Prepare-for-War

need for protein. They should eat a good quality beef or lamb twice a day for several days, they should also take multiple vitamins - especially if they normally eat mostly "junk food." Christians working in deliverance must be alert to the snare of letting themselves get overly tired. Rarely, is deliverance an emergency. Schedule deliverances so that you can get extra rest afterwards. It is not wise to be involved in a deliverance until late on a Sunday night and expect to get up and go to work on Monday morning! I have seen many casualties because deliverance workers did not heed the Lord's guidance in this area. Some people who have been demon possessed from birth or early childhood will need to be cared for in someone's home for a period of time after deliverance. Let me use Elaine as an example. Elaine had been demon possessed from the time she was a few days old. If you have already read He Came To Set The Captives Free, you will know that she was sold to Satan in a blood contract shortly after her birth. Many demons were placed into her at that time. These spirits greatly hindered Elaine's-normal development. Frequently they blocked out her mind completely, using her body however they wanted. I have worked with a number of people similarly possessed who actually have no memory of a year or more of their life. On the way home from her final deliverance, Elaine turned to me and said, "You know, I feel so strange, I feel as if I don't really know who I am." The next morning when she woke up, she had regressed back to the level of a small child. The Lord permitted this to enable Elaine to grow and develop as the demons had not permitted her to do. Her de velopment was greatly accelerated, of course, but we spent about three months in the growing process. I don't know what I would have done without the Lord's guidance during that period. I suddenly had an "adult child" on my hands. But the Lord showed me that He had provided

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