What area’s in your life do you feel
the enemy has gained territory? With
your finances, your children, your marriage, your heath, or in your neighborhood?
Perhaps the enemy has gained territory in all of these areas, or maybe you can
identity other areas the enemy has taken over.
Gaining
territory means to take over or to possess a certain thing.
In
many instances we allow the enemy to take what rightfully belongs to us. Understanding that we have
dominion and authority to bind and rebuke the enemy is key to taking back what
belongs to us. However, it is not just binding and rebuking the enemy, it is
also decreeing and declaring what God says about your life and the those that
you love. The word declare comes from
the Hebrew word achvah, meaning “to
make known.” We make declarations into the atmospheres making known what is
already our possession. Decrees are used to cause the truths of the heavenly realm
to be manifest in the natural realm. Such as decreeing healing when we are
sick. We make decrees and declarations as sons and daughters of the King and by
the truth established in the Word of God. Speaking what God says about your
situation will change the atmosphere around you and establish your position of
rightfully taking back what the enemy has attempted to take from you. We have
authority to speak life into every situation that is trying to steal and
destroy from us.
Reflect:
Repossessing
your territory takes perseverance, faith and persistence.
The enemy probably won’t just hand over easily what he has taken from you, but
in your daily prayer time of decreeing
and declaring and taking authority of the works of darkness, the enemy will
have no choice but to give back what he has wrongfully taken from you. You may
have to contend for a while before the full release happens. Contend means to
war in the heavens until you get everything that has been stolen from you by
the enemy back. Don’t give up in gaining your territory if after a few prayers nothing
seems to be changing-KEEP CONTENDING for your breakthrough!
The enemy wants you to believe your prayers are not
working and that you are wasting your time. Walk in faith until the full
manifestation has occurred. You may be saying,” Yeah I know but I’ve had this issue
for over 10 years and I have prayed but still no change.” Start believing and
speaking your breakthrough is coming. Speak the opposite of what you feel or
see. If you believe God wants you healed, wants you to be out of debt, or wants
you to live in peace, but those things have not manifested yet physically-KEEP
CONTENDING! Learn to be a fighter, a warrior for your territory.
Repossessing your territory may not happen immediately
but one step at a time. The more steps that you gain for the Kingdom of God
through prayer, decreeing and declaring, walking in dominion and authority and
walking by faith; the enemy will know that he is losing ground and eventually
will surrender to your relentless faith. If you are in a battle for your stolen
territory, take courage that most battles are won by pursuing, overtaking, and
eventually destroying your enemy-this takes time, so don’t give up weary
warriors of God. Put your battle clothes back on on and get back in the fight and
you will overcome the enemy this time.
Meditate:
Behold,
I
have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Luke 10:19, ESV
Then
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness. And let them
have dominion over the fish of the
sea and over the birds of heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth
and over every creeping thing that creeps on earth. Genesis 1:26
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