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