KNOWLEDGE OF DELIVERANCE
Knowledge is the key to our deliverance. Ignorance is deadly and what we don’t know can hinder us and stop us from being what we should be. One of the devil’s strength is his ability to keep people in ignorance. The devil knows that if we discover what is wrong with us his power over our life will be broken so he fights vehemently hard to keep us in ignorance. The bible says thus, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children” (Hosea 4:6).
It is high time that we become aware of the tricks and devices of the devil and be free from his strongholds. It is important to have knowledge of where our problems stems from which is our family background then we can make our way to deliverance and breakthroughs. Many today are going through life ignorant of where their troubles are coming from and so they don’t know how to be free from their family demonic spirits. Many families today are being controlled by family witchcraft spirits and these spirits are there to hinder members of the family with all kinds of problems imaginable.
1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” Every Christian has an enemy. Although unseen by the natural eye, this adversary is not imaginary nor a mythological character. Satan, the Devil, is a real person... a spirit being, with intelligence, tangible characteristics, and whose incessant goal and ambition is to “steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10).
Around the clock the enemy is on the prowl, seeking to cause mayhem and destruction to all believers and the work of Jesus Christ throughout the world. With military-like strategy and ruthless hostility, the devil aggressively searches for weakness in our faith and spiritual life, hoping to devour us with deception, temptation, or oppression. He is the personification of all that is evil and is the author of every despicable work.
Regardless of whether we realize it, Satan has targeted us as victims. He knows our name and address, our strengths and weaknesses. Somewhere in the shadows, he and his forces lurk, waiting, planning for the moment they will strike when we’re caught off-guard. He desperately hopes that we will, as many Christians, remain ignorant of his reality so that we’ll blame his assaults on somebody or something else.
His method of operation is almost always “undercover”. Subtly, he manipulates hindering circumstances and inspires evil thoughts or temptations, disguising his activities behind the shroud of people or things. He will always seek to divert attention and blame for his actions upon others. But make no mistake; he is the real enemy, not our husband, wife, employer, government or Christian brethren! “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12).
SATAN HAS NO RIGHTFUL AUTHORITY OVER BELIEVERS:
The good news is that, although the Devil is described “like” a “roaring lion,” in reality he has no actual authority over believers. He is not really a lion, but roars “like” a lion would to bluff his victims into fear and intimidation. Satan is a liar and deceiver and uses deception as his weapon to gain advantage over those who are ignorant of the limitations of his power.
When Jesus gave his life on the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world, He also redeemed us from Satan’s power and dominion over us. “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it” (Col. 2:15). “...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8). Praise God! Satan is already a defeated enemy! His legal authority was neutralized by the finished work of Christ on the cross.
EVERY BELIEVER HAS AUTHORITY OVER SATAN:
So if Satan is already defeated, why then is he still able to cause trouble? Because, even though Christ broke Satan’s legal power, the Lord has left it up to us to “enforce” the Devil’s defeated condition. It's our responsibility to use the authority that Christ has given us to put Satan in his place.
As a believer, we need not fear Satan, but realize and exercise the authority which God has given us over the Devil. Every person whose name has been recorded in the “Lamb’s Book of Life” (all those who are saved) have been given authority over the power of the Devil. “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19).
We have the right to use the authority of the name of Jesus to repel and drive Satan out of our territory and to break his grip over spiritual strongholds (2 Cor. 10:4). When we recognize Satan’s activity and covert operations, we have to take authority over him in the name of Jesus! Just as Jesus and the early apostles did, commanding Satan to leave (Mark 16:17).
The Devil hates the name of Jesus and detests an atmosphere of praise and worship which exalts the name of Jesus. Christ said, “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them” (Matt. 18:20). Be assured, the presence of Christ will expel the presence of Satan. Lifting up Jesus in praise will send the Devil running!
Furthermore all of us may be wondering why demonic religions have sacrifices, chanting, dedications, worship, etc. Actually this is a way that humans can be used to empower these demons to resist other humans from driving them off. We Christians can chase the demons with ease, if they were just sent against someone without permission or empowerment. But if the demon has been given fasting prayers to stay in place, nothing short of fasting prayers will drive it out. Fasting is a form of sacrifice.
However, if we exercise our Christian authority to bind & loose to break the (human power given by) sacrifices, chanting, dedications and worship to the demons, they are left standing there without any cover. Now it becomes easy to drive them off.
If the demons have been given permission to stay by the infested person, though, they may go away, but they will be back any time they want. Repentance and renunciation are still required to keep them away permanently. If the person refuses, we need to pray for the person to have a change of heart. Even if we chase all the demons on someone who is influenced by occult and there is no motivation to repent & renounce. It would be temporary, anyway. If we don't, the demons may be keeping them from hearing the gospel message of salvation & freedom. Thus deliverance should be done as part of ministering salvation.
BREAKING INCANTATIONS:
A typical case of breaking the empowerment given demons was helping a Christian, who was a runaway Santeria slave. For weeks of struggle couldn't deliver him. On the other hand the deliverance ministers were coming under attack. When it was revealed by the Lord Jesus to break the incantations, it was immediately okay. This was the key to cleaning up the affected person. He was asked to renounce a dozen of the major Santeria demon gods, after breaking each of their empowerment and commanding them to go. He was free when he got done.
BREAKING "SEALS" THAT HINDER DELIVERANCE:
A man with an aluminum crutches had very painful knees. This pain persisted for twenty years ever since he had a motorcycle accident. They were so painful that he had been to a doctor to see about having his legs cut off above his knees to stop the pain. No help there! He had been to numerous Christian ministries for prayer with no relief.
When Jesus was asked to teach how to pray for him, He told that it was because of curses placed on him with 'seals' used to cover the curses. There were three layers of "seals", each of which had to be broken. A witch had done it to him after the motorcycle accident. So the first thing was to break the 'seals' and then the curses were broken. Immediately he could feel the knee joints being re-set and the pain was gone. He stood up and walked, carrying his crutches.
THE PRESENCE OF CHARMED OBJECTS CAN BLOCK DELIVERANCE:
One young, Christian woman wanted prayer because she felt dreadful. As soon as she was prayed for, she made very loud high-pitched scream. After an hour of attempted deliverance without any success we inquired about the cause of her affliction from the Lord. He told us to look at her rings. She was wearing three little spoon rings on her left fingers. After binding any unclean spirit on each ring, the scream suddenly stopped, she came to and started gently crying. This is because the jewelry parts are being recycled for centuries; who knows who has had it in the past?
Another Christian bought a magnetic bracelet for her arthritis in her wrist. It appeared to have had some effect, but soon faded enough that she bought another one. The arthritis gradually returned, but she still wore those bracelets. She now had other medical problems.
To pray for her arthritis she was asked to remove the bracelet and she was prayed for her arthritis while telling evil "influences" to leave from her. The arthritis was permanently healed. The medical problems left. But while praying for her bracelets it was revealed that the manufacturer had put charm on them.
There is a pastor who went to the hospital to get hip replacement surgery. After the surgery, his health didn't improve as they expected; it declined! He was having trouble with his lungs and heart as well. His charismatic church prayed for him and tried deliverance, to no avail.
On inquiry from the Lord Jesus to teach us how to pray for him He told us there was a witch on a staff that was using charmed medical instruments and supplies on him, to kill him. All the demons on the employees and equipments and supplies in the room, as well as in the equipment and supplies in the whole hospital were bound and driven out. He immediately started to improve.
DEMONIC POWERS CAN OBSTRUCT DELIVERANCE THROUGH SOUL TIE:
“I love my sister. But she is a Rei-Ki master (Japanese Buddhist shamanism). She uses demonic powers. When she tries to bless me with her powers, I know it and have to clean those demons she sent off me. When I pray divine blessings for her, it really jams up her ability to practice Rei-Ki. It could harm her health, too, since she won't give it up.” The only difference between angels and demons is their political affiliation, but that makes all the difference in the world (and beyond).
A woman came in with her husband. She was a fully committed Christian, but her husband still dealt with some of the New Age practices they had come out of. She had nightmares nightly. She had an amazing number of medical problems with all systems starting to break down.
When we prayed for her nothing seemed to be helping. But when we asked the Lord, He said the husband was using demonic powers on her. He loved her and wanted her well, but he didn't understand the profound difference between the divine and the demonic. When he was prayed for his deliverance and his property she received great relief from that time.
RETALIATORY SPIRITS AS AN OBSTACLE:
Powers and Principalities have more sophisticated defenses than the normal demons. If we chase any of these ones suddenly we can see a swarm of spiritual hornets coming after us.
When a woman wanted us to pray for salvation for her sister who worked for a law firm, we started praying for her, but there was a stronghold over the law firm. We started binding demons on them, but there was a stronghold over that part of the city. We started binding demons on them, and when we were in the middle of it, we had to pray for our own protection. Then we could chase those retaliatory spirits after disabling those Powers and Principalities. Then we went down the next level and disabled it. Then we bound any spirits of blindness, deafness, confusion and scrambling over the sister and prayed for God to speak truth to her. Mission accomplished.
When the occultists attack a Christian, they will often use first their lower hierarchy to do it. When the lower hierarchy is disabled, the next hierarchy will immediately jump into the fray, so it may look like the deliverance didn't work. There needs to be a more extensive deliverance to shut them down.
If the occultists can't keep us down with a heavy curse, hex or spell, the next tactic they will try is a bunch of low level attacks. This may even cause us feel depressed one morning, our phone stopped working, our kids were crabby, our computer 'packs up', traffic on the road started doing dangerous things toward us, our back started aching, etc.?
CURSES:
A prayer minister who was feeling oppressed, had done deliverance, but wasn't getting relief. We prayed for her, asking Jesus to teach us what to pray. Jesus told us it was on her family, not her individually. We bound those demons off her family and she was immediately free. The next week, she came back that her daughter had angered a witch in high school. She had felt oppression and cleaned herself up, but hadn't cleaned up the curse on the family!
Sometimes we can end up under attack on a group level, which needs to be broken as a group. If we don't know what group is under attack, just pray deliverance for "myself and all groups that I am part of." Then we can pray deliverance for "those working or conspiring against us."
REPEATED ATTACKS:
We prayed for a person for his problem, followed by deliverance since prayer wasn't having effect. The deliverance gave him healing. The next week, he was back with the same complaint. We asked him what was wrong and he said, "It didn't work!" He said that he felt great after seeing us, but late that night "it all came back." We asked the Lord what was going on. He told us an occultist was knocking him back down. From then on, whenever we delivered someone, we delivered anyone who worked or conspired against them and prayed for their salvation as well.
DEMONIZED DIRT:
The Buddhists, Hindus, New Agers, shamans and witches all "bless" "mother earth". In Christian terminology, they are polluting the ground with all kinds of demons. This accumulation of demons influence people on the surface. They adversely affect Christians, of course. Deliverance for the Christians and their properties doesn't stop the adverse effect. For unbelievers, it makes them resistant to the gospel.
"We have not because we ask not" with regard to deliverances as well as prayers. "In the name of Jesus Christ, by the power of His cross and blood, we bind the spirits, powers and forces of the earth, the underground, the air, the water, the fire, the netherworld and the satanic forces of nature." Covers a lot of things we don't normally pray for.
MORE CASES OF DELIVERANCE:
In a surgeon, originally from Cameroon, West Africa a number of African witchcraft demons manifested and numerous demonic entities including some human interjects that sought to hinder her deliverance from the devil were driven out in Jesus name. This dear saint also experienced a most powerful miraculous healing. For a long time this dear lady had been experiencing sharp throbbing pain in her side and extreme itching around her neck. These demonic afflictions were told to leave in Jesus name!
Towards the beginning of the exorcism a number of Rosicrucian demons surfaced. With her eyes rolling back of her head and the whites of her eyes just glaring at the minister with pure hatred, but were confronted in the power of the Holy Spirit! One of them was holding on to a precious dissociative part, who was only but 5 years of age. This broken part of her heart had been tortured by these evil spirits. When called forth, the holy angels arrived and minister to her. Great healing took place and this part was touched by the love of Jesus!
Then a very well known Californian Eastern Mystical Cult guru surfaced within her. He was awakened by some of the demons who were getting him to respond to assist them in hindering her freedom. He was indeed awakened and astral traveled to this place. He spoke boastfully, at first, through her. When he was told that he was subject to the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and then commanded to leave in the power and authority Jesus Christ. Towards the end of the encounter, he was begging to stop torturing him and his spirits with the power of the fire of the Holy Spirit. Soul ties, human interjects, curses, spells, spiritual cursed objects, cult programming, various kinds of afflictions, numerous demons were all destroyed and demolished by the power of the blood of Jesus!
Another lady had been spiritually terrorized for years as a result of her family’s involvement in witchcraft. Her mother forced her to witness various kinds of rituals and ceremonies. For years she had been battling these occult spirits. This dear single mother of 7 boys was desperate for deliverance. As soon as a blanket was consecrated unto the Lord, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, she stood up holding her midsection and began to vomit as she could feel the demons departing her. Just the mere presence of the holy blanket which was representing the blood stained robe of righteousness of the Lord Jesus was causing the demons to respond in a dramatic manner. They had nowhere to hide! As she renounced the generational curses of witchcraft these vile spirits were driven out! This dear lady was so relieved to be finally free from witchcraft!
A 50 year old lady had been essentially bedridden for a while and on oxygen. Within minutes of entering her bedroom demons of death manifested and attempted to choke her with her oxygen tubes that dangled from her head. These death spirits spoke swaying, “we are making her sick, we are keeping her in pain, and we are keeping her crippled.” As they surfaced within this woman these filthy spirits began to contort her legs and arms. They were also pretty aggressive as they did not want anybody praying for this sick lady! But the power of God was too much for them.
“We are in the thousands; we are in her causing great pain.” When rebuked and commanded to leave in Jesus name, they resisted for a few minutes and tried to contort her body violently but they were driven out and told to go to the pit. When they left the lady was raised from her sick bed and she was no longer crippled. She got up and walked to her kitchen area by the power of God. She literally looked 25 years younger as she did! She testified of not feeling any pain.
After the session with a time of reflection on the sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ and participated in Holy Communion with a family of four the evil spirits manifested within all the four members of the family to varying degrees. The first demonic entity to surface was a spirit who was named Amethyst. He surfaced from within the 19 year old daughter. He was quite violent in that he was contorting this young lady in some truly bizarre ways. With her two feet set on the floor, her entire back was being gruesomely bent backwards. With demonic fury the demons began spitting and desired to leap from the sofa to physically harm the minister. With the help of the holy angels she was restrained. In violence of speech they declared, “I hate Jesus! I’m not leaving her. She’s mine. We are too many! We are holding on to her birthrights”.
Amethyst is the birthstone for the month of February. Many contribute special psychic powers to these birthstones. The grandmother, who was heavily involved in witchcraft, had given an Amethyst stone to the family upon her grand daughter’s birth thereby allowing the demons access to the bloodline. This spirit was determined to stay. This specific demonic entity revealed there were a host of curses, spells, and rituals that were directed to this precious family with the hope of destroying them financially, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The family confirmed that this was the case as they knew of family members who were involved in the occult that had aggressively attacking them with witchcraft spells.
The demon also revealed that a Scorpion spirit was lying upon the base of the skull of the father which caused him to have constant migraines. The husband confirmed this was the case as he often wondered why the many migraines. It was confronted and driven out in Jesus name. These spirits also revealed that they had been working on the younger sister who was only in the 8th grade, with the hopes of perverting her. They boasted how they had been causing her to lie to her parents and thereby allowing a lying spirit to enter her as well. These evil spirits were confronted after she repented of her sins and they were cast out in Jesus name. She could feel them leave her body!
After a struggle with Amethyst he too was driven out in Jesus name with the aid of the father who utilized his spiritual authority over the demons! Another spirit surfaced within the 19 year old named Aquarius. He too was aggressive and claimed the spiritual rights of idolatry, because this dear young lady, who was a pre-med student at a noted university, had recently offered “candy,” on two different occasions, to some fairies (who are in reality demons) that had been appearing to her to befriend her. With the hopes of pleasing these fairies she offered some sacrifices to them which they gladly received (for they knew that through these sacrificial offerings they would be able to enter her body). The sin of idolatry opened a door to demons. The demon named Aquarius entered her as a result. Our holy God is a jealous God and He does not desire for us to worship, to offer sacrifices, to appease demons. This is a most grave sin.
Moreover, Aquarius was holding unto a number of dissociative identities of this precious lady. He was forced to release them and these precious parts, in the healing power of Jesus. Five holy angels also appeared to these precious parts and ministered to them the love of Jesus. They glowed under the presence of God! They had never surfaced before as they were being held by these horrible monsters.
Aquarius was enraged as he was being destroyed by the power of the Holy Spirit. He was losing her! “She was mine! I wanted to use her in the Age of Aquarius to recruit others for my purposes.” This particular demon wanted to use her to lead other young people into idolatry. With loud cries that were reminiscent of the loud cries in Acts 8 when the evangelist ministered deliverance to the masses, Aquarius too, was driven out in Jesus name!
A young African woman with her two children had been afflicted with voodoo spells, curses, and spirits for years. Even the precious children were being spiritually terrorized by the voodoo demonic beings. The boy described his head as feeling like spaghetti. The girl was also attacked physically. The mother was the target of numerous voodoo spells and as a result suffered horribly. She was being raped at night by voodoo spirits, afflicting her with various pains and maladies. Many of the spirits were of a generational nature. This dear lady had legions of demons. They were all driven out in Jesus name and then she danced unto the Lord as she felt so much better as she was experiencing freedom for the very first time, in a very long time! Her son who had been a target of numerous satanic assaults causing his head to feel like “spaghetti” was in dire need of relief. When commanded his head to no longer feel like spaghetti. God answered. The young boy reported that the feel was gone.
A woman had a spirit of subjection to a warlock. She denied that she had such a connection. But the minister saw a snake around her finger. The lady had three rings on that finger. The middle ring was stuck into her flesh and would not come off. The minister cut it off. She broke forth with much manifestations and then she could be healed from her AIDs. When we examined the ring, it had a tiny black stone about 1/2 caret and on each side of the stone were two tiny goats’ heads. We could hardly see them with the naked eye.
Then a flood of memories came and she remembered that her first boy friend, who was a biker, gave it to her. She was instantly delivered. Many pieces of jewelry have demons attached to them. There is ungodly supernatural power in most of this jewelry. Because each piece of the jewelry is cast and offered to the devil before they are displayed for sale so as to make it attractive for the prospective buyers. Every wonder why so many non-Christians wear crosses? Crystal jewelry is a new age thing.
A young lady who was in need of liberation from the demon which was binding her, was confronted by the power of Jesus after partaking of the Holy Communion. They threatened to kill the minister even though, they were weakened by her consumption of the body and blood of Jesus. The minister reminded the demons that nobody was going to be killed. “My name is Devin,” the demon speaking out of her mouth informed. “Do you have any rights to her?” The generational curse of her ancestors who participated in various sexual sins which they did not repent of,” the demons replied.
When she was led in a prayer of renunciation the spirit spewed out more hatred for the precious holy Savior. He blasphemed, cursed, and continued his murderous threats. Another more powerful spirit surfaced and pushed the young woman from the sofa, she was sitting on next to her mother. Within seconds the holy angels of God who are ministering spirits arrived when they were called forth and they assisted in picking her up from the floor and placing her back and ensured her arms were restrained to keep the demons from using her to harm someone in the room. Then she was made to drink some water to weaken the power of the demons. They hated with a passion the blessed water. It weakened them considerably. After some battles with these spirits they were driven out in Jesus name!
In November, 2001, a woman received Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior. A few months later, She was water baptized, received the so called “baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues”. She had made up her mind to serve God with her whole heart and gave her life to His service. God began to increase her discernment of the presence of the evil within that time period.
She found many demonic manifestations that she had never experienced before. She was being, tormented, stalked, harassed, physically harmed, and intimidated by evil forces. She would sense their presence. It was so evil, that it would make the hairs on her arm stand up (It was such an eerie feeling). She was often held down (almost as if she was paralyzed), she could not move or speak, and something of pure evil tried to suck the breath out of her. The only thing she could do was pray (inwardly) for Jesus to save her, and He did, every time.
She was punched in the face by an invisible, evil force. She would see beasts that appeared to look like something between a rat and a monkey with wings. She had horrible nightmares of fighting demons. She would see dark figures, walking across the room, light switches flipping on and off, and the volume on the radio turning to full blast. Satan himself appeared to her, and he also sent his demons disguised in human form, to shake her hand. This is only a clue of the type of things that she was experiencing at that time. Much more happened.
It was obvious that she had a battle on her hand. And there was no way that she could battle these demons in her own strength and by natural means. She realized that she was in a spiritual battle. However, she was not strong enough to do it alone. She needed the help of the Holy Spirit. God led her to buy books on prayer and spiritual warfare. Her spiritual eyes were opened, and she learned to use the spiritual armor that is available to every believer.
One day, while praying for her Husband, he began to growl at her. Her Husband is a born-again believer, but she was taught that a Christian could not have a demon. She did not know anything about casting demons out of people. She immediately stopped praying, because whatever She was saying was obviously agitating him. She asked her Husband if he was okay, and he told her that something inside of him wanted to hurt her really bad. The demon was not cast out, and there was no one who could relate to their situation or the things they were experiencing. No one believed them.
In 2004, God revealed to them about their desperate need for deliverance from evil spirits. She went through a few sessions of personal deliverance counseling, however, her deliverance remained incomplete. Although she was a born-again Christian, she was having serious struggles mentally, emotionally, sexually, and in her marriage. It was a struggle for her to make any type of progress in her Christian life. It was very frustrating for her. She began to struggle with her severe depression. She felt hopeless, like there was nothing even God could do for her. She felt like, if this is what she has to go through in life, she just didn’t want to live. She thought to herself, where is the abundant life that God has promised her? She received no help or relief, her faith was weakened, and she heard a voice telling her to just kill herself.
She was deceived into thinking that God had failed her, and so she rebelled against God. The devil convinced her somehow that Jesus was not real, and that everything she had experienced was all a lie, so she went back to her old lifestyle before she got saved, and she ended up worse than she ever was before. She had opened herself up to serious deception. She was delusional. She got involved in the occult and witchcraft. She began to believe in false gods. She became a witch, and communicated with a “spirit-guide”. Her marriage was on the verge of a divorce. She was addicted to drugs, alcohol, pornography, cigarettes, etc. as a way to escape her problems. For her, it was too painful to be sober. As long as she was high or drunk, she didn’t have to face the reality of her struggles. Her life was completely dysfunctional.
At that time God gave them an opportunity to attend a School of Deliverance, which had many courses, such as “Breaking Generational Curses”, “Demons and Deliverance”, “Deliverance from Strongholds”, “Inner Healing”, “Ungodly Relationship Bondages”(demonic soul-ties), “Deliverance from the Occult/ Witchcraft”, etc.
Her Husband and she surrendered to the process of deliverance. She had come face to face with the reality that deliverance was not a quick solution to give her relief from her struggles, which was the reason why her deliverance was not maintained in the beginning, but it was the fight for her life! She got serious with God, and she got serious about her freedom in Christ. God gave her the courage to let go of the crutches that she was so dependent upon, in order to face her issues head on, dealing with each and every single one.
She made a decision to separate herself from every unhealthy relationship, and from everyone in her inner circle who were negative and unsupportive. She surrounded herself around people who were supportive, and who also wanted to be healed and delivered. She humbled herself before God, and she asked Him to show her where she gave the devil a foothold in her life. And where she lacked discernment, the Deliverance Ministers had the knowledge, wisdom, understanding, discernment, and the insight to see what she could not see.
The hardest part of the deliverance process for her, was coming out of deception, rebellion, and pride (because of her experience in speaking tongues). She didn’t want to believe that she had so many issues. She was in serious denial, she was in ignorance, and blinded by religion. She knew she had a few issues, but refused to believe she had as many as her counselors said she had. It was very painful to come into the truth and reality of her spiritual condition. She didn’t know who she was. What She believed was “just her personality” turned out not to be “her” at all. The real “her” that God had created was beneath layers and layers of issues. And she felt lost.
She had been deceived by false teachers. She believed that she had a true relationship with God, and that she had so much spiritual knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. She believed she was so spiritually mature…yet, she did not bear fruit….It was all lies, and She was blinded by a religious spirit. She had to be willing to surrender it all to Jesus, and forget all that she thought she knew. She had to become as a child, and go to God in child-like faith, and be willing to start all over again. She had to start her Christian walk all over, from the beginning, and become truly, born again. She had to be willing to become a baby Christian, and forget everything, and just sit at the feet of Jesus to truly learn of Him.
She repented for every single sin that she could ever remember committing against God. She confessed every single one of her sins to the Deliverance Ministers that God had placed in her life for her to submit under. She desired to bring all darkness into the light, no matter how shameful, or uncomfortable it was for her. She refused to hide it. She stopped justifying her sinful behavior, she accepted responsibility for the consequences of her actions, and she truly surrendered to Jesus. She accepted that things would get harder before it got easier. But she decided to trust and believe that God would get her through it.
She studied who she was in Christ in order to determine her true identity from the demons who were invading her personality. She identified the evil spirits and the generational curses according to the type of sin that she saw in her ancestral background and by the sins that she had committed before. She also identified the evil spirits by recognizing habitual, repetitive, and compulsive behaviors in her life. She learned that if she didn’t know the truth of who she was in Christ, the demons would have legal ground to stay because they hide behind lies. She also learned that she had to get desperate for change, in order for change to occur.
She learned to aggressively take her stand, and take her life back through spiritual warfare. She spent quality time with God, crying out to Him in desperation for deliverance on a daily basis. She spent time renewing her mind with the word on a regular basis, concerning each issue. She declared affirmations, and she addressed each demon aloud, and in an authoritative voice. She declared to those demons, that Jesus has given her power over them! She would remind those demons of who she was in Christ, that she had the victory and that they were no longer welcome in her body. She told them that it was no longer “their house”, and that she was giving them their eviction notice to vacate! She also reminded them of the cross, and how Jesus shed His blood for her. This stirred them up, and tormented them to the point where it was so uncomfortable for them; they had no choice but to leave her.
In her deliverance counseling sessions, they were ready to go. They would leave immediately with a single command, through violent coughing, crying, screaming, drooling, spitting, growling, belching, vomiting, etc. She often found small amounts of blood in the drool, from the demons ripping and tearing. They would afflict her with pain in her body, torturing her as her payment for breaking covenant with Satan. And many of the manifestations were extremely violent.
Some major strongholds took longer for her to get delivered from. She learned that the longer she has had the habit or wrong mindset, the stronger the hold. She also learnt that some strongholds might take years to break. Fasting was very beneficial for her during her process of deliverance. God really gave her the grace to get to the source of her problems by detecting the entry points in which the demons gained entrance into her. She stripped them of their legal rights, She dealt with traumatic experiences, irrational fears, and unresolved hurts that traced back to her mother’s womb….as an infant….throughout her childhood….through her adolescence…and as an adult. She had gotten in touch with emotions that she was at one time completely “numb” to. She stayed focused on getting healed, leaving the past behind her, and pressing forward.
She spent time learning to maintain a life of discipline and structure. With the help of the Holy Spirit, she was able to crucify her flesh. As she got delivered of rebellion, it became easier for her to surrender to God, and walk according to the Spirit. She learned that if she did not discipline herself to break bad habits, the demons would have legal ground to remain. Instead, she developed righteous habits that would eventually benefit her in the future. She learned that God’s commands were not a bunch of rules, but they were boundaries for her own protection. That is how much God loves His children.
Some may think that it doesn’t take all of that to be free. But this is the price that she had to pay for freedom. Now, she sees tremendous results in her life. She feels lighter, freer, and more at peace than she had ever felt before. Her emotions have stabilized, her thoughts have clarity (no more confusion), She feels clean and pure (no more guilt or shame), she is free to obey God, and live in righteousness and holiness without an evil influence controlling her, forcing her to sin against God. She can hear god speaking to her so much clearer now. Her family is in order, (no more dysfunction), and God has blessed her marriage. She knows who she is in Christ. God has given her purpose and vision. She is a warrior and a soldier in God’s army!
She blesses the Lord, and she gives Him all the glory for this testimony. God has truly shown His glory in her life. And she appreciates Him so much more now than she ever has. She knows the God she serves. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is her Deliverer, her Healer, her King, her Counselor, her Comforter, her Refuge, her Shield, and her Shepherd, and so much more! He has truly proven Himself to her in so many ways.
And she just wants to say, “thank you Jesus for setting me free, thank you for snatching me out of darkness and bringing me into your marvelous light. Thank you for never giving up on me when others turned their backs on me, and even when I gave up on myself. You saw my potential for greatness…and I thank you! Father, you have been my teacher through it all. And I pray that you would deliver and set free many people as they read my testimony. Teach them to fight, Dear Lord, as you have taught me. That they may walk in victory, overcoming every obstacle and every struggle. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen.”
