The Beliefs of John Robert Stevens

John Robert Stevens defined deliverance in this way: “Deliverance is the breaking of spiritual bondage in your life. This bondage may be caused by: people, circumstances, demons, physical infirmities, inner self and inner desires, even good things taken to excess.”¹ Many needs for deliverance are born out of negative past experiences that were not approached with faith. Often, the conditioned responses that have developed during our lives are the exact things we must be delivered from.

Stevens taught that the first step of deliverance is simply identifying the need for it, a process that happens by a revelation of the Holy Spirit. The next step in deliverance is receptivity on the part of the one being delivered. If a person is not open to the deliverance being ministered to him, there is no way for deliverance to occur.

There are two factors in deliverance. The first is the precious blood of Jesus Christ, and the second is the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11). Deliverance is closely related to repentance, as Jesus not only forgives us of our sin, but by His blood delivers us from the very root of sin. Another great force of deliverance is truth, as Christ taught in John 8:32, “…you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” A significant portion of deliverance, therefore, is simply receiving a Word from God which establishes His truth in your life, then obeying it.

The term deliverance appears 891 times in Stevens’ written materials.