My wife's father has recently purchased this book upon the suggestion of a friend. I told her to come and ask you guys if you know anything about the author or the book?
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Have you heard of "The Handbook for Spiritual Warfare" by Dr. Ed Murphy?
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churchlady
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I've had the book on my shelf for over 20 years. It's an excellent book in my opinion.
The author is both a deliverance minister and a missionary with years of experience.
He definitely has Calvinist's leanings but I didn't have a problem with the book from that, even though I am definitely not Calvinist.
I particularly liked chapters 9 and 10.
And there's a great deliverance prayer in the back of the book, too.
The book is packed with good information for those who want to go deeper in their spiritual warfare.
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Questioning Christian
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A 2-inch thick manual on deliverance? Methinks someone's trying to sell books, cuz deliverance really ain't that complicated, contrary to what the deliverancephiles tell you. 
My dad was watching my mom reading a book about Satan one time, and her mind was getting dark and fearful and obsessed with "the devil's power against us", and he talked with her one time and sternly commanded her "PUT THAT BOOK DOWN NOW!!!" From that point on, she was fine.
When you think about Satan, talk about Satan, meditate on Satan, view Scripture through the light of What Demons Can Do To Christians, entertain ideas about Satan's plots, get off into deliverance big-time to the point where the piece of the pie BECOMES the pie, you got some serious problems.
I've known people who had to get deliverance from the deliverance ministry.
Deliverance is not a formula. It's not a set of magic words. It's not getting rid of certain things out of your house. It's not hocus pocus. It's not making physical motions to represent spiritual actions. It's not about chanting things over and over again.
It's about the power of the blood of Jesus destroying the power of the oppression of Satan.
Jesus didn't spend two weeks of "sessions" with people, and acting like he was the only one who could pray for them to be delivered.
Jesus didn't cast out fake demons, and refuse to make people face the flesh, which was the real problem.
Jesus didn't play games with demons by spending two hours to ask them their names.
Jesus didn't conduct "demon interviews".
Jesus didn't anoint them with oil fifty times.
Jesus didn't ask them to rehash their whole past.
Jesus didn't ask for "ground" or "root" or "points of entry".
Jesus didn't pull out a piece of paper or turn to page 450 and make them recite three-paragraph prayers.
Jesus didn't drag it out as long as he could to make himself look like he was better at spiritual chess than demons were.
Jesus didn't call out every one of their individual sins in front of the church.
Jesus didn't go to the edge of town of the original sin, march around it four times, and yell to the north to "come out".
Jesus didn't anoint the PS3 or the Wii with anointing oil.
Jesus didn't take a plastic sword to a church service to demonstrate the sword of the spirit.
Jesus didn't do historical research to see what evil was done to be able to call the spirits out by name.
Jesus didn't scream and holler.
Jesus didn't do Christian Seances, where he called forth spirits who instead needed to be cast out.
Jesus didn't take four hours.
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Murphy's book is 2 inches - honest - I'm really not joshing you.
That's bigger than some law books. If it's thicker than the Bible, perhaps it requires some re-examination. Besides all that, I'm not too keen on people who utilize their free time to obsess on the devil and his demons. That's quite frightening, and it's why I stay away from Bob Larson, Mary-Kate Meredith Baxter Birney, Neil Anderson, and the rest of the scare prophets.
They talk about Satan more than the covens and churches of Satan do.
Like Scully and Mulder of the X-Files, they spend 95% of the time obsessing about 5% of the problems.
That ought to be the red flag that something is seriously wrong with them.
My dad was watching my mom reading a book about Satan one time, and her mind was getting dark and fearful and obsessed with "the devil's power against us", and he talked with her one time and sternly commanded her "PUT THAT BOOK DOWN NOW!!!" From that point on, she was fine.
When you think about Satan, talk about Satan, meditate on Satan, view Scripture through the light of What Demons Can Do To Christians, entertain ideas about Satan's plots, get off into deliverance big-time to the point where the piece of the pie BECOMES the pie, you got some serious problems.
I've known people who had to get deliverance from the deliverance ministry.
Deliverance is not a formula. It's not a set of magic words. It's not getting rid of certain things out of your house. It's not hocus pocus. It's not making physical motions to represent spiritual actions. It's not about chanting things over and over again.
It's about the power of the blood of Jesus destroying the power of the oppression of Satan.
Jesus didn't spend two weeks of "sessions" with people, and acting like he was the only one who could pray for them to be delivered.
Jesus didn't cast out fake demons, and refuse to make people face the flesh, which was the real problem.
Jesus didn't play games with demons by spending two hours to ask them their names.
Jesus didn't conduct "demon interviews".
Jesus didn't anoint them with oil fifty times.
Jesus didn't ask them to rehash their whole past.
Jesus didn't ask for "ground" or "root" or "points of entry".
Jesus didn't pull out a piece of paper or turn to page 450 and make them recite three-paragraph prayers.
Jesus didn't drag it out as long as he could to make himself look like he was better at spiritual chess than demons were.
Jesus didn't call out every one of their individual sins in front of the church.
Jesus didn't go to the edge of town of the original sin, march around it four times, and yell to the north to "come out".
Jesus didn't anoint the PS3 or the Wii with anointing oil.
Jesus didn't take a plastic sword to a church service to demonstrate the sword of the spirit.
Jesus didn't do historical research to see what evil was done to be able to call the spirits out by name.
Jesus didn't scream and holler.
Jesus didn't do Christian Seances, where he called forth spirits who instead needed to be cast out.
Jesus didn't take four hours.
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Murphy's book is 2 inches - honest - I'm really not joshing you.
That's bigger than some law books. If it's thicker than the Bible, perhaps it requires some re-examination. Besides all that, I'm not too keen on people who utilize their free time to obsess on the devil and his demons. That's quite frightening, and it's why I stay away from Bob Larson, Mary-Kate Meredith Baxter Birney, Neil Anderson, and the rest of the scare prophets.
They talk about Satan more than the covens and churches of Satan do.
Like Scully and Mulder of the X-Files, they spend 95% of the time obsessing about 5% of the problems.
That ought to be the red flag that something is seriously wrong with them.
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Questioning Christian
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Sorry about my rant, but those people are NOT [as they claim] the Bondage Breakers - they are the Bondage MAKERS.
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I have to admit In my personal opinion...I think alot of the deliverance ministry is like demon hunting.
I think Jesus called us to spread the gospel message and invoke His name to rebuke demonic powers and deliver people as part of that ministry (not as deliverance ministry unto something in itself)
I'm thinking about getting him a copy of "they speak with other tongues" and discourage him from that book....at least until he is more mature in the faith to handle it and better judge what it is talking about.
I think Jesus called us to spread the gospel message and invoke His name to rebuke demonic powers and deliver people as part of that ministry (not as deliverance ministry unto something in itself)
I'm thinking about getting him a copy of "they speak with other tongues" and discourage him from that book....at least until he is more mature in the faith to handle it and better judge what it is talking about.
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churchlady
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God probably had to call some to full time deliverance ministry because the Church won't do it.
Sounds like you've had some bad experiences.
While Jesus is our model for how to heal and how to cast out demons, none of us are perfect yet, but are trying to learn. Deliverance is no different.
The book is well-rounded.
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