Category: Deliverance Prayers

Let’s face it. We all have problems — some of them completely hidden from view and unknown to others. People like you and me can look completely normal, yet we actually have a hidden burden that hampers us — some kind of a “yoke” around our necks. What might that yoke look like in our lives? It could be a horrible self-image that hobbles us. Or a hidden addiction, an unreasoning fear, scars from past abuses, or bouts with depression. Yokes like that can weigh us down, making normal life much more difficult. If any of those describe your condition, please know that you are not alone in what you face.

In this letter, our intention is to understand fully how the Lord can remove that yoke, and break its hold over us forever. How does that sound to you?

A Very Clear Answer
I was asked recently to speak at a local conference of pastors whose main focus is ministry to the Hispanic community. It was to be a very short speaking session — basically only enough time for a greeting, a quick introduction of the work of Derek Prince Ministries, and a brief update. As I was preparing for the meeting, I didn’t feel any pressing need to prepare notes of any kind. But then, I sensed that familiar urging of the Holy Spirit.

To that unmistakable prompting, I responded: “Lord, what do You want me to say to these people?” Sometimes the answer comes in the form of a vague impression, or sometimes nothing particularly distinct. Not this time. Very clearly, the answer came: “Here is what I want you to tell those people: the anointing breaks the yoke.”

As soon as I heard this Word from the Lord, something leaped inside of me. I recognized it as a very powerful, potentially liberating word. I remembered hearing this exact expression over the years from many speakers, so I assumed it was actually a verse of Scripture. It was not.

Checking in a concordance, I found a citation that matched it fairly closely, and what a powerful verse it is! Isaiah 10:27 says: “It shall come to pass in that day that his burden [the burden of the Assyrian] will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed [broken] because of the anointing oil.”

I spent a few more minutes searching through the Word for “the anointing breaks the yoke,” yet never found it. However, what I did find was extremely encouraging. First of all, there are many references to yokes. Secondly, in the references that deal with the Lord’s help with “yokes” or “burdens” or “chains,” most times the Lord first removes them. Consistently, His second step is to break them so they can never again be placed upon us.

We see this pattern clearly in Isaiah 58:6, a verse about the kind of fast which is acceptable to the Lord. “To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens [the bonds of the yoke], to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?”

Removing and breaking every yoke. Extremely good news, wouldn’t you agree?