Warfare: Curses & Captivity I

Start Here: Forgive Our Sin

Then Here: Armor of God

Receive Holy Spirit Guidance

• Let Your Holy Spirit help us to pray because Your Word says that we do not know how to pray as we ought but that the Holy Spirit helps in our weaknesses and makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26)

• Let the Holy Spirit make intercession through and for us according to the will of God (Romans 8:27)

• Let the Holy Spirit guide us into all the truth and declare to us the things that are to come (John 16:13)

• Let the Holy Spirit baptize us fully as with the apostles, let tongues of Holy Spirit fire rest upon each of us and let us receive Your Holy Spirit power so that we are led by the Holy Spirit in everything pertaining to this life (Acts 1:5-8 & Acts 2:1-4)

The Sword of The Word

Satan, the Lord rebuke you (Zechariah 3:2 | Jude 1:9). Behold, you are fallen from heaven like lightning. Christ beheld you fall from heaven like lightning, and He has given us authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy so that nothing will harm us. (Luke 10:18-19)

Oh Lord, our God

• “Is not Your Word like as a fire? and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29)

  • Let Your Word that we speak below burn all curses and captivity of our spirits, souls and bodies as a fire. Let Your Word that we speak below break as a hammer all curses and captivity of our spirits, souls and bodies

• Let the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, slay all principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in any high places that have held any part of us captive in any way or under any curse (Ephesians 6:12 & 17)

Bloodline Repentance

• In the Name of Jesus Christ, forgive us the sins of the parents that caused You to punish the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation (Exodus 20:5)

  • Forgive us and the generations before us for making ourselves images in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below (Exodus 20:4-5)

  • Forgive us for bowing down to them or worshiping them (Exodus 20:4)

• They have said that ‘God lays up one’s iniquity for his children’ (Job 21:19) and that that one has not cared for his household after him (Job 21:21)

  • Forgive us all iniquity of our ancestors that was laid up for us

• We sinned against You and You gave us for plunder and to the robbers, for we did not walk in Your ways and were not obedient to Your law. You poured out on us the fury of Your anger, and set us on fire all around and it burned us, yet we did not know or take it to heart (Isaiah 42:24-25)

• For our iniquities, we have sold ourselves (Isaiah 50:1)

• Lord, You said that You would pay it back into our laps, both our iniquities and those of our fathers (Isaiah 65:7)

  • Forgive us for whatever fault our ancestors found in You, that they strayed so far from You, and followed worthless idols (Jeremiah 2:5)

  • Forgive us for whatever sin has caused You to bring charges against our ancestors' children (Jeremiah 2:9)

  • Forgive us for exchanging our glorious God for worthless idols (Jeremiah 2:11)

  • Forgive us where our ancestors sinned such that they are no more, but we still bear their punishment (Lamentations 5:7)

• Let it no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’  (Jeremiah 31:29)

• We come to You, Jesus Christ, who brings the new promise from God, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's (Hebrews 12:24). Let the blood of Jesus speak better things than the Blood of Abel

  
  

Captivity Repentance

• Forgive us for having been taken captive by the devil to do his will - bring us to our senses and help us escape the snare of the devil (2 Timothy 2:26)

  • We renounce and denounce all captivity and servitude to Satan and to any of his fallen angels, evil spirits, false religions and false prophets. Everywhere that we did his will, we repent, renounce and denounce that captivity and that sin

• Forgive us where we've been taken captive, loaded down with sins and led away by various lusts (2 Timothy 3:6)

  • We renounce and denounce all service to, partnership with or worship to any principalities, any powers, any rulers of the darkness of this world, any spiritual wickedness in any high places (Ephesians 6:12)

New Covenants

• Let the new covenant in the blood of Jesus Christ (Luke 22:20) replace any covenant we made with the kingdom of darkness that is affecting our bodies, souls, minds or spirits

• Redeem us from the transgressions committed and covenants made under the first covenant (Hebrews 9:15)

• In standing on Your covenant, Jesus Christ, we make the first one obsolete (Hebrews 8:13)

  
  

Fight The Oppressors

• Under compulsion, let the devil let us go, and under compulsion let him drive us out of his land (Exodus 6:1)

• For thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me." (Exodus 9:1)

• Cause our enemies who rise against us to be defeated before our faces; that they shall come out against us one way and flee before us seven ways (Deuteronomy 28:7)

• In the Name of Jesus Christ, let all wicked ones return the captives taken captive, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon these wicked (2 Chronicles 28:11)

• We call on You, Lord, to lead captivity captive (Psalm 68:18 / Ephesians 4:8)

• We will take them captive whose captives we were, and we rule over our oppressors - principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that have set themselves against us (Isaiah 14:2)

• Behold, all those who were incensed against us, shall be ashamed and disgraced, they shall be as nothing, and those who strive with us shall be defeated. We shall seek them and not find them, those who contended with us. Those who war against us, shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. For You the Lord our God, will hold our right hands, saying to us not to fear for You will help us (Isaiah 41:11-13)

• Let the destroyers and those who laid us water go away from us (Isaiah 49:17)

• Let those who swallowed us up be far away (Isaiah 49:19)

• Let the captives of the mighty be taken away, and the prey of the terrible be delivered, for You will contend with them who contend with us, and You will save Your children (Isaiah 49:25)

• Let the bonds of wickedness that were put on us be loosed, and the straps of the yoke be undone, let the oppressors set us free and break every yoke upon us (Isaiah 58:6)

• Against all evil that has touched the inheritance You have caused Your people to inherit—pluck them out of our land and pluck out our houses from among them (Jeremiah 12:14)

• Lord, break their yokes from our necks, and tear away their shackles from off of us, and cut off the carved images and cast all idols from the houses of these false gods (Nahum 1:13-14)

  
  

• Let the angels of God, mighty in strength who carry out Your word, who hearken to the voice of Your command, all Your hosts, Your servants who do Your Will (Psalm 103:20-21) sent forth as ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14) deliver us from the domain of darkness and transfer us to the Kingdom of Your beloved Son (Colossians 1:13)

• Let the angel of the LORD that encamps around we who fear You deliver us (Psalm 34:7)

• Lord, command Your angels concerning us to guard us in all our ways - let them lift us up in their hands, so that we will not strike our feet against stones, so that we will tread on the lions and cobras that attack us, so that we will trample the young lions and serpents that attack us (Psalm 91:11-13)

• Let no evil befall us, no plague approach our tents (Psalm 91:10)

  
  

Freedom From Captivity

• Bring us back from any captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the South (Psalm 126:4)

• Stretch out Your hand from above, rescue us and deliver us out of great waters (Psalm 144:7), reach down from on high and take hold of us, draw us out of deep waters. Reach down from heaven and rescue me (Psalm 18:16)

• Lord, we once went into captivity because we had no knowledge (Isaiah 5:13), but we now know that You bring back the captivity of Your people and we call on You to lead captivity captive (Psalm 68:18 / Ephesians 4:8)

• You are the Lord who causes captives to return, and rebuilds them as at the first. You will return the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: “Praise the Lord of hosts, For the Lord is good, For His mercy endures forever”— and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. You will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first (Jeremiah 32:44 / 33:7 & 11)

• You who brought back the captives of Moab (Jeremiah 48:47)

  • Bring us back from any captivity

• You who brought back the captives of Ammon (Jeremiah 49:6)

  • Bring us back from any captivity

• You who brought back the captives of Elam (Jeremiah 49:39)

  • Let the angel of the Lord that encamps around we who fear You deliver us (Psalm 34:7). Command Your angels concerning us (Psalm 91:11)

• You who brings back the captives of Jacob, have mercy on the whole house of Israel, You who is jealous for Your Holy Name - let us know that You are the Lord our God, who brings us back and leaves none of us captive any longer (Ezekiel 39:25-28)

• For You Lord our God will intervene for us and return us from captivity (Zephaniah 2:7)

• For the Spirit of the Lord God is here, anointed to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound (Isaiah 61:1 / Luke 4:18)

• You have said that You will bring us back, even at the time You will gather us - for You will give us fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when You return us from captivity (Zephaniah 3:20)

• You have said that You will bring back the captives of Your people Israel, and we shall build the waste cities and inhabit them, we shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them, we shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them (Amos 9:14)

Restore Our Souls

• Lord, in the Name of Jesus Christ, restore our souls (Psalms 23:3)

• Bring our souls out of prison, that we may praise Your Name (Psalm 142:7)

• You are our Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. You will make us into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth, to thresh mountains and beat them small and make hills like chaff (Isaiah 41:14-15)

• Restore us, and cause us to inherit the desolate heritages. Say to every prisoner to "go forth" and to those who are in darkness to show themselves (Isaiah 49:8-9)

• Give us a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit, that we may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that You may be glorified (Isaiah 61:3)

• Let our light come, and the glory of the Lord rise upon us (Isaiah 60:1)

• Isaiah 61

  • We pray You'd rebuild the old ruins

  • We pray You'd raise up the former desolations

  • We pray You'd repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations

  • We pray You'd restore upon us the garments of salvation and robe of righteousness

• May The Lord once again call our names, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit (Jeremiah 11:16)

• Let the angel of the Lord instruct that our filthy clothes be taken off, take away our sin, and put fine garments on us (Zechariah 3:4)

• Restore to us the years that the swarming locusts, the hoppers, the destroyers, and the cutters ate (Joel 2:25)

• Lord Jesus Christ, the glory that the Father gave You, You have given to us, that we may be one even as You are one (John 17:22). Restore that glory and that oneness to our spirits, souls and bodies

• Restore all the inheritance that is due to us as heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17)

• Restore every spiritual blessing that You gave us in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:3)

Deliverance

• For we know that we have the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, that whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Matthew 16:19 | 18:18)

  • We therefore loose ourselves from all captivity that once bound us to any iniquity

• Let the angels of God, mighty in strength who carry out Your word, who hearken to the voice of Your command, all Your hosts, Your servants who do Your Will (Psalm 103:20-21) sent forth as ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14) deliver us from the domain of darkness and transfer us to the Kingdom of Your beloved Son (Colossians 1:13)

• Let the angel of the LORD that encamps around we who fear You deliver us (Psalm 34:7)

• Lord, command Your angels concerning us to guard us in all our ways - let them lift us up in their hands, so that we will not strike our feet against stones, so that we will tread on the lions and cobras that attack us, so that we will trample the young lions and serpents that attack us (Psalm 91:11-13)

• Let no evil befall us, and let no plague approach our tents (Psalm 91:10)

In the mighty Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.

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