Self-Deliverance Worksheet

Reflection and Repentance Worksheet ________________________________________

This worksheet will not be used in any formal exercise later in the study, and is simply meant to assist you in thinking about areas of your life that you may have been "taken captive" by the forces of darkness. What you do with it is up to you.
Please remember that not all problems can be attributed to demons. But until the day when the church is discerning enough to confidently and correctly identify demons in people like Jesus did, the best judge of demonic activity in your life... is probably you.
If you suspect you may have been "had" by demons, it is recommended that you: 1) seek prayer on your own initiative, 2) confess and renounce all activity that led to such a state, and 3) repent and turn to God--do not dream of how "good the food was in Egypt" (Num 11:4-6), but partake of the heavenly bread and wait upon the Lord by faith.
1 Cor 10:20b (RSV) I do not want you to be partners with demons.

1) Are there any serious, predominant moral problems in your family line? (Things like: substance abuse, infidelity, suicide, bigotry, violence, perversion, pride, lying, etc.)

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2) In the past, have you ever felt "superhuman" talent or capability that led you away from God? (Things like: seductiveness, manipulation, brilliance, ability to lie, witchcraft, spiritual guides, etc.)

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3) Are there recurring, destructive modes you go into, way beyond normal temptation, that you cannot pull out of? (Things such as: fits of rage, bitterness, paranoia, self-pity, sexual lust, gossiping, spending binges, etc.)

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2 Cor 6:17 (NIV) ... Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.
Rom 12:1-2 (Wey) I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship. And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

"Possessed"?
Rom 6:12-13 (Phi) Do not, then, allow sin to establish any power over your mortal bodies in making you give way to your lusts. Nor hand over your bodily parts to be, as it were, weapons of evil for the devil's purposes. But, like men rescued from certain death, put yourselves in God's hands as weapons of good for his own purposes.
• In Scripture, the idea of possession is used in a wider sense than just demon possession. Possession has to do with captivity, mastery, or obedience. We are spoken of as being "possessed" by God if we obey Him, and "possessed" by the powers of darkness if we sin. Advanced cases of being "taken captive" by Satan result in involuntary behavior termed "possession". But this kind of "possession" is often entered into gradually and willfully...
Rom 6:16 (Phi) You "belong" to the power you choose to obey... (Ps 106:39)
• For Christians, our souls are "sealed" until the day of our complete redemption, but our bodies can be commandeered by Satan, taken captive to do his will in a particular moment. To be sure, it is not the same for us as it is with the unregenerate, for we have a choice in the matter. We have the experiential option to hand our bodies over (Rom 6:12-22)--like chess pieces--to either God or Satan in the great cosmic battle.
Rom 6:16 (NEB) ... if you put yourselves at the disposal of a master, to obey him, you are slaves of the master whom you obey; and this is true whether you serve sin, with death as its result; or obedience, with righteousness as its result.
2 Pet 2:19 (Jer) ... if anyone lets himself be dominated by anything, he is a slave to it...
Been Had?
1 Cor 6:19-20 (TEB) ...You do not belong to yourselves but to God; he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.
Eph 4:27 (NIV) ... Do not give the devil a foothold.
• Malachi Martin, in Hostage to the Devil makes the point that what we term "possessions" are really "partial possessions". Even in extreme cases such as the man of the Gadarenes (Luke 8:26-39), there is still a core soul that has not been completely subdued, even if the body is routinely "seized by" demons.
• To fit our theology, we can substitute words like "oppressed" versus "possessed" and "strongholds", etc., but the issue is a matter of the heart, a matter of who is our master, not of words. Do we long for the thrills that demons can give us through sin, or is our heart inclined to obey God?

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