PERSONAL SPIRITUAL WARFARE
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Beginning Assumptions
 Things that Defile
 How Bondage Occurs
 Strongholds
Generational Sin Deliverance and Inner Healing Smart Spiritual Warfare
 Three Parts of Successful Deliverance
Rejection
 Cultural Bondages & Dominations
 Unhealthy Traditions
 Addictions
Witchcraft
 Sexuality
 Practicalities
 Recommended Reading



BEGINNING ASSUMPTIONS

  1. We are all sinners saved by the grace of Jesus Christ and are being made holy in Him.

  2. Sanctification, or holiness, is both an instant work at salvation and a process of development over time.

  3. Satan and demonic forces are actual personal beings, and are nothing more than created and fallen angels. No Zorastrian dualism here. Satan is not equal with God. Satan is not omnipresent. 1 John 4:4

  4. The Bible is authoritative in our exploration and discussion. Experiential wisdom is valued when it is not cross current with Scripture.
Good Definition of Spiritual Warfare: John 10:10


THINGS THAT DEFILE Ezekiel 3:18-20

Examples of Defilement:
HOW BONDAGE OCCURS
Set in place by the Sovereign, everyone on both sides in the spiritual realm must follow them.

The Enemy's Strategy Is Always One or More of Three Things:
STRONGHOLDS -- 2 CORINTHIANS 10:3-5

Stronghold - 73 times in LXX, 50 times in NIV, once in New Testament

GENERATIONAL SIN (Hereditary issues)
Exodus 20:4-6 Seminal passage

Cain Genesis 4:1-16; 6:5-6, 11-12; 8:21
Abraham & Isaac Genesis 12:14-20; 20:13; 26:7-11
Jacob & Sons Genesis 27:1-29; 30:25-43; 31:19, 34-35; 35:22; 37:27, 32-35
Korah Numbers 16 (God's just balance)
Achan Joshua 7:1-26 especially :24-25
Eli 1 Samuel 3:13-14
Jeroboam 1 Kings 14:9-11; 2 Kings 17:21-22
David 1 Kings 11:1-13; 2 Samuel 13:1-24
Agag/Haman & Saul - Mordecai/Esther

Other Scriptures: Leviticus 26:39; Numbers 14:33; Job 21:19-21; Psalm 51:5; 58:3-5; Isaiah 14:20-21; Jeremiah 32:18; Lamentations 5:7; Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 5:12-13; Matthew 27:24-25

HEREDITARY BLESSING:
There are many examples. Here are two. Exodus 20:4
Phinehas Numbers 25:10-13
Jonadab Jeremiah 35:6-8; 18-19

REMEMBER:
The Enemy's Strategy Is Always One or More of Three Things:
Sin Categories Which Are or Can Be Generational (Iniquitous) in Operation

DELIVERANCE & INNER HEALING
Introduction: Colossians 3:5-10
  1. Deliverance of a demon was Jesus' first public miracle. Luke 4:31-36; Mark 1:21-27.
  2. Paul on deliverance: Acts 16:18; 26:18; Colossians 1:13; Acts 14:8-10; 19:12.
  3. It is a process of sanctification. Acts 8:13 Simon Magus came to Christ, but still under the influence of the occult.
  4. Deliverance is a process of removing oppressive spiritual beings. Inner healing is a process of cleansing the wounds.
  5. God intends us to be free and stay free.  ruomai "rescue, preserve." John 17:16; Matthew 6:13; 2 Corinthians 1:10.
  6. Not possessed, but demonized  daimonizomai Matthew 4:24; 15:22; John 10:20; echo "having" Acts 8:7; 16:16. The demon doesn't have you. You have a demon.
  7. No one should be ordained who does not know how to cast out a demon.

SMART SPIRITUAL WARFARE
You learned it in Sunday School when you were a child.

God's Nuclear Arsenal Jeremiah 50:25 Cut The Enemy's Supply Lines
"Achieving victory in every battle is not absolute perfection: Neutralizing an adversary's forces without battle is absolute perfection. . . . Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact, . . . without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Book 3, "Offensive Strategy."



THREE PARTS OF SUCCESSFUL DELIVERANCE
Methodologies of deliverance and inner healing are as different as believers with spiritual giftings. For successful ministry, only three things must be present:
Demons will not go away simply because they have been renounced. They have to be literally thrown out.


REJECTION
Far and beyond the most widespread problem among people
"Although my father and my mother have forsaken me, yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child]." Psalm 27:10 Amplified. Robs a person of John 10:10 living.

Two symptoms: Constant desire assurance of self-worth and for physical love.

REASONS (not absolute)
  1. Manner or timing of conception
    1. Out of wedlock, in anger, rape, incest, adultery, drug-dependent relationship, unwanted, strain on family budget, last of large family, middle child, bad timing for family.
    2. Example: Marty's daughter.
  2. Received in mother's womb (in utero)
    1. circumstances surrounding mother, father's displeasure
  3. Manner of birth
    1. Born very quickly (not enough time in canal), sudden exposure to cold, lights, born with instrumental assistance, born after long, exhausting labor, Caesarean section (C-section babies sometimes often have difficulty estimating distance between themselves and objects, frequent accidents, particularly head injuries.
  4. Baby not bonded with mother
    1. Mother cannot produce enough breast milk, child in incubator long term
  5. Adopted child
  6. Child of divorce
  7. Home environment of criticism
  8. Hereditary - rejected parents sometimes produce rejected children
  9. In School
    1. Teacher, other students, called names, sickness, constant criticism, deformity, expelled, fire in home, trauma, no interest of parents in schoolwork, major negative change in home
  10. Molestation
    1. One's own attitudes
      1. Shame, unattractive
    2. Later in Life
      1. Jilted, crime, divorce, job or company loss (especially men)
A Word on Pre-natal/post-natal Wounding
Story: Molestation of 18-month old son of pastor friend in church nursery.

Principle: When the zygote forms, a person is there, as much a person with a spirit as you and I are right now. Therefore, spiritual wounding can take place before the mind (or body) more fully develops. This is a spiritual reality. John the Baptizer's spirit was fully formed while in the womb (Luke 1:41).


CULTURAL BONDAGE AND DOMINATIONS Examples: Germans - perfection, witchcraft
Scot-Irish - easily offended, protective, lust for land, wounded
Native Americans - hard to know, wounds of past, untrusting
South Carolinians - easily offended
UNHEALTHY TRADITIONS
Colossians 2:8, 20; Galatians 4:9; 2 Corinthians 6:17-18
Tradition itself is neither good nor bad. Some traditions are healthy; some are unhealthy. How do we properly discern a tradition's health?

Key - Control of others. If a tradition frees a people to see and celebrate God's works and promises, then it is healthy (e.g., Thanksgiving, Christmas, Resurrection Sunday, family reunions, Lent, dinner on grounds, homecoming, baptism, baby dedication, tail-gating, annual fishing trip).

If the tradition is used to control others, then it is unhealthy
ADDICTIONS

WITCHCRAFT Acts 19:18-20 A Note on Schizophrenia & Multiple Personalities
"disconnection between mind, emotions, and actions" - saying one thing and doing another. Swinging personality from raging to sweet. Drive out the schizophrenic spirit. See Holy Spirit bind functions of mind, will, emotions, personality.


SEXUALITY Leviticus 18 (Spirit of Lust)

PRACTICALITIES
Mark 16:17 - We have express permission to cast out demons in Jesus' name.
MENTAL ILLNESS & FEAR


RECOMMENDED READING:

Neil Anderson, The Bondage Breaker
Neil Anderson, Steps to Freedom in Christ
Neil Anderson, Freedom from Fear
Kay Arthur, Lord, Heal My Hurts: A Devotional Study on God's Care and Deliverance
Ron Campbell, Free from Freemasonry
Noel & Phyl Gibson, Evicting Demonic Intruders
Frank Hammond, Manual for Children's Deliverance
Charles Kraft, I Give You Authority
Charles Kraft, Deep Wounds, Deep Healing (on inner healing)
Charles Kraft, Defeating Dark Angels (on deliverance)
Charles H. Kraft, David M. DeBord, The Rules of Engagement : Understanding the Principles that Govern the Spiritual Battles in Our Lives
Francis MacNutt, Deliverance from Evil Spirits
Francis MacNutt, Prayer that Heals
Francis MacNutt, Healing
Stormie Omartian, Lord, I Want To Be Whole The Power Of Prayer And Scripture In Emotional Healing
Derek Prince, Blessing or Curse: You Decide
Derek Prince, They Shall Expel Demons
John & Mark Sandford, A Comprehensive Guide to Deliverance and Inner Healing
Doris M. Wagner, How to Cast Out Demons : A Guide to the Basics