Is Inner Healing For Me?

        CHECKLIST:  DO I NEED INNER HEALING? OR DELIVERANCE?

If you're considering whether to receive prayer for inner healing or deliverance, we encourage you to browse through this checklist.  While not definitive, the questions help to highlight things in our lives that may be a result of past wounds that need to be addressed. 

1. Were you greatly embarrassed when you were a child or young adult?

2. Do you have unreasonable fears?

3. Do you often find your reaction to something said or done is out of proportion to whatever the stimulus was?

4. Do you have a recurring memory of a past hurt?  Does it still trouble you to think about it?

5. Are there people you cannot forgive?  Do you have trouble asking someone else to forgive you?

6. Do you have overwhelming feelings of guilt?

7. Do you find it nearly impossible to admit making a mistake? Do you usually look for someone else to blame for what goes wrong in your life?

8. Do you have a nearly continuous feeling of anger?  Are you usually critical in your remarks or thoughts about others?

9. Do you suffer physical or mental exhaustion from wrestling with inner problems?

10. Were you an adult before you ever felt loved by another person?

11. Do you often compare yourself with others and end up feeling inadequate and discouraged?

12. Do you have a constant need for physical affection, or do you not like to be touched at all?

13. Do you have a deep sense of insecurity; do you feel unloved or disapproved of?

14. Is it hard for you to believe that God loves you or approves of you?

15. Do you find it difficult to give and receive love?

16. Do you feel that you always or often need to be in control?  Do you or can you be identified as a "control freak"?

17. Do you struggle with any form of addiction?  Are there vices in your life where you can identify it as a form of self-medication?

18. Are you scared of the blessings God has in store for you because you have this thought that if you take a step forward somehow you always end up taking three steps back?

19. Do you struggle with hopelessness, despair and/or shame?

20. Do you struggle with low self esteem or even self hate?  Do you feel like this world would be better without you and at times entertain thoughts of suicide?

21. Do you feel stuck or spiritually broken, like something’s missing or not working properly?

Do I Need Deliverance? The 20 Biblical Signs of Oppression

QUESTION 1 Do you struggle with a repeating sin or addiction you sincerely want to stop but cannot break?

QUESTION 2 Do you experience intrusive, tormenting thoughts (blasphemous, sexual, violent, or suicidal)?

QUESTION 3 Do fear, anxiety, or panic attacks grip you suddenly or intensely without a logical trigger?

QUESTION 4 Do you feel constantly accused, condemned, or hopeless by persistent inner voices?

QUESTION 5 Do you suffer from nightmares, night terrors, sleep paralysis, or sense a dark presence at night?

QUESTION 6 Do you feel a heavy, physical block or extreme resistance when trying to pray or read the Bible?

QUESTION 7 Have you ever been involved in occult, witchcraft, or New Age practices (astrology, tarot, reiki)?

QUESTION 8 Do you still feel emotionally or spiritually tied to a past sexual partner or abusive relationship?

QUESTION 9 Is there deep, unresolved unforgiveness, bitterness, or a desire for revenge in your heart?

QUESTION 10 Do destructive patterns repeat in your family line (addiction, divorce, abuse, suicide, poverty)?

QUESTION 11 Do you suffer from chronic sickness, migrating pain, or illnesses that doctors cannot diagnose?

QUESTION 12 Do you sense heaviness, darkness, or oppression in your home or in specific rooms?

QUESTION 13 Do you experience sudden fits of rage or loss of control that feel stronger than your own will?

QUESTION 14 Do you feel driven or compelled to do destructive things you genuinely do not want to do?

QUESTION 15 Do spiritual attacks intensify whenever you try to draw closer to God through fasting or worship?

QUESTION 16 Do you struggle with deep shame, rejection, or worthlessness even though you know God loves you?

QUESTION 17 Are there objects, books, or media in your home linked to darkness that you have not destroyed?

QUESTION 18 Have you received prayer for these issues before but never experienced lasting freedom?

QUESTION 19 Do you sense a distinct spiritual root behind your struggles, not just bad habits or emotions?

QUESTION 20 Do you long for freedom and peace in Christ but feel an invisible force actively resisting you?