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In Christ, we are the Seed of Abraham. Something I

noticed just hearing around the traps. I think there's a

lot of prophetic voices at the moment across the church

who are talking about the church needing to grow in

its identity. And as I was praying into this and

this week was really good, I had a lot of

time to just be quiet and reflect on that it's

much more guys than what we often hear in Ephesians

two with a list young a child or that that

is all part of it. That is absolutely true. But

a building has much more than the foundations. You actually

then build on that. And I want to explore that identity,

what it means to be the seed of Abraham. And

this is only a very small part of it today,

but what that actually means in our identity and what

I'm going to be trying to say here basically, is

the seed of Abraham, your identity into that, your adoption

into being sons and daughters of the most High God

in Jesus, actually brings blessing. And it is not something

to be ashamed of because there has been a push

because at times, yes, at times there has been extreme absolutely,

but because of that, we've thrown the baby out with

the bath water, so to speak, and we've almost become

ashamed of blessing. And that has to stop. If you

don't understand blessing, you will not understand the power and

authority that God gives you as His sons and daughters,

and your kingdom authority and kingdom impact will be very limited.

So we need to walk in that. So that's where

we're heading today. Our new identity does include God's promises

of blessing. God's promises have always come to the seat

of Abraham. So this is how it was started. From

Genesis seventeen right back. And he this is Abraham believed

in the Lord. Note that it wasn't works. He believed

in the Lord, and he accounted it to him for righteousness.

It was from belief. You cannot get thereby works, Paul

writes in Galatians, So those who rely on faith are

blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. The Galatians

were almost predominantly a gentile church. You can see, as

Paul would say, the church has been grafted in, grafted

in to Abraham. Really important point there, just in Gisha

nowhere we have not replaced Israel. Make that very clear.

That is a heresy that is part of the church.

It is not true. Read Romans. If you don't believe me,

read Romans eleven and substitute church every time Israel is mentioned,

and see if you make any sense, it doesn't make sense.

You're grafted in. As Paul writes, it comes here through

faith in Jesus Christ. It's not works. How do we

get in there? Well, ultimately, no matter how good we are,

no matter how faithful we try and be, we still sin.

That is the reality. We sin. There is only one

way that you can be saved to Corinthians five twenty one.

For he made him who you know sin. This is

Jesus to be sin for us, that we might become

the righteousness of God in him. It is the grace

of God, the grace of God. It's Jesus death on

the cross. He did it for us. We have to

accept that and believe it. That's our bit. But it

is a it's a gift of grace. It's a gift

of grace. And what comes out of this Paul's writing,

He says, for no matter how many promises God has made,

they are yes in Christ. Can you see we're already

the righteousness of God through Christ. We're already accepted. We're

sons and daughters are the most high God. As Paul rites,

So guess what, No matter how many promises God has made,

He's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. They are yes

in Christ. And so through Him, the Amen has spoken

by us to the glory of God. Note the bottom

one there promises it's not just salvation as wonderful and wonderful,

and that would be enough. To be honest, that would

be enough. Mean, let's face it, we're going to hell

and now we're going to heaven. I'd take that. I

reckon that's a pretty good deal, especially when I know

what I had to pay for it. Nothing, it's a gift.

But that is just This is how good God is,

the goodness of God. Remember Moses and he says, Lord,

show me your glory. And what does God do? The

scripture says, and my goodness passed by him? God is good.

He is good. We need to remember that. So what

are these promises? See, the Father's nature is reflected in

the very blessings and promises we get as his sons

and daughters. Look at his name Creator. Stop believing the

rubbish that you're nothing, that you're just one of Squidet's right,

you are not not goo to you via the zoo.

You are beautifully and wonderfully made. Read Psalm one hundred

and thirty nine. Know your identity, el Roy. He's the

God who sees. So when you feel this is with Hagar,

Remember she gets sent out and she's going to basically

feel says, no hope for her in Ishmael. It's the

god who sees, so he sees you when you're feeling down.

He sees you when you feel like you're lowest. He

sees you. That's how important you are. And if you

don't think he can see you, will He knows the

number of hairs on your head. Yes, for me, it

doesn't take a lot of counting, but it's a miracle

for a lot of people. If he can count the

hairs on your head, he'll know where you're standing, because

you're bigger than the hair in your head. This is

a god who knows, who sees Hagayel. He's a redeemed.

We sing that this morning. He redeems us. He's el Shadai.

He is all sufficient, all sufficient. That means more than enough.

It's Jehovah Nissi, the Lord, my banner. He fights your battles.

So when you think you can't do it, you're right.

You probably can't because he's going to do it for you.

That's the great thing about it. That's your identity. He

can make a way when you think it's impossible. Then

once you know that, you've just got to change your mind,

be transformed and realize Actually it is possible, because all

things are possible in him. It's Jehovah Jirah. He will

provide for you whatever that looks like for you personally,

he will provide more than enough. It more than enough

to be generous. If he's called you to a ministry,

he will provide for that. Please don't think I'm saying

you'll provide it well in advance. It's usually not. Fate's

a bit like a muscle. He likes to exercise it

and put it under a bit of strain. So quite

often he leaves you. It not quite leaves your hanging.

But you don't have to feel like you're hanging, because

you should know he's good. But he does it so

that we grow in faith, and that's our testimony. And

then the next time, and so on we go. Is

Jehovah Rafa is the Lord, my healer. He cares. He

cares about you. It doesn't mean that's instant, but it

means he heals. He cares. Quite often it is instant.

If anybody's you, you're watching on we have weekly, basically now,

stories of people being healed in the most amazing ways.

This is because he is a good, good father, he's

bail perism. The Lord breaks through, and I what I

love about that? I think one Chronicles fourteen, you see

that the Philistines have come down and they've attacked the

Valley of Raham, and David says, you know, should I

go down and fight them? Lord or not? And the

Lord says, you go down, you'll have the victory. David interesting.

He waits on God and then responds in faith. But

at the end of it there's an interesting line there.

He talks about, you know, the Lord, you broke through

the waters. Now the water's there. He's not talking about

your stepped on a puddle and it went splish. He's

not meaning that. David's come from a history that knows

the parting of the Red Sea. He knows the history

of water coming out of solid rock. That is the

type of God of the breakthrough. That is your heavenly

Father and my heavenly Father. This is our identity. When

you start to know that He's equipping you then for

ministry that can go out and change cities and nations.

That's how it's done. It's in his name and power.

And then it's Jehovah Shalom, the peace that passes all

understanding in amongst all that you can rest. You can rest,

and by rest, I don't just mean slumber. I'm not

talking about that, although that's a good thing to do,

of a good sleep, but it's it's not just that,

it's the peace that it transforms your heart and mind,

transforms everything that you can just rest rest in God.

These are the promises because we're His kids. And when

you are kids, you inherit. And I don't mean just

when some passes away. What I mean is in a family,

you inherit on a day to day basis the parents.

And I'd pray in a human saying, you'd pray that

that's a good thing. I know at times families and

humans families and that stuff it up. God does not

stuff it up. You are heirs to good stuff.

That's why he's Papa.

Our identity as Abbas and daughters includes God's blessing of

his promises, because why because blessing reflects and brings the

heart and favor of God. Barak in the Hebrew the Logia,

which of course we get eulogy from as well, it's

to speak the heart and favor of God. I think

sometimes we become flippant with it. I usually use blessings

as a thing on the bottom of my emails. I

actually mean it. It is easy to say, God, bless

you whatever, and it is easy for us to not

fully grasp what that means. This is actually powerful. Why

because God himself uses blessing as a prophetic declaration of

his promised favor. God is not ashamed to give you

favor and bless you. This is from number six. You're

not now, I've underlined it. And the Lord spoke. So

this is coming from God, all right. This is not

the flip side, coming from Moses or whatever speaking to God.

This is the Lord speaking, he says, saying, speak to

Aaron and his son, saying, this is the way you

shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them, the

Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his

face shine upon you, and be gracious to you. The

Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

So they shall put my name. See the Lord. He

longs to be the parent on the children of Israel.

He wants to be Papa, and I will bless them.

It's a prophetic promise. This is God speaking, This is

the Father speaking. Luke twenty four. Last words matter a

lot of people. Just I won't say verbal diaryre, but

you can talk a lot when you think you've got

a lot of time. If you know you've got thirty

seconds or less or whatever, you tend to pick your

words carefully. So what did Jesus do? So this is

when Jesus and he Jesus Luke twenty four led them

out as far as Bethany, and then lifted up his

hands and blessed them. Now it came to pass while

he blessed them, that he was parted from them and

carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him and returned

to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the

temple praising and blessing God. Can you see what's happening here?

The last thing that Jesus does bless Us, and then

his disciples, his children knew the goodness of the blessing,

and they could do nothing, nothing other than go back

and praise and bless God. See, we're blessed to be

a blessing. It goes both ways. It leads you to worship,

to worship God. This is why words matter. We all

know what proverbs eighteen twenty one. Death and life are

in the power of the tongue, and those who love

it will eat its fruit. Jesus spoke life, He blessed,

he blessed. He gave us the model. Use it to bless,

use it to bless. I am not talking here, by

the way, about giving a blessing to a sinful action.

I'm not talking about that at all. Of course, you

don't bless that, all right, I'm putting it right out there.

I will never ever bless a same sex marriage, full stop.

Don't care what the law says, it will never happen.

But I will bless and love the person because we

love the sinner but hate the sin. It's very Remember

God so loved the world that he gave his only son. Right,

people are made in the image of God. Genesis tells

us that right at the beginning. But you do not

have to approve of sinful action. They's totally different things.

They're totally different things. But you bless the person because

so often it's in the love that's shown to someone

when they are totally in their brokenness. It's the kindness

of God that leads them to repentance. All right, that's

why you keep loving them. That's why God keeps loving

us even when we stuff up. You think of Saul

of Tarsus, I mean, how bad could it get. He's

actually going and killing jesus own people. He's on the

road to Damascus. He's trying to wipe out the church.

But Jesus loved him enough to knock him off a

donkey and says Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

He still loved him. Jesus did not love what Saul

was doing. And let that be a warning to us

of why you need the Holy Spirit when you read scripture,

because that's one of the problems we've got these days,

as we have become so so lukewarm to the Holy

Spirit that we just focus on the word without se

being it through the Spirit. When we read the Word,

we're meant to encounter God. It's meant to be the

presence of God. That's what the scripture does. There's life

in it. If you don't, you will end up like

a Pharisee. Because they knew the scripture better than anyone,

and yet they couldn't see the Messiah who was in

front of them. For the mouth speaks what the heart

is full of. Also, bless yourself. Now, I know that

sounds indulgent, Just hear me out what a meaning by

that is if God loves you. That is at least

a demonstration that you're lovable. Because some people almost develop

this self hate, and I actually see it in churches.

I see it in Christians where they will say things

about themselves that they would never say to anyone else.

They'll be highly critical of themselves. I don't look this,

I'm not there, and blah blah blah blahlah. And yet

if you said it to someone else, they jump on you,

and rightly so because you shouldn't say that, because they're beautiful,

wonderfully made. Whatever else you said, yeah, okay, so are you.

So sometimes you just need to be careful of that too.

We are beautifully and wonderfully made. It's a great test

for the mouth speaks. Jesus said this, for the mouth

speaks what the heart is full of. Do you therefore

speak blessing or what else? What's coming up there? Again,

I'm not saying approving sin stuff like that. It's always

a good measure just to check. I'm not ordering pizza.

I'm just keeping tabs on the time, because where we've

got the kids say every now and look at the

time there. I want to now look at the last

little bit, which we don't talk about a lot in church,

and I'll certainly be addressing along the line the next

few messages. But the role of the demonic, I don't

tend to focus on it much. And you can see

here it's at the tail end because it's not like

a dualism with God and Satan being equals. No one's

a fallen angel. It's at his backside kicked, and one

is the Lord God. But they're not even in the

same page. However, that doesn't mean old Harry Legs won't

still try and rob your blessing. So we need need

to actually be aware of it. Paul did this. He

talked about think about Inephesians. He talked about the need

for the armor of God. Just because you're Christian doesn't

mean you need to put this on. You need to

do certain things to co labor with God into the blessing.

What I mean by that is you can be given

think of blessings from God. When I say that, you

could be given a million dollars and it's given to

you as your inheritance and you leave the will sitting there.

You're aware of it, but you just can't be bothered

ever going to the solicitors. Certainly can't be bothered going

to the bank. So you live as a pauper. You

had access to it, but you still needed to step

into it. So we need to make sure that we

step into it. And part of that is getting around

this obstacle because demons will try and rob you of blessing.

I'm just going to read this one from Lup thirteen.

This is Jesus. Now he was teaching in one of

the synagogues on the Sabbath, and behold there was a

woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and

she was bent over and could in no way raise

herself up. But when Jesus saw her, he called her

to him and said to her, woman, you are loosed

from your infirmity. And he laid his hands on her,

and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. And

then he says he gets the Pharisees telling him it's

the wrong day of the week to help someone, and

he says, so ought not this woman being note a

daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound. It's demonic. Think

of it. For eighteen years. Be loosed from this bond

on the Sabbath. Note what Jesus says here, she's the

seed of Abraham, she's a daughter of Abraham. He's using

that as therefore she has certain rights and privileges that

are given to her. She doesn't have to earn them.

It's a give. It also means she's worthy of blessing.

He goes out of his way here to bless her. See,

God intends us. We see that with Jesus. God intends

us to be freed. He's come to set the captives free,

to release the prisoners. Satan will try and keep you

from the blessing because he knows if he does that,

because he always comes to kill, steal, and destroyed. But

if he knows that, he can often then try and

stop you from doing what God called you to do.

That's the difference. That's why this is so important. Jesus intervened.

He shows that. So where do we exercise this? We

have the victory in the blessed of Christ's authority, right,

we have that, So where basically do we exercise this?

Because I want to put it straight out there that

while through the name of Jesus, through the authority of Jesus,

we have the power and the authority to cast out

demons and remove demons, we can bind them. But there

is we operate also under a limitation as well. What

I mean by that is we don't just go down

the street just because I feel like going through Marian

so I'll just cast out demons if I see one. No,

that's actually not it. There's a number of reasons. First

of all, if you cast one out, if the person

or anyway you get seven back, they're in a worse position.

You don't do that. There is also free will. There's

free will inness I look at it like an amber

if you think politically, if the Australian ambassador is sent

to the USA, they have the authority of the government

to operate in the USA, But they don't have the

same authority if they go to Peru, because they're the

ambassador the descent to the USA. So where does God

give us, each one of us that right, that calling

to operate against demons. Well, first of all, it's over households,

and I don't think we take that seriously enough to

be honest as a Christian body, myself included, because we

actually have spiritual authority over households to see them free

from demons. I'm reading now from Matthew seventeen. When they

came to the crowd, a man of approached Jesus and

knelt before him. Lord, have mercy on my son. He said,

he has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls

into the fire or into the water of brought him

to your disciples. They could not healing. Jesus annoyed, you,

unbelieving and perverse generation. That's what we call a divine spray.

I hate to think what I'd get if they got that.

Jesus replied, how long shall I stay with you? How

long shall I put up with you? And then he says,

bring the boy here to me. Jesus rebuked the demon,

and it came out of the boy, and he was

healed at that moment. Note the father had the authority

to present the boy to Jesus. Really important to note

that there's nothing there that says it was the boy

who did it. It was the authority of the parents

of their children who would pray that. And that actually

makes sense in many ways because we pray for our kids,

we do actually pray protection over them. It's important also

note with Jesus, there there are times when look, every

ailment we have, including our physical death, all comes from

sin right at the beginning. But there's also times in

the Gospels and you read Jesus heals, and he literally heals,

He just says be healed. There are other times where

he says, deaf and dumb spirit come out in Jesus' name.

He seems to discern at times that there's a difference.

We need to do that as well. We need to

actually discern. So when we're even praying for healing, how

are we going about that? Because there are some models

of healing which go old is pray for healing. And

don't get me wrong, it's a good thing to pray

for healing. We should. But my question is have you

actually asked the Holy Spirit what the problem is to

start with? I mean, if he's a god of the

universe and he can speak to you, why I can't

he speak to you there? I can think of an

example actually with Tom. Tom's going, where's this guy? It's

all right, mate, you're fine. I can remember once coming

across a young man as actually in our family, and

he was having huge problems a school teacher, huge problems

with his voice, and it had got to the point

this thing. He didn't know why his voice was just going.

And I can remember a time, actually it was Christmas

time and we're buying some clothes for him, and he

was saying, I don't even know if I should be

getting your clothes for teaching, because I can't get over this.

And he'd been getting prayer and prayer in his church

and whatever else. And I remember Tom and I were

at the back and we said, we'll pray for you,

and we just prayed, and we just waited for a

bit and we saw a black claw just in his throat,

so we simply removed it, and the name of Jesus

removed that. He hasn't missed a beat since I think

I can remember. Tomo, I reckon, you had an issue

with a foot. You've got a couple of minutes. Do

you want to just tell us? Yeah, come on, we'll

need this one on. Thanks t K. Go get him mate.

To give you a really short version. But basically, Mary

and I had a great honeymoon, but I came back

not well.

It wasn't.

But basically I had some symptoms in my foot of

swelling pain. I'd get woken up at three am with

this really sharp pain that wouldn't leave for about thirty minutes.

And I'm a physio and I understand pain quite well.

I knew it wasn't like a musculo skeletal problem like

joints ligament, muscle. It felt different. And actually Anthea brock

Bank was an angel from heaven. Mary and I had

actually ordered a therma mix, and Anthea came to our

place and she looked at my foot and she was.

Like, what's wrong with your foot? And it was just

blown up.

And then she was helping us set up the therma mix,

and I just started to feel quite unwell, like I

needed to lie down, and so I laid down for

a couple of hours, and my heart rate on my

watch was booming. Anyway, we decided to call the ambulance

and I ended up in hospital for a couple of nights.

I was on a drip antibiotics. I had a bacterial

infection in my foot and I had ivy antibiotics, and

then for a week later I was given at oral

antibiotics and then within about a day or two of

finishing a seven day course of antibiotics, I started to

get the symptoms again. So we went back to the

hospital very quickly before I started to get those symptoms.

Had another course of antibiotics about four or five days,

and then a few days later symptoms came back on.

So I had about three courses of antibiotics and I

was fine with them, and then as soon as I'd stopped,

the symptoms came back. Anyway, at church, I just went

up for prayer. I'm like, this has got to stop.

And it was actually Jen Hills. The Hills family used

to be an amazing part of South but she was

praying for me with Gary, and Jen actually had a

picture of a claw in my foot, like a black

claw in my foot, and so her and Gary were

rebuking it, and then she was getting me to like

shake my foot as well as just a physical stance

to declare a spiritual reality. And since that day I've

not had the symptoms ever again. So yeah, that was

quite amazing.

Yeah, thanks Tomo. So that's what I'm talking about. It

does not mean that there is a demonic issue every

time someone has an ailment, so don't don't go looking

for you, a devil behind every pop blant and whatever else.

We're not going to that. I'm not talking about that,

but I'm saying we have to go by the word

of God. And there are times when Jesus says, just

be healed, and there are other times when he says,

I'm cast it out. We need to be aware of

that because Satan will try and rob you of joy,

rob you of your blessings through health issues at times.

That's one of his approaches. And we see that spiritual

blindness is something else. We pray for prodigals, and we

should pray for prodigals. It's a good thing, and pray

in faith. But I just want to read this at sixteen.

This is something that Sarah and I cling to believe.

The jailer called for lights. Remember Paul and Silas the

throne in prison. Beaten rushed in and fell trembling before

Paul and Silas. He then brought the mountain, ask sirs,

what must I do to be saved? They replied, believe

in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.

You and your household. They didn't just say you, it's

you and your household. What is one of the problems

we face two Corinthians four four. The God of this

age has blinded the minds of unbelievers. The god of

this age is Satan. So this is demonic saying, there's

a demonic blinding. This is why when we sometimes think

why is it? And you scratch your head and you go,

why is it that we can have a late term

abortion at eight months and that's considered a good thing.

And yet if someone comes in and starts to have

a baby four weeks prem we do everything we can

to save it. It's the same baby. The only difference

is someone's attitude. So hang on, how can how does

that work? It's a spiritual blindness, so they cannot see

the light of the Gospel that displays the glory of Christ,

who is the image of God. Unbelief is a spiritual thing.

What's the answer. I believe it's in the household, in

the blessing as the seed of Abraham. Believe in the

Lord Jesus Christ, and you and your household will be saved.

But you need to pray that. You don't just leave

it at the solicitor's office as something you can inherit.

Don't bother about pray into that, keep praying into it.

And we have a role in that too, obviously with

our families. You know, you pray with them and you

speak and all that. And what I'm saying is, do

not give up because one of the great joys for sake.

And I'm sure as when you can hear Christians go,

oh yeah, I've got these kids and you know, in

all these and they're not following the Lord. Turn it around,

start going the word of God says, because if God

is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, I don't understand

how he can save the Philippian jailer's kids and say

stuff it to yours. How does that work? He just say, God,

say love the world. He didn't say just some of them.

He loved the world. The blood of Christ is sufficient.

I don't know how that all works. Don't give me.

I have no idea. I don't have to, Oh my God.

All I need to know is that is the word

of God. And I'll stand on it. Why because he's

the authority, not me, and I'll trust him with it.

I will trust him with it. How many times you

hear people I've heard one just recently praying for prodigals,

and then a really bad thing will happen, like an accident.

But you go, how are they not killed in that?

How is how are they not taken out or something happens.

You go, that's the prayer. That's the prayer because I

believe that's actually I believe that's true, and I think

it's part of that process. Take authority over demonic forces.

That is one of the promises we have. He sent

us out thinking Marx Gospel right at the end. One

of the first things he says to disciples, go out

and cast out demons. He says that first up there

were Jesus' words, just because it's not politically correct in

a humanist, atheistic worldview, stuff that that's what Jesus said,

so we will do it. It's simple. We also have

spiritual authority in areas of our mission calling. This is

another area we need to step up. At sixteen, we're

going to a place of prayer where they were met

by a female slave who had a spirit. Some of

the versions say spirit of divination. Whatever, that's it's part

of it. It's not a correct translation, certainly of the Greek.

The Greek actually says Numa Pythona spirit of Python. If

you don't believe me, have a look at the Greek

That's what it says by which she predicted the future.

That's where they get the divination bit from. She earned

a great deal of money for her owners by fortune telling.

She followed Paul and the rest of us shouting, these

men are servants of the Most High God, who are

telling you the way to be saved. She kept this

up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that

he turned around and said to the spirit. No, he

doesn't say to the girl, Remember you love the sinner,

you hate the sin, you hate the demon. And he

turns around. He says to the spirit, in the name

of Jesus Christ, I command you to come out of her.

At that moment, the spirit left her. We have authority,

I said. It's a bit like your house. You have

authority over your household. You have authority to do what

you like in your guard and whatever else. You don't

have the same authority if you're down someone else's house

six laws down the road, because they have free will,

and God honors that. However, if you're in the middle

of your mission calling, God does give you that right.

He will give you the right to come against demons

who are coming against that calling that you have from God. Absolutely,

that's what's happening here. That's why I believe when you

read that, it's really interesting. First of all, i'll talk

to it's important that Luke when he wrote this, he

used spirit of Python. He didn't just say spirit of

divination in this case. Yes, he then writes one of

the behaviors of divination, but he could have said that.

He didn't. He said python spirit. A Python spirit has

many more aspects than divination. And he wrote that in deliberately.

Remember he was the historian guy the medical doctor story,

and he was very much onto detail. He wrote it

for a reason because it was there. But what you

notice with this Paul puts up with it, says there

for many days. This is why he didn't do it

straight away, because he could have seen the girl at

a demon. But he knew that actually in this case,

she's a slave. She's got her own free will as

the owners whatever else, they're doing their own thing. However,

she got that whatever else, Okay, whatever that was in

the background. I'm not saying it's fine, but in a

sense it's like, well, whatever, he can keep walking. But

after many days what was happening was that demon was

impacting on their ministry, and suddenly it's no longer not

his business. It now becomes his business. So after a while,

many days he's had a gutful and just says, gone,

it's the same in ministry. You can do exactly the same.

That spirit of Python is something you need to we

all need to be aware of. And I know I

spoke about this. It's last year now, isn't it. I

can't even remember. It was in the second half of

last year. I think I spoke on Python spirits. That's

a spirit that will attack Christians and it will try

It's what you're seeing it here. What it's trying to do,

is it it spreads It'll either spread truth, but in

almost a bit of a sarcastic way, it'll twist things.

It'll try and get in the way into fear, and

over time it'll try and now you rob you of joy,

but it'll start to almost strangle. This is where the

python becomes in. It'll start to strangle you. So you

start to go, why is it I'm not getting why

I'm not getting jobs like I seem to be overqualified

for but I'm not. Just never seems to happen. There's

always something goes wrong, or finances or something and I'm

trying here, but it's something just doesn't quite work. And

quite often it's this sort of thing. It's a Python

spirit and it'll just work quietly. It's slow, it doesn't

it doesn't kill instantly, it's not like that. It just

squeezes the life. And in the meantime you realize after

a while you go, actually, things are just a shadow

really of what they were, and you need to you

need to stand against that. It's interesting because you'd describe

demons by how they behave and their manifestation. It doesn't

mean they are that. So when Jesus says deaf and

dumb spirit is because the manifestation is you know, someone

is deaf and dumb saying like that. If you think

back to the beginning in the garden that python, there's

also deceit. It was the serpents of that image of deceit.

And it will spread lies. He will spread lies, and

it will also as it sucks the life out of you,

so the lies will come in Jim. This actually started

last week but it's just come again. You need to

really be encouraged that you're a good father. One of

the things I think that I'm sensing is that you've

been sold the lie that there were things that you've

felt and looked at, and you go, I didn't pick

that up. I wasn't there at that time. If only,

if only I was there. And I just think God

is actually saying there's a healing that actually that's a lie.

You were there and you always have been. Is that

spirit that has actually come against you and the Lord?

I believe the Lord is saying very clearly, mate, that

you are in for a real season of him being

bailed Praisan, the God of the breakthrough. That what has

been robbed of you? I see an image of a

almost like some of what you were meant to be

blessed with, like an inheritance, like part of our inheritance.

Whatever it is he is, it's underd orters has been robbed.

It's almost like a righteous religious spirit or something has

robbed that from you. There's been financial stuff, but you

were there. You were there, and you've also been there

for your kids, and that is really strong and I

do believe you might not have ever thought that at times,

but actually you were. And the reason is they're alive.

I know this will sound bizarre, but they're alive because

you guys prayed protection over them. And that is why.

That is why they are alive when everything looking at

the situation said they should not be. Whoever it was,

because I can even see it now, I can see

a spirit of death and it was murderous, and yet

your family came through it. And the reason was is

because you were there. It wasn't absence, it was because

you were there, because you were there praying over your household.

This stuff really matters. This stuff really matters. This matters.

I just want to I was actually got some more.

I'm going to finish up one other one. I would

just say very briefly and I'll talk about this in

another time. A levith and spirit be aware of that.

You can have discernment of spirits. Guys, if you're not

used to this, start praying and asking the Holy Spirit

to guide joining this. Sometimes you'll get a Leviathan spirit.

A leviath and spirit will always try and rise up

and shut it tries to take control and shut down.

Always does rise up. It'll create chaos, division, whatever it can.

Best example of this is Acts ninety Paul and Ephesus.

Remember Demetrius the silversmith, same thing stirs it up to

try and shut the whole thing down. Be aware of

that over families and households as well. Yes, you can

face that in ministry like Paul did, but over families

and households. So often you will see when a family

you can trace it back to when a family suddenly

it comes to know Christ and the power of the

Holy Spirit, you can trace it back. Satan will try

and infiltrate, and quite often what you will see is

it'll start a family line, it will try and create division, manipulate,

it'll twist things. It'll always try and take control. It'll

either take try and take control of the family finances,

it could be the relationships. It will split and you'll

know it'll work for a bit, but it will nearly.

In fact, I can't think of an example where it

does not end in rage. And you will see it

and it's like this person's exploding, what is going on?

And you'll see it in families and it will deliberately

try and separate. Bind that thing, Bind that thing, Okay,

it might be that it's not in your area of authority,

of its way out in distant rallies and whatever. But

your household you can bind it. And if it comes

into you, so you are in now gathering or whatever

else and that's coming in there, just bind it. Bind

it in the name of Jesus Christ. Shut the thing down.

Then it can't do damaging your family gathering at that time,

because Satan comes to kill, steel and destroy. You'll know

what I'm talking about. I'm not just talking about someone

having a disagreement, right or you know that can happen

like we're humans and get that. You'll know what I'm

talking about. It'll be something that is absolutely repeated and

then sort of comes alongside and tries to get together

with other groups in the background and you know, manipulate

things whatever else. And it'll be repeated, and then when

it doesn't get its way, it'll often withdraw. That's another

sign of them, you know, there's obviously usually there's sort

of this because they love their idol. See that's what

the silversmith was, Artemis the goddess, he loved it. That

sort of spirit. They'll always have an idol, whatever it is.

The idol and if it'll be fine to you go

near that. And if that's the case, if they're getting

their way, they'll often then just withdraw, but they won't

be able to do that. It'll still be chaotic and

you get this rage and you'll know, you'll know if

you've been in it, because it's a different. It's different

than someone just having a bad day. You'll know when

it's demonic. You'll know, and it might be your thought,

this person is just nuts, but you haven't twigged. Why

now I've said that you're actually the penny. Actually, now

I think I get it. Go back and read it

Acts nineteen. It's a really interesting example of what happened

to Paul, same thing. So be aware of that with

your families. Okay, guys, be aware of that.

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