John Eckhardt - Destroying the Spirit of Rejection

CHAPTER 1

HOW DOES REJECTION ENTER?

Noel and Phyl Gibson, Excuse Me, Your Rejection Is Showing (Lancaster, UK: Sovereign World Ltd., 1992).

Chuck D. Pierce and Robert Heidler, A Time to Prosper (Ventura, CA: Regal, 2013), 119.

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CHAPTER 2

REJECTED BY GOD?

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CHAPTER 3

DEMONIC MANIFESTATIONS OF REJECTION

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John Eckhardt, Gods Covenant With You for Deliverance and Freedom (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2014), 36.

Richard Ing, Spiritual Warfare (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1996), 38.

Frank and Ida Mae Hammond, Pigs in the Parlor (Kirkwood, MO: Impact Christian Books, 1973, 2010), 141.

Ing, Spiritual Warfare, 4950.

CHAPTER 4

FEAR AND PARANOIA

John Eckhardt, Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2014), 223.

Faussets Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database, copyright 1998 by Biblesoft, s.v. Emim.

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CHAPTER 5

THE KINGDOM OF PERVERSION

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CHAPTER 6

PRIDE: THE SPIRITUAL BLOCKER

Gibson, Excuse Me, Your Rejection Is Showing, 38.

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Ron Phillips, Everyones Guide to Demons and Spiritual Warfare (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2010), 148.

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Phillips, Everyones Guide to Demons and Spiritual Warfare, 148149.

CHAPTER 7

THE SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY

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The Body of Christ Deliverance Ministry, The Roots of Disease: General Overview, accessed May 25, 2015, http://www.thebocdm.com/the-roots-of-disease.html.

Life Application Ministries, Are Some Dis-eases a Spiritual Condition?

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CHAPTER 8

REJECTION MUST GO!

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CHAPTER 9

REBUILDING THE GATES AND WALLS

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CHAPTER 10

THE RIGHT WAY TO HANDLE REJECTION

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Having prayed for believers of many nations, I have come to this conclusion: the greatest undiagnosed, therefore, untreated malady in the body of Christ today is rejection. Rejection, whether active or passive, real or imaginary, robs Jesus Christ of His rightful lordship in the life of His children and robs them of the vitality and quality of life that Jesus intended.

NOEL AND PHYL GIBSON

A N OPEN DOOR to rejection comes when we do not receive the love and acceptance God created us to receive. Being loved and accepted is one of our basic human needs. We sometimes try to be strong and say we dont need anyone or that we dont care what people think. But this is not completely true; this may actually be a sign that we have experienced rejection at some point. God created in us a desire to love and to be loved and accepted. We need love from our families and from others. We especially need the love of God.

If we dont get that love, we feel and experience rejection, which often manifests itself as either fear or pride. These are the two strongest manifestations of rejection. Fear says, I can no longer trust anyone. I have been hurt too badly, so I am afraid of commitment and close relationships. Pride says, I can do better by myself. Everyone has hurt me, and because of that I dont need anyone in my life. I dont need help. I can make my own way. The enemy knows how to destroy us through rejection, and he will use fear and pride to open the door for all kinds of demonic oppression to come into our lives.

Rejection is one of the most common demons we deal with in deliverance ministry. It is the basis for double-mindedness. Rejection opens the door for rebellion, which gives the enemy a chance to set up two demonic personalities within an individual and suppress his or her personality so that a stable identity is never fully developed. The person grows up double-minded with rejection as the inward personality and rebellion as the outward personality.

Frank and Ida Mae Hammond are pioneers in discovering the link between rejection and rebellion as they relate to double-mindedness. They wrote the classic deliverance book Pigs in the Parlor, where this revelation of double-mindedness and schizophrenia is defined and explored. While ministering with Frank and Ida Mae before they passed, I found them both to be humble and gracious. When they laid hands on me and imparted their mantle to teach and minister on this subject, I was filled with a passion to see people set free from this spirit. It is something that drives the core of my deliverance ministry even to this day.

As I have learned from studying their teachings, my own Bible study, and experience in ministry, two main strongholds make up the double-minded personality: rejection and rebellion, with the root of bitterness coming in secondarily. They interact like a threefold cord and are not easily broken.

Rejection is the doorway to double-mindedness. Demons associated with rejection make it almost impossible for individuals to develop into the true people God created them to be. They become ruled by these spirits and find themselves always trying to compensate for their lack of development and lack of confidence. They become rebellious in order to protect themselves from hurt and being taken advantage of. With rebellion comes bitternessbitterness against people and life circumstances that have caused all kinds of hurt and trauma.

Many people dont realize they have been rejected and how they themselves continue the cycle of rejection in their lives. You have mostly likely experienced the ripple effect of rejection throughout your life from parents, relatives, teachers, church leaders, supervisors, coworkers, and spouses who have been hurt and rejected and have reacted to you out of that spirit, causing you to experience rejection.

While everyone has been rejected, not everyone will become schizophrenic or what is referred to as double-minded in James 1:8: A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Its all about whether or not you are able to develop a stable personality. So you can be rejected and not be schizophrenic. But everyone who is schizophrenic or double-minded has been rejected.

To give some background, the term schizophrenia sometimes means split personality or split mind. Schizo is a Greek word that means to rend, tear violently, open or unfold. Severe schizophrenia is treated by psychiatry with drugs and, as history shows, even with shock treatment due to hallucinations and delusion (mental illness and insanity). Schizophrenia can occur in various degrees, with most not requiring a person to be hospitalized.

In the early nineteenth century psychologists identified dissociative identity disorder and adopted the term alter ego (from the Latin for the other I), which is often defined as the second self, a second personality or persona within a person. Often the core personality is not aware of the actions performed by the alternate persona. People who have alter egos lead double lives.

They operate through extreme dysfunction with multiple distinct personalities called alters. I see them as demons. Demons have distinct personalities and can enter a persons life causing them to act in uncharacteristic ways, such as in the story of the demonized man in Mark 5.

Rejection often begins at a young age; it can even start in the womb through prenatal curses, being unwanted or illegitimate, abandonment, birth order, adoption, or molestation. A person may receive a spirit of rejection because of the manner or timing of conception; for example, if the mother was raped or molested or was having an extramarital affair and became pregnant. Children born under these circumstances may show a spirit of rejection. Also, children born out of wedlock or to parents who did not want them or who are a strain on the family budget, the last of a large family, or the middle child of a family often struggle with rejection.