Deliverance - What is it and why is it necessary when exiting the new age.

So once I had my encounter with Jesus, at the start I was simply drunk on love - like for real...

3 months had passed and my heart was so full, I felt so much joy... I felt in full the love our God has for us and the forgiveness, the sense of everything falling into place, getting easier and more stable in an instant and it lasted - hard, like when you literally first fall in love.

I had been drawn to listening to an amazing Bible teacher called "Derek Prince" -- Check him out, he was pulled out of the army and teaching at Cambridge University I believe, to then go teach the Bible worldwide and ended up living in Jerusalem.

He was also pulled into deliverance... something he didn't go looking for - but the Lord showed him what he was supposed to do, and ended up walking in the footsteps of the original disciples and Jesus. A third of Jesus’ ministry was deliverance alongside healing the sick and sharing the word of God. His story (DP) is quite remarkable.

Now I knew nothing of this at all... The thought of yoga being demonic - as Christians say - well I thought it was just crazy talk. But some of the friends I knew who were "saved" by Jesus from the New Age, or from LGBTQ circles, tantra whatever -- well they had their own stories of deliverance.

One guy - well he would start to "manifest" so they call it, every time he went into a church... He would start trying to attack the pastor, start screaming and being sick, start dry humping the floor... really crazy shit.

He went and worked with a deliverance minister - as did the friend who originally told me to start speaking out to Jesus. She went to a big conference that she felt was way out of her comfort zone, one of these massive deliverance workshops - I had no idea they existed either... And at the very end she started trying to run out, but the helpers got her to stay and black snakes started coming out of her.

He had been deep into the sex magic ISTA stuff.... She was working with plant medicines and breathwork.

Now bearing in mind this is all not really in my consciousness, as I was as I say - months just full of joy and light, in love with Jesus and sharing my testimony with everyone that I knew. I just kind of let it go in one ear and out the other as it wasn't my experience -- so far that is.

Around April time I had got really serious about burning all my old certificates, books and throwing crystals etc. into the lake, getting rid of anything that represented idolatry or the occult and WOW there was so, so much.

I think I had 3 bonfires, and on the third... I had started to notice that I was getting super snappy with my best Bible friend - who was originally my hairdresser but after telling her my testimony, she too admitted 12 years ago having seen Jesus after a miscarriage, and so was immediately sparked into being born again. The conversation had given her permission, it seemed.

And then I noticed whilst doing the last bonfire, her difficult teen daughter and I were literally bouncing off each other’s demons so it felt... I left feeling super upset, like wtf is wrong with me acting that way. I felt full of shame and self-hate.... It was the first time I felt such negativity since being born again in Christ.

That Sunday was the second time that I went to the church and something very weird happened.

I felt like I didn't want to go at first, which was weird in itself... Walking there I felt dread, and then as soon as the pastor started speaking I literally felt like I wanted to scream.

The whole sermon felt off, I couldn't take any of it in, and I just knew - this is demons.

Perhaps getting rid of all the occult stuff, the Reiki certifications and beyond... maybe that was making them realise their time is up - so they started to act out?!!

After the sermon I made a beeline for one of the pastors and asked him - does anyone help with deliverance??

He kind of looked at me a little taken aback - but said well it has happened before, but he kind of scrambled with what to do, then tried to run off to grab a prayer team to help me.

In his hesitation - I somehow let the demons take charge again, and ran after him saying no no no no .... I assured him it's ok, not today - I wasn't ready or something of the sort, then quickly found my friend and exited.

I sat with her on a bench outside and told her what happened whilst I was shaking, but tbh I felt so overwhelmed and almost like I was unclean and just wanted to go home.

I don't think the regular guys at the local church had dived as deep into the occult as me it seemed, and I simply think they are not prepared for it and didn't want to put it on them.

Some of us have been in all this New Age stuff for so, so long.

Meditation, women's circles - painting with blood like it's nothing, love spells, plant medicines.....

We literally do not know what we are messing with.

They say when you have trauma or dabble into this stuff - you can open doors to unclean spirits, or familiar spirits so they call them... spirits who follow you and know you - hence why they can show up when you talk to your clairvoyant and pretend to be your deceased loved ones.

I won't go too deep into this - but there are books that were taken out of the Bible that explain it further - the Book of Enoch being one. Where angels tried to go against God - they decided they wanted to come to earth and mate with humans, causing absolute chaos, and they brought much of this hidden knowledge astrology witchcraft plant medicines, to the earth.

Sounds crazy I know... this is before God flooded the Earth with Noah's Ark, and the souls of these fallen angels and their offspring are the demonic spirit world we are experiencing today. In layman's terms.

Yoga is yoking with these demons, tarot is communicating with them and breathwork - well as far as I can understand we are clearing them out to then be filled in the empty vacuum with more - because God is not there, and because this is not the way to heal.

I have seen multiple demons come out of people in breathwork.

Now I am not telling you this to scare you - but to inform you.

I went home after the church feeling like - what on earth am I to do God?? I felt no one had come forth to me to help me or guide me with this, in fact it felt like everyone was hiding it with hushed tones, and advice like - yes it's true but be careful who you talk with at the church about it.

So back at home I was in a Facebook group called "The Bridge: From New Age to Jesus" and so I reached out to ask for advice... From the frankly too many responses, one girl stood out with her advice.

She told me "I delivered myself from demons on my bathroom floor - if you need help with how to do it, message me"

A single mom over in Oklahoma USA gave me the advice to literally get on your knees and cry out to God... I believe repentance is also a big part of it... Admitting I was wrong to do all this stuff, that I didn't realise, but she told me to cry out to God to ask Him to please in Jesus Christ's name deliver me from all evil.... and so that night and the following day - this is where I went with it, deep into communion with God, listening to Derek Prince, really wrapping my head around what was going on and praying to God for help.

The next night I believe it was, I had a broken nail... one of those that goes way below the nail bed and that you really need to get fixed fast.

Just as I was about to fall asleep - somehow, my arm just flung out above me and smashed my nail on the wall - tearing it off!!

Now this pain was brutal, but in my half-asleep state - I just surrendered to God, and used that pain to cry out to Him from the deepest place for help.

That night I sweated and sweated and sweated, mostly on the inside of my legs, then in the morning I felt better.

From what I hear this sounds like deliverance... Maybe I need more I do not know, I haven't had the same behaiviours come up, but what I know is there is nothing to fear when you have the word of Jesus and the promise that He has forgiven us and that everything can be rebuked in His name.

I think perhaps people complicate the deliverance part - they perhaps give it too much power, or fear.. or they avoid it altogether - I believe this is why the Catholic Church is so far removed from God... because they took out the deliverance.

I have come across ex New Agers who are committed to the belief that no deliverance is necessary after baptism or after being born again - they are so committed to this belief that I actually think that comes from demonic influence in itself.

Which is a shame... One girl I know hides out in Ireland, she's convinced Derek Prince was wrong yet she's basically disappeared and I could hear fear in her voice, another guy I had to block - an ex pagan priest apparently, bombarding me with proof that you don't need deliverance after baptism, which only served to make me doubt I had been saved properly, and he wouldn't listen to my perspective and why I thought it's dangerous.

It's a bit of a minefield - but actually it's very simple... Jesus will deliver us if we ask.

But it's expected - all those years the New Age has been normalised, all the dabbling, the drugs, the meditation, the astral projection... like wow. And then there are those who did literally get into the spell casting or channeling!!

We certainly need deliverance and we certainly need safe containers and good clear advice so as not to get lost in all of the confusion and fear over it all.

If you feel like this might apply to you... If you are curious or having issues, reach out - I might open up a cheap space to support this kind of process if needed, but for sure - Jesus is right there with you - He only needs to be asked for His support.

The most concerning part of the New Age is that it seems to work, it seems to be magical and enlightened -- but then why do so many suffer? Why do many die out of the blue or suffer terrible tragedy or even suicide?

Quite often it works until you try to stop it, it brings gifts until you call it out, seems like light until you face it properly with true light.

But the more you step out of it, the more you see just how dark it all is.

And it is time for us to truly bring the light.

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