Bind and Loose

MARCH 21, 2017

This day was a hard day. I stayed with the Lord all day but I felt distracted by something I couldn’t put my finger on. I have come to understand that if I will step back and look at it from a spiritual perspective there is either warfare involved or demonic activity skulking about.

TUESDAY WAS LIKE THAT

It took me a while to identify it this time. It felt merely like I was disconnected. Most days I spend with Jesus and the Holy Spirit are calm and sweet even if it takes me most of the day to enter into His mind about a matter.

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!

There was warfare involved. What the Lord showed me is that there is a lying spirit that is confronting our nation. It is across the board. The Lord wanted us to do spiritual warfare against it and bind it.

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH BINDING AND LOOSING?

Matthew 16:13-19 (NKJV) ¹³ When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” ¹⁴ So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” ¹⁵ He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” ¹⁶ Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” ¹⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. ¹⁸ And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. ¹⁹ And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

CAESAREA PHILIPPI IS AN UNUSUAL PLACE

A few years ago my husband Wallace and I went to Israel. We went to the place that Jesus took His disciples when He taught them the principle of Binding and Loosing. What many may not know is that this place was the seat of pagan worship and thought to be the very entry way of hell. I thought it was interesting that Jesus would take them to the very place as an object lesson to teach them about the authority they had to stop darkness. But that is exactly what He did.

HOW DO WE BIND AND LOOSE?

If you decide to pray with us you will hear me bind and loose. I use my mouth and call it a lying spirit and I bind it. What does binding do? It stops the spirit that is behind the lie from having a full reign with the lie. That is the authority that we possess. Jesus gave us the keys of the kingdom just as he told Peter. Keys represent authority. I have authority over whatever I have keys to open.

BINDING AND LOOSING IS A VERBAL EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY

I say it out loud with the people of God and God backs us as we say to something, “I bind you in the name of Jesus!” Now I don’t do this recklessly. This is a corporate activity.

WE ARE NOT TO BE FOOLISH IN WARFARE

I have had people be foolish in the fight. In other words, they weren’t living as a sold out believer and yet thought they could play with authority and it got them in trouble. I could tell some stories!!!

ONE DAY I’LL DO A BLOG ON HOW TO WAR

But today I just recommend that you pray through the prayer time as we cry out for the nation and the church of the nation.

Blessings!