International Public Notice: Check the History
By Anna Von Reitz


On April 12th 1861, Abraham Lincoln issued an "Executive Declaration" allowing the Northern Forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to fire on Confederate Forces.

He was acting as the President of a corporation doing business as the United States of America, Incorporated, when he did this.

No Declaration of War by any Congress authorized to Declare War on behalf of this country--- as required by all three Federal Constitutions--- was ever issued.

This made the American Civil War into a clear-cut Mercenary Conflict and an illegal as well as unlawful action from Day One.

You may search for a proper Declaration of War for a lifetime; no such action was ever taken and no recourse to The Law of War is possible then or at any time thereafter, because after the hostilities ceased, there was no longer a Congress competent to declare war seated.

Two years later, in the spring of 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared the United States of America, Incorporated, bankrupt. The day before, he had issued General Order 100, the very first Executive Order, and made the Union Army responsible for the fate of our country.

This bankrupt British Territorial Corporation doing business as the United States of America, Incorporated (1863), was replaced by a Scottish Corporation doing business as "The United States of America, Incorporated" in 1868.

This Scottish Corporation doing business as The United States of America, Incorporated, operated from 1868 to 1907 when it was bankrupted and ceased operation.

At this point, the Perpetrators gave up the pretense that they were operating under The Articles of Confederation.

They were and remained "at war" -- that is, commercial "war" with the Municipal Corporation in charge of the Federal Civil Service for another thirty years.

In 1937, these two corporations operating the military and the civil service, respectively, got together and signed The Declaration of Interdependence of the Governments in The United States.

They began colluding in full earnest against their American Employers and began a rampage under color of law and in gross breach of trust, with both corporations setting up redundant services and administrations, so that we have had, for example, the Municipal "DOD" and the Territorial Department of Defense running in tandem this entire time, and been soaked for all the expense of both.

In 1946, these colluding corporations set themselves up to occupy most of the world as "Territorial Forces", and settled in to pillage The United States, the former Commonwealth, most of Europe, Japan, and numerous other parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

They spent American assets and credit to rebuild the war-torn world after the Second World War, and assigned their War debts and investment costs to the American people; when it came time to pay back the private assets that they borrowed, they welched on it and have been running and evading that necessity since 2005.

The Bretton Woods agreements were "vacated" in 1971, though the "U.S. Military" continued on its rampage of occupying the western world as a Raj-like British Territorial Mercenary Service.

Throughout this period, 1868 to present, the British Territorial Federal Subcontractor has been running a financial theft and embezzlement scam on our shores, based on personage (impersonating living people as "Persons") and barratry (the crime of knowingly bringing charges against these Legal Fiction Entities).

Those in charge of this illegal military occupation have licensed and otherwise controlled many professions that are occupations of common right, and have conscripted doctors, attorneys, dentists, nurses, chiropractors, and others, as "Uniformed Officers" obligated to serve in a "civilian military".

They deployed the Bar Attorneys as "civilian military officers" to open foreign Equity Courts on our shores and use these to illegally confiscate assets belonging to Americans under Pretense of War. They also used Medical Doctors to set up their Personage Scheme by registering American babies as U.S. Citizens, and more recently, used them to inject millions of helpless trusting people with deadly "vaccines".

These two corporations, the modern day equivalents of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company, have been operating our military forces as mercenary forces and weaponizing the Federal Civil Service since 1861, and they have all been operated under color of law to the detriment of the entire world.

Read that as many times as you need to.

Now that they are exposed, these quasi-military operations are trying to make themselves look like heroes, and are offering up the Bar Attorneys and Doctors and Police they conscripted and employed to do their Dirty Work as scapegoats.

It is a little known fact that most police officers are members of the Freemasonic Lodges, so when these "White Hats" go after the Freemasons, they are actually going after the domestic police -- one of the few forces that could organize against them.

These corporations and their military operatives should not be allowed to go forward with any blood bath against their former employees, as they are just as guilty--- or more so--- themselves.

Who is more guilty? The man who commits a crime thinking that he is upholding the law, or the man who knowingly voids the law and orders someone else to commit the crime?

It's time for healing and an end to deceit and game playing.

The quasi-military forces still want to control everything and everyone in the name of keeping us "safe" but they have themselves proven to be the most constant source of strife and endangerment we face.

If they are willing to come home and submit to the authority of the actual government of this country, they can be given amnesty. Otherwise they are just a rogue mercenary force on the land and pirates on the sea.

Their promises that "we will be happy" (as genetically lobotomized robots) are not worth words or paper, and all the blood-letting they propose to do against their own employees is just more of the diabolical hypocrisy we are all too familiar with.

They hired and directed these Bar Attorneys to embezzle from us and defraud us in foreign courts. They told everyone that our government was "missing" and that they had to "occupy" our country for our "safety" and then pretended that we were "Enemy Combatants" in a non-existent "war".

They cashiered our assets and used them for their own benefit as collateral backing their debts and used our credit to promote and build all these underground bases and the Secret Space Force, too.

Now they are charging us for destroying all the underground bases our money paid for.

You see how this goes?

First, they fleece us and misappropriate the value of our labor and other assets to build all these underground facilities, then, they destroy all these underground facilities they built using our money, and charge us for that "service", too.

They ordered the doctors, their civilian "Uniformed Officers", to inject us with the Covid 19 "vaccine" and have thus far killed more than a billion people --- and they are blaming the doctors for this, when they licensed and conscripted these doctors and when these "vaccines" were developed under their own auspices.

Because we have been trusting and "asleep" for all these years, they think we are stupid; so it is necessary to tell them that nobody is buying this Hollywood narrative of theirs, making them out to be grand heroes.

They are more like sentries caught sleeping on the job, or, even more apt, caught shaking down whoever happened to pass by.

Nobody should believe this hokum that they are spinning, trying to make themselves look like heroes.

They are not heroes and war is not glorious; war since 1861 is exactly what Smedley Butler said it is: "a racket".

It's long overdue for the illegal U.S. Army Occupation to end and for our American Military Forces to resume their honorable status as a national military service --- not cheap mercenary whores doing the bidding of oil companies and rubber plantation owners.

The civilian population must be set free without further ado. The civilian government must be respected, protected, and assisted. Transparent public elections have to be held. And blood baths to provide "a show of Justice" have to be avoided.

There has already been far too much death and destruction and we have no need for more of what we never wanted in the first place.

Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents, Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals.

We won't tolerate any wholesale haphazard slaughter of doctors, lawyers, or police (Freemasons) and won't pay for any such services.

The idea recently expressed by Pascal Najadi that White Hats are going to sweep through the streets and summarily execute millions of people--- quote: "Bang! Shot in the head." may be the way the White Hats operate, but it's not the way we operate in this country. We are likely to forget who the "White Hats" are, and start shooting the obvious attackers.

Everyone is owed Due Process and nobody is guilty simply because they are a member of a profession that was commandeered and used to commit crimes against humanity under force and color of law.

The U.S. Military acting as a foreign Territorial and Mercenary Force is guilty of illegally occupying this country, guilty of commandeering, misdirecting, and coercively managing all these "civilian military" Uniformed Officers to commit these crimes against us and against our people and our country and our government.

Our eyes are wide open and our backs are up.

It's time for the U.S. Army in all its forms to admit its failings and complicity in these crimes, and ask for amnesty and forgiveness. Also time to get back in its box and stop this "narrative" nonsense.

We know who has been screwing us. We don't need to be told that Uncle Sam didn't really mean anything by patting our bottom and fondling our breasts, oh, in fact, he had a Grand Plan and was just trying to "draw the criminals out" for another sixty years....

We don't need any tales about JFK surviving the attack in Dallas, or Princess Di surviving the wreck in Paris, either. Just stop.

All these lies are repugnant and below the dignity of grown men. We don't need and we don't want any "show" of Justice. We don't want a "show" of any kind.

We want practical, peaceful, honest action returning our purloined assets and our autonomy. Not some infantile displaced Blame Game leading to more bloodshed and disruption.

Peace is the very least that the Constitutions and basic decency demand.

Give us back our stuff, honor your obligation to protect this country and its people, release and redirect the "civilian military", and clear the way forward without any more drama or violence.

This is what is requested and required of the U.S. Military, including the Space Force.

Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
May 11th 2024

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International Public Notice: Dear Donald Trump
By Anna Von Reitz


We find it interesting that you began your message concerning your corporation's new "Declaration of Independence" with a lengthy denial of all other claims and claimants, in favor, apparently, of the corporation you represent as President, the U.S.A. Incorporated.

You make it sound like our claims are significantly different than yours, when in fact, over 90% of your Declaration playbook echoes us, our claims, and all the information that we have specifically provided not only to you but to every other American.

The only part of your Declaration that we did not essentially author and don't agree with is the focus on the Act of 1871, which was repealed in 1874. The complaint against the United States Corp is deserved and understood, however, that is only half the story.

The corporation that you represent as Commander-in-Chief existed prior to the United States Corp and the financial difficulties that you describe in the wake of the Civil War as the generative cause of the debacle, arose as a result of the war debts and bankruptcy of the United States of America, Incorporated.

That is, the financial maladies were those of a foreign corporation acting as a Federal Government Subcontractor. Your corporation.

It was not our government, not the sovereign American Government, that acquired the debt and went bankrupt. Think about it, Mr. Trump, only incorporated entities enjoy that privilege.

Just like the United States Corp, the United States of America, Incorporated, is a separate incorporated entity. Just like the United States Corp, the United States of America, Incorporated, is a foreign entity engaged in providing "essential government services" under contract to our Government.

The version of the United States of America, Incorporated, established prior to the so-called Civil War, was bankrupted by Abraham Lincoln in April of 1863. That was the source of the financial trouble.

Your corporation's bankruptcy, Mr. Trump.

Nothing has changed except that the Military engaged by that same corporation, woke up, realized that Abraham Lincoln left them in charge, and that everything in this country is going to dog dung on their watch.

Well, good on you and good on them for that, but you can't fix it by telling more lies and trying to claim assets and credit that never belonged to your corporation in the first place.

The Civil War, insomuch as it could be styled as a "war" was an illegal mercenary conflict between corporations and between foreign government interests on our shores. It had precious little to do with us or with slavery, either.

The two corporations pitted against each other, the United States Corp and the United States of America, Incorporated, have kept this conflict going --- for their own profit --- ever since.

The only break in the conflict came from 1937 to your inauguration, when the two corporations signed The Declaration of Interdependence of the Governments in The United States, as a truce and collusion, which allowed both corporations to develop full blown "administrations" and prey upon the American Public with equal ferocity.

Surely, you have noticed that we have two of everything? The IRS and the Internal Revenue Service, the DOD and the Department of Defense, the DOL and the Department of Labor, the DOJ and the Department of Justice.... we could go on, but this is self-evident and can only be accounted for by the 1937 Declaration of Interdependence referenced above.

Do you really think that the American people needed complete redundancy and double-dipping, two complete (and both foreign) court systems, two Internal Revenue Services? Internal to what?

Mr. Trump, surely, at this late date, both foreign corporations should simply surrender and accept the fact that this country belongs to its people and nobody else--- it certainly doesn't belong to any foreign corporation residing in the District of Columbia or the (British Territorial) State of Delaware or any foreign country (like Scotland) whatsoever.

Two thieves arguing over the spoils is not the same as the actual owner showing up, and by factual definition the actual owner is and has to be: (1) American and (2) Unincorporated.

Your corporation, like the United States Corp, fails on both counts.

So, we believe that we have dispensed with all claims of all incorporated entities seeking to "represent" us, and claiming an interest of any kind in our land and other physical assets.

Our venerable declaration, The Unanimous Declaration of Independence, serves us more than well-enough.

We wish to point out, Mr. Trump, that the British Territorial Government is an instrumentality of the British Government as a whole, and that the British Government as a whole, is an instrumentality of the Pope, and that in matters of commerce, that means the Roman Pontiff.

Both corporations, the United States Corp and the United States of America, Incorporated, are owned by the Pope and administered by the Pope acting as the Roman Pontiff.

If we have been gullible and trusting and easily led, then so have you corporate moguls, who registered your corporations and gave up your ownership of them to other faceless Legal Fiction Entities and assumed Authorities.

There. Did you finally, just now, feel the floor drop?

The Pope owns both the United States Corp and the United States of America, Incorporated, because the very idea of corporations originated with the Roman Curia. He rules these creations of the mind under Ecclesiastical Law, and sits like Hammurabi as the final dictator of both Law Merchant and its codified cousin, the Law of Maritime Commerce.

So the fight between the United States Corp and the United States of America, Incorporated, in 1861 or today, has only existed with his blessings and for his benefit, as both these corporations quite literally belong to him. And he is responsible for them.

We, however, are unincorporated beings living under a free and independent ---and unincorporated--- government, in an actual and factual world, which is a Divine Creation. We are divine creations, too.

We see through all of these illusions straight to the heart of the matter. We see who is responsible for this mess, and it isn't you, Donald Trump.

Keep it that way.

Stop trying to interpose your corporation as our Keeper, or Custodian, exercising a "stewardship" interest in our assets. We are quite capable of choosing our own Deputies (not Trustees) in free and open public elections, unsullied by the manipulations of political parties.

We invited you to join us and to leave behind the ugly phantasm you've been living in. Click your silver slippers, Donald, and come home. Declare your birthright political status and take responsibility for your own DNA and your own soul and your own soil.

It's not that difficult to be unincorporated and it's far more effective than tilting at paper windmills and worrying about paper debts.

Yes, we have been defrauded and deceived, and so have you.

As the Roman Civil Law says, "Let him who will be deceived, be deceived." and as we are beset by Romans, it would be good if you simply shook your head, woke up, and realized --- this is all phony.

All these corporations and corporation franchises and codes and debts made of paper --- it's all fraud. It's all ridiculous. It is insubstantial. It's a sideshow schtick.

We are not deceived, and so we are set free.

And all the fraud against us must be set aside, or as the Romans say, "Fictio cedit veritati; fictio juris non est, ubi veritas." --- in English, "Fiction yields to truth; where truth is, fiction of law does not exist."

Repeat that three times and understand what the phrase "people of substance" really means. We are people of substance, not "persons" made of paper.

We know who we are, what we are, where we are, and more importantly, we know what we are owed both in terms of our physical assets and in terms of good faith services.

Both the Pope's corporations owe us good faith service, so he and his "Empire of the City" need to honor their ancient cult laws and the Law of the City and the Roman Civil Law and the Ecclesiastical Law by which they are still bound.

Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

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Why Should I Be Baptized? by William Dupley

Five people were baptized in our church a few Sundays ago, including a small girl. I spoke to her father this week, and he said my daughter told me that all of her fear was gone since she was baptized.This week, I was discussing Baptism with a friend of mine. He had ministered in Haiti, and he said it was very common for people to experience deliverance when they were baptized. Deliverance also occurred when people were baptized at a camp meeting that Toronto Airport Vineyard conducted at Staynor camp in 1992.

I remember praying for a lady once at church, and when I laid my hands on her, she fell down to the floor in the form of an idol and went into a trance. I wasn't quite sure what happened, but I figured there had been some power encounter between the Holy Spirit and some spiritual force. I asked her friend who was with this woman if she was a Christian, and she said yes, she was. I asked her if she had been baptized. She said yes. I then spoke to the spiritual force and told it that you have no right to be on this woman because she had identified herself with Christ through the waters of Baptism, and you belong to the old man. I command you to leave and go to the tank, where the Baptism occurred. Immediately, she was delivered and came out of the trance.

Why does this not always happen
I've seen many people baptized, and I rarely see people experience deliverance when they are baptized. I suggest this is because they are not taught what really happens when someone is baptized. Often, Baptism is taught as a symbolic activity. I have heard it said it is the outward sign of an inward commitment, sort of like joining the union and getting the union badge that you put on your coat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, these statements rob the true power of what Baptism accomplishes in our lives.

Types of Baptism
The Greek word for Baptism is baptízō – properly, "submerge" (Souter); hence, baptize, to immerse (literally, "dip under"). It does not always mean water baptism. It means to be immersed in something.

There are three different types of Baptism mentioned in the New Testament. Each has a different purpose.

1. Baptism into Christ
When we accept Christ as our Saviour and Lord, three things happen
1. We are baptized into Christ. We are immersed in God.
Gal 3:26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ
2. Our Spirit becomes one with God's Spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in Spirit.
3. We become a new creation.
2 Cor 5:17 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Jesus commands us to baptize people in Matthew 28:19 20 as part of the process of disciplining people.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
I don't think Jesus is saying that we just water baptize people in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in this verse. Rather, I think Jesus is saying that we immerse people in the (love of the) Father, (the grace of) Jesus, and (the fellowship of) the Holy Spirit since he is talking about making disciples in this verse. A key part of making disciples is helping them develop an intimate relationship with God.
2. Baptized in the Holy Spirit
When we accept Christ, our Spirit is united with Holy Spirit, but there is an additional experience that Jesus prophesied would happen to us in Acts 1:4-5
4 And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
This prophecy was fulfilled in Acts 2: 4
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
When we are baptized with Holy Spirit. Our entire body is immersed in the Holy Spirit, and His presence overwhelms us. We feel his presence penetrate our physical being. Just as water soaks us when we are immersed in water, so Holy Spirit soaks our physical being. We also begin to manifest the gifts of Holy Spirit as outlined in I Cor 12

3. Baptism in water
The Book of Acts describes many events where people believed and were immediately baptized. They were immersed in water. In fact, it seemed that in most cases, a person was baptized immediately upon repentance and acceptance of Christ. There is one particularly fascinating example. There was an Ethiopian eunuch who was responsible for the entire treasury of Ethiopia. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was going back to Ethiopia. An angel directed Philip to catch up with his caravan, and he heard him reading the book of Isaiah. Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading. He said how can I unless someone guides me. They had a further discussion, and Philip began to tell him the good news about Jesus.

The Ethiopian made the most remarkable request after hearing what Philip had to say.

Acts 8:36 Now, as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?"

38 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.
Now, I want you to capture what happened here. This was a very wealthy man, and he would have had an entourage. He would have been dressed in very expensive clothes, yet it was so important for him to be baptized that he was prepared to get out of his chariot, go down to a muddy hole filled with water, and be baptized. I suggest there was something very compelling that Philip told him about the benefit of being baptized.

Jesus was Baptized in Water
Jesus felt it was so important to be baptized in water that he was baptized in water himself.
Matt 3: 13 At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?" 15 "Let it be so now," Jesus replied. "It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way." Then John permitted Him. 16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.

Jesus never sinned, yet He felt it was important to do this, and the question has to be asked: why did He do this? Jesus said, "It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." I suggest He did this to demonstrate what has to be in our hearts when we are baptized. He humbled himself and publicly declared that His entire life was committed to God and that He was completely dedicating His life to living according to God's will and commands.

A leader leads by example. I think Jesus did this to be an example to all of us.

What happens when you are baptized in water
I do not believe that Baptism is just some symbolic or ritualistic activity. Jesus had no use for those things. I do not wish to minimize the symbolic aspect of Baptism. Baptism is a powerful and symbolic visual aid, a prophetic act demonstrating outwardly what the Lord has done and is doing inwardly. It speaks loudly to the fact that this person needs a bath to be cleansed and needs a burial of the old man to rise up in the newness of life in Christ. But to say it is just symbolic negates the spiritual transformative aspect of Baptism.
Romans chapter 6 :3-7 describes Baptism in great detail and what really happens when we are baptized.

3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through Baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, a that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin

Let's start by looking at what happens when we are baptized:
1. We are baptized into Christ Jesus.
2. We were baptized into his death.
3. We were buried with him.

Now let's look at the results, what we can expect as a result of being baptized
1. We may walk in the newness of life (The newness of life is the life that God intended for us to live)
2. We will be resurrected.
3. Our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with (rendered powerless)
4. We will no longer be slaves to sin

Let's look at some other results of being baptized
1. He will forgive your sins. Acts 2:38
2. You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit Acts 2:38
3. He will wash away your sins. Acts 22:16
4. Whoever believes in him and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Mark 16:16. This Scripture is not saying that you have to be baptized to receive salvation. Salvation is by grace. Whether we are baptized or not, we will be saved if we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. However, the word for "saved" used here is the Greek word "sozo". The word "sozo" means "safely rescued, delivered out of danger in to safely used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin into his provisions of safety." It is clear from this verse that a real spiritual transaction occurs when we are baptized that delivers us from the results of our sins.

5. You are baptized into the body of Christ (the family of God) (1 Cor. 12:13). In other words, it is also an initiation into the fraternity of Jesus.

These actions and results don't sound very symbolic to me. It clearly sounds like a dramatic spiritual transaction occurs.

Who is buried, who is crucified?
Romans 6:6 states
"Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away
The King James bible reads
6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

We read here that it is our old self or old man that is buried. Now, you may wonder who this is. I suggest that your old self or old man is the spiritual being you were before you were born again and became a new creation. Our old man has committed a lot of sins and has also inherited a lot of curses from the generations that have gone before.

When we are baptized, the old man is buried. We choose to bury him. He's put to death. It's an execution, and anything related to the old man goes with it.

Sins give rights to demonic forces. The spiritual world is very legalistic. Negative Spiritual forces cannot attack us or touch us unless we give them legal rights to do that. Prov 26:2 clearly states this.

Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.

However, when we do sin, or our parents sin, it gives rights for a curse to come upon us. When we are baptized, we put to death the old man and the rights that are associated with the old man are made null and void. The spiritual forces that are associated with those rights must leave. They have no legal right to be there. That is why Baptism is so important. This is how Baptism saves us. The act of Baptism rescues and delivers us out of danger. It delivers us from the penalty and power of sin into Our Heavenly Father's provisions of safety".

Deliverance is the children's bread.
I have experienced three seasons of deliverance emphasis in the church. There was a great emphasis on deliverance in the late 1970s, it came around again in the 1990s, and it's starting again in the 2020s. The challenge with deliverance is that people often become consumed with looking for demons. Only one-third of Jesus's ministry was focused on deliverance. If you are spending more than one-third of your ministry time on deliverance, I suggest you readjust your focus. However, ignoring deliverance is also a mistake.

Jesus called deliverance the children's bread in Matthew 15. A Canaanite woman had asked him to deliver her demon-possessed daughter. His response was unusual. He said
24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 25 The woman came and knelt before Him. "Lord, help me!" she said. 26 But Jesus replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs." 27 "Yes, Lord," she said, "even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." 28 "O woman," Jesus answered, "your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Jesus called deliverance the children's bread. We are the children of God, and deliverance is our bread, too. It's something that we can expect.

First John 3:1
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

How do you acquire the results of Baptism?

The first step in Baptism is repentance.
Acts 2:38 Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Repent means "to change one's mind or purpose". When we repent, we choose to change how we think, what we do, and how we behave, from the way the world thinks to the way God thinks. We start by asking God's forgiveness for our sins. I recommend that this be done thoroughly and not just as a general statement. We commit sins individually. We should ask forgiveness and repent the same way. Remember, our sins provide the spiritual world with legal rights over us, so the more thorough we are with our repentance, the more legal rights are broken. Now, I don't believe you need to repent of every sin you did. I don't think we can remember them all, but I think we can repent for sins in categories.

The Sozo ministry has a good structure for examining ourselves and structuring our repentance. There are four categories they would suggest that you consider when deciding to get serious in the area of repentance. These categories are Sexual sin, Occult, Hatred, and fear. I recommend that you take the time to do this well and not be in a hurry. I also suggest you ask God's forgiveness for generational sins as well. Often, the sins of our ancestors can affect us because they have given rights to the spiritual world to affect their descendants.

The second step is a public declaration.
When we are baptized, we publicly declare our allegiance to Jesus Christ, identify ourselves with the cross of Christ, and are baptized into Christ. We acknowledge that our old man is about to be crucified and buried in the tank, and because we have repented of his sins, the spiritual forces related to the old man must stay in the tank and have no right to be on you.

Now, if you did not understand this when you were baptized and thought that you were just making an outward sign of an inward commitment, you can correct that situation today. There are no time issues with our Heavenly Father. He lives outside of time. I suggest that you can make that declaration today, even though you may have been baptized 50 years ago.

If you would like to acquire all the benefits of your Baptism, I encourage you to do this prayer with me.

The Prayer
Heavenly Father, I now understand that being baptized is much more than just making an outward sign of an inward commitment, and I want to acquire all the benefits that Jesus purchased for me on the cross.

1. I ask forgiveness for my sins and the sins of my ancestors. (Be specific, and don't be in a hurry.) I repent for doing these things, and as an act of my will, I change my mind and choose to live according to your will and commandments. I ask you for your help to do this.
2. I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross, rose from the dead on the third day, and is sitting with his Heavenly Father today.
3. I received his gift of forgiveness that was paid by the atonement he made for my sins on the cross.
4. I declare that Jesus Christ is my Savior and Lord.
5. I choose to follow him in the waters of Baptism and identify with His cross by the act of Baptism, and by doing so, I choose to bury my old man and everything that is associated with him. These include all my sins, all my ancestors' sins, and all curses that were related to those sins.
6. I rebuke every spiritual force that's associated with my sins and my ancestors' sins.
7. In Jesus' name, I command these spiritual forces to go to the baptismal tank and never bother me again because you have no rights on me.

Congratulations, you have now dealt with any spiritual forces related to your old man, and you have the authority to tell any temptation that would try to drag you back into those sins to leave you because you have repented, are baptized in Christ, and they have no rights on you.

You will now find it easier to walk in the newness of life. Jesus is committed to helping you be transformed. This process is called sanctification. You have put off the old man, and your mind will be renewed.

Eph 4:22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

It does take your whole life to become what you are in Christ, but choosing to be baptized is the best way to start the journey.
I bless you all. I hope this has been helpful. Please write to me if you experience a change in your life as a result of this prayer. I would love to know about it.

This blog is originally published here:https://thesecretplace.ca/blogs/f/why-should-i-be-baptized