God intends for the Body of Christ to police the evil forces
of this world. We are to change circumstances to line up with
God’s will and put Satan under our feet through the power of
God. We are to spoil his plans, plots and maneuvers against
God’s people!

The prayer of binding and loosing halts Satan’s activities.
Matthew 12:29 says, “Or else how can one enter into
a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first
bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.” You
have authority over Satan (Luke 10:19). You exercise it with
the prayer of binding and loosing. “Verily I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven:
and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven” (Matthew 18:18).

As you enforce the authority vested in the Church, speak
directly to Satan. Exercise your faith in Jesus’ work at Calvary.
When Jesus was raised from the dead, He stripped Satan of his
authority over mankind. That authority has been delegated to
the Body of Christ in the earth. Bind Satan in the Name of Jesus.

Many times Gloria and I add a paragraph to our agreement
prayer: “Satan, we bind you and render you helpless in this
situation. As a matter of record, you are hereby bound in the
Name of Jesus.” From then on, we thank God that Satan is
bound and unable to work in the situation. We refuse to give
him any place.

The ultimate choice is yours whether or not to receive from
God. Jesus asked the man at the pool of Bethesda, “Wilt thou be
made whole?” (John 5:6). His attitude is still the same: “Do you
want to stay the way you are, or do you want to be made whole?”
The choice is yours. God has already provided the way out for you.
Do not give Satan any place by talking about the problem
after you have agreed and bound him. Instead of talking the
problem, talk the answer—God’s Word.

Then loose the angelic forces of God to see that it comes
to pass. Hebrews 1:13-14 describes the angels as ministering
spirits, sent to minister for them who shall be heirs of
salvation. They are messengers sent to work in our behalf.
Say: “Ministering spirits, I loose you in the Name of Jesus to
minister in my behalf according to the will of God.”

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

You have agreed, spirit and soul (mind). Then your actions
must come in line. If finances are what you agreed on, expect
the money to come in. This is part of being in agreement. You
cannot agree in prayer about something, then act the opposite
and expect it to come to pass. If you do, your actions will
eventually take over your thinking.

Agreement with the Word and another believer are not
the only things involved in this kind of prayer. Agreement is
also harmony.

Harmony is extremely important. When speaking of prayer
in Mark 11:25-26, Jesus said, “And when ye stand praying,
forgive, if ye have aught against any: that your Father also
which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye
do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven
forgive your trespasses.” This is vital in your prayer life. You
must forgive everyone who has offended you. Jesus did not
say, “Think about it for six weeks and then forgive if or when
you feel better.” He said, forgive when you pray.

Jesus prayed, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed
be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive
us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:9-12).

He put a condition on forgiveness. The condition is “I don’t
expect to be forgiven until I forgive.” He displayed the kind of
discipline the believer should exercise when he is praying.
How important is this? In Galatians 5:6, the Bible says faith
works by love. If you are operating with an unforgiving heart,
your prayer life will be paralyzed.

The Word says we know we have the petitions we have
desired of Him, if we do the things that are pleasing in His
sight (1 John 3:22). Put these scriptures together and you
quickly see unforgiveness would actually ruin the whole
prayer system.

Agreement makes prayer work. You can experience a place
of agreement with God’s Word, and harmony that will produce
power, as you forgive and agree with another believer.
You can affect governments, families and the lives of others.
You can change your financial situation, affect your church
and your pastor with the power of prayer. Find someone who
can agree with you according to the Word of God.

The same principle works the other way. If you are in disagreement,
the door is open for Satan to come in. “For where
envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work”
(James 3:16).

In Matthew 18:21-22, Peter asked Jesus, “Lord, how oft
shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?” till seven
times? Jesus replied, “I say not unto thee, Until seven times:
but, Until seventy times seven.” Forgive because God said to,
and not because you feel like it.

Build your home, your church and every other area of your
life on the unselfish love of God. Selfishness has never built
anything it did not destroy. But love never fails. The love of
God is the very center of the family of God because God is
love. You are His very own child, born again with His love
nature inside you.

Don’t let that love lie dormant. Cast down selfishness and
let loose the love of God in you. You cannot fail when love is
in dominion.

When you forgive and reach for harmony, you come to
a place where you have the spiritual awareness to perceive
the closeness of God. Jesus said if you get into harmony and
agree together, He would be in the midst of you. God wants
to be involved with you.

When you are in harmony and agreement with those
around you, you will step into a deeper, more personal
fellowship with God. He becomes real and vital to you.
Fellowship with your heavenly Father is one of the greatest
things you will ever have in your Christian walk! It causes
a confidence and an assurance deep down in your heart.

You know your prayers are answered because you have conformed
yourself to His will. As you forgive, the joy that comes
through answered prayer will become your own personal
experience. Jesus said, “Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy
may be full” (John 16:24).

Gloria and Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Following are types of prayer by which you can change things:
(1) the prayer of agreement, (2) binding, (3) loosing, (4) petition
and supplication, (5) intercession and (6) united prayer.

Always remember that prayer changes things. It doesn’t
change God. One of the mighty attributes of God is that He
is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Use
your faith and the Word of God to change the circumstances
in your life to line up with His will. His plans and desires are
always for your success and well-being.

Some people think if they pray long and hard enough they
will get God to do something for them. The Word says God’s
eyes are over the righteous and His ears are open to their
prayers (Psalm 34:15). If you have made Jesus the Lord of
your life, you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. He
is already open to your prayers. Through prayer, you tap in to
His strength and change the things that are out of line with
His will.

The Prayer of Agreement

The prayer of agreement when prayed according to
Matthew 18:18-20 will cover every circumstance in life:
Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye
shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I
say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as
touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done
for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where
two or three are gathered together in my name, there
am I in the midst of them.

Let me use finances to illustrate. The first thing to do is
agree with the Word. Read the scriptures and pray. Gloria and
I sometimes write down our agreements like this:
We hereby agree, according to Philippians 4:19 and
Matthew 18:19 as follows: Father, we see in Your Word
that You will supply all our needs according to Your
riches in glory. We are setting ourselves in agreement
that our financial need is met according to Your Word.
We believe we receive (be specific) __________________.
We establish this agreement, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Amen means “So be it.” As far as we are concerned, the matter
is closed. We just thank God from that point forward. We
know if we want results we must not waver. To waver is to doubt.

If Satan brings doubt, we simply speak to him in the authority
of Jesus’ Name and say, “Don’t bring us your lies. Not only
is it written in God’s Word, but we have agreed. We have
written it down.” As far as we are concerned, the need is met.
There is no doubt about it because we have agreed according
to the Word of God. Consequently, our confession and actions
will be in line with what we have established as truth.

There have been times when we have wavered, so we take
it to God and receive forgiveness for unbelief, reinforce our
original decree and go at it again. We all make mistakes in the
walk of faith. The important thing is to keep walking. If you
miss it, go at it again. The biggest mistake of all is to become
discouraged and quit before you receive your answer.

I challenge you to write down your agreements. Seeing it in
black and white on paper will make a difference! You will be
more likely to line up your confession and your actions with
your agreement.

Jesus said that if any two on earth agree, He would be in
the midst of that agreement to see that it comes to pass. You
are on earth so you qualify. If you agree with another believer
as touching anything that lines up with the Word of God, He
is there in your midst to carry it out.

Jesus wants you to agree and will see to it that it comes
to pass. The word agree is translated in The Amplified Bible
as “agree and harmonize together or make a symphony
together.” The word symphony caught my attention one time,
so I looked it up and found that it means “all available instruments
in harmony.” You must have your spirit, mind and
actions in agreement with the Word.

Agreeing spiritually is to agree with the Word of God. Make
up your mind God’s Word is true and that it will come to pass.
Secondly, be strong in your mind. That is Satan’s battleground.
You must control your thoughts. Writing down your
agreement will be beneficial for this reason. It will keep it
before your eyes so when your mind tries to change directions,
control it with your agreement on God’s Word. Do not
tie God’s hands. Allow Him to work.

Gloria and Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Jesus went into hell to free mankind from the penalty of Adam’s
high treason. Isaiah 53:9 says, “And he made his grave with the
wicked, and with the rich in his death….” The Hebrew word for
“death” here is plural. Jesus died two deaths—physical and spiritual.
When He was made to be sin, He was separated from God,
thus crying with a loud voice while hanging on the Cross, “My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46).

Jesus fulfilled the Abrahamic covenant. He bore our disobedience
and became its final sacrifice. His blood did not
merely cover sin, it did away with the very handwriting of the
ordinances that were against us (Colossians 2:14)! Jesus took
our place, spending three horrible days and nights in the
bowels of this earth, buying back our rights and authority,
paying the price for our sin:

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12:40).
Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also
descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
(Ephesians 4:9).

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made
a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it
(Colossians 2:15).

Jesus defeated Satan and his cohorts in their own domain!
God quickened Him (made Him alive) with eternal life.
Romans 6:4 says, “…Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father.” The power in that life catapulted Him
through three realms. Philippians 2:9-10 says, “Wherefore God
also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under
the earth.” Nothing could stop the plan of redemption.

In Acts 2, Peter preached how Jesus’ soul was not left in hell
and that David had seen the plan of redemption beforehand
and spoken of His resurrection (verse 31). The pains of death
could not hold Jesus! The price for sin had been paid.

Hebrews 1:6, 8 says, “And again, when he bringeth in the
firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of
God worship him…. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a
scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.” Jesus
was the firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:18). He took on
Himself the nature of sin, paid the price and was reborn into
sonship!

Jesus identified with the human race and became our total
substitute, paying an awesome price for our redemption.
When we identify with His death, burial and resurrection, we
too become reborn into sonship.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation (Romans 10:9-10).
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith
he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the
ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his
grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus
(Ephesians 2:4-7).

Jesus is now seated at the right hand of the Father expecting
His enemies to be made His footstool. Jesus is the Head
and we are His Body. The feet are in the Body. He is expecting
His enemies to be put under our feet.

Authority over the devil has been given into the hands of
the Body of Christ. That authority in the world of the spirit is
backed by the whole plan of redemption!
Though the things we have studied cannot be seen with the
natural eye, nevertheless, they are realities in the spirit and
must be accepted by faith in God’s Word.

Put yourself in Satan’s position and see these things from
his viewpoint. If you were Satan, what would you think?
Standing before you is a soldier, clad in a complete set of
God’s armor—the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of
salvation, the girdle of truth, the shoes of the gospel of peace,
the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit. This soldier
is speaking God’s Word with authority. With the face mask
pulled down, you could not tell the difference between him
and Jesus. If you were Satan, wouldn’t you give careful consideration
before you jumped into combat with him? This same
image already eternally wounded him in defeat. Satan says,
“Once is enough. I’ll flee!”

The only way a believer reveals himself to Satan is by lifting
his faceplate through unbelief. As long as he acts and lives by
faith, Satan will be unable to defeat him. In Wuest’s Expanded
Translation of the New Testament James 4:7-8 says, “Be subject
with implicit obedience to God at once and once for all. Stand
immovable against the onset of the devil and he will flee from
you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”

You have been given the whole armor of God. Your responsibility
is to pick it up, put it on, and wear it in faith. You
have the Holy Spirit, the Word of God and the authority in
the realm of the spirit. You have been fully equipped with
weapons that guarantee results in prayer. Expect those results
every time you pray!

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland