John Zipser – Liberated form Psychotic Illness
Based in East Sussex
I could not relate all the many things that the Lord has done for me. Human memory is not extensive enough – but certainly the most significant since my salvation in Spring of 1966 was my deliverance from Schizophrenia in 1991.
Mental Health impact in my early days
In my later teens, depression and a mental self-isolation and introspection dominated me.
As I studied in school and art college. It was aggravated, I believe, by my searching for relief in mysticism and esoteric knowledge. Which I thought could be found in Buddhism and Transcendental Meditation; (thankfully, though, I was never induced into taking drugs.)
In the last year at college, at the lowest ebb of depression, I received the Lord Jesus into my heart as my personal Saviour. Through the witness of a group of other students. All the darkness went away immediately!
However, some months after, having been working in a rather unappealing job, a nervous breakdown shattered my progress. All enthusiasm and ambition for life was stemmed. Despite a short, seeming recovery, for a couple of years after leaving hospital after being a patient for 18 months. Descent into a state of withdrawal caused me to be on tranquillising medication for a total of 25 years.
The Journey to a Calm and Peaceful Mind
Although I knew I was saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit, a keen witness for Christ and avid Bible student, my relationships were impaired. I tended to be a “loner”.
I lived with my mother following my parents divorce. Previously, Doctors had warned her, to deter me at any cost from getting married and having children. This had always effected my relationships throughout life.
Looking from this present time, with my deliverance 35 years in the past, the memory of that period before 1991 is waning. However, what took place in the weeks during the Gulf War, I was courting and then got engaged to a twice-widowed ex-missionary.
The miracle which released me from taking any more medication or displaying symptoms of the illness. Brought me into an entirely new experience of life. Truly abundant in every sense.
Under the guidance of my missionary friend, with whom I had had contact for 17 years. I’d sought help and ministry from various sources. Including from the minister who was used by God to cast out all the demons from Doreen Irvine, the ex-witch. Christian psychiatrists and well-known evangelists but without success.
However, constant prayer was changing things.
I worked for as a car paint-sprayer, and moved branches of the chain of garages, to replace someone who was away. In shifting location I had found a calm and peaceful environment. There was no incessant music and noise coming from the radio. It was close to my fiancé’s house, so I could go there for lunch and fellowship. This resulted in me starting to think much more clearly.
Moving on from Medication
I analysed my dutiful medication-taking and concluded I did not need it. I stopped taking it, and after a few weeks the result was overwhelming – I was well and normal!
We started planning a wedding, knowing I now could take the responsibility of being a husband.
The Lord had done the miracle for which I had longed!
Although many were sceptical and looked for a resurgence of symptoms, but they never came.
Understanding my Deliverance Ministry
If I skip the next 25 years or so, to what is happening now, the background to the deliverance ministry is becoming more clear to me. The origin of demons and their activity, made understandable. By the ministries of Derek Prince, John Linden-Cook, Bill Subritzky and currently by David Measures (dwmmi.org), I now see as one of the subjects the Church must get to grips with. If it is to rise up and be all that Christ has empowered it to be.
Since 1967 and the end of “The Times of the Gentiles”, when Israel claimed Jerusalem back in the 6-Day War. We have come into “The Time of the End” of this present world. When the final onslaught Satan has been preparing for is gathering momentum.
The Church, coming into her full stature of likeness to Christ, has to stand in the Evil Day and live out her calling until Redemption is fulfilled. Following the New Testament pattern of scriptural conduct, and in the fear of God, she has to serve her Lord in witness and power.
I trust you, Reader, will be encouraged, for God will deliver you. If you are set to explore fully all the Work of the Cross and discover your new identity. Therefore, becoming equipped to be an overcomer. Investigate every means to receive ministry by those full of faith in Christ’s unchanging power to deliver!