Why we don't see deliverance in our church. One of the common questions that I get asked.
And a lot of times pastors, young pastors, mean really well also ask questions like, how can I
see more people being delivered in the church? Now please understand, we are not in any way talking
about right now manifestation. So the goal is not to see more manifestations, the goal is to
see more deliverances but you must understand that deliverance and manifestations in many cases are
not separated. You cannot have deliverance if you are afraid or if you are constantly criticizing
manifestation. Now I would like to mention four main things that every church needs to have,
for the ministry of deliverance to function properly. The first one is passionate prayer.
Prayer is the main thing that makes the church a spiritual entity and combats the spiritual
forces in the city and in the region. Church is call the house of prayer and so if the ministry
is not praying, if in your ministry there is no prayer, then there will be no deliverance because
prayer prepares an atmosphere for the anointing where demons cannot stay. Churches that don't see
deliverances are usually churches that don't pray and are not fasting. The second thing that every
ministry needs in order to see deliverances is a heart for evangelism, not a heart for
deliverance but a heart for evangelism. This is huge because when lost people get saved usually
deliverance follows. A lot of times the first deliverances that we've seen in our ministry
happen to people who just recently gave their life to Christ. Now, I'm not in any way indicating that
regular folk, church folk, who go to church for a very long time do not have demons and don't need
deliverance. That's not true. We see that with a man in a synagogue, we see a woman who had
18 years a spirit of infirmity, who was in the synagogue as well. She needed deliverance
and so, but many times people who are fresh off the boat, people who just come from the world,
they are a lot more open to the manifestation of the Holy Spirit and a lot more desperate to
see deliverance because they want all that God has for them. And so we are called to win the
lost. Even deliverance in itself is not a means, it's not an end to itself. It's not the goal,
it's the means to a goal and so it's the means for us to bring more people to Christ, for
people to serve Jesus more fully. And so heart for evangelism, salvation of people is more important
than deliverance because you know, you can still go to heaven being tormented, being sick and being
poor and struggling and depressed and living in fear, but you cannot go to heaven without Jesus
Christ. So heart for evangelism is the key to seeing deliverance in the ministry. Number three
is expectation for miracles, signs and wonders. We believe that miracles did not die with the
apostles. God is still a supernatural God, we have a supernatural Bible, everything about our faith
is supernatural. Nothing makes sense to a logical mind outside of the supernatural context of our
faith, from the virgin birth, to Jesus sinless life, to His prediction about dying, to His death,
to His resurrection, to Him being ascended into heaven, to Him pouring out the Holy Spirit upon
the local church. All of that is not natural, all of that is supernatural. When we strip the
supernatural out of the church. When there is no expectation of the supernatural in the church,
we will not welcome the ministry of deliverance. Now how do we build more of that supernatural?
Put more testimonies than announcements. Take away the things, that honestly are completely
goofy and are completely nonsense in the service and put testimonies. Cut the message a little bit
shorter and put more testimonies. Why? Because testimonies birth testimonies.
Pray bold prayers. Don't build sermons to explain why miracles don't happen. Build sermons so
you can raise an expectation for miracles to happen in the ministry. Anticipate miracles,
believe for miracles, ask God for miracles, pray for miracles, expect for them to happen
because many times miracles is just those things that happen when the Holy Spirit shows up. Now
the fourth thing and that is the confrontation of the demonic. Demons will not manifest if you
don't confront them. Demons will not manifest if you don't mention them and if you don't
go into war against them. Now there are occasions where the anointing is so strong
and they cannot stand there but usually you have to go in the conflict and in confrontation. You
have to pray confrontational prayers for the demons to manifest and a lot of people are not
comfortable with that. Where they're comfortable to pray prayers that doesn't offend anybody,
that doesn't move heaven, that doesn't move the earth, it doesn't scare the demonic and so if we
want that then yes take the route that you maybe have been taking but if you want to see change,
I want to encourage you burn with heart for evangelism. I want to encourage you get back
into your prayer life. I want to encourage you anticipate the supernatural, add testimonies to
your services, add testimonies to your spiritual diet of the things that you watch on youtube
and watch on facebook and other places and then have services where you confront the demonic.
Now let me share with you just some practical things that we did at HungryGen to see more
of deliverances taking place. First and foremost is, you have to live privately a victorious life.
You cannot defeat Goliath publicly if you got eaten by lions privately. Before Jesus cast
out demons He faced devil in the wilderness and He won that battle and so Bible says that
God called us to live a private life that is pleasing to Him and holy to Him. If you're
battling with certain things right now and you're being bound and you are being beaten by certain
things, get delivered. Get set free before you go and embark on trying to tackle the devil publicly
if you get tackled and get shackled by him privately. The second practical thing on seeing
more deliverances in the church is, seek for people to be saved, focus on people to be saved,
start doing an altar call for salvation, encourage the church to invite unbelievers. Now I know what
you may say, "well Vlad, that deliverance is going to scare new people." Don't. The power of God is
what's going to draw people to salvation, as long as we're not pursuing a show, as long as we are
authentically, genuinely doing this because Jesus did it and we love people and we don't make some
kind of a weird thing out of it. Then people will receive that, if it's done by the power of the
Holy Spirit the results will speak for themselves. And so focus on evangelism more in the church than
just, let's get the demons out or let's get demons manifested so I can become a demon slayer or you
know this giant killer, this spiritual little guru and I could walk around with spiritual pride.
Number three is, do not demonize deliverance ministry. Do not attack people who do deliverance
that you might not agree with a hundred percent. Everyone's ministry will be slightly different.
One of the greatest ways to lose the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon your own ministry in the area
of deliverance is to attack deliverance. There are people who attack demons and there are those who
attack deliverance ministers. If you demonize deliverance ministers you will never deliver
the demonized. If you want miracles to follow you, sometimes you got to follow them. Jesus says,
"those who believe these signs will follow them." I like what one minister said one time
he said, "if the signs don't follow you follow them," meaning get associated,
get connected with ministries that do deliverance, watch their videos, you know read their books.
I try to constantly listen to podcasts, even from my friends, even from people that I know
personally. Some things that I already know but just to be refreshed, to be sharpened in my
skill set, in my tool set, in my understanding of the spiritual world. I constantly try to have
books, ebooks and other things so I can sharpen my understanding of the spiritual world, as well
as listening and watching deliverance testimonies. Why? Because that enriches my world. I don't want
to attack and criticize that ministry. I want to attract the anointing to do that ministry
and I want to encourage you to do the same. The fourth practical tip to see more deliverance in
your ministry is overcome the fear of man. One of the biggest things that steals the move of God in
any church is when leaders are paralyzed by the fear of man. Instead of being moved by the fear of
God, we fear men. God called us to love people. God called us to lead people. God called us to
serve people. God never called us to fear people. And so if you are afraid of certain things in the
scripture because of your fear of losing people, please understand they are not your people.
You did not purchase them with the blood of Jesus and at the end of the day as important as church
attendance numbers and the giving numbers and how many people were seating, how many new visitors
we attracted, how many people raise their hand and pray the sinner's prayer. As important as that is
my friend it is God's work and God can take care of His own reputation really good and our job is
to love these people, our job is to lead these people and our job is to preach the truth and to
preach also God's grace, and fear of men has to be destroyed if we want to walk in the fire of God.
The other practical step that I would encourage you is show testimonies of people who got
delivered, who got set free and what happened to them afterwards. Now in some ministries you know,
it's kind of like, well this is too much to show somebody's manifesting of demons and maybe you'll
just show the testimony of this person testifying, but it's interesting how they have a Bible where
manifestations happen. What is weird? Them seeing deliverance on the screen in your church
or them reading the Bible and never seeing that in the church and never seeing that mentioned and
the only thing that's mentioned from the pulpit is this mockery and laughter and making fun of people
who do that? People are not stupid. They read the Bible and they see that in the Bible and a lot
of times they don't see that in their ministry so show them. If it's not happening in your ministry
show them what is happening, give an explanation, bring a scripture of where that's in the Bible
and then show testimonies of deliverance, show testimonies of somebody being set free.
The other part is teach on spiritual warfare, constantly teach on spiritual warfare. We teach
so much on tithing, we teach so much about giving, we teach so much about family and
five steps to this, seven steps to this and that has its place but teach on warfare, teach about
the supernatural, teach about the demons, teach about deliverance, teach about freedom, teach
about overcoming. You'll be surprised how hungry people are for freedom. You will be surprised
how hungry people are for the supernatural world. We're supernatural being in our core,
who serve a supernatural invisible God and so that's not something strange. That's not something
weird. That's not something for those weirdos and craziest to teach. That's for you as a person and
as a leader to teach as well and that's supposed to be taught in the church and not taught in the
sense that we're constantly correcting everyone's misconception or we're constantly correcting this
and that but we're teaching the truth of what the Bible teaches and we expect the kingdom of God to
manifest on the scene. Don't make the Word of God void by teaching and believing tradition. One of
the hindrances for deliverance to take place from ministries and churches, small groups,
is when people embrace and these teachings become strongholds in their minds. Let me give you a few
of them. One of them is the traditional teaching that says, Christians cannot have demons. It's
traditional, it's not in the scripture, it's not in the Bible. Christians cannot be demon possessed
but Christians can be oppressed, that's not in the Bible. There's nowhere in the Bible that
it talks about oppression and demon possession. Bible only uses one word main word and that is
demonized. It just talks about a demonic control over a person, and Christian, not Christian,
demonic control over a person. And so we need to get our theology straight.
Tradition says Christians can't have demons and therefore Christians don't get delivered.
Oh they do have demons, obviously they do and we overemphasize mental health, we overemphasize
therapy, counseling. We overemphasize all of these things but what actually Jesus did, we're afraid
to do because we believe in tradition instead of believe in the Bible. The tradition is Christians
cannot have demons. The second traditional teachings is, don't ever do deliverance in
a public setting because demons will jump from one person to another. That is like the dumbest things
that you can believe but people believe that and so they're afraid to do deliverance because demons
will jump from one person to another. Where in the Bible did you see that an open door to demonic
influence is deliverance. If you would argue that point and I would argue, if you see somebody
getting saved there's a very high chance that the sins of that person can jump on you. If they got
saved from drugs what if you're gonna start doing drugs tomorrow because you witnessed salvation of
somebody from drugs? If you will argue that point and I will argue then, if somebody got healed and
you heard their testimony of healing then the sickness is to jump on you. I mean that is dumb,
that is stupid. Nobody believes in that. Same thing is with deliverance. Deliverance is the
safest thing that you can do. Demons don't jump from one person to another during deliverance.
They go to somebody who has an open door and if a person has an open door of sin, occult, abuse
and other stuff they don't need to see deliverance to get those demons. The moment they open the door
demon enters. So we need to throw away this traditional thinking that is not consistent
with the Bible because it blocks the ministry of deliverance. The other traditional teaching that
teaches deliverance and I have a whole video about it is that if you do deliverance you will come
under attack. I have a whole video you can check in the link below for that. Now another practical
step on how to see deliverances in ministries, do confrontational prayers. Explain to people that
right now we're not just going to pray to the Father, we're going to confront the spiritual
forces and there are verses for that. Speak to the mountain. Jesus spoke to the spirit of infirmity,
He rebuked fever, you know He spoke to the waves and so we use these phrases where Bible says,
prophesied to the dry bones. And we lead people in the prayers of renouncing and in the prayer
of confrontation and many times during that time demons can no longer hide and they get exposed
and they come out. The other practical thing is build fire and snakes will come out. When you
build fire snakes cannot stay in the fire. It's too hot, it's uncomfortable, they get tormented
and they will surface. When Paul built fire the Bible says viper came out and fastened on his hand
and so if you want to see deliverance, not just manifestation, then you have to build fire. When
you build fire demons cannot stand, they will come out. Another thing that we did is that we took our
whole church as a small group and we do that about every two years we take you through a season,
usually in the fall, of deliverance or spiritual warfare. So we take somebody's book. Sometimes we
would take a book of one of the ministers and we would buy the books for the church or they would
buy it for themselves and then we would take as a whole church through the curriculum in our small
groups and then a small group leaders will be empowered to pray people through deliverance
and breaking curses, breaking oaths and breaking soul ties and all of that stuff.
And so taking the church through the small group, taking deliverance through the small groups,
through the leaders and as well through the pulpit, is one of the greatest ways to bring
the culture of freedom into your church. And the last one that I would encourage you is honestly
become a part of somebody else's deliverance ministry. Go and see how somebody does it. Whether
it's the deliverance maps that Isaiah Saldivar has or other ministries that have different kind of
people that they train, forerunners and other people or just come to our Raised To Deliver
conference. Come to our prayer line and so that you can witness, that you can receive prayer
yourself and so that you can witness the prayer line that is happening, the deliverances that are
taking place and talk to those people afterwards if you think all of this is fake, if this is all
staged, you know I wonder how much they paid them. You know, I see sometimes people say,
"oh he posts deliverances he wants to be famous." I was like are you out of your mind. First of all
deliverance is the is the thing that gets me the most criticism, not fame okay. It gives me most
attacks but I don't do it to get famous, I don't do this because I know most Christians attack the
ministry of deliverance. I don't do it for them. I do it for those who are suffering and those who
are hurting. For them to come and receive freedom and at the end God will settle the score. God will
judge all of us and at the end we're going to be judged not by how many likes we got,
who endorsed us, who liked us, how good we looked in the eyes of our denomination. At the end what's
going to matter is this, did we do what Jesus did? Did we do it for Him? Did we do it with His power
and did we live our life to please Him? I believe deliverance is children's bread. Deliverance is
essential. Deliverance is for today. God is raising up an army. It's time to stop being
a baby. It's time to stop running a nursery. It's time for us to build an army of soldiers who will
go and who will push the darkness. Who will go and confront the gates of the devil. Who will go
and destroy and demolish strongholds and establish the Kingdom of God in the hearts of man. Will you
do it with me? Let's do it together. Let's smash the kingdom of darkness let's learn the principles
and the tools of spiritual warfare and let's set the captives free. Let's help people who
are suffering with nightmares, people who get tormented by sexual demons. Let's help people who
are tormented by mental issues that are caused by demons. Not all mental issues are caused by
demons but there are people who are confronted with the spirits of infirmity. Let's help them
in Jesus name. If you enjoyed this video, hey drop a like and thumbs up for this video. I want
to also hear from you. Do you see deliverance in your church? If you do, what are some things your
church does to help others? If you don't see, what are some things that you learn from this
video that you're going to put to practice in your own ministry for the glory of God.