Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

sense both faith or unbelief and fear. Paul identified fear as a “spirit,” saying God has not given us a “spirit of fear” (2 Tim. 1:7). This is why voodoo and other demonic-controlled systems have such a stronghold on the minds of people, as many followers are superstitious and fearful of what they have heard and seen. Many years ago a pastor friend of mine, Larry McDaniel, was a missionary director living on the island of Haiti. He was familiar with the bondage voodoo had over millions of Haitian people, and he often confronted the voodoo priest on the island. On one occasion he entered a hut in which there were clay jars said to hold souls and spirits. Larry began crashing some of the jars on the ground to prove there were no souls or spirits living in the jars. Some people watching, of course, were fearful, but the fact that he had great faith and no fear prevented any unwanted and unwelcomed spirits from attacking him. I personally discovered the power of fear when, as stated earlier, I experienced six months of a direct and very real demonic attack as a teenager. As the attacks persisted week after week and month after month, I became fearful to the point of anticipating and expecting these assaults, voices, and apparitions to continue. I eventually discovered that fear kept a crack in the door that allowed the unwanted invasions to continue. Only when I ceased to be afraid of either the spirits or the manifestations did the battle cease. There are certainly generational cycles, patterns, and even