Our Guest Rodney Hogue

RODNEY: And when he comes in, he comes in usually in one place, not the whole person. So you’re not going to get the Gadarene. He’s going to move in the block, he’s going to go into one house. And if he can get in that one house and establish something in that one house, then he’s going to go for the next house, and the next house, and the next house.

RODNEY: What happened with me? I just had some places that I kept in the dark, places that were in secret, the place I was ashamed of. And I wasn’t bringing that place to the light, so there was an inroad into my life. Now he didn’t have me completely because I’m walking with Jesus, I’m on staff at churches, I’m leading people to Jesus and all this stuff. So I’m doing a lot of the things I should be doing, but that dark place? I had an open door and that’s where he was wreaking havoc in my life.

SID: What about, well give me some specific areas that are open doors.

RODNEY: For example, habitual sin. You’re in control at first, but then it controls you. If you’re in the occult, you’re actually calling on demons, you’re opening yourself up to that. Maybe it’s a cult, which is you’re just worshiping another god or other gods, or maybe a perversion of Jesus. It could be involuntary exposure to evil, it could be—

SID: Well, such as watching television or movies that are …

RODNEY: A mother ministered to her child who basically … Her husband, who wasn’t a believer, years and years ago brought the movie The Exorcist home. Not The Exorcist, Poltergeist, and showed it to the four year old kid and she ended up having to do ministry to that. So he didn’t choose to do that, he was just exposed to that.

SID: What about things like Ouija boards and all of this mind reading and magic and all those things.

RODNEY: That’s the occult because you’re calling on a spirit other than the Holy Spirit, which you have no permission to do that.

SID: All right. Yeah.

RODNEY: And there’s things like drugs, and I’m not talking about taking something your body needs, like an aspirin or blood pressure. It’s something your body doesn’t need. Unforgiveness, that’s a door. Hurt, woundedness, trauma. I mean anytime you’re in a weakened state, the enemy wants to take advantage of that.

SID: I’ll tell you what, I’m going to take a risk. You know I do that every once in a while. Rodney will pray for deliverance corporately when we return.

SID: Rodney, you ever bump into people that have demons that refuse to leave?

RODNEY: Yeah, from time to time.

SID: But you have all this authority. How come?

RODNEY: Well, one of the things that happens with some people is that there is an agreement where there’s a lie that they have believed that’s embedded within them, that actually manifests in their identity. For example, let’s say a person has a victim spirit and it’s just there. They just see them as a victim, so they have an identity as a victim there.

SID: I have met people that are deaf and I say, “Can I pray to have your hearing restored?” And they say, “No,” because they like their deaf community.