How to Create a Spiritual Atmosphere

Hey, everyone.

We've been talking about an open heaven and, uh, what that means, an open heaven.

Can you say the word open heaven? Open heaven.

Now, for the sake of it, I'm not gonna go into a detail of what that actually is other than to say really between us, if you like, in the heavenly realm, the Bible talks about the heavenlies.

The heavenlies, plural.

You will find that there's a layer, the Bible refers to it really, of demonic entities or territorial spirits that reside over a, a, a region.

And in Daniel chapter 10 will be our best case study of that.

And remember, he prayed.

From the first day that he prayed, what happened? His prayers were heard in heaven.

And, uh, but the prince of, uh, Persia or, or modern-day Iran resisted him 21 days.

And he said, "When I go back, the, uh, the king of Greece," or the Prince Tin or the prince of peace, "will begin to contend with me." But he said, "Nobody protects me other than Michael," who's the, um, over Israel today, is that Michael the archangel protects me, okay? Or begins to contend, uh, against the enemy demonic spirits.

But if you read that Jan, uh, Daniel chapter 10 as a case study, you'll begin to see that that's what we have.

So over New Zealand, there are territorial spirits, there are national spirits that help mold the culture, that help bring certain ideologies and philosophies through, wanting to begin to condition and control the people.

Same with Australia, same with the United States of America.

Uh, the demonic entities over San, San Francisco are very different from Washington State and so forth or other areas of California.

You go into one place and you feel different things.

You go to another place, you feel different things.

But there are spirit powers also over Rarotonga and over the Cook Islands, okay? So we aren't without- We, we don't get scot-free on that one.

And, uh, so they sit over us.

And the i- the objective of the enemy has always been fashioned according to the, the enemy's, um, uh, job description is in John 10:10.

"The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy." But Jesus said, "But I have come," or I by comparison have come, "that you might have life and life more abundantly." Okay? So let's go back to that half the story there of the scripture, John 10:10, steal, to kill, and destroy.

So what the enemy wants to do is close the heavens, close it over a church.

So in other words, the absence of joy, the absence of praise, the absence of freedom.

Some people live with a closed heaven over their homes, over their cul-de-sac, over their street, over their families, and there's strife, there's discord, there's contention, there's confusion.

Sometimes there's a feelings of, uh, of lack of security.