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Chapter 8<br />
8. Authority Over Demon Spirits,<br />
Not Human Wills<br />
Although we have authority over demon spirits, we do not<br />
have authority over our fellowmen or their wills. We miss it a lot<br />
of times in thinking that we do.<br />
We have authority over demons, and we can control them as<br />
far as our lives or our family's lives are concerned, but we can't<br />
always control them when other people are concerned, because<br />
that person's will comes into play.<br />
Many years ago I was holding a meeting here in Oklahoma,<br />
and as I was ministering to the sick in the healing line, I had an<br />
inward intuition—I knew by the inward witness—that somebody<br />
in the line had a demon in him. That doesn't mean he was demon<br />
possessed—that's a different thing entirely. To be possessed is to<br />
be taken over entirely—spirit, soul, and body. You can have a<br />
demon in your body without being possessed by a demon.<br />
I kept looking around. When a certain man stood within four<br />
persons of me, I knew the demon was in him. I never said<br />
anything out loud.<br />
You have to realize this: Although the devil does know some<br />
things, he is not all-knowing, or omniscient, like God is. Because<br />
of his psychic powers, you can see that the devil does know<br />
some things. Some fortunetellers do predict events that come to<br />
pass. The devil even knows some of your thoughts. How do we<br />
know this? Because mind readers often can read your mind and<br />
tell you what you're thinking. And they don't do that by the<br />
power of God.<br />
Before the man stepped in front of me I thought to myself,<br />
I'm going to cast that thing out of him. I didn't say anything out<br />
loud; I just thought it. When he stepped up in place, before I<br />
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