It's Supernatural

Sid: Sid Roth here with Kynan Bridges. Kynan I promised people that and this is so important that you would address the question “Who do you think you are?”

Kynan: You know Sid several years ago when I was a very young believer and I was not as proficient in spiritual warfare and deliverance as I am today. I had an encounter that really reset my life and rocked my world to tell you the truth. And I was in school and a friend of mine called me and said “I want to come talk with you.” And I had another friend that was staying with me at the time and when this friend called me his voice was different something was wrong I knew I discerned that something was wrong. It was a dark a darkness that I perceived over the phone and shortly after he arrived at my home my apartment at the time and of course I’m single and I met at this time and I want to talk with you and there’s a darkness I feel all over him. And he begins to manifest and if you ever seen the movie “Alice in Wonderland” there was a person called a Cheshire cat. And he literally began to contort and his face turned into the grimace of a Cheshire cat that was the most disturbing thing you’ve ever seen. And he looks at me and he comes close to my face and he says “Who do you think you are?” You know Satan is a liar but even his lies his lies that he tells point to a greater truth a question behind a question and that question changed my life Sid. He said “Who do you think you are?” Or the spirit inside of him said “Who do you think you are?” And that question sparked something inside of me and all I knew to respond with is these words “I’m a child of God.” And he comes closer and he says “I can rip you apart but this guy was about 250 pounds a martial artist I mean he really could accomplish his threat. And instead of fear something inside of me rose up because I wanted to run but something inside of me rose up and I said “Satan you can’t hurt me I’m a child of God in the name of Jesus I command these wicked spirits, these demons to come out of you right now in Jesus name.” And after a few moments he began to shake violently and hit the ground boom! It’s almost like an earthquake underneath my feet. Seconds later he got up and he was completely free and back into his right mind but that question changed my life because that is the key to experience breakthrough knowing who we are in Christ our identity. The problem Sid is that the majority of church is in an identity crisis. Most believers or most Christians or people that go to church believe they are their circumstances, they believe they are they’re addictions, they are their struggles. And it is that identity crisis that gives rise to demonic oppression, but the moment that we realize who we are in Christ is the moment that we can begin to release the Kingdom authority God’s given us. Why? Because who we are or our identity is the carrier of our authority.

Sid: You know what comes to me the scripture “How can two walk together unless they be agreed.” Are you agreeing with the identity that’s put upon you by the devil or are you agreeing with the identity that Jesus is living inside of you?

Kynan: That’s why I mean think about this for a second. Homosexuality, sexual perversion what is the deception there? Even embracing the term homosexual as a part of the enemies plan because he wants people to believe that they are desires instead of putting the desires under the blood of Jesus and allowing our spirit man to take control verses our flesh. This is the key I have ministered to 1000 of people and have seen 1000’s set free of things that society said, psychiatrists said, doctors said they could never be set free of Sid. But I’m telling…in fact I feel this I need to share this. The Lord gave me a in fact I don’t know if it was a vision or not but we were praying one night and I had this encounter where it was as if I left wherever I was that church sanctuary. And all of a sudden instantly as I closed my eyes I was in the courtyard of heaven. It was actually a beautiful courtyard with golden pillars, a floor made of pearl the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. Now adjacent to this courtyard was a throne room. Now I didn’t see Jesus in this vision and I didn’t see God but there were other people there with me other angels or so forth and all of a sudden there was oil that began to run down from the throne and it saturated the courtyard and my feet were covered. And I heard the Lord say “I am purifying my church.” And instantly boom I’m back inside of my body, I’m back in that sanctuary and I begin to ponder that and I was speaking with a friend of mine and we were talking about what this really meant. Through this conversation the Lord revealed to me is that what God is doing Sid is that He is releasing from His throne an anointing that is going to restore the foundations of the body of Christ and bring the church back into her Kingdom identity. And once that happens Sid we’re going to see miracles that we’ve never seen before, we’re going to see the church return to the Book of Acts. And what happened in the Book of Acts? The blind eyes were open, the lepers were cleansed, demons were cast out this is what Jesus commanded us to do but we can’t do it unless we know who we are and whose we are.

Sid: You know I believe that there’s an identity crisis among Christians and therefore an identity crisis even in the church. What does our birthright as born again believers entitle us to?

Kynan: You know this is an amazing thing. If you study the book of Ephesians one of the most beautiful books in the Bible. Sometimes the most difficult to understand but packed with more revelation than you can imagine. And Ephesians l tell us we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. The Greek word Eulagia which is analogist and synonymous with the birth right with the Hebraic tradition. You know I love studying Hebrew roots Sid and understanding the foundation of our faith in our Messiah Jesus. And one of the things that was prevalent throughout the Old Testament, and even prevalent today, is the idea of a blessing and oral blessing. You know the birth right was given to the eldest son in the home to carry on the linage, the covenant and even the physical resources of the home. You know even in the Jewish custom today we have Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs that are designed to bless it’s a coming of age it’s a coming into your manhood or your womanhood and receiving the blessings of the elders of the community. Well guess what Sid the same thing happened through Jesus Christ. You know when Jesus walked the earth the Father spoke to Him and said “This is my beloved Son in whom I’m well pleased.” He started his ministry with the birthright blessing of the Father. And when Jesus went to the cross died and resurrected He gave the church a birthright He blessed us He spoke well of us and this is our inheritance. In other words this birthright Sid gives us access to all of the heavenly resources that God has made available. We are coheirs or we are joint heirs with Jesus we literally have heaven waiting at our beckoning call. Now I want people to let that sink in. The next time that they have a nightmare or the next time they feel sickness in their body or the next time they’re tempted to fear I want them to think about the magnanimous birthright that God has given us. It is mind boggling to think about the fact that the Father in heaven calls us blessed, the Creator of the universe calls us His blessed sons and daughters. Which means there is nothing that we don’t have access to that there is nothing that we can’t walk in. God wants to give us all that He has everything that we have, everything He has is ours in Christ as we surrender ourselves to this Kingdom identity. I tell rights that you don’t know you have Sid the rights that you don’t know how to fight for. Before you can fight for something you’ve got to know what you’re entitled to and it’s time for the church to realize what she is really entitled to.

Sid: You talk about four strategies of the devil, tell me those four.

Kynan: Now this is so important for people to understand because if you don’t understand the strategies of the enemy…you know I’m often reminded of Napoleon Bonaparte and nothing against him, but he was a brilliant military strategist late 1700’s 1800’s and he was able to conquer so many nations and kingdoms. That little small island of…that little land mass called France was able to be a powerhouse because of military strategy. And the same way Satan, though he is I call him a wimp. He is extremely intelligent in terms of military strategy.

Sid: But aren’t you fearful to call Satan a wimp?

Kynan: You know I’m actually not I’m going to tell you why I learned this from Smith Wigglesworth. You know the story goes that Smith Wigglesworth late one night he heard a rambling one night in his apartment or his flat in England. You know he felt that something was going on downstairs so he walked down stairs. And literally as the story goes Satan was standing in his living room. And so Wigglesworth kind of moved some of the cold from his eyes and he looked at him and said “Oh it’s just you I’m going back to bed” and went back to sleep. And I believe it’s the same thing you know he only has these….

Sid: Is that what the Bible means “Give no place to the devil.”

Kynan: Give no place to him. You know I want you to think about something Sid when Jesus walked the earth and demons were present for example the Gadarene demoniac. This man was said to have a legion of demons inside of him. A legion in Roman culture was between 7 and 10,000 Roman soldiers. So I want you to think about this this man had up to 10,000 demons inside of him at the same time. And yet the Bible says “Immediately when the man saw Jesus he fell to the ground to worshiped him and said…and the demons said ‘Have mercy on us…

Sid: Hm.

Kynan: Have you come to torture us before the time?’” Now when’s the last time you’ve seen that in the church service? When’s the last time…

Sid: Well when’s the last time you saw deliverance period in a church service.

Kynan: (Laughing) And that’s the paradigm we’re returning to. Sid I want to release and impartation of the power and the anointing of God the authority of God to where Satan can take the backseat that he deserves. We need to put him in the outhouse and drive him out of our family, our finances, our fellowships, our ministries, our lives our minds, our emotions our physical bodies. And I believe this is the key you know Satan can only do four things. The first thing he does he tries to tempt the people of God. Now temptation means that he tries to take desires twist them and draw us away into sin. That’s the way he did to Eve in the Garden of Eden, that’s what he tried to do to Jesus in the Gospel of Luke chapter 4 when Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness. But the way to overcome temptation is the same way that Jesus overcame temptation with the word of God. The Bible tells us in Revelation that “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.” Number 2 the second thing that the devil tries to do is deceive us. You know Jesus understood this He said “You shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.” In other words what does truth do? Truth breaks the power of deception. You know I was traveling to Sierra Leon I was in Freetown and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and Sid this was amazing He said “Kynan I have granted unto you the mantle of truth” and He said “The mantle of truth is the key to releasing miracle anointing.” I said God “What do you mean?” He said “When Jesus walked the earth He was releasing truth to My people and it was the power of the truth that set them free. And in the same way is it’s the power of the truth that breaks the power of deception. Every area of bondage in a person’s life is connected to a lie they have believed about God themselves or others. So the key to freedom is receiving the truth. Once you know the truth, once you intimately are acquainted with that truth and that truth becomes revelatory becomes experiential when that happens Sid it drives out the lies that keep God’s people bound.

Sid: Tell me the other strategies of the devil.

Kynan: Number 3 is distraction. You know Satan is interesting if you remember when Moses went to go see Pharaoh which was a type of Satan Pharaoh represented Lucifer, or a Luciferian spirit, and when Moses confronted Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus the Bible says that he came to Pharaoh and said “Let my people go.” And when Pharaoh really refused Moses put his staff down and his staff became a serpent, this was the sign God gave Moses to give to Pharaoh. After this Pharaoh tried to imitate that miracle and put down staff that also became serpents through his musicians. Well guess what “The serpent of God or the staff of Moses consumed or devoured the serpents of the enemy.” Now what’s the point of that? Those serpents manifesting from Pharaoh were a sideshow to take the attention off the power of God. And this is the same way that the enemy operates he’s always trying to take our mind and our attention off of God. He does it through anxiety, he does it through sickness. These are all distractions and that’s why the Bible tells us to give him no place. And the forth areas if oppression. And you know once Satan can’t affectively tempt a believer, once Satan can’t affectively deceive a believer and he can’t distract a believer he throws a temper tantrum and he tries to oppress the believer. Now we see this in the Book of Acts where Herod began to stretch forth his hands and to vex the church. He actually killed a James the brother of Jesus and was attempting to do the same thing to Peter he put Peter in prison. But the church had enough revelation to understand that we’re not going to tolerate the oppression of the devil, we’re not going to allow the enemy to control us and they stood their ground. You know Satan is a bully and I’ll tell you the only way to get rid of a bully is to stand your ground don’t give in to him. And when you show the devil that you’re not going to lay down and play dead he realizes that he needs to find another party to go to because this party is no longer happening anymore.

Sid: You can tell as Kynan Bridges is teaching you right now he’s not a normal teacher he has such deep insight. He studies the Hebrew roots of the scriptures and his insight of the scriptures is I believe very supernatural…It’s going to dramatically impact your life. Why? Because he not only teaching from scripture but he teaches from first-hand experience. He talks about the difference of your own thoughts and the devils thoughts. He shows how the devil plants these thoughts inside of you. He’ll teach you how to develop your spiritual skills so that you’ll be a winner in every arena. And then perhaps the best part of your book Kynan is the powerful prayers over darkness that are biblical. God doesn’t want you to just coexist over those what you consider those things that you’re stuck with as a human. No, no, no! I just wish I had this book 40 years ago when I was tackling the demonic realm I didn’t know where to go, who to talk to all I knew was that there’s greater power in the name of Jesus than all the demons in hell. But I could have avoided years of struggling….Let me tell you something that I just got a text message a friend of mine that lives in Israel is going to a major gathering of Jewish people. He said that there’ll be 10,000 Israeli Jews there and he’s going to pass out a flyer about our television show “It’s Supernatural.” Now “It’s Supernatural” is not just in English it’s in English, it’s in Hebrew, it’s in Arabic and it’s in Russian. And we’re on the air literally we’re taking over the airwaves of Israel. Because I believe the greatest revival the world has ever seen is about ready to happen in Israel. And I believe the scripture that says “The word of the Lord will go out from Zion.” That’s the way it started and that’s the way it’s going to finish. Now when we come back I want you to get more of this teaching and understanding from Kynan because the more you understand your Kingdom identity it’ll be impossible for the devil to put any foothold and lying symptoms upon you. You’ll just start laughing be right back.