Re: re: Spiritual Warfare

I agree with you that anorexia is spirit induced.  Praise the Lord that He set you free from this!

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?

I don't have all of these answers for sure, but one thing i have seen people do is invite them back after they have gone.  For example if someone has spirit of anger, it gets delivered and now it is 10 times easier (in the individual's own description) for them to refrain from going into a fit of rage... but when temptation comes, even though it is 10 times easier to resist it, if they give into it and explode again i believe this can immediately or eventually invite the spirit back in and now the problem becomes 10 times worse again.  Same with addictions, self pity, or 100 other possible issues.  I believe our part is to go to Jesus for the strength by His Spirit to resist these managable temptations while they are still managable.  If we don't do our part , we provide legal grounds for the spirit to come back and the person needs to repent again and needs to be re-delivered. 

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.

I don't know for sure exactly how all of this works, and of course the bible provides extremely limited information in this area, but i believe our prayers do sometimes make them stop manifesting temporarily, as if the spirits are temporarily bound but didn't leave.  other times we make them leave completely and they are gone... and other times, we make them leave, but the issue is not completely crucified in the flesh and the spirits hang around waiting for an open door (legal grounds) to come back in.  It would be great to be blessed with increased giftings in this area, knowing for sure when they are still there and knowing for sure when they are gone.  In one example, one of the two ex-witches i had prayed deliverance for... got set free from several tormenting spirits, but one of them became quiet only for a few hours (and she thought it was gone)... and then began to manifest again.  I believe that this one in particular had legal grounds to stay, but was somehow made to shut up for a while from the battle, again as if it was temporarily bound... and I have seen the same thing happen in some healings while others have been permanant.   One challenge is determining why it has legal grounds and helping the individual to repent those legal grounds away.