THE MEANS OF DELIVERANCE

THE MEANS OF DELIVERANCE:

• Through the ministry of trained, spiritually-gifted believers 

The Basics of Deliverance Series “The Multiple Means of Deliverance” Session I – Pastor Jack Hayford

Galatians 6:1 – “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.”

·         1 Cor. 12:1-- Giftings: “pneumatica”

• Through a believer’s growth in the Truth

John 8:32 – “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

·         The going forth of the Word can bring deliverance!

·         Just the Word is a key means of deliverance; don’t overlook teaching as a means of deliverance!

Isaiah 5:13 – “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” 

• The Ministry of Love 

1 John 4:18 – “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” 

·         Never minimize the importance of community fellowship and worship!

• Walking in the Spirit

·         Romans 8:1-39

·         Walking in the spirit brings a process of deliverance

·         The Word of authority 

Mark 5:8 – “For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.”

·         It is a confrontation and a power moment where a Word of authority is spoken

• Point: There are hosts of situations where the salvation encounter that brings a person from death to life in Christ still finds us dealing with the residue and the aftermath of things that still linger for whatever reason.  It’s not a matter of cheapening the nature of salvation; it’s a matter of recognizing its dimensions and applications to the wholeness of the entire personality.

·         Question: What do we do to prevent situations where we must deal with the same person repeatedly in deliverance?

 Do not fall prey to it; Jesus needs to be in that place in their life, not you!

•  Six principles that need to be observed in every deliverance situation:

1. Ministry recipient needs to repent of disobedience

2. Renounce known ties to the sinful act that brought affliction

3. Declare the cross as triumphant (Col. 2:14)

4. Worship and exalt the Lord (Psalms 149)

5. Help them receive their anointing to move into the liberty of the destroyed yoke

6. Introduce them to Holy Spirit fullness to replace and restore that which was lost

PREPARAING FOR DELIVERANCE

Joshua 3:10 – “ And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.” 

Joshua 7:10-11 –“So the Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both STOLEN and DECEIVED; and they have also put it among their OWN STUFF.”

 They had stolen (taken what didn’t belong to them)

 They had deceived (had a lying spirit about them)

 They put it among their own stuff (added to their stuff what belonged to the enemy)

What were the results?

“Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies…” Joshua 7:12

1. They couldn’t stand before their enemies

2. They were doomed to destruction

3. There would be an absence of the presence of God

Point: God wants to destroy the “Achan” (the accursed things) in our lives, not destroy us!

Joshua 7:19-21 – “And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.”

Point: This is the deceit of the evil one; to get us to embrace things that will only destroy us in the end!

~THE VALLEY OF ACHOR AS A DOOR OF HOPE~

Hosea 1:2 – “When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord.”

Hosea 2:14-15 – “Behold, I will allure her, I will bring her into the wilderness and speak comfort to her. I will give her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope.”

 Anytime there is deliverance from the accursed things, this will be a door of hope for God’s people.

 God wants the world evangelized, but He can’t go beyond the accursed things in the church!

The Basics of Deliverance Series “Preparing the Masses For Deliverance” Session II: Chris Hayward

 The unbeliever needs to be saved; the church needs to be DELIVERED!

 It was after Achan was destroyed and the accursed things were destroyed, that God gave the men a strategy to take Ai!

Hosea 2:15-16 – “She shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, as in the day that she came up from the land of Egypt. And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, that you shall call Me, “My Husband,” and no longer call me, “My Master.”

Hosea 2:17, 19 – “For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, and they shall be remembered by their name no more. I will betroth you to Me forever, says the Lord.”

 The Lord desires a fresh intimacy with His people!

 Satan has come to:

·         Steal (klepto)

·         Kill

·         Destroy

 More than anything else, the enemy wants to steal the LOVE of God out of our hearts so that we will be totally ineffective! Why?

·         Galatians 5:6 – our love energizes our faith!

 Four basic teachings to prepare people to receive & keep their deliverance:

·         Alignment – Walking in line with the Holy Spirit vs. the Flesh

·         Consecration – committing all that we have to the Lord

·         Words – our words can ensnare us!

·         Cleansing – God wants His church to be cleansed

 We must stop looking for others and allow the deliverance ministry to begin with US!