This may be graphic and upsetting for some.
Today I want to talk a little bit about an experience that I had in an “inner healing and deliverance” ministry. I have quite a few and today I’m going to share with you one that changed how I viewed everything.
First, I want start out by saying test every single thing that I am bringing forth to scripture for yourselves.
I had a friend who was an inner healing and deliverance minister, we were friends for a few years on Facebook.
This person does these live inner healing and deliverance classes, and would ask me to join as a guest speaker but I never felt led of the Lord to do so.
After we had been talking about finding a time for me to join , I thought, man I really need to check out one of his videos before I hop on it.
I joined the live and immediately he was essentially casting demons out of people, but doing it in such a way that was very aggressive.
Essentially ordering angels to harm these demons which never sat right with me because of this scripture-
Jude 1:9
But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Nevertheless, I continued on because I trusted him and figured
“Maybe I’m just not mature enough in this area”
And thought maybe he knew something that I didn’t.
After this very intense opening , we go into the second portion of the “deliverance” which we are basically led in a guided meditation back to a wound in our past.
Immediately I have all sorts of checks in my spirit because the Lord has always told me not to engage in any sort of forceful entrance into the spirit realm
But again, I trusted this minister and thought “maybe this is different.”
Part of my gifting is discernment of spirits. The way that this gift operates in my life is often times I will see, hear, or smell a demon when it’s an operation.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 "For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongue, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all of these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills
The intention in this revelation is to show me a plan of the enemy and to come out of agreement with it.
As we enter into this spiritual guided meditation, I immediately am taken back to a place in my past.
I can sense that there is a very dark spirit lurking, and as this minister is speaking, this spirit is actually rewriting history in this vision by whispering a new narrative.
I could tell the spirit speaking was not holy. I could sense that this narrative that was being spoken over my past was not correct.
Even still, I continue listening and going through the motions in the spirit as led by this minister.
Again, I doubted what I was being shown and wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.
We continue on until this minister starts taking us into a guided meditation of the throne room.
Essentially, he was painting Jesus in our mind’s eye and explaining to the group that what we are experiencing Jesus by imagining him and this guided meditation is the one true living God.
A lot of the people who were in the group were writing what they were experiencing in the comments.
Everybody was having these
experiences with Jesus that were very different from the biblical accounts of being before the throne of grace.
Essentially, it was almost like taking the holiness away from Jesus and turning him into a figment of their imagination, just there to entertain them.
Immediately I get off of the group at this point, and I know that something is very wrong.
Immediately the Lord took me back into that place in my past (the same place that the enemy was trying to whisper the new narrative ) and showed me the reality of what truly happened showing me that this was indeed a lie.
Essentially showing me the spirit behind the lie was trying to get me to come into agreement with a different narrative of my past to bring forth more trauma and more wounds.
After doing some research into these types of ministries, other people have experienced the same thing.
Demons are liars.
After the Lord showed me this truth, I started to get attacked by the enemy.
At this point, I knew that I opened the door to some weird spirits by engaging in extra biblical things that I knew in my heart was wrong.
I start to see these demons at play and essentially what they are trying to do is rip my soul out of my body and throw it back into a pit of mire.
The Lord showed me that what I was engaging in in this class, was witchcraft.
I kept trying to fall asleep and every time that I would shut my eyes, I would be jolted out of sleep and thrown back into this mud pit in visions.
They were basically tossing my soul around like a ragdoll-this is what it felt like.
I was led to the scripture
2 peter 2
19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” 20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. 22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”
I immediately understood what the Lord was showing me here
I repented and turned back to him and all of the demonic attacks stopped.
The next day, the Lord kept telling me that he was my deliverer.
Something that he actually told me before this experience was
“ do you not believe in my ability to make you holy?”
Essentially, what I was doing by joining this class was going back to the mire pit that he literally delivered me from.
I was going back to the wounds that he sent me free from.
By doing this, I had opened the door to all sorts of weird attacks.
I started to look into scripture for any evidence of these types of guided meditation inner healing classes.
I wanted to test the spirit that was showing me that this was witchcraft, even though I knew it was the Lord I still test all things to the word.
I found absolutely nothing that tells us to go back to the place of the wound confirming what the Lord was showing me.
What I did find was scriptures like this -
PHILIPPIANS 3:13
KJ21
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended it, but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Isaiah 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
Hebrews 12:2
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
PHILIPPIANS 3:20
KJ21
For our abiding is in Heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
ISAIAH 53:5
KJ21
But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed.
I then started to look into a lot of of this type of inner healing and deliverance, and I found a ton of these types of classes stemming from the occult.
They call it shadow work.
We obviously know that there is no healing outside of Christ, so it’s just more lies.
Afterwards, I went back to the minister and voiced to him my concerns and explained to him what happened to me.
He completely dismissed everything that I said, and explained that he learned how to do all of these things from this extra-biblical book and suggested I read it.
He had no direct scripture to confirm these practices.
He said that he thought I had an altar that was holding a soul fracture captive, which was essentially resisting his healing.
He explained in his ministry that sometimes healing from Jesus is not enough, and that we need to go to ministers to essentially bring forth these soul alters.
Obviously, I took this very seriously and started to dig into the word of God for anything that would substantiate this claim… and once again, Jesus met me there in his word to show me that this was just another lie.
I share all of this to each of you because I am somebody who has truly come out the other side of healing and deliverance by way of Christ and Christ alone .
In this season of my life, I am walking in levels of freedom that I could not even put into words if I tried.
Feeling is no longer own me
Sin no longer has dominion in my life
I have intimacy with Jesus Christ every single day
The fruit of my life is showing Jesus - my marriage my daughter,
my friendships, my ministry
He has truly taken me from circling the drain of never-ending deliverance into the kingdom where I am completely set free by the blood of his son and the simplicity of Christ and the cross.
This was part of my journey- walking through a lot of of these snares to the other side of freedom.
My heart and sharing is to encourage each of you to seek the Lord and his word for a lot of of these extra biblical things that I believe are actually keeping people in bondage
This is my testimony. This is my experience and this is how the Lord set me free.
I would also never put God in a box and say that He can never meet people in these types of circumstances.
His ways are higher.
He is absolutely sovereign.
But the question at hand-
Is this a biblical practice?
And if not, should we partake in it?
I hope this helps
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