Overcoming Hindering Spirits

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release enlightenment calls inspiration to come Lord as we decree the word of the Lord in this house today in Jesus name Amen may be seated the last couple of weeks I've been talking to you about how we are entering into a greater weight of glory season Holy Spirit spoke to me at the beginning of January as we started our fasting saying delays would be dealt with now at accelerated levels promise what promises would accelerate in in ways to come to pass supernaturally and a greater weight of glory would increase upon his church we are entering into times when the weight of God's presence is going to become heavier and heavier and heavier like as never scene on the earth actually instead of season I think it would be accurate to describe it as a new era is now upon us it's from glory to glory to glory and now there's coming the synergy of generations of glory upon the church that are being beginning to be compounded remember it is impossible for God to become more glorious than he already is but he can reveal more of that glory to us even on this side of heaven when we get to heaven we will see him as he is in full glory but he can and he has all through history increased his glory in generations that to me is as the description of the times that we are now entering Daniel 221 says God is the changer of times and of seasons so our times can change even though many say you know the world is just it's going the wrong way and nothing can change it that is not accurate God can change our times he is also the changer of the seasons seasons reference different activities you do different activities in in one season that you do not do in another season for example we're not going to Armco park for a picnic this afternoon we're gonna have to wait for a different season season references different activities it references different scenes you see different things in a particular season it references different work there's different work to be done in a different season it also references different limitations or different opportunities things open to us in one season that are not open open to us in another see I can do some things in summer that I cannot do in winter or at least it would be very difficult to do maybe even crazy to try to do I was watching a show a couple of weeks ago about people who live in the Alaskan Yukon and they were talking about how they would have to wait for the season to change in order to get to certain parts of their tarrant their hunting territory or their fishing territory they would have to wait for what they call the break-up that's when there were lakes and the rivers the ice on them break up and it starts to flow then they can get their boats out they can get to a different territory sometimes you have to wait for a season to change in order to get to a different place a different territory sometimes a season has to change to accomplish certain tasks limitations in one season become an opportunity in another season the scenery changes when the season changes mobility mobility is different activity is different work is different so when Holy Spirit promises a greater weight of God's presence will now increase on those who desire it or on those who will pursue it by faith when he promises that the season is going to change for them then we must understand that how things are done now are going to have to change in a different season what is accomplished now will be different in a different season how we think think how we think has to change it has to we need to start thinking harvest we've got to start thinking promises fulfilled we've got to start thinking recovery Supernatural Rick covering we've got to start thinking no more delay now also we've got to understand and here's where here's where many miss it today in the body of Christ we do not receive by promise there's nothing in the scripture that says you receive because it's promised we receive what is promised by faith also we do not receive prophecy just because it's prophesied no the prophecy is activated and it is received by faith though the promise is true though the prophetic word is true though the Word of God is true without mixing in faith we can fail to enter into it our actions and our words our faith must correspond with that word or it is an unlived word is dead to us just like the people of God they end the wilderness with Moses they did not enter into the Promised Land an entire generation would died without receiving the promise yes it was promised but unbelief kept them from receiving it it was promised but griping and complaining kept them from receiving it acting immaturely acting like babies it kept them from receiving the promise of God well I want to be I want to be over by Moses is a car might have said ah no I don't want to be over here I want to be by Moses and the griping and complaining god on god's nerves to the point that they didn't tender in their unbelief kept them kept them out so so the the promise of greater glory then is not based on God's sovereignty we've got to embrace that and we've got to accept responsibility and the responsibility throughout the scripture especially New Testament times is clear that we must believe it and we must decree it we must act on it to see it established in our lives yes there are some things that God is going to do no matter what he is sovereign and God has never given up his right to be sovereign he is sovereign but his sovereignty chose some things he has chosen that the just will live by faith his sovereignty chose that and if if that is his choice then that's the way the way it is your choice or your opinion it will not change or it does not supersede the sovereignty of God in other words even though Holy Spirit is working in with the church right now to end delay we still must decree it we still must exercise our faith we still must obey the present word of the Lord to move forward to arise and pursue a different day to cross by faith into a new land to take new territory to execute plans that God has in mind for us to engage our faith for Supernatural recoveries to get up or to wake up to rise up with tenacious faith and deal with anything that constricts us if we do if we do that then delays will be dealt with as the weight of God's glory increases among us the awesome prophetic words that we have received already this year the prophetic words that we received at the summit that prophet Chuck prophesied or Dutch prophesy the prophetic word that delay would be no longer delays would be dealt with that the glory of the Lord would come in tangible ways ways you can see it ways you can demonstrate it the ways you can feel it demonstratively real ways that that promises will now accelerate that miracles and even notable miracles will accelerate that revival will now accelerate that supernatural recoveries are in season that that great harvest is in season all of that is not based on God's sovereignty no prophecy must be believed just like all other words of God must be believed some think something like this well well God said it so it's going to happen and they just passively wait no he gave hundreds of promises all throughout the Scriptures but all of them are conditional to us believing them they're conditional to our faith agreeing with what God says we must act on on that promise act on it with faith if we do not then we miss it through unbelief unbelief see it's God's will that you prosper and that you be in health as your soul prospers third John 2 says that but we have to believe it and obey what God says it's it's not just going to automatically happen just because it's God's will or just because it is his word no faith activates promise faith activates the will of God in our life and faith activates prophetic words as well so to see prophetic words come to pass we're gonna have to believe them and decree them we're going to have to act on them or they fail to come to pass that's what Jesus was teaching in Matthew chapter 16 that I've taught I don't know how many times to you remember jesus said all authority is given to me in heaven and in earth I have the authority that Lucifer took from man I got it back and now my choice is that I will delegate that authority to my people in my name and he said in my name authority will be given to to bind some things or to loose some things Matthew chapter 16 and verse 18 says I will build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it the forever loser will not prevail and I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven you you the amplified bible reads i will build my church and the gates of Hades the powers of the infernal regions shall not overpower it or be strong to its detriment or hold out against it I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever you bind declared to be improper or unlawful on the earth on earth must be what is already bound in heaven and whatever you loose declare lawful on earth must be what all is already loosed in heaven you you it says the message Bible says I will put together my church a church so expensive with energy that not even the gates of Hell will be able to keep it out and that's not all you will have complete and free access to God's kingdom keys to open any and every door no more barriers between heaven and earth earth in heaven yes on earth is a yes in heaven a no on earth is a No in heaven there living translation reads this way I will build my church and all the powers of Hell will not conquer it and I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven very clearly we have authority to forbid or to permit some things on the earth we have keys of authority to declare no more barriers between Earth and heaven or heaven and in earth in other words we have authority to declare the heavens to be open over us heavens open and where there is an open heaven of course that's where angels that assist us can ascend into sin and that's where blessings according to Malachi can rain down upon us those windows we declare them opened blessings can come upon us and promises then can be unrestricted so we we have authority to declare open heaven open over us we are to receive what God has said no more delays we permit no delay or interruption in the heavenly places and of course the Greek text reads that I've said many times hopefully you can quote it by now but when you put all the Greek together all the present tense past tense here's exactly what Jesus said whatever you encounter of Hell's Council that I'm in determined my church will prevail against you will them face a decision as to whether you will or will not bind it what transpires is conditional to your response if you do actively and consciously involve yourself in binding the issue on earth you will find at that future moment when you do I have bound it also in heaven notice the king said jesus said what transpires is conditional to your response what transpires we're prophetic words are concerned is conditional to us using our authority to us using our faith it's conditional to us binding delay and loosing the promise how we respond is vital if we just passively say God said it and we do not engage ourselves engage our faith then we miss the promise now the Apostle Paul talks about the spirit of delay in first Thessalonians chapter 2 that we read hear it again but we brethren having been taken away from you for a short time in presence not in heart endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire therefore we wanted to come to you even I Paul time and again but Satan hindered us he said something very similar in Romans chapter 15 and verse 22 where he said I have been much hindered much hindered in coming to you in other words he says I have been delayed in what I was to do I recognize the opportunity that is before me I know I know it's God's will I know he said do it I know it's the leading of the Holy Spirit but he said Satan hindered me he is getting in the way of where I know God has told me to be I need to get the gospel into Rome I need to get the gospel into Thessalonica indeed I'm I'm called to do it but I'm being hindered and the implication was I've got to deal with the Hinderer the Delayer to get where I need to be paul says I've had to learn to use my authority in the name of Jesus I've I've got to overcome the hindering in order to do what Holy Spirit has certainly told me to do some people again they wrongly think well the whole if the Holy Spirit has told me to do it he'll take care of the hindrance no it is accurate that Holy Spirit does tell us what to do he does lead us he does guide us he does speak direction to us yes he does but you have been given authority to deal with the Hinderer you have been given authority to bind the demons that want to delay it or anything that delays it a corporate anointing it does help increase glory does help but it does not relieve you of the responsibility to begin to rule and reign with Christ as intended then use your authority in Jesus name you have authority and thus if thority has been delegated thus you have a responsibility to rule and reign as Christ intended that's where the church is right now he is looking for the church now to arise and rule with him as he intended and we're about to do that it is already starting the world has never seen anything like what it's about to see because there's coming a consciousness in the radical remnant and they're going to rise and they're going to rule and reign as intended in the name of Jesus and there's not just a hundred and twenty in an upper room there's millions of us it's about to get engaged but if you want hell hell's tactics bound then you got to bind it the great Apostle Paul writes to get to new history to get to new places to see radical changes to live in God's good plan for your life he said I had to learn to deal with the spirit of delay and we know that he had to learn that often or we know that he had that spirit of delay come against him many times even when he began his earthly ministry after getting knocked off of the donkey remember earlier in his Christian life he lived in a demoralized state for thirteen years going back to Tarsus and making tents he did preach a little bit on the side but he he was in limbo he was delayed he he was stalled thirteen years the word hindered it is the greek word in Cocteau it means to cut into something or it means to impede or it means to detain the the word in en means I am in or at but Cocteau is the Greek word meaning to chop something or to cut it down the Greek word pictures and acts and you take an axe and you cut a tree down you chop it and you chop it and you chop it until it's cut down it's cop toe it's chopped down and again it speaks to how the devil chops at our efforts he swings and he chops trying to detain us and and impede us see just because we've got a word from the Lord and we do does not mean he's not going to try to chop and impede what we are doing and it does not relieve us of the responsibility of saying no you're not not here you're not you are not going to exercise authority over us when we have far greater authority than you do all of Hell Jesus said will not prevail you know what that means it means all of Hell will not prevail he said what he meant but he swings and he chops trying to detain us or at least impede our progress Paul said I was on a mission from the Lord I know it's his will oh it's from the Lord but Satan hindered me he's been in cocteau to me I have been delayed the Wiest translation reached this way we were going to come but Satan cut in on us to thwart us well these tactics have not changed even in our time the forever loser and his demons they do everything they can to get in the way of the church and tried to hinder us from doing what God says we can do from doing his plan his will they do everything they can to stop us from being who says God says we can be and they will use whoever or whatever doesn't make any difference to them to keep us from going into a new season to keep us from going to a new new level to try to impede us from getting to new destinations and like Paul our responsibility is to bind it to overcome it now also the Greek word in Cocteau is used in the Greek language to refer to a road that becomes eroded or broken up and is impassable I remember being out west elk hunting we we did up me and Dutch who used to live out there but we'd go out there 20-some years and I remember this one particular time we were way up probably 10,000 feet and we were on a logging trail going around the side of a mountain and the road was so narrow that there were five of us in this we had rented a suburban from the airport that suburban never going to be the same again but we had rolled the windows down on this side and we had our hands out on the wall of the mountain pushing it keeping it from hitting and we had about another foot on the other side of the road and that was it straight down there were trees I mean I guess we don't enrolled a couple of times a tree to hit us but we we're doing this and Dutch is driving he's got about a foot over there so he's leaning out the window this way and we're holding it off and we keep around they Bend and this a storm or something had come and washed the road out and there was a rut at least this wide and about two feet deep and we had already gone almost an hour where we're trying to get to a new territory all way around the side of the mountain and when we come around what he it's impassable big rut so we got out on Dutchess side we couldn't get out on this side so all of us piled out we go around what are we gonna do and somebody said I guess we just kinda have to back up all the way down like well that would take hours we can't do that and somebody I don't remember it was probably me but somebody with a brilliant idea said let's just fix it that we said well yeah so we start grabbing these boulders and carry him over and drop it in the rut and we were up on the another side of the hill looking for Downton trees limbs and we drag him over and we filled it up and we just kept filling it up until finally the rut was full and Dutch got in just drove right on and and we got on down the road but we were delayed because we had to rebuild the road in order to go on the way we were going had deteriorated that's in copped oh that's the word the enemy the roads our way and he tries to wash out our pathway and make us have to back up make us go backwards sometimes the the path or the road that we thought was going to get us somewhere becomes impassable and we have to stop and we have to repair we have to rebuild and that to just that can become sometimes a bit demoralizing sometimes the rebuilding of roads that we've already cleared and we've already built sometimes having to rebuild it gets tiring I mean it's just human nature and we say you and not again this is getting old but rather than get demoralized rather than backing up or quitting that's when the faith nature has got to rise up that's when the more than Conqueror needs to rise up and in Jesus name we use our authority with with his kingdom and his angels present to assist us we determine Li arise we recover we repair we rebuild and then we just get on down the road C delay is not denial to the faithful delay is an inconvenience that is conquered in those who know their God and will use their authority it's an inconvenience that is conquered also the word in cop tow is used in the Apostle Paul's day in the Grecian games which refer yet they're similar to our Olympic Games today but it was used in the Grecian games during the races the Christian life is often referred to as a race when a runner came up alongside of another runner in a race and would would then unfairly begin to bump them or elbow elbow them trying to cause them to fall or trying to cause them to break their stride so that they they they lose it was called in cop toe unfair jostling unfair jostling the forever losers tactics are always unfair and that's difficult for Christians to understand because as a Christian you want to be fair even if you're fighting you want to fight fair and so it's hard to understand someone that will not fight fair Satan never fights fair he will cheat he will lie he'll steal don't make any difference to him he's the father of all of it he will jostle he will bump he will elbow and he tries to shove his way or shove shove his way into into you in such a way that you are bumped off stride tries to shove you out out of the way tries to trip you on your Christian Way Paul says I says Satan created an impasse that kept me from coming to see you even though I knew it was God's will Satan put obstructions in my path to prevent me from getting to you Satan cut in on me and he pray prohibited me from visiting you as I wanted to Satan has elbowed his way in on me to keep me from coming to see you but that's not where the story ends he does testify to that but it's not where the story ends because Paul shook himself from that that demoralised condition so you don't throw the towel in and give in just because you've hits hit an impasse now it's a different season now understand that it's different now special grace is multiplying I'll talk about that next Sunday but but special grace is multiplying use your authority and in the name of Jesus find any delay bind anything between you and where you need need to get to regardless of what hell may have thrown your way remember that what God has promised will come to pass if we hold fast impasse no longer him past no longer now also Paul used the word in cop toe in acts 24 and verse four when he was called to testify before the Roman governor Felix and there he says to this Roman governor he says I will not be further tedious unto you if you will listen to my testimony my my statement of faith concerning Christianity I will not be further tedious to you further tedious that is the Greek word in Cocteau and it's another technique the devil uses to to keep us from entering a new season tries to make life tedious he tries to make what we do tedious he brings he brings tension into our life circumstances and he tries to magnify what is stressing us or he tries to magnify worry and fear he tries to magnify differences he tries to fatigue in and to earth the believer by making things further tedious now I think it's important to to just note I we know it but we're not talking about a spiritual wimp here Paul was not a spiritual wimp he was not a doubter he was a man of great faith he was a man of great wisdom he was a man of godly insight yet he admit Satan did hinder him I like this he doesn't he didn't ever say Satan beating hence a Satan one he just said he endured sometimes people think something like this if if they just had more faith I mean if they would just pray some more the devil wouldn't challenge them he would never be able to hinder them they wouldn't there there wouldn't be any jostling there wouldn't be any elbowing that there wouldn't be any shoving or tripping but the Bible indeed life itself doesn't teach that we never mature to the point that we do not have to deal with demon tactics never do Jesus did Paul did all the Apostles did and so will we so we've got to rid ourselves from any delay type thinking it's demon thinking we got to determine that we are going to overcome anything that gets between us and where we need to be we cannot bury our heads in the sand thinking you know if we hide our eyes hindrance will somehow just evaporate God will just heal just somehow zap it no we have to individually and corporately pull our heads out of the sand look the Hinderer in the eye and say get behind me Satan that's why I told you three or four weeks ago whenever I started this I don't know how many times I have said it's more than several hundred no more delay devil I bind you you will not get in my way you are not going to stop me you're not gonna stop our assignment you are not getting I bind you with greater authority I know this my God is greater than anything you can throw my way and I am exercising my faith you get out of my way that's the kind of mentality we're going to have to have in the new season it's not that things won't be thrown in our way it is whether or not we will rise and say go in the name of Jesus you are not permitted to stop us you are not permitted to hinder the promise of God among us in Jesus name in Jesus name stop hindering our relationship with Almighty God stop hindering my destiny you are not permitted to hinder my destiny I bind you in Jesus name stop hindering the promise of God whatever it is he has promised me you will not be a hinderer I will not allow it i bind demon delay stop chopping away stop jostling me stop bumping into me get out of my way that's got to be the authority that we begin to walk in that's got to be the attitude of the remnant warriors of our times because I'm determined to overcome there's got to come a determination a supernatural zeal and determination I am determined to go into a new season see if we get to a new season it will because be because we determined to get there and overcome the hindrance a determination has got a grit has got to come into the body of Christ to get where we are supposed to be I am determined I am going to run this race and I'm going to win I'm determined to me the word determined describes those who live by faith because to go to a higher level in any area in business in your natural life most surely in your spiritual life if you go to another level it will be because you determined to not stop at the hindrance it will be because you persisted in spite of the obstacles it will be because you overcome the delay because to get to any area of life traveling down a new road it requires it requires overcoming hindrances natural hindrance spiritual hindrance people hindrance financial hindrance demon entrance entrance hindrance fill in the gaps it's not always easy sometimes it's difficult sometimes you have to show some tenacity some determination but if we determine that we are going to we're going to trust God then new blessings can be seized new opportunities can be taken advantage of new places can be reached new vision can be realized Paul got to Thessalonica he also got to Rome he got it done he did overcome and he did get there yes he was hindered but he got there don't stop you can get there don't stop don't let the hinder or stop you I would have quit 20 years ago if I let the Hinderer stop me don't let it stop you it's a season of special grace it's a it's a season of supernatural and greater glory it's a it's a season where grace is going to be multiplied to end delays and receive get you promising you'll get there you'll be blessed you'll win it's worth it push if God said do it guaranteed it's worth it if he said do it it's worth it determined to push on seize hold of new opportunities because this is a season when opportunity is opening everywhere around us overcome whatever you've got to overcome if you've got a if you've got to fix the road fix it and then get on down the road you got to repair the road repair it repair it and get on down the road deter and you are moving forward into a greater glory season as a Christian you have authority in Jesus name to fight til you win that's the grace that's been given to us how long do you fight tell you when just tell you win how long there's no time limit just tell you win just fight til you win a determination has got to rise up we fight till we win with that it's a determination you're going to fight till you win you distain mediocracy you despise average refuse maintaining you got to reach down inside of you for some some zeal some spiritual zeal just move on into a different time it is time to deal with the spirit of delay that has been on the corporate body of Christ for more than 10 years now and in this season we've got to get rid of the some day mentality someday I'm going to rise in faith some day some day I'm going to get down the road someday I'm going to obey what I know God is saying to me someday I'm going to obey what I know is his will for my life someday I'm going to I'm going to obey God's plan for my life someday I'm going to recover no delayed obedience is disobedience every time delayed obedience is disobedience without delay you need to arise in persistent consistent faith and receive your inheritance get on down the road delay delay no more Holy Spirit is singing and he's saying it in a lot of ways our assignment is to decree it to pray it as as the prophetic word of Ken Malone's last week travail to privat he'll travail and prevail to use our authority and bind demon spirits get out of the way when Daniel and Daniel chapter 9 was reading the prophecy of Jeremiah he discovered it was time for the captivity of Jerusalem to end that the 70 years prophesied about that captivity we're up they were up and so we are told that Daniel began to fast and pray for understanding as to how that prophecy could be fulfilled in response God sent the Archangel from the throne room Gabriel with an answer of wisdom and of strategy the first day Daniel prayed but a demon Prince over the area of Persia and his hosts they begin to fight Gabriel and the answer was delayed delayed for twenty-one days unfazed Daniel continued to fast and he continued to pray he prevailed to prevail and he prayed until on the 21st day God sent Michael to go down and assist Gabriel and together they broke up the demon delay Michael and his angels fought alongside of gay bro and his angel and the answer came through the prophecy was fulfilled the point is this it was time for prophetic fulfillment it was time just like it is right now it was time for prophecy to be completed and we've got we've got a book that thick of them not in no exaggeration it was time for prophecy to be completed but a faith battle required prayer battle was required a travail to prevail was recrop required required Daniel prayed and mighty angel assistance came to take care of the delay delay no longer as in our text three weeks ago in revelations chapter 10 the angel announced no more delay we are not we're not giving any more time to this season it's going to switch to a new season and the angels stopped the delay hear me today it is time for prophetic promises to be fulfilled it is we are past due as we said last week we are nine and a half or 10 months pregnant with a lot of things but we must pray until it's accomplished we've got to fight the good fight of faith we cannot get in passive mode it is time for old standing issues to be taken care of to be to be dealt with it's time for promises to be fulfilled it is a year of a finishing anointing to see it we must arise in faith now not some day now pray now believe now decree now because God his Holy Spirit our King Jesus his kingdom his angels are ministering fulfillment two promises agree with it grab hold of them with your faith don't allow yourself to be demoralized do not be weak in spirit do not be weak in courage do not be weak in discipline do not be weak and resolved do not be disheartened recover repair and get on down the road impasse no longer delay no Oh

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