Breaking Free: A Partnership Between Divine Power and Personal Responsibility
True deliverance requires both divine intervention and human cooperation. Breaking free from spiritual bondage isn’t a passive experience, it demands that we actively participate in our own liberation while relying on God’s power to accomplish what we cannot do alone.
The Reality of Ongoing Spiritual Warfare
The spiritual battle we face is relentless and lifelong. Our adversary (Satan/The Devil) never rests in his efforts to oppose God’s work in our lives, which means we cannot afford to become complacent or give up when progress seems slow.
Interestingly, as we grow in our usefulness to God, the intensity of opposition often increases but so do the victories and the satisfaction that comes from overcoming obstacles through divine strength.
The enemy’s mission is clear: to steal, kill, and destroy everything good in our lives, JN10:10. He will take whatever ground we surrender to him, making it essential that we remain vigilant and resistant to his schemes.
Realistic Expectations for the Restoration Process
Many believers approach their healing and deliverance with unrealistic expectations, hoping for instant transformation. However, genuine restoration typically requires sustained effort over time. Just as destructive patterns and spiritual bondages often develop gradually over years, the process of rebuilding and renewal usually unfolds at a measured pace.
God has established a covenant relationship with us, but this partnership requires both parties to fulfill their respective roles. While God faithfully provides His power, wisdom, and resources, He will not override our responsibility to actively participate in our own growth and healing.
Simply put:
Christians want to have their needs met quickly and easily. God simply does not work this way. You must persist over a long period of time to restore your life.
If it took you years to get into the spiritual, emotional and physical mess that you are in, why would you expect God to restore you overnight? God is not a fast-food restaurant and will not dish the food out on a silver platter.
You must work for it.
The Need for Comprehensive Understanding and Action
Effective deliverance requires honest self-assessment across multiple areas: mental, physical, spiritual, and material conditions. Understanding not just what needs to change, but why problems developed in the first place, helps prevent repeating destructive patterns.
There are no magic formulas or shortcuts in Scripture. Successful Christian living requires utilizing all of God’s provisions in a balanced way, combined with disciplined effort and lifestyle changes.
Deliverance involves more than just the removal of negative influences, it must include ongoing teaching, personal discipline, and fundamental changes in thinking and behavior.
Addressing Root Issues
Among the most significant obstacles to spiritual freedom are unforgiveness, feelings of rejection, bitterness, and rebellion against God’s authority. These attitudes create openings for continued spiritual oppression and must be addressed directly.
The process also includes practical steps like removing objects or influences that may have spiritual significance contrary to faith, developing solid biblical knowledge, and consistently applying scriptural principles to daily life.
The Call to Engagement
Scripture warns against the curse that comes upon those who refuse to engage in God’s battles and carry out his work in a half-hearted, insincere way, with the wrong motives, Jer 48:10.
This suggests that spiritual passivity isn’t just ineffective it’s actually contrary to God’s design for His people. The current state of many believers and churches reflects this lack of engagement with the deliverance process. Deliverance should become a lifestyle.
Daily we should be resisting the enemy and in so doing maintain our freedoms and be better anointed to carry out the work that he has called us to do, and that is to fulfill the scriptural mandate of Luke 4:18.
True victory requires both divine power and human cooperation, sustained over time, with realistic expectations and comprehensive action across all areas of life.
God realizes that humans are lazy.
We want what God has for us without having to put out much effort. That is why God requires us to work at being Christians.
How can Healing and Deliverance help?
Our website’s goal is to empower you, inform you and provide you steps for self-deliverance, to free you from emotional, mental and physical disorders or generational curses Forward Our website is populated with lessons, prayers and other resources to help you. It’s important you take the time and go through the lessons in order, starting with LESSON 1. Lessons are not to be read like a novel – you are actually in a Deliverance class.
You must be focused completely on what the subject matter is saying. Your job is to go over it until it sinks into your spirit. You should also follow precisely as you are instructed if you are to get the Deliverance that you anticipate.
While going through these lessons, remember that whatever else needs to be done on a daily basis to ensure that you have repented from your known sins and seek to pursue a path of holiness as you continue to be cleaned should also be done, this way, you can be used mightily by the Lord to help bring others out of their bondage and at the same time maintain your own Deliverance.
This whole exercise should now become a lifestyle. That is what these lessons are designed to help you attain.