Storming The Gates Podcast Episode with Bishop Eugene Taylor

Storming The Gates With Dr.Stacey Twyman

• Bishop Eugene Taylor

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The unseen battle affecting your daily life might not be what you think. Most believers have learned to worship, pray, and quote Scripture, but few understand the legal framework of spiritual warfare that determines victory or defeat.

Dr. Stacey Twyman, a bibliodemonologist who studies Satan's patterns through Scripture, joins Bishop Eugene Taylor to expose the enemy's devices with uncommon clarity and precision. This conversation pulls back the curtain on how the enemy operates as a "demonic archaeologist," studying your family history and bloodline to build strategic attacks while lacking the ability to see your future.

What sets this teaching apart is the revolutionary distinction between coping with demons versus conquering them. "We are not called to cope with demons," Dr. Twyman explains. "We are deputized to conquer them." This paradigm shift challenges the prosperity-centered teachings that have left many Christians managing spiritual problems through external solutions rather than experiencing true deliverance.

The most startling revelation comes when they discuss how our words create "illegal altars" that give demons legal rights in our lives. Those casual negative declarations about yourself, your family patterns, or your future? They become spiritual contracts the enemy uses against you. As Bishop Taylor puts it, "Just as God comes into agreement with your faith, demons come into agreement with your doubt and fear."

Whether you're battling generational curses, fighting territorial spirits, or seeking freedom from persistent spiritual attacks, this episode provides the missing pieces that most deliverance teachings overlook. You'll discover why some prayers backfire, why certain spiritual battles follow you home, and how to accurately discern which fights are actually yours to engage.

Ready to move beyond religious rituals to true spiritual authority? Listen now, and learn how to legally evict every demonic squatter that has claimed residence in your life.

Speaker 1:

Well, god bless you. This is the Storm in the Gates podcast with Bishop Eugene Taylor, where we're teaching God's people how to live in victory against all of the strategies of the enemy in their life, and I'm so blessed on today. I am blessed on today. Let me say it three times. I am blessed on today. I've got a dynamic, powerful woman of God and I've been waiting for this interview to have her come and share with us on today.

Speaker 1:

Listen, her name is Dr Stacey Twyman. She is a powerful woman of God. I will talk a little bit about her, but I'm going to let her introduce herself even more. But she's an educated woman. She has a bachelor's in biblical studies. She has a master's in organizational leadership. She has an earned doctoral degree from Regent University in strategic leadership. She's the author of five books. She's a statewide clinical chaplain for the Georgia Department of Corrections. She is the executive pastor of Strong Tower Christian Center. She's married to Apostle David Twyman. But she is a woman of God and I want to introduce her on today. God bless you, dr Stacey Twyman, so blessed to have you on today.

Speaker 2:

God bless you, bishop Taylor. It is indeed an honor to be on this platform with you. Thank you so much for the invitation. Of course, I honor your lovely wife, lady Taylor, and the Lord's House Church. God bless you.

Speaker 1:

Yes, ma'am, we're blessed to have you. I love your ministry and it's funny. I love your ministry. I love your husband's ministry. You all have a powerful ministry together. I've been knowing you for several years but our listeners today they don't know who you are. And I gave a little. I gave a little formal introduction, but those are all of our accolades, but they don't necessarily express who they are. But if I didn't talk about any of those accolades, I threw all of them out in the trash can. If I just threw them out the window and I asked you who is, I wouldn't even say doctor I would say this who is Stacey Twyman? Tell me who Stacey Twyman?

Speaker 2:

is. I'm going to tell you exactly who Stacey Twyman is. Stacey Twyman is nothing without God. I love it I love it, I love it. I a mother, I'm a wife, I'm a pastor, I'm a teacher and, of course, a faithful servant of the most high God. But without God, none of that would matter.

Speaker 1:

You know, I was talking to some people and I was teaching a class and I was talking about gifts and talents and I told him I said my heart goes out for you guys. I was looking at some of them in the class. I said you guys have a lot of talents and you have a lot of giftings. I said and there's a lot that you have to filter through. I said, well, I don't have all those giftings and talents. I said I am 100% dependent upon God. I said I know beyond the shadow of a doubt if God doesn't do it, it's not going to get done. I told him. I said you all got to figure out because you're a creative and you're gifted here and you're gifted there. I said my life is full of simplicity. If it's not the Lord there, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. Listen, let's talk about your personal ministry. Tell me what type of personal ministry you have. What have you been called to do? What have you been called to accomplish? What is your assignment here in the earth?

Speaker 2:

Bishop, I am a bibliodemonologist. If I can sum it up in a few words, a bibliodemonologist is the fact that I study Satan's patterns through the lenses of scripture for the sole purposes of exposing his devices. Growing up in the church, I learned how to dance.

Speaker 2:

I learned how to shout but, I did not learn how to articulate my faith. I even remember sitting next to a Muslim, a little boy, when I was in school, and this little boy refused to eat lunch, and I was very inquisitive and I began to think to myself why in the world would this little boy, muslim boy, refuse lunch? So I asked him and he said it is because of my faith. Now, fast forward. We know he was probably honoring Ramadan as a Muslim, but this was something that set me on a journey of why I could not articulate my faith. I would sit next to all types of persons that understood and knew their faith and could defend it, and so, as a body of believers, I truly believe that we love God. However, many of us are ignorant to the enemy's devices, so that's why I expect the enemy to fight me when I get up in the morning. I expect the enemy to fight because I plan to fight him back.

Speaker 1:

Well, you know one thing about fighting. You may not be crazy about fighting, but as long as I know I'm going to win, you can count me in to fight, I'm going to win, you can count me in to fight. Paul says this. He says beware of the wiles of the devil. That Greek word is methodea, which deals with strategies, and where we get the English word method from you know, I like that. I've been teaching that, well, man, I've been teaching that for decades. But that's not saying beware that old slew foot devil. No, no, no, that's not what they're saying. They said I want you to become learned when it talks about his strategies and the methods that he uses. And when you say that that's what you've been called to by your expression, I'm assuming that's what you're saying. Tell me, tell me something about some of the wiles of the devil.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir, because of the prosperity movement I'll start with that we have done a poor job of raising up Christian soldiers. Over the past 35 years, bishop, we have been teaching people how to cope with demons. We are not called to cope with demons. We are not called to cope with demons. We are called, we are deputized, to conquer them. Nothing wrong with self-care, nothing wrong with self-help books, nothing wrong with therapy. If you need to take your psych medicine, I say take your psych medicine. I say take your psych medicine.

Speaker 2:

But the question is, are we using mechanisms to help us cope with our demons? I found out a new car, a new house. Neither money will fix, for example, the demon of depression. You could have a mansion, you could have 15 bedrooms, you could have all kinds of accolades and all kinds of cars and you could go right into your one of your 10 car garages and put a rope and tie it around your neck. Yes, yes, because, amen, we have done a poor job in the, I see, in the past 35 years, of understanding really how to not be ignorant of the enemy's devices. I believe, amen, that some of us are coping. A new relationship will not fix the demon of perversion. Anger management will not correct the demon of rage. It only teaches us how to manage our demon of rage. But I got a question Are we coping with our demons? Do we just want to manage our demons? But we are called to cast them out the Bible because it is impossible to manage demons, because you don't know how many you have.

Speaker 1:

Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

Speaker 2:

Jesus said, you know, you cast them out to cast out one and to bring back seven. But I found out in my studies that there could be lesions, there could be multiple areas of the demonic that are ruling and reigning within our spirit being. And so he calls in fact, the text says he called it my house. So he's already laid claims and stakes on us. And so as believers, as those that are called to expose the enemy, we have to ask the question do we have a demonic resident or do we have a demonic squatter? All right, All right, A resident is simply the fact that I've invited this entity in. If you will, I want them to be here. But a demonic squatter, we begin to declare that you don't belong here.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you don't have the legal rights. You don't have the legal rights and that's what we've got to understand. And you know, when we do deliverance of that sort one of the things that I teach, when I teach deliverance I'll tell people I said we want to identify the strong man. We use the term strong man. I like to call it a gatekeeping spirit, because he's the demon that keeps the gate open. Demonic spirits group together. Now, you may not know this. You teach in my language. You're talking about language today.

Speaker 1:

Demonic spirits they group together and sometimes because we can identify a spirit and we can see deliverance in that area, but because the gatekeeper, that's somebody that's keeping the gate unlatched, he's keeping the gate open. Many times he allows that gatekeeper to get in there. Jesus talks in the book of Matthew I think it's the 13th chapter. He talks about laying the ax to the root. And sometimes because we're so obsessed with the fruit that's which is above ground and we look at the fruit but we don't realize, except we deal with the root, we can't see true deliverance.

Speaker 2:

Well, bishop the devil is a demonic archaeologist. Well, bishop the devil is a demonic archaeologist. He likes to dig, he likes to look and he has. He's a strategist, but he does not have foresight. He has insight, he has intel, he could study the past, he could study our patterns, he could study behaviors, he could study our bloodline, but he does not have foresight. He builds his strategies based on the patterns, the generations and the bloodlines. So he loves digging up things and trumping up accusations against us based on just the fact that we are here, based on just the fact that we are here.

Speaker 2:

We see that with Job, how the Bible says that the accuser of Job came and he began making accusations against Job in what I call the court of accusations. And talking about that Job only serves you for what he has. Now let's look at what Job had. Job had over 7,000 sheep. That means if he was living in the 21st century, there would not be a soup that he'll have an arm, whatever soup. So he had sheep, he had soup. He had clothes. He had clothes over 7,000 sheep. He had over 3,000 camels Of the day. 3,000 camels was like having a Mercedes-Benz, maybach. Can you imagine, bishop, having over 3,000 Mercedes-Benz, whatever suit you want to wear, name brand whatever factory. Job also had 500 yokes of female oxen, which symbolized generational yes.

Speaker 2:

Yes, so Job had influence, he had abundance, but the but. What? The test came to see if the money had Job. And so, in Hebrew thought, hebrew thought, understanding that the test is do you have the money or does the money have you?

Speaker 2:

And so we also see the enemy studying the bloodline of King David. If you study the bloodline of King David, you will find that he was thought to be a bastard child. The Bible says that he could not enter the temple, even to the 10th generation. Well, if you look at the begots in the scripture, you'll see that he was the 10th generation, and that's why he said I was glad when they said to me, let us go into the house of God. But the problem is that King David possibly did not deal with rejection and he did not deal with abandonment, because the Bible says that when Kings should have been out to battle, when he should have been out to battle, he was on the rooftop looking over at Bathsheba. So the enemy is indeed you said it a strategist. So why not study him, since he's studying us?

Speaker 1:

Absolutely. When Kingswood should have been out to battle, he was out of place. And I want to tell you something the enemy works strategically to cause God's people to get out of place. You know, I was talking the other night, I was ministering the other night and I was talking about a spirit of offense, how a demonic spirit of offense is designed to get you out of position. You know, when you look at John the Baptist, john the Baptist, he's the one that says behold the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world. But when John was locked up in jail and he was waiting on Jesus to get him out and he, he, he was waiting on Jesus and when Jesus didn't get him out, he said is he the one? Should we look for another? Mind you, you're the one that told us that he was the one. But because you got offended, you're ready to switch position. Jesus' response to him was blessed, is them that are not offended in me.

Speaker 1:

That demonic spirit of offense is designed to get you off kilter, to change your position, to get you out of space. I heard you talk about David and what prompted this when you were talking about David and dealing with that spirit of rejection. That demonic spirit of rejection is a stronghold that's damaged so many individuals. I've seen individuals that dealt with homosexuality, promiscuity and all these things and people say well, I bind that spirit of homosexuality, I come against that. But the root of it, the gatekeeper, is the rejection. And when you deal with that gatekeeping spirit, deliverance becomes easier.

Speaker 2:

Well, you said something, sir. You talked about the offense. What offense does? It gets us off kilter and it gets us off the frequency of heaven.

Speaker 2:

Jesus said let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and we're to function in a different frequency. And so, when you're filled, god is sending the signal, he's sending the strategy, he is sending a man, our plans and our directions, but a fence will keep us from being on the frequency of heaven. Paul says that we are not of. We are in the world, but we are not of this world. That means that we are living, or should live, as believers in heaven's reality. In order to live in heaven's reality, we have to get on the frequency of heaven. What is heaven saying about the matter? About the matter, what is heaven speaking? Forgive, that's a frequency. That's a frequency. Frequency, that's a frequency. Praise, that's a frequency. Understanding that, prayer, prayer is a frequency.

Speaker 2:

And so oftentimes what the enemy seeks to do, as you said, to get us out of alignment and just focus on the rejection rather than focusing on God. What is my assignment in this? What happened to me growing up in church Could not articulate my faith. Making all kinds of mistakes, my life looked no different than the sinner. It looked no different than somebody that didn't believe in God Because I had no understanding of my purpose. So I did, I walked away from the church in offense, and that was the driving force behind the enemy having his way and bringing watch this confusion to my life. Because I had no communication, I had no understanding and I was off kilter. Because that's what offense does it takes you away from understanding that you're living in a different dimension.

Speaker 1:

Yes, that that demon of offense is always to get you out of position. See, the enemy likes to. He likes to isolate you. The Bible says in Mark, the fifth chapter, it said the demoniac of Gadara. Scripture said you find him, he's in the tombs, he's in a dead place, he's crying and he's cutting his own self. See, before the enemy can devour you, he's got to isolate you, separate you, get you away from those who can help you. And it's something.

Speaker 1:

When he saw Jesus, the Bible said he ran to him to worship him. He ran to him to worship him, but when he got to him, those demons spoke up. What have I to do with thee, jesus, the son of Nazareth? Watch this, because there was a struggle that took place on the inside. You know many times when I've been doing deliverance, for many, for decades, and I remember one time I was doing deliverance, I was casting demons out of a young lady. And when I was casting those demons out of a young lady, that demonic spirit was manifesting and I told her. I said, sweetheart, I'm talking to you, not to this demonic spirit.

Speaker 1:

I'm talking to you. I said do you want this? I said. I told that spirit. I said I'm behind you. I said but I'm talking to you, do you want this? And she said no, I don't want it. Well, I used the principle that you just said. If she said I didn't want it, now you're a squatter Because the legal rights are gone. I told that demonic spirit. I said now you know as well as I know, because she says she doesn't want it, you've got to turn her loose and I command you in the name of Jesus Christ. God wants us to understand how to operate. See, lord, have mercy. I'm going to turn it back over to you, but you don't serve.

Speaker 2:

All of it is your fault. It's all your fault.

Speaker 1:

You've stirred me up, see. We've got to understand something about deliverance ministry. The kingdom of darkness is interlinked Spirits in the air, water spirits. Every time we cast out a devil and do deliverance ministry, the kingdom of darkness has to adjust itself, because it's an interlinked kingdom.

Speaker 1:

This is the reason that the devil doesn't want you to operate, because the kingdom of darkness is called to displace the kingdom of God is called to displace the kingdom of darkness. So this is something that we must understand. I want to talk to you about something. I want to differentiate the difference between spiritual warfare and deliverance.

Speaker 2:

Okay. Paul says in 2 Corinthians, I think around the 12th chapter, 6th verse. He says and lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. The word buffet there means to treat with violence, it means to strike with a fist, it's a boxing term. I've never been a boxer but I've loved watching boxing and looking at how the opponent takes the blow. And every now and again, bishop, as you know that if you're going to call yourself an opponent of Satan, you're going to get hit. There's going to be some blows that you've got to endure, that you've got to take one for the team, oh God. And so deliverance requires an element of personal warring until the enemy is defeated. Watch this on that round, on that round, on that round. I like that On that round For years in my bloodline. We're talking about deliverance In my bloodline.

Speaker 2:

I didn't know that my bloodline carried the strong spirit of alcoholism. My family was from New Orleans. On my father's side, then my stepfather, they were heavy drinkers, and then my mother's side they were heavy drinkers, and so I started out thinking that again started out, thinking that again, a glass of wine was okay Not for me, not for my bloodline, because, remember, the enemy does not know my future, he can only study my past. So I remember being passed out on the sofa just out and the Holy Spirit came to me and said if you don't stop drinking, you're going to die, just like your aunt and my aunt. She died an alcoholic, she died because of the cirrhosis of the liver. I remember, even after that, going back one time to take a drink and the Holy Spirit said I don't want that anymore and my stomach began to get sour.

Speaker 2:

So now, on that side, coming back, then I had to war against that spirit. For some time it was the spiritual warfare component. But now that I'm delivered, I can no longer be tempted in that area. So I am forever delivered in that particular thing. But watch this the war is not over. But when you are truly delivered, all coping mechanisms on that dimension cease. Mechanisms on that dimension cease, but the enemy will come back to reclaim territory. So if he cannot get you on that, he'll find other areas to open up and unlock, because the war is not over.

Speaker 1:

That is so true and what you just said. It sticks out to me You've said it twice that the enemy doesn't see what's in the future. See, one of the things that people have to understand the enemy is not omniscient. No, he's not. And there's some things that people have considered them to be omniscient and they didn't realize. He got it from you. He got it from you. The abundance of the heart, the mouth speak. So when you were frustrated, you spoke the secrets of your heart and the demons sit back like this. I didn't know that until you said it. So the demons say I'm ready to shout and rejoice because you gave me something I didn't know. You gave me something I didn't know.

Speaker 1:

The Bible uses a term called familiar spirits and a lot of people don't know. A familiar spirit is a monitoring spirit. It's a spirit that monitors your life and your past generations. In my family that was a spirit of addiction, a spirit of addiction. My father, before the Lord, saved him and filled him with the Holy Ghost, he was a heroin addict. All those were heroin addicts, many of my family. My grandfather was an alcoholic. So you have this. I understand what you're saying, that propensity to slip into an addicted lifestyle has always hung over my head.

Speaker 1:

I was saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost. I had a church. I was a young man and we were having service on Belvedere Lane. My church used to be on Belvedere Lane and we had just got out of a powerful service. I hadn't drank in years. I hadn't drank in years and still didn't drink. That day I walked outside and I mean man, at that time I probably hadn't drank, probably about nine years. I walked outside and it was hot outside and I walked into that sun. I said, whoa, it's hot outside. I said I could go for a nice cold beer.

Speaker 2:

I said what in the world?

Speaker 1:

But watch it. That thing is always hung over. So we've got to understand that, that there are monitoring spirits that have been assigned to your life. You know I did a series talking about familiar spirits and talking about angels, how angels are assigned to our life. These things are real. These are real and because we don't see them with our physical eye, many times we disregard them Absolutely. I wantenities are real and because we don't see them with our physical eye, many times we disregard them Absolutely. I want to talk to you. Let me say a phrase. I'm going to say the phrase and I'm going to let you go to work with it. Generational curses Tell me about them.

Speaker 2:

My God, generational curses. So let's first identify these three curses, types of curses used in scripture. Number one we find the declaration of punishment in Genesis 3, when God began to curse Satan to the ground. So that was a declaration of punishment. Punishment Number two. The second type of curse is the utterance of threats which are found in Jeremiah, chapter number 11. And finally, the proclamation of laws in Deuteronomy 27,. Curse shall you be in the city. Curse shall you be in the field when you do not obey the laws of God.

Speaker 2:

So, with all of these curse sayings, if you will, what they have in common is that somebody violated their relationship with God. Yes, somebody in the bloodline violated their relationship with God. For instance, idolatry of any form is a type of illegal altar. Somebody in the bloodline violated amen. Altars we all have altars, we all. An altar is a place. It's a meeting place for spirits between the physical and the spiritual world. And so we could have made covenant with the demonic kingdom, unknowingly, when we say stuff like I'll never get married, yes, yes, and you will find you will have baby after baby, after baby after baby and never get married because you have made a covenant with the demonic kingdom, particularly if God had marriage for you. If you say something like all men in my family adults, this is what we do you will find that the enemy, as you say, will say thank you. Thank you for that. Now I can take your words, because some the life and death is in the power of our tongue, and so we come into agreement, not knowing that we are establishing a type of altar. We are coming into alignment with the demonic kingdom. So we have to check our family altar.

Speaker 2:

What is the conversation at the picnic? You know, eavesdrop on your family members and girl, don't everybody get on welfare? Everybody have babies out of wedlock. What made you so different? We talked about all of quote my accolades in the beginning, but I was perpetuating a curse before the Lord got a hold of me. Before I was a doctor, this and bachelor that I remember.

Speaker 2:

My life was stagnant. It was just out of out of alignment. It was. It was like every day, it was like the world was gray. Every time I woke up, it was a sense of nothingness. I woke up, it was a sense of nothingness. I felt like there was no reason to, not in a suicidal mindset. But what is all of this for? I'm just getting up every day going through Atlanta traffic, mundane, go in clock in, get back in Atlanta traffic, come home, fix something to eat and go to bed.

Speaker 2:

Finally, one day I said, god, what is going on with my life? Why is it so stagnant, why is it so stuck? And so, the Lord, I told God. I said I'm going to prepare some time for you today. I need to hear what you have to say about my life, because this can't be all that it is.

Speaker 2:

And when I came home, I put the girls to bed early, got on the sofa and I said God, what's up? And he said I'm calling you to preach, I'm calling you to go back to school, I'm calling you to study the Bible, to go and study theology. I said nobody in my family has done that. Nobody in my family has done that. What are you saying? That is not popular, you know. And so we have to find out. What is the altar? What is the demonic platform that has been raised up? What satanic interactions have we had with the demonic kingdom? What meeting place did we design? What principality, what power? What human agreement that we've had with the satanic kingdom? What meeting place did we design? What principality, what power, what human agreement that we've had with the satanic kingdom. And so, going back and understanding these generational curses, somebody have to intercept the announcement.

Speaker 1:

I want to say something. I want to say something when you were saying that, about the words that we speak. I want you to hear me clearly. The spirit realm, the spirit realm. The Bible talks about the discerning of spirits. Discerning of spirits is perception in the spirit realm. Perception is seeing and hearing. The spirit realm is looking for something in the earth to come into agreement with. I say spirit realm whether it be angels or whether it be demons.

Speaker 1:

The Bible said in Hebrews 1 and 14, are they not ministering spirits for those that are heirs of salvation? Talking about angels? But certainly we know that those that are heirs of salvation are us. So he says the angels are ministering spirits. When we, when we deal with the things of God, god is looking for us to come into agreement with something like he died on the. Jesus died on the cross with us, for us. So when we say I believe that Jesus died on the cross, I accept him as my savior, we come into agreement with the word Well, watch this.

Speaker 1:

Demons are looking for something to come into agreement with. So when you say I can't take this anymore and if this happens again, I feel like I'll die. First thing, as you said, that demonic spirit got intel. And that demonic spirit says this right here I really didn't even know you were at that point. You've been concealing it so I didn't know. So you say since if it happens again I'm going to die. No, that devil says well, I'll certainly make sure that it happens again.

Speaker 1:

People don't realize that that demonic spirits. I've heard people say stuff like this man, you know, I've got this such and such in my body. And they say you know now, that's never going to get better. I said they never will. I said because you spoke something out of your mouth, the enemy says. The enemy says watch this. The enemy says watch this. The enemy says legally, I have something to come into agreement with. I'm coming into agreement with. Just like God comes into agreement with your faith, demons can come into agreement with your doubt, your fear and unbelief. So the demon experience says now I'm coming into agreement with your doubt. You say it will never happen again. And now, legally, I have the legal right to hinder you in that area. And I don't understand that. That's why the Bible said we're snared by the very words of our mouth.

Speaker 2:

The words of our mouth. You said something, Bishop, and I'm going to the text. Look at how God began to talk to when Adam and Eve failed and he said to the woman he says your feet shall bruise his head. That's on the kingdom side, in the spirit realm. Words wait, yes, yes, they go out again like a frequency. Yes, Wait, they reverberate, and until someone is the law, Newton's law, that once it gets in motion, it stays in motion until a greater force intercepts it. Yes and so. But what happened is the force of God is so powerful that Jesus, the reverberating word that came all the way through Genesis, that her, his heels shall bruise your head. Prophetically, because the enemy could not dissect that, he could not understand that. That's why, even in understanding prophetic, when we release prophetic that there shall be a deliverer, then he says kill all the men. He says I don't know which one it is Exactly exactly, exactly.

Speaker 1:

I don't know who it is. I don't know who it is.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, I'm coming after all, y'all that's the way Kill everybody. I don't know who it is. Yes, yes, oh, y'all that's the way. I don't know who it is. That's the way generational curses work. I want the whole family because I know who is assigned and who's anointed and who's been appointed to cut this generational curse, to stop the demonic frequency. Generational curse to stop the demonic frequency. I don't know who is coming in agreement with heaven to break the covenant with the demonic kingdom. So I want the whole family.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I love it, I love it, I love it.

Speaker 2:

And so, as we move into the things of God, as we understand altars, the strategy is to build a new altar. Come on now, elijah and Baal, the showdown of which altar is going to be answered by fire. And so Elijah says may the God that answers this altar by fire let him be God. And so the Bible says that the people begin to cut themselves, they begin to cry out day and night, which means there's going to be a dimension of a demonic altar that will not answer us.

Speaker 2:

There's going to come a place in our life where what we've been doing is no longer working for us, and that is what I was dealing with. I was just going through the motions, the rudimentary mundane of life, and just going to work and coming home, and God had an assignment on my life that I knew not of, I had not seen it, I didn't know anybody that had done it, and so, being that person and not having a prototype, all I had was the word of God, and so when the enemy would come in like a flood, then my answer was God, I'm out here on your word. Your word is still his word. That was over 30 years ago, and his word is still reverberating in my life.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'll tell you I've enjoyed this interview today. You talk in my kind of language. I've traveled extensively around the world for many years and sometimes I'll go into countries like Trinidad, jamaica. Other times I'll go into countries like Haiti. I'll go into different parts of Africa. When I go into these different countries, there are different territorial spirits in these regions. If I'm going to a country that I've never I was in Grenada about a year or so ago If I go into a country that I've never been before, I try to study that country Somewhat spiritual mapping.

Speaker 1:

I want to get an idea of what I'm going to be fighting against. What I'm going to be working against. We were in Haiti a few years ago. The unofficial religion in that country is voodooism the unofficial religion and it's very prominent. That spirit in that country is different.

Speaker 1:

I was in South Africa a few months ago and I was in West Africa about a year or so ago and the spirit in South Africa, the territorial spirit in South, was different than the territorial spirit in West Africa. It's the same over here. When I go to South Carolina and I go to New Orleans, the New Orleans area, there's a similar spirit of witchcraft that operates in those same areas the territorial, the territorial spirit. We talk about homosexuality in Atlanta, but the territorial spirit over here is a spirit of perversion that hovers over the Atlanta area. I want to talk about territorial spirits and how we should operate and the reason I'm saying that, because a lot of people I've seen a lot of people say when they go into regions, I pull down this territorial spirit. That's a dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous prayer to pray and many people have bought an onslaught on themselves because they've not known how to operate. That sounds real good when you're talking in front of a whole bunch of believers and I don't have a clue of what's going on. But when you do that, you open yourself up to some attacks and sometimes you can open yourself up to death, absolutely not understood how to operate. This is what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1:

Let me tell you where we're at in a podcast today. I've enjoyed. First let me say this I've enjoyed this podcast with you, dr Stacey Twyman. I've enjoyed this podcast with you, dr Stacey Twyman. I've enjoyed this podcast today. You hear what I'm saying. You're stirring me up because I normally don't be talking this much on these podcasts. I normally leave it to you. I'm going to let you talk about functioning and dealing with territorial spirits, and I'm going to let you release the word of the Lord to the people. And I'm going to let you release the word of the Lord to the people and I'm going to pull myself off the screen. Dr.

Speaker 2:

Stacey Twyman, I'm turning it over to your hand. Yes, sir. Well, when it comes to, first of all, territorial spirits, we must understand our assignment. I often go to the text where King David says shall I pursue? Shall I pursue? Let's put a pin in that.

Speaker 2:

I remember Apostle David and I. We were looking for a place to establish our church and he kept going over to Atlanta and I said I just don't believe that God is calling us to this region. And it was at nighttime and I just kept really sensing and feeling not that I'm quote more spiritual than he is, but then sometimes I am. The Lord speaks to me too. Yes, god, thank you Jesus. But but I really felt like it was a dark cloud hovering over that territory, in that region. And so he was saying you know, maybe it's over here, and when I tell you, there were no lights. It was dark, not just the natural, not just the spiritual darkness, but the natural darkness. And we almost got hit by a train we were sitting on the tracks, coming across the tracks, and he was looking. He had paused. We didn't know that we were sitting on a track until we heard the sound of the train coming. But it was as if the territorial demons were telling us to get out of that region Shall I pursue?

Speaker 2:

When you're dealing with terrestrial spirit or territorial spirits, you don't go in with ego. You don't go in saying, oh, I have the money, oh, this is cheap, this is cheap property, I don't have to pay that much to begin a church here or to start a ministry here. You better make sure you are authorized by God to be there, because the truth of the matter is that there are regions that have been assigned to demonic. Put on the whole armor of God. If you are not functioning and operating in the sense that, shall I war? Is this my fight? Is this my battle? He says we wrestle not against flesh and blood. If we're going in because we have the resources, because we have the money, because the building is cheap, because we think we're called to a certain type of people, we better be very, very, very careful with letting our egos lead us into unnecessary spiritual warfare, unnecessary spiritual warfare. So Paul says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, rulers. That authority is that the enemy functions in ranks, and so Paul lists this descending order as it relates to ranking demons, or high ranking demons or demonic forces that operate in rank and he says we wrestle against systems, world powers. And another thing that we don't go into battles alone. The Bible says one can chase a thousand. You don't know how many legions are in a region you only can conquer if it is a such thing at that moment by yourself, is a thousand. One can chase a thousand, two, 10,000. I never seen a government that go send out one soldier to fight a region. And so oftentimes we have stepped into areas that we are not assigned to.

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We have used prayers Often. I talk about how sometimes we need to understand that there is something in the heavens called the courtroom of accusations. Answer your accuser. The enemy releases accusations upon us If we don't understand what those accusations entail. We are somewhere praying warfare prayers when we should be praying prayers of repentance. The Bible says to agree with the adversary quickly. The enemy comes as a prosecutor. He comes to say what it is that we have done that's against God. That is how generational curses are released. Remember, somebody has violated the will of God. Now, one thing that I often say when it comes to getting emotional help from trauma you may not have caused the trauma, but it's your responsibility to fix it. So it is with understanding how the enemy operates and functions.

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Someone not only in that region, in that territory, some home, because the enemy, if I can have a person, if I can have the person, I can have their children. I talk about this as it relates to the womb of a woman. If I could have her womb, I could have their children. I talk about this as it relates to the womb of a woman. If I could have her womb, I could have her child. If I could have her child, I could have her house. If I could have her house, I could have the subdivision. If I could have the subdivision, I could have the community. If I could have the community, I could have the region. And some of us have come into agreement and alignment with the principalities of the region, and so we have to make sure that we're fighting on the right dimension. We have to make sure that God has called us to the area, and so, therefore, you need an apostolic grace to defend or to fight against principalities of a region.

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I know many of us can put in titles and we could say, oh, I am called to be an apostle, I am called to be a prophet. I am called. The enemy in the spirit. Realm Don't know the difference between your title and your function. He has no idea. Your title and your function. He has no idea. All he knows is that I have to test to see if there's authenticity there. So there's a release of the demonic that is set over us for the mere fact that we confess Christ as our Lord and Savior, the mere fact that we decided to step into our full attention, our full potential and our full authority as it relates to the word of God.

Speaker 2:

We don't go into territories and regions binding up spirits until we look and connect with a group of believers, a praying church. When an apostle mentioned bishop mentioned that he went to Africa. You have to connect with the voice of that region, the spiritual voice that is assigned, and have been praying and covering that region. We don't go into territories making threats to the enemies, because the enemy doesn't take too kindly to threats.

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One thing that I have been teaching for our ministry prayer team is to stop trying to remove demons that have come in as a person that has welcomed them to be there, that they have allowed them to take up residency and function, the enemy cannot function in the earth without agreement, without legality, without someone coming into alignment. We know this because, as a chaplain in prison, there has to be someone to align with the evil force, just like God. God relevated himself to his own law. I sought for somebody that was standing in the gap with God. Can you come and do it? But I found no one. No, you do it. When I gave you dominion, I did not take dominion back. I wanted heaven to look, earth to look like heaven. I wanted you to reign over something. I wanted you to reign over something, I want you to rule over something, and so we have to exercise our dominion within the scope of our authority.

Speaker 1:

I came back in. I wasn't going to come back in that early, but I came back in when you made a comment. I was listening to everything, but when you made that comment you said you've been teaching the prayer group to stop trying to take authority over people that have invited those demonic spirits in because you don't have a legal right.

Speaker 2:

Don't have a legal right.

Speaker 1:

In Ephesians 4 and 27,. The Amplified Bible says give no foothold to the devil. That's what it says, something he can grab onto, jesus said at the end. He said the prince of this world has come and he finds nothing in me, nothing that he can hold on to. See what we don't understand. You can try to cast that. I was in London, england, one of my trips to London, and we were giving her to pray for a lady. She was demonized and she was at the altar and the Holy Ghost spoke to me and let me know now, she doesn't want deliverance. It was a massive altar call. She doesn't want deliverance. She wants to come and disrupt this altar call. She has no desire for deliverance at all. And if she has no desire for deliverance watch what I'm going to say you have no right to cast those demons out of her. See, that's the thing that we don't understand. What would make you think you have the right? I want demons and you're trying to cast them out.

Speaker 2:

Trying to cast them out.

Speaker 1:

You don't have. See, the Holy ghost is a gentleman. And if you don't understand, deliverance is the children's bread, and that's one of the things I've been doing, this. I've been doing this, this part of deliverance, deliverance for a while. I started incorporating in, probably about 20 years ago, that when I was doing deliverance I would have the person say that I don't want this. I just learned with the deliverance sessions. It makes it speed up, it makes it go quicker, it makes it a lot easier because you're dealing, because Satan is a strategist.

Speaker 1:

I heard you say that I used to do a little article and it was called Satan is a strategist. That's what I used to do an article called Satan is a strategist. When you said that grabbed my attention. But he's a legalist as well. Yes, he understands legalities. And you can raise your voice, you can speak in tongues, you can shake all you want to, but if this person doesn't want to be free, you don't have a right. Now, what you do have a right to, you have a right to bind that spirit up to the point that it does not disrupt your service. That's right Services. I had to take authority over demonic spirit and I bind them up so that he couldn't speak. That's right, the right to cast the demon out of so that he couldn't speak. But I have no right to cast a demon out of you that you don't want to come out.

Speaker 2:

I have no right. And so we were. We were. How is it that a group of people are experiencing the exact same trial, the exact same issue, the exact same problem? We have people in our church that are trying to sell homes and it lowered the home, lowered the home. And then we have people in our church that will have the same sickness, the same situation, the same problem.

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And these were leaders. These are people that are praying. These are people that love the Lord. These are people that are fasting, praying. These are people that love the Lord. These are people that are fasting. These are people that teach, that come to training. And I began to petition the Holy Ghost and I asked the Lord why are we all dealing with the same problem? He says because we have been going into the courtroom of accusations, we've been interceding, going in to make a petition for a person that is not present, that did not answer their own accusations Right before the pandemic. Going into trying to pray for and appear before the court of heaven as intercessors. We're going before God trying to petition them for liberty and freedom and mercy and they're not showing up for their own court case.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely, and if you do that in the natural, they throw the case out.

Speaker 2:

They throw the case out. They throw the case out. We can't legislate, we can't. I sent a restraining order, not when I am authorized to be here. So the devil began. The demons began following us home, attacking us with the same problem. They began following us home, attacking us because they said you came after something my possessions, and I have a right to plunder you. I have a right.

Speaker 1:

I have a right, I have a right, because this person has not said this is what they don't want and the reason that I can operate because this is lining up with their will. This is lining up with their will. Jesus said this is what they don't want and the reason that I can operate because this is lining up with their will. This is what Jesus said. Nevertheless, not my will, but that will be done. We've not understood the posture of a free will agent, but the enemy understands it. The excited novice will think because I have authority in God.

Speaker 2:

That's a word. I'm going to take that and write that down and the next time I'm going to say there are an excited novice.

Speaker 1:

Excited. Now he operates off a zeal, but he doesn't operate off a wisdom. Wisdom, the enemy. Wisdom, off of wisdom, the enemy understands it. Wisdom the legal authority.

Speaker 2:

Wisdom is the principal thing. And so now you know they'll come up for prayer and I say whatever their prayer is, they say thank you Jesus, I say thank you Jesus. If they say hallelujah, I say hallelujah. I'm not coming in trying to take something that is a residence for you. When that is something that they have invited in legally, I'm illegal.

Speaker 1:

I'm illegal. You are illegal in the process. You are illegal in the process.

Speaker 2:

In the process, I become illegal.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. There's only one thing I hate. I hate that our time is far spent, but I have certainly enjoyed this. I'll just listen. You got five books, five books, all right. I'm looking at the podcast for the first time. I don't know anything about any of you guys. I don't know who you people are. How do I find out more about Stacey Twyman? How do I find out more about Stacey Twyman?

Speaker 2:

Well, of course, you can follow us on Facebook. You can follow me on Facebook, Stacey H Twyman. You can visit Amazoncom and put in Stacey H Twyman. You can visit amazoncom and put in Stacey H Twyman and there are a list of books there that I have authored.

Speaker 2:

One of the books that I asked that's my number one bestseller is Uprooting the Orphan Spirit. I talk about how the orphan spirit was set loose from the beginning and how we're living in a time and an age where that spirit won't allow individuals to be fathered and there's no reverence for respect. And then I also talk about how to pray and how to be free from the orphan spirit, the orphan spirit. There's another book that I wrote talking about overcoming the power of as it relates to women, how women hopefully I can say it on here, since you asked, bishop but there was a teaching that went out that said that Christian women couldn't masturbate. That said that Christian women couldn't masturbate. So, as I told you that, when I feel and sense the need that there is a false teaching and the Lord impresses it upon my heart to deal with the subject matter, I deal with the subject matter, and so I wrote the book Overcoming the Spirit of Onanism. We talked about in scripture how Onan began to spill his seed on the ground and the Bible says the thing displeased the Lord.

Speaker 2:

I also have a book on Paul and a book about ants the six highly successful habits of the ant, and that is a very practical book. You read it in 31 minutes. You could be five, six year old or you could be a hundred years old to read that book. That was my first book and I also authored Transformational Leader, looking at the life of Paul and how his name was changed from Saul to Paul. And then I also have a workbook there, our Paga Prayer workbook journal. So that is there as well.

Speaker 1:

That is awesome. That's awesome. What I'm trying to do now. I'm trying to write books that are easy reads. Well, easy reading in the sense that a person could read it in a day or two. Yes, I'm going to be honest with you, I've been studying for a lot of years. When I see a book they got about three or four hundred pages I'm like, oh no, I don't want to dig.

Speaker 2:

The other book that I have is called Neuro Demonology and how the enemy hijacks the mind. Now that's a little bit more scientific and it takes some time to work through that book, but simplicity is key. Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 2:

I'm trying to it reaches the masses. Um, my, my number two book for years was the ad book. You know, I loved it because and I've taken it actually to corporate, uh, in corporate settings and spoke from it. So there's all the self-leadership book that I have that's connected to it, but that is like a workbook that can be used for organizations. Ok.

Speaker 1:

Wonderful. I have certainly enjoyed this interview today. I really enjoyed it. I want to tell you I am so blessed to have you on Storming the Gates on today. You blessed us on today and I know that the people were blessed and you're going to be able to hear it on YouTube and Spotify and many of the other performing platforms. I've been having a lot of response from Spotify. They've got like a 42 million business. Yeah, so they'll be on all these platforms, but nevertheless, I want to thank you so much.

Speaker 1:

I thank you for my relationship my wife's in a relationship with you and your husband, and we call it covenant relationship and we're just declaring that it'll be a relationship that will stand through the years. Let me say this to the people of God you have tuned in to the Storming the Gates podcast, where we're teaching God's people to live and walk in the victory that God has for their life against every attack of the enemy. We're here every Monday night at 8 pm and you'll find us on many of your podcast platforms. Listen until we come together on next week. Let's stick together and watch God get the glory out of this.