The Lord said, I want to give you a revelation of what is Sarah's problem. The problem is schizophrenia. The Lord gave me this definition: Schizophrenia is a disturbance, distortion or disintegration of the development of the personality. How would you like to be the real person that God made?



I was still in bed - still had sleep in my eyes - as the Lord continued giving the revelation.



Next, the Lord instructed me to take my hands apart VERY SLOWLY. As my fingers were slowly disengaged the Lord showed me that these demonic spirits in the schizophrenic must be separated, cast out and given up. The process requires time. It is a shock to the person to discover that so much of his personality is not the real self. He may be afraid to discover what his true personality is. He needs time to adjust and to fall out of agreement with the false demon personalities, point by point. He must come to loathe the schizophrenic personality, and fall out of agreement with it. The Lord recalled to my memory Amos 3:3 How can two walk together except they be agreed? You have to give up your pet demons and associated sins.



The last two fingers to come apart were the middle fingers on each hand. The Lord showed that these fingers represent the core of the schizophrenic - Rejection and Rebellion.



The control demon is called Schizophrenia or Double-Mindedness. The Bible says A double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways (James 1:8).



The phrase translated two minds comes from a compound Greek word literally meaning two souls.



Schizophrenia ALWAYS begins with rejection.



Schizophrenia can be demonically inherited. Notice I said demonically. By that I mean it is not in the blood system, not in the genes - it is in the demons! This is what we call familiar spirits. They are familiar with your family.



Now, one can have a rejection spirit and not be a schizophrenic. Rejection is the door opener to many people getting demonized.



Rejection (shown on the left hand in the illustration) is the control demon in one of the personalities set up within the schizophrenic.



The second personality set up by the demons is rebellion. (See the middle finger on the right hand ).



The Lord showed me that I was to refer to the schizophrenic person as Sarah One and Sarah Two - the Sarah One being the real person, and the Sarah Two the schizophrenic personality which has two sides to it.



The real person is neither of the hands. The Real Self is shown in the illustration between the arms, at the bottom. Jesus must start growing in the person, developing that personality, and making it what He wants it to be. This is why the schizophrenic deliverance requires time - sometimes several months or even a year, or longer. The deliverance must work in balance with the development of the Real Self. It cannot be rushed, for there is nothing for the person to fall back upon. If every demon in the schizophrenic person were suddenly cast out he would feel totally lost. Identity with the Real Self requires time. As the schizophrenic nature is knocked out, the true personality must come forth to replace it.



He must be willing to fall out of agreement with the demons and to break old habit patterns.



On the illustration you will see a swirl at the top between the two hands. This represents a hurricane. The schizophrenic person continually creates storms around himself.



These times of storm cause the root of bitterness to form (see right hand) and to be driven deeper and deeper.



Now, let us see what the other fingers on the left hand represent. The ring finger is designated Lust. The Lord showed me that this demon weds a person to the world for love. A companion spirit in this group is Fantasy Lust which may cause the person to imagine he is some great lover of the motion picture world or to fantasize sexual experiences, as a prelude to overt acts. The harlotry spirit in women may first manifest itself in dress and provocativeness. First you entertain the thought and then you commit the act. Reject the thought and you will not follow through.



The little finger on the left hand represents insecurity and inferiority. This is yet another manifestation of rejection.



The index finger on the left hand is self-accusation. This demon causes a person to turn against himself and tears down his sense of personal worth. In most cases we have found self-accusation coupled with a compulsion to confess.



Now, let us move to the right hand in the illustration. The middle finger in the illustration is designated rebellion. As we have seen, rebellion identifies one of the false personalities set up by the demons.



The ring finger on the right hand represents self-will. This demon weds a person to selfish desires. This opens the way for stubbornness, selfishness and unteachableness. Again, we see the compensation for rejection.



The index finger is called accusation. It seeks to eliminate a concentration on self by calling attention to others. The accusation demon opens the door for companion spirits of judgmentalism.



The little finger on the right hand is self-deception. Its companions are delusion, self seduction and pride. The spirit of delusion comes along and says You are REALLY somebody; You are a spiritual giant! or some other kind of giant.



In one ministry case, the spirit of self-deception had convinced a thirteen year old girl that she was nineteen.



Through the revelation the Lord showed how the thumbs represent the Paranoid phase of schizophrenia. On the rejection side are spirits of jealousy and envy. On the rebellion side are spirits of distrust, suspicion, fear and persecution. There is another demon in this later group and it is called Confrontation with honesty at all cost. The person acting under the influence of paranoid demons is quite insensitive as to how many wounds he causes, yet he is super-sensitive to every offense towards himself.



The revelation portrayed in the fingers and thumbs has proved to be infallible, as judged by numerous ministries with schizophrenics. There is no flaw in it. It is apparent in most instances that the demons listed on the left hand are in some way associated with the triad of rejection-type spirits...rejection, fear of rejection and self-rejection.



The listing of demons on the right hand include control and possessiveness. They are directly related to rebellion.



Herein lies the problem with the schizophrenic. He is unable to forgive. He has an unforgiving spirit. The root of bitterness is kept alive and out of it comes resentment, hatred, anger, retaliation, violence and murder.



How does the schizophrenic come out of this tangled mess? The three main areas to conquer are Rejection, Rebellion and the Root of Bitterness. As these areas are conquered the house (life) must be filled by the giving and receiving of love by submission to every valid authority and by forgiveness of all persons regardless of the circumstances. When these three areas are conquered, the other related spirits lose their strength. Determination is necessary. The person who can persistently say I WILL BE DIFFERENT! I WILL NOT LET DEMONS RULE MY LIFE will eventually see victory.



Between the hands at the bottom of the illustration is a little, stick figure called The Real Self. As the deliverance takes place over a period of time, The Real Self must rise up (depicted by arrows) and part the false schizophrenic personalities by falling out of agreement with all of their influence and all that they represent. The Real Self must take on the nature of Jesus Himself. Spiritual exercises such as Bible study, prayer, fasting, praise and fellowship with other believers is essential to a successful deliverance. These spiritual exercises will also accelerate the deliverance process as the person's life is filled with the positive things of Christ Jesus.



It is hard work for both the schizophrenic patient and deliverance minister. I greatly admire schizophrenics who fight through to victory. I admire these victories above all other deliverances. The Schizophrenic deliverance is the deepest, most involved and most determined deliverance that we have encountered.