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It grabbed me by the neck and I couldn't breathe.

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I physically felt two massive heads like this and it started choking me and banging my head on the floor.

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I remember feeling my head bouncing off on the floor and I thought I was going to die.

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Chris Garcia, it's great to have you back here on Charisma.

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We recently saw a video where you were sharing a testimony of a demonic attack encounter

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and I just knew that we had to reach out to you to be able to share that and to be able to go a little bit deeper because I had so many questions from that little testimony that you put out there.

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But welcome back to Charisma. It's great to have you here.

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Thanks so much, John, for having me. I'm super excited and super grateful to be here and as always, I feel always a part of the Charisma family.

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Yes, and speaking of being a part of the Charisma family, your book Fresh Oil is coming out in November and we're really excited about that and we'll give people kind of a taste of that a little bit later.

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But okay, let's jump right into this testimony that you shared the other day because I'll let you share it and then I've got some questions, brother.

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So tell me what happened when this demon attacked you.

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Yeah, so this testimony is one of my very first encounters with anything supernatural.

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I was, you know, my ethnicity, my family's from Puerto Rico.

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So on both sides of the family, both on my mother's and on my father's side, but specifically on my father's side, there was a lot of practice of spiritualism, voodoo, witchcraft, things like this.

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My great grandfather was actually a what you would call like a healer who would invoke certain spirits and put curses and even like healings.

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I use it in quotations because you know, Satan is a great counterfeit.

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And that's kind of like where my family kind of came from.

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My mom really protected me from all of those things, so I wasn't really super exposed to it.

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However, I do recall visiting family members many times and approaching their homes and seeing altars, like altars to specific deities.

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And in Santeria, which is a form of African spiritualism with Roman Catholicism, what they would do is they would pray to what's called an orisha or some it's a spirit mediator thing.

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But it comes in the guise of a saint.

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You know, that's where Santeria comes from. Saint-ism is what you would loosely refer to.

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And I remember as a kid seeing certain family members, they would take like, for example, black coffee or fruits and lay it on this altar of these saints.

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You know, and they would pray to it and things like that.

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And now, as a kid, I would ask questions and, you know, my certain family members would tell me about those things.

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And I always remember feeling, though, this strange, eerie, not right feeling.

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Like it felt off to me, almost like a very scary feeling would come over me.

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I was like eight, nine years old, you know.

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And so that's kind of a little bit of the background.

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But like I told you, my mom really protected me from that stuff.

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So none of that was really brought into her home.

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However, on March the 3rd of 2006, I was introduced to the gospel.

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But before that, it was March the 2nd.

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Well, I would say technically March the 3rd of 2006 at 3 a.m.

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I was attacked by a demonic spirit, is the best way I could describe it.

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I was told about the gospel and a friend of mine had invited me to go to his church.

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And I went.

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But before going there for seven days, I was attacked by spirits.

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And I never used to experience anything like that.

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I pretty much lived a normal life, quote unquote.

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But anytime I would try to go near towards the things of God, I would get attacked.

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Like strange things like paralyzed in my body, not being able to move,

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seeing things that are not there.

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I remember as a kid, I saw several things.

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I saw a man standing behind me when I was a little kid.

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And when I looked back, he was gone.

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You know, weird things like that.

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Shadows coming out of the walls.

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How did you see that man behind you?

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Then then you turned around and he was gone.

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Tell me about that.

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So I'll just.

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So what happened was I was about, I want to say, 11 years old.

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And I was terrified of the dark and I would sleep in my brother's room.

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And I would sleep on the floor and he would sleep on his bed.

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And in front of him, in front of the his room, there was an old tube TV, you know,

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and you can see very clearly your reflection and the reflection behind you.

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So I was laying as a child.

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I was just laying there and like around 6am or so, I opened my eyes and I see a shadow person.

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Like he was a man.

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I can tell he was a man because it was a perfect form of a man.

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I saw it with my eyes.

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I did.

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It wasn't a vision.

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I saw it with my eyes and he was sitting behind the radiator of the window.

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And then my mom started calling my name.

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She's like, Chris, wake up.

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And when I put down the blanket, he was gone and I turned around and he wasn't there.

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Things like that.

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You know, so fast forward to March the 3rd of 2006.

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It was what I could describe as a very tall spiritual entity that went through the window

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and began to straddle me and had its legs between my ribs right here.

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And I used to be really into like different forms of like religions.

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I would read the Koran.

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I was just really interested in spiritual things.

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It was something that God was putting something, eternity in my heart.

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I just didn't know what it was.

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And this thing comes out of the window.

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And the best way I could describe it is like it was like an invisible form.

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I can tell it was very tall.

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And when people ask like, well, how do you know if you didn't see it?

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It's very difficult to explain.

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But it's like in the invisible spiritual realm, you just know things that you shouldn't know.

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And I can't explain it other than that.

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And I felt this face put its face against my face and breathing over me.

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And so what I did was, well, I did what I knew how.

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I started praying to everything that I could.

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And I was like, I literally said this.

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I was like, oh, Allah, help me.

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Because I was reading the Koran.

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I literally just started going down the list like this.

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And I started saying the Hail Mary.

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And then all of a sudden, I said, Our Father.

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And when I said Our Father, it grabbed me by the neck.

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I physically felt two massive hands like this.

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And it started choking me and banging my head on the floor.

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I remember feeling my head bouncing off on the floor.

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And I thought I was going to die.

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And finally, just out of sheer desperation, the Lord of the Rings came to me.

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And I was like, Oh, Jesus.

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And before I even said Jesus, I didn't even finish saying the name.

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It was like a reverberation in the air.

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Something was shaking.

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Like whatever that was, bled.

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As soon as I said Jesus, and it let me go.

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And I said to myself, Why was it that when I said that name, it left?

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And automatically, I came up to the conclusion that there's something about the name of Jesus.

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And so the next day, I went to the church that my friend invited me to go to.

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And I said, Jesus, I'm going to go to the church.

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And I said, Jesus, I'm going to go to the church that my friend invited me to.

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And I heard the gospel clearly preached.

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And I repented and put my faith in Christ.

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And that led me to a journey of seeking God's presence and getting to know Him.

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And that was one of many experiences I've had with dealing with demonic spirits.

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I've had many instances of seeing things and experiencing moments where for some reason,

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I was able to see certain things.

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You know, one particular I can tell you, I've had several of them.

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But when I used to live in Kissimmee in Florida, there's a specific place called Davenport,

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which is not too far from Kissimmee.

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And in that place, this was very recent.

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I want to say maybe five years back, I was in a season where I would be awakened in the middle of the night

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and the Lord would reveal to me certain things to pray against, specifically in my church.

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I was an evangelist and I was just a part of the church where we were at in Kissimmee.

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And there would be many nights when I would be awakened and I would fall on my knees and I would see things.

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And the Holy Spirit would allow me to see certain things, to pray against them,

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and to take authority over principalities and demonic spirits that were being assigned

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even to the region where we were at.

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And there was one specific moment where I kept seeing certain colors, like colors of beads.

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And I knew what that meant.

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It was something that was of witchcraft being thrown at our specific church.

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So these are beads that were being thrown at the church?

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Well, this is a vision, like I would be awakened and see these specific colors.

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And in the background, I knew what that meant.

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So I would start coming against that.

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And there was one time where during that moment, I saw a specific person all dressed in white

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and he fled in terror when I exposed it in prayer with my wife at three, four in the morning.

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Well, that day I called my pastor and I told them, I said, listen, there's an assignment of witchcraft

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against the church.

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And I saw a man all dressed in white and he fled in terror.

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And my pastor told me, you're seeing correctly.

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They would pick up dead sacrifices of chickens and stuff in the backyard of their church.

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And there was this one man that lived across the street who was dressed all in white.

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And I explained what I saw and they told me that that was indeed going on.

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And before I left that place to move to Arkansas, I didn't understand why many times I would be

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awakened in the middle of the night like this and come against specific things like, you know,

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a Santeria and spiritualism, those specific spiritual forces.

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And, you know, the Lord is awesome because He reveals things at the right time.

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And it was about a week before I moved, I decided to take a walk in Davenport next to

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where I was living.

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And on the high point of the hill, there were people that were practicing that stuff.

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And what was going on was the Holy Spirit was waking me up to tear down those assignments

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by the Holy Spirit, you know, and things like that.

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I've had very unusual moments like that.

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Fort Smith, where I came here, you know, like a pastor of church in Fort Smith, I was talking to

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here, you know what, let me just say, before I say that part, let me tell you a crazy story

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that happened in Davenport.

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One particular moment, I was in prayer around 4 a.m.

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I was suddenly awakened, lots of demonic attack.

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And I started seeing in the Spirit a woman that had a serpent draped around her shoulders.

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And when I saw that, now, when I say I see it, it's not a serpent.

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When I say I see it, it was by inner vision.

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Okay, that's the best way I could describe it.

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It's like having a dream with your eyes open.

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That's the best way I could describe it.

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And my wife and I, we fell on our faces and we start praying.

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And all of a sudden, it just came up out of my mouth as I was praying in tongues.

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I saw this assignment and this altar of this woman with this

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python serpent thing wrapped around her shoulders.

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And it just, I blurted it, it just came out of my mouth.

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I just said, she will fall.

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She will fall.

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The judgment has come.

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She will fall.

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to break that bondage lifted from me.

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And literally, the next day, I get a friend request on Facebook.

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And it was a picture of like an angel fighting a demon thing.

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It was like an old Catholic picture of Saint Michael fighting a demon.

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You know, some people know what I'm talking about when I say that, but

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when I looked at that Facebook post, something told me, don't accept a friend request.

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God is my witness.

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When I scrolled down just to see, it was a priest of Santeria.

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And there was an altar of a woman with a snake over her shoulders.

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And I'm telling you, like I showed that to my wife.

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She's like, I was like, babe, look at this.

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And she's like, what the heck is that?

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I said, wasn't that what we were praying against the other night?

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So why would that happen?

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Like, why would that person send me that friend request?

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When you're praying and you're taking intercession, you stick out like a sore thumb in the spirit, you know,

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and things like that.

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You know, I'll tell you another one.

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When I moved to Fort Smith, immediately when I came to Fort Smith by the discerning of spirits,

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the Lord allowed me to feel that I was praying against the other night.

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What spirits are in this region?

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And I immediately sensed a Wicca and New Age and a religious spirit.

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And there was a time where, man, I'm trying to, there's so many stories I want to tell you,

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but I'm trying to pick the craziest one.

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So while you're thinking about that, let me just tell everybody that's watching.

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If you've had an experience like this, please let us know in the comments and how that experience was broken in the power of Jesus.

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I mean, we want to hear these stories because these things are powerful testimonies,

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because just like what Chris was talking about, as soon as he started to say the name of Jesus,

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he didn't even get to finish the name of Jesus.

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He started it.

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The enemy fled.

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That's right.

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And he tried all these other things, Buddha, Ahamed, Allah, even praying the Hail Mary.

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And none of these things had the power of the name of Jesus.

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That's right.

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Our father was close, but when he said Jesus, it changed everything.

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That's right.

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So I know, Chris, you've got a lot of stories, but I just want to make sure everybody knows.

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Put in the comments your story.

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We want to hear this.

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So Chris, go ahead and tell us some more.

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So there was one particular person when I was just pastoring, I want to say the first year or so,

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where she was experiencing a lot of demonic oppression.

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And I had to help her get free from some stuff.

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And I told her, I said, hey, listen, how much are you reading the word of God?

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She's like, well, hardly ever.

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I said, that's your problem.

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I said, you've got to stay in Ephesians, in Philippians, in Colossians, and ask the Holy

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Spirit to begin to give you revelation of your authority in Christ.

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She was getting attacked all the time, all the time.

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And what I had discovered was she wasn't really getting into the word and Satan was having a

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field day with her.

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And so that day, I was talking to her about the authority that we have in Christ as believers.

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I was talking to her about what has been given to us in heavenly places in Christ.

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I was talking to her about how Satan is defeated and we, uh, principalities and powers have been

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disarmed.

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But there is a wrestling that takes place, but it's from the standpoint of victory, you know?

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And so I'd finished praying with her and that night, I want to say around 4 a.m., I felt

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something slither across my feet and my bed sheets started tightening up.

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And when I looked to my left, there in front of me was a massive, massive serpent.

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The head was like this big.

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And it was, it looked at me and then it descended into the floor and disappeared.

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Well, this was no vision.

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This was like I saw it with my eyes and immediately fear tried to grip my heart.

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And the only thing I could do at that moment is just begin to worship the Lord.

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And the Holy Spirit began to speak to me.

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He said, do not mind what you saw.

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I want you to magnify and praise my name.

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So I got up, I started magnifying and praising the Lord.

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And there was such an overwhelming power and peace that flooded my soul because he was

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teaching me how to fight from this position of authority.

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And I'm not saying that there aren't moments where we have to be in the position of

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authority, there aren't moments where we have to renounce.

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And I'm not saying there are moments that we have to specifically rebuke specific things.

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But you have to do things by the Spirit of God.

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There isn't a formula.

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You do it by the Spirit.

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There have been moments where the Holy Spirit has told me, you ignore this and you worship

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me.

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There are other moments where he'll say, I want you to say this specific thing.

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I want you to expose this specific spirit and then it would flee.

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The key is getting to know the presence of God for yourself.

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I'll tell you another really cool story.

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When I started starting the live stream, we would do fresh oil every day for two years.

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And in one occasion, we did something called midnight oil between me and my wife, which

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I am so wanting to do again.

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It's like midnight to 330 in the morning.

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And we just spent time, three hours, three and a half hours of worship.

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In one particular occasion, I was sleeping and I just felt the beautiful presence of

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the Lord.

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And as I started to doze off, two demons, two demonic spirits approached me.

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And I heard them talking and they said, we can't touch him.

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He's in prayer.

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They left.

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He said, he's praying.

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We can't touch him.

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And I want to quickly share this, John, because as I was kind of just contemplating what we

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should talk about, I want to just share this that there are several reasons why demonic

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attacks come.

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One is there could be an open door.

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Sometimes if we're doing things that we shouldn't be doing, if we're violating our

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conscience or living in a way that's displeasing to the spirit, we open ourselves up to the

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wrong thing.

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That's one aspect.

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Another reason why demonic spirits come is to intimidate.

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It's to get you to stop praying.

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It's to get you to stop pursuing the Lord.

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Many, many, I can't tell you how many times I get people all the time to say, man, every

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time I try to pursue the Lord, it seems like these spiritual attacks are getting worse.

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Yes, because they don't want you to pursue God's presence.

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But there comes a point where those things begin to cease in that way.

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And then there are other moments.

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There are other moments where God allows you to experience something for the simple fact

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of opening your eyes for prayer.

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And I can't tell you how many times I'll be praying for someone and then I'll get an

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attack and the Lord will show me this is what's going on.

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And so that's what I would say.

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I would say open doors, intimidations, or sometimes God is allowing it as an assignment

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for prayer.

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And so, yeah, I've had many of those things before.

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That's wild, brother.

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I know you are a prayer warrior and you spend a lot of time, as you mentioned, fresh oil

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for people that aren't aware of that on your YouTube channel.

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You take people into the presence of the Lord simply through waiting

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and reading the scriptures.

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And it's not a complicated thing, but it is a you have to make an investment of your

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time and your attention to reap the benefits of that fresh oil that God wants to pour out

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on us.

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Now, you recently wrote a book that is going to be coming out with Charisma in November

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called Fresh Oil.

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Can you kind of explain what is the premise of this book and how it's going to help

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people in their walk with the Lord?

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Yeah, the premise of the book is to whet your spiritual appetite for the things of God's

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Spirit.

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And I share specific things that the Holy Spirit has shared with me to be a blessing

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to the body of Christ.

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It's funny because it's called Fresh Oil, Secrets to Intimacy with the Holy Spirit,

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but it opens up with the secret is the secret place, you know, and everything comes out

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of that place.

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Everything comes out of that place.

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And really what it is, is the book is designed to be an impartation for prayer and for fellowship

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with the Spirit of God.

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I love the phrase Fresh Oil because it's inspired from Psalm chapter 92 verse 10, where

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it says, My horn you have exalted like a wild ox.

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That means my strength you have exalted.

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And I have been anointed with Fresh Oil.

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And the reality is the Spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord searching all the inner depths

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of his heart.

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And what is a lamp?

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A lamp is a container, a vessel for oil.

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And what is the purpose for oil?

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To combust into light.

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And when we spend time in God's presence, it's like our vessels become

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endued with oil.

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Our vessels become flooded with the presence and the glory of God.

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We live from a different fuel source.

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Many people live from what they can do or what they can muster or their own strivings,

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but God wants us to operate from a different fuel source, from his oil.

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And so the premise of the book is all about experiencing God for yourself.

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I break things down very easily.

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I share a lot of stories in my own personal life because I find that sharing stories and

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being vulnerable helps people really connect to prayer.

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And the thing is, as people look at people that pray a lot, like, oh, wow, that person

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must be special.

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And the reality is, no, God wants to use everyday normal people who would make themselves

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yielded and ready for him.

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And so the whole desire for this book is I want you to walk away with, man, this makes

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me hungry for God.

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That's pretty much the heart behind it.

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That's so good.

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And as you're hungry for the Lord and you spend time with him, you're hungry for God.

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You will be more prepared and more able to deal with those demonic attacks whenever they

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come, because they're not going to scare you because you know where your power comes from.

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It is that fresh oil that you seek the Lord every day and he restores your soul and he

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gives you that fresh oil.

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And so, Chris, I just want to ask you to pray for those that have been watching that they

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would experience the power of that fresh oil, but experience that God's saving grace when

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it comes to these demonic attacks like you were talking about at the beginning.

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Well, let's pray.

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Father, I just thank you, Lord, for every single person that's tuning in, that it's

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not a coincidence.

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It's not an accident that they're tuning in.

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Father, I thank you for those that are watching, those that are watching that may be plagued

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by various attacks from the enemy.

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Holy Spirit, I pray that you would give them the revelation of Christ and them the hope

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of glory, that in Christ there is no other name under heaven, which would we be saved.

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I pray, Lord, that you would infuse your people with the spirit of authority that comes from you.

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That as we focus our attention on your manifested presence, as we focus and gaze on you, Lord

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Jesus, and relish in the finished work of the cross, that you, Lord God, would begin

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to open our eyes to see that which you have already given us.

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All things as it relates to life and godliness are made available through your precious promises.

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And we become partakers of your divine nature.

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So, Lord, I thank you for the revelation of the kingdom of God, the revelation of Christ,

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the revelation, Lord God, of our authority in you that there's no fear in your presence.

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That perfect love casts out fear.

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I pray, Lord God, that you would begin to bring people in a journey as to seeing what

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has been given to them.

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That as they're reading the scriptures, that the scriptures would begin to leap out the

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promises of God into their belly, that they would be nourished and sustained by the truth

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of your word, becoming sound and becoming powerful conduits of your glory.

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I thank you that you'd so desire that we would be carriers of the glory of God, and that

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every person, Lord God, would be blessed.

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Bring us to the overflow of fresh oil, I pray, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen and amen.

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Chris Garcia, thank you so much for joining us today on Charisma to share your powerful

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testimony of overcoming.

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And I want to encourage everybody, get your copy of Fresh Oil because it will change and

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enhance your time with the Lord and to make it something that makes you thirsty for his

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presence.

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Chris, thank you so much, brother.

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Thank you so much, John.

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I appreciate you.