We may have inadvertently given demonic forces legal access and legal rights to sit in the gateways to dominate. Our ancestors may have given legal right to a demon. That legal right may still be there.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20. What is the door? What is the gateway?
Our spirits have 8 gateways; our souls have 7 and our bodies have 5. Our goal should be for
♦ Our body to be the slave and servant of the soul;
♦ Our soul to be the slave and servant of our spirit and
♦ Our spirit to be the slave and servant of Jesus Christ.
That is what happens when you take 1 Thessalonians 5:23b seriously: May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A Gateway is a place of authority where dominion is exercised. Whoever controls your life’s different gateways exercises authority, dominion & control over you.
We may have inadvertently given demonic forces legal access and legal rights to sit in those gateways to dominate. Our ancestors may have given legal right to a demon. That legal right may still be there.
The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force. Matthew 11:12b To be violent is to take the Word of God and use it to dispossess what has control of the gateways in our lives.
Look at Rev. 3:20 again. Jesus, the creator of the universe, wants to sup with you. I.e., He wants to have an intimate relationship with you. He is knocking and the handle is on your side. You must take the first step.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 Take the first step, imagine yourself opening a door and letting Jesus in. Then, experience the freedom.
Spirit Gateways
Eight gateways through which the presence of God can come into our spirit:
♦ Revelation
♦ Intuition
♦ Fear of God
♦ Prayer
♦ Reverence
♦ Faith
♦ Hope
♦ Worship
In order to move in greater realms of authority, it is necessary to flow through all of these gateways. Most Christians move in only two or three.
Compare that to a person using only a few muscles in their body. They will eventually become deformed.
The word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 You need the glory of God to penetrate your spirit so that your soul can be changed. You need to change your body so that it is submissive to your soul.
When our soul is dominant over our spirit, our spirit is in bondage. Often people with familiar spirits are in bondage to those spirits. They can gain access through the gateway of revelation and make the person think that they are doing the right thing.
It is easy to start with the gateway of prayer. We can pray for faith. We can pray for revelation.
Soul Gateways
These are the seven gateways of the soul:
♦ Conscience
♦ Reason
♦ Imagination
♦ Mind
♦ Emotions
♦ Choices
♦ Will
Letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Romans 8:7
I.e., the biggest battle is in the mind. The only way to have a real life is to let Christ control our mind.
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12 The soul gateways are usually influenced by demonic spirits.
Take possession of each of those 7 gateways and place Christ in the centre of them.
Pray for the gateways, especially conscience:
♦ Repent for allowing demonic spirits access to the gateways.
♦ Acknowledge your sin and take responsibility for not guarding the gate.
♦ Taking the blood by faith and wiping the gateways clean.
Pray something like “My heavenly father, in Jesus’ name, I bind the spiritual force or condition that is resistant to the flow of God in me. I loose it and cast it out of this gateway. I make and place Jesus as Lord over this gateway today.”
To remove the images from your memories:
♦ Acknowledge their presence in your life.
♦ Own the sin and the image.
♦ Bring it into the light.
♦ Take the blood of Jesus and apply it to the image like a paintbrush painting over a picture.
Imagination
Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.Philippians 4:8
A good way to control the imagination is to immediately quote Philippians 4:8 whenever an ungodly imagination shows up in your soul. After that you can ask the Lord to remove the image that caused the imagination to start working.
Mind
There are 3 doors to the mind:
1. Conscious memories
Bondage can be here — usually through some sort of control.
Jesus must control our conscious mind.
2. Subconscious memories
Some people call this “thought that is covered by a veil”.
Sometimes powerful demons reside over the subconscious mind.
3.Unconscious memories
Activities & actions that we do without conscious thought.
In this area are images, situations and actions that have taken place that we do not remember.
Choice
We have the choice to do something or not. The choice gateway can be affected by the heredity of our forefathers. Faith declaration of scripture is an important part of rebuilding and energizing this gateway.
Once the choice is made to do something, the work begins to bring it about.
The things I want to do I don’t and the things I don’t want to do I do. Romans 7:18 By releasing the flow of God through your choice faculty, you begin to make the right choices.
The conscience is linked to the choice gateway. The conscience is the voice that says “I shall” or “I shall not”.
The Will
The will says “I will” or “I will not”. A person may be under the control of a spirit or else a dominating human. In that case the will is being controlled by an ungodly influence. Our will must be crucified and put to death so that we can do His will.
To become holy our will gateway must become submitted to the kingdom of heaven. We must know the will of God for our lives. Much of that can be found in the Word of God. Reading the Word of God allows revelation of God’s will for our lives to flow from our spirit gateway into the will gateway and into the actions of the body gateways.
Body Gateways
The main gateways are
♦ Touch,
♦ Taste,
♦ Smell,
♦ Sight &
♦ Hearing.
With unbelievers almost all of the flow of information is via the five body gateways.
Touch
If a person has been sexually molested or physically abused, this gateway has likely been defiled. How a person reacts when hugged often will give you a clue if a demon is sitting at this gateway.
They could have a spirit of anger sitting at this gateway. That spirit can control the entry of love.
In such a situation, a prayer can go something like this: Today in the name of Jesus I reject the lies in this gateway. I reject the power and control over the gate of touch. I take authority in this gateway and release the fire of God to come and fill this gateway.
When the touch gateway is clean, people can feel love flowing in.
Taste
People with addictions must often cleanse this area.
Smell
Smells can release all sorts of memories.
One of the best ways to dispel a demon at the smell gateway is fasting.
Sight
Once this gateway has been defiled, a strong spirit of lust, pornography, etc. can sit over it. We have to place a strong resistance over that spirit.
A person with a spirit of pornography at the sight gate will be continually be pulled back because the demon wants to see more.
This gateway controls the mind gateway.
When people see things that are not there, it is because a demon has such strong control over the sight gateway that the image is portrayed into their imagination.
Sample prayer: Father I release the flow of the glory of God through the gateways of revelation, imagination and physical sight. May my eyes become repulsive to the demonic world as I reflect the glory of God within me.
Growing up we are trained to see from the outside in. God wants us to see from the inside out.
Hearing
Verbal abuse of any kind affects the hearing gateway. This can cause spirits such as spirits of rejection and death to enter. The hearing gateway controls what the mind thinks. Negative hearing can resist hope flowing from the Holy Spirit.
Summary
Couple prayer and fasting with pulling down the strongholds in the gateways. Keeping the strongholds out is a way of life and not a quick fix.
When you are aware of sin in your life, deal with it as quickly as possible.
Become alert to the Holy Spirit working in your life. This often starts as a conviction. Spend time strongly praying in tongues to maintain the level of the flow of the spirit.
Isaiah 11:2 talks about the seven spirits of God. If you have an understanding of this, it can be useful to have them help you to get cleansed. However, you must be careful that you are not speaking to similar spirits from the occult.
When praying it can be useful to build scriptural pictures in the imagination. That can help keep your mind from wandering.
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12
In cleansing out gateways, we are struggling against our flesh so much as we are struggling against unclean spirits.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1a
I.e., you have been adopted in God’s family. You have rights to an inheritance.
Demon spirits can control any of the gates of our soul or body. Cast them out.
For further reading
Go to Amazon.com to find a related book. It’s called Gateways of the Three-fold Nature of Man by Ian Clayton. If you forget the name, go to amazon.com and search for “Gateways”. There are a very small list of books beginning with the word Gateways.
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Watch Katie Souza videos on Youtube. Once your soul is healed, everything will break off. I’m going through the same thing. Many ancestors were into witchcraft including both of my grandmothers that fed us their potions in food. My mother believes my older sister was a sacrifice. THIS 100% WORKS. Satan will not want you to be free, so he will try to make you reject the teachings, he may even bring fear, but God is good and will help you through each and every healing. Everything Katie teaches is backed up by the bible. Much of the bible is hidden to our understanding until you look at the origin of the word. People just don’t teach about soul healing. Fear not. I am praying for us both. Jesus already paid the price and made a way for your freedom through His death and resurrection. The power of the resurrection of Jesus is the hidden key to complete healing of the soul. It takes the power of the blood of Jesus and the power of the resurrection. There is hope. God Bless. This battle is already won through Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!!
As woken up today I thought of two ladies who came to our Church, actually they are sisters but with a smiller problem and as was thinking deeply about it, the Holy Spirit told me they have a familiar spirit. And I sought to know the characteristics of this spirit. That how have gotten here and see this wonderful message of the gateways. I have learnt new truth. God bless you
Study the courts of heaven. Go thru the courts of heaven to break and denounce strongholds.
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This was very helpful to study. When learning that we are to guard our hearts, the gateways gave in site of what to guard.
This article was very helpful in dealings with some spiritual issues I have been struggling with. Thank you!
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Can your boyfriends gateways be used to attack you..I have had dreams about a family member appearing as him…like watching me through him…if I’m wording this right….one night after we had a argument…iwoke up in the middle of the night…to see what looked like moving energy….coming from my stomach and his then merging together going up into the ceiling…this sounds strange but I know what I saw..there is so much things I have seen and dreamt regarding this family member….for example….my boyfriend has a habit of grabbing me at my waist and guiding me in the bathroom to look at me from behind through the mirror….I dreamt that I was sitting on my bed and my headboard had a mirror(which it doesnt)…as I’m looking in the mirror I seen a camera flash….then this family member appeared grabbing me by the waist and guiding me to the bathroom and is doing the same as my boyfriend does…I have had other dream where she appears as him…and other dreams of her “very creepy”….I notice whenever I fast the dreams come even more…can I talk to someone about this
To add to my previous comment…regarding the ceiling it sounds like someone or something is walking through the attic in my home….one of the other dreams I have had about this family member…she has 2 short dark looking people(their hair is short and sticking straight up) on her left and right side of her…I have seen these things in several of the dreams I had of her
Sounds like a deamon possession to me. The lady is collecting or absorbing stuff from yous. I hope you get this cleared for all your sakes. Note like using us as puppets! X
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Thank you for sharing this!! This morning, during Mass when we pray “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof; but only say the word and my soul shall be healed”…I remembered that, yesterday, the Gospel reading described the centurion in (Matthew?) upon which our recitation of “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof; but only say the word and my soul shall be healed” is founded. However, in the Gospel, the centurion is saying, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof; but only say the word and my SERVANT shall be healed. This centurion was asking Jesus to come to his house and heal his servant. The lights in my mind began flashing….centurion asked his “servant” to be healed, but we pray that our “soul” be healed. Could our soul, then, be servile not merely to Our Lord, but be SERVANT to our spirit??? This is what I asked myself during Mass (which is usually Holy Spirit moving my soul toward knowing something. I looked it up and THERE was this blog to clear things up for me!!! Yes, our SOUL should be servant to our spirit!!!!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful thought and message. You have just answered most of the questions I had for a long time specially regarding the soul and the gateways of the soul. May I have the permission to copy this for the purpose of sharing. Thank you. May God continue to bless your ministry.
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Wow! This revelation of the different gates which demons can enter has brought me into a awareness that I must reexamine my life, my relationship with the Lord! Thank you!
This is very helpful. I would that I had been taught it in church. I have had excellent pastors, but they did not happen to teach this and I am happy I have come upon this today. God has His timing! Thank you!
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Thank you godtalk .ca,,i never knew about gateways in my life,,In my life i have up and downs,,today up down the next day,,i trust God will set me free from this closed gates,,godtalk help me by Gods Greace to be free,,