Forty-six, plus one, demons

At a place called Kanyambizi, somewhere between Hwange and Vic Falls, the Hwange team (see previous post) were giving the deliverance seminar. One middle-aged woman manifested demons and Joe demanded to know how many they were. They replied in sign language with the hands, so Joe demanded that they write down the answer. The possessed woman wrote in a book, 46.

Joe asked where they were from and found that some were from different places in Zimbabwe, some were from under the water (njuzu, or mermaid spirits), and others were from other countries.

When Joe asked, what was their intention they replied it was to destroy the woman’s life. When he asked who sent them they replied they would rather not answer that one.

The team delivered the woman of the demons, starting with number 46, and they manifested one by one, using different languages, including English, then left. It took a long time, over two hours.

At the end of this, they found she still had a spirit; it was what we call a religious spirit and it was ‘praying’ in a sort of tongues. So, they delivered her of this one as well and she ended up on the floor, what we call ‘slain in the Spirit’, and remained like this while they went on with the next seminar, which was on baptism in the Spirit.

When they got to the ministry of baptism in the Spirit she sat up; she was baptised in the Spirit together with the others and began to pray in tongues.

She testified the following morning that she had never felt so free in all her life.

The team arranged for her to pray regularly with some leaders of the group so that she could grow strong in the Lord and not revert to her former state.

Generally, it is not a good practice to speak with evil spirits during deliverance ministry. You can easily be led astray and not know what is true and what is not.

Presumably, Joe had his own purpose, or guidance, in doing this. It may have helped them decide to do the ministry starting with the last and most recent one, and working back to the first one that had invited the others in.

This one had tried to remain, first by saying they were 46 instead of 47, and then by trying to disguise itself by imitating prayer in tongues. If it had remained, it could have invited the other spirits back in again.