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THE CANAANITE SPIRIT

“Addictions, Sexual Perversions, and People-Pleasing”

• For all our new friends…our basis for this study is found in Deuteronomy 7:1-4 “When Yahweh your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives our before you many nations—the Hiites, Girgashites, Amorites, CANAANITES, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when Yahweh your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.”

• When you do a word study of the names of the 7 nations that God said to get rid of…your eyes are opened to just how incredible our God is… and how much He truly loves us and wants what is best for us…

• SMALL STRAWS: “Prepare yourself for a relatively short season of “clean up” when you will have many and varied opportunities to spiritually clean house. Set yourself to be willing to yield to this process. There will be nothing left hidden in darkness or obscurity that will not be revealed. This procedure must take place before you can move up to new levels of spiritual growth and maturity. Trust Me that everything that is unclean and defiling will be removed to make way for that which is pure.”

• Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”

• We have to grab a hold of specific times and seasons when God empowers us with ABUNDANT GRACE to come out of the wilderness…to come out of old mindsets, old patterns, and paradigms…addictions or perversions

• KNOW that whenever God declares a victory…the enemy does everything possible to change the times and seasons so that our breakthrough “appears” opposite of what the Lord has declared

• In order to move out of our past and move forward to possess our future…we have to be seriously committed to breaking the old cycles!...CUT THE UMBILICAL CORD TO THE PAST!!!

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• Today we are diving into the CANAANITE spirit….Canaanite literally means “lowlands people”….referring to LOW EARTHLY PASSIONS……

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND…that we are not talking about PEOPLE here…but SPIRITS that people operate in…

• Ephesians 6:12 “ For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

• If you are dealing with these spirits…and you start to feel condemned…REMEMBER THIS…Romans 8:1 ”There is NO CONDEMNATION for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

• If you are feeling ancy or uneasy…this is a good thing…it means your conscience is NOT SEARED….

• 1 Timothy 4:1-2 warns us…”The Spirit clearly says that in later times, some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirit and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose CONSCIENCES have been SEARED as with a hot iron.”

• CONSCIENCE may be regarded, either as a power or as an act of the mind. In the former case, it is that power of the mind that affirms and enforces moral obligation, and that pronounces upon the desert of obedience or of disobedience.

• CONSCIENCE is the part of the superego that JUDGES the ethical nature of one’s actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration

• You need to know this for what we are about to talk about…

• Canaanite spirits are the spirits behind ADDICTIONS and SEXUAL PERVERSIONS….this is why Sodom and Gomorrah are said to be Canaanite cities in the Scriptures

• Genesis 10:19 “And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, unto Gaza; as you go, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.”

• Genesis 13:12-13 “Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.”

• Ok…stick with me here…we are going to get into some pretty intense stuff….

• The spirits of HOMOSEXUALITY and LESBIANISM, along with all other SEXUAL PERVERSIONS are CANAANITE spirits

• Canaanites have passion for earthly things…things that would DEFILE their soul, body, and spirit

• These spirits operate through people’s EMOTIONS and make a huge effort to SHUT OFF THE PERSON’S MIND…since the mind is the part of the soul most related to making JUDGMENTS

• The CONSCIENCE resides in the mind…and the mind is the one designed to store God’s laws and apply them with wisdom to make judgments

• 1 Corinthians 2:13-16 “This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truth in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes JUDGMENTS about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

• Romans 2:15-16 “…since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hears, their CONSCIENCES also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them. This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.”

• SOME CLUES THAT YOUR CONSCIENCE MAY BE SEARED: general apathy on moral subjects, neglecting duties you have with no remorse, when you play around with your health and don’t take care of yourself, when you consistently waste your time or the time of others, when you consistently come late to worship and it doesn’t bother you at all that you are disturbing others while they worship, when you squander your possessions, when you disregard the rights of others (born or unborn), when you unnecessarily try to cause someone to stumble or to become angry, when you don’t pay your debts, when you borrow stuff and have no intention of bringing it back, when you are satisfied just being a Sunday morning Christian, when you are not moved by love, when it does little good to “reason with you”, when the discussion of any important question can be postponed and give place to matters of less importance, selfishness, when you don’t confess your sins, when you have no sense of moral obligation, when you have no conscience in regard to your modes of dress, when you neglect to support the house of God, when you have no care as to what type of food you put in your body, gossiping about your neighbor…wow

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• People who fall into alcoholism …which is a Canaanite spirit…generally start drinking through someone or something convincing them that heavy drinking is “normal” and being done by everyone else.

• Once the person’s JUDGMENT against heavy drinking has been “shut off”, the person starts to drink, and, soon, the alcohol shuts off all sober judgments and inhibition…and the person goes into a strong and public display of emotions.

• Canaanite spirits are SPIRITS OF CARNAL EXCESS AND INDULGENCE

• Ephesians 5:15-18 “Be careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the DAYS ARE EVIL. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.”

• Debauchery (dictionary definition)=extreme indulgence in sensual pleasures

• A couple of weeks ago we talked about the 2 hemispheres of the brain…the left side is where our emotions are based, very grace-oriented…the right side is where the “mind” is…the “truth-oriented” side

• Canaanite spirits are very LEFT-SIDED spirits…they emphasize freedom and grace…and totally downplay truth and judgment

• Canaanites operate based on false doctrine of grace…they think grace shall always abound even though they continue to live in sin….they have no truth in their heart…they are EMOTIONALLY controlled

• They throw away the voice of reasons in their minds that speaks of God being also the God of JUDGMENT…but allow their EMOTION to DECEIVE them…saying “it does not matter, God understands”…and they continue in their sin

• They have LOW SELF-ESTEEM that affects their choices and judgments because they have turned off the voice of sound reasoning….so they seek for other means to boost themselves up momentarily by taking drugs and alcoholic drinks…they are heavy drinkers…without drugs and alcohol…they are DEPRESSED, emotionally LOW and TIMID

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• Let’s look for a minute at what the Scriptures say about being in bondage to addictions:

• 1 Corinthians 6:12 “Everything is permissible for me—but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me—but I will not be MASTERED by anything.”

• Ephesians 5:18 “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the Spirit.”

• Colossians 2:15 “And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”

• 1 John 3:8 “He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s works.”

• Galatians 5:1,13 “ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature, rather, serve one another in love.”

• Take seriously the bondage you are in! How GREAT to know that God cares and He has a solution! The real problem is not an incurable illness…its sin…and Jesus came to deal with sin!

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• People who are influenced by the Canaanite spirits are given to SEDUCTIVE and FLESHLY DANCES to promote their cause even in the house of God!

• They can be identified sometimes by the type of attire they put on…described as a HARLOT in Proverbs 7:10-12 “Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute with crafty intent. She is loud and defiant, her feet never stay at home; now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner she lurks…”

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• Now stay with me here…this gets very interesting…you know how we always say that what is going on in the PHYSICAL/NATURAL REALM is just a mirror to what is going on in the SPIRITUAL/UNSEEN realm……

• Check this out…..

MAD COW DISEASE

• …also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)..is a fatal neurodengenerative disease in cattle, it causes SPONGY degeneration in the brain and spinal cord (according to Wikipedia)

• This turns the BRAIN INTO SPONGE…does that sound familiar????!!

• This is something that is happening in the PHYSICAL/NATURAL realm….one study said they are still assessing the “still mysterious events that likely led to the species jump of the scrapie agent into cattle”…..in other words…they still don’t have any clue as to WHY this happened!

• The same study said it is very likely that this has never occurred before 1986…and the first case occurred in the United Kingdom

• So…………….i did a google search for laws passed in 1986 …and guess what I found….New Zealand…which is a part of the British Empire and had adopted British law….passed the “Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986”…which legalized consensual sex between men aged 16 and older. It removed the provisions of the “Crimes Act 1961” that criminalized this behavior….until 1986, homosexual behavior was illegal.

• Isn’t that so interesting that this Mad Cow Disease began to manifest just as the laws were passed

• Another thing o so very interesting….I did a google search for “Canaanites and cows” and look what popped up….”archaeologists have found cattle figurines around Canaanite sites…The Canaanites offered cattle to the deities of Ilu and Baal…”

• So when God said to UTTERLY DESTROY these things…he even meant the cattle…because the cattle were seen as an object used in their sacrifices…an object of deity…

• Deuteronomy 20:16-17 “But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive NOTHING THAT BREATHES; but you shall UTTERLY DESTROY them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the CANAANITE, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you.”

• Remember back to the children of Israel and what they were doing when Moses came down the mountain…

• Exodus 32:19-20 “And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the CALF, and the DANCING: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. And he took the CALF which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and make the children of Israel drink of it.”

• The Hebrew word translated as “calf” in this passage is the Hebrew word EGEL….which comes from another Hebrew word meaning “to revolve”….the children of Israel were “revolving around” this calf…..dancing around it…in a SENSUAL way…the way that a woman would sensually dance around a man she likes…..

• Now hang with me…..check out this verse…

• Genesis 13:10-13 “And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you come into Zoar. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.”

• Another Hebrew word study here…the word “plain” is translated from the word “kikkar” which comes from the Hebrew word “karar” which…strangely enough…means “to whirl, to dance”…so the phrase “cities of the plain” could be paraphrased as “cities of dancing”

• Now I am NOT saying that dancing is wrong…in fact, sometimes it is totally the right thing to do…especially dancing that is led by the Spirit of God…but this type of SENSUAL dancing is tied directly to the Canaanite spirit!

• Go back to the Mad Cow Disease…it manifests in a way that the cows can’t walk right …they look like “drunk cows”…

• Just like the Canaanite spirit makes a huge effort to shut down the person’s MIND and to get him or her into a drunken stupor where emotions are no longer inhibited by a sober mind….

• This is the spiritual reason, I believe, that the “mad cow” organisms attack the BRAIN, of all places. God has allowed the manifestation of this disease in these latter days to portray the current condition of HIS CHURCH…which has totally emphasized a gospel of “grace” and “blessing” and has completely downplayed…and not even taught about God’s “justice” and “judgments”

• We are just like the children of Israel in Exodus 32…we have fashioned a CALF a “God” according to our own likings and soulish interests…and we DANCE around this “God” as is we were holding a sacred feast for the One True God….we even bring our “burnt offerings” and “peace offerings” before this “God”, pretending to be right with God and pretending that we are doing all that God requires of us…..

• God, however sees His Church as a herd of mad cows…drunk on the spiritual gifts that He Himself gave to them…EXACTLY like the children of Israel did using the very provisions that God had given to them through the Egyptians when they left Egypt!!!!!

• Exodus 12:35-36 “And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: And the LORD GAVE THE PEOPLE FAVOR in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.”

• Mad cow disease is a PHYSICAL manifestation of a judgment that God is beginning to carry out in the SPIRIT world against the Canaanite spirits!

• But do not fear…God is raising up a mighty prophetic church in these latter days…as this spiritual Church is raised up…God’s judgments will become more and more evident throughout the Earth…

• Malachi 4:1-6 “For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of RIGHTEOUSNESS arise with healing in His wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet I the day that I shall do this, says the Lord of Hosts. Remember you the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statues and JUDGMENTS. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

• This is not a verse of rainbows and butterflies and smiley faces….our God is a HOLY GOD…and when He manifests himself…the weight of His Glory and RIGHTEOUSNESS is STRONG!!!!

• We are to be God’s remnant church … living a life of submission to God…being molded by GOD instead of us trying to mold God to our own liking…

• The Canaanite spirits want to wipe out all THOUGHTS of judgment….but God says He is coming back as a GREAT JUDGE….the devil is trying to wipe out these last generations by PERVERTING their THOUGHTS….we cannot let him!

• Back to the Golden Calf of the Israelites….Aaron molded the golden calf to the liking of the children of Israel in order to PLEASE them and to give them the “God” they wanted…

• This is a big part of the Canaanite spirit…it WANTS TO PLEASE OTHERS….when you fall under a Canaanite influence…you start “dancing” to the desires of others and you become like spiritual “lowlands or plains”….you’ve been MOLDED into spiritual flatness by the desires of men instead of allowing God to mold us and shape us…

• People under the Canaanite influence CONSTANTLY WORRY ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE MIGHT THINK…

• The Canaanite spirit creates a “PEER PRESSURE” type of environment…your desire to please everyone can be so strong that you end up doing things your CONVICTIONS wouldn’t normally allow you to do!!!!....check out this in the Bible where that exact thing happened…

• Mark 6:17-28 “For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife; for he had married her. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. And when a convenient day was come, that herod on his birthday made a supper to his lord, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and DANCED, and PLEASED Herod and them that say with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever you will, and I will give it to you. And he sware unto her, whatsoever you shall ask of me, I will give it to you, even half of my kingdom. And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. And she came in STRAIGHTWAY WITH HASTE unto the king, and asked, saying, I want you to give me in a charger the head of John the Baptist. And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath’s sake, and for THEIR SAKES WHICH SAT WITH HIM, he would not reject her. And IMMEDIATELY the king send an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought; and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel GAVE IT TO HER MOTHER”

• THIS MUST HAVE BEEN SOME DANCE!!!! This type of dance is an act of pleasing others…..this is why they have dancers in STRIP CLUBS…these dancers…who are women..or men..trapped by Canaanite spirits…dance around the client, doing all the moves that the client may find to be “pleasant or pleasing”

• The girl danced to please Herod…like she was giving herself as a servant…ready to please Herod with her moves…then Herod felt a desire to please her back…telling her to request anything…he made himself available as a servant…ready to please her…then instead of thinking about what SHE wanted…she ran to her mom…this was a chance for her to please her mother….

• when her mom told her what she wanted…the girl didn’t even FLINCH…she went “STRAIGHTWAY WITH HASTE” and told the king….she didn’t even pause for a moment to think if this request was evil or good…pleasing to God or not

• Herod didn’t want to do this…the passage tells us this at the beginning…but because he wanted to PLEASE those around him…because he CARED SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT…he did it anyway…..

• This is how the Canaanite spirit works…people-pleasing…peer pressure…someone asking you to take a drink…to do a drug…to do something perverted that’s against the Word of God…and because you care MORE about what they think than what God thinks…you fall into addictions and perversions….

• Remember “Canaan” means “lowland” in Hebrew…which is from another Hebrew word “kana” which means “to be humble, to be brought down”…..this makes spiritual sense…since you must be willing to HUMILIATE yourself to serve others

• The Canaanite spirit wants to DISTORT the EMOTIONS in us that wish to please others…

• The Canaanite spirit tries to DECEIVE us about WHO or WHAT we are to live for and SERVE…

• Some of us have a natural, God-given predisposition to please others….and for some of us, it’s very hard to say “no” to people’s requests….we have to be careful not to get so caught up in DANCING for others that you end up SERVING up a prophet’s head on a platter like Herod did…

• Look at this verse…Matthew 7:6 “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

• Even though God calls us to a life of service, sometimes even suffering in service…not all suffering or service is necessarily of God…

• 1 Peter 4:14-17 (in my Bible titled “Suffering for Being a Christian”) “If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even AS A MEDDLER. However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. For it is time for JUDGMENT to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?”

• “Meddler” is a translation for the Greek word “allotriepiskopos” which literally means “one who supervises a stranger’s affairs”….in other words…it refers to investing your service in things that serve the interests of another master besides your own…

• We are to be GOD’S servants…not MAN’S servants…if our service does not work as seed to produce fruits of righteousness in others…if we are working instead to strengthen or CONDONE their iniquity…it becomes USELESS service in the eyes of God

• To me…this would be considered what an “Enabler” does….you enable someone to stay on drugs…you condone their iniquity…you are not producing fruit of righteousness in their lives……an “enabler” always has an excuse ready for the person they are SERVING as to why the person can’t…or why the person should be given another chance…or another car to wreck…because “they learned their lesson this time…net time they won’t take Soma’s before they drive”….THIS IS MEDDLING….this is serving the Canaanite spirit…in other words…this is doing the devil’s business FOR HIM

• EX: a mother who values her relationships over God’s justice when she “loves” a son so much that she bends over backwards to help him our of problems caused by his willful desire to live a life of sin and rebellion. Many moms make great personal sacrifices to support their adult sons out of financial difficulties…even when those financial problems are caused by irresponsible and sinful behavior such as alcohol and drug addiction….these mothers are motivated by EMOTIONS….not on TRUTH and JUDGMENT…they refuse to confront their sons out of fear of losing “soul contact” with them.

• Proverbs 29:15 “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.”

• Proverbs 23:13-14 “Do not withhold correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die. You shall beat him with the rod, and shall DELIVR HIS SOUL FROM HELL.”

• Another example: A young lady might be so “in love” with a young man who is touching her inappropriately that she prefers to expose her body to him than to lose her relationship with him….in a sense…she prefers to “dance” for him and please him than to please God…because pleasing God would imply losing SOUL-CONTACT with that young man. By not condemning the Canaanite spirit inside of her to destruction…and by not confronting the young man…she is doing him more harm than good. He will not understand that he is sinning against God UNTIL HE IS CONFRONTED!

• Another example: When you become so close to another Christian and you know that they are DELIBERATELY sinning against God…but you value your SOUL-TIE relationship with them MORE than you value God’s justice…so you never confront them….you are doing them more harm than good!

• Ephesians 5:9-10 “For the fruit of the Spirit is in all GOODNESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.”

• Goodness=Greek word agathosune=”Uprightness and Integrity” NOT kindness and mercy as we use it today

• Acceptable=Greek word euarestos=”well-pleasing”

• SOOOOOOOOOOO….what pleases God are those things that are full of INTEGRITY, Justice, righteousness, and truth!!!!!

• Canaanites love SOUL-COMMUNION….they THEY HATE CONFRONTATION..so they prefer to relinquish their convictions before confrontation creates a rift in their soul-relationships.

• Canaanites HATE JUDGMENT….

• Canaanites are PEOPLE-PLEASING….this is actually how many people get into SMOKING…because their friends do it, and their desire is to fit it and please them….they forget their convictions that know it is wrong and they do it anyway…

• …having convictions implies making JUDGMENTS…and if your friend starts smoking, your convictions will drive you to tell that person that he or she is doing something foolish and destructive…if the friend accepts the judgment, all is well…if your friend rejects the judgment..CONFRONTATION will ensue until the friend starts smoking or a separation occurs…..because Canaanites HATE CONFRONTATIONS….they would rather just forget about their convictions and DO WHAT THE CROWD DOES

• When Luke 6:27 says “Do good to those who hate us”…it is telling us that putting into practice God’s goodness has the curious effect of INCREASING the HATE….this is why the Pharisees (who had a strong Canaanite streak in them) hated Jesus more and more every time He spoke…

• God is not saying “do good” meaning spend your life serving those who trample on you…He is saying to “do good” meaning “moral and just”…which may at times means confronting someone’s willful sin..being “nice” in such cases would only help to promote the unrighteousness inside of them and would not be “doing good” to them at all!

• But know…that “doing good” produces HATE on earth…at least in the short-term…THINK ETERNALLY….are you willing to let these people burn????…don’t be a PEOPLE-PLEASER!

WHY IS THIS SPIRIT SO DANGEROUS?

• The Canaanite spirit is a DESTROYER OF POTENTIAL AND CAPACITY…

• It pulls down men and women who could be heroes in one profession of another…or who could even become God’s greatest weapons against the devil…

• It causes these people to be UNPOPULAR in a decent world…not in the perverse world we live in…

• We have to deal with everything that keeps us in the LOWLANDS…

• Leviticus 18:24-25 “Defile not yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself VOMITS out her inhabitants.”

• THINK ABOUT IT…how many villages have been deserted due to the horrible effects of diseases like AIDS, or by poverty, violence or war…..

• The Bible is very clear about what we are to do…READ Leviticus 18 for homework…it’s titled “Unlawful Sexual Relations” in my Bible…it starts by saying “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: I am the Lord your God. You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of CANAAN…”

• Canaanites are LOWLAND dwellers… the lowland is where everything is dumped into…the gravel, slumps, the wastes form highlands are washed by erosion to the lowlands…REFUSE TO MAKE YOURSELF A REFUSE DUMP…refuse to go to bed with all kinds of people…refuse to poison yourself with drugs, cigarettes, and alcoholic drinks…

• YOU ARE NOT A DUMPING GROUND…God did not create you for that…You are a dignified person….come out of that low self-esteem…

• COOPERATE with God and obey His Word…walk with Him…so He can bring you out from your lowland…

• Your life can be so much more meaningful that it is…don’t let that Canaanite spirit zap your energy and joy!

GETTING RID OF A CANAANITE SPIRIT….

• Numbers 21:1-3 “And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And Israel VOWED a vow unto the Lord, and said ‘If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will UTTERLY DESTROY their cities.’ And the Lord hearkened unto the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites and they UTTERLY DESTROYED them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.”

• Do you see what they did…they VOWED…they CONDEMNED them to destruction with the WORDS OF THEIR MOUTH….

• The name “Hormah” means “devoted to destruction”….

• If you are struggling with a Canaanite addiction in your life…(people-pleasing, addictions, or sexual perversions)…you must be willing to commit yourself to its TOTAL DESTRUCTION…without compromises…

• We get tangled in Canaanite addictions because we COMPROMISE….we’ve cast aside our convictions in order to please other people….this means that you must be willing to CUT OFF ALL RELATIONSHIPS with anything or anyone that PROMOTES or HARBORS the Canaanite spirit

• This is why the Israelites made a vow to destroy the Canaanites’ CITIES….human reasoning would have said that it made more sense to simply overcome the Canaanites and take advantage of their houses and their animals…HOWEVER…it is IMPOSSIBLE to truly defeat them in the Spirit if you are not willing to commit yourself to their TOTAL DESTRUCTION…in your life and in the lives of others!

• Once you make the commitment in your heart and curse the Canaanites and all their little “Safe havens” unto destruction…GOD HIMSELF will come and fight through you and give you TOTAL VICTORY over them!!!

• CUT THE UMBILICAL CORD!!!!!

• Look at Ezekiel 16:1-5 “The word of the Lord came to me: Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices and say, This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. On the day you were born your CORD WAS NOT CUT, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.”

• Remember …our battle is a SPIRITUAL one….we fight by PRAYING…by using our SPIRITUAL WEAPONS….

• Our world is totally infested with Canaanite spirits…pornography, sexual immorality, drug and alcohol addictions, and all kind of mess…

• EX: In fact….it’s in all levels of our Government….Our President has recently appointed a man named Kevin Jennings as our “Safe School Czar”….sounds good….but let’s look into what this man stands for and what “safe” means…

• Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). “He was chosen to be the nations “Safe School Czar” primarily BECAUSE he had founded and led GLSEN ….GLSEN’s mission is to empower gay youth in schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the formation of Gay Student Alliances and condemns the use of hateful words. GLSEN also strives to influence the educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students and decrease bullying. GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students”….in other words, these are the books that GLSEN’s directors think all kids should be reading: gay kids should read them to raise their self-esteem, and straight kids should read them in order to become more aware and tolerant and stop bullying gay kids. Through GLSEN’s online ordering system, called “GLSEN Booklink” …teachers can buy the books to use as required classroom assignments, or students can buy them to read on their own…book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships, stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers…etc…Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.”

• DOES THAT SOUND LIKE “SAFE SCHOOLS”??????

• Remember …our battle is a SPIRITUAL one….we fight by PRAYING…by using our SPIRITUAL WEAPONS….

• Canaanite roots are destroyed by REAFFIRMING your convictions and making a DETERMINATION that those convictions are more important than pleasing anyone else!!!

• As you begin to speak out JUDGMENT CURSES (speaking the Word of God over yourself…that your body is the temple of God, that you are an overcomer…etc…) against this spirit…a DEEP HATRED of the addiction will begin to grow in your heart and as that hatred for that addiction grows…the authority and intensity of our judgments against that Canaanite spirit grows…this created a “virtual cycle” that breaks the “vicious cycle” of the addiction

• It is not by your power or might…but it is by the Lord’s spirit of GRACE that you overcome!!!

• Be spiritually reborn…get baptized in the Holy Spirit…

• STAY AWAY from friends that stir up immoral discussions or that do drugs and drink…do not allow them to influence you anymore…

• BE BOLD!

• It is said that it takes 31 days to break a habit…drug addiction is a LIFE DOMINATING problem…so radical changes must be made when it comes to who you hang with, where you go, etc….REPLACE these places with places that HELP and ENCOURAGE you!

• You can be free! God wants you free!

• You may feel like you’ve been open pray to the enemy…God is trying to tell us to CUT OUR TIES TO OUR PAST BEHAVIOR…then we can be free of death structures that have been assigned to DESTROY US!

• God is ready to cover us in His power and His love….He promises to remove us from the LOWLANDS…but we HAVE TO CHOSE to cut the cords from our past…..or we can choose to remain a slave to our enemy! OUR CHOICE!!!!

• Declare and decree: I will no longer be hindered by my past. I make a decisions to cut myself loose from the past. I negate the lies of the enemy and I will not listen to him any longer.

APARTMENT COMPLEX MINISTRY: Details for you!

Thank you for answering the call to reach out to our friends and neighbors in Port Arthur! Get ready to be used by God in an amazing way! God is assembling a team of holy-ghost filled people that are ready to minister to HIS KIDS!

This outreach will take place each month on the FIRST SATURDAY of the month. We will meet at our church at 9:30am to load up the vehicles with the sound system, tables, food, crafts, bikes, and other stuff. As soon as everything is loaded, we will pray, pray, and pray some more…pray for SALVTIONS, HEALINGS, and DELIVERANCES…pray for eyes to be opened and chains broken!

As we arrive at the Apartment Complex, we will set up tables and the sound system near or on the basketball court. We will minister to the people by first meeting some physical needs…like a good hot lunch and we will play group games with the kids, and a few crafts too….then we will minister to their spiritual needs in a fun, relevant way!

Our key verse: Isaiah 52:7-10 “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they SHOUT FOR JOY. “

This is a great outreach for your WHOLE FAMILY to be a part of! Kids can minister to other kids simply by being friendly, helping with the crafts, helping serve food and even praying with them.

We will have special T-shirts made to wear at each outreach. There is a sign-up sheet in the foyer to write down the size you will need. We will sell the shirts to you at cost…should be around $10 each. They will be here in time for our first outreach.

REMEMBER: This is about sharing the LOVE of Christ with people who most likely have forgotten that they are important, that they are beloved sons and daughters of a living powerful, every-loving God!

After the outreach, we will meet back at the church to unload and talk a little about the things that went on…different prayer needs that you discovered, etc…

IT IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!!!!

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