Exercising Spiritual Authority (4 of 6) - Exercising Authority in your Personal Life

let's have a look how all ready to get going again great okay so we're talking about spiritual realities I'm sure that we lots of questions so we'll have to have a time basically over time straight after lunch and just have a few questions to interact so if things come up just jot them down and then we'll interact over them a little bit later because when it comes to the outworking of this of course when there's every kind of circumstance and situation you can imagine and so we'll look and see if we can help you some of you will already have experiences and that will be of help for others as well so let's have a look now in Section four on exercising authority in your personal life and this quite a lot could be said around the series so focused on some aspects of it but let's look at it the first place to gain Dominion is yourself in Ephesians 4 and verse 27 it says in verse 26 don't be angry don't let the Sun go down in your air be angry but don't sin don't let the Sun go down on your anger neither give place to the devil so it's talking firstly to believers and it's clearly possible for believers to get angry and sinfully angry just as well it's also possible for a believer to give place to the devil and the word places is a greek word topos meaning an opportunity a foothold or a legal ground or right so he's saying to believers don't give the devil legal footholds into your life don't give them a ground in which they can access your life so the first place you've got to get the victories in your own life and it helps if you can recognize some of the strategies that demonic spirits use to manipulate and close your life and to identify any gates or doors now some of this material starts to move towards the area of deliverance and I don't want to make this a ministry session on deliverance or a whole major teaching around deliverance but I have observed in the past that when you start to stand up and speak into the spirit world old if there are footholds in your life they quickly begin to manifest so I have noticed that if you have legal areas or doorways open in your life where spirits are operative that when you start to engage speaking into the spirit world it pushes back on you temporarily just temporarily to see whether you really actually will stand up or not and so I have observed at times so for example I got up and for seasonally I was regular everyday beginning to command my day so I'd rise and speak in the spirit and begin to speak now a command every aspect of my day to come into alignment with God's will for my life I speak over every aspect of my day to fully align with what God has purposed for me I take authority over every assignment abrade I begin to speak and break things and I found I did that for about three days and then I had a lot of trouble and and I found that there was a lot of pressure around my mind and emotions and it was like a discouragement to stop praying that way and so I've observed with working in exercising your spiritual authority that the most common experiences people have initially are that there's a little bit of turmoil pressure comes around you or conflicts come in that area you're praying in doing so because this was a personal area the pressure came around me personally in prayer and I kind of felt like quitting after a couple of three days at it I felt like giving up with the wool that's getting hard but it was actually just a spiritual pressure I had to keep working against and I had to look and see if there any grounds or reasons that that pressure had a right to stay there and put that right I have found when people have prayed in two marriages sometimes the initial thing that happens is turmoil takes place and but then problems come out to the open and you can then talk things through healing resolution and new ways of living together can take place in the workplace sometimes the initial outcome of praying is greater turmoil than ever but again if you'll just keep up the pressure it shifts and aligns with the Word of God remember it says by faith we understand the world that we see was framed or set in place or ordered and created by the words that God spoke so we have power to speak and frame up our world to align with what God wants it doesn't absolve us from engaging and doing things but this is an incredible important part of speaking the Word of God so in 4.2 spirits try to make you ineffective in 2 Corinthians 11 a to verse 11 Paul said lest Satan should take advantage of us for not ignorant of his devices so although at the cross Jesus legally or took the legal rights of Satan away for practical operating purposes he still operates unhindered because people don't know that once you know what Jesus has accomplished and believe and stand on it then the devil loses ground immediately before you but he does have his devices heed of has his ways and he does work on people's life and it's when you start to pray you start to see it he's unless Satan should take advantage the word advantage means to defraud take what belongs to another by deceit so he's saying demonic spirits will try to take what God has plan for you by manipulating your thoughts or your mind your emotion so you don't realize what's going on that's why we do need relationships people can talk into our life and say listen I'm be concerned about what's happening I can see this you we all need that and not going alone we're not ignorant or without any kind of acknowledge or information about the devices of the devil so here's an interesting verse here in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 2 Jesus says he made you alive who are dead in trespasses and sin and who once walked in the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the year that spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience so he's saying this is what your life was and he's saying that when we were in the world and living without Christ it said evil spirits could work in our life and the word work there is the word in a gay Oh from which we get energetic or energy and it means to be up to energize or put it this way the way spirits operate is they create negative spiritual energy in your life they energize things that are already there so they become difficult to overcome or they bring pressure on you and it's a very real pressure a very real energy and in acts 10:38 it tells us that Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost 2 and it says to heal all who are oppressed or held down by the devil so if evil spirits are operating you feel pressure or you feel strong energy inside trying to move your manipulate you so for example if you're in the grip of temptation it's like your whole inner being is energized it's like your mind and thoughts get captured by this thing if anger is starting to flood your soul it's like a huge amount of energy inside you that rises up and demons manipulate that so the word that's commonly used to describe the activity of demons is that they energize problems in your life or or they bring to life and give power to things inside you likewise it tells us that God also does that he energizes but he energizes us to do good and the Bible also tells us the Word of God works mightily in you who believe so God's Word energizes us the Spirit of God energizes us but also demons energize us so we see that our our inner life can be energized either negatively by demonic spirits or positively by the spirit and Word of God and so there are common areas that demons attack it helps if you just aware of it in the body with addictions and sicknesses or weaknesses or weariness in the soul with conflicts and emotional turmoil feelings and that rage out of control accusations or condemnation and the mind pressures of temptation that seems so real and powerful and when you're in the grip of temptation God seems so far away and the temptation seems so very real but once you've resisted it the energy of it dies down see some of you may have can you remember a time when you were going through an immense spiritual conflict how much energy it took inside to overcome it it's like it's real energy that's there and then after it's subsided it's like you're back at peace and at rest again so there was a real energy almost took over and took all your thinking and emotional and spiritual effort to get over it uh heavy spirits can come around and bring heaviness and bring oppression passivity these are common sort of things that spirits spring so if you notice some of those things happening you can identify perhaps there's a spiritual pressure around me they they come on finances I there was a season when we were establishing the church here where we had accident after accident after accident we had financial difficulties and pressures and setbacks one after the other and it became really distressing until God spoke to me what it was about and I was able to stand up and assert spiritual authority against it and from that point on it changed and then it just subsided and we went without any insurance claim for years but prior to that I've been turned down from the company because we had so many it was just in the season when there was spiritual conflict I had all of these problems happen in difficulties in in your circumstances but we talked with sergeant was sharing with you last night how just even trying to get the notes out the machine violently resisted printing you put anything else in it prints it you put this in it won't print it last time we sliced him and I we did I remembered after we talked he put it in and we got the notes out and it's printed only the odd pages every even pages are not printed now it's never done that before just did that on that seminar it's never done that before never did it sense it just did it for that seminar so these are the kinds of things you get setbacks and they create irritations you've got to learn how to rest in God and just find a place a piece in the middle of it the search your authority so demonic spirits can bring these pressures around when I go to Asia I have all kinds of things happen over there one of the churches tries to look after me very well but they they know from experience that things tend to go wrong when I go there and they so they had a car they put this lovely car they put outside to pick me up from the hotel when it got to the cart wouldn't start so they've got this nice car and it's just shut down and won't work outside and we're talking about a nice hotel and it's on the main street of Singapore and the church car is broken down right there at the gates and they were very embarrassing for them they really got something bad so they rang up for the spec spec house got a flat tire so it's like they were so so sorry so sorry so next year they make they remember the experience it will it really do this right so they got an Audi and they had it all serviced the week before I went there and I get there and their heads hanging yeah we're so sorry about the aircon I see what's about the ekata see well something happened with the window of the cuts just dropped down we've never seen we'd no idea why and now there's no aircon and and they took it to the they took it to the firm and the firm says we've never ever in all our cars in all the world have that trouble and they said it doesn't happen to this kind of car so they fixed it for nothing but it's just we had lots of things like that all kinds of stuff so so the spirit world is very real and if you start to come alive in spiritual things you will experience things that you had not perhaps experienced before which are not so explainable by natural means but they can be explained if there's energy and something reacting from the spirit world against you so he's got to learn to step up against it hallelujah cause the bus checkout of alumni you know I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me arise inside and better speak the Word of God over your circumstances make it back down learn to do that get some toughness inside you and hahaha however it also helps have you closed down some of the gates of your past and again is not a deliverance conference so but it doesn't hurt that we talk about these things because we will do a teach on deliverance a later time in the year at another seminar so to close the spiritual gates is very simply a gate as a portal through which something goes a gate gives you entrance from one place to another one room to another and there are spiritual gates places where demons can move from the spirit world and manifest in the natural world so we can have gates I don't know whether you realize that bu IRA gate you're a gate for God to enter this world think about that the first revelation that I had that that that Isaac had when he when he was the Jacob head rather was this is the house of God this is the gate to heaven so the house of God is a gate so you are a gate through which the blessing of God can reach people and and so but also there can be gates in our life through which demonic spirits enter and access and of course you wouldn't necessarily be aware of it you would just think but this is me I've always been like this and when you get into fellowship with spiritual people then pretty soon you start to become aware of those areas that you've got some problems so there's a number of them I'm not going to teach on all of them I just want to just highlight them but there are common there's a number of common gates that spirits used to come in and to oppress people wherever there's a legal ground or right exists spirits can come in and operate against you and bring pressure on your life and here's here's some of the common gates that spirits in the deploy or use I remember it's a legal ground so it's something that someone has said or done that created a right or an opportunity for a spirit to use it to come in and out and Jesus taught that demons come in and out of people because they have a right or an access to do so so here they are some of you be very aware of these some of you this may be some new things but they're listed there with a little bit of explanation and they're not entirely full list but it's some major ones number one generational sins and curses some of the gateways to spirits and problems in our life began in our family with our parents or grandparents or great-grandparents or beyond that and that this is a major source of prophecy you can be born into this life already with demonic access points into your life and they may start from very young or they may manifest as you grow or come into adulthood and some curses can be passed down three to four generations some can be passed down to be sexual sins of over ten generations and so every one of us is connected in our DNA to the generation that went before and spiritually we're also connected to the generation that went before so anything that gained access say through idolatry or spiritism or sexual sin or or or various or things that people have if it's gained access into the into the family line it will come down generation after generation and this is so some family lines are terribly weakened because of a pattern of sin that's been there over years patterns of alcoholism or gambling or lust or sexual perversion these things once they get into a family can affect one of the most dramatic cases that and I've seen lots of them over court I'll just tell you this one I prayed for a lady in a city in New Zealand and she's a Christian worker and she said I am tormented with these problems of our unclean spirit images and pictures and I'm tormented in my mind all the time I said how long has it been like then she said all my life I said to well you know have you been molested or exposed to anything that would have created a trauma in your life no she said none of those so I thought well it has to be generational so say well what's in your life has come obviously from the previous generation so when parents were she so she began to just asked about the background and the grandparents were missionaries in China in the 30s and they had taken they had a son and a daughter and they've taken their family to live in China and there were missionaries in the particular province of China and the Son and the daughter went to school in another province of China and the girl and the boy were so around about 10 11 12 about that age groups far as I remember but the Japanese invaded China that that part of China and took over and conquered that province and kid in and took the kids into custody and over a period of time the girls quite badly sexually abused by Japanese soldiers eventually the the kids were released and went back to their parents but already the damage had been done and so the family I think maybe returned back to New Zealand and so the young girl and her brother grew up the girl married and the girl who married was this woman's mother and the marriage didn't last the marriage broke up and so eventually this girl who had been born grew up and served the Lord and this is that she'd come to me for this help so what we did was we just acknowledged that it's most likely that the reason she was tormented was because of a generational curse endure the family line through the sexual abuse so we got her on behalf of her family to forgive the Japanese soldiers for what they had done to hold the cross of Christ between her and the family line and just to cancel all the the things that have taken place we did that and prayed she had a massive deliverance and she was completely freed she to this day as far as I'm aware has never had a problem with those tormenting things coming into a mind they were of a spiritual nature and by asserting authority and dealing with the legal rights she was able to be set free of this tormenting spirit very very powerful very powerful and so there are lots of stories like that so you have authority to renounce and to cancel every generational curse operating around your life you have the authority to act as a represent of the family and to stop those things happening sometimes we need ministry from others but there's an amazing amount you can do yourself and so this seminar is about you being empowered rather than being dependent however there are issues in their life sometimes we just need to open up to someone else and have them pray for us but so dealing with a generational sin really does revolve acting as a representative of the family father I come to you in Jesus name I confess the sins of my family we have been involved in this and this and this and also I have done these things too so we we bring it to the cross you've got to come to the cross and when we bring it to the cross and Lord I ask your forgiveness and I receive that forgiveness so sin has to be addressed we've got to bring it to the cross through confession we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us it's quite simply done now in Jesus name I renounce every generational curse I break the power of all agreements and attachments that have been formed in my family line I hold the cross of Christ between me and my family line I forgive those who have been involved in these things and now I claim freedom and I'll show you just simply and the latter part of the study just how you can simply deliver yourself not very hard might like to try it sometime quite quite convenient quite easy to be able to deliver yourself just a matter of rising in your spirit take authority and and deal with the sin and command the things to go so another area related to generational sins and curses is dedication as the issue of dedications baby dedications are very common and cultures which are idolatry so they'll dedicate the child's to an idol dedicate the child to a temple and when doing so the parents because they have authority over the child give authority to a demon to enter their child and so that right that legal right has to be broken and canceled other in Jesus name I renounce every word spoken over me the dedicated my life to an idol temple I cancel that dedication I break the agreement with that idol in temple I break the soul tie touching me in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I command you Satan go from my life so if these things are not very hard but it's actually quite a simple thing to break them but you just need to be aware that they're there we had I was in one meeting one night and in Singapore a lady came in and she had a massive deliverance and she came up afterwards and told joy I was prayed for and dedicated to a temple when I was a little girl and I've been tormented all my life I've been crying out to God to set me free and and the Lord spoke to and said go to this particular church City Harvest go to this particular meeting because there'll be someone there who can help you and she came in and we were teaching on the stuff and she came and God set free that night so she spoke to joy and joy I think might have pray for her and got us set free so dedications give a legal right and spirts to enter ungodly soul ties a soul tie is an attachment or bonding between people and people can be bonded together and it can be very positive thing God decreed that Adam and Eve through sexual intercourse too would become one so soul ties can be formed through sexual relationship bringing the two so they become one they become one in flesh in this particular scripture here it says in Genesis 34 3 it says that the daughter of Jacob Dinah she was raped by the sky and his soul tie he was bonded or became bonded to this this girl and so soul ties are bonding and it can be very good can be husband and wife are bonding in marriage parents and children very good it can be also in church so but they can also be quite negative so when person has sexual sin they're bonded to each sexual partner person involved in idolatry they're soul tied to the idle person had a traumatic experience often they're soul tied to the trauma a parent is in a controlling relations in the controlling relationship often their soul tied to the controller someone abuses them violently physically or verbally or emotionally often the person becomes soul tied and bonded to the controller of the abusive person so soul ties also these bondings create a ground through which spirits come in and manipulate we have had many people become free of terrible tormenting unclean thoughts when soul ties to sexual partners were broken the power of the things seemed to dissipate and yes they could remember but it's not the driving energy tormenting their mind and emotions so demonic spirits use these they also use ungodly beliefs what you believe is very the Bible says as a man thinks in his heart or believes in his heart that's how he is if you believe a lie you are in agreement with the demon already if you believe a lie you know the Bible says the devil's the father of lies so if I believe a lie for example I believe a lie that I'm a failure everything I do will fail then now I have got a expectation in my heart that what I do is not going to work out and the more I fail the more hurt I get and bitter I get until my whole life is is surrounded by an atmosphere of expectation I will fail or be rejected and when you let me give you an example of that have you ever had an experience where someone's talked with you and and there's something about them you just can't wait to get away if you still want to be there you just kind of want to get away can even be even a small chart there's something about them and they're so demanding or something and so it was like you just just want to get away from the child and usually what's happening there is there's a deep there's a spirit around the child's life of rejection and a deep expectation I'll be rejected and it's almost like they project it out and you feel you get too far by that thing and so ungodly beliefs or lies and our heart created great they progressed a platform for spirits to affect our relationships immensely okay another one is vows whether they be external or inner vows value make a commitment or a pledge or a promise there can be ancestral vows of course that people make personal vows open up the door for demons me many times they take the form of of an inner vow any vows are vows formed in the times of pain or very difficult experience like a person who's abused by a man she may say well I'll never let any man near me or I'll never let any person or any male get near me and have access to me like that so an inner vow creates it's like it's something it's a vow rooted in bitterness and judgment now that creates a legal ground for a spirit to enter I prayed for one woman who continually miscarried baby boys and she had made an inner vow I'll never carry a male child and it out worked in her body and her body rejected every child that she had that was a male so in of hours of very very powerful things and people form them when they hurt or they they a person who goes through for example their family is very financially hard up and so they perhaps having to wear second-hand clothes and and they don't have the thing at school that everyone else has and they go through humiliating experience at school they can often make a different kind of anavar well when I grow up I'll always have enough money and so the life becomes driven by this bitterness inside and this inner vow and it's driven but there's never enough because at the same time they believe in their heart there's never enough for me so they're driven by the belief there's never enough for me and driven by an inner vow I'll make sure I've got enough and the whole life gets into a i pressure to get money and it can never be solved because no matter what they got it's never enough I can remember at one particular couple now eventually the marriage broke up but he was worth millions but he was still driven totally driven and his heart was shut down and it went right back to his childhood where he had suffered great loss and made these inner vows well I'll never lack and I will do this and of course those inner vows become demonically energized and the person becomes driven and you can't you're a tional person look and say but you've got everything you need what are you still working like that 24/7 you know why you're doing that and they can't explain it and that the explanation is not rational its spiritual that spirit has gained access and has Authority in their life and is driving the behavior so you need to be aware of this for your own life as well as in the area of ministering to others and these things in order for the person to be healed they've got to actually go back and remember and let the Holy Spirit show them where these vows were formed and renounce the vow because it will control your life through demonic empowerment another area that is common for demonic spirits to afflict people our word curses curses words spoken over a person's life for example a word spoken by a father have great potential to empower a child or to curse them I can remember one girl we pray for it's heartbreaking her guts upset when I heard it but her father you know she's just teenager and she had she was just experimenting with dress and trying get attention and stuff and so she addressed in a little bit promiscuously and her father called her a and he literally labelled her that more than once and she thought well if that's what I am I'll go be that and she did and now she was actually no intention of being promiscuous whatsoever but the father's words over her and her they became like a cursing on her when she accepted them and then she acted out or lived out what had been spoken over her so I have found many people have had curses put over them either curse themself I'm a failure I'll never get anywhere in life those kinds of things or a common kind of cursing as a death wish I just wish I would did you know I just hate my life I wish I was dead those kinds of things can be spoken out in an emotional time as a teenage and then open the way for a spirit to come in and bring bondage so it's help and then finally the last one there is the area of sin habits where people just get locked into patterns of repeated sin and so it could be anger it could be unforgiveness or bitterness it could be hatred jealousy people get locked into patterns of sin and spirits then will enter and energize it so it becomes quite a problem to get free off now here's the deal you've got authority to break any of those bondages you can't do it you can minister to others and set them free you can minister even in your own life hour to set set yourself free which we'll share in just a moment so how do you need to deal with these gates how do we shut the gates down no suppose these are gates in your own life be open to the possibility you may need someone to help you it's not always just about praying for yourself sometimes we need to submit and just let someone else pray for us but here it is press strongly in tongues the first thing is get energized let the life of God begin to flow in you like a river this is a big start and listen for the Holy Ghost to show you what you need to be praying for and then you need to speak words from your spirit so these are the kinds of things now speaking strongly doesn't mean speaking loud you see I can speak strongly from my spirit because I'm purposefully speaking strong words I command you in Jesus name and speak strongly it doesn't have to be loud so people think and what they do is they substitute speaking from your heart with authority for speaking loudly and then make a lot of noise but it's like empty words with no substance in it so speaking with authority speak in Jesus name and so here's some things that you could do that would break the power of holds over your life one would be just to repent Lord and forgive me I just confess to you law that I have done this I have said this I have acted in this way always we need to just confess sin and deal with sin we've got to get it to the cross if there are people have heard us or we have unforgiveness we have to let that go unforgiveness locks our life up it's it's a doorway for demons jesus said matthew 18 and then renounce or speak or cancel any curses so if I wanted to cancel a curse over my life generationally father in heaven I come to you in Jesus name I confess Jesus Christ as my savior and Lord I'm redeemed by his blood I'm redeemed body soul and spirit I belong to you and that's positioning myself I found an all moving in authority just get positioned right father I come to you and I stand before you and and standing before God and opening the heart and declaring who we are it's a great way to start and then well father I just confess to you the sin of our family that we have been involved in Freemasonry we've made agreements and covenants with idols and demons and grieved your heart Lord I renounce this curse and all agreements made with Freemasonry at every level of Freeman I renounce the curses made my father's side of the family my mother's side of the family I cancel them now and I hold the cross of Christ between my family line and those things I refuse them today now in fact actually in my family line that has been Freemasonry I had to get rid of some of the regalia and discover some of the effects of Freemasonry emotional difficulties difficulties and loving woman all kinds of difficulties that were in the Freemasonry background spiritual turmoil and conflicts and sickness and so in renouncing those things now in Jesus name I release forgiveness to every family member who has opened the doorway for these things now in Jesus name I command you to go from my life so some things I've had to just deliver myself on that heart there's praying energize your spirit go through the step-by-step process of dealing with the legal right and commanding the spirit to go and then just cough and begin to just allow the thing to come out you'd be quite surprised when you do it what sorts of things we could happen it can start off with a little cough by faith and end up with a coughing fit whoa what just left I don't care just as God that's the main thing begin to worship God okay so so you can do you can deliver yourself it's not so hard and I've given I've got a section there just a little bit on the whole area of self deliverance we'll touch that in the moment so why don't we just just stop at that point and perhaps some of you may want to ask some things just about where we're at and that's at that point and then we'll go on and just look at two sections in this on and the final three sections in this part which is on recognizing spiritual attacks and just how to deliver yourself so why don't we just stop for a moment and some of you may just have a few questions you wanted to ask either about the last session on spiritual authority or on this session just a related to just some of these gateways and doorways yes okay yes right well we are responsible can do something for our own life so and then those who are after us we we have no rights over our parents and then see we have no rights there all we can do is pray and stand against the influence and pray and rebuke that whole spiritual area and and and ask the Holy Ghost to release light unto them so open their eyes to see so they did if you have been dedicated or your children being dedicated you have rights there to be able to exercise authority when it comes to your parents that the relationship is one of arrance to chance you have no authority over their life except one of influence so you can speak and and command the disempowering of generational spirits and but you've also got to pray that God would open their eyes to see they have to choose for themselves to do that I think we can stand as an ambassador on behalf and speak into those things but let the Holy Spirit help you in that okay so enough yeah yes sure yes I think the more specific we can be the better that is and so to locate the generational sin have a look at patterns that appear in the family so you had asked first of all you just begin to prime the spirit now it's the Holy Spirit to reveal the thing to you have a look at patterns in your family one of the first places you see them as patterns in the family but sometimes it only comes by revelation and we can get the Holy Spirit can reveal the thing to us some people pray and command the demons to reveal it and thoughts come up to the mind but it's it's better that there be specific prayer rather than general prayer specific prayer has specific results general prayer often is ineffective so I think it's a good place to start but I think it's better that we actually ask the Holy Ghost to help us identify what the specific issue is that would be better okay yes oh sorry yes yes right right okay so that's the classic thing that we said before you know that you have to we know Jesus calls us to reveal himself so we're called to preach the gospel yet you have an employment situation where if not explicitly implicitly you're not to speak about Jesus it's to be a secular education so you would break the employment contract if you start to preach the gospel in your classroom so that's the dilemma God says to do this you thority say to do this where do I stand I think number one as your heart attitude is not to be in in rebellion against authorities but to be cooperative with the intention of it all I think number two you can speak and take authority over the spiritual atmosphere in the classroom and release things I had many kids come to Christ to my classroom but I didn't this is very talk to them about Jesus in the classroom but many came where many kids come to Christ a whole heap of them because the Holy Ghost so shifted the atmosphere they just wanted to come and talk on connect want to hang out and then hanging out they won't ask things so you talk about stuff then and you can talk so I I don't think often I spoke openly about Jesus in the classroom but what I did do when it came to the area of teaching around sexuality I was quite blatant I was quite blunt about the Christian perspective on it and that was quite an interesting thing for them all I thought well I thought they're getting junk I'm going to give another point of view because this is education and at least they should be exposed to another point of view which is biblical and Cristiano gets results so I did unashamedly wouldn't have worried about that but I think today the environments become much more difficult so therefore I think great wisdom is needed or you lose you lose your credibility and then eventually lose your job and lose your ability to influence so but if someone comes and inquires or someone comes and asks I think there's a lot we can do without speaking the name of Jesus you can talk biblical values you can talk about values you can talk about the conflict of values you can talk about the values which is specific for you I think there's much we can do and I determine I would do as much as I could because everyone else was blatant about what they were doing yes so I thought if someone comes and says you can't do that I'm sorry I didn't realize that thank you very much for pointing that out and then I'd be a little wiser in the future ha ha ha well I I you know I think this I think you don't want to live under fear and intimidation and if someone makes a complaint or soul I'm so sorry you know we were talking about values I think to blatantly preach Jesus is a misuse of your authority as a teacher people understand they're coming to a secular classroom to receive education they're not expecting the teacher to talk their own personal views however the reality is that the life of the teacher shows up in their teaching so whatever the person is living will show up in how they teach so I've got no shame and so there's who I am actually I'm a Christian I do this and I believe these things I want and I found that kids would ask questions well if ask questions or answer the question yes exactly yes so we prayed at home so I took I used to take the line this is my room everything that comes in here is coming into my territory and the presence of God is in my territory that's how I took it and release the present and prayed for presence got to fill the place and for them all to be successful because for a parent that come to I want to they want the kids to succeed then honestly want religion they want to succeed they don't know how to get success so I would say you so I worked one creatively to create an environment where learning was very relational and they got success to to to work the spiritual atmosphere so it was quite open and accepting in there yeah I seem to get good results just went like that and they're very sorry to see me go and I got the same results when I started up a school and same thing happen begins spiritual environment and also enabling them and empowering them to learn properly hmm yes all right okay that's a good question so there's a struggle and a marriage that eventually broke down and so the question is where my present effective I think that God is the only one who can answer where the prayers are effective or not I think we tend to look at them all as being effective only in terms of getting what we expect a hope the reality is in relationships God gives everyone a free will and the people continually resist God there are devastating consequences that take place no matter how faithful the Christian or the believer can be so the Bible says that the unsaved spouse whether it be husband or wife is sanctified by the faith of the saved person so I believe God looks at them and sees them as being one now how do you then deal with the situation with the unsaved or the backslidden husband I believe you stand in a place since they have failed in spiritual headship you step up and often without usurping their role step up in prayer praying to break those things around them release blessing of God but we have no guarantee what the outcome will be because the outcome rests on a business decision and so all we can do is make the chances of it happening far greater in other words by removing some of the spiritual pressure and releasing the atmosphere of God but people still reject God so Adam and Eve walked in the most perfect environment but still made their own choice which had consequences and God let them make the choice but made them accountable for the consequences so in a marriage situation I believe the first thing is your own heart attitude secondly is that you stay faithful in prayer and do the part that you can but then sometimes marriages break down because someone just is resistant and they make decisions and choices that lead to destruction you're not responsible for those decisions or choices and if you have prayed faithfully and stood in the gap and believed God and done the best you could then you've done the best you could you know if you you read the men of faith it said some got great victories and others died in faith you know so we forget the last group we just want the great heroes stories and see it all where but there are many people and they just stood in faith they didn't see the answer but they refused to doubt they held on till the very end even at the loss of their life and God calls them men of faith so I believe if you stay in a place of faith believing trusting God and do all that you can then however the outcome is at least you can walk away honorably saying I did all that I could yeah and that's how you would feel of course yeah and and sometimes when you engage in this kind of prayer issue surface which actually the whole foundations of the marriage become bare and then the challenges will we work to sort this out and build the better relationship or will we not and so prayer like I was sharing of opening up the spirit world can expose stuff that reformed early was hidden hmm people still make their decisions so and sometimes I make bad decisions you know yes yes yes I think that's a totally separate issue first and salvation rests on the work Christ did and their trust in it and it should have an outworking that their life begins to show it so true faith actually has some outworking of a walk with God of some kind if a person is oppressed it means a part of their life is under the control of the enemy which is usually there in this case the soul so the mind and emotions and what you don't know is what trauma the person has gone through that gave access to the spirits into their life yeah I understand that it of course and that happens so I think the issue of a person's salvation lies ultimately in the hands of God and God alone I don't think we can ever know where people stand and just because a person refuses to acknowledge a problem and won't receive ministry I don't think that means they're not saved I think it just means they're refusing to acknowledge your problem because and there are many reasons people refuse to acknowledge a problem some they actually intuitively know that to acknowledge it I'm going to have to go through some terribly painful stuff to deal with it I'd rather not acknowledge it and some people have actually built it's almost like they dissociate inside and put the pain in a box and carry on just like nothing's ever happened but the pain is all there and they don't want to go there because of the pain what that would mean to them and in such a situation when the person stays and that kind of denial you can't do anything until they come out of the denial so sometimes I my experience with working with people's Envy do to conclude that even if you can see what's wrong until they recognize a need they don't make a change so the first aspects of prayer is that God would awaken their heart to see their need usually we try to tell a person what their need is and they just vividly resist so I've sometimes change the praying God open their eyes so they can see whatever it is that's holding them out we just stand against that and it can be just immense grief because the first phase of grief is shock and the inability to come to grips with what it is so III don't no one really knows all of those things but trauma and and grief denial and just sometimes just stubborn resistance I won't admit I've got an EVE that can come out of in a vows I think that prayer can increase the opportunity and the the likelihood they would open up but it doesn't guarantee it we still have everyone has given a free will so you can't override someone's free well when we over hmm well can God that's a good question firstly he can or Paul's determined to go down the road and kill Christians and he goes power and zaps him off and he did but he never overrode his will he just gave an encounter that woke and his eyes up and and and he suddenly realized he's making a big mistake God has given man a free will if he takes it away by overriding it the core of being human has taken away so God it's seldom overrides a person's free will free will is what makes me human being if I don't have free will or my free will is taken away I'm a slave so God so that's one of the dilemmas God has created man for Dominion and given them free will but not choice over consequences so God doesn't override free will and he has set in place consequences and that's how him that's how he is man it set up the world operate so only by faith can we access something coming into here from heaven to earth but God doesn't override free well so I think it's extraordinary that you have the you are given free will to the extent you can choose a lot of destiny that's eternally lost it's incredible that God would give so much but taking it away would so enslave you you wouldn't be human so it's the dilemma God faced he gave man free will but with it the potential he could just must use it or use it to rebel and therefore all this destruction so we have to be very careful we do not override the will of another person who's an adult and responsible adult to do that involves witchcraft because witchcraft is the usurping the authority that someone else legally has which is that what their response so responsibility and authority go together so what you're responsible for you have authority over to do certain things if I move and take up your responsibility and minimize your authority and take over I'm now operating outside what God has called me to do and I've taken over I'm operating in witchcraft which is an unlawful Authority so I I didn't put a section in but I was thinking about it that perhaps I should put a section and relate it to this because unlawful spiritual authority or unlawful Authority is a problem everywhere where someone has taken over and controls another person's life and the person lets them do it because it's easier for them to give up responsibility that someone else run it and this creates a spiritual dynamic where witchcraft operates and sits over the whole marriage or relationship and and and it creates huge problems sickness and firmness all kinds of things come in and many families and marriages and churches are full of this so when you arise and start to operate the spiritual authority the one thing you've become intensely aware of is the issue of the of witchcraft and the whole Jezebel of operation I haven't included it in this but that's a whole sort of area of its own it's got major issues around it it can never operate unless someone gave permission for it to operate so for example God held a hab responsible for the corruption in the nation and he judged a hab because they have gave up responsibility and allowed him to be usurped by his wife so we tend to get into this anti woman thing and blame Jezebel for this and that which is actually totally unfair because men and woman are both capable of controlling behaviors and the Spirit is totally impartial who it works through the issue is whether we take up responsibility or abscond or abdicate everywhere you abdicate something will come in and take over that's just the reality so that's why I have discovered in this area if you have abdicated responsibility for over a period of an area of your life or responsibility something will sit in there and when you arise repent ask God to forgive you take up your responsibility start to pray you will engage and have some conflict because you'll find then something sitting there most people aren't aware something simply until you step up and try and actually change your life then you find it's there and then you find it pushes back against you and you have some problems yeah yeah so it is it's yeah well that's a great statement oh we can all say I mean haha all right we'll just move on I want to have a look at six and four point seven how to recognize and deal with spiritual attacks and then just the issue of self deliverance I think these are quite everyone is going to go through issues of spiritual attack at some point now we don't overdramatize it and kind of be looking for demons everywhere but there are times when pressure comes on you it's helpful if you know what it is and know what to do about it if you don't you just try to push on spiritual problems need a spiritual solution but don't spiritual eyes everything some things are very natural very practical so the dilemma you have is where people look for a devil everywhere for you'll see what you want to see so let the focus of our eyes be on God and His goodness not on the problems but having said that we do recognize that there are times when you come under immense spiritual pressure and it is very real and it can be distressing if you don't know what to do with it so we just read a verse in Revelations 12 10 11 then I had loud voice from heaven saying now salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the power verse Christ have come for the accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night has been cast down and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives unto death so notice here the pressure against believers is unrelenting day and night intersect so notice that they are accusations so one of the things the devil wishes to do is to accuse you continually of lakhs failures faults flaws to heighten your awareness of what's wrong rather than your awareness of what God has done for you and where you stand essentially he wants to erode your standing so you don't feel near to God you feel just not good enough I feel bad I'm not good enough nothing's good enough and so spiritual attacks come in the form of accusations or condemnation where you feel pressured in your mind that you're not good enough now the devil doesn't say you're not good enough you put your mind with I'm not good enough I'll never be good enough nothing I do is good enough there's something wrong with me and when there's a flow of thoughts like that they will energize any strongholds you have in your heart but they are a flow of spiritual energy that comes in it can be just heaviness it can be feelings of dread particularly when you're facing situations where there's a lot of control in those relationships you can come under tremendous spiritual vision feel like almost like fear and anxiety and it's totally out of proportion to what you're facing temptations confusion oppression so some people just have a heaviness come now I've shown you how to just lift the heaviness off quite easy but we must actually conquer these things so you are always responsible for the state of your life don't go blaming anyone else don't be the victim we're responsible so if there's something's not right we've let it not be right or on the journey of sorting it out so to overcome means to conquer subdue and come out victoriously so the first place you've got a conquering subdues round your own life and notice it says they overcame the accuser they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb that's what Jesus did on our behalf the word of their testimony confessing to what Jesus has done and then persevering and holding on to it and and backing up the devil on it so whatever comes against you you've got authority FIFA you can defeat it and it will back up I've learned this the demons they will always back up once you determined to that you know what you're doing and you're going to keep on resisting them they back up and then the atmosphere changes and you're free again so how can you deal with it in James 4:7 notice these wonderful scriptures submit yourself to God submit to the so submit to God resist the devil and he will leave from you and that word means to seek safety by running away from the danger that you present now that's a good good word to know that the devil will flee now of course the devil is not interested in you personally he's got really low-level evil spirits are interested in you they just do his work and so you're dealing now with just low-level spirits and here's the deal if you will align yourself with God and make a stander assists he will flee away in panic and terror because you've really got to them and so that's the promise and so the outcome of the demons fleeing away is a result of two things one of you actually aligning yourself with God and two making a stand against the devil the two words are quite interesting words one is the word Hoopoe Tasso Hoopoe to be beneath and to stand or position yourself beneath meaning literally position yourself right with God and then the other one is anti Tasso position yourself anti whatever The Devil's doing so it's all about a positioning yourself in your attitude your thinking and in your words so how so how would you go about dealing with a spiritual attack it's helpful if you ask these kinds of questions what am I feeling if you can put a name on what you're feeling you bring it out to the light many times we have lots of feelings swirl on and then we think some new thoughts and there's more feelings and then there's more thoughts and before you know it you're in a swirl of thoughts and feelings and turmoil and all an emotion you get like that get up and pray in tongues I'm I took about a shake the thing back and then stop and evaluate what you're feeling what is it I am feeling try to get a name on it is it fear is it angers an irritation of some car one of my anxiety what am i feeling and ice agree well what triggered that was something said something someone did or didn't do what triggered this worth I wasn't feeling like that when I got up why am I feeling like that now when did that change now if you can just go through it get your spirit free first of all and just go through this little process of asking these questions what am I feeling what emotions or feelings or things are going on inside me and then what happened that has triggered that off and then evaluate what happened what actually happened that caused that to take place have I made some assumption have I made had some expectation that wasn't met try to evaluate what's happened you'll find the most common reason people get in the mess is they made an assumption well I thought you're going to do that you didn't think so and now you're in a turmoil about it at all and then it's all building up inside and the devil's just having a heyday in your life just stop well what is it that's gone on and try to evaluate what happened and then then because if you can evaluate then you'll look at what your part was in it you can deal with your part in it then here's the things you can easily do pray in tongues very strongly because praying in tongues as we've already found energizes your spirit I understand that a couple of people here not free to pray in tongues will like to pray for you other after lunch and just to activate that part in your life so listen listen for promptings of the Holy Ghost because he may show you things to pray for and then learn to speak directly I can remember it was a time in my life I remember as teaching Christian school members having these problems these unclean thoughts coming into my mind and I said you know I was feeling down because I was struggling with these thoughts thing and well what am i teaching in a Christian school I'm struggling with these thoughts what's going on and the Lord dropped in he said it's a spirit invading your mind just rebuke it oh really I never thought of that and so I did I just got praying in tongues and just spoke directly in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I take authority over that unclean spirit I forbid you to come around my life now I thank your Lord your presence here inside me the spirit of holiness inside me began to pray and focus my mind on the law immediately the whole thing or just ever thought and it stopped it was so quickly it stopped I couldn't believe it I thought I'd been putting up with that stuff around my head for the half of the morning and here it is now just suddenly went when I knew what to do it was a spiritual attack which comes sometimes in the way of heavy often heaviness is an indication something's about to happen or is happening around you but also invading thoughts and vaiting emotions and so learn to speak speak God's Word over your situation speak and reject the operation of that spirit and then begin to declare God's Word over your situation quite easy and then re-engage and do something else it's not hard if what am I feeling what triggered off that feeling have I done anything or anything's happen with your assumptions I made or someone's disappointed me in trying to get an evaluation what's happened is there anything I need to put right with God okay get it right and now in Jesus name pray in tongues call bye-bye check out of a stir up your spirit Jesus name I speak to that spirit now here's the one things I I found and I found this by experience you'd like to vote your stand up just coming to stand up near me when we tend to think of these things as stand here that's like that when we tend to think of the spirit world because we live so much in the physical world we tend to just not be very aware or conscious how it might work and so what would happen was I would have these thoughts coming around me and bombarded me you see and for a season I have these terrible thoughts of rejection I'm just gonna belong I just not loved and all that kind of stuff and then it took me a little while to realize they were my thoughts and I had an issue in the heart but actually it was a spirit of rejection was pushing against me just hold hands down like that just pushing against me see so I couldn't see the spirit but I was overloaded in my mind and emotions with thoughts and then I'd start to feel sorry for myself and so there's another spirit so would your hands out here both you keep your hands okay so now I'm not even aware or conscious that there are spirits at that stage all I know is that all the time I've got this pressure pushing on me feeling sorry for myself and this pressure pulling on a feeling I'm not good and not valuable not accepting I couldn't work out what was I just struggle with it and it was so common I just thought it was me and when it would come it would come every now and then I'd have an event and these demons would just immediately just trigger off come in and start pushing on me and I'd start to I'd go down sometimes for three days and do a heaviness into her to a dark hole no idea what it was it never occurred to me might be a spirit never occurred to me that like she might have personal enemies I never thought of that and it just never occurred to me you know all the devil sort of out there somewhere kind of thing you know it wasn't reality you read in the Bible you know submit to God resist the devil it's all sort of out there too far for me and then I realized keep your hand all in it so realized that I'd go through life and next thing a bump I'm running to these things and I'm in depression for two or three days I didn't realize it was something there I had no idea there was a spirit that was involved none whatsoever until the day the Lord showed me you need to stand up and take dominion of this part of your life if you'll get the victory then all your life will change so what I did was I would start off about beginning to pray really strongly in tongues get fired up in the spirit energized numb of spirit and then in my imagination I'd picture and see there's a spirit there the name self pity and I'd see there's another one there the name rejection and I would speak to them in Jesus name I take dominion over you I decree your power has broken over my life I reject you and refuse to yield to you and same of the spirit of rejection hold the blood of Jesus over you right now I had no idea what the blood of Jesus did to the demons but I just seemed a good idea to do it turns out they really don't like it I didn't know that I found that out since the other thing they don't like is your praying in tongues they absolutely hate it I've heard them scream at me when I prayed in tongues and so now get this just I pray in the spirit get energized in the spirit turn to this one push against it push against it and then turn around and then just begin to meditate on the truth and open my heart to embrace the truth and reject the lies now what I found was now this was the first stage of doing this and when and I did this for something like three weeks get up again to pray in the spirit turn to the Spirit God and Jesus damn I have authority over you and Jesus now now of course they would think the next day hey we've been around a long time we're not gone on that easy so I wake up the next day they're still there and I never felt any change I just did it by faith and and then I would meditate that God is with me I declare the truth I'm accepted in the beloved meditating the truth and and I searched my heart for any experience of rejection so I could forgive and release blessing to those people and I'd meditate primarily meditate in the truth and then one day I stood up got into prime call by cell just like every other day cut my voice your color prayed in tongues and I pushed like that and I pushed glad that against them in the spirit using words and suddenly I felt the atmosphere change I thought I've actually just hit these things and in case I've actually got the victory over them they've gone they backed up finally and then when I began to meditate in God's presence and love for me I just fell over because I was so touched by God but for three weeks it had been just a journey of faith and and then the actual experience of recognizing I could feel these spirits back up because after three weeks they realized I was not quitting and they backed up and they were gone and I had a great space of freedom in my life for a long time till the next stuff came up look any idea it's not so hard to do yeah if I was to ask you now to identify what are the things that most commonly press in on you and trouble your thoughts and emotions so that you you would say actually these are besetting things they seem to sit around me all the time and push against me you could write them down what would they be is usually not many I wrote down these ones I wrote down rejection because I felt that I always felt not good enough and then self rejection because actually reject them myself then fear of rejection because I actually did fear that this would happen to me and then unbelief because I realised unbelief was a lot undergirding one of those and finally so pity because I'd get in a pity party mmm damn depressed and so I realized there was a cluster of them just like that and I just pushed against them I push against them stood and decreed they were subject to me their powers broken and I turned meditating the Word of God and a rise in my spirit and it shifted I wonder what sits around your life that you could say I refuse to tolerate this anymore now there may be root systems in your heart but I'm sure if you identify first of all what the problem is and you start to pray in and resist it and to clear the truth over your life that many things will shift pretty quickly other things you may need to actually identify when it first started how it got in there and and be willing to acknowledge sin or acknowledge unforgiveness and let it go but I'd be great be easy to get rid of these things now every time they come around oh that's just you in Jesus name be gone this is who I am now you'd be surprised how effective it is because we declare we make confession of what God says how about that okay now suppose there were some stuff there so that's how you deal with some spiritual attacks and you just end up praising the Lord and redirect your attention and there you are so now I learned that if I didn't rise and fight I could go down into a pit quite quickly and stay there for quite some time would be quite depressed and you know sometimes all it takes is for someone to just shake come on you not yourself stand up again okay hold up a checkup and suddenly it's all gone it's all gone away you just stood up inside and push the stuff back so spiritual pressure comes and goes it'll try and lock in where there are strongholds in your heart Jesus said the devil comes got nothing to me got no hold in me so let's just have a look if you needed to get delivered and I want to teach you some little bit on how you could deliver yourself so then I don't have to do it all it gives you empowerment to deliver yourself and and many of us rather than wait a whole week and torment be better if you just rose up in prayer and push the stuff away from you so so in in proverbs 6 verse 4 and 5 give no sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids in other words this is a very important matter deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter and like a bird from the hand of the Fowler so of course the Fowler is a reference to safely hunts and traps and destroy and destroys wild birds captures us and wild animals of course in the snare struggle violently to get free so God says and notice the command deliver yourself in other words he says seek your own deliverance I found I'm surprised how many people how many people want someone to do it all for them but actually this is your life and you have authority over it you do something for yourself and so what would I do the Bible tells us that freedom is my responsibility not someone else's your freedom is your freedom you it's about you it's about what God is what you have in your life and so I have to cooperate with God and here's the key verse submit to God resist the devil and he will flee from you so how can I deal with some of these things and get myself free so I have found sometimes prayer and fasting is an important part of it so if you've got an area of your life that's resistant then it's in page 16 why don't you just have a season of fasting to break through have a season of prayer and fasting and become aware of the presence of God if there's sin in your life there's something you've done that's wrong you do have to confess it because that's the legal ground and so you may find there's a pressure around the sexual area because you've yielded in your mind and emotion or embraced or allowed your mind to wander and in your heart there's a sin taking place even though nothing externally is taking place don't repent and Lord forgive me cleanse my heart of all of these things and if there's areas where you need to forgive sometimes we're feeling rejected because someone hurt us and instead of forgiving we sat on it stood on it had actually unforgiveness sitting in the heart and the rejection just got deeper and deeper so whatever it is you need to repent of it then here's how you actually get the demons to go quite simply and I've done it a number of times for myself and and because I found being in the role I am and doing what I do spirits come around and harass me from time to time I go through conflicts of various kinds and it affects me emotionally and spiritually and I need to be set free sometimes so I have people that I can just go to and when we get together we'll pray and they'll pray if they see anything they pray for me and I'll pray for them but other times I don't have to do it often these days but I would actually deliver myself so how would you go about delivering yourself on the first part is just to recognize you've got a problem that's something sitting that it may be not right and then to out you've got to actually address the issue of sin so I begin to pray in tongues cool bye-bye but she got a bit unknown now if you could imagine spirit soul and body perhaps I'll just get three people up here it'll just help me if I get three people just the first three here it just helped you visualize this all right okay the come on up just stand forward here all right they're there just have to stand to stand there you have to do anything come on stand here in the middle that's right okay there we go here we are spirits Oh spirit soul body just got you like that spirit soul and body now demonic oppression is always through the body and the soul here's the gateway here the life of God always comes through the spirit and here is where the place of conflict is right there at the center of your will whose will will prevail so that this part of you here the soul and the spirit is called the inner man the hidden man of the heart so sometimes when the Bible is talking about your inner man it's talking about your spirit or it's talking about your soul and spirit when you die your soul and spirit together go into here into glory okay then now the flesh refers to your body and also aspects of your soul that are unredeemed and so in the vowel talks about your flesh demon spirits access your flesh your soul your mind thoughts and emotions and your body so when you're doing self deliverance what you must do is arise in your spirit you have to arise in your spirit you have to arise inside and flow in your spirit no matter what you're feeling now you understand now if she arises in a spirit by praying in tongues and energizing the spirit and makes a decision inside and the deeps part of your being I am going to resist and I'm going to take authority over this thing then what she can do is just speak into a soul to any demon there or into a body to any demon there and command it to be expelled it just requires a decision on the inside so what you do then is very simply stir yourself up praying in tongues father I come to you and I stand in your very presence right now I repent of the sin that's allowed that demon to come into my life I thank you for forgiveness I receive your forgiveness right now now spirit I speak to you now go in Jesus name just command it just to go like that and then what you can do then is just breathe out oh and what you may find is as you start the coffee it becomes quite in a major thing and you are now in the manifestation mode and something's going out or it can be they just go simply like that but I know that that two important foundational parts of it are any sinners repented off and - you are rise in your spirit and command the thing to go and you might be very surprised when you arise inside and command things to go just what happens you may have manifestations in your body you may find yourself coughing you make find yourself heaving so I don't even own people when they've done this to actually just immediately start to throw up I'm not into all of that kind of stuff I think that the demons can go real quickly real easy but I have noticed sometimes with me when I've prayed that way there's been quite a coughing take place something on its a lot of coughing a lot of coffee but I don't worry about I'm not going to be condemned by I just taking authority and cleaning out the system just very simply sometimes just because of the trials of life stuff sits on you and it weighs you down and you can arise in your spirit and command those things to go and they will go then as soon as you've done that just begin to praise God thank them for your Liberty again just worship and get your mind redirected okay thank you very much for help it's wonderful all right so it's not not such a hard thing to do now there are some things that you would you would need perhaps to get minister ministry for if it's if you can't get yourself free certainly go see someone and ask them to help you get set free so there it is self deliverance you can see you can deliver yourself and you can push away spirits that come against you now not everything is the spirit they just exploit what's already there so if you've got thoughts and patterns of thinking beliefs in the heart you've got issues of sin they will just exploit them put your heart right with God resist the devil the demons will flee amen all right we just finished there in the afternoon we want to have a look at a session and talk to you about how to build your spirit man and develop that inner life and secondly we want to look at just ministering to other people how to go about ministering and it's quite a simple process remember that in all of the situation of ministering where you're exercising spiritual authority it always has these ingredients one you are arising to be in the position God's calling you to be - you stir your spirit so you're alive in your spirit three you speak with expectation that something's going to happen so I'll give you some things to do a little later this afternoon and you can have a try and see what happens when you do it and see how things go this is something you grow into you grow from level to level to level so get you're doing some activations and do a cut to two maybe three sessions in the afternoon and I'm sure you go away Mike Lee empowered for new things that God has for you and away you had one question for us we've got time for that you mentioned before in the in the break just raised there question again now so is a very good question right okay okay and your question was making that clear how to make that clear all right then in working relationships whether it be at work whether it be in a church ministry or whether it being family or ever you are the issue of boundaries defines what I'm responsible for what you're responsible for and in all work situations and relational situations boundaries come up to one another like that and often overlap in other words people start to move into someone else's here of responsibilities now when there is good communication and when there's a loving serving heart it's very easy to flow like that and we help one another and we work with one another and there's an actual flow but it can become ungodly and it becomes ungodly when this happens when someone deliberately picks up the responsibilities of others and they consciously let them go so you get someone who's got a great their enabler they actually find their identity and doing things to help everyone I can do that or let me do that they did it and they've got that basically they're driven by this need to do things to get approval so what'll happen is they'll take it all on then they'll get angry and react because they're doing so much and you've got a conflict because boundaries got blurred and the person's operating outside the area now this is normal this happens in life all the time so when one person yields up their responsibilities and someone takes it up this is called blurred boundaries and when that happens conflicts will happen inevitably because now the territories are not being properly governed now it's a very simple way around it you just talk to one another and just clarify who's responsible for what and how you're going to talk and work together it's so simple but if people fail to do that then one can feel resentful because they feel they're losing power and someone else is taking over and that is definitely unlawful and they've actually got to step up and make and there's a confrontation needed to bring out to the open water happening it doesn't need to be angry but it can be it doesn't need to turn that way but it sometimes starts so if you have yielded up responsibility someone's taken it over you've got to talk and say hey we need to talk about our boundaries again they've become blurred I need to be clear what I'm responsible for what you're responsible for and how we're going to communicate together over those areas it also happens if someone deliberately invades someone else's area that becomes a problem as well so you've got to talk and negotiate that stuff but what happens is spirits use the blurred boundaries to invade and oppress that's where the problem comes remember don't blame the spirits on everything they know where they had work that it's actually human beings that create the problems we create their environment within which they sees an advantage to come in and to oppress okay someone else had a hand up yes okay that's right so okay so you've got two people working side by side one person skills or attitude or whatever it means they're not capable of functioning properly in the job and so now the other person that everyone's bypassing them and coming to this one now that's a problem now you see therein lies the problem the person who thinks they've got to do it is the one who's now become the problem they work the problem originally but they've become the problem because they are empowering the incompetence of the other what needs to be addressed as the incompetence of the other person it has to be addressed so it requires love and truth talking and an outworking of a better way of working the responsibilities once you bypass the system then what you do is create problems so if we've got two people and ones in confident the others highly competent and people bypass and come to the competent one then that creates a malfunction and a discretion and the in in the whole flow of the relationship and then of course don't think that the one who's incompetent doesn't know what's going on either and they will be gone through all kinds of stuff they will feel something shift they may not know what they'll feel resentful and angry they will feel they're being a Rhoda they go through all kinds of things and it's not sometimes because they're incompetent it can be because they're difficult people to deal with relationally and that also causes the transfer people bypass them to go to where they can work relationally and that creates problems as well so the only way to deal with is you've actually got a talk face to face about what is happening bring it to the light I observe and it doesn't need to be an angry thing you just be simply hey I notice this is something that people are bypassing and going here the effect is to undermine this situation and overload this situation we need to have a talk about why this is happening and we need to come up with a strategy we agree on to sort it out if this is a skill lacking let's talk about what skills can we upgrade the skills can we talk about it work it out if this is a relationship thing can we talk about and work it out now the easier thing is for the person who's competent to stay silent and fill in and take it all over now they have become a participant in the whole deal before they were just willing now they're actually empowering it stays and works because they're doing that and many there are many situations like that and usually I found no one is happy in it no one no one is happy everyone knows what's going on and no one is happy and they're not happy because it's not out in the open and the light there's nothing like having things in the light oh it is so freeing to have everything in the light even if it's terribly painful listen the job you're doing you're not doing well you're missing this and this and this and this is creating these problems it's better to have it out in the open than it is to have it hidden away when it's hidden away that's when spirits work that's when you have your mind tormented that's when all kinds of stuff goes on in the spirit world because of the blurring of boundaries remember that these invasions of territories make room for demonic spirits to operate so where there's a situation where say a family will collapse because one person is not doing their job or a something in an organization will collapse because someone's not doing their job it's better to face it long-term it's better to face it and better to do it more quickly than keep it a long time so so we're better to face those situations rather than continue an unhappy situation because the one who keeps doing everything will feel burdened eventually and they will become resentful about that the one who's not doing it will feel rejected in some kind of way and they will they will in the end react at some point they say so you find it marriages where the man retreats and the woman takes up because she's got a great sense of heart for the home and responsible she'll rise up and take responsibility and then she's burdened and he's guilty because he's not doing anything and feels she's taken over but actually he was denied he was responsible he should have actually initiated and worked these things out so sometimes there are conflicts come around blurred boundaries and you can fix them easily or the hard way okay well praise Allah Father we thank you for teaching us help us to learn how to walk in the spirit move in the spirit keep everything in the light and under some power demons help us to learn how to bring your presence in jesus name amen

Channel: Mike Connell

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Keywords: foothold, legal ground, demonic strategies, satans devices, manipulate, negative energy, positive energy, ungodly beliefs, negative expectancies, submit, resist, flee, freedom, assumption, discouragement, pressure around you, turmoil, conflicts, feel like quitting, addictions, sickness, weakness, rage, accusations, condemnation, pressure of temptation, heaviness, passivity, financial conflict, unusual breakdowns of equipment, blurred boundaries.

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Length: 86min 47sec (5207 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 06 2013