COMPULSIVE THOUGHTS
- Extremely low self-image (unworthy, a failure, no good – a constant undermining of the self-identity.)
- Constant confusion in thinking (sometimes great difficulty in remembering things)
- Inability to believe (even when the person wants to)
- Mocking and blasphemous thoughts against preaching/teaching of the Word of God
- Perceptual distortions – perceiving anger, hostility, in others when it doesn’t really exist – seeing only judgment in the scriptures
- Horrible nightmares causing fear (often having demonic images)
- Violent thoughts (suicidal, homicidal, encouraging self-abuse, etc.)
COMPULSIVE FEELINGS
- Hatred and bitterness toward others for no justifiable reason
- Tremendous hostility or fear when encountering someone involved in deliverance work
- Deep depression and despondency (frequently and timely)
- Irrational fears – panic attacks – phobias
- Irrational anger – rage
- Irrational guilt – self-condemnation to the extreme
COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR
- Desire to do what is right (inability to carry it out)
- Sudden personality and attitude changes (severe contrasts – appears schizophrenic)
- A strong aversion toward scripture reading and prayer (especially one on one)
- A dark countenance (steely or hollow look in eyes – contraction of the pupils – sometimes facial features contort or change – often an inability to look at your directly
- Lying, exaggerating, or stealing compulsively (often wondering why)
- Drug abuse (especially when there are demonic hallucinations)
- Eating obsessions – bulimia, anorexia nervosa
- Compulsive sexual sins (especially perversions)
- Irrational laughter or crying
- Irrational violence – compulsion to hurt self and/or someone else
- Sudden speaking of a language not previously known (often an ethnic language of ancestors)
- Reactions to the name and blood of Jesus Christ (verbally or through body language)
- Extreme restlessness (especially in a spiritual environment)
- Uncontrollable cutting and mocking tongue
- Vulgar language and actions
CONSCIOUSNESS PROBLEMS
- Loss of time (from minutes to hours – ending up someplace, not knowing how you got there – regularly doing things of which there is no memory)
- Extreme sleepiness around spiritual things
- Demonstration of extraordinary abilities (either ESP or Telekinesis)
- Voices are heard in the mind (they mock, intimidate, accuse, threaten or bargain)
- Voice speaking from subject – refers to him/her in the third person
- Supernatural experiences – hauntings, movement or disappearance of objects, and other strange manifestations
ABNORMAL MEDICAL PROBLEMS
- Seizures (too long and/or too regular)
- Pain (without justifiable explanation – especially in head and/or stomach)
- Blackouts
- Physical ailments can often be alleviated immediately by a command of spiritual authority (i.e. epileptic seizure, asthma attacks, various pains)
- Sudden interference with bodily functions (temporary) – buzzing in ears, inability to speak or hear, sudden severe headache, hypersensitivity in hearing or touch, sudden chills or
- overwhelming heat in the body, numbness in arms or legs, temporary paralysis
NOTE:
If a person has only a few of the above symptoms which have no apparent demonic connections, then there is probably nothing much to worry about. But if a large number of these symptoms can be checked, there is a likelihood that there is a measure of spiritual oppression that is in place. This should be checked out. After all, there is really nothing to lose by doing so, except one’s pride.