Father, in this day and age, give us
a new vision on the victorious life in
this very dark time.
Thank you, Lord, that you will make us
more than conquerors.
Amen.
I have here 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 a
pianist.
I know that is not a glove that
can play piano, that is 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 is 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.
I will show you this before I will
speak about our power over demons.
And first I will read for you Ephesians
6.10-20.
From the translation of Philips.
Ephesians 6.20 And in conclusion, be strong,
not in yourselves 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 term is unparalleled in
demon populations 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 and with truth at your
belt.
Who is our truth?
Peace.
Righteousness, your breastplate.
Peace 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
missing the enemy's world.
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
Cain.
Pray that I may speak out about it
and speak 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 Baptist and half were Lutheran.
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
of the enemy.
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, in James 1, 5.
One of the checks that I have always
to catch 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?
Why?
But he must ask in sincere faith without
secret doubts as to whether he really wants
God's help or not.
I never know who has the sense of
humor.
Is it 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 inward
reservation is like a wave of distance carried
forward by the wind one moment and driven
back to the next.
I said, Father, you must say this.
Are you listening to me now?
I know that God likes it when we
pray with boldness and say, finally you have
said it.
God has meant this business with his promises
and he likes it when we mean business
with his promises.
The Lord gives 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 creature.
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 that followed.
Now three things here what the Lord tells
us.
Go and bring the gospel over the world.
Second, lay hands on the sick, drive out
demons.
And, oh yes, and 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 over the world with your prayer, your
curse, your testimony?
Are you not happy 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 happy with that?
Or is there still something left?
Now will you first do one and three.
And do everything you can 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
what I think about number two.
And that I can only tell you one
thing about baptism and that is that Jesus
has not given us this great privilege and
blessing to quarrel about but to enjoy it.
Now they smiled and the both hearts 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 people.
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 tramp 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 training 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 kick you out of
the bed and I will not 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 that there were demons
who do not go without fasting.
And Betsy said, what about when we just
give our fasting that the enemy gives to
us.
That we give that back to the Lord
and say, Lord, it is not our will,
but we fast.
But when you use it Lord.
I am so glad that God never takes
a theological examination from you before he helps
you.
He just understood and he did it.
And we 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 my book, Amazing Love, you can
read how for the first time I came
face to face with demons.
I have 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.
It was 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.
He said, oh here is 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 sprung down of fear and
hit her face on her mother's lap.
She was a girl 15 years old.
He 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.
Oh, 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.
So 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 good.
I believe in the greatest reality, but I
think my faith was not strong enough.
Will you do it?
This is the address 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 preacher.
He that believes and is baptized shall be
saved.
But he that believes not shall be damned.
And his sons shall follow them that believe.
In my name shall they cast out this
devil.
And 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.
That 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 on 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's pieces, 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 angels.
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, 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.
Yet we stand as a victorious side.
I know that 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, she said.
I 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.
But 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.
My friends, when we act on the Word
of God, that happen miracles in us and
God watches over His Word.
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 I 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 if it
was in the Bible.
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 am 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 in
the Farnsworthy 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 have 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 had not
much power to come in between.
And in the evening, eight out of ten
had made a reception for the Lord Jesus.
They did angels in heaven, made angels in
heaven rejoice.
I went to my bedroom very happy and
thankful and exulted.
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 don't speak about Otto.
He said, okay, 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.
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 did you 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.
Please stop your machine and turn the tape
over.
The remainder of Corrie Ten Boone's message will
be heard on side two.
Thank
you.
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 teach to cast out
demons.
And I must say here that Pentecostal church
is here much more advanced than the other
churches.
It was so.
Now there seems to be 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.
For that is very small, perhaps not bigger
than a coconut, even perhaps not bigger than
a mustard seed.
But that doesn't matter.
It can remove boundaries.
And you have the authority of the name
of Jesus.
And you have the legal duty of the
name of Jesus and you stand in the
power of his blood.
Perhaps you will say that, listen, I can
understand when you go over the mission field
that you find many people who are demons
possessed, which you are seeing in America.
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.
So the moment that I will ask Lord
Jesus to come into my heart, it is
as if there comes something between him and
me.
Many people say that I always ask.
I always ask wisdom.
When I counsel and even when I preach,
I have always the horizontal and the vertical
connecting in the same moment.
And I can tell my dear Lord quite
different sermons than I tell people in front
of me.
Then I ask Lord, what is to know?
What is there in the life of this
person?
This moment to be saved where she cannot.
And then the Lord tells me which question
I ask him.
Then I say, when did you go through
spiritualism?
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 gone
to a spiritualist meeting.
The answer is almost always the same, oh
yes, for them and them.
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, but 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 comes and says, just come
with me to the police station.
Doesn't it help 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 the power.
And when you go for fun to a
fortune teller, or you are asked to read
the lines to your hands or this nonsense,
and that is very often here in America,
then I can tell you, you are in
the territory of the enemy.
You are in great danger.
Now, the people don't always believe that.
So the best that we make the Bible
speak, and then I always immediately ask them
to open their Bible and to read Deuteronomy
18, 10-13.
There shall not be found among you anyone
that makes a piston, or a dog to
pass through the fire, or that uses divination,
or an observer of signs, or an enchanter,
or a witch, or a charmer, or a
consultant with familiar spirits, or a witcher, or
a necromancer, for all that do these things
are an abomination unto the Lord.
And because of this abomination the Lord thy
God has driven them out from before thee,
thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy
God.
Why is it an abomination in the eyes
of God?
Because instead of asking God for help you
have asked the enemy for help.
Therefore you must be perfect with the Lord
thy God.
Now if people really are serious they are
very soon persuaded that they have done an
abomination.
And that's alright.
When they are so far then I open
the Bible and give them words, for instance
1 John 1, 7 and 9 And then
when we confess our sins God gives faithful
and just to forgive us and the blood
of Jesus cleanses us from all the sins
we confess.
It has never cleansed men's sins.
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 sinners who
were saved and thousands and ten thousands Christians
who came by his preaching into the victorious
life.
I can tell you his name if you
look at him.
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 was out of consciousness.
For a hundred hours.
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 unburdened control.
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. Stamboul's War of the
Kings.
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 but it's dangerous.
And it's one sided.
He 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 say, My mother-in-law
is demon possessed.
Be careful.
She speaks about saying to someone, raka, 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 is a gradual difference.
The answer is the same.
Cast out the demons in the name of
peace.
And you'll come by the blood of the
Lamb.
But be careful that you do not make
a servicemen for the enemies by always talking
about demons.
I'll never forget when Dr. Charlie Johnson came
to Holland to start the Youth for Christ
movement there.
I've never seen such a mean article in
the newspaper when they wrote about Mary Jones.
Terrible thing.
So mean, so dirty.
And when he came there were no walls
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, I should
ask some of you if we should try
to write against me.
And you cannot be too mean.
These people have made the best servicemen for
Charlie Johnson.
And now the Youth for Christ movement is
in the hands of young people who were
saved in the first meetings of Charlie Johnson.
And that is a mighty blessing in Holland.
To save many youths, much youths and also
riper youths.
Like everywhere in the world.
The Youth for Christ always not only reaches
the youths but also the riper youths.
Still 18 ago.
But don't talk too much about demons.
And don't, it is in crooked language.
That man with a mighty sense of humor
said 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 very much many people do not
believe that demons exist.
And demons and pastors.
People who stand in the midst of a
whole army of demons.
And they do not believe.
You see that they live with what a
terrible, a terrible doubt.
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 just tell
the most thrilling stories.
That is, that is an unhealthy curiosity.
And they like to tell about demons.
And then they go in details and tell
what has happened with that woman, what they
have seen about her.
They themselves are equally pleased by both errors.
And they hail a materialist or a magician.
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 power.
And you have nothing to fear.
But be sure that you do not just
let down a foothold.
What do I mean?
I was in South Africa.
And I got a telephone from a girl,
a lady who said, Can't you come here?
He said, Girl, demons possess us, we don't
know what to do.
And my first reaction, you know, was to
say no.
When you ask me to go to a
stick and lay hands on the stick, then
I say, but great joy, oh, 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, I can't
do this.
What is it?
Am I afraid to do this?
The fear for demons comes from the demons
themselves.
And we have nothing to fear for demons.
We can be victorious, right?
Three kings 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 experienced, 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 spiritual Christian.
And you can't do it and I can't
do it, we are just nobody.
Love.
You see how very important it is to
be filled with the Holy Spirit in these
times.
Now I said, yes, I cut.
And I took the bone 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 the 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 and I turned to
the ministers and I said, there are too
many pies and too many demons in your
church.
What did I mean?
And also, it was in South Africa and
all these British countries, these ladies' meetings are
just demonstrations of how they can cook, bake
pies and cakes.
This is almost a danger.
After I have been some weeks there, there
is far too much courage.
And boom, I must go on a diet.
But I am not against it, I like
them.
But there is a sign that we must
not bake pies for cast out demons.
And if all the ladies use the time
that they use in their cooking just to
go to that neighbor that has an eternity
to lose of the business and bring the
gossip, then I think it should be good.
So there is a sign perhaps for baking
pies.
And I know in America it doesn't take
much time, so you have all in one
pan.
There are too many demons in our church.
What do we do with the demons of
that church?
Now be honest, you send them to a
psychiatrist and he can give shocks and demons
are not at all shocked.
Here is the thing, it is time to
wake up to reality.
One of the ladies 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 sick.
And I had to leave absolute defeat.
And I went on my knees and 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 the
Philistines.
You know when there is a foothold for
the devil, you are in a strategic, very
deep moment.
What was the foothold?
My attitude was holier than thou.
I have told this in a very witty
and straight way what I thought about it
in the center.
You see?
Holier than thou is a smoke in God's
nose.
I died there with a terrible thing.
It was pride, spiritual pride.
Don't fight with demons when there is pride
in your heart.
Afternoon, I hope to speak about sin.
We are all very deeply sinners, but sin.
Don't give the enemy that kind of foothold.
Now if you will know more about my
experience, read that little book, The Feet of
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
help me.
My book, The Prisoner.
And yes, 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.
They took away everything that we had hidden.
My house kept.
I had a little Bible.
It was special printed for the underground workers
in Holland.
It was a whole old and new testament,
but 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, but now you are angels and
they surround me.
And 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 me.
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,
it was only once, was searched.
And then my sisters stood behind me and
they did not see me.
And I was shocked.
I said, oh God, if you are such
a hearer of prayer, I believe I can
even extend the concentration time.
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.
And I was not afraid.
I said, Father, leave your incantation of angels
for some moment around me.
And he did.
And so I came with my Bible.
Is this a strange story?
No.
It's written in the Bible, angels are ministering
spirits.
Come to this planet for your and my
help.
Oh my.
Sometimes we must pray for open eyes.
Like that servant of Elijah.
I told this story in Cape Town, in
a church.
And I watched a man who called himself
an agnostic.
And he thought, oh boy, that lady, that
selfish, impossible story that you can read on
Christian calendars.
I wished I could run away, but I
couldn't.
The church was packed and he was just
sitting at the other side of the door.
Suddenly that man saw an angel standing behind
me.
Tall angel on the house with hands over
my head.
And then closed his eyes.
Looked up, the angel was still there.
About twelve minutes that man saw the angel.
Why in the world did I need the
help of an angel in that Christian church?
I will tell you, I was sad.
It was my sixth meeting.
And they said, now before you speak we
have a short movie of the United Nations.
And you saw on the screen Germany after
the war.
And you saw that they had lost faith.
You saw that Germans came in a country
and when they thought it was German, oh
they wouldn't listen to them.
They had lost their good name.
And the tendency was, we need United Nations
to bring peace on earth.
Now what they showed was not terrible.
They showed the concentration camps, people coming from
it.
It was not terrible, but I saw a
thousand times more than that movie showed.
And all these horrible things I had been
through came back in my memory.
And when I would speak, I couldn't utter
a word.