Question: Why are people being delivered in the sanctuary and not in private? I'm on a deliverance team and we've never done it in public. Maybe i'm missing something but is that "normal" for deliverance ministry?
I had a private deliverance and pray to God if I ever need another one that it too will be done in private. The one thing I do remember and don't mind sharing is that the spirit of doubt was the very last to leave and took the longest. It truly did not want to let go. Afterwards, I knew that if doubt remained, I would not have believed the power of God and his mercy to deliver and forgive me of things that did not honor Him nor please Him. I don't want anything separating me from my Father in Heaven.
I agree with Shimmie about the distractions and tactics the enemy uses during service and how easy it is to divert our attention off of God and immediately onto satan. However, if someone is in need of deliverance during service, we should pray that the man or woman of God He uses is operating under the anointing/authority of the Holy Spirit and is being obedient to the Spirit of God and not that of the flesh to "perform a show".
As someone else had mentioned, I too will not allow just anyone to lay hands on me or pray for me. God has blessed me with keen discernment (there were times I didn't always follow through on what I knew) but I pray to be increased even more in such a time as this with the discerning of spirits because we are truly in Spiritual Warfare!