Doug Tales 153: Holes in Auras, Part One

When one of the ten lepers Jesus encountered on his way to Jerusalem “saw that he was healed, [he] turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And he fell down on his face at [Jesus’s] feet, giving him thanks.” (Luke 17:15-16) In a similar manner, Doug Mendenhall learned that healing spiritually or casting out of evil spirits should be followed by gratitude. Doug explains how he learned of this concept in Possibilities: Lessons From the Spirit (2002), pp. 147-150.

We had meetings where people would come up and tell us their problems with devils:

One woman told me her four year old grandson was plagued by them. She would see spiders appear on his cheek and then disappear.

Another woman told us her LDS bishop believed her three year old son was possessed.

A doctor told us she had a patient that was plagued with devils. The patient could hear them, and they would talk through her to the doctor. I had no answers for any of them.

Denise, my friend and I were scheduled to do a book review at the doctor’s home. We arrived about one hour early. A woman had come early in order to talk to us. We entered the living room where she was sitting with a friend of hers. The doctor stayed with her. She told us her story of “mental’ problems, being able to hear the devils and dealing with them for years. How a lot of her family has the same problem. I asked my daughter if she had any devils in her.

“No, she doesn’t have any in her,” was her reply.

“Does she have any on her,” I asked.

“Yes,” she answered, “five of them.”

Now my daughter and I have this little “scale” from one to ten for devils. One on the scale is the little guy that would stab me in the leg when I judged. Ten would be Satan. “Denise,” I asked, “on our scale, where are these guys that are on her?”

“They are nines, they are really bad guys,” she said. I asked the woman if she had received any “blessings” and she said that she had but they didn’t seem to work.

“Can my friend and I give her a blessing to get rid of them?” I asked. “If not, what can we do?”

“Dad,” my daughter replied, “She has to ask Christ to come, and she has to ask Him to take them. We can’t do it for her.”…

The woman bowed her head and offered a silent prayer, asking that Christ come and take the devils away. She prayed for several minutes. Finally she lifted her head up and my daughter made the comment that the devils were gone. The woman confirmed that they were; she had felt them leave.

I talked to her doctor several weeks later and was told that the devils had left her for two days and then came back. We talked for a while about this and could not understand why they would come back if Christ had taken them away from her. This was something that we had no understanding about. I asked Denise and she told me, “Go ask Christ and He would tell me.” I should have known that answer was coming.

About one week later I was chatting with a man and woman from Kearns, Utah about some of our experiences. I related this story to them, wondering if they had any ideas about why the devils had come back. All at once it hit us at the same time. She had holes (for lack of a better term) in her aura from the devils. She needed to say a prayer of gratitude to seal them up.

I remembered her doctor had told me in an e-mail, “It seems that most of her spirits (devils) were spirits that had died, but were still earth-bound. They all said through her, that they came to her because she could hear them, they liked having a body even if they didn’t have much control over it, and one said he could enter in because of a hole in her energy field or aura. She has been working to close those holes on a daily basis.”

I called her doctor and told her the feelings that my friend from Kearns and I had about holes in the aura and possibly closing them with a prayer of gratitude, it was just theory. We weren’t really sure. I asked her to let us know what happened.

I have found that in the “Lord’s University” the lessons seem to come all the time.

Doug Tales 152: Paralyzed

Fear or gratitude? What will we choose to think and feel when we face evil, even if it paralyzes us physically? Doug Mendenhall shares an early experience of his learning about the reality of evil in Possibilities: Lessons From the Spirit (2002) on pages 145-147. (Many years later, Doug would clarify in his April 19, 2020 blog post, “Really Know Him,” that Satan himself rarely bothers most people “and will send someone or thing of much less power.”)

In October of 2001, Denise, my oldest daughter, and myself were invited to go up north to do a meeting. This was a chance to go farther north than we ever had, so we took the opportunity and went. I must admit that I had other motives for going. The people that had invited us were quite interesting. Julie could see spirits, good and bad. She’s had this gift her whole life. It had gone away for the most part after having kids. But recently this gift had started to return. It was a double-edged sword for her. She enjoyed the gift and didn’t enjoy it. At the University, she and Tom, her husband, would be walking down the sidewalk and she would jump into his arms. It wasn’t his animal magnetism that had caused it but a “devil” or evil spirit had come at her and she jumped to get away. When they were first married, Tom had to keep all the windows covered at night. The evil spirits would look through the windows at her.

Needless to say, I was looking forward to spending some time with these two. The first night, we went to some activities and had a great time. We returned to their home to sleep. My daughters went into their room while I went in to the room prepared for me. I don’t sleep well on the road, so I did my normal thing and just lay there thinking. Since I am allergic to cats I shut the door tight, so as to not let their cat into my room.

About two in the morning I was laying there facing the wall. All of a sudden, it felt like the cat jumped next to me on the bed. I wondered how that thing had gotten into the room. Then I realized that if it was the cat, it was the size of a mountain lion.

At that moment I realized it was not a cat. I KNEW who it was; it was Satan. The thought came to me to “push” with my rear end to get him off the bed, as he had to be on the edge. So I tried to push. I couldn’t move, I was paralyzed. The astonishing thing was, I was not scared. I had no fear in that moment of him. I lay there wondering what I was to do. I tried to open my eyes, but could not. I had never been unable to move before. I asked Christ to please come! He did, and the Devil left.

I whirled around to the edge of the bed. I sat there for many minutes and prayed a long prayer of gratitude. I never knew that Satan had that kind of power, enough to paralyze me. But I was so incredibly grateful to Christ, that He would come and “save” me. The experience was only a few minutes long, but long enough for me to understand that Satan does have power and is very real.

The next morning I told Tom and Julie about my little experience. It didn’t seem to faze them. We went to church with them and later that night did a book review. It was a great time and we had a lot of fun with them.

After the meeting we talked past midnight. We were discussing how spiritual things seem to bring people from the other side of the veil. We talked of Christ and many others. The room felt full of “other” wonderful beings. All of a sudden they left. Every one of them. It was so sudden I exclaimed, “Whoa, they all left.”

“Who left?” Julie asked.

“All the spirits in the room,” I answered.

Julie then closed her eyes (she sees spirits best with her eyes closed) and said, “There is someone just behind me, outside the patio door about ten feet. He is around six feet tall, he is dressed in old Civil War type clothes. He has brown hair down to below his chin line. His eyes are red and he is angry, angry enough that he wants to destroy all of us.”

Tom responded, “It must be Cain.”

I knew who it was from the previous night, so I just asked Christ to come back. For about fifteen minutes we talked about why Christ had left, hoping He would come back. The room remained empty. Julie kept checking outside, the being stayed there, full of hate and anger.

Finally, Christ and the other “good” spirits all came back. I was astonished when they had left, but was I ever grateful. I told Tom and Julie, “They’re back.” Julie closed her eyes and checked outside.

“He’s gone and there are two angels on the roof in full armor,” she stated. “We will be fine tonight.”

We talked another thirty minutes and went to bed with no further incidents. I joked with Julie that I was grateful not to have her gift.

Doug Tales 151: There Are Nice People There, Too

What do you think of people who sell cigarettes? Can they have good qualities? Doug Mendenhall faced those questions when his youngest daughter was recovering from her coma in 1999. He talks about going into a cigarette store, for his daughter’s sake, in My Peace I Give Unto You (2001) on pages 125-128:

“Hey, Denise, would you like to go with me to pick up your sister at work?” I asked as I headed for the door. For some reason, I didn’t want to go alone.

“Sure!” She grabbed her coat and ran to catch me at the top of the stairs.

It took a minute for our car to warm up. It didn’t like the cold and if you didn’t let it warm up, it would sputter and cough for the first two miles.

It was a short ride to my daughter’s job at a nearby copy and mailing store. I pulled the car into a spot right in front of the neighboring store dedicated to smokers. I wasn’t a smoker and had no interest in anything having to do with what I always thought of as a dirty habit.

My daughter, it appeared, was going to be a few minutes. She was still closing up the store. I made myself comfortable and turned on the radio…

“Daddy, what’s in that store?” Denise pointed to the cigarette store.

“Oh, there is nothing inside there but nasty cigarettes. We don’t go in there because we don’t like cigarettes. They make you sick and they make you smell bad.” I was happy just waiting in the car. I didn’t want to go inside.

“Oh Daddy, please! Can we go in? Please, Daddy!”…

“No, Denise, let’s just sit here and wait for your sister.”

“But look Daddy, they have a teddy bear in the window.” Denise pointed at the store window, “Pleeeease, Daddy, pleeeease?”

I turned off the car.

“Okay, but just for a minute. I’m telling you, there is nothing of any value in there.”

We both got out of the car and went into the store.

Since Denise got home from the hospital I’ve had a difficult time telling her no. I can’t endure inflicting any kind of mental or physical discomfort on her. I guess it’s just my reaction to almost losing her. So when she set her heart on checking out the cigarette store I knew I was going to succumb to her pleadings.

“Hi, can I help you find anything?” The woman behind the counter asked as we entered.

“Not really. My daughter just saw the bear in the window and wanted to get a closer look. Thanks anyway.” I replied.

“It’s a cute, cuddly bear and it’s on sale. There’s no reason why she can’t cuddle up to it and take it home.” She smiled at me and then glanced over to Denise who had rescued the bear from the window display.

“Thanks, but no.” I cut off our conversation and turned to Denise. “Sweetie, why don’t you go get a soda and you can drink it in the car while we wait.” All of a sudden, I felt very uncomfortable.

My congregation of fellow church members all knew of my strong dislike of cigarettes and I didn’t want them to see me inside the store. It was an image thing and I became very self-conscious.

“Oh Daddy, look how cute the bear is. He is so soft and cute, Daddy.” Denise had no intention of letting this end quickly or painlessly. I reached in my pocket just to confirm that I had barely enough money for a soda. There was no way I could get her the twenty-five dollar bear even if I wanted to.

“Oh, just go ahead and get her the bear. She has become so attached to it.” The clerk apparently worked on commission or so it appeared.

I walked over to the sodas and picked one up for Denise then pulled out all the money I had – pocket change – and paid for the soda.

“You sure you won’t buy her the bear? They look so adorable together. You’re going to break her heart if you don’t.” A smile of victory crossed the clerk’s lips.

“Please Daddy! I really want him!” Denise appealed to the clerk as much as to me.

“Look lady, I’m sorry, but I can’t buy the bear. The change I just gave you was the last money I have in this world.” I turned to face the clerk directly, “My daughter was just released from the hospital a few weeks ago. She had a massive stroke and went into a coma. She was in the hospital for over four weeks and the bill is staggering. I have no money to buy her or her brothers and sisters food or clothes, much less a bear. I’m sorry to disappoint you both, but I can’t produce money out of thin air.” I finished and turned towards Denise.

“I’m sorry. I had no idea.” The clerk humbly apologized.

“It’s okay, it’s not something that you would know. Thank you for your time.” I reached out to Denise to pluck the bear from her hands.

“Wait . . . excuse me,” the clerk spoke up, “but, would you permit me to buy her the bear?”

Confusion and disbelief colored my face.

“Please, really, I would like to buy it for her.” Tears glistened in the clerk’s eyes as she grabbed her purse from beneath the counter and retrieved a few bills from her wallet.

“Well . . . if you want. That would be very kind of you.”

“Thank you for letting me do this.” She caught a loose tear on her check with the back of her hand and then rang up the sale of the bear and handed me the receipt. This time her smile was one of love and compassion.

“Thank you very much.” I can’t remember who spoke those words though we both meant them. I shook her hand and pushed Denise out of the store.

We settled back into the car and Denise held up the bear for me to see.

“See Daddy, want to hold him?”

“No, he stinks.” I said.

“I don’t smell a thing!” She snuggled her face into the bear. “I told you there was more than cigarettes in the store. There are nice people there, too.”

Doug Tales 150: The Weak and the Simple

Doug Mendenhall returned again and again in his talks and writings to the great contrast between how the Lord does His work and ways the world works. Twenty years ago, Doug focused on the weak and the simple seeking to follow Jesus Christ (in part of a talk he gave in Boise, Idaho). In his Ezekiel Conference talk from November 7, 2003, Doug briefly discusses those with spiritual gifts and how they are misperceived and persecuted by others. He also includes his own experiences as a young man on his LDS mission in Spain where he had a hard time speaking (because of his stuttering issues), yet he learned line upon line about what is possible relying on faith in our Savior.

Here is a link to a 14 minute audio recording excerpt from Doug’s talk:

http://infinitycontent.net/Mendenhall/DMEzekielExcerpt11.7.03.mp3

Doug Tales 149: Put Back Together

One way the spiritual can come into the physical is when spiritual work is done to heal a person with multiple personalities. Doug Mendenhall writes about two experiences with individuals being healed of such splits in their spirits in this email from March 22, 2017. (Just the day before, Doug wrote his first post on this blog.)

Sorry for two days of emails. It’s just that my wife and I are heading north up to Logan on Friday to voice a few blessings and deliver some Ascend. She mentioned I might want to ask here if anyone else up north wants any and we could drop it by. That way it saves on shipping and I don’t have to box it up. Yea!!!

Let me know before Friday AM as we will be taking off by 9 AM.

Even if you don’t have the funds right now, still order it. You can send it in later. Or if things are really tight we will just give you a bottle. There have always been people that have bought some for others. You all are really amazing in your caring and love for others.

I don’t want to waste an email without a “bedtime” story if you know what I mean. I plan on putting many new things on the “blog.” Ugh. That was my Native American right leg speaking and expressing that we really don’t want to do that, but will. It’s also the last half of my name, the first half being “Duh”. Now add “Ugh” to it and you have Doug. Two of the “best” words in the English language.

Last year we did a generational healing for a really good friend. It was awesome what the Lord did for her that day. Some months later another friend called for help and we knew she had similar things happening to her that had happened to our first friend. I wondered how the first one was doing and if she had been healed or what. So I called her and asked how she had been since the generational healing. She mentioned many positive changes she had experienced or felt. I then asked if she felt “complete” or “whole.” You see, because of trauma in her life she had experienced a “splitting” of herself or had multiple personalities. To my excitement she said that yes, she did feel complete or whole now, that she felt like she had become one person, something she had not experienced in her memories.

You know me, I wanted a witness. I prayed and asked and received a confirmation that it was true. The problem was I didn’t know what had happened in the generational healing to have caused this. You see, she had done other generational healings in the past with us and this had not happened. The next time I talked to Kitten, I asked her if she would look and see if our friend had “been put back together.” She looked and confirmed that indeed she had. Praise God!!! was her reply, and mine.

When something like this is done, Kitten does a report and I archive it. I went back and found this friend’s generational healing report and saw a difference at the end that I had not noticed before. I went and looked at other reports and this had not been done before.

So when our other friend, who has suffered much, and I do mean much, asked for help I was a little more than excited at the possibilities. We ventured there last weekend and cleared the house where she lives and then cast off the entities on her and in her. Also cast out a lot of “stuff.” Everything from hexes, curses, weapons and so much more. (And don’t think she is unique, many of you have the same things on you.) Remember we live here in the Telestial world and the upper regions of hell combined. That is why I quoted Snuffer in our last book, “Five minutes here in this mortality is worth an eternal round on any other world.” This planet is tough stuff.

Then we did a generational healing on her. I couldn’t wait until the end. And guess what? The same thing was done to her as had been done to our other friend. After the process was done I was privileged to lay hands on her to seal it. After that I asked Kitten if all of her “pieces” went back together, if she was of one mind now, if her personalities had become one or the real her?

“Yes,” she answered.

I praise God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ for such things. That these two friends could be made whole and of one personality again. That is what the Lord Jesus Christ can do. He is the true and only Healer. We have found that after someone is put back together by Him they still need to work on getting rid of their “habits” that have plagued them. That takes work and I know that both of these incredible people have work to do. But what a glorious day it is to be alive, knowing He is real and will heal us if we put in the work on our end. Remember it takes heart, mind, and strength on our part along with much faith.

No I won’t say what was done at the end quite yet. That will require some set up and I believe that is why He made me do the “blog.” Ugh.

Take care and let me know if you need any Ascend,

Doug Mendenhall

Doug Tales 148: Head in the Sand

“If any of you need some shampoo, let me know” is how Doug Mendenhall concludes this email from June 16, 2017 which he titled, “Head in the Sand.” He talks about us ignoring or neglecting what is in front of us (and figuratively putting our heads in the sand out of fear). What are each of us really open and teachable about, and who are we listening to and following?

I am sending this out on a Friday because like the Government I know that no one pays attention to what is put out on a weekend. God bless weekends!

Over a decade ago I was told to take my daughter, Denise, on a “tour” where she would talk about future events that she had been shown. One of the areas we went to was Arizona where we held several meetings. One particular meeting was held at a very large home with many people in attendance. Some of the things she talked about coming were the extreme weather conditions. She told them if they thought their 115 degree heat was hot, they hadn’t seen anything yet. She also mentioned winds up to three hundred miles per hour that would come. Should be about 120 degrees this weekend in the Phoenix area. New records everywhere for heat and cold this past year.

A while later I took several sighted women on a speaking tour and we went to this same home. The woman of the house sat us down and said that the last time I had come with my daughter, Denise, she spoke of terrible things that were coming. She told these sighted women that she would have none of that in her home, that the women were allowed to only speak of “good” things. If I’d been smart I would have cancelled the presentation right then and there. There’s nothing like a little bit of compulsion and control is there, yet it was her home. Just when you’ve already inhibited the Spirit, will it come? Just wondering. In the previous meeting she had wanted Denise to come and talk about her NDE, not future events. She said she hadn’t realized we were there to talk about future events. I guess we were lucky that these sighted women I had brought there was there to only talk about the “good” stuff…

Didn’t the Lord tell a prophet anciently to not worry, it wasn’t him (the prophet), that Israel was rejecting, it was the Lord God? Are we any different? What if the Lord Jesus Christ sent a prophet or, heaven forbid, a prophetess, to us in these days, as He has done over and over anciently, to warn us. And what if we, like so many of those anciently, rejected that prophet or prophetess? Would we be rejecting our Lord Jesus Christ along with the man or woman He had sent?

I realize that there are people who prefer to keep their head in the sand and not know what is going on or they are so into judgment you can hardly share anything with them because that judgment would only serve to condemn them. If you find your hair has a lot of sand in it or if you are prone to judgment, I’d delete this email immediately. I wouldn’t want to cause any scalp issues or cause any judgmental condemnation to occur to any of you.

In all ages of the past and even currently the Lord Jesus Christ sends “sighted” people to testify, teach, share, and explain things that many of the rest of us can’t see, won’t see, don’t get, or even understand. Many call these people that come speaking by the Spirit and doing what He says, “prophets” and if they happen to be of the female variety they would be called, dare I even say the word again, a “prophetess.”  Apparently, it doesn’t matter to the Lord God how old they are, what gender they are, what they look like, their education or lack thereof, as long as they declare what He tells them to say.

From my observations, most of them are very reluctant to share. Why? Because they, of all people, understand if what the Lord Jesus Christ has told them to share is refused, it will condemn the person or people. It not only damns them, meaning it stops their progressing, but it condemns them to time in hell unless they repent. You don’t believe that? Just wait until you transition and see whose angels meet you. I know from past experience with my daughter that she was always scared to offend people. She was a child and didn’t have the maturity/guts to tell people how it is. She still doesn’t; she doesn’t want to offend. I am glad she has kind of retired and is just living her life.

I can’t tell you how many people would come to our home and want face time with her. “Denise, I’ve been working on a project for years now and I feel my ship is going to come in any day now. When it does, I’m going to purchase a home for you and your family. Is my ship coming in Denise?”

“Yes,” she answered. He left our home quite happy

After he left I asked her why she said that his ship would come in? I told her she knew it was wrong, that it wouldn’t. “I said what Jesus wanted me to say, Dad. The man needs to learn to go to God for his answers and not me.” Three days later his ship sunk.

Guess who got the phone call from a very mad man about his ship sinking and losing everything? It wasn’t her. All I could say to him was to ask why in the world would he come to an eleven-year-old to ask what he should have gone to God the Father with? He agreed and apologized.

He was one of the few to get it. A woman came to the house about this same time and asked her if she should divorce her husband. To my horror, Denise said, “Yes, you should.”

The next day I got a call from a very mad husband who wanted to know why Denise would tell his wife such a thing. He was livid. I asked him why in the world would his wife come to our house to ask such a question of an eleven year old? Spiritual sight or not. He also agreed what his wife did was wrong.

Is it we seem to want the easy way? “Tell me, Denise. Tell me, Kitten. Tell me, (insert the name of the latest ‘oracle’ of the week here).” We seem to want them to speak of what we perceive as the “good stuff.” Leave that prophetess or prophet stuff in the scriptures. No wonder many of these gifted walk away or don’t want to talk or present, or write books, or expose themselves in any way.

The Lord Jesus Christ sends prophets in all ages. Many times it is to call His people to repentance. He did so in our day a few years ago. Was this prophet rejected by “God’s people?” Of course he was. Hasn’t that been the pattern in all ages? But not with us, we say, we’re different. We’re God’s chosen people. That wouldn’t happen with us! They even kicked him out of the club they had formed, all the while he was told he was worthy of a temple recommend and had done nothing wrong. Does this seem right to you? Or do you need to brush that sand out of your hair?

Want to read an amazing book? Yes? Okay, it is called The Second Comforter: Conversing with the Lord Through the Veil. It is a witness from a prophet sent by the Lord Jesus Christ who did it. He just didn’t pierce the veil, he went all the way and was redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you gone to your knees in humble prayer, without any judgment, and asked your Father if this is true? Because if it is, this just might be important stuff to read. If it is true, it means you have a real important decision to make. You can read his ten talks he gave if you want or his other books. There is much to learn. But it might be important to revisit this one book because it is a blueprint of how to do it. If you have read it and don’t understand that concept or idea, then you really haven’t read it. And for sure you haven’t done it. As I’ve stated over and over, I know of two fully redeemed people on this continent. And he is one of them.

More than a few have told me, “I’ve read that book. Good book.” And that’s it! I know then that they don’t get it and will keep looking for the newest “oracle” to come along and want only good stuff presented, things they already know and accept. You know that is what many people want, isn’t it? Come and present, but make sure it is something I already know and accept, or it complies with my preconceived ideas, dogmas, and teachings. Or don’t come and present.

I’m in the “Being and Doing” chapter right now in his book. It is amazing how it correlates to what Kitten and I were told to write about becoming Unconsciously Competent. It is a wonderful chapter, well worth reading.

Since some here are sports fans here is an example about Kevin Durant that plays for the Warriors, who did win the NBA title. (No, I don’t watch any of it, just was told to read this article.) His teammate, Curry, is talking about how after Durant signed with the Warriors for this year it took a while for them to “mesh” as a team and then how playing together became second nature. Just as this prophet from the Lord Jesus Christ is trying to teach us to do with the Gospel in the book he was told to write, The Second Comforter:

“Even those who hated Durant’s decision can’t question how it has worked out for him when watching how well he and the Warriors have meshed.

“It took a while for it to kind of reveal itself consistently as the regular season went on, but once it clicked and the habits started to become second nature, it was kind of beautiful to watch and an amazing kind of style to play and watch unfold,” Curry said. “So it’s been fun.”

Why is it so fun? Probably because they are playing at a level where they don’t think about it; they aren’t thinking about “doing.” They are just “being” and reacting to what is presented to them on the floor. That means they are playing at a very high level, and that is just plain fun. What would it be like to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ this way? No mind control, no brain washing, just at a level of “being” with our Lord Jesus Christ and doing what He says. Would it soon become second nature to us?

If any of you need some shampoo, let me know. I’ve got several partial bottles from the hotels I’ve stayed in. Otherwise, it might behoove us to have an open mind and heart while we listen to those the Lord God as sent to warn, teach, and help us. The alternative isn’t that pleasant.

Hope you have a great Father’s Day. My mortal Father is gone, but I will thank him anyway and also my Father in Heaven for being in my life and teaching me. My goal is to make my Lord Jesus Christ my Father also. If you don’t understand that, you’ve got some studyin’ to do.

Doug

Doug Tales 147: Blessings and Clearings, Part Four

Doug Mendenhall continues with things he learned about blessings and clearings in Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume Two (2020), pp. 95-97. Notice that even when he is talking about other things, Doug is always talking—at core—about Christ.

In a clearing, you are representing the person before the Savior and asking Him to work on them. He will not do anything until a mortal voices what is being asked or desired. It requires both sides of the veil to accomplish this work, mortal and immortal.

What about removing things that are not to be removed? On December 22, 2018 we did a portalcism in the Salt Lake City area. After it was done we did two clearings. The woman had been so sick that her husband had to carry her everywhere she needed to go. He was pretty much her complete caregiver. As we worked our way down his body asking the Savior to remove what was of an evil nature, we got to his legs and saw some braces on both. Many times those kind of things are put there to cause pain and physical problems, etc.

I started to ask the Lord Yeshua the Christ to remove them when my sighted friend suddenly almost shouted to not remove them. “They were put there by the Savior to help him have the strength to carry his wife around. He had asked for help and the Savior put them there,” was her reply to my inquisitive look.

Would He have removed them if I had voiced it? Absolutely. I was there as voice for the man that had requested a clearing. The proper priesthood and authority was there and the Savior would have honored the request, though He would not honor a request that would cause loss of life.

This ought to make all of us think about how serious this business is and maybe we should do all that is necessary to prepare and make sure we are right before our Lord Jesus Christ before we venture into these waters.

Years ago Denise and I went around to people and told them our story of “the plant.” It was the homeopathic from a plant I was given that helped my heart issues back in 1999. Nearly every day we would go and see people, tell them our story about the plant, and then sit and wait. We were not allowed to ask them if they wanted some. We knew many, if not all, would benefit from taking the “drops” or homeopathic. If they asked for some we’d give them a bottle of it, never charging. If they didn’t ask for a bottle, we’d leave. Believe it or not, most didn’t ask. However, we did give away some eight hundred bottles that year.

I learned from that experience to not judge, to have no preconceived ideas, and to not jump to conclusions. But, it is still a fight some days. Yes, I am still prone to TLS (Tired Leg Syndrome) on occasion.

Do you think agency is key with the Gods of Light? Did they know the “drops” would help the individuals? Absolutely they did; it came from Them. So why didn’t they have me offer it to those people? I had empathy for these people; I could feel there issues and pains. Do you think I wanted to give it to them? Yes, of course I did, but obeying God was key, and I knew I couldn’t take agency away. Remember, I’d already been given an ultimatum by the Savior when I was stealing Denise’s agency.

As a result of my experiences and getting TLS many times, I have learned we don’t play with other’s agency, nor do we give our own agency away. The God Satan fell because of doing this. He wants us to do so as well. It might be wise to gain an understanding of Tired Leg Syndrome and not jump to conclusions about how and why our God does His work, about why others do what they do, or about what God means when He shares something with you. Conclusions only seem to embarrass us and cause problems. Some of us are so great in our own mind, we don’t see that is a problem. An ego will do that to you.

I remember visiting a sighted man with my sighted friend. At the end of the visit he made the statement that the Lord Jesus Christ has no ego. As soon as we were in the car I turned to my sighted friend and asked if that was a true statement. I felt it was true, but to not have any ego at all was such a foreign concept, I was having a hard time wrapping my mind around it.

“Yes, it’s true,” she replied.

Since then I have come to know it is true. He has no ego, just love and the desire to do His Father’s will in all things.

Might it be better to become one with Him, He who has no ego, no hidden agenda, and do it His way, which is His Father’s way, with love unfeigned and friendly persuasion? Might it be better to not jump to conclusions, to cast out our egos and become like Him in that respect, all the while honoring the God-given agency we are blessed with? Don’t you think?

Doug Tales 146: Blessings and Clearings, Part Three

Who does the real work when a person is being cleared of evil or dark entities? The man speaking, or Someone Else? Doug Mendenhall reminds us, “He [Christ] is the healer, the Master. We are not” in Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume Two (2020), pp. 93-95:

Of course it is a given that if we do not have priesthood, we do not lay our hands on another individual. When we pretend we have priesthood it will only give the receiver further grief and cause us problems. The dark entities can see if we have true priesthood or not…

The proper way to dismiss entities in a clearing is to ask our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to come and send them to hell or to get rid of them. He has the power and authority evil/dark must honor. Evil entities know and understand the laws they are required to operate under. They know who can send them to hell.

The only other way I know of is if you have been assigned a warrior guardian, then you can ask him to take care of the demons and then send them to hell, and even that is under the authority of our Savior. Most people have not been assigned a warrior guardian. We all have guardians assigned to us from the moment of conception onward. They are guardian angels and are assigned for our protection. Warriors are trained to confront and dispatch evil. As stated they operate under the authority, permission, and direction of our Savior Jesus Christ.

If one thinks they have a warrior guardian and really don’t, I’d be concerned about two things. First, who told you that information or what was the source of it? Second, what are the demons going to do after you ask your non-warrior guardian to dispatch them to hell? Let’s add a third question. Just how fast can you run?

If the person voicing the clearing sees a device on the person along with a demon that is operating it and declares, “I remove the device in your right shoulder, along with the demon that is operating it and send them down to hell.” What will happen?

Nothing.

Once again, we have no power to do anything. You might try asking the Lord Jesus Christ to come and remove whatever is there and to clear it up and heal it. He is the healer, the Master. We are not.

Let me give an example. We were near St. George, Utah, doing a clearing on a very sick woman. I saw something on her and asked my sighted friend, who was there, about it. She told me what it was. But instead of asking the Lord Jesus Christ to remove it, I went on to the next thing. A short while later, my sighted friend asked me if I was going to have the Savior remove the thing I had asked about a minute earlier. “He’s still standing there waiting for you to voice it so He can remove it,” she said.

This was a huge revelation for me. My God, my Savior, was standing there waiting for me to ask Him to remove it.

Again, in a clearing, you are representing the person before the Savior and asking Him to work on them. He will not do anything until a mortal voices what is being asked or desired. It requires both sides of the veil to accomplish this work, mortal and immortal.

Doug Tales 145: Blessings and Clearings, Part Two

What is the same and what is different between a blessing and a clearing? Doug Mendenhall explains various aspects of both in Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume Two (2020), pp. 92-94:

A blessing is not a clearing. A clearing is an ordinance and yes, priesthood is required. A clearing is when individuals have asked to have hands laid on them after getting permission from the Savior. You, as His servant come prepared to do so after the required sacrifice and preparation. It is a given that you have received His permission and authorization to perform the ordinance. They are then cleared by the Lord Jesus Christ, through your voice.

Let me repeat that, they are cleared by the Lord Jesus Christ. You are just acting as the mortal voice in the process. The person will start at the head and work downward or however the Savior tells you, voicing what is to be done. All dark things He wants cleared or removed are taken out or destroyed. This includes entities, devices, implants, curses, cauls, neck collars, evil yokes on the shoulders and so much more.

Let’s say we voiced something like, “I command the evil spirits to leave you.” Or, “I remove the curses, hexes, and evil entities that are with them, and send them back down to hell, where they are to stay and never come back.” What will the entities be doing at that point? If they aren’t laughing hysterically at you, they will just probably sneer and speak a few pointed curse words at you, all the while not going anywhere

We do not remove anything. So why voice it? Many gifted people have told me how they did this, removed that, put something here on the person, and so on. Never once did I hear that the Savior did anything. Was He even present? If He was, He was probably just standing there witnessing to the foolhardiness of an individual that believes he/she is the healer, with power or authority. But in reality, I don’t believe He would be there, not in a place He was not invited, and especially if the god, Source, is the one they are communicating with.

Of course it is a given that if we do not have priesthood, we do not lay our hands on another individual. When we pretend we have priesthood it will only give the receiver further grief and cause us problems. The dark entities can see if we have true priesthood or not. Some individuals do have priesthood, but it has not been “activated.” Or as Snuffer says, we need to have God give us the power, otherwise it is of no use.

So if our priesthood has not been “activated”, we may not want to pretend and lay hands on anyone. This will only lead to our condemnation and potential problems as the entities would love to “jump” over to you. I assure you, the Gods of Light are not playing games with any of this. It is extremely serious. If we have performed any of His ordinances and haven’t had the proper authority and Their blessing to do so—(even something as simple as blessing the emblems of the Atonement)—repentance might be the order of the day, week, and possibly month…

“Not every act done by men claiming authority from God is acknowledged by God, but only those acts with power in the priesthood belong to Him. Hence the Lord’s saying, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (Matthew 7:22-23)’” (Denver Snuffer, “Power in the Priesthood,” blog post, Jan. 23, 2019)

Doug Tales 144: Blessings and Clearings, Part One

Part of conquering spiritual evil is learning to do things the way our Savior wants us to do them. During his life, Doug Mendenhall sought to follow Jesus Christ’s will in all things, and that included when others asked for blessings. Doug shares some things he learned by experience about serving others via priesthood blessings in Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume Two (2020), pp. 91-92:

Let’s discuss a little about the actual voicing of blessings. Why would it be called “voicing” and not “giving a blessing?” A friend shared some text messages from another man where he claimed it was he that was giving a blessing when he laid hands on another person and not the Savior. The blessing actually came from him, so he was “giving” the blessing. I wish him well with that attitude and hope the person on the receiving end will actually get some competent help from someone that knows and understands who the real Healer is.

“Voicing” a blessing is when the person receives the blessing from the Lord through the person providing His voice. We must prepare to be His voice. After we have prayed and received a confirmation that it is indeed His will, we can then proceed with our preparations. This may include fasting and prayer, scripture reading, meditation, breathing, energy work, and whatever else our Savior tells us to do or sacrifice.

And yes, sacrifice is a requirement. (Maybe He will tell us to put our electronic device down for a day or two.) These things are designed to release us from the world and prepare us to be His voice to that person who requested the blessing. Many times the person requesting the blessing is so ill he or she cannot sacrifice.

During these times, the required sacrifice from you may be more than usual.

Please remember, we don’t give them anything, we are not God. We are acting as His voice. Therefore in the blessing we repeat the words given to us from God.