I defeated Satan, once. It was Halloween a few years back. It was after my breakthrough, when I was basically sane again. But as I have said before, the madness never completely leaves. When this occurrence happened, I had just smoked some pot (it was a party), which I really shouldn't do — my madness is quite connected to psychedelic drug use, after all, marijuana included. Anyway, I was staring at a tiki torch, listening to Deflatermouse playing on the stereo outside, in a friend's backyard. For some reason, like was my bent, I was contemplating something about Jesus Christ. Then it happened: when I tried to think the word "Christ", there was a deep, baritone voice that replaced it with the word "Buddha". I tried again to think, "Christ", but the voice was more persistent each time: "Buddha! Buddha!"
I have nothing against Buddha, mind you, it's just that I'm strictly Christian, and must have no other name before Christ. And the voice identified itself (in a stream of thought into my mind), as Satan, trying to undo my faith in my Lord, Jesus Christ. "Buddha! Buddha!" the voice kept repeating — I feared for my soul. But then, a calm swept over me, and I pushed the voice away from me in my mind; I said to it, "The Lord is always with me." And how I defeated Satan in my mind was simply to keep faith in just that: that the Lord was always with me. I stood my ground, and the Devil backed off. Victory. Satan had been tempting me to give into the fear — and please note that that was the main point, not that it had been "Buddha" it was using (remember that the Devil even uses Christian scripture for its own ends).
I know it was just a hallucination — that the real thing is most probably not so easily beaten — but I'll take it. I fought the good fight, at least that one time in my life. I kept the faith.
Serena190
7:15am sunday, 27th january
Hmm. This sounds so much like several experiences i've had. Lucifer has attacked me repeatedly (along with other of his demon followers, and he becomes stronger when I listen to music, but so do I...) and we end up fighting pretty roughly (in my mind of course, but "physically" and verbally) and I end up defeating him (my faith grows stronger with each battle). I will NEVER let him knock me down or out of my faith. *Never*. I know he'll be back. He always comes back. But he'll always go down.
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7:30am sunday, 27th january
Totally, Serena190! I think I've beaten Satan, the Antichrist, the False Prophet, the Whore of Babylon, my personal demon, and Hitler.
Does take a lot out of me though.
Serena190
12:21am saturday, 2nd february
Hey, that sounds groovy! Surprising that you mention Hitler, he tends to float into my head at times, and bothers me, but I usually shove him out of my head by immersing myself into something positive, like reading, or listening to some upbeat music. And I agree, fighting evil things does use up energy. My recent battle left me pretty drained, mentally, and, well, physically too. It left me kind of ill, nauseaus too. :\ But i'm alright now. *^^* "Fight a good fight."
5:04pm thursday, 7th february
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2:55am sunday, 24th march
I don't think he can be beaten in one day. For that moment, you have defeated him. He is a lingering pest. Bear in mind, God is the one who does the defeating. Perahps I am wrong?
Serena190
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