**Do You Know That Many People are Demon-Possessed Without Realizing It?**
**How Demons Gain Access to Our Lives:**
1. Third and fourth-generation curses
2. Occult background
3. Personal involvement in the occult
4. Soulish domination or manipulation by another person
5. Early childhood pressures
6. Moments of weakness
7. Sinful acts or habits
8. A general state of vulnerability where personal defenses are down
9. Fortune-telling
10. Conjuring spells
11. Calling up the dead through spiritual mediums
12. Abuse of drugs and alcohol
13. Premarital sex (fornication)
14. Adultery
15. Unforgiveness
16. Trauma
17. Moments of fear
18. Sudden loss of a loved one (spouse, child, relative, or friend)
19. Generational curses from an illegitimate child (ten generations back)

20. Rape
21. Childhood molestation
22. Sexual touching by a relative (even from ten generations back)
**Objectives of Demons:**
1. To torment, harass, torture, and compel
2. To keep you from knowing Christ
3. Once you know Christ, they work to prevent you from serving Him effectively
**Understanding the Actions of Demons:**
1. **Enticing**: Anything communicated to you in words can stem from a nightmare.
2. **Harassment**: A demon of anger may influence you during your moments of weakness.
3. **Torment**: They torment you with suggestions like “God does not love you” and use fear and physical ailments. If you don’t forgive, God may allow you to be turned over to the tormentor.
4. **Compulsion**: Demons often compel us to do things we don’t want to do.
Many Christians find themselves under the influence of tormentors because they have yet to forgive someone. While salvation is a crucial step, it is not the same as deliverance. We may still need rescue even after receivin