I feel to write this blog about the reality and power of demonic assignments as they have profoundly impacted my life throughout the years. A demonic assignment is when spiritual forces target a specific person, area or organization in a very specific way. These assignments can be hard to detect and can often look as though they are very unfortunate coincidences, when in fact there is something far more sinister operating in the background.
One of the most prolific recent examples in my life happened to me a few years ago. I had just moved into a new living environment and immediately I began to notice strange things happening around me. It seemed that violence, hostility and conflict had all of a sudden started following me around whenever I went. For example - I was sitting in the library close to my work on my lunch break when an angry man came and kicked the door of the library in. Security had to be called and the door had to be repaired. Not long after that, in that same complex I saw two women screaming at each other about a car park.
Shortly after this I was down at a local supermarket and saw a lady physically assaulting her partner in the parking lot. I ended up going for a walk in a nature reserve not far from this area a few weeks later, and a few days after this there was a news article saying that someone had been mugged and stabbed in that same reserve.
The main event that showed me that something evil was definitely operating in the spirit was that not long after all of these events happened I was walking down town on my lunch break and saw two kids try to rob a dairy and threaten the owner with a knife. I chased one of them down and was stabbed multiple times - once in the arm and several times on the side of the face. I held the offender until the police arrived and arrested him. The crazy thing about all of this was that just a few days after this event I was due to play a gig singing and playing a Johnny Cash song on guitar. I was still able to play the gig but had to have my arm bandaged up and had to get through a lot of painkillers just to get through it. I still have a scar on my arm to this day.
All of these events happened within the space of three months and they all started almost immediately after we moved into this new living environment. I started praying intensely one night about all of this and I felt God gave me the words "assignment of violence". I believe that the previous owners of the house had committed some sort of violence while they were in the property and as a result there was a specific assignment of violence that had been over that house and had permission to affect anyone who lived there, as it had been given permission to enter the property due to the actions of the previous owners. Part of this assignment was to sabotage the gig I was to perform by causing the robbery incident to happen just a few days beforehand. I prayed intensely about this and demanded the assignment to cease in the name of Jesus and immediately it stopped. No further violence followed me around from that day forth.
The most intense and prolific assignment on my life has only just been revealed to me recently. I need to explain a bit more of my life story to put this into context - I am not actually an only child. I have at least 4 other brothers and sisters who all miscarried. It could be easy to write this off as a coincidence but as I have journeyed through life I have been aware of the strong spiritual forces operating in my life through my family lines and as a result of these I believe that there was an assignment of murder over my mother's womb. A few years ago God spoke to me and gave me these 4 words - "This one must live". These words didn't make sense to me at the time but looking back I believe what they meant was that I was also going to pass away due to this curse, but when God spoke those 4 words over me it meant that the assignment no longer had the power to take my life.
However, though it no longer had the power to kill me outright, it still had legal rights to operate in my life. I would see this on many occasions throughout life where it would seem that things would just chronically and constantly go wrong, and there would be people that it seemed were sometimes sent straight from Hell itself with the sole intent of harassing me as much as possible. These assignments can seem unstoppable and it can seem like help is always conveniently unavailable when you need it the most.
For example I would be walking down the street as a child and some kid I'd never even seen before would walk up to me and physically attack me just because I was there. I hadn't said or done anything to them - I was just minding my own business. New neighbors would move into our street and would take great delight in bombarding our house with rocks and hard unripe lemons just because I lived there when once again I'd done nothing to them. I'd be going to get on the train to go home from school and people would spit on me. Driving on the road there would be people pulling out directly in front of me and nearly causing accidents on regular occasions. I'd be trying to take the bus to work and would be harassed by homeless people at the bus stop, and even though I called the police there were conveniently no officers available to attend at the time, and even though there were cameras around they conveniently didn't get any footage of the incident because a tree had just happened to obscure the camera's view on that particular day. 
I would also regularly find myself in hostile, uncaring living environments. The most recent example of this was a living environment I moved out of almost a year ago - on the day of moving out our landlords left their huge motorhome in the driveway. We had told them we were moving out on this day, and the motorhome had its own park by the side of the house - but they chose to leave it in the driveway because that suited them. Therefore our friend who came to pick up our big items had to back down the driveway with his truck and had only a tiny bit of maneuvering space to work around because this motorhome was there, when it should have been up in its regular parking space where it belonged. 
It seemed that Satan's policy for my life was this - "I'm not allowed to kill him because God said he must live, so therefore I'm going to do the best I can to drive him to kill himself and if that doesn't work, I'm going to send people to target him with harassment as much as possible to kill his hope, to kill his dreams and to kill his faith". The most blatant example of this was a girl I met when I was doing my Faith Bible College studies who became interested in me and used black magic witchcraft to try to manipulate me into falling in love with her. I became so stressed in her presence due to the evil she carried that I developed a bleeding stomach ulcer and had to be rushed to hospital. She was sent by Satan for the sole purpose of killing me. God even told me when I was with her that if I stayed with her, I would be dead within two years. I won't go into much more detail with this as I've already discussed it at length in my previous blog.
Whenever something went wrong in life I would often find myself muttering the words "of course". I couldn't help but be like this because deep down I knew that all of the misfortune and harassment I was experiencing was not just a coincidence. I knew that there was something evil operating but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. My frustration with this even went as far as driving me to the point where I was prepared to abandon my faith and walk away from God altogether - simply because I was just so fed up with everything. That was another tactic of the enemy with this assignment - "I can't kill him physically so I'll kill him spiritually. I'll fill his life with so much frustration, unmet needs and unfulfilled promises that he will want to walk away from God". However I continued to hang in there and continued to press in to God in prayer while asking to see what was really going on here. God came through for me and revealed the truth about this assignment and I felt a profound sense of relief once I realized what had been going on, and I began to notice positive change happening in my circumstances.
The most important things I have learned regarding assignments are as follows - 
1. Recognize it.
Of course there are times when bad or unfortunate things happen. It is just part of life. However if bad and unfortunate things are chronically and constantly happening to you - you're just missing out on that promotion at work, you're constantly almost getting into car accidents, or you just constantly seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time - don't just write it off. Pray about it and ask if there is something operating in the spirit realm that is causing all of this to happen to you. Ask God to show you the cause of it and what is driving it. Ask Him to show you what it is based in and where it has come from. The results may surprise you. But don't be afraid to question things and ask God if there is more going on than meets the eye. A big reason why many of these assignments continue to operate in people's lives unchecked is because people don't believe that they are even real, and will write them off as a "coincidence" or "just plain bad luck". This allows them to remain in the darkness where they can continue to operate. Bringing them into the light removes their power and gives us the opportunity to destroy them through prayer.
2. Pray for and forgive those who are being used by the enemy in these assignments.
This is important. You must recognize that it is not really their doing. Many people have no spiritual awareness whatsoever and can operate as messengers of Satan without even realizing it. This can be very challenging to do - I have struggled a lot with extreme frustration and have at times really wanted revenge on those who have been used against me in assignments but I have had to remind myself of the scripture Ephesians 6:12  - "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against a spiritual wickedness in high places". We also have to remember Jesus' words on the cross as He was dying in Luke 23:34 - "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do". I believe that if people were truly aware of the real consequences of the sin that they were committing and what will happen to them if they don't turn it over to Jesus, they would be so horrified that they would stop immediately.
3. Remember that God is good, and that God is just.
We also have to remember that God sees and knows everything that happens to us, and that though it doesn't seem like it, those people who have wronged us will be held to account. A few years ago someone took great delight in harassing and mocking me as much as possible online when I was just trying to play a game. I could tell it was once again an assignment as there was conveniently no one around to come to my aid and when a friend of mine did eventually come, they quickly left so that I would be forced to face it on my own. I was deeply hurt and affected by just how much authority this assignment had to upset me but God helped me to realize that He is a just God and will put everything right eventually when He gave me the following words = "He owes me a far greater debt than he owes you".
In conclusion - if you are noticing any similarities in your own life to what I've expressed in this blog - take it seriously. Take it to God in prayer. Be open to what He reveals to you and pray through it. Just because these assignments have had authority over you in the past doesn't meant that they can have authority over your future.
Take care.