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Questions & Answers
Your most difficult questions answered by Liberty
Before you send in a question, you may want to first peruse through our list of selected Questions and Answers that Liberty has already addressed, provided below. All personal facts included in the questions, names, e-mail addresses for private answers, etc., will be held in strictest confidentiality. When applicable, however, Liberty's answers that are considered to be of general help to others will be posted on LSM website and included in LSM quarterly newsletter. If you do not want your question posted anonymously with the posted answer, please begin your question with the following words: PLEASE DO NOT POST MY QUESTION IN ANYWHERE. This will be respected.
Dear Friends: Due to the great pouring in of questions, I wish to put some guidelines into place so that I can continue this ministry of question answering. Please refer first to the answered questions and answers already posted before writing your question to me, as so many questions I receive have already been answered there. Please try to condense your writings to your actual question. With sorrow and regret, I have had to bypass many questions that were hundreds of words long, extending long paragraph after long paragraph, because of the time it would take to read them, analyze them, and hope that I understood the real question being asked. When I have responded to some and tried to explain this about their questions, several people who had hopefully poured out the whole contents of their hearts were hurt and took it as criticism. This only added pain to their already hurting hearts. At this time, I am working very hard to try to answer many already backed-up questions. When I download my e-mail after being on the road for 3 or 4 days, I often find up to three or four hundred e-mails, the bulk of them being prayer requests and questions. Please be understanding, and please be willing to read previous answers when I refer you to them, because I know your answer has already been posted to a previous question. God bless you, and I do consider it an honor and a privilege to be able to help you find answers that you might continue to grow and go forth to fulfill your destiny. Help me continue to be able to do so. Liberty
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QUESTION: My brother, a carnal Christian, recently married an unbeliever. I was so angry and saddened over this marriage that I did not go to the wedding. I truly believed that God would intercede and the engagement would end. The woman he married is very controlling, manipulative, possessive, and insecure. I am so sad and angry that my brother wouldn’t even consider his family’s requests to wait or to stop. Junie
ANSWER: Junie, you cannot control another person’s behavior and make them obey your will or God’s will. Nor will God force someone to obey His will (except in the most extreme situations, and this is rare). Forcing obedience would require God to turn people into puppets. A puppet’s love is not love at all; love and obedience are only valuable and true when they are by choice.
I would suggest that you read my book, Keys of Understanding to Soul Power, Soul Ties & Soulish Prayers, which will be posted on my web site for downloading sometime later this week. I think there may be some soulish issues here, both soul ties and soulish prayers that have been prayed.
Your brother will reap the consequences of his choices that are outside of God’s will. Unfortunately, that is the only way some people ever learn to stop making wrong choices. Keep praying for him and do not speak word curses over the woman. Pray for her to choose God’s will as well. James 4:11-12 tells us this: “Don’t bad-mouth each other, friends. It’s God’s Word, his Message, his Royal Rule, that takes a beating in that kind of talk. You’re supposed to be honoring the Message, not writing graffiti all over it. God is in charge of deciding human destiny. Who do you think you are to meddle in the destiny of others?” (The Message). God bless, Liberty
QUESTION: I read your Difficult Issue Article about forgiveness this morning. Is it not unhealthy fear that the questioners are struggling with? Perhaps they are struggling with the authority that God give man to make choices, believing they can choose not to forgive. Forgiving every day is a choice. Accepting the grace of God is, too. Thank you for so many beautiful insights. God bless you, Ockie, Africa
ANSWER: Ockie, life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. You choose to forgive. It’s your choice how you live your life.
QUESTION: I am currently working through the book Shattering Your Strongholds with the workbook, and I think it is incredibly helpful. My question is: Do I need special cautions or guidelines to work through this book with someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder?Should this person get professional hospitalized help before doing the book/workbook? Any advice would be extremely helpful. Thank you, Nella (Austria)
ANSWER: Nella, it is okay to work through the SYS book and workbook with this person. Just remember that it is the soul that fragments and compartmentalizes itself to protect its pain. You are not dealing with several different personalities; you are dealing with one extremely wounded soul.
When speaking of or praying for the soul, address the soul as a single broken part that needs to be bound back together. One of the meanings of the word “bind” in the original Greek is that it “causes broken, fragmented pieces to come back into one whole.” Do not speak against professional help, but know that the Keys of the Kingdom are powerful and helpful. Focus on being this person’s friend and on praying the binding and loosing prayers with him/her. Assure this person that God wants him/her to be whole and living abundantly in His mercy and grace.
QUESTION: My husband wants a divorce, leaving me with three kids whom he plans to support. I became a Christian three years ago. He is unsaved and has cheated on me, giving me two STDs. I have been praying that God would save him and turn his heart back to me and his family. I was recently given your book on binding and loosing and I began praying a different kind of prayer for the both of us. Should I just let him go or should I continue to pray for God to help my family? Jan
ANSWER: Jan, by all means keep praying for God to help your family! While God does not want divorces to happen, sometimes God didn’t want certain marriages to happen in the first place, either. However, when people make mistakes in who they marry, God still wants Christians to honor the covenant promise they have made even when there are hard consequences for everyone to walk through. Honor the covenant of marriage the best you can while seeking to find God’s will. Praying the binding and loosing prayers will help you to do that.
Keep binding yourself and your children to God’s will and purposes. Bind your husband to God’s will and purposes. Loose all wrong beliefs and ideas, all wrong agreements, and all works of the enemy from each one of you. If your unsaved husband chooses to divorce you, the Bible says this: First Corinthians 7:15-16, “But if the unbelieving partner [actually] leaves, let him do so; in such [cases the remaining] brother or sister is not morally bound. But God has called us to peace. For, wife, how can you be sure of converting and saving your husband? Husband, how can you be sure of converting and saving your wife?” (AMP).
Focus on getting as close to God as possible by reading His Word and by praying to know and obey His will. The binding and loosing prayers will help you sort and discard the “stuff” that clutters everyone’s minds and emotions in such situations as this. Emotional clutter keeps you from hearing what God is saying. Know that your husband may divorce you, or he may turn to God and become all that you hoped for. But you can’t make it happen either way.
Your hope lies in the fact that God loves you and your children, and He will cause all things to work together for good for you—especially when you surrender yourself completely to Him. God also loves your husband, but He will allow him to go through the consequences of his wrong choices. Some people never learn how to make right choices any other way.
Only God knows how long it will take before your husband gives up his own soulish desires. Pray for him each day, once or twice, with these prayers—then leave him with the Lord. Pray the prayers for yourself and your children every opportunity you get. When preparing to read the Word, always bind your mind to the mind of Christ and loose all distractions and reactions from your soul and the enemy. You can rest in knowing that God will be working out His best for all of you, and that you are doing your best to work with Him. Bless you, Liberty
QUESTION: Liberty, your books have truly been life-saving for me. Recently, my body has been going a little haywire. I normally enjoy good health, but at this time I am getting funny stomach aches, feel woozy, getting cramps, etc. I realized that all this started when I have been persistently praying the binding and loosing prayers.
Could it be that my soul/body connection is being disrupted, and my body is feeling out-of-sync with its wrong connections to my soul’s demands? Could it be that since wrong thinking and strongholds are breaking, my body is also feeling the severing of its wrong connections to the soul? J.H.
ANSWER: You have done a good job of identifying what is going on. What you think and what you believe can make you sick. Your body and your soul do get into wrong mind/body agreements—agreements which the soul uses to obtain whatever it believes is necessary to stop its pain or meet its needs. When the binding and loosing prayers begin to break up that wrong mind/body agreement, the soul can actually cause physical distress in an attempt to reestablish the wrong agreement. Your unsurrendered soul will try all kinds of distractions and reactions to stop you from praying these prayers that are breaking up its control mechanisms. Keep praying the binding and loosing prayers, particularly remembering to loose wrong/mind body agreements. You are on the right track. The next time you begin to feel bad physically, bind your soul to God’s will and loose all physical symptoms that are being initiated by soulish reactions.
Dear Liberty, I read both your books about three years ago. We recently installed satellite TV and I’ve been listening to you on GOD TV. I watched about four sessions at 9:00 on a Saturday morning (Cape Town, Africa time) before I realized who you are. I couldn’t wait to get your books out of the church library again. I’ve decided to buy them when I get paid. Your e-newsletter is wonderful! The eyes of my mind are a lot more opened and enlightened. I have a broader understanding of what’s been going on in my life and I have the tools I need to get victory. Your teaching is very practical and user-friendly. I’ve only prayed that Breaking the Power Page 30 prayer a few times and, wow, God is really working! He is cleaning me from the inside out, making room for blessing.
Keep up the good work in your ministry and may our good Lord abundantly bless you. I feel like I know you. You talk right into my heart every Saturday and your words of wisdom resonate with my soul. God has told me to write a book—how do I get started? Abigail, Cape Town; South Africa
ANSWER: Thank you for such an encouraging letter! You made my Monday a bit brighter and made me a bit more resolved to go forth in the knowledge that it really is all worth while. Regarding your book, just start typing on your computer. Just start what I call a stream of consciousness recording memories, thoughts, fears, victories, failures and ALL of your feelings about them.
Also, try to decide WHY you think anybody would want to read your book or WHY you should write the book. Don’t be vague or general, such as you just want to bless people, or your friends told you that you should. You need to know that you have some great idea of WHY you are doing all this work. Once you think you get the WHY, type it out and stick it on the corner of your computer monitor. Let it be your “missions statement” that will give consistency to everything when you finally put it all together.
My “missions statement” for my first book, Shattering Your Strongholds, was this: To tell people about the power of the Keys of the Kingdom in Matthew 16:19. My “missions statement” for Breaking the Power was: To tell people about how the unsurrendered soul works, and how their unmet needs, unhealed hurts, and unresolved issues were crippling their walk with God.
Don’t worry about spelling or grammar at first, don’t worry about flow, and don’t worry about chapters. Do try to date each change of thought if you can—like this: “this happened when I was 10 (or 20 or 32)” or “this happened about the time my mother had her back operation” or “this happened right after I got engaged.”
Eventually, you will begin to see clusters of thoughts which will begin to give you ideas about chapter breakdowns. Then just start cutting and pasting the different remembrances into chapter documents. Don’t worry yet about organizing each chapter’s contents at first or naming the chapters just right. You can just give them names that allow you to understand their meanings, such as Chapter 1: My big crisis; 2. My early days; 3. My worst fears; etc. Most people never get their books written because they try to perfect everything as they go. That can sap the creativity flow of anybody!
I don’t know how the authors of the Bible’s books ever did it, I don’t know how Shakespeare and Hemingway did it, but I know that word processors are a writer’s best friends. The beauty of computers is that you can move things from chapter to chapter; you can cut and paste your little heart out. God will help you if you always pray before you start to work. Stay in the Word and stay in prayer as you are doing this. Hope this helps, Liberty
QUESTION: (This e-mail was greatly edited because of negative content). Liberty, I have read your books and am thankful to you for letting God speak to me through them. My boyfriend has a daughter and he shares joint custody of her with his remarried ex-wife, but she has not allowed him to see her. I believe there are demonic influences in their home. She is very mean to this little girl, and she neglects her badly. I could tell you so many horror stories of her neglect, lies, and abuse. I think she is just a terrible person and doesn’t deserve her daughter. How do you feel we should pray so we can get this little girl away from her? Gaby
Gaby: You first need to stop rehearsing all that you believe this mother has done. You need to pray for her and her husband, instead of cursing them with your hard words. You need to bind everyone involved (that includes you and your boyfriend) to God’s will and purposes. You need to bind everyone’s mind to the mind of Christ. You need to bind the emotions of everyone involved to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit. You need to loose the word curses you have spoken (harsh, cruel words whether partially true or completely untrue), the effects and influences of your wrong agreements, and all wrong ideas and beliefs from everyone involved.
You need to loose the works of the enemy from everyone involved, and you need to loose all self-motives and self-agendas from everyone involved. Ask God to protect this little girl, and then ask God to purify your motives and use you to be a blessing. You are not helping anyone by the attitude you have fallen into regarding the little girl, or her mother. I feel you do have a good heart towards your boyfriend’s daughter, and I will pray that her best welfare will become the center of everyone’s dealings in this matter.
Gaby’s follow up e-mail: I have prayed about your response, Liberty, and the Lord said that I do have a bad attitude. I’ve asked Him to forgive me and I ask you to forgive me. I am praying and loosing this attitude from myself. I am binding my will and all of our wills to God’s will, and I am praying what you said to pray. I believe God will do what He knows best.
QUESTION: In my church we have really been moving in the supernatural recently (praise God) and we have seen a number of people healed and lives changed. However we have two people who suffer from a condition called “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” They have been prayed for a great number of times. We see people healed around them when there is prayer, but we don’t see any victory for them.
I have read some of your books and they have really helped me in my prayer ministry (I lead an intercession group in my church). I am called to pray for these two people on a regular basis. To be very honest, these two people both very sensitive, tending to be over dramatic, and somewhat insecure. I would really appreciate some feedback on how we should be praying into this situation.
God BlessANSWER: Paul: I believe that there is a link between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the soul’s attempts to protect itself when others get too close to its fears and pain. Physical fatigue, discouragement, fuzzy thinking, and some forms of depression can have their origin in the unsurrendered soul that is on the defensive. If you are just praying the general (if there is such a thing!) form of the binding and loosing prayers regarding binding their minds to the mind of Christ and their emotions to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit while loosing wrong thinking, the effects and influences of wrong agreements, and word curses from their souls, you will be helping them.
The most effective help, of course, is when you can get them to pray the prayers for themselves. The good thing about “general” binding and loosing prayers is that the unsurrendered soul won’t always pick up on what is actually being prayed or on what is about to happen to it. This allows the unsurrendered soul to be gently changed without it having backlashes as it would if someone was confronting its problems head on. Liberty
QUESTION: Where does it say in the Word of God that we can loose Satan’s assignments over us? Wanda.
ANSWER: Wanda: First John 3:8 says that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. That word destroy is exactly the same word that means loose in the Greek—luo. If Jesus came to destroy/loose/luo the works of the devil, then I choose to also destroy/loose/luo his works, his assignments, and his influence over my life and over the lives of others. My Kingdom Key (Matthew 16:19) of loosing may or may not be all-encompassing in the manner I know how to use it (Jesus’ destruction was an all-encompassing act of destroying the works of the enemy), but I do believe that we can really mess with Satan’s plans with our loosing key. Liberty
QUESTION: My cousin has two boys, one is now turning 17. He is giving her a terrible time, having linked up with the wrong crowd. He is extremely rebellious, challenges every word she says, and even throws “tantrums” if he doesn’t get his way. He refuses to go with her to church anymore, saying why should he. He shows no respect whatsoever toward being a Christian while he is smoking and listening to the most ghastly music. He used to be so loving, kind, and considerate. Betty
ANSWER: Betty, I recommend that you read the Testimonies, the Questions and Answers by Liberty, and the Difficult Issues Articles on my website. I think they will give you a broad overview of how the unsurrendered soul acts up and how to pray for another person whose soul is acting up. Teens go through all kinds of things and sometimes prayer is the only thing that works—prayer and love and acceptance.
Also pray with the “ripple” effect—in other words, pray for all of the kids around this young man. Bind them all to God’s will and the mind of Christ while loosing the deception of the world from them. Bind their minds to the mind of Christ and loose deception and denial from them. Bind their wounded emotions to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit and loose word curses and criticisms and judgments from them. Then try to show love to any of them you run into. Liberty
QUESTION: This fighting with the soul is such a war. I have heard that I will have a battle in flesh, but this is a stinking war. Liberty, I seemed to be stuck at the front line and not gaining any ground. I do recognize that my flesh doesn’t want me to pray these prayers daily as you have previously suggested. Sometimes I am unable for one reason or another to pray the training wheel prayers at all. Is there anything that the Lord may be sharing with you that I am not doing that can speed up this process? I have woken up for weeks with an ache in my stomach. I know that this is a soulish war and I want it to quit so I can get lined up with the Lord and get on with life, I am tired of this. Please help me. Dan
ANSWER: Dan, you cannot afford not to pray these prayers with the battle you are having. This is a case of whether or not you want your soul to be controlling your life or you want to walk with God and experience all He wants you to have and do. Which do you really want? You should be praying more than one of the binding and loosing prayers every day—even several times a day. You should particularly be praying the page 30 prayer in Breaking the Power at least once a day for 30 days. You say you feel you are in a war with these prayers.
This is not a big bloody, splashy type of war I’m suggesting—it is more of an “in-the-trenches, guerilla-type” of warfare. I’m promising you that a consistent effort to pray these prayers every day—with focus on every word you are saying as you pray—will thoroughly unsettle and weaken your soul’s temptations to give up as well as its defense mechanisms that are trying to discourage you. Back this consistent praying up with reading the Word and meditating on it. These prayers are powerful, but the Word is very powerful in reinforcing your choices to pray. Such a commitment will begin to break down in your soul’s control structure.
I agree that you are in a war—a war to wear you down, a war to slowly and subtly overthrow your efforts to be free. Your soul will throw at you whatever it knows will work best in defeating you—and trust me, the enemy will also work to bring into the war whatever he knows has defeated you in the past. So, when you feel angry, discouraged, or frustrated—pray even more of the binding and loosing prayers, read even more of the Word, stay before the Lord even more. You don’t have to fight Goliath, you don’t have to scale mountains, you don’t even have to do hand-to-hand combat with demons. You just have to consistently pray the prayers and back them up with the Word. God will make it clear what to do once you have some consistency in that. Remember, pray these prayers with focus and with determination. Liberty
QUESTION: Once you realize you have been in an emotionally abusive relationship, and leave (with a baby), and the abuser isn’t aware of or will not take responsibility for his actions, is it your responsibility to make him aware of his abuse and advise treatment or should you let him get it on his own? Either way, I have chosen not to return to this relationship, but I want to make sure that I am doing all I should to put a peaceful end to this unhealthy soul tie.
ANSWER: You can say a prayer for the abuser whenever the thought comes to your mind—bind his will to God’s will, bind his mind to the mind of Christ, and bind his emotions to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit. The prayer principles of binding and loosing, as used here, are taken from Matthew 16:19. Then loose (smash, crush, and destroy) his wrong patterns of thinking, wrong beliefs, and wrong attitudes. Also loose the enemy’s works from him. Loose all soul ties you have ever formed with this person because of unmet needs in your own life. Stay in the Word of God and keep your prayer life strong. The Lord will guide your through the best way to resolve the issue you have described. Liberty
QUESTION: I am a forty-six year old male, and I have been born again nearly four years now. I used to smoke a lot and take all kinds of drugs. I drank for over ten years. I was delivered from smoking and drugs and drinking in a mighty way by God. I was led to your book, Shattering Your Strongholds. I have read it twice, and my wife and I have been praying the binding and loosing prayers. I have been praying them for myself as I used to be addicted to pornography. I have not watched any porn for three years now or even been interested in it. But my dreams can be horrible, very sexual nasty things. I keep thinking they are gone, but then another one comes that is even worse. How can this be stopped? Could you help me, please? Matthew
ANSWER: You are on the right track with the prayers in Shattering Your Strongholds. There is a residue of the pornography in your soul even though you have stopped viewing it. Your dreams are a sign that your soul is feeling desperate about something that is painful and stressful to you, and it wants to cause you to return to the pornography because it temporarily gave your soul some relief.
I suggest that you read the Difficult Issue Position Paper on my website on this following page:
http://www.libertysavard.com/keys_difficult_pornography.html
I think it will give you some understanding. I also suggest that you read the Bible, at least two chapters, and pray one of the binding and loosing prayers before you go to bed at night. This will help you prepare your soul before you go to sleep. Include in whatever prayer that you pray, “I bind my emotions to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit and I loose, smash, crush, and destroy the effects and influences of wrong agreements that I have accepted.” Matthew, I prayed for you tonight. Liberty
QUESTION: Dear Liberty, I and a friend are both in the process of losing weight (which we have tried many times before). My cousin sent your Shattering Your Strongholds book and workbook to me. My friend ordered the books, too. We agreed to study and do this together as we “loose” this weight. We belong to a group of ladies online who support each other through prayer, encouragement, and the Word.
We live all over the country and want to be able to do SYS online, but we don’t want to break any copyright laws. All of our group bought the books, but there are others—saved and unsaved—who are able to view our thread who probably have not. We would like to refer to questions and maybe some quotes from your book, etc. Is this a problem? We are all excited to start and would love to hear from you soon. We just want to be free! We are praising the Lord for this tool that He taught you and had you put together! Thank you, dear sister.
ANSWER: Pattie, I think you might have come up with something very good here. As long as everyone in your main group has the book to study (because it is important for everyone to understand what they are actually doing when they use the Keys of the Kingdom, binding and losing), I will authorize you to do the following:
You may refer online to the SYS questions, use quotes from the book (not to exceed one paragraph at a time, please), and use single questions from the workbook in your discussions. I do suggest that you recommend that everyone read certain pages or chapters in the book so that your discussions are more focused. Please show author (Rev. Liberty Savard), publisher (Bridge-Logos Publishing), and URL www.libertysavard.com whenever you quote anything from the books. As you are working together on this, feel free to contact me if any issues come up that you want help with. God bless you, Liberty
QUESTION: I want to get started in ministry. It seems like others always get more opportunities than I do. I am trying hard not to have hard feelings when someone who doesn’t seem to deserve it gets to lead meetings. K.
ANSWER: K., while you have not said that others are getting their opportunities through deception or wrong practices (good for you!), look at what the Apostle Paul tells us he did when others stepped in because he was imprisoned and unable to minister. The Message version of the Word says it so well in Philippians 1:17-19:
“The others, now that I’m out of the picture, are merely greedy, hoping to get something out of it for themselves. Their motives are bad. They see me as their competition, and so the worse it goes for me, the better—they think—for them. So how am I to respond? I’ve decided that I really don’t care about their motives, whether mixed, bad, or indifferent. Every time one of them opens his mouth, Christ is proclaimed, so I just cheer them on! And I’m going to keep that celebration going because I know how it’s going to turn out. Through your faithful prayers and the generous response of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in and through me will be done.”
Paul cared that the Gospel was being preached more than he cared about who was preaching it. This can be difficult when your soul wants recognition. Getting wrapped up in wanting recognition can cause you to miss the main point of ministry: That others might know about Jesus Christ. Keep binding your will to the will of God, your mind to the mind of Christ, and your emotions to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit. Keep loosing all wrong patterns of thinking and wrong beliefs from your soul. Loosing wrong ideas and attitudes will help you see how Jesus taught Paul to think.
If you don’t have opportunities to minister, then begin to minister encouragement, prayer, and help to those who are ministering. Do it with good motives—do it just to be a blessing. Don’t do it looking for contacts, paybacks, and speaking opportunities. Your time to step into your ministry is not running out. God may just want to polish you up a bit more so that when your opportunity comes, you will really shine! Liberty
QUESTION: Liberty, what a name to have a ministry such as yours! I have a question that so far I haven’t been able to find an answer for. My wife and I have a healing ministry that has had the doors closed until the Lord works through some things in our lives. One of those things is I don’t know how to receive healing for myself. I can believe instantly when I pray for someone else that they will be healed (and are!), but I can’t receive it. I am praying the binding and loosing prayers, but is there something else in one of your books that might help me in this? I believe once I am set free of this, my wife will also be set free. Randy
ANSWER: Actually, there are many reasons why we don’t receive healing as promised in the Word. You can begin to cooperate with God by working on loosing things in your soul that may be hindering you: misconceptions and pre-conceived ideas about God, skewed beliefs about the Word, wrong patterns of thinking, generational bondage thinking, the effects and influences of wrong agreements you’ve made or have been made about you, to name a few main ones. Any combination of these things can cause doubt or fear in your soul and mess with your ability to believe and receive. Deception, denial, and error can just plain block incoming blessing and understanding.
The binding and loosing prayers deal with getting these wrong things exposed and removed. That makes room to receive more from God. You say you are praying the binding and loosing prayers. Does that mean you are praying them every day? You take a bath every day and you teeth every day—acts that remove things from your body that are not desirable. The binding and loosing prayers remove things from your soul that are not desirable. I suggest that you focus on getting wrong stuff out of your soul, rather than focusing on why you are not getting healed. Focus on cooperating with God.
One of the prayers that I recommend when something is lodged deep in the soul is the Breaking Soul Power prayer found on page 30 of Breaking the Power. We recommend that this prayer should be prayed every day for 30 days to see a real breakthrough. Praying the prayers does not just mean reading them—seriously consider and commit to every word you say of them. Liberty
QUESTION: I worry about my 29-year old son all the time. I’m concerned that he’s running around with other people who are a bad influence on him. I am worrying so much, it is making me feel sick. What can I do? YG
ANSWER: YG, first of all, GET YOUR FOCUS OFF YOUR SON. All the worry in the world doesn’t change a thing on earth, and it doesn’t change anything in heaven. Making yourself sick won’t change a thing on earth or in heaven, either. Read the following verses here (in The Message), and then reread them in your favorite version of the Bible. Philippians 4:6-7:
“Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.”
The most productive and effective thing you can do is to ask God’s protection and help for your son as you pray and bind him to His heavenly Father. Then praise God for His mighty power, love, and mercy. He loves your son more than you do, and He is in a position to impact your son’s life the most. You need to be focusing on God for yourself right now—and not just to get His attention or show Him how much you want His help. Focus on His goodness, His faithfulness in all areas of your life, and thank him for His grace and mercy that will help you and your son no matter how he might be messing up.
Some people badger God with their worries. They quote the Word and insist that God do what they believe will be best—demanding that He fulfill promises they want filled. This type of “praying” can easily slip into an attempt at spiritual blackmail. Let Christ take over your thoughts, and displace all your worries. Liberty
QUESTION: Liberty, why doesn’t God keep His Word to some people? Why isn’t the sowing and reaping concept working for me? Janice
ANSWER: God always keeps His Word, but there are times and conditions that sometimes need to be met to receive the promised answers. Most of these conditions are the “ifs” in His Word.
· John 8:31 (KJV), “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” You cannot truly be free unless you know His Word as He means it to be known. Too often we “write” our own desires and misconceptions into what God has said He will do. Only examining His word can keep us from doing that.
· Matthew 6:1 (NIV), “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.” God’s promises about receiving blessings for the good done to others won’t work for the one who gives or does good deeds with the motive of being seen, being praised, or getting paybacks.
· Luke 6:38 (NIV), “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap.” The “if” here is if you give, then a return will be given back to you. This giving has to be pure and without ulterior motives that insist upon a return gain.Matthew 6:15 (NIV), “But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” You must forgive others to be forgiven for the things you have done since you were saved. You were forgiven of everything in your past when you got saved. From that point on, your forgiveness is strongly impacted by your willingness or lack thereof to forgive others.
Check out your motives for why you are doing the good things you do. If you are doing them just to be a blessing to others, then your soul will not care whether or not anyone does anything back. God is on the job, fulfilling His promises. Just be sure you are in touch with the conditions of the promise you most desire. I prayed for you tonight. Liberty
QUESTION: Dear Liberty, my husband, Don, just got out of the hospital. He had a heart test with chemicals while he was in there, but they never did find out what the problem was. He needs a new liver, and they had to give him heavy painkillers for the stomach pain. Could you help us on how to pray for this? I have your books. Marian
ANSWER: Marian, pray with the Keys of the Kingdom. You have my books, and can pray right binding and loosing prayers from them for your husband—getting him to pray them also. Just add the following to whatever you pray (change the pronouns when he prays):
I bind every one of Don’s cells to your will and purposes for his life, Lord. I bind his mind and emotions to you as I ask for healing and balance for his body and soul. Please pour out your grace and mercy upon him physically, emotionally, and mentally. Thank you for taking care of him—thank you, Lord, thank you. I loose any diagnoses the doctors have pronounced over Don that do not agree with your purposes for his life. Thank you for the doctors and their help, but those who do not know you do not see his health as you do. They do not know the hope and the promises that we have as your children. Please strengthen Don and restore his organs to the state they should be. Praise you, Lord, for knowing what is best at all times.
Marian, also keep up the daily binding and loosing prayers for yourself so that you do not get discouraged. When you are taking care of someone who is sick, you can get exhausted. When your body is exhausted and your soul is discouraged, your soul can bring your body into wrong agreement—and wrong agreements like that can be difficult to overcome the longer they stay in place. Bind your wills to God’s will and then loose, smash, crush, and destroy any and all wrong mind/body agreements you or Don may have allowed to form within your souls. I prayed for Don and for you today. Liberty
QUESTION: My entire family has rejected me and does not want to see me. I have very few friends and I am single. People in my church say that God is all I need, and to let it go. How can God heal me when my family made the choice to completely reject me, which devastates me? What’s wrong with me? I wonder if I have nothing to offer anyone else. A lot of people take advantage of me, so how can I guard my heart and yet still allow God to completely heal me? Kitt
ANSWER: Kitt, you cannot force your unfriendly family members want to know you. You have to accept that. Otherwise you are going to exhaust and discourage yourself while trying to enforce one of what I call our unenforceable rules: this particular unenforceable rule being that you think you should be able to control how other people act towards you. You cannot—but you can change how you feel about their choices. You have some deep unmet needs, and your family can’t meet them for you. So, you need to refocus your thoughts on God so that He can begin to meet your unmet needs.
Your Christian friends were right to an extent when they said that you have God and that should be enough. That is true in its best and most perfect, theoretical situation. I know that it can be very hard to find comfort in that, however, when you are feeling rejected and alone. You ask, “How can God heal me when my family has chosen to reject me?” Please understand that God’s healing is absolutely not dependent upon how someone else feels about you, or what anyone else thinks or says about you. His love is something special and precious—God loves you, will heal you, and wants to spend time with you just because you are you.
He does not like the fact that you are feeling hurt and alone because of your family’s rejection, but He will work that out. Give Him room to work while you rest in His faithfulness. I believe that your family has some issues that can only be resolved through prayer—prayer that believes God can do anything—prayer that acknowledges and accepts that He will do it in His time so it is done the best possible way for everyone. I suggest that you start looking at what you do have and start thanking God for that. Put your feelings about what you are not getting from your family on the shelf in God’s closet, and leave it there.
You can’t do anything about it but pray right prayers, so stop going over and over it. You’re only reinforcing and reliving the pain that such thoughts have caused you. You have so much to offer, and when God works this out in your life, you will be able to offer great wisdom and compassion to others in the same situation. The Message’s version of Ephesians 3:14-20 says this:
“My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.”
I believe that for you. And I will pray this with you in addition to what you are already praying:
Father, I choose to believe that I have worth in your eyes, especially because your Word tells me so. I choose to believe that you love me and created me so I could love you. I bind myself to your will, I bind my mind to the mind of Christ, and I bind my torn emotions to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit. I loose all the layers of self-protection, self-deception, and self-defense I have put over the hurt and pain that I feel from my family’s rejection. I am going to focus on getting rid of my walls and stronghold thinking so that you can begin to heal me. I need you to fix me. I accept that my family cannot fix me, they can’t even seem to love me right now. So I fix my hope and my expectation on you, and your Word says that you will never disappoint my hope in you.
I prayed for you today, Kitt. Liberty
QUESTION: Liberty, I have prayed the binding/loosing prayers for over a year. My husband says he doesn’t love me anymore and wants to be free of me. I know he’s moving on with his life and I need to do the same, but “moving on” implies that something else is left behind. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I have started drinking to dull the pain. I still pray every day...especially about soul ties...but they just seem like words now. Please help me! Danette
ANSWER: Danette, this is a hard situation, but God knows what He wants to bring out of it. You MUST realize that God knows exactly what He wants to do here. You have to accept that whatever that is, it absolutely will be the best possible outcome for you and your children and your husband. As you pray the binding and loosing prayers, stop praying them with belief that they will make everything turn out how you see it as best. What we see “as best” is often clouded by our souls’ needs and pain. God absolutely and truly sees what is best for each one of you, and He will bring it to pass if you trust Him and His plans. That might mean giving up what you want, or it might mean that God is doing what you want. Be careful that you don’t get into attempting spiritual blackmail by “standing” on what you believe God has to do and insisting that He do it because you have faith that He will.
Loose your wrong patterns of addictive thinking which have drug you down into discouragement and depression as well as the beginnings of alcohol dependency to dull your pain. Praying the breaking soul ties prayer will work if you truly want the soul ties broken. Often we really don’t want to give them up entirely because we feel that is all we have left of the other person. Your hope cannot lie in whether or not your husband comes back a changed man—your hope is that God will make something very, very good out of whatever you surrender completely to Him. I prayed for you today. Liberty
QUESTION: Dear Liberty, I don’t know where to start as my life is such a mess—so much pain and destruction, rejection and bondage. I grew up in a very destructive, broken and abusive home. I am just so confused and in so much bondage. Is there any way out of this pain? I am in New Zealand. Andy
ANSWER: Andy: We have mailed you a copy of Breaking the Power in case you can’t find it in New Zealand. In the meantime, I’ve attached two prayers for you to start praying—the Breaking Soul Power prayer and the Breaking Soul Ties prayer. We prayed for you in our staff prayer meeting and are believing that you are going to begin to see how your soul has been deceiving you about whether or not you can hope in God. You can! He is faithful. Sometimes we just can’t see what He is doing because our souls don’t want us to see it. That is because if our souls (mind, will, emotions) have to surrender to what God says about how much He loves us and that He has a plan for us, then they have to surrender all of their deceptions, their self-destructive thinking patterns, their self-protection mechanisms, and their self-defense devices. That is very scary to a soul that has been trying to run things and protect itself against all of the pain it has picked up over a lifetime. Your soul has NO idea how to let God heal its pain, so it only knows how to try to bury it. That is like burying toxic waste in your basement. Don’t try to build more levels of protection, rather get ready to begin letting God remove the toxic waste. I think Breaking the Power will help you see how to do that.
We care, Andy, and we will continue to pray for you! God loves you, you have a right to have hope, and your soul is going to surrender if you will begin to bring it into submission with these prayers. Pray the page 30 prayer, Breaking Soul Power, each day for at least 30 days. Pray the Breaking Soul Ties prayers for about 5 days and see if you notice a difference in your thinking. Liberty
QUESTION: I believe that I may have been involved in a relationship with a Christian woman who has some of the characteristics of a borderline personality disorder. Although the relationship appears to have ended, do you believe that God could bring two people together to bring healing to the person with the disorder? Thanks, Donald
ANSWER: We have heard from people who have prayed the Keys of the Kingdom prayers (along with the understanding found in reading the books) who say they have been healed of mental and personality disorders. The unsurrendered soul is usually the main source of any disordered thinking. You can pray for this woman, specifically with the prayer I’ve attached (from the revised version of Shattering Your Strongholds). Regarding your last question, God can do anything, but you need to be praying and binding your will to God’s will, your mind to the mind of Christ, and your emotions to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit to make sure that you are not pursuing wrong input from your own unsurrendered soul. Liberty
QUESTION: Dear Liberty, I just stumbled across some of your books recently and I am working towards understanding these principles with hopes to teach this to others so they can be free. My question is concerning my daughter. She is an heroin addict who recently received Christ as her Savior. and I now realize that it’s her spirit not her soul that is saved now. She is living with an abusive man. In scoring drugs, she has been badly abused before. I know that the Lord can set her free and heal her. I hope you can give me further insight as I stand in the gap for her. Elsa Q.
ANSWER: Elsa, It is a God thing that you have learned how to pray with the Keys of the Kingdom. Be sure that you keep studying the Word of God and that you remember that these Keys of the Kingdom are given to us so we might be in agreement that God’s will. His will is what always needs to be sought and agreed with. Keep binding yourself and your daughter to God’s will, to the mind of Christ, and to the healing balance of the Holy Spirit. Loose (loose means to destroy: 1 John 3:8) the works of the enemy from yourself and from your daughter. Also, loose the effects and influences of all wrong agreements off every member of your family. Stay in the Word and stay balanced in your prayer life.
When you are binding your loved ones to God’s will and purposes, you are agreeing that He has a plan for them and He wants to see it come to pass. Prayers of fear, doubt, hopelessness, and pain on your part will never be prayers of agreement with God’s will for her life. Trust in the power of Jesus’ promise that what we bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and what we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Trust, even if you don’t see it working itself out in the natural yet. I prayed for you and your daughter today. Liberty
QUESTION: I have been in a situation for a very long time now that I do not know how to handle. Another person keeps putting me down and criticizing me. Whenever I want to speak about those put downs and criticisms after praying over it, and even when I pray silently during the confrontation, the other person gets really upset and starts screaming and insulting me. Afterwards the other person punishes me by being very accusative and menacing. To escape these reactions, I have given up credit for much of what I have achieved. By being passive I have tried to avoid being humiliated. I have been praying the binding and loosing prayers, but I am really desperate and TIRED of this all. What should I do? Marilyn
ANSWER: Marilyn: If this is a close relative, you must make some attempts to work out the problem. If it is not, then you need to consider ways to remove yourself from contact with the person—at least for the present. Is there someone else who can get involved—a pastor, a family member, a boss—to arbitrate the situation? If not, then avoid getting into discussions with this person while continuing to pray the binding and loosing prayers for him without any personal motives on your part. Pray with the motive that he will become healed and learn to have a relationship with Jesus. Use this situation as an opportunity to learn how to pray and turn the other cheek (as it says in the Bible). I prayed for you and this person today after reading your e-mail. Liberty
QUESTION: Do you believe that a person can have a co-dependent spirit with someone else? I have been told that I do, but I don’t really know how to get rid of it. I have read your book Shattering Your Strongholds, and I am now reading The Unsurrendered Soul. Please take a minute to help me. I know you’re busy, but your books have helped me grow tremendously in the last few months. Patty
ANSWER: Patty: There is no such thing as a co-dependent spirit. I suggest you carefully read The Unsurrendered Soul and pray the prayers in it to understand what is really happening. Your unsurrendered soul may be trying to get its needs met through forming alliances with others, even to the point of soul ties. I’ve also written a mini book called Soul Power, Soul Ties, and Soulish Prayers that might help you further understand what your soul will try to do to meet its own needs. I have written these books so that you can use the principles in your own prayers. God will honor your attempts to bring your soul into submission. He will move on your behalf. Liberty
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