Casting Out A Demon Of Lust?! Feat. Rikhard Hart @TheDeliverancePodcast

Everybody, I am so excited for you to meet somebody that hopefully you've heard of already, but if you have not, because God is increasing your wisdom and your knowledge and your understanding of the world of deliverance.

And so I have one of my favorite people, Rikard Hart, here with us today.

I'm coming at you live from New York City.

Where are you at in the world, Rikard?

I am over on the West Coast.

Pasco, Washington Pastor.

Come on.

West coast meets east coast, guys.

His channel is the Deliverance podcast.

You can search it on YouTube.

Matter of fact, I have the links down below in the description, so make sure you go over and subscribe.

As a matter of fact, I'm going to be a little upset with you if you don't subscribe, so go ahead and do it right now.

But we're going to have a really lengthy conversation about Deliverance, and I promise you some of the burning questions of your heart will be answered in this time.

And then there's some fresh revelation that Rickard has that I believe is for right now.

So I just want to start with this.

I know that you had spent some time with TB Joshua.

Is that where your deliverance journey began?

Because there's, I believe everybody's deliverance journey story unlocks else's story.

And so how did you.

Or maybe Deliverance found you or you found Deliverance?

Yeah, absolutely.

So I'm a pk.

I'm born in a pastor's family.

And growing up, you know, I was always involved in the church, and my dad was doing some degree of deliverance, so I was already kind of witnessing a little bit as I grew up.

Later, I kind of left the path a little bit during my school years.

But then later on, my dad actually anointed my pillow with anointing oil.

And he said, whatever demon is afflicting my son, my son who's supposed to carry my mantle, I commanded to leave him alone, and he was just interceding for me.

So all the bad habits, the sexual sin and the porn and all those kind of things that I was starting to veer towards, it just disappeared.

The urges left me, and I was introduced back into church.

I got interested in going back to church, and I started noticing that what was preached about, the miracles that Jesus did, deliverance healings and so on, I wasn't seeing any of that.

So I simply searched online for places where the power of God was evidently.

And I found TB Joshua.

I went there to visit once, and I just.

When I went there, I asked him, Prophet T.B.

joshua, can I stay here as a disciple?

What I see is so incredible.

Can I just stay here for a while?

And he just said, yeah, sure, you'll stay here.

I'll take care of you.

Stay here in Nigeria.

So I was there.

I thought I would go there for three months and get infused with the power of God, go back and deliver my nation, you know.

But that didn't happen.

I was there for nine years, and that's where I really saw deliverance happening.

Incredible deliverances.

You know, we're talking witchcraft.

We're talking the kind of stuff that you barely see here in the Western world.

We know it exists here.

It's just way more hidden.

But down there in that culture, it's way more prominent with all the, you know, people that come in and, oh, I've done money, sacrifice, and I've done this and I've done that.

And they are looking for deliverance.

I saw a bunch of deliverance there, and I was taught to minister there as well.

And then while I was there, around my fourth year living, there was actually when I received my own personal deliverance from that spirit of lust that entered me in my teenage years.

So that was, like, how I found deliverance.

Deliverance found me.

And since then, I've been absolutely on fire.

I love to see people's lives being transformed and them being set free from those spiritual forces.

Wow.

I want to go a little bit deeper real quick.

So part of your transformation story started with your father anointing your pillow.

We know that acts chapter 19, that they actually had handkerchiefs, and the apostles would distribute those over geographic distances, and people would touch them, and not only were they physically healed, but the Bible says that evil spirits came out of them.

Can you maybe explain, like, what.

What importance does the anointing oil have today?

You know, that's part of your testimony.

That's part of your story.

There's probably many people watching right now that have never heard about that, and they're thinking, can I anoint my husband's pillow?

Can I anoint my own pillow?

You know, does that work?

Can I do that?

Yeah, absolutely.

And I strongly believe that you can.

First of all, it's biblical.

God can use anything.

He'll use foolish things if we are not ready to be used.

So oil is something that God absolutely uses.

And.

And he got that oil.

He got just regular olive oil.

He went to a pastor who carried the power of God and who.

He could see the fruits and the evidence of the anointing on him.

And that pastor prayed for that oil.

And then he was using it to pray for my pillow.

He would anoint the house, the doorpost to the house, that anyone that walks into this house, may the Spirit of God be upon them.

And, you know, so absolutely, it's absolutely, absolutely, incredibly important to understand that anointing is transferable not just from an anointed man of God praying for someone else, but even through objects such as aprons, handkerchiefs, or oil or so on.

So that's what he did.

He actually, I think he also anointed some of my clothes.

You know, he would use all kind of things.

The Bible talks about being innocent as doves, but shrewd as snakes.

And I know that there are many women out there who, for example, or men for that matter, that, like my spouse is not married, hasn't received Jesus yet in their heart.

What can I do?

You know, I'm stuck in this situation.

I always tell them, get some anointing oil and pray, you know, that the Spirit of God would just touch them when they lay their head, head on their pillow, pray for their food, pray for their clothes all the time, just everything that they come in contact with.

I believe that he has a very strong transformative power, actually.

Come on.

If you're watching this and you want to know more about how to anoint your home and how to do this, I do have a video resource that's linked in the descriptions.

And then right now, above my head, there's a little tag that's coming up that you can tap that and go watch that video.

I do believe we need to get back to anointing our homes, anointing our spaces.

That is something that is lost right now in the body of Christ.

So go watch that video and, and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you and then start anointing your home.

Okay.

And so then you end up in Africa, and then you end up there for nine years.

You see some incredible things happen.

But one of the things about your story I think is important is there was a gap between when you really decided, I'm not gonna be lukewarm, I'm going all in for Christ.

But then you got deliverance years later.

And so what was it that finally caused you to receive deliverance from?

You said lust.

I'm sure there's some other things.

What was it finally being in that atmosphere that caused that to happen?

Because there's a lot of people that are just like, you know what?

I've been seeing all these deliverance videos.

I've been around it.

I don't feel like I have a demon.

It's probably only discipline.

It's probably only the flesh.

What was it that caused you to say, wait a second, I need deliverance?

This is deeper than discipline.

Yeah, absolutely.

And this is a really important thing.

Now.

I was under a very strong anointing for a long time, but I still didn't receive full deliverance because I myself hadn't understood the root cause of my problems.

I was having sexual dreams.

I was experiencing this kind of like a spiritual wife or incubus or succubus.

I mean, or, you know, they have many different names where, depending on what culture you're from, but some kind of night terror dreams that was attacking me, that was afflicting my daily life too.

I woke up from these dreams, and it affected my sexual desires.

My desires were running amok every time I had those dreams.

And I thought, like, hey, let me just crucify my flesh a little bit more, Just like you said, Pastor.

I tried for a long time.

In fact, if I would have crucified my flesh anymore, it was basically the physical cross that was the next step.

I had tried it all.

I was fasting, I was praying, I was doing it all.

It wasn't working.

And I thought, this is just how life is gonna be for me.

This is it.

Everyone are suffering in silence.

They just don't talk about it.

They just learn to live with it.

But then a preacher just told me one day, and the Bible says faith comes by hearing a preacher preached and said, if you're experiencing such symptoms, consider deliverance.

It's not how God created you.

It's not how you're meant to work as a man or as a woman to have this extremely, you know, sexual desires just flying all over the place.

Uncontrollable addictions to porn and masturbation and stuff like that.

So I realized, whoa, I probably need deliverance.

And it was tough.

There was this period there that was really tough, mind you.

I had already preached.

I was up there.

You know, I'm like, what's gonna happen?

What are people gonna say if I manifest one day?

But the desperation for freedom became stronger than the worry about my discomfort or my shame.

So that desperation was what pushed me over the ledger.

I'm like, I don't care anymore what people call me.

I need deliverance.

So once I came to that point, something changed.

And I had received prayers in the past, but the time when I understood myself and my faith was in the right place, those demons were exposed instantly by the prayer.

It Took two minutes and those demons were cast out of me.

And I want to add this.

Pastor, come on.

I think many of us are maybe watching this today, and you're like, oh, my son needs this, my daughter needs this, and so on and so forth.

I.

If someone would have told me before that time that I needed deliverance, I feel like it's like the prodigal son.

The prodigal son needed to get to the pig's pen before he was ready to turn around.

If his father would have been like, hey, come back, son.

You're going on the wrong path.

He wouldn't have listened.

So I had to get to that point where my desperation became so strong, and I realized that, like, I can't do these anymore.

And at that point, once I received that prayer of deliverance, it just came out easy peasy like that.

And my life was transformed.

Wow.

I am blown away.

One of the number one questions that I get is, pastor Mike, I know my spouse needs deliverance.

What do I do?

Pastor Mike, I know my kids need deliverance is what you're saying, Rickard.

No, you need to allow them to become desperate, because deliverance is for the desperate.

Maybe somebody watching right now is realizing you're enabling them.

Once you stop, stop trying to be the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit can do what only he can do.

Once you stop trying to be the source of conviction, which really is condemnation, the Holy Spirit can bring true conviction.

And so for you, being a pastor's son, your dad praying for you, anointing things, there was a long journey between anointing and deliverance.

And that journey was the journey of desperation.

Oh, come on.

It's so good.

And so I think there's a level of faith that parents and spouses need to have right now to say, God, you said it.

I believe it.

And that settles it.

I know that it's going to happen, but like you said, Rikard, it's going to happen on God's timeline.

So there's so much to the.

This is so good.

By the way, one of my most videos of all time is about spiritual spouses because very intense demonic dreams, sexual dreams, cause people then in their waking hours to be tormented by those desires.

And they know this is more than biological, this is spiritual.

And so you got free from all that.

You received deliverance.

And you said that deliverance happened within that day, correct?

Yeah.

Yeah.

The moment that I came for deliverance, they prayed for me.

Now, deliverance happens in many different ways.

And my deliverance, I was.

I was.

You Know, some people say that they're like, blacking out during the deliverance.

Some people say that they feel like they're in the back seat, see it, or watching, like third person.

For me, I was like third person.

I remember everything during my deliverance, but I wasn't fully in control.

And this is one important thing, especially if you're a believer.

If you're a believer and you're a Christian, you're like, hey, do I need deliverance?

Or is this just for, you know, unbelievers out there?

No, it's for you.

And many times, because you have the Holy Spirit, because you're a believer, you have faith.

That means that those demons, they don't have full control over you.

So even during the manifestations, for me at least, I had to kind of surrender to the spirit of God.

I could have chosen.

When they prayed for me, he laid his hand on me.

It felt like a bag of cement hit my head.

And I know it wasn't heavy, but that moment, it was like, oh, man, why are you hitting me?

And I got angry and I wanted to, like, punch my pastor, you know.

And what happened was I could at that moment zip my lip.

I could have, like, controlled myself.

Like, I'm not going to be disgraced in church.

No, no, this isn't happening today.

But I chose.

I was so desperate, I kind of surrendered to the spirit of God.

And he did.

He uprooted what needed to be uprooted in my life.

And so I have the memories from my deliverance.

I can describe it, you know, but that's how my experience was.

It took about 2, 3 minutes.

Once the pastor prayed for me, it was fast and I had gone all the way.

I was ready.

I was prepared for it.

My faith was in the right place, and I was desperate for my freedom.

Come on, this is so good.

Well, I tell people all the time, do not cooperate with the demonic.

I mean, the trick that Satan ever pulled was fooling the world.

He doesn't into believing he doesn't exist.

And so a lot of people, they hide manifestations, they try to leave the room.

And what they're doing is cooperating with the demonic.

And I love the fact that you told your story and, and you said, listen, I could have zipped my lip.

I could have stopped.

I could have tried to control it.

But you would have been cooperating with the demonic.

And so you said, you know what?

I'm not worried about being disgraced because I'm desperate.

And that is a key ingredient.

Some of you guys still care what people think about you.

But you need to begin to obsess yourself with what God thinks about you and say, God, I wanna please you.

I don't wanna please these demons that are wrecking my life.

And I need to become desperate enough to say, I.

I don't care who's watching this.

Here's the thing.

They had to watch Jesus crucifixion so that when they saw the resurrection, that was the proof.

And sometimes the same people that want you get delivered have to watch you get delivered to know that God is about to resurrect you in your life into a new season, a new era, a new time.

And so I want to ask a question because there's many people like, okay, I also have a deliverance story.

You know, I know that.

But Rickard, here's the problem.

I still struggle with lust.

I hear this especially from men.

I know you hear this as well.

Lust, perversion.

I go back to the pornography I don't understand.

And this has been a big theme in the kingdom right now.

But I believe there's many people, there's women that need deliverance from this as well.

What would you say to somebody like, hey, the deliverance happened in two to three minutes for me as well.

But then, now I've spent the last two to three months, two to three years actually suffering, and I cannot break free no matter what I do.

What.

What would you tell them?

Yeah, I think.

I think this is a really big area and this is what people don't understand.

Now, majority of people don't even believe in.

In deliverance.

A lot of.

A lot of believers.

I mean, we are getting to the point where deliverance is becoming more mainstream.

But then the other part of people who do believe in deliverance, they.

They kind of get like, oh, so I still have to put in the work after my deliverance?

Yeah, of course you have to do, because strongholds that the demons have been building throughout many years are still there.

Deliverance is basically.

I used to use the example of, like a cup of tea.

Now, this is an empty glass of water, but if I had a cup of tea with a tea bag in it, and I want the water to be pure and clean and transparent.

If I pour new water into a cup of tea, it will help for a while.

It will dilute the mess.

It will become a little bit more transparent.

I feel good at that point.

But as long as the tea bag is still soaking that water, it gets stained again and again.

And that was my life.

I was trying to Live a sanctified life before my deliverance.

And it didn't work.

Now the tea bag was removed.

And now I looked and reflected on my own life.

And I'm like, thank you, Jesus.

It's been done.

But my water is still stained.

What's going on?

The demon's gone.

But that's when I realized, now starts the process of sanctification.

This is when you take the word of God.

You fill yourself up with intimacy with the Holy Spirit.

And when you begin to pour clear, pure water into that teacup, now that's going to be diluted.

And.

And the more you pour, finally, over time, every trace of that stained tea is gone.

And your water becomes purified, it becomes holy, becomes transparent.

And I think that is so important.

And many people have missed this one little secret on how like, yeah, this analogy sounds good and everything.

How do I do it?

Practically, the Bible says Jesus prayed for all of the followers of all his followers.

And he said, lord, sanctify them by your truth.

Your word is truth.

And I believe this is Sunday school level almost.

But many Christians need to come back to the basics again.

The word of God has sanctifying power.

Now, me personally, I found Bible verses that I used to come against the lies of the enemy.

Because listen to this.

60 seconds after my deliverance, I got up from the floor, 60 seconds, I was already struck with the first lie that was fake.

You're a pretender.

You're a hypocrite.

This is not real instantly.

But people around me, the church people, they were like, hey, we saw your deliverance.

And we know you might feel like you were hit by a truck right now, or whatever you feel like, we saw it and you are free.

We know you're free in Jesus name.

And those words of encouragement really helped me.

So I found Bible verses.

For me, for example, personally, it was Psalm 19:14.

It says, Let the words of my mouth, meditation on my heart, be acceptable in your sight.

Psalm 119:37, turn away my eyes from worthless things and revive me in your word.

So I started taking these Bible verses and I memorized them in my head over and over again until they sunk into my spirit man, into my innermost being.

And it became a machinery going over and over again.

And what happens?

Because Hebrew 4 says the word of God is living and active.

When you meditate on the word of God, things happen.

So you meditate, turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, you turn that into a prayer point after your deliverance.

He's actually gonna do it that's why he promises he's living and active.

And when you begin to do that, it becomes a part of your innermost being.

It becomes this machinery.

You develop communion with the Holy Spirit.

And then, as the Bible says in Jeremiah, it's not my word of God, like fire and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces, I believe that that hammer, it's the repeated use of the written word of God over and over again until that stronghold is broken down and you are sanctified.

So that's kind of like how I overcame it after my deliverance.

It's basic, but many times the most basic secrets are the most powerful ones.

Come on.

The eyes are the window to the soul.

That means you've got to put scriptures into your eyes, come through that portal, through that window, and begin to tear down every single one of those strongholds.

It's like, listen, you've removed the rat.

Now dismantle the nest so that another rat doesn't inhabit that same nest.

And here's the thing.

Many of you guys need to get back to the basics.

That there was so much grace and anointing on that word, I almost jumped out of my seat right now.

You know, you were taking me back to a season in my life when I was conquering lust and perversion.

And this was over 20 years ago, but I remember, and I went old school.

I printed scriptures out and physically put them all on the walls of my bedroom.

I physically put the scriptures in my bathroom, and I made it so that the only thing I could see was the word of God.

And so here's the thing.

If looking at lustful things is how you built a stronghold and then demons inhabited those strongholds, then looking at the word of go, gotta fight a spirit with the opposite spirit, looking at the word of God, looking at the scriptures and allowing yourself to hear it, to see it, to taste it, to experience it, until it continues to transform you.

You know something that I've been saying, and this is a message that's missing from the body of Christ, is learning how to suffer.

Well, learning how to rickard.

When you went through deliverance, you said, my ego and my pride is about to suffer.

I cannot act dignified right now.

In order for my spirit to thrive, my ego and my pride has to suff.

Then for you to be sanctified, you had to say, guess what?

My sexual urges are gonna have to suffer.

I'm gonna have to starve one part of me to feed the other.

I'm either gonna feed the flesh and starve the spirit or I'm gonna feed my spirit and starve my flesh.

But something is going to hurt.

And I think what happens when you're dealing with lust and perversion is you're willing to hurt your spirit and not hurt your flesh.

Yeah, there's gotta be.

You gotta suffer and say, no, I'm.

I am now willing to suffer in my flesh so that my spirit can thrive.

And I believe there's such a power on you to deliver this message, Rickard.

And there's people watching right now that are going, that have become deliverance junkies that need to actually move from deliverance to discipleship.

But the way of the disciple is Jesus suffered.

So now we share in his suffering and we glory in it.

Guys, it's been 43 days since I've looked at pornography, and I've wanted to do it every day.

Let's glory in this suffering together.

I want to masturbate, but I didn't do it because I'm.

We're sharing in our suffering.

And I think there's a message in the kingdom right now that this is getting out to guys, suffer well.

We need to suffer well.

And so as we come to a close, this has been such a tremendous mendous.

Make sure that you don't just subscribe to my channel because we're not building an audience, we're building an army.

But I need you to go over to the Deliverance podcast, search it on YouTube and go subscribe right now.

Because, Rickard, you have a catalog of some of the most incredible insights and revelations and practical teachings and deep teachings about deliverance.

But if we could do a lightning round, so we make the last part of this video everybody's favorite.

What would be if you had to do 3, 4, 5, however many one you'd like the assignment essential things.

Like, if you say this is the essential to deliverance, you've been in the game for a long time.

You.

I watched you do a mass deliverance.

4,000, 5,000 people.

You went up there and just went ballistic.

It was one of my favorite parts of that conference.

And so I've seen you do mass deliverance.

I seen you do one on ones.

If you were to give a lightning round right now of like the, you know, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, however many.

Like, these are the essentials to somebody who wanting to be equipped in deliverance, what would they be?

Well, first of all, the most important thing.

So you're talking about people who feel like they have the calling and the desire to actually minister deliverance.

Right?

Yes.

So for those people, the number one thing is that deliverance has to spring out of a love for people that overflows from a love from God.

Many people think because I don't have stage fright, I should be a deliverance minister, or because I'm quite charismatic, people like me, I'm eloquent, or I just hate demons so much.

All of those things are kind of good and like, it's all right.

But your love for God that overflows to love for people is the way that deliverance has to spring out of.

So otherwise, when you minister to people, you don't consider them.

When you're praying for them, you're like, oh, yeah, this is gonna get good views, or this demon is gonna pay, or this is gonna be this or this that.

No, this person is going to be experiencing the love of God maybe for the first time in a most powerful way that they've ever experienced.

So love people.

It has to spring from love for people.

You have to understand your identity in Jesus, because when you understand your identity in Jesus, you understand the authority you have been given to use the power that has been bestowed in the name of Jesus.

The so understanding who you are in Jesus, no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper.

Every knee must bow at the mention of the name Jesus, not just those who willfully do it.

Every knee must bow.

There's no demon that can, you know.

Oh, you're.

I've heard it so many times, Pastor.

Demons who come up and say, oh, you're just a little boy.

You can't cast us out.

And I'm like, I'm a little boy, but the one standing behind me, you and me both know who that is.

Now you're coming out in his name.

Come on, you know, and to understand your identity and then to.

To do it over and over and over again.

Don't be scared of failing.

Don't be scared of.

Of.

Just like everything else, when it comes to faith, it's like a muscle.

You have to exercise it.

The more you exercise your muscles in the physical, the stronger you get, the better you get at certain operations and movements.

The same goes with deliverance.

Find a place.

If it's your church or your life group or wherever, as long as you're under the covering of a pastor that approves of it and then go for it.

Don't think that you need to understand everything that has to do with deliverance.

Before you minister deliverance.

Many people are like, oh, I have this problem.

What's my demon?

I'll Be like, I don't know.

Let's pray.

And I'll find out.

We'll find out.

I don't know everything, but I know who knows everything.

And he's right around the corner and he's going to touch you right now.

So those are like four of the main things on how to get started into Deliverance.

If I had to give just four quick ones, that was rich.

I'm talking.

That was one of my best grand finales ever here on this channel.

Rickard, this is amazing.

Maybe we'll do a part two.

If you can't wait for a part two, go to his channel now.

I also want to say this.

I love the fact that the fruit of the spirit is evident in your ministry.

It's definitely something that I've observed a lot of times people who do Deliverance are overly serious.

Serious is not a fruit of the spirit.

Unfortunately, your Instagram is one of the funniest Instagrams and you just have such a great sense of humor.

So I'd love for you guys find them on Instagram.

Is there anywhere else that people should go find you right now as they're stalking you?

So, yeah, yeah, right.

I'm on Facebook as well.

Same handle as my Instagram.

But those are the three main places that I function on right now.

Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Yes, Pastor.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's been so great having you and I cannot wait to see what you guys have to say in the comments right now.

Like I said, jump over to his channel.

He's got so many great videos.

And I cannot wait.

We're going to have to set up a round two now.

I'm just saying.

I'm just saying.

This was too good.