I took a year off and I came to France.
I wanted to take a break from my work
and I came to do a biblical and theological training at the Abbey of Hautecombe.
It was at that moment that the Lord spoke to me,
that He was really present.
Before, when someone would say:
"Oh the meal you made is really good." I would tell myself,
"Either they are making fun of me, or they are just being nice,
or they don't want to tell me that what I made is not good."
For me, it was impossible to really hear someone tell me that I am good.
I would answer with a big smile, without saying anything,
but in fact, in my heart, I could not accept it. I did not understand,
I could not understand that really I could be a good person.
This is a habit that I had acquired in my youth,
because in my family, I had experienced denigration.
Also in society in general, people often expect others to be perfect,
so when we are not up to par, we are considered useless.
So there were many things
that made me have this habit of considering
what I do as useless and who I am as useless and myself as unworthy.
In the community, they suggested that I follow the Siloam program
which runs in 3 retreats over the course of a year, to review our life,
work on what we don't like and follow the Lord better.
And it was during one of the retreats
that I was able to discover my relationship with the Lord.
What happened is that I believed. I believed that Christ really healed me.
He really freed me.
He is always there,
and He loves me just the way I am.
Christ sees me in this way and this helps me be kind and capable.
In our everyday life,
we sometimes feel a lack of freedom.
It's as if we get stuck over and over again
because of a certain attitude or an inner thought.
At times, this frustration shows up in everyday situations
as an exaggerated negative reaction.
This could be a disproportionate anger,
a closed off attitude,
or a difficulty in trusting others.
And despite all our efforts, these attitudes keep coming back.
In the end we even give up fighting against these sins,
these sins which are akin to slavery.
Any of these difficulty situations may be a sign
that we need deliverance.
Paul says in the letter to the Galatians,
Chapter 5 verse 1
"For freedom, Christ set us free."
The very word 'deliverance' may seem strange to some.
Indeed there are some Churches where there is little talk of deliverance.
Either people think that it doesn't pertain to them
or they think it is only about exorcism.
In some countries or places, where people are more aware
of the surrounding spiritual reality, 'deliverance' is on the contrary very present.
This word can also be scary, admittedly as we immediately
think of something spectacular, reinforced by imaginary
scenes from the movies.
However, deliverance and liberation
are deeply rooted in the ministry of Jesus,
Jesus who came to free every man and every woman.
In inaugurating his public ministry in the synagogue of Capernaum,
Jesus proclaimed that he came to fulfil the words of Isaiah :
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free."
So we need to be delivered from evil.
This is what we ask from the Lord daily when we say the Lord's Prayer.
'Evil' in the Our Father does not mean an abstract force
or a negative energy,
but rather Evil in person,
whom Sacred Scripture knows by the name of "the tempter",
the "father of lies", Satan, or the devil.
In summary : Christian life involves a spiritual struggle,
and the deliverance of evil spirits
is part of the mission that Jesus entrusted to his Church.
Deliver us from evil
Following the conference on the deliverance ministry in Rome in 2014
organised by the ICCRS : (International Service of Catholic Charismatic Renewal),
which brought together theologians and practitioners from around the world,
the document The Ministry of Deliverance was published.
The ICCRS, an organisation recognised by the Holy See since 1993,
is responsible for providing the link between worldwide Catholic Charismatic Renewal
and the Church authorities.
Dr. Mary Healy, chairwoman of the ICCRS Doctrinal Commission
and Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary
in Detroit, Michigan
and Fr Etienne Vetö, member of the Chemin Neuf Community
and Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome,
are the main writers of this document.
The drafting of this document was also a significant event for the church.
Firstly, because we worked with theologians
in the United States, in India and in Germany
as well as practitioners of all kinds, from quite a few different countries.
So this work provided an opportunity to work together in a unified manner,
and we realised to what extent in the depth of our hearts,
we thought and felt the same things.
Despite the different ways we did things, our hearts were united.
We were amazed by the positive reception we received from the church authorities.
So, naturally, there were also a number of people who reacted saying,
"Stop talking about evil spirits!
That's just superstition!
That's a pretty primitive way of thinking."
And it seems to me that the most important thing is to proclaim the Lordship of Christ,
the power of the freedom that he wants to give us
and the effectiveness of his power to deliver us
and that we do not always have to understand exactly every aspect
of what we have been delivered from.
Sin remains a mystery, the forces of evil too.
And in our times, it is also important to find a simple
but consistent message regarding these powers of evil.
What we see in the New Testament is that not only are demons active
in a few very troubled demon possessed individuals
but in some sense in all of human society, in all of human life.
So Jesus call Satan 'the ruler of this world". St Paul calls him "the god of this world".
And the first letter of John says that the whole world is in the power of the evil one.
So every one of us is in some way affected by the malignant influence of evil spirits.
Scripture tells us a lot about how Satan works.
He works through temptation to sin,
he works to deception making good appear evil, making evil appear good,
making God out to be an enemy, making us think we can't trust God.
Satan works through fear, he fills us with all kinds of fear,
fear of physical calamities, but also all sort of fears,
fear of our position, of failure, of human disapproval
and whenever we allow ourselves to be ruled by those fears
we can end up placing ourselves under the influence of evil spirits.
Their influence in human lives is due to sin.
Jesus says:
whoever sins makes himself a slave to sin.(Jn 8,34)
So every time we choose to disobey God we place ourselves
in some way under the influence of evil spirit.
But the good news is that Jesus, by his death and resurrection
has defeated Satan and we can share in his victory.
The Gospels give us many beautiful accounts of Jesus' activity
of casting out demons and each one shows us something unique.
For instance, in the casting out of a demon from a man in the Synagogue,
we see from the people's response that they are astonished.
They say it's a new teaching,
he cast out the demon with a word and that shows us
it's Jesus' teaching of the truth, his proclamation of the word of God
that in itself, has the power to free people from captivity to evil.
Because spiritual oppression is very often rooted in lies and deceptions.
There is a great mystery,
how is it possible for a spirit outside us,
which is not us,
to influence our will and affect our freedom?
Most theologians throughout the centuries argued
in my opinion quite rightly
that this is not possible.
That is to say, the devil and the demons
can affect our imagination and touch our emotions,
so they can instil fear.
They can suggest images
that will scare or make us fall into despair
or that will attract us.
But they cannot directly touch our intelligence and our will,
that is, they cannot control us
like a puppeteer controlling a puppet.
On the other hand, what happens is that these concerns,
this fear, this despair, these different elements can lead us to react in a certain way
and to certain forms of behaviour.
For example: I shut myself away whenever someone hurts me
or I sense something bad or I have been hurt.
For example, the automatic reaction of a woman who has been hurt by a man or by several men
will be to feel a sense of hatred
towards these men, at which point the evil spirit will accompany this movement,
accentuate it and gradually lead the woman to consent to it.
What happens is that the will, by the consent that has been given
to a certain form of behaviour, to the lie and the spirit or spirits
that lurk in the background, becomes bound.
There is not really a better description than the word "bound".
We can also use the word "paralysed", that is, we feel like changing it
but nothing happens.
We can ask ourselves
who can perform the prayer of deliverance,
or more generally, the deliverance itself.
I would like to distinguish between performing deliverance
and a ministry of deliverance because they are not exactly the same.
Anyone can perform a certain form of deliverance.
This is a power entrusted by Christ to us, that is, every baptised person,
every Christian, every believer.
The most obvious sign of this is that the Lord Jesus
sent the apostles to cast out evil spirits,
but in Luke, for example, chapter 10,
when he sends out the seventy,
that is to say those who are the image, the model of all the disciples,
they return from the mission,
saying,"we have cast out demons in Your Name."
And Jesus answers, "I saw the devil fall from Heaven."
This is the sign that the disciples, all the disciples,
had received authority in the name of Jesus to cast out demons,
and that Jesus confirmed them, and he was in agreement with this practice.
And at the end of the Gospels, when he sends them on their mission,
to go out and baptise the Nations: "baptise the nations,
preach and cast out demons",
this is a mission that applies to everyone.
There are many ways of practising deliverance,
many ways of praying for deliverance,
and there is not one model,
but it seems to me that there are at least two aspects
that should always be present.
One aspect is the renunciation and the other aspect
is the direct order given to the spirit,
or at least a word of command.
The renunciation means that the person who is bound must, either spontaneously
or when asked by those who are praying with him, says,
"I renounce, for example, this spirit of shutting myself away,
I renounce this spirit of hatred
or I renounce my behaviour of hate,
or I renounce etc..."
Why is this important?
Because, ultimately, what opens the door to the spirit
is my consent. I was the one who consented.
So, I appeal to the same freedom,
which the Lord gives me, which is touched by grace,
by my baptism, by the theological virtues
and by the Christian life, in faith;
and it is with an act of this same will
that I willgo back and renounce what I consented to.
I was the one who let it in
and I am the one who is responsible for making it leave.
On the other hand, given that we believe these cases of bondage
to be not simply a vulnerability,
but the actual presence of a force of evil, a spirit ,
it is not enough to renounce it. The spirit must also be ordered to leave.
Once again there are several ways of doing this,
either by asking the Lord to drive this spirit away
or to directly address the spirit yourself
and tell it to leave.
It really started with a personal encounter with the Lord.
I was baptised in the Holy Spirit in January 1970
I began to realize over the years that I was not as free as I would like to be
and at that time people who prayed for deliverance,
only prayed for people that were severely demonized
and had big problems,
so whenever I would ask somebody to pray for me for deliverance they would say:
"Oh don't give the devil too much attention"
and they looked at my life and they could see that I prayed every day,
I was serving the Lord and nobody wanted to pray for me
and so I had to wait for almost 15 years before somebody said yes.
So this one day I was at a conference and the Lord really touched me,
He renewed me and you know like in worship
I wept for the first time that I could remember, just because He loves me
and I saw this man that I knew prayed for deliverance
and I went up to him and said "would you pray for me for deliverance,
I always thought I needed some freedom" and he said
"what makes you think you need deliverance" and I said "here we go again!"
but this time I said to him "you know, before a spiritual event
often times my back would go out and before I came to this conference
my back acted up and I spent the first couple of days of the conference
at the back of the room lying on the ground"
and he said "Ok, so I'll pray for you".
He prayed and then he said "do you feel that ?"
And I felt something right here and I said
"Yes, I feel that " but in my head I was thinking
"No it's not of that, that's me!" And then he asked what happened to you
and I did not really respond from my memory,
I just responded to his authority in the questions he asked
and I said I was humiliated in front of the class in first grade
the next thing I remember is that he said "In the name of Jesus
I command the spirit of rejection to leave"
and I felt this thing that I thought belonged to here
just kind gently lift off my head and so I experienced
what it means to be set free,
what it means to be delivered and yet it took a number of years before I learned
how I could give this away to other people.
Neal Lozano of Philadelphia Pennsylvania is Catholic.
He is the founder of the ministry of the "Heart of the Father",
and author of "Unbound: A Practical Guide To Deliverance."
He was one of the main speakers at the conference on the issue
attended by 400 people from different churches
and led by the Chemin Neuf Community
in Tigery near Paris France.
So I'm best known for my book "Unbound, a practical guide to deliverance",
it's published in numerous countries and languages
and in that book I talk about the 5 keys.
And the five keys are Repentance and Faith,
Forgiveness, Renunciation, Authority
and The Father's Blessing.
So the image that I use in the book is that if you picture a door with 5 locks
and you have 5 keys but you just use 2 or 3 of them, the door stays locked.
But if you use all five the door opens and so there is a way which all these 5 Keys
fit together in a beautiful way as we minister to people.
Sometimes when we teach about repentance and faith,
people think only about repentance.
But Jesus when He came in from the desert, He proclaimed the Kingdom of God is here,
repent and believe, he connected the two together.
So there is one action of conversion, it's turning away,
renewing your mind, embracing the truth.
So we will lead people, even those that have a commitment to Jesus,
we will give them an opportunity, we will say,
"would you like to pray a prayer of surrender to Jesus today"
or if they've never had that opportunity we say
"would you like to commit your life to the Lord,
would you like Him to embrace Him as your Saviour?"
The second key is one of the most significant ones,
it is Forgiveness, most people know that they need to forgive
but a lot of people are stuck they don't quite kind of get freedom,
the freedom they need, that they should get
when they forgive in Jesus' name and so we listen to this story
and then we will help them to pronounce forgiveness.
And so we might say: "In the name of Jesus,
I forgive my Dad for choosing alcohol over me.
I forgive him for his angry words
and I forgive him to be emotionally absent for me,
and I forgive him for not being the Dad I needed him to be,
I forgive him for the way he treated Mom,
especially when he yelled at her and hit her."
You know whatever the story might be, when someone is able to tell their story,
sometimes that itself opens up and validates their story
so that they can forgive.
I remember this one man,
I prayed with him not too long ago and I said :
"You know when you're alone in your thoughts
what kind of negative thoughts come to your mind?"
And he says : "Well, I think I am a loser, I am never going to amount to anything"
and I say then : "Did anyone ever say that to you?"
He thought for a moment and he said "My Dad spoke those words"
And you know sometimes words have power and when words are spoken,
even if they are isolated they can stick.
So recognizing the lies, recognising the strategies of the enemy
and just speaking out loud and saying "in the name of Jesus I renounce self hatred
in the name of Jesus I renounce loneliness, isolation,
in the name of Jesus I renounce sadness
in the name of Jesus I renounce shame
in the name of Jesus I renounce the lie that something is wrong with me,
that everything is my fault, in the name of Jesus I renounce the lie
that I have to be perfect to be accepted..."
You know there are as many lies are they are people
and as many different lies as there is in our imagination,
if it does not wind up with God's word, if it does not line up with the truth,
then we can renounce it.
The fourth Key is authority and I find that lot of Christians
don't understand that they have authority.
In the Scriptures, it says that we have been given the power,
another translation of that word is authority,
we've been given the authority
to become the children of God and we have authority over anything
that God has given us responsibility for.
And one of the things that we know He has given us responsibility for,
is our own souls, our own lives!
And we shouldn't be bashful about knowing that we can speak in the name of Jesus
to break the power of the lies that we've believed
and command any spirit that's attached to them to leave
And the fifth Key is the Father's blessing
which is something that I needed to learn over the years,
something on the very beginning of my walk with Jesus,
Jesus began to show me the face of the Father.
Some of us want to be free from things but we will never understand
the full freedom Jesus wants for us
until we understand what He is bringing us into,
which is the love of the Father, the heart of the Father.
To me deliverance is about freedom.
Jesus said to Peter: you are rock and on this rock
I will build my church
and the gates of another world will not stand against it.
That tells us that Satan is on the retreat. The church is on the offensive,
just as Jesus was, against the kingdom of darkness,
taking ground from the kingdom of darkness.
So no Christian should feel like we are fleeing in terror
from the advance of Satan.
I can say that in the last few years of my ministry,
and also in the writing of this document,
I have become increasingly aware of how simple the issue of deliverance is.
As I have already said, it is part of everyday life and it is very simple.
I realise that, quite easily, even as I'm walking down the street,
I may suddenly feel that I am being attacked by a thought,
and then after a while I start to recognise my personal demons,
I start to recognise the thoughts that come to mind and I say,
"I renounce it". And I keep walking, and everything is fine again.
Deliverance ministry has also become
a more important part of the prayer ministry that I do,
when I'm praying over people, I have a deeper consciousness of the fact
that evil spirits very often are playing a role
when someone is in some way oppressed or depressed
or feeling that they are in bondage in some way.
And I have a greater sense of the authority
that all baptized believers have in the name of Jesus,
to resist evil one, to cast out demons, to tell them that they have no place
in those who have been purchased by his precious blood.
So I'm more confident of his victory and of sharing his victory.
As the great Pastor Thomas Roberts used to say,
"you have to believe in a very big Jesus and a very little devil".
And I would add: you must believe in a big Jesus
and then you must know that a very small devil exists,
because one doesn't believe in the devil.
So the devil and the demons have been defeated.
They are small in relation to the saving power of Christ,
but they exist and if we refuse to accept that they exist
then we become vulnerable to superstition
and ultimately to leaving the back door open to them.
The evil will want to make his stand more powerful than he is.
He's lost, he's a loser and even the gates,
the last stand of an army against an advancing army,
even the gates of another word will not stand against the church
in the power of the name of Jesus overcoming evil.
Letter of Paul to the Colossians (Col 1: 12-14)
"Let us give thanks to the Father for having made you worthy
to share the lot of the saints in light. He rescued us from the power of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son.
Through him we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins."
Lord Jesus, you who have come to save us
and have already won the victory over evil,
open our eyes to all the ties that bind us and come deliver us.
Help us to be aware of the authority over evil spirits
that you granted to us at our baptism. To carry out this ministry of deliverance,
may the Holy Spirit inspire and guide
our Churches to all those in such urgent need of redemption.
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