Stephanie Ike Okafor - The Strategy and Impact of Demonic Spirits ]

Open us up in prayer for this moment. Heavenly Father, we thank you, We thank you, Lord God, that it is an honor that we get together in your name. And so with this time, Lord God, with the word that you have given me. Lord, may they. Not hear me, but hear you, and to Holy Spirit, glorify Jesus through everything. That we do in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen, you may be seated. If you've been blessed by this conference, just give a shop. Amen. You know I came to poor and receive, so it has been such a rich, rich, rich blessing for me and my husband, my daughter there, my husband's and my daughter. My daughter did not go to bed. We were going through jetlag and she just decided to have a party with jetlag. So finally, just sad think in two hours the grocery slept. But I'm really excited for what God is going to do with this time. You know, I love so much that Pastor has been sharing about his dreams. Some of you may know, some of you may not know, But there was an assignment the Lord gave me a few years ago and told me to write a book on dreams, and shortly after he revealed that to me, I got reached out by a well known publishing company in America and they were like, would you like to write a book a Christian publisher Christian Publishers, And they're like, is there any book that's on your heart you know that you're interested in? And then we started talking about this book on dreams and I just want to encourage you. It's going to be such a blessing. It comes out August twenty seventh. It's called The Power of Your Dreams. And you know, when I encountered the Lord at nine, one of the prominent ways that he always spoke to me what through encounters and dreams. And sometimes people will say like, but you know, I'm not a dreamer, But the reality is, and this is actually scientifically proven, you dream every day, you just don't remember. And if there is a space where you're literally dreaming every day, wouldn't you want to create space for that to be encounters with God in your dreams, for the Voice of God to reveal to you mysteries through your dreams. And so this book is an assignment for me. It's not just about writing a book. It's an assignment to really and I think it's on the graphic to awaken a generation to the power of their dreams. We are so distracted as a people, and for me, dreams is part of God's mercy that outside your busyness, that He can plant his word in your spirit. And so I encourage you pre order the book. Amen. But today we're going to dive into something that I'm very passionate about. And you know, this session is about understanding the impact of demonic influences on Christians in today's culture. Just like Pastor mentioned, I had I did a series this was last year on the modernization of witchcraft. You see witchcraft and everything that the enemy, everything that is under the enemy's terrain. It's all about rebellion. It's rebellion against God. And that is why even in the scripture it would talk about how rebellion is as is a sin as witchcraft. So when we think witchcraft, you know, I know for me growing up, witchcraft meant and some of you might be familiar with the term babalawo. You know, all these witch doctors sitting in a corner and just throwing grass, you know, putting water and grass or something. But it's more advanced than that and in how the enemy has modernized, it does not change its potency, It does not change its agenda. The essence of it is to lure you. You see, the Bible calls Satan that he appears, He masquerades. As an angel of light. He appears, he presents himself in ways that would be acceptable to the generation, and his ultimate goal is for you to call evil good. Yesterday, I was sharing that one of my favorite portions in the Scripture to read is the Garden of Eden, because that in what you see that they experience Adam and Eve, it teaches us so much about the ways of God and the ways of the enemy. You see in the garden. You know, oftentimes when we talk about the interaction that Eve had with the serpents, we make it seem as though the serpent was Satan. The serpent was not Satan. The serpent was a serpent, was a snake. The Bible talks about that he was the serpent was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made, and so when the enemy was trying to gain access to the people, he looked for what would be compatible. To access the people. So what's happening in our generation today is that the enemy is still looking for what is compatible to access the people. And so in the garden it was the serpent in our generation is entertainment, and even in the phrase itself entertainment, he's looking for ways to enter to gain access over your mind in the pastor was sharing this with that series that series brought on? It was interesting because I was pregnant. I was like seven months pregnant at the time, and there were people panicking. They were like, are you sure you're gonna do this pregnant? And for me, it's that and you must know this. When the Lord gives you an assignment, he. Is your master. Whoever is coming up against you has a master, but my master is greater than your master. So yes, there was warfare. There was intense warfare. There was actually an organization of witches. It's an established organization which was very interesting that wrote an article coming up against me. And before I learned about the article, I was having these dreams where these people were trying to shoot me, but in every dream I prevailed. And I remember when I was sharing with my husband, I said, no, there is a lot of witchcraft activity coming up against this series. And the next thing I knew. I saw this article that was published and it was literally an organization of witches that were challenging and wanting the videos to come down. So there was an information. I saw many powerful things happen with that series. You know, in America there is a growing trend of African Americans wanting to return to the Motherland to worship the gods of their ancestors, right, and there were many people that started flying in for deliverance. I had no clue that the Babelao that I saw growing up, now we're on zoom having video calls with people. I said that you met them on zoom. I said, wow, they're advancing. These witch doctors are coming up in the world. Right. But through that series, there was a gentleman and he was a New Age shaman. He was one of the key, the key people that you know he was. He's in Hollywood, so a lot of the actors and then people in entertainment would go to him for various practices, right ayahuasca and many different practices in the New Age. He was the one of the go to people. And here is what was interesting about his story. He did not know that what he was doing was evil. He was calling evil good. That's the tactic of saytan. And so when he got introduced and how did he get introduced into this yoga? So you see what we would call the serpents in the garden, the enemy calls yoga. In our generation, many people, you would you even practice yoga, and sometimes it's a part of your in your in your school, right, one of your your activities, your recreational activities. There's yoga in the hospitals, there's yoga. We think that yoga is just an exercise to stretch our body, but the origin behind yoga, these were not stretches for your flexibility. These were poses that were in service to deities. In Hinduism. It had nothing to do with flexibility. It had everything to do with worship. And so even though it's become modernized, the origin behind it and the agenda behind it never changed. So what happened. This was a gentleman who played basketball and he was looking to get you know, more flexible and get better, you know at his game and all that stuff. So someone said, hey, take a yoga class. He starts taking yoga, and from what seemed innocent, they noticed him and they noticed this is an open vessel. Then they brought him into the back room. They said, you know what, you need to go deeper in yoga. So now they introduced him. So the people you have to recognize. I remember when the Lord began to reveal to me how there are key people in the industry and entertainment in Hollywood, and these are people that have meetings with Satan. They have key strategic. Meetings on what to create to infiltrate the minds of the people. You think you're just over there getting entertained and someone is looking at you as bait. So this man is literally just enjoying yoga like you would go to a yoga studio, but in the studio there are people watching trying to gage people in the spirit to see who is going to be who is ripe for our agenda. So now they bring him into what this was all about. And now he's practicing yoga the way they do it the ancient from the ancient world, and they're revealing to him how to open up himself for the gods in Hinduism to enter him. And that's how it started, and then it graduated, and then all of a sudden, now he tries ayahuasca and then he wants more. He's like, wow, this could help people the deception of the enemy. And now he becomes a shaman and he starts doing this for very key people in Hollywood, and some of you may not be familiar with ayahuaska, but basically they take this. It's a plant, right, It's a psychedelic drug, and when you drink it. Before you it's not just about drinking it. That's why they have shamans. They have these rituals setups where they call upon spirits to be invited into that ceremony. Now, when you hear about this in movies or in interviews, you would just think about it's just a plant. You drink a plant and you enter the spirit world. Nothing spiritual happens just because you did something in the natural. There's a spirit being in operation. So they invite. These different spirits to be invited into the ceremony and then they drink of this plant. And when they drink of the plant, their spirit leaves their body. And for some people they now meet with what they call the spirit of the tree, which is aya, and takes them on this journey and experiences and the idea. For many people is that whatever they have been afraid of, they experience the greatest fears in their life, and they believe they are delivered. And I remember what this gentleman said to me. He said, we take out demons just to put more on the back end. So it's an exchange. But there was a deception that he believed that what he was doing was good. And so when he got exposed to the series, that was when the Lord began to convict him. And there was a power that came upon him that opened up his eyes, and that's when he literally got rid of everything. He says, Jesus or nothing. There was an encounter he had with Jesus and Shiver, and Shiver is a god in Hinduism is known as the god of destruction. And the Lord says, now you have to choose. Either you're gonna go with Shiver or you're gonna choose me. So all these things began to play in his mind, and finally he gave his life to Jesus. He got baptized. Amen, and he's a member of our of our church community. But you see why this is so important for you to understand, is that the enemy never presents himself the way you would think one of an encounter. I've had two encounters with Satan in my life. The second time I had an encounter with him or no, that truly, that was the first. The first encounter with Satan. He was stunning. And what happened was, this is why you have to. Know, you have to guard yourself from idols of the heart. What happened was there was a particular prophet who I always knew was a false prophet, and this person always tried to come around my mother and I had confronted him before. And I know who I know who you are because there was a time when I was I encountered the Lord at nine, and I radically changed my life, and the Lord began to open my eyes to see many things. And I was growing up. I remember one day this man comes to the house and he shakes my hand, and the moment he shook my hand, I go into a vision and I see where he gathers. I see the very occoltic place he gathered. And he pushed my. Hand away from his and leaves the house. And my mom is like, where are you going? Where are you? Say, no, no, no, I'll be back. I'll be back and I said, Mom, that man is not of God. He's not of the spirit of God. This is a false prophet. And so I began to warn my mom. Come him, so he knew. But one day, so years later, now I've left Nigeria, I'm in the States, and this was how he tried to he this was how he got me in the moment. He reaches out to my. Mother and he says, I would like Stephanie to pray for me. I'm in college at this time. And then I said, wow, this man must have changed his ways pride rather than for me to consult with the Lord. First, my ego was being served that, oh, he wants to pray with you. He wants you to pray for him. I said, oh, sure, let mom and bring invite him to the house. Let us pray for the man. So he comes over, my Mom calls me, and I began I prayed for him. I didn't realize that that was a deception, that all of that was so that he could pray for me. So after I finished, then he says, can I just speak a prayer over you? And I said yes, yes, And then the man begins to prayer and he says, you know, as I pray for the wealth of Solomon to come into your life. I said, amen, who will say amen to that? And then he says, and the angels that were with Solomon be released to you. I continue saying Amen forgetting that Solomon exposed himself to many things. And then that evening, I'm laying in bed and all of a sudden, I see this angel that I've never seen in my life, and he. Was beautiful, stunning. His whole being was jewels, and I said, at first, in my ignorance, I said, Wow, this Angel of Solomon was really really came The Lord really came. Through on this one, you know. I said, God, what is the abundance coming into my life? And then this angel smirked, and I said, that's different. I've never seen an angel smirk. And I began there was this weird, this troubling feeling. I had, and I started asking the Lord who is this because something doesn't feel right. Who is this person? And there was a name I heard, and when I heard the name, I didn't have an understanding of the name. And literally, all this is happening in real time. I'm awake and this is not like I'm sleeping and the angel is standing there. Smirking, and I look at my phone and I go on Google. This is not too spiritual to go on Google in this moment, but I go on Google and I google the meaning of the name I heard, and the moment I saw the translation to Lucifer. He goes from my side and then he goes in front of me and grabs my feet. As he grabbed my feet, it felt like my soul was leaving my body, and I began, I said, Lord. Then it hit me that I had opened the door when I asked that man to pray for me. I said, Lord, this can be you, please save me, forgive me for my ignorance. And then the angel who walks with me now shows up, and there was this mighty sword that he used and hit his hand and he let me go. But that day taught me a great lesson that the enemy does not come in the appearance that you believe. He does not come in a way that you would see him coming. And as I began to pray concerning this topic. Because you see, there are there's so much depth when we talk about demonic influence. But the area that the Lord was telling me to emphasize on was on the mind. You see the scripture says in Proverbs twenty three seven, for as he thinks in his heart, so is he. If the enemy can gain access to your mind, then he can control the soul. The soul of madness is in his will, his emotions, his heart. The one who controls the mind has mastery over the soul. And one of the agendas of the enemy in our time is how to infiltrate your mind. Because if he can shape how you think, then he controls how you live. If he can shape what you come into agreement with, then you cannot fully surrender to God. You will make excuses for your limitation, not knowing that there is a grace of God available for you to live above that limitation. You see in the garden of Eden, before. Eve fell, before Eve was deceived, and all that stuff, before they ate the fruit. The sin did not start because of just her eating the fruit. It started when her mind conceived that what was evil she called good when she looks at it and says, this is good to eat. If he can get you to start seeing evil as good, he has the upper hand. And this is where entertainment comes in this is where music comes in. Anything that has access to translate information into your soul, you have to be a guard over that. You see, nothing in this life is here to entertain you. Everything has an agenda. Everything is representing a culture. Yesterday we talked about how culture reflects. Nothing is just to make you. Laugh and happy and distracted in your day. Everything is serving an agenda. When you think about it, you see, we live in times where in the society. When we talk about how witchcraft is infiltrated in our society and the church, I saw a witch, literally, a woman who proclaimed witch on social media say that she loves Jesus. She said, well, I really like that Jesus character. You know, he was just He's awesome. She reads the Bible, yet she's a proclaimed witch. Where is the problem dilusion? People don't the rich and authentic, undiluded word of God is not being preached in the manner that it should. And so now the people. Going back to the gentleman who I interviewed, went he shared his testimony. What he said to me is that he had never known that this was how Satan also operates that when he thinks of Satan, he thinks of you would know this is evil. He did not think that the enemy could operate in ways that look good. I received this question a lot of times in Hollywood. People will ask me, what about white magic? I said, white magic, black magic. Your master is still Satan, and he may not be after you, but he may be after your seed. So his agenda might not manifest in your lifetime, but it will corrupt the seed that you produce. So we have to get back to the place of recognizing that God has called you as sheep amongst wolves. I remember when the Lord was speaking to me. He said, you must see yourself as a soldier in battle. Everything around you is designed to kill you. If you lose. Sight that you're a soldier in battle, you would befriend what looks nice and cuddly. Have you ever seen the movies where a soldier sees a little boy, a little child, a little girl, and they go to make sure hair are you okay? And the child kills them. Because everything in an enemy's territory is designed to kill you. It's not for your good. So if you don't have a God consciousness, if you don't if you're not seeking the Holy Spirit for discernments in what you watch and what you allow in you, you don't realize when the cracks open up. You see, there is this saying sometimes amongst men right where you will see how men feel as though in order to be you know, before they get married, they need to sow their wild oats, right, they need to just get be out there and reckless. And people think that purity was only for women, and so men believe that it's okay for me to have a time of my life and then when I want to get married, i'll settled down. Let me just sleep around, and then when I want to get married out settled. But you know where that thought came from? What you watch. There was something about the programming that you expose yourself to that made you believe that in order to be a man, this. Is how I must live. You watch movies and you watch shows where they introduce crystals and people are saging, and you're like, well, let me introduce. This into my life. Yet you're a believer. Because you don't realize the spiritual consequences of what you're doing. You see, you cannot serve God and another master whenever something else is introduced to the picture. You're serving that thing, not. Him, whatever else you introduce that you find your whatever you run to in times of chaos, that is where you see what your God is. That when a shaking comes, what you run to reveals to you who your master truly is. And so we look at demonic influence in the lives of Christians, and Christians we're the last people to want to believe that we could be influenced by the enemy. But it shows up in your marriage. Many marriages are failing. Because people are not able to discern their thought life. You're having a good time and then all of a sudden, the enemy starts projecting the images to you these things. This is a conversation that was had a year ago, but it was not resolved. Then you start asking your husband, you know what last year you said this, what did you mean by it? Fight starts. Because of how you see women empowerment and feminism in films and on television. Now, when women hear the word submission and it sounds like slavery, they said, no, I don't do that, and the marriage is over before it ever started. And so when the enemy can bring his culture into your programming, you don't realize how already you're being shaped to model a different kingdom, yet you call yourself a Christian. Any area of your life that is not according to the standard of God, you have to bring that before the altar. God, Where did corruption come in? And I did not know it? Even when you think about music, do you know that there are certain songs that before they record it, they have a ceremony. These are not the things that are exposed to you. But there are certain songs that before it's recorded, they have their own. Ceremony to Satan. The same way that when we you know, as believers, when we worship the Lord. Sometimes when you're in prayer, you begin to hear chance, you begin to hear melodies that begin to come in, and you're worshiping God before you ever release that melody. That in the demonic there are ceremonies that take place, and there are chance that come from the demonic realm. And just like Pastor said, you're doing a dance, but you don't realize that that dance in itself is a form of worship to a deity. And so when you begin to do it, you're in agreement. You're showing that, hey, I look like you have access. You will be surprised that some of the chaos that people experience in their lives. If they were to ask the Lord, where did I open the door, it would look like something mundane. As I was praying for you, the Lord showed me a lady who has a serious fear of death. It's crippling you. But the reality is that what opened that door was a film you watched, and. That's where it came in. You cannot be exposed like that. You see something The Lord began to teach me about demonic spirits. Number One, when you think. About racism, there is a we It's hard to understand racism in the natural because it's not natural at all that someone can just hate you because. Of your skin color. The spirit behind racism is the is the demonic spirit right point blank. But the same way that spirit speaks to how Satan sees you and his kingdom. When demons see you, they hate you. You are only good to be their slave. They only see you as one that should be their slave. And the worst thing that a believer can do is come in agreement with something that sees you as a slave. They want you to be a slave to lust. They want you to be a slave to immorality. They want you to be a slave to masturbation, and then you are. You're struggling with it, not because. It's not just that you're saying, God, take this away from me. You love it, and you love what someone else is experiencing through you. A spirit is expressing themselves through you, and you're saying, I'm comfortable here. Yet you're asking God for change. You see, until you hate your bondage, there's no way out. You cannot love what keeps you bound. And there's something the Lord began to show me again about demonic spirits, which really blows my mind. Matthew twelve forty three says this, when an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places seeking rest and finds none. So when the spirit was in a man, that was his resting place. The reason I'm painting this picture is so that you recognize that their agenda is to keep you in a place of ignorance, so they would have a resting place. Can you imagine what it's like when you have no rest. You will do everything to at some point find some rest in your day. And so if a spirit, if an evil spirit, looks at you as a resting place. Then their agenda is to find out how can we infiltrate the system and the culture that all of a sudden the culture would make room for us and give us invitation to come home. Because when they look at you, they call you their house. See, there are many things that you have to come out of agreement with today because culture has made you believe that it is your anxiety, it is your depression. People claim these things, they say, oh, it's just my anxiety, and you don't realize there is a spirit at work behind it, and the spirit needs you to claim him as your identity so he has a resting place. You say, oh, I was just born this way. No, you are not born that way. God did not make a mistake when he said and he made them male and female. And I will say this and I know this. This This is always a topic people are, you know, don't want to touch on. But here's the truth, even when it comes because in Christianity, we still see people who say I was born this way. They feel betrayed because they're like, but but God made me this way. This is all I've known since I was a child, that this was my sexual orientation. No, God does not make mistakes. But here's what happens. And this is why conversations about the mind so important, because no matter what the generational curses, no matter what the bondage is, it traces back to someone in that lineage that agreed with Satan concerning the matter. That there was deception that they and the deception. But agreement, and that agreement opened the door for familiar spirits. That agreement opened the door for bondage in a family. It all came back down to the mind. But if you continue to agree with it, there is no freedom. I remember asking the Lord because I had many people around me who had this notion of I was born this way. They didn't. They didn't. They were wrestling with the word of God concerning their sexuality because they said, I was just born this way. And for me, I could see the spirit be behind it. But I said, God, give me language, because how do I explain to this person that a spirit has only found a resting place in you and he wants to make you his permanent house. He doesn't want to escape. This house, so he has come in a way that you would agree with him to the point that you don't know where you start or where he ends. And I remember there was a week where the Lord began to teach me, particularly. About the homosexual spirit. And there were many days that he showed me how this spirit gains access. And one of it, thank. You Lord, I see guys about to do something beautiful, Thank you Jesus. One of the things the Lord began to teach me how to do with the bloodline. And this is so, this is why you have to be so careful with what you expose yourself to, because he showed me this with visuals. I saw a man, for instance, and the man was watching pornography. The man was not gay, but the pornography he was watching was a homosexual pornography. A man will not think that him watching two women is. A problem for him. It's just entertainment. But what he opens the door is that spirit. So the man is struggling with pornography, he's not doing it from a place of thinking he has, you know, a sexual problem or whatever. He's watching two women. The spirit gains access. It doesn't manifest in him, but it manifesting his seed. So now a child is born and as early as two years old, their sexual orientation changes because the spirit that he invited into his life manifested. Itself through his child. That's one way. Another way is through trauma sexual abuse, because the spirit of lust has both genders, and so when there is some form of sexual abuse, whether it's you know, same sex abuse. It opens the door. That's why there I've met people that have hated themselves because they felt as dull I was abused by the sex that I'm now attracted to because the trauma opened the door. Then another way is the principalities over a territory. And when the culture or the government has given those to palad these legal rights that we accept this, then it becomes easier for people's thoughts to agree with it. That they can cause you to think that you're feeling a certain way, and the moment you come in agreement, that spirit gains access. There was a friend of mine, a very close friend of mine, who was really struggling with this, and we had been praying together and there was a moment of amazing and incredible breakthrough. He's now married as a child. And during that moment of breakthrough that night, it was myself and one of my best friends and she was over at my place. That night, I had an encounter with the homosexual spirit, and it was mad at me, and it says, how dare you? Who do you think you are? And all along I see my friend in chains and they're dragging him in chains, and the Lord says to me, don't listen to them, look at him. And as I was looking at him, a light came and set him free. And when I woke up from that dream, I rushed to the room because I had my best friend stay in my room. And I rushed to the room. I said, hey, I just had this dream. And she saw the same people in her dream. And then the Lord said, that was the spirit that you had challenged and and set that man free from Why am I sharing this because you have to recognize that even in the things you identify yourself as is not you. If it's against the will and the standard of God's word, anything that is outside of the world of God that you have found an identity in, there is deception. There is corruption, and if you stay in that lane, you are only allowing a spirit to make you their slave. The enemy wants no good thing from you. There is a passionate hate. He has concerning you, and so all his taxes is to bring you to a place where you can join him in hell. The Bible says that God did not create hell for us. It was created for Lucifer and his angels. And the hate he has concerning you is to get you to a place of pure deception so that you can join him. That I'm not going to be the only one going. You see, as believers, we are in the time that we have to stand on the word of God, no matter what comes in our lives, in our speech, and in our circles, there is going to be a position. But then you have to realize that the kingdom is behind you. The Kingdom is backing. You up, and there are certain things that if you don't say it, then you resist the spirit of God to move on those words. You're too concerned about how people would feel and what people would say about you, not realizing that their freedom is resting on the word you might speak. There is one who souls, there is one who waters, and then the Lord causes it to grow. But someone must sow, and someone was water. But if you're not bold in your convictions, how do you expect the culture to respect you? Something the Lord had shared with me. I was praying concern in our city in Los Angeles, and the Lord said, every time you see a person who is far from me and you're worried in your heart concerning God about their salvation, I want you to look at yourself and I say, God, what do you mean? Because it is the power of God to draw people onto him. But after he does, where does he send them? How will they be discipled? Because there is more damage done to a person who is free from a demonic spirit and not discipled, because in that emptiness, those demons come back with a vengeance. You see, there are many people. You're praying for them to know the Lord. But the Lord is looking for laborers. He says, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. We have to be people praying. God, give us grace to labor, give us the wisdom, give us insight, give us the ability to raise up other laborers. Because the person that you're praying for, it doesn't take anything for God. To encounter them. But after he does, are they discipled in a manner that they would be protected? Are they discipled in a manner that they would grow? Or are you only going to set them free for the enemy to get his hooks back in. We have a responsibility, but our responsibility starts with our convictions and our consecration. He said, I love what yesterday at Pascela Rome was sharing that there are things that they're dealings and how God will deal with you to show if really He is the lord over your life. Now this is not doctrine, but they are very specific things, and it could just be with things you might like. It will be random that the Lord will just tell you, you know what, For one, don't eat meat. It's not for you to preach to people and talk about being a vegan. There might be some vegans in the house. God bless you. Okay, not my ministry. But it's not about you preaching about being a vegan. Is that God is dealing with you in a specific. Area that has mastery over you. And if you don't know how to lay that down, then it can also be an opening for the enemy to come in. Because anything that has the ability to influence you, no matter how small it That crack is a little crack can cause the whole house to fall down if it's not taken care of. So there are moments where the Lord will begin to deal with you concerning your consecration because of how. He wants to use you in the land and use you in the field. The only spirit that should be a house that you, that you your your temple should be a house to should be the Holy Spirit. And I want to make this more practical because there were a few things that the Lord began to highlight to me even in the place of prayer. Wow, thank you Lord, because this is also an area that the Lord is working on me on. You see, in the African culture, we have this you know thing of African time, right, and we just have this thing like no, you know when when an African wedding says five pm, we show up, you get ready. You start getting ready at five actually six. I remember when when I got married, I was so I was so, I was like very torn on the time to put on the event because I had black people, white people and African people coming and I said, wow, this is gonna be very interesting. And I listen, I mean, let me not make this racial. But there were a certain race that came right and early waiting for the party to start, and they're like, wow. Every where's everybody. At three hours later the party starts. They're like, wow, this is a long, long party for a wedding, but even in time, because you see, the Lord is refining a remnant that would represent his nature in everything. They would represent his excellence in everything. And the Lord began to deal with me concerning this because for many people, you don't realize there was a spirit of sabotage at work, and you just make it. It's like it's your habit now, like you know, I'll get there when I get there, But you don't realize that there's a spirit of sabotage. Because if people cannot rely on you to be at a specific place at a specific time, there are things connected to your life that cannot be entrusted to you. Because then when the Lord is like, okay, we need this to start here, and even in people's humanity, they're like, yeah, if we're going to have this event, this is not the person that maybe we should put in the beginning. There's certain things that you cause to be sabotaged from your destiny, even in. How you show up to places. Recently, I had to open prayer at an event back in la and it was an event honoring you know, people in politics, people in leadership. And all the sort. And I remember that particular day and the Holy Spirit was very heavy on me, told me exactly the time I need to leave the house, and there was gonna. Be so much time in between. I was like, Lord, why do I have to leave this early? And he says, you need to leave now because there was a word that the Lord it said that you have to share this because I was opening prayer and I had very limited time to share just a word in that event. And it's not a Christian event, it's a political event. But he says, now you must share this world, but you need to leave at this time. Little did I know that the vice president of the country would be at that event. So if I didn't leave at the time the Lord told me to, by the time Secret Service was blocking the whole road, I would be way. I wouldn't have gotten there at the start time. And can you imagine if at an event and the minister is late, then by the time I grabbed the microphone, you don't even want to hear me. There is no respect on the words I will speak. If everybody is waiting for the minister to show up. So when the Lord said I need you to leave, hey, I felt that Hey. Someone said, Lord. You said because there was another vision that the Lord gave me concerning time. And he says, let me show you something. This wasn't a dream, but this was an interactive dream. So in the dream he says, I'm going to show you something. I see a lady. The lady is a prisoner and she's been waiting to get to be set free. Her captive comes to her. The lady. Imagine the lady's. On the stairs and the door is right in front of her, just maybe a few steps away, and her captive comes to her and says, I will let you go if you leave this building by seven thirteen. And the time was it was seven o'clock. He said, if you're. Able to leave this building by seven thirteen, I will let you go. Now, what this lady did not realize is that the person holding her hostage all was already planning to. Resist her for three minutes. So even though she told her seven thirteen, the real time was seven ten. But she says, by seven thirteen, if you can leave this building, then. You will go. The lady who was a captive was on the stairs. She looks at her time. She says, it's seven o'clock. She was extremely exhausted, very tired. She looks at her time seven o'clock. She's like, okay, I have a few momnutes to sleep. Let me just rest for a little bit. She closes her eye, she lays down. The door is right there. She wakes up. She looks at her time. Seven o five. She says, I have a few more minutes to sleep. Seven ten. She says, okay, the door is right there, so I could just walk out. As she stood up, came in front of her to resist her. That was always the plan. She resisted her for three minutes. Time was up. She stayed a captive. I said, Lord, what is this? He said, this is exactly what happens with my people. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little sleep, a little slumber. Poverty a little sleep, a little slumber. Freedom is in front of you, a little sleep, a little slumber. You see, being on time is not just in your natural life. It's being on time with the Lord. Being on time and in what you commit to prayer in all these moments when Satan we're talking. About the monic influences but I want to make it very practical to you. When you're laying down and the Lord is waking you up. You told the Lord that will show up every day five am, every day four am. Then three point thirty you wake up, a little sleep, a little slumber. Three point fifty five, he say, oh, I could just rest a little by the time you open your eyes as five thirty. And here is something that the Lord has really been dealing with me on. Whenever you set a time with God, he shows up at that time. You may not know that he's showing up, you may not even sense his presence in the room, but. He's right there. The same way that even in the church, when a church that is known by God establishes service starts at ten am, those. That show up at ten there is. A special blessing that angels carry. But then we say a little sleep, a little slumber, and we're missing out. And the enemy, you see, the enemy has a pattern. He comes to steal, kill and destroy. It's a cadence. He starts by stealing from you little sleep, little slumber. Things are being taken. Say, while men slept, he sewed. Their enemy came and sold tars amongst the weed. This is a time for us to be alert. In every way, not in our spiritual life, in our disciplines. Nothing in life is here to entertain you. Everything is serving an agenda. If you think about your favorite TV shows right now, ask yourself, it will show you what is what is what is its messaging serving? What culture is it promoting. I'll be honest, there's some shows that I enjoyed, and when the Lord confronted me with that question, I had to repent because you're thinking, you're just watching it to see what happens next with the dragon. Some of you already know what I'm talking about, and you're like, wow, look at Kalesy. Some of you picked it up. But what is this show promoting sexual immorality? And you think you're just watching it to laugh, But it's shaping how you think. It's shaping what you tolerate, and it's shaping what you your voice can even get, you can give voice to, because what you're in bed with you cannot speak against. So then you become selective about what you teach, on, what you say, and what you confront. We cannot continue like this. There is a generation that is literally perishing and not because they should continue in that way. But there's a generation connected to the voices of people who are compromised, and that. Is why they are perishing. There are voices that God established in the land, and you don't have to be a preacher to be a voice. You can be called as a voice to your family, as a voice to your community, a voice in your workplace. But if you are compromised, then if the power of God will not be effective in what you say, even before you want to speak it, the enemy will come to you with shame. Remember you just did that yesterday. You're thinking your your your your bondage was just about that. The bondage was just about you. No, it's so that everything connected to you would be included in those chains. If the enemy can keep you bound, it's not just you he kept bound. He kept everything connected to you in chains. Can you imagine if the apostle Paul never discovered who God truly called him today? Can you imagine the people who encountered the Lord through his teachings and preachings that we are still feeding off on today. What about you? The enemy's tactics in this generation is not obvious. It's not it's not just. Presented in a way that you can say, yep, that's the devil. Discernment is needed because where he is hiding himself is what people call fun, is what people will use the phrase thats live in my best life. This is where he's hiding himself, and he has representatives. They are influencers that are now his representatives and endorsers. And so then you feel as though, well, if this person who I love their music is endorsing this, then let me pull back. Let me not share how I really feel on social media. Let me not share how I really feel in front of my friends. And in your life, you cannot be in agreement with what is keeping you a slave. It is not you. It is what it is the spirit at work through you to keep you in bondage. You see, there are things that you dabbled in, and you started dabbling in it just for fun, But consistency attracts a spirit. You did it one time you are in control. You did it a second time you were in control, the third time you were in control. The fourth time it's controlling you. Because whatever you practice consistently, it attracts a spirit. But don't agree that it is you. It is not you. You have to know who God called you to be and the influence is at work in your life, because if you agree with it, then you cannot walk away from it. The Bible says can two walk together. Except they be agreed. That also means what you agree with, you are walking with and if you are walking with it, you can't. At the same time, you can't take God, I'm in agreement with this, but take it away from me. God, I'm saying this is who I am. But Lord, take it away from me. That that's confusion. You're neither hot or cold, and that's why people always wonder. But Lord, why haven't you delivered me from this? Because you are in agreement with it? Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord. Just stand with me. I see the Lord wanted to do something. Thank you. Lord. You see one of the issues and where the enemy has been thriving. And how people are falling into great deception in this time. What I'm understanding with the Lord is that it's not so much the witchcraft. It's not so much the practices. It's not so much the ancestral worship. It's not the psychics, it's not the crystals it's not the terror card. It's the idols of the heart, and that is what is blinding the people. When an idol is marriage, for instance, even when you know that the prophet is false and then he tells you to do X, Y and Z, you do it because marriage is an idol in your heart, and the moment you do it, now you're in covenant with a demonic altar. When you see African Americans running to Africa for the gods of their ancestors, the problem is not that it's an identity wanted to feel as though wanted to get connected to their roots history, and so then the enemy uses the pride of your race against you. When people are running to psychics and you're looking for crystals, they're looking for an escape to break free from poverty. They're wanting to know what their future holds, if they will finally get that job or promotion. But all these idols are only present. Because you have not fully committed your life to the Lord Jesus. You have not seen the reason why he is worthy of all of you. It's a transactional relationship between you and God. You see him more as your genie than your Lord. I always tell people. If you want to know truly where you stand with God, every time in the maybe the last three or four. Times you fasted, what did you fast for? If you only fastest for things concerning you, that tells you this is transactional. If you've never fasted for intimacy, if you've never fasted to see God move in your city, if you've never fasted concerning other people, your relationship with God is transactional. It's about what he can do for you. It's not real, and so he's your vehicle for game. And because you know Jesus is real, it's like, Okay, well this is the best place to be, but it's not real. You haven't yet committed yourself to him. You haven't yet called him lord. You say he's your lord, but you have not surrendered to him as though he is your lord. And it's only in that place that life truly begins. You say, I share that I encountered God at nine, But the truth is I counted him as father before savior. I needed a father at that age. I didn't think, I need to say I didn't need it a savior. I had a lot of anger towards God, and he was working on me. He said, they're teaching me and worked on my heart. But while he was, while I. Only saw him as father and not Savior and not Lord, there was a limitation in my life. But when as he trained me and raised me up, there was a moment that I had to choose either the God of my life would be self or it would truly be him. Because though I knew him and Dough we had a beautiful relationship, I was not fully surrendered. And you see, you are not designed to exist outside of just nothing. You're You're you are designed to always be in service to a spirit. And so when I was not in service to God in a manner of seeing him as Lord, there were other vices in my life because something must occupy that space. Something must occupy that space. What is keeping you bound is that in the in the place of you committing and surrendering your life fully to the Lord Jesus, there are these things occupying the space. So I'm not just telling you to come out of agreement with it. I'm also telling you to come to a place of full surrender. And this is only done by the grace and mercy of God. But you have to desire it. In your heart and you only you begin to desire. Here's something when you see what you used to desire as evil. But if you keep calling evil good, you stay stuck. Many we come to the church where we have a mask on. We sing the songs, we dance the dance, we shout the shouts, but we have a mask on. And after the service is over, you go back to your bondage and then you recycle, repeat, You come back, you sing the songs, you shout, You go back to your bondage where people don't see you, but God sees you. How can you be effective? God is not in the business of raising people to just work for him. He's in the business of raising people to reflect him. It's about his nature over your works. So you can't think that you're mocking God. You're in deception. There is a great darkness over our generation. And my burden concerning our generation. Is that we are we are losing our our boldness because we haven't exercised it. You have to take a stand, and if you don't take a stand in God's kingdom, then witchcraft will prevail, and not just in society, in the church because the moment there is a shaking concerning your idol. And there is something that sounds deceiving doctrine. There's a reason it's. Called deceiving doctrine, not just the doctrine of demons, but that it is deceiving. Why will something deceive you because there is something's something that in it you have an appetite for. You can't be deceived by something you don't desire. There is something in you that is craving that thing. That is why Eve could say, wow, this is good for food, looks this looks good, this looks good to make one wise. So that means there was something deep down in Eve that she didn't feel as though she was on the same level with whether it was Adam or whether she was truly what God said about her. There was a little peace that the enemy said, let me work this crack. You have to make a choice. And so for a moment, I just want you to lift up your hands and pray in the spirit. Thank you Jesus, Heavenly Father, as your children are praying before you. Have your way, Lord, have your. Way, Holy Spirit, as they are coming out of agreement with the identities that they said, this is who I am, and this is what I do. Lord, I thank you for deliverance in the room. I thank you, Lord God that as they come out of agreement with these things, that Lord, that your power would meet them in a place of freedom. I thank you Lord, that where the enemy has been hiding himself in their thought life, where the enemy has been hiding himself, Oh God, in their way of being, that you would begin to expose every demonic roots in the name of Jesus. Lord, exposed every demonic source, every demonic chatter. Everything that has causing them. It's been causing them to sabotage the spirit of self sabotage. Lord, right now, set them free from it. Lord, I thank you Lord. Labaka namaka li ko blah blah, nam Satya namaka li kolah namak satina maca lek naaaam yko dadi da bo satan nam kat chata. Every stubborn spirit. Lord, Jesus, such your people free, shut your people free. Leck bro now ma sake a boat Satar. You can in a masucle eat a boat sha Quina marcelle le car eat the boat san no ma car hey bro cor now machi boat certain now maca lika mas certain now Macon now my he lie Kaya now my second that bout shatina masonna ma Car. I see the angels of. The Lord herah bro car either bro sanaw ma car either go shaky no masto now macain let now my sin now Macon now massa hey, I go sha Quina my second now Mason ya maca ya now McKeen now my yao sha kina massa heh bra col now mar City that go shaky let bro card in a mass so go up, go sir yea kard now Masol now ma sake he that goes shaty right now, Lord, right now, release them, release them, release them from this bondage, release them from this chains, release them, release them, release them, release them. Hey dah blah kah yah dah shatna massa ya Kanna Masuko ye bo Sanna ma kaye lea konna massatina maconna masiki that bo shata Yeah, go na masatina Mam. I see a young lady, and you have been what you're struggling with the Lord will permit me to say, but it's in the place of sexual immorality against yourself, and I see the Lord setting your free I see what the angels are bringing water suppour on your hands, eh kayna masokona masata massa, and how you have been defiling yourself with your hands. The Lord says, no, thank you Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. I see some young men, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. And you have been living a double life. Namsat nama, because what you have been doing is accepted by culture, but not in the Kingdom of God. Not in the Kingdom of God. And I see the Lord calling you to a life of purity and holiness. And if you would agree and align yourself, there is a grace that will come upon you. There is an anointing that will come upon you. If you would agree to say Lord, no more. Lord, you can take it away. Heavenly Father, have your way in the lives of these gentlemen. Thank you, Lord Jesus. They will no longer defile the house Lord God, that is opposed to be a house only for the Holy Spirit, not a house for demonic spirits. They will no longer defile the temple of the Lord. Thank you Jesus. Lord. As these men say that Heavenly Father no more. You can take it away. Heavenly Father, I thank you that you are setting them free in this house. Heah blah khana masko yea shatina ma ka ya na ma sake shake kena masoto lib bro konna ma se ke naw ma ya na masau. There is a hard work that God is performing right now. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. There are areas in your heart that has been callous towards the Lord. Konna ma shatina mac let konna ma seke now masukuba shakebo sa le konna masi ka ya na magon na maye ho na ma shikida boa sanda made le conna masika bo satina maca. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. A deep heart work, Lord, a deep heart work Lord. Thank you Lord. I thank you all, Heavenly. Father, that these things that have kept them bound for years, that have kept them bound in silence, Lord God, set them free in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Leconna ma sakha nana masto li konna masika boat, satin li konna mashikida boat so called sanam k leconna ma saying made the angels of the Lord continue to move through this room. Ain't a maakani nam say I see keys to unlock people out of bondage. Licoa shaquina masna maca le connina masatina ma aha bonna my sake blow chata Lee called masata not my sa key. Thank you Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Lee ka ya na my sake blas leak hen masuko yina ma ka ya na mom. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord, Heavenly Father, have your way, continue to have your way in this place. In the lives of your sons and daughters, Thank you Jesus. I thank you that their life will not lack the power of the Holy Spirit. They will not just give you lip. Service, O God, but your life will have the fragrance of the Lord, the fragrance of Yahweh. Thank you Jesus. I thank you Lord, that where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. I thank you Lord for what you're doing right now in this place. Just close your eyes for one moment, Thank you Lord, And with your eyes closed, I want you to. Talk to your Father. And have a personal moment with the Holy Spirit concerning the areas in your life that you have been lacking true accountability in His presence, and let it begin in the heart. And as you surrender these areas to the Lord, there is a grace that is coming upon you for the works that the Lord is calling you to do. Don't be distracted in this moment. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord. I see where the angels of the Lord are unlocking their's keys, and they're unlocking people out of chains. They're setting chains that the length of them runs long, runs. Very very deep. For some of you, you are a product of things that you are exposed to generationally. You didn't realize how it started or what happened. You felt as though this has always been your norm. But it's not who you are. And on one hand, I'm seeing the Lord move through and unlocking people out of their chains. And at the same time, I'm seeing where there's some that the angels are standing by and he's waiting for you to surrender. He's waiting for you to surrender, and part of your surrender looks like people that you're gonna send a message to to end things. There are people that you have been giving yourself to that you will need to before you leave this place. You need to end it. You need to end it. You need to end it. There are people you have been I'm seeing even I'm seeing a lady and you are having passor us talking about ministers having affairs, but I'm seeing a lady. You're having an affair with a married man. And what you don't realize is that what you think is pleasure is bondage. Because this is keeping you from the call of God concerning your life. Release it in the heart. Have a moment with the Lord, because where you are wrestling, you see there's sudden graces that cannot rest on you. If you look warm, you can either you have to be hot or you're cold. And if you're cold, you're in the kingdom of darkness. If you're hot, the Lord can do many things with you. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Lord, Holy Spirit. I thank you for the great work that is taking place in the hearts of your people right now. And I thank you, o Lord, because even as I'm seeing angels still moving around there are many of you, and you feel like a weight, literally like somebody took a weight off your body. And that's what it feels. That's the expression of what's taken place. As they're these they're unlocking chains. You have not seen them in the natural, but even in this moment, it literally felt like there were weights that came off of you and you started to feel lighter. There's some and it's almost as though you lost your It's not that you can lose joy, but that's the best way I can frame this. You lost your joy. You have been in this place where your mind has been constantly negative, and there is a weight that came up off you. And before we close, there's something I must do. So if that is you, I just want to agree with what. The Lord is doing. You could physically feel like weights came off you. Come to the front right now, Just rush to the front. You physically felt as though someone just lifted up a weight off your shoulders. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Thank you, Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Choose this day. Who you would serve? Choose this day. And I just need a few more moments because I'm still seeing where there are few people who are still wrestling with the Lord. Choose this day. Choose this day. The decisions you have to make. It will cost you, but it's the right price. Stop agreeing with what's keeping you bound and one particular person. The reason that you're wrestling with the Lord is because the decision that you have to make requires you moving out of where you currently live, because of what's taking place between you and that roommate. But choose this day. Choose this day, Choose this day. Choose this day. Lord, I thank you and come in agreement with what you have doing and the lie of your children. I thank you, Lord God that no more, no more, no more, no more, no more. I thank you, O Heavenly Father, that every chain that is broken will never find expression anymore in their lives, because Lord God, when you are the one who touches your children, this is only an expression of what you've already done. When you are the one who sets them free, Lord, they are free. Indeed, I thank you Lord that even when the enemy wants to project thoughts into their minds, Lord God, that they will stand firm, they will stand on your word and reject those thoughts. Know in no heavenly Father, that the work that you have done, you have perfected. Choose this day. Choose this day. Choose this day. Choose this day. Choose this day. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Every nightmare that you've been having, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more. Every violation in the dreams, every violation, the Lord says, no more. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Adabanama come, thank you Lord. The Lord says, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more. Thank you Lord. If I've touched you, if you could just go back to your seats so I could just each everyone very quickly, Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you Jesus. Everything you need for your calling, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take. It, release it. Release it to her, Lord, Jesus, take it right now, take it. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Where the enemy has stolen from you, the Lord is redeeming. He's redeeming the time, and he is restoring onto you. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. And it begins with your family. It begins with your family. Thank you, thank you Lord. If we can have everyone just come here really quickly, very quickly, thank you Jesus, and come in agreement with what you've done over your children. Thank you Jesus. And come in agreement what you've done over your children. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. As I told you, just go back to your seat. Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Lord. Break everything not only of her, but connect it to her. Thank you Jesus, Lord God. May she be like a tree, Lord God, and that every brand should be healthy, because the trunk is healthy in. Jesus' name, Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Quickly, quickly, q quickly, thank you Lord. Come in agreement with what God has done concerning you. Thank you Lord, very quickly. Thank you man, what God has done concerning you. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. It's done. It's done, it's done. Thank you Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you. Jesus. Have your way, Lord, God in man, thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Have your way, highly Loyd, thank you, Lord, have your wad. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus. No more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no shame, no shame, no shame, no shame, no shame, no shame. I think