Explain Why Should The Church Be Involved In The Work Of Deliverance
Having defined what deliverance is, the next logical question to answer is: why should the church be involved in the work of deliverance or rather why should deliverance be engaged in? Deliverance is necessary because:
i. The whole world lies in the power of the wicked one (II Corinthians 4:4; I John 5:19)
• To this end, Jesus the Son of God was manifested to replace the existing satanic kingdom with God’s kingdom and in the process destroy his works and effects thereof in God’s people.
• The truth is that when Lucifer was kicked out of heaven, he ceased to operate there in God’s Perfect Will, but was permitted to operate here on earth in God’s Permissive Will.
• It is then, God’s desire to see His children exercising authority over him. This is part of his judgment for rebelling against God. For this reason, we are commanded, “Behold I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you”” (Luke 10:19).
ii. Deliverance is the heritage of the children of God (Luke 10:19; I Isaiah 54:17)
• The Bible plainly makes it clear that through His …show more content…
Against this, the Apostle Paul exhorted, “For though we walk in the flesh, but we don’t war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:3-5)
In his book on, Leeching of the Mind (p5:1995), Rev. Earnest Angley describes one of the incredible, effective tools that the devil uses other than the possession of souls by his demons. He calls it the leeching of the mind. He describes a leeched mind as a takeover of the mind by tiny spirits clustered on the human mind to drain it of the reasoning power of
i. The whole world lies in the power of the wicked one (II Corinthians 4:4; I John 5:19)
• To this end, Jesus the Son of God was manifested to replace the existing satanic kingdom with God’s kingdom and in the process destroy his works and effects thereof in God’s people.
• The truth is that when Lucifer was kicked out of heaven, he ceased to operate there in God’s Perfect Will, but was permitted to operate here on earth in God’s Permissive Will.
• It is then, God’s desire to see His children exercising authority over him. This is part of his judgment for rebelling against God. For this reason, we are commanded, “Behold I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you”” (Luke 10:19).
ii. Deliverance is the heritage of the children of God (Luke 10:19; I Isaiah 54:17)
• The Bible plainly makes it clear that through His …show more content…
Against this, the Apostle Paul exhorted, “For though we walk in the flesh, but we don’t war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:3-5)
In his book on, Leeching of the Mind (p5:1995), Rev. Earnest Angley describes one of the incredible, effective tools that the devil uses other than the possession of souls by his demons. He calls it the leeching of the mind. He describes a leeched mind as a takeover of the mind by tiny spirits clustered on the human mind to drain it of the reasoning power of