3d • Revelation
10 Steps to Receive Deliverance!
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.”
Step 3: Forgive Everyone Completely
Unforgiveness is the number one legal ground demons use to remain in a believer’s life. Jesus made this unmistakably clear — if you do not forgive, your Heavenly Father will hand you over to the tormentors (Matthew 18:34-35). Many people seeking deliverance have never truly released the person who hurt them. The prison of bitterness has a door, and forgiveness is the key.
“And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” — Matthew 18:34-35 NKJV
Example: A woman tormented by depression and nightmares for years discovers during ministry that she never forgave her father for abandoning the family. The moment she releases him verbally — “I forgive my father, and I release him from the debt he owes me” — the demonic torment loses its legal right to stay.
Step 4: Renounce All Occult and Idolatrous Involvement
Any participation in the occult — even “innocent” involvement — opens a door that does not close by itself. This includes horoscopes, tarot cards, Ouija boards, new age meditation, ancestral worship, Freemasonry, and any practice that seeks spiritual power outside of the Holy Spirit. These activities constitute spiritual adultery and give demons a covenant to enforce.
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” — Ephesians 5:11 NKJV
“You shall have no other gods before Me.” — Exodus 20:3 NKJV
Example: A man who played with a Ouija board at age 13 and has experienced sleep paralysis for 20 years must verbally renounce that involvement: “I renounce every covenant made through my participation in the occult. I break every doorway opened in my youth, and I close it by the blood of Jesus.”
Step 5: Break Generational Curses and Soul Ties
You may be fighting something that did not originate with you. The Bible is clear that iniquity passes through bloodlines. Likewise, ungodly soul ties — formed through sexual sin, manipulation, or toxic covenants — allow demonic transference between people. Deliverance requires you to sever what was inherited and what was illegally bonded.
“You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.” — Exodus 20:5 NKJV
Example: A family with a pattern of alcoholism in every generation is not dealing with bad luck — it is a generational spirit. The believer must pray: “I break every generational curse of addiction, alcoholism, and substance abuse in my bloodline. I sever this iniquity at the root by the blood of Jesus, and I declare it will not pass to my children.”
Step 6: Confess the Word of God Out Loud Over Your Life
Deliverance is not only about casting out — it is about displacing darkness with truth. The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17), and demons respond to it with the same terror they showed when Jesus used it in the wilderness. Speaking the Word out loud activates its authority in the spiritual realm in a way that thinking it silently does not.
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” — Romans 10:17 NKJV
“Then Jesus said to him, ‘Away with you, Satan! For it is written…’” — Matthew 4:10 NKJV
Example: A person battling fear should not just pray for peace. They should open their mouth and declare: “God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7). “No weapon formed against me shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17). The verbal confession of Scripture becomes the eviction notice.
Step 7: Submit Yourself to God, Then Resist the Devil
James 4:7 is the most misquoted deliverance verse in the church. Most people jump straight to “resist the devil” without doing the first part — submit to God. Submission comes first because your authority to resist is only activated through surrender. A person living in disobedience has no ground to command demons. Submission to God is the power source; resistance is the weapon that flows from it.
“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” — James 4:7 NKJV
Example: A man addicted to pornography rebukes spirits of lust every night but keeps his phone by the bed with no accountability software. He is resisting without submitting. Deliverance requires both: surrender the access point to God (submit), then command the spirit to leave (resist).
Step 8: Receive Ministry Under Anointed Authority
While self-deliverance is biblical, there are certain strongholds that require the ministry of someone with apostolic or prophetic authority operating under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Jesus sent His disciples out with authority over unclean spirits (Mark 6:7), and the early church practiced deliverance as a communal ministry. There is no shame in needing someone to stand in agreement with you and exercise the authority of the Body of Christ on your behalf.
“And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.” — Matthew 10:1 NKJV
Example: A woman who has fasted, prayed, and confessed but still feels bound may need a mature minister to discern what is operating and command it to leave. Some demons, as Jesus taught, only come out through prayer and fasting — but He said that to the disciples, not to the demonized person (Mark 9:29). Sometimes you need someone else’s faith and authority joined with yours.
Step 9: Fill the House — Do Not Leave It Empty
This is where most people lose their deliverance. Jesus warned that when an unclean spirit leaves a person, it wanders and then returns to see if the house is empty, swept, and put in order. If it is, it brings seven worse spirits (Matthew 12:43-45). Deliverance without discipleship is a revolving door. You must immediately fill your life with the Word, worship, prayer, fellowship, and obedience.
“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” — Matthew 12:43-45 NKJV
Example: A person delivered from depression who goes back to isolation, negative music, and prayerlessness will find the depression returning sevenfold. But a person who replaces those habits with daily worship, consistent church attendance, and Scripture intake creates an environment where the enemy finds no vacancy.
Step 10: Walk in the Authority of Your Deliverance Daily
Deliverance is not a one-time event — it is a lifestyle of enforcement. The enemy will test your freedom. He will send the same triggers, the same temptations, the same people. Your job is not to get delivered again — it is to enforce the victory that has already been won. You now carry the authority of one who has been set free, and you must exercise it daily through prayer, declaration, and obedience.
“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” — John 8:36 NKJV
“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” — Luke 10:19 NKJV
Example: A man delivered from a spirit of addiction feels the old craving return two weeks later. Instead of panicking, he opens his mouth: “I am free. The blood of Jesus has broken that chain. I resist you in the name of Jesus — you have no legal right to return.” He doesn’t beg for deliverance again. He enforces the deliverance he already received. That is the posture of a free man.
Closing Word:
Freedom is your covenant right. Jesus did not suffer at Calvary for you to live in cycles of torment, addiction, fear, or oppression. He said, “It is finished” — and that declaration was not symbolic. Every chain was legally broken at the cross. But a legal victory must be experientially enforced. These 10 steps are not a formula — they are a biblical framework for partnering with the Holy Spirit to walk into the freedom Christ already purchased for you. Now rise up, apply the blood, open your mouth, and take back everything the enemy has stolen. Your deliverance is not coming — it is here.
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