Principality of Accusation

Definitions of accusation are: to accuse, call to account, find fault, blame, complaint, criminal charge, condemnation, damnation and judgment.  We have all experienced the work of Accusation.  Accusation is one of the greatest weapons of our enemy Satan.  In fact, his name means accuser or slanderer.  Satan’s goal is to separate us from God, others and/or ourselves.  Remember, spiritually rooted disease is often the result of separation, so if Satan and his demons can separate us, he has an easy door opening for disease in our bodies.

Accusation is ALWAYS from Satan; conviction is from God.  Conviction brings about a deepening and strengthening process thus resulting in a more Godly experience.  Accusing spirits condemn us over and over and over and over again causing shame and guilt.  They set us up to believe the lies.  We are under NO obligation to accept or obey every thought that enters our mind.  The mature Christian knows that every thought is not necessarily for their Godly edification.

This process of examining our thoughts is powerful, often preventing mental illness and banishing sin and disease from our lives.  Some people lose the thought war before they begin to fight by believing that every thought is their own.  The ones who gain victory are those who discern the voices and thoughts, accepting truth and discarding lies.  In order to do this, we must know truth.  This is the Scriptural principle taught in 2 Corinthians 10:5 “Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

God wants us to develop and use discernment.  If discernment were unnecessary, then all our thoughts would come from God and benefit us.  If every thought entering our minds or every word spoken were truthful we would have no need for discernment.  Satan would prefer that we not know the truth so he can continue to put thoughts in our minds that accuse us to God, accuse us to others, and accuse us to ourselves.  I hope to expose some of the subtle ways accusing spirits operate in our lives. Discernment puts a governor on our brain, slowing us down to stop and examine the thoughts and actions to determine what is appropriate.  Discernment is our “on/off” switch.  It allows us, at times, to be quiet when otherwise we might strike out at someone.  It stops us from doing something that later we would regret.  Discernment will keep us from committing many destructive actions, as well as prod us toward healthy ones. Still our choice!!

We often show more sense while driving on a highway than we do in our personal lives.  On the highway we are forced to obey the rules of the road.  On the highway of our Christian life, God’s Word provides the rules, but our obedience is our choice; God gave us a free will.  Still, He wants us to make right decisions and gave us all the tools we need to do so.  In Hebrews 5:14 we are told, “But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”  God wants us to develop discernment to be able to know good and evil, the truth from a lie and then CHOOSE GOOD OR TRUTH.  What benefit is it to know good and truth and still choose evil or a lie??? 

One of Satan’s tactics is to show us something that looks good, when in fact it is evil and counterfeit.  To recognize the counterfeit object or thought, we must know what the real thing looks like.  Accusing spirits build on our ignorance of who we are in Christ – our identity.  They force us to misunderstand who other people really are.  They confuse our thinking about God’s true nature. Evil is the counterfeit of good.  Evil shows itself in a range of deception from outright lies and rebellion to those sometimes gray areas between truth and error.  Accusing spirits routinely use the tactic of a 90% truth and a 10% lie as they seek to seduce and deceive us.  Satan even quoted Scripture to Jesus in his attempt to cause Jesus to sin.  However, as we all know, Jesus was without sin and He not only knew the Scriptures, He knew the meaning behind each Word of Scripture.

Accusing spirits hand us a generous portion of truth with one hand, and use the other hand to slip us a lie that begins to break down our value system and cause doubt.  Have you ever had any of these thoughts?  “I’m born again and know the Word of God.  I love Jesus and it’s a wonderful thing to be a Christian.  God has done so many wonderful things in my life.”  Accusing spirits will build us up like this and then instantly, in a flash or thought,   “but I still don’t measure up to _____.”  You fill in the name.  Or “I don’t do as much for God as ___________ does”.  Accusing spirits love to plant doubt that will destroy our faith.  Satan’s nature is to destroy; it is the only aspect of his character that you can count on.  He has no integrity.

Matthew 10:16 says, “To be wiser than a serpent but harmless as a dove.”  If we want to walk in victory, we must be alert to the enemy’s ways.  There is never a good time to be spiritually asleep, because the moment we are, we give Satan an opening.  We must know that Satan’s battleground is in the human mind and his greatest power comes from lying accusations.  He operates on the premise of us not knowing the truth. 

Let’s look for a few minutes at our thoughts.  When does a thought go from a temptation to a sin?  Some people, when confronted with sin, harden their hearts and are not convicted; they don’t have a perfect hatred for sin.  In fact, they either condone it or ignore it.  Temptation is not sin.  Having evil thoughts is not sin.  If that were the case, we are all deep in sin.  Many people, because they are tempted, feel that they have sinned.  We have only sinned when the action of that sin is fulfilled; then it becomes our sin. A thought is not sin until it is acted upon. 

Accusing spirits possess definite characteristics.  Some of the fruits of accusation are: holding a record of wrongs, murder with the tongue or in the heart (gossip and slander), mind control, scrambling thoughts, chaotic thinking, jumbled thought patterns, misunderstandings, projected fear, accusing another in your own sin, false burden bearing, and becoming codependent in another’s sin by attempting to be their Holy Spirit.  Others include bitterness, mistrust or always believing the worst about someone (that includes the worst about ourself).  Are any of these currently at work in your life?  Presence of any or all of these in our thought life should sound a warning shot that an accusing spirit is at work.  The same is true of being easily offended, or easily offending others.  Exaggerating offenses and failures is evidence of accusing spirits.  We CHOOSE to be offended or not.

If we observe someone falling short of the glory of God and our thoughts become filled with Bitterness, comparison, condemnation, criticism, or judgment, that’s the work of an accusing spirit. Galatians 6:1says, “Brethern, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of gentleness; considering yourself lest you also be tempted.”  What does God have you do?  Restore a fallen believer in meekness; considering yourself lest you also be tempted.  Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.  We are to restore that person to fellowship, not drive them away through accusations.  To do this requires understanding and care, so that we don’t become the judge and jury.  God is the judge and jury.

Matthew 18:7 (NKJ) says, “Woe to the world because of offenses! (Enticement to sin).  For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes­!”   If you allow accusing spirits to rise up in you and they are set in motion against another person, you bring a curse on yourself.  The woe falls on you. Those words are God’s Words!  Don’t allow this to happen!  Bite your tongue, govern your thoughts, even if what you want to say or think might be true.  Again, we do not have to obey every thought that comes our way!  What did Jesus do or say when they accused Him?  He took His peace and said nothing.  He did not even try to defend himself.  Do you ever feel the need to defend yourself?  Especially when you are right???  Jesus allowed His Father to be his justifier and His defender.

ACCUSING OTHERS

1 John 1:7 says, “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”  Accusing spirits say, “I can’t have fellowship with you and you can’t have fellowship with me because we don’t agree on the use of worship choruses. Or we don’t agree on (you fill in the blank).”  But the truth is we will have fellowship IF we “walk in the light, as He (Jesus) is in the light.”  We need to understand how this works in our everyday lives.  Here we are walking together in the light.  Along come accusing spirits to try to separate us.  There are two ways that they try to do this.

One way is to bring a false accusation.  A second is when there has been sin and the accusation is true.  In either case, accusing spirits will keep us from walking in the light with our brother or sister even after repentance and forgiveness, by reminding us of the sin against us and against others.  Accusing spirits will seek to keep us from forgiving and will encourage us to keep a record of wrongs.  God is the healer; we cannot heal ourselves.  He, and He alone, heals the breech when we repent and forgive each other, providing we do not get back into the sin which caused the breech to begin with.  That is why it is so important to be able to recognize the accusing spirits. Again, we must forgive God’s way – choosing not to bring it up again.  We don’t have amnesia, and neither does God.  It is a CHOICE!! 

JUDGING OTHERS

Romans 2:1 says, “Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.”  What this says is when we judge another we condemn ourselves with the same judgment.  Do you realize vows are usually made as a form of judgment?  Have you ever said, “I will never be like my father or mother.” Or “I’ve always been this way.”  These usually stem from judgments made against another person, yourself, a situation or even God.  Accusing spirits love to get us judging each other. Judging others with accusations is extremely serious.  Our purpose must be to restore fellowship not to tear each other down through accusations.  Remember, in Matthew 7:1-2 it reads, “Judge not that you be not judged.  For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged:…”

There is a difference between discernment and judgment.  We are to discern behavior, but if we attempt to say why, or decide their motive, we have gotten into judgment.  A good way to think about this is it’s OK to discern (observe) behavior, never judge the motive or heart!

Satan constantly points out our weaknesses and flaws to others and in others.  We must learn to separate people from their sin and we must take responsibility for our own actions.  Accusing spirits speak lies to us, giving us reasons why we should not fellowship with one another or why we cannot believe one another.

What makes Accusation a sin?  First of all, who does the Word say is the accuser?  So who are you patterning yourself after?  Most of the time Accusation is deciding what would be right or wrong for someone else.  Then you take great joy in sharing your valuable opinion with all who will listen.

Identifying what someone did is not judgment; that is merely observation.  To judge someone’s heart or motives is not what we are called to do.  Only God has the right to judge.  He alone knows why people do what they do.  We do not know, nor is it our place to judge why.  In many cases, people do not even know why they do what they do.  Have you ever asked yourself, “Why in the world did I do or say that?”  We find an answer in Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?”  God is the only One who can truly know the heart.  When people assume to know why, then their reactions are not based on reality; they are based on judgment.  That judgment causes confusion, pain and loss.

Passing judgment causes us to react to situations inappropriately.  The combination of our judgments and unacceptable behavior then begins the cycle of sowing and reaping.

In Luke 17:1 Jesus said to His disciples, “It is impossible that no offences should come; but woe unto him, through whom they do come!”  To be offended is a choice and many times that choice is based on a previous judgment.  That judgment can happen as early as childhood – or we can even be taught certain things based on our ancestor’s judgments (Matthew 18:7).

There are people who no longer walk with God because they judged that God caused or allowed certain events to happen.  In light of their judgment, they thought God had rejected or abandoned them.  As a result, they began to feel rejected or abandoned.  Their false feelings confirmed God’s “rejection or abandonment” and so validated their false judgment.  In the end, they grew angry with God and rejected Him.

Judgement precedes vengeance.  Until we pass judgment, we have no desire for vengeance.  God says vengeance belongs to Him alone (Romans 12:19) “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”

Who do you think the Lord is talking to when He says Dearly Beloved?  Who is the judge?  Who says vengeance is mine?  The mere fact that we are seeking vengeance indicates that we have already passed judgment.  

If judgment belongs to God, then it is highly possible that, before the fall, Adam did not have the capacity or the tendency to judge.  We know that when Adam sinned, he gained the ability to judge good and evil for himself – something that he did not previously possess.  The ability to judge was a part of Satan’s destructive offer.  Adam ultimately trusted his own judgment over God’s.  Possessing the power of judgment, in addition to a fearful nature, drove him away from God.

Before the fall, Adam trusted God and His opinion.  He had no need or desire to determine good and evil for himself.  Prior to the fall, Adam was an observer of the world.  When he wanted to know why, he looked to his Father and Creator.  There was no need for judgment because there was no fear.  When Adam fell, however, he became fearful by nature.  The sin nature is at heart fearful; fear was Adam’s first new emotion after becoming a sinner.

Matthew 7:1-2, we are told “Judge not, that you be not judged.  For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”  For centuries, people have missed the meaning and scope of this simple yet powerful passage.  We have misinterpreted these verses to say, “If I judge people, God is going to judge me.”  That is not what the passage says.  It says that if we judge people, people will judge us.

In Luke 6:38, we find the parallel passage to Matthew’s: “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over shall men give into your bosom.” (KJV)  Traditionally this Scripture is applied primarily to financial giving.  However, Jesus was not talking about finances in this verse.  He was talking about what we give to others emotionally.  Earlier, in verses 36 and 37 of Luke 6, He said, “Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.  Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive and ye shall be forgiven.”  (KJV)

Even though this verse could apply to financial generosity, it is more specifically talking about giving mercy, passing judgment, expressing condemnation and forgiving. What I give emotionally and relationally is what they give back to me.  Again, this is not talking about what God gives to me as a result of my actions.  This is what people give to me.  In other words, most often people respond to me in direct accordance with the way I treat them, with one exception.  When they give it back, they always give me more than I give – “good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.” 

If you give kindness and love, other people will give you kindness and love – “good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.”  However, if you give judgment and criticism, other people will give you judgment and criticism – “good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.”  Never confuse people’s reaction with God’s reaction.

Jesus warned us that others would judge us with the same standards we use to judge them but with greater than we used.  (Matthew 7:2 above).  The measure, or effect, that comes back to us through any event is based on two factors.  The first is the significance we attach to the event or person.  The second is our motive when we do these same things.  If we measure something by giving it value, size, and significance, then that measurement determines its effect on us.

The effect of another person’s behavior has little to do with his or her intent.  But that effect has everything to do with our judgment, or how we measure it.  People may take actions with no ill intention, yet they can have devastating effects.  There can even be actions people intend for good, but that can create massive amounts of pain.   For example, being rejected by a person we dislike or have a casual relationship with, has relatively no effect compared with being rejected by someone we love or value.  The action is the same, but we attach significance because we pass judgment on why he or she did it plus the value of the relationship.

Let’s consider our relationships to be somewhat like the garden of our lives.  Our garden grows with the seed we plant.  We all know one seed, when planted, produces a harvest larger than itself.  When we plant one, we reap many.  That being said, what is growing in your life’s garden?  Too often we find our lives filled with things like criticism and rejection.  We wrongly assume that we had nothing to do with how others treated us, when the truth is, they usually gave back to us a harvest of how we treated them.

The quality of our emotional life is found in the quality of our relationships.  We are social, emotional, and relationship-oriented beings.  We thrive on meaningful relationships.  It is one of the deepest needs we have as human beings.  And even though our judgments influence those relationships more than any other factor, few people even know what it means to judge.

So what does it mean to judge?  Although judging has many facets, I believe the most basic and essential aspect is: Identifying what someone did is not judgment; that is merely observation.  It is when we assume to know why, or rationalize as to why, a person did what he or she did that we have entered into judgement. 

The moment you attempt to determine why another is doing what he or she is doing you have given it significance.  Keep in mind that rarely does anything have the power to hurt you until you attach significance to it.  Another person’s actions are only as significant to you as the judgments you pass on them.  The judgment you make is based on the decision about why that person did what they did.  The degree of pain or insult you experience from the actions of another is based solely on the judgment you pass.  And the judgment you pass is your assumption of why they did what they did.

Most often that which happens outside of you does not have the power to hurt you until you judge it.  Only when you judge something does it bear significance in your life. To put it another way, when people do something, you judge why they did it; you decide what their motive was.  Once you decide (judge) the motive, you give that event significance and power.

Commit to becoming an observer instead of a judge.  It is easy to think that if we don’t know people’s motives, if we fail to judge them, then we won’t know how to relate to them.  But this is wrong thinking.  God’s Word is full of wisdom about how to relate to people, how to develop trust, whom to depend on, and whom not to depend on. But in true “god of our own world” fashion, we reject His wisdom and apply our own judgment.  It all comes back to fear – fears tends to drive us to trust our judgment rather than God’s.  In our attempt to protect ourselves from future pain (which we fear), we judge.  But instead of freeing us from pain, it distorts our observation, and true discernment is lost.  Discernment is our ability to know right from wrong according to God’s Word.

Although the Scripture in Matthew 7:16-18 is primarily speaking of false profits, I believe it also applies to all relationships.  Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruits.  Do men gather grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?  Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.”

Fruit is the only thing that is observable, and fruit is something that grows over time.  It is not a single event, a mistake, or even one’s current actions.  Fruit is a person’s track record.  People are likely to do in the future what they have done consistently in the past.  A track record is all anyone knows about us.

Knowing a person’s track record, however, does not give anyone the right to make a judgment about motives in any situation.  Criticism is not justified.  A person’s track record simply gives us observable, measurable data so that we can use wisdom in relating to him or her.  It does not give people the right to treat others without love and respect and it certainly does not mean that people cannot grow and change.  It simply tells us what they have a tendency to do.

One Scripture I want to address is 1 Corinthians 2:14-15, which reads, “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to them, because they are spiritually discerned.  But he who is spiritual judges (judgeth) all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.”

When it says “he who is spiritual judges all things” it refers to believers having the ability to bring God’s perspective to bear on every aspect of life. WOW!

ACCUSING GOD

Accusing spirits will praise God to us in one moment and then add a twist saying, “But why did God ‘allow’ your daughter to get sick?” insinuating that we cannot trust Him and causing us to have an unholy fear.  Have you ever heard anyone say “If God really cared about me, why did such and such happen?”  These are examples of an accusing spirit in action.  If we can’t discern truth from lies, then we are in serious trouble.  Remember, the accusing spirits work against us in such sly ways in order to create jealousy, fear, envy, bitterness and separation.

Satan constantly tells us that God doesn’t care about our suffering or some area in our life.  Satan always blames God for his own actions.  Satan creates a dilemma that leads to suffering and then blames God for not stopping it, or worse yet, accuses God of creating it.

ACCUSING OURSELVES

Satan uses self-condemnation to accuse us to ourselves.  Let’s face it, it is relatively easy for us to make peace with God when we have been wrongly accusing Him.  And it can be relatively easy to forgive others and accept others if we have been wrongly accusing them.  But it is very difficult to cast down those accusing spirits that suggest that we are not good enough or that we don’t deserve forgiveness.

The primary goal of accusing spirits is to steal our faith and confidence in God, and to make us feel like “second rate” citizens in God’s Kingdom.  We really need to understand who we are and who we are not in Christ.  This is a profound truth:  We are everything that God said we could be, provided we are living it or should I say appropriating it in our life.  If we attempt to live in our identity in Christ and yet still feel unworthy, guilty, unclean, and unacceptable to God or man, we have accusing evil spirits operating against us.  It is not who we are in Christ.

We need to learn to separate ourselves from the demons that accuse us.  If we fall to their accusations and begin to believe them, then we will act out their lies.  Often we are told lies as children and we continue to act on them as adults.  Because we feel unclean, unworthy, guilty or condemned does not mean we ARE unclean, unworthy, guilty or condemned.  Do not trust your feelings; trust what God has said about your relationship with Him.  Satan accuses us about God, about others and to ourselves all the time.  Satan and his accusing spirits focus on our weaknesses, sins, faults and failures.  They focus on sins for which we have already received forgiveness but they accuse us as if those forgiven sins were still part of our lives.  One of the most successful tools of accusing spirits is to accuse us of confessed sins, from which we have already turned away, trying to discourage us so that we will sin again. 

Romans 8:1 says, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.”  If you have confessed your sin and turned away from it, and you are now walking after the Spirit, there is no more condemnation or guilt.  If you still feel condemnation or guilt after you have repented of a certain sin, and you have quit practicing that sin, then the condemnation and guilt bears evidence of the work of accusing spirits who want to drag you down.

Feeling like we ‘don’t fit in’ or “They don’t like me for myself, just for my (talent, money, service, etc.)” are also lies of an accusing spirit.  When self-accusation is present, understand that this is an evil spirit attacking you.  It is not you!  If you are accusing yourself in any way, or putting yourself down, go before the Lord and deal with it.  Put the 9 R’s into practice right here and remember to ‘speak out loud’ to those unwanted spirits – they cannot read your mind!

Then how do we receive victory?  God has the answer, but there are standards we must attain.  Remember that in Christ, we have everything we need to be victorious.  One powerful tool to use when we are under attack is to quote the Bible.  We need to master James 4:7-10 because it holds the key to success and receiving God’s blessing in all areas of our lives.  The conditions for receiving answers are stated very plainly in James 4:7-10 “Submit yourselves, therefore, to God.”  The first condition is submitting to God.  We cannot submit to God if we don’t know Him.  He is the one that brings healing.  All the ministry and deliverance the world offers does little good if we don’t know and accept the truth.  Notice I said THE Truth – not a truth.  It all starts with knowing God personally because He is the one that brings healing.  Submission requires obedience to God.  Submission also involves forgiving others and ourselves.

The second part says, “Resist the devil”.  Do you believe the devil is real? If you don’t, you have bought into the ultimate deception.  The Bible says the devil is real, and that settles it for me.  Don’t doubt the reality of Satan and his demons.  The Bible teaches it, and teaches it.  Satan is real and so are evil spirits.  But the good news is we have victory over all of them thru Christ Jesus.  Do not let fear enter in here.

“Resist the devil and he WILL flee from you.”  It means we must test every thought to know if it is of God, Satan or ourselves.  Since the devil doesn’t have a physical body, he must use yours or someone else’s to continue his attack.  He and his demons use people’s bodies and minds (through thoughts) to manifest their sin nature.

It is our right and responsibility to obey God and RESIST! RESIST! RESIST!  Do you know what resist means?  It means, ‘to put up a fight’.  JUST SAY NO!  When we resist, they will flee from us.  If we don’t resist, they won’t leave us alone.  Why should they – if we don’t resist they have a legal right to stay.  When we resist, God steps in and the demons must flee.  James 4:8 says, “Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you.”  This verse requires us to do something – draw close to God.  He will respond.  Many people have the attitude, “I have given this up to God, it is now up to Him.”  They continue to live in their sin, waiting on God to do something.  They wallow in the accusation of self-pity and pride and wonder why they never receive deliverance.  God promises to meet with us; He is moved by our faith.  Hebrews 11:6 and John 20:29 discuss this.  2 Corinthians 10:6 says, “Having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.  We cannot defeat our enemy in disobedience.

James 4:8 says to cleanse our hands and purify our hearts.  This process requires us to come to a place of repentance because all of us have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).  Submit to God; resist the devil.  It’s a ‘formula’ that works because it is an eternal Scriptural principle. 

There is a price to pay called “circumcision of the heart.”  This is the key to receiving God’s blessings and healing:  We must die to ourselves; die to everything we were; surrender to the leading of the Holy Spirit within us, prayerfully confess our sin and let it go.

Remember, God knows your heart and the Holy Spirit will not reveal truth to anyone if it is unwanted.

Spirits of Accusation – (Luciferian)

Accusation towards God/self/others     Bitterness with all underlings (*)

Bigotry                                                Competition-not feeling whole unless we win

Offense                                                Mistrust

Rebellion                                             Keeping a record of wrongs

Programming                                       Blaming others for problems

Personality of accusation                     Control

Envy/jealousy                                      Replay

Manipulation                                       Not walking in or accepting forgiveness

Prefabricated personality                     Suicide

Heaviness                                            Gossip and innuendo

Suspicion                                             Being easily offended/Easily offending others

Racism                                                 Judging others for actions we excuse in ourselves

Misunderstandings                               Perfectionism

Scapegoat mentality                             Unworthiness

Shame                                                  Guilt

Isolation                                               Division

Self-pity                                               Lying

Torment                                               Destroyer

Holding people to their past behaviors Self-exaltation

Self-condemnation                               Acting as another’s Holy Spirit

Self-accusation                                    Vanity

Rejection                                              Depression

Fear                                                    

Worry                                                  Comparing yourself to others

SPIRITUAL WARFARE DELIVERANCE PRAYER

A Prayer of repentance and renunciation should include at least the following elements:  Person being ministered to says:

·       Heavenly Father,

·       I recognize and take responsibility for participating with and serving the sin of ( Principality ) in my life.

·       I take responsibility in my generation, on both sides of my family all the way back to the Cross, for the following spirits: ( individual spirits).

·       Father, in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth I repent to You and ask You to forgive me for allowing the above named spirits to manifest through me and by faith I now receive Your forgiveness.

·       Sin of ( Principality ), I renounce everything you stand for in my life. I will no longer serve you. I take a stand against you and everything you represent. You must now leave me and go into a dry place in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth.

·       Father, I thank You for Your forgiveness and ask that the curses be broken.

Person doing the ministry now says:

·       Spirit of ( Principality ), you have heard his/her confession and declaration and you MUST obey him/her and leave now in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth.

·       By the power of the Holy Spirit, I take authority over the spirit of                   ( Principality ) and break your power in his/her life. You no longer have any power, right, or authority in his/her life and I cast you out.

Holy Spirit, I invite you into our hearts to heal us in the areas of (Principality ). Please speak your words of truth to us about these situations.