Spiritual Warfare (binding spiritual powers)

 In my last post, I gave a warning about binding satan and principalities and powers.  I’m now better prepared to walk through, my limited understanding on this. It all started while I first started praying for the sick.  Holy Spirit was healing people all around my area, but in Middlesboro, KY I would pray for the sick and pray for the deliverance of individuals in that area. For approximately a year no one was healed or delivered, I started taking people outside the city limits, then they were healed and delivered. It made no sense to me.  I started learning about spiritual principalities and powers and along with other spiritual leaders concluded that it was jezebel and the spirit of religion.  My wife, myself and others started binding these principalities including satan.  Suddenly, bad things started to happen. I was rammed into by a car, there was a ditch between myself and where the car was coming from, yet somehow he hit my car. The authorities concluded that I had pulled out in front of him. And ascertained that where I said I was at, when he hit me, wasn’t the truth.  My wife on several occasions felt like someone was choking her and she couldn’t breath. The list goes on and on.  Then one day we were in the parking lot of a church, we had just bound jezebel and my wife was spiritually attacked again. She couldn’t breath.  I declared against it, the attacked stopped.  We started to put it all together and concluded that this isn’t the way to conduct spiritual warfare. 

Now, follow me as I make scriptural sense of this. First, while on  the earth as a man, Jesus never bound  satan, principalities or powers, there are zero accounts of this, nor did He instructs His disciples to do so. He did say “get thee behind me satan”, but that was as far as it went. Now, as near as I can tell there are three heavens stated in the scriptures.

Genesis 1:7

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. Genesis 1:8

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

So if there is a first heaven and a third heaven, then there’s a second heaven. Which most theologians agree that is where the spiritual principalities and powers dwell.

The devil is also called the prince of the air, which is implied to be the first and second heavens.

Psalm 115:16

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth has He given to the children of men.

In this psalm we In Christ have spiritual authority on the earth, which the lower demons inhabit as well, so we are able to use our authority against them.  But the heavens are the Lord’s heavens, this is where the spiritual powers and principalities dwell.  There is a chain of command among the powers of darkness, as well as regional boundaries.  See Matthew 8. 

Read the entire chapter of Job 41 and  even 40 and then one can see the spiritual connotations within it.  Understand the spiritual implications within this chapter.  Leviathan on a physical level is a crocodile, but spiritually represents satan, principalities and powers  (my opinion)

Job 41

8) Lay thine hand upon him,
remember the battle, do no more.

Read the whole chapter of Isaiah 27, once again this implies that principality and powers are the Lord’s.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword
shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent,
even leviathan that crooked serpent;
and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

So when we are binding above our authority, we are no longer protected by Christ, because we have directly gone outside of our authority and against God’s Will.  I have tried to condense a huge study into a smaller package.  It may also seem to be stretching scripture a bit, but keep reading and the solution should make sense and it also works! Also, read John Paul Jackson book Needless Casualities of War. I still haven’t read it, but I know that he does use the same versus and have had similar experiences as I have. In fact, I believe I’m going to read it today.

Staying within our spiritual authority

Ok, so how do we remove principality and powers, from out of a certain region?  The Lord inhabits our praise and worship, so extreme praise and worship of The Father and Jesus displaces principalities and powers.  Also, declaring and releasing Blessings upon the area also displaces them. As well as coming together as a body of Christ and asking Jesus to remove them.  A wonderful example of this is Manchester, KY (renamed City of Hope), was a drug infested city infested with the spirit of addiction, they came together as a spiritual community and cried out to God.  This was around 2006 and now today what was a dying town is recovering. My area started doing this in 2012 called “Standing in the Gap” and are seeing positive results as well.  Research this out and you will find that this 100 mile area was determined to be one of the worse in our nation with drug connected crimes and corruption. It is changing.

Also, I can now report within 6 months, the sick are getting healed and more and more people are being delivered, saved and set free.  I now no longer hestitate to pray for the sick in my area. In fact, recently the Holy Spirit has healed and delivered every person I’ve prayed for. Glory to God!! And others have reported more and more people being healed, Praise God.  This is what I’ve learned so far, on this topic.  Praise, Worship and Prayer is always the answer, but it must be done within the authority that The Father and Jesus has given us!