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 Major Christian Deliverance Principles: Keys for Self-deliverance and Ministry (book by Eric Gondwe)
Chapter 5. Christian Deliverance and Healing in Spiritual Areas
This chapter has grown into another book on deliverance and healing in spiritual areas. The book is titled Breaking Spiritual Strongholds and Healing the Wounded Spirit: Dealing with Root Causes. Below is the Table of Contents of chapters and sub-topics in the book with links to pages of its free online first edition. i. INTRO: Breaking Spiritual Strongholds and Healing the Wounded Spirit
Breaking Spiritual Strongholds and Healing the Wounded Spirit
Chapter 1. Our Triune Nature: Spirit, Soul and Body
We are spirits living in bodies
We each have a physical body for using in the physical earthly realm
We each have a soul to connect the spirit with the body
However the spirit and the soul are not as easily divisible as we assume
Chapter 2. Nature of Spiritual Strongholds: In the Mind, Emotions and Will
Passage in the bible on spiritual strongholds
Some misunderstanding on tearing down strongholds
What are spiritual strongholds from a biblical perspective?
Two types of strongholds: known and unknown (hidden) strongholds
Examples of unknown strongholds: anti-women’s rights and materialism
The severity of spiritual strongholds: minor, moderate, and extreme
Chapter 3. The Nature of a Wounded Spirit, Crushed Spirit, or Broken Spirit
What is a wounded spirit?
Scars Showing Healed Wounds Vs. those Showing Wounds Yet to Heal
Chapter 4. Deception, the No. 1 Doorway for Spiritual Wounds
What is deception?
How does deception work in people?
What about a seared or burnt conscience?
Can a Christian have a seared or burnt conscience?
Three sources of deception: 1. Through deceiving spirits (fallen angels)
Three sources of deception: 2. Through ourselves (self-deception)
Three sources of deception: 3. Through other people: a) In the World
Three sources of deception: 3. Through other people: b) In the Church
How deception yielded to can result into a wounded spirit
Some examples of deception resulting into a wounded spirit
Chapter 5. The Other Three Sources of Spiritual Wounds and Strongholds
Ignorance, sin, and storms of life, doorways for wounds and strongholds
1) Ignorance
2) Sin
3) Storms of life (when responded to in a wrong way)
Chapter 6. Effects of a Wounded Spirit (Broken or Crushed Spirit)
The original wounds and their byproducts (secondary wounds)
Mental effects from the original wounds and their byproducts
Emotional effects from the original wounds and their byproducts
Effects in the will from the original wounds and their byproducts
Chapter 7. Personalityﾒs Role in Influencing our Spiritual Health
Intro: “Whatever is right, whatever is pure…think about such things”
Understanding our unique makeup from a biblical perspective
Our uniqueness using secular principles: The Four Temperament Theory
Our uniqueness using secular principles: Introversion and Extraversion
Our uniqueness using secular principles: Cognitive Personality Theories
Our uniqueness using secular principles: Behavioral Theories
Chapter 8. Healing the Wounded Spirit: The Christian Approach
Avoiding jumping to conclusions on the root causes
Avoiding Easy Conclusions in Relation to Dealing with a Wounded Spirit
Doing Our Part in the Healing Process: Embracing Truths in God’s Word
God’s Role: The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Healing Process
Prayerfully searching for doorways of access
Basic steps of faith to deliverance and healing
Chapter 9. Healing the Wounded Spirit: With Secular Approaches
1. Medication (with lots of caution)
2. Psychotherapy (has its limitations): Techniques like CBT and SBT
The limits of secular approaches
Chapter 10. The Enemy Within: Breaking Strongholds Hiding in Our Lives
Reality: The state of things as they really or truly are. No biases
Cognitive biases: How we think inside our boxes
The Christian box, the only mental box worth remaining in
Removing unnecessary boxes: Overcoming the enemy within
Chapter 11. Maintaining a Healthy Spirit and Embracing God's "Plan B"
Maintaining a healthy spirit in life’s journey
Embracing God's "Plan B" in life’s journey
Chapter 12. Overcoming Guilt, Guilty Conscience and Self-Condemnation
Marks of self-condemnation and guilty feelings
Nature of guilt and self-condemnation
The purpose of guilt from our conscience
Cause of unhealthy or unscriptural guilt and how to overcome it
What does God’s word say about our past sins and wrongs?
The most common experiences that result in unhealthy guilt
Chapter 13. Deliverance from Demonic Experiences and Demonic Manifestations
Deliverance from demonic manifestations & tapping into the spirit world
What causes some people to sense, see, smell, or hear evil spirit beings?
Deliverance and healing part 1: closing the legal doorways
Deliverance and healing part 2: Seeking God’s intervention
Standing in faith and obedience throughout the healing process
Deliverance and healing from spiritual attacks through dreams
Chapter 14. Deliverance and Healing from the Occult, Witchcraft & Satanism
Deliverance the occult, from witchcraft and from Satanism
Appendix 1. Cognitive Biases: How we Think Inside our Boxes
A List of Cognitive Biases
Quotations on Reality and the Way it is Perceived
Quotations on Building a Mindset Grounded in Faith and God’s Word
* Breaking Strongholds Book References
* Breaking Strongholds Book Index ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Christian Deliverance and Healing, Part 1
Chapter 3. Fundamentals of Christian Deliverance and Healing, Part 2
Chapter 4. Prayer and Fasting: Major Deliverance and Healing Weapon
Chapter 5. Christian Deliverance and Healing in Spiritual Areas
Chapter 6. Christian Deliverance and Healing in Social Areas
Chapter 7. Christian Deliverance and Healing in Financial Areas
Chapter 8. Christian Deliverance and Healing in Physical Health Areas
Chapter 9. Overcoming Setbacks Against Deliverance and Healing (in 3rd Ed.)
Chapter 10. Christian Persecution –A Deliverance Exception Deliverance book 1: Major Christian Deliverance Principles: Keys for Self-deliverance and Ministry © 2008 Eric Gondwe
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