849: Spiritual Mapping & Demonic Strongholds | Dr. Laura Sanger
The Confessionals
Merkel Media
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
What if the spiritual battle over your city isn’t random, but mapped, organized, and already influencing everything around you?
Tony sits down with Dr. Laura Sanger for a deep and powerful look into spiritual mapping, where prayer meets intelligence gathering to uncover the hidden strongholds over communities. From walking neighborhoods in prayer to identifying portals, ley lines, and territorial spirits, Laura explains how darkness can root itself in land, institutions, and even schools, impacting everything from violence to despair. The conversation escalates into real-world accounts of spiritual pushback, occult influence, and targeted intercession, revealing how confronting these forces can trigger both resistance and breakthrough. Dr. Sanger then introduces the often-overlooked water kingdom, describing how unseen forces tied to oceans, rivers, and storms may be far more active than most believers realize. This episode isn’t just theory, it’s a call to wake up, discern what’s operating beneath the surface, and step into a more intentional fight for your family and community.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, before we get to this week's show, this is just your weekly reminder to please continue to pray for my wife, Lindsay. |
| 0:05.0 | She is battling breast cancer right now, and we're praying for complete healing in Jesus' name. |
| 0:10.1 | Thank you. |
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| 0:18.2 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:23.6 | I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:32.6 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:44.8 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. |
| 0:48.9 | And he starts running and firing up this giant. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, the giant moves, he's got a spear in one hand, |
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| 1:09.9 | when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days and I blow this head on. |
| 1:15.9 | I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities pulling it. |
| 1:25.2 | And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. |
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