How to Keep Your Deliverance

• One last topic. If I could get the top part wiped off. Thank you. How to keep your deliverance. I usually don’t have time to teach on this. Let me say that I have a series of six cassettes called Deliverance and Demonology which are available to all of you. This final cassette is: Seven Ways to Keep Your Deliverance. So if I don’t cover it in detail – anyhow.
• Number one, make Jesus Lord. OK? In the end of a deliverance service I’ll tell the people that have been delivered: Don’t you go out of this auditorium until you’ve made Jesus Lord of every area of your life. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 12? When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man? He walks through dry places seeking rest.
• Then he says: I will return to my house. What does he mean by my house? The person he occupied. And when he comes he finds it, three things: Empty, swept and set in order. What’s the problem? No problem with having the house swept and with having the house set in order. What’s the problem? Empty. Unoccupied, no one else has been allowed to move in.
• Only one person is strong enough to keep the devil out. You know who that is? Jesus. Every area Jesus occupies is safe. But any area where he is not Lord is unsafe. Have you ever driven through the United States about six o’clock in the evening looking for a motel to spend the night? You’re looking for one word in red neon letters, what is it? Vacancy.
• And when you see that, you know you can get in. In the spiritual world any area of your personality which is not totally given to the Lordship of Jesus has got that red neon letter sign, vacancy. And the enemy knows he’s welcome. And when he comes in he’s liable to bring with him seven others worse than himself.
• Number two. I’m going to just put briefly, garment of praise. The Scripture says God has given us a garment of praise in place of the spirit of heaviness, is that right? When you are praising the Lord you are bothering the devil more than he can bother you. Years back before I had gotten to this ministry of deliverance, I was just pasturing an ordinary sort of Pentecostal church in London.
• We had two Russian Jewesses who had escaped from Russia, being saved and baptized in the Spirit. My first wife and I were praying with them and they really believed in praising the Lord. They were not reticent. They said, In Russia the Baptists praise the Lord much louder than the Pentecostals outside Russia. And so there we were having a good time with the Lord and there was a ring at the bell and when I went to answer it, there was one of my lady church members there leading her husband by the hand.