SESSION 2 SCHOOL OF DELIVERANCE PTR. RUEL V. RAMOS BASIC ASSUMPTIONS IN THE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY BASIC ASSUMPTIONS (1) EVEN WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN AND SPIRIT-FILLED, WE STILL HAVE PROBLEMS WITH SIN. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” HEBREWS 12:1 BASIC ASSUMPTIONS (2) UNLESS THESE BESETTING SINS ARE DEALT WITH BY THE ADMINSITRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE WORD AND THE POWER OF THE BLOOD, THEY WILL NOT BE REMOVED AUTOMATICALLY. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS (3) WE NEED DELIVERANCE EVEN FROM OUR PAST INVOLVEMENT WITH SIN, AS THIS HAS ALLOWED THE DEVIL LEGAL RIGHTS INTO OUR LIVES. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS (4) WE MUST BREAK THE COVENANTS AND CURSES MADE BY OUR ANCESTORS AS THEY ARE BEING PASSED ON TO US. “You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” EXODUS 20:5 (ESV STRONG) BASIC FOUNDATIONS IN THE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY BASIC FOUNDATIONS (1) KNOW YOUR ENEMY “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” JOHN 10:10 “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” EPHESIANS 6:11-12 (NIV 1984) BASIC FOUNDATIONS (2) KNOW WHAT JESUS DID TO THE ENEMY “And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.” COLOSSIANS 2:15 “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.” 1 JOHN 3:8 (NIV 1984) BASIC FOUNDATIONS (3) KNOW YOUR POSITION IN CHRIST “His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.” EPHESIANS 1:19-21 (NIV 1984) “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.” EPHESIANS 2:6 (NIV 1984) BASIC FOUNDATIONS (4) KNOW YOUR POWER AND AUTHORITY “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.” LUKE 10:19 (NIV 1984) BASIC FOUNDATIONS (5) KNOW YOUR WEAPONS “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” 2 COR 10:3-4 (NIV 1984) THE WEAPONS IN JESUS NAME (MK 16:17) TRUMPETS (Num 10:9) BLOOD OF THE LAMB (Rev 12:11) SWORD (Jos 5:13-15) BATTERING RAM (Eze 21:22) BROOM OF DESTRUCTION VOICE OF THE LORD (Ps 29:5) BURNING COALS (Ps 140:10) FIRE (Deut 4:24) WRATH (Ps 2:5; 21:9) ARROWS (Ps 18:14a) BURNING SULFUR (Ps 11:6) LIGHTNING/THUNDER SPEAR AND JAVELIN (Ps 35:3a) HAND OF THE LORD (Acts 13:11) PLAGUE FROM THE LORD (Ex 7-11) WORD OF GOD (Heb 4:12) CUP OF FOAMING WINE (Ps 75:8) ANGEL OF THE LORD (Ps 34:7) CHARIOTS OF FIRE (2Ki 6:17) (Ps 18:12-14) (Isa 14:23)