In a word “NO!”  I get asked this question every once in a while, so I thought I would write my response.

A Christ follower is already possessed by Jesus and baptized into Christ by the Holy Spirit.  (Ga. 3:26-27)  The word that is used for “possessed” by a demon in the New Testament, can refer to being “vexed” or “possessed.”  This could mean the difference between a person being controlled or under the influence of a demon and being demonized.

Possession implies ownership, so to say a person is “demon possessed” would mean they are owned by the demon.  A Christian is owned by Jesus Christ as a child of God and cannot have duel ownership between God and the devil.  When God owns something, He owns it outright and completely.

The New Testament teaches that demons are squatters or vagrants of territory that does not belong to them.  A thief may break into your home but that doesn’t make it his.

The Scriptures warn believers to stop giving a place to the devil in Ephesians 4:27, which suggests that we can allow an entry point of influence by the evil one.  We must by like John the Baptist and say, “He (Jesus) must increase and I must decrease.”  As we get more and more filled with God’s Spirit there will be less room for anything else.  “Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world” (1 Jn. 4:4).

A question to ask might be, “How am I giving opportunity or room for demon influence in my life?”  Are you so sold out and filled with God that there is no room for anything else?