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Praise God. Hallelujah. This is a good night. Amen.
This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it. Amen. Amen. So, awesome, awesome, awesome. You know, good prayer tonight. And you know, uh, when we pray, I love that song. And you know, when you speak that name, things happen. And when we pray, things happen. And we need to literally begin to expect that when we, you know, go and we pray for people or minister to people or whatever that things are going to shift and happen. Even if we don't see it, even if we're not seeing something immediately right away, know that in the spirit realm, you've moved them closer to victory than what they were before. And that victory will begin to culminate and build and build and build. I've watched that happen over and over and over. And so we need to put faith in our prayers. We need to put faith in believing that when we ask, we receive. Amen.
Amen. Amen. Okay. So, I'm going to start a series on authority. And uh you know, I've been teaching on uh yoga and a little bit on a few other things. and and I'll probably pick up and do some more stuff on on some, you know, alternative medical practices and the occult and all that kind of stuff, but uh I'd rather teach on this kind of stuff. I seriously would. Uh but then we need to be aware too. You know, I think one of the reasons the church gets so involved in things that are occult and its origin are occult and the root is because we're not being taught. People don't realize when they open the doors that they've opened up their doors to darkness. And that's the way the devil wants wants it to be because the word occult means hidden. Amen. So we need to expose it. But we also need to know who we are. We need to know who God made us to be because God has us here on earth on purpose. Especially in this day, in this hour, you are here purposely to accomplish the will of God in these last days. And literally what you begin to decree and what you begin to say, expect it to begin to happen because you've released into the atmosphere words of the living God. And God's word will not go void. Amen.
So right now I declare and I command every ear to be open to hear the truth of the word of the living God. And I command every eye to be open to see the truth. I command veils to be removed in the name of Jesus. And I say church, wake up and rise up to your hour because in the name of Jesus, this is a mighty hour and God's people will rise up and we will do great feats in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
Amen. So, I'm going to start with uh Genesis. I don't know why I didn't write that down. Genesis um I got this is what I got authority chapter 1 verse 26 and 28. But it's actually Genesis. But it's I don't know why I didn't write that down. It's on authority. So, I'm going to read it to you. Uh because one of the things that I get so many emails all the time and I and on in these emails, people are always begging for help. And one of the big things that they do is that so many people are dealing with things from the occult or maybe witches having cast spells against them or sending curses and things like that. And you know what? We can make every one of those curses and spells fall to the ground.
They need to know who they're coming against when they come against us. And we need to literally be exercising our authority in Christ Jesus. So in Genesis 1:26 and 28, and I kind of have paraphrased it in my own translation, Bev Tucker translation, but it's kind of pretty close, but it says, "Let and it's pretty close to the Amplified. Let us make man in our image." And that's God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit speaking. Let us make man to be just like us. Think about that. You were made to be just like God. Let us make man just like us. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And let us give them complete authority. That was not my translation. That's what it actually says. Complete authority. So you don't have twothirds authority. You don't have one-third. You've got complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and the beast, over all the earth, and everything that creeps on the earth. So, we've been given complete authority over everything on this earth. So, why don't we operate in that? This is what the book says. It's because we don't have understanding. And that's even like what Paul said in uh Ephesians 1 that I was reading at the beginning. I pray that the eyes of their understanding would be enlightened so they would know. So we need to know all the power that's available to us. We need to know the authority that's available to us. We need to know its resurrection power.
I mean literally to raise up Jesus from the dead took the most powerful force of all. When the Holy Ghost raised him up because every demonic spirit in hell wanted to hold him back, they could not. They said that literally had they known, they had never crucified him. They had no idea the battle that was going to be engaged. They would be engaged in coming when Jesus was resurrected from the dead. So God created man in his image to be just like him. Father, just like father, son, and holy spirit. He made them to be speaking spirits. And that's in Genesis 2:7. And remember that is what the um uh the Torah said in the original when God made man, he made another speaking spirit. So why were you made to be a speaking spirit to act like God? Because remember, he created by the words of his mouth. We can create and bring things to pass when we speak that same word, the word of the living God. So he made man to be a speaking spirit. He created them both male and female in his image. And so both male and female are in his image. And in verse 28 it said, "And God blessed them and said, be fruitful, subdue, have dominion over everything." Have dominion over everything. Have dominion over everything that make that moves on the earth. And how do we get where you know I just really want to provoke you, challenge you to start taking authority and standing in that authority? And you might feel like, well, I can't do that. Yes, you can. You can because it's I'm not going to get into this a little more, but it's his authority operating through us. Okay? And he doesn't come behind in anything. So, can we do this? Yes, we can. We just have to learn how to wield that sword. We need to begin to practice. And when you begin to practice and you begin to do it, after a while, you become good at doing it. And that's part of our problem. We're looking at or listening to really what the enemy says to us that you can't do it because who's telling you you can't do it. Yeah. Because God said you can. Amen.
So he said, "Be fruitful, subdue, have dominion over everything that moves on the earth." God doesn't or never never did intend that any outside force was to dominate you. Yeah. Thank you. No outside force was to ever dominate you. He has given us jurisdiction over our lives. And so I I want you to stop and think what what do I need to take authority over? Last night at my team meeting, someone said she said, Bev, I uh she was reading in Genesis 28 where she read that part of the curse was inflammation. So she said that she took authority over that curse and broke it off of her life and could she has no more inflammation in her body.
That's awesome. That is so awesome. So let me read this again. God doesn't or never did intend that any outside force dominate you. So think about what may be dominating your life right now. It could be anything from sickness to joblessness to family problems, marriage issues. But God did not make those things to dominate you. He made you to dominate them. And one of the main things that we have to learn, I don't have this written, but I'm going to say this is that we need to learn how to come into obedience under Jesus Christ under structures that he has set in place for us because authority is going to operate through us as we function in obedience to the Lord. It's in obedience. When God says it, we need to be doing it because you know um this one guy Francis Fran Japan I think his name was. But he said we try to cast out pride but he said how are you going to cast out pride when you got it in your own life. See so a lot of times we need to cleanse this house and we need to reckon with who we really are.
Amen. We need to reckon with our failings. Amen. So he has given us authority. He gave us jurisdiction over our own lives. He has given us authority to command demonic hindrances, demonic hindrances to our assignment to be unaffected. Every single person in this room, you have an assignment from God.
Amen. Every single person. And so we have to take authority over every demonic hindrance. So this is another thing. Take a look at how successful you are being in moving forward in what your calling is. Okay? And it could be and if you're not, it could be just exactly what I said, a demonic hindrance. It could be laziness. It could be um no energy. It could be fatigue. It could be a lot of different things. And you know, sometimes we expect the demonic to be this big major thing, but insecurities in your life. Take a look at what God and ask the Holy Spirit, Lord, show me what's hindering me from my assignment. God has given us jurisdiction over our world under his authority. He wants you, not sin, not demonic powers, not negative circumstances, or any other outside force to govern your life. You're supposed to govern your life, not outside circumstances. The question of who is in control is a governmental issue. Webster defines govern as to direct. Control to regulate by authority to influence or to direct to restrain restrain to steer or regulate the course of or to exercise authority to maintain the superiority. So think on that. We are to maintain the superiority over what? Over every hindering force that comes against us. That's exactly what that means. So again, when you see things in your way, are you kicking those things out or do we tolerate them? Because if we tolerate them, we allow them to increase in our life.
What we what we starve dies. What we feed grows. Tolerance and what we tolerate is like a vitamin pill to the enemy. Okay? Because then he can just run and do what whatever he wants to to do. So we are to maintain the superiority. One of the scriptures uh primary themes one of the scriptures primary themes is to is on governmental authority. In fact um basically the whole issue from the very beginning is who's going to rule. Has it not been that? Remember when Satan Lucifer lightbearer was in heaven, he said, "I will exalt my throne above the most high God." So in other words, he said, "And a throne is a place of rulership." So he endeavored to rule above God. Okay? So this whole thing has been over rulership. And then then when he got kicked out of heaven and he apparently came down to the earth, okay, and he totally like basically destroyed everything. That's why when God came down and it talked about major chaos on the earth when he began to create but it it literally when he came down and God God made man he gave man authority. I just read that to you in Genesis 1 26-28. He said let us let man have dominion over everything on this earth. Okay. So dominion really is let man have the ability or the right to rule over their circumstances in life. Okay. So the enemy again wanting to be the ruler wanting to rule usurped that from Adam and Eve. And in doing that, again, uh let me say it this way. God, I've said this before, but God's decision to rule earth through mankind. And you know what a gift that God gave us. When you think about being given dominion, being given uh authority, that was a gift to us from the Lord so we could be successful. God never made us to be failures. He made us to be successful in life. That's what he did. So God's decision to rule the earth through man when he gifted us with authority, his decision to rule the earth through mankind through us was so final and so eternal that the devil knew the only way he could get it was to go through people, Adam and Eve, to get it, which he succeeded. But again, God's decision to rule the earth through mankind was so final and so eternal. It's never changed and it's never going to change by the way because it's an eternal decision. And he says, "I am the Lord and I change not." So his decision was so final and so eternal that God himself had to become a man to come to the earth and get it back. And he did, didn't he? And what did he do with it then? He put it right back in the church. So he his decision to rule through us has never changed. But the battle still is contending from the enemy to try to get us to succeed. Succeeded our hand over our authority even in our own lives to him. When was the last time you kicked him out of your house? Stop. Think about that. Are the lives of your children. When have you said we're not doing this? You know, and and sometimes when we what happens is that if we don't see something move right away, we decide it didn't work. But you know, it's just like what that song that we were listening to singing that the name of Jesus automatically breaks chains.
It automatically breaks the shackles. That name is our healer. That name is our restorer. So when we are taking authority in our homes, whether you see it or not, does not mean it's not working. Sometimes there's such stubborn resistance. And part part of the reason that stubborn resistance has built up so much is because we did not take authority when we should have and pushed it back. And sometimes it was because we didn't know. But when we find out, we need to do that. It's kind of like what it says in Jeremiah 23:29. My word is like a fire that will consume that which cannot stand the test and like a hammer break in pieces the rock of stubborn resistance. So if you got a hammer, then you hammer and you hammer and you hammer because you're the one with the authority to take. You're the one with the hammer. We got the hammer. Okay. Or like it it says I think it's in Ezekiel 4. Uh the word of God is also like a battering ram. What is a battering ram? It's it's a big huge wood that you just keep hitting and hitting it. You batter the works of darkness and cause them to fall and you have to make them fall because sometimes you may deal with very uh very resistant, stubborn demons. Yeah. And you know, I can remember I'd you know what I used to do? I used to prophesy to the devil. And I would say, "Devil, this is my house. These are my kids and you're not having them." And we need to say that. I would tell the devil, especially when we were battling with for one of them, although I've had to battle probably for all three of them, but I would say, "Devil, he's mine and he's God's." See, we have to cut that off. We have to take our stand. And whether we see it change and shift right away or not, if we take the battering ram of God's word and hit it, it'll fall. Sometimes we have to make it fall. And it's the same way with sickness and disease. Um, I don't know if I told you this last week or not, but anyway, I was listening to a little clip that uh Marilyn Hickey uh put out, they put out after she passed away, and it uh she said she had this tumor. And she said the Lord told her for the next 24 hours, I want you to declare, speak to that tumor and just began to say, God, your word is health and healing to all my flesh. So for the next 24 hours, she stayed up through the night and all night she kept saying, "God, your word is health and healing to all my flesh. Your word is health and healing to all my flesh. Your word is health and healing to all my flesh. Your word is health and healing to all my flesh. Your word is health and healing to all my flesh. You see, now that might sound like it just goes on and on and on. She obeyed God for 24 hours declaring your word is health and healing. After 24 hours, that tumor was completely gone. Ain't that awesome? But see, that's the hammer of his word. That's the battering ram. Okay? So, you know what? We need to put on our boots and go after some of these things and start taking back. You know, if we've released things, even unknowingly, it's still not too late to begin to take back because you have to remember, you're the one with the dominion. You're the one with the authority to do that. Satan's been stripped of his authority. The authority that he stole from Adam and Eve, he's been stripped of it. Okay? But it's ours. We have it. Okay? So, the biblical the primary biblical struggle is who will rule. The battle is over. And so, who are we going to listen to? The more we learn to take our authority and to operate on this earth the way God intended, the more his plans will prosper on this earth. Seriously, a lot of the different things that are going on in the earth is because the church has been asleep.
It is. We've been asleep. We've allowed ourselves to be entertained with things that are not godly, the spirit of the world. And because of that, we've allowed ourselves to be weakened. And what it has done is desensitized our discerning and our ability to to begin to operate. But again, it's time we start stepping out. If we don't step out, the consequences are going to be more severe. They really will be. The church has got to rise up. God wants us to win over every evil that comes against us and govern. Now, tonight what I'm sharing about I'm going to share more on corporate anointing, but tonight I'm going to share on our personal anointing, our authority. Uh I liked what Troy said though about being uh how did you say it? Appointed and anointed the different we have a lot of people maybe appointed into different places, but are they anointed to be there? Because see, we have a tendency to think from a world governmental view versus a godly governmental view. And the only one that stands is the godly governmental. This other stuff is counterfeit.
It is. Okay. That's just like I say this, and some people might not like this, but I'm going to say it. For today, when we have homosexual marriages, and people think that's okay, even in the Christian camp, I'm sorry, but they're not okay. And if if two gay men or two uh gay women marry each other, those are not legal marriages. Just because we had a president who endeavored to make that legal was it was never made legal by God.
So therefore, it's illegal. So any kind of of of authority that the enemy or anytime of the things of this world system, that's not authority. That's not governing. We have to go by the governmental authority of the Lord Jesus Christ in order to begin to function it. And that's part of why he said, "You're in the world, but you're not of it. Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord." Okay. So, uh, in other words, we, uh, God wants us to win over every evil that comes against us. So, think about what is coming against you right now. God wants you to govern that. Uh he wants you to come against that so that you can begin to operate in a place of success. We were created to rule, to govern, and to exercise authority to maintain superiority. We're to maintain superiority, not be lorded over by demonic forces. Let me say that again because I think that's good. We were created to rule, to govern, and to exercise authority, to maintain superiority, to not be lorded over by demonic forces. And in Romans 5:17 it says, "For if because of one man's trespass, death reigned, much more surely will those who receive God's free gift of righteousness reign as kings or in other words rule as kings or keep superiority, maintain our superiority. That's who we are. How much more surely will those who receive God's free gift of righteousness have the ability to maintain superiority in situations in their life. We just have to be challenged to do that. When I was putting this together there, the Lord was challenging me over some things that I've kind of, you know, been back and forth on just a little bit and standing in some areas. And it's like, you know, you can't do that. We can't vacillate. We can't be double-minded.
Because we've got to, you know, and if you got to write it down and put it in your face, then I would do that. So, we are to reign as kings in life through one man, Jesus Christ. Psalm 110:2 says, "The Lord will send forth from Zion, the scepter are the authority of his strength." And then he commands us, he says, "Rule then in the midst of your enemy." So God commands us to start ruling. So tell the devil, "Not on my watch, not in my time, not in my house, not in my finances, not in my health." So we've got to start ruling in that. And it it's no different literally than when um uh Marilyn Hickey over and over said, "Your word is health and healing to all my flesh." 24 hours declaring what God's word said. But it made that enemy, the tumor, bow its knee. Amen. At that name, every knee must bow. Sometimes we have to make it bow and enforce it. We need to learn to operate in our authority. Matthew 28:18 and 19 says, "All authority, all power of rule in heaven and earth has been given to me." Verse 19 says, "Go then, we were made to rule to operate in God's authority." So he said, "All authority," Jesus has been given unto me. Now go and rule. Go back to what my original intent was for you was for you to operate in dominion. That's the very first thing. That's what God said to man. Rule, subdue, have dominion, take authority. So, uh, the devil's under our feet. I think this is a good part, too. The devil is under our feet. We're not under his feet. And so, when somebody tries to send witchcraft against you, you're not under the feet of witchcraft.
It's under your feet. Walk on it. Walk on it. We enforce the victory of Jesus Christ. And it is not a defeating of the enemy because he's already defeated. You don't defeat the enemy. Jesus in defeated the enemy at the cross. We enforce it. And so God expects us to enforce that. And I I'll give you some scriptures here on how it talks about we are to tread. That means literally again if if some witch curses you, you start treading. You start because she's under your foot, under your feet. You're not under their feet. We've been raised up with Christ in heavenly places, seated in heavenly places, given joint seating. That means we're right here beside him. We're not underneath his feet. We're the body. So the whole body including the feet are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We're not down below. We're above. Okay? So anything the enemy is trying and and you know it's not until we start taking that sword, God's word, and swinging it that we're going to begin to see the results. Just like I said with Marilyn Hickey, she was taking her sword, swinging that sword all night long. That's pretty tenacious, isn't it? I think that was like what a miracle. 1 John 3:8, let me say that again. We are to enforce the victory of Christ. And it and it is not a defeating of the enemy. He's already defeated. Remember, the devil is under our feet. We're not under his feet. 1 John 3:8 says, "The reason the son of God was made manifest was to undo, destroy, loosen, and dissolve the works of the enemy." So Jesus was made manifest, in other words, came to this or earth in order to destroy every work of darkness, loosen every work of darkness, and dissolve them, bring him to nothing. Hebrews 2:14 since says therefore his children share in flesh and blood he Jesus himself took of our nature the same nature that by going through death might bring to nothing make of no effect he who had the power of death that is the devil. I love that. So Jesus brought to nothing and made no of no effect everything to do with Satan for our purpose. He didn't have to do it, but he did it because he wanted us free of all of these things. So what a gift we've been given. But to sit and put that gift of authority on the back burner and allow the enemy to walk all over our homes, our families, our children, our our ministries, our church. Okay, so to make him of no effect, the word here is katargio and it means to render, inactive, to spoil, to make useless and void, to make without effect. So that's a good one. We can bring it to no effect in our life. Jesus rendered him without effect. But Satan is not destroyed in the sense of being done away with or non-existence or not being able to function. Jesus rendered him of no effect. If we'll come under the lordship of Jesus and put certain principles in operation, then we're going to see that all come into existence in our lives and then expand out to those around us. Genesis 3:15, this is what God said to Satan. He said, "I will put enmity between you and the woman and between you and your offspring and her offspring." An offspring there when it's talking about her offspring is capitalized. In other words, it's it it was a uh it was talking about Jesus coming in the future. So, and it says, I will put enmity between you and your offspring, meaning all of his demons and her offspring and anybody I I guess who serves him. I will put enmity between you and your offspring and her offspring. Jesus he will bruise and tread your head underfoot. So Jesus then that's the word head means headship. So meaning it was already prophesied even though man fell God prophesied a future king coming Jesus and that he would destroy his headship. He would tread him underfoot. Again, if we are the body of Christ, we need to learn to identify ourselves as that, then the enemy's under our feet too. No difference. Satan, Jesus broke the headship of Satan. In other words, he broke the rule over man. Satan at the fall became head over the human race. Now, since the defeat of Sat Satan, Jesus is head. He's head of everything really, but he's ahead of the church and the authority of the church. In other words, God's in charge. Ephesians 2:23 says, "We were obedient to and under the control of the demonic spirits that still constantly work in the sons of disobedience." Ephesians 2:2 and 3 says, "We were obedient to and under the control." And that's where we lived as sinners. We lived under the control of the enemy. We were obedient to him, even maybe not knowing that, but we're not anymore. Jesus took away Satan's authority. Satan still has his power and he still has all of the ability he ever had. And if I put myself in certain positions like sin or any other kind of thing, Satan will have access to me with his power. But he does not have the right to use that power on me as a believer. He doesn't have that right. I have been delivered from the headship of Satan. So what happens if you sin? Get back up and repent.
Yes. Be quick to repent. And I'm not talking about cheap grace. I'm not talking about just like go sin and then go repent and you're good. No, that isn't good because the devil and both God know you didn't really repent. Okay? So, but if you repent, it puts you right back into a into a your rightful place as authority. Uh and he does not have the right to use his power on you as a believer because you've been delivered from the headship the rule of Satan. So it's almost like excuse me you're telling me what you know we need to talk to the devil sometimes and say no I don't think so not today not tomorrow and not the next week. You know, in Matthew 16, it says, "What we bind," I don't think I read that to you. "What we bind on earth is bound in heaven. What we loose," uh, and the, uh, amplified says, "What we forbid is forbidden. What we allow is allowed." That's heavy, isn't it? What you forbid is forbidden. What you bind, what you allow is allowed. So let me give you the definition, the Greek amplification of that scripture that I just quoted, Matthew 16:18 and 19. And this is God speaking again to the church. And he said, "Upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of heaven and whatever you bind on earth. Whatever you declare is improper is bound in heaven. Whatever you loose is loose. So do you ever tell the devil no this is improper. The Greek word here means that whatever you may at any time encounter of hell hell's councils which I am declaring my church shall prevail against. You will then be faced with a decision as to whether you will or you won't bind it. In other words, are you going to do anything about it? Are you going to take authority over it? What transpires will be conditional upon your response. If you do personally and consciously involve yourself in the act of binding the issue on earth, you will discover that at that future moment when you do that, it has already been bound in heaven. You lay claim of it. Whatever you determine to lay claim on earth, you can have. That is what the Greek meaning of that scripture is. And the gates of hell. What that means is the councils, the schemes, and the plans of hell against you. He says you can bind them. You can forbid them from being able to be successful against you. In other words, demand demand God's will be done, not Satan's. You make a decision when the schemes of hell come against you as to involve yourself in binding up the works of darkness. And then you discover it's already bound in heaven. It's so it's up to us to step into that and start doing that. And the reason for that, Ephesians 3:10 says the purpose is that through the church, the complicated manysided wisdom of God would be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly sphere. When you know the will of God in your life, demand his will be done. Tell the enemy, "This is what's going to happen and this is what's not going to happen." That's heavy, isn't it? But that's what that means. That's authority. That's some heavy stuff, isn't it? That we sit on. We just have to wake up. We need our fire back, church. We need the fire back. That fighting fire, you know? We need that back. Since the defeat of Satan, Jesus is the head of the church, the authority of the church. You know, I think we've gotten, you know, I I said this a week or so ago, but this guy wrote a book called The Whole Earth is Under a Spell, but the church is under that spell. We need to shake it off. And we need to come back and stir ourselves up. You know, that's what the Apostle Paul told Timothy. He said, "Stir up the gift that's within you." And we've got to start stirring those things up. I think probably one of the best ways to stir up the gift in you, start praying in tongues and pray in tongues and pray in tongues and then pray in tongues some more and then pray in tongues some more and then pray in tongues some more till you stir yourself up and get your fight back. Amen. We got to get our fight back. Okay. So Luke, so you can step in with the right to rule backed up by the God of the universe. We step in with the higher authority and we say, "No, we're not doing this." And you know, you need to say that like, "Devil, no, you're not having my kid." It might might take your kids some time to turn around, but no, you ain't having my kid. You're not having my child. See, we need to fight for it. I think uh Apostle Mara taught on Rispa this last weekend. I've got to I have to listen to it. But you know what? No, you're not. She drove back things and think of the covenant we have which is such a greater covenant that we have the authority in Christ Jesus to drive these things back. Okay. So Luke 10:19, "Behold, I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. He has power, but we have the right to rule or have authority over him. Some translations say we have the authority to tread or trample on the enemy. So basically speaking, Jesus didn't destroy or do away with Satan's power at Calvary. He sa he Satan still exists and still still has all the inherent powers and abilities that he's always had. What Jesus did do was break his headship or his authority over mankind. So he has power, but we have authority over all his power. Amen. Satan has power, but he simply has no legal right or authority to use it on those who make Jesus Christ their Lord. What a gift we've been given that we only have stuck on the back burner. And literally, guys, we have got to begin to wield that sword. We've got to learn how to become practicing militant soldiers in the army of Christ and begin to wield that and to begin to take these things back. There was a man who had um his wife had breast cancer and she did all the chemo and all of that kind of stuff and um I got to remember this is a long time ago so I remember if I tell it right. So five years later because usually they say it's going to return in five years and so she went back in and her bones were literally eaten up. They had holes. She had holes in her bones from the cancer. It came back with a vengeance. And every single day when her husband would go to work, he'd say, "Cancer, you cannot be in my wife's bones. I commend you out in the name of Jesus." He'd say that on the way to work. He'd say it on the way back. Cancer, you cannot be in my wife's bones. I cast you out. And literally after two months when she went back there were all the holes in her bones were gone. Literally God filled them in. See the authority and the power if we will just take it. We've got to start doing these things. And if you don't have any needs in your life to do it over, find somebody that does and stand the gap with them. Amen. So evil spirits function against mankind and unless we deal with them, breakthrough will not come. And again, it's even when we're talking about forces over our our city, over our territories. If we don't deal with them, they're not going to be dealt with. And breakthrough will not come. We keep believing for breakthrough, but we have a portion or a part with that that we have to do. We don't wrestle with God. We take authority and we pray according to his will. We don't storm the gates of heaven. We storm the gates of hell. That's what we do. The reason for that is because God's already freely given us everything. He doesn't hold back from us. 1 John 5:14 and 15. This is the confidence or the boldness that we have in him that if we ask anything or have any request according to his will, he listens and he hears us. And verse 15 says, "And then since we positively know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know with absolute knowledge that we will have granted to us the requests that we made of him." Isn't that a good scripture? What is the will of God? Well, the will of God is not your defeat. The will of God is your success. Okay? Jesus paid for. All you got to do is look at what he paid for on the cross. Or you can even go back to the garden and look what the garden was like in the beginning because that was God's will. Amen. There is a persistence of faith or persistence in taking authority over the enemy, not a persistence in overcoming the reluctance of God. See, sometimes we think we have to overcome God's reluctance. He's not reluctant. Okay? It's it's being persistent and taking uh authority over the enemy, not God. We are not immune to Satan's trying to hinder us. As mature in the Lord as the Apostle Paul was, Satan still worked to hinder him. God is for us. An improper foundation of what the cross did for us is going to keep us from understanding God's love and who we become as new creations in Christ Jesus. Literally, there's never been anything on this earth like us. On the day of Pentecost, when man was born again, hell shuddered. It literally shuddered because all of a sudden we had all these little Jesus's running around. Literally, if any man be in Christ, we are a new creature, a new race, a new species. Nothing never ever been anything like us. It keeps us in a place of thinking we we stay in a place of thinking we have to batter the throne room and that God is withholding from us when if we just know his will in a situation we know he wants to lay us to lay hold of our victory. The victory has already been paid for. So if we understand that that we already have the victory, we can boldly come to him to receive. And then when we don't receive literally right away, then we understand that maybe there's some hindrances, demonic hindrances that we need to take authority over to remove. Just like when Daniel prayed and the answer, he was heard, the angel said the very day he prayed, the moment he prayed. But the answer didn't come for 21 days. Why? Because there were demonic hindrances to that answer coming through. Okay. But what did God do? He sent reinforcements, didn't he?
He did. And so, one of our reinforcements is in the name of Jesus. You're going to go in the name of Jesus. Add authority. We need to study that too. All that is in the name. All that is in the blood. Those are two weapons that no demon in hell can even begin to contend with. So powerful. So powerful. We are not to allow Satan to rule over us. The who's in charge question centers around the concept of power and authority. And let's see what time is it. Okay. So, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to quit. But I thought maybe we would pray tonight a little bit. And so, uh, Ziranda and Sharon, you want to come up and we'll just do a quick prayer. So, I got Sharon here tonight. So, I figure, well, if I got Sharon here, I'm going to use her. So, be praying for us. Sharon and I are going up to Canada week after this one, aren't we? A week from Thursday, her and I are going up there to minister. But I I just want us to pray a little bit and take authority over some things. And as we take authority, then what y'all need to do is to, you know, just go ahead and really begin to stand with us and say whatever is in your life, it's time to go, yep, y'all can stand up. You know what? When you stand, you engage. Sometimes when we sit, we just get too relaxed. But Father, in the name of Jesus, Father, we renounce every work of darkness in the name of Jesus. We renounce the lies. We renounce the doubt. We renounce the fear. Oh God, in the name of Jesus, we renounce every controlling spirit in the name of Jesus. All interference, God, we come against every spirit of sorcery, every spirit of divination, every spirit of witchcraft, even the manifestation of end any underlying spirits in the name of Jesus. Father, we stand and come against all iniquity, the iniquity of fear from your generations that keep you from stepping forward in the boldness that Jesus Christ has already paid for. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we take authority over that iniquity of fear and the access that it has had into your life and we break it off tonight. We call it out of the DNA, out of the genetics, out of the blood, out of the organs, out of the memories and we command it to leave in the mighty name of Jesus. I command right now all anxiety, all fear, all worry, all panic to break off of you. All hopelessness, all defeat, all discouragement. I break it off in the name of Jesus. We break it off in the name of Jesus. God, we come out of agreement with it in the name of the Lord Jesus. And I speak life over you. I speak life in the name of Jesus over your families, over your bodies. I come against every spirit of sickness, of infirmity, of symptoms in the name of Jesus. In the name of the Lord Jesus, we break the altars that we've come agree into agreement with in the name of Jesus. The mindset and the the custom of being used to being sick. We break that altar that you have lived with year after year after year. We call that altar of sickness to burn in the name of Jesus. We uproot that foul spirit of death and sickness. We command it to loose and go in the name of Jesus. We reverse the word curse. We reverse the word curse and declare health and wholeness by the blood of Jesus. We renounce and break all pronouncements against our health, against our mind, against our uh bodies, against our future, against our purpose. We break every word curse in the name of Jesus and declare the blessings of the Lord. We declare the blessings of the Lord that causes us to prosper in the name of Jesus. And I call forth revelation knowledge in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, where there's only been head knowledge of your truth, I call forth revelation knowledge right now in the name of Jesus that it will grow inside of your people that they would take authority over the powers of darkness. And no more, like she said, it's under our feet. Sickness is under our feet. Satan is under our feet. And so revelation knowledge, I call that forth in Jesus' name that your people will have the revelation that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. You have the greater one on the inside of you. And sickness has no authority over you. So you must command it in the name of Jesus. God is waiting on you. He said what you say, he'll do it for you. So you say go in the name of Jesus and he'll he'll make it go. You command it to cease and it will cease. Don't wait on him. He's waiting on you to take authority. I rebuke you sickness. I rebuke you disease in the mighty name of Jesus. You are as Jesus is in this world. You need to declare THAT OVER YOURSELF. I AM AS he is in this world. He is healed. He is whole. He is restored. I am healed. I am whole. I am restored in the name of Jesus. Draw near in faith. As we declare and decree the word of God, God wants us to draw near to his word by releasing our faith. As we pray and declare, we believe the words that we've established upon ourselves in the name of Jesus. The word of God says you can have what you say. Freedom and deliverance is ours. It belongs to you. And we declare mental breakthrough in the name of Jesus. Every spirit of bondage in our thinking, the spirit of confusion, mishap, misunderstanding, the spirit of depression and oppression, you are a liar. That voice that
says, "Oh, I'm feeling depressed." YOU ARE LIE. DEPRESSION, you go in the name of Jesus. That cycle of being up and down like a yo-yo, a roller coaster. We command the cycle of unhappiness to break its hold to loose and go in the name of Jesus. The cycle of remembering the trauma from the past. We command that to break in the name of Jesus. WE DECLARE NO MORE WOULD THAT CYCLE REHEARSE ITSELF. No more would that trauma replay in your mind. We break the altar of that thought. We command it to loose its hold, to come out of your subconscious mind, to come out of your emotions, to come out your heart in the name of Jesus. Reverse that vision in the name of Jesus. See yourself blessed. See yourself whole. See yourself delivered in the name of Jesus. God said, "I fearfully and wonderfully created you. You are made new in the NAME OF JESUS. I DECLARE that I am a new creation. Declare that you are a new creation. You are a new creation in the name of Jesus. A mind that stays on Christ is made new in the name of Jesus.
>> Hallelujah. And father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, God, we judge, Father, and smash every altar in our soul tonight in the name of Jesus. every demonic altar in your soul that has been set up tonight, God, we we judge it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and declare in our soul we have nothing in common with the enemy in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And father God, we judge all bitterness, all unforgiveness, all anger, every altar of resentment and mental torment, anything, Father, infirmity, God, that we've allowed to be set up as an altar in our body, in our soul, Father, in the name of Jesus, we judge it tonight, oh God, in the name of Jesus. And we say, "Altter, altar, I command you, break apart and pour out as ashes. Altars, hear my voice. Break apart and pour out as ashes in the name of the Lord. every power of every demonic altar, every witch that has been building and stretching forth their hand to curse any believer. God, right now we declare any ungodly altar to fall to the ground. Altar, altar, be smashed, be brought to ashes, and be poured out in the name of Jesus.
Hold, put your hand on your heart or your stomach and say, "I renounce >> I >> all trauma >> all bitter words >> all bitterness, >> all resentment, >> all fear, all infirmity, >> all infirmity, >> every altar in my soul are my body that I have built in the name of the Lord. Every iniquity in my heart, I judge it. I judge it. And I say altar, altar, be smashed, be poured out as ashes. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I declare I am not a victim. I am more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus. And I just pull those lies out of your ears where they've been planted in your conscience. And I command them to be uprooted right now in the mighty name of Jesus. Every seed that was a lie, I pull it out of your mind, out of your conscience, out of your soul where you believe the lies of the enemy. I command them to be uprooted in the mighty name of Jesus. Every lying voice be silent in Jesus' name. And I command the fire of God that's in your belly to be released right now in the mighty name of Jesus. That fire, that fire, God, that you talked about earlier, I command that fire in your people to be released right now in the mighty name of Jesus. Be released. And out of your voice, I command your voice to be released right now in the name of Jesus. I rebuke the silence where the enemy silenced your voice. I command your voice to be released right now in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. declare it so in Jesus name. We declare your word we are free for who the son says free is free indeed in the name of Jesus.
Father we cancel every vow that says we would never trust again. We come out of that agreement right now in the name of Jesus. That vow that says I must protect myself at all cost. We break that vow right now in the name of Jesus. That vow says that I would never love again. We break the vow that says I am alone. You are not alone. Jesus said, "I would never leave you and I would never forsake you and that I love you. I fearfully and wonderfully made you." God says he is always with you. We break that vow that says I am unwanted. God says you are my son and you are my daughter. That I love you with an unconditional love. We break the vow that inner vow that says I am one and I am not love. We cancel those words in the name of Jesus. We cancel every snare that says I would never be hurt again. We call those spiritual walls to break to come down in the name of Jesus. We cancel that vow that you would allow the love of God to come in. We pray that the love of God WILL PENETRATE YOUR HEART that your will be healed to the love of the father. I pray in the name of Jesus as you declare, "Father, have your way. I yield my will to your will." Declare this day, I yield my will to your will, Father. I yield my will to your will, Father. I yield my will to your will, Father. I yield my will to your will, Father.
I pray Lord God that you will consecrate them with your love that Holy Ghost fire will pour and overshadow them in the name of Jesus. >> In the name of Jesus. And Father, I pray God that you bless them and that you keep them God. And may your favor, your face shine upon them, God. Your favor shine upon them and give them peace. Oh God, your goodness and mercy follow them all the days of their life. And I declare that you are blessed coming in and you are blessed go going out. I declare your storehouses. Your savings, your checking accounts are blessed with abundance and overflow. May you be healthy and strong in body, mind, and spirit and well balanced in every area of your life. I pray that you will be blessed with an attentive ear to the Holy Spirit to hear his voice and obey him. I pray that you will live in an overflowing walk with the Holy Spirit. And I pray that you have clear direction and that you live a disciplined life, God. That you be blessed with success and prosperity. Bless them, God, with revelation and perception of your truth. May they be assured, oh God, of who they are in Christ Jesus, of your love, your grace, and your righteousness, God. And may they move out in faith, a a new faith, a decision to no longer be denied, God, what you have given them, God. Bless them and empower them to prosper and walk in all that you have called them to do, God, in the mighty name of Jesus. And we all say, "Amen." Amen. And so be it in the name of Jesus. So be it. Amen. Amen. So God bless you. We'll be up here for a little while to pray if you want some prayer.