"I'm oppressed and can't escape because I opened doors through past sin."
How it sounds in your head: The things I did before Christ - or even after - gave Satan legal ground. I invited this darkness through my choices and now I'm paying the price. There are open doors I don't know how to close.
"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
-- Colossians 2:13-14Source: deliverance ministry teaching that sin creates 'legal rights' for demons, requiring special ministry or extended process to close doors.
The correlation between past actions and present struggles seems to prove causation. The teaching about 'open doors' provides an explanation for why freedom hasn't come yet.
Manasseh practiced witchcraft, consulted mediums, sacrificed his own sons to demons, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood - the WORST king in Israel's history. When he repented, God IMMEDIATELY heard him and restored him with no deliverance ministry required.
I REFUSE the lie that my past sin gave Satan legal ground. IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus wiped out EVERY handwriting of requirements against me and nailed them to the cross. There are NO open doors - the blood CLOSED them all. IT IS WRITTEN in 1 John 1:9 that if I confess my sins, He is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse me from ALL unrighteousness - not most, ALL. Satan is a LIAR with NO legal rights. I am the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in Christ, and that's not based on my past but on Jesus' finished work. The BARAK blessing covers me like it covered Judah who slept with his daughter-in-law - covenant protection isn't based on behavior but on BLOOD.
The Father didn't wait for you to close doors - Jesus KICKED THEM DOWN at the cross. Every claim against you was canceled before you even committed the sin, and He's running toward you with the ring, robe, and sandals right now.