Deliverance Ministry - Part 3: Our Attitudes Create Success

Jesus’s ministry looked like this:  He shared the Good News of the Kingdom of God. He healed the sick and cast out demons.  In a nutshell the Lord welcomed the person, then taught him, and finally healed him.  So before we do deliverance ministry, we need to introduce people to Jesus so that they fall in love with God. Once we are devoted to Jesus, and are growing in the direction of being transformed into his likeness, then deliverance plays an important role.  Please consider the following four mindsets that will open up health and healing for you. If you embrace these attitudes, you will experience freedom from the demonic realm.1.  At the heart of deliverance is the need to forgive self and others. This includes the need to confess our sins, which humbles us before God and our fellowman.  The two greatest blocks to deliverance is unforgiveness and unconfessed sin. “To confess” means to agree with God’s verdict on the sin, and to recognize that its practice has been an act of rebellion against God. One needs to repent of that sinful behavior.2.   Accepting oneself is an important step in deliverance.  When we reject who we are, we imply that God made a mistake when creating us.  Self-rejection becomes a curse, and becomes the root of sickness and insecurity. It is a wide-open entry point for the demonic.  Self-rejection usually started within a person by some initial rejection from others (like one’s parents), leaving a person vulnerable and distressed.   Demonic powers will always try to take advantage of those weaknesses.3. Accepting other people is an ingredient in deliverance because judging and criticizing others opens one up to the demonic realm.  One needs to learn to accept the person who hurt us but to reject the sin involved in his behavior.  When we judging another, we are taking up the enemy’s work of being an accuser.  Then we become satan’s agent and send fiery darts of criticism to other people, empowering the accuser or his minions.4.  It is vital to our deliverance ministry to understand curses and how they work.  A curse is something that is said or done against us or others that gives rights to the demonic to exercise power over people. When we curse someone (or ourselves), like saying “You fool”, or “D—- you!” we are opening up a door for a demon to create havoc.  Check out this verse: “The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body. . . (James 3:6)If you have any questions about this new aspect of my ministry, please contact me. I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences.[The reference for the above ideas comes from Peter Horrobin’s Healing through Deliverance pp. 292-313.] In Christ,