Ministering Deliverance

People ask me about secret societies. We're talking about the Masons and things of that nature. So, let me comment publicly on this. Those involved in the Masonic Lodge and its affiliates are usually good people with good intentions who are very benevolent and very giving. You can just look at the fruit and the evidence. Look at the Shriner's Hospitals and what they have done for people so far as benevolent, good things. First of all I simply want to affirm and to bless the work that they have done for good in our society. I have relatives and close family members who are in those particular organizations. And everybody I know who has had an affiliation with them are good people. They are not evil people.

However, if you spend some time investigating these organizations, you'll find they are so secret nobody knows what's going on within them. I'm always suspicious of anybody who is that secret. There are some vows of self-destruction people take going into those organizations. There are plenty of books that will tell you the vows. I'm not going to give them to you. I know it's a secret organization, but they have enough people who are mad at them that they write and tell just about everything that's going on in those organizations. And their vows are vows of self-destruction. The devil doesn't need much room to gain a foothold.

Anything that has vows of self-destruction can't have its origin in God regardless of how much it may quote the Bible. Some of these organizations have you take oaths on the Bible -- and the Bible talks about that, doesn't it? (It says not to do that, but to let your yes be yes and your no be no. See James 5:12)

There are certain oaths (and all these things are given for self-destruction) that contain curses -- horrible things that would happen to you should you betray the organization. It's very interesting that hardly anything happens to that particular generation. But most of the time when I'm ministering to people who suffer the effects of this, it's not to those who actually joined it, but it's in the succeeding generations. And I think that is where some of the seduction will come in because they will think "nothing happened to me," but they have also opened the door, an avenue of the kingdom of darkness in the following generation.

Based upon that, I always discourage people from coming to an alignment with any of those organizations. We have several people who are part of our church who have been a party to that, and they will defend it to their death. So I simply just say, "Well we just have to agree to disagree on this area because that is my opinion." And I base mine upon what I see in the Word of God where it comes to the power of words and most of them base theirs upon the works that they view in seeing good things.

I have also had to minister to enough people in that area to know that there is great power that gets released. I don't understand why some people suffer the effects of this and some people don't. Some people seem to receive no effect upon them personally at all, and even some succeeding generations do not suffer negative effects. And I don't understand that. But, there are some other people who have had bad things happen to them. And as we broke some of this stuff off, they have found some freedom. So that's my opinion and why I discourage people's involvement with that. I discourage joining any society or organization that makes you take an oath with a self-curse in it because of the effects that it has upon their spiritual life and their descendants based upon the power of words.

Let's enter into a ministry mode for a moment. I know as we have talked there may have been curses that have come to your mind, things that you've spoken against yourself and things people have spoken against you. Now, we're going to break these off. Please pray with me:

Lord Jesus, in your name I just come against the power of the words that have been spoken against us. I break the power of the word that our parents have spoken over us, the curses, Lord, that have come down. Father, regardless of the situation of why they spoke them, Lord, they are still spoken and we break the power of those words in the name of the Lord. In Jesus' name we render inoperative every assignment of darkness that has come through the words that have been spoken over us and the words that we have spoken over ourselves. We break their power and we cancel the assignment that the enemy has attached to them. In your name, Lord, free us of that. Jesus, you became our curse. You stood in our behalf. You hung on the tree and you became our curse in our behalf and we thank you and we bless you for that. We have received, Lord, your perfect sacrifice and we claim your freedom in Jesus' name.

I recommend you pause in reading this for a moment and let the Holy Spirit speak to you. The Lord, the Holy Spirit, will bring specific words to your mind that you need to break. He may not do it all today. You may be lying in bed tonight and words will come. You may be in church next Sunday and all of a sudden something comes to your mind. You need to break the power of those words. If nothing comes to you right now, it doesn't mean it's not going to come to you this next week. You're going to hear words that you can actually hear the voice of your mother, your father or that school mate or that teacher. You're going to see a situation in which you were involved and the words that you spoke. And then there are going to be some words that have no source -- you don't know where they came from. You just feel like those words were spoken over you and you take authority just as we did now. You take authority over those words, you throw them to the ground, you cast them down to the ground and say, God, return a blessing in return.

So, I'm confident the Holy Spirit might have just started something with many of you that He is going to complete. As God breaks the power of these words off your life, He's going to free you up. But He usually does it a little bit at a time. It's not just come, get fixed and leave. This lesson is kind of introducing you, immersing you into a process of getting free. That's so you can be a channel to bless others. In fact some of you probably even think of other people right now who could use a little breaking of words off them.