So it’s not a matter of just dealing with the negatives; you want to bring people into life. Don’t think just of deliverance as: ‘we cast out the demon’. Think of it as: ‘we move them out of a place of negative life flow, into a place of life in God’. The casting out of the demon is just one part of that. In bringing the person into freedom, my goal is to uncover what is creating negative energy in it, and confront it; and then lead them into a life where the power of God is flowing, where they are energised with the life of God; and we want to know how to do that. How to identify and remove the roots; and then how to bring people into a place of life?
When people are in a place where they are energised by the Holy Spirit; this is what the Bible says: “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ sets me free from the law of sin and death”. In other words, I need to be in a life flow in God; not just trying to cast my demons out. I need to transition out of being in bondage and darkness, and come into a place of life and strength. So, this is the process called discipleship – moving people into a place where their life is vibrant in God.
You’ll find when you’re working with people, usually they just want you to take away the pain, to fix them up; but our goal is to bring them into life in Christ. When there’s life in Christ, there’s a flow of the power of God.
[Student is invited to come forward for a prayer demonstration]
“Come, come.” We’ll just finish with this. “Look this way. I want you to just put your hand out, towards me. That’s right. Take my hand. I need someone behind her right now.” Now, God wants us to be able to bring his life to others. It should not be hard. It should be very easy. “You just close your eyes right now, and just in a moment the presence of God will come on you. Thank you Lord, for your presence coming right now, the Presence of God.”
In other words, don’t just try to fix a problem; bring them to the source of life. Don’t just try and get rid of demons, bring people into a place of life in Christ; and we’ll show you some ways of doing that.
“Just come. Come. Just take my hand. Close your eyes. Just open your heart to receive; and let the presence of God just touch you like that.” So, we believe for God’s presence to come. We’re called to carry the presence of God. So, have a vision for people carrying the presence of God, rather than living under demons. We’re often so negative in the way we think about things. So, we think – “oh, demons. Got to fix them up”; but think that people are made for God’s Spirit. So, we want them to be carriers of the presence of God; to have a life that God fills. So where before they were under demonic influence, now they’re under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The presence of God is touching them.
“Come. Close your eyes. Holy Spirit come on her; come on her right now; and we can just open ourselves to the presence of God.” I always want to know how does this happen? How do you build then, a life that God lives strongly in? It can’t be hard, it must be easy. I want to help you in that part of it as well. So, what are the things we look for that we need to confront? How do we deal with them? How do we begin to build people’s life in God, so they move from being demonised to being filled in Spirit and power?
If you only think of deliverance as casting out the demons, you’ll be happy to chase the demons; but if we think that God’s heart is concerned about getting people filled with the Spirit, then our desire is not just to confront the demons. It’s to move people in their life in what they experience. Amen.