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Hi I am new and eager to learn. I watched the 3 training videos but is there more?

I see some posts about exorcisms and I want to share what I wrote on a recent post about being delivered. I haven’t done an exorcism or had one done on me but I’m learning that deliverance happens when you truly repent, meaning, you admit your sins, ask for forgiveness and STOP sinning. And the desire and ability to stop sinning is because your love for God is so big, it’s naturally a result of your transformed heart posture. If you go back into sinful behaviors, you just give demons an open door to come back and with 7 more powerful demons. Is it a “formula”? Yes. Repent. Renounce. Replace your behavior with true changed heart and behaviors. But you must be genuine in your desire for deliverance (desperate) and become sober minded for it to truly work and last. That’s why @Dr. Michael Cocchini MD MBA says you gotta be desperate for change because it does mean a whole change of self. The biggest change I made was forgiving others to rid my heart of bitterness, anger and pride. I didn’t know this was a sin. I was full of resentment and judgment of others. I was controlling and critical. I was impatient and gossiped about others. Like Micah Turnbo said in his video with Trevor, gossip is vomit that demons eat and feed off of. If they know you do it, they will want to be around you. You'll give them access to you. My heart posture had not changed even though I was saved. It’s been only through spending time with God, getting to know Him, truly falling deeply in love and reverence for Him that I naturally desire to not sin. And if I fall because of my humanity, His grace gives me time to organically be convicted by the Holy Spirit, repent and close any doors for demonic possession. Faith and repentance. That’s what He asks of us. He isn’t a genie. He wants our hearts. He wants relationship with us. He wants us to die of our old ways. Crucifying your flesh and not letting it have any fruit is the way.

Anyone in this group done exorcism before? And if so, what’s your experience with it?

Im kind of struggling internally on if I want to perform an exorcism on my self or if I need to reach a state of deeper repentance. Michael made a good point that we must not fear the demons more than god however my concern is that I am not in a deep enough state of repentance for me to really perform my exorcism effectively. I have dealt with lust related addictions for many years and as I’ve gotten closer to god he’s began to show me the sin for what it really is. It doesn’t have the strong hold on me it once did by the grace of god but I want to expel the demon in me once and for all. My lust is my spiritual Achilles heel and I need it gone by any means necessary, yet I don’t want to make it worse.