Understanding Spiritual Gates (Ear & Eye Gates) - Stephanie Ike Okafor

hey everyone it's Stephanie Ikea Okafor and we are back for part three on the modernization of Witchcraft um last week we were talking about the activity of demons and I'm believing if you haven't watched it then you definitely want to go um watch part one and part two because you know I believe that for many people who have been following this series that you are in a place where God is showing you a lot about your life and opening up your eyes to who you truly are and opening up your eyes to the lies of the enemy and the deception of the enemy that has caused strongholds in your life and we're going to be talking about spiritual Gates um on today's um session and time that we have together now this conversation is so key because one you have to know how to guard your spiritual Gates Right and in particular I'm going to be talking about the ear and the eye Gates but first of all what are spiritual Gates Right spiritual gates are gateways to the spirit realm right and these gateways can be known as portals a portal is an opening or right there's a story of I believe it was Jacob when Jacob was at Bethel and where he went there was a stone Bethel was a place where God had also encountered his you know his grandfather Abraham and Abraham when he encountered God there he built an altar before the Lord right and the Bible talks about I I didn't plan to share this but I'll share it but the Bible talks about how Jacob had taken and it says when he took a stone from there I would find that scripture and put it in the description but it says when he took a stone from there um Jacob lays on the stone and when he laid on the stone he had an encounter he had a dream and in the dream that's when he started seeing like um the latter and the angels ascending and descending and the Lord speaks to him about the what he's going to do in his life and you know the promise just like he had with his you know his father Abraham and all that stuff and then Jacob takes the stone that he slept on and uses that stone to build his own altar it is so powerful because what what are we seeing that the place of encounter became a portal of you know having this access to God in such a access to God to have encounters with the Lord in such a powerful way but I don't want to go into that type of portals I want to talk about the air and I get and maybe someone needed to hear that because something I would share with you is where when there is a place you set aside for prayer or encounters with God it that that space becomes like a portal there's a reason why the Lord says my house shall be called a house of prayer because when there is prayer constantly offered up in the house of God in the temple of God then it becomes a portal that when you are there it it it makes room for Spiritual encounters it makes room for just you know a move of God in such a unique way that is why for example um if you're ever familiar with the Azusa Revival right whenever I don't know if they still do it now I'm not sure if they have done it since the pandemic but they used to have like um these like Revival nights I think it was like once a year or something I might be getting it wrong but I've been to one of them um a while back and the atmosphere oh my gosh you have kids praying for people and they're getting healed and and all kinds of Miracles are taking place but why is it happening there but then if you go like down the block and take the same child you don't experience the same Miracle but in that area in that location you know the prayers that people did in walking around and praying and all that stuff it created a portal that all of a sudden it drew the presence of God in such a powerful way that the atmosphere was so charged that Miracles just start breaking now this is the power of prayer this is the power of your personal intimacy with God and so I'm just I don't I was not planning to say this at all because this has nothing to do with the ear or eye gaze but these are moments I love because it's a partnership with the Holy Spirit and just bringing this teaching and again maybe you needed to hear that because maybe you need to you need to know why you need to strengthen your prayer life beyond bringing your requests to God right Beyond telling God about what's going on in your day but to for intimacy right for Access for growth for encounters with God that not only would benefit your life but could also benefit those around you right and so um so let's go into the ear Gates and the eye Gates right so again again spiritual gates are gateways to the spirit realm and these gateways can be known as portals and a portal is a entrance it's an open door and so why we're going to be focusing on the irrigates and eye Gates is because these are two Realms that we rarely pay attention to we are rarely guard over right so let's start with the ear Gates um Second Kings three from verse 15 to 16. and this was the Prophet Elijah right he was you know getting ready to speak the word of the Lord but before he did so listen to what he says so he says but now bring me a musician then it happened when the musician played that the hand of the Lord came upon him and he said thus says the Lord and he goes into what he began hearing from the Lord but isn't it so interesting that he didn't just go immediately into the prophetic the first thing he said is bring me a musician there needs to be sound in this atmosphere that that draws the spirit of God there's something often about sound that flows with a prophetic right there's sound even when you see the moves of God even when you study Revelation when it talks about you know and then there was the trumpet sounded and then after the trumpet sound that there is a word that goes forth there is something about sound that can create an atmosphere right and so that is one of the reasons we even see that in worship right you might be having a rough day you know just doing whatever and you're just anxious fearful and all kinds of things and then when you enter worship true worship worship that shows you that that reminds you of the bigness of God the greatness of God all of a sudden you can start hearing clearly from the holy spirit it's like where you are so fogged now there's Clarity why because there was something about the sound connected to worship that transported you into a realm of truth right it transported you spiritually where you began to hear what the Lord is saying about your life and I love using worship first of all because you know when we can understand how it happens in God's kingdom Satan not only mimics things but he understands spiritual laws and principles right remember he was once you know an angel and not just any any kind of Angel um he was a cherub right and so that it was a class in itself and so he understands spiritual principles and so for example even when you have like um and when you have like a worship worship night or are different things I've seen so many stories about people just being in an environment of worship that all of a sudden the atheists who walked into church walks out and is crying and it's like oh my gosh I think I want to know Jesus why do we have those testimonies in church because there was something about the atmosphere that was communicating with them you see again everything in life is spiritual so what you open up yourself to you also open up yourself to the spiritual Dimension behind it you open up yourself to the spirit that is behind it to interact with you and so when you open up yourself to worship then guess who has the opportunity to interact with you the Holy Spirit the same thing in the Demonic realm I remember um years ago the lord gave me this dream and that I was so in the dream there was like a club and he tells me to walk in and so I go into the club and everybody's dancing having a good time but I look at the speakers and you know the speakers the music is coming out but what I saw were Spirits coming out through the speakers just flowing out through the speakers and the reality is like when you think about it there are certain songs for certain activities why so I want to share this story with you man I we were going out I was going out with some friends and you know we were gonna go have fun turn up and whatnot and there is a type of sound when you want to do that and at this point in my life I was really in a place where I was kind of like living a double life you know I was trying to get back to my relationship with the Lord and I was still trying to do what I thought was fun and so I remember I was controlling the music in the car and everybody's having a good time and you know and so clearly so clearly the Holy Spirit tells me to put worship to put some worship music now this is night time okay we already know the assignment of the occasion and we had music for the assignment and the Lord is like so loud to me he says play worship and no matter in my no matter how rebellious you know I I could be I could not deny when God gives me a clear instruction I just have to do it and so I'm like trying to muster up courage and I'm in the back seat I'm sitting in the middle right and I just slowly let's grow to worship I remember this like it's happening there real time so I put worship now we're going from like you know cash money and all those things and I'm going to to worship you I live and have you ever been like where you you just feel like people are staring at you and it's like this slow turn like they're looking at me like is your phone tripping I think it was my iPod and they're just like what like what is this and they literally took the cord from me but and I felt so weird like I was like like God why would you have me do that this is so awkward now you're gonna think I'm weird you know but looking back we laughed about it and everything and I was trying to play it off and I was like oh I just thought you know it whatever I tried to do didn't work but they took the court but looking back is the reality that because of where our mindset was we need that music to reinforce the bad decisions we were about to make we needed music that would interact with us in a way that we would be established in our wrong right and so you recognize that sound creates an atmosphere there is no way we would have listened to worship you I live and still go where we're going right that will shift the whole direct like the whole mission the whole trip everything right and so you have to recognize the power that is behind sound what you listen to the spirit behind it interacts with you and that is why sometimes you'll be listening to something and then all of a sudden you are peaceful you are calm and then now you're angry for no reason all of a sudden you just want to pick a fight you start reminding someone what they did 10 years ago and have you ever stepped back to wonder why did I do that like wait what was I thinking why like why did that just come to my mind because what you listen to the spirit begins to interact with you right you might be listening to something you're in a happy relationship and then all of a sudden the spirit and the music is interacting with you and now you are like entertaining the thoughts of cheating and you don't know where it's coming from and you're just wondering like man am I just so attracted to my neighbor what is going on with me and my neighbor right it's spiritual that neighbor has been there all that time there was nothing that moved you and so now you're attracted to your neighbor who's always been there what changed your music changed you start listening to songs that makes you want to do things that may be your partner it's not down for right and so that Spirit begins to interact with you and suggests thoughts to you and you think you're just struggling now you think you're just struggling in your marriage you're just struggling at your job you're just struggling with where you are not recognizing because of your lack of awareness of the power of sound when those thoughts were suggested to you you thought it was your own you see Satan Works in darkness he will camouflage his thoughts as yours so you start believing you're the one thinking that you have these desires and it's really not you it was what the atmosphere you created around yourself that cost it you see I want you to be mindful of what you expose yourself to right there's a there's an audio clip I want you to hear I I heard this um it was from cardi B and there was a song she did this was last year right there was a song she did and after the song came out she had this it was like posted and it was deleted and but she just had this like honest real moment of you know one of the things you hear her say in the audio is that you know this song activated demons that she killed right and you you hear her you just hear her heart man and she's just saying like I don't want to be that person anymore I want to be a mother right and and that person is coming back that person is coming back connected to a song that this song created this atmosphere that something that she was like Hey I've walked away from this I'm good it's you know and if the song had no power if it was just words and a music video it would be nothing to move on from it take the check and move on but there's a power that the song has there's an atmosphere that it creates that she had this honest moment and I want you to listen to it I've been having these weird feelings lately and that's kind of why I didn't want to do this song shake it or like any Joe songs because songs are activating like these demons that I killed you know what I'm saying like I don't want to be that girl anymore like like I just I just want to be a mother you know what I'm saying like I don't want to be that old cardi anymore I left that lifestyle a long time ago bro like I just I don't want to be that anymore like and she's coming back she's coming back bro like I feel like I feel like getting a cane if you know about the kings that you know I don't want to be that anymore I want to be a mother song is activating demons that are locked away a long time ago and it's coming back again and I don't want to be there I want to be a good person don't want to so you see when you hear that what do you hear that the song was not just words and you know a creative director who decided what the shoot should look like it was beyond that that the song was a portal and the more mindful we are look I love music man I'm African I love music I love to dance and you know for a very long time I held on to some of the songs that I really really really love and you know you know how there are some songs like you can't play with certain people in the car so they're like Pastor you listen to this oh my God but personally um you know more recently to be honest the Lord was really dealing with me on like my music choices and just showing me you have to be a guard over your Gates you can just expose yourself to anything because what I'm calling fun and entertainment and this is my type of you know my type of music in the spiritual realm nothing is entertainment everything is serving a purpose right and so the very things that we think are just like you know the songs that we like we don't even realize the artists that are creating it are being tormented you know they're in the studio and in order to even sing through these lyrics or rap through them they have to be high or drunk right that they're going through their their own share of Torment what we think is just entertainment right and so I just want you to be mindful um ask the Lord for a higher sense of discernment right God show me because the times we are in it is so critical that your channels are clear to really hear from the Lord to really hear what God is saying not just about you but the times we are in right we have entered some very shaky times in our world very shaky and you don't want to be awakened to it or aware of it when it manifests you know you want to know ahead of time so you're you make your decisions from a proactive place with God right there's a reason why biblically only a few people are considered friends of God only a few people really shake the world for God only a few can you imagine in the time of Noah that in all the Earth all the Earth like the whole Earth only Noah was found righteous only Noah I mean that is mind-blowing to me but if we're honest these are the times we're in literally the Bible even when it talks about the end times it says it would be like the times of Noah people are eating drinking doing their thing you know but only a few that's why you know it's often known as the remnant and why is that because only a few are really willing to pick up their cross and walk it's costly it's nothing that is is it's not cheap it's not light work it's costly it pays something to really know God and to really walk with Jesus but here is the here is the LIE of the enemy we think it's a cost we were not supposed to pay we were created to pay it we were created we were designed to carry our own cross we we are the the highest and truest version of us is in the spirit we were created to know God in spirit and in truth everything else is just are all distractions the real you desires God above anything else the real you the real you is not operating because of the fear of people and the fear of their opinions the real you only cares about the validation that comes from God and whatever comes with it is just a cherry on top can you imagine what Daniel must have known about God that he was willing to go into a lion's den he was willing to be killed as a result of saying no I'm not going to bow down to your Idols there's something I know about God there's there's a walk I have with God that was worth my life that that is mind-blowing right it's for me it's a it's a place I'm still getting to what I'm asking you to do is where I where I am with God constantly God search my heart show me the areas where I've believed lies show me the areas where I've been more afraid of people than of you show me the areas where I have made people Idols in my life and and neglected your voice because that is not the truest version of me I want to be who you say I am right and I'm sharing this with you so you don't think that this is work that is outside of you this is work that is authentic to you being disciplined in these ways being Mindful and and watchful and and guarding your temple because you recognize that you are treasure and you can't just let trash mix with treasure you can't just let anything in you know because you you because of deception we have to guard that Ryan so that's just when it comes to the ear Gates now the eye Gates um you know I read this quote from Oscar Wilde and he says this life imitates art far more than art imitates life and I really love this so much because the reality is what we watch media the media intake it shapes Our Lives more than we think right that life imitates art more than art imitates life um there were two two funny stories I mean one maybe it's more funnier but um there's this movie The Wedding Singer and it's just just a great movie man it's a really old movie well Olive is really old but it's an old movie and there's a scene I watched it as a kid and there's a scene where Adam Sandler who's playing The Wedding Singer um he is eating cake and drinking tea and from childhood I eat cake and drink tea if I'm if I have the opportunity to have cake at home I'm gonna make tea with it before I start eating it it was just ingrained in me because of how much I love that movie and it shaped how I eat cake right um and this is just to share the fact that you behold what you behold you become right what you give your eyes to shapes how you start living your life right it's just like the movie Eat Pray Love You know um just an incredible storytelling and all of that but I remember when I watched that movie and I was in a place in my life where you know the Lord had told me to do some things that I just felt like stagnant you know I'm like God like what am I doing with my life right now like I just feel like the instruction you gave me I don't see progress I don't see how this is moving me forward because I couldn't see the fullness of what God saw from his perspective and when I watched Eat Pray Love I was so inspired and I remember calling my mom I said Mom you know what I'm moving back to Nigeria and at the time too she was actually you know really on me like Stephanie what are you doing you should move back and I said fine you win I'm gonna move back to Nigeria I said but first i'm gonna stop in Italy and then make another pit stop to Bali and then I will come back and I was convinced that I am gonna have an Eat Pray Love journey I was like Mom and literally when I tell you I'm not even kidding you so in the movie if you've ever watched it um there's a scene where Julia Roberts is like I don't even like taste food anymore like when was the last time you know you like talking about like enjoying your food or tasting food and I literally had that same conversation I remember calling my brother I said I don't even taste food anymore you know I want pasta from Italy I want to feel my food and so I literally will like go to a restaurant I I this is so wow I'll go to a restaurant and order food and I'm like I can't even taste it I have lost the passion for food I need to go to Italy I was but I tell you that nothing could shake off this conviction I said yeah I I just I need a I need to explore I need to feel life again and I think the Lord just had mercy on me because um not too long after that um it probably was the next night after I had that conversation with my mom um the Lord encountered me in a dream to stare me back on course and showing me I am the one that gave you this instruction and if you will stay the course you would see everything I said and I woke up from that dream and I was in tears and I was like okay God I'm gonna stay the course but why am I sharing this because when I watch this film something was also interacting with me telling me hey just go on this trip and I thought it was me talking to myself I said you know what you I I need to I need to go to Italy I need to go to Bali I need to just whoop and if the Lord did not encounter me I would not even be here in front of you I have no clue what my life would look like right now because after all of that I would have found myself in Nigeria and I don't know what that would have looked like in this moment because the reality is that that was nothing like what it was it was nothing connected to the truth of my life right my husband always says something he says speed is not an advantage when you're going in the wrong direction and what I love about that is sometimes we get so impulsive through our emotions when we watch something we hear something and then we get impulsive like oh I need to go I'm a this is what I'm supposed to do and we don't slow down to actually ask the Lord this impulsive decision is it inspired by you or is this suggested by someone else because running fast speed is not an advantage if you are in the wrong direction it's not and so I'm sharing this to say you know guard your emotions when you're watching television it's not love TV I have all I have you know a list of shows that I enjoy but guard your emotions in what you're watching because you might be watching something and all of a sudden now you feel discontent with your life now you're no longer satisfied with where you are because you want what you're seeing in the movies guard your keep your emotions in check right recognize that wait and question yourself think you know my pastor always says this you know think about your thoughts think about what you're thinking about right don't just allow things to just rule over you and take over you what changed what happened between the last 24 hours you were happy you were excited you knew exactly what God wanted out of your life you knew the path that God has set you on and then you watch the movie foreign and then all of a sudden your life feels so boring and now you're craving something that has nothing to do with your destiny has nothing to do with the path that God has called you to be on right and so what I'm in in this regard what I'm suggesting to you is whenever there's this impulse that comes upon you to just do something make sure you vet it by the Holy Spirit make sure you bring it before God you see God is such a loving father he doesn't want you to miss it in life God does not God does not look at you and say oh I gave you that impulse and you didn't do anything about it what are you thinking no if there is an uncertainty where this came from take the time to search it out take the time to bring it before God that's why when the scripture says you know there's in the multitude of cancer something like that there is safety right I think it's okay the multitude of council like there is safety or there yeah something something like that output I'll put it in the description right but basically the scripture is telling you that where there is counsel and not several Council there is safety and so the ways of God nothing about God is in a hurry right now when he gives you an instruction yes there are timelines there are seasons and there are things like that and you would you would have an understanding of that but God is Not Just expecting you to um you know move an Impulse that you don't check if where is this coming from God does not want you to miss it in life if he takes his time to mature you in him don't you think he'll also take his time to mature you with his voice right the Bible talks about how you start with milk before you get to meat you don't become a Believer and God starts giving you you know meat like Revelation no he starts you with milk he grows you with milk and then he gets you to meet right and in the same way God takes his time with you for you to learn his voice for you to master you know how he speaks to learn his ways to learn you know um the the rhythm of of his ways and all of that his love his his passion his compassion all of that his wisdom so when you hear from your father you know who is talking to you right but when you just have this impulse that is connected to your frustration that is connected to discontentment and all these things vetted through the Holy Spirit right because what you don't recognize is that they didn't just come out of nowhere it's not that you just woke up and you felt discontent and then sometimes we say I I think the holy spirit is telling me something no you watched a movie you heard something that has interacted with you in a way that brought about that feeling right and this might not always be the case but in many cases we see this right but another thing is just to be also be knowledgeable about what you're watching right there are certain I remember there was a movie that really freaked me out one time um part of my calling really has to do with the supernatural realm and so even from a very young age I started seeing in the spirit um so I've had many encounters with angels with demons with child I've encountered Satan twice it's just it's it's very weird um but it's also it's not weird actually but it's part of my calling you know there's there are different things there are different dimensions when God calls us there are different dimensions of his nature he wants to reveal through us right and that is the reason why there are people who just flow in the wisdom of God they're people who flow in different things because God is so we we don't know the fullness of God you know it's just there's just so much to God and so when he raises people up he he has different expressions of himself that he wants to bring into the world the revelations of himself that he wants to bring into the Earth that he raises people to express right and so for me one of the key things has been the supernatural realm which is also why he told me to teach on this but while I'm sharing this is I remember seeing this demon right um that was kind of lingering around um this lady while we were praying for her to see what was she was dealing with in order for the demon to be you know to be disconnected and cast out of her life and I remember watching a film and the creature they had in this film was the exact image of a demon I have seen in real life and that blew me away because I was like no this is not creativity this is not just some random idea that somebody had that image exist and this was a very unique looking demon you know so it's not just like you know scary or something it was it had its uniqueness to it and that demon was in that film that the image of that demon was a creature in that film and why I'm sharing this with you is be mindful of what you be knowledgeable also about what you watch there are certain movies that actually use real incantations in witchcraft in the films and that so sometimes what you're watching you're thinking they're just making words up no these words are act are real words that are used to summon spirits right and so be just be mindful be be a guard right be a guard over your ears be a guard over your eyes and what this looks like is partnership with the Holy Spirit I'm not asking you to you know be anxious and have anxiety about everything you watch but be in such a beautiful relationship with God that when you're watching something and the Holy Spirit convicts you to turn it off turn it off when you're watching something and the Holy Spirit convicts you you don't need to watch this there are many things like that that I've wanted to watch and literally the holy spirit will tell me change this channel like watch something else I had no knowledge of what I was about to watch but I knew there was something in that movie that was not in agreement with God and I'll be honest I have disobeyed before you know because I was like oh Lord there's people are raving about this show I I'm gonna watch this show and when I disobeyed I lost the conviction to not watch the show anymore and I kept watching it I kept watching it and you know what happened I started having some very weird dreams and later on I realized that the very first time I tried to watch this show the Lord told me no but because it was trending and I wanted to watch it and figure out what everybody's so hyped on I was watching season after season but not recognizing that that show was corrupt in my dreams and so now you start having dreams you start suspecting the wrong people because when the enemy infiltrates your dreams he can even use the likeness of people to communicate a negative message to you you see whenever you have a dream and you come out of the dream feeling you know anger towards someone or or hatred and things that's not the nature of God God can give you a warning but that warning still flows through his nature so you wake up and you still have love and rather than anger you have compassion for that person man I can't believe this is what's about to go down but when you start having dreams and you're seeing people who are close to you in your life but you're seeing them in ways that you know you you come out of the dream not feeling like suspicious of people like um I don't know about this person and it causes you to move in a way that is not the spirit of God that dream was manipulated right and the reason that the enemy could access the dream is because perhaps before going to bed you were interacting with him without even knowing it you know and even the our like bad habits of like binge watching the show and falling asleep to the show because that was the last thing you interacted with and then you go to bed and it continues to interact with you right and then your dreams are manipulated now you're not sure what's coming from God and whatnot and all this stuff and so all of this really boils down to strengthening your relationship with the Holy Spirit there's some things you want to watch I remember there was this um um there's this show but it's like uh like a competitive show whatever that I used to love watching and the more the Lord began to minister to me about my air Gates he showed me don't watch this show anymore in the show they have this thing they call like idols and all this stuff and it they make it feel like it's part is entertaining you and the Lord showed me that's not entertainment those are real things that are in the show and he's like don't watch this show anymore and since then I was so happy with my obedience on that one I was like okay God I'm not watching this show and when I tell you that this was a show that I used to watch since I was a kid but here is the thing when you start opening yourself up to God show me the areas in my life that are in Disobedience so show me the areas in my life that are that that is ruled by ignorance it gives God Access for you to hear things that you would not have heard prior to that because you were so closed off if you're closed off to the idea of something you wouldn't hear the voice of God in it because you see the spirit of God communicates to your spirit but that has to translate through your soul and when your soul is shut like nah that that that's not true that that never happens um y'all are tripping you can't receive what God has deposited in your spirit man but when you start asking like God search my heart search my heart show me where is there where have I been living in ignorance where have I been living in deception when you start asking those kind of questions you will be surprised by the Revelation that follows when you ask it in Truth right when you don't feel like you are your wisdom is is what rules your life when you start looking at yourself as a child and you humble your intellect for the intellect of the Lord you will be shocked by many things you thought were okay we're normal and the spirit of the Lord starts revealing things to you see that's remember Paul in the Bible when he was Saul or known as Saul he was killing people left and right thinking what he was doing was good right but even though we don't hear what we don't hear the story of what was going on in his heart there must have been something that all of a sudden drew the revelation of Christ to him that when Christ encountered him and he says because check this out question encounters him and he's like you know why are you persecuting me and he responds saying Lord there was something going on in his heart because there were many people persecuting the Christians but what was it about Paul in that time that Drew God to him all those people have a calling all of them have a have a call in God but you see when you open up yourself to say God search my heart where is the error in my life you do this daily daily there there are things that every you know literally every day I just say God have mercy on me because I have no clue what is in my heart because it's only environments that bring it out I have no clue if there's pride in me I have no clue if there's anger in me and so I'm not gonna rely on what I think I know about myself I need you to have mercy on me and search my heart God show me the areas is there selfishness in there search me because what you might think is just normal and fun when you start asking God questions he starts showing you okay you're a little selfish you know these are areas you can work on and so I'm sharing this with you again so that you are more knowledgeable about these things right you're more knowledgeable to not allow things to corrupt your dreams right a space where God can encounter you you don't want that to be manipulated you are more knowledgeable to not just be caught off guard when certain thoughts come upon you and certain impulses come upon you and you're wondering where did this come from and not realizing that it can be traced to something that you opened up yourself to either through your ear Gates or your eye Gates right and so when we become guards over this then you know we we really we're really strengthening our walk with God but I want to pray for you and I just want to pray that God will grow you in your discernment and I want to partner with you in prayer that any area of your life that you know a demonic Spirit has has been having influence over that as you are coming to God and saying God search me Lord and I'm repent of these things I Repent of these ways I Repent of this manner of thinking or are green rather coming into agreement with this manner of thinking that you would experience Deliverance and one of the things as I was praying you can experience self-deliverance even in your home right that as you are just worshiping before the Lord and you are renouncing and saying you know what I Repent of this and you can say to yourself every unclean Spirit come out every unclean spirit and if there is something in particular the Holy Spirit tells you the Holy Spirit highlights to you and is showing you the spirit of lust or the spirit of anger or whatever call it out and you know sometimes we don't even recognize that when we are so deep in worship that we find ourselves overwhelmed by emotions we start crying and the next thing we start like coughing or we have this feeling of like you know yawning or spitting out that it's actually something that's coming up right something is there is there is a hole that something had on you then in that moment of Shifting your desire and affection to the Lord that it's losing its grip and it starts to come out right you have to recognize that Deliverance is actually more for the believer than the unbeliever and why do I say this the scripture where the demon calls a person his home it literally says that when the spirit returns and finds the place empty right it finds it empty cleaned and swept that it returns with seven other Spirits stronger than it because guess what demons don't want to leave they want to they want to be there and why am I sharing this it says when the place is found empty an unbeliever is empty when it comes to the spirit of God and so if you deliver an unbeliever you put them in more harm because that demonic spirit will say oh okay you have the power to just take Mia now let's see if you could take eight of us out because now we're about to be Legion in this thing right they're they're strategic they're finding ways to reside in a person and so why I said that it is more for the believer because the believer it's easier for a person who knows Jesus to then turn that area to God and say you know what God you're already in my life and I'm gonna surrender this area to you there's a scripture and I'll definitely find it and put it in the description but there's a scripture where literally you know an apostle is the Bible talks about how you know he led the people to Salvation right he baptizes them and then he casted out their demons it wasn't the other way around it wasn't that he casted out their demons and then told them about Jesus right he first led them to Salvation he baptizes them and then casts out their demons because now they have the Holy Spirit to surrender that exposed area in their lives to right so I want to pray with you heavenly father I just thank you Lord for everyone on the other side of this I thank you Lord for what you're doing in and through their lives I pray oh God that you would heighten their discernment that Lord you would increase their sensitivity to your conviction in the name of Jesus and I just come in partnership with them oh God I come in agreement with their faith that Heavenly Father wherever there is an unclean spirit that has been hiding that has kept them in torment in bondage in any way oh God that we command that unclean Spirit to come out in the name of Jesus we command whatever it is called whatever its name is that evil spirit we command you to leave Lord as your children your sons and daughters are repenting before you as your sons and daughters are given over these areas of their lives to you Lord these Spirits have no legal rights and they have no legal grounds to remain and so Lord we thank you for their freedom right now in the name of Jesus as they submit this Aries to the Lord and so Heavenly Father we thank you because your power has no ends oh God and so I thank you for what you're doing right now in the name of Jesus and I thank you oh God that even what what is taking place in the lives of your sons and daughters Lord they will be bold not just to share their stories but to lead others into Deliverance in Jesus mighty name amen now you know again I want you to share this with a friend let people let let people get a hold of these teachings right and if you're not subscribed 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Channel: Stephanie Ike

Views: 233,789

Keywords: Stephanie Ike, Stephanie Ike Okafor, Spiritual Gates, Ear Gates, Eye Gates, Toure Roberts, Sarah Jakes Roberts, Woman Evolve, ONE LA, Supernatural, It's Supernatural, Faith

Id: gJ9O-xJGECQ

Length: 50min 37sec (3037 seconds)

Published: Tue May 09 2023