Marriage is like a beautiful garden, where we have to learn to plant seeds,
uproot weeds and kill the snakes. Let me say that again. Marriage is like a beautiful garden. We
have to learn to pull weeds, plant seeds, and kill the snakes. And so that's what we're going to talk
about today is how to kill snakes in marriage, how to be a demon slayer in your marriage,
how to fight a spiritual warfare in your marriage. And so and my wife will jump in
and share five main marriage snakes that a lot of people can face or are facing right now. Yeah,
before I mention those five snakes, I just want to tell you and let you know that marriage is not a
passive institution. If you're going into marriage with the mindset that you're just gonna fold your
hands, and you're gonna be happy, and things will be handed your way, and the person will make you
happy. And you will not have to work or fight or do anything, just because you're gonna get
the right person. That is not the reality and that's not true. You will always have to work,
like you know in a garden you have to work, you have to plant seeds, you have to pull out weeds,
you have to kill the snake. All of that represents action, and if you are a lazy person that does
not want to work on the relationship, marriage cannot survive. That's just,
that's just it. I think a lot of people, what they do is they go, there's this myth: If I find
the right person my marriage will magically work because once marriage is made in heaven, it will
never have to work on earth. It will never have to have any efforts. It will never have to have
any struggles on earth. And the moment people hit rough patches in their marriage, they immediately
start feeling like I made a mistake. I should have married so and so, I should have not married
at all. All kinds of lies. Huge, huge demonic lies. And so and I think you know a lot of people
face this, especially when they hit difficult times, so tell us about some of those snakes. Yes,
so marriage is not passive, it's always active. So five marriage snakes that you have to kill in
your garden, and I want you to analyze yourself and your marriage right now as you hear me. I'm
just gonna mention five of them and Vlad's gonna elaborate a little bit more. So the first one is
generational curses, something that runs in your family. Number two is demonic torments.
Number three, strongholds in our minds. Number four, addictions and number five,
character issues. Those five, those are the five snakes that you have to identify and kill them,
and we're gonna go a little bit later into how to kill those snakes. So generational curses
it's something that runs in your family. Now you must understand the difference between a curse and
a demon. A curse is something that God allows, pretty much brings on a person's life because
of their disobedience to Him, specifically when they cross the line and they go to the dark side.
Now and they're not... In fact today I was reading in Malachi where God says that
I curse your blessings. When people don't take God serious, they don't take God's word you know to
heart. Somebody offended God in such a way that God released the curse. The curse of the Lord,
it says. The first Person to pronounce the curse, and I have a whole like 10 streams
about curses which I'm not going to touch on today. When people committed occult, witchcraft,
what it does is this, is it opens the door for curses. And these curses they run in families,
they run from one generation to another, they run from through the bloodline.
The curses of divorce, for example, the curses of infidelity. Where it goes from one family
to another, everyone in your family has it. This particular broken family, broken family
dynamic and if you notice that you know, and you're like, "Well, maybe I became a Christian,
all of that is over." Well theologically and legally yes. You also when you become a Christian,
you also became delivered from all your sin but it doesn't mean that you don't struggle with sin. You
also have you know righteousness and everything, but it doesn't mean that every second you live out
that righteousness. So positionally, yes, you got all of that freedom, but conditionally and
practically, you still have to walk it out through the process of sanctification and deliverance.
The second snake is the demons. What are some of the demonic spirits that are on the loose
to destroy marriages? So I think the first one is the spirit spouse, where demons come at night and
you know have sexual relationship with you. Or even build these families in a spiritual world
with the people in their dreams in the spiritual world, and number two spirit of anger. That's
one of the demonic torments that can you know separate people in marriage. A spirit of control,
spirit of manipulation. Also, I would probably add spirit of loneliness and rejection. Those are
the things that will not allow you to feel loved, no matter how much the spouse will love you. Yes.
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you're receiving already. Snakes, were out to kill the snakes today. We're out to destroy the snakes,
amen. So drop that in the comment if you're about to do spiritual warfare. If you're ready to put
up a fight, not to take the devil, not to let him run rampant in your family and to put up a fight
against him, and you're gonna be a demon slayer for the glory of God. Drop that in the comment
in Jesus mighty name. Now the strongholds, the snake of the strongholds in the mind, it's really,
it's lies, myths about marriage. It's when we see marriage you know, as something that is a
contract, instead of a covenant. It's when we have this unrealistic expectations, when we have lies
that we've believed about marriage. Sometimes from our parents, sometimes from our culture,
that you know "I fell out of love" or you know "we grew apart." Or you know people who just like,
"Oh, I just you know I'm still young. I can go and get married to somebody else."
And so people allow these cultural perceptions, perspectives, and lies, myths, false expectations,
views and these things to take hold of their heart and become rooted in their soul. Thus
eventually allowing the enemy to ruin the relationship because of these strongholds. Yes,
and the next one is addictions such as to alcohol, drugs, pornography. Those
are the obvious things that everybody knows that they will ruin a relationship. Yeah,
these things are deadly and we're going to talk about that in a moment on how to deal with them,
how to deal with a spouse who has them. And the last one is really it's character issues.
It's issues of the flesh. Now you may say, "Well, why did you contribute that to a snake?" Because
honestly, Satan operates on the field of the flesh. Satan's you know place of operation,
if I could say his desk, his software upon which he runs all his programs,
is the flesh. The flesh, you know it's the place of where we have character flaws, we're stubborn,
we're proud, we're negative, we shift blame, we don't take responsibility, we're unrepentant,
we are very pessimistic and very selfish, ego driven. And so this, what this allows is gives
Satan a software, gives him a platform to run all of his hideous crime and all of his plans. And so,
maybe today you are in a marriage where you feel trapped, you feel stuck. Maybe you feel like,
you know what I can't take it anymore. Maybe you are in the marriage today where you already
gave up. Perhaps there's a divorce paper that is already you know written up, lawyers are
involved or maybe emotionally you checked out. Perhaps things are so hard and you're honestly
right now having a hard time to believe that it will ever get better, it will ever turn around.
Maybe you're dealing with a spouse that has abuse problems or that has abuse of alcohol, you know
abusing alcohol problems. Or maybe you're dealing with someone that is addicted to pornography,
or somebody that is being attacked at night, or is somebody who is honestly demonized right now.
We want to help you today. We want to offer some help. Most importantly I want to offer you hope.
Nothing is too difficult for God, nothing is too challenging for God.
People have went through even worse things and God brought them out. I want to share with you
some of the things that we really through prayer felt like we wanted to bring to you and bring a
blessing to your life. And hopefully maybe save some marriages so that people's lives
can be changed today through this broadcast. So if you are ready for some of the truth, for the
truth to set you free, drop that in the comment right now. If you are re-watching this broadcast,
don't forget to smash that like button and then drop that in the comments. Say, "Hey,
I am ready Pastor. Lay it on us, we are ready for this. This is gonna be fire." So what is the first
thing that we want to start with people who are in the spiritual warfare in marriage right now.
I think number one solution, step to your solution I would say,
is to recognize the reality of spiritual world.
Yes, we have to recognize that it's not just us but there's enemy against the institution of
marriage. Yes, us individually too but the devil, he hates marriage and he wants to do everything he
can to pull apart and to break that institution that God has created. Yeah, if you remember the
garden of Eden, this was perfect marriage in harmony with God. There was no temptation. There
was no internet. There was no other couples. There was no other women for Adam to look at. There was
no shopping malls for Eve to go shop and then they have financial problems. I mean they were perfect
for each other, everything was perfect. But even in that perfect environment, the Bible says that
there was a snake. There was a cunning snake there and this cunning snake started to tempt Eve.
And then Eve influenced her husband and instead of him being the man that God called him to be,
he just kind of followed the lead in the wrong direction. And then they started blaming each
other, and then they start hiding. Now at first the symptoms of these problems seemed like,
oh everybody faces that. You know a little bit of control, a little bit of doubt, fear, blame shift,
hiding. You know shame and fighting, and you know who doesn't have that? You know why are you
putting demon, there's a demon behind every bush Vlad? You know like it's all about demons for you.
It's not about demons for me but I'm gonna tell you one thing, the world is way more spiritual
than you realize, okay. You have to understand the world you live in right now, my friend,
is the consequence of the world you haven't seen yet. The world we don't see, made the world we do.
The world we don't see, existed before the world we do see. That world is ancient, that world is
eternal. That world is bigger, it's vast, and that world has way more influence on our world than you
imagine. Way more influence than we imagined. But our world has also effect on that world,
way more than we imagined. And so to live without the reality of the unseen realm,
to live without the understanding and recognizing that there is a war going on right now,
is honestly the dumbest thing you can do with your life. If you are doing that, I don't care if you
have more degrees than a thermometer, you're an idiot. You don't know nothing about life
because your thoughts are not visible, they're in invisible realm. Love is not something you
can see, it's something you can feel. It's not visible. There's no microscope that can check
that. So everything about us, our spirit is not visible. And so we have an enemy, we have a plot
against our life that's not visible. If you forget that, my friend, then what's the point
to pray? If you don't believe in that, then honestly what's the point to believe in God?
What's the point to love? What's the point to control your thoughts? What's the point of
eternal life? Like none of that stuff exists then. For us as Christians, this is the basis
of everything is there is a spiritual realm, there's a God. You can't see Him with your
eyes but He is real. And there's an enemy, you may not see him with your eyes but he is real,
and that's the first layer that starts with that. People who don't know that, don't recognize that,
make a lot of mistakes. Imagine this. You're in the basement of your house,
your basement is flooded. What's the first thing you're gonna do? Are you gonna go try to get the
water out of the basement? No, you won't. You're gonna go try to find where is the leak, where is
the broken pipe and where is the open faucet. Once you fix the root of the problem, only then
you will deal with the symptoms. So you must look, the roots of our problems are in spiritual realm.