How to Maintain your Deliverance

Consciously allow Yeshua to rule as your Lord and obey him in all areas of life.

Maintain a healthy routine of spiritual disciplines

• Maintain a daily quiet time, keeping a diary of your difficulties and victories
• Read the Bible every day
• Involve yourself in our activities or find a church near you
• Keep yourself filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18)

Take responsibility for the difficulties in your life

• Don’t expect others to fight your battles for you
• Don’t be passive
• Don’t return to old patterns and sin that caused your problems in the past

 Practice forgiveness as a lifestyle

• Remember that forgiveness is a free will decision that you make and not a feeling
• Forgive quickly, no matter how hurt you feel
• You may find that you must forgive some people repeated times for the same offense (forgive 70×7 times)

 Make restitution for any debts you owe

• Return any stolen goods you have in your possession
• If you owe someone an apology, do it! Apologise face to face
• Ask forgiveness and don’t put it off

 Change your lifestyle if necessary

• If watching television is a problem, stop watching it
• If a friend is trying to get you to go back to old habits, stop spending time with him or her
• Consciously change any bad habits you may have acquired like gossip, criticism, overeating, worldly literature, lies etc.

Learn to combat temptation

• Sing praise and worship songs, read the Word
• Pray fervently in the spirit
• Take authority over evil spirits that try to bother you by sending them away in Yeshua’s name
• When you feel vulnerable, ask others to pray for you

If you fall into sin, repent quickly thus closing the door to the enemy

• Do not permit sin or other problems to separate you from God, continue to trust in the forgiveness by the blood of Yeshua Hammasiach over your life.
• Equip yourself with more knowledge about God and the spirit realm to prevent satan from trapping you in bondage again.
• Find out what strongholds were broken and what demons were taken out to prevent you from falling back into the sin trap. Soldiers 4 Christ Ministry has over 10 courses to help you gain this knowledge to grow spiritually and to keep the doors closed for the enemy.

Fight the good fight against the enemy

When you feel overcome by any problem or when the enemy attacks or tempts you again, appropriate your deliverance immediately. Identify the open door that occasioned the problem, close it (forgive, repent, ask forgiveness, firmly renounce the action, attitude or spirit involved), steadfastly break the power of any one of the mentioned things in the name of Yeshua and cast out any spirit involved in the name of Yeshua.

The following illustration was taken from a publication by Neil Anderson – If I visited your house tonight and knocked on your door, you would first come to see who was there and then you would have a choice to make. You could open the door to allow me to come in, or you could keep the door closed and deny me access. In the same way, when the enemy tries to invade your mind with lies and accusations, you have a choice to make. You can choose to allow those thoughts to come in, or you can deny them access. To “open the door” to the enemy’s lies, you simply remain passive. You let him set the agenda for your thoughts. To “close the door,” you take your thoughts captive; you decide what to believe.  Luke 17:11-19

Many people go through deliverance but then do not return to the house of God for thanksgiving. You should return to the place where you received your deliverance for thanksgiving and support.

When you come for deliverance you should not have alternatives or expect a “quick fix”.

“For freedom, Messiah set us free—so stand firm, and do not be burdened by a yoke of slavery again.”

When you walk according to the will of God you are set free and should not walk like a slave because as children of God, we are not slaves.

WHAT HAPPENS IF I HAVE SINNED AGAIN AFTER DELIVERANCE?

When we re-open doors by sinning, we open all the gates for satan to attack us again or to take control of certain areas in our lives. Matthew 12:43 and John 5:14 warn us that demons can also return and that person will then be worse off than before.

Matthew 12:43-45 (TLV) – ⁴³ “Now when an unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places looking for rest and doesn’t find it. ⁴⁴ Then it says, ‘I’ll go back home where I came from.’ And when it comes, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order. ⁴⁵ Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And that man’s last condition becomes worse than the first. So also will it be for this evil generation.”

Luke 11:24-26-24 (TLV) – “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places looking for rest. Not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house where I came from.’ 25 And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And that man’s last condition becomes worse than the first.”

John 5:14 (TLV) – “Afterwards, Yeshua finds him in the Temple. He said to him, “Look, you’ve been healed! Stop sinning, so nothing worse happens to you.”

 We know we are human and we may fail from time to time. That is why it is so wonderful that we can still after sinning, confess our sins, and the foothold that satan could have had, is then removed again because of God’s love and forgiveness for us. This does not mean that we can do deliberate sin and just ask forgiveness every time. No, but this means that if we live a life of sanctification, that God’s grace will be there if we make mistakes.

All we need to do is repent immediately.

 John 5:14 (TLV) – “Afterwards, Yeshua finds him in the Temple. He said to him, “Look, you’ve been healed! Stop sinning, so nothing worse happens to you.”