The Exorcist's Bestiary

“While you were preaching, I couldn’t get this gibberish out of my head,” a participant told me one Sunday as they handed me a piece of paper.

Feeling curious, I typed the gibberish into Google Translate real quick. “You don’t know these words?” I asked.

“No,” they responded.

“It’s Latin,” I replied. “It means ‘the authority of a preacher, the authority of no one.’”

In attempts to get us to back off, demons will taunt us however they can. Indeed, these particular demons used to manifest in the middle of the night and text me long paragraphs of taunts.

What did they say? I have no idea. The Holy Spirit must have given me the immediate wisdom to ignore the texts, lest I fall for the trick.

Demons do not like being exorcised, nor do they like failing their missions. They know they’re scary, and so they will try to scare you. But the truth is that they’re often more scared of you. The inner healing you’re offering the participant is their weakness.

I can’t tell you what threats demons can and can’t make good on, so listen to the Holy Spirit for wisdom. But over time I’ve learned to not let them get in my head with their taunts.