Hallelujah Challenge Day 18 - Deliverance by Apostle Joshua Selman: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

John 5:5-6 — And a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been in that condition a long time, he said to him, Will you be made whole?

Two things drew Jesus to this man: his condition, and how long he had been in it. God is moved not only by what you are facing, but by how long you have been facing it.

Psalm 34:17 — The righteous cry and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 91:7-16 — A thousand shall fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look and see the reward of the wicked. Because you have made the Lord, who is your refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways. You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known my name. He shall call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

Understanding Deliverance

Deliverance is not limited to casting out of devils. Deliverance is the entire process that brings a believer into the experience of freedom and separation — from demonic spirits, from negative influences, from unfavorable conditions — so that the believer has the liberty to walk in the dominion God designed.

Obadiah 1:17 — Upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, then holiness, then possession.

Notice the progression: deliverance → holiness → possession.

Reasons Believers Have Not Taken Advantage of The Provision in Christ

There are three reasons many believers have not taken advantage of this provision in Christ:

1. Ignorance of the reality of demonic oppression

   • Oppression is real. The Bible does not hide this.
   • John 10:10 — The thief comes not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. But I am come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.
   • Luke 13:11-16 — A woman was bent over for eighteen years. Jesus said: Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years, be loosed? Satan had bound her. Oppression is real. Calamities are real. Demonic attacks are real.
   • When you are ignorant of this, you are ignorant of his devices.

2. Ignorance of the provisions made for liberty in Christ

   • It is not enough to know what Satan can do. That knowledge alone will not bring victory.
   • When Jesus appeared in the flesh, he disarmed principalities and powers, made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them.
   • You must know what Jesus has done — the provisions that are now available in Christ.

3. Ignorance of the appropriation system

   • Most believers stop at knowing what Christ has done. But knowing it does not automatically make it true in your experience.
   • The legal side of redemption must become the vital side. An heir, for as long as he is a child, differs nothing in experience from a slave — even though he is lord of all.
   • Psalm 119:89 — Forever, O Lord, your word is settled — in heaven. Not automatically in your life. It takes faith and engaging the forces of victory to make what is finished in Christ become a reality in your life.
   • Even if someone dies of sickness today, by his stripes I am healed still remains true. Even if someone dies in poverty today, the power to get wealth is still available. The provision does not disappear — but the appropriation is required.

Psalm 103:2-5 — Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Five benefits came bundled in the redemption package: forgiveness of sins, healing of infirmities, deliverance from destruction, crowning with glory and favor, and renewal of strength.

The Three Levels of Complete Deliverance

1. Casting out spirit influences

   • Speaking the word of God in faith causes the spirit to leave. This is the level most believers understand.
   • But casting out the spirit does not mean the person is free.

2. Deliverance through transformation

   • Submitting to the word of God so that it re-engineers and recalibrates spiritual understanding.
   • If there is no change in the belief system, the spirit leaves but the door remains open.
   • Matthew 12:43-45 — When a spirit leaves a man, it goes through dry places seeking rest and finding none. It returns to the house it left, finds it swept but empty, and brings seven other spirits worse than itself.
   • Casting out the spirit is necessary but not sufficient. Doctrine must fill the house. The ways of the kingdom must be learned. Victory must be understood.

3. The discipline of conformity

   • Taking advantage of the enabling grace — the dimension of God's grace where you do the doing, but the power is not from you.
   • Working in keeping with the principles that keep the enemy away.
   • Words are magnets. Wrong words can attract evil. Psalm 19:14 — Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight.
   • Not everything spoken is acceptable. The discipline of words is part of sustaining deliverance.

Patterns, Bloodlines, and Altars

Not all problems are caused by Satan — but Satan has contributed to the oppression behind many longstanding situations. When human solutions cannot solve a problem, when a pattern keeps repeating across generations — that is the fingerprint of a spiritual cause.

There are only three ways Satan accesses a believer's life, territory, or destiny:

1. Ignorance
2. Disobedience
3. Covenant

Of these three, covenants carry the most dangerous continuity. An altar is a system of authorization. The programming on that altar continues even when the initiator is no longer alive — which is the root of generational patterns.

Repeatable patterns are not coincidence:

• Patterns of poverty or financial failure
• Premature death — people cut off just as they are about to rest
• Rising and falling — no longevity of impact
• Patterns in marriage, fertility, business, ministry

Living in denial does not change the reality. Accepting the reality and accepting the victory that ends it — that is the path forward.

When the man born blind was brought to Jesus, the disciples asked: "Who sinned — this man or his parents?" Jesus said: "Neither." There are patterns that are not personal sin. There are bloodline patterns and territorial patterns that must be broken by the power that raised Christ from the dead and by the blood of the eternal covenant.

Prayer: Deliverance and Breaking of Patterns

• Father, in the name of Jesus, every spirit, every influence, every condition at work in my life and my environment that is not of God and not by God — I cast you out now. Thanks be to God who causes us always to triumph in Christ Jesus.
• Father, every affliction, every attack on my destiny, every attack on the prophecy over my life — I declare that attack stops now. By the power of prayer engaging the word of God, by the power of prayer engaging the blood of the new covenant, by the power of prayer engaging the ministry of angels — every warfare, end now. Unto Zion, your warfare is ended.
• Father, in the name of Jesus, by the blood of Jesus, every pattern around my life and my family — let it break now. Patterns of delay, patterns of poverty, patterns of backwardness, demonic circles recurring again and again — break in the name of Jesus.
• I declare by faith that I am free. I expect freedom in the name of Jesus.
• Father, for every family under this prayer, I decree and declare: Satan, thus far have you come — no further. Release their health. Release their destiny. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for Peter, and an angel came. We pray now. Arise, O great God. King eternal. King immortal. King invisible. The only wise God.
• Father, I work in partnership with your word. I command a sevenfold restoration — a restoration of things, a restoration of time, a restoration of opportunities, a restoration of relationships. Restore joy. Restore homes. Restore peace. Restore fire. Restore hope. Restore strength. Restore ministries. Restore altars. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

The Issue of Finances

Psalm 34:10 — The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

The body of Christ must not shy away from the subject of finances. There are two errors to avoid:

• Approaching it from a carnal standpoint with imbalance — making it a marketplace of flesh
• Living in denial of the need, being punished by ignorance

Everyone, including believers, needs finances to make meaning out of their lives. The goal is not billionaire status — it is economic emancipation: to live a comfortable life, to serve the program of God without hindrance, and to become a blessing to your world.

Satan knows that when wealth comes into the hands of a righteous person, it serves both their comfort and the kingdom. So he fights it from getting there. Pharaoh's strategy was deliberate: keep Israel making bricks, keep them occupied, keep them in lack — because lack steals the time and energy they would spend seeking God. Spending your entire life looking for money is a curse. You are supposed to seek the Lord forever. Anything else you must seek that way has become your god.

How Money Comes, Stays, and Grows

From scripture, there are only two ways money comes to a believer:

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   Value — the capacity to provide solutions that are refined, needed, and useful within the context of civilization. Not just solutions you know or want — they must be needed and useful, otherwise there will be no reward.

2. Favor — the grace of God that opens doors value alone cannot open.

Beyond how it comes, there is how it stays — which is the domain of financial planning, budgeting, and wisdom. Ecclesiastes 10:10 — It takes strength to retain wealth. The easiest part of being wealthy is having it. Retention takes wisdom and planning.

Then there is how wealth grows — which happens only through investment. A healthy financial system must have:

• Short-cycle assets — like crops that yield in three months. These sustain you while you wait.
• Long-cycle assets — like fruit trees that take years but yield perpetually once mature.

If all investments are long-cycle, you will not survive the waiting. If all are short-cycle, there is no root and no lasting compounding.

Real wealth is cash flow plus assets — not assets alone.

The Prophetic Dimension of Finances

There is a prophetic dimension of wealth — but it only becomes useful when the principles of value, investment, planning, and increase have been learned. Prophecy over an unlearned life produces laziness, not acceleration.

However, there is also a dimension where even when principles are correctly applied, a demonic attack tampers with the equation. Mathematically, 1 + 1 should always equal 2 — but there are times it strangely gives minus 100. At that point, you do not need more mathematics. You need power from heaven.

That is why there is a prophetic dimension — not to replace wisdom, but to accelerate the journey and to break the demonic interference that makes what should work fail to work.

Satan knows that to the righteous person, wealth in hand means both comfort and kingdom. That is what he is fighting. But here is a generation of consecrated people who love the Lord, understand the assignment of kingdom wealth, and will not bend and will not bow.

Prayer Points: Finances

• Father, you can trust me. You can trust me with the resources of heaven. You can trust me.

It is your Father's good pleasure to give us the kingdom — not for self-aggrandizement, but with a mission, with a purpose, with an assignment. To bring rest. To empower us to serve you with dignity and without compromise.

• Father, for everyone praying over their finances — the young lions do lack, but those who seek you shall not want any good thing. Release the knowledge that brings resources to your body — with dignity, with integrity, void of compromise.

  Let resources come for the sake of the gospel. Raise men and women of understanding. Empower consecrated voices. Let it empower a new breed of believers that will not sell their birthright.

  God, open your hand. Let resources flow to those who seek you. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Petitions Before the King

Philippians 4:6 — Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 John 5:14 — This is the confidence we have in him: that when we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Mark 11:24 — What things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

John 16:24 — Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

• Father, we bring before you the matters that have made us cry, the things that have made us weep, the situations that have almost made us give up. We serve a God who hears prayer and answers prayer.

  Even if the request is old — we dust it again. Even if the expectation has been longstanding — we serve a God who is never too late. He said, "Even now." This is an even-now God.

  We bring before you the issue of children, of jobs, of spouses, of lifting and promotion, of health, of businesses, of court cases, of challenges — every matter, regardless. We bring it before our maker, our father.

  A change of story. A new season. The next chapter begins now.

  Unto you, O God, do we lift our souls. In you we trust. Let us not be ashamed. Let not our enemies triumph over us. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Prophetic Declarations

• A new season is coming for you.
• I release the grace to plant and the grace to eat that which grows. Receive it in the name of Jesus.
• I decree and declare in this season: supernatural wisdom — the wisdom to know what to do and the wisdom to know how to do it. I release it upon you. Receive it in the name of Jesus.
• Step into favor. Favor in the morning. Favor in the afternoon. Favor in the night. Favor in every nation, in every territory — I prophesy upon you in the name of Jesus.
• In this season, when men say there is a casting down, I place grace upon you. You will say there is a lifting up. There is a lifting up.
• I command a restoration by the power that raised Christ from the dead — restoration of things, of opportunities, of time. Let it come back in the name of Jesus.
• I provoke the ministry of destiny helpers. Wherever they are — from the north, the south, the east, and the west — I gravitate them toward your life in the name of Jesus.
• Everything that has deadened or is killing your prayer life — I declare fresh fire upon your altar. Fresh fire in the name of Jesus.
• The favor that happened to Esther — find favor with enemies, find favor with friends, find favor with superiors, find favor with contemporaries, find favor with subordinates — in the name of Jesus.
• The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. Every plan conjured against your life fails forever in the name of Jesus.
• I release the grace to look up, the grace to go forward. Go forward financially. Go forward in your career. Go forward in marriage. Go forward in ministry. Go forward in business. Go forward in the name of Jesus.
• For your shame receive double in the name of Jesus. As you step forward, may your results answer every mocker. The God who takes away shame — he will use your results to answer them in the name of Jesus.
• This is your season to be fruitful. This is your season to jubilate. The king has done it.
• I release kingdom marriages. I release miracle babies. I release supernatural doors — remote jobs, international opportunities, real estate, new businesses. Let the doors open in the name of Jesus.
• I release international scholarships, multinational opportunities. The gates of the nations are open — I declare them open unto you in the name of Jesus.
• You are moving from seeking help to becoming a helper of destinies. From looking for destiny helpers to becoming one. It shall happen in a way you do not understand.
• The king could not sleep on your matter. People are losing sleep on your matter. God is tapping people right now on your behalf. The king has taken up your case.
• May the zeal of the Lord perform this in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

Salvation Prayer

Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your word. I love you with all my heart. I believe you are the Son of God. I believe you died for my sins. I believe you rose again for my justification. Right now, I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord, and my King. I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over my life. From this day, I live for Jesus all the days of my life. Amen.

Father, I bring before you those who have made this declaration. You are the all-seeing God. Based on their profession of faith, their sins are forgiven. They are bonafide recipients of the life of God. The grace to live the victorious life is imparted upon them. From today, they live for Jesus. Amen and amen.

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