Unforgiveness is a huge door to spiritual warfare.

It sets you up for bitterness.

It sets you up for lies about yourself and about others.

It sets you up to remain perpetually offended and angry.

It opens all sorts of doors for the enemy to work.

Welcome back to Verity Podcast friends. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, your host and the founder of

Every Woman a Theologian, the ministry associated with Verity. Today, we are in the second

episode of our new series in 26. This series is all about prayer, answering your questions about the nature of prayer, the practice of prayer, how to understand it biblically, and how to actually pray.

Our first episode was about whether or not the saints can intercede for us in prayer.

If we should be praying to the saints, if you haven't

watched that one yet, you can head over to my YouTube if you're watching there and find it,

or you can head to your favorite podcast app, Spotify, iTunes, any of those, and you can listen

to that episode before we jump into this one, which is about deliverance prayer.

Now, not every Christian who's watching this or listening to this episode will know what

deliverance prayer is. It's a very specific type of prayer, specifically found in more

charismatic or Pentecostal church traditions. So if you have been in the Baptist

church tradition your whole life or maybe the reform tradition, you might not have heard of

deliverance prayer before. So I'm going to hopefully give you a better understanding of what this is and then walk you

through how it's practiced in both unhealthy and healthy settings. And then we'll figure out based on

what we see in scripture on if this is a biblical practice. Personally, I'm familiar with

deliverance prayer because I grew up in the Pentecostal tradition. I was a fourth generation

Pentecostal. So my great-great-grandmother was involved at the very cusp of the dawn of the

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