CASTING OUT EPILEPSY
In 2023 God gave me a dream about my little nephew who was diagnosed epilepsy. I was sitting alone in a school library and I saw my nephew run in through the door to the back of the small room. He was shaking on the ground and I saw light fighting around him. In the dream I knew the Holy Spirit was casting demons out of him that were causing him epilepsy. I went to the back of the room where he was and worked with the Holy Spirit to help my nephew.
A year or so went by and I continued to help people with deliverance as God would bring them but I had a deep desire to ascend in authorty because I was seeing cases of people bound in things that I knew I was not at the level of authority I needed to be. To be clear, the Holy Spirit is the Deliverer but I am fully aware that our personal consecration to Him, pursuing holiness and purity, also makes or breaks the power of the anointing that God works through us.
Eventually I asked God to teach me how to grow in more authority and I prayed bold prayers for increase over stronger demons in peoples lives. In that time I woke up one morning to the voice of the Holy Spirit saying “Prayer and fasting”. After some debate with the Lord as I have not been great at fasting, He told me “You must not be that serious about what you’re asking me for” since I was doubleminded about doing what God told me to. That provoked me into praying for the grace to fast, which God gave me and the fast was pretty effortless.
About two months after the first proper fast I visited my sister for lunch and ended up praying for my nephew with my mom. As I laid hands on him I started commanding the demons to leave him and my body started shaking under the power of the Holy Spirit (something I have become quite accustomed to now). I also started repenting out loud for fear, not something I planned on but I realised was provoked by Holy Spirit. “Father forgive us for fear. Forgive us for not trusting you and giving into a spirit of fear” I prayed a few times throughout the shaking. When I ended I noticed everyone in the room looked a little startled but also weepy.
My nephew had brain scans the next day and a while after the scans came back clear! Hail King Jesus Jehova Rapha our healer!
My sister shared the feedback with the family.
A few months later I went to A Million Woman event in Johannesburg and met a woman, we enjoyed chatting about God and all our testimonies. Later she ended up telling me she had a car accident and was then diagnosed with epileptic attacks. I told her about the dream I had and my nephews healing and offered to pray for her. We prayed for various things and she expressed feeling something in her body leaving or breakign off her.
later that week she texted me with the most incredible message of her faith and healing! She also went to see her doctor for tests as I suggested she get scans to verify the healing. Her doctor told her to come back in the new year because she looked so well she was not sure why she had come in for scans at all!
WHAT IS EPILEPSY ACCORDING TO BRAIN SCIENCE?
‘Epilepsy is a chronic noncommunicable disease of the brain that affects around 50 million people worldwide. It is characterized by recurrent seizures, which are brief episodes of involuntary movement that may involve a part of the body (partial) or the entire body (generalized) and are sometimes accompanied by loss of consciousness and control of bowel or bladder function.’ WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION -
Prevention An estimated 25% of epilepsy cases are potentially preventable. Preventing head injury, for example by reducing falls, traffic accidents and sports injuries, is the most effective way to prevent post-traumatic epilepsy. Adequate perinatal care can reduce new cases of epilepsy caused by birth injury. The use of drugs and other methods to lower the body temperature of a feverish child can reduce the chance of febrile seizures. The prevention of epilepsy associated with stroke is focused on cardiovascular risk factor reduction, e.g. measures to prevent or control high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, and the avoidance of tobacco and excessive alcohol use. Central nervous system infections are common causes of epilepsy in tropical areas, where many low- and middle-income countries are concentrated. Elimination of parasites in these environments and education on how to avoid infections can be effective ways to reduce epilepsy worldwide, for example those cases due to neurocysticercosis.
WHAT IS EPILEPSY ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE?
A Boy Is Healed
The Bible, in my opinon is very clear how infirmity is demonic and also trauma is an open door to demonisation. Idolartry, sin, unbelief in God, witchraft are also amoungst the reasons people become demonised and afflicted.
The famous scripture where Jesus casts out a demon causing epilepsy also states that belief in Gods power to heal and further consecration (fasting in this case) will help us in our spiritual authority against the kingdom of darkness. Fear can be considered a sin as its a form of unbelief in Gods power to save, heal and deliver us.
‘Matthew 17:14 ‘And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
