Deliverance and Healing (Part 3) w/ Fr. Boniface Hicks
Restore The Glory Podcast
Jake Khym
4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jake and Bob conclude their series on deliverance and healing by welcoming Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB to the show. Together, they explore deliverance, not as a fixation on removing darkness, but as the ongoing work of living in the freedom of God's love. Fr. Boniface reframes spiritual warfare using the analogy of relationships and stories, and how our identities are shaped by our understanding of truth and love. They address common fears and misconceptions about spiritual warfare that have been fueled by culture and the practical role of prayer in helping us find the freedom Christ desires for us.
Key Points:
- Deliverance is fundamentally about freedom in God's love, not removing evil.
- Every person carries a story that deserves to be heard and healed.
- Evil spirits try to limit our story but God seeks to bring it to its fullness.
- Deliverance is an ongoing process, not a one-time event.
- True deliverance draws us deeper into the love story of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- Spiritual warfare is primarily a battle over truth, belief, and identity.
- Love has the power to loosen spiritual oppression and restore freedom.
- Prayer is most powerful when it is relational rather than formulaic.
- Belief is not merely intellectual—it is lived, embodied trust.
Resources:
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:10 The Basics of Deliverance
08:58 Deliverance is the Process to Freedom
16:00 Our Fascination with the Spiritual World
24:01 The Subtle Movements Away from Good Lead to Disintegration
34:27 The Battle for Our Stories
43:46 Do Our Prayers Have Power?
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| 0:00.0 | Listeners, in this episode about an hour in, our conversation turned and we began to talk about authority. |
| 0:05.5 | And we realized that the conversation was really nuanced and almost discovering and learning each other's positions. |
| 0:12.6 | So we've taken that out of this episode. |
| 0:15.4 | But what we can promise is that we're going to circle back to this conversation and get into that topic in the future. So we'll come |
| 0:22.9 | back to that, but we hope this part blesses you. Welcome to Restore the Glory podcast. I'm Jake |
| 0:28.4 | Kim. And I'm Bob Schutz. We're two former Catholic therapists who are talking about healing and restoration |
| 0:33.8 | and everything we've learned in our personal and professional lives. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, we're glad you're with us. |
| 0:40.5 | All right, Bob. Let's get into it. |
| 0:42.3 | Hey, Bob. We are in, I think, the third part of a series here on deliverance prayer. |
| 0:48.5 | And we have a special guest with us that you and I know well. |
| 0:52.8 | And I think almost everybody else knows well, too, because |
| 0:56.2 | he knows everyone. When I think about people who I'm like, I wonder if there any way I could |
| 1:02.8 | get in contact with so-and-so, I just go, oh, Father Boniface probably knows them. So it's kind of |
| 1:08.5 | funny. So Father Boniface, Hicks, welcome to the podcast. Good to see you. Good to be with you. Hope you're having a good day today. So do you want me to do the full bio, father? It doesn't matter to me. Okay. So just in case people don't know. I'll do a shortened version because it would take up half the episode if I actually did the full bio. So basic version is Father Boniface Hicks is a Benedictine monk of St. Vincent, Arch Abbey in La Trobe, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:36.0 | He's Catholic priest, obviously, and director of the spiritual formation program at St. Vincent works with seminarians there, |
| 1:43.8 | as well as the director of the Institute of Ministry formation at St. Vincent, works with seminarians there, as well as the |
| 1:44.8 | director of the Institute of Ministry formation at St. Vincent. He's on radio shows. He's on |
| 1:50.7 | podcasts everywhere. He's guests on podcasts. He's written numerous books on spiritual direction, |
| 1:59.9 | on our lady, on St. Joseph. There's just on and on and on. And so just |
| 2:05.0 | Google Father Boniface Hicks and then all the stuff comes up. So, Father, I'm not even going to go |
| 2:10.6 | into it. So just so everybody knows, this, Father Boniface is my spiritual director, and I'm very |
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