Will it be anti-climactic, breaking news, or simply, perfectly soothing? This is a kind of framework for the fear surrounding the concepts of deliverance, healing, and sanctification. A commonality linking all three is the question, “Since I can’t do this without the power of God, should I even try to start this process?” Quickly, followed by a common question, “How extensive, painful, and time-consuming will this be?”

Quick answers sound like, “God is with you, which means it will work. The harder you let go of your interest in fighting for yourself, the smoother the process will be. As far as I know, processes take time; either there will be conversations with God before a miraculous moment of deliverance, healing, or breakthrough, or a believer in Jesus will initiate the process for your invitation to invite Jesus to be your help, but I think it always comes in stages, like waves, of rest and heavy lifting.”

What I want you to hear is that 1. It’s a process, 2. It’s worth it, 3. Let Jesus be the warrior

I’m not defining these terms. I’m talking about what it’s like to go through them.

Deliverance is more than help with demonization or attacks felt emotional and psychologically. When Jesus starts to be victorious in his battle for your joyful life and wholeness, you’ll learn to see that it’s more all-encompassing protection. My advice, anytime you need deliverance and help from the enemy’s attacks, and you’re not seeing protection, or when looking at your life it’s falling short of complete joy, find a chunk of time and rest with God and ask Jesus, “I want you to protect me. Let your victory come over my life. I want your blessing and favor.” Stay resting with him and let Jesus respond. He can use any of your senses to communicate with you. For me, it’s pictures. I watch scenes unfold in my imagination with strong emotional connection. He often tells what is currently going on in walking out my salvation, what I need next in terms of God’s definition of good increase for me, as well as the command for what I should say or do to see that victory become evident in my life.

It’s the process that teaches my heart to trust his still small voice, his power to help me, and his passionate, devoted, enduring, warrior spirit to contend for me. And he will be victoriously for my benefit because his will is for me and not against me.

Healing is more than physical, although it’s miraculous with the help of doctors and without doctor’s, using only spoken prayer. But it’s also mental and emotional healing, powerful enough to eradicate any kind of PTSD. God can enter a person’s room, and manifest in glory. He still does this; I hear testimonies all year long from different ministries who interview ministry leaders and believers without organized ministries. God also moves in extreme gentles, in moments of total submission of one’s life into his will, into his desire for the person’s life. But he also uses others involvement in the process by the gathering of worship, the laying on of hands, by words of knowledge shared by the Holy Spirit through believers, and by intercessory prayer by believers. I have found with each round of being physically healed, miraculously, I get what I ask for, and with little bonus healings that I didn’t know to ask for that God knew was a hindrance, but I discover more to ask for toward wholeness. The physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual/Identity in Christ is all linked.

Nothing is more important than the breakthrough of feeling loved by Almighty God.

Sanctification is accepting your role in the heavenly kingdom that is far beyond what is accomplishable in your own strength but is your right to identify in when you are one who takes refuge in and accepts help from Jesus, as an abider in his love. It takes an experience with his power, to know him. It takes fully allowing Jesus’s finished work on the cross to honor you passed the shame you’d otherwise condemn yourself with. It takes being helped from a valley by Jesus’s power, alone. It takes believing that he’s with you, to validate you. It takes adopting his name as your own last name, becoming a rightful heir to all the inheritance with Christ, all the honor and glory. It takes releasing attachments to this world, to a varying degree, based on your comfort level and how much spiritual authority you want to be responsible for stewarding, which is scary. But, I’ll tell you, you have the same Holy Spirit that Jesus of Nazareth had as a man, walking and speaking and performing the truth amid the wolves.

Nothing must move quickly. There’s no timeline.

In fact, there’s nothing to “progress” for entrance into heaven once your body dies. Everything for your soul to gain entrance into the heavenlies to fully complete. So, now all human beings need to do is want. When God asks you, “Do you want to stay in the kingdom of rebellion where everything is a challenge and gaining a morsel of a vow from the enemy of God feels like learning an obstacle-course, which always will kill you, over and over; this is hell, by God’s definition. Or, would you like to go to heaven, but everything there is provided for free and everybody has the same amount of abundance as everybody else, so there’s no competition or earning or working towards or gaining as a set of goals. What is your choice?”

As a human being, your choice matters more than any and all sin. God protects your right to choose heaven by your desire.

The right to heaven in the afterlife is felt in a gulp of Holy Spirit, which is a seal of approval.

Jesus brought Kingdom of Heaven into the land of the living. The truth is, it’s accessible in the here and now.

So, I encourage you about God, the one and only Spirit of Truth, he is faithful to his word and is trustworthy. So, just be honest without looking at what you fear should be in his way to prevent him from allowing you to choose because that would be is to ask a destructive demon of religion what God has the right to do. God can and will, by your requested preference get you into heaven when you want to choose for all temptation to cease. You can tell him that you’re ready to choose heaven, even before Satan’s line-up of temptations is done. You can tell him that you’ve made up your mind to choose. And then, he’ll ask you to state your choice. I encourage you to believe him that you have the right to choose based on where it is that your heart wants to live, your desire. Say, “I choose heaven.”

He will bring your life into a state of rest, eternally. And he’ll make the devil turn away from you, as though you are forgotten. Even if the devil tries to get a last word in to scare you with a threat, he will consider you fairly purchased to Christ. And then, the devil is legal bound to stop offering destructive temptations, which separate you from God’s blessings and favor. The evil flaming arrows will be relentless against you, against your life, and against everyone you love, but God will be your shield so that you won’t, even, hear the flames of the arrows extinguish because he’ll accomplish his work for you before they enter your atmosphere. What effects the world will not impact your life because it will strike God and he is all-powerful good. He is a perfect shield. This is your right as a restored Child of God to enter heaven, in the here and now. Heaven is knowing God, personally, and it’s receiving all good things as gifted blessings, and on the merit of favor. It’s all glory without anything to boast in, but praising God for the life that he leads. Now, that’s some joy to sing over.

When you’re done experiencing trials and pain and lack and striving toward betterment, or whatever your temptations look like, tell God you’re ready to choose. Then, just tell him you choose heaven over the foodless, workful, striving toward things that turn out to be lies.

God is patient. And he won’t separate you from the world until you’re really, really ready.