is literally tied to
a table and raped repeatedly by grown men and if she cries, they
literally turn on electricity and shock her over and over again.
Doesn't God care about these people? Does God stop loving the
woman who gets an abortion, as my daughter did two years ago,
because she is now a murderer and has slain her own flesh and
blood? How does she cope with such excruciating emotional agony
when she is convicted about what she has done? What about the
little boy who grows up with a father who repeatedly, all the
time he is growing up, and even into his adult life, tells him
he is a failure, a looser, and not worth spit? Must he live the
rest of his life thinking his father must be right or is there a
God who knows how to get to the root of this lie and remove it
once and for all? I thought the cross meant something? I
thought the cross of Christ saved and cured and healed our
brokenness but maybe I was misled. Maybe you were misled, too?
Where is God in all of this and why, pray tell, can't He do
something about our pain? The truth is, He can. He will. He
does.
There are literally thousands of people all over this
country, and the world for that matter, doing exactly what I do
every day with people and that is pray. With God, nothing shall
be impossible. Do you really believe that verse or is it just
black ink on white paper to you? If God cannot help us, then we
are truly the most miserable people on earth who are serving a
God who cannot meet the needs of His people. I, for one, won't
serve a helpless God like that. If the best God can do is a
doctor who prescribes drugs and offers a list of affirmations
for me to read every day and a dozen Bible verses to memorize,
that is a God of less than enough. My bible tells me that one
of my God's names we serve is a God of more than enough and more
than we need. If you aren't getting all that God offers, keep
what you have but find someone else who believes more than your
therapist believes about God and His miraculous abilities.
Finally, if you have a pastor who falls into this same
category, keep what you learned but for your own sake, find some
pastor who knows the God of the bible.
Safe Place Fellowship
Phil Scovell
Denver, Colorado
Mountain Time Zone
WWW.SafePlaceFellowship.COM
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