DIHIMA MCLEAN: 9 Limitations to Divine Access
The following list was compiled by the phenomenal Prophetess Dihima McLean of Kingdom Global Impact Network. Since hearing her teach it, I have begun to implement this as a frequent part of my intercession and warfare. I believe understanding these demonic tactics of restriction are strategic keys to breakthrough.
CAGES
They put him in a cage with chains, And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in nets, That his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel. — Ezekiel 19:9 NKJV
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me…he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound…” — Isaiah 61:1 KJV
Comes through iniquity (pattern of habitual wickedness), ignorance, prison, trap, snare, limitations, bondage, a lack of freedom, limited freedom, incarceration.
Comes with prison warden(s), prison guards, chains.
EMBARGOES
Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.” — Daniel 10:12-13 NKJV
Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles. — Romans 1:13 NKJV
Comes through a blockage, no ability to receive any spiritual benefits, blockage of rights, sanctions, limited rights, restrictions, prohibitions, gates.
Comes with checkpoints, guards, monitoring spirits.
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CIRCLES
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.”
And Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God. If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone us? We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He will command us.”
So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Intercede for me.”
Then Moses said, “Indeed I am going out from you, and I will entreat the LORD, that the swarms of flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. But let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully anymore in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”
So Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated the LORD. And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained. But Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also; neither would he let the people go. — Exodus 8:25-32 NKJV
So the LORD’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone. — Numbers 32:13 NKJV
Comes when being marked; vicious cycles.
Consists of a literal chalk or salt magic circle that is drawn by a witch to contain and restrict you.
LINES
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel. So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage— in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.
Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah; and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” — Exodus 1:8-16 NKJV
When Joab saw that the battle line was against him before and behind, he chose some of Israel’s best and put them in battle array against the Syrians. — II Samuel 10:9 NKJV
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inheritance. — Psalms 16:6 NKJV
Comes through restrictions, barriers, glass ceilings.
Consists of salt lines, incantations, demonic contracts.
ALTARS
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland. Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on every altar. — Numbers 23:27-30 NKJV
The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod and household idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. — Judges 17:5-6 NKJV
“You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.” — Deuteronomy 12:2-3 NKJV
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.’” — Leviticus 6:8-9 NKJV
Raised to frustrate your life and your destiny. Serves as an evil contract.
Comes with sacrifices, candles/fire, and an evil priest (witch) to maintain it.
FOUNDATIONS
Then Joshua charged them at that time, saying, “Cursed be the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.” — Joshua 6:26 NKJV
“In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation with Abiram his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, according to the word of the LORD, which He had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.” — I Kings 16:34 NKJV
So the LORD said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you. Get up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the LORD God of Israel: “There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.”’” — Joshua 7:10-13 NKJV
Consists of an infrastructure that we build on; produces a lack of security, sustainability, advancement; faultiness, collapsibility, delays, setbacks, retrogression, entanglements.
Comes with accursed objects, evil sacrifices, iniquity.
ARROWS
Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. — Ephesians 6:16 NKJV
For look! The wicked bend their bow, They make ready their arrow on the string, That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. — Psalms 11:2 NKJV
My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men Who are set on fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword. — Psalms 57:4 NKJV
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words… — Psalms 64:3 NKJV
There He broke the arrows of the bow, The shield and sword of battle. Selah — Psalms 76:3 NKJV
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day… — Psalms 91:5 NKJV
Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.” — Genesis 10:8-9 NKJV
And Kush (blackness, Etheopian) begat (to be father of; be ancestor of) Nimrod (rebellion): he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter in place of [in opposition to] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): For what reason it is said, Even as Nimrod (rebellion) the mighty hunter in place of [in opposition to] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). — Genesis 10:8-9 NMV
Consists of pointed attacks (arrows, darts, bullets) to cause damage and death.
Comes with an evil archer, hunter, marksman, or sniper.
PRINCIPALITIES
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. — Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince.” — Daniel 10:20-21 NKJV
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. — Colossians 2:15 NKJV
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 8:38-39 NKJV
Consists of commanding generals, demonic government.
Comes with spiritual legalities and squatters’ rights,
CURSES
Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel. So Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this company will lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. Then he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying: “Look, a people has come from Egypt. See, they cover the face of the earth, and are settling next to me! Therefore please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.” — Numbers 22:2-6 NKJV
And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food. — I Samuel 14:24 NKJV
Consists of evil words—sorcery, divination, enchantment, enticement, bewitchment, beguilement, incantations, spells, hexes, judgments—to bring about an ungodly outcome.
Comes with an Occultic practitioner, every item on this list, and unclean spirits to bring about the will behind the words.
Produces blindness, ignorance, confusion, reproach, dejection, depression, hopelessness, surrender, search for escape.
ALSO: A curse may be from the Lord, wrought by iniquity of a person or their ancestors/predecessors.
“The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.” — Numbers 14:18 NKJV
Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, “ It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.” So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; the children of Israel had sworn protection to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah. — II Samuel 21:1-2 NKJV
BUT THERE IS FREEDOM!!!
“…And it shall come to pass, when you become restless, That you shall break his yoke from your neck.” — Genesis 27:40 NKJV
“…And it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, That thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.” — Genesis 27:40 KJV
But thus says the LORD: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.” — Isaiah 49:25 NKJV
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. — Colossians 2:13-14 NKJV
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified…. Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs. “For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an everlasting covenant. Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, And their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, That they are the posterity whom the LORD has blessed. — Isaiah 61:1-3, 7-9 NKJV
