Deliverance for Children and Teens

Children often have a distorted view of events which happen in their lives. Memories of childhood get fuzzy as we age, and we find ourselves as adults with hang ups and anxieties for which there seem to be no reason. The enemy of our souls can use those distorted memories to chain us with fear, hatred, bitterness and self-hate. And those emotional strongholds can make us weak and ineffective in our adult lives. Many of the bondages that adults experience began in childhood. This book deals with the spiritual bonds forged in young children through generational sins, exposure to traumas, neglect, abuse, death and divorce. It explores why these events scar a child, how demonic influence can take advantage of that weakness and vulnerability, and how parents (and adults reading it for their own sakes) can take authority over these demonic chains and experience freedom through Christ. Like many of the books on spiritual warfare, Banks gives concrete scriptural advice for practical application so that parents are empowered to take authority over the evil one and deliver their children of these bondages before the enemy can create lifelong strongholds in their child's life. Of particular help is Bank's experience with foster children and adopted children, and the unknown bondages which come into the home with the new child.I highly recommend this as a good read for anyone interested in concepts of spiritual warfare. It's an empowerment guide to enable the reader to parent effectively, live effectively, and be set free as Christ intended.

I always knew that I was dealing with something more than just my children's will. "Wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:12) This book helped open my eyes to a different way of praying to deliver the extensive strongholds placed on my children, especially since they are are adopted. Not only do they have the birthparent's generational sins, but ours also. We are in a war for our children, and it's time we wake up and start fighting where the battle really is!