Who got into intimate prayer and the word today?

A Biblical Guide to Walking Free Deliverance is not merely the removal of demonic influence — it is the restoration of divine order over every area of your life that the enemy has occupied illegally. Jesus did not come just to save you from hell; He came to destroy every work of the devil operating in your body, mind, emotions, and bloodline (1 John 3:8). This guide will walk you through 10 biblically grounded steps to position yourself to receive — and sustain — total freedom. Step 1: Acknowledge Your Need for Deliverance You cannot be freed from what you refuse to identify. Many believers live in bondage because pride or religious tradition has convinced them that Christians cannot be oppressed. But even King Saul, who was anointed by God, was tormented by a distressing spirit (1 Samuel 16:14). Acknowledgment is not weakness — it is the first act of warfare. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” — 1 John 1:8 NKJV Example: A person struggling with uncontrollable rage may dismiss it as personality when it is actually a spirit of anger operating through an unhealed wound. The moment they say, “This is not just me — something is driving this,” deliverance has already begun. Step 2: Repent Genuinely and Specifically Repentance is the legal revocation of the enemy’s access. Sin gives demons legal ground to operate. When you repent, you are not just saying sorry — you are canceling the contract. Vague repentance produces vague results. You must name what you did, renounce it, and turn from it. “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” — Acts 3:19 NKJV Example: Rather than praying, “Lord, forgive me for everything,” a person repenting of sexual immorality should specifically say, “Lord, I repent for fornication with [name], for pornography, for lustful fantasies. I renounce every soul tie and every covenant I made with my body outside of marriage.”

What type of woman do you want to be in the body of Christ ?

On our way back from celebrating our six-year covenant anniversary retreat in the mountains, my wife and I found ourselves deeply reflecting on what the Lord did in us and through us during that time. We intentionally stepped away from the noise of life, ministry demands, and daily responsibilities, and in that place of separation, the Lord met us in supernatural and deeply personal ways, confirming direction, healing places in our hearts, and strengthening our covenant. During that time, we laughed together, we wept together, we prayed together, we worshiped together, we sat in the Word together, we rested together, and simply learned each other again in fresh ways. When you are raising four children and carrying the weight and assignment of ministry, extended time alone as husband and wife is rare, but we were reminded that covenant must be continually cultivated, not assumed. Marriage is not sustained by proximity — it is sustained by intentional pursuit, sacrifice, and time set apart before the Lord. Every married couple, in every season, should prayerfully make space to step away and invest in their covenant, because a strong marriage is not only a blessing to the home, but it is a foundation for legacy, ministry, and generational impact. Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NKJV) “Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

I was reading 1 Samuel 21 and something really hit me — when David was running from Saul, he came to Ahimelech, and even though he was in fear and survival mode and not perfect in how he handled it, he still received the showbread and Goliath’s sword, and it blew my mind because David literally says in 1 Samuel 21:3 (NKJV), “Now therefore, what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found,” and Ahimelech responds in 1 Samuel 21:4, “There is no common bread on hand; but there is holy bread,” and then it says in 1 Samuel 21:6, “So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread which had been taken from before the LORD,” and this is wild because only priests were supposed to eat that bread, yet God allowed covenant purpose to override religious restriction, showing me that God is after covenant and mercy over systems, that when God has marked you, He will sustain you even in messy, wilderness, survival seasons; and the bread is deeper than food — it is prophetic of Christ as the true Bread of Life, meaning intimacy with Jesus is what keeps you alive when everything else is collapsing, and then David asks for a weapon and in 1 Samuel 21:9 it says, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, there it is, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod… And David said, ‘There is none like it; give it to me,’” and that is crazy because it means the very thing sent to destroy you can become the very thing that establishes your authority, and together it reveals priesthood and kingship — bread is priesthood (communion, presence, identity, sustaining life in God) and the sword is kingship (dominion, warfare, authority, enforcing covenant on earth), and the mystery is this: David was not yet sitting on the throne, but heaven was already feeding him like a priest and arming him like a king, which means sometimes God will treat you according to who you are becoming, not where you currently are, and it also shows that wilderness seasons are not abandonment, they are hidden ordination rooms where God feeds your spirit and trains your hands for war, and it just reminded me that we cannot just be presence people without authority or authority people without presence — the remnant must carry both, because intimacy without dominion creates powerless believers, and dominion without intimacy creates dangerous ones, but when you carry both, you become unstoppable in God’s purpose.