
Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected

We saw every type of doctor you could imagine, lost count of how many treatments and therapies we tried, spent thousands of dollars, gave up all hope of her getting better, and started making plans for an early death. I was in my mid-thirties making plans to be a single father.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
Then we discovered a generational curse. Four generations ago, a shaman in Mexico City had been hired to curse the firstborn daughters of her family line. We knew there was a lot of sickness and death in her extended family, but had never connected the dots. We immediately did the genogram math and realized, every single firstborn daughter for four
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My chief objective in writing this book is to see people set free—not just those needing deliverance, but also those called to participate in this form of prayer ministry.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
One of the great paradoxes of life today is an ever-increasing level of connectedness, paralleled by increasing levels of fracturing.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
Within their newfound faith, many are recognizing spiritual activity within themselves—and in their environment—which is evil. Much of it is connected to personal activities from their previous life or ones they are still indulging in that hadn’t been previously identified as evidence of influence from the other side.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
Many Christians and non-Christians experience the presence of evil but do not have the categories to evaluate the experience, let alone be set free from their presence.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
Of course we tested the healing. “Wait and see,” I said. But she was completely healed. All symptoms gone. Decades of chronic health issues, ended in an instant. Her healing and deliverance have since ushered in a whole new era in our spiritual formation, and opened up a whole new dimension to our view of the spiritual life.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
Part of my wife's illness involved facial spasms due to a movement disorder. During the prayer to break the generational curse, T's entire body began to spasm and shake, worse than we’ve ever seen. (I should clarify, she is a very calm, down to earth personality, not remotely given to emotional expressiveness of this sort). The moment she prayed to
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What would it look like to live in deliverance?