02/07/2025
🏳️🛡️🏹💣💥🗻Territorial Intercession: Purging the Land by Purging Ourselves
When we talk about territorial intercession, many picture themselves warring against unseen powers in the air, yet never confront the idols crouching in their own hearts.
Church, Scripture is clear:
The people and the land are inextricably bound together.
You cannot separate them.
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📖 The Foundation of True Intercession
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
📖2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
Notice carefully:
My people.
Not the unbelievers.
Not the secular authorities.
His covenant people must be the first to repent.
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🔑 Preparatory Commands Before You Intercede
Before you ever wage war in prayer over a region, ask yourself:
✅ 1) “If My people…”
Are you truly positioned as His? Are you standing in covenant identity—or wearing a label without consecration?
✅ 2) “…will humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways…”
This call is not just to pray against darkness out there, but to allow the Spirit to uncover darkness in here.
• Are you willing to forgive those who wounded you?
• Are you willing to lay down pride and reputation?
• Have you allowed God to heal, deliver, and sanctify you?
✅ 3) “Then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
The promise is conditional. If we ignore the conditions, we forfeit the results.
Many cry out, “God, move in my city!”
God is often waiting for His people to move first.
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🏔️ God’s Desire to Dwell Among Us
Hear this clearly:
God is not merely interested in saving scattered souls and leaving whole regions to decay.
He desires to inhabit territories where His people dwell.
“For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.”
📖2 Chronicles 16:9 NKJV
But He will not bypass His own holiness to accommodate hidden compromise.
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⚔️ The Idols Must Fall
Many territories where we labor still have idols standing—altars of pride, bitterness, mixture, and rebellion. These strongholds empower principalities.
You cannot evict darkness you secretly serve.
Remember what happened when the ark of God entered the Philistine temple:
“And when they arose early on the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold…”
📖1 Samuel 5:4 NKJV
Just like Dagon fell, every idol must and will fall—
But not through hopeful prayers and powerless decrees.
They fall when God’s people get humble, repent and embrace their identity and authority!!
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🛡️ Your Part in This Battle
If you want to see your territory healed and restored, this is your part:
✨ Humble yourself.
Not just at the altar on Sunday—but in the ordinary, unseen places.
✨ Practice forgiveness daily.
People will offend you. Forgive anyway.
“But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
📖Matthew 6:15 NKJV
✨ Seek God’s face every day.
Don’t reduce Him to a crisis hotline or fairy godmother. Seek Him when all is quiet and all is well.
✨ Turn from your wicked ways.
Stop normalizing cycles you were called to break.
Mistakes happen. Cycles remain when you won’t confront them.
Bring them into the light and let God redeem them fully.
“Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”
📖James 1:21 NKJV
It is possible to walk in victory.
It is possible to overcome sin.
It is possible to see entire regions transformed.
⚠️ A Word of Caution
If you’re not willing to pray God’s purposes—
If you’re unwilling to repent, to forgive, or to consecrate yourself—
then pause before you speak on behalf of the One you have yet to surrender to.
“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
📖Hebrews 4:12 NKJV
The Word does not merely cut flesh—it exposes motive.
It reveals whether you’re interceding by the Spirit or speaking from the soul.
God is not moved by volume, emotion, or eloquence.
He is moved by purity and obedience.
He does not entrust territorial authority to vessels who refuse to be sanctified.
Only in holy partnership with a purified people does God bring His Kingdom into the earth.
- MV Lofton
