Are these spirits stronger than us?
We are created in the image of God, we are not “just anyone spiritually”. The only Spirit who can fill us completely is the Holy Spirit. Demons are small spirits. I say they are small!
In the Bible we see the story of the fool of Gadara. In this man lived a legion of demons. Let’s read this story:
They (Jesus and his disciples) arrived at the other side of the sea, in the land of the Gadara. As soon as Jesus was out of the boat, a man met him, coming out of the tombs, and no one could bind him, not even with a chain. For he had often been bound with chains, but he had broken the chains and shackles, and no one had the strength to tame him. He was continually, night and day, in the tombs and on the mountains, crying out, and bruising himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran to him, bowed down before him, and cried out in a loud voice. What is there between me and you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you in the name of God, do not torment me. For Jesus said, "Come out of the man, unclean spirit! And He asked him: What is thy name? And He answered and said unto him, Legion is my name: for there are many of us. Mark 5:1-9/Translated from the French version Louis Second.
A legion is a corps of Roman infantry¹ that varied from four thousand soldiers under the Roman Republic to six thousand under the High Empire and about a thousand in the Lower Empire. If we must consider this definition of the word legion, then we understand that in this man there were more than a thousand demons. If more than a thousand demons can find abode in one man, see how small they are, because the house must be large enough to be inhabited by a thousand people. We are images of God, we are not just anyone spiritually. You are not just anyone, you are not a slave of satan, you are the image of God, you are a child of God, you are an heir of God. In the whole universe there are no other spirits created in the image of God except you and me. So don’t let yourself be dominated by spirits that are “smaller” than you. In Jesus, the Holy Spirit within us, we are spiritual giants.
The kingdom of darkness is not stronger than we are as long as we remain attached to the Holy Spirit. Otherwise the devil will play with us like footballs.
¹Soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapon…