Deliverance
is being set free from spiritual bondage and barriers that hold us back from
walking in the victory that Jesus won on the cross for us at Calvary. Put more
bluntly, it is the driving out of evil spirits by the authority of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It is an essential process, probably all Christians need, to
ensure they can be totally set free. It is wrong to assume, that once you give
your life to Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Spirit, that you are
automatically delivered from those demonic strongholds that hold you down. One
of the many benefits of being a Christian is that only Christians filled with
the Holy Spirit can be delivered! If you are not a Holy Spirit-filled Christian
and a deliverance is performed, then you do not have the protection and
guidance from the Holy Spirit to stop any demonic influence from returning and interfering
in your life which could make things worse.
“When
an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking
rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’
When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and
they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than
the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.” (Matthew
12:43-45 NIV).
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