Freedom & Fire

01/05/2026

We are super excited to share that Freedom & Fire is going National!

Praise Jesus that over 600 people have been healed and set free through this ministry and now the Lord is opening doors throughout New Zealand!

We have been busy training churches in many locations in both the South Island and North Island. This ministry will soon be much more accessable for the body of Christ!

All glory to Jesus as he continues to pour out his spirit over the ministry and we equip the church to walk in His power and authority!!

12/02/2026

Read Louise's story of her beautiful experience at Freedom & Fire and how Jesus set her free from childhood trauma......... 'Well what a remarkable day that was when my husband and I came to Freedom & Fire. How our lives can change in a few hours with prayer!

I was walking on air the first week or so just at the fact that the Lord knew what was troubling me and loved me enough to bring it to the surface with people I could trust. He then delivered me from those horrible demons, some that had been there from childhood. I knew I would never be the same. He had touched me!

I had received some deliverance in my first few years as a Christian and there had been a lot of very nasty stuff then too, but it was usually a single demon told to go. I think the way Freedom & Fire runs these sessions means its more thorough, goes deeper and accomplishes more.

The leaders discernment really helped the process, and I very much liked the way they continuously prayed positively about me and affirmed often who I was in God. Although there was some noise and physical manifestations, it was all worked through by the team in a very gentle, loving and controlled way. I felt loved, accepted and safe through the whole thing.

I felt joyful, blessed and very free after leaving that session. One of the things I really liked about it was how both the team members didn't rush the process at all. I did feel a bit stressed that I was taking more of their time than I should have, so it was good to get told it was ok and others sessions often took longer.

Also the other thing I really like was the flexibility in the process to share what was happening and add things. So even though in one sense it was very structured, there was space for me to say, I think God wants me to ask for forgiveness for this... out of the programmes structure. There was no rigidity. I am so glad of that as He lead me to ask forgiveness for something I had done to another person when i was 18 and oh the relief when I did. I felt this most incredible flood of love through me at the time and my whole being relaxed. .

Having communion was great. Something rather special happened when we started to have it, as I felt God's presence His closeness so powerfully it took my breath away. He was here!

One of the demons that came out that day, which I believe had been there since childhood, was condemnation (linked with self hatred). I could so relate to having that over my life for such a long time.

What a relief to be free from that after decades and being free from it enabled me to manage the next big life's upset that came along in a much better way.

About a week after the session I received some rather dreadful, shocking news. I can say without doubt that having that day of prayer ministry with Freedom & Fire has helped me manage my emotional and spiritual responses in a way I could not have done before.

I feel clean, and good and am walking in a deeper knowing of God's love. I am also very appreciative of the prayers and information I was given at the end of the session. I have twice effectively used the prayer for self deliverance .

As to my physical health, well its good so far, I have stabllised, am managing to do more exercises and cut down my pain medication so watch this space!.

I have already used some of what I learnt that day in praying for others and feel more confident in my prayer ministry. Learning about how demons link together in "groups" and try to hide that way was helpful along with other things.

To sum up my day at Freedom & Fire, organised and empowered by our Lord and faithfully carried out by his faithful, steadfast daughters was very special and I'm eternally grateful. Thank You Jesus, and thank you Freedom and Fire. God's blessings upon you all.'

25/10/2025

Read John's story of how Jesus set him free from fear, trauma and torment after accidently killing a hunter 37 years earlier .......

“I would rather die than forgive myself! It’s all consuming, nothing good can really happen in your life after this!” These are the words that John expressed to me last week as he recalled the memories of the horrific hunting accident that changed his life forever.

John and his hunting buddies had been hunting in the Waimana Gorge area. The day before the accident John had spotted a deer working its way around the hill. On the day of the accident at exactly the same time and location, John spotted the same deer hiding amongst the dense undergrowth. John could see the deer in his scope and waited to take his shot.

John was a great shot and had a low caliber rifle, used specifically for deer hunting in the bush. John lined up the rifle and shot the deer straight in the head. To Johns complete shock and horror he began to hear a voice screaming “Stop shooting!”

“I knew exactly what I had done! I froze up, my brain went blank, I began to shake and had cold shivers all over my body and I was in zombie land. I would have agreed to anything, signed anything for it to go away, but it never did. Stupid me thinking it was the same deer.”

John had accidentally shot a guy from Auckland who had been hunting in the same area as him and his mate. These hunters had not adhered to the hunting etiquette to let John’s camp know they were hunting in the same area. The Auckland hunters were both wearing grey camouflage hunting jackets, looking like the body of a grey deer.

As the hunting parties were three hours into the bush, the other Auckland hunter ran to get help and arrived approximately four hours later with a helicopter. John spent these four hours looking after the dead body, then helped carry the body out to the helicopter which managed to land on a farm strip nearby. John was then taken by the police to be questioned.

“This is when the nightmares began”. The story was in the newspaper and John got called all sorts of horrible names. “That never bothered me a bit because I thought that is what I deserved. I had no peace for a very long time”.

It took approximately four years until John wasn’t thinking about the accident every day. He was instantly terrified of everything. “I felt like I needed to be hurt for it, I needed to suffer. I would rather it was me that was shot”.

Many years later, after John had returned to his love of photography, his beautiful wife was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Cancer . With the combination of Sue enduring chemotherapy and the torment of the accident, John’s diagnosis of diabetes went out of control. He began to self-medicate, which resulted in a stroke. John was diagnosed with Hemichorea, which is a movement disorder characterised by involuntary, jerky, and continuous movements on one side of the body.

John arrived at Freedom & Fire on the 13 February 2023. “When you saw me, I was at the worst time in my life, I was a wreck, I never thought I was ever going to be any different. I would visit people, and I would cry, saying “I’m never going to see you again”.

John entered the Freedom & Fire premises jerking, with little ability to talk or walk. One arm was constantly swinging, his body was trembling, and he was profusely sweating.

My prayer support partner, Doug and I had the most incredible morning in ministry. We dealt with many spirits that had tried to come in through the accident. The strongman (dominant spirit) was a spirit of fear of man. John stated that “the spirit of fear of man came about after the accident, I became terrified, and I had lost vision for doing anything.”

John had never forgiven himself for the accident, he felt that he deserved his torment and diagnosis. God however moved powerfully, and John finally dug deep down, with the help of the Holy Spirit to forgive himself for the first time! In that moment the shaking subsided, peace filled his body, and we sung over him in worship. Doug and I will never forget this day.

“I found in the Freedom & Fire ministry that God’s grace is sufficient for me, I have found that through this I have quite substantial giftings. After Freedom & Fire I became a lot more intuitive about things happening around me. I was discovering supernatural gifts that I never knew I had.”

After the session at Freedom & Fire John gradually healed, it was a progressive healing which has taken place over two and half years. “People would start to comment that I was looking so much better.” I started to notice a couple of months after my session that my central nervous system was slowly being healed. “I didn’t even notice the day I stopped sweating”.

During the interview I stated that “God has done something amazing!”, John’s reply was “no, it’s more than that, He has made me who He wants me to be”.

Now that life has slowed down for John and Sue, they are now dedicating the rest of their lives to serving the Lord. John constantly evangelises to those around him. Both John and Sue have joined the Prayer Team at Church, and John loves to share his testimony and encourage those around him that God is healer and deliverer.

Praise the Lord for John’s healing and freedom. John 10 v10 “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, but I have come to bring life and life in abundance”. This is exactly what Satan tried to do, however God stepped in and broke every chain through the power of self-forgiveness, deliverance and grace. All glory to our Heavenly Father for what He has done in John’s life and the lives that are now being touched though John and his wife. John is now living the abundant life!

Author Kate Moodie (after recording John approximately two and a half years after this session at Freedom & Fire 22/10/25).

22/09/2025

Read Paula's story of how she was set free from generational curses and trauma.........The morning after the deliverance ministry I woke to a new reality, overwhelmed by God’s power and the depth of His love. I wanted to worship Him and praise Him, and to tell anyone who would listen, what had happened during those hours with the team at Freedom & Fire.

It was definitely not the outcome I had expected, having requested prayer to help me discern how my children, grandchildren and now greatgrandchildren could be delivered from the inheritance of mental illness, depression, su***de and broken relationships that afflict my family. I knew about grandparents on both sides of my family who had been involved in Freemasonry and in Occult practices. But Father brought about this appointment to bring me into freedom to begin with!

I’m eighty-two, baptised in the Holy Spirit, a missionary to Central Asia and Africa and our Tangata Whenua, a justice warrior and full-on follower of Jesus Christ. My childhood was marred by significant trauma including in**st, followed by the long, slow loss of a beloved spouse through very early onset Alzheimers, and then an abusive marriage. But I believed that I had forgiven all those who had harmed me and that though imperfect, I was free and whole.

It was humbling to discover that eight intercessors were praying during the deliverance session in different locations, including America. One of the intercessors sent a word of knowledge that 'I was still locked up in childhood, defenceless with no way to fight back, and it was time to move on'. And so it unfolded, that I wasn’t a mistake as I’d been told over and over.

There was a raft of demons in me that had gained entrance through trauma. Spirits of rejection, fear of rejection, generational self-rejection, worthlessness, self-hatred, abandonment, disappointment, heaviness, depression, sorrow, self-pity, guilt, shame, resentment, bitterness, distrust, mockery, generational torment, spirit of trauma. Some of these entities fought to stay. I didn’t know they were there, but the reality of the manifestations as the team leader cast them out attested to their presence and their reluctance to go! At one point I told the team leader that I was tired and wanted to sleep but she knew it was the demon speaking, wanting to be left alone so it could stay!

I was fully participating in the deliverance, breaking vows, breaking all agreement with entities. The mocking spirit refused to go, laughing and making me turn my head away. The team leader commanded it to look at her, she saw it in my eyes and asked if it had a legal right to stay. I (or it?) said no, but it was trying to say it could come back any time. The team leader said, "No, you can’t, and commanded it to let me go, every last one of you…, spirit of torment off her mind.’’ There was a significant manifestation, crying as it left.

Throughout, it was abundantly clear that these entities have to submit to the power of the blood of Jesus if a person has genuinely forgiven those who have harmed them, and repented of any vows contrary to the word and will of God.

In the days following the prayer session I’ve experienced a newfound clarity of mind, to the point that after five years of struggling to start, finally I’ve begun writing 'Fields of Light', a memoir recounting the extraordinary events of my later life in ministry. The team leader stated that God has given me back my voice.

Regarding my presenting reason for asking for Freedom & Fire ministry, it was explained to me that we can’t pray specifically for deliverance for family members. They have their own free will and must accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord and seek freedom for themselves from generational curses. However, breaking generational inheritances off me helps me to be more effective in praying for them, binding in them whatever is bound in heaven.

Freedom & Fire Team, I am forever grateful for your lives laid down in this powerful ministry. I’m still astounded that by His grace, the Lord has enabled me to lead a productive life despite so much genuine torment for which I mostly blamed myself. The next season will be altogether different!

I came under forty-eight hours of intense backlash from the enemy late last week but recognised what was going on and re-closed any possible entry points, declaring Derek Prince’s prayer and not allowing any foul thing to get a foothold. I’m so grateful for the support, and for the intercessors covering us all. I am indebted to my friend also, for sitting through the long session and taking detailed notes from which she and I can learn to be more effective in our own prayers for others.

The questionnaire that’s required to be completed beforehand, and the guided prayers for forgiving and releasing others, plus the background intercession and then a check-up phone call a week later-all these contribute to the safety and authenticity of Freedom & Fire’s work. I felt so loved! He who the Son sets free is free indeed.

If anyone reading this testimony may be considering asking for similar ministry, let me assure you that despite the presence of the evil entities, the whole process was so safely and lovingly guided and managed by the team. I had absolute confidence that Father God was setting me free and there was nothing to fear. The team preserved my dignity and inner peace in spite of what went down!

With heart felt gratitude for the peace like a river in my heart,

Paula

22/08/2025

Today is a great day of celebration! Ten years ago today I was miraculously healed of Multiple Sclerosis by God! I give all glory to Him who saved me, healed and delivered me! I am a new creation in Christ!

Since my healing I have had the priveledge, with the team at Freedom & Fire, of seeing over 500 people set free from demonic strongholds and many physical healings! God just continues to blow me away with his power, faithfulness and incredible love!
Satan tried to take me out, but MY GOD turned my life around for HIS GLORY!

Here is my story of how God healed me
https://www.freedomandfire.co.nz/post/kate-s-story

And if anyone reading this post is in a place where they feel broken and need freedom, healing or want to know more about Jesus, we would love to chat with you. Follow the link and get in touch. God created you with purpose, He loves you and wants to be your friend.
www.freedomandfire.co.nz

Welcome for Freedom & Fire. This is a space for testimony to be shared about how Jesus is changing lives. Though deliverance and the laying on of hands people are being healed, delivered and set free in Jesus name!

07/08/2025

Read Maria's story of how Jesus set her free from spirits of anger, shame, fear, perfection, pride and perversion............I had a prayer session with Freedom & Fire in April 2025 and I can truly say it has been life transforming!

Through this ministry session I have come to a new realisation of the truth in Ephesians 6:12 in the Bible, where it highlights that the spiritual battle believers face is not against physical enemies, but against spiritual forces of evil. This verse emphasises that the struggle is not with flesh and blood, it is with the rulers, authorities, and powers of darkness, as well as against spiritual wickedness in the heavenly realms.

I was guided through some prayers to repent and to renounce the authority of certain powers of darkness which had a foothold. The team prayed then for me and I was told there were intercessors praying in the background.

As I yielded to the Lord and his Holy Spirit, I experienced a setting free from anger, shame, fear, a spirit of perfection, pride and a spirit of perversity amongst others.

I have been married for over 40 years, there has been anguish and trauma along the way, with a significant period of separation and reconciliation. Before the prayer and deliverance I was struggling to hold it together in the relationship, I constantly reacted with defensiveness and anger behind closed doors. It seemed my heart was becoming hardened, despite my genuine desire to please God and to have a good relationship with my husband. I recognise now that I was bound by strongholds within me.

Following the session, I have experienced a deep peace within and a heart that is loving and filled with joy. I feel set free.

My relationship with my husband is different, previously I blamed him for my wrong reactions and struggled to overcome. I now feel such a strength inside and I am experiencing the fruit of the spirit operating, with self control being very evident. I often had no control over my wrong and destructive emotions, which highlights the danger of allowing the enemy of our soul (Satan) a foothold by being unrepentant. I understand now the power of refusing to allow Satan to have any authority in my life.

There were 3 words of wisdom that I also bought away from the session:- submit to your husband (as my spiritual covering), don't let the sun go down on your anger and join a good fellowship of believers.

I have also received a follow-up module, which will be so useful as a tool to prevent the enemy from having the victory again.

Thank you Freedom & Fire team for your willingness to minister to others in this manner. It has saved my marriage and I believe will be instrumental in restoration with our precious children.

For more stories like Maria's please go to https://www.freedomandfire.co.nz/blog