(From OMF Literature & CBN International Ministries)The Bible does not use the term "demon-possessed." The word used is "demonized" or "one with a demon." Demonization is in different degrees of severity.
The writer had an incident while staying in a motel near Seattle, Washington. An awful depression seized him one morning when he was in that stage between sleep and walking. He felt that everyone was against him, that people around him were failing, and that everything he was doing was falling to pieces. Discouragement overwhelmed him like a dark cloud.
As he struggled to get up, it dawned on him that he was under demonic attack. He took control over it and said: "Satan, in the Name of Jesus, I cast you fourth." His mind was free and his despair was gone the minute he said that. The Seattle-Tacoma area, he discovered later, led the US in the number of suicides. And the spirit that was coming upon him was a suicidal spirit -- the evil influence that would lead a person to such depression that he would wish to kill himself. He was in an area where many had been gripped by this kind of demon.
Had he not recognized what he was dealing with, he could have gone into a very deep depression that would have been hard to get out of. Even Spirit-filled Christians are subject to this kind of demonic activity upon their minds or in their bodies (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23).
If our spirits are joined to Jesus Christ, we should believe that there is no way a demon can possess them. The believer is already regenerated, justified and indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is stronger than demons (see 1 John 4:4, Revelation 12:11). There is simply no room for a demonic spirit to reside there.
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