BREAKING THROUGH STRONGHOLDS
by Lesa Ankney
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This teaching was presented to God’s Girls Ministry Women’s Bible 
study on Monday, September 20, 2010. Personal testimonies are not 
included in these notes. This editor believes personal testimonies 
belong to the person telling it and should not be posted on a public 
forum such as the Internet by anyone except the testifier. Bracketed 
and italicized scripture references supplied in these notes were not 
in the teaching but are here as a study reference for your learning. 
King James Version Bible quoted unless noted otherwise.


Lesa had a dream that there were many women gathered around. Several men came into the room. They meant harm to come to the women gathered but no harm was done because of the light and love of Jesus Christ that was present in the women. Lesa noticed that there were no men with the women. We need our husbands to cover us in prayer. And to pray for the leaders of GGM for protection and safety.


Exodus 23:27 

27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. {backs: Heb. neck}

28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

The stronghold here in this Hidenwood area is in the financial area. Because of this it comes as no surprise that the enemy would attck our leaders in this very same area.

The men who meant harm in the dream were changed by the presence of God in the hearts of the women. God will drive our enemies out little by little until we are able to take the land. This is our prayer over this place. that God would drive out the spirit of mammon, the strongholds of this area, so we can take the land back for God.

CHANGE

There is so much change happening here so fast. Stay in tune with God. Stay in posture of being willing to change, with your eyes and ears open to hear and see the change and go with it. God is working so much more quickly than he used to. It is so important for our own personal relationships to stay tight with Him because he is on the move.

SPEND TIME WITH GOD

There is a spirit of mammon in this area. This area is filled with people who have money, lots of money and they will not come to a place that looks ragged and rough and cheap with cast off old stuff. Just because they have money does not mean they have Jesus. It does not mean they are not broken. We are not doing the practical, sensible thing, we are doing the God thing with nice stuff. When people get mad that God blessed someone else, there is an implication underlying it that says, "Why did God bless you and not bless me?" We do not have to be poverty mentality people. Remember Judas Iscariot accused Mary with the alabaster box of expensive perfume for being wasteful. But he responded, "You do not know the investment she made. She prepared me for burial." We are making an investment into Jesus too. Our investment is to harvest for the Kingdom of God here in the marketplace.

Break through that spirit. Let's live by faith that God is our provider. If we only go to work for money then money is our boss. If we work for God, then God is our boss.

Pray about keeping yourself cut off from the spirit of mammon. Lets pray for the strongholds to be broken here and take back this land for God.



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