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Resisting the Devil: A Catholic Perspective on Deliverance
Do you feel chained to a particular sin pattern that you cannot break?
Do you still feel guilty, ashamed, and doomed to repeat a besetting sin even after receiving the sacrament of Reconciliation?
Then you may find a way to spiritual freedom through deliverance prayer.
In Resisting the Devil, author Neal Lozano shows that sometimes evil spirits tell us lies that lock us into sins and personal problems. He explains the practice of deliverance, a way of dealing with such demonic influences that is supported by the teaching and traditionof the Catholic Church.
--Learn how to recognize the activity of evil spirits
--See how deliverance from spiritual bondage can be gentle, safe, and effective --Understand how deliverance differs from exorcism and how deliverance and Reconciliation can work together--Read the testimonies of women and men who have been freed through deliverance ministry.
Do you still feel guilty, ashamed, and doomed to repeat a besetting sin even after receiving the sacrament of Reconciliation?
Then you may find a way to spiritual freedom through deliverance prayer.
In Resisting the Devil, author Neal Lozano shows that sometimes evil spirits tell us lies that lock us into sins and personal problems. He explains the practice of deliverance, a way of dealing with such demonic influences that is supported by the teaching and traditionof the Catholic Church.
--Learn how to recognize the activity of evil spirits
--See how deliverance from spiritual bondage can be gentle, safe, and effective --Understand how deliverance differs from exorcism and how deliverance and Reconciliation can work together--Read the testimonies of women and men who have been freed through deliverance ministry.
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Neal Lozano
17 books26 followersNeal Lozano (born 1949) is a non-fiction author who has run a deliverance ministry for over 35 years.
He currently serves as a senior coordinator of the House of God's Light, an interdenominational Christian community which he has pastored for thirty years.
He has become an international speaker and has spoken all over the world at various conferences.
On deliverance, which he and his wife have performed at no charge hundreds of times over the years, Lozano says, "I've found that if you expect manifestations, you get them," and "they are real manifestations, but you can either stir them up by focusing on the devil, or you can focus on the person and help them take responsibility, through Christ."
Lozano is a cousin to Father Michael Scanlan.
-Wikipedia
He currently serves as a senior coordinator of the House of God's Light, an interdenominational Christian community which he has pastored for thirty years.
He has become an international speaker and has spoken all over the world at various conferences.
On deliverance, which he and his wife have performed at no charge hundreds of times over the years, Lozano says, "I've found that if you expect manifestations, you get them," and "they are real manifestations, but you can either stir them up by focusing on the devil, or you can focus on the person and help them take responsibility, through Christ."
Lozano is a cousin to Father Michael Scanlan.
-Wikipedia
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March 4, 2020
I threw this book away after reading this compromised book that doesn't even mention Mary, the Mass or the use of Catholic sacramentals such as the Rosary.
The author is protestantized "catholic" charismatic wanna-be exorcist who doesn't even say a single word about Mary, the Mass or the use of Catholic sacramentals. That alone should tell you where his allegiance lies.
The author talks like a Prot and believes that Vatican II released "charisms" that allow lay people to run amok pretending to be exorcists when they are merely laymen who have not received the Sacrament of Holy Orders. The fruits of Vatican II have been clear for all Catholics to witness: millions of souls have been lost since the close of that questionable Council. The author doesn't even mention that fact at all. Instead, he uses catholic-sounding words to prove HIS THEORY of his imaginary "charisms" released by a "new pentecost" at Vatican II. He desperately wants so much to become a nomadic lay exorcist and deliverance minister, like a Prot hustler, so much so that he now has to woo lay Catholics into following his footsteps of being a protestantized catholic who peddles a questionable "holy spirit" while "laying hands" on the gullible and vulnerable.
The only good practice the author recommends is for Catholics to use the Sacrament of Reconciliation as a means for personal deliverance. He had to say that so that this book could get into Catholic hands. His other freewheeling lay methods of deliverance should be avoided, lest you get into the same troubles as those stubborn and arrogant Prots who think that their baptism makes them stronger than the Devil.
Stay away from this arrogant author, his deceptive methods and this book for your own safety!
If you're a Catholic, learn and practice traditional Catholic devotions, say the Rosary daily, frequent the Mass daily, receive the Holy Eucharist and patronize the Sacrament of Reconciliation. If you're not a Catholic, become one so that you can access the key sacraments of the Catholic Church.
The author is protestantized "catholic" charismatic wanna-be exorcist who doesn't even say a single word about Mary, the Mass or the use of Catholic sacramentals. That alone should tell you where his allegiance lies.
The author talks like a Prot and believes that Vatican II released "charisms" that allow lay people to run amok pretending to be exorcists when they are merely laymen who have not received the Sacrament of Holy Orders. The fruits of Vatican II have been clear for all Catholics to witness: millions of souls have been lost since the close of that questionable Council. The author doesn't even mention that fact at all. Instead, he uses catholic-sounding words to prove HIS THEORY of his imaginary "charisms" released by a "new pentecost" at Vatican II. He desperately wants so much to become a nomadic lay exorcist and deliverance minister, like a Prot hustler, so much so that he now has to woo lay Catholics into following his footsteps of being a protestantized catholic who peddles a questionable "holy spirit" while "laying hands" on the gullible and vulnerable.
The only good practice the author recommends is for Catholics to use the Sacrament of Reconciliation as a means for personal deliverance. He had to say that so that this book could get into Catholic hands. His other freewheeling lay methods of deliverance should be avoided, lest you get into the same troubles as those stubborn and arrogant Prots who think that their baptism makes them stronger than the Devil.
Stay away from this arrogant author, his deceptive methods and this book for your own safety!
If you're a Catholic, learn and practice traditional Catholic devotions, say the Rosary daily, frequent the Mass daily, receive the Holy Eucharist and patronize the Sacrament of Reconciliation. If you're not a Catholic, become one so that you can access the key sacraments of the Catholic Church.
January 18, 2011
Not a page turner like Exorcist Tells His Story by Gabriel Amorth, but I suppose it doesn't have to be. Tells the difference between exorcism and deliverance and what we can do and look for. But any book that promotes reconciliation and the Eucharist can't be that bad. If you need to get to the heart of the matter, then this book is for you.
July 14, 2017
You thought you knew what being a Christian is about? Wrong.
I found so many passages so enlightening and so many quotes from the Bible understood at last that I'm sure a re - read is necessary this year.
highly informative
surprising and indispensable to understand how Jesus loves us.
A must.
I found so many passages so enlightening and so many quotes from the Bible understood at last that I'm sure a re - read is necessary this year.
highly informative
surprising and indispensable to understand how Jesus loves us.
A must.
May 19, 2015
Great book for giving you another perspective with which to see the deliverance ministry. Has a Catholic perspective. Need to get his other book now... Unbound.
January 3, 2018
Good book overall. This book was a good follow up to Neal Lozano’s book, Unbound. He expands upon the fundamentals and principles of deliverance ministry in this book.
July 29, 2019
A great explanation of deliverance vs exorcism.
September 25, 2019
A good overall book. At some point he talks more like a Protestant with their view of deliverance ministry is pretty much similar model (since I’m a convert from Protestant background). And seems to try to fit in the Catholic method or model. However, I do wish the author moves the appendixes in the chapters since it has a more impact on understanding what he is talking about. Since he didn't really delve any more in-depth in between.
I think this is an excellent book to start for any Catholic (and Orthodox) who can do a personal deliverance and clears up the misunderstandings, especially in Appendix A.
I think this is an excellent book to start for any Catholic (and Orthodox) who can do a personal deliverance and clears up the misunderstandings, especially in Appendix A.
put-aside
January 16, 2020Didn't finish the first time around because it's quite heavy and intense. Fascinating topic approached in a balanced way AND in line with the magisterium of the Church. Very impressive!
August 4, 2020
This one was heavier, more focused on theology than ministry, but still a helpful read as someone who has only experienced deliverance ministry as a protestant and not as a catholic.
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