Types of Prayer: Deliverance
In the Lord’s prayer, one of the most important lines is, “deliver us from evil.” One of the roles that God regularly took on in the Bible was as the Deliverer. He delivered Isaac with a ram, the Israelites from bondage in Egypt, and David from the predations of King Saul. The Lord is always there, prepared to deliver the poor, the weak, and the sinner.
Some of the most powerful prayers and Psalms are prayers for deliverance, or thanking God for it. Deliverance is bringing someone from a place of destruction, negativity, or sin and taking them out of it and into a place of safety, strength, and spiritual healing.
When you are in need of a spiritual breakthrough you can glean from deliverance prayers in the Bible that empower you to step into your God-given freedom.
I listed some Bible Scriptures that can inspire your prayer life.
- Using The Lord’s Prayer As A Blueprint
- Using Psalm 51 To Bring Deep Deliverance
- Breaking The Curse According To Galatians
- Praying Deliverance Prayers Like Jesus
- Using The Finger Of God To Cast Out Demons
- Psalms 149: Releasing God’s Judgment?
- Using Psalm 3 In Spiritual Warfare
- Reading And Declaring Psalm 68
I am going into more detail on them below and show you how to apply them in your prayer life.
But first I want to explain what deliverance prayer really is.
What Is Deliverance Prayer?
Deliverance prayer is the prayer described in the Bible that brings freedom from oppression, demonic possession, and spiritual bondage through the blood, the resurrection power, and by the name of Jesus Christ. Among Christians, it is also known as a prayer of spiritual warfare.
It is based on the instructions of Jesus to His disciples in Matthew 10, His personal example (Luke 4:18, Luke 8:26-39), and the great commission in Matthew 29:18-19, Mark 16:15-20, and John 20:21.
Jesus empowers His disciples to cast out unclean spirits in His name to manifest the kingdom of God in their life.
The Bible says in Ephesians 6:12 that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
And like the disciples of Jesus, we are empowered in Christ to stand against the evil forces of hell.
In Him, we have authority over these things. Jesus said in Matthew 18:18 “whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you lose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
So, if you are under attack or in bondage, you are fighting a spiritual battle that needs to be fought with spiritual weapons. One of these weapons is prayer.
In prayer, you repent, break the curse of sin, all attached generational curses, and cast them out in Jesus’ name. Sometimes fasting can fuel such prayer (Matthew 17:14-21).
Through talking to God and speaking to the spiritual realm in the name of Jesus we are literally moving angels, demons, and the hand of God.
The Bible promises that if someone cries out for deliverance, God responds and restores. Praying for deliverance from difficulty and evil is part of fighting spiritual battles and living a victorious life. What Does the Bible Say about Deliverance? People often find themselves in difficult and dangerous positions. Sometimes these positions are physical and sometimes they are spiritual. That person needs to be delivered.
The dictionary defines deliverance as, “the act of delivering someone or something: the state of being delivered; liberation; rescue.” Deliverance in the Bible comes in several forms. Sometimes the Lord delivers people from His wrath. These individuals would include Noah, delivered from the Great Flood, and Lot, delivered from the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah. Once the twelve tribes, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, established themselves as a people, God often delivered them from political and military situations.
He delivered individuals from dangerous situations. In the New Testament, Jesus came to earth to deliver people from their sins by dying on the cross. Shedding His blood as an act of atonement extended grace to those who are willing to repent of their sins. This ultimate act of deliverance will redeem and deliver people from an eternity in hell, and from the second death. At the end of days, “Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:14, emphasis added). Those who aligned themselves with Christ will be eternally redeemed.
Praying Deliverance Prayers like Jesus
“And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.”
Matthew 17:18 NKJV
For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!”
Mark 5:8
The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.” He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs (…)”
Matthew 8:31-32b NKJV
These three accounts of Jesus doing deliverance are great examples of how to pray for deliverance.
First of all, notice that Jesus is indeed talking to demons. If it’s with the purpose of getting them out and gone, it is absolutely okay to talk to demons. Worshipping demons is what’s bad.
Many Christians teach “one ought not to talk to demons”. Well, Jesus shows us the opposite and the apostles did it just the same way (Acts 16:16-18).
In a direct confrontation with sin and the evil spirit connected to it, it’s absolutely biblical to rebuke it, tell it to go, and to come out in the name of Jesus.
This is not “praying to demons”. It is standing in your God-given authority to manifest and build the kingdom of God. You are telling a demonic spirit to leave so that the Holy Spirit can come in.
How to apply Praying Deliverance Prayers Like Jesus:
After repenting and renouncing the sin and its curse tell the attached demon to go in Jesus’ name.
Should it manifest just rebuke it in Jesus’ name and command it to come out in Jesus’ name.
(Be sure to have a real relationship with Jesus, be covered with His blood, and wear the full armor of God. The spiritual battle is real and you don’t want to enter it unprepared.)
Using The Finger Of God To Cast Out Demons
“But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.”
Luke 11:20 NKJV
“But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.”
Matthew 12:28 NKJV
Jesus teaches us something very important about spiritual warfare in these scriptures. He is using “the finger of God” in cooperation with the Holy Spirit to cast out demons.
But there is nothing magical about it. It is the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit that ultimately brings deliverance.
How to apply The Finger Of God:
When confronting an evil spirit, expose it by pointing at it, rebuke it, and tell it to leave under the anointing and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Know that casting out demons like that will bring the kingdom of God. Jesus said so and I have experienced it countless times too.
Should a demon manifest in your life confide in this scripture, point at it (yourself in this case), rebuke it by name, and tell it to leave you and your life in Jesus’ name.
But know that it is not by your ingenuity or your words that will cast out a demon. It is by His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, that deliverance is being manifested (Zechariah 4:6).
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