How to Authoritatively Legislate in the Spirit Realm

Dear Friend,

Happy Wednesday! As I sit on my couch with legs folded with a glass of Pedialyte (because I'm apparently dehydrated), I can't help but reflect on how the harshness of my journey has brought forth purity. While we love to harp on purity from a sexual perspective, rarely, if ever, do we hyper-focus on the purity of our hearts, motives, and minds.

I've been honest with you about the difficulty of my journey, and while some warned against my transparency, I felt that I owed honesty to you and God. Indeed, the last few years have slapped the taste out of all of our mouths, but I can't help but sense the end of the suffering is near. 

So, since I've been honest with you about the bad, it's time for me to be honest with you about the good. I AM FINALLY FREE!!!

Last Tuesday, I released a very emotional video in which I tried to articulate the agony of submission to what God wants. When I recorded the podcast episode, I thought only my faithful followers who have been rocking with me would tune in. Well, I was wrong, and over 58K people have seen the video. 

The interesting thing about this is that I asked God to increase my visibility a few weeks before the video's release. Yet, I wasn't clear. I wanted Him to increase my teachings, but He chose another route. And isn't that the funny thing about God? Does our Bible not tell us that He will use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise? (1 Corinthians 1:17). 

Truthfully, I sit here humbled and shooketh. (Before you email me, shooketh is an African American colloquialism I love).  

I wanted the journey to go one way, but He used my raw emotion to bring people another way, and for that, I am grateful.

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But wait, there's more.

A few weeks before that viral video, I also made another request: I asked the Holy Spirit to teach me how to pray. It was a moment of desperation that led me there, and I assumed that while I was praying, I didn't have the correct prayer strategy. I admit that I don't see my prayers fall to the ground, so I asked for guidance. 

One day during prayer, I kept repeating "double jeopardy." Double jeopardy is a legal term that prevents an individual from being tried twice for the same crime after either being acquitted or convicted. It is a fundamental principle in many legal systems, including the United States, where it is protected under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

Understanding Double Jeopardy

The main points of double jeopardy are:

Prevention of Multiple Trials

Once a person has been tried and a verdict has been reached (either guilty or not guilty), they cannot be prosecuted again for the same offense.

Protection Against Abuse

Exceptions

How does this relate to you?

1.     It’s illegal for you to be retried for the same sin that Jesus died for. Essentially, He died to prevent your prosecution, so if generational curses are landing, they are doing so illegally because you are not supposed to be tried year after year under double jeopardy.

2.     Though we live in a fallen world, under double jeopardy, the Kingdom is supposed to kick in to protect you from stress, expense, repeated trials, and continuous prosecution.

Remember that Revelation 13:8 tells you that the lamb was slain since the foundation of the world, and Matthew 25:34 tells you that the Kingdom was also prepared for you since the foundation of the world. Essentially, these double protections (the lamb slain and the Kingdom prepared) were baked in as legal reinforcements against double jeopardy and unlawful persecutions.

Yet, when we sin, we come from under the legal protection of the blood. More plainly, we uncovenant ourselves. Unfortunately, when this happens, the generational curse that you have been resisting has a legal right to land.

Proverbs 26:2 (NLT) Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse will not land on its intended victim.

Further Consideration

Each sin we commit has baked-in consequences for each lineage. While sin is sin, lineages are unique; therefore, the consequences land differently for everyone. Moreover, we unlock the intended curse because we’ve come from under the blood and engaged a law. You must remember that engaged laws always produce results.

This is why the Bible warns against sin: as long as you’re under the blood covenant, the enemy cannot prosecute you. However, once you come from under the blood covenant and go rogue, the spirit realm senses your blood, and then the curse legally hits the intended victim.

Ultimately, the enemy has the right, under double jeopardy, to appeal your case under the exception clause, which is why he stands before God accusing you day and night (Revelation 12:10). Essentially, he’s hoping to appeal the blood of Jesus because we give him room to do so when we sin.

However, when you confess your sins and repent of your iniquities and transgressions, you re-covenant yourself under the blood, and you step back into the Kingdom. Once you’ve done this, you can boldly appeal any case in the courts of heaven, just as the persistent widow.

(Check out the persistent widow teaching here)

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Ultimately, I write this post to you today to tell you that if we must fight, we must fight strategically. When I prayed against double jeopardy, condemned every word spoken against me as Isaiah suggests, which is also a legal move (check out the teaching here), and uttered the words of the persistent widow, "Avenge me of my enemies," the war stopped. 

Frankly, I had to learn to stop begging God and use my authority to fight from a heavenly place. 

Have you decided to rise in your power and authoritatively legislate in the spirit realm yet?