I gave my life to the Lord in 1974 at age 7. Received my prayer language in 1980 at age 13. But continued to struggle with fruit of the flesh. My deliverance began in September 2008 as I encountered the Lord strongly overnight and then enjoyed more and more freedom as I had a strong desire to become more like Christ with the evidence of the fruit of the spirit in my life. I saw my life transform suddenly as I no longer struggled with the former fruit of the flesh.  I desired to live in sexual purity, humility, and righteous living.  I had a love and compassions for all people and was able to no longer take an offense when others did me wrong but was able to forgive them.  Deliverance at its simplest form means that you are no longer under the control of demonic spirits nor find any satisfaction in fleshly desires.  You no longer desire to pursue a sinful lifestyle as you know it leads to things that are opposite of Jesus like lust, anger, bitterness, vengefulness, pride, sexual sin with the evidence of sickness, broken relationships and all the consequences from that type of lifestyle…

Most people who call themselves a Christian live a life that is not the same as God’s expectations. Most feel that they should attend church once a week, read their Bible a couple times a year, give some money to the church, and do some service projects or outreach programs a couples times a year.  All the while still not living a sexually pure life, watching movies or listening to music that would grieve the Holy Spirit, treating their spouse and kids harshly, lying or tolerating sin in their lives, walking in pride every day.  Others may feel like they should become a teacher at their church or lead a small group, take a mission trip and serve a couple times a month at their homeless shelter, food bank, witness on the streets, pray over people at the mall and in the marketplace, fast a couple times a year, pray in tongues and prophesy.  Surely those who pray in tongues, prophesy, do deliverance and many miracles are on their way to heaven, or… maybe not? Is God impressed with our works and spiritual gifts?  Even the Pharisees and scribes were sharply scolded by Jesus and they did a lot of…