Spiritual Interactions (14) Binding and Losing

Jesus teaching about binding and loosing makes more sense, if we understand that we live in a place where the spiritual and physical realms. The keys do not represent power for the head of the church. They represent our ability to influence events in the spiritual realms.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Matt 16:19).

The prayers that we pray here on earth have an influence in the spiritual realms. If the church on earth binds and evil spirit operating I the spiritual realms it would be bound. A prophetic declaration made on earth can release angels to go to work in the spiritual realms.

Christians cannot experience victory on earth, until the victory has been established in the spiritual realms. The good news is that Jesus gave us authority to influence things in the spiritual realms. That is why Jesus repeated his promise about binding and loosing.
Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven (Matt 18:18-19).

The pathway to action is as follows (see the arrows below).

1. The Father declares his will in the spiritual realms where he dwells.

2. The Holy Spirit hears everything that the Father speaks to the son.

3. The Holy Spirit speaks to a group of Christians who have gathered together and tells them what the Father wants to do.

4. The Christians pray and prophetically declare what God is doing.

5. Their prayers bind the forces of evil and their declarations release the angels in the spiritual realms.

6. The angels work with the Holy Spirit to achieve a victory over the powers of darkness.

7. When the victory is achieved in the spiritual realms, the church can accomplish what God wanted done on earth.

Humans are essential in the process for two reasons.

• We have authority on earth, so the Holy Spirit needs our permission to work on earth.

• We will struggle to achieve God’s purposes for us, until the conditions are right in the spiritual realms.

Paul explains how this works.

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds (1 Cor 10:3-4).

We live in the physical world, but we do not use physical weapons. We use divine power to achieve victory in the spiritual realms, which makes our words and service effective against strongholds on earth.