How to Expel Demons, Break Curses and Release Blessings...
author Derek Prince.
pg.143-146
How to expel Demons break curses and release blessings
History of suicide and timely and phrases such as "what's the use of living?", "Over my dead body!", I'd rather die go on the way."
People who use this kind of language or unconsciously inviting evil spirits take them over. Type of people spirit responds is determined by the language used. There are classes of spirits correspond to each of the seven categories listed above.
What kind of spirit that is particularly common is the spirit of "death." This responds to the kind of language listed under the category of "the history of suicide and unnatural and untimely deaths." It produces a sense that life is meaningless and hopeless, and a morbid tendency to focus on thoughts of death. It is often manifested also in a never in the series of physical infirmaties, for many of which there is no obvious medical cause.
Ultimately, this spirit that death will either drive a person to suicide or cause an untimely death in some other way. In John 8:44 Jesus warned us that Satan is a murderer. One of the agents that he uses is the spirit of death, which causes to die for their time. When I shared this with a physician friend, he confirmed that he often saw people die when there was not sufficient medical cause to explain.
It may be that in one or another of the categories listed above you have recognized things that you yourself said. If so, be the discouraged! There is a way out! Earlier in this chapter Peter provided an example of the three steps that are necessary to escape from a self-imposed curse: Repent-Revoke-Replace.
First, we must recognize that we have made a negative confession about ourselves and we must repent of it. Second, we must revoke it-that is, unsay or cancel it. Third, we must replace our previous wrong confession with the right one.
Another way in which people can bring a curse upon themselves is by pledges or oaths that are required for admission to a closed fraternity or sorority, or to a society. I recall a situation in which my first wife, Lydia, and I were seeking to help a young Christian woman be set free from demonic bondage. In spite of many prayers and struggles, there was no deliverance. Suddenly, Lydia was prompted to tell the young woman to take off a ring she was wearing. As soon as she did so, she was set free without further struggles.
Lydia acted solely on the prompting of the Holy Spirit. She knew nothing of the ring, which was actually a college sorority ring. To join the sorority the young woman had been required to make certain pledges that were inconsistent with her Christian faith. By discarding the ring, she effectively canceled those pledges and regained her liberty as a child of God.
On another occasion, Lydia and I were part of a group ministering to a young woman who confessed that she had been a priestess of Satan. She was wearing a ring that symbolized her “marriage” to Satan. When we told her she would have to take the ring off, she did so – but then under the compulsion of Satan, she swallowed it. A young man present received a special anointing of faith, and commanded the woman to regurgitate the ring, which she promptly did! We then threw the ring into a nearby lake. The final stage in the woman's deliverance followed when she publicly burned all the clothes she had worn while worshiping Satan.
Incidents such as these have made very real for me the directions given in Jude 23: “Save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh”
In both the above instances, satanic bondage was associated with a ring. The significance of a ring is that it often symbolizes a covenant relationship. In our Western culture for example, it is normal for a man and his wife each to wear a ring , symbolizing the the covenant relationship of marriage. By biblical standards a covenant is the most solemn and powerful form of a relationship into which a person can enter, whether the covenant is between God and man, or between a man and his fellow man. Satan is well aware of this, and he therefore exploits covenant relationships of his own making in order to gain the strongest possible control over people.
Life's trials and triumphs can seem accidental. One person may feel that life is a constant struggle in which pitfalls abound and someone seems out to get him. Another may feel that every day is a gift from God with special blessings just for her. That's because forces are at work in our lives: the blessings of a loving God or the curses of our spiritual adversary.
This hugely popular classic work of Derek Prince helps readers recognize if there are curses at work in their lives and shows them how to get out from under those curses to live under God's blessings. This third edition of Blessing or Curse includes an extensive new study guide for small group or individual use.
Do you know what forces are influencing your life from day to day?
Are you or your family experiencing repeated sickness or accidents? Do you feel under mental, emotional or financial pressure much of the time? Are your closest relationships in turmoil? Do you wonder why success comes easily to others but seems to elude you?
Bible teacher Derek Prince shows how the forces behind blessings and curses might be at work in your life. Drawing from God's Word and real-life experiences, Prince will help you understand the causes of curses--occult activity, hidden sin, abuses, abandonment, even sin from a previous generation--and teach you how to be set free from curses, so you can start enjoying the benefits of God's blessings.
More than 1.6 million readers have received life-transforming spiritual insight from this groundbreaking book. In this expanded edition, each chapter is followed by a study lesson--for yourself or for a small group--with review questions, a life application section and a memory verse.
With Derek Prince's help, you can experience freedom from problems that have frustrated you for years and enjoy the destiny God has planned for you.
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be set free from the power of a curse
By Amazon Customer on April 28, 2000
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I was first turned on to this book by a pastor friend who ministers in deliverance. Right from the outset, when we first met, he got the impression that I was suffering from some kind of curse, without even having spoken to me at any length. I was ministering in worship and praise at the time (which I still do) and I didn't pay too much attention to what he said until I read through this book.
I had felt for the longest time though (for the last 15 years or so), on numerous occasions that my family and I had experienced a great deal more of "unlucky" calamity, sickness, and financial failure than most of the people around us. The book lists, among other things, numerous objects that can be doorways for the occult or idolatry to enter into our lives. Boy was I surprised when the pastor showed me that the papyrus I used for educational purposes had the image of a musician (symbolically me) making an offering on an altar to the highest god of Egypt! From then on, my wife and I went through the house and we were amazed at the number of objects that we found. We decided to burn them in the back yard.
The book speaks in depth on self-imposed curses that we bring upon ourselves through our speech, and also covers family, or hereditary curses that were handed down to us through our ancestors. If you don't believe in hereditary curses you might want to ask yourself why the doctor's office always has you fill out a form telling them what diseases your parents and grandparents had.
The question of course is, if Christ redeemed me from "the curse of the law" why would I still need to break any curses in my life? Good question. Another question to ask yourself could be, if God forgave my sins, why am I still in jail, or why am I still suffering the consequences of my sin, or even my father's sin? I will leave you to read the book to get the author's point of view on this.
This is a highly practical as well as informative book. It has definitely left an impression upon my thinking. For those of you who have even the slightest doubt that you may be suffering from a curse, please read this book, and learn how you can be set free from its power.