A guided appeal addressing beliefs about spiritual husbands and wives, unhealthy covenants, and unwanted spiritual attachments. Renounce every agreement contrary to God’s will and affirm your identity in Christ.

Legal Grounds, Covenants and Altars that Hold the Deposits

Teaching

A death deposit stays only where it has legal ground. The enemy is not a thief who may do as he pleases; he is a prosecutor who must argue a case. When the ground is removed, the case is dismissed. This chapter identifies the grounds most often used to keep marine, spousal and witchcraft deposits in the blood, so that each can be confessed, renounced and cancelled.

The principle. "Even so the curse causeless shall not come." (Proverbs 26:2) "For the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." (John 14:30) Jesus had no ground in Him for the enemy to stand on, and the goal of this chapter is that the same be said of you.

Common legal grounds

Covenants speak. Every covenant has a witness, a seal and a voice. Marine covenants may be sealed with water, salt, mirrors or cowries. Spiritual marriages may be sealed with rings, garments or union. Witchcraft covenants may be sealed with blood, oaths or sacrifices. Heaven's remedy is a better covenant. "By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." (Hebrews 7:22) "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament." (Hebrews 9:15)

Altars speak. An altar is a place where a transaction with a spiritual power takes place. Abel's blood spoke (Genesis 4:10). Balak built altars to curse (Numbers 23). Altars may be ancestral, communal or personal. They may stand in a village shrine, a riverbank, a family house, a graveyard, a church that has compromised, or in the hidden heart of a person. The Court of Heaven answers an altar with an altar: the altar of the cross, where the final sacrifice has been offered. "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." (Hebrews 13:10)

Examining yourself before the Judge. The Holy Spirit is faithful to bring grounds to your remembrance. Ask Him gently and wait. David prayed, "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." (Psalm 139:23-24)

• Proverbs 26:2: the curse causeless shall not come.
• John 14:30: the prince of this world hath nothing in me.
• 1 John 1:9: if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive.
• Nehemiah 9:2: they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
• Ezekiel 18:20: the soul that sinneth, it shall die; the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father.
• Hebrews 8:6 and 9:15: the better covenant and its mediator.
• Isaiah 28:15-18: your covenant with death shall be disannulled.
• Deuteronomy 7:25-26: destroy the accursed thing.
• Psalm 139:23-24: search me, O God.

Appeal to the Court

"Righteous Judge, I come before You by the blood of Jesus. I ask that this court examine the legal grounds that the marine kingdom, spiritual husbands and wives, and witchcraft have used to keep death deposits in my blood.

I confess every sin that gave them a place: my personal sin, the sin of my fathers, the sin of any parent or guardian who dedicated me, and every sin that I committed in ignorance. I confess occult involvement, sexual sin, unforgiveness, rebellion, bitter words and vows, and every agreement with darkness. I ask for forgiveness and cleansing by the blood of Jesus.

I renounce every covenant, pact, oath, sacrifice, dedication and altar that gave the enemy a legal right to my blood. I break every soul tie, every spiritual marriage, every blood covenant and every contract with death.

I forgive every person who has wronged me, and I release them into Your hands. I release every offence and every root of bitterness so the accuser has no remaining ground.

I ask that the Judge declare that every legal ground has been cancelled, that every covenant is void, and that every altar is overturned by the altar of Calvary. I ask that the enemy be ordered to produce his evidence, and when none stands, that he be dismissed in the name of Jesus Christ."

Prayer points

1. Holy Spirit, search my heart and remind me of every door I have opened. Show me what I must confess.
2. Lord, I confess my sins and the sins of my fathers. Wash me in Your blood.
3. I renounce every covenant made with death, hell, the grave, the sea, the river or the spirit realm. I choose the covenant of Jesus Christ.
4. I forgive every person who has hurt me. I release them and I release myself from bitterness.
5. Every vow or oath I made in ignorance, anger or fear, I revoke it by the blood of Jesus.
6. Every occult object in my possession or my house, show me and I will destroy it.
7. Every ancestral altar speaking against me, be silenced by the altar of Calvary.
8. Every parental dedication to any spirit, river, sea or shrine, be annulled in Jesus' name.
9. Every soul tie, sexual or spiritual, be severed now by the sword of the Spirit.
10. Every legal ground the enemy has used against me, I withdraw it by the blood of Jesus.

Conclusion

The enemy's case is only as strong as his legal ground, and the ground has been removed by repentance, renunciation, forgiveness and the blood. You have now done what the court requires: you have cleaned your side of the record. In the next chapter we turn to the accuser himself and bring charges against him.