Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Cults and Religious Bondage



Been in a cult or always around them? Is religious bondage of one sort or another always been in your life? Manipulated easily because of your zeal to Love and serve the Lord? I will share my testimony on these very things in this series that has a happy ending...
Freedom... with no pain, hurt or regrets.... PEACE.

In my personal story... the root of my cult meanderings was a 'spirit of Bondage'... this I will go into later in the series.... but a very important note to take, because whether you were IN a cult, or you know someone in one.... there are root spirits involved to consider and we cannot escape or truly break free if we only deal with things in the 'flesh'.

Knowing the root and dealing with it can help you and those you love to heal the wounding associated with cult involvement--- and if you are reading this with pain in your heart... (you know they are many!), God bless you...and get excited...because my years of growth and learning will translate to hours until your victory dance!

Episode 1...
  1. I share about my zeal in pursuing God at a young age by visiting a religious order of nuns in the Catholic Church and joining their aspirant program (first rung on the ladder in seeking a religious vocation). Even though I was lacking understanding in the Word, the Lord began to stir the Holy Spirit gift of discernment within me, to identify what was of His Spirit vs. a wrong one.
Episode 2...
'Red Flags' of:
  1. spirit of manipulation
  2. control
  3. confirming bad fruit
  4. Meeting with Elders if you were interested in someone, ie. a sort of prearranged marriage * Tons of 'functions' to keep you captive in the group
  5. Many gender separation rules to ward off 'temptation' (though the leader obviously did not follow - hidden sexual sins)
  6. Male-Female stereotypes that lessened women, yet the Elders wives exhibited a Jezebel puppet-mastery behind the scenes I also speak about the simplicity in knowing God with one's heart vs. knowing a whole lot of the 'Word' with no relationship or confirming reformed lifestyle.

Episode 3...
• cult/bondage #3 - internet cult!
• cult jealousy
• a right focus=blessing of anointing... a wrong one=sharing in the curse
• excuses leaders make to justify bad fruit
• what you submit to, rubs off on you!
• being 'nice' by not correcting a leader drags you into their sin!
• 'serving' a cult to one's own detriment

Episode 4...
• God can get in ANYwhere, so long as people desire Him
If you esteem a man/woman above the benchmark of the Word (and the urging of the Holy Spirit)... you inherit all of their spiritual garbage
• The enemy jumps into our wounds
• Fear... the root of justification
• Privacy invasion 101
• Your money, to a bad cause
• Spiritual Poison
• Shawshank Redemption
• Forgive them... 'they are beloved'
• the treasure upon escaping
Leaders Justification of:
• cursing
• little white lies
• pagan knowledge defilement
• attacking/belittling others
• Elitism

Episode 5 (Final)...
Warning of healing wounds so a false 'Righteous Indignation' doesn't spring up and push you into another bondage.
• Prayer for Breaking Soul ties & ties to the 'Institution' (Cult) - in 'descriptions'
• Prayer to Break a Spirit of Bondage (or other Spiritual vice) - in 'descriptions'

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***Prayer for Breaking Soul ties and ties to the 'Institution' (Cult)***

Jesus, I confess and repent of my sins resulting from ungodly soul ties between me and ______(reflection of and about who and what. You can even use everyone and anything that has established any sort of relationship with you ie. 'institution'). I confess and repent of my anger and resentment against You, God, for allowing the resulting sin and iniquity in my life. I give up all my rebellion and sin, and I submit myself to You as my Lord.

I confess all of my sins before You Jesus, and I ask for your forgiveness, especially for any sins that exposed me to a curse. I ask for your release. Release me also from the consequences of my ancestors' sins and also from the resulting iniquity and possible curse.

Father, by a decision of my will, I forgive all who have harmed me or wronged me, just as I want you to forgive me. I forgive the transference to me their sins and the resulting iniquity through the relationship ties between us. Thank you Father; I receive your forgiveness. I am humbled and I too forgive myself for participating in these sins.

I renounce all contact with anything from the cult. If I have any "contact objects" I commit myself to destroy them.

Lord Jesus, I believe that on the cross You took on yourself every curse that could ever come upon me. So I ask you now to release me from every curse over my life, in Your name, Jesus Christ.

In the name of Jesus Christ, and the authority given me, I place the Cross of Christ in between me and unholy soul ties, unholy relationships, unholy attachments, unholy pathways, silver cords, and unholy covenants. By claiming the complete work of Christ, I command the flow through these ties be halted at the Cross of Christ. I receive the infusion of the Blood of Jesus Christ flowing down from the Cross of Christ to me-- providing my heart, mind, body, and soul complete cleansing, restoration, healing, freedom, release, and total absolution of sin, absolution of the resulting iniquity, and release from any curses that may have been passed through or exposed to me.

Lord Jesus, I ask you as my physician and chief surgeon to guide my hands with your grace as I use the sword of the spirit to cut through and completely sever and surgically remove all unholy soul ties, unholy attachments, unholy relationships, unholy pathways, silver cords and unholy covenants. By the blood of Jesus and through his infusion to me, all unholiness and curses are stopped at the Cross of Christ by his blood and through his finished work. I preserve only Godly ties. As I cut, I ask the Holy Spirit to burn the surgical remnant of these ties.

Lord, in your name and by the Sword of the Spirit, I destroy anything that has come into me through these severed connections. In Jesus name, I cancel all Satan's claims to me.

Father, bring back anything godly that has been taken from me.

Thank you Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for delivering me. Help me stand in front of you in awe, deeply meditating on your love and mercy for me Thank you for delivering me. I love you and thank you.

Amen

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***Prayer to Break a Spirit of Bondage (or insert other Spiritual vice)***

I ask for Your hand of deliverance Lord Jesus. I repent for having entertained or given in to a Spirit of Bondage (or insert other vice)… and I thank you for forgiving me by the power of Your precious blood shed for me at the cross. I also thank you for the promise of Power in Your precious name and that it isn't anything I can do by my own power but I now exercise the authority You have given me .

I now bind up the Spirit of Bondage (or other hindering spirit) now in the name of Jesus, my Lord and Savior, and I command you to go to the footstool of Jesus Christ for Judgement. You have no place here in this vessel of honor.

I declare freedom in Jesus' name. I ask you Jesus to fill any formerly enemy occupied places, in my soul that held me in bondage (or add attribute here and then add the positive opposite attribute), with Your Spirit of Freedom and Liberty into my life. I declare all the doors of access the enemy had, now shut and ask for a new right-relationship, in communion with You Jesus.
Amen

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