Faith Filled Family Magazine October 2016 | Page 7

Demons
Inside
Me?
By Nichel Hillman

M

y sister agreed to
rent out the basement of her home to a
stranger. This decision resulted
in great anxiety for her because
over the course of time the tenant stopped paying rent, and
she refused to move out. About
a year or so after the breach of
the agreement, a bizarre situation developed: the woman began behaving oddly. She seldom
left the residence. She and the
apartment were deplorable—unkempt. She vandalized the property, and she was speaking and
crying out seemingly to herself

on a daily basis.

not paying rent (i.e., ensuring
utility services and repairs). My
Because my sister was renting sister was eventually able to rid
out the basement against state herself of the squatter by carelaws, the legal system could not fully documenting her abnormal
assist her in evicting the squat- behaviors and activities. Then,
ter. There were no applicable she called the state mental facililaws the state could use to evict ties who came, took the squatter
a tenant who was not legally a away, and had her committed to
tenant according to the law. Al- a mental facility.
though my sister had a written
agreement with the “tenant,” it This scenario helps us to picwas not enforceable. The laws ture what also happens spiritucould not work for my sister be- ally. Malevolent spirits may gain
cause she was not in compli- access and control in individual
ance with them. To add insult lives with or without authorizato injury, she had to continue to tion. Similarly to my sister’s preperform landlord responsibili- dicament, demons may obtained
ties to an illegal tenant who was access through agreements