May 14 • Mentorship Assignments
The 9 Stages of Demonic Control Assignment
Most people think demonic control starts with possession.
It doesn’t.
It usually starts with introduction.
This week in our Self-Deliverance teaching, we explored what I call the 9 Stages of Demonic Control — the progressive process through which darkness gains influence in a person’s life.
The enemy rarely begins with destruction.
He begins with exposure.
Suggestion.
Normalization.
Entertainment.
Agreement.
The goal of darkness is rarely instant domination.
The goal is gradual desensitization.
Here are the 9 stages we discussed:
1. INTRODUCTION
This is the exposure stage.
A person is introduced to darkness through culture, trauma, relationships, media, music, environments, abuse, conversations, or curiosity.
You cannot crave what you’ve never encountered.
Many people were introduced to dysfunction long before they ever participated in it.
2. ENTERTAINMENT
What once disturbed you now entertains you.
The conscience becomes desensitized.
Darkness becomes funny, attractive, aesthetic, relatable, or emotionally comforting.
Be careful what you normalize.
What entertains you eventually educates you.
3. INDULGENCE
This is participation.
The person moves from watching to practicing.
Curiosity becomes engagement.
The dangerous thing about indulgence is that repeated participation trains appetite.
4. ADDICTION
Now the thing begins demanding you.
What started as choice becomes compulsion.
The person begins losing mastery over desires, impulses, emotions, appetites, habits, and behaviors.
Addiction is repeated surrender of the will.
5. INFESTATION
This is where influence deepens.
Now the issue is no longer just behavior.
The atmosphere of the person begins changing.
Torment.
Intrusive thoughts.
Nightmares.
Compulsions.
Spiritual heaviness.
Cycles.
Emotional instability.
This is often where people say:
“I don’t feel like myself anymore.”
6. OPPRESSION
Now darkness begins weighing on the soul consistently.
The person feels exhausted mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and sometimes physically.
Confusion increases.
Isolation increases.
Despair increases.
Hope decreases.
Oppression is sustained spiritual pressure.
7. POLLUTION
Now the corruption spreads beyond the individual.
The bondage affects relationships, speech, environments, atmospheres, and other people.
Pain becomes contagious.
Bondage becomes reproductive.
Hurt people begin hurting people.
8. POSSESSION
This is severe domination.
And notice:
Most people obsess over this stage while ignoring the first seven.
Possession is rarely the beginning.
It is usually the culmination of repeated agreement, trauma, indulgence, and surrender.
9. SUICIDE
This is the final objective of darkness:
destruction.
Not only physical suicide, but destruction of:
- identity
- peace
- purpose
- calling
- destiny
- relationships
- hope
- mental stability
The enemy’s end goal is annihilation.
But Jesus came to restore what darkness tried to destroy.
One of the biggest revelations from this teaching is this:
Deliverance is not just about casting demons out.
Deliverance is also:
- guarding gates
- healing trauma
- renewing the mind
- breaking agreements
- changing environments
- developing discipline
- confronting cycles
- restoring identity
- rebuilding spiritual authority
Freedom is not merely the absence of demons.
Freedom is the restoration of divine order.
ASSIGNMENT:
Take 20–30 minutes this week and honestly evaluate your life through these 9 stages.
Ask yourself:
- What introduced me to certain cycles?
- What have I normalized that I should have confronted?
- What entertains me that is weakening my discernment?
- What patterns keep repeating in my life?
- Where do I feel the most spiritual pressure?
- What environments increase darkness in me instead of life?
- What agreements need to be broken?
- What doors need to be closed?
Then journal your answers privately.
Not with shame.
Not with fear.
But with honesty.
Because what you refuse to confront, you often empower.
And what you expose to God can finally begin to heal.
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The 9 Stages of Demonic Control Assignment
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