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May 2004 – Page 16

An Evil Presence
by Carol

One night my husband and I were reading the Scriptures in bed. We both had our Bibles and were reading quietly side by side when my husband looked up and said, "I demand you to depart in the name of Jesus Christ." Well, my heart nearly stopped because my husband was always a non-reactionary person – someone who did not believe in the unseen world of spirits or metaphysics, but did believe in the Bible's admonishment to call out to the presence of evil spirits by saying what he did: "I demand you to depart in the name of Jesus Christ."

I looked around the room, wondering what would provoke him to make such statement. I asked him what was wrong and he said, he felt a strange and evil spirit in the room (he'd never done this before, ever!) So, I suggested that he call our neighbor next door, who was also a member of our church, to come and have a prayer with us. Well, it was about 10 o'clock at night, not something I really felt was warranted, but thought I'd offer it as an option for my husband to get some comfort where he clearly had none at the moment. I was surprised that he called "Joe" and asked him to come over. Joe said he'd pray about whether to come over or not and within minutes he was knocking at the door. Well, my husband felt a little embarrassed since nothing was happening, so Joe prayed with us a short prayer, and went home.

Within minutes, my husband said again, "I demand you to depart in the name of Jesus Christ," and when he said that, all hell (literally) broke loose. Our bedroom had been an add-on to the house and the door from our bedroom was adjacent to the garage, and when my husband uttered the command again, it sounded like an entire army was fighting a battle in the garage. It sounded like things flew from the shelves, smashed into walls, feel from the rafters, etc. Smash, bang, slam, etc. etc., over and over again. We sat in abject fear until the noice subsided, and we were both scared to death to open the garage door to see what destruction awaited us, and what the source of it was. Well, after about 10 minutes of being scared to death, I began to open the door slowly... What I saw was to this day the most amazing memory of my life: Nothing! Nothing was out of place, nothing had fallen from the shelves, nothing was amiss. There was no one in the garage, and no thing in there either. My husband and I believe to this day, that there WAS indeed an evil spirit present, but had no power to harm us... only to frighten, and that the power of prayer can overcome all evil!

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