Deliverence!

This weekend I was invited to lunch by a Woman of God, who seems to have a direct connection to the Man Upstairs - hears Him clearly on everything and responds accordingly. (She prayed over my son on Sunday night - got a calling to do so, and nearly scared the pants off the kid in the process...)

Well, it was just me and another single mom and our 2 kids. After lunch we discovered she had alterior motives for inviting us - her ministry area is Deliverance (as in casting out demons!) and we had been asked along to be delivered from our iniquity as single moms!

Ok, this deliverance ministry is not one I've grown up with or know too much about, so it was a somewhat scary thought that I was to be "delivered"! In fact, I started praying "Lord, if you're really talking to this woman, tell her NOT NOW! I don't think I need deliverance, as this is an issue You and I have dealt with ages ago - though of course the effects will be there for a long time to come." Well, she backed off after a while when she didn't get too enthusiastic a response from me, and the conversation turned to other things.

I'm not sure what to think - I know God's using her and such, but does she have the right to assume I need deliverance, that I'm "in the iniquity"? Us single parents sometimes get targeted just because we're single parents - but that doesn't mean we're evil! I can understand her thinking that "the sins of the fathers are passed on to the children" in that my son is going to have things to deal with after growing up without a dad, but surely under God's grace our little 2-person family can escape the "evil trap" and make a success of our lives. I've put my "colourful" past way behind me and have asked to be made new under God's covering.

I'm going to have to mull over this a while yet, but was just a bit upset at once again being placed in a box and judged by other folk's perceptions without them enquiring after the true facts first.

Only problem is - did God tell her to deliver me? Is there something I'm doing that I don't know is wrong???