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