Deaf and Dumb spirits

I've been reading some teachings on the Deaf and Dumb spirit lately. Todd Bently talks about this Deaf and Dumb spirit that's manifesting (showing) itself in people all over North America, especially in the form of mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, bi-polar, Obsessive compulsive disorder, alcoholism, not to mention all the different kinds of eating disorders. The Deaf and Dumb spirit manifests itself in the mind, and goes beyond a hearing disability or muteness. It's pretty easy to see that just under the surface of most North Americans is someone who's dissatisfied with their life, their physical body, or worst of all, their own personality...For a first world nation that seems to have everything under the sun, there's a lot of miserable people out there.
In Bangor, we have a hospital that is known for hyper-medicating people, so that everyone within its walls are reduced to some kind of chemical 'plateau' state emotionally. When I was working at a summer camp, and later on a Youth Hostel, I was amazed as the lists of perscription drugs kids were on, and how the ages certain drugs were being prescribed were getting younger and younger. You take one drug to 'normalize' the chemicals in your brain, and then four others to offset the after effects of the main drug. Your body gets used to this coctail, then a few months down the road, something new comes out, and your doctors fiddle around to find you another miracle coctail to keep you functioning. This is not normal.
Sure, some health issues are a result of people's decision making when they were younger, and other mental 'imbalances' as they call them have to do with our parents' choices while we were in the womb, or genetic 'flukes' but seriously, now. Why is it that we seem to settle for a doctor's diagnosis, resigning ourselves to some kind of predetermined 'condition' rather than walking in the fullness and liberty that God intended in the first place?

"Create in me a CLEAN heart, Oh God, and renew an UPRIGHT spirit within me"
Psalm 51:10

"For God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of POWER, and of Love, and of a SOUND MIND" 2 Tim 1:7

* Overcome Unbelief (prayer, fasting)
* Stay STRONG (Keep the Faith, perservere in prayer)
* Identification and Repentance (spiritual checklist, repenting for unbelief personally, corporately as a church/nation)


Spokane, Washington, (John G. Lake)
Zion, Illinois (Alexander Dowie)