Deceptive Deliverance (Compact Edition) - Deliverance, #1

If you've been struggling with anxiety, chronic stress, relationship strain, anger you can't explain, or a season that just won't lift — this book was written for you.

Deceptive Deliverance is not a formula for casting something out. It's an honest account of what happens when the practice meant to expose deception becomes deceptive itself — not because the ministers who practice it are liars, but because many of them, like the author once was, are being played by the very spirits they think they're commanding.

Drawing from years of personal experience with demonic intimidation, oppression, and possession — including a near-fatal panic attack on a transatlantic flight — author Mykone Saunders makes the case that true deliverance isn't exorcism. It's reconnection: walking toward Christ so directly that darkness has no ground left to stand on, not wrestling a demon into submission.

Using the P.M.S. approach — Physical, Mental, Spiritual — this compact edition walks through:

Why chronic stress, poor nutrition, and substances like alcohol and cannabis quietly weaken the mind's ability to discern truth from deception

How fear becomes a weapon, and how repeated thought patterns become spiritual footholds

Why "surrender" is the wrong word for freedom — and why premature deliverance can leave a person worse off than before (Matthew 12:43-45)

A full Do's and Don'ts summary you can return to again and again

Grounded in personal testimony and the King James Bible, this is a compassionate, practical guide for anyone walking through anxiety, financial hardship, relational conflict, or spiritual attack — or supporting someone else who is.