Exercising Spiritual Authority (3 of 6) - How to Exercise Spiritual Authority

come on just come out out we're going to begin to start off with an activation that's right we want to start with an activation all right I wonder how many notice what happened what change take place when I just got you up to go around hug people you notice actually the whole atmosphere shifts because people the walls that disconnect us you know just break down as you start to connect like that and you find that the things of the Spirit are very very simple there nothing really complex about it and we find that often these things that we have to do just naturally and practically things which you can do which involve your soul and things which involve of course your rising in your spirit so we want to get our spirit to arise today so why don't we make our body move and let's begin to pray strongly in the spirit strongly in the language God has given us cylinder baba baba Sheikh al-abadi ah hello Baba Baba Baba see calibre aruku what about a seagull Emory Upton am I gonna be hot dice allah but under am I gonna be hot I elaborate they're a bigger video guru masala Bharat dice he'll look to the beginner video done oh my gosh you got a video up die yep up above that ice he'll never go to video tell em I got a video tell up again she gonna be up die I love a Baba Baba Baba Baba she calabria tights I love our own drama Canterbury up tell em I get a video die yeah ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da dice hell of a kind of idiot ella because she gonna be up dies hell of a Luther masala Maria dies illa burr under a mashaallah Maria died a little sugar Vidya Telemachus akela Marriot dies illa baba baba Sheikh it ate it all up I cannot die hello rutabaga Nvidia Telemachus Shigella Marriott died Oliver under a my caliber you're a beginner video dies a la vache Cara Maria Telemachus she cannot die Ella ba ba ba ba ba ba ba si que tal Ababa recyclable Adele avec le sigue key Lebrun dramas Sullivan and I'm Ocala stay one more bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless His Holy Name bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all benifits okay this time we do it ready from the beginning on the count of three now as you're doing it don't just repeat something and speak something one of the things that you'll find that well if we talked if I we're engaging in a conversation but in my mind I disconnect the person that I'm that we're I'm relating with will feel the disconnection if you ever been talking with someone and and suddenly it you just felt something change their eyes have got that glazed look their mind has gone somewhere else what happens from in the flow of your spirit is there's a disconnect and you actually feel it you can actually feel member talking to my daughter and it was going fine then I thought hello we're disconnected I turned around and she zipped off in some shop and she had gone as X I was just talking to myself but I could feel the difference and you feel the difference if you're talking to someone and their mind goes somewhere else they disconnect so one of the things when you're praying in tongues is to engage your mind as well and engage yourself so what we're speaking now we're going to just speak I want you to be speaking arising in your spirit see surprising up and you're speaking to your soul and you're telling your soul to come into line and bless the Lord O my soul air all that is within me bless His Holy Name and let your body and soul respond see to the voice of your spirit it always wants to praise God let's do it okay they're ready one two three bless the Lord O my soul all that is within me bless His Holy Name bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases hallelujah Oh Holley you come on let's give them a clip right now shovel Baba butter C color burn up that I'm a coach C gala buddy up I thank you Lord okay while we're on it we'll give you one more exercise to do because your spirit will respond to you giving voice to the Word of God say so once you do just so we can take this kid I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might they know that's a declaration from the Word of God but you it's personalized who takes scripture and make it personal I am strong in the Lord and power of his light now of his might now because what happens is you may not feel that way actually today you might be feeling incredibly frail and you've got all kinds of issues going on and so you think I can't say that because that's not true but actually if you were to arise by faith and say in the spirit this is where I stand that I am strong in the Lord and the power of his mind and I will declare what I believe in my heart and then you find everything around you and in you will start to shift to align with what your spirit is saying we need to clear the Word of God so I want you to do it we're going to just I'm strong in the Lord in the power of it smart what's that three or four times and I want you to see what happens when you make it a declaration you're declaring it to your spirit to your soul your body and you're declaring it into the atmosphere around you I want you to see what happens when you speak and give voice to the Word of God like that ready I'm strong in the Lord and the power of his might ready one two three I am stronger the Lord and the power of his might I am stronger the Lord and the power of his might I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might now okay that'll do that's this right okay now the more you do it the more you're in a man begins to agree with the truth initially there's a wrestling because a lot of you doesn't really agree with that but as you learn to speak the Word of God and you make it a strong declaration from inside you'll find your spirit will rise very quickly and everything in you starts to shift because you're declaring what God says is true about you see if the Spirit of God is in you isn't that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead how can you be weak if the Spirit of God is joined to you are you not joined and seated with Christ in the realm of eternity and seated in heaven itself in your spirit is that not true how can you be weak I cannot be weak it's not true that I'm weak my circumstances and things around me may press in and cause me to feel weak but he says you know that when I'm weak then the grace even more amount say so I'm even stronger I'm weak because I lean in and depend on the Lord so let's do one more time and at three or four times I'm strong the Lord in the power of his might ready one two three I am strong in the Lord in the power of his might I am strong in the Lord in the power of his might I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might I am strong in the Lord and the power of his might how many of you found something shifted inside you just doing that Emily felt something okay what did you feel did you that exactly right so we we can believe and speak or we can speak to believe hmm whatever you're feeling begins to shift as you to clear the Word of God exactly so we have the word in the spirit we're going to learn to take what God has given us and work with it hey the word of the service that the Word of God is a sword of the Spirit it actually is a sword so this stuff such sweep away so you can swift the air right around you real quick then thank you long ready so on to again we'll get praying in tongues now this time as you're praying at transverses we're personally prays in tongues is this spiritus praying there praying is the Holy Ghost gives them utterance and it says also that you build up yourself so all I want you to do is you're praying in tongues begin to speak and just see that your whole spirit you're in a man is starting to arise and become full of the life of God let you focus just beyond that sometimes helps just put your hand on your belly and as you praying in tongues your prank consciously to build your spirit man so your spirit man arises as we'll see later your spirit can flow right outside your body or it fills an atmosphere beyond you your spirit flows so let's begin to arise just filling the room with our presence and the Spirit of God I mean ready 1 2 3 cor ba ba ba she color buddy up fella by God's sake how about they he'll love a ba ba ba ba she calimary up they a little bit under my company up there a baguette already hot die l ba ba ba ba ba ba Chiquita TT buhbuh buhbuh she kids it it alibi cut tights he'll never get a video tell ever get a video dice I love are under a McKenna buddy up they'll ever get immediate die ela buh-buh-buh-buh-buh buhbuh buhbuh she kill him idiot tights he'll love another I get a video Telemachus she get immediate die he'll under my care immediate Ella because she gonna wear your tights hell of a nut that I get a video tell em I got a video dice bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah she cheat it a hill about that I get already out there girl immediate dives I love it under my car get immediate dice ala but under am I gonna be up there oh my gosh she got already out died yeah ba buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh she get immediate thighs yeah but every other never getting ready up then if I get already out die Sheila buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh she get immediate I alibi London I'm a son of erotic yellamma rutile okay stop right how many of you what did you experience as you pray that way how many of you felt something flowing in your life release release and son that's good so we can stir and awaken our spirit man and we do it we have to use our voice you have to use your voice and your mind use your voice to give utterance to the words of God whether it be peaking in tongues or the written word of God and to use your mind to meditate and to embrace and welcome the truth so that there's no part of you is not holding on to that and it works just very quickly you'd be quite surprised now the more you practice it the easier it is for your spirit to arise you you train your spirit to arise quickly and you train your body and your soul to surrender quickly most people don't know how to do that so they live with their spirit flat and under heaviness and don't realize it's actually something you can break out of real quick and so we gave you that thing to shake your body I gave you the things of just speaking the Word of God speaking in tongue I here's another confession you could make I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me hey I can I can yes I can yes I can that's a good thing yes yes what do you say now yes yes yes hahaha okay and what when you start to do that you start to strengthen your will because growing your spirit you've got to learn to develop the power to say yes okay any other words you goal in say is no well people some people can't say no but you but you see in the realm of the Spirit I've got to be saying yes to some things and no to other things that's the binding and the loosing yes to some no to others okay I just wonder you begin Center we're just speaking now once you begin to make declarations and you're saying no to the devil and no to sin now we get to speak it like you really mean it you really will do it half a dozen times ready 1 2 3 no no no no no yeah okay yeah see interesting what happens inside you how many founds you son-of you feel yeah yeah you lift up inside even just saying no that right but a lot of people can't say no and other people say yes the things that should be say yesterday so learning to say strong yes and strong knows and spread okay I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me ready 1 2 3 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me that's quite a good statement to make everything God has called you to do you can do it you can do it yes I can yes I can say can can can it's a good word can yeah okay well we've got another one there okay I know here's a good one that's one I use quite readily the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells within me and quickens my mortal body now have a think about that the same spirit that raised Christ and there's a resurrection power of God where is it it's within you and it says he will what quicken or make alive your body now you think about that so so you met as we gonna we're just going to speak it over all say it again the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead they same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells and me and shock quicken my mortal body now now now I begin to as you declare make it you dick duration that your body shall arise with life as you decree the Word of God say and what you find is you come alive in your body then I'll often follow that by just yielding different parts of my body first the spirit man my mind imagination hearing seeing mouths heart and affections will hands and works and feet my walk before God consciously yielding and then what happens as you do that is you begin to develop awareness of your body and your soul and what's going on in it because you've consciously learned to present each part to the Lord then you become aware more aware when things are going on in those different parts of you and you can quickly shake them up there see the same spirit that raised Christ on the dead dwells and me and quickens my mortal body the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in me and quickens my mortal body the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells within me and quickens my mortal body the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells within me and quickens my mortal body now you'll begin to find how many found your body start to get stronger as you start to say you come alive with energy they notice is very simple it's the spirit and the word and we willing to actually use what God has given me and I've got to give voice to it you find everything in the spirit you have to give voice you have to give voice to things and if you listen to people giving voice you'll tell whether this spirit is shut down and overwhelmed by their mind or you'll tell whether their spirit arises and is in their words you've got to listen this is when people pray and listen to yourself as you're speaking am i really fully in those words or am I just sort of saying it because this is what we have to do in this class you'll feel the difference say and so again doing it wholeheartedly we'll get the results half-heartedly no results no matter how long you do it half-heartedly no results what you're looking for is the release in your spirit to arise so you start to then be free to flow from within instead of just getting stuck in your head or your emotions or song yeah idea like I want to be just pray again we just pray for a couple more minutes and just pray and as we pray let's begin to lift our hands in the heart where exalting God with his heavenly language which enables us how to thank him and bless them he'll remember mercy caliber not by Allah but under Thomas Sullivan anima Cara Maria died in libel and equality voice rise Yeshe calibre Allah ba-ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba sheikah the Marriott died he'll live under a mess all over everybody elmer baba ba-ba-ba-ba she caliber yet I see caliber up to 11 of a GoSee caliber yah tie yo ba ba ba ba ba ba ba CK Ilhabela celebrated a big animal that died how a ghost we love you we welcome you today we honor you today shall abide under the most sullivan up that ever gonna be out there yeah ba ba ba CK T yes Sheila ba ba ba ba ba ba I it'll about that if I get a better yet die hallelujah woo let's get a lot of clap now what you as you at all times you can develop your inner man and as you do that you'll find you'll feel another present you feel the presence that of God start to manifest over your life there's an anointing arising from within there's another one comes upon and so it's very important to understand the difference we can always activate what's within us but we don't have control or power over God coming upon us that's something he does when we connect properly there so Julie hook just come to stand up here and just there we are and I need someone behind her now I just shared with you about learning to give voice so I need someone stem behind that's right okay ready Joe now I want you to lift your eyes up to the Lord look you it's your heart be on the Lord and you see now that we're full of the Holy Ghost power and just in the release of the word power flows and it's quite simple say and we'll do that a little bit more later it's wanting you to get to see it get used to it say so now we have arisen and spirit then something comes from within us that can released and we can release it with words I wanted you to really get the understanding that your words when they are full of faith actually bring about some results now and so we'll see how to get them full of faith a little bit later okay so if I can't if I in my heart and completely convinced that God is in my same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is within me are the anointing of the Holy Ghost flows like a mighty river power and I can believe that the power of God will just flow through her and touch her there here we go real it's that nice to be caught by your husband like that it's ready it's come and of course now that we're starting to move that way if you'll just open your heart to the Lord you'll feel his presence start to come on you it's like a like something just comes down from heaven so that now you notice we haven't done a lot what we have done is just stirred what we have what we do have we have the word we have the Holy Spirit we must deploy what God has given us just open your eyes and heart to the Lord and just receive from him right now and so we're in a place you could just pray for it what your proof one another be great thing to do right now just pray for one another right now just practice release the blessing of God okay but make sure you got someone to catch let's try there right now let's try no catcher put a chair right behind it and she can sit in the chair one Spirit of God come all egos come all right wonderful okay hi there yeah don't just just come here just take his hand and ready okay now close your eyes I want you to just begin to imagine that God is as close to me as I am to you right now presence of God is here they don't try and make something happen just become aware goddess here now we're going to release what God has given you yeah just like that see he begins to feel the presence of God see it's not empty words it's words that are full of a heart see you get up get your heart focus first otherwise you'll try to say something and do something and doesn't nothing happens all right then okay then let's just take a seat now we'll come back to that one later on great stuff how do you feel why to wait now you do you get wide awake you just become wide awake remember you can pray anytime that's the gift God's given you you can speak the Word of God anytime and you can develop your heart your meditation and the Word of God anytime you wish these are great they're simple we can do it anytime so here's the thing you determine how much you grow and develop you're in a man ok let's we want to look on how to exercise spiritual authority we went yesterday and we looked at spiritual authority what it was and we saw also about God has given us a called us to go on a mission God everyone's got assignment from God we saw also how we have a territory that we were responsible for we saw about governing our territory if we fail to govern then what happens is something else sits in there and that's why many people are oppressed because they fail to govern their territory ok then so what we want to do this time and we finished up with governing your spiritual territory meant you had to hold it in your heart I can't overemphasize how much important it is to hold what God has given you in your heart if anything takes it out of your heart your ability to spiritually exert authority over it seems to diminish so we need to hold our heart what God has given us we saw also we needed to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit and seek direction how and what he wants us to do thirdly we saw in our Metron or our area of territory we needed to begin to get vision or get some kind of direction and lay out some kind of steps what we wanted to build and then learn use our voice to speak and this is the area that I want to focus a bit more on this time is learning how to arise in your spirit and to speak into your territory and this is a very very important part and then finally of course it things are not just spiritual or so natural whatever territory God has given you you've got to be engaged in and active in it so for example we'll go into this session this time and we want to look at how you exercise spiritual authority and then I'll give you some examples of it at the end firstly from personal testimony and then just some ways that you could do this the problem of writing down prayers as they begin to become mechanical they can help but they tend to become mechanical I've always felt if you can get the dynamics sorted out it's not hard to get a flow which you grow in your own life that will give you some practical keys all right and so we read in Luke chapter 4 Jesus was in a synagogue and a man manifested an evil spirit and of course everyone was astonished because the evil spirit was yelling up through the man you know what imagine in a nice quiet church service how disruptive that is someone's yelling up leave us alone you you know you can imagine all the people looking around and all eyes are on this man and he's crazy in that sense he's sort of doing something unpredictable but a demon is manifesting and so the Bible says he yelled out what have we to do with you Jesus and as we know who you are you're the Holy One of God so that this guy's yelling and ranting he's manifesting a spirit and what happened was and I've seen this kind of thing happen on many different many different times I was in a meeting in Singapore and I just started talking and a lady cleaner came into the room at the top and started yelling a broom up and waving a broom yelling why you come here why you do this to me and I'm think everyone's so looking or what's going on here but actually was just a spirit manifesting and so this is what Jesus did he directly confronted the spirit he said be quiet come out of him and the demon R struggled violently through the man on the ground and came out of him now you're going to that's actually quite a dramatic thing to happen in a normally quiet church service very dramatic so of course the atmosphere is just electric with the presence and power of God and this was an example of Jesus deliverance and the people commented they said they were amazed and spoke among themselves saying what a word is this for with authority and power he commands the spirits and they come out and this was astonishing in a country like Israel it was the problem of demonization widespread you go through Asia Africa through South America through many countries the problem of demonization is widespread well-known and they don't know what to do so they seek out all kinds of remedies for it but we have the answer we have been given authority to address them the church must arise in this area now in the West the problems are still there it's just they're covered over they're a little more hidden than you would expect but the same problems are essentially in people in the West as well it's just they think it's just me and so in the West we tend to rationalize spiritual things and just add just me or try and find a natural cause for it and don't realize it could be demonic now notice here what they said he said with authority and with pound the word authority means the rule of governments the rule of government the word is the original language is the word exuse eeeh so when you read your Bible sometimes it'll miss translate it and they'll use the word power but they're actually two different words and I want to explain them so you understand completely what they are the word egg zuzia means a right has been delegated to you to speak and act on behalf of someone else exuse eeeh a right a legal right has been delegated to you to speak and act on behalf of someone else in this case Jesus Christ so if you have authority you have a legal right it's a legal right it's got nothing to do with how you feel it is a legal right so for example if a family if the parents die and there's only one son unless there is a legal a will that gives the property elsewhere he has a legal right as the only heir to inherit the property if you purchase a building you have the legal right to own and occupy the buildings of someone else's there they are a squatter they have no legal right to be there you are the legal or person who's legal right so in the case of spiritual authority spiritual authority god delegates to you a legal right which is recognized in the spirit world to speak in to act on his behalf now when the Bible says that the husband is the head of the wife there are many emotional things that go through people's mind thinking about that but I want to just make a real simple make it really simple and clear from the point of view of the spirit world God has made a declaration that the husband legally has authority in the spirit world to speak and act on behalf of Jesus Christ in relationship to his marriage and family it's a delegated right given to him now it's nothing to do with whether the the wife is of more value or more spiritual than the husband it's just an order God has set in place and the demonic world will recognize the order and do all it can to sabotage it so a husband may not be as good at prayer as his wife he may not know the Bible as well as his wife but nevertheless from a spiritual perspective God has delegated to him our positioning in the spirit world it's not a positioning of ruling over his wife because the Bible says actually spiritual authority is exercised through loving service but in terms of the spiritual world he has a right to speak and to give directions and act and he can address spirit powers now this is something people don't really understand I'll give you an example when I saw it most vividly I was praying that I had a couple who formerly had been pastors and his wife had been deeply involved as a young woman in the occult she was trapped into it and I won't go into the details of it but it was very horrendous experience both as a young girl about six and then again as a teenager about 16 and the the circumstantially described were horrendous yet I had trouble believing it all because it was so horrendous what happened and anyway she moved out of that whole thing moved on with the life married they got called into ministry and later on it was very clear there were problems that were going on and there was a strong control set around his wife so I got him as the husband to stand up and I'll show you how to do that a little later how to stand up and to pray and address the spirit world and exercise his authority as husband to position himself as the husband to make a declaration I am her lawful husband and I speak into the spirit world and he did it and what happened was some of the issues around her life came up to the surface but what I didn't realize was he kept praying that way and so he kept praying day after day asserting his authority of the spirit world and commanding or controlling spirits to release his wife and what happened was initially the first problems came up then this whole layer of all this occult surfaced and we had some massive difficulties because of all of these issues and we had all kinds of accidents started to happen there were various the the occult group made connection with her again it was quite a messy thing for quite a while and so I was puzzled as how to how to deal with it and the Lord spoke to me and he said I want you to stand as the posture and I want you to speak and take authority in the spirit world and totally forbid the operation of the saqqaq group against this this woman and I said I want you to bring judgment against it and so I said okay how do I do that so I just rose up and prayed and decree that no weapon formed against us would prosper at every tongue that rose against us speaking judgment we totally canceled its power and defeat it in Jesus name and I asked the Lord called on the Lord to act on our behalf and to deal with it now what happened was within the space of a week two people in that covenant had a motor accidents and died just like that and all contact with that coven and this woman stopped just like that now we still had the problem within her so we began to pray and I tried to get it delivered it was very hard very difficult to get it delivered and and then the Lord spoke to me said I want you get the husband involved and she was a little reluctant about that and because of issues in the heart about men so what I did was I said to her husband why don't you just pray in the other room and I'll call you in and I said when I call you in with the demons and full manifestation I want you to do and I described to him what he what I wanted him to do so anyway we pray now what happened was the woman had fallen down on the floor her feet were facing the doors there's no way she could see anything that was happening she was face down another woman was with her praying for and I just left the room quickly went and the husband came in and together we laid hands he put his hand on his wife's head I put my hand on his and he spoke these words he said as her lawful husband I break all covenants form of the spirit and command you to go now and and meet now as he walked in now she can't see him she yells out what's he doing here the demon recognized the authority the husband carried and that he was determined to assert in the spirit he put his hand on and prayed as the husband I put a hand on him and prayed as the pastor and immediately the spirit was conscious like that and that was one of the most vivid examples I ever had in all the ministry life of how the spirit world recognizes the authority that's delegated to the people of God and specifically in the situation of marriage if God has called the husband the head he is what God calls him now he may not be doing a good job at it but it doesn't change who years and the spirit world recognizes it and so when we snow so so when a husband stands up as the head of the home in the role he's got and addresses the spirit world it will respond to him because he is the legal of God authorised to speak on behalf of his family now it doesn't minimize in any way the prayers of his wife what I'm trying to establish here is the recognition the spirit world has on lawful authority now just take it another step further you and I are children of God we've been raised into a realm where we are positioned we are seated with him far above every principality and power now you as a child of God also are authorized if you will arise and stand in that role the father I come before you today in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I arise and I come boldly to the throne of your grace the Bible tells us to do that and so you see you saw there you are standing you're worshiping God now you can speak from that position of victory and authority as a representative of Jesus Christ I speak now to that demonic spirit I forbid your operation I break your assignment now demons will respond to that because they recognize you are lawfully and rightfully delegated that kind of authority but it's all to do with your positioning in your heart and faith you've got to believe what God says about you oh you're getting quite mad yeah so so Authority means it's a legal right delegated to you to speak and act on behalf of Jesus Christ and we'll show you exactly what you're authorized to do I've given you hints on already right now so you have the right to speak into act now because you've been given that right it is a responsibility to dismiss demons and to speak and ordain and speak the Word of God you've actually got a responsibility to do this so we may neglect our responsibility if we neglect our responsibility then as we saw the territory becomes invaded problems start to come relationally and oppression lies and all sorts of thing okay the other word is the word power and the word power is the word Dunamis you shall receive power from on high that's a different word altogether that is the anointing that is the presence of God to enable you to get this to happen so Jesus received a thorough as part of his commission but it's intimacy and obedience that maintains the flow of anointing so what we were doing today was getting you to a rise inside in your spirit and as you're a rose and built your spirit life and developed your the flow from within you can feel the anointing flowing so to describe the difference between authority and power let me use an illustration a a person trains to become a policeman eventually comes to the point after his training where they he makes an oath of allegiance to the government that means I will act on behalf of the government to fulfill its mandate okay and then they give him a uniform and they give him a gun if you're in some of the countries they give them a gun even in our country give a gun now the authority is seen in the uniform because when you meet that person you're not meeting the man you're meeting the authority of the government if you saw him on the road and he put his hand up you probably wouldn't say a thing but you see him in his uniform and suddenly if you're speeding fear grips your heart because you become aware of Authority and the call to account for your life there's nothing like an exposure with authority to suddenly show what's in your heart so if you're speeding down the road and you see a policeman step out in a black uniform hold his hand up suddenly you'll have all kinds of emotional things go on inside you now if you try to push past him you are now up against the whole of the government he's not acting on his own behalf when he's fulfilling his assignment he's acting as a representative of government you take him on you're taking the government on second thing is they have a gun so if you don't stop they can enforce you stop start shooting I don't have so much of that here but it's common overseas and so we need Authority and to know what our authority is and we also need power the flow of the Spirit that it accomplishes what we want and these are two separate and quite distinct things the idea okay there now so I don't want to do is I want to look at the authority that we've been given and to just briefly look at what Jesus accomplished on the cross in Colossians 2 verses 12 through to 15 is a very important verse demons hate this verse because it describes something very important that Jesus did now you be dead in a stress in your trespasses and sins an uncircumcision of your flesh he has made alive together with him so when Jesus died we died with him when he was buried we were buried with him and when he rose we rose with him say so we are risen and he says notice having forgiven you some of your trespasses hmm oh oh this is a crucial thing all of you trismus having absolutely wiped away the the handwriting of requirements that was against us that was contrary to us he took his taken it out of the way having nailed it to the cross having disarmed principalities and powers he made a public spectacle of them triumphing over them in it now in Jesus walk on the earth he was obedient in every aspect of his life but when he went to the cross and died on the cross he acted as our representative and accomplished something for us at the cross the Bible says he disarmed spirit power stripped off their clothes and weapons totally took away from them the weapon or the power of the weapons they had and he triumphed he completely won a great and mighty victory over them now what happened is this the original Adam was given authority in the earth he was created to have dominion the Bible tells us that when Adam was deceived or when when Adam disobeyed and sinned there was a transference he lost his right to rule it was taken over by the devil so realms of the Spirit that that Adam and his descendants was supposed to occupy then became occupied by demonic spirits as far as I can understand and so the devil when he tempted Jesus said all of this power has been delivered or surrendered to me so he said I've got a legal right to rule the earth I conquered your ruler the idea this how it works we understand that you know you go in and conquer someone you rule their territories as simple as that the old rules of war so at the devil conquered Adam and as a result of conquering Adam then he now had authority and rights legal rights so when Jesus came he came as a representative totally obedient to the Father all his life obedient right to the point of death on the cross and when he died on the cross what he did was he legally broke the power of the devil to hold people in bondage he broke the power of death and so this is a legal thing that has happened now what does the devil use primarily against you he uses sin and equity trespasses he uses the breaking of the laws of God now if you to think of your past life I think everything that you had ever done wrong and the things that were right that you should have done and you fail to do because the to know what to do and not do it to know to do good not do it as soon so if you took a list of that that is going to be one big list if we put it on the computer we'd probably fill up the memory have to stick in another cart and put more in okay and then that now imagine all of that and then take that all the way through the rest of your life so about the whole of your life and when you're born right through to when you do we got the lot and those are all your sins that's the list that is contrary to you that is what the devil manipulates to give legal right to your life so for example in a person's background if there's been idolatry or Freemasonry in the background there is now a legal right established for demonic spirits to use that as an entrance point to the success of generations so in order to deal with the demonic realm the legal rights issue has to be resolved and so when Jesus died on the cross he literally paid full price to cancel everything against us it's the most amazing truth now what that means very simply is this the word redeem means to pay the full price to get back the person who's in prison and can't free themselves it's to go to the kidnapper and to pay the price and to get the person kidnapped free so what Jesus accomplished at the cross was to deal with the legal right and so when he rose from the dead he was able to say all authority in heaven and earth is now given to me now get this when he came from heaven he left all authority behind he now gained all authority because of this act of obedience in his life even to the point of death so legally everything belongs to Jesus nothing belongs to the devil the nation's belong to him the earth belongs to him all of creation belongs to him he has redeemed it paid the full price too now legally be entitled to rule it so the Bible tells us one day he'll come back and he'll assert that with great power in the meantime we are delegated as representatives of him and whenever the devil has a legal right to something we can go to the cross and say that's the place it was canceled so every sin that you bring to the cross its power to hold you in bondage and create a legal right for demons is broken so the issue of legal rights is an incredibly important one in the spirit world that is how the whole thing operates under law if we walk in the laws of God the devil can't touch us if we break the laws of God he has legal rights to access us it's as simple as that so there's a remedy for the broken law and that is to bring sin to the cross that's why you cannot operate successfully in the spirit world without a revelation of the Cross and the blood and the authority given to us as a believer to represent the Lord okay so there is so at the cross league of Jesus broke legally broke the power of a number of things the power of sin the power of curses Galatians 3:13 he has redeemed us from the curse of the law becoming a curse for us that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us redeem pray the full price griefs and trauma as I 53 and verse 4 he carried our sorrows he carried our griefs in Isaiah 53 verse 5 by His stripes we are healed so sicknesses he dealt with as I 53 verse 5 and he took away all our iniquities so everything the devil could use as a weapon at the cross Jesus legally broke its power however it's a one thing to have something legally done it's another thing to have the reality of it in your life and so we need to understand what Jesus has done so we can bring it into reality here so this issue of the law and of sin and dealing with sin as a crucial one in addressing the spirit world that's why any person who works in the realm of deliverance has a great awareness of what sin does in terms of establishing legal rights for demons to operate and it is incredibly different to get any person free or any demonic spirit to shift if you don't address the legal rights it has to be there in fact many times a demon will actually argue with you that it owns this place I've been here a long time I have a right to be here so they'll actually argue with you when Jesus taught about deliverance he said that the demon after it's cast out will go back to says I will return to my house see it claims legal right to live in the person's life so demons try to they look for every legal ground they are great manipulators to try and use any legal ground to access your life so removing legal rights is a crucial part of freedom and we need to understand that if I have broken the law I don't have much authority because I'm a transgressor to be able to bring others free I need to actually bring my life into alignment so Jesus done a tremendous work on the cross but there's one thing to know what he's done it's another thing to bring it into reality in our life and that is where we have to grow and develop our faith it's by faith these things come into being so for example God has given every one of you legal right to deal with demons but probably the majority of you either don't do it or not very successful at it now that doesn't mean the legal right to do it isn't there it just means you have to grow into and obtain possession of what Jesus won for you in the Old Testament Joshua had to he said God said I've given you the land and I've given the people unto you arise and go in and battle so you have to possess what Jesus has made available for you and that's that the work of faith so Jesus done these things on how and he is now given us authority notice what says in Luton the 10 verse 19 behold I give you authority that's exuse iya delegated right to tread serpents and scorpions underfoot and to tread over all the power of the enemy now that's an amazing thing that Jesus said do you realize as a believer that you can tread demons underfoot that you have no need to fear them now it's not that they don't have power they do have real power and they do exert that real power and in some places it's quite terrifying however if you will stay in the realm God's called you to operate in you have right to deal with the things you can't read them underfoot and you have authority over all their power you don't need to be alarmed at the kind of power they have I was in a meeting in in Indonesia and there's my first one of my first meetings in Indonesia had a very big meeting and three witch doctors came because they heard that the power of God will be there to deal with demons and so they came to the meeting to disrupt the meeting in other words they wanted to work together to help IRS's against me so that they could take away whatever power I had and it would become their power and to tell the truth I didn't even actually see I didn't even know what happened because there's big crowd there 2 3 mm and they stood up to do this stuff and they know sin has stood up then the power of God hit them they fell on the ground just like that and they were throwing they were literally hurled to the ground and they they could not get up they crawled out they literally had to crawl out on their faces out of the meeting now I wish I could claim something for it I couldn't actually I never even saw it happen I only heard about it afterwards and Dave was with me and Dave they called it they said hey something's happening he went round the back and he dealt with one face to face and got them totally delivered and and the guy came up and got saved afterwards he recognized the power of God was greater than the power they operate he understood spiritual power he said this power is greater than that in another meeting and pastor Kong he's Church in City Harvest and some demons were starting to yell and scream and Pastor Kong he's a mother and father were there and she sort of got a concern what all the screaming was going on and yelling on but the father was an interesting first exam they're involved in idolatry he said I see that there is a greater power here than the power these spirits have and they came up and got saved because of that they recognized the greater power they sow so I give you authority now this is a personal verse for you I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and all the power the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you so you could make it your declaration today I have authority over serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy and nothing shall in any ways hurt me be good to build the truth of that into your heart so Jesus was responding to the testimonies of believers he sent out this is the seventy and he said they have authority I give you authority to tread over demons so our spiritual authority you have authorities just where they use it and develop it or not but it comes 1 out of our standing with God we're going to know where we stand that's why when you come to Minister the first thing that you'll be aware of is where you stand with God whether you're conscious that I am in right standing with God I have access to him I can live and be in his presence right now if you're conscious of that that's in your heart then it's very easy to assert Authority second thing it depends on your ongoing relationship I need to keep listening to God so it's all very well to say I have authority but actually it's for a purpose so I need to know what God wants me to do and finally we need to yield to the Holy Spirit so here's the thing the authority Jesus gives you and I'll list some areas he's given you authority in it's we don't own it it's actually we're acting on behalf of someone else so all authority that Jesus gives you spiritual authority you're acting on behalf of him you're representing him and so that means you don't know you own it you've got to use it rightly or it creates many problems and and not presume will make any presumptions about just because I have all this authority I can do what I want no we need to listen to the Holy Ghost and learn to be led by the Spirit of God a very hard thing to do so what do you have authority to do what does Jesus entrusted to you some authority to do now he's given you a whole number of things now for example we'll just take this first one here he's given us authority to preach the gospel and we think well that's a pretty obvious one actually it's not so because there's many countries if you preach the gospel I throw you in jail now here think of the conflict now I read in the Bible go and preach the gospel and yet the authorities save you preach the gospel put you in jail what will I do there's two authorities in conflict here one is the authority of God who says to do this and that's the highest authority to this authority of the government which says don't do it or we'll put you in jail so how do I address that how do I address this apparent conflict and authorities very simply firstly all authority comes from God so therefore subject to him ultimately secondly I should give away and yield to the ultimate authority the authority of God who's given a clear mandate in Scripture preach the gospel thirdly I need to show respect for civil authorities who are his representatives but nevertheless I can be submitted to them but not obedient to them so I can have a right attitude to local authorities but not do what they tell me to do a classic example is in the book of Acts where the authorities gathered the disciples together and they said they threatened them that you must not preach the gospel if you preach the gospel then we'll throw you have you thrown into prison and beaten up and they said we must listen to God and do what God has said so they went out preach the gospel and then that is this they got thrown into prison and beaten up and they just rejoiced they didn't didn't make a big deal of it they just accepted they had gone contrary to the authorities and this is what was going to happen they said for the honor of God so they had a good attitude but they were disobedient you have to understand that so for example a person who was he was in a work situation and in the work situation they tell you to do something which is quite clearly contrary to the law and to your conscience you can have a submitted heart but still say no I can't do that because you have to live out of the authority of God not just what people tell you to do so these are some of the interesting things anyway let's just carry through the list here giving an authority to act as a representative Jesus to preach the gospel to make disciples Matthew 28 he told us to go do it so we're authorized to do it someone says why are you doing this so who do you think you are very simply Jesus told me to do it make disciples we're also authorized to bless in Matthew chapter 10 he says whatever house you go into say peace be under the house now what a stupid thing to say that's an unusual thing to say go into a house and say peace we don't do that kind of thing do we because we don't understand what he was saying to them it was saying you have power to speak and release blessing into a house you can actually release the peace of God in a tangible way into the house and you are authorized when you go into a home that makes you welcome to speak and release the blessing of God so just extending that out now wherever you go God has authorized you to speak words that release blessing over people to speak and call upon the Holy Ghost to touch their life to call upon the presence of God to come into that place to call upon or invite the Holy Spirit to come you are authorized to do that we have to ask whether this is you know what God wants he always wants that you're also authorized to break bondages Isaiah 10:27 the yoke is broken because because of the anointing so we're authorized to break bondages I'll describe that a little bit further to break curses Matthew 16:19 curses are words spoken that activate demonic powers and you are authorized to break curses God has given you authority to break them whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven so the break curses means to loose something that is taking that is holding a person in bondage you're authorized to cast out demons you're authorized to heal the you authorized to raise the dead now here's the interesting thing where were authorized to raise the dead we just don't see so much of it here but in other countries particularly past my his ministry they have raised a number of people from the dead David Hogan I think overall I think they've raised nearly three hundred people from the dead in their ministry so it is authorized it just doesn't always happen I've tried once but didn't work I've just need to grow my faith okay we're authorized to bind and loose that means to restrain spirits or things operating or to release things to happen we're also authorized to forgive to speak and release forgiveness so here's a thority that you've given to do some things now the key thing is it's great to know how to what they are but how do I actually go about this how do you operate or exercise spiritual authority in this this there are several things that are a part of it so I want to just I want to just just identify what they are because I've some people speak and there's nothing happens at all others speak and something really happens what's the difference the difference inevitably is in the heart now let me give you some simple foundations on this exercise of authority the first thing is you need to know you're standing with God you need to be quite convinced of where you stand with God because if you're not sure where you stand or your righteousness before God if you're not sure of that when you speak you'll doubt that anything is going to happen you've got to not doubt in your heart when you speak something will happen so I need to be first of all I need to know the authority or the standing that God has given me so for example just for example in just in ministering right now I could just use an example here can I just easy for an example right so just come and just take your hand all right let's take your hand need someone to stand behind it it's the case something happens so now suppose I'm come to minister and I need to release the power of God or something like that now the first thing she's come forward for prayer for some reason and and I'm needing to minister to bring God to her so ministering is not praying the prayers it's about bringing God to the person now the first thing that you become conscious of is where you're standing is with God so she's looking to me to give us some answer so I tell her why and you just close your eyes look up to the Lord so I direct your attention away from me and on to the Lord it's always good to get people to look to the Lord why because it stops the operation of witchcraft around you to try and manipulate you to do something they want you get them looking to God rather than looking to you he is the source keep God Jesus being honored all the time and the second thing that I become aware of is my goodness what am I going to do and what will happen and what if nothing happens all that sort of stuff goes on inside now that is all to do with your standing with God so if oh man I didn't pray oh no now you see that's all to do with your standing with God it's about accusations coming to erode you so if you're going to move in authority and move with power you must be completely convinced in your heart that you are deeply connected to God and I've taken a lot of time to practice that we use the word righteousness but for most people it doesn't mean anything they don't know what how does this work in my life it just means that I am able to stand innocent before God and be welcomed and embraced by him absolutely free of any charges against me so if I was just to meditate now and to allow my mind and heart just become fixed that God I am near to him right now I can stand near to him I can honor him and love him and his presence is here and because of that I can release the power of God because of positioning because of being conscious of the presence of God and many people are conscious of sin conscious of being alone conscious of being not good enough that is a spiritual pressure around you that stops you flowing with authority you have to silence all of that you silence it by the truth that my sins are all forgiven every one of them I can boldly come into the presence of God I took quite a bit of time to meditate until in a moment I can meditate and become just aware of God it just took time for that truth to be built in though once it's built in it makes it very easy to work with the Holy Spirit if it's not built into your life your standing with God and flowing with the Holy Spirit is immediately you get full of condemnation and full of wrestles and accusations and struggles all sorts of doubts go on in your mind so you have to recognize that's just what they are attacks on your mind and we are to be have the breastplate of righteousness that protects our heart from being condemned so if to operate an authority the first foundation of that is that I am clearly established am i standing with God if I'm not how will I know whether he's going to back me up if I'm not sure he's with me and he's and that we're working together if I've got doubts about my standing because of being accused or condemned how will I move confidently and boldly very difficult very difficult so the first thing foundational thing is faith righteousness I am connected to God and I am favored by him I am blessed by him I am blessed today I am blessed by his love and presence so you build these things into your life and and your authority grows as this becomes established so all things in the spirit you have to know exactly where you stand with God now I'm not saying have it as a head knowledge needs to be more than just a head knowledge in your heart you need to know I'm completely innocent in his sight okay now that is what gives you boldness then to speak on his behalf but if you are not convinced in your heart if there are doubts in your heart about your standing with God there'll be doubts will undermine your authority to minister so this is the most important thing to establish is faith righteousness I am right with God by faith in the work of another not in my works not whether I pray not what I did well or didn't do well I am right by faith in the work of Christ so you become conscious of a fault quickly repent of it I am right now with God by faith in what Jesus Christ did this is the foundation for all faith ministry is the righteousness that Jesus gave to me by my believing in it you know idea say so if your heart condemns you God is bigger than your heart okay so there's now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who said their heart on the spirit this is foundational to all operation in the things of the Spirit you must know I'm established and I can boldly quickly come into the presence of God without being condemned have I done something wrong that's okay because you made provision Lord I'm so sorry I put it right really quickly it's over it's out of his mind and it needs to be out of mind this is so foundational to all faith operation is that I'm right by trusting what Jesus did and that needs to be established in your life and if you've lived under condemnation all your life and blame there may be a strong hole to break so that the truth gets established in your heart okay can the idea already right and so that's number one thank you very much how did you do what did you feel happen BC picked up the presence of God see about the time when I actually just set my heart to meditate and be in the presence of God the moment I set my heart on that and started to connect with him immediately she felt the presence of God I'll do it one more time you see it happen and it'll just be like that I'll describe what's happening in me and then you watch what happens to her right so just again look up to the Lord see direct your attention to him I'm holding your hand so whatever's going on in me there'll be an impartation so if I was to just begin to meditate and to see myself standing right before the throne of God begin to meditate and fix my heart on Jesus and as I set my heart there he is and I can feel his presence right now say and so to shape see so faith righteousness it's not just a heady words it's a spiritual reality and when it's established in your life the flow of God is never-ending and you know what every attack of the devil on you will be to get that off you it'll to get you out of that place of confidence and to get you into a place of doubt about where God is in relationship to you so this is foundational to all moving in the spirit get it you need to establish this in your life okay alright and so the second one is humility if I'm going to move an authority I must develop humility God gives grace to the humble and in James 4:7 submit to God resist the devil and he will flee to you the word submit means to place yourself under or align yourself with someone who is over you so together you can get a great result and so it has the idea of a military victory of being properly positioned so humility is a crucial part and Submission is an attitude of humility that recognizes the authority of God and those that God has delegated authority to so that's we're on our page 10 and our notes so submit is a crucial issue I have found many people because of pride have a trouble of submitting to anyone I have learned as soon as I meet anyone with authority I immediately adopt an attitude of recognizing and aligning property with an attitude of honor to that person because this is how I can walk in the spirit and stay in the spirit in the idea and you notice the Centurion the moment when he saw Jesus Christ he said you don't need to go to my house I understand Authority just say a command and my Charlie he'll that seven will be healed he said wow that's real faith the understanding spiritual authority requires faith because we have got defiled and our thinking about authority by bad experiences the fifth thing is revelation we do need to listen to the Holy Ghost jesus said in John chapter 5 verse 19 he said the son can do nothing of them somebody sees the father do he does the son does the same for the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he himself does and will show him greater works than these so Jesus Authority flowed not just out of knowing who he was but out of also listening for direction so many times he could have prayed but he didn't so that's interesting he could have delivered but he didn't so why is that because personal sensitivity to what God was doing was more important than legal rights to have so although he legally could have prayed for everyone and healed them prayed for everyone and delivered them he placed listening to the father and listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit the highest thing in his life so whatever he so sometimes people say once you pray for him why did you go and see you Lazarus why what's wrong we he's sick when you go to see him said no there's something greater God has in mind let's wait and we'll see something greater see see so that we have to just constantly sense that the Holy Spirit and get revelation on what to do and finally last two things is you have to use your voice so you'll notice whenever you read in the Bible of people exercising spiritual authority there were always strong verbal commands right up they he didn't speak the dead man in a soft voice Lazarus come forth spoke to the wind spoke to the way he spoke strongly to sicknesses and demons he spoke to the winds spoke to trees spoke to dead people he spoke and gave a command expecting something to happen see and when you Anderson the way he spoke he spoke with great boldness now one things you'll find when you have to when you when you're moving in the spirit you've got to speak with boldness now that's not loud it just as confidence that God is going to do something so you think well I don't feel confident well boldness has gotten anywhere that you feel you speak that way in Jesus name come out I speak to that sickness be gone in Jesus name to speak as strongly as a representative of God and the last part is act of faith I must expect that when I speak something will happen now you'll be amazed so many times when you pray nothing happens initially you have to expect something to happen and so in mark 11:24 Jesus I have the faith of God for I tell you truthfully whoever speaks to this mountain be removed because tunes of the sea does not doubt in his heart but believes the things he says will come to pass he will have whatever he says so I say to you when you pray believe you receive them and you'll have them so you notice that spiritual kingdoms are enforced by spirits that ride on them and so the kingdom of God it's the Holy Spirit that advances that demonic kingdoms its demonic spirits and I must believe when I speak that something will happen not doubt in my heart now if I have no confident expectation of God doing something there will be a difficulty there'll be nothing much happen I have noticed when you start to pray for deliverance many times nothing happens you've just got to be persevering and persistent I found in praying for ultra spiritual atmospheres nothing seems to shift initially so I keep my voice speaking into that situation and eventually it yields you've got to believe that your voice and what you say will come about and that's what he says how many times it says what you say whoever says and doesn't doubt it it's not whatever he says will happen he will have one he says so I've got to speak words believing that this is the will of God I insist that this command be carried out and that is that it's a it's a it's a challenge because I've observed in working in deliverance that demons resist people and the tendency is when nothing happens the first time you do something is to quit and give up so in operating in the spirit perseverance is a must okay then summing it up then in exercising spiritual authority it has to do with positioning knowing where I am in God listening having revelation and then giving voice or speaking now this is what I don't want to share with you some things I've done that have been a big help and then show you what you could do perhaps will be like that God spoke to me when I was very a young Christian I had a classroom a physical classroom and great there was a very old classroom everything was a bit tatty in it and the Lord spoke to me said every child that comes in there is under spiritual pressure their unsaved if you what you can do is you can go through the classroom every day pray in tongues and lay hands on every seat seat and he said I want you to do this I want you to forbid the operation of demonic spirits over every child and I want you to decree blessing over them see resist the devil and call forth the things of God now that was pretty unusual thing to get to do because you know didn't make any sense to me but I was in the early days of just listening and learning and doing so day after day I would walk into the classroom and I would just speak cooler buh buh buh but she could have been I stand as I stand in charge of this classroom I stand as one responsible for every student who comes in here today the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I forbid the operations of demons against every student that will sit in the seat because the class's flow through the day so I go round and I didn't pray the same prayer time and pray at once and then just lay hands in Jesus name i bind every spirit operating I release blessing I release learning I release understanding I release a great atmosphere into this classroom I release the presence of God into this place now I spoke as one believing totally it would happen now I wasn't sure because in I never see anything like this happened before but I did it anyway and it took about I wasn't sure or didn't feel initial changes of it but others noticed it now what happened was this there were several things happen the first thing happened was one of the teachers noticed the difference and she come and spoke to me so what's up with your room I said what do you mean yeah well I notice every time I have a study class in your room it's very quiet and they're peaceful and they get a lot of I get a lot of work done too because they they're so quiet is I sense that so she said yeah it's the only room in the school it's like this what's different about your room and I said I think you one know the answer and she said no tell me so I'm sure you won't want to know the answer and she said no tell me I said well you tell me again what was it like and she said well it's very peaceful and the students really work and I get a lot done I said well here's what I do I take authority over the spirits of trouble children and release peace and the blessing of God to learn into this classroom but she I could tell she didn't want to hear but that wasn't the answer she wanted to hear but nevertheless here's the thing I didn't feel any change but someone coming in did the next thing I saw two girls that lined up outside and they said sir something's weird about your classroom and I said what's weird and similarly Tommy come by we shake I still that's interesting I never seen come in and show me shaking and so they come in and you know they say got worse than the classroom I thinking well this is amazing I mean only only six months eight months of Christian this is great to see something like this and sure enough they're shaking and so I realized then that they were involved in the occult they're involved in the spirit world and what was in them was reacting to the classroom I am quiet and sure that's what was happening we prayed and immediately it went it just stopped and so I was aware then that without me knowing that something had happened the whole atmosphere had begun to change so then I began to pray not only for the demons to be still and quiet and pray for the kid for the presence of God to come pray then for the produc truth of the productivity for the work to grow and increase and in the course of a period of time probably about three or four years my classes just went like that in terms of numbers and in terms of outcomes of people passing exams I asked the Lord to give me creativity because I mean what I said you have to be present and you have to engage in a creative way in whatever you're doing so you can't just leave it all up to God we ship the spiritual atmosphere then you front up and you look for whatever creative ways you can do things and God gave me some creative ideas with the teaching and so just to give you an idea when I started I had 10 formed seven students ten that was it in the whole school and I had twenty formed six students after we'd got into this flow of praying and releasing the presence of God and bringing creativity into the school by time I had left I had to seventh on classes of twenty plus C 25 each which was almost the entire upper school and I had four six form classes of 25 plus each nearly the whole of the upper school I had nearly the whole upper school in my physics class classes and they almost all of them had high accomplishment in their client and their exam their results we got I think out of the hundred University entrance I got all but four through year after year and they were only because they're put in and they didn't have the collar they didn't have the maths from fifth form level to cope with the work it was just an administrative mock-up so I saw the reality of it I've taught people how to pray in their workplace the same thing to speak take authority over troubling spirits command the spirits to go command peace to come into the place productivity to increase relationships to change and the atmosphere has shifted now remember you can't just do it by remote this has got to be your Metron not someone else's you have the right to do it I have prayed for I've got many people to pray into their workplace and things have shifted in their workplace one because they started to arise in their spirit and stop acting like a victim and release the presence of God and subdue demons secondly they turned up with a different attitude and the combination brought a tremendous shift and a change you have we have to understand this is really important stuff we are called for Dominion like this we're called to bring the Kingdom of Heaven into the earth and to do that you've got to confront the spirits that are there and then release by words of faith blessing specific blessing into your household into your family into your workplace into your neighbourhood into wherever you go we can do that we're authorized to do that and so you can pray over your marriage I had one man and I coached him how to pray he stood up and he stood as the head of his home repented for his failure to lead and ask God to forgive him and re-establish him and his positioning as the head of the home day after day he spoke in the spirit broke the power of the control that was operating and within a very short time issues and the marriage came right out to the open they had to work on it there was deliverance and healing and there was a shift took place in the dynamic in the marriages wife became much more secure and the whole marriage started to shift and change these are realities that give you story after story after story where people have done it now is it easy no doesn't because the moment you step up and start to push back the spirit world it fights back at you and your initial response maybe it gets worse rather than better if it gets worse then you can say yay we're into the scrap I've only got to hang on and it'll get better that's the thing you've got it you've got to be able to do that got to hold your ground and not give ground and for most in other words perseverance is a crucial part of shifting spiritual atmosphere now sometimes it shifts really quick sometimes it doesn't and if it doesn't shift very quick it's because something's been established for a long time and you've just got to hold your ground and be a bit gutsy and not quit and have you just stick with it you find stuff will happen it'll shift and change and we're authorized to do this you realize there wherever you go you're authorized to bring the presence of God but most of us think only in terms of talking to people and don't consider the possibility I could just stand and just in a few moments of time thank you Lord I just invite your presence to come into this room right now Lord just begin to fill this room with your presence but your pointing just come over everyone right now and begin to feel the peace of God and so as we just and I just begin to put my spirit right out of the whole room and the peace of God will start to come thanks Oh you can fill a whole room this is amazing so I mean I need to actually get more proactive with us because I often find that even though I know it I'm not always diligent and holding it out and continuing to operate in this sure oh sure yes other words can you pray from another place and have a result or I will give you a couple of examples the first obvious example is found in the Bible where the woman came to Jesus and immediately after she reached out to him her daughter in another place was delivered same with the Centurion say only the word and defects okay now I have gotten prayer at one particular time and some one over the other side of the world got healed right at that exact time so I do not believe in the realm of the Spirit there is any such thing as that there's no limitations of the physical world so then what you do then is this you first you were going to pray and stir your spirit so get your spirit wound up and stir it up and energize so you're alive on the inside and your mind becomes clear so you can hear the voice of God then you stand in your positioning before the Lord looking for how to play or ask him to just look for him he may give you directions he may not if he does then follow them if he doesn't then then you know what to do so then what I would do from that place being near him I just begin to imagine the person the situation and I'd speak as if I was standing right in that room in Jesus name right now in Jesus am I take authority I forbid the operation of those spirits I release the presence of God into that place I release this this this this and now what happens is eventually you'll have some things happen there will be things happen you can do this but you've got to be persistent and remember if this say a family member and it's in their home and there they are responsible for their own lives you cannot overrule them or override their free will what you can do is contain spiritual operations and release or lawfully invite the Spirit of God into that place to do the work they still have to respond and usually I found from the moment when you start praying to when you get something shifting can be a very unit but it will often take time for God to set up the changes in their life that are needed so we are called to intercede we're called also to assert Dominion so just because I speak doesn't bring it all about what I'm doing is I'm acting as a representative heaven to give to allow something to happen now because you're a family and connected to family you can speak into family because you can stand and put the cross of Christ between you and your family and read Ettore background you can command demons to shut down to stop operating you can release God's presence to work and it does have effect on people I've seen I remember praying for one person apparently it I went through a hard time because it felt like it was I was just getting nowhere and then just about three weeks later came up to me we're just I've been too evicted for three weeks I have to come and talk and I didn't know from the day I started it shifted but I just wasn't aware of it because I saw nothing outward initially so you have to persist you know yeah but you certainly can pray from a distance but mostly the places we would want operators where we're physically present where it's obviously where we have room to move I yes or yes right if you're widowed you're the head of the home in fact actually husband and wife because they're one God sees them as one that however God gives a status or standing in the spirit world to the husband so when they stand together as a couple of course that's the best place to be but I'm just I was only really trying to make the point about the particular role but for a widow well a widow you have everything that is your home is your realm so now it's same for a single person of course a single person it's their realm if they're in if they're in a if a child is living in the home of parents than the parents of the head of the home so therefore they've got limited authority what they can do there so you've got to then know what God said you could do so one girl and she had been delivered from a demonic spirit went home to a home she said what do I do might we've got a bigger I we've got a big altar in our home I said well that's your parents decision not yours don't go in there and speak against them or criticize them go into the home as a carrier of heaven to that home so said first start with your own room dedicate your own room to the Lord invite the presence of God in the own room then as you walk through the house every time you see the the ER the idol just speak to it and make a decree I said said pray in tongues speak could Jesus shall increase Sai Baba shall decrease just say it and so she did that and within a year when I came back and I saw Barbara decrease they'd shifted out their flat they got a smaller flat and they couldn't have the big older so the old was gone just a picture and she did it I did it I told her against the house side by not doing too good so I said we'll keep doing it so she did it next year the picture had fallen down and they now had a little wee picture was he was diminishing you know he was just diminishing you have to understand the power of decrees tremendous power to speak as a representative of heaven and to declare things and to cool things into being now when it involves other people you've got to give them free will to make their decisions and let God work this out in his own timing and rate our role is just as speakers as represented

Channel: Mike Connell

Views: 31,132

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Keywords: wholehearted, authority, power, disarm spiritual powers, legal rights, forbid, release, free will, decrees, conscience, civil authority, powerlessness, demonised atmosphere, problems in the workplace, tormented, generation curse

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Length: 85min 17sec (5117 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 06 2013