Autism Healing and Deliverance

In the last post, I shared how the Lord has been reminding us of the importance of guarding our hearts. As believers, we receive the promises of God by faith, and Scripture tells us that faith is belief in our heart without doubt.

Romans 10:10 says, “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” This is why guarding our hearts matters so deeply. If we allow lies—especially religious lies and traditions that make the Word of God of no effect—to take root, they choke out the truth and produce unbelief.

Guarding your heart is NOT the same thing as being afraid of your words.

There are doctrines in the Church that have gone to the extreme, teaching people to live in fear of accidentally saying the “wrong thing.” The result? People become so afraid of speaking symptoms, describing situations, or being honest about a struggle that they fall into bondage. That kind of fear has nothing to do with faith.

If it were true that simply saying something caused it to come to pass, we’d all just say, “I’m healed,” and every sickness would instantly disappear. But Scripture doesn’t teach that. Faith works by believing and not doubting in the heart, not merely by saying something with your mouth.

Let’s look at an example from Scripture.

In Mark 9:21–24, when a father brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus, he explained the severity of the situation:

So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

Did Jesus rebuke him for saying these words, for mentioning and describing the symptoms of the condition? Not at all. Jesus asked him the question, and the father answered honestly. The boy’s healing did not depend on pretending the problem didn’t exist. It depended on where the father placed his trust (heart belief): in Jesus, the Word.

Jesus’ response when the boy’s father said, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”…

When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!” Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.” But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. (Mark 9:25-27)

This is such an important example because it shows us that honesty is not unbelief. A mother who says, “I’m not feeling well right now,” or a child who says, “My stomach hurts,” is not declaring defeat. These are observations of a current circumstance—not confessions of faith or heart belief in sickness or remaining sick.

A woman can tell her husband, “I don’t feel well,” and still place all of her trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ, resisting the symptoms in His name, trusting in His Word that she was healed. That’s faith. Her heart belief is not aligned with the symptoms, it’s aligned with the Word of God.

Now consider the opposite scenario. Imagine a little boy who has been taught by his parents to be terrified of his words because of the type of church they attend. He begins feeling very sick, but he won’t tell his mom because he’s afraid that just by saying it, he’ll never get better and make the sickness last forever. That kind of torment is not from God. It’s fear-driven, not faith-driven. And fear brings torment, not peace (1 John 4:18).

Faith brings rest. Faith brings peace. God is our Father, and He has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). We are called to guard our hearts, not live in paranoia about every word that comes out of our mouths.

The truth is, what we believe in our hearts matters far more than what we say in a moment of weakness, pain, or honesty. That’s why Jesus said in Mark 11:23: “…and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” The key is what the heart believes. It’s not about faking it with our words. It’s about what’s rooted in our heart.

And with that said, I want to add a very important clarification…

I’ve said in other posts, and I stand by this completely: I do not believe in calling a child “autistic,” nor do I agree with parents calling themselves an “autism mom” or “autism dad.” This is a completely different issue than simply describing symptoms or being honest in a conversation.

Why? Because that kind of label is about identity. And identity is directly tied to belief in the heart.

When a parent says “my autistic child,” they’re not just describing a condition, they are establishing that the child is disordered. That the child is the sickness itself. That the disordered state is just who the child is. That can easily become embracing sickness as identity, and it absolutely affects belief in the heart.

You can read more about how identity in sickness in my post called, A Mom Asked: “Why isn’t it scriptural to call myself an ‘autism mom’?”.

Guarding our heart is important. But guarding our heart does not mean fearing our words. It means letting the Word of God take root and rejecting every identity, belief, and report that contradicts the healing Jesus Christ paid for in full. It means not intentionally allowing into our heart the lies that many pulpits preach that call Christ’s healing report a lie.

You may contrast this post with my most recent post called, Satan Steals Healing This Way: Guard Your Heart. Guard Your Heart. Guard Your Heart! to see the difference based on the Word of God.