Chapter 1

Deliverance Plus Medication

 In this day and age, this debate is very strong. I myself have come to this crossroads many times since my Christian conversion at the age of eighteen. I have relentlessly vacillated back and forth on these very issues on having demons or a mental illness.  I have gone through many seasons where I believe one way and the next season the other way. 

So, which way is the answer? I say, "Go with God first and foremost."  Get prayer and find deliverance. If that doesn't work, ask God to lead you to the right doctors and get on medication.  I do think medication is still a good thing and not an evil thing "if" it's used in the right way. Some will disagree on this; I am sure there are those debaters out there that says medication is of the devil. I believe it's needed in this day and age.  If you are sick, you need medicine to heal. It may not heal you, but it will be an aid to your recovery and freedom.

In 1986, I experienced total deliverance from demons firsthand and it worked! I was hearing loud audible voices tormenting me wherever I was they were there. Out of mental anguish I sought out help. I don't know where I would be today if it had not been for that couple that helped me to find a deliverance ministry! 

I have not heard audible voices since 2006.  I think God plus the medication worked hand in hand with that.

When it happened again in 2001, the voices and delusions and paranoia came back full force, I went the way of counseling plus medication. God still moved in life, and I once again experienced a miracle in my life.  It just took quite a bit longer than instantaneous freedom in my mind.

Yes, I discovered that both ways worked.  But it took many years for me to come to find that freedom...

During that timeframe, I opted to get help on my own.  Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had sought out a deliverance ministry at that time?  I did lose my faith in that time frame that I could find another deliverance minister; I would like to say God himself intervened in a very practical way. I do believe He did and brought about my freedom from very hearing voices aka demons.

What is important to know here is that satan and his minions are out for your soul.  He wants to destroy your life. The devil hates God and will go to many lengths to deceive us in these last days.  We cannot put our heads in the sand to His cunning schemes to plot our downfall. 

When you hurt your body, you clean the wound the best you can and put a bandage on the sore. It is a temporary fix allowing the wound to heal. Eventually sores and wounds do heal.  The scar will always be there as a reminder of that time.  A bandage is no longer needed on a scar tissue... Medication for mental illness does not heal you. God is the healer and deliverer. Medicine for the mind is needed at times in our lives.   

I believe healing victory takes both deliverance plus medication. One day we will not need any medicine, but as long as we live here on the earth in these earthly bodies, we will need medicine for something or the other...