God has been building my faith and showing me what is out there in the spirit realm. Less potent strongholds have been broken through prayer, but there are a few that I realize that I'm going to need fasting and prayer and have not done so due to caring for my grandchildren, not having enough alone time, and because the enemy tries to remind me that I use to have problems with anorexia at one time....which was spirit enduced as well. I was set free of the anorexia problem, but not the fear of fasting causing anorexia to rear it's ugly head again.
You can see how spirits can get you locked into situations so easily. I also wanted to point out that I was not fasting unto the Lord, when the anorexia took hold....just so everyone knows and does not worry that fasting unto the Lord can cause such a thing. It's an abnormal fear, which may be spirit induced.
What I would like to know about the hard cases is.....what happens when we just pray but are not given total victory? As in praying for deliverance and seeing great benefits, yet the problem keeps coming back at times. What are we witnessing? Do our prayers attack the spirit...weakening them?....or does it just cause them to go into hiding, in hopes we go away and leave them alone? I didn't know if anyone had any insight into this.