She asks: “Is it ironically a belief serving the darkness when churchgoers claim that demons aren’t allowed to set foot in their church, or themselves, because they have been “saved?” Because it prevents the potential to pray deliverance of demons from people in church regularly as Jesus would do.” What can we tell her?

This is a correct assessment of the state of affairs. Having a strong belief one has the power to banish evil has potential merit in providing a strengthening. That can be a useful resource when confronted by an evil presence, to at least help someone keep up their defenses, but there are limits to what the consciousness of a single individual can do. Simply holding the belief that an impenetrable shield has been created, simply by wishing that to be so, is naïve thinking given there are so many dark spirits of all kinds and a powerful dark force behind them wanting to prevail and working steadily at undermining the living to intrude on their energy and take up residence if there is a moment of weakness. The problem here is one that churchgoers, in that safe haven, that island of calm, with a holy atmosphere, can lull people into a false sense of security. When people have highly variable states of vulnerability inherent to their makeup, particularly with so many causes of stress people carry with them, simply being in a church may not keep them safe if their shields are down, so to speak. Prayer is always useful to do because it will always go somewhere to benefit someone. So people in any gathering will be highly variable in their individual state of being and ability to be manipulated. It is through prayer, and often collective prayer of a congregation, which has power to help heal and protect those present. But if suitable prayers, with the right focused intention, are not launched, the divine realm has not been invited to intervene and such an invitation is required under the rules of engagement for us to step into the fray and not stay in the background, on the sidelines, watching the mayhem unfold—it is up to humans to act or invite us to act along with them.