Deliverance Matters: God's Strategic and Tactical Guide to Overcoming Strongholds in Your Life: A Strategic and Tactical Guide to Overcoming Strongholds in Your Life - Softcover

Harmon, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490743103 ISBN 13: 9781490743103

Verlag: Trafford, 2014

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Are you struggling to break free from the clutches of pornography? Are you losing the battle to sexual perversion in your mind and spirit or know someone who is? Are you seeking help concerning your condition of pornographic addiction and sexual perversion but don't know where to turn? If so, this powerful strategy guide was written for you. In this book, you will learn the following: Why people are attracted to pornography and sexual perversion Pornography's origin and motive The damages pornography and sexual perversion cause naturally and spiritually How to identify and sever every negative soul tie in your life How to guard your mind and spirit against sexual perversion How to break free from pornography and sexual perversion This book will empower and equip you for the battle you are fighting against sexual perversion. Be glad and encouraged for God has sent you a powerful weapon to destroy every yoke of sexual perversion in your life!

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Dr. M.D. Harmon lives in Maryland with his wife and children. They all serve as devotion leaders at Christian Shelter in Salisbury, Maryland. Dr. Harmon and his wife attend New Life Ministry in Salisbury, MD under the leadership of Pastor Thomas R. Hoy Jr. Dr. Harmon began preaching nationally in 2004. He has touched many lives, leading the lost to deliverance, healing, and peace in God. Dr. Harmon has survived several years of sexual abuse and molestation as a young child. Years of molestation led him into the dark world of pornography at the age of twelve. After spending his teen and young adult life in pornography and promiscuity, God saved him. However, after being saved, the soul ties and connection with pornography were not severed. Years of praying and studying led God to reveal to Dr. Harmon how to remove the roots of sexual perversion from his life. God revealed to Dr. Harmon how to severe all of the soul ties created during his years of promiscuity. The walk to freedom was difficult, treacherous, and long. However, the mercy and grace of God, along with Dr. Harmon's faith in God, gave him the victory over pornography and sexual perversion. Dr. M.D. Harmon now shares the strategies and faith revealed to him through God to help others escape the bondage of sexual perversion and pornography.

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Deliverance Matters

God's Strategic and Tactical Guide to Overcoming Strongholds in Your Life Vol. 1

By Maurice Harmon

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2014 Maurice Harmon
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4907-4310-3

Contents

Foreword, vii, 
Introduction, ix, 
Chapter 1: What Draws You To It?, 1, 
Chapter 2: Pornography's Motive, 10, 
Chapter 3: The Gates Of The Soul, 17, 
Chapter 4: Soft-Core Pornography, 32, 
Chapter 5: Hard-Core Pornography, 36, 
Chapter 6: The Damage Pornography Causes Naturally, 49, 
Chapter 7: The Damage Pornography Causes Spiritually, 57, 
Chapter 8: The Truth About The Pornography Industry And Its Performers, 63, 
Chapter 9: How To Be Set Free From Pornography: Part One (Admitting And Confessing The Issue Exists), 68, 
Chapter 10: How To Be Set Free From Pornography: Part Two (Forgiving Yourself And Disconnecting From It), 76, 
Chapter 11: How To Be Set Free From Pornography: Part Three (Understanding What Deliverance Is And What It Entails), 84, 
Conclusion, 103, 
End Notes, 115, 
About the Author, 117, 
References, 119, 

CHAPTER 1

WHAT DRAWS YOU TO IT?

Over the years, I have heard many people try to answer the same question: "What draws you to pornography?" I have heard all kinds of reasons for why people believe that they gravitate to pornography and other sinful, sexual desires. Some have said that they were born with this condition. Others have said childhood trauma caused the condition. Nonetheless, if they cannot answer this question then they cannot uproot the weeds of sexual perversion and pornography from the soil of their hearts.

No matter what a person may or may not believe attracts him or her to sexual perversion, there is one common denominator. In most cases, it is closer than the individual could ever suspect. The individual overtaken in sexual perversion may dance around this denominator as if to be looking for some other root cause. However, if the individual will look deep within his own self, he will find the answer that seemingly has eluded him. He will find the true root of sexual perversion and all other sin. That root is iniquity!

Iniquity in Us

Many Christians confuse sin and iniquity and use them as interchangeable terms. However, the Bible clearly indicates that there is a difference between the two. Understanding the difference between sin and iniquity could be the difference in you uprooting sexual perversion from your heart and you remaining in it. Let us gather understanding by beginning with iniquity. What exactly is iniquity? Iniquity is what is on the inside of us that causes us to sin. Sin is the transgression or the act of breaking God's law. This means that sin and iniquity cannot be one in the same. However, where you find sin it is certain that iniquity preceded it! Where you find iniquity not dealt with, you can be certain sin is following!

Whether you accept it or not, part of you, deep inside, enjoys sexual perversion because it brings you temporary pleasure and relief. It provides you with a fantasy that you wish to have. It numbs the pain of the nightmares of your past, helping you to forget what happened to you, if only for a moment. Although a part of you wants to break free, you still seek the high of sexual perversion and pornography because you are addicted. That addiction stems from your iniquity, and your iniquity has taken root in your heart and in your mind.

Notice what the Bible says about Satan before he sinned against God.

You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created.

You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.

You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

Ezekiel 28:12-15 NKJV

Satan's original condition was immaculate, beautiful, and perfect! God had established him as the highest of all angels. Satan was perfect in all of his ways from the beginning, but he was brought low! When was he brought low? When iniquity, or what was on the inside of him, caused him to sin. It was Satan's iniquity that caused his rebellion against God. It was Satan's iniquity that caused him to covet God's position, even though he knew he could not be like God. It was Satan's iniquity that caused him to become prideful.

How are you fallen from heaven O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north;

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.

Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the lowest depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14:12-15 NKJV

Satan's pride caused him to be booted out of heaven, but not before he persuaded a third of the angels of God to follow him. (See Revelations 12:3-4.) Satan's final destination is hell, and he wants to take you, me, and anyone else he can along with him. (See Revelations 20:9-10.) This is why it is so important for us to understand the iniquity that is in us and to ask God to wash us clean of it. David understood this concept very well! "Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity [what was on the inside of him that caused him to sin], and cleanse me from my sin [the act of breaking God's law]" (Psalm 51:2 NKJV).

Satan Uses You against You

The reason that it is imperative that you and I deal with the iniquity that is on the inside of us is because Satan uses you against you. He takes the iniquity or the potential to sin and entices us. Many of us know this as temptation. No matter who you are or what you do, no matter where you live or what you drive, no matter where you go to church or where you work, no matter what title you hold or what your social status is, we are all subject to temptation. In fact, we have all been tempted at one point or another. And guess what. You will be tempted again. Some of us might be going through some form of temptation right at this moment.

Understand that Satan uses temptation to get our focus off kingdom assignment. God wants our focus to be on our kingdom assignment, so that we might cause earth to look like the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, it is not God that tempts us. Many people blame God for their temptations, but it is not He that tempts anyone with evil. I have conducted many teachings and seminars concerning sexual perversion and pornography. Each time, I am overwhelmingly surprised at the number of born-again believers who believe that God made them this way, and this is why it is so hard to get free. Despite what they believe, the role of temptation belongs to Satan. James understood this concept, and God inspired him to write about it.

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires [iniquity] and enticed

Then, when desire [iniquity] has conceived, it gives birth to sin [the act of breaking God's...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Trafford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1490743103
• ISBN 13: 9781490743103
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130
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