GETTING STARTED IN DELIVERANCE, GATEKEEPERS AND THE STRONG MAN?
Filed Under Q & A, DEMONOLOGY, BINDING THE STRONGMAN
Getting Started in Deliverance:
All that I know has been derived from reading Win Worley’s material, testing it against Scriptures, and putting it to practice on the deliverance floor. A great $3.00 pamphlet to start with is “Getting Started in Deliverance, Booklet #11″ by Win Worley through WRW Publications, PO Box 852626, Mesquite TX 75185. There are so many other booklets that are chocked full of information. There are 50 booklets, each containing 35 pages or more. These booklets are excerpts of Win’s 11 books. You can always ask for a free book and tape catalog from WRW. www.wrwpublications.com. There are hundreds of audio tapes, hundreds of video tapes, hundreds of books, tracts, booklets, leaflets, on and on and on. You can learn a LOT about deliverance in a very SHORT period of time by reading some of the material.
I was a little scared at first when I got into deliverance. I too, knew that this is where God wanted me to be, but I was afraid that the demons wouldn’t manifest and I would look like a fool. Well, over time, they finally did begin to manifest when I prayed for people. The first stage was the demons making fun of me. They’d say, “Ooooooh. We’re scared. The Power House, has arrived. Oooooooh. We’re shaking in our boots.” I would always respond with, “I’m learning demons. Give me a little more time.” Other times they would look up and see me holding on for dear life on a guys leg, and they’d start laughing at me and calling me names. “Scared of the dark, are we?” At night, the demons would wake me up at 3:30am in the morning. Then as I sat straight up with my heart pounding a million miles a minute, I would see something like a shadow of a figure come from the door of my room and swoop towards me passing right through me. I’d jump in fear. Then when I prayed for people, the demons would say, “Scare of the dark?”
After a while, I learned how to fight dirty. Then there was the fear that I didn’t have a true Tongue from the Holy Spirit–that maybe my prayer language was demonic. As it turned out, some of it actually was—it was Latin at times and I was saying, “Run away! Run away! The Holy Spirit! Run away!” I found this out through a deliverance session. So I stopped saying those words that kept coming to mind. And since then, the demons hate my prayer language–which makes me only happy that it torments them so.
There was a little apprehension, and fear for some time about praying for people. What if discernment didn’t kick in and I said things that would make the person receiving prayer think I was nuts? As I continued to pray for people, and fight this fear of mine, discernment has gotten more and more accurate. When I sit down to pray for someone now, I usually hit the nail right on the head every time, so I’m glad that the Holy Spirit is working “cleanly” through me besides all those apprehensions and fears of mine (of which I’ve received much deliverance).
So if you are a little apprehensive, don’t worry. You may always be a little nervous. It’s better to be a careful, than to be bold and arrogant. I still start of my deliverance sessions asking the Lord Jesus Christ to give me and the person receiving prayer the discernment to know what to attack and how to go about attacking it. At the end of every deliverance session, I thank the Lord for the miracle of deliverance and for all the deliverance the person receiving prayer received, giving Him all the glory, honor and praise. Without Him, I could do nothing, ya know?
So fight those fears. Force yourself to get in the middle of things.
Men praying for Men, women with women:
As I’ve been thinking and praying about your e-mails, something struck me kind’a funny and I just thought I’d ask–At Hegewisch, where I go to church, we are extremely strict about men always praying for men and women always praying for women. And unless the couple is married, we don’t allow the sexes to mix and match, and even when they’re married, they only pray for a little bit and hand the reigns back over to the same sex to continue fighting. I was curious about this when you mentioned that you were praying for a man.
I’m not asking to be legalistic or anything, but many times, people just don’t think about how demons gain strength from the people around them. Let’s say that the man you are praying for manifests in Lust. All of you go to attack it, but it doesn’t come out. It laughs in your faces and mocks all of you? Why doesn’t it come out? Because, it is feeding off the presence of a woman touching the man, or it is feeding off having a woman within arms reach. It actually will give the demon strength, and the person trying to get deliverance will not get free and go home discouraged and feeling guilty for feeling the way he did towards a sister in the Lord. Same for a man in the company of women and the woman manifests in Lust.
Just curious how ya’ll handled that in North Carolina? It’s a touchy subject that can unfortunately lead to a lot of sexual sin that we try to avoid at HBC. Since I’m not familiar with [the two men’s names], I’m not familiar with how things operate.
But just the same, there’s tons of information on the net at the URL I listed above for WRW Publications. You can feast on the titles alone. I hope you browse the bookroom and take a look at what’s available. It would be very helpful and beneficial.
Helping those that the Lord sends:
As for what to do in helping people through deliverance: LET THE LORD BRING THE PEOPLE TO YOUR DOOR. DO NOT SEEK PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR. Win was very plain when he told us that the only way people are going to get free is if they are at their wits end and are willing to do whatever the Lord asks. If it means driving a very long distance to find you, then that’s what it takes. If you go and promote yourself, people will take advantage of you and you’ll pray for hundreds of hours and not really see any real change in people’s lives.
Did you every hear the story of the butterfly? I’m sure you are aware that these butterflies are caterpillars who form cocoons. While inside the cocoon, they transform into a butterfly. When it’s time to come out of the cocoon, the butterfly struggles and struggles to get out, fighting and fighting to break through. Our natural, “Sloppy Agape” tendency is to help the butterfly by pulling apart the cocoon and letting it escape. The problem is that the breaking of the cocoon wall is what gives the butterfly it’s strength. If you help it out, the butterfly will die because it is too weak.
Same principle applies to chickens when they are hatching out of their egg. By breaking the wall, the chick gets its strength and if you help it out, it will die because it will be too weak to survive.
So it is with “helping people.” We’re not in the business to make weak Christians who can’t stand on their own two feet. We have to make sure that when we are helping people, it is because the Lord told us to, and NOT because that “Sloppy Agape” is taking over and we’re just feeling sorry for every little creature that whimpers and wines. It’s a matter of discernment.
Remember, the Lord is the Deliverer. We are not. We pray to the Lord in deliverance that he would free the person. The Lord does not always answer our prayers the way we wish He would. But if it’s time, the Lord will deliver the person from the spirits they are seeking freedom from. Sometimes, people run up in the prayer line to get freedom from a spirit they continue to pick up through habitual sin. As soon as they’re free, they run back into the sin again. Well, the Lord will not be mocked. He’ll allow that person to suffer with that spirit until they’ve learned their lesson that you don’t return like a dog to its vomit. We’ll pray and pray for them, and the Lord will continue to say, “NO!” When this person has learned their lesson, then the deliverance comes. Remember, seven more evil than the first. The Lord knows what’s best, doesn’t He?
Peter says, “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:” (1 Pet 5:6).
You just keep learning and keep your nose to the grindstone. Humble yourself to learning all you can, and get deliverance yourself. 1 Peter 5:6 states that God will exalt you in due time. It will be God who will bring people to you and you will be recognized by Scott and James because the Lord is honoring your faithfulness and hard work. Don’t strive to be seen. Just be happy to have a part in the Lord’s kingdom to serve Him.
Just be happy to be called a “worker” a “servant.” The Lord will exalt you in due time.
Spiritual Gatekeepers and the Strong Man:
The term “Gate Keeper” is not in the Bible. It is a phrase used to describe how demons operate. “Strong Man” is mentioned in Luke by Jesus when He stated, “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils” (Luke 11:21-22).
The strong man is a demon who has smaller demons under his command. We know that the demons have rank when we read Ephesians, Paul tells us, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places” (Eph 6:12). Paul makes a distinction as to what ranks of spirits we fight. There are principalities such as the Illuminati. There are powers, such as corrupt government and evil local politics and lawyers, such as the spirits behind the ACLU. There are rulers, such as the New Age Spirit Guides leading the Educators astray in teaching our children that Homosexuality is acceptable and normal. There is spiritual wickedness in high places.
Satan, as we well know, is not God. He is a created being. And as a created being, can only be one place at a time. Therefore, as a general is but one mind, in order to invade a country, he has dominions under his command which he sends forth. So, as one entity, Satan has dominions under his command–principalities, powers, rulers, etc. The smaller the rank, the less the demon is in charge of.
Therefore, the Strong Man, is a more power ranking demon that the dominions under his command. When Jesus said, “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he
trusted, and divideth his spoils” (Luke 11:21-22).
Who is stronger than any Strong Man demonic power? Jesus Christ, the name above all names at which every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Every tongue, including every Strong Man. So Luke 11:22 says, “But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him” that’s what happens in deliverance. We can bind him, we can drive him out. The rest of verse 22 says, “he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.” Well, we know that the thief (demons) “…cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy…” (John 10:10). What did they steal? Things that originally belonged to us–peace, hope, joy, parts of our soul (mind, will and emotions). So we TAKE IT BACK–we “divideth his spoils.”
The Gate Keepers, huh?
Ever heard of Self Pity? “I’m no good.” And you respond, “You’re right, I’m not.” “I’m hopeless. There’s no way I’ll ever change.” And you respond, “You’re absolutely right. I’m a basket case.” “Things are not going to get any better.” And you respond, “You’re right. Things are not getting any better.”
And now enters Suicide since Self Pity has opened “the door.” “You ought to just kill yourself and put an end to all your problems.” And you respond, “It’s my only answer.” “No one will miss you anyway.”
And now Bitterness enters: “They never paid attention to you before.” And you respond, “You’re right. No one ever does pay attention to me. They don’t even know I exist.”
And now enters Hopelessness: “You might as well give up. There’s no use in trying anymore.” And you start considering ending your life.
And then enters Confusion and Deception and Destruction, and finally a spirit of Death.
What’s happened? Self Pity, the “Gate Keeper” got you to agree with him. When you made an agreement with Self Pity, he “opened the door” for Suicide, then came Bitterness, then came Hopelessness, then came confusion, then came deception, then destruction…
Do you see the domino effect here? The Strong Man may have been Rejection, but it was in command over Self Pity. If you were able to kick Rejection out, Self-Pity would simply get you feeling sorry for yourself, and this would open the door wide for Rejection to come back in. It’s kind’a like a person holding the back door open for all of his friends to get in since the front door is locked.
And again, this “Gate Keeper” phrase is not found in the Bible. It’s a phrase used to describe the way that demons operate. There’s a booklet called, “How Demons Operate, Booklet #16″ Win wrote which explains a lot of this type of warfare and tactics.
Anyway, It’s 3am and I really have to get to bed. I hope I’ve been of some help to you. Do browse the bookroom and see if you find anything interesting.
Michael has always said that we’ve got something to offend everyone in that bookroom.