[During an exorcism, the Virgin Mary forces the Devil to return a pact made with Christoph Haizmann who later became a religious, Haizmann-triptych, 1677]
In the afternoon I had a session with one of our biggest cases.. After a year and a half of brutal weekly sessions, the demonic colony was finally starting to crumble and demons were leaving. That morning, I was chatting with a gifted woman from another diocese. She said, “I had an inspiration that the demons in your case would try to make a ‘deal’ with you.” I thanked her for the tip.
A few hours later toward the end of the two-hour session, the out-front demon said, “I want to make a deal!” Because of the earlier tip, I was ready for this most unusual demonic offer. I responded, “You want to make a deal? Ok. Here’s the deal: ‘You leave.’ That’s the deal.” The demonic response: silence. About a half hour later, that demon and his demonic minions left. Obviously, I did not make a deal with the demons. It turns out they were going to leave anyway.
Demons never make fair deals. They are liars and deceivers. They will never give you a good deal or, for that matter, an honest deal. They will promise everything, maybe give you a little enticing taste, and then pull the rug out from under your feet. Demons cannot truly give anything good because they don’t have anything good to give. Very quickly, you will wish you never made the deal.
In talking to demonically-afflicted people who made such deals, they typically ask for power, wealth, jobs, success, health or love. They may have made such a deal unwittingly. For example, whenever someone casts a spell to get something, it is implicitly making a contract with Satan.
What you don’t know is what he will exact from you in return. One thing I have noticed is that those who have spent years in the occult, wicca, witchcraft, divination or the like typically are dark, sullen, unhappy, and angry. And when they try to get out of the occult and return to the faith, that’s when the demons make their presence known: they mercilessly torture and torment the person.
The only reason the demons wanted to make a “deal” with me is that they were going to leave anyway and were hoping to get something in return. Most importantly, if I had made such a deal, I would then be, at least partially, under their control. As is typical with a demonic deal, they would have gotten something for nothing.
It might have been tempting for me as an exorcist to make a deal with the demons in order to liberate an afflicted person. Similarly, one occasionally hears about someone who offered to be possessed by someone else’s demons in order to spare the other person. This is a very bad idea and I caution team members against it. If you take on someone’s demons in a “deal,” you only make things A LOT worse. I say to them clearly, “Don’t do it!”
No deals with the devil. Satan is a thief. God, on the other hand, is infinitely generous. Accept what God sends you in humility and obedience. Believe that what God sends is truly best for you, regardless of what you want. This is what conquers the Evil One: obedience, humility and trust in God. And this is what Satan does not have.
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*See the blog “Breaking Satanic Contracts”: 265
https://www.catholicexorcism.org/post/exorcist-diary-265-breaking-satanic-contracts
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