The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: - Vital Christianity

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I renounce every cult that denies the power of Christ’s shed blood.
I renounce every philosophy that denies the divinity of Christ.
I renounce the heresy of the reincarnation and participation in Yoga meditation.
I renounce any spirit that binds or torments me. 59
Person ministering:
In the name of Jesus I break any curse placed on you from occult sources. I break all psychic
heredity and any demonic hold upon your family line due to any disobedience of your ancestors. I
break any bonds of physical and mental illness and all demonic subjection to your mother, father,
grandparents, great grandparents or any other human beings. 60
EXAMPLES
The following account is given by Rev. Charles Bryant, a Methodist pastor and author of the
book, Rediscovering the Charismata.
My training was in liberal theology and clinical psychology (the psychology being based on the
Rogerian technique of nondirective counseling, the pastoral theology being based on the mode of
the 1950's—facilitating and enabling ministries). I believed that the ills of the world could be
solved with the preaching of love, justice, and brotherhood, and supplementing those with deeds of
mercy, social services, and the right liturgy. It took me a long time—twenty four years—to
confess how burned out I was, how bankrupt I had become. How I longed for the authoritative
word of Jesus or someone “in the name of Jesus” to release me from a bondage I was in, but could
not describe! It happened, but in solo fashion.
After an eight week struggle all the way to hell and back, finally being willing to look at myself as
God presented me to me, piece by piece, I was lying in the middle of the floor in a pitch dark
bedroom telling God that I was through fighting him and hurting myself, I had fought the
“unbeatable foe,” had given up dreaming the “impossible dream”—the “scorn” and “scars” with
life, with me. At that moment, in the thick blackness of the midnight hour, I saw and felt an even
blacker thing move up through and out of me leaving in its wake a peace and calm I never
dreamed existed. I watched the “thing” as it silently moved upward from my body and vanished in
the darkness.