How the Demons Leave: Escape from the Unseen Dungeons by Peter Okonkwo is book two in a three-book series. I enjoyed book 1, A Cry for Mercy: Escape from the Unseen Dungeons, voiced from the perspective of a narrator struggling under spiritual bondage. The front end of How the Demons Leave is a lament for justice with a heart-wrenching prayer for help as the narrator struggles with failures of life that have tormented him for years, accompanied by feelings of injustice at the lack of rewards for his hard work.
The narrative changes when he moves toward faith as a resolution to his torment and recognizes he is under the influence of spiritual forces out to destroy his life. When he “runs to the Savior of the world, […] the only man who can save me,” the tone changes to seeking answers. He asks, “How can I be delivered from this long-time curse?”
His spiritual journey leads him to the answer. “You must be born again.”
Okonkwo’s thought-provoking poetry looks at the role of faith as a cure for spiritual blindness. When the narrator gains spiritual sight, he understands how demons influenced his life, robbed him of success, and left him stranded in stagnation and hardship. When God answers his prayer, he feels a proverbial weight lifted and witnesses an angel loosening chains from his body and deliverance from the demons of stagnation.
In chapter one, the narrator of How the Demons Leave starts in deep despair and pessimism. This book chronicles his spiritual journey and discusses struggles with lack of success, hopelessness, injustice, and morality as he deals with contradictions and impulses that God uses to draw him to faith. This book is easy to read, and I recommend it to people looking for encouragement amid discouraging circumstances. The one thing I did not like about the book is that the narrator’s thoughts at one point sounded like the prosperity gospel promoting a name-it-claim-it philosophy that distorts the truth and embraces the false teaching that our thoughts control reality, instead of praising the power of God for his renewed mind and way of thinking.
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About the Author Peter Okonkwo
Peter Okonkwo is a Nigerian writer, fatalist, publisher, editor, literary critic, spiritual philosopher, soon–to–be–novelist of Etean’s Destiny, and a certified orator from the Friendship Leadership Institute of Nigeria.
He is the author of six poetry collections: Ecstasy of the Dead; Fate, In the Dungeon of Doom; Whose Fault, Kismet or Impediment? and Escape from the Unseen Dungeons book series, (A Cry for Mercy, How the Demons Leave, and I Saw the Light)
Peter is gifted with the aptitude to explore and demystify certain difficult life issues through his thought–provoking, raw–arresting transcendent poetry. His works has been featured in notable literary magazines and newspaper, including the Australian Plumwood Mountain Journal, The Lagos Review, Ngiga Review, Hope Newspaper, among many others.
Peter is the host of the P. English Literature YouTube channel, where he reviews books and conducts interviews with authors around the world. His show has featured over 250 literature works from authors across the globe
