• Steps to Self-Deliverance

  Do you struggle with a sin pattern that you cannot break? Perhaps you should try self-deliverance. Many people first discover the reality of deliverance by trying it on their own. Isaiah 61 Ministries encourages everyone we minister with to learn how to do self-deliverance following these seven steps:

  1. Confirm your commitment and total surrender to Jesus Christ as your Lord, Savior, and Master in every area of your life.
  2. Confess each sin and sin pattern and forgive others on behalf of yourself and your ancestors. Put everything under the cleansing blood of Jesus.
  3. Repent and renounce the sin and its consequences on you and your family.
  4. Break all agreement with any evil spirits that may have entered you and/or your family as a result of those sins.
  5. Command all evil spirits to leave you at once (tell them to go to the dry places where Jesus Himself will deal with them).
  6. Forbid the evil spirits to return to you or your family.
  7. Invite the Holy Spirit to fill the empty places, set you free, and empower you to serve Jesus in total submission to Him.

  It works. It also helps to confess your sins to a pastor or trusted Christian friend who can help to hold you accountable.

• Healing Through Deliverance

  Many people who are oppressed by evil spirits do not realize that the cause of their oppression is demonic. Some have lived with their struggle(s) for so long, that they come to accept their conditions as incurable or even normal. In Luke, chapter 13, Jesus encounters a woman "who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all." (Verse 11). Had this woman been living in the USA, she might have been told her condition was "arthritis." If she was living in Vietnam, she might just consider this the result of bending over too many years in the rice fields.

  Jesus, however, knew that her physical condition was the result of a spiritual cause. He said, "…should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free … from what bound her?" (Luke 13:16). His approach was, 1) to release her from the spirit of infirmity, then, 2) lay hands on her for healing. (See Luke 13:12-13.) I-61 prayer teams witness this same pattern often in our ministry sessions.

  One woman we prayed for had been tormented by evil spirits for many years. After her deliverance she slowly began to discover that, as a result of her deliverance, many kinds of afflictions were healed. Here is a portion of the list of healings she provided to I-61 as part of her testimony: "no more anxiety, no more back pain, no more lock-jaw, no more dependence on Chapstick, no longer light sensitive (do not need sunglasses all the time), no more depression, no more nightmares, no more getting up every 1.5 hours every night, no more absent-mindedness," and many more! She also was healed from a spirit of blindness. Prior to a prayer session her doctor had told her that she had either a tumor, or aneurism, or poor circulation, and as such, she was losing her eyesight. She could only see a few feet in front of her. After prayer her vision was fine and the doctor declared her totally healed!

  Some Christians doubt that Jesus is still in the healing business. Thank God, He is! "Those troubled by evil spirits were cured" Luke 6:18.

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