Introduction: We should know fully well that in deliverance, we are dealing with disobedient spirits. These demons will use any opportunity to intimidate, lie or oppose.
It is therefore important to know these 3 facts today, in order to be fully delivered.
Repent, renounce and break demonic bondage over your life.
Sickness and emotional pain are rooted in spiritual problems.
A person coming for deliverance is convicted of sin and truly wants to be delivered out of his bondage. Our first goal is to help him understand that he doesn't need to go through a prayer line to receive deliverance.
Jesus is true to His Word, and anyone who seeks Him in a right spirit with the right "tools" will experience His freeing power. One tool we teach is actually a series of action steps for getting free: repent, renounce and break.
1. Repent. "Repent" literally means being "re-penitent" or "again humble." One who is penitent expresses humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. To repent means to come back to that place of humility and sorrow over sin.
Acts 3:19 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Acts 17:30 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Luke 13:5 - I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
If there is no repentance, then we continue to walk in darkness, deceived by the enemy. And if we continue to be deceived, we remain in bondage.
2. Renounce. To "renounce" means to "give up, refuse, or resign by formal declaration." 1. To disown; to disclaim; to reject; as a title or claim;
Whereas repenting is directed toward God, renouncing is directed toward the enemy.
We are countermanding any words that contradict God's Word. We are making a formal declaration that we will no longer align ourselves with things that oppose God. We are canceling any and all agreements with the enemy.
God has given us authority in Jesus' name to cancel any spiritually binding contract we may have made with the devil through our words. Many believers repent of their sins before God, only to find themselves in a losing tug-of-war with the enemy, repeating their failures.
We must shut the door on the devil, refusing by formal declaration to walk in the ways of the past. Renouncing is the means by which we cut off any legal right for Satan to bind or torment us. This is the way we resist him.
If our words have been contrary to God's, then we have aligned ourselves with the works of darkness. To be free from them, we must counter those words with God's Word, thus renouncing the hidden works of shame.
2 Corinthians 4: 2 “2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.”
3. Break. After we repent, we have the right to cancel or renounce any legal hold the enemy had over us. The yoke of bondage can be broken off our lives. God loves to see us come to the place where yokes are broken--and it thoroughly frustrates the enemy!
We are declaring that repentance has taken place, the enemy has been renounced, and now, with the authority of Jesus' name and because of the power of His death and resurrection, the yoke of bondage is broken. "The yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil" (Isaiah 10:27).
Exodus 20:5 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
At this point of breaking, a struggle begins and ends. It is the primary place of confrontation with the enemy, and now the light of Jesus is shining where darkness once ruled. The enemy has been found out and cast out.
It is a great time of freedom and joy.
Remember, you have the authority to roust the enemy from your own life as well as the lives of others.
Prayer points:
I release my life from any inherited bondage in the name of Jesus.
3. O Lord, send Your axe of fire to the foundation of my life and destroy every evil plantation.
4. Let the blood of Jesus flush out from my system every inherited satanic deposit in the name of Jesus.
5. I release myself from the grip of any problem transferred into my life from the womb in the name of Jesus