Robert Henderson | 2. Courts of Heaven | Session 2

okay i was asking him how long i had i was taught to stay within your boundaries so um all right so i've we used that first session to to um just hopefully get some things established that's going to help us throughout the rest of the weekend okay so what i want to do in this session and when i ask you how many of you had heard teaching on the court of heaven and heard me teach on the court of heaven i was kind of shocked at the hands um and so uh i would say thank you for taking the time you know to view or to watch or whatever it's amazing what goes on youtube these days i'm just absolutely shocked at it okay so so what i want to do is i want to talk to you in this session to help just get us really established for for our own time over this this the full weekend is i want to talk to you about father friend and judge okay so so because because this is what actually helped me bring see the court a system of of heaven come into into a divine order in my own thinking that when jesus taught on prayer in like in luke chapter 11 in verse 1 the bible says that jesus disciples came to him and said lord teach us to pray as john also taught his disciples so they they because the bible says he was in a certain place praying okay so so they came and they began to ask him to teach them to pray i believe that they were stirred and motivated by the prayer of jesus and let me just say this one of the best ways to learn to pray is to get with those who know how because see that they saw in jesus they saw a prayer life they'd never seen before all they knew was the pharisees and the sadducees and all the religious leaders you know prayer endeavors but they had not seen someone pray and communicate with the father like jesus so they were moved by by his by his prayer life and i will just tell you that one again one of the best ways to learn to pray is to actually get with people that know how see i didn't have that opportunity i wasn't around people that quote unquote knew how to pray so i knew i was called to pray i won't go into all the stories connected to that but but i would shut myself up in our bedroom and i would say i'm going to be here for an hour and i'm going to pray for an hour and uh and to this day to this day my my normal practice my normal routine is to spend an hour of prayer and when i say prayer and i watch when i say prayer i'm not talking about quiet time my prayers could not be qualified as quiet time okay now i don't mean i'm loud or whatever even though i'm probably louder than i think i am but but because i know one time i had my son my oldest son ryan was with me on a trip and i'm in my hotel room and i'm praying like i would normally do and i'm praying seeking the lord and all this kind of stuff and and so i get through and a little while later my son comes and knocks on the door he was in another room so i answered i said hey rod come on in he said well i came by earlier he said i heard you i knew you were praying so i just kept on walking i said oh my gosh everybody out there is hearing me pray and so i began i realized i thought i'm gonna maybe have to quiet it down even even a little more but the bottom line is the bottom line is i was called to pray and i knew i was called to pray and knew god wanted to teach me to pray so that's what i started doing but one of the best ways to learn to pray is to get with people that do so they asked jesus and said lord teach us to pray jesus begins in luke 11 verse 2. he says when you pray say our father which art in heaven now we all know that we call that the lord's prayer or the model prayer but here's the bottom line jesus said the first level of praying is approaching god as father okay approaching god as father because he put prayer in three distinct dimensions when he began to teach on prayer so he says when you pray say our father which art in heaven okay let me just touch this as i already delved into the whole spiritual dimensions when you approach god as father there's a dimension of the spirit that opens up it's called the secret place see matthew chapter 6 verse 6 the bible says when you pray go into your room and shut the door and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly and so literally he says when you approach god as father there's a dimension of the spirit you can step into it's called the secret place well what happens in the secret place it's a place of intense intimacy with god and it's also a place where god shares his secrets with you but it's also a place that what you do in that spiritual dimension in the secret place actually releases something to happen in the natural realm because it says the father who sees in secret will reward you openly in other words what you're touching in the spirit world excuse me at that time will cause something to make be made manifest in the natural world so it's a very powerful place so we need to learn how to come before god as father and we step into a spiritual dimension called the secret place remember excuse me there's more than just the whole the the court of heaven and another place that's called the secret place okay the second thing jesus continues in in luke chapter 11 and verses five through eight he says he said then which of you having a friend he's still talking about a prayer he said so the second dimension of prayer is approaching god as friend okay it's one thing to approach god as father it's another thing to approach him his friend and jesus begins in that particular he tells a story he talks about he talks about a friend coming to another friend at midnight the friend doesn't have anything to help him with on his journey so this friend gets up and goes to another friend who has resources and beats on the door and causes him to get out of bed to give him resources to help this other friend that has come on his journey that that is in need so here's what you have you have a picture of a friend standing between two friends you have a picture of intercession you have a picture of someone standing in the middle if you will which is what you do in intercession that literally you are standing in behalf of one representing another to your friend which is god are you seeing that there so watch this when you come before god as father you actually are usually coming before him in behalf of your own needs but when you approach him as friends you're standing in behalf of someone else okay so this is a whole other dimension of prayer and when you step into the dimension of approaching god his friend you move into a place called the council of the lord now the council of the lord is a different place in the court of heaven that we're going to get to in just a moment the council of the lord is in jeremiah 23 18. jeremiah said who has stood in the counsel of the lord who has heard his word who has marked his word so the counsel of the lord what is that that's not just a place where you hear counsel from god the counsel of the lord is that place that you step in into the spirit world and in that place you're able to operate and see things shift into the natural let me give you just one example abraham stood in the counsel of the lord as the friend of god remember abraham is called the friend of god in three different places in genesis 18 the bible says that abraham yet stood before the lord remember what jeremiah said who has stood see the counsel of the lord is the place you stand in and the word stand there literally means to come and present yourself so abraham is standing in the council lord what does he do in that counsel he actually convinces god that if there are ten righteous in sodom and gomorrah god would spare it see in other words abraham stood in the counsel of the lord in behalf of a wicked people that that god said are worthy to be destroyed and judged but because abraham brokered a deal god said if there's 10 righteous if there's 10 righteous i will spare it for the sake of those 10 righteous there's a whole issue there but here's the point abraham was able to cause god to agree that if there were ten righteous god would spare sodom and gomorrah now we know that there wasn't ten righteous but but that's that's beside the point the bottom line is you see abraham as the friend of god standing between god and something else he was in a place of intercession okay you need we need to understand that god needs people to stand in his counsel literally and represent cultures before him that's what he needs see if if cultures are going to be saved let me phrase it if new zealand is going to have the mercy of god it will be because there is a people who have stood in the council of the lord has secured that mercy from god that's what you do in the counsel of the lord one of the things you do in the counsel of the lord and again i'm just touching just the the scratch of this because because we want to get to the court of heaven but but the reason i'm bringing i'm trying to put it in context that we approach god as father on behalf of our needs we approach god his friend in behalf of the need of others okay but then jesus seven chapters later picks up the whole subject of prayer again and it says in luke 18 verses 1 through 8 and jesus spoke a parable to them that men ought always to pray and not to lose heart okay and then he begins to talk about the um a widow coming before an unjust judge that i'll touch on but watch he said that this parable was to encourage them to keep praying now you need to understand jesus is not a cheerleader he's not rah-rah you know trying to pump somebody up no no here's what he's saying he said look i know you've been functioning before in prayer before the father i know you've become before god as a friend and i know you've had some answers but i also know you've had some prayers that weren't answered you've had some things you've got breakthrough in there's other things you haven't gotten breakthrough in i'm about to give you the secret to unanswered prayer that's what he's telling them in luke 18. you see when he says he is telling them that men ought always to pray and not to lose heart he is trying to get them to understand look here is a secret that will get your unanswered prayers answered you say could that really be true i promise you it's true because listen if you have been praying prayers that are in agreement with god's will for an extended period of time maybe even years and there's been no answer let me tell you why there's been no answer irrevocably this is why something legal is resisting you in the spirit world i promise you i promise you that's why it's not because god's not hearing it's not because god's not interested it's not because god doesn't care it is because something has found a legal right to resist your prayers from being answered so jesus says i'm about to give you the answer to unanswered prayer that when we are praying in accordance with god's word in agreement with god's word but there has been no answer just like with adam there had been two years of no answer but the moment i stepped into the courts under the direction of the holy spirit and and undid a case and presented a case instantly instantly the answer came that very moment it was released so so jesus is telling this parable men are always praying not to lose heart here's what he said there was in a certain city a judge a wicked judge an unjust judge and a widow came before this judge and presented her case because that's what you do before judges presented her case saying avenge me of my adversary or get justice for me and it says the judge wouldn't give her wouldn't do anything for her for a long time why because he's an unjust judge he's an unjust judge he only renders verdicts for what he can get out of it that's that's why he's that's what he does and this is a widow she has no power she has no money she has no influence the widow doesn't have anything the judge wants so he won't do anything for her he's got a problem though she keeps showing up in his courtroom presenting her case avenge me on my adversary get justice from me in other words every now i don't know about here but in the states we they have in the courts they call them have something called dockets that you have to get on the docket to come before the judge so you see you see every time the judge turned around every time he would go into his courtroom to hear cases there'd be that widow's name again and you think oh my god here she comes again and so so here comes this widow again and finally the judge says you know what i am going to give her what she wants lest by her continual coming she wears me out jesus said hear what the unjust judge said and watch what he says and shall not god avenge his own elect to cry out to him day and night yes i say he will avenge them speedily so watch what was jesus saying he was not saying that that god is an unjust judge you have to convince no he was saying if this widow with no power no influence no money nothing could through a persistent ongoing presentation of our case before an unjust judge get a verdict in her behalf how much more can we come before god the righteous judge and see him render a verdict in our behalf see that's the whole point of the story but watch jesus puts prayer in a judicial system three dimensions of prayer approaching god as father approaching god his friend and approaching god as judge see these are three dimensions of prayer and whenever i saw that okay this puts the whole court of heaven a teaching into context because because the primary place i spend my time in prayer is before the father you say yo you must be in the courts all the time no i don't have to go to the court most of my prayer time is spent before the father making a request fellowshipping communing you know dealing with my own life whatever it's before the father there are times i go before god is the friend and stand in the counsel of the lord for me personally the one of the main places i stand in the council of the lord is in behalf of president donald j trump no i'm i you know i don't know what you guys think about but i know because because because god gave me an assignment and my listen i found something out if god gives you an assignment that assignment will actually allow you to step into realms that you otherwise might not be able to step into when god gave me an assignment to stand on his behalf every time i began to pray i was praying this morning and when i began to pray for president donald j trump my president because that's the verbiage god told me to use the reason behind it i was suddenly standing in the counsel of the lord and i knew the prayers that i was praying and the the creeds that i was making was having an effect in the spirit world concerning him because i occupy a place in the spirit world in regards to him and it's in the counsel of the lord as as as a friend of god in his behalf in fact the lord said to me he said you refer this is what he told me he said when you come before me and his be concerning him you must refer to him as donald j trump my president that's what he told me i said i thought why and the lord the lord said he said because he said when you say my president he said i will do for you what i won't do for him see you need to understand when you occupy a place before god in the spirit world god will do for you what he won't do for them that sounds arrogant but it's not see that's again that's first john chapter five if you if any of you see us someone sending a sin not unto death ask of god he'll give them life for death see god will give you a place in the spirit realm sometime that's why in behalf of donald j trump i can step into the council of the lord and i can pray there i can pray there concerning him and when i call him my president god said i will do for you in his behalf what i might not be willing to be able to be able to do for him i hope that makes sense that's a place in the spirit okay the second thing he said call him donald j trump now in america we've got these religious people that claim to be prophetic and i'm going to have to be careful i'm going to get mean they claim to be prophetic that they all want president trump his middle name is john and they all want him to be a john they want him to be the beloved that's what the name john means the beloved and god said to me i don't need him to be the beloved i need him to be a donald which means a world ruler because i'm going to use him to undo the one world order so i don't need a beloved in that office i need a one where i need a ruler of the world that will begin to undo this so he said you proclaim him as donald j trump as you stand before me in the council does that make sense okay so so that's that's that's moving in the council okay but then we come back and by the way the council and the court are really closely related but they're different realms because the widow came into the courts of heaven here's the here's the major difference between the courts and the council there is no adversary in the council every time you see someone standing in the counsel of the lord which i could take you on a journey concerning all of that when i when you said you know you never see an adversary the adversary is not there this is this is just you and god dealing with issues in and from the council but in the courts the adversary the reason there's a court is because there's a case that's against you and this is what the widow was saying and by the way notice that this widow got a verdict by a consistent ongoing presentation of her case see i told you what happened in my life in our life whenever i presented a case in behalf of our son adam and even the other thing about perhaps it was instantaneous but listen sometimes it's not sometimes there's a need for an ongoing persistent presentation of a case and and sometimes the reason for that is because there are layers of things in the spirit world that can be resisting your breakthrough and as you pray god brings understanding and revelation and you undo this layer then you undo this layer then you undo this layer until every legal argument that is standing against you is removed okay so that that's just a principle of this of this dimension and and we just pay attention to the lord and we move in agreement with the lord and all that because i've had these same issues in my life that i've had to deal with okay so jesus said jesus began to put prayer in a judicial situation okay he said the widow said avenge me of my adversary the word adversary is a really really important word it is the greek word anti-dicos a-n-t-i-d-i-k-o-s it means one who brings a lawsuit that's what the word anti-dicos means so it's a it's a legal position i mean it makes sense jesus is talking about a court system a judicial system so he says he said the anti-decos the adversary is bringing a case okay first peter 5 8 says be sober be vigilant for your adversary same word anti-dicos the devil tells us who he is see who is the one bringing the legal case the devil in his forces he's walking about as a roaring lion that means walking about means he's searching things out seeking whom he may devour so you need to understand the devil cannot devour except he discovers a legal right to do it from if he could devour and will we'd all be dead he can't he has to discover a legal right to devour from and so he literally tries to devour our destiny tries to devour our purpose denies our prayers from being answered all these things are being done because he has discovered a legal right to do it from he is the antedicos the adversary that has built and presented a case against you let me just mean the word anti means to deny or to be against or instead of the word decos means rights so what's the purpose and what is going to help you what's the purpose of the lawsuit ready to deny you what's rightfully yours see that's what that's what that's what the word means anti-degrees to deny you what's rightfully yours to deny you you're rights you say i have rights absolutely if you belong to jesus you have covenant rights you have a right to be healed you have a right to prosper you have a right for your family to be blessed you you have all sorts of rights that are connected to the new covenant that that that that jesus died and and and set into place by his body and his blood we have rights so if we have those rights as covenant believers why are we not seeing them because there can be a case against us in the spirit world that the enemy is claiming a legal right to deny you what's rightfully yours does that make sense this is why you can quote the scriptures you can pray the prayers all on the basis of god's word and you can do it for a long long time even years and it never happens you say well this stuff doesn't work no there's a case against you the legal right the enemy is claiming so you have to know how to go before the lord and do that legal right and be able to receive the answer and the promises that god has for us this is this is what changed my life changed our life this this one principle because suddenly i began to realize the enemy can only operate if he's discovered a legal right to do it from and any resistance that's in my life any unfulfilled promises in my life is because there's a legal right that the enemy is exercising that he is claiming rights to okay so so we so i had to learn how to come before the courts discern what those legal rights are and be able to remove them okay so here here's here's let me just before i go to this luke 22 31 gives us some insight jesus says to peter simon simon satan has desired jewish wheat that he might sift he might sift or he hasn't desired you he might sift you a sweet but i prayed for you excuse me that your faith will not fail when you're converted strengthen the brother that's luke 22 31-32 we all know that scripture probably watch the word desired there in the greek what it means without any manipulation on any level what it means is he's demanded you be put on trial so jesus is saying to peter satan claims to have a case against you and he has demanded the right to put you on trial to present his case concerning you why would satan do that because he understood the part peter was to play in the expansion of the kingdom he wanted to stop that so what was the enemy's strategy for stopping peter from from being used of god or what was written in his book what was his strategy to bring a legal case against peter but jesus said but i have prayed for you that your faith not fail okay this is really important we say yeah well that's jesus of course well no see jesus never did anything as god when he walked the earth you said how can you say such a thing because if he did he forfeited the right to be our savior because was he what it was he and is he 100 god absolutely but philippians 2 says he laid aside his godhood and everything he did in the earth he did not do as god he did it as a man filled with god why because that was the only legal way he could redeem us and redeem the earth back to god because a man lost creation a man had to win it back and so when jesus walked the earth everything he did he did as a man filled with god see this is why the devil tempted him if you be the son of god turn the stones in the bread why because if he could have got him to do something as god he knew at that moment he would have forfeited his right to be the savior but jesus wouldn't fall for it he did everything as a man filled with god that's why this statement can be made and greater works than these shall you do because i go to the father because everything i have done i'm actually going to empower you to do on a whole whole other level so he did the reason i'm bringing it up is because when jesus prayed for peter in luke 22 31 he did not do it as god he did it as a man filled with god he stood in the courts of heaven in behalf of peter because he was yet in his earthly ministry he stood in the courts of heaven on behalf of peter and he told peter he said but i have prayed for you that your faith will not fail now watch this peter i have secured your destiny from the courts of heaven i have secured now watch this how many know peter still walked through some stuff see sometimes we look and we say well it must not have worked look what's happening no listen peter was going to walk through some stuff but jesus had secured the future from the courts of heaven you need to understand that sometimes it doesn't all just you know smooth out just perfectly sometimes there's a process but the bottom line is there is a securing of the purpose and the destiny of god from heaven and it's all going to find its way into right order okay you say well what do you do in the process this is what i do whatever verdict whatever decision i know has been rendered out of heaven i decree that thing until it becomes a reality because i am decreeing into place the the the written judgment of god i am saying this is the will of god this is what has been done and i decree that until it begins to be made manifest because i'm actually setting into place the decision rendered from the courts of heaven okay but but first you have to be able to go there again so that's what peter did or that's what jesus did he secured a verdict concerning the destiny of peter now i just need to say this one of the one of the questions i've been asked is how can satan present a case against us well only two only one of two reasons that i can see in scripture see how many know he got kicked out of heaven let me know that paul said there's at least three levels of heaven there's this realm we live in there's the second heaven where the demonic powers are according to ephesians chapter 6 where principalities and powers and all of that is there and then there's the third heaven which is the throne room of god which is where the court of heaven is that we are seated together in heavenly places in those dimensions with christ jesus okay so that's why they're throwing so if satan is kicked out of there and he and his forces are lodged in the second heaven how does he have a right to bring a case a case in the third heaven well that's a really good question well here's the answer as far as i'm concerned one of two reasons the first one is found in job chapter one where the bible says the sons of men the elohim the created beings the angelic and the demonic beings came on a certain day because they were summoned by god to appear before god and satan came among them because he is one of them see satan is a created being so he comes among them because he is god says him where have you been he said if i'm going to and throwing back and forth we all know that and he said have you considered my servant job or do you have a case against my servant job now watch this satan was allowed there because he was summoned that's why he came there god said i need for you all to come here and tell me what you've been doing see everybody thinks satan gets to do anything he wants to he's on a leash as far as i can see in scripture he's on a leash in other words god said you come and give an account of what you've been up to i mean if if if that was true before the cross it's definitely true now okay now watch this so that's the for he was summoned number two as in as i said peter satan has asked or demanded or desired to come before the course so the first reason he can come is because he's been summoned the second reason is because he asked permission he can't just do what it will he has to ask permission to present a case because so now the question would be well why in the world would god give him permission well because number one if satan claims he has a case that's legal in nature and god denies him now satan can accuse god of injustice and that will never be allowed that will never be allowed plus god will allow the case to be presented do you know why so we can be overcomers because what happens to overcomers they get places in the spirit nobody else gets to him that overcomes i will let him sit in my throne with me even as i have sat down in my in my father's throne with him and many other promises to overcomers god said listen the only reason i would allow the enemy to bring a case against you is number one i will not be accused of injustice but number two i am so confident of my grace and my power in you and who jesus is that i know you will overcome and it will provide you a place you did not have before that's the only reason he would allow that now in the moment in the time he doesn't feel that way but how many of you know when you win a victory now you have something you can give to somebody else you understand that how many know what ago when we prayed and the and and we stepped into the courts we stepped into that place of the spirit do you know why we do you know why that happened well god was honoring our faith he was honoring our hunger our thirst but i also have gained a place in the spirit i have a place in the spirit that i can step into well how did i get that by overcoming am i perfect no and don't you come ask my wife if i am don't ask her that she'll tell you he's the most wonderful man you've no it's not just so i'll just give you i'll just give her your answer before you ever come now the bottom line is you gain a place in the spirit by overcoming so god says look i i trust my grace in you this is gonna you can this this will work through you i mean i often look at joe why would god have said to satan have you considered my servant job i mean man leave the guy alone why would god say such a thing and initiate this whole thing he went through because because god had such a confidence of the grace that was in job's life and of job's relationship with him that he knew that job would come out on the other side and he would be able to trust him with twice as much as he had before and even greater realms of influence which is exactly what happened now i don't want to walk through those places not certainly not on that level but i i will tell you that that god has a great confidence in his grace that is in us amy does that make sense to you because he'll move us into being overcomers okay so so this is this is uh why god would allow satan to bring an accusation um and and present a case because watch this here's the deal once that accusation is answered you are now free to move in into entirely new realms of life and victory that you haven't been able to move into before i promise you it's true okay so so what is it the enemy uses to bring accusations against us there's a lot of things that we could talk about but i boil it down to basically three things uh out of psalms 32 and psalms 51 there are three words that david uses to describe sin he uses sin transgression and iniquity sin transgression and iniquity the the the and on a on a personal level all the way up to dealing with nations these are issues okay sin transgression iniquity sin sin in both the hebrew and the greek means to fall short that's what sin is in other words we all know we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god we've all done that we we're all guilty of that and but but thank god that we have a propitiation we have we have that which has been provided for us in in the midst of it but we all have sinned and fallen short the word transgression means to step over a boundary in rebellion that's what the word transgression means we've all done that okay but and i heard a saying one time christians toes have chalk on them from getting too close the lines are not supposed to cross over isn't that us well i know i'm not supposed to do that but let me just see how close i can get to it without crossing over it let me know but god said but i gave you all this over here i mean how many of you know in the garden of eden god said of all the trees of the field you can eat their fruit just not this one well why did you even go near it in the first place because we get too close to lives we're not supposed to cross over but but but the point is that the word transgression literally means to step across the line in rebellion well how many you know all of us are guilty of that and listen when you get this you'll understand you're starting to understand the course see when you sin it's not that you're afraid god's gonna get angry with you and punish you because you're such a bad person no listen that's not what that's not where the fear comes the fear of the lord comes from realizing if i don't deal with this legal thing the enemy is going to use it to devour me with it will give him the right to build a case against me that if there is not repentance that allows the blood to speak in my behalf then the enemy can claim a legal right to devour me and my family because i have not repented and dealt with sin and transgression in my life that's the fear of the lord for me you see i believe that my god according to scripture that there that every good and perfect gift comes down from him in whom there is no shadow of turning or variableness in other words there's nothing but light in him he doesn't do evil god is incapable of incapable of evil that is not the god i serve listen if evil is coming it's only because the enemy has discovered a legal right to produce evil with it in other words he brings a case okay i have been teaching on the course of heaven for one year and i realized now back then i didn't know anything compared to what i know now because hopefully now i can bring it with much more clarity but but i was doing the best i could with what i had at that point and so i had this dream i've been teaching for like one year this is november of 2011. so i've been teaching for a year from 2010 to 2011. november of 2011 i have the stream and in this stream in my dream dutch sheets how many of you know who dutch sheets is i'll pray for you dutch and i are really good friends okay so dutch sheets and i or dutch sheets his wife cece had actually in my dream this all in my dream had sent me dutch's official response to 9 11 which was 10 years before but in my dream it was like it just happened so this is 2011. so in my dream he is cece has sent me dutch's official response to 911. now remember it's like two or three paragraphs on a letterhead and it and i don't even know what it said i just knew in the dream it was his official response to 9 11. but at the bottom of the page cc had handwritten what she had seen in the spirit world that had allowed 9 11 to occur and in the spirit world this is what it was written that just like there were four living creatures in heaven crying out holy holy holy is the lord god almighty that there were four demonic counterparts that were crying out in heaven bach denied bach denied bach tonight i knew in their dream it was boc and i wake up and i'm thinking and i knew that whatever this whatever this meant it had to do with what it allowed the the tragedy of 9 11 that had had and still to this day has affected the whole world to occur and so i started what is bach i thought is it hebrew is that a hebrew word is that a is that a greek what is that i started looking trying to figure it out i couldn't find anything finally i decided well let's just use google and so i google boc here's what it means the first thing about the body of christ and i knew the lord i knew when i saw it the lord was saying look here's why 9 11 occurred because the enemy had a case against the church to deny it the right to affect things in the spirit it had a right to deny the prayers of the body of christ therefore 9 11 occurred see what i understood was this back in those days there was no there was very little if any unity of in the spirit everybody was doing their own thing own individual watch there were lots of prayers on individual bases but nobody was standing as the body of christ we were too divided and because of that the enemy built a case against the body of christ and denied the the effect of the body of christ's prayers therefore there was nothing to resist the enemy's demand to bring terrorist attacks against america which changed the whole world they had claimed a legal right see this is important that means i knew in the dream i thought when i woke up i thought we've got to get our act together because if we don't there'll be worse things that will happen that god intends for his church to stand and present cases in the courts of heaven that deny the enemy the legal right to bring tragedies into the earth that we are the salt of the earth and we are the light of the world does that does that make sense to you okay so so i so i understood that and i thought okay we're gonna have to deal with this so so i knew that we needed to repent and and take ownership for any any issue of sin and transgression that would allow the enemy a legal right to deny our prayers the effect god intended for them to have because that's really important on a personal level and on a on a corporate level why because watch it's not worth listen god had nothing i mean listen we had people oh this is the judgment of god it was not the judgment of god it was the vacancy of the church sorry it wasn't the judgment of god it was us not taking our place and positioning ourself in the spirit as a as a corporate people that could present a case that would have given god the legal right to say no to that which the enemy was requesting that make sense to you so it wasn't the judgment of god it was the vacancy of the church now i get in trouble some places for saying that because i actually said stuff like that and the people oh it's always our fault no it's not it's not meant to be blame it's not memphis it's been let's learn let's learn and let's learn how to function and even if something terrible was to happen that i don't feel condemnation i don't feel guilt it's like it's like god teach us how to to be that that salt that light that we're supposed to be that brings a preserving into the earth or let us be the joy of the whole earth help us know how to take our stand we we we're you know we're weak we don't understand everything help us know how to be more effective but there's no condemnation mixed in that okay so so that was my point okay the third word is the word iniquity and this is where it gets really really interesting because because the bible's the third thing that the enemy uses to build a case is iniquity now sin is falling short transgression is is rebellion that causes a step over a line iniquity is the history of sin in a bloodline a history of sin in a bloodline in other words the enemy looking through the bloodline finding something legal that he can build a case with that he can build a case with and all of us have iniquity in our bloodline i'm not going to go into the depths i usually go into but let me explain to you this way iniquity does four basic things number one iniquity gives the enemy a legal right to tempt you in a given area i can almost guarantee you that every stronghold that someone deals with has its roots in iniquity because the enemy finds a legal right to to visit somebody with a temptation that they end that they have a propensity toward that they have a propensity toward and they end up entering into that temptation and it's a very powerful thing because it's driven by the iniquity in the bloodline okay number two and again we could talk about different things but number two iniquity will fashion the way you think about yourself you don't realize it but you are a product unless unless the redemption of god is worked sufficiently enough in your life the way you think about yourself is fashioned by iniquity in your bloodline okay what i mean by that okay in isaiah 6 isaiah is standing in the presence of god the holy presence of god and he says he says woe is me for i am undone from a man of unclean lips that i dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips in fact so he feels completely worthless completely full of shame and guilt the bible says the seraphim flies takes the cover off the altar and touches his lips remember what happens the moment this happens the seraphim or god says the cephalum says your iniquity is purged notice the word iniquity it's purged and it says and as i said and i heard the lord notice when the iniquity was dealt with his spiritual ears were open on another level see could it be that our inability to hear god is connected to undealt with iniquity in our in the history of our bloodline but then he says he heard god saying who will go for us who shall we sin here's the guy that just moments before says i am worthless i am fulfilled with shame guilt condemnation i you know i'm worthless i'm i'm of no value in fact when it says he said i am undone it literally means i am so worthless i should be destroyed that's what it actually means this same guy now moments later after his iniquity is purged says here am i send me his perception of himself instantly changes from a worthless nobody to i'll be your prophet because iniquity was dealt with that was causing him to see himself in a worthless way you see when iniquity gets dealt with all of a sudden your mindset your identity which identity is this is my definition your innermost thought concerning yourself is changed okay number three iniquity number three will um will cause can cause people to forfeit their destiny why because what's written in the books of heaven is the destiny god has for you the enemy uses iniquity to pull you off course so that you end up giving yourself to this thing that iniquity is driving rather than fulfilling the destiny god has and that happens all the time see god wants to break the power of iniquity that would work in our lives and in number four iniquity is used by the devil to build a case against you and the one of the best pictures of this is second samuel chapter 21 where where um there's a famine in the land in the days of david for three years and finally after the third year david says why and god says i'm glad you finally asked he said the reason there's a famine is because your predecessor saul the first king 70 seven zero years ago broke covenant with the gibeonites that's that john uh joshua had sw sworn to protect he broke covenant and because of that 70 year old broken covenant now 70 years later there's a famine in your land there's a drought and you you can keep praying prayers because they were but nothing's going to happen until you fix the broken covenant so david goes consults to give me that said what i got to do they tell him he does it and the bible says watch it the bible says and god heeded the prayer for the land all of a sudden please hear this the prayer of that were being prayed or legally could be answered because the right the enemy was claiming was removed when the when the covenant was fixed see i promise you the enemy will use issues in our history as legal rights to build cases against us let me finish with this let me finish with this i always thought there was listen the other day i put something on facebook and somebody popped up and maybe we'll deal with this more tomorrow don't you know you stupid man and they didn't say that but that's that was their attitude i detected don't you know that there are no such thing as generational curses and i i mean i hear that all the time in this day of this grace message that that is quite honestly in many senses warped because it literally literally those who propagated at his strongest point say you have no need of repentance all your sins past present and future are forgiven and i say no they're not the provision for them to be forgiven has been made but you have to get that provision through repentance i have to repent and by faith accept what jesus did for me to get the benefits of what he died for me to have so so in the middle of all that if you if you say you know some of the things i'm saying here they would say oh that that's not that's not so so here's what i tell people when they come at me with that i say okay here's the deal i'm not going to argue with you i said if what you're doing is working for you then just keep doing that because i know it's not what i know because they're so insecure about what they believe they've got to come and challenge me and so i'm like i have no need because guess what a man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an argument i have an experience i know what happened to me i know watch this i know that for 20 years there was delay in my life that we that we knew we were called to stuff that we had never been able to get into and watch we you know i thought well is it my imagination is it a timing issue what is it and i wanted to just give you a secret here sometimes you think at the timing issue when it's actually something legally resisting you you have to understand okay it's not a timing issue sometimes it's a legal issue so for and i don't have time to go into all of it but but so there's 20 years of delay 20 years of the day 20 years of frustration to the point that i had become according to proverbs a man with a sick heart hope deferred makes the heart sick whether i looked like i was alive and vital in faith but i'd become a cynic and a skeptic and a pessimist why because it wasn't working i confessed well i've done everything i knew to do i was still doing it but the bottom line it wasn't working i'd actually come to the place where i really didn't expect it to work anymore and so i'm in the middle of this and then there's like this one final nail in the coffin where this situation happened after okay this is it and then again like all the times over and over a repeated pattern happened where whether where that something that looked like it was going to be what we were waiting for didn't happen it was something sabotaged it an absolute frustration and i was just done and god in his mercy gave me a dream i didn't ask for a dream god just gave it to me in my dream i had this dream that my great great grandfather which i never knew my great i don't even know what his name was but in my dream my great great grandfather had through negligence injured someone and because of what he had done there was a present-day judgment from a court against me this was my dream and the dream is so real when i wake up from the dream i'm like this is real i mean i owe somebody some major money so my great great grandfather did something that i'm in trouble for i mean that was that's what i thought and i got away oh wait wait it's a dream it's a dream oh i hope it's a dream i remember i mean i was in a cold sweat and i get away but then i realized oh wait god's showing me something he's showing me a generational issue and the lord said to me here's the issue your great-great-grandfather through negligence stole the dreams of someone away therefore the enemy has cl has claimed the legal right to steal your dreams away so i got up and i ran immediately to prayer and i began to pray and seek the face of the lord and i repented from my sin any sense of negligence in my life i repented for him in my family but i zeroly and i repented in behalf of my great-great-grandfather i remember feeling such remorse and sorrow over something i don't even know what it was that if i'd have known who he had hurt i would have tried my best to have done whatever needed to be done to bring some kind of you know uh help to the to the family because i didn't know anything i just i dealt with what i knew but i knew when i dealt with this in repentance and asked for the blood to speak in behalf of what my great great grandfather done that something and moved now let me just real quickly say this when you deal with issues in your bloodline you're not changing the eternal destiny of the people you're repenting on behalf of the bible says that it's appointed a man to die after that's a judgment so you don't change the eternal destiny we don't believe in purgatory or getting somebody out of some spiritual place they're in their own life determines their eternal destiny okay what are you doing then you are you are repenting and granting god the right to revoke the devil's rights to use their sin against you that's what i'm doing so i repented on behalf of my great-great-grandfather major things shifted all of a sudden within a week within a week doors started popping open opportunities started coming that are still happening to this day i mean unbelievable rams that i never thought possible and it all happened because i dealt with an issue in my bloodline when i repented as a result of revelation of the sin of my great-great-grandfather the legal right the enemy had to steal my dreams away were revoked so that god was now free to answer my prayers and move us into the destiny god has for us and i'm leaving a lot of detail i just want you to see that that was one issue one very powerful issue of me dealing with iniquity in my bloodline and that's not even talking about our children as i'm talking about all this i'm just saying it's a very powerful thing to deal with the legal issue the enemy would be claiming so would you stand up with me thank you father amen so let's just pray this prayer with me would you say to say lord jesus as we stand before you we thank you lord that we can come before you as father as friend and as judge thank you for the realms of the spirit that are open to us the secret place the counsel of the lord but the courts of heaven and father even as we have already stepped into this place this realm of the spirit called the courts of heaven we would ask you lord that any legal right the devil would be claiming that would be denying us what is rightfully ours we would ask lord that there would be revelation that would come lord we repent of any sin of any transgression that we might be guilty of we thank you lord that according to the word of god the blood of jesus the blood of sprinkling is speaking better things than that of abel lord your blood is speaking in my behalf lord even as i repent as i bring things to the light i thank you lord that your blood keeps on cleansing me from every unrighteousness lord i'm asking that every voice that would be speaking against me in the courts of heaven lord claiming a right based on sin and transgression lord i would say let it be recorded that i acknowledge my sin i confess my transgression and i ask o god for the blood of jesus to now to now cleanse and to silence these voices and to revoke their right to speak against me let every spirit of guilt shame condemnation let it come off now in the name of jesus as i stand before you lord i now come and i ask that any iniquitous thing in my past lord i would ask that your blood would speak in my behalf lord anything that i need to be aware of i would ask lord that you would unveil it oh god that you would reveal it oh god then i might deal with it oh god what my heart is to repent before you and any place in my bloodline that the enemy has used something legal to resist your purposes would you help me o god would you reveal oh god would you purge o god would you cleanse oh god and would you let the blood of jesus speak before you in my behalf lord lord i thank you for this lord as i stand before your courts the blood of jesus your blood lord jesus is speaking for me thank you so much for the blood any and everything every atrocious thing that would be in my bloodline forgive me o god cleanse me oh god and let the legal rights of our of my adversary now be canceled and removed lord now as we're just standing before the lord just just listen feel sense thank you for your presence thank you for your presence lord jesus every legal right removed oh god silenced oh god just just say this lord any shedding of innocent blood that would be a part of my heritage would you please let your blood lord speak in my behalf any whose lives were taken lord i'm asking that you would forgive and that your blood would speak and every demon power that would be claiming a covenant right against me let that voice now be silenced let it be recorded in your courts that the blood of jesus is now speaking in regards to this thank you lord thank you lord lord i just thank you for just granting i thank you that every voice of demon powers claiming rights to resist and to frustrate lord even your people in the purpose and destiny of god i'm asking for those powers to now be silenced and their rights to be revoked lord i'm asking as we stand before your courts that the blood of jesus is now being presented in behalf of us as your people lord i thank you for it lord i thank you for granting this lord and lord there's going to be new realms of breakthrough new realms of answered prayer lord that will come as a result of this lord thank you for our lord even as we stand before you lord foreign thank you lord thank you for your presence lord call amalia thank you lord i thank you father i think i i'm i'm just as that i mean i did that just because i felt in the spirit that that was an issue but it's like as we dealt with that there's like this grip that has come over the back of some people's heads that it's like this this gripping thing is like grip the back of your head with like a vice or even pain it's just come who's feeling that in the room who's feeling that if you are come come to the front would you come just quickly to the front if you're feeling that but as we dealt with that something it's like something just gripped i declare that that thing is coming that thing that is claiming a legal right thank you jesus okay everyone in this room is they're coming all of us together just say they say lord jesus i want to declare in agreement with your word that the enemy has no legal right according to colossians 2 14 every handwriting of ordinance that was against me jesus took it out of the way nailing it to his cross and this thing that is attacking and resisting i am saying right now that its legal rights against me and my family line are now revoked every issue of bloodshed that would be in my bloodline i want to declare that the blood of jesus is speaking in my behalf and is silencing those voices and the legal claims and the covenant with demons that would have been claimed in the spirit world are now revoked and they are now removed in the name of jesus and me and my bloodline goes free i am freed because of jesus and all that he has done and all that he is even doing in my behalf right now in jesus name thank you lord now let's lift up your hands you just began to worship i command this thing these things i say listen listen what's happening in you is not it's not just about you it's about the bloodline so i break this thing in the name of jesus go in the name of jesus power of his presence power of his presence power of his presence power of his presence i say power of his presence power of his presence i loose you in the name go in the name of jesus power of his presence power of his presence power of his presence power of his presence power of his presence loosed in jesus name loosed in jesus name loosed in jesus name loosed in jesus name loosed in jesus name loosed in jesus name thank you lord i declare loosed in jesus name loosed loosed in jesus name loosed in jesus name loosed in jesus name loosed in the name of jesus i thank you lord loosed in the name of jesus father i just declare your people freed i say that even as the donkey was untied at the place where two ways meet so i declare there is an untying of your people right now there's an untying of your people come on just pray in the spirit for just a people there's an untying of your people there's an untying of your people there's an untying of your people but even here and all across this room your people are being untied they're being loosed oh god they're being loosed oh god well there's an untied there's an untying there's another time we bless she lamb of god there's an untying oh god untied in the name of the lord i declare that lord they are untied and let go and they are loosed oh god it's a destiny and the purpose in the future oh god into destiny purpose and in the future oh god ilando thank you lord thank you lord jesus thank you lord jesus we honor you we bless you lord thank you lord jesus mercies and grace over us as your people as we stand before your courts lord thank you lord lord we ask that your name would be exalted and that your name lord would be glorified and we ask that that before we are finished this weekend that there will be great liberty and that according to the word of god that we will come into the glorious liberty of the sons of god lord that shall release things lord on an entirely different level in the culture of new zealand lord we thank you for granting this we ask for your name to be exalted we ask for your name to be exalted and i just keep seeing this i declare you are let go as that donkey was let go i say you are untied there is an untying right now there is an untying right now come on just just by faith we see that there is an untying right now that is happening over your life over your lineage over your generation there's an untying that is taking place i thank you for this lord i thank you for this lord right now in the name of jesus we give you honor and praise for it hallelujah amen amen would you give the lord a great big praise and i'll turn it back to pastor stefan thank you lord

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