How to Counter Demonic Attacks: Disarming the Enemy’s Hidden Strategies

Demons Are Not the Boss of You – Part Two | The Pool Ministries

Many believers walk through life confused, attacked, and spiritually fatigued without ever knowing how the enemy gained access. In Part 2 of Demons Are Not the Boss of You, Susan Bowman, international author and minister of inner healing, continues exposing the real-world tactics demonic forces use—not from a place of fear, but from spiritual clarity and dominion.

This teaching is not a theological debate. It’s a boots-on-the-ground manual for Christians who are ready to identify the enemy’s schemes and shut them down—firmly, biblically, and without compromise.


The Enemy’s Main Tactic: Exploiting the Beliefs of Your Heart

Demons do not need to haunt your house to torment you—they simply hack what your heart already believes.

“For with the heart a person believes…” – Romans 10:10

As Susan explains, neurocardiology confirms what Scripture has always proclaimed:
The heart overrides the mind. Demons target painful heart-beliefs like “I’m a failure,” “No one loves me,” “I’ll always be rejected.” They weaponize those lies using internal language… until your own emotions become the power source of your oppression.

What Disarms This Attack?

Not arguing with the thought. Not overthinking it.
Changing what the heart believes—through intentional inner healing, truth-based replacement, and rebuilding your identity in Christ.

Recommended Resources:

  • The Performing Heart

  • The Quiet Heart
  • The Tribal Heart

  • YouTube Series: Your Identity & The Heart (available at www.thepoolministries.org)


When Demons Hide in People: Inner Vows & Personality Hijacking

One of the most dangerous forms of demonic activity is when a spirit hides inside a person’s vow or wound. Attached to the vow, such spirits will pretend to be their personality.

Example:
A bullied child vows, “No one will ever gang up on me again.” Years later, anytime two or more disagree with him, the vow ignites, and the attached spirit surfaces—reacting with rage, defensiveness, and destruction.

How to Power Down This Attack:

  • Identify the inner vow

  • Break the vow in Jesus’ name

  • Command the spirit to detach

  • Send it to the feet of Jesus

  • Deploy angels to enforce obedience

This is not deliverance theater—this is dominion through clarity.


When People Wish You Harm: Demons Ride on Revenge, Envy & Curses

Most believers do not realize this:
 Demons use human hatred as implied permission to attack others.

You don’t need ritual witchcraft. Bitter words, envy, and revenge-filled wishes are enough.

“Never take your own revenge, beloved…” – Romans 12:19

Spiritual Signs You’re Under Personal Cursing:

  • Intrusive thoughts about a specific person

  • Unsettling confusion or fear

  • A constant mental replay of a situation

  • Emotional turbulence that feels “external”


How to Counter Curses, Hatred & Jealousy Directed at You

Steps for Self-Cleansing (If You Wished Harm on Others):

  1. Admit you didn’t see how demons used your anger

  2. Repent and ask God’s forgiveness

  3. Go to the Cross—ask Jesus to pay the debt owed to you

  4. Command demons: “I remove any permission I gave you…”

  5. Deploy Angels to punish disobedient spirits

  6. Seek Healing for your wounded heart

Steps for Defense (When Others Are Targeting You):

  1. “In Jesus’ Name, any demon using this person’s sin to attack me—STOP.”

  2. “Only their God-given humanity is allowed to relate to me.”

  3. Command angels to enforce that boundary

  4. If the attack persists: “Lord, deliver me from evil.”


Group Attacks: When Agreement Becomes a Spiritual Weapon

Hate is powerful—collective hate becomes catastrophic.
 When a group, church, or ideological circle agrees you should suffer, demonic pressure increases.

In These Cases:

  • Do not confront alone

  • Pray: “The Lord rebuke you.”

  • Remove yourself from the circle

  • Call in strong intercessory prayer


Spiritual Maturity is Spiritual Warfare

God is not calling you to panic.
 He is calling you to practice spiritual dominion.

“Lord, deliver me from evil.”
 “Angels of the Lord, punish every demon who will not obey.”

This is not mystical language—it is Biblical Authority in action.


Are You Ready to Walk in Dominion?

Susan Bowman is not offering theories—she offers survival strategies forged through real battle. Healing is possible. Freedom is teachable. Demons are not the boss of you.

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If these teachings are helping you find courage and clarity, share them with someone who is ready to be free.
 You are God’s beloved. And you are not powerless.