Prayers for deliverance. 10 signs that you need deliverance. In John 8:31-36 Jesus talked
to the Jews who followed Him, believed in Him and He said, "If you abide in My word,"
and I'm paraphrasing, "you'll be my disciples, you'll know the truth. The truth will set
you free." And of course they answered Him and said, "We're Abraham's descendants, we've
never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say you will make us free?" Even though they've
been in bondage to Egyptians, Babylonians. I mean, any nation you can think of, they've
been in bondage. The first sign or the first thing that you must recognize before you experience
deliverance or freedom, is that you're in bondage. And for a lot of people that is 50%
of the victory, when you actually recognize that this is not normal, that you need to
be freed or delivered, that I have this demonic activity in my life. And I have other content
or videos that deal with can Christians have demon. That is not what we're going to focus
on in this piece of content. I'm going to go through a few practical signs, that you
can examine and diagnose yourself today. And then we're going to be praying at the end,
for the Lord to search our heart and for the Lord to expose anything that's not of Him,
so that you can receive your freedom. The first sign that you need deliverance is your
sleep. If you have attacks in your sleep, sleep paralysis, nightmares, evil presence
during the sleep, constantly eating in a dream, seeing dead people in the dream, having snakes
in the dream, animals appearing in the dream, being chased in the dream, falling in the
dream or dying in the dream. That could be a sign that you are in need of deliverance.
Matthew 13:25 it says:
That's the first sign. Second sign that you need deliverance are
in your thoughts. It's when you have intrusive thoughts and voices in your head, intrusive
thoughts, tormenting thoughts, blasphemy thoughts, pushy thoughts, compelling thoughts, suicidal
thoughts and fear. Voices that are heard in the mind that mock, intimidate, accuse, threaten
and attempt to bargain with you. They speak like in the third person. John 13:3 it says that:
The devil works a lot of times through the battlefield of our mind. Number three
sign that you need deliverance is actually in your emotions. It's when you have controlling,
negative toxic emotions: depression, anxiety, heaviness, rejection, resentment, unforgiveness,
disappointment, loneliness, misery, self-destruction or suicide. It says in 2 Timothy 1:7,
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear..." That means fear is a spirit. Isaiah 61:3 it says that:
There are demonic spirits that affect people's emotions. The sign number four that you need
deliverance is in your desires. It's when you have an intense desire and craving for
defiled things. Now all Christians have the flesh, this is different. There's an intense
craving and desire for defiled things like drugs, alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, painkillers,
weed and gambling. Strange addictions of sometimes people wanting to eat ice non-stop, or sand,
or I've seen people who needed deliverance who eat human feces. I mean bizarre weird
things, and you would say, "How could a human want those things?" It's not a human, it's
a demon that wants that. It wants defiled things. Romans 8:15 it says that we have not
received the spirit of bondage. So this spirit, it wants particular diet. The spirit of bondage
wants a particular type of food, and this food is defilement and things that are contrary
to human nature and God's will. Sign number five that you are in need of deliverance and
that's actually found in your mouth. It's when you cannot tame your tongue. You know
when the Spirit of God fills a person they speak in tongues, they can prophesy, they
can speak encouragement. But when a demon fills a person they have chronic lying, cursing,
gossip or even blasphemy. Acts 5:3 it says Peter said to Ananias, he says, "Why has satan
filled your heart to lie?" And that could be a sign that you need deliverance, if your
mouth needs cleansing. Number six sign is in your sex life. It's when you have a sexual
perversion or spirit spouse, porn, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual
fantasies, prostitution and spirit spouse. Meaning when something like incubus or succubus
that shows up and sleeps with you during the night. In Hosea 5:4 it says, "That they do
not direct their deeds toward God, for the spirit of harlotry," one translation says
spirit of whoredom, "is in their midst and they do not know God." And maybe you feel
like there is this intense desire for sexual perversion. These thoughts that are not yours,
they're foreign and you need deliverance. You need help and we're here to help. The
seventh sign is in your health or in your body. It's when there are chronic diseases
and sicknesses like epilepsy, stress, migraine headaches, allergies, crippling arthritis,
sleep problems, insomnia and other diseases that are chronic and a lot of times they are
the ones that are generational. Luke 13:11 it says that the woman had a spirit of infirmity.
The devil likes to harass our health by depositing his evil and works into our own body called
sickness and disease. Number eight sign is in our behavior. It's when a person has compulsive
behavior, extreme obsessive behavior, impulsive behavior, sudden surges of violent rage, uncontrollable
anger and this feelings of hostility. Sometimes it's compulsion to hurt yourself.
1 Samuel 16:14 it says that:
We see in Mark chapter 2 when that man who had a legion of demons, he was hurting himself.
A lot of times when we would minister to people who have demons or who are demonized, and
they would say, "Like something took over me, something controlled me. Something that,
it was not me, like I was out of control." You know why? Because something else was in
control. Some other entity exercised control at that point and that entity needs to be
removed. But before we remove that, before we deal with that, we must know and we must
diagnose ourselves and we must take ourselves through the scanner of the truth to receive
freedom. Because recognizing that you have need for deliverance is already 50% of that
battle. Number nine is spiritual problems. It's when you have extreme restlessness in
spiritual environment or hostility towards the ministry of deliverance. Tremendous hostility
or fear when encountering someone who is involved in deliverance work, is a sign you might need
deliverance. Extreme restlessness, constant yawning, constant tiredness in a spiritual
environment, while you are totally not tired when you switch the environments or locations,
could be a sign you need to be freed. In Mark 1:23-24 it says when Jesus entered into the
synagogue this man started acting very weird, like it wasn't normal because the presence
of God provokes and demons manifest. And sometimes the way they manifest they shut down persons
faculties, mental faculties that a person cannot focus anymore or a person produces
this hostility toward minister who is ministering in the area of deliverance. And sign number
10 is generational. These are reoccurring problems of your parents that are repeating
in your life. That could be a sign that there is a demon that is roaming around in your
family tree. And that you are not actually fighting a demon that you have opened the
door for, but a demon that somebody else have opened the door for and you inherited that
demon. You think it's possible? Yes it is. In Exodus 20:5 it says, "You shall not bow
down to them," so other gods, "and serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations
of those who hate Me." You may say, "Well I'm under the New Covenant." The principle
applies still, it's a treason against God to be involved in the cult and witchcraft.
And if your ancestors participated in that, a lot of times it will surface in your own
life that these demons, these curses and demons will cause. For example, some of the things
to look for if you're trying to examine if there are generational demons or curses. If
there's a chronic diseases that are running in your family. If there is mental attacks
or mental illness, kind of like phobias and constant problem with mental health. A breakdown
of the family union through divorce, adultery, premature deaths in the family, constant poverty,
repeated accidents or barrenness. If you notice these things, a lot of times it's a sign you
need to be freed, you need to be delivered. The goal of mine is not to convince you that