To “deliver” means to rescue, liberate, or set free. Deliverance often implies saving someone
from an oppressive situation, such as sickness, enemies, sin, or other spiritual forces of evil.
Deliverance refers to God’s mighty acts of salvation and is a central theme throughout the Bible. God promises to deliver His people from hardship, oppression of men, demonic oppression, and the power of sin. As Christians, we must understand what deliverance means and how God brings it about. Deliverance demonstrates God’s love, mercy, and compassion for His people. When we are struggling and crying out to God, He hears us and will reach down and pull us out of the pit. As Psalm 34:17 says, “The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.” God is a deliverer who can free us from any snare or trap we have fallen into. Deliverance also points to the greatest act of redemption – our salvation through Jesus Christ. Just as God delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, He delivers us from sin through Christ. Jesus Christ sets us free from the penalty of sin as well as the power of Satan and his demonic forces.
What is Deliverance?
The Deliverance Process
The most important part of the deliverance process is finding out your bondages, how the devil is operating in those bondages, and what we need to do to get you set free. Without that knowledge, we are going into the deliverance setting blindfolded.
The Holy Spirit plays a vital role in this step of the process. I like to educate each person I minister to for a few reasons. If I teach you how the basic areas of bondage work, you will likely recognize how that applies to your situation. This allows both of us to better understand what is going on. In addition, I will teach you through the word of God, how to walk strongly in your authority in Christ so that you can effectively battle the enemy and win every day. This will lead to a peaceful and joy-filled life while maintaining your deliverance.
Here are the areas that will be addressed in the teaching as well as the deliverance process: unforgiveness, soul ties, word curses (which they, their parents, and others, may have spoken over them), strongholds, emotional wounds, and traumas. Describing how these things work will bring understanding to see how they need help overcoming those areas. Best of all, it helps the person I am ministering to feel very comfortable with both me and the process that I am taking them through. Of course, deliverance questionnaires are very helpful as well in the interviewing stage, to uncover additional areas of bondage.
Throughout the process, the Holy Spirit may be revealing or bringing to memory the things that need to be addressed. I encourage you to make notes of anything that comes up that needs to be repented of, strongholds torn down, traumas, and emotional wounds that need to be healed.