Deliverance Is Jesus’ Ministry

Everywhere Jesus went, He healed the sick, preached the Kingdom, and cast out demons.

Deliverance is a part of discipleship. Believers can be in bondage, but deliverance is the children’s bread. Deliverance involves casting out demons, breaking mental strongholds, and receiving inner healing. We don’t counsel demons—we cast them out. (See Mark 16:17; Luke 10:19; and Matthew 10:1).

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.” – Matthew 12:43–45

The Spiritual World Is Real

Demons are real; they hate people but cannot hurt people until someone lets them in. When you become a Christian, your heart gets transformed from a demonic garbage can to a temple of the Holy Spirit. Your heart becomes new.

Culture traded deliverance for therapy; the church divorced it from discipleship.

“Nor give place to the devil.” – Ephesians 4:27

The First Step

Demons don’t want influence; they seek indwelling.

They cannot just go about killing, stealing, and destroying by themselves; they need a human being to host them. Demons want to indwell so that they can desecrate the temple and image-bearers of God.

“So the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.” – Matthew 8:31 

Holy Spirit indwells to sanctify; demonic indwelling is a counterfeit.

Demonization is hell’s graffiti on God’s masterpiece. Demons are not satisfied to merely whisper temptations from the shadows. They are restless, ravenous, parasitic.

Demonization is demonic vandalism on God’s image.  Share on X

The Second Step

Demons don’t just want to torment you; they want to turn you into an instrument of torment for others.

Demons find rest in your torment; they are resting when you are hurting. They are looking for a human host. You are being hunted by demons to be used for their purposes.

Deliverance is an eviction notice to the enemy. 

Deliverance is about making demons homeless. People often argue whether Christians can have demons or not. The word demonized is used in the New Testament 13 times, all of which carry the idea that a person is influenced or controlled in various degrees by an indwelling demon. This is not refering to a demon being on the outside of a person whispering or tormenting. Jesus did not cast demons off of people but out of people.

Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of thieves.’ ” – Mathew 21:12-13

God wants you to leave a legacy of love, joy, a sound mind, peace, a happy spouse, and godly children. This doesn’t happen because you are a good person, but when Jesus gives you a new heart.

And it grieved me bitterly; therefore I threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room. – Nehemiah 13:8

Demons are like Tobiah: 

• Tobiah attacked from the outside but sought to move inside. 
• Tobiah made alliances to strengthen his influence. 
• Tobiah moved in during Nehemiah’s absence.
• Tobiah didn’t stop, but he slowed the work of God.
• Nehemiah threw Tobiah out. 

Demons don’t just want to torment you; they want to turn you into an instrument of torment for others. Share on X

I believe there is a view that is silencing people into unnecessary suffering. It says when you are saved, all the demons are instantly gone from your life. However, I challenge you to find one instance of scripture where a person got saved and all the demons that were attacking them were gone. There is not one example.

When Philip preached and people got saved. Then, he cast out demons from the people in the Book of Acts. They were not delivered because they heeded the message and got saved. Why did Jesus command us to drive out demons in His name after we preach the Gospel?

You are not meant to be a den of darkness. You are meant to be the dwelling place of God. Share on X

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