Knowing Your Covenant Rights in Spiritual Battles
Knowing your covenant rights in spiritual battles helps you win the victory in the Courts of Heaven. Knowing, praying, and decreeing your rights as a child of God, brought near to Him by the blood of Yeshua, follows the same principle as going into an earthly courtroom.
If you were involved in an earthly litigation, you need to know…
- What are my rights?
- What is written that I can claim as truth?
- How can the judge rule on my behalf?
Your covenant rights come from the Word of God. Through Yeshua…
- You can boldly enter Heaven’s courtroom (Hebrews 4:16).
- You can meditate on truth, observe it, and you will have success (Joshua 1:8).
- You are anointed with the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).
Join Rabbi Curt Landry on this podcast as he…
- Reviews covenant rights from scripture
- Provides prophetic insights as to why breakthroughs are held back
- Releases a prayer of covenant rights
Transcription from Podcast (Revised for Readability)
Shalom! Curt Landry here, Ancient Principles, Kingdom Authority. We’re talking about…
- Spiritual warfare
- Victory in spiritual warfare
- Breaking generational curses
- How to not be afraid when you are disappointed with a lack of results in your prayer life
- Taking your prayer and your prayer life to a whole other level
I want to welcome you to the podcast. If you didn’t watch or listen to the last podcast, I encourage you to do so. As we work through this spiritual warfare content, we will crawl-walk,-run.
Now, I want to talk to you about one of the most important things—your covenant rights. Knowing your covenant right and when you’re praying is so important. It’s no different than if you were in a courtroom on earth.
If you were involved in an earthly litigation, you need to know…
- What are my rights?
- What is written that I can claim as truth?
- How can the judge rule on my behalf?
It’s the same thing in spiritual warfare because you do have covenant rights. And you need to know them.
The 1st Thing to Understand About Your Covenant Rights
The first thing to understand about covenant rights is that you can pray, proclaim and decree them in your situation. This allows you to do what Hebrews 4:16 says, “Let us therefore come boldly into the throne room of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in my time of need.”
That’s why I would really recommend praying scriptures such as those found in Scripture Keys. This book has various issues and topics broken out by title and gives you your covenant rights under each so you can make those decrees and proclamations. Once you know God’s on your side and you know what scripture to bring, then the boldness to come into the throne room is there.
You Have a Covenant Right to Prosper
You need to know that the Lord desires that you prosper on earth. The scripture says in Joshua 1:8, “The book of the law shall not depart from your mouth,” that’s the key, “But you shall meditate in it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that’s written in it, for then, you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.”
If you meditate on the Word of God and know your covenant rights, it becomes your covenant identity, which allows you to…
- Breakthrough and be free from fear and have peace
- That’s why the scripture says, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your request be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your mind through Christ Jesus.”—Philippians 4:6-7.
The key to being free from fear is to be anxious for nothing. But you need to know…
- How to pray
- How to supplicate
- How to give thanksgiving
Really, it is having the mind of Christ, which we decree in 1 Corinthians 2:16, “For who has the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ.”
You Are Anointed
The word “Christ” in Greek means anointed. So, in Christ, you have the anointing from God to say…
- “I have a covenant right.”
- “I have a contractual right to my healing.”
- “I have a contractual right to the unification of my family.”
- “I have a covenant right to have a prosperous marriage.”
- “I have a covenant right for that wayward child to quit going down that path of drugs and alcohol.”
- “I have a covenant right to decree it.”
Understand the Power of Decreeing Your Covenant Rights
You need to be able to understand that there is power in decreeing your covenant rights stated in God’s Word. It’s not how loud you speak it out or how you decree it. It’s about the source from which you decree it—your new identity in Yeshua. It’s about the source of God’s Spirit, God’s power from within—that you know who you are in Him. It’s really about that identity that we talked about in the last session.
You Have a Covenant Right to Take Authority
Take authority over Satan. “Behold,” it says in Luke 10:19, “I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy. Nothing shall by any means hurt you.” You need to know that you have the authority to engage in spiritual warfare, to do it successfully, and to prosper without harm. You need to be expecting.
Understand Some Breakthroughs Take Time
We read about spiritual warfare in Daniel 9. It took 21 days for the angel, Michael, the archangel, to break through for Daniel. Some of these things just take time. Understand those bad choices we make—this goes for everyone—and the agreements we’ve made can take time to disarm and tear down. It took a long time to make those choices and those agreements, and there is a cause and effect.
The effects of bad choices can be difficult. Unfortunately, it doesn’t go like this: “All right, I prayed, now it’s fixed.” You need to be able to understand that the Lord’s going to start dealing with not just fixing the problem—because He has a covenant right and a mandate to do this because you belong to Him—but He will also fix your behavior that caused it in the first place. Again, this takes time. He is patient with you.
Expect Good Things to Come
But we must expect good things, and in Romans 8:28 it says, “And we know that all things work together for the good to those who love God and to those who are called according to his purpose.”
When we start decreeing and proclaiming God’s Word over situations, we’re not just praying the situation is fixed to return to our old behavior. Rather we ask Him to change the way we think. We pray, “Lord, in Your mercy, in this decree, I ask that You fix this situation, but also, it’s a two-edged sword. You’re fixing me in the process of habits, patterns, and choices that caused or maybe assisted the devil and the circumstances for creating this situation.”
If you have fear, doubt, and unbelief in your life and are making bad choices, then when you pray God’s Word and ask Him to “bind the fear and cast it out,” you need to expect He also wants to change the way the fear, doubt, and unbelief got into your mind in the first place. Expect the fact that He’s going to put a burden on you to strengthen your faith and change your behavior because faith cometh by hearing and hearing of the Word of God.
Continue to Walk in Humility and Trust
Maybe you have asked, “Why do bad things continually happen to some people and even people who pray and give tithes and offerings?” Rather than focusing on the why, continue to walk in humility, trust, and obedience. There will be some things that will be later revealed. There might be others that are not. The key is to understand that your breakthrough might be different from what you originally had in mind. Either way, surrender, and a breakthrough will come—God’s breakthrough.
Other reasons your breakthrough isn’t happening…
I want to talk about some basic things in families that I hope sheds light on some things for some of you. These might be things you need to repent of and cut off their influence on the family.
- Innocent bloodshed
This is Genesis 9:6-7. You may have murder or abortion or violence, or the shedding of blood in your family or your life. If you have that, you need to be able to repent because that blood is crying out against your family and your life.
- Disobedience to God’s voice
This is in Genesis 3. If you or your family has a habit and pattern of hearing from God but not obeying God, this could hinder your breakthrough because faith without works is dead.
- Broken covenants
Second Samuel 21:1-14 talks about giving your word. That’s why it’s so important to make your yes be yes, and your no be no. If you give your word, did you promise? Did you fulfill? If you borrowed money, didn’t repay, or said you would show up and didn’t, all those types of things, you can’t expect God to keep His covenant of breakthrough in an area with you when you don’t repent from breaking covenant with man.
- Sexual sins
Second Samuel 12:1- 15 talks about if you have sexual sin, you’re involved in an affair or pornography, whatever it is that you’re actively engaged in sexually, and you fall to this, then you need to repent and come to the Lord and ask the Lord to forgive it and expunge it. When you don’t, the enemy uses sexual sin against your real identity of righteousness in Yeshua.
- Returns evil for good
Provers 17:13 talks about this. Think about it like this: when people try to help you and do good, and then you return evil by maybe speaking against them or saying, “Who do they think they are trying to do this or that?” this is returning evil for good.
There are all sorts of situations. As a pastor, I have seen all this, and even in my own family over the years, when you’re trying to help people, especially people with drug addictions or any type of dysfunction like that, sometimes they’ll repay evil for good.
- Abuse of authority
Micah 2:1-5 talks about this. Suppose the Lord has given you authority as a parent or as a manager at your work, and you abuse the authority. In that case, the enemy could use this against you. If you have children and grandchildren, you need to be able to honor them. Listen, you must discipline, I believe in that, but you have to do it in a way that honors them as precious arrows in your quiver. Authority is abused in weakness and fear, and when you do this, you put that onto your children and grandchildren by trying to over-micromanage them. You need to be able to repent of that abuse of authority.
- Rebellion against authority
Romans 13:1-7 says we must be teachable. If you ask for help and someone such as a pastor, rabbi, leader, apostle, prophet, or counselor, and rebel against what was said, you are speaking a curse. You might think, “Oh, I would never word curse that.” However, think about this: If you say things against a good word towards someone, such as speaking doubt or unbelief in another success or even words spoken to you, that is speaking against it, and it’s a word curse.
If you speak something like that, ask, “Where did that spirit of competition come from? Where did that spirit of being critical of others being blessed or trying to answer their desires and dreams come from?” Repent.
I call the spirit of competition or comparison the way of Cain. That’s what happened with Cain. It wasn’t that Cain’s offering wasn’t right, but Cain wasn’t following the Lord’s patterns with bringing the offering, and Abel’s offering had blood, and it takes the shedding of blood for the remission of sin.
It wasn’t that the Lord was anti-produce, but there was a principle: the shedding of blood for the remission of sin. He should have sold some of his produce or traded it with his brother and got a lamb for himself, so there would’ve been a sacrifice, which would be doing it in the Lord’s protocol.
That spirit of competition means you need to compete with someone. Your call and purpose are known before you were in your mother’s womb. The Book of Ephesians talks about a workmanship that was prepared beforehand.
Closing Prayer
I want to go ahead and close with some prayer, and these are verses that we decree with God in covenant. You do have a covenant right.
“Father God, Your word says in Isaiah 43:26, ‘Put me into remembrance, let us contend together, state your case that you may be acquitted.’ Father God, I come to You in the power, in the name of Jesus, in the blood of Jesus, and I ask You, Lord, to rule on my behalf that my sins have been expunged. Now, to Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all, we ask or think according to the power that works in us, which is the Holy Spirit. To Him be the glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
“Thank You, Lord, in Matthew 6:10, ‘Your kingdom come and Your will be done on Earth and in my covenant right. Your Word says in Isaiah 55:11, ‘So shall My word be…’
“Thank You, Lord, that Your words that go forth from my mouth shall not return to void, but shall accomplish what You please, and it shall prosper in the thing which it is sent. Thank You, Lord God, that I send Your Word and your covenant right to be able to accomplish all that I am called to do in Yeshua’s name.”
God bless you and Shalom.
Bio
Curt Landry, founder of Curt Landry Ministries, and his wife, Christie, travel extensively, preaching and teaching about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. Together, their passion is to empower families to live and leave Kingdom legacies and understand their own personal heritage.