Deliverance and Inner Healing Quotes

“An Example from Recent History Before the Second World War, Adolf Hitler began to preach the doctrine of the Aryan “super race.” This gospel of Aryan superiority enabled world rulers of this present darkness to move that corporate stronghold over the German mentality. Whoever among the German nation”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“hold of people’s minds and actually control them. View a corporate stronghold like the giant squid that attacked Captain Nemo’s Nautilus in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, waiting for people to swim near so it could wrap its tentacles about them. Whenever people begin to think in certain ways, principalities can maneuver appropriate corporate strongholds into position to clamp about them and actually rob them of the freedom to think. While individual strongholds serve as lodgings for local ruling demons, corporate strongholds offer a home to what Paul referred to: Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:11–12, italics mine Corporate strongholds are wielded by principalities, rulers, demonic archangels that use them to imprison the minds and control the thoughts of entire peoples—nations, cities, denominations, local churches, political parties, even philanthropic groups. If you have ever asked, “How could principalities become world rulers of this present darkness?” the foremost answer lies here—by means of corporate strongholds. The function of a corporate stronghold is to imprison the minds of a people or group, to take away their freedom to think anything— including cold, hard facts and logic—contrary to the mindset of the stronghold. It hypnotizes whomever its spell overshadows, so that they cannot see portions of the Word of God (or even secular truths) that might set them free from its delusive grip. But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 2 Corinthians 3:14–16, italics mine That veil, to me, is a corporate stronghold of”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“When we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, one of the most important deaths we die is to the nurturing of our self-image.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“Some psychologists have believed we are conditioned by what happened to us in childhood—in essence laying the blame on parents. But as Christians, we believe that we decide how we will react to what happens to us. We ourselves are responsible.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“Loving People to Life People do not grow at a steady upward rate. We grow, hit plateaus, fall back, surge again, plateau and fall back again. Guess who, other than ourselves, suffers and hurts during these times? Whomever the Lord uses to love us back to life—someone who will grieve and be on his or her knees constantly in intercession. Paul addressed the Galatians as “my children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you” (4:19, italics mine). Plus, when we don’t really want to come alive, we tend to attack and criticize whoever is committed to trying to love us to life. How many times do we intercede? As often and as long as it takes for the other to mature and grab hold of his own life, so that he, too, becomes a father in Christ rather than a child.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“Ripeness means coming to such vivid hatred of our sin that we are willing to let it go and are ready to pay the price of change, whatever that may be. Ripeness means wanting to become the good soil Jesus talked about in Luke 8:5–15, soil that can hold on to the seed of His Word and bring forth fruit with perseverance. Becoming ripe requires receiving enough love to stand and change. The toughest work of ministry in inner healing is to give unconditional love again and again until the other does become good soil. In another sense it is not tough at all, since it is Jesus alone who can love people to life, while we have the joy of participating.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“The aim of inner healing is to change individuals—and indeed, the entire Body of Christ—into “a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13).”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“There may be areas in which our outer person thinks we have forgiven others—especially those most formative to us in childhood—but counsel and prayer reveal that such forgiveness is far from complete. It may be that coping mechanisms from childhood are still causing us to act and react in childish ways (see 1 Corinthians 13:11). Or bitter roots may have sprung back to life, causing us to defile others and reap harmful consequences that we cannot, without counsel, even explain.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing