Breaching the enemy’s ground
In November 2004, I had an incident that spurred me to learn even more about the devil and the occult as possible. I read an article in the newspaper about a particular Russian website that was encouraging suicide. The article was about young depressed/suicidal people who committed suicide as a direct influence of the website. The article said that the website contained a lot of information on how a person can successfully kill himself/herself. A couple of young people who helped to set up the website were later found dead. The parents of the deceased children filed a lawsuit against the website administrator/initiator.
After reading the article I decided to check out the website. I was absolutely oblivious to the fact that the website was inspired by Satan and run by Satanists. The website is purely evil with images of diseased and dark background that can make a non-depressed person depressed. Besides the outward sinister appearance, the website emits spiritual darkness directly affecting the person who visits the website.
I read several profiles of the people on the website. They all had similar stories -- severely abused and molested as children; came from broken homes; were rejected at a very young age by their parents; never had parents’ love or care. I decided to go to the website forum to somehow share with those people that there is Someone who can heal their pain and hurt and set them free from depression. I naively thought that I could reach out to those people.
One person got interested in what I had to say and wanted to know more about being set free. However, as I began to share Biblical truth, every time I wrote the name of Jesus Christ it got omitted. In a day I was completely blocked to make any posts at the forum.
The first night after participating in the forum, I had an awful nightmare. God woke me up in the middle of the night and told me to pray. I was filled with a terrifying fear because of the presence of evil in my room.
The next day I felt nauseous. I went on the website in the morning. One girl posed a question, asking which drug and the amount of dosage she could take to kill herself. I attempted to post a note to tell her to call upon Jesus. My post did not go through. That girl got a reply from someone else advising her to visit a section in the website which gives a detailed overview of different methods to commit suicide. I realized that I was completely blocked to post any comments at the forum.
I decided to ask the small Bible group I was a part of to pray against the website and for the people and for me (because I started having nightmares). However, my story stirred up much resentment and anger. The group members sternly forbade me to speak further about the website and then started inquiring as to whether I was suicidal myself, and whether I was truly delivered from depression. I could not believe what I was hearing.
Then they sternly told me to leave the Bible group if I did not like that they prayed a lot for themselves and for few of their friends. I had never been told before to leave the Bible group. Of course, I was very hurt, cried and tempted to get up and leave. However, God impressed me to stay, so I stayed.
I was glad that I stayed because one elderly lady prayed for me. She told me that I entered Satan’s territory without God’s order. She advised me that I only pray for those people at the website, but strongly suggested that I stop visiting the website. I understood that she was right. I knew that I could not deal with the evil that I have encountered. It was not just some attacks. No. It was something more -- much more evil that was not going to overlook the fact that I had breached its territory.
I took heed of her piece of advice. However, my nightmares, terrifying fear and evil presence at night lingered for awhile.
Two months later I learned that some people who administered the website forum were Satanists. Had I known that fact before, I would have never gone to the website in the first place. Thanks be to God for keeping me safe during my reckless behavior. God did tell me to continue praying for those depressed people and for distraction of the website.
After that incident I decided to learn as much as possible about spiritual warfare and the enemy and those involved in occults. I know that breaching the enemy’s territory without God’s direct leading can be a very dangerous thing. In my search to understand more about the demonic realm, I purchased material written by Howard Pittman, Jessie-Penny Lewis and Rebecca Brown. I would recommend every Christian read the book written by Jessie-Penn Lewis. It is one of the best-balanced, in-depth books I have ever read about matters of the spirit realm, as many others agree.
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