God’s Pattern For Deliverance
Part 4 – The Power Encounter: The Beginning of the End
If we are Free…
If
the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Joh 8:36
If the Son shall make you
free. How exactly does that happen? How does the Son go about bringing freedom
to a life of oppression and servitude?
We know
that we serve a God that uses patterns to communicate His nature and His will
for every given situation. By coming to understand the patterns that God has
given us, we can always achieve the desired results in any situation.
It’s
just like making a dress from a pattern. Every time we follow the pattern we
have, we end up with the same dress. The same is true for God’s patterns. If we
follow His pattern for deliverance, we will always end up being delivered. And
we will stay delivered. No exceptions.
Enslavement is Pride
Back in
the very beginning of things as far as man is concerned, satan was cast down.
His downfall was due to a pride issue. Any time anyone rises up to defy
Almighty God it is a pride issue, plain and simple. When we refuse to humble
ourselves before the Lord Jesus Christ and do as He commands, it is an
expression of pride in one form or another.
Once he
was cast down, he again defied the will of God and contributed to the downfall
of man in the Garden of Eden. Obviously, he was still struggling with that
whole pride thing.
In order
to cause man’s downfall, he played on Eve’s pride, as well as her lusts. It was
her pride that was the real culprit, however. It was her desire to be like a
god that caused her to take a bite of the forbidden fruit.
Let’s
face it: that tree had always been in the Garden. The fact that it was good for
food and pleasant to the eye had never been a problem for her in the past. The
difference this time was that she was promised the wisdom of the gods if she
ate it. Like most of us would have done, her foolish pride manifested in her
desire to be like God, so she took a bite. Pride was her downfall.
Because
of her pride, she and her husband fell from grace. As a result of the fall,
sin, sickness and disease, and everything unwholesome was given authority to
operate on the earth. Therefore, every form of sin, sickness and oppression is
a direct result of pride. Either the pride of man or the pride of satan.
Regardless of whose pride we’re talking about, someone’s pride is always at the
root of every sin and every form of oppression, including disease. Had it not
been for pride, none of these various forms of oppression would exist on the
earth. If it were not for pride, they would not have the freedom to operate as
they do.
So when
we begin to discuss the need for deliverance in any form – salvation, healing,
or demonic deliverance – we must first address that what we really need
deliverance from is pride. Whether it’s out pride, the pride of our culture, or
the pride of the enemy, it is pride that is always the root.
But he
giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth
grace unto the humble. Jas 4:6
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Pro 16:18
Since we are talking about
pride, we need to understand that God hates a proud heart (Ps. 101:5). As such,
He is always willing to get involved in our situations in order to bring
humility. If we are struggling with pride, God will bring humility through the
working of His Holy Spirit as we learn to submit ourselves wholly to Him. If it
is the pride of our culture that has taken up arms against us, He is more than
willing to become involved in our situation in order to honor his Word and
exalt the humble. If it is the pride of the enemy that has oppressed us, He is
more than willing to put His hand on that thing and declare that it must let us
go. It is all about bringing humility to a place where pride is oppressing us.
The Provision of the Promise
One expression of man’s pride
is the inability or the refusal to believe in the promises of God. We see this
all the time in the church world. Some denominations refuse to believe that God
still heals today. Others claim that the gifts of the Spirit are not for today.
Still others say that apostles and prophets are no longer in operation.
When we
make the decision to walk with Jesus, we need to quickly come to a major
decision in our walk. Either we’re going to believe the Word of God or we’re
going to believe the doctrines of men and the doctrines of devils that are so
prevalent in the church of today.
If we’re
going to believe the Word of God, then we need to decide we’re going to believe
all of it. Not just selected passages that agree with what we’ve been taught.
If what we’re being taught does not line up with the Bible, then we need to
decide in favor of the Bible. Always. Every time.
If we’re
going to believe the doctrines of man, then there is nothing that I or any
other minister can do to help. Sorry.
Once we
come to the decision to believe the Word of God, it is a short walk to
believing that every promise that God made to the people in the Bible is still
good today.
Once God
makes us a promise, it as good as money in the bank. God has made us numerous
promises that we need to hold onto. Many, many promises are contained in the
Word. They are just as valid today as the day they were recorded.
And the
Word is not the only source that God uses to reassure us that He is taking care
of something for us. Sometimes He will witness His promises directly to our
spirits. At other times, He may use a prophetic voice to speak into our lives.
It doesn’t matter how He communicates His promises to us. A promise from God is
a promise from God; period.
And God said
moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. Go, and
gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying,
I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: And I have said, I will
bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and
the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. And they shall hearken
to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king
of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the
wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. And I am sure that the
king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch
out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst
thereof: and after that he will let you go. And I will give this people favour
in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye
shall not go empty: But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her
that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment: and ye shall put them
upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. Exo 3:15-22
In this
passage, we see a promise from God that He will lay His hand on the thing
oppressing the Israelites to bring them out of their oppression. In addition,
He is going to make sure that they are reimbursed for all their trouble. These
promises to the children of God are still good, today. When we are being
oppressed by something, all we have to do is to follow the pattern that God has
given us. When we do so, we activate every promise that He has made for that
type of situation. How do we know that the Old Testament promises of God are
still valid?
Then Peter
opened his mouth,
and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in
every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with
him. Act 10:34-35
God does not have more love
for those in the Bible than He has for you. Everything that He did for those
that are recorded in the Word, He is still doing for His children. It doesn’t
matter what has happened in your past. It doesn’t matter where you came from.
It doesn’t even matter that you are not worthy of His help. We have all
participated in numerous sins worthy of a death sentence. We’ve all come from
bad places in our lives. None of us are worthy to be called the sons of God on
our own. Nevertheless, He loves us all the same. Just like He loved those in
the Word. We are all His chidren, and we are all entitled by right of our
spiritual rebirth to all of His promises. We just have to make the decision to
believe the promise and then to stand on it until it manifests in our lives.
In other
words, with very few exceptions, everything that happened in the Bible can,
should and does happen today. Everything.
And I will
stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the
midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. Exo
3:20
If God
was willing and able to strike down the thing oppressing and enslaving the
children of Israel for their benefit, He will do the same for us. In fact,
since we are covered by the blood of Christ Jesus, we have a right to expect
even more because we are sons and not servants.
The Uprooting Begins
And
afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And Pharaoh said, Who is
the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD,
neither will I let Israel go. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met
with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and
sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with
the sword. And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and
Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. And Pharaoh
said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh
commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers,
saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore:
let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which
they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they
cry, saying, Let us go and
sacrifice to our God. Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may
labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. And the taskmasters of the
people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus
saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go ye, get you straw where ye can
find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. So the people were
scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of
straw. And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set
over them, were beaten, and
demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both
yesterday and to day, as heretofore? Then the officers of the children of
Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with
thy servants? There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us,
Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the
LORD. Go therefore now, and
work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of
bricks. And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said,
Ye shall not minish ought
from your bricks of your daily task. And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in
the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: And they said unto them, The LORD
look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand
to slay us. And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast
thou so evil
entreated this people? why is
it that thou hast
sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to
this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all. Exo 5:1-23
In this
chapter, we are seeing the first stages of the actual power encounter between
God and the nation of Egypt. The Power Encounter happens when the power of God
directly confronts the oppressor in our lives. It doesn’t matter whether that
oppressor is our own flesh, the world we live in, or the demonic forces of the
enemy. The deliverance process is the same, and the reaction will be the same.
Once God
has seen our affliction, heard our cry for help, and come to an intimate understanding
of our struggle, He comes down to deliver us. When He comes down to deliver us
from our oppressor, the first thing that He does is to “fire a shot over the
bow”. He does this in order to let that thing, whatever it is, know that He is
about to set us free.
When God
first informs this oppressor that He is setting us free, the first thing we
usually see happen is that it rises up in defiance. Because of its pride, it
will rise up against the will of God in our lives. In short, the problem will
become worse than ever. Sickness and disease will manifest more and usually
worse symptoms than ever. Addictions will seem to become even harder to
struggle against. Those that struggle against rage or similar issues will
notice that for a time they are having even more trouble than usual. This is
only a temporary situation, as we will soon see.
The fact
that it is rising up in defiance is actually a good sign. That means that God
has pointed His finger at that thing and informed it that He has come down to
bring us deliverance, healing, etc.
Another
parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was
sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him,
Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The
servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root
up also the wheat with them. Let both grow
together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn
them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Mat
13:24-30
When God
comes into our lives, He immediately begins to sow good things into our lives.
Unfortunately, all of us have had a life before Christ. As a result, we all
have areas in our lives where we deal with things within us that are not of
God. Many of us are broken, hurt, unloving, etc. Once God comes into those
areas of our lives, He turns over the field and begins planting a new crop.
Like
most farmers, when God plants a seed, He is looking for a harvest. Unlike human
farmers, however, God doesn’t just plant a seed and look for the harvest. He
sets the date for the harvest. Just like God created corn and wheat and squash
to grow in a certain time span, the seeds He creates and plants within us are
assigned a certain amount of time to grow and bear fruit. Once God sets that
date, He doesn’t change it. God doesn’t worry about coming up with a “plan B”,
because His “plan A” always works out just like He wanted it to.
So when
we come to Jesus as Lord and Savior, God immediately begins to place seeds
within us. He plants the nature of Christ within us; the fruit of the Spirit.
He plants a new love within us. He plants many things that weren’t there
before.
Once God
begins to plant seeds for righteousness within us, our flesh, the world, and
the forces of the enemy will rise up to try and choke out those good things the
Lord has planted. After God first plants for His harvest, we will suddenly seem
to be battling on every front. Our flesh will rise up, and those things we
haven’t struggled with in years will come back to haunt us. Our friends,
family, and even our spouses will come against us. The world around us will start
treating us like we’re lepers. Problems will arise at work. We will suddenly
seem to be getting sick s lot more often than is usual, etc.
It seems
like the more we pray for relief from this uprising, the worse it gets. If we
are not careful, we can come to believe that this is God’s fault. We can come
to convince ourselves that He has abandoned us. If we listen to the voices of
others, or the voice of our flesh, we will be constantly reminded that things
weren’t this bad before God got involved in our lives. We may even allow
ourselves to be convinced that the only safe thing to do is to turn around and
walk away from God.
And Moses
spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not
hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? Exo 6:12
If we’re
not careful, we can allow ourselves to be convinced that the issues we are
dealing with are bigger than us. We may even come to the conclusion that they
are bigger than our God.
Do not
be intimidated by any of these things in your life. If God is sowing into you,
then He has already planned and set the date for the harvest. On that date, He
will pull up the things that are struggling against you and remove them from
your life. Once the tares in our lives rise up in prideful defiance to His
will, we can be assured that He can and will strike them down. We can also take
comfort in the fact that the date for their destruction has already been set,
and that their days are numbered. We can also rest assured in the fact that
when God sets the date for the harvest, everything after that is His work. We
can’t mess it up even if we try because it is no longer about us. It’s about
Him versus the tares.
Then the
LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a
strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them
out of his land. And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: And I
appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name
JEHOVAH was I not known to them. And I have also established my covenant with
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein
they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of
Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from
under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage,
and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: And I
will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD
your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I
will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD. Exo 6:1-8
Once God
has set a date for the harvest in our lives, He never waivers. He never takes a
step back. Even if every single thing which has power over our lives rises up
in defiance, God never changes the schedule. He never forgets His covenant
promises to His children, and His Word is as good as gold.
So shall my
word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but
it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I
sent it.
Isa 55:11
You can
rest assured that when the mouth of God uttered those promises of freedom to
the children of Israel, that He was speaking to you, as well. He had your exact
situation in mind, and the date for the harvesting of the tares is set in
stone, written in Heaven.
God Marches Forward – The Engagement Initiated
And the LORD
said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother
shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy
brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of
his land. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my
wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I
may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children
of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. And the Egyptians shall
know that I am the
LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of
Israel from among them. And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so
did they. And Moses was
fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake
unto Pharaoh. And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When
Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt
say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
Exo 7:1-9
Once any
form of bondage rises up in prideful defiance to the Word and the will of God,
God responds by increasing the pressure. Remember back in Chapter 5, God only
instructed Moses to tell Pharaoh that the children of Israel needed to go three
days into the wilderness to celebrate a feast. Now that Pharaoh has risen up
against God and His children in prideful defiance, God changes the terms of His
command to Egypt. No longer does He tell Moses to demand three days for a
feast. Now He tells Moses that He is going to execute great judgments against
Egypt until the Egyptians know that Jehovah is God. Once God has executed those
judgments and the Egyptians realize Who they are defying, God assures Moses
that the Egyptians will send them from Egypt, not just let them go to
sacrifice.
This
pattern still works today in our lives. Once any form of bondage rises up, God
begins the engagement by putting pressure on it. People we don’t even know will
begin interceding for us. The Spirit of the Lord will come over us and minister
rest and peace to us in the middle of its uprising. Those that God has placed
in our lives will suddenly begin to hold us up when we start to falter. In
short, God begins to pressure that thing until it is time to engage it.
And Moses
and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and
Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became
a serpent. Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the
magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. For
they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod
swallowed up their rods. And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not
unto them; as the LORD had said.
Exo 7:10-13
Regardless
of what rises up to defy the Lord, His power always dwarfs it and eats it up.
The
Hebrew word translated here as “serpent” (Strong’s #H8577) should have actually
been translated as “sea monster, sea serpent, or dragon”. During the time of
the exodus event, it was also used to describe very large crocodiles. We need
to take just a minute to consider the implications of this.
When God
met Moses at the burning bush, He instructed Moses to throw down his rod and it
became a serpent. In Pharaoh’s court, however, it is Aaron that throws down the
rod. At the burning bush, the Hebrew word for serpent is used in the original
text (Strong’s #H5175). In the court of Pharaoh, the same word is not used
because the rod of Aaron became a very large crocodile, not a serpent.
Why is
this important? We must take into consideration that we are dealing with
ancient Egyptians. Ancient Egyptians revered
the Nile crocodile as one of the most powerful gods in their pantheon. The
crocodile god was worshipped by nearly every class of Egyptian, and was thought
to be nearly undefeatable, even by other gods.
When
Aaron’s rod turned into a giant crocodile and swallowed up the crocodiles of
Pharaoh’s magicians, it sent a very clear message to Pharaoh and his wise men
that their gods had been turned against Egypt by the power of Jehovah. With
this one simple act, Jehovah proved that He was so powerful that He could, in
fact, turn the Egyptian gods against the nation that worshipped them. This sent
a very clear message to the children of Israel to have faith in Jehovah. This
also sent a clear message to the Egyptian magicians that all of their demonic
power would be of no avail against this unknown God of the Hebrew slaves.
This is
always the next step in the pattern for deliverance. After the defiant uprising
of whatever is binding us, God begins to turn the power of that thing against
itself. For example, cancerous tumors will begin to devour themselves instead
of the healthy cells of the body. The drugs that a person is addicted to will
begin to exhibit unusual, undesirable side effects at this stage. The
idolatrous things in a person’s life will begin to turn on them. There are many
examples of how this step manifests in our lives.
And the LORD
said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go. Get thee unto
Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand
by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent
shalt thou take in thine hand. And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the
Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve
me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. Thus saith
the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the
waters which are in
the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die,
and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water
of the river. And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their
rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may
become blood; and that
there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. And
Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and
smote the waters that were
in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and
all the waters that were
in the river were turned to blood. And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank,
and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was
blood throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians of Egypt did so with
their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken
unto them; as the LORD had said. Exo 7:14-22
The Nile
was ancient Egypt’s greatest source of nourishment. In one way or another, it
fed and watered the entire country.
The Nile
brought trade of foodstuffs from other nations. It overflowed its banks every
year, creating the most fertile soil for farming in the Middle East. Irrigation
ditches kept the Egyptian crops watered and healthy. It supplied drinking water
for people and animals. Many of Egypt’s pantheon of gods were connected with
it. In short, it was indispensible to the health, welfare and spiritual life of
Egypt.
For an
ancient nation, the Egyptians were actually fairly civilized. They had a system
of written laws that were enforced throughout the country. Their religious
system was more advanced than most any heathen nation, with the priests
becoming wealthier and more politically powerful as they progressed in rank.
Egypt had a standing professional army of thousands, and by military standards,
was one of the most powerful nations in the world. The country’s military
machine was well organized and well funded. The country was well protected from
outside invaders by a system of manned border keeps and an advanced early
warning system of professional military messengers. Their roads and buildings
were some of the most advanced architectural achievements in the old world. In
short, they were far from being barbarians.
They
were so civilized, and their religious beliefs so strong, that the thought of
drinking blood would have made most of them sick enough to vomit. When God
turned the Nile to blood, He caused the one thing that nourished all of Egypt
to become an abomination to it. By doing so, He also defiled the religious
worship of a number of Egyptian gods in the process.
So
because Pharaoh has risen up in prideful defiance to the Word of Jehovah, the
consequences are severe. God demonstrates that the Egyptian gods are not only
powerless against Him, but that they are His to turn against the nation. In
addition, the one thing that nourishes the entire nation has now become
abominable to it.
It still
works this way. Once any form of bondage raises itself up in defiance, God
turns the power of that thing against itself and then takes whatever is feeding
it and turns that source of nourishment into an abominable thing. For instance,
during these stages of this process, an alcoholic may begin having horrible
hangovers when they drink (unusual, undesirable side effect). As a result, they
will begin having days when the mere thought of a drink will make them
physically ill (becomes abominable).
Once
these steps have been instituted, God begins the plaguing process to achieve
the full working of deliverance.
For
those of you that are struggling against something in your lives, please take
just a few moments to review your circumstances. Can you see yourself or a
loved one in the steps of this pattern? If so, then you know that your answer
to prayer is in the works. God is already working to bring your freedom from
whatever it is that is oppressing you.
I
encourage you to continue praying and to keep seeking the Lord for your
freedom. If you have progressed this far in this pattern of events, then you
know that the date for your freedom is already on God’s calendar. Whatever is
working against you has a limited number of days. Begin to praise Him for the
things that He has accomplished and is accomplishing for you.
I also
encourage you to continue reading and studying along with this series. The next
article, “God’s Pattern For Deliverance Part 5 – The Uprooting Begins” will be
out soon. Blessings!
