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Deliverance through the Word


For many years now, I have wondered why many Christians don’t receive permanent deliverance from their challenges or troubles. It bothered me so much to see believers being afflicted over again after having supposedly received their deliverance. Sometimes I thought could it be the personalities involved in helping them get delivered, if the personality were some very “powerful” man of God, would the deliverance be more permanent? Many have been delivered from one affliction or the other, could be a sickness or disease, bad habits, addictions and so on, even under very powerful men of God or ministries, and sometimes down the line, they are back to where they started from, and at other times even worse. Now, this is not to say that this always the case, there are countless number of people who have been delivered permanently from their troubles. My goal is see what could be responsible for making some others loss their deliverance if they got it in the first place. If we understood why some lost their deliverance and why some don’t, it becomes easy to help many others keep theirs. It breaks my heart and I believe it does the heart of the Father also to hear the testimony of a deliverance today and tomorrow it is completely lost.

Now, in a clear case of the presence of an unclean spirit or a demonic activity being responsible for the trouble, whether it is a disease, an addiction or any sort of affliction, it is easy to understand how one can lost his/her deliverance based on the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 12:43-45. But where such a clear case has not been established, then it is only important to understand from scriptures why people lost their deliverance, so that others can be helped to avoid that pitfall.

The answer is right before our face in John 8:32. In this verse of scripture, Jesus was speaking to people who already believed in Him and for them to believe in Jesus, some truth must have downed on them. However, Jesus was still saying to them that knowing the truth will make them free. What exactly was Jesus saying? Truth is the highest form of reality there is, saying the truth is not the same as being honest at least in the context of scriptures. To be honest is to be open and to put it as it is, but to say the truth is to declare the highest form of reality which may not be based on how it appears but on what the word of God says, because the word is the highest form of reality there is and there ever will be. The Strong’s Hebrew and Greek dictionary describes the word “know” in that verse as a prolonged from of primary verb; to know absolutely (without any form of doubt whatsoever). We can begin to grasp that Jesus was telling His disciples that believed in Him that the only way to get real deliverance and to stay free was to “know” the “truth” for yourself. It isn’t enough that your Pastor knows the truth, or that your spouse knows the truth, you must know it for yourself if you will be free. When someone who knows the truth prays for the deliverance of another person who doesn’t know the truth, such a one may be delivered only temporarily, but permanent deliverance will come when the one who has been delivered takes it up to know the truth and that truth will make the person stay free. But if the one delivered makes no attempt at knowing the truth, then such a person will still be back for another round of deliverance. It isn’t about how powerful your man of God is, it is about how much and how well you “know” the “truth”, for you shall know the truth and the trust shall make you free!

When you come to this point of absolute knowledge and realization of the truth, it will be almost impossible to lose your deliverance in any way and to put it better, you may never even require the help of anybody to secure your deliverance from any trouble in the first place. To wrap everything together, I am saying that if your deliverance isn’t rooted in the truth that you know for yourself, then sooner or later, the enemy will come forth to challenge what you have and you will have to answer yourself. You can’t always have your Pastor or someone else to answer for you. This is therefore a wakeup call to seek the truth for yourself, because when it’s all said and done, it is the truth you know that will make you free.


Shalom!


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