BE VERY CAREFUL WHOSE COUNSEL YOU RECEIVE There are about 30,000 pastors and over 120,000 licensed professional counselors, over 80,000 psychologists and over 30,000 psychiatrists in America who have people come to them for advice with which to handle issues in their own personal lives and relationships. Over the past year at Restored to Freedom, we have seen more and more people coming to us who have shared that they were given counsel from their pastors, counselors as well as other professionals that was actually unwise and hurt them as much of the counsel came from the person and not from the Lord or Holy Spirit. Many times the counsel given to them were from well-meaning pastors or counselors who had no understanding how demonic spirits cause people to behave which cause emotionally harmed people more harm by their aggressive / abusive spouses or controlling / abusive parents. Many times the advice was coming from a place of inexperience on the part of the pastor / counselor or sadly through similar demonic tainted like-minded spirits that were similar to the abusive spouse or parent. If they are Christian they often take scriptures talking about how “God hates divorce” in Malachi…

HOW TO OVERCOME SEXUAL LUST Lust is a huge problem in the world. Lust is also a huge problem in the church with church leaders, pastors, spouses and those attending church being addicted to porn, struggling with lust or living a sexually impure lifestyle. 90% of the thousands of people I have taken through healing and deliverance sessions have either been exposed to pornography, been exposed to nudity, touched sexually, experienced incest, molested, or raped prior to age 18. Most of them were currently struggling to live a sexually pure lifestyle when they came to me for a healing and deliverance session. Below are some very disturbing statistics concerning porn: - More than 40 million Americans are regular visitors to porn sites. - The average visit lasts 6 minutes and 29 seconds. - There are around 42 million porn websites, which totals around 370 million pages of porn. - The porn industry’s annual revenue is more than the NFL, NBA and MLB combined. It is also more than the combined revenues of ABC, CBS and NBC. - 47% of families in the United States reported that pornography is a problem in their home. - Pornography use increases the marital infidelity…

IF YOU HAVE UNHEALED SOUL WOUNDS YOU WILL MANIFEST When we grow up we all get hurt in a myriad of ways, but some get hurt more than others. We get emotionally hurt from words spoken to us that are mean and harsh or condemning. We also get hurt by actions, and physical and sexual abuse. Many of us get hurt by our own parent, siblings, relatives, neighbors, teachers, pastors, etc. We also get hurt if we are exposed to porn, sexually touched or exposed, molested or raped. Once we have been hurt we have the choice of truly forgiving that person from our hearts like Jesus did and behaving like Christ. Or we can be angry and bitter towards the person who hurt us and not forgive them in our hearts. Forgiveness does not require allowing your abuser to stay in your life. But if we do not forgive a person from our heart then demons will have legal rights to torment our mind with their thoughts causing us to trigger on other people and current relationships. We trigger by getting mad and angry, and overreacting to situations or going quiet for hours or days. Demons play a large…

HOW EFFECTIVE IS YOUR CHURCH’S DELIVERANCE MINISTRY? Not every church who offers deliverance is run by a person who is delivered themselves. Often you will see those who are prideful try to take charge of it. Sometimes you will see people who are into witchcraft who will try to run it and then hurt people more. And often you will see people who don’t understand how deliverance works thinking you have to yell and scream the demons out of people, or thinking they have to vomit to be delivered or trying to override people’s freewills and not addressing the need to get their soul wounds healed and forgiving those who hurt them and repenting for their pride and sin. A true godly deliverance ministry will always have the person in charge of it living a godly lifestyle of sexual purity, fruit of the spirit and have much humility like Christ. If you attend a church whose leadership don’t believe a Christian can be affected by demons and don’t need deliverance you need to run! They are wrong, unbiblical and will lead you away from what Jesus did and allow sin to stay in your life and excuse it instead of…

NOT EVERY MARRIAGE WAS ORDAINED BY GOD Think about it.  Most marriages happen when a young man and woman are first physically attracted to one another.  Then they date for a period of time to see if they are compatible with one another.  If one person is very controlling, lies, cheats on them, emotionally abuses or worse, or has no godly fruit while the other person wants to live for God then often times they don’t follow through with the wedding.  Often times one of the parties says they are a Christian, acts nice to them as much as they are able to muster during the dating process but ultimately has no intention in their heart of living a godly lifestyle and simply wants their future spouse to provide for their financial or physical needs, give them sex when they want it,  yet will treat them like a slave with consistent emotional abuse, putting them down with a cutting tongue and possibly worse during the marriage.  Does that sound like a potential marriage ordained by God? Of course not.  Yet millions of marriages are consummated under false pretense. So what happens if you had every intention of serving God in…

THE IMPORTANCE OF MARRYING A DELIVERED BELIEVER It is common for couples to date for several months to a year and then within 3 weeks of getting married one of them changes dramatically. One of them becomes very controlling, jealous of others, demanding, prideful and sneaks around behaving in ways they don’t want their spouse to know what they are doing. It’s like the spouse’s personality changed once they had you committed to marriage. So what happened? What happened was the spouse who dramatically changed to the worse had an alternate personality which they hid until they officially had you committed to marriage to them. They had prior soul wounds from childhood which were never healed that allowed demons to attach to them giving them many thoughts to which they trigger if you look or sound like a person or situation from their past that hurt them. The spouse could be Spirit filled and pray in tongues and prophesy but if they still have not forgiven all who hurt them from their hearts and asked God to take their pride from them and repented for their sin and got delivered from the demons that attached to their soul then they…

IT’S TIME TO CROSS INTO YOUR PROMISED LAND I heard the Lord say today “My children many of you have felt like you cannot go on anymore as the spiritual attacks have been too much and too often by friends, foes, family, the church and those at work or in ministry and the church. The financial drain and hardships of the economy have left you with nothing left. Many have to keep track of how much you can spend at the grocery each time so you don’t run out. For some even your apartment and home is in danger of being taken away as the eviction notices have come. Those who have been living sold out for Me will never be sold to the evil ones. They will not take from you what is truly yours. Understand that I am stretching you greatly – many of you have thought that you can’t take any more of this drought season – but understand during this process I am revealing to you who your real family and friends are. Those who love you unconditionally with no strings attached. Those who love Me with all their hearts. It was important for you to…

THE LORD IS CAUSING SPIRITUAL EARTHQUAKES TO CLEANSE HIS CHURCH The church has been infiltrated by people who have risen to positions of leadership including pastors, prophets, teachers, intercessors, deliverance ministers, worship leaders, security, etc. who have been living fake lives trying to impersonate a Christian when in reality they are living in violation of the Bible. They have been living lives in much sin, sexual impurity, pride, lies, deception, gossip, controlling others, listening to demonic spirits, etc. God has given them much time to repent but they have refused and continue to live in their evilness, sexual impurity, corruption and sin, hurting people worse who were already wounded. So the Lord has been forced to expose their pride, sin and lies and is now separating many in His church who have wanted to live a godly life away from those who are still living in sin. God is causing people to leave unhealthy churches whose leadership is leading people to stay in their sin with their hyper-grace messages. God is shutting down many churches (churches are closing in record numbers) whose leadership compromised their own lives and turned a blind eye to others living in sin, emotionally abused their…

THE DANGEROUS KUNDALINI SPIRIT (THE COUNTERFEIT HOLY SPIRIT) There are many American Holy Spirit-filled charismatic churches who have people attending them who are operating under the Kundalini spirit which is also known as the counterfeit Holy Spirit. The Kundalini spirit gains legal rights to come upon a person when they do Yoga, occultic mysticism or attend churches where people under the influence of it pray for you and put their hands on you which allows them to transfer their Kundalini spirit into you. It especially appeals to those who have a strong desire to appear more godly, Holy and gifted than others. Those who have a prophetic gifting, who call themselves a prophet or flows in the prophetic or want people to believe they can deliver people from demons better than others but instead have so many demons themselves that they can’t deliver anyone yet give people more demons and confusion and operate in witchcraft. Kundalini is a spiritual serpent that attaches to the base of your spine and then begins to work its way up your back to your neck and the base of your skull manifesting in your head jerking back and forth, having tremors in your body,…

PASTORS & CHURCHES WHO DON’T DO DELIVERANCE ALLOW SATAN FREE REIGN When a person attends a church whose pastors don’t believe in the need of deliverance for their people the only recourse they have for their tormenting daily thoughts is to go to a doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist who will only prescribe medications and never help them get delivered from their tormenting demons. And many of the medications will have side effects such as depression and suicidal thoughts. So sadly many churches are being used by Satan to keep their people in torment and bondage and never allowing them to break free through inner healing and deliverance from demons. Many couples who are struggling in their marriage will typically have one person who is more controlling, demanding, emotionally abusive and prideful who is operating in the spirit of Jezebel (or would be called a narcissist by the psychological community) who will act like they are godly in front of the church leaders while lying about their abused spouse. The abused spouse will try to speak the truth to the pastor or other counselors but often the abuser will paint a picture of lies that the counselor or pastor agree with…