In this episode Dan and Chad unpack the reality that God originally gave humanity authority through communion with Him, to rule and reign over the earth. When humans sinned, we gave our authority to the enemy by agreeing with his lies.

Christ is the Last Adam who walked in perfect communion with and obedience to the Father. This is why Jesus' whole ministry was one long confrontation with the "ruler of the kingdom of the air...the spirit at work in those disobedient." Jesus won back our true identity as sons and daughters who are meant to walk in kingdom authority or the powers and plans of the enemy to steal, kill, and destroy.

In this episode, Dan and Chad begin a new conversation around the issue of being set free and STAYING FREE by learning to resist the ways the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy.

Luke 11:24-26 NIV

"When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' [25] When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. [26] Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first."

There is just no mistaking it, the enemy is relentless and wants to continue to sow seeds of doubt, darkness, discouragement and the like. 

2 Corinthians 2:10-11 NIV

Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven-if there was anything to forgive-I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, [11] in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

We must learn to, like Paul goes over:

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NIV

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. [4] The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. [5] We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

We must learn to take EVERY THOUGHT captive in order to stay in step with the Holy Spirit and experiencing ongoing freedom in Jesus. 

Isaiah 53:5 NIV

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

We need God’s help with ALL four phases of the freedom and fullness Jesus came to give us. Forgiveness of sin, cleansing of our nature, healing of our bodies and deliverance from mental bondage. 

In this episode, Dan and Chad walk through ALL TWELVE Hindrances to Healing.

Fundamentally, we believe that the WHOLE REASON Jesus came and ministered the kingdom of God as it is in heaven are powerfully summarized to these foundational passages.

Acts 10:38

[38] how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

1 John 3:8

[8] The one 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 work.

The whole reason we've walked through twelve hindrances to healing and wholeness has been to provide TRUTH remedies to lies we've believed instead of the truth of God's word as we see made manifest in the ministry of Jesus.

Self hatred and shame block the flow of God’s healing power to flow through us and out to others. When we don’t see ourselves through the lens of grace in the way that Jesus views us, we’ll never walk in all that Jesus made available for us to walk in. 

We MUST see the LORD break through our generations’ “victim mentality” that causes us to live without the revelation that we have an Abba Father that speaks identity, destiny and purpose over us in his tender love.  When we realize how much we’re loved and accepted, it opens us up to receive and release the fulness of God’s purposes to those around us. 

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In this episode Dan and Chad unpack the 10th common hindrance to healing and walking in the fullness of what Christ has made available for us to walk in is when we stop hearing and declaring the word of God no matter what we are walking through. 

The word is in your mouth which is then planted in our hearts and out of your heart flow all the issues of one’s life.

A few key passages we looked at:

Romans 10:8-10,17

But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: [9] If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. [10] For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. [17] Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Isaiah 59:21

"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants-from this time on and forever," says the LORD.

We MUST continue to have the WORD form and fill the world we live in as citizens of the kingdom of God.

In this episode Dan and Chad talk about how a believer having unconfessed sin and operating out of a guilty conscious hinders boldness and confidence in prayer. This is not how Jesus wants us to live.

If we’re trying to perpetually cover up our sin, we often have no boldness for the prayer of faith. 

James 5:13–16

[13] Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. [14] Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. [15] And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. [16] Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

In this episode Dan and Chad continue the conversation unpacking various hindrances to walking in the fullness of what Christ has made available.

In this episode, Dan unpacks the next two (on a list of 12) hindrances to healing. When we need to "see it to believe it" we're operating out of our merely fleshly mentality when God has called us to be governed by the mind of the Spirit. Additionally, it's very easy to allow the aforementioned hindrances to bring us to a please of unbelief as it pertains to the presence, power and promises of God. Unbelief, if left unchecked, can run rampant and wreck real destruction in our lives.

We want to live in the "anything is possible" for the one who believes reality.

Dan and Chad unpack the third common hindrance to seeing more of God's power and presence manifest in our lives and ministries. When we try and DO for God, without having the Anointing, which is ALWAYS leading us to greater intimacy and dependency on Christ. Fact of the matter is, we cannot do ANYTHING apart from the power and presence of the Anointed One filling, forming and flowing through our lives.

In this episode, Dan and Chad unpack the second common hindrance to healing...bad theology. Many of us were raised to believe that the cross of Christ secured the atoning work for the forgiveness of our sins and IT DOES, PRAISE GOD! However, the atoning work of Christ also secures our access to the FULL MERITS of God's great salvation wrought by the Son of God which INCLUDES healing. FORGET NOT all his benefits the Psalmists writes in Psalm 103:3-5 and those benefits are:

...who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

We want to believe for all that Christ walked in throughout his kingdom ministry (see Mark 2 as a case study both HEALING and FORGIVING SINS) to be at work in our own lives and ministries today.