This session serves as a one-hour instructional period designed to teach believers about “open doors” that allow demonic torment into their lives. The session typically utilizes a PowerPoint presentation, though flip charts or verbal teaching are also acceptable.
General Session Guidelines
- Purpose: To educate clients on how demonic strongholds and entry points function.
- Assignments: Clients are given two specific handouts: the “Demonic Strongholds List” and the “Demonic Torment Entry Points List.”
- Confidentiality: It is emphasized that these homework lists are strictly private. The counselor will not see them, so the client is encouraged to be brutally honest and thorough.
- Prayer Strategy: Clients use the lists as a personal guideline. The minister will focus on areas the client has marked but will pray to clear everything on the list. This provides relief to clients who fear they might miss a specific sin or entry point.
Generational Curses
Generational curses are defined as judgments passed down through families due to perpetuated sins. unlike original sin, these do not carry eternal judgment but negatively impact the quality of life until the specific sin issues are addressed.
- Manifestations: These may include pride, stubbornness, fear, depression, suicide, anger, manipulation, adultery, addictions, infirmities (including migraines and sinus issues), obesity, perversion, and involvement in the occult.
- Biblical Basis: Galatians 3:13 states Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. However, the text argues that just as salvation and healing must be appropriated, freedom from curses requires specific action—demons do not leave automatically.
- 5 Steps to Break Generational Curses:
- Confess and ask forgiveness for personal sins.
- Confess the sins of forefathers (agreeing with God that they sinned, not asking forgiveness for them).
- Forgive and release judgments toward others, specifically ancestors.
- Break ungodly soul ties with both maternal and paternal lines.
- specifically break the power of the curse in Jesus’ name and call out the associated spirits.
Word Curses
Based on Proverbs 18:21 (the tongue has the power of life and death), this section teaches that curses can be spoken over people.
- Mechanisms: While Proverbs 26:2 says an undeserved curse does not rest, Christians often unknowingly have “open doors” (such as unforgiveness) that allow these curses to take effect.
- Sources of Curses:
- Occult practitioners: Witches, Satanists, etc.
- Authority figures: Parents, spouses, and pastors (often the most damaging).
- Medical Professionals: Pronouncements like “You will die in six months” can act as a spirit of death if accepted by the patient.
- Self-Curses: Negative self-talk (e.g., “I’m so stupid,” “I’ll always be broke”) must be broken.
- Manifestations: Sickness, financial pressure, accidents, and defeat.
Unforgiveness/Judgments
The text presents unforgiveness as a primary open door for demonic torment.
- Scriptural Warnings:
- Matthew 6:14-15: God will not forgive us if we do not forgive others.
- Matthew 18:22-35: The parable of the unmerciful servant illustrates that God turns those with unforgiveness over to “the tormentors.”
- Romans 2:1 & Luke 6:37: Judging others results in bringing judgment and condemnation upon oneself.
- Definition: The ministry defines “judgment” as speaking poorly of someone. Even if a person decides to forgive legally, bad-mouthing the offender constitutes judgment and opens the door to the enemy.
Occult Sin
Many believers perish for lack of knowledge (Prov. 29:18) regarding the occult.
- Activities: Ouija boards, horoscopes, martial arts (with spiritual roots), yoga, acupuncture, and new age healing.
- Spiritual Reality: Participation acts as an unwitting invitation to demons. Confession and repentance are necessary but often insufficient; the spirits must be actively “kicked out.”
Sexual Sin
Sexual sin creates ungodly soul ties. Clients are asked to write a private list of all past sexual partners to prepare for breaking these ties.
Soul Ties
A soul tie is a “knitting” or “cleaving” of two souls. It can be beneficial or destructive depending on the relationship.
Godly Soul Ties
- Friendship: Exemplified by David and Jonathan (1 Sam 18:1-3), where love knits souls together for mutual emotional support.
- Marriage: The highest human soul tie, ordained by God to make two people “one flesh.”
Ungodly Soul Ties
- Control: A tie where one person uses the connection for manipulation, abuse, or selfish gain, leading to emotional bondage.
- Sexual: Sexual union creates a “one flesh” bond regardless of marriage vows (1 Cor 6:16-18). Premarital and extramarital sex knit the soul to multiple partners, causing fragmentation and spiritual bondage.
Personality Spirits
The text posits that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or “multiple personalities” are demonic spirits entering through trauma.
- Causes: Severe trauma, ritual abuse, or intense role-playing (actors, dancers).
- Mechanism: During abuse, a child may wish for someone else to take the pain, unwittingly inviting a demon to take over that role.
- Resolution: Prayer involves breaking soul ties with the “personalities” and casting them out.
Sickness/Infirmities
Sickness is viewed as a tool of the enemy to kill, steal, and destroy.
- Spiritual Roots: Many medically labeled “syndromes” or “disorders” with unknown causes are attributed to demonic spirits.
- Jesus’ Example: Jesus often healed by casting out spirits (e.g., the woman with the spirit of infirmity in Luke 13:11). Deliverance is often a prerequisite for physical healing.
Freemasonry
Freemasonry is described as a secret society and false religion incompatible with Christianity.
- Nature: It mixes Hinduism, Kabbalism, and pagan mythology, forbidding prayer in Jesus’ name.
- Dangers: It glorifies man and binds members through blood oaths and death penalties.
- Resolution: Specific prayers are required to release individuals and their families from the curses associated with Masonic oaths.
Comprehensive List of Cultic/Occult Activities
The text provides an extensive list of activities, objects, and philosophies considered “open doors” to the demonic. Key categories include:
- Alternative Medicine/Healing: Acupuncture, Biofeedback, Homeopathy, Iridology, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Hypnotism, Aromatherapy, Reflexology.
- Eastern/New Age Philosophy: Yoga (Kundalini, Tantra), Transcendental Meditation, Reincarnation, Chakras, Third Eye, Feng Shui, Martial Arts (Aikido, Karate, Tai Chi).
- Divination/Fortune Telling: Horoscopes, Tarot, Palm reading, Numerology, I Ching, Dowsing (water-witching), Crystal balls, Ouija boards.
- Entertainment/Media: Dungeons & Dragons, Pokémon, Heavy Metal/Rock music, “Demonic” movies, Harry Potter (implied by “Witchcraft”), Video games.
- Objects/Charms: Crystals, Dream catchers, Totems, Amulets, Talismans, Statues (Buddha, Mary, Angels), Fetishes.
- False Religions/Cults: Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, Islam, Scientology, Rosicrucianism, Unification Church, Unitarianism, Freemasonry.
- Psychology/Self-Help: Teachings of Freud, Jung, Rogers, EST, Silva Mind Control, Humanism.
- Superstitions/Holidays: Halloween, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Wishing on stars.
- Occult Practices: Astral projection, Levitation, Necromancy (talking to the dead), Automatic writing, Telepathy, White/Black Magic, Witchcraft (Wicca).