I know someone who has been abusing cocaine and other hard drugs for years and now has become extremely paranoid that "people are chasing him" and that he needs to find them. He used to be a christian but has fallen away.
I am a Christian woman and I believe that he is experiencing the affects of evil spirits inside his mind due to the drugs. He was also convicted of crimes years ago with felony penalties, so many forceful rehab clinics will not accept him.
I have spoken with police for fear he will hurt someone as well. They said that they can not force anything on him or punish him or send him to a mental facility until he has actually hurt someone. He has mentally hurt all of us who know him and it's a tragedy seeing him in this shape. How can I help him in a Christian way before someone gets hurt? This has been happening over the course of about 6 years and he has done many things where police have warned him, and he's been in and out of jail.
2006-07-09 09:21:18 · 15 answers · asked by Julie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Increased fasting along with prayer. Some demons will not immediately cease activity if a certain level of fasting has not been practiced.
The law cannot do anything until transgression takes place. The rehab clinics will not force him into treatment. God does not force us to choose to do what will help us. The choice must be the young man's. He can be supported by fasting and praying that he remembers who he is in God, and return to fold. Until then, he will wander in the wilderness.
This young man appears to be someone's assignment. Seeing that Christianity is mentioned as you described yourself as a Christian woman, and that the young man is a Christian [that] has fallen away, I trust you have an ear for what is written in this post.
Judging from your post, you stated the young man "has mentally hurt all of us who know him." Seeing that all avenues have been travelled, it is time to accept the assignment, and keep this young man on the altar of your heart in prayer until his deliverance is complete. Help this young man by taking on the challenge to increase your fasting and prayer life, and enroll the others who have been mentally hurt.
Anything less will prolong his torment.
2006-07-09 10:04:01 · answer #1 · answered by divabylaw 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, when someone is under the influence of drugs, there is not much you can do. Keep praying for him (and I will keep him in my prayers).
You might want to go to a councellor to help you organize an intervention. Sometimes showing an addict how their behavior affects other people can turn them around.
As for his behavior being the effect of evil spirits, well, I think it is a possibility, but I think you need to rule out physical and/or psychological problems, too.
Oh, and keep praying for him. Studies have shown that even if people don't know they are being prayed for, they get better quicker than people who aren't being prayed for.
I will keep you both in my thoughts will send healing energy your way!
Blessed Be!
2006-07-09 09:43:37 · answer #2 · answered by Silver 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order to help someone, make sure you're not pushing pushing them to take up something they don't want to take up, like religion. This person may have "fallen away" from Christianity because it is not the best way for him, and your attempts to Christian-ize him may only alienate him.
That said, Christians are meant to help each other. There is no "Christian way" to do this, because the act of helping someone is in itself the "Christian way."
With some problems, religion is not the first answer. Your friend needs help from a doctor, and he has to want to get clean. If he doesn't, then no matter how much you want to and try to help, it won't help. If he doesn't want help, then I suggest that you not only don't try to help, but that you break your ties. That way, this person can realize (hopefully) that his actions are hurtful to those who love him, and maybe change on his own.
Good luck, this is not an easy problem and you are a good friend for continuing to want to help despite your friends attitude.
2006-07-09 09:34:02 · answer #3 · answered by hulagrl824 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure this comes from the best of intentions, but this sounds like someone trying to foist their religion onto someone else.
As the previous answers have said, this guy needs medical attention - when he wants to seek it.
For good and bad, it's a free country. Until he does something really bad (and illegal) he won't draw attention from the authorities.
At the end of the day, this guy likes his drugs much more than spending time with happy-clappy religious people.
2006-07-09 09:37:58 · answer #4 · answered by sarahsunshinecoast 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian? PRAY, for and
find him a Christian Rehab and/or a Deliverance Ministry.
Deliverance Prayer can release the demons, and the Christian Rehab can help with mind, body, and soul restoration....
2006-07-09 09:28:45 · answer #5 · answered by montanacowgirlwannabee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The symptoms you describe are not "dementia"--dementia is a medical term which applies to Alzheimer's Disease, stroke survivors, & Parkinson's disease. If the person does indeed have dementia, he needs medical attention, not an exorcism.
In any case, he needs compassion and professional assistance, not casting out of demons.
2006-07-11 00:30:04 · answer #6 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put him on the path of a good religion and tell him to renounce Christianity... (i.e. Hitler, Spanish Inquisition, Joan of Arch, Crusades, etc.)
2006-07-09 09:46:24 · answer #7 · answered by Christopher L. Gilmore Sr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be praying for him of course and also trying to get him into a good treatment facility. It is really out of your hands try to be there for him and Pray Pray Pray.
2006-07-09 09:27:34 · answer #8 · answered by connie h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He needs a doctor and so do the crazies answering with prayer.
2006-07-09 09:29:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
now there is a turn up. Do u work for the Oxford Group?
2006-07-09 09:52:45 · answer #10 · answered by meta-morph-in-oz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋