Strategic Intercession
17 - Spiritual Ground Zero: Breaking Strongholds Beneath Your Feet
May 24, 2025
Episode 17
Melanie Boudreau
Land can carry spiritual residue from past events, creating ongoing resistance to God's purposes through defilement that grants the enemy legal access. This episode explores the biblical foundation for land cleansing and provides practical steps for breaking strongholds and reclaiming property for Kingdom purposes through strategic intercession.
Key Topics Covered
- Recognizing signs of spiritual defilement on property
- Biblical understanding of how land can be blessed or cursed
- Seven primary causes of land defilement according to Scripture
- The enemy's legal claims through historical sin and trauma
- Spiritual mapping techniques for discovering property history
- The seven-step process for cleansing and dedicating land
- Proper staking of the twelve spiritual gates on every property
- The role of communion, salt, and oil in land consecration
- Maintaining spiritual atmosphere after cleansing
- Sustaining breakthrough through ongoing stewardship|
Scriptural Foundations
- Leviticus 18:25 - Land defiled and vomiting out inhabitants
- Numbers 35:34 - Do not defile the land where you live
- Ephesians 4:27 - Not giving the devil a foothold
- Exodus 20:5 - Visiting iniquity to generations
- John 8:44 - The father of lies and deception
- Revelation 21 - The New Jerusalem's twelve gates
- 2 Kings 2:21 - Elisha cleansing waters with salt
- Leviticus 8:22-30; 14:1-18 - Biblical cleansing models
Resources Mentioned
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