Hi Justin,
There are many spirits at work in a man's life, who finds himself with SSA or in bondage to homosexual thoughts and activities. In the Demons thread, marksman testifies of a young man who was completely delivered through prayer. This was a man who wanted to not be homosexual. I think that's a critical point. There is a spiritual work God can do if repentance is real, but before repentance, it needs to be recognised as sin.
What you need to understand about all demon possession, is, demons that lodge in the body, lodge in locations which are specific to the effect they can have on that body. When they are sent out of the body, it can both heal and begin to function normally again. But the mind is the battleground both before and after. That's why the desire of the young man to be freed from homosexual urges, worked in his favour towards a full deliverance.
There is no point in trying to deliver a person who has an on-going relationship with the demons which control areas of this thinking and acting. He or she has to want to be free from them, especially if the person has made conscious choices to engage in homosexual behaviour.
In cases of child abuse, there is definitely a moment when the child may have the opportunity to reject or continue to accept the behaviour, which if he knows what he is doing, will have an effect on how easily he gets free from the effects of the abuse. Of course, some children die being abused, so let's not assume that every victim gets away to make a rational choice to become normal, because they don't. But even this is a very simplistic comment in the light of the spiritual dynamics at work between family members who may or may not also engage in physical acts of a homosexual variety. Many lads who think they must be gay, have not been physically touched by anyone. However, the culture which has been engendered in them leads them to faulty conclusions about themselves and their perceived need for acceptance by a sexual partner, when they are still quite young, and often far too young to take on a wife. In other words, they are also too young to make a fully informed choice about the wisdom of sexual behaviour at their age.
So many both males and females live to regret their early sexual encounters, it's pretty obvious they didn't make the best decision at the time. But God is aware of all this, and He abundantly pardons the returning sinner, and is able to cleanse all sin from the soul. I do not go along with the 'under the blood' or 'covered by the blood' terminology, as it is Old Covenant, and it really doesn't convey the depth of the work of the Holy Spirit in a life which has fully yielded to Christ. Whatever sin is being renounced by any new believer, it needs to be accompanied by a change of attitude to that sin. That means a change of behaviour - not going to certain places, not meeting certain people, not spending time in old ways, but new ways.
There are many spirits at work in a man's life, who finds himself with SSA or in bondage to homosexual thoughts and activities. In the Demons thread, marksman testifies of a young man who was completely delivered through prayer. This was a man who wanted to not be homosexual. I think that's a critical point. There is a spiritual work God can do if repentance is real, but before repentance, it needs to be recognised as sin.
What you need to understand about all demon possession, is, demons that lodge in the body, lodge in locations which are specific to the effect they can have on that body. When they are sent out of the body, it can both heal and begin to function normally again. But the mind is the battleground both before and after. That's why the desire of the young man to be freed from homosexual urges, worked in his favour towards a full deliverance.
There is no point in trying to deliver a person who has an on-going relationship with the demons which control areas of this thinking and acting. He or she has to want to be free from them, especially if the person has made conscious choices to engage in homosexual behaviour.
In cases of child abuse, there is definitely a moment when the child may have the opportunity to reject or continue to accept the behaviour, which if he knows what he is doing, will have an effect on how easily he gets free from the effects of the abuse. Of course, some children die being abused, so let's not assume that every victim gets away to make a rational choice to become normal, because they don't. But even this is a very simplistic comment in the light of the spiritual dynamics at work between family members who may or may not also engage in physical acts of a homosexual variety. Many lads who think they must be gay, have not been physically touched by anyone. However, the culture which has been engendered in them leads them to faulty conclusions about themselves and their perceived need for acceptance by a sexual partner, when they are still quite young, and often far too young to take on a wife. In other words, they are also too young to make a fully informed choice about the wisdom of sexual behaviour at their age.
So many both males and females live to regret their early sexual encounters, it's pretty obvious they didn't make the best decision at the time. But God is aware of all this, and He abundantly pardons the returning sinner, and is able to cleanse all sin from the soul. I do not go along with the 'under the blood' or 'covered by the blood' terminology, as it is Old Covenant, and it really doesn't convey the depth of the work of the Holy Spirit in a life which has fully yielded to Christ. Whatever sin is being renounced by any new believer, it needs to be accompanied by a change of attitude to that sin. That means a change of behaviour - not going to certain places, not meeting certain people, not spending time in old ways, but new ways.
