Hi, this is Phyllis Tarbox with Above & Beyond Christian counseling
and I have another question for you today is the spirit of fantasy
distorting your reality did you grow up watching Julia Roberts movies reading
romance novels or maybe you escaped in a fantasy world to avoid your childhood
fantasy is not always a sign of a healthy imagination it can all often be
a hiding place that the enemy will use to develop disappointment and depression
it will keep you from discerning visions from God because you are too confused
with fantasy I grew up like that it got so exaggerated as an adult that when God
started to show me his plans for my future
I couldn't discern the truth from the fantasy it took deliverance and then a
continual focus to stay present and renew my mind so I want to share with
you today two case studies because I've seen this coming to the office quite a
bit lately I've seen a spirit of fantasy hinder my clients causing them to over
romanticize toxic relationships in fact one woman came in who was involved with
a narcissist and she told me I know the facts of the relationship but I find
myself focusing only on the good times and romancing a happy future but I know
if I return to him I'll be abused and broken but I'm trapped in this fantasy
world and I can't figure out how to escape
she knew the eventual outcome but she didn't realize that it was actually a
spirit of fantasy that was at the root of her torment we easily broke the soul
tie to her ex-boyfriend and then called out that spirit of fantasy and she was
free now one of my younger clients came in complaining about her husband's
height that's right his height she told me I can't stop focusing on how short he
is and he's just not the picture of who I
thought I'd marry so I asked her well then why did you marry him and she told
me he's the most thoughtful caring man I've ever met and he loves me
unconditionally so I asked her a question that I never asked any other
clients before but she was the right age and I said did you grow up watching
Julia Robert type movies and her eyes got really wide and she said yes and
it's the leading men in all those movies that are my ideal she said I've
basically been yearning for someone like Richard Gere to ride up on a white horse
and carry me away pretty woman she was trapped with the spirit of fantasy the
cost her to feel disappointed and depressed and robbed of her happy ending
well once we figured it out she told me that she spent most of her childhood
fantasizing romantic relationships and because of that she had dated very few
men because none of them measured up once the agenda was exposed we were able
to pray and she was set free hopefully to live happily ever after
with her husband I also see this with people that are addicted to pornography
the images online bring another world to them on the computer and they're
transported then with a spirit of fantasy that can be far more
intoxicating and seductive than their reality sex then with their spouses
becomes mundane and boring and it's replaced by the porn and that's because
a release of neuro chemicals in the brain bond will bond a person
emotionally to the online images the bonding becomes then an ungodly soul tie
that needs to be broken so the spirits of addiction to pornography can be
commanded to leave so I want to give you three steps to severing the spirit of
fantasy first the first one always begins with repenting from any place
that you have chose to hide from God by living in a place of fantasy and the
second one deals with breaking the ungodly soul ties so you want to cancel
any ungodly soul tie with every idol or image that you continually think about
and then cast out The Associated demons so I'm gonna leave
you in that prayer of course you can always play this back and slow it down
and speak it out again but I want you to speak out well thank you Jesus for dying
that I might be set free i forgiving loose in the freedom of my forgiveness
those with whom I've had ungodly soul ties I now break and sever every ungodly
soul tie with go ahead and speak out all the names I now use the authority that I
have in Jesus Christ to command all demon spirits of fantasy to have no
further right of me through these soul ties in the name of Jesus and number
three and you need to take every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ
by first covering your mind with the blood of Jesus and continually
reconnecting with reality stay present so that God can lead you into your
future fully so you'll be connected to who he created you to be if you still
feel connected or lost it may need to go a little bit deeper and we may need to
look at little boy or little girl spirits of hiding or running away
these demons actually come in at a young age and they take on that age and it
could be what's keeping you from fully breaking free but know this we are only
a click away I hope this helped you today god bless you and have a great
week