Avoid Wicked Customs | Ps Graeme Politanski

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Today, I want to talk direct. You're not ready for this.

I'm sure I'm in the right church.

God, you said it was City Point law.

Today I want to talk directly into Halloween and I want to let

you know why we the church, Saints, Christians, believers in

Jesus do not participate in this satanic celebration because it's

both spiritual and social effects on our community need to

be changed and stopped in Jesus name.

At the end of our message, we will pray together as a church

over our great community. We're going to do this you're

going to participate with with us today and I'm going to supply

us all with a few steps to take as Christians to make knowing

that our district is under the lordship of Jesus Christ.

Who who's ready to participate in that?

The Holy Scriptures aren't shy in these topics.

And I think us as a church, we ought to just jump at this.

We just need to stamp, stamp on this stuff, put it under our

heel. We don't play with it, we don't

entertain it, but we put it back in its rightful place, which is

under our heel. It's under the Lordship of Jesus

Christ. Let me tell you and I'd I decree

today that this community will no longer be bound by the

schemes and the plans of the enemy, because I know that this

church has risen up to take on this battle.

But I know that there is something that we understand is

that we don't battle for ourselves and by ourselves, but

with all of the Kingdom of heaven, with the power of God

and with the authority He's given us.

In fact, Ephesians 612 says, for we do not wrestle against flesh

and blood, but against principalities, against powers,

against the rulers of the darkness of this age, and

against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly

places. Amen.

I mean, you believe that today you're prepared to be in the

battle skin in the game. Who wants skin in the game

today? Amen.

So we've got the powerful there. So I've titled today's message,

avoid wicked customs. Avoid wicked customs in your

Holy Bible, in your scriptures, in Deuteronomy 18 verses 9 to

Deuteronomy 18:9–14

14, it's titled In the King, our New King James Version, it's

actually titled Avoid wicked Customs.

Isn't that amazing? I think they saw into the future

of my message today and said that is a good title.

We need that in the Bible. Avoid wicked customs when you

come into the land which the Lord your God has given you.

Who's in the land that the Lord their God gave them?

We aren't here by mistake. You are not in this city by

mistake. You're in this city by divine

plan for you to participate with the plans of heaven to see the

Kingdom of darkness broken and ended over this.

This, this is the city of Jesus Christ.

Amen. When you come into Caboolture,

the land which the Lord your God gave you, you shall not learn to

follow the abominations of those nations.

There shall be not, not be found among you anyone who makes his

son or his daughter pass through the fire, Or one who practices

witchcraft, Or a soothsayer, Or one who interprets omens, Or a

sorcerer, Or one who conjures getting pretty straight to the

.1 who conjures spells, Or a medium, or a spiritualist, or

one who calls up the dead For all who do these things are an

abomination to the Lord. And because of these

abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you.

Thank you Jesus. You shall be blameless before

the Lord your God, for these nations, which you shall

dispossessed, listened to soothsayers and diviners.

But As for you city point N, the Lord your God has not appointed

such for you. Amen.

Let me tell you today that if you have been part of this, have

worked in this or work in these fields in any way, shape or

form, the grace of God is sufficient for you every

morning. His mercies are new every

morning, the Bible says. But today is a day of an of

awakening for us as a church for you and your life.

And the cool thing about the about the Holy Spirit is he

convicts the Sinner of sin, but the righteous, the righteous of

righteousness. And so today there may be

conviction in you, but it's not about God saying you're a bad

person or that you're going to hell or anything like that.

It's just complete, not truth. But what it is, is it's the Holy

Spirit making us aware so that we can change your ways because

we are now part of the Kingdom of heaven, the Kingdom of light,

and not the Kingdom of darkness. Amen.

So after reading that scripture that I just read, would you say

that Halloween is OK for Christians to be part of?

No Halloween has religious origins and this is where I

think the church has been deceived and something that we

need to understand here today. Halloween has religious origins.

Halloween means a holy evening. You get the word holy in there

and it's got oh that must be religious holy evening shortened

from All Hallows Eve, which we've heard these words before.

Halloween is the evening before All Saints Day, which is a

religious holiday honouring Christian martyrs.

So traditionally this is coming up on the screen.

On the 31st of October is Halloween, on the 1st of

November is All Saints Day and on the 2nd of November is Souls

Day and you may have heard those terms before.

Halloween on the 31st of October is grounded in the two festivals

of All Saints Day and Souls Day. Now, All Saints Day on the 1st

of November is a celebration and it celebrates.

It's also known as Sowin Day and it goes back dates back to the

4th century in Rome. The holiday was officially added

to the universal church calendar in the 9th century.

As the holiday spread to Christianised areas, traditions

merged with local cultures in ancient times and marked the end

of the harvest and the coming of winter, a time when the veil

between the living living and the dead was believed to be

especially thin. This is just rubbish between the

physical world and the spirit world, allowing more interaction

between humans and denizens of the other world.

It also kicked off on the evening of October 31.

Can you say out loud the devil deceiver is a deceiver?

There's no such thing as a thinner curtain.

The curtain was torn when Jesus was on the cross.

Souls Day on the 2nd of November.

In Roman Catholicism, Souls Day is a day for commemoration of

all the faithful departed, the baptized Christians who are

believed to be in purgatory, which is not biblical because

they died with the guilt of lesser sins on their souls.

Roman Catholic doctrine holds that the prayers of the faithful

on earth will help cleanse these souls in order to fit them for

the vision of God in heaven, and the day is dedicated to prayer

and remembrance. It sounds holy, It sounds good.

We wish maybe that it was the case, but it's untrue, it's

unscriptural, and it's not what God has decreed.

These are contrary to what the Bible teaches.

Say my Bible. That's right.

It's your Bible that teaches us contrary.

So we then have things like trick or treating, which is a

secular version of the medieval Christian religious practice of

souling, when souling children and the poor went from door to

door to ask for soul cakes in exchange for prayers for the

dead on All Souls Day. So in exchange you would receive

a soul cake and you would pray for their people in purgatory.

What about Jack O lanterns? There's an there is an Irish

custom of lighting Jack O lanterns to water away evil

spirits. This is demonic stuff started

with turnip, the root vegetable, and then America American

pumpkins replace them. So that's how we get the

pumpkins in Bunnings, in bunnies in Bunnies.

And then dress UPS. We'll see more of this in a

minute on the video. But they began to wear masks in

other disguises to avoid being recognized by the ghost thought

to be present. There's no such thing as Casper

the Friendly Ghost. It's a demon from the pit of

hell. It is, it's what it is.

So they were dressing up so that they wouldn't recognize them.

It was in this that witches, hobgoblins, big word fairies and

demons came to be associated with Halloween.

The period was also thought to be favourable for divination on

matters such as marriage, health and death.

In order to split, split marriages.

This is this is what Halloween's about.

It's demonic, there's witches involved, there's curses all

over things. So I have a question for you

church today. Is Halloween OK for Christians

to be part of? Firstly, praying to, praying

for, or interacting with the dead is not OK Biblically, the

outcome of a person's destiny is determined by the decisions they

do or don't make to follow Jesus while alive right now on planet

earth. And let me tell you here today,

the life that you're living right now is the accumulation of

all the decisions that you have made till this day.

The life that I am living right now, your addictions or

addiction, we can't, we can't just pass the buck.

The addictions are decisions that we have made and allowed

into our life. And you might say, well, Pastor,

great, you're not really sure. You don't really understand my

life. See, I understand this, that

healing's not possible until responsibility has been taken

up. And there are some things in our

lives that happened to us that start to form the world in which

we live in. I understand this OK.

But as believers in the Kingdom of God, with the living Word of

God that transforms our lives, each one of us has a decision at

some point on that journey that we can make to say, God, I

choose to give this thing over to you and do whatever is

required to see my inner healing happen, which might be

counselling or spiritual help or prayer with pastors, so on or so

forth. At the end of the day, at the

end of the day, no one and no devil has authority over your

life more than you allow them to have.

And I understand. I mean, I really understand

first hand. I understand in my life, in my

world that things happen even in the womb that will affect the

outworkings of our lives. I understand that parents might

say or do trusted authority, might say or do things that will

have ramifications over our lives.

I understand that in the church there is people of authority

that when they say things or speak things over our lives,

there is ramifications that that person then has to walk.

And the hope is, is that all people in all forms of authority

would speak life, would speak Jesus, and would speak things

that would lift you up. But the reality is, is that is

not always the case. But also part of that reality is

they walk away from you and you're left dealing with it.

And sometimes we don't have the mental or spiritual capacity to

deal with what just happened. And so therefore it has this

shadow over our lives. God is not naive to these

things. Jesus lived a life just like you

and I. He is not naive to the reality

of the pressures, the curses, the burdens of life.

He's not naive also to the fact that things happen that form and

shape our identity, yet those things happen to us not of our

own decision. That's why the Scripture has

these crazy out there verses that say things like, by the

grace of God, just in these peace, the enemy will soon be

trampled under your hill. It's why he says that by the

stripes of Jesus Christ on the crossed, we will be healed.

He's not just talking about physical healing, He's talking

emotional healing, spiritual healing.

And what I want to say and declare here today is that these

these words in the Bible aren't weak.

They are more powerful than anything that has ever been said

over your life. You can walk out of this room

today redeemed and set free. But let me just not be all nice

and Christianese in saying that. Because the reality is, is I

want to go the next step and say you have everything within you.

It's in you. It's God, part of your DNA, part

of your RNA, gifted from God. You have the strength, you have

the Holy Spirit. You have what it takes to move

on from. I know that I am set free to I'm

going to walk the steps of this freedom.

You have what it takes to pick up the phone and say I need help

and you have an education in this area.

Help me. You know, Pastor Mel and I just

this year in our leadership world, we to grow as leaders.

We said to we said to each other, we need help.

And so we called and we called up someone way bigger than us.

And you know, we're just like little, little peas, you know,

compared to who they are in in the Kingdom.

And we said we need help because we want to grow as leaders

because we have a great community and we need to help

our church influence this community.

And so, but it cost money, real money and more than our budget

is. And so we had to step out in

faith and crazy stuff. Not only are we paying that

bill, we just seem to be doing so much more in our weekly world

this year. It's crazy that we haven't been

able to achieve over past years. Let me say this, God cares for

you so much. Would you have the faith to make

that phone call? To reach out to that person in

spite the cost, because everything costs and just say,

God, this is so important to me and I know that you care about

me so deeply. God, would you make this

possible even financially? And why don't you just see a God

do an amazing miracle, not only not only in provision, but in

your life? Amen.

You believe that? So God is a total God of

healing. He's not just a declaration God.

He's not just a God that has all the great words to declare, but

we don't actually see the results.

No, no, no, God goes way deeper than that.

There's too many people in this church to know that to be true.

Amen, Amen. So the outcome of a person's

destiny is determined by the decisions they do or don't make

to follow Jesus Christ. All that we do or don't make

here today. Let me read you some Bible

Hebrews 927 and as it is appointed for man to die once,

but after this is judgment, there's no purgatory.

First Corinthians 10/21 you cannot drink the cup of the Lord

and the cup of demons. You cannot partake in the table

of the Lord and the table of demons.

He like he's just going there in the Bible, Amen.

Ephesians 511 Take no part in the unfruitful works of

darkness. Say no, we will take no part in

the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead we will

expose them. Say I will expose them.

Well, you just said it, Ephesians 427 and give no

opportunity to the devil. How many opportunities will we

give him? None.

He's under my heel. Amen.

First Thessalonians 522 Abstain from every form of evil.

Not some, but every form. It might not actually look to

you like it is, but it's got the form of.

Therefore we will not go near Isaiah 520.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness

for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for

sweets and sweet for bitter. This is why we as Christians do

not partake in Halloween is because we aren't putting bitter

for sweet. There is nothing sweet about

this. I'm here today to let you know

that it's bitter and to show you why it is bitter.

Amen. First Thessalonians 521 to 22.

But test everything. What everything hold fast.

What is good. We hold tight to the good

things. We don't let them go.

We don't even loosen our grip. This is why we walk around with

bibles. This is why TJ walks like this

all the time, all right? He's literally holding fast to

what is good because he understands if he's not gripped

to the goodness of God, the enemy will just try and come in

and make bitter look sweet. But test everything.

Hold fast what is good, Abstain from every form of evil.

There it is again. So why stay away from Halloween?

It's very easy. It's one line and it's found

Ephesians 427 and do not give the devil a foothold.

A foothold. This, probably this word

foothold probably changes our thinking about this.

It does for me because a foothold is very, very small.

And if you're a wall, you know, rock climber, you know, the wall

climbing things with the little pegs, I don't know what you call

that. What do you call that?

Rock climbing? Yeah.

Good. That that'll do.

So if you're a little, if you're a little peg on a wall climber,

what you realize is 1 peg is there.

And the other peg is just way too far for me, Right.

But it's not for everyone else. But I just fall on peg one.

But sometimes we go, I'll give the devil this foothold because

the distance is really big. I'm not going to lose my faith.

It's just this photo. It's just Halloween.

It's fun for the kids. And so you dress them up like

Ariel or Casper or you're like, I'm not into the dark gothic

sort of stuff. I'm going to dress them up like

angels. I'm going to make it holy

because originally it was holy and so I'm going to dress them

up like Christian angels, good looking angels.

Let me tell you what you've just done is you've got your child

and you've covered their identity in a deceitful costume

that looks like an holy Angel but has wrapped the God identity

into an identity to enter this celebration.

You can repent right now if you want.

That's all good. We can't give the devil a free

foothold in our lives. The keyword there is we just

can't. We just can't afford to.

And if we have, it's completely good.

Once again, the peace of God overcomes the enemy, the blood

of Jesus on the cross. Just what?

He'll just wash it away if you just allow Him.

It's just that simple. Today can be a new day for you.

Amen and your family. If this is anything you've ever

played with, it might look fun and OK.

You may not see what is happening right away, but your

choice to participate in the Devil's playground gives Him

permission to begin a devouring process in your life.

The Bible says that he is here to steal.

Stealing is a foothold. That's what stealing looks like.

When a robber breaks into someone's house, they're just

after jewelry. They're not after your whole

house. You've got lots.

These rich people live in Caboolture.

They're just all walking in this blessing thing.

You know, I'll just go in and take their jewelry out of their

house. They're not, they're not,

they're not looking to hurt you. It doesn't look like they're

there to devalue. They're not going to break

things and mess things up. They just want to find the

jewelry and just that. You've got plenty.

We will leave. We'll leave even some they break

in to take a foothold in your life.

But if your house has ever been broken into, you realize that

that more happens when you come home and you see that window

open and your jewellery on the floor.

More happens in that situation. Instantly, security in your life

has gone out the window. You no longer feel like that

house that you've been working for for 20 years is enough.

The next thing that will happen is you'll probably have an

argument with your spouse and no one will even know why.

We're just all fuming. We're just, we're just, we're on

edge. We're just all on edge.

You will have a sleepless night. Both of these would just be

laying there. Just can't be trying to pray.

And then what starts to happen is you'll start to double guess.

God, it's just gone quiet. Who's been broken into before.

It feels like everyone might have you start to double guess.

God. God, I prayed your protection

over this house. Do my prayers work or do they

not? Does God even hear me?

You start asking these, these big life changing identity, life

changing questions. See, that's what a foothold of

the devil does. All they did was took some

jewelry. That's all they did, took some

jewelry. But you thought they weren't

invited. Where was the invitation when

you got your child and you changed their clothes?

The devil goes thank you, I have a foothold.

And then the devouring. He wants to steal.

Stole the identity. We don't do dress UPS.

We don't do dress UPS. But what we do do is we just

have lollies because people are coming and they're coming to a

good Christian Holy Spirit filled house.

So we just have lollies. It's not their fault they're

children, right? It's not their fault their

parents sent them out and the kids, they, you know, they're

only 10 or 9 years old knocking on, knocking on strangers

houses. And, and So what we do is we

just provide a foothold. I mean, lollies, we're, we're

just, we're just, we're not part of it, but we're entertaining

it. I would never do it with my

children, but obviously it's OK if you do it with yours because

I'm here for you. Foothold.

So the devil comes to steal and then what he does he do to kill?

What does that mean in you? Why?

What are you saying? Is God really, does he really

hear my prayers? He's killing you.

He's killing your faith with unreasonable things, things that

he's killing your relationship. You're arguing and you don't

even really know why because we're all on edge and he's like,

he starts to kill you on the inside and this and you're just

like, I don't know why this is happening.

I don't know why I struggle with this.

I don't know why I just get so angry so quick.

I don't know why. I just turn.

I don't know why these things, and it's because we've given him

footholds in areas of our life when we didn't quite really

realize because no pastor had even preached it before in the

church. And so today is no day of

awakening. Amen.

But after he kills your faith, he then goes, and I want to

destroy you see, for the devil. This is in the Bible, by the

way. I'm just quoting the Scripture

after he kills you. He's not happened.

Happy with that. You know why he's not happy with

just killing your faith? Because he knows the power of

the Lord Jesus Christ. If I'm correct, Lazarus was

dead. But Rose, again, if I'm correct,

there are people looking at me right now because I know a lot

of people's stories who were once dead and one encounter with

God. He breathes life.

The devil knows this. So his next and final step is

destruction. Absolute destruction.

Mental destructions. Emotional destruction, Life

destruction. He'll take your finances.

He will. He will rob your relationships.

He will rob your family and then fill you with so much guilt you

can't repent. He will fill you with so much

guilt you will believe that you can't go to Jesus.

Yet Jesus is the only one whose arms are always wide open.

He doesn't judge like we judge ourselves.

His whole perspective is so different.

He doesn't look at you and go, oh, you did Halloween.

There's three footholds. That's too much. 2 is my limit.

He doesn't. He doesn't go, well, you believe

you can't go to me. Oh man, if you believe it, your

reality is your truth. He doesn't.

He doesn't operate like this. God just looks at you and he

just sees his child. That's all he sees.

It's called the prodigal son. He just sees his child and he

just goes, oh, would they just turn their heart to me?

Would they just blink at me? That's all I need.

Just a mustard seed of faith. I could move mountains for them

if they would just hope. They don't even have to call it

faith. Just hope.

Hope, hopes. I'll work with hope.

He's just looking at you and all he sees is a child lost or a

child found, a child in darkness or a child in light, a child

deceived or a child redeems. And his every thought, the Bible

says is on you. No matter where you are, his

every thought is on. Isn't that amazing?

Isn't he a good, good, faithful God?

So your choice to participate in the devil's playground gives him

permission to begin a devouring process.

But it's good for me to preach. Would you like to see another

pastor? John Romaez, who is an ex

warlock. He would sit with the devil face

to face and talk with him. This is where he was at.

He was extremely powerful in the Kingdom of Darkness.

This is the guy that would would transport.

He would transport. He talks about Halloween.

He used to curse. Halloween is, Yeah, yeah.

It's just his story. You can see it all on YouTube.

It's all legit. I've checked it all out, and

he's just absolutely amazing. But he was so deep from a very,

very young age. Bad things happened to him.

He sold his soul to the devil, and he worshipped the devil and

used to. Actually, very few people have

been able to do this. He used to actually sit with the

devil. The devil would come into his

lounge room and they would sit and scheme together.

And this was also until he found out the darkness wasn't the

strongest power. Listen, the devil himself, I

told John that he had no power or authority to touch a born

again practicing Christian. Keyword practicing.

That's very Catholic of me. But let let me tell you, weak

Christians that don't operate in the power of the Holy Spirit,

that's what I would class as a weak Christian, OK?

The enemy would scheme against those sort of people.

He would have plans, the foot, the foothold kind of kind of

concepts would always be knocking on their doors.

But Christians that operate like this church, that pray in the

spirit that have faith beyond their capacities.

The devil himself told John you cannot come against these people

and used to tell him to, to just move away into or to hold from

operating their scheme until that person had left that place.

Let's check out this video for 5 minutes for yourself and then

we're going to pray. Well, isn't that amazing?

And I would love us to do something right now.

I love us if if we could all just stand to our feet.

Pastor TJ is going to lead us in a a prayer.

This is a revival style prayer. Is that alright?

And if you if you have participated ever in Halloween,

I would love you just to right now, just you know under your

breath to say you know God, I renounce every connection to

that in my past. My past is my past.

Today is a new day in the Lord and you reign in my life and

this isn't a salvation issue for you.

OK, It's just about opening doors or or giving footholds to

the enemy so you can just renounce that by just saying I

break every tie of everything that is ever been in my family

or my life through all my history.

I break it right now in the name of Jesus.

And then I would love you to turn your prayers for this

community. T JS going to lead us in praying

for revival for this community. But listen, the blood covering

of Jesus Christ over our community.

Halloween's a counterfeit and requires blood.

We all know that right? But the blood of Jesus is the

blood that sets people free and washes sins away.

And we're going to pray for a spirit revival of our community.

I don't think our community really quite understands what

the 31st, 31st of October is in 2025.

It's a turn year where revival goes out and not darkness.

Amen. So we're going to declare this

over. Pastor TJ, take us away.

Just put your hands to heaven right now, Church, We're going

to get to pray. We're not praying from fear, but

we're praying in from victory. You are seated in heavenly

places. The Bible says in Acts one that

they were in one accord in unity together, praying constantly.

So if you can speak a heavenly language in this place today,

would you lift up the name of Jesus?

Let's go. Father God Almighty, we lift up

your name over this community. Father God, any dealings we've

ever had in this part, we denounce, We repent, Father God,

but fourth now, we pray the blood of Jesus over this place.

We break the curses over this place by the blood of Jesus.

Father, we come before you now and we say every knee shall bow,

every tongue will confess to the name of Jesus.

We declare Morton Bay over this place.

Father, the blood of Jesus and the victory of Jesus.

There will be revival. We put a stake in the ground,

Father God, and say this town is for Jesus, this church, Father

God, God will be raised up and the community will be blessed

because of it. Father God Almighty, we break

every demonic force. We pray over our homes, we pray

for the schools, we pray, Father God, over our neighborhood.

Because God, your blood has the victory.

Your blood has the victory, God, your blood has the victory over

this community. And we are seated in heavenly

places knowing that Christ is the one.

We lift you up Jesus, we lift you up Jesus, we lift you up

Jesus, and we thank you for it that we've declared and agreed

to think and it shall happen. And we all agreed, said.

Amen. Amen.

Amen. Thank you.

Thank you, Pastor TJ. And why don't we be seated?

I I suppose the question from now is Pastor Grey, it's great

to pray, but what can we do? What can we do from here?

So I'm going to give us three things as a church that we are

going to do. And it requires your

participation. This isn't I'm doing because I

can only do one street, but between all of us, that's

hundreds of streets in our community, Amen.

And even suburbs you can take this way further.

So three things for all of us. If you're a note taker, would

you take this maybe in your phones?

You might want to write it down. I don't want you to forget.

So obviously Halloween's on the 31st of October.

So we've got two weeks and there's three things for all of

us to do in preparation for the 31st.

This is to be done in your street and the entrances of your

suburbs. So if you're in Central Lakes,

there's about two or three entrances.

You can do it there for the whole suburb, but I would like

you to personally also do it for your streets.

OK, so #1 is coming up on the screen.

We're going to anoint #2 we're going to declare the blood of

Jesus, and I'll teach you how. And #3 we're going to fast

together #1 we're going to anoint.

We're going to declare the blood of Jesus and we're going to

fast. OK, so #1 let's anoint our

streets with oil. Now.

I am literally talking about Woolworths oil, OK?

And this might be good for Woolworths as well.

Not for sales but for spirit declaration First.

John 3/8 It says for this purpose the Son of God was

manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Now where does anointing come in?

The word Christ literally means the anointed. 1 John is saying

the manifestation of the anointing in Christ had one

purpose, to undo, to dissolve, and to destroy the devil's

operations. Make no mistake, when Jesus

came, it's just not a good story.

He came to dissolve and to destroy the works of the enemy

for you and I Amen. So the power of the devil was

broken by the coming and the anointing of Jesus Christ, which

is the anointed 1. So listen, here's our homework.

So over the next two weeks, let's get oil from your cupboard

and anoint your street entrance with oil.

We've done this for this church building a couple years ago.

And so this is what I'm literally talking about.

However bold you want to get, all right, you can get oil from

your cupboard and literally just go like that if you want across

your street. Or you can get a whole bottle

and you can just walk it across your street.

You know what this means? Every car and every person that

walks across this anointed threshold comes under the

anointing, the power breaking. The Bible says that the

anointing breaks the yoke, that no matter what they're doing,

they think they're doing it in innocence.

And as they outwork this broken foothold, broken foothold,

broken, they can receive their lollies.

They can do what they want, but the enemy will have no authority

over your street. OK.

And then I'm believing for more than that.

I'm believing as they walk across your oil.

This is the faith we have that they are getting conviction of

sin, all conviction of righteousness that as they walk

across that they are literally walking across what Jesus the

Christ came to break on planet earth and we are partnering with

him for that. Amen.

So you can do that over your suburb entrances, down the ends

of your streets, streets as well.

Do it over your driveway, pour it over your head.

I don't care. Just don't drink it unless it's

pure virgin. You know that?

Yeah, olive oil, you can drink that.

You should have a teaspoon every day.

It's good for your liver anyway #2 declare the blood of you.

Don't believe me, do you? Go through Jewish history,

you'll see it. Declare the blood of Jesus.

Colossians 113 to 14 says He has delivered us from the power of

darkness and conveyed us into the Kingdom of the Son of His

love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the

forgiveness of sins. We're breaking the powers of

darkness. He's conveying us into the

Kingdom of God and redeeming us through the blood and the

forgiveness of sins. Listen, the blood redeems and

delivers us from the power and the authorities of darkness.

Redemption by the blood means the devil has no legal claim

over those who are washed in it. The blood transfers believers

from Satan's dominion to God's Kingdom.

Now you might say grey, like how do we do blood?

You know, I kind of get, you know, the symbol of oil with

anointing, but how do we do the blood thing?

Well, the first verse I read today was that we don't fight

against flesh and blood, but against principalities and

powers. So how do you bling bring the

blood of an eternal God into our now existence?

It's through prayer. It's through prayer.

It's a spirit, it's a spiritual entity.

It's the blood of Jesus that was shed, but don't forget he rose

again in human form and the Bible teaches in human form.

Jesus now sits on the right hand of the Father.

That blood that Jesus shed when he was on the cross because of

no sin that Jesus had, His blood was eternal blood.

In other words, now that blood still exists, but it's now in a

spiritual manner in heaven. And so through prayer, you and I

access the power of the blood of Jesus that was shed physically

on planet earth but has eternal entity.

Does this make sense? So how do we plead and access

the blood? We do it through faith in our

prayer. So church, over the next two

weeks, let's walk down and up and down and up and down our

streets praying and declaring the blood of Jesus over our

streets in every home. It looks like Father God right

now as I walk down the street of 15 of Mcandrew St. in

Caboolture, I declare the blood of Jesus just as it washes my

sins away, just as it is eternal from the cross.

Lord God, I declare that the blood of Jesus is washing and

covering this street and this community.

And Father, anyone that comes under the umbrella of the blood

of Jesus will be set free. They will be redeemed, Father,

the schemes and the plans of the enemy, they are broken in the

existence of the blood of Jesus. From one end of anointing to the

next end of anointing. This street in every house and

my house and my people, Lord God, are covered and washed and

clean in the blood of Jesus Christ.

It's an eternal blood, Lord God, and we break the powers of

darkness, principalities and powers.

We fight this battle right now, although I and flesh I am part

with God and I am fighting a spiritual black battle in the

mighty name of Jesus. That's how you do it.

Amen. You receive that today.

Who believes that you can do that?

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, but I would have done

it privately too and said why could we not cast it out?

They were trying to cast a demon out of a person.

Verse 21 says this kind does not go out except by prayer, which

we just did, and fasting, which we will also do.

Fasting is not just self denial, it's spiritual warfare.

Oh, now we're talking. Come on Pentecostals, ever

knowing how to get into spiritual warfare?

This is how you enter it, through fasting.

When combined with prayer and faith in Jesus, fasting breaks

demonic oppression. It releases deliverance.

It brings release. It's not all about breaking the

powers off. It's also releasing God within

you. Amen.

It's releasing everything God has given to you, Saints, and

it's releasing it out into the community.

This is what fasting does. It empowers us to walk in the

authority and victory of Christ. Man, that's so true.

Let me tell you, I fast all the time and every time I fast I

just feel like I am like I just feel like devil get out of my

way because I'm on a mission for the Kingdom of God.

I just get such a grunt in the spiritual realm because an

authority that is only divine and from God comes over me.

You've never experienced that unless you fasted.

So church, this is the call to fast.

Amen. So over the next two weeks,

let's fast food. We're not playing games here,

we're not fasting computer games.

We're fasting our bodies. We're fasting food for one full

day. Who could do that?

Who could do one day for one day and find your own day?

You can do this wherever you want.

Make it work with your family and fast.

Let me tell you, if you wake up in the morning and the kids are

crazy and you go to work and you haven't yet had breakfast, don't

go. Oh, I'm going to fast today.

You're already halfway through, right?

Find a day, plan the day and say I am fasting tomorrow.

Let me tell you'll be hungry while you're sleeping during the

night because your body, body knows that you're about to fast

for Christ. Amen.

And it starts to hit you. Find your own day fast that the

schemes of the devil will be powerless over your street and

that Jesus will be revealed to people in your street.

You can do that or your suburb. So just to reiterate for you to

writing it down anoint declare the blood of Jesus and fast

you've got two weeks. Can you do this do this together

church, Amen. And just in finishing, I just

want to say let's avoid wicked customs, Amen.

No part of who we are because our identity is in Jesus Christ.

You know, you might have been listening to this and you're

just like, whoa, whoa, I came on a crazy day today.

Yeah, you came on a crazy day. And let me tell you that in all

of this, why would I preach this to a church congregation?

It's because the enemy just sometimes he just works so

simply and calmly because the world is a little bit crazy

right now. And we've had times in histories

where the where the world has just been like, you know, just

what's going on, where's God and all that.

But the world is really crazy and I think it's really crazy.

It's crazy in a different time than what it's ever been in a

different way to what it's ever been in history.

It's a little bit crazy because the signs of the end are drawing

closer than what I've ever drawn before and some real ridiculous

sort of stuff is happening on planet Earth.

Just jump on YouTube for 5 minutes, look at news, hit the

news tab. That's the only reason why you

would go on YouTube, by the way. And you click the news tab and

you know in 5 minutes you'll just see the stuff going on in

the church. The Bible talks about wars and

rumours of wars. It talks about the third temple

being rebuilt, you know, just before Jesus comes.

And we're starting to see all these signs.

And so what's happening is the spiritual atmosphere that we all

live and walk in daily is just starting to get battle ready.

It's starting to get Armageddon ready.

It's starting to get end times ready.

And the the devil is just like at work like never before.

It's all OK, God's in heaven sip in a latte because the battle's

already won, right? Jesus has already died.

So the ultimate battle's already won.

God's just out working time. OK.

But with all of this comes this spiritual pressure that often we

don't know, but we just have to live in and walk in.

And so I just say all that because when you don't have

Jesus in your life and you've never, you've never taken stock

of your life and said, you know what?

I am bowing down to something. Some things I just don't know.

I'm bowing down to government. I'm bowing down to society

pressure. I'm bowing down to culture.

I'm being led by things. That's how you know if you're

bowing down, you're being led by things, which is generally

culture. But you have the authority and I

know that you have the strength that if you're not right with

Jesus to take stock of your life and go, I will bow down to

nothing or no one who hasn't formed me in the 1st place.

And in that, taking stock of your life and your eternity, you

can say I don't understand everything about God, but I

can't deny that he is real. You might struggle to even think

that he might. He created you.

Maybe you're atheists or you believe in things like Big Bang

Theory and and all, and all of that sort of stuff.

And you might not understand yet or have a comprehension of how

things could just exist and how could God be real.

But one thing everyone in this room knows is that the spirit

realm is real. There is not one person in this

room can't deny that. If you've had a bad dream, if

you've gone to bed scared, or if you've ever had fear.

This is all spiritual stuff. And when you are aware that the

spirit realm is real, you have to conclude that there is an

ultimate. You have to conclude that there

is one above all. And to that, that is God, my

God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the one and only true God.

And you, you can see that around you.

And once you accept that, your life becomes transformed.

How do you see it around you? Well, the Bible says the

evidence is all around a rainbow.

Crazy rainbows are just crazy trees.

They form oxygen for you and I to leave evidence of a a God

that's outside of all things is evident all around.

But look at the church. Look at this wonderful church.

All of us that have given our lives to Jesus, we live better

for it. We live free.

We aren't dictated to by dreams and movies and and the enemy.

There is a freedom. The evidence is in this room

here today.