Then when I checked out her leadership, I asked about her leadership in the church. Guess what she was doing? She was putting huge pressure on her members, trying to get them to perform, just like her father had done to her; and she’s constantly finding fault in them. Nothing they do is good enough. In other words, there was an outflow of bitterness in her life, and it didn’t matter what she did, it was never good enough. So, demonic spirits were tormenting her through these belief systems she had in her heart. These are some of the heart bondages that form, that people need release from.
Another kind of curse that comes over a person is a curse of secrecy, where a person has been sexually abused by someone, and the person says: “you mustn’t tell anyone. If you tell someone, you’ll be responsible for our family breaking down. You’ll kill your father/ mother.” So, this vow of secrecy creates a huge problem over people’s lives. You’ll be surprised, when you’re praying for people who have been sexually abused, how frequently there is this vow of secrecy over them. The result is they live tormented by spirits of death and hell. They are angry, because they want to tell someone about what’s happened, but they’re fearful if they speak, their family will blow up. So, terrible despair and torment comes around people like that.
It’s very easy to deal with these things. Where there are word curses spoken by the person, spoken by someone else, or even vows of secrecy, you just need to: acknowledge this is what it is; the person needs to release forgiveness to those who hurt them; and renounce the words. “I renounce the vow of secrecy. I renounce the vow. I renounce those words I spoke. I renounce that curse I spoke over me. I refuse those words I listened to.” Once the person has renounced it, you just say: “In Jesus’ name, I break the cursing.” Command all spirits associated with the curse to go.
So these are some of the burdens that come on people. You can see then, that bondages that get in the heart affect the person’s life. We’ll in another session on the area of trauma, and how trauma affects people’s heart. So with these bondages of the heart, if you can just be aware of them – soul ties, bitter judgements, inner vows, cursing, self-cursing, and these kinds of things spoken over a person’s life. If we’re aware of those things, we can cancel them and break them, and set the person free. Amen.
It’s quite simple. All you need to do is uncover it, get the person to renounce it, and then cancel its power. Command any spirits associated with it to come out; but if you don’t know those things are there, you’ll try and do deliverance, and there’d be all these areas of bondage, that the demons use to resist. If we remove the structures in the person’s life, the demons must come out. You see, the process of deliverance is not just casting the demons out. It’s looking at the life and heart of the person, tearing down the demonic house, and then confronting the spirits.
In one of the sessions, I will just give you a list of things to look for as you are working with people, so when someone comes to you with an issue, if you just mentally have this list of things, you can just know where to look. Often the problem is that we don’t know where to look. So we try to deal with exterior things, rather than heart things. “Out of the heart flow the issues of life.” If the person’s soul-tied, break the soul tie. If there are bitter judgements and expectations, break those. If there are inner vows, break the inner vows. If there are word curses, break the word curses. If there are traumatic pictures, break the attachment to the trauma. Then we’re able to get the person free quite easily. Amen.