Deliverance from Demons

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

THE REDEEMED OVERCOME DEMONIAC POWERS

Introduction:

A Christian is not indwelt, possessed, or continually controlled by a demon.  Born again Christians are Holy Spirit, indwelt, (I Corinthians 6: 19, 20), sealed, (Ephesian 1: 13, 14,), regenerated, (John 3-6), baptized (spiritually) into CHRIST JESUS, (Romans 6:3, 4), and filled, (Ephesians 5:18). A Christian can be demonized or attacked by demoniac activity.  The Christian is willing or unknowingly been demonized, and is obeying the demon.  They have surrendered temporary control of an area of their lives to the demon’s desire of worship.  The demon, his name, is his ungodly activity of worship in his name (Names: fear, lust, evil power, anger, pride, liar, etc), and he is seeking worship from the person who has surrendered control to the demon. The demon has temporary  dominion and the demon is worshipped in the person’s evil activity or mental bondage.

I.  QUESTIONS TO ASK THE PERSON?

A.  Does the person want to be delivered from this demoniac disturbance?  John 5:6, Mark 10:51.

B.  Is the person a born again Christian, or is he desiring to be born again through this deliverance from the demoniac activity in their life? John 3: 3, 5.

C.  Is the disturbance an ongoing psychological disorder, or a supernatural, unwanted, ungodly bondage, and activity in the person’s life?  Mark 5: 1-9, 7:25, Matthew 17:15.

D.  What is the person’s main disturbing demoniac activity in their life?  (Anger, murder, lust, fear, ETC) Mark 1:23, Mark 5:2-5, Mark 7:21, II Peter 2:10,

E.   Do you and your prayer partners believe Christ Jesus and His Blood can deliver this person from the demoniac activity in their life?  Matthew 17: 19, 20, Mark 7: 28, 29, Mark 6:13.

II. PRAY TO DETERMINE IF THE MENTAL ACTIVITY IS DEMONIAC OR THE RESULT OF THEIR OLD SIN NATURE’S PROBLEM?

A.  Pray along these lines:  “(Their name) is a child of Christ Jesus, this person is covered by the Blood of Christ, and (Their name) desires no allegiance to Satan or this demon.”   “(Their name) does not want any part with the demon (Name the demoniac activity the person shared with you previously), and this person is free from your dominion through the power of Christ Jesus, and the testimony of Christ Jesus’ Blood.” “The power of darkness has no right to the body of (their name), because they belong to Christ Jesus, who is the authority in their life, and you must depart!”  Mark 14:24,  Ephesians 1:7,  Hebrews 9:12,  13:12,  20;  I Peter 1:2,  I John 1:7,  Mark 1:24, Romans 6: 17 18.

B.  If it is DEMON, the person will share their evil battle within their heart, manifest strange behavior, or speak ungodly words against you possibly or our Lord, ETC.   To calm any unwanted behavior in the person, pray, “Peace, be still, in the Name of Christ Jesus, leave them along, Peace!”  “You obey the Lord Jesus!”  Luke 8: 28, 29, Mark 5:7, 1:24, Matthew 8:29.

III. PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE DEMONIAC ACTIVITY.

A.  Call the demon or demons to ATTENTION, AT THE NAME OF CHRIST JESUS, and AND THE POWER OF HIS BLOOD!  Is your name, (name the main disturbance they shared which is ungodly)?  The person will reply to you what the demon says! Search for only the NAMES, and do not answer the demon or allow the demon to converse with you!  Ask the demon  whose name you now know, the number of the DEMONS in the person?  Always pray the questions, “YOU OBEY CHRIST JESUS AND YOU GIVE US YOUR NAME? (THEIR NAMES, THEIR LEADER). YOU MUST OBEY CHRIST JESUS AND HIS POWER OF HIS BLOOD! If the person has over three demons, look for their leader, he is the most powerful one in the person.  I Corinthians 1:18, Mark 5:9, Mark 1:34, 39,   Power is in Christ Jesus, not the Christian.  Hebrews 10:19, 9:14, I Corinthians 10:16, Christ’s BLOOD.

B.  Continue to demand the demons to give you their NAMES until you have the complete list of demons to match their NUMBER of demons

 

C.  Individually, command the demons, one by one, on your list, “YOU (DEMON’S NAME) DEPART from the person’s name, and you report to Christ Jesus for His orders from Him!” Matthew 8:31, Revelation 9:1, 2, Jude 6,   I Peter 3:19, Mark 6:7, 16: 17, Mark 7:30.

D.  After the complete deliverance has happened, then you ask again the NAME of each demon, individually ” (their name), “Are you gone (The demon’s name) and have you departed to our Lord Jesus?” If one demon responds, “I am here, you go,” Some times the demon will make threatening remarks to you. You then pray against the demon, his name, with the authority of CHRIST JESUS, and say, “You must obey our Lord Jesus, the power of His BLOOD, and depart to the presence of our Christ Jesus.”  If they have departed, the person will respond, “Yes, he is gone!”  The person knows the peace of the demons leaving, and the demon will not answer you anymore.  Mark 7:30.

E.  Have the person now pray, giving thanks for their deliverance, cleansing, joy, and other praises they desire to give to our Father and our Lord Jesus.  You pray and rejoice with them. Revelation 12:11 Mark 5:15, Luke 8:36

IV.  PRAY WITH THE PERSON FOR THEIR BREAKING ANY PREVIOUS ALLEGIANCE TO ANY DEMONIAC ACTIVITY, VOWS TO DEMONS, OR THEIR WORSHIPFUL EVIL PRACTICES. (This process might take months in a later period in the delivered person’s life)

A.  Ask the delivered person to share any commitment they made in the past years of their lives to a demoniac spirit idol, the magical powers with other people, evil spirit activity of worship, their bondage to a satanic person, or an evil habitual activity of self bondage? (The Holy Spirit will show them their previous commitments to the demon’s spirit of worship or the oaths to the demoniac power and authority of the previous demon in their lives)

B.  Pray with the person to break any allegiance and bondage they have to this evil person, game, books, habit, group or organization, (Masonic Lodge, Greek fraternity and the Greek god in their University) or evil worshipful practices.  Acts 19: 18, 19.

C.   Point out to the person, they are “closing the doors” in their life to the past openings they have given for demons to enter their heart to be worshipped by a demon or demons in their evil thoughts or demoniac activities.  Encourage the person to keep their heart “door closed and guarded” against the reentry of demons.  II Corinthians 10:5, Ephesians 6:10 ff.  James 4:7, 8.

D.  A Christian who has been delivered from the demons, they need to pray frequently for the BLOOD OF CHRIST protection over their lives.  They now know how to deliver themselves from the temptations and the demoniac attacks.  Also pray the same power of the COVENANT BLOOD OF CHRIST over their loved ones, family, and home.  Revelation 12:11, I Peter 1:2, Hebrews 13:20, Hebrews 11:28, Hebrews 9:22, Matthew 12: 43-45.

(By R. Porter)

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Total Money Makeover … A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

Dave Ramsey is an excellent source for practical steps to get out of debt and build wealth.

Summarized and adapted from Dave Ramsey’s book,  The Total Money Makeover,  available at www.DaveRamsey.com

Goals: To be out of debt, be wealthy enough to give, retire with dignity, leave an inheritance and have some expensive fun.

Step 1:  Get $1,000 in Emergency Savings for emergencies only.

  • Get a zero based budget that allocates all of your income.  Don’t just know where your money is going.  Tell it where to go.
  • Deal with denial and decide to change.
  • Overcome debt myths and money myths – Debt is not a tool.  We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.

Step 2: Use the Debt Snowball to pay off debts, except your home mortgage.

  • Pay off loans starting with the smallest balance.  Budgeting, sacrifice and focused intensity make it successful.
  • Identify the enemy:  The bottom line is that it is easy to become wealthy if you don’t have any payments.

Step 3: Finish the Emergency Fund

  • A fully funded emergency fund covers three to six months of expenses.
  • Beware not to rationalize the use of your emergency fund for something that you should save for and purchase.

Step 4: Invest 15 percent of your income in retirement.

  • It is your job to take care of you and yours.

Step 5: College Funding

  • College degrees do not ensure wealth.  Only if you mix knowledge with attitude, character, perseverance, vision, diligence, and extreme levels of work will your degree produce for you.

Step 6: Pay off your home mortgage

Step 7:  Build Wealth and Give.

  • Money is good to have fun, invest and give.  Giving is the biggest reward of the entire workout.
  • When your money makes more than you do, you are officially wealthy.
  • The love of money, not money, is the root of all sorts of evil.  To use riches is to cause them to be consumed, to trust in riches is to count upon them for things they cannot provide, but to possess riches is to say how they will or will not be used.

www.DaveRamsey.com

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Praise God for a Variety of Spiritual Gifts

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

God gives us different spiritual gifts, so that we have a deeper appreciation for what He is doing.

The following article uses a common story to help us understand how the gift of Discerning Spirits fits in with the other spiritual gifts.  God gives us different spiritual gifts so that we focus on different things and praise God for different aspects of the same event.

Six wise men were blindfolded and told to investigate an animal.  Each man was taken to a different part of an elephant and told to describe it.

The first one said, “It is like a giant spear.  It is hard and sharp (The tusk).

The second one said, “No, it is like a giant leather wing with no bones (The ear).

The third said, “No, it is like a tree trunk, round and unmovable (The leg).

The fourth said, “No, it is like a whip, with a tassel at the end (The tail).

The fifth said, “No, it is round, flexible and long like a large snake (The trunk).

The last said, “No, it is a giant, flat wall (The side).

All six men were right about what they felt, but they were short-sighted to not show appreciation for what the others discovered.  Because of their blindfolds and not feeling the whole elephant, their observation skills were limited.  They assumed the others were wrong, because they did not focus on the same part of the elephant.

In contrast, we should use our spiritual gifts to increase our appreciation for what God is doing and appreciation for each other.

Consider the following event …

A man is abusive to his family, he robs a store and is thrown in jail.  In jail, he hears the gospel and repents.  He decides to follow Jesus and God changes his life and his family.

The Prophet says, “Praise God, justice was served.  He was brought to justice and repented.”

The Teacher says, “Praise God, he heard the faithful teaching of God’s truth at the worship services and it changed his life.”

The Exhorter says, “Praise God the Hero.  God rescued the man from the path to destruction and turned him into a man of God.  Now his whole family is being witnessed to.”

The Servant says, “Praise God, he was demanding and selfish and now he is serving his family and meeting their needs.”

The Giver says, “Praise God, I gave the money as a strategic gift to buy the Bible that he read to learn about God.”

The Ruler says, “Praise God, he was lazy, on welfare and a thief, but now, he is productive and providing for his family.”

The Mercy says, “Praise the Lord,  the man was abused as a child and decided that would never happen to him again, so he became a bully.  Now he is able to forgive, and his family is being healed emotionally.”

The Discerner of Spirits says, “Praise God, the man was under Satan’s deception, full of addiction and serving Satan.  Now he is free from addiction, the lies have been pushed back, and he is no longer Satan’s servant.”

God wants to be praised for the many aspects of what He is doing to save and change lives.  Each gift initially praises God for a different part of what God did.  When we appreciate the different perspectives that come with the different gifts, we have a deeper thanksgiving and praise for what God is doing.

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Thy Kingdom Come

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Chaplain Dan

The easiest way to understand the Kingdom of God is to focus on the King.  Jesus Christ is the KING of Kings and LORD of Lords.  God reigns supreme over any being in heaven or on earth.  Is there anywhere in God’s universe that is not part of God’s Kingdom?  No.  Is there anywhere in the middle of God’s universe where there are outposts of rebellion? Yes.  There are demonic realms, communities and nations where they are in rebellion against God.  There are people on this earth who reject God’s authority and refuse to live in obedience to the King.

In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus taught us to pray that the citizens of His Kingdom would obey Him, the same way that the angels in heaven obey Him.  When we obey Jesus Christ, we testify that Jesus’ way is the right way (Righteousness).  We testify that what God says is true.  When we live according to God’s teachings, we show that we are citizens of God’s Kingdom.

Jesus Christ was specific in teaching us how to conducting our personal, family and governmental activities according to His Word.  When a group of Christians live according to God’s Word and influence the community or nation to live according to God’s Word, they bring that community or nation into a right relationship with God’s Kingdom.

The rebellion of darkness is at war with God’s Kingdom of righteousness.  Those who reject God’s righteousness live according to worldly pleasures, the teachings of demons, and their own desires.  They are part of the rebellion of darkness.

The Lord’s Prayer

9 In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9-10)

 

We are to focus more God’s Kingdom and God’s right way of living than on what we wear and what we eat.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.  (Matthew 6:33-34)

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