You Can’t Overcome Your Personal Demons Alone
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” -Matthew 12:43-45a
We may have an ongoing struggle in our lives, one that we can’t seemingly shake. Sometimes people call them their “personal demons” that draw us to sin.
Maybe it’s smoking. Or alcohol. Or drugs. Or fornication. Or any other sin that people can struggle with and overtake an entire life.
The Bible says that we ought not to attempt to overtake these “personal demons” alone. Jesus puts it this way:
Our soul is like a house. When our lives are ruled and imprisioned with evil, it’s like a devil is living in our house.
We may try and run this devil out of our house, but then we have an empty house. If we don’t have anything to replace it with, we are asking for trouble.
As the Bible verses from the gospel of Matthew at the top of this page state, when we try to purge ourselves from a personal demon in our lives without God, this devil goes out and wanders around, but eventually comes back. And since we don’t have God to replace this evil, when he comes back, he finds the house of our soul empty, swept and cleaned out, and perfect for an inhabitant once again.
So, the Bible says, this evil spirit takes seven other spirits, even more wicked than himself, and all come upon this house, and the latter end of that man is worse that the beginning.
A new occupant
The Bible takes about being born again. It talks about how when we recieve Jesus Christ as our Savior, that He comes into us and lives within us. Look at what the Bible says will happen:
“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” -John 14:23
To make an abode means to live and dwell in something. So Jesus said that God will live and dwell in us.
Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834-1890)
Denying Satan
This is the only true way to be cleansed from terrible lifelong sins and personal demons. Jesus is the only way to be truly free from the bondage of Satan. Jesus is all-powerful. The Bible said in John 1:1-3 that Jesus even created the entire world. He is the only one strong enough to cast out these sins, and prevent them from ever coming back.
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” -John 8:36
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