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Deliverance Prayer and the Ritual Rite of Exorcism

Several years ago, when I started out on this spiritual journey, there were only one or two websites dedicated to the topic of Deliverance Prayer. Now it has exploded into hundreds of sites. Part of this stems from the popularity of Bob Larson and his ministry in the past few years and with the popularity of ghost hunting television shows on almost every night of the week.


So what is the difference between Deliverance and Exorcism? An exorcist is a special title held by a priest in the Catholic church. This priest is highly trained and operates in this field. Only a trained Catholic priest (and possibly an Angelican Church priest) can be exorcists.


Before the priest can perform an exorcism, an exhaustive evaluation must be made to determine if the person is a demonaic (oppressed by a demonic force). Then a Catholic Bishop dispenses the exorcist to the case. Notice there is hierarchy and order here in the church. If you didn't catch that I suggest you read that again. I have seen many websites with people claiming to be lead exorcists of a church (that is not Catholic). I suspect these self-appointed titles come from the popularity of ghost busting television shows where the teams have a lead tech, a lead investigator and so forth. I would be suspicious of anyone showing up to a deliverance prayer session with such a non-ordained title. Why? They clearly don’t understand the difference between a deliverance prayer ministry and the ritual of exorcism. What else does this person not understand? The time of deliverance ministry is clearly the wrong time to find out. The rite of exorcism is closely guarded by the Catholic Church. Exorcists I know won’t disclose the ritual secrets - another reason to be suspicious of the title “lead exorcist” with a non-Catholic church ministry.

 

Deliverance Prayer Ministry


In deliverance prayer ministry, Holy Spirit filled Christians call on the Holy Spirit to remove the demonic oppression from an individual –or even an entire family. A member of a deliverance prayer ministry is comfortable in operating in the prophetic or word of knowledge, which is how most of the deliverance prayer session is conducted. Operating in the prophetic or word of knowlege is operating in the gifts of the Spirit. A deliverance session is usually calm with no yelling. This is something some exorcists I have spoken with find puzzling. Different DNAs for different churches, but God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow! During the prayer a demon is bound by the Holy Spirit and is told to shut up in the name of Jesus Christ. More on binding a demon is provided later on.


The deliverance prayer team needs to hear from the Holy Spirit what to pray for. And what sin may need to be repented to attack the root demon. A deliverance prayer time, again is calm. Even when the demon is manifested! There is no yelling. Yelling is chaos and it is caused by the demon to interfere with the Holy Spirit speaking to the deliverance team.
There are no lead deliverance or exorcist titles on a prayer team. There must be unity and operating in the prophetic.

If you are called into this ministry, join a deliverance prayer team. A lot of people read books and that is the scope of their ministry. 100% of my training came from the Holy Spirit. 95% of my reading is from the Bible. Most Christian books in print do not discuss the prophetic aspect of this ministry. This is because a lot of churches believe in demons but not working in the gifts of the Spirit.


A deliverance prayer member is not a ghost hunter, does not video tape activity in a house and record EVPs. Nor do we enter defiled places with psychics. We work in the prophetic! ..and we will cleanse a defiled home.

One last note on deliverance prayer ministry is that this prayer time is also a healing session. When demons are ordered to leave, the are told to take their afflictions with them. Our prayer team has witnessed many incredible healings through this ministry. It is all about the ministry and Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is not about the “lead exorcist" title. Lay all your trophies down before Him!

It is the Holy Spirit that delivers - we just minister the prayer and laying on of hands.

 

Demonologists

With ghost hunting clubs on the rise throughout the world, the title demonologists has surfaced. The title is to be associated with a Catholic priest trained in the rites of exorcism. Again, another title is being used in ghost hunting and pyschic cirlces that is dangerous. I may be ruffling feathers and stepping on toes in the ghost hunting fad of today. I don't care, I am not here to make friends or money. My goal is to educate the Christian looking for help.

Demons tend to return to their host- and with more friends once a pyschic or self-titled demonologist has tampered with the crime scene. Know the difference. Prophetic is working with the gifts of the Spirit. A pyschic is working with highjacked demonic gifts. Satan can only mimic and that is where pyschic gifts are drawing from, spiritual prophetic gifts.

A Christian walking in dominion has authority over everything hell has to throw at them. A Spirit filled Christian (there are lots of non-Spirit filled so beware) can exercise authority and permanently resolve a stronghold situation where a psychic and a self titled demonologist can't!

 

Binding


Matthew 16:19
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."


In deliverance prayer ministry we bind the demon with prayer. We wait for the Holy Spirit to be present then we bind the demon. I have seen people physically frozen and rigid as the Holy Spirit binds them. The Catholic Church physically ties up a demoniac. This is one time I wish the Catholic church would recognize true deliverance ministers and allow us to share theology and practices with one another. We could learn from each other. I picked up a technique of exorcist, Father Candidio Amantini, from the book, "An Exorcist Tells His Story", by Fr Gabriele Amorth by placing my hand on the forehead of demonaic and listening in the Spirit.

In our binding method, we don’t tie the demoniac up. We bind them with the Holy Spirit. I know any exorcist reading this now is raising an eyebrow. I have delivered people in gangs, involved in martial arts and witchcraft and had really nasty demons manifest. Some attempted to strike me but couldn’t because they were bound by the Holy Spirit. You must really know by this time what level of anointing you walk in.

 

Why Do Stronger Demons Return ?


Matthew 12:43-45
43"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation."

In some cases of deliverance a person set free doesn’t pursue and chase Jesus as they were advised before the deliverance prayer session was ministered. They take the miracle and ignore pursuing a Godly lifestyle. This is not repentance. They do not change the aspects of their lives that opened the demonic doorway. Then a more wicked demonic spirit returns. We 'Holy Spirit fill' people after a deliverance session. Those who value their healing in Jesus Christ fully repent. Those who don’t have serious problems afterwards. Jesus had a ministry of repentance. He healed them all. And he also told them to go and sin no more.

 

Oppression

Deliverance prayer ministry is spiritual warfare! The enemy’s number one weapon is oppression. I mentioned earlier, you had better know where you stand in your faith. You better understand your dominon and authority handed to you by the work on the cross. This is told to us in Romans 8. God doesn’t allow things to happen to us. It is Satan that is the root of sickness, death and disease. He is the root of all oppression. And you better be strong in your faith to pray it off you!

 

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