Spiritual Contracts and Doors
What spiritual agreement have you signed up for?
A month and a half ago I was with my home group where I give teachings twice a month and have guest speakers on spiritual topics. On this one particular day we were doing an exercise to see what Jesus wanted to say to us (I don’t remember the context of it). During the exercise, I heard Him tell me He was leading me through deliverance at this time in my life. I was happy to receive it! After all, I didn’t and still don’t want anything getting in the way of my identity in Christ or my calling. After that point in time and even up to now, He has been bringing things to my attention.
On one particular night, a few weeks ago, in my response to welcoming deliverance and partnering with it, I guided myself through self-deliverance with a guided booklet on things to renounce. I renounced any wrong thinking I may have believed, anything I confessed or allowed in my life that does not line up with my identity in Christ and any attacks made against me by the enemy including curses and such. I read out loud, breaking agreements with these things and adding anything to it that I could think of that I may have possibly agreed to, including areas in my life that I felt attacked in and anything else that I allowed (knowingly or unknowingly) that did not line up with my spiritual identity. It was good.
After I finished the guided self-deliverance from the booklet, I sought the Lord to see if there was anything else He wanted to add to that. When that was over I went into prayer just to pray and be close to God and I was able to get deeper into prayer than I had been in a long time. The self-deliverance session helped me get into deeper prayer because I renounced things that were getting in the way and distracting me from full intimacy with God in prayer. It was night time and I went to bed after that.
During my sleep, I woke up to hear my spirit doing self-deliverance for me. I felt my spirit listening to God and seeking Him on what to renounce. I then heard my spirt speaking, breaking off agreements and contracts with the enemy as the Lord lead. What a way to do deliverance in the purity of it! I didn’t hear the Lord, but my spirit did and I knew what my spirit was doing.
My spirit was doing deliverance on little things that I didn’t even think would have affected me. I was shocked by some of the things I heard that I thought didn’t matter. Then, I heard my spirit renounce Islam. For those who don’t know, I was a muslim for a year and was involved in sufism (a mystical form of Islam). I had renounced Islam and sufism many times since being born again in Christ. However, I must have agreed to something regarding it or allowed something to come in, opening a spiritual door. As I was still shocked to hear that I was renouncing it again, I heard a voice that I immediately recognized (because I heard it many times in the past) ask me “Do you really need to renounce that?” As if it renouncing Islam was something little and silly that I didn’t need to do. I knew it was the enemy (devil, evil spirit, whatever you want to call it). I got angry at that point and woke myself up, speaking out loud, renouncing Islam and any contracts that I have made with Islam along with any agreements. I slept the rest of the night and the encounters continued the next night as well.
As I was sleeping the next night, I had a vision of a contract that was one and a half pages long with several paragraphs. Again, I heard the enemy speaking to me and he was speaking in a very “matter of a fact” tone, pointing out in each paragraph something that someone did to me and why I should be offended at them. Immediately I knew who it was he was speaking about.
I had a friend years ago that I became offended at for various reasons which I will not get into. I was hurt and I didn’t want to even be in the same room with this person during that time. My offense and unforgiveness for this person made me feel like I was in prison where I constantly thought about what was done to me over and over again (even when I didn’t want to think about it anymore). No matter how much I wanted to forgive, it was hard. I had to keep forgiving throughout the years and Jesus helped me with that, literally, which is a discussion for another time.
After the enemy was finished pointing out why I should be offended at this person, he asked me “So do you want to be offended?” Again, this holy anger rose up in me and I woke myself up and sat up in bed and spoke out loud saying “I am not offended at “insert name” and I break off any contracts and agreements I made with the spirit of offense. I do not agree with offense and I forgive “insert name” and anyone else that has hurt me or that I have been offended at”. This was not the only contract that I saw in the spirit, in a vision that night.
There was another contract I saw and I don’t know what it was about because I recognized what was happening at the tail end of the vision when I heard the enemy say in an uplifting voice “If you ever want to come back to this it will be here for you.” As if it was a happy thing. Again, I woke up and rebuked the enemy. The next day, I had opportunities to be offended at different people and various situations, but I wasn’t and it felt good. This was the result of me renouncing and not agreeing with the spirit of offense. I knew that my words and actions of not agreeing with the enemy had affect.
I have come to understand that when people do things that are not nice, even bad, they are not acting out of their true nature. A lot of things can affect them in the spirit realm, controlling them and their actions. Things happen in the spirit realm first before they are manifested in the world as we know. It first happens as a thought that the enemy gives you. If you agree with that thought then you’ve just opened up a door that the enemy wants you to walk through. Now, you’ve made that illegal thing (the thing that could hurt you) legal. Basically, it’s similar to signing a contract with the enemy.
Once you agree to that one thing, lets’s say offense, then the enemy can persuade you to add other things to it. Why not sprinkle some unforgiveness to that offense or pride? How about anger? These are not representations of our image in Christ. They are representations of death. Not only can agreeing with the enemy change your relationships, but it can change your life. Don’t agree with the enemy because as Jesus spoke in John 10:10, the enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy us.
John 10:10
The thief does not come except that he would steal and he would kill and he would destroy: I came so that they would have life and they would have abundance. I AM the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life on behalf of His sheep
The choice is ours. We may be presented with ideas and feelings from the enemy in any area of our life to pervert our thinking and take us away from our true identity in Christ. Cast down every imagination and thought that exalts itself above God. Jesus said that you may have not sinned by doing an action, but even if you do it in your imagination, you’ve already sinned in your heart (Matthew 5:27-30). Don’t let the enemy get a foot hold in your life by agreeing to him. Get out of agreement with the enemy and back into agreement with your true identity in Christ.
2 Corinthians 10: 3-6
For though we walk in the flesh we are not serving as soldiers according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful in God for the tearing down of strongholds, tearing down reasonings. Even every high thing being lifted up against the knowledge of God and taking captive every thought in obedience to Messiah and being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience would be achieved.
If you want to come out of agreement, here is one suggestion of many. First, speak to Jesus and thank Him for being in your life. Confess that He is your Lord, God and Savior and speak it out because there’s power in the spoken word. Our spoken words go beyond our physical world into the spiritual realm, always creating. After all, we were made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27).
Get a piece of paper and ask Holy Spirit to guide you, bringing to your remembrance any sin or wrong agreements you’ve made as well as any actions that you’ve done that are not in alignment with God. Because Christ has forgiven us (Hebrews 9:12), orally break all agreements you’ve had with the enemy and come back into agreement with God and who He says you are, speaking out each thing the Spirit reminds you of and breaking any contracts associated with it. Come back into agreement with your spiritual identity, thanking the Lord and ask Him to fill every thought of those actions and sins with the remembrance, power and shield of the Lord and what the Lord has done for you as well as who you are in Him. When you feel the enemy drawing you back into sin or anything that is not of the Lord, cast it down immediately and do not agree with it because that is not part of your identity. I will leave you with these two scriptures.
2 Peter 1:3-4
As everything of His divine power has been bestowed upon us for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the One Who called us by His own glory and power, through Whom the precious and very great promises have been bestowed upon us, so that through them you would become sharers of the divine nature, escaping from the depravity in the world because of its desire for forbidden things.
Romans 6:11-14
And in the same way count yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living for God in Christ. Therefore sin must not reign in you mortal body to obey its lustful desires and you must stop presenting your bodily members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but you must immediately present yourselves to God as living, raised out from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin will not rule you: for you are not under legalism but grace.
