Oct 31 2009
What Abour Deliverance?
In the same way that our wounds affect us, we often have snares into which we have stepped, either willfully or innocently. But either way they hinder us, preventing us from being all we can be in God. They are chinks in our spiritual armor, places the enemy can use against us, saying, “Look at you. What a pathetic example of a Christian you are if you can’t overcome______.” You fill in the blank.
Well, if that’s true, why aren’t we running to God and to the altar asking–begging God for deliverance? Because for the most part the church, even Pentacostal churches don’t preach deliverance anymore. Instead they preach accountability to each other, (note “each other” means “fallen men just like us.”) Does anyone else see the problem here, or am I the only one?
Our God is the same yesterday, today and forever and has not lost His power to deliver. So why aren’t we asking and believing for it? Because we’ve believed another of the devil’s lies, that God can’t set us free from anything anymore.
Because that’s a bold-faced lie, it’s up to you and me to preach the true Word whenever we get the opportunity, that Jesus is alive and well on Planet Earth and wants to set us free from every besetting sin. He wants us to be free to function in newness of life and in supernatural Holy Spirit power.
Another reason we often don’t ask for deliverance is because of the humiliation factor. We’ve tried it before and people shunned us when they knew our struggles. Well, let me emphatically state, “There, but for God go I.”
We dare not look down our noses or shun others because there is no difference between us, and if we act like we are superior, we are in iminent danger of falling due to pride. Let me repeat that last section for emphasis: If we act like we are superior, we are in iminent danger of falling due to pride.
So let’s reach out in love to our brothers and sisters, praying for each other and believing for deliverance and freedom, and not take no for an answer. We need each other. It’s going to take our combined efforts to win this world, and none of us are equal to the task alone, so let’s ask God to help us love and protect each other’s reputations, and encourage each other in the faith, believing for answers, victory and deliverance in every area. This is God’s deepest heart desire for His beloved–you and me.
I believe God wants to move right now to deliver us, if we will stand in agreement. Let me pray for us: Father, right now we are in desperate need of deliverance from every besetting sin. We come boldly to your throne, believing you can and WILL set us free to live in victory. Right now I pray for each one who needs a deliverance, that you will move in power and might, helping them renounce sin and, in Jesus’ name, take back the ground they gave to the enemy. We declare that right now You are shattering the power of darkness, lifting them above the circumstances, completely and permanently dead to that sin, and no longer subject to the siren song of the tempter. We thank you now for your delivering power, and believe that right now you are moving in a mighty way. In Jesus’ most wonderful name, amen.
I’d love to rejoice with you if God moved in your life today. You are precious to God and to me, a one of a kind, special vessel He wants to use to win your little circle of influence. Wow! What an amazing God we serve!
Because of His great love,
Nancy
