spiritual warfare

The topic that I want to deal with today is the topic of spiritual warfare, the fight with the powers of evil that often want to lead us to lives of destruction, lives of emotional conflict, lives of spiritual ties, lives that prevent us from becoming all we are. what God wants us to be.

As we know, not every difficulty in the Christian life, not every problem, not every spiritual or emotional conflict is due to the intervention of evil powers. Sometimes their origins can be the product of many different things, simply life circumstances that have deformed us and have caused the spiritual and emotional suffering that we have, sometimes they can even be chemical and hormonal things, many times there are situations of depression or anxiety, or some other types of difficulties that we have that are not due to the intervention of demonic spirits but simply to defects in our hormonal, chemical, etc.

There are times when a disease is just that, it is a disease simply the product of a deficiency of some kind in our physical system. There are times, for example, that a depressive attitude may not necessarily be due to a demonic influence that wants to induce us towards depression, but simply the product of a loss in childhood, of a loss event of some kind in our youth or in our past that marked in a very powerful way and that is there like a shadow always persecuting us and contaminating our emotional-spiritual system.

And I believe that we have to be like a doctor when we try to deal with our struggles and our problems, and our limitations, that the first thing a doctor does is try to diagnose: okay, where does the problem come from, what is the origin and the cause of the difficulty that this person is experiencing and what are the elements that contribute to this difficulty? and then the doctor determines if it is something chemical, if it is something emotional, if it is something physical, etc. No?

And I believe that in this way we also have to deal with the struggles and afflictions of life, and the difficulties that we have, we have to ask ourselves, where does this problem and this difficulty come from? and then according to that we look for a solution.

That's why I wanted to provide you with a whole series of different elements, right? we've talked about biblical and spiritual principles that help us frame the struggles we have. For example: I have talked about the idea of embracing this principle that I have value in myself and not because of something that I can do or money that I make, a title that I have, that people look for me or that they value me from outside, no. Since I was born, because I am a creation of God, I am already worth in the eyes of God and that God loves me just the way I am, and that he is committed to me, that is independent of whether people love me or not, whether I have come to have a doctorate or not, none of that adds value to your condition as a human being.

Many people are not aware of that fact, they are looking for their value in something external, right? always trying to; sometimes in the way they dress or because of the size of the house they have, or the car they have, or the financial or professional success and they believe that by putting that on like clothes they will silence those voices of doubt and low self-esteem, and inferiority complexes that they have, and in reality it never happens like that because it is something that is inside and not outside.

Now: when a person recognizes the value that he has in the eyes of God, that God is our Father, that he loves us, that he values us for who we are, that He created us, we are His creatures, then the rest is simply an accessory, well if you have it but if you don't then it doesn't take away your peace.

So it's one of those principles we've talked about, right? But we have also said that it is not only spiritual principles, it is not only a question of cerebral knowledge, but it may also be that we need a direct intervention of the Holy Spirit in our life, a touch of God in some direct way, a direct intervention of the Power of God that like a spark of electricity or energy intervenes and releases something in our mind or imparts additional energy and power to break things.

And that's why we talk about the importance of prayer as one of those values, right? fasting is also one of those powerful values that helps in many dimensions of the Christian life to help us break ties, to break those strongholds that are sometimes in our minds or in our emotions and we cannot depend only on a lot of knowledge.

All the books you can read on Christian counseling or secular counseling are very good up to a point, but sometimes we just need a direct intervention from the Holy Spirit, you know? and we need the energy that only God can provide, and that's where prayer, as we've seen, adds that dimension.

If you want to live a healthy life, it is necessary to live in that atmosphere of prayer and in the Presence of God, and present our burdens as the Word of the Lord says, it says: "Be anxious for nothing." There you can refer, for example, to anxiety. It says: "But let your requests be known before God in all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving," right?

So we see that prayer has that capacity. First, to elicit and make possible God's direct intervention in an area of need in our lives. As I have also said, sometimes it changes our perspective and allows us to see things from God's perspective, not from the perspective of the frightened man, overwhelmed by a problem, a difficulty, but how God sees it in the light of His good purposes. , in the light of His Power, changes our perspective.

And we have also talked about the importance of living that life of prayer because many times, many of the battles that we have, many of the struggles that we have are not going to give way immediately, but they will give way as a result of bringing our cause before God over and over again, and again as the apostle Paul says: "With all prayer and supplication" meaning: continually, "pray without ceasing" and many times we will have to make prayer our breath, our lifestyle; We have to pray in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, at night, in the car, while we wash the dishes, while we operate the machine in the factory, we have to always raise our requests, our needs before God.

And there are areas of our life, as we have said, issues in your life, spiritual and emotional struggles, conflicts, dependencies, ties, that are not going to give way overnight, what is more, perhaps you are going to have to spend all your life continually bringing that area of weakness to the Lord to keep it under divine rule and you are going to have to simply come before God practically every day, and that does not mean that God is less powerful or less involved in your life but simply, sometimes the Lord in His mysterious sovereignty is pleased to maintain that discipline in your life.

As he did in the life of the apostle Paul, right? As we have seen that the Lord did not remove His sting that brought so much emotional anguish to the apostle Paul, we do not know what the nature of that sting was, possibly it was something emotional, something spiritual, but the fact is that God was using that inner struggle in the life of the great apostle to discipline his pride, because he says that God gave it to him so that he would not magnify himself greatly because of all the spiritual experiences he had had and all the revelations he had received, and the Lord wanted to give him that fight as a preventative medicine to keep it there.

Many times in our lives there are situations in our lives that mysteriously, here on this Earth, we may never know why God did not take away a disease from us, why God did not answer our prayer in this way or another, why God did not free us from some struggle and the Lord tells us: "My grace is enough for you because my power is perfected in weakness" right?

So many times we have to pray continuously and make prayer like a pill or like a sustained treatment that sometimes one has to, a diabetic for example has to go, undergo certain treatments continuously because they have a condition.

And so prayer and the other elements that we have talked about help us to maintain our peace, to maintain our tranquility, to not doubt God and to keep that affliction under control and even if God is in the matter, we are going to prosper as Consequently, we are going to grow spiritually, we are going to be more merciful, more humble, more dependent on the Lord, more knowledgeable about spiritual things, and that is going to make us stronger.

Remember the story of Jabes where Jabes precisely because of the pain he carried as a result of his traumatic birth and the name his mother gave him, Dolor, says that he became a more illustrious man than his other brothers. I believe that it was this suffering that he suffered in his childhood that led him to have a spiritual, emotional, and theological frame that made him outstanding and that led him, in that moment of crying out to God, to issue that beautiful prayer: "Oh, if I you would give blessing and if you would enlarge my territory, if your hand were with me and you delivered me from evil so that it does not harm me".

That prayer was the product, that illustrious, beautiful, powerful, historical prayer was the product of that previous life of suffering and suffering that led him to boredom, he was already tired of his suffering and he said: Lord, if You would change my situation, if You would try with me, if you would help me out of this, and he asked the Lord for four things that changed him, says the Word God granted him what he asked for.

Maybe if he had been a young man like any other out there jumping in his shorts with a bike, a skateboard running around the neighborhood, thinking about the things that a child, a young man thinks, maybe he wouldn't have had that depth of coming before the Lord. and to issue that prayer that changed his destiny, but he had to go through the crucible of trials, of struggle, of suffering, of a lonely childhood, possibly because that is why the Word puts him there, right? That first verse of Second Chronicles I think is 4:9 and 10? where first it was that they called him Pain, he had a traumatic birth and then comes the prayer later.

Okay, here are some ideas, right? what we are talking about. So I want to talk today within that topic of prayer about the prayer of war. I want to talk about the importance of spiritual warfare and specifically directed against evil, against demonic powers. How many believe that Satan is a reality in this world? If you don't believe you are in the wrong place because this is a place that believes that God exists, angels exist and there are also demons in the world and in history. The Bible tells us about fallen angels, they tell us about a dark demonic power that wants to do harm.

The Bible says that Satan only knows how to kill, steal and destroy and also warns us: "Be sober and watchful because your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." The Bible also talks about us being careful with Satan's tricks and techniques, not also giving the devil a hold through anger, through violent emotions in our lives.

The ministry of Jesus Christ was totally affected and related to the powers of evil. When the Lord is born, the devil is there trying to destroy his life through King Herod who orders to kill all newborn male children to try to suppress that life that Satan knows will be a life that will transform destiny. of humanity and he's going to break his grip on humanity, and he tries to kill Jesus, and there he is.

When the Lord begins His ministry before publicly beginning the Kingdom, He determines that there must be a frontal confrontation with Satan and Jesus is taken into the desert to be tested, and in a sense to neutralize the other temptation that occurred in the Garden of Eden, because this being who was going to be a redeemer of humanity and who was going to neutralize the Edenic curse had to, in a sense, also neutralize the tempting power of Satan and He Himself had to be tempted as Adam and Eve were tempted because He is the new man, the new Adam, the new creation, and so he is taken to the desert and has a confrontation with the serpent like Adam and Eve had, and there the tempter subjects him to certain pressures, and who knows how long it lasted that hand in hand between Jesus and Satan, and Satan tempts him in very important areas of ministry. The Lord rebuts everything over and over again with the Word, how important it is to know the Word, right? "For it is written" defeats Satan.

With Satan being defeated, the Lord is now free to enter into His redemptive ministry. And from the very beginning in the synagogue, in one of the first public interventions of Jesus Christ, there is a demoniac in the synagogue, a demoniac man who, upon finding himself in front of the Presence of the Lord, this man, how long was that man in the synagogue? a religious God fearing man? and there was not enough power and anointing in that decrepit system of sterile religious Jewish self-righteousness, not enough power to bring out that demonic oppression that was upon that godly man.

Because it is also something important here, brothers: through my experience with demons, through many years of confrontations and liberation sessions with demon-possessed people, I have found many people from my Church and from other churches, who love the Lord, who in a moment of prayer they have revealed the presence of a demonic spirit in their lives. Don't ask me how that is, I know that there are many Christians who say that: no, a Christian can no longer be affected by Satan, we are already free and this and that; Look, if Satan appears before the Throne of God as he did with Job, why won't he come to the Church in the Lion of Judah Congregation?

And um, there are many people who, either because they were bound by the devil before entering the Gospel or because they have allowed certain situations in their lives, the enemy has entry into their lives, and we are not exempt from the devil's attacks in our lives. . Now, if we are spiritually healthy and know the techniques of spiritual healing, and we know what our authority and the authority of the Name of Christ are, we do not have to suffer from demonic oppression, but we will suffer from continuous temptation and continuous wandering around. from us from the power of hell trying to do damage and to penetrate, that we give him that entrance, that handle as he says, that handle to grab our life, that landing strip in our life.

That is why he says: "Be sober and watchful, because your adversary the devil" who is he speaking to, is he speaking to pagans? He is speaking to Christians, "your adversary walks about looking for someone to devour."

So this man who was in that synagogue for a moment, before the powerful Presence of the Lord because what is happening? In environments where there is the Presence of God and the Power of the Holy Spirit, many spirits and influences that have been silent and calm, secretly harming our lives, come to light, are forced to reveal themselves.

On how many occasions through the years have we experienced that in a moment of worship or anointed prayer there are people who fall manifesting a demonic presence, in this Church we have seen it many times and I have seen it through many years. They experience headaches, some experience terrible anger, others a desire to quickly leave the Church, panic, all these things I have seen; They are not the ones who are there, it is the expression of that hidden power within them that is experiencing great discomfort in the Presence of the Holy Spirit in an environment of worship, so they react and their nervous system translates what they are experiencing on a spiritual level into a headache, anxiety, panic, anger. It is the anger of the devil, it is not the anger of the person.

And so it happened in this case of the demoniac in the synagogue where in the Presence of this anointed Christ the devil says: "What do you have with us Son of David, have you come to torment us before the time?" knowing that another time is coming where they are going to be confronted, and the Lord then rebukes the devil and this man is released. So we see that a Christian can be affected.

Now I ask you: do not go home to look in the mirror to see if you are, I do not want to induce paranoia in this, that there are people who see the devil even in the soup as they say, it is not about that. If you are in Christ Jesus you can live a quiet life, brother, don't go around looking around to see if, no, that's not the idea, is it? but if the devil comes and wants to annoy you, it is better that you have a good spiritual bat in your hand to decapitate him and put him in his place through certain tools that the Word of the Lord provides us with.

By the way, I'll tell you something: do you know that in the primitive Church, in the first centuries of the Christian Church before it lost its anointing with the corruption that came in later centuries, every Christian who was going to be baptized in the Church of the In the first centuries it was subjected to a liberation process because it was assumed that moving as the Christians who were converted to the Lord were in an environment of paganism and worship of false gods that were demons as the Word of the Lord says, in truth behind those false gods , that many people in the Greco-Roman society were going to be demon-possessed, and even though they were in the Church, before being baptized and confirmed as members of the Body of Christ they had to be X-rayed and see if there were any worms or anything there. little worm inside to get rid of it, and every Christian had to go through a process called Ab-Renuntio in Latin which means: "I renounce" and it was a formal renouncement of Satan, hell, the evil and the interests of evil.

And those Christians had to recite that prayer declaring their divorce with all the powers of darkness before being baptized because it was assumed that some of them were going to be demonized by all the practices, and this is the Christians who come from Brazil, from the Dominican Republic And even from Central America, where shamanism and other things are, we know that many of us have been out there doing Santeria and a lot of crap, and visiting different things, and sometimes we are contaminated with it. How many people have been contaminated with this, for example? of the horoscope? or the cup, I'm going to read the cup, right? and some do it as a little game.

There are ignorant Christians. Do not raise your hand but how many times do you go to the horoscope? "Oh I am a Sagittarius, oh I am" I have been asked: Pastor, what sign are you? I tell you: I am of the sign of the cross, of the sign of Christ.

But there are people, right? that sometimes they go to Church and just in case there was not enough anointing they go to the santero or to the witch doctor to help them get out of the problem, that is playing directly with the devil, that is opening a door of contamination because at Your acknowledging that Satan has power to heal you is also acknowledging that he has power to affect your life and it is a deal you make with darkness.

If you were ever involved in something of this type in an ignorant past in your previous life, come before the Lord, renounce all that, reject it in the Name of Jesus, take a little time there and if you want to ask for some help, find someone to be with you in passing, and renounce evil, repent, confess that it was something you should not have done, recognize it as a sin, repent before the Lord, renounce it, close that door and then walk sure that God has done the work on you and don't be looking back in case you're being followed or something.

It is important that we understand all these things because yes, our life even within the Kingdom of God can be affected, and it can be affected either with a fight that we have there, the enemy trying to do something in our life because he has already had an entry, or simply because as children of God we are continually under attack and temptation.

Remember that when the Lord neutralized Satan's work in the wilderness He says that Satan "left him for a while." He said: I'm going to let it cool down a bit and then I'm going to come back and see if I can do it. He said that he was in continuous struggle.

The Son of God tempted in many different ways and sometimes temptation, we can be trapped by a conversation, we can be trapped in many ways brothers. Look: you can be trapped sometimes or you can get into spiritual contamination sometimes by a program, by a movie or by a very powerful image that gets inside you. Now: I don't want to scare you please, I don't want everyone to go from here scared to turn on all the lights in the house before going to bed (laughs), isn't that it, okay?

But I can tell you that the entrances of the enemy into our life are multiple and very mysterious. For example: I don't believe in watching horror movies. When there are so many good things to see in the cinema, why is one watching devils and monsters and things like that? Sometimes I give in a fictional movie a little but I never believe in watching movies where the devil wins or Satan wins, or evil wins, or the criminal gets away with it and in the end the hero ends up lying on the floor all hurt, because those are negative confessions. I like the hero to win the fight and marry the girlfriend he had and everyone live happily in the end even if there is a bit of a fight in between.

But today there are so many movies and so many things that in a sense are like a negative confession that evil wins and the devil wins and the criminal gets away with it. Those are negative confessions. But there are times even when those horror movies and demons and all these things, many times a spirit of fear can get into us or there can be such a strong impression that we are fighting, and these can be energies that get into our house and fill of contamination our home environment, and let us not be surprised that, in some way, the principle of evil enters.

We have to be very careful with what we consume brothers in our daily life, because we are in the fight against evil in many different ways and there are ways in which a contaminating thought can sometimes get into our mind, in our emotional space and and to open a small gap through which the enemy can continuously pour his energies.

That is why I tell them: let's be very careful with the music we listen to, with the soap operas and television programs we watch; I know that four or five of them have already left here and they don't come back to the Church after that (laughs), but let's be careful because all these things are generic, general ways in which negative and destructive spiritual energies can enter our sphere. emotional and spiritual.

If you suffer from tendencies towards depression and melancholy, don't start watching those movies and listening to all dark and sad music, no. Put Gerson Kelling there: "I have a great love" etc. etc No? (laughs) rather enjoy the positive aspect of God. Read good biblical texts that encourage you and give you strength, that speak of the Kingdom of God and its power, and your positive character, don't be around contributing.

These are all ways right? In that we can maintain our emotional health knowing that this is a matter of every day in our life, we always have to be watching that dimension, again, because Satan walks around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour, right? so we have to be very careful and see this.

I believe brothers that, and by the way: actually my theme today, I wanted to use the bent woman as an example of the fight against the powers of evil but time is running out so come to the same channel, same Now and (laughs), we can then see why I like an example, a biblical case of how these things work, but remember what I'm saying here now, right?

Because brothers, in principle as a product of the fall Satan has gained in a sense sovereignty over the world in which we live. We inhabit a world occupied by hostile powers against the health of humanity. When man failed in the Garden of Eden, the principle of evil, of death, entered the cosmos, the world we inhabit, and man has ceded control of humanity to the devil. That is why the Bible speaks of Satan as the prince of this world, right? it speaks clearly that the world is in the power of the enemy.

The political powers, the economies of the world, the philosophical, academic-artistic systems of this world are in the last instance; If they are not committed and consecrated, and surrendered to the Lordship of Christ, they are under demonic influence, because the only one capable of maintaining the world's systems is called Christ Jesus. The only one capable of maintaining the cleanliness of a nation, of a community, of a city, of a Church is the active Presence of the Holy Spirit and the Power of Christ in him or her.

In a house, in a marriage, in a family, if you are not surrendered to the Power of God and Christ Jesus in an active way, you are under the influence of the devil. That is why it says that the whole world is under the influence of the evil one, that is what the Word says, not me. That is why we see so many systems today; the more this society strays from the protection that only Christ can give it, the more it enters the open domain of the powers of darkness.

That is why we are seeing what is happening in the United States, in our culture, that to the extent that science increases, technology increases, culture increases, the sense of sufficiency of man and man increases. It is rejecting more and more the Lordship of God and the Word of God in these societies that have historically been Christian but are turning away. What happens? that the devil and the power of hell continues to grow and take over more and more of these systems that are supposed to be benevolent for the defense of man and his well-being but are being taken over by the power of the enemy, and there is war incarnated right now as never before between the powers of darkness and the powers of light, and we are part of that, our children are part of that.

Don't you believe that a lot of what is being taught today in schools and in health systems, and in music and all that, are instruments of the devil that are being used to possess our children and our children? All the teachings today about homosexuality and pornography, and promiscuity, the rampant materialism that exists in the culture, the use of music to plant in our children and in our youth feelings of rebellion against authority, of abuse of women, of violence.

Look right here in Boston: a dean of students at one of Boston's most notorious schools in jail because he shot one of his students trying to execute him by selling drugs inside the school. This man, a well-known activist here in the Boston community accused of trying to gang-style execute this young man, this student, and this is what's happening here in our culture, and our children are part of that fight.

I believe that a Church, a Christian system that does not understand the importance of fighting and resisting the work of the devil and demons in human life, it would be better if they changed their name from Christian to something else, eh, social church of the goodwill or whatever but don't call yourselves Christians because the Christian worldview is a worldview that includes the interference and influence of the powers of Satan and the powers of the devil, and the need to resist it with the power of the Spirit Holy and of the Name of Jesus, His blood and His death on the cross, and His resurrection.

You have to live your life in that mentality of resistance to evil without becoming paranoid or living around like: the little devil is going to get me, no, no. As you eat breakfast and brush your teeth, so also cover yourself with the blood of Jesus, cover your house with the blood of Christ, continually examine yourself, keep your life healthy, make sure you have good spiritual life techniques in your life, dedicate yourself to holiness, consecrate yourself, in your life do not give any entrance to the devil to accuse you or to try to gain an entrance into your life because once Satan gets into your life to get him out of there is very difficult, and it is better to simply not give that place to the devil, not give room to Satan, and always have this knowledge that we are in spiritual warfare and that we have to continually submit our lives, our marriages, our families to the dominion and Lordship of Christ in us, amen ?

So this is part of emotional healing. What I want you to remember is this, that: there are many things in your life, there are emotional ties, there are marital situations, there are conflicts in your family, there are health and financial situations that are not always right? I like to say that, not always but many times and sometimes they may have a component of spiritual warfare and the fight against evil, and it is important that you know that you have power and authority in the Name of Jesus.

You are a child of God. Christ has given us power over the works of the devil says the Word of the Lord, and you do not have to be a graduated theologian or a pastor, or an evangelist to keep your house clean and your life healthy spiritually, use the power that you have, use your mouth to tell Satan: I rebuke you in Christ's Name, I bind you in Christ's Name, you have no entry into my life, and when you feel some things that are hurting you in your life it simply doesn't do any harm to direct you also the enemy and neutralize it, and declare the grace of God in your life, the good Will of the Lord in your home.

Bless your home every morning, bless your marriage, bless your husband or wife, your children, your family, your body, your health, always declare the grace of the Lord that casts out and pushes the works of evil within you and keep your life heals spiritually because rebuke is not a talisman, it is not a magic word, it is not a hocus-pocus that you say: oh the blood of Christ; If your life is not supported by that blood, then you will not be effective against the enemy. A life of consecration is required, a life of surrender, of subjection to the Lord, of continuous confession, of efforts to live a holy and pleasing life to the Lord, of obedience.

But if these things are in you then you are going to have a lot of authority and you are not going to have to live under the slavery of the enemy, you can live a free and healthy life even when you still have struggles in your life because the Lord will have the last word in all the affairs of your life, amen? may the Lord bless you.

Lower your head for a moment and at least we are going to take a second to do an internal examination of our life and ask ourselves: in what areas of my life am I possibly giving entry to the enemy? Is there an area of my life that I have to cleanse and consecrate to the Lord? Is there some area, some practice, something in my unconfessed past, is there any moment in my past life in which I directly gave entrance to the enemy due to an improper practice or some occult experience? Or is there something that I am doing in my life that perhaps is not occult or openly spiritual, like that, negative, but that I clearly see that it is not consonant and in harmony with God's principles? and I am practicing this, giving it entry and I need to repent before God, I need to put it at the feet of Christ, I need to sanctify it by presenting it to the Lord and asking Him to free me from it.

I want you to make a commitment right now in your heart to deal with that in your life, to consecrate yourself over and over again to the principle of Christ Jesus and the Kingdom of God, and to seek more each day that life committed and delivered to the Holy Spirit. War in favor of your children, in favor of your home, do not allow anything from the enemy to enter your house as much as possible.

And if you don't remember that repentance is incredible medicine, when you acknowledge your sin and bring it to the Lord, you repent and turn that over to the Lord, and make a decision to seek Him anew, the Lord will do His Work in you and He will keep you safe.

But right now I ask you: renounce any area that you feel is not in accordance with the principles of the Kingdom of God and surrender it to the Lord, reject any deal, any pact that you have made with the enemy in your past life, renounce it right now Close that door in Jesus' Name.

If you come from a family that has been affected by evil in powerful ways, tell the Lord right now: Father, I constitute a new generation, a new stage of my family lineage and I break here and now the works of evil in my family, and I declare myself healthy, sound, clean in the Name of Jesus and I declare my life covered with the authority of Christ, with the powerful blood of Jesus shed on the cross of Calvary, and I affiliate myself with the Kingdom of God, and I renounce the Kingdom of darkness and evil.

I embrace Jesus as my Lord, my sovereign, my God, and the principles of the Kingdom of God and the Word of God, confess that there in your heart and in your spirit, and when you are at home do the same, and declare to the Lord, your renunciation of everything that contradicts the principles of the Kingdom of God, holiness, purity, love, integrity, justice, grace, forgiveness, repentance, these are the weapons of faith, the weapons that They are powerful weapons of light for the destruction of the fortresses that want to attack and destroy your life, oh Lord, thank you, thank you Father, we adore you and bless you.

If you want to stand up where you are in the light of this prayer that we have made as an additional sign of firmness in what you are confessing, stand up right now and affirm what you have done before God, and confess there with his act: Sir, there is no turning back. I commit myself to the values of Your Kingdom, thank you Lord Jesus.

I don't know if you understood everything I'm saying because I said: if you prayed that prayer and you want to affirm it, stand up, so if you haven't stood up, I'm assuming you haven't.

Thank you Lord, I adore you, I bless you, thank you for Your Work in this Congregation, thank you Father. We declare that we are a new creation in Christ Jesus, that there is no power that can prevail against Your Church or against Your children, our families, our interests if Christ and the banner of the Gospel are firmly planted in our lives.

I bless Your people Father and I declare Your Grace over this Congregation, Your protection Father, we rebuke all the work of the evil one, all evil intentions on the health and life of this Church in all its different manifestations Father, we consider ourselves healed and cleansed, and reestablished by the Power of Christ who has defeated the devil and has undone the works of Satan, and has crucified him on the cross together with Christ Jesus, and has destroyed all accusations of the devil against us, thank you Lord, we adore you, we bless you and God's people say: amen, God bless you my brothers, the Grace of the Lord be with you.