SID: Lance, tactically, tell me, how does this play out in a family, in America or Paris, France, or wherever you’re watching?
LANCE: It’s easy to detect once you see it. So like the creature in the Nile, you can see those crocodiles, they’re floating, they’re eyes are protruding. And it’s like the moment you catch it, it goes back underground. If you hit a moment when you are flooded, Sid, with toxic thoughts that produce rage, anger, hatred and a sense of violence towards someone or something or an idea, you can know it’s not coming from Heaven.
SID: What if you say, but there are real reasons I’m feeling the way I’m feeling. There are always reasons.
LANCE: There’s always reasons why that happens. The secret is that out of nowhere you’ll be thinking about a person or a thing and the feelings will start to come up. That’s the underwater part. If you can detect it, the moment you can detect it, and this is particularly important for businesses, ministries. We’ve all seen it. The setup is this. You have a bit of a strained relationship with somebody. All that it takes is one incident, one wrong word and snap, it’s as though everything that you were thinking about them is confirmed. And in truth, that first seed that got put in you was a spiritual seed. So I tell people this, that you have to be able to catch toxic thinking towards relationships that are in your life. Satan is in the business of tearing relationships. I can’t necessarily deal with everything going on around the world, but I can have authority over what’s in my own garden. And so I’m going to make sure that whatever feelings I have towards the people that are around me that I catch it when the feelings come if they’re negative and I say, is that you, Lord? Is that discerning? The only time you’ll ever get anything negative that’s from Heaven is a discerning of spirits.
SID: And that’s the missing ingredient.
LANCE: And that’s the missing ingredient: discerning. Jesus knew. He said, “The man who is going to betray has his hand on the table.” His spirit was troubled. That’s far different than having toxic thoughts that are hostile and negative about another person. When a man gets it towards his wife it’s the beginning of the divorce. When a woman has it towards her husband it’s the loss of respect that leads to a divorce. When a child has it towards a parent, it’s the moment they stop listening to correction. And so the spirit gets, once people get the teaching they see it and the moment you see it, you can break it. It’s as though you’ve no longer got control over it.
SID: Here’s the thing that amazes me. I know if you’re dealing with a demon. You say with a loud voice, “Get out in the name of Jesus! I bind you!” And you say that won’t have any effect on this spirit. What does?
LANCE: And that’s the mystery because when you’re dealing with a world ruler like this level, the smart strategy is to let the Lord do the deliverance. This is one spirit where what we do is we have to pull out of the emotional connection. You see people that get into a fight on the street. It’s going be escalated matched with escalated. What we have to do is deescalate. We literally have to go into a place of humility and the love of God, and it disconnects the power that hook from us. That doesn’t mean that you’re not going to come back. Like for instance, I deal with media. I have to constantly do what Jesus did. He said, “Take heed what you hear and take heed how you hear.” Well how am I supposed to do this when I’m dealing with political subject matter? I have to hear what they’re saying even if it’s Leviathan. The Lord said, “Take heed how you hear it.” Don’t let it get a reaction in you where you start to become a problem, too. I have to be able to be in a sense able to see the lie, able to love the voice that’s talking to me and able to turn it around to find out how to show the people what’s really going on. I can’t afford to get hooked in that spirit.
SID: Lance, would you pray right now for people to operate in discernment. I need this discernment because we’re coming into a moment in history like the world has never seen before. It’s a borrowed moment that should have not been there. But God rearranged things for the destiny of America to evangelize the world and we need this discernment. Pray that right now.
LANCE: We need it. This spirit of discernment, the one gift that the church needs most, we talk about word of knowledge, we love it. We talk about healing. We love prophecy, we love faith. But the discerning of spirits is going to save your life because it will protect you from the wrong partnership. It will protect you from being sucked into the wrong fight at the wrong time. Here’s my prayer. I pray for you right now that in your marriage, in your ministry, in your business and in all future partnerships, especially some of you I sense the favor of God is on you. You’re entering a new season. You have to be very careful because when in favor, you attract the right and the wrong opportunities. I pray for the discerning of spirits. May you discern Leviathan, that twisting serpent when it’s trying to produce division between you and somebody God called you to walk with an agreement. I pray in the name of Jesus that you’ll have a gut level spiritual discerning that you won’t have to be analyzing with your head, but you’ll have it in your heart as Jesus had it when his spirit was disturbed because of the breach of covenant at the table. Father, I thank you that the discerning of spirits is operating to understand what manner of spirit we’re dealing with in Jesus’s name.
SID: And Jesus summarized it best: Love never, never fails.
