Deliverance - Week 7 (notes)

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Week 7: Deliverance

 

Good evening! Well, I believe that this will be the last teaching in this series. We may come back to it at a later date as I feel led by the LORD to it. Maybe we have special training for those who want to go deeper.

Isn’t it amazing that this is WEEK 7 and the topic is Deliverance?

First and foremost, you must believe that deliverance is for you!

Secondly, you do not have to win the victory for yourself! You can enter into the victory that Jesus, by His death and resurrection, has already won for you!!!!

On the cross Jesus paid the full and final penalty for all the sins of all people of every age and of every race.

John 1:29 New Living Translation

²⁹ The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Deliverance can happen with the help of others OR even by yourself with God for the way is always open to the ONE who is the Deliverer—Jesus!!!

There are Nine Steps that can lead you into deliverance:

Step 1: Affirm Your Faith in Christ

Jesus is our High Priest of confession (Hebrews 3:1). The Greek word translated confession means “saying as the same as…”.

Therefore, we say the same about what Jesus has done for us as the Bible has already said. We make the words of our mouths agree with the Word of God. We proclaim the victory of Jesus in a bold and personal way on our behalf. When we do so, we invoke His ministry as our High Priest to bring our need before God the Father, thus releasing the whole authority of heaven on our behalf.

If we fail to confess our faith in this way, we tie the hands of Jesus.

Step 2: Humble Yourself

1 Peter 5:5-6 New Living Translation

⁵ In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for

“God opposes the proud
    but gives grace to the humble.”

⁶ So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.

 

IF we approach God with an attitude of pride, He resists us and we have no access to Him. So our first toward God must be to humble ourselves, to say to God, “I need you!”

God never offers to make us humble. Throughout the Bible places the responsibility on us. God can humiliate us, and sometimes He may have to in order to get our attention; but only we can make ourselves humble. IF we are willing, however, God will supply all the grace we need.

When we seek deliverance from being demonized, there may be a point when we have to choose between dignity and deliverance. If dignity becomes more important than deliverance, we have not really repented of our pride.

2 Kings 5:1-14 NLT

The king of Aram had great admiration for Naaman, the commander of his army, because through him the Lord had given Aram great victories. But though Naaman was a mighty warrior, he suffered from leprosy.

² At this time Aramean raiders had invaded the land of Israel, and among their captives was a young girl who had been given to Naaman’s wife as a maid. ³ One day the girl said to her mistress, “I wish my master would go to see the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him of his leprosy.”

⁴ So Naaman told the king what the young girl from Israel had said. ⁵ “Go and visit the prophet,” the king of Aram told him. “I will send a letter of introduction for you to take to the king of Israel.” So Naaman started out, carrying as gifts 750 pounds of silver, 150 pounds of gold, and ten sets of clothing. ⁶ The letter to the king of Israel said: “With this letter I present my servant Naaman. I want you to heal him of his leprosy.”

⁷ When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes in dismay and said, “Am I God, that I can give life and take it away? Why is this man asking me to heal someone with leprosy? I can see that he’s just trying to pick a fight with me.”

⁸ But when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes in dismay, he sent this message to him: “Why are you so upset? Send Naaman to me, and he will learn that there is a true prophet here in Israel.”

⁹ So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and waited at the door of Elisha’s house. ¹⁰ But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message: “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.”

¹¹ But Naaman became angry and stalked away. “I thought he would certainly come out to meet me!” he said. “I expected him to wave his hand over the leprosy and call on the name of the Lord his God and heal me! ¹² Aren’t the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than any of the rivers of Israel? Why shouldn’t I wash in them and be healed?” So Naaman turned and went away in a rage.

¹³ But his officers tried to reason with him and said, “Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, wouldn’t you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply, ‘Go and wash and be cured!’” ¹⁴ So Naaman went down to the Jordan River and dipped himself seven times, as the man of God had instructed him. And his skin became as healthy as the skin of a young child, and he was healed!

 

Step 3: Confess Any Sins

Nowhere in the Bible does God commit Himself to forgive sins that have not been confessed. But for those who confess, His promise is clear:

1 John 1:9 New Living Translation

⁹ But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

IF you are troubled about some specific sin, be honest about it. Do not call it by some fancy psychiatric name. Most of the names for our basic sins are not pretty. And God forgives them when we acknowledge them as sins. He never promises to forgive “problems”. If you have a problem with overeating, call it by its name, gluttony. Lust, hatred, gossip.

Remember, that once you have told God the worst about yourself, you have not shocked Him. He knew it all before you told Him! And HE STILL LOVES YOU!!!

One caveat here, this is not a time of self-analysis. Simply relax and let the Holy Spirit bring to your mind any specific sins you need to confess. He is your Helper.

Step 4: Repent of All Sins

Confessing isn’t enough. You must also repent.

Proverbs 28:13 New Living Translation

¹³ People who conceal their sins will not prosper,
    but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

Repentance involves two things:

          First, you must accept personal responsibility for what you have done. You cannot hide behind some other person—a parent, spouse or minister, perhaps—and hold him or her responsible for the wrongs things you yourself have done. Nor can you blame demons for your sin. Your attitude must be I am guilty, and I acknowledge it.

          Second, you must take the same stand against your sin that God Himself takes. Do not try in any way to minimize or excuse it. Hate as God hates it! Then the sin will have no more power over you.

 

Step 5: Forgive All Other People

Look what Jesus says:

Mark 11:25 New Living Translation

²⁵ But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.”

If we desire forgiveness from God for our sins, we must unconditionally forgive ALL those who have sinned against us.

If you want to be delivered by “torturers”, you must freely forgive all those who have offended or harmed you in any way. Remember that forgiving another person is not primarily an emotion. It is a decision of the will.

          First, you make a firm decision. Then you verbalize it: “I forgive ______ of all the wrong that they did to me. I lay down bitterness, all the resentment and all hatred.”

Step 6: Break with the Occult and All False Religion

This is about doctrine or practice that puts some other person or thing in place of the undivided loyalty and wholehearted worship that belongs to solely God. Somewhere in the background of all these other systems lurks the one who is the archenemy of God and man. If you want to draw near to God you must sever all contact with Satan.

This includes removing anything that you own on you and in your house that in any way links you to the occult or to the satanic.

• Books, souvenirs, charms and objects of art, etc.

Deuteronomy 7:26 New Living Translation

26 Do not bring any detestable objects into your home, for then you will be destroyed, just like them. You must utterly detest such things, for they are set apart for destruction.

The best way to dispose of them is to burn them if possible.

The people in the city of Ephesus did this:

Acts 19:18-19 NLT

¹⁸ Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices. ¹⁹ A number of them who had been practicing sorcery brought their incantation books and burned them at a public bonfire. The value of the books was several million dollars.

Step 7: Prepare to be Released from EVERY Curse

The Bible has a lot to say about the power of blessings and curses. Altogether it mentions them about 600 times!!

The church of America tends to focus on the blessings and regard the curses as superstitious carryovers from the Middle Ages. But this is unscriptural and unrealistic.

A curse is like a dark shadow over our lives that shuts out part (at least) of God’s blessings. Here are some problems that commonly indicate that a curse is at work:

• Mental Illness or emotional breakdown
• Repeated or chronic sickness (especially hereditary)
• Barrenness
• Breakdown of marriage and family alienation
• Continuing financial inefficiency
• Being “accident-prone”
• Family history of suicides or unnatural or untimely deaths.

There is one all-sufficient scriptural basis for release from a curse: the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross by which He took on Himself every curse due to us, that in we might inherit the blessings of Abraham.

Step 8: Take Your Stand with GOD

Make a firm decision and speak it out: “I will submit my will, my purpose, my future, my whole life to God. I take my stand with God against all sin, all evil, and every kind of demon.”

As soon as  you take your stand with God, He also takes His stand with you. You can enjoy the confidence expressed in:

Romans 8:31New Living Translation

³¹ What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

One way God may come to your help is by revealing the identity of any demon that you need to expel.

A demon may be like a fierce dog…snarling and barking…but when you know its name you have more authority over it. The Holy Spirit is there to guide you and deliver you!

If the Holy Spirit does give you a name of a specific demon, your next step must be to take a deliberate stand with God against the demon, and to verbalize it. Speak it out:
You spirit of _________, I take my stand against you in the Name of Jesus. I no longer submit to you. I you have no more place in me. I command you to go!!

You cannot afford to be passive. Remember it says in

James 4:7 New Living Translation

⁷ So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Step 9: !!EXPEL!!

 This is so simple and practical that it does not seem spiritual. But it works. You should not attempt to do it, however until you have prayed all 8 steps.

The word for spirit in both Hebrew and Greek is the word for wind-and also the word for breath.

So how do you get rid of breath? You exhale, expel it through your mouth.

After you have said your prayer for deliverance and concluded with “Amen” begin to expel or exhale. That is a decision of your will, followed by an action of your muscles.

At the same time, make way for the demon or demons to come out. Keep the exit clear! Don’t go on praying or start praying in the Spirit. Clear the way!

As you begin to expel, what comes out first my be just natural human breath. But after a short while, something other than human breath will start coming out. That is your enemy!! Keep on the pressure.

There may be different manifestations as a demon emerges. It may be scarcely perceptible, just a little sigh or yawn. Or it may come with sobbing, groaning, coughing, screaming, or roaring.

In the ministry of Phillip, the demons came out with loud cries.

Set no time limit. Keep on going as long as there are demons coming out.

 

PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE

1. Affirm Your Faith:

“Lord Jesus Christ, I believe You are the Son of God and the only way to God—that You died on the cross for my sins and rose again so that I might not be forgiven and receive eternal life.”

2. Humble Yourself:

“I renounce all pride and religious self-righteousness and any dignity that does not come from You. I have no claim on Your mercy except that You died in my place.”

3. Confess any known sin:

“I confess all of my sins before You and hold nothing back. Especially I confess…”

4. Repent of all sin:

“I repent of all my sins. I turn away from them and turn to You, LORD for mercy and forgiveness.”

5. Forgive all other people:

 “By a decision of my will, I freely forgive all who have ever harmed or wronged me. I lay down all bitterness, all resentment, and all hatred. Specifically, I forgive…”

6. Break with the occult and all false religion:

“I sever all contact I have ever had with the occult or with all false religion—particularly …

“I commit myself to get rid of all objects associated with the occult or false religion.”

7. Prepare to be released:

“Lord Jesus, I thank You that on the cross You were made a curse, that I might be redeemed from every curse and inherit God’s blessing. On that basis I ask You to release me and set me free to receive the deliverance I need.”

8. Take Your Stand with God:

 “I take my stand with You, LORD, against all Satan’s demons. I submit to You, LORD, and I resist the devil. Amen!”

9. Expel”

“Now I speak to any demons that have control over me. [Speak directly to them.] I command you to go from me now. In the Name of Jesus, I expel you!!

 

 

Each time you experience a release, praise God and thank Him for it!! Giving thanks and praise is the simplest and purest expression of faith! It also creates an atmosphere that demons find intolerable.

When you feel complete, be sure to kneel down and make Jesus LORD over every area of your life.

HOW TO KEEP YOUR DELIVERANCE

Once we have been set free! We need to build or rebuild the walls or close the doors that give them access to our lives.

Here are some simple effective ways to stay delivered

1. Living by God’s Word

Jesus said in

Matthew 4:4 New King James Version

⁴ But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

We must give the Word of God first priority in our lives. It must go unchallenged in every area of our life. Many other influences will compete for control over us: Our feelings, opinions of others, traditions, the culture.

But God guarantees us victory in every area insomuch our lives are directed and controlled by His WORD.

Joshua 1:8 New Living Translation

Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.

 

2. Put On the Garment of Praise

In Isaiah 61:3 New King James Version

³ To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

We need to cultivate a lifestyle in which praise covers us completely just like clothes.

3. Come Under Discipline

Jesus’ last order to His apostles was to “go…. make disciples…” (Matthew 28:19). A disciple, as the word indicates, is one who is under discipline. Jesus never instructed anyone to make “church members”.

We come under the protection when we place ourselves under God’s discipline. An undisciplined life is vulnerable to demonic attack.

2 Timothy 1:7 New Living Translation

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

The first area in which this applies is our personal communication with God in His Word and in prayer. Then our emotions, desires, and our appetites must come under the control of the Spirit.

Another area is our tongue. In fact, the control of a tongue is the mark of maturity.

James 3:2 New Living Translation

² Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.

Remember in your pursuit of maturity, when you fall, pick yourself up and continue to move forward.

 

It is true that deliverance brings us freedom, but many Christians misunderstand the nature of freedom. We are not free to do our own thing; we are free that we may bring every area of our lives under God’s discipline.

4. Be Filled with the Holy Spirit

In Ephesians 5:18-21 NLT

¹⁸ Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,

Paul here gives us to words of instruction. The first is negative: Do not…the second is positive: “Be filled…”

Most Christians agree with the first one yet how many believe the second one is equally wrong.

The infilling of the Holy Spirit is an essential part of God’s provision for victorious living.

 In context we see that this is a continuing present tense: The next three verses talk about a lifestyle:

¹⁹  singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. ²⁰ And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹ And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

As the Holy Spirit fills you continuously in this way, demons will find in you no vacant area that they can occupy!!

5. Water Baptism

Jesus told His apostles:

Mark 16:15-16 New Living Translation

¹⁵ And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. ¹⁶ Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.

We are saved in the world by faith in the blood of Jesus. We are separated from the world by passing through the waters of baptism. It is the act of baptism that cuts us of off from the Kingdom of Satan.

IF you haven’t been baptized in water as a believer, this is an important step you need to take. If you have already been baptized, on the other hand, you need to stand fast on the fact and be confident that Satan’s demons have no further right of assess to you.

6. Put on the Whole Armor of God

Ephesians 6:13-18 New King James Version

¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

 

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸ praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—

 

So that is a lot to take in!

 

Taken from the book by Derek Prince called They Shall Expel Demons