Now you have four R's on how to maintain your deliverance.
Well, there's probably a bunch of R's that would fit here but I call it, it's like reading,
writing, arithmetic. You should 'Recognize' them. That's the first thing. They're not
hard to recognize. You can be, a person could be sitting in their favorite chair
and feel the heaviness or darkness or a really sad thought and they need to recognize that
for what it is. The Bible says to take every thought captive. So when you get delivered
to recognize when that evil spirit that lived on the inside of you tries to come from the outside
Yeah or when there's any kind of oppressions what it is. But when you recognize it then you 'Resist'.
That's the second R. Because God's works is if I resist the devil, he'll flee from me. So you recognize it,
you say, we're not going there. I know what this is, you want me to worry about my kids but instead
I'm going to thank God for you know, I take this thought captive. I
recognize it. I resist it and I'm going to think about something pure and lovely and holy and just.
So it's a conscious decision. I recognize what's going on. You're trying to you know,
bring me down like you know, whatever depressed me. I resist that and the third R is 'Remain'.
You come back tomorrow, I'll be standing on the same word. The same word that freed me today,
the same name. I know who I am. Many times in Deliverance sessions, I will command the demon,
do you know who I am. I don't mean, do you know I'm Don Dickerman, they could care less. I mean
you understand that I'm a representative of Jesus Christ. Do you understand that demon that I'm washed
in the blood, a child of God, an heir of God, a joint heir with Jesus and you're messing with me,
You know, so actually this happened Vlad I try to make this brief but I
had a guy sitting in for deliverance one day and the demon in this man said to me,
I'm gonna kill you. Well, I knew it wasn't the man that was saying that. I knew it was
a demon that was in him. I said, are you talking to me or are you talking to him.
He said, I'm talking to you. Somebody's going to die today and it's going to be you.
Wow. The Holy Spirit just stirred in my life. I said, do you know who I am, child of God
washed in the blood, heir of God, joint heir with Jesus Christ, ambassador, representative of Jesus
and you're going to kill me. I said, I command you to apologize for that. I'm sorry just like that,
Wow! we're somebody in Christ. Come on! and it's not boastful. It's just who
you are and so sometimes, you just remind him and say, I know who I am. My daddy can beat up,
your daddy you know that kind of thing. So it's not cocky and it's not prideful, so just know
and you stand in it and interesting in the book of Ephesians, what we're always saying,
I hear this so many times, I put on the whole armor of God this morning. I asked a lady one day,
I said, can you tell me exactly what you did to put on the armor of God. She said, oh you know. I said,
no I don't know. I really don't. Well, yeah you know I put on the Armor of God. I said, do you
have a helmet under your bed? Do you have shoes? Tell me just tell me, what you did
Well you know. I heard that so many times I put on the whole armor of God.
The scripture says is you have on the armor of God. I'm clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
I have the shield of faith. I have the sword of the Spirit. It's me, it's Him in me and so
after we talked, she said oh I see what you're talking about now.
No I don't have a helmet under my bed. I don't have shoes. We are clothed in the righteousness
of God and what that scripture says is having done all to stand.
Come on! So I don't fight with demons. I just stop backing up
I'm standing right here in the name of Jesus and if anybody backs up, it's going to be you.
And that's not cocky but we always win, come on! we always win in the name of Jesus. Come on!