The CoG use to cast the Devil out of people. I have not heard of it being done in recent times. Are we getting away from it? Or, perhaps we have sent demon possessed people all over to the mental institutions. Watch this video of A A Allen, whose doctrine lines up more so with the CoG than that of the AoG. Be sure to watch the latter part of it. God is looking for someone that He can use for His glory. I want to be someone God can use, don’t you?
I see it happening almost weekly.
Was AA Allen different doctrinally from A/G folks in the 1960’s? COGs would probably have considered him more A/G back then, right?
My wife and I have several times.
I believe most in the church can’t tell the difference, unless they are in full-blown manifestation mode.
I have been in services were possessed people were starting to manifest and those closest to them just figured they were “being touched by the Holy Ghost”.
In one situation my wife and I was behind the individual as he was kneeling on the floor gyrating. The pastor said to let him up and as he stood he stopped the gyrations and professed salvation.
When asked to testify they asked him what happened to him during service that night. His answer was, “are you kidding me, if you did not see that then you missed it”. I started to stand to move across the church to him and was stopped by the leadership.
2 weeks later his father found him in his apartment. He had hung himself.
Did you hear the audio of when the gunman went into John Hagee’s church and shot at him from 6 feet away.
They subdued him and he was placed into a mental ward. He too hanged himself.
Makes you wonder why the church is not delivering, but just moving them to institutions, other places, and medicating them.
(I could tell you about the possessed dog some time).
Every Pentecostal and Charismatic church I’ve ever been to, as far as I know, believe in casting out demons. But a lot of folks in the US are medicated.
I first cast out demons from a teenage girl who was manifesting in a COG back in 1974 but rarely saw any deliverance ministry after that until around 1989 when my wife literally sold her soul to Satan. I was taking a seminary class in Spiritual Warfare and had two classmates that taught at the IU School of Medicine who encouraged me to take her to a Mennonite layman in northern Indiana who was world renowned for his work in deliverance ministry. My wife was set free! We subsequently began to help others and began to learn all we could to better assist others. Unfortunately I did not find much if any deliverance ministry in the COG or other Pentecostal denominations and learned primarily from Baptists, Catholics, Mennonite, and nondenominational Charismatics. I also studied Clinical Psychology to better differentiate the needs of people. I often encountered persons who were rather bizarre because they had stopped taking medications. A friend of mine who is the chief exorcist for the Indianapolis diocese studied exorcism for a year in Rome and works with a team of people to better clarify how to pray for individuals. This is an important ministry but I find few COG or A/G pastors with any training.
The most important thing is to be totally filled with the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God is the only one that had power over the devil.
There are also Charismatics who name any problem in a city after a demon or principality, then drive or fly around the city and cast out the spirit they named after the problem. That’s supposed to make the city better and make it easier for people to get saved, somehow.
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