God can use any medium, any venue, in any way to deliver you. He can deliver you through distance.
He can deliver you through zoom. He can deliver you in your prayer. He can deliver you in your
dream. He can also deliver you through somebody praying for you, which is the most common way
people experience deliverance. But in this video we will look at some of the practical steps you
can experience self-deliverance. The story I would like to use as a background is the story
of Esther. It's how Esther experienced deliverance from God from her enemy who lived right there in
her court. I want to mention few points or a few thoughts from that story that will apply to our
spiritual life. Number one. Some battles you face today did not begin with you but they will end
with you. Esther for example, she faced an enemy named Haman who was Amalachite. Hundreds of years
ago her ancestor king Saul was commissioned and anointed and sent by God to destroy Amalekites.
He failed to fulfill that responsibility and that commandment and he spared some people
and he spared the king. Eventually prophet Samuel destroyed him. But we see hundreds of years later
the descendant of Amalaekites meets a descendant of the family of Kish. And it's almost like this
rematch. The enemy that Esther faced was the enemy her ancestors did not win over. Some battles
you're facing right now, certain demons, they're actually generational. They have been something
that your generations have struggled before you. And I don't want you to despair. I want you to
be encouraged, it ran in your family until it ran into you. Dropped it in a comment below.
That it's gonna end here. This depression will end here the suicide will end here premature
death will end here. That Haman, that Amalekite bloodline is not going to continue because I'm
going to put an end to that. The second component I want you to notice about Esther's story that
applies to self-deliverance is that the authority of the believer is greater than the access of the
enemy. I want you to notice that Esther lived where Haman operated. Haman worked where Esther
lived. Haman had access to the place where she had authority. Esther was the wife of the king.
Haman was simply an employee. He was a prince yet he was an employee. You must understand in
walking towards your self-deliverance you already have authority as a Christian. You have authority
to command demons. You have authority to command demons and to command them out. You have authority
over the spiritual powers. You have authority to revoke every access the enemy has made through
your repentance. Even if a deliverance minister will lead you in prayer he will still depend
on you to break the contract, repent and do all of that work. And for you to breathe out those demons
or vomit them out. For them to come out through, your usually the opening. Sometimes they come out
through tears. Sometimes they come out through sweat but mainly they come out through your mouth
by screaming out or sometimes there's a vomit that happens or some kind of a cough that takes place.
All of those things are already existent. You already have these abilities but the most
important ability is the authority of the name of Jesus Christ. When people are in bondage,
they a lot of times feel like victims. They a lot of times feel like I don't have what it takes,
I can't be free, I am under such a demonic oppression, I am tired and I am done. You're
more powerful than you feel through Jesus Christ. Let me say that again. You are more powerful than
what you feel through Jesus Christ. Even if satan controls ninety percent of your soul,
the ten percent he does not control is more powerful than the ninety percent he does.
So I wanna encourage you stop playing a victim, stop giving devil more credit than he deserves.
You have access like Esther. The enemy Haman- maybe the spirit of depression, maybe spirit of
fear, maybe spirit of anger, maybe a spirit of disappointment, has access. And you have given
that access perhaps or somebody in your bloodline has given that access. You have authority and that
authority my friend trumps his access, can revoke his access and you can renounce that access today.
The third thing I want to highlight from the story of Esther is that you can't win spiritual battle
with physical weapons. So you must understand in spiritual warfare, in self-deliverance you
have weapons. Now Esther realized that she couldn't rely on her political connections.
She could not rely on her looks. She could not even rely on the fact that you know, she's been
an orphan and her sad broken story. She relied on spiritual weapons like prayer and fasting.
Now we have more weapons than that. The weapons of our warfare are mighty in God. So if you want to
receive spiritual victory in self-deliverance you must take advantage of your weapons.
Your weapons are the blood of Jesus. Your weapons are the name of Jesus. Your weapons
are the power of the Holy Spirit. Your weapons are the word of God. These are four main weapons every
Christian has and they need to start using these weapons in combating demons, whether it's within
or without or around you. Begin to lay hold of these weapons. The strength of our victory
is not dependent on our arm, physical strength but on the strength of our spiritual weapons and they
are mighty in God. So many Christians do not want to apply these weapons in their self-deliverance.
Instead they just want somebody else to do it for them. Even if somebody else does it for you,
you will still have the duty, responsibility to pull these weapons every once in a while
to walk in your victory. Number four. I want you to notice that you have to remove the rags of your
problems and dress up in your royal garments. When Esther prayed and fasted, then she dressed herself
up in royalty and went into the presence of the king. So removing the rags, what I mean by that is
you have to dress up in the spiritual armor. Your royal garments is the armor of God. The
armor of God consists of salvation. The armor of God consists of the breastplate of righteousness.
It consists of faith. It consists of the truth. It consists of the proclamation of the Gospel of
peace. It consists of the word of God, the sword of the Spirit. It consists of all of these facets
of your spiritual garment that gives you favor and access and breakthrough in the spiritual realm.
And so you got to put them on through your confession. Thank you Lord for the helmet of
salvation. Thank you Lord for my righteousness that I have through Jesus Christ. Thank you Lord
that I have faith. Thank you Lord for your Word. Thank you Lord for the truth and so forth. If you
want to walk in victory you got to get dressed for success, you got to get dressed for deliverance,
for dominion. If you want to experience self-deliverance you have to know your authority
is greater than the access. You have to know that there are things that you're battling with
that didn't start with you. Most of the things we battle did not start with us they started earlier
but they will end with us if we will do spiritual warfare. And we also have to understand is that we
have to put on the spiritual armor. The next truth I want you to see is when Esther came she invited
the king to the banquet. So instead of having a battle she first had a banquet. She pretty
much wanted to communicate to the king, I am not here first for deliverance, I'm here for dinner.
And so how does that look like for a person who's looking for self-deliverance. Don't make
your hunger, desperation for deliverance greater than your hunger for God. Some people actually are
addicted to deliverance instead of being attached to God. You have to make God your goal, not means
to a goal. The reason why you want to be delivered is so that you can serve God more, love God more,
but do you love God now? Are you giving God a banquet? Are you preparing Him a lunch? Meaning
are you serving the Lord in your private, in your secret time? Are you reading the Word? Ministering
to the Lord? Or are you too busy or are you oh I'm in such a bondage I can't afford? Esther did
not come to king and said, hey I am in a desperate need of your intervention. She came and she says
I would like to have you for dinner. If you want to experience self-deliverance,
prioritize devotion. If you want to experience self-deliverance, prioritize spending quality time
in the presence of God. Now it might not be easy at first, you'll be distracted and these demons
will be tormented. I have a sermon that I preached that says bring your demons to church, bring your
demons to a Bible study. Come on, make them read the Bible. If they don't pull you away from the
church, the Bible. And the church and the Bible and the Christian warfare will pull them out of
you. So prioritize the presence of God, prioritize prayer. Cook those demons to death. Torment them,
drive them crazy and they will leave you alive. Now another thing that Esther did is, not only
she prepared the banquet for the king, she did it twice. That tells us be consistent in your pursuit
of God's presence. Some Christians get delivered but they don't pursue serving God. That tells
me that they were using God to get rid of their problems, instead of using the idea of getting rid
of the problems so they can have more of God. What ideally God wants is after you get rid of your
demons, that you are more available to God. That we see you more in church. We see you serving God,
at least to the capacity you serve the devil. But for so many people that's not the case and
it saddens my heart. So if you want to experience self-deliverance make the banquet to the king,
the dinner to the king, the devotion to the king above your need for deliverance. Another thing I
want to mention, Esther, before the king removed the enemy, Esther removed the mask. Now the mask,
I'm not talking about the covid masks that we all have to wear. The mask that Esther had to remove
is that she had to become transparent and honest with the king about her past and this opened an
opportunity for deliverance. I really believe that confession leads to deliverance. A lot of times
people don't want to confess what they've done. They don't want to confess what was done to them.
They don't want to confess their trauma, abuse, rape, molestation. They don't want to confess what
the horrible sins they did. They don't want to confess what demons use them to do and instead
they just want God to zap them, remove the enemy. But if you want to experience self-deliverance you
must understand, you must remove the mask so God can remove the enemy. You gotta be honest
with the person that you trust, with God, with the deliverance minister or with somebody that
you trust. But you gotta stop pretending it did not happen. Stop pretending that if you don't
talk about it it doesn't matter. Confession leads to conquest. And then the king removes the enemy,
hangs the enemy. It seems like hallelujah, praise God. Well not so fast. There's one more facet in
Esther's story it's important to highlight that applies to self-deliverance. So when you begin to
press into God's presence, when you begin to cry out. David says," I cried out to the Lord and he
delivered me from all my fears." When you begin to put on the armor of God, when you begin to use the
weapons of your warfare to come against the enemy, renounce, to bind, to loose. When you begin to
come into his presence. When you begin to confess your sin, confess your hurts, your pains and your
traumas, God will remove things. But sometimes you don't get everything removed at once. Now it's
true that sometimes you need more deliverance, 100 %. But there are people who, this is what I
want to share with you, that whatever God has not removed He has empowered you to resist. Esther
when she had the Haman removed. He was hanged, seemed like game is over, everything is done,
praise God. But the plot of the enemy was still intact. And Esther and Mordecai came to the king
and says, hey could you just cancel the whole thing that Haman cooked up. And the king says,
well not really. I can't really cancel that. I can't just snap with my fingers and remove that
but I can do something else. I can empower all the Jewish people that were supposed to be wiped out,
give them power and authority, my signet ring and my influence and my name, that they can fight
back and defend themselves and that's exactly what Jewish people did. They fought back. They
fought back once. They fought back twice, until people were afraid of them. Why? Because whatever
the king didn't remove, he simply empowered the Jewish people to resist. What if the Lord Jesus
Christ will do the similar thing in your life? As you go through self-deliverance,
certain things maybe that have not been removed that are lingering, and instead of waiting for
another layer of deliverance. What if you begin to step into your authority and begin to resist it,
begin to drive it out. What if you're no longer in Egypt where you need Moses to
deliver you through ten plagues but you are in the promised land where the Lord will work with you
to drive out Philistines, Canaanites, Gabicides Jebusites and all other ites out of your soul,
your mind and your life. What if I were to tell you that you were never created for deliverance,
you were created for dominion. What if I were to remind you Jesus said," Behold I
saw satan fall and I give you authority over all the power of the enemy to trample on him
and nothing by any means will hurt you." What if I am to remind you that Apostle Paul says,"
That through the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace we will reign in life." Even
if you experience your complete deliverance you will still be required to walk in victory,
dominion and push back the darkness and fight back. Self-deliverance is possible. You must
understand whatever you're battling with probably did not start with you but it can end with you.
The authority you have is much greater than the access the enemy has gotten into your life. Begin
to pull the spiritual weapons of the blood, of the name, of the word of God in the power of the Holy
Spirit and begin to renounce and bind things that are not of God. Begin to confess your sin
before God, get honest about your hurts. Begin to prioritize the presence of God and devotion more
than deliverance and begin to put on the armor of God. Combat the forces of darkness. Tell the devil
to go. Tell those demons to pack their backs and get out of your life and whatever you see that's
not been removed, you have the power to resist. Hey thank you for watching this video. I hope this
was encouragement and blessing and brought some clarity and truth into your situation and what
you're going through. If you need deliverance go to hungrygen.com/deliverance We have three
different ways you can receive that, digitally, you can receive that by coming to our prayer lines
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