Self-Help Healing and Deliverance Handbook: Experience God’s Healing, Deliverance, and Freedom in Spirit, Soul, and Body
Are you struggling alone with spiritual battles, emotional wounds, or physical illness?
Loneliness is rising, and many people face life’s challenges without support. But here’s the truth: you are never truly alone. Jesus is your healer, deliverer, and ever-present help and comforter. No matter what you’re battling – fear, oppression, trauma, or sickness – God’s power is real, available, and ready to set you free. Through God, healing, deliverance and freedom are promised.
Self-Help Healing and Deliverance Handbook empowers individuals navigating life alone to take charge of their healing and deliverance journey and live in freedom. Whether you’re seeking restoration for your spirit, soul, or body, this complete handbook provides practical tools, biblical principles, and actionable steps to help you break free from strongholds, and heal inner and emotional wounds. Experience divine deliverance and freedom – all within the comfort of your home.
This in-depth handbook is firmly rooted in the truth of God’s Word, with the Bible as the ultimate guide for healing, deliverance, and freedom.
What’s inside this practical handbook?
- The foundation of healing and deliverance – Learn how prayer, faith, and obedience open the door to God’s power and healing.
- Spiritual healing – Reconnect with God, break free from spiritual bondage and exercise authority over oppression and the enemy.
- Physical healing – Activate your faith for healing and restoration using Biblical principles, Bible verses and real-life examples.
- Inner healing – Address deep emotional wounds, trauma, and painful memories through Jesus’ healing touch and presence.
- Breaking strongholds – Identify and dismantle the spiritual and emotional barriers holding you back from experiencing God’s healing, deliverance, and freedom in spirit, soul, and body.
- Deliverance from evil spirits – Understand demonic oppression, take authority in Christ, and walk in freedom and wholeness.
Why this plain English handbook is for you
- If you feel spiritually stuck, you’ll learn how to break free from bondage, sin, fear, and demonic influences.
- If you need emotional healing, this handbook provides practical Biblical steps to overcome trauma, heartbreak, and depression.
- If you’re battling physical illness, discover how faith, prayer, and obedience activate God’s healing power.
- If you’re ready for lasting freedom, this handbook equips you to keep doors closed to the enemy and live victoriously.
A powerful trilogy on healing, deliverance, and freedom
True healing and deliverance require a deep understanding of God’s sovereign power and how to walk in lasting freedom. There are three easy-to-read handbooks written to guide you through every stage of your journey:
- Secrets of Divine Healing and Health – Discover how to unlock God’s power for freedom and live in divine healing and health.
- Self-Help Healing and Deliverance Handbook – A practical guide for individuals seeking personal healing, deliverance, and freedom in spirit, soul, and body.
- Prayer Partner’s Handbook – Learn how to pray for others confidently, minister healing and deliverance, and walk in spiritual authority and power.
They offer an in-depth approach to experiencing God’s healing, deliverance, and heart transformation.
Your journey to healing and freedom starts today.
Don’t let fear, pain, or oppression control your life and rob you of your freedom. Get your copy of the Self-Help Healing and Deliverance Handbook today and experience the freedom, healing, and wholeness that Jesus Christ has for you!
Table of Contents
Introduction
- The growing epidemic of loneliness
- Living in freedom by the power of the Holy Spirit
- What you’ll discover in this book
- Why read this self-help book?
- How to use this book
- A note on living alone
- Let’s begin
Section 1 – Foundation of healing and deliverance
What is healing and deliverance?
- Complete restoration
- Healing in the Bible
- Healing vs. miracles
- What deliverance?
- Deliverance from evil spirits
- Deliverance is a kingdom manifestation
- The Power of God in healing and deliverance
- Healing and deliverance: A truth encounter
- Healing and deliverance: Also a power encounter
- Healing and deliverance give us total freedom
Healing and deliverance are interconnected
- Deliverance leading to inner healing
- Inner healing leads to physical healing
- Deliverance leading to physical healing
- Inner healing and deliverance work together
- Inner healing and physical healing working together
- Healing and deliverance working together
- Physical healing leads to inner healing
Prayer as a pathway to healing and deliverance
- Lord’s Prayer as a model for healing and deliverance
Hear God for your healing and deliverance
- Why hearing God’s voice is vital in healing and deliverance
- God speaks in different ways
- keys to hearing God
- Identifying the love language between you and God
- Knowing that it is from God
- Cultivating a lifestyle of listening to God
God searches hearts for healing and deliverance
- Invite God to examine you
- Listen to His still voice and acknowledge what He shows
- Respond to what God reveals
Preparing for healing and deliverance
- Fearing God
- Personal holiness
- Personal righteousness
- Pursue perfection
- Intimacy with God
- Submitting and living under God’s authority
- Developing and growing in faith
- Being filled with the Holy Spirit
- Cultivate a heart of thanksgiving and praise
- Confess and admit any known sins
- Repent from disobedience and change hearts
- Renounce or break ties with sin, harmful habits, or demonic footholds
- Forgive others and yourself; let go of bitterness
- Be humble and open to God’s ways; avoid pride
- Continuously to fast and pray
- Remain persistent and patient; have faith
- Surround yourself with supportive believers
Obstacles to healing and deliverance
- Unsaved person
- Not willing to give Jesus full access
- Lack of faith
- Unbelief
- Lack of knowledge
- Lack of hunger and expectation
- Lack of hope
- Bitterness and unforgiveness
- Distorted beliefs about God
- Distorted identity in Christ
- Self-condemnation
- Fear
- Wilful sin
- Believing that God allows sickness to teach us
- God will heal me if it is His will
- Unhealthy living
Discipleship after healing and deliverance
- Why discipleship is vital after healing and deliverance
- How to be discipled when living alone
Section 2 – Spiritual healing: Reconnection with God
Deliverance is a part of sanctification
Demonised believers, not demon-possessed
- Levels of demonisation
- How demons enter people
Judas Iscariot: a story of demonisation and downfall
- The progression of Judas’s downfall
- Demonisation in Judas’s story
- Overcoming temptation: Joseph’s story
Section 3 – Physical healing: Experiencing God’s power in your body
Healing the physical body
- Defining physical healing
King Hezekiah
- Prayer to God
- Listening to God’s response
- Receiving the Word of healing with faith
- Following divine instructions
- Asking for a sign (confirming God’s promise)
The Woman with the Issue of Blood
- Changed identity; sickness doesn’t define us
- Faith in Jesus’ power to heal
- Seeking Jesus directly
- Confessing what she had done
- Receiving Jesus’ affirmation and peace
Biblical principles for physical healing
- Seek God first in times of sickness
- Pray earnestly and persistently
- Faith is key to healing
- Be bold and act in faith and hope
- God is compassionate and responsive
- Acknowledge God’s healing and give Him glory
- Obey God’s instructions for continued healing
Steps to your physical healing
- Pray intently and boldly with hunger and expectation
- Listen to spiritual guidance
- Exercise faith by acting
- Ask the Holy Spirit to heal
- Command the sickness to leave
- ‘Test out’ the healing
- Persist in prayer and faith
Section 4 – Pulling down strongholds: Your gateway to freedom
Pulling down strongholds
- The cycle of bondage
- Steps to break free
Dispositional or spiritual strongholds
- Internal human dispositions
- External spiritual influence
- The importance of distinguishing the two
- Distinguishing between dispositional and spiritual
- A practical checklist for decision points
Overcome specific human dispositions
- Accusation
- Addiction
- Anger
- Apathy
- Bitterness
- Bondage
- Control (Jezebel spirit)
- Confusion
- Deception
- Despair
- Distraction
- Doubt
- Envy
- False doctrine
- Heaviness
- Hopelessness
- Impatience
- Insecurity
- Jealousy
- Judgement
- Lust
- Offence
- Pride
- Procrastination
- Rebellion
- Rejection
- Retaliation
- Strife
- Slumber
- Vanity
Don’t sin and give demons a foothold
- Understanding anger and sin
- Aligning with God’s truth
- Regularly confessing our sinful actions
Demons are real
- Believers can still experience sickness and demonisation
- Demons are opportunistic and seek to destroy us
Spiritual discernment reveals the truth
- What is spiritual discernment?
- Why is discernment important?
- Practical steps to develop spiritual discernment
- Examples of discernment in action
Generational influences and inherited struggles
- What are generational influences?
- Recognising inherited struggles
- Spiritual roots of generational struggles
- Steps to break negative generational cycles
- Repent on behalf of your family line
- Forgive and release past hurts
- Break generational strongholds through prayer
- Renew your mind with God’s truth
Section 5 – Inner healing: Restoring the soul
Healing soul pains and wounds
- Inner healing heals soul pains
- Guarding your hearts for God
- What inner healing is
- What inner healing is not
King David
- Repentance and confession
- Worship and praise
- Prayer and crying out to God
- Meditation on God’s word
- Trusting in God’s faithfulness
- Actively seeking God’s presence
- Fasting
- Remembering God’s past deliverances
- Releasing offences and forgiving others
- Regularly seeking God’s counsel
- David strengthened himself in the Lord
Hannah
- Pouring out her heart to God in prayer
- Vowing a commitment and submission to God
- Silent and persistent prayer
- Receiving God’s word with faith
- Letting go of her bitterness and anguish
- Seeking God in a place of worship
Peter
- Peter’s betrayal and the weight of guilt (John 13:31-38)
- Peter’s emptiness and avoidance (John 21:1-3)
- Jesus initiates healing, creates encounter (John 21:4-8)
- Facing the past: The charcoal fire (John 21:9-14)
- Breaking the vow and rewriting the narrative (John 21:15-19)
- Practical steps in Peter’s inner healing
Biblical principles for inner healing
- Pour out your soul to God
- Be honest about your pain and failures
- Trust God’s timing and sovereignty
- Let God rewrite your story
- Find strength in worship and praise
- Face painful memories to heal
- Remember God’s past faithfulness to build hope
- Release control and surrender to God
- Refuse to dwell in bitterness
- Seek God’s guidance and encouragement in His Word
- Believe that God sees and hears you
- Healing empowers future fruitfulness
How to prepare for inner healing
- Acknowledge and express your pain and identify the cause
- Meditate to identify any distortions
- Journal or write out your thoughts and feelings
- Find strength in God’s word
- Worship and praise during soul pain
- Set boundaries and guard your mind
- Surrender your soul pain to God’s sovereignty
- Surround yourself with faith
Steps to heal your soul pains
- Invite the Holy Spirit to examine your heart
- Break unhealthy soul ties
- Cut off vows
- Cut off spoken curses
- Renounce all oaths or promises made
- Cutting off spiritual blessings of Freemasonry
- Break off ungodly beliefs
- Break off unhealthy beliefs
- Restoring broken relationships
- Healing sex-related wounds
- Break off shock and trauma
- Ask the Holy Spirit to heal
- Confess specific and known sins to God
- Repent and turn away from sin
- Forgive others (just as Christ has forgiven us)
- Forgive yourself
- Receive His forgiveness
- Picture Jesus standing before you
- Name your burdens aloud or silently
- Wait in God’s presence
- Open your hands and receive from Jesus
- Listen for God’s voice
- Thank Jesus for your healing
- Continue trusting and surrendering
Revisit a painful event for inner healing
- Joseph and revisiting a painful event for inner healing
- Acknowledge the pain
- Seek understanding and truth
- Process emotions with God
- Ask Jesus to reveal His presence in the memory
- Express forgiveness toward anyone involved in the memory
- Reframe the narrative with God’s perspective
- Invite Jesus to heal and release you from the memory’s pain
- Reconcile where possible
- Walking in freedom
Section 6 – Deliverance from evil spirits
Understanding demons and demonisation
- Principalities and powers
- Jesus has defeated principalities and powers
- Progression from the temptation to seizing control
- Giving demons legal rights
- Common doorways for demons to gain entry
- Human bodies as houses for demons
- Demons’ purpose is to steal, kill and destroy
- Signs you may be encountering demonic influence
Believers’ authority to remove demons
- Jesus gives authority to believers
- Faith and reliance on God
- Self-deliverance from demons is possible
- Displace the demons instead
- Actions for displacement by individuals
Casting out demons with another person
- Understanding deliverance today
- Relying on God’s sovereign power
- Understanding levels of demonisation
- Need for greater spiritual help with stronger spirits
Steps to pull down strongholds
- Recognise: Identifying the issue
- Reject: Taking a stand against the intruder
- Remove: Clearing out what doesn’t belong
- Restore: Re-dedicating the temple to holiness
Closing open doors
- Cleanse and anoint your home spiritually
- Common signs for spiritual cleansing
- Sources of defilement
- Practical steps in house cleansing for spiritual protection
- Remove demonic objects from your life
- Deal with existing tattoos
- Stop taking recreational drugs
- Forgive others
- Overcome compulsive behaviours
- Break generational sin, curse or iniquity
- Avoid the demonic cultural influence
- Confess and admit any known sins
- Repent from disobedience and change hearts
- Renounce demonic strongholds and footholds
Delegated authority and power over demons
- An example of Jesus’ ministry of deliverance
- Find the right helper to cast out demons from you
- What happens when the demons are leaving
- Signs of being delivered
- After you feel that demons have left you
Why deliverance may not be occurring
- Living sinful, unholy, and unrighteous lives
- Not forgiving people
- Lack of repentance
- Lack of desperation
- Wrong motives
- Self-centredness
- Failure to break occult ties
- Evil relationships
- Under a curse
- Failure to confess specific sin
- Not separated through baptism
- Larger spiritual battles
Confessing specific evil spirits
- Deaf and dumb (mute) spirits
- Demonic/evil spirits (general)
- Distressing spirit
- Spirit of the Antichrist
- Spirit of divination
- Spirit of infirmity
- Spirit of oppression
- Spirit of perversion
- Spirit of harlotry
- Spirits of rebellion
Keeping doors closed to demons
- Put on the full armour of God
- Renew your mind with the Scripture
- Worship Him in spirit and truth
- Being led by the Holy Spirit
- Continuously walk in the spirit
- Practice social media fasting
- Seek an accountability partner
- Seek help from trusted believers (if needed)