Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected

Part of my wife's illness involved facial spasms due to a movement disorder. During the prayer to break the generational curse, T's entire body began to spasm and shake, worse than we’ve ever seen. (I should clarify, she is a very calm, down to earth personality, not remotely given to emotional expressiveness of this sort). The moment she prayed to

Within their newfound faith, many are recognizing spiritual activity within themselves—and in their environment—which is evil. Much of it is connected to personal activities from their previous life or ones they are still indulging in that hadn’t been previously identified as evidence of influence from the other side.

What would it look like to live in deliverance?

Of course we tested the healing. “Wait and see,” I said. But she was completely healed. All symptoms gone. Decades of chronic health issues, ended in an instant. Her healing and deliverance have since ushered in a whole new era in our spiritual formation, and opened up a whole new dimension to our view of the spiritual life.

Part of my wife's illness involved facial spasms due to a movement disorder. During the prayer to break the generational curse, T's entire body began to spasm and shake, worse than we’ve ever seen. (I should clarify, she is a very calm, down to earth personality, not remotely given to emotional expressiveness of this sort). The moment she prayed to

Within their newfound faith, many are recognizing spiritual activity within themselves—and in their environment—which is evil. Much of it is connected to personal activities from their previous life or ones they are still indulging in that hadn’t been previously identified as evidence of influence from the other side.

Then we discovered a generational curse. Four generations ago, a shaman in Mexico City had been hired to curse the firstborn daughters of her family line. We knew there was a lot of sickness and death in her extended family, but had never connected the dots. We immediately did the genogram math and realized, every single firstborn daughter for four

Lord, deliver us from easy answers, packaged programs, and systems that minimize our desperate need for You to be involved every step of the way—even when (and especially when) we are actually doing it right! Jesus, You have promised to build Your church Your way. Help us do whatever we must do to let You do that! In Your name I pray, Amen!

Prayers for healing were generic and neither personal nor powerful. People were left feeling helplessly captive.