The Truth

Taking up our discussion of spiritual warfare from last time, consider this; if the light that is in you be darkness and that darkness is masked by an angel of light, making the truth light difficult to discern, who will not be fooled by the false? Jesus cautioned us that false christs and false prophets would arise in the last days and “show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” (Matt. 24:24).

We would never have guessed even three or four generations ago, the hard times truth would fall on in these last days. Ecumenism, humanism, secularism, and post-modern theology have created a post Christian society, which has left our world at the door of desperation and lawlessness. After our grand effort to rewrite Genesis, replacing the story of man and our origin with theory and conjecture so poorly constructed that one would have to be either deluded or willfully ignorant to believe it, we have taken on a feat no less daunting. With the same shameless presumption as our predecessors, we have now grown bold in our discussions to challenge the definition and credibility of truth itself.

Spiritual warfare centers around defending the Truth. Truth can no more be defined by those who would define it than the minnow can define the ocean through his experience in the pond. Truth is not up for discussion or subject to legislation, nor can it be determined by a majority vote. We have not searched for Truth in the treasury of wisdom given in God’s Word, but in the wasteland of human experience. Why do we insist upon establishing our freedoms on the foundation of our own reason and “best guess” while we cast  out the revelation of God as a hindrance to our freedoms; because of the lie, because of rebellion, because of ignorance. “No one is going to tell me what to do, or stop me or tell me how I am going to live my life! Not God, not Truth, not even common sense!”

Rebellion blinds the eyes and stops the ears, (Ezk.12:2) which makes it difficult for us to even see the error or our ways. To begin the search for truth with the question of, “what is truth” is misleading and leads us into hunting for truth in a barrel filled with pragmatism and personal experience. And if the search for an answer is only as productive as the question is relevant, then to seek out anything, it behooves us to first ask the right question.

“What is truth?”, (Jo. 18:37) is the famous question asked by Pilate as he stood in front of the One Who said of Himself, “I am the way, the truth and the life”, (Jo. 14:6). Truth is a person; not a thing or an “ism” or a set of dogmas, dictates or the declaration made by a democracy. I am the truth is the claim of the ONE Who lived and died and rose from the dead. Only He is the express image of the Father, God the incarnate-creator of all things, the only pre-existent One. He is and was and will ever be, the embodiment of Truth.

Why is it so important to stand our ground on the subject of Truth and its identity?

Memorize: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” ( Jo. 14:6).

Prayer: When He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth;” (Jo. 16:13). Guide me, Lord, from this day forward. I will follow you.

Believing The Lie

The battle for freedom began with the revolutionary words of Jesus Christ. “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Jo. 8:31-32). If truth equals freedom then the antithesis is also true, lies equal bondage. Jesus testified of Himself and His testimony was confirmed by His Father. He is the Truth. It is logical to conclude, then, if our lives are filled with bondage, we are hooked on lies. Our life will be filled with pain and dysfunction, abuse and defeat.

The first and most persuasive evidence of the need to engage in spiritual warfare is the presence of “false truth”. “False truth” in a believer’s life brings bondage. Bondages are not always easily identified as many go excused and unnoticed because of their familiarity. We have become used to and adapted to the adjustments we’ve made to survive or cope, or get by.

Those activities, both legal and illegal, come out of our attempt to fill a need in our life. Any of those needs met using a lie will bring us into bondage. As the lie is believed and embraced, it begins to grow. As it grows, it overtakes us and we come under the control of fear and the lie.

Believing the lie gives the Enemy permission to operate in our lives. The members of our body, our mouth, our brain, our immune system; our soul, all come under the Enemy’s persuasion. As the lies go unchallenged, a Stronghold is built. We are trapped in our own lives and held hostage by the Strongman, (Matt. 12:29) who has come to plunder our house. The Liar’s sets up his regime and begins to broadcast fear and anxiety over the air waves of our mind and heart and we are bound. His propaganda contaminates our soul and sedates our spirit.

Spiritual Warfare is fighting the good fight that begins with us allowing the Holy Spirit to bring us under the instruction of Truth. We must let go of the old mindsets and belief systems and emotional baggage and experiential filters. Only then will we be able to discern the plots and escape the snares Satan has set for us.

Spiritual Warfare is answering the call of God to walk in His Spirit being “filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding”, (Col. 1:9), that we “may have a walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;” (Col. 1:10).

Walking in the truth brings forth the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, and freedom. Only then can we go on to fight the good fight of faith as we are “strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified s to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.” (Col.1:11-12).

The joy of the Lord is and will be our strength, (Neh.8:10), in the dark days ahead, even as it was for Jesus Himself when He “endured the cross”, (Heb. 12:2), “for the joy that was set before Him.” So be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might,

Verse to ponder: “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Jo.8:31-32)

Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, cause me to abide in Your Word, and may I eat it as my daily food, for the nourishment of my soul and as the strength of my life.

PRAYER FOR THE RELEASE FROM SELF-HATRED AND SELF-REJECTION

Dear Lord Jesus,

I come to You right now and ask You to forgive me for rejecting, hating and despising myself. I ask you to forgive me for the judgments I have made against myself in listening to the lies of the Devil. Forgive me for using his description of who I am to describe my life. Forgive me for using his counsel to guide my life. I ask You to forgive me for believing him instead of You. I ask you to remove all the judgments I’ve made against myself in listening to him and have mercy on me.

I ask You to take the Sword of Your Truth and remove from me all judgments and the consequences of the judgments the Devil has made against me for judging myself. Remove from me all the judgments and consequences of the judgments I have made against myself including agreement with the spirits of self-hatred, self-rejection, self-judgment, self-destruction, self-reliance, self-preservation, self- condemnation, condemnation, doubt, self-doubt, guilt, shame, fear, anxiety, perfectionism, failure, death, infirmity, chaos, confusion and unforgiveness toward self. I ask you to give me a deep revelation of Your love for me and peace in my relationship with You. Thank You, Jesus.

PRAYER FOR SELF ACCEPTANCE

Dear Lord Jesus,

I come to You right now and ask You to forgive me for rejecting and despising myself. I repent. I come before You to declare, before heaven and earth, that I change my mind and repent of embracing the lies the Devil has formulated against me. I refuse to believe the liar and his lies any longer. I choose to release and forgive myself for despising and hating the creation You made in making me. I choose to live and breathe and have my being in You and give You glory. I choose to let Your Holy Spirit reflect Your image in and through my life and conduct. I agree with the instructions You gave my body to “live”. I no longer choose death.

I take authority over my body, and in Your Name, Lord Jesus, I command all liars, deceivers, destroyers, and every spirit of confusion, and rejection that operate in my body, mind, heart, soul, will, emotions, and spirit, and all that pertains to them, to leave my body. I am the temple property of the Living God and will have no fellowship with the hidden works of darkness! I ask You to forgive me for hating myself and opening the door for the Enemy to bring judgment against me using my own words to do it. I choose to live and ask You, Lord Jesus, to cancel all vows and death wishes I uttered against myself in wanting to die.

I ask You to form Your image and reflect Your purposes in and through me. Loose me from judgments I have held against myself in listening to the counsel of the liar who uses those judgments to use me to sabotage my own life by holding me in unforgiveness toward myself. I choose, by an act of obedience, to forgive myself even as You have asked me to forgive others. I come to You, Lord Jesus and submit myself to Your care. I yield myself to Your workmanship and commit my salvation to You for safe keeping.

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for making me, me. I am Your idea, and I come into full agreement with Your idea for making me who I am. Thank You for making me just the way You wanted me, and for placing me in time and place as You desired. You are the Potter and I am the clay. Let me be satisfied to be a vessel made in Your Honor and fit for Your use. Thank You, Lord Jesus for this life. I give it back to You. Fulfill all the destiny and dreams, and all Your purpose and desire for my life in making me, that I may, on that Day, hear You say, “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord.” Amen.

PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS OF OTHERS

Dear Lord Jesus,

I come to You right now and choose, by an act of my will, and with my heart, to forgive ______, for the crimes they have committed against me. I release them from the judgments I have made against them and forgive them for their failure to love and protect me. I forgive them for the betrayal and the injustices they committed against me. I release my case against them and the injustices they committed against me, to You, Lord Jesus, and the Court of Heaven. I ask that You would consider my complaint and bring forth a righteous resolution and a just settlement in this matter in favor of truth, justice and mercy.

I ask that you would bless both of us with a deeper revelation of Your love for us. If the person being forgiven is deceased, we ask that God would give their descendants a deeper revelation of His truth. I ask that You would release me from all the judgments and the consequences of the judgments that have come upon me and my descendents because of any unforgiveness, bitterness, or anger I have held against them. Release me from becoming like the thing that I judged and hated in them.

I pray that You would release me from all the judgments I have made against myself in listening to the lies of the devil and using his counsel to bring these matters to justice, including listening to retaliation and resentment.

Forgive me for taking matters into my own hands and not listening to You. I ask You to have mercy on me, and remove the hurt and pain and confusion. I trust You, Lord Jesus, to establish justice and give me Your peace. Vengeance is Yours and I trust in Your justice. Thank You, Lord Jesus. Amen!

FORGIVENESS OF GOD

Dear Lord Jesus,

I come to You right now and ask You to let me see my true heart. Forgive me for listening to the Accuser who perpetrated lies against You, defaming Your character and identifying You as the One responsible for my destruction. Forgive me for believing his lies about You. I ask You to release me from the lies Resentment has told me about You, and open my eyes to the truth about where You were and what You were doing when the Enemy was raging against my life. Thank you for Your faithfulness to me, and Your Divine Protection in keeping Your promise to never leave me or forsake me. Amen.

THE BREAKING OF THE CURSES OF THE GENERATIONS

In dealing with the sins of the generations and the open accounts that have been left standing by those who have gone before you, it is important to understand how the Enemy uses these things to build his case and form his plot against your individual life. When you see the patterns of destruction coming down into your life you have evidence that what is happening is not a coincidence, nor is it without a design. Recognizing the patterns of destruction removes from us the denial that would counsel us to ignore the obvious and live in ignorance. The patterns tell us three things; the plot is not an accident or a random act, it is orchestrated and operated under a deliberate design and intention, and that it is predictable.

Once we are convinced, we will want to take action. The action that must be taken to address the sins of the generations and the “iniquity of our fathers which is with us” (See. Leviticus 26:39) is clearly laid out in the Bible.

The first step in breaking the curses and the cascade of evil that comes down into my life, (even as a believer), and the lives of our children is to: CONFESS THE INIQUITY OF THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US. Confessing the sins of the generations, identifying as specifically as possible, the patterns and the offenses, breaks the agreements and voids the contracts the Enemy has been holding over us.

Those agreements made with the lies by those who have gone before us have allowed the familiar spirits to created particular responses and repercussions in our lives that have brought with them a negative spiritual legacy. Each generation wrestles with the “sins of the fathers” he tries to carry down into each successive generation.

When it is not possible to know the patterns specifically, as may be the case when you are adopted, or do not know what has gone on between your parent(s), the best you can do is confess the general categories of sin and take responsibility to declare them to be an abomination before the Lord.

“But, if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.” Leviticus 26:14-17 NKJV

“And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;…they shall stumble over one another,…you shall have no power to stand before your enemies,…your enemies shall eat you up. And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemy’s lands; also in their father’s iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.” Leviticus 26:36-39 NKJV

“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me and that they also have walked contrary to Me,…if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt – then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land for I am the LORD their God. Leviticus 26:40-42, & 44 NKJV

As we see from these verses, the prescription for recovery and restoration is very specific. If we CONFESS our iniquity AND the iniquities of our fathers, which are WITH us and their unfaithfulness to Him, and humble ourselves, and REPENT of our own participation in those sins, God will heal us and restore blessings to our generational line.

REMOVAL OF THE JUDGMENTS

The breaking of the generational curses includes CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE along with FORGIVENESS AND THE REMOVAL OF THE JUDGMENTS. After the patterns are recognized and iniquity confessed, the next step is forgiveness. Forgiveness releases the crimes committed against us to the Court of Heaven and closes Satan’s case against us. His demand for blood and his claimed right to continue to violate the temple property of the Most High God are rendered null and void. The Blood of Jesus more than satisfies the Devil’s demand for our blood and the death of Jesus more than answers the demand sin has made upon our life.

Each person can be lead in this prayer individually, or it can be used as a corporate prayer. Let them repeat each phrase after you.

THE PRAYER FOR RELEASE FROM THE SINS OF THE GENERATIONS

The following prayer is a model for dealing with the oppression and bondage Satan has inflicted on you through his claimed rights against you. The first part of the prayer re-establishes the legitimate ownership of Jesus Christ over that area, including the place the Enemy is contesting and to which, through occupation, he lays claim. The second part of the prayer identifies and breaks the generational curses. The scripture tells us those iniquities and their continued operation through the generations is broken through confession. Confession releases us from the Enemy’s claims and assault, making his operation in our lives illegal. Invite the person to repeat after you….

Dear Lord Jesus,

I come to you right now, as Your child, Created in the image of God, and brought forth by Your will and truth. I believe You died on the Cross for me and rose again. I believe You are seated at the right hand of the Father, and that you sent Your Holy Spirit to live in me. I am the temple of the Holy Spirit.

I come today as the authorized representative of my generational blood line to do business before the Court of God, to claim my new inheritance as a new creature in Christ. I confess the sins of my generations past – their idolatry and the crafting of graven images, their reliance upon themselves for safety and sustenance, and declare it to be an abomination and an insult against the Holy Character of our Heavenly Father. I confess their use of false comforts and self-indulgence, lust, adultery, infidelity, incest, sexual perversions and the violation of the innocent as an abomination against the true heart of the living God.

I confess the practices of witchcraft, rebellion, control, manipulation, hardness of heart, stubborn resistance to the Holy Spirit, jealousy, insecurity, and relying on the Devil’s power sources, as fear and an abomination against heart of the God to love and protect me. I confess all bitterness and holding of grudges, resentment, unforgiveness, retaliation, backbiting, hatred, hatred of God, violence, rage, murder, bloodshed, the shedding of innocent blood, pride, religious self-righteousness, greed, covetousness and disobedience as lawlessness and rejection of the will of God.

I cancel out any agreements made with the Enemy of God through the practice of sin or belief in his lies. I confess their contempt for the things of God, their deception, and rejection of the truth, doubt double mindedness and unbelief to be sin and abomination against Your Holiness, Lord Jesus. I confess all agreements made with the Enemy under the counsel of the Strongman, the Anti-Christ spirits, or the familiar spirits who have brought these destructive patterns down into our lives, to be sin and iniquity, and an abomination against the Living God.

And even as I confess the iniquities of my ancestors, I repent for my own participation in these things, both knowingly and unknowingly. I ask you to forgive me, Jesus, Son of the Living God and take the Sword of Your Truth and sever the cords of iniquity that have bound me and my descendants. I ask You to break the curses of the words, deeds, actions, dedications, vows, rituals, oaths, prayers, promises, covenants, contracts, symbolic dedications, and every claim made against our lives through blood sacrifices, human or animal. I ask You to remove all demonic programming and the operation of the “body of death” in all parts of my body, soul, and spirit. I ask You to remove all of his assignments over my life. Set me free according to Your Word, “Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.”(John 8: 36) Thank You, Lord Jesus for hearing my prayer.

If there is Masonic or Shriner involvement you may want to give them a copy of the Masonic prayers to pray privately or you may lead them in renouncing them out loud. The first three degrees of Masonry are especially effective in opening the door for physical sicknesses. Diseases like asthma, heart attacks, stomach aches, choking and mental confusion, including inability to concentrate, can all be part of those curses. If Masonry, including participation in the Shriners, or witchcraft or participation in a specific cult has been identified, specific prayers of renunciation are suggested.

It is important for us to know our spiritual authority over the Enemy or he will deceive us with his lies and accusations. It is also important to confess any sins of bitterness or unforgiveness you might have toward both family members and strangers. These acts of obedience take away the Devil’s claimed rights to your life, as well as secure your life and the lives of your descendants.

BREAKING SOUL TIES

A soul tie is like having two signatures on a contract. You cannot execute that contract, to sell the house, for example, if only one person is willing to sign. Many times we have formed soul ties with a person through sexual contact, physical or emotional abuse, and or the exchange of experiences, expectations and words. Though there are many legitimate relationships into which we can enter, there are boundaries which must be respected for each person to maintain their dignity and integrity as a person in that relationship. Putting others first is a form of idolatry. Controlling them is a form of slavery. Ask the Lord if your soul has been inappropriately tied to any person or thing and if so, how. Pray this prayer to unhook yourself from any unholy alliances you may have formed either intentionally or inadvertently with someone that are keeping you from going forward in your life.

People who are divorced benefit much from praying this prayer to release themselves and their former spouse from the vows of their marriage covenant. You are merely completing the dissolution of the transactions in the spiritual world that have been recognized in the natural world.

Dear Lord Jesus,

I come to You right now, Lord Jesus, Son of the Living God, and ask You to break any soul ties operating in my life that bind me or restrict me from freely serving You. I do not want my soul to be tied to anyone else but You, Lord Jesus. I ask you the take the Sword of Your Truth, which is Your Word and cut the ties that bind my soul to ______. I ask You to release me from any vows, covenants, oaths, promises, expectations or exchanges between me and ______ and that every exchange made between us will be canceled and all attachments between us will be broken.

I give back to ____ right now, by the power of Your Spirit, all the parts of (himself, herself) including all the parts of (his, her) body, mind, soul, will, spirit, being, expectations, emotions, and circumstances that were given to or exchanged with me in our relationship. I also take back to myself, right now, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, all the parts of me that were given or taken in our relationship. I take back to myself, all parts of me, including all parts of my body, mind, soul, will, spirit, being, expectations, emotions, and circumstances. I ask You, Lord Jesus, to separate me from __________by the Sword of your truth. Make me one with myself, and at peace with You.

Thank You for setting me free to be the person You have created and called me to be for Your glory. Amen.

PRAYERS FOR THE INTEGRATION AND REUNIFICATION OF THE FRAGMENTED PARTS

After you have mediated the transaction between Jesus and the broken part of the heart and the person agrees to give (his, her) burden of procuring safety, or establishing righteousness, or determining the boundaries of responsibility to Jesus, the person is ready to pray. Jesus will give them His peace, joy, eternal life, and the revelation of His truth, etc. in exchange for their burden. As they agree to the transaction, the deal is done. This is how we pray for them;

Dear Lord Jesus,

Father God, I pray, right now, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, through the Blood of Jesus Christ, Your Son, that You would knit this broken part of ______’s heart back into the fullness of Your perfect plan for (his, her) life. I ask You to reveal to (his, her) heart, the fullness of Your truth in this matter, that they would be free indeed from the pain and hurt and rejection and fear of the past. I command all demonic programming and every system including all back up systems operating under the counsel of Fear that control ________to be dissolved by the Blood of the Lamb. Amen.

BREAKING THE CURSES AND RENOUNCING THE OATHS OF FREEMASONRY

Like so many of Satan’s snares, Freemasonry is camouflaged in the everyday lives of the unsuspecting as a merely casual and beneficial activity. Freemasonry presents itself to potential initiates and its adepts (followers in the lower ranks) as a business opportunity to meet people and make contacts with potential customers/clients. It appears as a beguine, “good old boy’s club” where men can fraternize, exchange business cards and provide support to the up-and-coming men of the community. It targets strategic public leaders, law enforcement, mayors, politicians, judges, and anyone of influence in an effort to control the atmosphere and spiritual climate of the area, city, state or region.

Freemasonry had its roots in the guilds of Western Europe with its legend of Hiram Abiff coming out of a distortion of the biblical story of Solomon and his building of the temple. The guild may have operated as the first primitive “Unions” of their day. The guilds were composed of the skilled laborers, builders, craftsmen, bricklayers and stone masons. And though there is nothing intrinsically evil about being a block layer, the Enemy took advantage of these men and their craftsmanship, common interests, the pride of their craft and the impressive structures they built as a cover for his own intentions. Not unlike the building of the Tower of Babel, he infested their ranks with his evil plan for world domination as is clearly revealed by the Masons themselves their final declarations in the thirty-third degree that “Lucifer is God and the grand architect of the Universe”.

Many of the early founders of this country carried the concepts and agenda of Freemasonry with them from across the Atlantic. It makes perfect sense that the Enemy wanted to stake his claim to the new land called America. Mixed right in along with the followers of God who fled here for religious freedom, came the Masons, many of whom were part of the fledgling group coming out of the 1700’s known as the Illuminati. Ironically, the oaths and vows, the symbolic dedications and agreements that are used as the initiation and progression rites of Freemasonry are the very things the Enemy uses to strip the initiate “seeking enlightenment”, from the true light of Jesus Christ. They have traded their religious freedom for an innumerable set of physical, mental, financial, relational, and spiritual bondages. These oaths and agreements have bound them through the agreements they have made by practicing the rituals, symbolic dedications, re-enactments. The spiritual and natural consequences of these agreements travel down even to the bloodlines of their successive generations.

As with any of Satan’s activities in our lives, he must be invited in and there must be an agreement made with him before he can establish his control over us. There is nothing casual or beneficial in coming into agreement with the oaths that are made to the Devil by those participating in Freemasonry. Those oaths give the Enemy permission to tear out the participants tongue, curse their teeth, cut their throats, and bring destruction to every bodily organ and every relational function they have. The oaths are like contracts that are pre-agreed on that only come into play if the participant betrays their allegiance to the craft and tells its secrets or tries to get out of the group. Then the promises you made upon entry are called into play.

Many of you do not know if your ancestors were practicing this kind of blasphemy and treachery against the Most High though your medical, financial and relationship experiences would bear record to the truth. The effects of those vows, oaths, secret words, symbolic dedications have given the Enemy ample operating privileges in your life and may be the reason you are experiencing any number of tragic things including health issues, poverty breakdowns in your relationships even now. Take a look at the manual to get a more comprehensive understanding of what it is that might be hurting you.

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There are many “feeder” organizations that also lead one into the more “hard-core” oaths and the activities of the Masons. These include: