Spiritual Warfare and How To Protect Your House

ACTUAL PICTURE TAKEN FROM RECENT TORNADO IN ALABAMA

We have all be rattled lately about the rounds of storms and tornados that ripped through the heart of the south destroying many homes and family. The tornado's in Alabama took the lives of 226 people. But during the Supernatural Series that we are in as a church you need to know that there is something far more dangerous than a tornado trying to destroy you house especially the things inside your house. Below I am going to give you some instructions that we talked about last night at ENCOUNTER about Home Blessings and how to protect and be on the offense when it comes to Spiritual Warfare in the home.

To understand the reason for a house blessing, we first have to understand the concept of the authority we have in the spiritual realms. Scripture tells us in Ephesians 2:6 and 6:1 that we have authority in Christ. By no means are those the only scriptures about the authority we have been given in Christ. Scripture tells us that we have the same power that raised Christ from the dead living in us through the power of the Holy Spirit. Our authority extends to every realm of our lives, including the territory in which we live. We have legal rights in the spirit world over our homes. Even though this is sometimes tough that understand or grasp but the enemy may have gained a place to stand due ti the previous owner of the home you live in because of choices they made, practices they did, or sin that took place in that house. Sometime when we buy a used home we never know the lifestyle of the people living in it before us whether they were adulterers, violent, occultist, murders, or other types of people or practices that occur inside a house that may give the enemy enough authority to make life difficult for the next owner. Our legal right to own or rent the house also gives us the authority to cancel any claims the enemy can make because of previous activities there or previous agreements. This extends not only to the dwelling, but to the property, and its heritage. Our purpose today is to claim authority over our houses and to exert the power in Christ to cancel all previous agreements that many have been made with the enemy inside the walls of your home.

Also, we will pray back over the history of the land, asserting our authority in Christ to cancel any enemy rights gained through the generations that lived on or owned this property. If this property was ever used for violence, war, murder, or occult or tribal worship, we have the authority in CHrist to break the rights of Satan to occupy it.

Here is an example of how to pray: Lord Jesus, you have all authority in heaven and earth, and you have delegated authority to us as the present owners of this house. Our authority permits us to cancel all agreements with the previous owners and all rights given to the enemy by them. We thus break all Satanic power of this house and the land on which it stands, and we bless this house with the power and presence of God.

I would pray this prayer over any rooms in the house where Satan may have gained ground in the present as well. I would pray this prayer over the property over the property in which the house rests as well.

If you travel, prayer a prayer of protection over your home and family. THis home is a place where Christ resides, our children are a gift from God and we dedicate them to Christ.

You may find it helpful to put scripture around your home, on the doorposts of your house in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as an action of consecration.

Here is an example of a House Cleansing Prayer for you: Heavenly Father, I acknowledge that you are Lord of heaven and Earth. In your sovereign power and love, you have given us all things richly to enjoy. Thank you for this place to live. We claim this home for our family as a place of spiritual safety and protection from all the attacks of the enemy. As children of God seated with CHrist in the heavenly realm, we command every evil spirit claiming ground in the structures and furnishings of this place, based on activities of previous occupants, to leave and never return. We renounce all curses and spells utilized against this place. We ask You, heavenly Father, to post guardian angels around this home to guard it form attempts of the enemy to enter and disturb your purposes for us. We thank you Lord, for doing this, and pray in the name of the Lord Jesu Christ. Amen.

Here is an example of a Bedtime Prayer of Protection: Thank you Lord, that you have brought me into your family and blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in CHrist. Thank you for providing this time of renewal through sleep. I accept it as part of your perfect plan for your children, and I trust you to guard my mind, and body during my sleep. As I have meditated on you and your truth during the day, I choose now to let these thoughts continue in my mind while asleep. I commit myself to you and your protection from every attempt of Stan or his emissaries to attack me while I sleep. I commit myself to you as my rock, my fortress and my resting place. I pray in the strong name of Jesus. Amen.

When you pray you have to say these prayers out loud because the enemy cannot read your mind so you have to pray it, speak it out loud! Say it with confidence, boldness, and authority not in our own strength but in His! When I start to feel the enemies oppression I just recall verses that I've memorized and I recite them out loud so that the enemy can hear them! God's Word is truth and it comes in the authority of Jesus!

Another thing to do in closing that I love to do of course if play worship music in your home. Put on a worship CD with your kids at night as they fall asleep or during the day so that their spirits will be full of words of praise!