Stephanie Ike Okafor - The War Within: It Starts With You

If you don't know the value of who you are in Christ, you will cheapen yourself. You will live a life that when you stand before your maker, it would be regret. That you're left with. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your goodness, We thank you for your love, Holy Spirit. We thank you that you're in this room with us even now. Lord, I thank you for what you have purpose to do in this time. And I would not even be in your way, And so I pray that you would make yourself known amongst your people, Spirit of the Living God. I pray that you would glorify Jesus in this place and for everyone tuning in. Lord God, you are not limited by time or space, and so have your way in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, Amen, you may be seated. You know, I really love every supernatural shift. You know, is not just a shift for those who are who are attending, but it's also a shift for the ministers. You know. Even the theme. For this shift, when we're talking about raising a territorial army, it is really the theme of the times that we are in. You know, whenever you see a great shaking in the nations, it is a very key time for harvest. The harvest is plentiful because when there is a shaking, people begin to understand that what I'm standing on, if I am not standing on the Lord Jesus, then it becomes known to them that what I'm standing on cannot sustain me. And so it is imperative that God's people have a sentimentality. On where the Lord has planted them. You know, until you have the understanding that wherever God has sent you, whatever open door that the Lord has given you, it is for you to occupy for His kingdom. It is for you to take territory. Until you have that understanding, your work has not started. If you just look at the things that God does for you as a blessing for you and your family, you're blind. If you only look at the open doors the promotion they increase as what is for you and your family, your eyes are not yet opened. You may be in a place where the Lord is training you in order to commission you. You may be in a place where the Lord is preparing your heart in order to commission you. But until you have the. Understanding that wherever you are, in whatever industry, that I am here to represent the Kingdom, the real work has not begun. I say that even as a minister. You know, I have been pastoring, you know, under one a particle's church. I was a past I said, there for ten years, right, And when the Lord had revealed to me that your time here is up. I remember I had a beautiful conversation with my past is incredible conversation, and you know, there was just such an understanding on what the Lord was doing. And when the Lord released me, I thought that all my time in the city was up. I was already preparing. I said, oh, LA is already too expensive anyway. I said, what you would buy a house here? I could buy you know, times too and land. I was so excited, I mean, unfortunate to find because I have kids. I have two children now right. I was like, Lord, I need more space, more space. And then the Lord said no, no, no, no, no, your. Work is just about to begin. I said, what do you mean. I've been in ministry for ten years. So it's funny when Pastor was sharing what Apostle Gideon had mentioned that after ten years, the Lord is like, no, no, no, you're just starting. I said, Lord, after ten years, I'm just beginning. Because he showed me. He said, for ten years, your focus was on the sheep, which is a beautiful thing, but it was not yet on the territory of the land. He says, I was training you with the sheep. You were interceding for the sheep, you were caring for the sheep. But I need your eyes to be on the territory of the land. So there were certain instructions that the Lord began to give us on and what it looks like to take the territory of Los Angeles for his kingdom. And we have seen the backing of the Lord. So this is the language for now. This is not something that comes easy. It is not something that you just wake up in the morning and say we've taken the love. We have not yet take. We are in the process. There are things because. You're engaging in you don't even understand the types of sacrifices and lays a very spiritual place. There many things that the Lord had begun to show me. And we're talking about how you know, when Pastor is saying how everything is spiritual, you have to understand that a lot of the people you admire are people that have meetings with demons. I'm not saying this like I'm guessing I'm saying this like I know my name. Meetings like where demons would manifest in physical form and they would have meetings with demons, meetings with principalities about what they. Should do in the land. While you admire them, they're conniving to destroy destinies. Everything is spiritual. Even as we were, as I was praying, you know for this friends, the Lord began to show me how there are even people in this place that when he's telling you to go into psychology, I just needed to share this. Even before we get into the message. He's calling you into psychology, and you've been fighting it because you're looking at it from a carnal perspective, not realizing that witches are already deployed into psychology so that they can create language for bondage. So when God is calling his own people to say no, enter this field, go into that field, you are resisting the will of God because you're too carnal. You're thinking it's still about you God, I don't want to go back to school, not recognizing this is about him commissioning you having a scent mentality. Now I know yesterday, you know if you. Haven't if you were not here yesterday, I encourage you to listen to the teachings yesterday. But past social I really laid a beautiful foundation of about what a territorial army means. But I just want to speak a little. Bit on a territory. So, a territory is an area or domain over which authority, responsibility, and influence are exercised. And the key word I want to hone in on is exercised. Authority that is not exercised is just authority. In theory. Now we know that our Lord Jesus has all authority, but how he exercises that authority is through his body, which is through you. One of my favorite scriptures is in Isaiah fifty three, verse ten. It says, and this was when the prophet Isaiah was given such accuracy about our Lord. He says, he shall see his seed, that Jesus will see you, and he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. The Lord will see you, and through partnership with you, his mission will. Continue in the earth. The Lord exercises authority through you. But in order for you to exercise authority, it must be delegated to you, and. I'm gonna get into that. I'm gonna get into more of that tomorrow because what I really want to speak about today is how you qualify yourself that authority may be delegated to you. You see, a police officer, for example, is one who is delegated authority in order to exercise it. You could commit a crime. It doesn't mean that you're going to go to jail unless there was a witness and someone who has authority can actually do something about it. It doesn't change the fact that you committed a crime. That is again the law of the land. I was actually curious. I was even researching in the UK and in Wales. You know how many crimes each year go unresolved and according to the information they have, because again many people don't report things. But at the very minimum five nine hundred a day, it doesn't stop it from still being a crime. But without the proper information and evidence, then authority cannot be exercised. But if you commit a crime in the presence of a police officer, trust and belief, but then even the officer, it does not make him immune from following the law. Just because an officer has been given has delegated authority does not mean he's immune. There is a way he must live his life. If not that the verial authority will be stripped from him. And the enemy is always looking for room to strip you of authority. That's why the scripture doesn't call say and the accuser of those far from God. It doesn't call him the accuser of the atheist, but the accuser of the brethren. He is looking for legal grounds to say that you are not fit to delegate authority in that way. And it's interesting because you see, this was always God's idea and intention for us. There is a word I love so much which the Lord uses when he says I will build my church, and that word church stands for ecclesia. And ecclesia was not a religious word. Ecclesia. Actually the idea behind it when the Lord uses it was that it represented a someone body of citizens that represented the authority. In other words, when Jesus would say I will build my ecclesia, he was declaring the formation of a people that will be called out to represent Heaven's authority on earth. This has always been God's idea. I will build my church was not just about people coming into the four walls of a building that will worship and sing and then go back to life as usual. But note that they will come into a four walls, they will be equipped so that they would be sent out and commissioned by God to expand his domain, his kingdom in every field. I'm telling you, it's everywhere. I remember we were traveling, we were traveling to Minister and I was going with my family, and before the flight, the Lord gave me a straight, a harsh instruction, and he said in the plane there would be a stewardess and she is a witch. This was when we just had my first daughter, and that she should not do not give her permission to touch your child. They're trying to find a loophole, and the only loophole. Would be on the flight, because you would be tired, because it's a normal thing, right, you might be on a flight and a very kind stewardess is like, oh, let me just oh, I just love kids. They tell you that, oh my gosh, you. She reminds me of my grandchild. And the moment you hear grandma, you're. Like, oh, everybody's grandma witch, which. And it was a clear instruction. He said, she would ask you for permission because what she's looking for. Is legal rights. So I shared with my husband. I said, there's a lady we must be aware of on the plane, and how we would recognize her is that she would ask for permission. I've been on flights where literally a steward this would just come and try to carry the baby, like, girl, please let me just carry this child for you, you know, and we'll laugh about it. But then my husband will give them an eye. They're like, you know, sorry, sir, but literally we were on a flight and we were exhausted, both falling asleep, and a lady comes to stewardess, very kind looking woman, grandma, you know, sharing all her stories about her grandkids. Until she says. She's like, we will give me permission to carry your daughter. She's like, I know, I see you guys are tired. I could rock her. She's just like one of my grandchildren. That's when everything in me woke up. I said, I'm not this is natural coughing. I said, oh no, thank you were fine. She asked it three times, No, it's okay, just is it okay? Can I just have permission? And then the third. Time, and then my husband really woke up. And I was like, oh my, this is the lady. You would not recognize them. For many of us, the issue is that we have this idea in mind what it means to encounter a witch, what it means to encounter a warlock. No, they look like. Everyday people doing everyday things. They're starting businesses, they're going to school, their teachers, their educators, they're nurses, their doctors, they're everywhere. So when the Lord is telling you to go into a field, don't go in there just thinking it's about personal benefit. Release your tongue. There are spaces you go to you need to know how to intercede. You should be the first one at the office because of your intercession, because. There are things that you must loosen in the ground. When we were looking for a school for my daughter, we were going to different schools and we're very involved in everything you're doing, and we will ask them about what is the curriculum, what are you teaching the children. There were schools that were teaching children witchcraft, and I'm like, why are you teaching them this? They said, Oh, it's cultural dang, I said, and where I was so happy that we were looking for schools around Halloween to see the things that were going on. And there was a particular school that struck me because when we went to the class that would have been her class, they literally had on the wall tombstones with the pictures of children in the class. And it said all right, And the director of the school said. You see nothing scary. I said, nothing scary. That you're prophesying death over children, not in years to come. When random things begin to happen, people don't know how to trace it. So my husband and that we began to intercede for those children that in the ignorance of what their because their parents gave consent for their pictures to be used out of being so busy, their parents didn't really understand what they were given consent for. And then they took us to a room. They said, well, we do have a teacher that is Christian. Would you like to see her class? We said yes. We went there only pumpkins and leaves. There was nothing that would make you understand this Halloween. That was someone who understood territory that in her class there is no such thing as Halloween. The whole school. Is celebrating and having different practices, but for the Christian teacher, her class was different. This is what it means. But what the Lord began to speak to me about that I need to teach on on the first day of my session rather, is that before you really know what it means to have authority to take territory outside of you, you have to understand what it means to take territory over you. Because at the end of the day, what is more critical because if God is gonna partner. With you. To advance his kingdom, what happens when you become the stumbling block. So it is more essential for you to understand how to overcome you, to overcome the flesh, that it would not stand in the way of the work of the Lord. Because you see that the devil is very patient. He is waiting to use your weaknesses to gather a harvest unto himself. He would allow you to do whatever exploit you want to do because he knows the strings he can pull if you have not overcome it. What does it look like to first overcome the flesh so that we may be effective for the Master's use. When I begin to minister in Los Angeles, you know ten almost eleven years now. One of the first things I encountered was the principality over the land, and I began to see was what he had against people. It's the craziest encounter because I saw ministers in the land with snakes wrapped around their mouth. And I said, Lord, what does this mean? How could there be ministers who have snakes wrapped around their mouth? And these were just some ministers that were highlighted to me. And the Lord said, because the enemy has their their vocal cords, he has control over their tongue. I said, how can the enemy have control over their tongue because he has presented something else to them. They care more about reputation than the will of the Lord. They care more about followers than the will of the Lord. And here is the thing. Wherever you're called, the same thing that tested people in the land will test you. So it's not just That's why you must be very careful how you speak about people, because when you're put in their position, you will be you will experience the same test. And so when the Lord began to show me this, and he said, but if you commit to always say what I tell you to say, then he will not have anything in you concerning this land. And that was a commitment I had to make with the Lord that no matter what it will cost me, I would say what the Lord tells me to say. And those same things presented itself to me. They were offers that I'm not yet allowed to speak on. There were things that came to me. There were people I grew up that I loved, and those were the ones the enemy would use to bring offers that, oh we heard about this, How did you hear about it? How could you hear about something not spoken? Whenever the Lord releases me, I'll share more on that. But there were things that I had to face the temptation of and say no. If the Lord has not taken me through process, if there were things that the Lord did not killing me, those things would rise up and destroy the very thing the Lord wanted to do before it started. You see, there are some people in this room and you're going through process. Do not curse your process. Do not try to fasten your way out of process. Do not try to. Intercede your way out of process, because it is the thing that will preserve you. It will give you longevity. For what is ahead. You may be frustrated. You may feel like God, why do we keep going around the same mountain over and over again? But rather than being frustrated, begin to ask the Lord, where am I really in you? Am I the Israelite that could actually take the short journey? Or do I need a forty year period in the wilderness because of what's in me? Don't be so quick think you know yourself. There are things that you must allow the Lord to show you. What is it that I love that must die? What is it that you know about me that would be a hindrance to what is ahead of me that the Lord is trying to kill in you? Now? Sometimes not getting the job was God's mercy that how can you How would you live when you don't have the things you want? How do you show up in life? Because until you get to the place where you are content, whether you have abundance or lack, there's some doors God cannot open for you because that means you will always be defined by abundance. And Satan would know that is a temptation to use to get you. Of course that when you're on. The path of destiny, an opportunity that's really a prison would be presented it to you, and you will be praising God on your way to a prison. So there are some things that God must kill in you. Galatians five point seventeen says, for the flesh desires, what is contrary to the spirit and the spirit, what is contrary to the flesh. You cannot appease your flesh and walk in the spirit. It is literally impossible. And so what are these works of the flesh? You know something, I'll tell you to study it, and for the sake of time, I'll have you just, you know, study that on your own. But in Look nineteen there. Is this parable that Jesus gives about you know, a noble man who goes on a journey to. Get a kingdom. Really he's speaking of himself, and that he gathers his servants onto him, ten servants, and to each of them he gives a mina. Now, a mina has monetary value, right, it was I believe it speaks to maybe it was like fifteen months of wages or something like that. Right, And so he goes and he comes back. One servant comes to him and says, Master, your one mina has given you ten minas. Another one says, oh, your one Mina has given you five another one buries it. Now it's interesting because you would think that the exchange would be more meanas, but instead the exchange was territory. That for that one meana. The man who says, oh I get, I got ten menas. Then he says to the servants, now I will make you ruler over ten cities. To the one with five meanings, I will make your ruler over five cities. There was something they all had equally and that when they steward did it well, it gave them access to territory. And I began to ask the Lord, what does that mean? A represent And what I received is the Holy Spirit. We all have the same holy Spirit. But what have you done with him? What have you done with God in you? Because it's the same holy spirit as past towards mentioning some of the incredible great men and women of God over Roberts Kenneth Hagen. It is the same holy spirit that they had that I have that you have. What have we done with him? And one of the first ways we exercise stewardship is for him to have government over us, because I have to first be under his submission before I can even understand authority. If I'm not under authority, I cannot delegated authority. I would abuse it. So am I under his authority? You know, there are certain scriptures that we read through and we just kind of like read it fast and we think of other people that it speaks to. And not really ourselves. But I want us to actually take some time and read about when the Bible talks about the works of the flesh, because your greatest enemy is. Not Satan, it's you. It's your flesh. You saye. Demonic spirits don't just fly and jump on people just randomly just that they're bored and they say, you know what, let's go hunting. Because when the Bible talks about how a spirit it wanders through the wilderness looking for rest, and if it's none, that means when they demonic spirit has influence over you, there is something about you they could find rest in. There is something about you they find agreement with. And sometimes you might be inheriting on resolved issues from your parents, your grandparents, great grandparents, which also gives us the question, what will your children inherit? Because your children are not just inheriting the things you leave for them in the natural, but they inherit the spiritual battles you want and the ones you lost. There is a spiritual climate you leave for your children, a spiritual environment, because what you don't deal with in your own life gives the enemy legal grounds to introduce it to your children. So if you really love them, you see there. Is no sin that is secret. Number one, it's not hidden to God. Number two, it would be made known through your children. And number three, it will limit your authority publicly. So even though you know how to. Do all the things, if your sin is secret, it will still find a means of expression. What are you leaving behind? We often complain so many times about things that we go through because of what we have inherited, because of the sacrifices our forefathers did. But what about the choices you're making today? What environment would that. Leave for your children, for your own children and their children. Let's go to. Galatians five nineteen to twenty one, and it says this, now the works of the flesh are evident, which are Let's start with adultery. Now, when we think of adultery, you know on faithfulness to your spouse. But it's interesting because that word also gives us the understanding of unfaithfulness to God. You know. One John four to twenty says, if someone says I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen. If you cannot exercise faithfulness to the covenant you know, how can you exercise faithfulness to the covenant that is unseen? See, adultery is not just about this moment of passion. That is a trap of the enemy to weaken your authority, because this is not just about violating your spouse's trust, your violating divine order because marriage was not your idea. It's God's idea. And the moment you come before the Lord to say you will be joined with this person, when you violate that, it gives the enemy legal grounds to bring affliction. It is not worth it. If you don't know the value of who you are in Christ, you will cheapen yourself. You will live a life that when you stand before your maker, it would be regret that you're left with. And the enemy wants to distract the generation so deeply. That they will look. That the things that should disgust you. We find language for it. We find language for our compromise. The things that should turn you off we embedded in culture. But the goal of it is to weaken your authority, that you will not be able to stand with all confidence and say, Satan, I rebuke you. And then he's looking at you like, are you rebuking the one you're in bed with? You cannot exercise authority if you are not first submitted to it. Then the Bible says fornication. Now we know fornication is sex before and outside of marriage, but look at how the word is translated in the Greek to prostitute one's body to the lust of another, indulge it in unlawful sexual intercourse, whether for gain or for lust. The issue with fornication is lust. It's not just about this thing of satisfaction. Is that lust has mastery over you. And if lust has mastery over you before marriage, it would have mastery over you in marriage. And when lust has mastery over you, sayan knows what button to push to destroy your destiny. That when it's time to choose a spouse, you're not choosing from the lens of discernment. It is your lust. That is speaking. When a woman says to you that, no, I don't believe in sex before marriage. You said, no, that's not the one for me, and for some women in the room. For the Lord to tell. Me speak on some of these key things. That means there are people in the room. God is after. There's some women that will say no, no, no. We think it's always men. But I've listened. I've had some interesting conversations with people. Women will say, oh, no, you know, I have to try it. You have to try it too. You see, apart from the spiritual side of lust, because you see, sex is one of the primary ways where a lot of demonic exchanges happen. But apart from that, when you talk about the practical side of it, I heard about a lady who ended her marriage why that her husband no longer satisfied her. And shortly after she ended her marriage, she started to regret it because what made the decision lust and what inspired her experience. When the Lord is saying to keep yourself, it is also practical wisdom because you will get into a marriage and begin to compare your spouse to your sin. That the memory of what you did when you lived in sin is now the measure to where you compare your spouse to. So a marriage that should be beautiful and thriving is silently being compared. You see, nothing is small until it's compared. Some of you. It would mean different things to different people. But let's have a real conversation. I was not even going there until the spirits say, hold. And you know the noise in the room. Confession if you lived in a hut all your life? Have you ever watched those documentaries when they go visit, they want to go visit people in the village who are still living in mudhouses. They're so happy. They're happier than the people who think they're trying to bring them joy. They're having a ball, a good time, they're cooking, they're finding innovative ways to make some things. Because they have nothing to compare that experience too. But the more exposure you have, the less satisfied you are. Whenever you're filled with options, it's harder to make a decision. So there are things that God gives you, and. There's also practical wisdom for it, because Satan knows how he will terminate something that was supposed to bring longevity to your life. And you will terminate it over something that is meaningless because you're not willing to endure. You're not willing to work things out, You're not willing to be patient because you have something that you're measuring it to that God never ordained to be the measuring stick. Many of you, there are people in this room that are single today. Not because there's some veil on you, Not because someone is speaking against your marriage, Not because something is happening somewhere in some village against you. No, because those things are real. But I'm saying, but there are people, and the reason is because of your appetites that was never formed by God. Your appetize that was formed by sin is still speaking now. And these things the enemy knows. I will wait for you. Go ahead. I'll wait for you to get married. I'll wait for you to have the family. I'll wait for you to. Declare about God's goodness. I'll wait for you. And then lust that you've never overcome will begin to speak, and it will be lust that will tear it all down. Have you studied how there are many great ministers of God and what destroyed their ministries? Lust and affair? CEOs? Did you see the well, not too long ago. The concert, I said, exposure has happened everywhere. They were just over there at the concert, lust. And guess while we were all making fun of it, like, oh man, they got caught. You know who is being affected? You know who the enemy has eyes on their children? What haven't you given yet to the Lord? Then the scripture says on cleanliness, this is anything that is not pure before God. This gives us the idea of impure thoughts impure speech. But I wanted to hone in on impure speech. Because there's so some people who just believe that they could talk anyway, and it's not that big of a deal. If you don't have restrain over how you speak, then the enemy would use your own words against you. Your own words will betray you if you think that you could speak anyway. It's just how we talk. It's just how my friends and I talk. If you don't know restraints in speech, then a circumstance will be formed just for you to curse yourself and not even know it, not even be discerning of what you said to yourself. Because words are spirit, they are alive. I can never forget an experience I had. This was years ago, and I was going to this church and we had this youth camp. And we go for the youth camp and they literally put this board in front of us. It's paper in front of us, and they say speak to it. And I just thought they were like, speak things, speak scriptures, speak things over your life. And as I was speaking, this sounds crazy as ever, but I literally saw the words coming out from my mouth and going into the paper. And that was when the Lord started to teach me that words are really spirit. So you have to know how to have restrained on your speech, very practical things. Then the scripture says lewdness. Right. Another way to see this is licentiousness. Right. A person who is licentious is ready to sin whenever, just always ready for what they call a good time. But you see, it's not just about someone who is ready to sin whenever. The bigger issue here is not just about the sin, but it's a person who makes up their own rules. There are people who anything outside. Of their comfort they call religious, not according to the Bible, according to them. So it's not just about saying this person has no shame. No, the Satan has given them language for compromise. When someone is trying to tell them, hey, you're not supposed to do that. They'll be like, oh, you guys are just too religious. Look, I go to church. I worship. I just was listening to worship just now. I love the Lord, but they live an ascertain way of But God knows my heart. Because anything outside what requires your sacrifice, you call it religious, and the enemy would use that against you. That when the Lord will tell you to fast, the Spirit of God will give you an instruction seven days fast. On day six, a voice begins to speak to you, and you call it the Holy Spirit. You have to understand this because these people. You're in the room and a voice begins to speak to you and say, Jesus paid it all. On the cross. And then a voice is convincing you it's not that deep. Just give in, it's not that serious. The six days are fasting, and then it starts to at mimic the voice of God. It says, I've received your fast, I've received your sacrifice. And why that voice is appealing to you, it's because there's something you've been craving all six days. On that particular day, the crave is even getting stronger, and you're like you know, Oh, thank you, and you make it spiritual. Thank you Jesus, Oh, thank you Lord. You worship for five minutes and just say oh Father, and you make it a testimony. You call. You're like, wow, the Lord actually told me to break my fast earlier. You know, it's scary how many things we say. God said, God said, God said, God said, it is the easiest way to end the conversation. But God said, how are we gonna find that? But God is not the author of confusion. That is also why you must know the God of the Bible to properly judge and weigh what you're hearing. Because sometimes one of the closest voices the spirit of it and I love it. When past even talked about the spirit of divination. It is a voice that mimics the voice of the Holy Spirit. You would hear it, you will discern it. But if you don't know the Jesus according to the Bible, you would call it the voice of God. Because why is there so much confusion? This act of the flesh comes with great deception. And if you don't know how to go the distance and the things that the Word of God commands you to do, the enemy will always find an angle that right when you're on the cusp of breakthrough, he will have you compromise. Right when you're at the edge, when the angels of the Lord should visit you, he would have you throw in the towel in spiritual lingo. Then the scripture talks about idolatry. Idolatry is anything you place your identity in above Jesus. You see, it's so interesting. Even when we talk about purity, we always assign it to women. Even women would only assign it to themselves. I would hear women say, oh, no, my men, mmm, they don't want a virgin. And you know why. You know why many men would reject the idea of waiting till marriage. They have put more of an identity in the cultural idea of manhood than in the biblical understanding and concept of who a man is. Idolatry. There are women that will stay in a toxic relationship because it promises marriage more than. What they don't know. Idolatry. The idea of marriage can be an idol because you have more security in the idea of you being a wife than just accepting what it means first to be a child of the most high. So it's harder. It's harder for you to walk away from things that the Lord says it's not for you, because your identity is more in But I want to be a wife. I already know how I want my wedding to be. You have. That has more weights to who you are than your relationship with Jesus, and the enemy knows how to manipulate that he will present. I remember, you know, when the Lord was showing me that there was this vision I had, and were all these women and they were just you know, talking about you know, the kind of man they wanted, and X, Y and Z and guess who was also listening the enemy and he packaged those men, package well put together and sent them to those women. I'm telling you something that even at a point I'm not going to lie to even make myself look perfect, I have been a victim, you know, because I remember when I'm like, Lord, you know, first of all, I'm tall, so he has to be taller. You know, it's just the math. But I remember where there were all these things. I used to think about, and there was this person that was presented, and I was like, oh, this is making sense, because what was there was more. I put more identity in what it could look like than what the God really desire. And I remember one day the Lord gave me a vision and I saw a demon dancing on his face and laughing at me. That basically, oh, we got you, I said, Oh, I rebuke the devil. But you don't even realize that when you fully submit, when you find your true identity in Christ, he would give you more than even what you wanted. But I pray that even in this moment, the spirit of the Lord will begin to show you what are the things that you have put more of your identity in outside of relationship with him. For some it could even be your race, or your gender, or your job or your paycheck what has more weight over your life. Some it could be your reputation. There are certain decisions that people will not make because of what people will say about them, and not realizing that out with high treasure in things that look like waste, and while you're caring about your reputation, destinies passing you by because. You've made that of greater weight in. Your life than your obedience to the Lord Jesus. Then the scripture talks about sorcery. Now you might be here saying, Lord, look, I know we're talking about witches a lot. I'm not a witch. This doesn't apply to me. But this is not just about witchcraft. It's not just about magical arts. The Greek word gives is actually speaks of pharmachaea, which is where we get pharmacy from. And so sorcery also speaks of fostered by the use or the administering of drugs, because sorcery used to speak about any use of any kind of drugs, potions, or spells. In these times, drugs. Were associated with the occult because there were certain drugs that would give demonic spirits more access for you to experience things in America, in Peru, especially in Peru. And now it's spreading. There's something called ayahuasca, right, and now they're making ayahuasca look like a wellness experience. It's demonic because they're what they're drinking. First of all, they're coming into agreement with the shamans who govern over it, that I'm drinking this to meet with the spirit of a tree. And so they take the hallucinogen and then literally their spirit does leave their body and starts doing all kinds of crazy things. Now, even in the in the natural term, there's something we know as gateway drugs, and gateway drugs look at even the definition of this. These are extenses that are believed to increase the likelihood that someone will later experiment with or become dependent on stronger or more dangerous drugs. And what are gateway drugs? Alcohol, nicotine, cigarettes, are vaping, marijuana, but these are not this is the natural definition. But even these very things are also gateway drugs in the spirit realm. They open doors. Because in that moment you're putting more dependency than in order to calm my nerves, I just need to be drunk right now in order to feel like I could think, I just need to smoke a little something, not knowing it's opening a door. And if you don't bring it to the feet of Jesus to say, Lord, kill this thing. I may love it, but kill it. If you don't do that, and it's just a sleep in you, the enemy is waiting for the opportune time to wake it up. Then the scripture says hatred. Right, one of the things that represents subtle hate is unforgiveness. And we all know this, saying that unforgiveness actually imprisons you because and here's another practical thing about unforgiveness, it makes you suspicious over everything. Rather than discerning anything that mimics what hurt you, you have a wall. Even when God is sending people to you, you make your suspicion language of discernments. See, I just discern know you're suspicious because you're not healed. What you have not healed, you cannot fully give language to and say this is what God is saying because that place is shut to. The voice of God. The scripture talks about jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, and it goes on. But I want us to pray in this moment. Because I believe that the Spirit of God will begin to minister to you about what are the works of the flesh in your own life that are still alive in you and could actually be the thing that disqualifies you. From outward authority. So just stand with me. Let us pray. Thank you, Holy Spirit, Thank you Holy Ghost. Have your way. Lord, have your way. Lord, have your way. Lord. Just begin to pray to the Lord right now for anything that the Lord may have revealed to you. Begin to ask him to help you. The Lord take this thing away from me that I come out of agreement with it. I no longer want to submit to it or make room for it in my life. Le bra kaya noa masuko bro sir kanina Ma brak na ma kai bra nam libra sokoina Ma khaira bro soko bat. Because the Lord wants to clothe you, but there are some garments he must take off of you. Kayana masikaira bra librakonna masia bina Ma coon na Ma shakira na man le kaya da bras katina Ma soko ibra kat li bra kaya masuko brana mako. Reject to live a normal life, Reject to live a distracted life. Reject to live a life that fulfills the agenda of the Kingdom of darkness. Li bra Karna masuko yi ra bro Nama le bra kaya da blat Li bra karna masuko ya, I see two angels of the Lord in this place. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Le bl Nina Ma Khaidraina ma coo le kaya la blah Sakes. There are things you cannot hide from the Lord. You cannot you can hide it from your neighbor. You can hide it from your loved ones, but you cannot hide it from the Lord. Where there has been jealousy in your heart, envy, strife, spirit of anger, whether their outburst of wrath. Begin to ask the Lord, this is not my personality. I come out of agreement with this nature. Cora bro sakan na ma khaira bro sat le bra ka ya namasuko bra shake it in, libra khanna masu no makonna mar khaidra bro sir lebra karna, machka ya da br na maca lecon na masike. Shake it in. I see three mantles. Thank you, Holy Ghost, Thank you, Holy Ghost, Thank you Holy Ghost. Leka nina maskaya nam co liko na mashkai bruna makanna mas sakida bro sir, libro kanna, mashka bron Nama. Lord, begin to cleanse your people. Begin to cleanse your people. Begin to cleanse them mogd of every work of iniquity, of the works of the flesh. Cleanse their mind, cleanse their hearts. In the name of Jesus. Where the enemy has found rest in them, where he has found agreements in them, Lord, we disconnect his place in the name of Jesus, we e victim from their territory. Le kayana masoko ya dah blah sh le bra kana masna ma. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. There's three people. I see you have disqualified yourself ye kaya na masuna mokona marse. But the Lord says he is the one that qualifies you. Le bra khana. Massa ka ya na maca. And if you would repent before him, he would clothe you. If you would repent before him, he would clothe you. Karani namashika yaa masul k braa maca le bra kati na masoko brah sacid. If you don't. Embrace delay any longer, will you say Lord, here in this hour, I disconnect myself with the works of the flesh to be empowered by your holy Spirit. Let kaya nama say, in your sincerity of hearts, in your sincerity of heart, the Lord will begin to clothe you. Thank you, Holy Ghost, Thank you, Holy Ghost. Begin to pray, Begin to pray. I see one mantle is coming down. Le bl kaya dah blah libro n na maka Spirit of the Living God. Wherever that person is, locate them. Kaya da blah shakti Namasu namaka lebro ska na. Ma le bra kaya da bro sikat le bra. Khani Nama shikhayra bro sat le bra ki na mako Nama. Say, remove strip from them the garments of shame and clothe them with. Your mantle. That would make them effective for your work. I see another mantle coming down, Spirit of. The Living God. As they repent before you locate that second individual in the name of Jesus, locate them. Le Bra Khanna masna makai that brow sir, Libra cat massy kaya da brahet libro conna marsine now marco. No instruments, No instruments. Libra Khanna masi kha bronna Ma Khaida bronna Ma le bra kaya da brash shack now Masna makaya dla Braah said, I see the third mantle coming down. Le ka ya da brah. She can't no massuko ya lebro she can't no mass sekid that brow Sir. Just for a moment, I must say this, no sound this individual. You need to hear this. Your parents are ministers, because this mantule I see is coming down with fire. There are many that have interceded for you. But because of the decisions you had. Made in your life, you have disqualified yourself, and you have spoken over yourself that never, this will never be your life. Even when the Spirit of God began to reveal it to you, the enemy would come and whisper. But I hear the Lord saying. That, renounce the words you spoke concerning yourself, and even everyone in this room tap into that, because there are things that you speak carelessly, and that. Mantle is going to come upon you. And know that if the Lord Jesus will choose you, who are you to deny yourself? Wherever that person is, Holy Ghost, locate them now, begin to pray. Begin to pray wherever your words have defouled you. Lord Jesus, in your mercy, release. Restoration in this room. Release restoration in this room, Spirit of the Living God. Where your children have removed themselves out of the path of destiny, Lord, restore them now in the name of Jesus, where demonic spirits have had influence over them. Let the Spirit of the Living God restore you now. In the name of Jesus. I command freedom over you. Whatever you have been fed by witches in the dream. I commanded to come out of you. In the name of Jesus. I disconnect you from every form of agreement with the demonic realm. No longer would they influence your mind, no longer would they influence your life. I cut them off from your bearings. He Ka YadA blah, secret Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, every separate spirit. The judgment of God is upon you. The judgment of God is upon you. The judgment of God is upon you. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. I see the Lord opening wombs lebraca dabasaka, I bro sate namaca. Thank you Jesus,