Session Two of Root Work walks through the biblical process of deliverance: identification of open doors and strong men, repentance and renunciation, resistance in Christ’s authority, and the essential filling of the Holy Spirit. The order cannot be reversed. Submission precedes resistance. Anything less leaves the house empty and vulnerable.
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Verse & Vision | June 27, 2026
The order in James 4:7 is not incidental. Submit first — hupotassō, to arrange yourself under proper authority, voluntarily and actively. Then resist — antistēte, to take a firm stand against. Then the promise: he will flee. You cannot effectively resist from a position of self-sovereignty. The authority to stand against the enemy comes from the position of submission to God. Willpower won’t do it. Spiritual intensity won’t do it. Humility — placing yourself under the right authority — is what gives the resistance its ground.