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@Enoch111 and
@Episkopos
As I read this thread I note that some here, have a problem with the phrase "deliverance ministry". I used it.
Not sure why you have a problem. It's just a phrase like any other christianese speak.
There are 'times and seasons' all through our lives, everyone knows that!.
We don't stop being who we are, we just have
seasons when life and our walk dictates our spiritual duty in different areas of need.
In my experience it is called OBEDIENCE.
Maybe you guys are unaware of that happening in your lives. "Times and seasons" of ministry .
We had a time of ministry of evangelism in the 60's, we obeyed the calling and anointing was there...we followed the directions. It lasted five years, NOT that we don't always speak to people about the Lord all through life, but "for me" it was a time, a season of ministry. I know the very day it stopped...I got out of the car outside a Bar, and as I walked toward the doors of the bar I said to Dave " I just felt the mantle of anointing lift..God has lifted His hand, I can't go in there in my own strength uncovered." For five years the joy, the word, and anointing for the people was there. When it lifted, it had lifted.
Just so in the 80's with the deliverance calling...I didn't seek it, it sort me. I didn't even wish to do it..but who am I to say no to the Lord.
It was for a time and season.
We are a wife for a while..that is our place and who we are, then we are a mother also, and we are that for a season, then we are a grandparent also, and we do grandparenty things also. Then we also become a caregiver for elderly parents who we take into our home now the kids are married...and see them through to the end. That season too had it's anointing , strength and words, and wisdom.
We "give ourself " to these different areas of need when God puts it upon us and anoints us for the task,or we will be failing and falling short.
If all these things are done with the mantle of grace they are a blessing and joy. When they are just mans "good idea"...they are an Ishmael and not an Isaac. Had some of them in my life too!
Sorry if the phrase "Deliverance Ministry" offend you..at no time in those years did God tell me that what I was doing in His name was an offence to Him.
We were very aware that without His hand directing we of ourselves can do nothing.