The Five Steps

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My name is David Reid and I am continuing with the second video in a three part series on Spiritual Warfare.

The five steps were given to Neville Salvetti as the way Jesus desires his church to do deliverance and is the basis of the prayers used for deliverance in video 1.  As they are the way Jesus desires you to do deliverance they will be covered next.  They are also a way of attacking Satan and destroying his works.  This aspect will be covered in video 3.

There is nothing wrong with attacking demons but they will fight back.  Using the Five Steps they fight Jesus and not you so that they do not usually manifest when being attacked using the five steps.

Outline and summary

The Five Steps are as follows:

Give the matter, event, weakness, area, problem, circumstances, the causes of and all consequences of these things, to Jesus to be Lord of (to make it part of His Kingdom)

Repent, especially of: bitterness, root of bitterness, unforgiveness and of wrong attitudes to others or yourself.  Forgive other people who have hurt or offended you as well as yourself.

You may need to pray:

  “Lord I forgive all and myself.  Help me to forgive please!”

or

“Lord I repent.  Help me to repent.”

In Jesus’ Name cast Satan out because He no longer has any right to be there because Jesus is now lord of these areas.  The things given to Jesus now belong to The Kingdom of God and Satan cannot touch them without God’s permission.

In Jesus’ Name command healing of all the damage Satan did to you and restoration of all he took from you.

Ask The Holy Spirit to fill you and to take place of the demons that have left you.

In Summary:

Give it all to Jesus

Repent, forgive

Cast out Satan in Jesus’ Name

Command healing and restoration in Jesus’ Name

Ask The Holy Spirit to fill you completely

The Five Steps are based on our position in The Kingdom of God:

What belongs to Jesus as Lord of Satan cannot touch without the permission of Jesus

Our position in The Kingdom of God is possible because of our redemption by Jesus. 

Because of our citizenship in heaven Jesus is our Lord and we are protected by Him and Satan cannot affect us unless we let him.

Why are The Five Steps effective?

Jesus has authority over Satan and can tell Satan what to do

Whatever Jesus is Lord of, Satan cannot touch without the permission of Jesus.  He also has no right to these areas and must leave when commanded to do so in Jesus’ Name.  They are holy because they belong to Jesus and Satan is defiled so must leave these areas.  So when you give them to Jesus to be lord of, Satan no longer has access to them and must leave when commanded to do so.

The Five Steps expanded

The Five Steps are not a magic formula but a framework to help you give to Jesus the parts of your life He is not Lord of.  It is these areas of which Jesus is not Lord that Satan uses or tries to use as he cannot attack the areas already given to Jesus without your consent or the consent of Jesus.

There is nothing wrong with Jesus not being Lord of any part of your life as long as you do not realise this part is not yet given to Him and you are not deliberately withholding it from Him.  Jesus expects you to deal with what you know and not what you do not know.

Step 1 Give Jesus all your:

This gives an area to Jesus to be Lord of and all that is in that area is covered by this.  This is why you do not need to give individual sins to Jesus.  Just the area of the sin.  The correct reading of James 5:16 states we are to confess that which causes us to sin and not our actual sins.

Step 2 Repentance and forgiveness

Repent of anything you have done wrong:

You need to wholeheartedly try to stop doing the wrong thing.  Anything not of The Kingdom of God or its Character (Jesus) is wrong.

If you cannot stop doing wrong things after you have been through deliverance and you are wholeheartedly tying to stop it, then you have not given what you need to give to Jesus and will need deliverance in another area.

You will need to ask The Holy Spirit what to give to Jesus and then use The Five Steps to give it to Him.

At times we treat a result of a problem as the thing to give to Jesus and not the real cause of it.  So we only have partial deliverance. 

You may need to repent of things you have not given to Jesus such as

Wrong attitude to others and yourself

Unforgiveness to others and yourself

Deliberate sin you do not want to repent of

Anything else The Holy Spirit calls to your attention

You may need to ask the Lord to help you to do this

Step 3 In Jesus’ Name tell Satan he has to go from the areas given to Jesus

They now belong to Jesus and are holy and undefiled

Satan no longer has a right to be in them or to use them as he is defiled

In Jesus’ Name cast Satan to The Throne of Judgment to be dealt with by Jesus.

Step 4 In Jesus’ Name command healing on all the damage Satan did to the person

There are two aspects to this:

The healing of all the emotional and physical damage Satan did

The restoration of all he took from them both mental and/or physical.  In this restoration is also the restoration of the sound mind God has given you that Satan has tried to compromise or destroy.

All of the physical healing and restoration of losses is done in God’s timing and in God’s way.  Whatever He does will be best for you and for His Kingdom.

Step 5 Ask The Holy Spirit to fill the person (which includes the space left by the demons that left)

Deliverances sweeps the house (soul) clean.  So filling it with The Holy Spirit stops them coming back in.  Jesus actually told a lady in heaven to do this after every deliverance.

Note:

The Five Steps are not a litany or magic formula you recite by rote, but are a ladder of five principles to use.  Each rung leads to the next rung and on each rung you place what is appropriate to that rung. The first rung is the one that varies according to the situation, and is based on what you give to Jesus to be Lord of.  The next four rungs really do not change as they really do not need to change to meet the requirements of the situation being prayed about.

What each rung of the ladder does:

Rung 1 gives a matter or area to Jesus to be Lord of.

Rung 2 removes attitudes that can stop God hearing your prayer and if not repented of can result in loss of salvation.

Rung 3 removes Satan from these areas.

Rung 4 heals any damage Satan did to you or restores what God wants restored to you that Satan took from you.

Rung 5 fills the soul (house) with The Holy Spirit so demons cannot come back into the soul.

Why give areas to Jesus and not individual sins?

The basis of what to give to Jesus in the framework of The Five Steps is the giving of an area to The Lord rather than fighting individual demons.  For example, a person may have a problem with various areas of pornography.  The person does not have to declare each sin or type of pornography they have problems with but gives the whole area of pornography in his life to Jesus to deal with and be Lord of.  He will do a general repentance for the area of pornography in his life and not each specific thing in that area or sin unless told to do so by The Holy Spirit.

When a demon enters the soul they invite others in so that there may be many demons.  If you fight individual demons you need to remove them one at a time.  If you give the area to The Lord then they all have to go when cast out from that area.

This is why you give areas, events, weaknesses, circumstances, the causes and consequences etc. to The Lord, so everything in that area is dealt with at once.

Remember, you can give the area to Jesus quietly in your heart so no one else knows what you have given except Jesus and that is all that is important.  You may also need to cast out demons trying to block you using The Five Steps or your hearing The Holy Spirit so you will not know or hear what to give to Jesus.

A prayer like this should be said:

In Jesus’ Name I forbid you Satan blocking me hearing The Holy Spirit or remembering what I need to give to Jesus

Any casting out can be done in a whisper that only you can hear.  Volume is not important but the heart attitude behind the casting out is.

It may be necessary to examine types of sins to determine the root cause so you know which area(s) to give to Jesus, but usually it is not necessary to examine individual sins of a person to determine what the area is that is to be given to Jesus.

Often there is abuse in the childhood of a person (sexual, emotional, physical etc.) or another type of trauma and they cannot remember it as it is partitioned off in their memory.  So you would give to Jesus in step 1 of The Five Steps.  Something like:

I give to you Lord, all the abuse and trauma I have received at any time of my life, the causes of the abuse or trauma, the results of the abuse or trauma and anything I have done wrong as a result of this abuse.  All to be Lord of.

The periods of abuse will usually account for times they cannot remember in their life.  So these periods can also be given to Jesus in step 1 of The Five Steps if the actual abuse situation cannot be remembered.

Any coping mechanisms such as: smoking, drinking, gambling, sex, drugs, excessive collecting of things or activities, can be given to Jesus in step 1, along with the causes and results of them.  These coping mechanisms are the result of abuse or trauma and once the abuse is dealt with the mechanism will go or be easier to deal with.

Remember that Jesus knows all our sins so we do not need to confess them individually but just the area of weakness they are in.  All Jesus asks is that we wholeheartedly try not to sin and if we do, then we give the area back to Him to be Lord of you using the framework of The Five Steps.

It is important to wholeheartedly keep trying to obey Jesus.  It is only through unrepented disobedience, which is one way you blaspheme The Holy Spirit, that you will lose your salvation (Re 3:5).

Application of The Five Steps.

These are used to:

Remove the damage Satan caused to you (Deliverance)

Fight the temptations of Satan

Destroy the works of Satan

Deal with weaknesses and fears in your life that lead to sin

Protect current or future activities by stopping Satan from attacking or using them (steps 1,3,5)

I deal with some of these in Video 3

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