I was out at coffee with a friend recently and of the range of things we discussed, we spent some time on one in particular that I want to share with you today. We were discussing inner healing, and he mentioned that deliverance ministers are by and large the unhappiest Christians he knows. And to be fair, that’s probably an unfortunately common trend. I think part of this is that those who focus on inner healing and deliverance can risk getting stuck in the weeds of things, so to speak, because they are constantly facing and trying to unravel people’s problems to get them free. I think another part of this is the same as the motivation for many who study psychology—they learn it to figure out what is wrong with them. With this in mind, he asked me why (although he worded it better) I think all of this other “stuff,” dealing with parts and emotional healing and related, is necessary, when in reality it should be as simple as learning the truth and letting it set us free.
To be fair, he is 100% correct. The process of internal freedom and transformation should be as simple as hearing the truth, because when we know the truth, it sets us free. So if it is that simple, then why do we have all of these other methods, and why does it not always seem to actually be that simple? What about all the times we have heard something true and yet it doesn’t bear the fruit it should?
This issues is why I am so big on people understanding mindset transformation, casting out demons, emotional healing, and working with parts. It should be as simple as us learning the truth, changing our beliefs, and becoming free. But what happens when our soul is shattered into pieces and demons afflict and attack each of those broken parts with lies? And what happens when those parts believe the lies? And what happens when the pain they carry constantly preach a lie to them?
What happens is barriers to healing, growth, and freedom. Which is why I teach what some ministers believe is “adding steps” to the gospel, whereas I see it as enforcing the gospel in a person’s life. I fully agree with my friend that it should be as simple as believing the truth, and for some things it is that straightforward. But the more engrained a belief is, the more trauma that is attached to it, and the more pain that it has caused in the individual’s life, the more the lie is reinforced and usually the harder it is to unravel and replace with the truth.
What we began to discuss was something that I think my friend puts quite well—that when walking in fullness doesn’t seem to be working, we can fall back on Biblical principles until the manifestation of the breakthrough comes. It is true that all we need to do is believe the truth and it should set us free, but when that fails to work for a range of reasons, we can use biblical principles of inner healing, casting out demons, breaking curses, and more to exercise dominion in the realm of our soul to see the breakthrough come.
I have explained this concept at length in my book Broken To Whole: Inner Healing For The Fragmented Soul and in other articles (for a good summary, check out How Can I Keep My Freedom After A Deliverance Session, and if you want to really dig in I have a 9-part series called Divine Healing That Works) but today I want to offer you a few free resources to help get unstuck when you feel like you aren’t sure how to move forward into freedom. And if you want to understand some useful biblical principles for life as a whole, I encourage you to pick up a copy of my book The Power of Impartation.
Webinar on how to set up your inner realm to get healing:
Preparing the Soul To Be Healed
Two message teaching series on why the soul is so important to the physical body and how to use the Diagnostic Healing Prayer method.:
The Soul Brings Life To The Body
Flower Essences for Inner Healing:
Freedom Flowers Bouquet Blends
