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Questions & Answers
QUESTION: I need help in dealing with a client that has multiple personality disorder. She was in integration therapy for ten years. She thinks that another personality has manifested. LLR, Licensed Counselor
ANSWER: I’m not sure I can be of help to you here, because I don’t really track with the generally accepted ideas on multiple personalities. I believe in dealing with the unsurrendered soul as one entity, and that so-called “multiple personalities” are really just subterfuges or facades the wounded soul manifests. So, in dealing with people who appear to be manifesting multiple personalities, I have always ignored the “personalities” and spoken directly to the soul. One of the meanings of the word “bind” is to cause many fragmented pieces to come back into one whole. I just keep binding the person’s soul into one whole, and loosing deception. I am hoping you have read some of my books and know what I’m talking about with binding and loosing prayers. Liberty
LLR’s RESPONSE: Thanks so much for your answer, Liberty. I have read all of your books and I think that you are right on the money! I have gleaned more from your books than many years of professional training! Keep up the fight! LLR, Licensed Counselor
QUESTION: My friend shows me romantic feelings and then turns away from me. He tells me what his wife should look like which is nowhere near my looks. I have prayed your prayers from Shattering Your Strongholds and the prayer for a mate, and I met him soon after I started doing that. I’m Indian and he’s Jewish. I feel so insecure and almost wish I wasn’t Indian. If this is God’s will for the two of us—how do I pray for him to see that? S. of Zambia
ANSWER: God never planned for you to be unwanted by the man He has always planned for you. Your perfect mate will be overwhelmed with love for you, loving the way you look. Please do not let your soul cause you to fantasize or fixate upon desiring this man as he may not be God’s best for you. If he is God’s choice, let him pursue you. Let God undeniably reveal His choice to you since you are one of God’s special daughters, S, let Him bring you a prince of a man who wants to make you his princess.
QUESTION: I have recently begun the binding and loosing prayer methods suggested in Breaking the Power (very nice work on your part, by the way). For the past two days I have started to feel sluggish, and have a loss of appetite. I am usually very energetic and EAT ALL THE TIME. Is this some form of resistance from my soulish man? I am halfway through the book but now seem unable to finish. Do you know why? Rev. Kevin
ANSWER: Rev. Kevin, the human soul is capable of pulling all kinds of tricks when it feels threatened, and Breaking the Power absolutely threatens the unsurrendered soul’s status quo. I would suggest that you pray the Page 30 prayer in BTP every day, and watch out for your soul’s tactics to try and stop you. Even just reading the book is threatening to the soul, and praying the prayers is certainly threatening as they begin to dismantle the soul’s strongholds, walls, and self-defense systems. We will pray for you and with you. These principles absolutely work! But your soul won’t surrender without a fight, and it has enlisted your body’s help! Don’t worry, the prayers can break that agreement.
QUESTION: Our son talks about suicide and also has problems with his sexuality. We are praying the binding and loosing prayers for him and ourselves and for each member of our family. It is like riding an emotional roller coaster. We have your books and find them valuable. Someone suggested that we should all bind the carnal man. Is this a good thing to do? Help us.
ANSWER: Binding is best used in the context of holding, undergirding, and causing fragmented pieces to come back into one whole. There are probably some serious flaws in his gender identity. Bind him to the truth of who he is. Loose wrong beliefs and half-truths he has accepted about who he is. Ask Jesus to imprint his gender identity on his soul again, as well as his identity in Him. Loose wrong thought patterns from your son’s mind. To loose means to crush, smash, shatter, and destroy. Also loose the effects and influences of any wrong agreements from his soul. If you can pick up a copy of Keys to Understanding FREEDOM, one of my mini books, there is a section on praying for people with homosexual struggles. God bless, Liberty
QUESTION: Dear Liberty, I was given some photocopied pages out of a workbook on Shattering your Strongholds. I was very cynical when my brother began to share them with me. Just another fad I thought, and I am so tired of being a guinea pig. I have been a Christian 30 years, and my husband and children are tired of me saying, “Here’s why none of the previous books worked because this one is really what I should have been following.” I am almost afraid to pray the prayers, I’m so afraid of another failure. I looked up your web page on the internet and your comment about Mark—“Mark, you leak!” made me think of myself. Do these prayers really work?
ANSWER: Everything you have described is related to the unsurrendered soul. That is where all of the old word curses, wrong beliefs, stronghold thinking, and wrong mind sets are entrenched. The stronghold thinking rationalizes, justifies, and protects them. The believer who tries to find God’s answers while he or she is dragging around so much old stuff will fail over and over. The answer is to get the soul to surrender its stuff to God. That is what these prayers accomplish.
I have been a Christian since 1972. Fifteen of those years were spent struggling and giving up and crying out to God. Finally He showed me how using the Keys of the Kingdom could strip the soulish garbage—almost like sores and sickness and tumors—out of my soul so it could start afresh in alignment with God. This is a way to help you walk with Him instead of pulling against Him. Testimonies pour into our office every week of people finally getting free of their own old natures, their souls’ strongholds, and the residue of everything that has ever happened to them. It works. It really does. You just have to understand what you are doing, and then pray the prayers. We will be praying with you! Liberty
QUESTION: When I got saved, I was sexually involved with someone I felt I loved and wanted to marry. Shortly thereafter, God removed him from my life. Just when I think I’ll forget him, he contacts me. He’s confided things to me he said he could never tell anyone else even though he has married. I so desire for him to be happy. Every time I hear from him, it hurts so much, because he is so special to me, I cannot bear the pain of losing him again. What should I do? B A
ANSWER: You have a soul tie to this man that needs to be broken. Any time you enter into wrong agreements with someone that promise some sort of personal benefit for you, you are immediately vulnerable to forming a soul tie to that person. Fornication fits this category. Ending a relationship does not automatically sever the soul ties that you may have formed—especially when your soul has memories of a person comforting and satisfying your unmet needs and unhealed hurts.
You need to pray and bind your will to the will of God, bind your mind to the mind of Christ, and loose any and all effects and influence of wrong agreements you have entered into and the resulting soul ties that were formed. You need to pray this regarding anyone you may have entered into a wrong agreement with seeking mutual benefit, support, or satisfaction. You may need to pray this way more than once—especially if this man contacts you right after you pray to break soul ties with him. He may sense he has lost something that is comfortable to him. That is what you are to him, B; Anne—a comfortable soul tie he can draw on whenever he wants comfort. If he contacts you, tell him that you are praying for his marriage but you cannot converse with him any longer. Do not maintain this relationship, even in your mind!
God has much more for you, but He won’t give it to you if it has to compete with a soul tie from your past. When you allow your past to keep invading your present, you are compromising your future. These old memories will retreat into the archives of your mind when you stop tending and nurturing them in your thoughts and through this soul tie you have with him. I will be praying. Liberty
QUESTION: I’m reading Breaking The Power right now. I just read the part mentioning frozen emotions. I never knew there was such a thing, but I instantly knew that is the problem I’m having. In remembering the stuff from my past, my counselor once said that I was retelling it as if I were telling him about something I had seen on TV with absolutely no emotional involvement in what I was saying. Do I have to remember/experience the emotions of everything that went on in my past? No one in their right mind would want to do that, would they? People can’t even stand to hear about my past. So as I pray these prayers, is God going to make me totally freak out? What prayer should I pray to get my emotions to thaw? I’m not getting any younger and I don’t want my life to have been saved just to be lived in vain. Thanks, S A
ANSWER: Dear S A, Emotions are God given and are reflective of what is going on in our souls. They are meant to express outwardly the God-life and the God-love that our born-again spirits already enjoy inwardly. When we begin to pressure the strongholds in our unsurrendered souls with the Keys of the Kingdom binding and loosing prayers, our souls often react in anger, fear, denial, confusion, numbness, or by just seeming to be overwhelmed.
God did not design you to shut down emotionally to protect yourself, S A. He wants to heal your deepest hurt and pain and need, and let you share that healing with others with joy and love! Continue on in Breaking the Power, and be sure to pray the Prayer for Breaking Fear. Psalms 62:8 tells us, “Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.” You can pour out your soul to God, and receive His healing without having to recall and replay those memories and their pain to everyone you meet. The Prayer to Break Fear will help you break away from the fear that is causing you to freeze up. God wants you free.
QUESTION: My question is about deliverance, or deliverance from what? Are you delivered so you can repent, or do you repent so that you can be delivered? If the latter, then what is the difference between repentance and deliverance? Repentance to me is basically to change your way of thinking and acting and then to make your every thought captive to Christ. So on that basis, what benefits does deliverance bring? As Peter states in Acts, repent and be baptized so you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. R
ANSWER: In order for us to receive salvation, there must indeed be repentance—a change of mind based on the receipt of new information that produces a change of direction. It causes me to change my mind about God and my need for Him based on hearing the Gospel and I begin to move toward Him, instead of away from Him.
The use of the term deliverance in the New Testament is quite different from the way it is commonly used in Christianity today. In the Scriptures, it was never used in reference to the casting out of evil spirits, but most commonly was used to mean giving over to or more rarely being rescued. Nevertheless, to most Christians the meaning of deliverance is to be freed from the influence or control of evil spirits. I am guessing that this is what you are referring to.
The real thing we need to be delivered from is the stronghold thinking still existing in our old natures—our unsurrendered souls. That is what 2 Corinthians 10:5-6 is all about. As we cast down the imaginations and reasonings of our unsurrendered souls, the wonderful revelation and direction and truth that God’s Spirit has already communicated into our human spirits gets released into our soul’s understanding. The Bible calls this the “renewing of the mind” (Romans 12:2).
Have you read Shattering Your Strongholds? In it, you will find the HOW to pull down the strongholds of your old nature that hinders you from fulfilling God’s great destiny plans for your life—and that keep you from really knowing him. Jesus gave us the Keys of the Kingdom—binding and loosing—not to deal with the devil, but to deal with our own stronghold thinking (which gives the devil access to further harass us as long as it is in place). These Keys also help us effectively pray for God’s will and purposes for our lives and the lives of others. Praying with these Keys will produce a life that cooperates with the work of the Holy Spirit in us. If we change direction but have no clue where we are going, we are most likely to go astray again! Rev. K F, LSM Associate Teacher II
QUESTION: I have been praying the binding and loosing prayers for myself and my family members for over 3 years. Then my dad filed for a divorce from my mom in February. Does that mean it’s God’s will for them to be divorced since I have been binding them both to His will and purposes? My mom does not want the divorce but my dad does and it is still moving forward. Also, I continue to pray the binding and loosing prayers for myself but I still don’t know where to work since graduating from college 13 months ago. I am rejected for every job I apply for in my field because I don’t have any experience. I don’t know what kind of job to apply for or where I am supposed to live. I have much student loan debt and the more I pray the binding and loosing prayers the more frustrated I feel because I still don’t have any clear direction. I really don’t know what the problem is. Why can’t I just get the direction I need? Mark
ANSWER: M: Rev. Liberty Savard is out of the office and has asked me (one of the LSM Associate Teachers) to respond to your question. It is wonderful that you have been praying over your family with the Keys of the Kingdom! Thank you for these very open and honest questions. Divorce is not God’s will, Mark. We know this from His Word. When we pray these prayers, we are aligning our requests with God’s already established will in heaven. So He won’t change HIS will, we must change OURS and your parents must change theirs.
So what has happened? When we pray binding and loosing prayers for someone else, we bring them through prayer into close proximity with the mind of Christ and the will of God. They are then exposed to His perspective and offer of help. They can still choose to refuse Him, but they will have been confronted with God’s alternatives, and even in their rebellion, He will still be working.
Review Chapter 9 of SYS entitled “Setting the Captives Free (Whether They Want to or Not)” to encourage yourself in your prayers. Proceeding toward divorce indicates a resistance to God in their souls. That’s exactly what these Keys can address. God will continue to deal with them, no matter how far away they seem from His will, because you have been praying right prayers of agreement for them. You have kept binding them to the will of God—He’s been looking for that kind of faith and agreement. If they know Him and love Him, He has promised to faithfully work all things, even this, to their good for His purposes (Romans 8:28-30).
As you pray, be sure to bind and loose for yourself so that you do not pray your own agenda over your parents, your career, etc., but so you ensure that you are trusting yourself to God’s perfect plans as He reveals them to you. Be sure you are open to even His unknown (to you) ways of working out the details of what He knows is best for everyone. The frustration you express is resident in your unsurrendered soul. Be sure to loose your own wrong mindsets, patterns of thinking, etc. that are clamoring for control of your life right now and disturbing your trust and confidence in Jesus. Rev. K F, LSM Associate Teacher
QUESTION: Hello K, again; I understand, sort of, what you mean about not jumping ahead. Does this mean not using any of the prayers until one has reached where they are in the book? If so, then I’m confused, because right in the general instructions (p. xv) in the front of the workbook (Shattering Your Strongholds), it says to faithfully pray the binding and loosing prayers (and record answers at the end of chapters). When I came to those instructions with my ladies, I told them about that general prayer on page 131 of SYS and that they should begin praying it regularly for themselves (before beginning to do that for others)!
Was/is this not right? What should I be telling them instead? We are in chapter 2 right now. I don’t know if it is still too early for them to begin praying for others (such as unsaved family members) yet. S
ANSWER: Hello again, S: Please don’t feel legalistic over any of this. The general instructions you are referring to are really covering the entirety of the whole book and workbook. It is always best to lay a good foundation in the Word for why we pray this way, rather than just jumping right into the prayers. Otherwise, the prayers can be (and have been!) misunderstood or twisted to agendas and purposes they were not designed for. One young man was given just the prayers (no teaching at all), as he sat in jail for drunk driving. He began to bind the judge to his will and felt that everything would go his way then! It won’t and people wind up angry and disillusioned with God when they didn’t get what they wanted. But you have these people in an ongoing class of instruction to keep this from happening.
You as the leader/facilitator should always model praying aloud with your group at each meeting. That will accustom the others to doing the same. Teach the training wheel prayers as models—not ends in themselves—but “live” teaching examples (just as the Lord did with what we call the “Lord’s Prayer”). Carefully watch out for those wanting microwave solutions to time-hardened problems. Our prayer expectations must change until we only want to see the Holy Spirit’s revelation answers, and we loose our sense of urgency to see God do something that we want to happen. K F, LSM Associate Teacher II
QUESTION: I’m having real difficulty in forgiving myself for past wrongs I’ve done to others, which have really hurt them. I’ve tried looking in your books, but can’t find such a prayer. I’m really tormented by this and struggling to believe God could forgive me. This has been going on for a long time. Please help. Miss M
ANSWER: Miss M, Stop looking for a specific prayer and begin praying as many of the prayers in SYS and BTP as you can get yourself to pray, specifically the Breaking Soul Power prayer on page 30 in BTP. You have far more issues in your unsurrendered soul than the one you mention, just as we all do. Consider this analogy. You are trying to find a way to heal “a sore on your foot” that is only a symptom of “a hidden infection in your whole body.” You don’t need a “sore foot” prayer, you need “body, soul, and spirit” prayers. You are trying to focus on fixing a symptom when you should be praying all of the prayers you can to open up to God so He is free to heal your soul.
QUESTION: I always ask myself and others how to hear the voice of God. I know His word says that His sheep know His voice, and it worries me that I may not be hearing His voice. Can I truly hear the voice of God?
ANSWER: Do you know the voice of your mother or your father or your best friend when you hear it? Of course you do—because you have spent time listening to them. You will know the voice of the Father when you spend time in the Word, in prayer, and waiting upon Him. If what you hear causes you to want to change to be more like Him, to want to surrender to Him, or to become Christ’s servant for His purposes, it was Him speaking to you. If what you hear appeals to you because you might become a great prophet or a great spiritual leader, having words for many and being adored and sought after, you might question Him a few times to see if it really was Him. It may well have been your soul.
QUESTION: Rev. Savard, my husband has left me and set up another home. It really hurts when he comes back to our house and takes things to furnish his new house. I feel enraged when he just walks in and ignores my feelings about boundaries right now. I feel powerless. I have asked God to forgive me for these feelings. My husband actually asked if I would pack the rest of his things up for him! Help me understand, Mrs S
ANSWER: Mrs. S, I strongly suggest that you pray to break all soul ties with your husband. This almost always reduces pain in your own soul in situations like this. Soul ties are not a healthy means of keeping an emotional contact with any other person. The Breaking of Soul Ties prayer and an entire chapter on soul power and soul ties are in Breaking the Power. The general binding and loosing prayers (Shattering Your Strongholds) will help strip away the clouds and confusion in your soul so that you can receive direction and guidance from God. There is no telling what old unresolved issues of your life that your soul is bouncing off of right now.
The prayers and the information in all three of my books are not designed to change what is happening, but they are designed to help you process everything that is happening in a scriptural manner with God’s help to get healed and become whole. You will begin to work more smoothly with God if you set new boundaries to stop the short-circuiting of your soul right now.
Listen very carefully here, and then pray about what I am going to say. Then, unless God says NO, begin to clear out some of the stress you are undergoing. First of all, you said your husband has moved out and set up a new home. If he were still in your home trying to work things out, that would be different. But he has chosen to establish a new home for himself for the time being. If this is true, then go ahead and pack up whatever is his along with whatever joint possessions you feel he might need. Have them delivered to some place where he can pick them up, and then change your locks in your home. Tell him that you need some space to begin working with God to become whole. Let your answering machine answer all of your calls. Begin to spend time alone with God, standing firm on the boundaries you have set up for the time being.
Such boundaries, set to give you some breathing and healing room from your emotional distress, do not mean you are not willing to work things out according to God’s direction. They only mean that you need to clear some space to allow God to work in you so you can hear His direction. Many rejected wives are afraid to give themselves this space with God because they think as long as they keep some physical tie with the husband, no matter how emotionally difficult it may be for them, there may be a hope. You have all the hope in the world for God’s will to be done, but God often works better when there are no natural realm reactions between two souls causing the emotions to spike and plummet. For now, hold tight to God. Set genuine boundaries in the natural realm of your life, and let God be God. God can work with your husband without your presence in the middle of it. Let me know how you are doing.
QUESTION: I have so much trouble with depression. Where does depression come from?
ANSWER: The soul that tries to hide its stress underground, burying its toxic waste of unforgiveness, bitterness, and hopelessness, telegraphs its distress to the body. Medical experts have found that the body reacts by pumping toxic chemicals into our blood streams. Medical scientists have proven that this is what happens when we try to bury our toxic emotions. This creates a chemical imbalance in our body that can cause depression, and so much more—even lethal diseases like cancer. This is the product of the soul’s dangerous coping mechanisms of stuffing, burying, and denying. The only answer is to get God into the areas of our souls that need to be healed or de-stressed. The function of the prayers in these books is not to change the circumstances of our lives; their function is to change how we respond to the circumstances of our lives.
Paul the Apostle said that “Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness.” The phrase “Abraham believed God” (in the original Greek) means that Abraham was in agreement with God’s will in his every thought, purpose, and action (soul, spirit, and body). Abraham was considered to be righteous because of being in alignment with the will of God in every aspect of his being. In Isaiah we read that the fruit of righteousness is PEACE.
I battle depression at times, too, which I believe is compounded by pressure against this ministry. When I have no peace, I know I am out of alignment—somewhere—with God’s will for my life. This lack of alignment is almost always causing hidden stressing in my soul. The resulting toxic chemicals being released pull my body chemistry out of balance—not only giving opportunity for depression, but also compromising my entire immune system. I believe the answer is to constantly maintain our souls with focused binding and loosing prayers and consistent reading of the bible. These prayers not only have the power to bring us to a place where we can receive the peace Jesus has for us, they also have the power to stop further compromising of our entire immune system. That is a huge benefit I am currently researching further! Always remember that reading God’s Word reinforces right prayers.
QUESTION: Because of a sin of more than five years ago, I cannot forgive myself. I used to pray the prayers in SYS, but I can’t anymore. This thing seems so much bigger than me, I have lost the faith I once had and I am severely depressed. How can I be forgiven?
ANSWER: You need to first start praying the binding and loosing prayers again. Your soul is hassling and harassing you. The enemy is just piggybacking on it. Let me ask you a few questions.
Did you publicly deny that you know Christ? Peter did, and he believed he was forgiven and went on to fulfill a great destiny.
Did you commit adultery and have your sexual partner’s spouse murdered? David did, and he believed God forgave and restored him to relationship with Him.
Did you murder or torture Christians? Paul did, and he believed he was loved and forgiven.
These things are written in the Bible to show us the magnitude of God’s love and forgiveness towards the failings of His children. When you cannot forgive yourself, are you not saying that your standards for forgiveness are higher than His?
He will forgive you, but then He wants you to believe it is over. This is where the prayers are very helpful. They break your soul’s recycling of the guilt. Ongoing guilt is never from God! Please go back to praying the prayers to make room to receive God’s mercy, grace, love, and healing. He wants you to get on with good things!
QUESTION: I think I may have a soul tie with someone I guess you could call an unrequited love from years ago in my past. Do you think there is still an unhealthy tie here because I still think about him sometimes? How many times should I have to pray the Breaking Soul Ties prayer in BTP to get free from any fantasizing about what might have been if I’d married him?
ANSWER: Soul ties are formed when a wrong agreement in entered into that seems to hold a mutual benefit for both parties. Sometimes that mutual benefit is that both parties’ might have some of their unmet needs met or at least understood and respected. Other times, the mutual benefit is for having some control or being able to avoid being controlled. Depending on how important the soul tie was to you and to the other person, you may have to pray that prayer continually for a while to make sure the tie is permanently severed. When you think of him, you may be feeling insecure from something in your daily circumstances that has retriggered unmet needs or feelings of insecurity. This may be causing your thoughts to return to the deceptive fantasy that he could have met all of your unmet needs. This is when you need to immediately pray the breaking soul ties prayer.
Some soul ties are severed with a one time praying. In other cases, one or both souls may keep trying to figure out a way to reconnect them. This “breaking and severing” is not really a healing or an act of God. It is an action you have chosen to reject and refuse your own deceptive fantasies and any reconnection of the soul tie from the other person’s deceptive fantasies.
Sometimes we come into wrong agreement with others when our souls feel alone and unable to belong, or when there is an intense need to have someone seem to care. You must break away some of the layers of self-protective, deception, and denial that your wounded soul has formed over its most vulnerable areas, God will not force His way into them to heal you. Liberty
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
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