Banner Tape presents Corrie Ten Boom, speaking on
the subject, Authority Over Demons.
I hear a very queer glove.
That glove cannot do anything.
It cannot write, it cannot cut bread, it
cannot do anything.
But now it can even play piano.
Don't tell him, for I am not pianistic.
I know that it's not the glove that
can play piano, that's the hand in the
glove.
And we cannot do anything.
Without Jesus we can do nothing.
But with him we can do everything.
Now you see that when my hand is
only in the midst of this glove, the
glove cannot do anything.
And I believe that's why the Bible says,
one of the best, the most sweetest commandments
of the Bible, Be filled with the Spirit.
And don't forget that the Bible has no
suggestions but commandments.
And first I will read for you Ephesians
6, 10 till 20.
From the translation of Philips.
Ephesians 6, 20.
In conclusion, be strong, not in yourself but
in the Lord.
In the power of his boundless resource, put
on God's complete armor so that you can
successfully resist all the devil's methods of attack.
For our fight is not against any physical
enemy, it is against organizations and powers that
are spiritual.
I read somewhere this time is unparalleled in
demon population of this planet.
We are up against the unseen power that
controls this dark world and spiritual agents from
the very headquarters of evil.
Therefore you must wear the whole armor of
God, that you may be able to resist
evil in its day of power.
And that even when you have fought to
a standstill, you may still stand your ground.
Take your stand then with truth as your
belt.
Who is our truth?
Jesus.
Righteousness, your breastplate.
Jesus is our righteousness.
The gospel of peace, firmly on your feet.
Jesus is our peace.
Salvation is our helmet.
Jesus is our salvation.
He in us, we in him.
And in your hand the sword of the
spirit, the word of God.
Above all, be sure you take faith as
your shield.
For it can quench every burden, lethal the
enemy hurl.
Pray at all times with every kind of
spiritual prayer, keeping alert and persistent as you
pray for all Christ's men and women.
And pray for me too that I may
be able to speak freely here to make
known the secret of that gospel for which
I am so to speak an ambassador in
chains.
Pray that I may speak out about it
as is my plain and obvious duty.
We have a tremendous task in this world.
And it is good that we realize that
we are standing in the midst of a
terrific battle.
Some time ago I had a talk for
men in Germany.
We had a good hour.
We listened together to what the Holy Spirit
had to tell us.
Now I knew that half of these men
were Baptists and half were Lutherans.
After I was through, we had some conversation.
And one of them asked me, tell me,
what do you think about the right way
of baptism?
I thought, I don't know where that question
comes from.
I fear that it comes from the corner.
You know, I knew that when I would
say one thing, that half of the people
should throw away my whole talk because I
did not agree about their doctrine of baptism.
Should I say the other thing, then the
other half was against me.
So I prayed for wisdom.
And I am so glad for a check
written on my name and signed by Jesus
Christ.
James 1, 5.
The check that I have always to cash
again.
If in the process any of you does
not know how to meet any particular problem,
he has only to ask God, who gives
generously to all men without making them feel
foolish or guilty.
And he may be quite sure that the
necessary wisdom will be given him.
Isn't that good?
But he must ask in sincere faith, without
really want God.
I never know who has a sense of
humor.
If it is Philips or James or the
Holy Spirit, I think all three.
I'm sure all three have it.
The man who trusts God but with...
I said, Father, you are sadist.
Are you kidding me now?
I know that God likes it when we
pray with boldness and say, Father, you are
sadist.
God has men business with his promises and
he likes it when we mean business with
his promises.
The Lord gave me wisdom.
I said, will you open your Bible at
Mark 6...
Mark 16.
Where the Lord...
Verse 15.
Where the Lord Jesus said, you must go
out to the whole world and proclaim the
gospel to every Christian.
He who believes it and is baptized will
be saved, but he who disbelieves it will
be condemned.
These signs will follow those who do believe.
They will drive out evil spirits in my
name.
They will speak with new tongues.
They will pick up snakes and if they
drink anything poisonous it will do them no
harm.
They will lay their hands upon the sick
and they will recover.
After these words to them, the Lord Jesus
was taken up into heaven and was enthroned
at the right hand of God.
They went out and preached everywhere.
The Lord worked with them confirming their message
by the signs.
There are three things here that the Lord
tells us.
The first is go to bring the gospel.
Then baptize and then there are power over
demons and sicknesses.
May I ask you, how far are you
with the first of the three?
Did you do your utmost to bring the
gospel with your prayer, your curse, your testimony?
Are you not yet ready with that?
What about the third thing?
Did you cast out demons?
Did you lay your hands on the sick?
Did you all do these three things?
Are you not yet ready with that or
is there still something left?
Now when you first do one and three
and do everything you can for to bring
the gospel over the world and then to
lay hands on the sick and then cast
out demons and if you are through with
this then come to me and I will
tell you has
not given us this great privilege and blessing
to quarrel about but to enjoy it.
Now they smiled and the both halves were
still with me.
You know in this time it is very
important that we understand that there is a
terrific fight against the very representatives of the
headquarters of evil.
And you and I are standing in the
front line and you and I are the
only people in the world who can cast
out demons in the name of Jesus.
Do you realize that?
Communists can't do that.
Beelzebub is not willing to do it.
So you and I must do it.
I have written a little booklet, Defeated Enemies.
Where I tell about what I have experienced
of our power of demons.
It is not demonology.
It is not theory.
It is just what I experienced when I
went over the world and I had to
speak and to preach and to lay hands
on sick and to bring the gospel and
go over the world as a trump for
the Lord.
And I didn't realize at all that we
have the task of casting out demons.
Oh yes, I have experienced it when I
was in a concentration camp where we were
together in a terrible place where people had
had a straining in cruelties where the demon
of hatred was in the hearts of many
people and Betsy and I were there together
with 700 prisoners in a very small room
and these poor prisoners were often so nervous
and so afraid.
We had to sleep on very small cots
with two or three.
And sometimes it was as if there came
a wave of hatred and darkness over that
room and the people started to fight and
it was a very great danger in such
a small place.
And I will never forget how my sister
behaved when she heard that they were fighting
together and one said, I kicked you out
of the bed and I won't have you
any longer lay so against me.
And then Betsy said, let's pray.
And Betsy started to pray and when she
was praying it was as if a storm
laid down and was all quiet and then
she stopped.
We knew that there were demons around us
and we had never thought about the casting
out demons but we read in the little
forbidden booklet that we had the Bible.
We read that we may and must cast
out demons and then there were demons who
do not go without fasting and Betsy said,
what about when we just give our fasting
that the enemy gives us that we give
that back to the Lord and say, Lord,
it is not our will but we fast.
But will you use it, Lord?
I'm so glad that God never takes a
theological examination from you before he helps you.
He just understood and he did it and
he got power over demons.
And then after that period of my life
that I was a prisoner there and I
had to go over the world and in
that book Amazing Love you can read how
for the first time I came face to
face with demons.
I've spoken about we are more than conquerors
through Jesus Christ and God's promises are the
greatest reality and our problems are the material
for God to build his miracles and if
we need a great miracle we must have
God out in possibilities.
That's a very nice sermon.
And the next day there came a woman
to me with her daughter who was demon
possessed and she said, did you believe what
you said yesterday?
I said, oh yes, I believed every word.
She said, alright, here's my daughter and she
is possessed by a demon of fear.
The moment that we heard a noise, even
when someone opened the tap in the house
then that girl shrunk down of fear and
hit her face on her mother's lap.
It was a girl 15 years old.
She said, can you cast out that demon?
I said, no, that's not my work.
Oh yes, she said, I thought it was
very beautiful what you said in your talk
but you don't believe it yourself.
I said, I believe it.
And then I said, oh Lord, I believe
it, I believe it, but what must I
do?
Lord, I must not cast out demons, that's
not my work.
Or is it your will?
And then the Lord said, yes.
And I said to the mother, do you
believe?
She said, yes, I believe the Bible and
I believe Mark 16.
And then I spoke to that demon in
that poor girl.
I asked that girl, do you love the
Lord Jesus?
She said, yes, but he must make me
free.
I said, yes, he will make you free.
And I said to the demon, in the
name of Jesus, leave that girl.
And the mother and the girl left and
that girl was just as demon possessed as
before.
And I was disappointed and frustrated.
I was in the house of a minister.
So I went to a study.
I said, Pastor, I have experienced this.
I am so sorry.
I believe in the Bible, I believe that
the promises of the Lord are the greatest
reality, but I think my faith was not
strong enough.
Will you do it?
This dear breast of the girl.
He said, what do you mean?
I said, you must cast out this demon.
He said, I don't think about it.
I never did that before.
I said, Pastor, who must do it then?
I said, Pastor, open your Bible and read
Mark 16.
I said, read it loud.
And he read.
And he read, Go ye into all the
world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believes and is baptized shall be
saved, but he that believes not shall be
damned.
And the saints shall follow them that believe.
In my name shall they cast out the
devil.
He said, oh Lord, I have never known
that.
Forgive me.
Forgive me, Lord.
This girl is not the only one in
my church, in my congregation.
There are more, Lord.
I have never seen that I have a
duty here.
And there was joy in my heart.
I thought, now I know why I had
to have that defeat.
I had to go to that minister.
I understood a little bit of God's side
of the embroidery.
The next day, the woman came with her
daughter.
And she said, the moment that we passed
the threshold of our house, the demon was
gone from my daughter.
And she was absolutely free.
Why did God wait with liberating that girl?
Because I had to go to that minister
to have that talk.
It was an encouraging beginning.
And then, I tried to study the Bible
in this.
I read in 1 John 5, 18, the
true child of God is in charge of
God's own son.
And the evil one must keep his distance.
He stands at the victorious side, after all.
Napoleon said to his soldiers, gentlemen, when you
follow me, and when you are my soldiers,
I must tell you that often, when you
are hungry, there will be no food.
When it is bad weather, you will not
have shelter.
What is waiting you is blood and sweat.
But I can promise you one thing.
When you follow Napoleon, you fight for a
general who never lost a battle.
But he lost the last battle.
But when we are in the army of
King Jesus, the King of kings, we fight
for a king who never lost a battle
and who will never lose a battle.
And every knee will bow for him.
And at our side is a mighty high
priest and legions of...
And we have a book almost bursting by
good news.
And we stand in the power of the
blood of Jesus.
For this book tells us that we overcome
by the blood of the Lamb and the
word of our testimony.
And we have the authority of the name
of Jesus.
And like a traffic officer has the authority
of the law behind him, and if you
don't obey him, you get a ticket, you
and I have the authority of Jesus' name.
And if the devil does not obey you,
then you give him a ticket.
He is a defeated enemy.
Jesus came to destroy the works of the
devil.
Yes, we stand at a victorious side.
I know that the part of Mark, there
is a question mark behind that last part
of Mark 16.
In Germany there was a girl who was
rather ill, and a brother came to her
and said, Do you believe in the Bible?
She said, I believe the Bible from cover
to cover.
Then he read Mark 16 that Jesus says,
In my name thou shalt lay hands on
the sick and they will recover.
Do you believe that?
Oh yes, he said.
I have never heard that before, but I
didn't know that that was in the Bible,
but I believe it because it is in
the Bible.
And he laid hands on her and she
was healed.
And she was so happy.
She ran to her pastor.
She said, Pastor, did you know that that
was in the Bible?
And brother so and so has done it.
What you can read in Mark 16 that
Jesus said, In my name you will lay
hands on the sick and they will recover.
And the pastor said, My dear lady, I
am so sorry that I must tell you
that Mark 16 is added to the Bible
long, long after the original was written.
She was very disappointed.
But suddenly she said, Oh my, what a
book is the Bible that even an acid
promise has so much power that I am
healed.
And I wrote once in my little paper,
this harvest thing, that someone said, was asked,
Do you believe that Jonah was in the
stomach of the whale?
And he said, Yes, I believe that.
And if the Bible has told that the
whale had been in the stomach of Jonah,
I should also have believed it.
Yes, it is good to act on the
word of God.
But it is also very necessary that we
obey the word of God.
Cast out demons in my name, says Jesus.
I'm so glad that in the armor of
God is also prayer.
I believe it is in my book, Not
Good If Detached, that I tell that I
was in a group of a small conference
in Germany of what you call here the
Interfacety Christian Fellowship.
Ten students, Christians, had brought ten non-Christians.
And I had to speak Saturday evening and
three times on Sunday.
On Saturday after I had spoken, every student
took one of the non-Christians and made
a walk and talked with them and they
said, Corrie, not one of them has accepted
your message.
But we will pray.
We will pray this night and we will
pray tomorrow and we will stand behind you
with our prayers.
How God did miracles that Sunday.
When people prayed and the devil has not
much power to come in between.
And in the evening, eight out of ten
had made a decision for the Lord Jesus
that made the angels in heaven rejoice.
I went to my bedroom very happy and
thankful and exhausted.
Germans are very thoroughly and talk much and
between the three meetings I had many, many
talks.
But I was so happy with what the
Lord had done.
But when I came in my room, Trudy
followed me.
And Trudy said, Oh, Corrie, I must thank
you what you have done for my Otto.
He was so dark.
He was a medical student and her fiancé
Otto was also a medical student.
He said, Oh, he was so dark and
unhappy.
And now he has accepted the Lord Jesus
and he is so, he is so glad
and so full of joy.
I said, Now let us just praise and
thank the Lord.
But what about you, Trudy?
He said, I don't come to speak about
myself.
I will speak about Otto.
I said, OK.
And I talked about Otto.
But suddenly, in the midst of our talk,
I turned to her or rather to demons
in her, and I said in the name
of Jesus, I commend you demons, go out
of this girl.
She is not bought by your blood but
by the blood of Jesus Christ who has
paid everything for her at the cross of
Golgotha.
I commend you to leave her and I
forbid you to come back or to come
in anyone else.
Go to the place where Jesus tells you
to go.
I have never seen such a change on
the face of a human being.
From the darkness she came into light and
she shouted, I am free, I am free!
Is there hope for me?
I didn't know it.
And then she told me that she had
intended to commit suicide the next day.
And I can tell you I stood trembling
on my feet.
I did not know anything of her and
I even had not discerned that she was
demon possessed.
Please stop your machine at this point and
turn the cassette over.
And I, after she had left, I thought
I must have a prayer.
I must talk it over with someone.
I went downstairs and in the hall where
we had our meetings, I saw all these
ten students on their knees.
And I said, I come to tell you
that Trudy is liberated.
They said, we knew.
I said, what is to know?
They said, we knew that she was demon
possessed and when she went to your room,
we went in prayer.
And we prayed, God, use courage and womb
to liberate that girl.
And after some time, suddenly our prayer went
over in praise and thanks and we knew
that she was free.
Now do you see what prayer means?
I did not know anything about that girl,
but there were these students who were praying.
And I was very happy about this experience.
I have found over the whole world a
lack of knowledge among theologians, among Bible students,
in the seminaries, in the Bible schools.
The people do not know how to cast
out demons.
And I must say here the Pentecostal church
is here much more advanced than the other
churches.
It was so.
Now there comes a difference also in the
other churches.
But my friends, don't forget that you have
to cast out demons in this time and
you can do it.
Not because of your faith.
So that is very small, perhaps not bigger
than a coconut, even perhaps not bigger than
a mustard tree, but that doesn't matter.
It can remove mountains.
And you have the authority of the name
of Jesus.
And you have the legal use of the
name of Jesus and you stand in the
power of His blood.
Perhaps you will say, but listen, I can
understand when you go over the mission field
that you find many people who are demon
possessed.
Have you never had someone in your counseling
room who said, oh, I wanted so much
to accept the Lord Jesus, but I cannot.
I'm not able.
The moment that I will ask, Lord Jesus,
come into my heart, it is as if
there comes something between Him and me.
And the people say that I always ask
wisdom.
When I counsel, and even when I preach,
I have always the horizontal and the vertical
connection in the same moment.
And I can tell my dear Lord quite
different sermons than I tell the people.
Then I ask, Lord, what is wrong?
What is there in the life of this
person who is wanting and longing to be
saved, but she cannot?
And then the Lord tells me which question
I ask Him.
Then I say, when did you go to
a spiritualist meeting, a spiritualist meeting?
Or I ask, when did you go to
a fortune teller?
And I never ask when they have been
to a fortune teller if they have come
to a spiritualist meeting.
The Holy Spirit keeps the discernment.
The answer is almost always the same, oh
yes, it was then and then, but I
did it just for fun.
And then I tell them about East Germany.
In East Germany, the border between West and
East is sometimes in the midst of a
wood.
Now when you are walking in that forest,
in that wood, and you should not be
alert, it is possible to come very easily
into the eastern part of that wood of
Germany.
And especially when you have a game, and
when you are playing, and suddenly you are
at the wrong side of the border, and
then the police come and just come with
me to the police station.
Do you think it helps you when you
say, oh excuse me, but we were just
playing?
No, when you are on the territory of
the enemy, you are in their power.
And when you go for fun to a
fortune teller, or you are asked to read
the lines in your hand, or this nonsense,
and that is very often here in America,
then I can tell you, you are in
the territory of the enemy.
And you are in great danger.
Now, the people don't always believe that.
So it is the best that we make
the Bible speak.
And then I always immediately ask them to
open their Bible and to read Deuteronomy 18,
10 till 13.
There shall not be found among you anyone
that makes his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire, or that uses good
emotions, or an observer of signs, or an
enchanter, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for
all that do these things are an abomination
unto the Lord.
And because of these abominations, the Lord thy
God doth drive them out from before.
Why is an abomination in the eyes of
God?
Because the Lord thy God.
Now, if people really are serious, they are
very soon persuaded that they have done an
abomination.
And that's all right.
When they are so far, then I open
the Bible and give them word, for instance,
1 John 1, 7 and 9, when we
confess faithful and just to forgive us, and
the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all
the sins we confess.
It never cleanses an excuse.
And then they are free.
If they do it.
And then they can accept the Lord.
And oh, how we must warn these decent
sinners here in America that they mustn't go
to a fortune teller.
And I found also, you will see that
in my little booklet, that many people are
in great danger because they do not know
about these things.
There was a great evangelist in Germany, a
man of God, mightily used for thousands and
thousands of sinners who were saved, tens of
thousands and tens of thousands of Christians, who
came by his preaching into the victorious life.
I can tell you his name, it is
Bruder Kender.
And he came once to me and he
said, Oh Corrie, I've had such a terrible
experience.
There came a lady to me and she
said, Oh, make me free, make me free.
I am under the power of the devil.
And he said, I saw in her eyes
that she was demon possessed.
And I laid my hands on her and
the same moment I fell on my back
and I hurt her half and half.
And when I came back to consciousness she
was gone and she had committed suicide.
I said, Pastor, will you show me in
the Bible where it's written that we must
lay hands on a demon possessed, lay hands
on the sick and cast out the demons.
We must be very careful with our obedience.
Now here is a man full of the
love of the Lord, full of the burden
for souls, and only by lack of knowledge
this man did such a dangerous thing.
It is time to wake up to reality.
Now in this booklet also I tell that
there is a danger.
I don't know if you have ever read
the book of Mrs. Penn Lewis, War of
the Saints.
When you read that book without first asking
the Lord to protect you with the blood
of Jesus you come in great darkness.
It's a positive book.
There's a danger in it.
And it's one-sided.
She brings everything under the category of demon
possession.
And I found missionaries in the mission field
who did the same.
And they always talked about demons and about
demon possession.
Not only in the mission field.
So often when a mother-in-law is
difficult, then they said, My mother-in-law
is demon possessed.
Be careful.
Jesus speaks about saying to someone a rasca,
a guilty, I don't know anything, I've never
studied demonology, but in this little booklet I
try to make the difference between demon obsession
and demon possession.
Demon possession you can see.
But demon obsession you cannot always see.
There's a gradual difference.
The answer is the same.
Cast out the demons in the name of
Jesus.
And be overcome by the blood of the
Lamb.
But be careful that you do not make
advertisement for the enemies by always talking about
them.
I'll never forget when Dr. Torrey Johnson came
to Holland to start the Youth for Christ
movement there.
I've never seen such mean articles in the
newspaper when they wrote about Torrey Johnson.
Terrible things.
So mean, so dirty.
And when he came there were no halls
big enough to contain the mass of people.
And I can tell you when I should
come back here to America and I should
like to have very big meetings, we should
try to write against you.
And you cannot be too mean.
These people have made the best issues.
The Youth for Christ movement is in the
hands of and that is a mighty blessing
in Holland to save many youth, much youth,
and also richer youth like everywhere in the
world.
The Youth for Christ always not only reaches
the youth but also the richer youth, till
80 and above.
But don't talk too much about humans.
And don't, it is in screw tape letters
that man with a mighty sense of humor
says there are two equal and opposite errors
into which our race can fall about the
devil.
One is to disbelieve in their existence.
And that is very much.
Many people do not believe that demons exist.
And then impostors, people who stand in the
midst of a whole army of demons and
they do not believe, you see, that they
exist.
What a terrific victory for the devil.
One is to disbelieve in their existence.
The other is to believe and to feel
an unhealthy interest in them.
And I can tell you, what I tell
you today, I cannot, this talk I cannot
give everywhere.
I can tell you when I have given
this talk, then people come to me and
first tell the most thrilling folk stories.
That is an unhealthy curiosity.
And they like to tell about demons.
And then they go in detail and tell
what has happened with that woman, what they
have seen about the devil.
They themselves are equally pleased by both errors.
And they hail a materialist or a magician,
what a difficult word, a magician with the
same delight.
Demons exist.
And demons are in the world.
And I believe that there are more now
than every time before.
And you have a tremendous task.
And you have nothing to fear.
But be sure that you do not give
the devil a foothold.
What do I mean?
I was in South Africa, and I got
a telephone from a girl, a lady, who
said, Christ, can you come here?
Here is a girl, demon protester.
We don't know what to do.
And my first reaction is always to say
no.
When you ask me to go to a
stick and lay hands on the stick, then
I say with great joy, oh yes, I
do it.
And it gives me a great joy to
lay hands on the stick.
But when you ask me, come and cast
out the demons, then I say, can't he
do it?
What is it?
Am I afraid for demons?
The fear for demons comes from the demons
themselves.
And we have nothing to fear for demons.
We stand on the victorious side, legions of
angels and a mighty high priest is at
our side.
Is it because it is so terrible to
see the demonstration of the power of the
enemy in the life of a human being?
Perhaps it is that.
I don't know what you have for experience,
but after I have been used to cast
out demons, I am physically so tired.
And I am not that when I lay
hands on the stick.
I don't know what it is, but I
don't like it.
And if I can avoid it, I do
it.
But I know that if I do not
do it, and if you do not do
it, who in the world must cast out
demons?
Tell me.
There is no other in the whole world
who can do it but the Christian, the
Spirit-filled Christian.
And you can't do it and I can't
do it.
We are just nobody's gloves.
You see how very important it is to
be filled with the Holy Spirit in this
time.
Now I said, yes, I can.
And I took this wound after that and
I said to my friend, say, listen, will
you please come with your car and bring
me to that address.
There is a woman demon-possessed and they
have asked me if I would come to
cast out demons.
And my friend said, Corrie, you know that
I am always available for you with my
car, but today I cannot do it.
It is impossible.
The whole day I must bake pies and
cakes for the church meeting tomorrow.
I laid down the receiver of that telephone
and there were three ministers in that room
where the telephone was.
What did I mean?
I don't know if you, and it was
in South Africa and all these British countries,
these ladies' meetings are just demonstrations of how
they can bake pies and almost a danger.
After I have been some weeks there, there
is far too much Corrie and boom, I
must go on a diet.
But I have nothing against it.
I like them.
But there is a time that we must
not bake pies but cast out demons.
And if all the ladies use the time
that they use in their teachings just to
go to that neighbor that has an eternity
to lose or to gain and bring the
gospel, then I think it should be good.
Now there is a time perhaps for baking
pies and I know in America it doesn't
take much time so you have all in
one can.
There are too many demons in our churches.
What do you do with a demon-possessed
or obsessed person?
Now be honest, you send him to a
psychiatrist and he can give shocks and demons
are not at all shocks.
Here is a danger.
It's time to wake up to reality.
One of the ministers said, I will bring
you to that lady.
And I was there and there was absolute
defeat.
I couldn't do anything.
And at last the demons attacked me.
And the demons said, you are possessed by
the idiotic idea that Jesus is victor.
And I had to leave absolute defeat.
And I went on my knees.
I said, Lord, what has happened?
And the Lord showed me that there was
in my being a foothold for the devil.
Don't go to bed angry.
Don't give the devil that kind of foothold.
That is somewhere in the translation of Philippians.
You know when there is a foothold for
the devil, you are in a strategic, very
weak moment.
What was the foothold?
My attitude was holier than thou.
I have told these ministers in a very
witty and straight way what I thought about
the demons and Pius.
You see?
Holier than thou is a smoke in God's
nose, Isaiah says.
It's a terrible thing.
It was pride.
Spiritual pride.
Don't fight with demons when there is pride
in your heart.
Don't give the enemy that kind of foothold.
Now if you want to know more about
my experiences, read that little booklet, Defeated Enemies.
And I will not stop here.
But I will tell you that there are
more angels in the world than demons.
And often we speak far more about demons
than about angels.
And I am so glad for the angels.
Boy, they are great friends of mine.
And how they have helped me, and they
helped me.
My book, A Prisoner, and yet you can
read that I came in the prison and
we all had to be searched.
And we stood on a line and everyone
was searched and they took away everything that
we had hidden.
And how scared I was.
I had a little Bible.
It was special printed for the underground workers
in Holland.
So the whole Old and New Testament was
very small.
And I had it under my dress on
my back.
And other things that I needed.
And I saw that they did not leave
anything.
They took away everything that was hidden.
And I was so scared that I said,
Oh God, send now your angels and let
they surround me.
But then I thought, yes, angels.
But after all, angels are spirits.
And spirits are transparent.
You can look through them and these people
may not see.
I said, God, let your angels not be
transparent today.
You can pray very unorthodox when you are
in great need.
But God did it.
How, I don't know.
But the woman who was standing before me,
before me was searched.
And then my sister stood behind me and
they didn't see me.
And there was joy in my heart.
I said, Oh God, if you are such
a hearer of prayers, I believe I can
even stand the concentration camp.
But an hour later I was called again.
All of us, we had to stand in
the street and everyone was searched for a
second time by different women.
But I was not afraid.
I said, Father, leave your untransparent angels just
a moment surround me.
And he did.
And so I came with my Bible in
that prison.
Strange story?
No.
It's written in the Bible, angels are ministering
spirits sent to this planet for your and
my help.
My.
Sometimes we must pray for open eyes.
This has been another message brought to you
by the Banner Tape Ministry.
Knowing the power of messages like these, we
ask you to share these tapes with others.
You may obtain extra copies of this tape
or our free tape catalog by writing to
Banner Tape 504 Laurel Drive Monroeville, Pennsylvania ZIP
Code 15146