1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,300 God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. 2 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:19,400 Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring, we equip for 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,400 that outpouring, so that we will engage in that very outpouring. 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,560 I'm Philip Buss. 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:27,560 And I'm Sharon Buss. 6 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,660 Welcome to the podcast today. 7 00:00:29,660 --> 00:00:36,560 We are going to do a Bible study, Philip and I, about something that is so important for 8 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,600 these days that we're living in. 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,600 There's turmoil everywhere, and some places have more turmoil than others, but there's 10 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,920 always a potential of something happening anywhere in the world. 11 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,800 Anywhere you are, anywhere we are, there's a potential of things happening that can bring 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,440 trauma or trouble or stress. 13 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:07,800 But we want to talk about making fearlessness your position. 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,120 Thanks for joining us today. 15 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,400 We're so glad that you're with us, and we just want to encourage you, before we get 16 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:20,200 started, if you haven't already done so, to please go to our website, globaloutpouring.net, 17 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:25,600 and sign up for our email list so that we can stay in contact with you. 18 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,340 It's really, really important. 19 00:01:27,340 --> 00:01:29,400 And we really want to hear back from you. 20 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,160 There's a place there that you can fill out to give us some feedback, let us know how 21 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,320 you're being blessed or something you want us to talk about. 22 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:42,920 We received some prayer requests recently, and we're praying over those. 23 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,480 So be in touch with us and let us know how we can serve you better and how the Holy Spirit 24 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,280 is leading you. 25 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:55,720 There's also other things on our website that you can enjoy and dig around in and avail 26 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,280 yourself of these wonderful resources that are there. 27 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:05,560 So today we're talking about making fearlessness your position. 28 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,760 Why do you want to make fearlessness your position? 29 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,000 What's so important about it? 30 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,960 Because we're not supposed to live in fear. 31 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,160 That's right. 32 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,440 What's the first scripture that comes to you when you think about not being in fear? 33 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,880 God has not given you a spirit of fear and a power. 34 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:22,880 And of love. 35 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:24,320 Love and of a sound mind. 36 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,320 Amen. 37 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,800 And that's 2 Timothy 1, 7. 38 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:32,400 And that's the one that just always comes to mind first for most of us. 39 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:38,320 The way that we got started on this was Philip and I were reading in Philippians, and we 40 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:39,560 were reading it together. 41 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:46,160 And I saw a scripture that I hadn't ever really processed before, and it's verse 28. 42 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,040 We were reading in the King James because we're familiar with it. 43 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,300 That's what we normally read ourselves. 44 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:56,880 And it says, in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token 45 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:01,660 of perdition, but to you of salvation and that of God. 46 00:03:01,660 --> 00:03:10,540 And it just lit up to me that when we have no fear, when we're not terrified by our adversaries 47 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:15,760 who are trying to terrify us, they're trying to put us into fear, whatever kind of adversaries 48 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:24,080 they are, whether they're human or spiritual or circumstances, when we're not terrified 49 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:36,080 by them, when we do not allow fear, it is giving them fear because they realize this 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,840 is doomsday for them. 51 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:46,840 The whole devilish outfit out there, all of the demonic darkness, all those fallen angels, 52 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:53,440 all Satan and all of his minions, they know that their time is short and they're running 53 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,320 out of time. 54 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:02,640 The whole time thing is it's the countdown to their destruction. 55 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:08,840 And when they can't terrify us anymore, when we stand with courage, when we stand with 56 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:18,920 fearlessness, when that is our position that we stand in, it is causing them to fear. 57 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,000 I want to just bring a couple other translations of this. 58 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,720 The New Living Translation says, don't be intimidated in any way by your enemies. 59 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,720 This will be a sign to them that they are going to be destroyed, but that you are going 60 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,840 to be saved even by God himself. 61 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:41,900 The ESV, the English Standard Version says, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. 62 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:48,040 This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation and that from God. 63 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,760 And then the Amplified Classic, let me turn to it. 64 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,080 I have it open to something else right now. 65 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:05,880 Philippians 1.28 says, and do not for a moment be frightened or intimidated in anything by 66 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,320 your opponents and adversaries. 67 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:16,600 For such constancy and fearlessness will be a clear sign, proof and seal to them of their 68 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:23,360 impending destruction, but a sure token and evidence of your deliverance and salvation 69 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,800 and that from God. 70 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:31,720 You know, that reminds me of the story that Michael van Vleimen has told us and we've 71 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,960 heard him tell it a couple of times, I think. 72 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,760 I don't remember if he said it on the first podcast that we did with him or if it was 73 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,440 a story we heard him tell when he was here the first time. 74 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:46,360 But he tells the story of how he was sitting on the edge of his bed, getting ready to go 75 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,480 to bed, but you know, just praying for his family. 76 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,160 And he's an amazing prayer warrior. 77 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,160 Amazing. 78 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:59,680 So he's sitting on the edge of his bed praying for his family and he sees across the room 79 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:08,600 in the corner is this mean, defiant, ugly demon with horns sticking out of his head. 80 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,000 And he's, I don't know if it's just the way I've imagined it or if he described it this 81 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:18,600 way, but I imagine him with his arms crossed and just absolutely defiant. 82 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,240 And Michael looks at him, he says, what are you doing here? 83 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,240 How did you get in here? 84 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:24,400 You're not allowed to be in here. 85 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,400 And he starts rebuking the thing and he rebukes and he rebukes and rebukes and he pleads the 86 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,240 blood and he says all the things that he knows to say. 87 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,480 And this goes on for like 20 minutes, I think. 88 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,800 It was a serious amount of time and he's rebuking, rebuking. 89 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:49,760 And the thing is just staring at him with this insolent, defiant look on his face as 90 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,640 if to say, there's nothing that you can do to make me leave. 91 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,640 Like I have authority here. 92 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,920 I can do this. 93 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,400 And finally it left. 94 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,400 So Michael was really troubled. 95 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,800 Yeah, troubled is the word. 96 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,400 He said, Lord, I thought I had authority over that thing. 97 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,960 How come did it take so long? 98 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,980 And the Lord said to him, you do have authority. 99 00:07:17,980 --> 00:07:25,120 And he said, the thing is you have to remember that these characters are liars and they are 100 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:33,000 able to put on a face that is not showing what's going on inside them. 101 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:41,720 And what was really happening was that inside the thing, he was terrorized that he was going 102 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:42,720 to have to leave. 103 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,400 But if he could just hold on a little longer, if he could just hold on a little longer, 104 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:53,280 maybe Michael would quit and he could stay. 105 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,400 You know? 106 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:56,880 And that's their MO. 107 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,160 That's how they operate. 108 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,660 Their modus operandi, their mode of operation. 109 00:08:01,660 --> 00:08:02,840 That's how they operate. 110 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,380 They're deceivers, they're liars. 111 00:08:05,380 --> 00:08:07,360 They don't know how to tell the truth. 112 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:14,720 But inside they really are full of craven fear because they know their time is short. 113 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,760 Destruction is around the corner for them. 114 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,920 They are forever losers. 115 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,880 And when we stand up in our authority with fearlessness. 116 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:24,880 Yeah. 117 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,320 So you have to have the authority. 118 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:28,320 And you do. 119 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,320 And you have it. 120 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,960 But you can't pretend to have something you don't have. 121 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,560 You know, that reminded me in Acts chapter 19. 122 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:38,120 This is Paul. 123 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:39,120 This was in Ephesus. 124 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,160 And I tell you, there's a lot of demonic stuff. 125 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:42,160 Oh, man. 126 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:43,160 Yeah. 127 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:44,160 We've been there. 128 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,160 It's just bad. 129 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:49,360 And God gave him all kinds of amazing miracles. 130 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,480 Those that, that, handkerchiefs for things that he prayed for. 131 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,200 The people would be delivered of all that. 132 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,520 There was seven sons. 133 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:00,880 Oh, yeah, yeah. 134 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:01,880 Seven sons of Sceva. 135 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:02,880 Right. 136 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,400 Now Sceva was the chief of the priests. 137 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,120 So these are his kids. 138 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,520 And so they're going to cast out in the name of Jesus these evil spirits out of this person. 139 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:20,800 You know, and the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus, I know. 140 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:21,800 And Paul, I know. 141 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:22,800 But who are you? 142 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:23,800 Right. 143 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:28,480 You know, and the man whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overcame them and prevailed 144 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:29,800 against them. 145 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,320 So they fled out of the house just naked and wounded. 146 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,160 You know, because this man was full of demonic spirits. 147 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,160 Right. 148 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,000 But this, this is people that had no authority. 149 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Right. 150 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,060 And that's what the real world is out there. 151 00:09:44,060 --> 00:09:46,480 Take the veil away in the spirit life. 152 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:52,200 There are those that just see in the spirit all the time and they see demons all the time 153 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,880 and they see angels and things like that. 154 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,920 And I'm praying to get there. 155 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,920 I don't want to see demons, though, you know, but you need to. 156 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:02,920 Yes. 157 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,480 You know, I think there's some say you actually you see demons first. 158 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:06,480 Right. 159 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:07,800 Some of them, you know. 160 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,560 But when you have the blood of Jesus living you, you have the spirit of God in you. 161 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:15,600 You have that authority over them. 162 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:16,600 Right. 163 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,400 Even if they look intimidating. 164 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,440 Right. 165 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:26,800 And I remember, I remember that our daughter wanted us to watch the Lord of the Rings and 166 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,320 I didn't want to have anything to do with it. 167 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:35,280 Maybe I was being religious, but I felt in my spirit that I was to go ahead and watch 168 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:36,280 it. 169 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:43,960 And at the same time to that to that place where they're inside the mountain and they hear this 170 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:49,320 down the corridor, you know, and they see this red glow and they and and everybody gets 171 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,120 all scared and says, it's a Balrog run for your life. 172 00:10:53,120 --> 00:11:00,200 Well, I got up to leave at that point and I heard the Holy Spirit say, sit down and 173 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:01,200 watch it. 174 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,880 You're going to see worse things before it's over. 175 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,120 Oh. 176 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:14,040 And I remember, it was Bruce Allen, I believe it was that said all of all this demonic stuff 177 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:20,760 that you're seeing in the movies and movies and you like your little E.T.s, these cute 178 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,880 little what's the guy with the big ears? 179 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,400 They make all the creepy thing, all that stuff. 180 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,720 And those are actually models of real demons. 181 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:31,720 Yeah. 182 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,560 It's trying to get everybody ready. 183 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:34,560 Getting everybody ready. 184 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:40,240 And Bruce says, when and when these things appear, men's hearts are going to fail them 185 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,480 for fear because they have no power over them. 186 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:52,480 And that's why it's important for us to get our power from our relationship with our father. 187 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,360 That's where our authority comes. 188 00:11:54,360 --> 00:12:01,200 That's where our authority comes in our walking with him into the maturity of trusting in 189 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,240 him, knowing he's absolutely trustworthy. 190 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,400 It doesn't matter what has happened in the past and it doesn't matter what's going to 191 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:09,400 happen next. 192 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,920 Because you never know where you run into something. 193 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:12,920 Right. 194 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,160 I'm not telling a story on our daughter. 195 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,960 There's an antique place in our city. 196 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:25,160 And I remember going in it before and it was you could just feel spirits and stuff in it, 197 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,920 you know, was attached to things that were in there. 198 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:29,040 And I took our daughter in there. 199 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,280 I don't remember how old she was. 200 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,080 And she says, Dad, this place is creepy. 201 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,760 I says, yeah, it's full of spooks. 202 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:35,760 Let's go. 203 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:40,800 But it was good for her to experience that, to feel that. 204 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:45,120 Because when you feel creepiness or something like that, you know, there's something or 205 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,480 you feel the hair on the back of your head coming up. 206 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:49,480 There's something there. 207 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:50,480 Right. 208 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,400 You know, and that's when you have to raise up instantly in your authority. 209 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:55,640 Because I felt that before. 210 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:56,640 Right. 211 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:57,640 Yeah. 212 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:58,640 You just, you just got to do it. 213 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,640 Yeah. 214 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,120 And that's part of its discernment. 215 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,880 One of the things that I was, that I learned when I was studying this to get ready for 216 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:15,000 this podcast was that, that there's something happens when fear physically, when fear comes 217 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,440 on you, there's something happens in your chemical makeup. 218 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:20,440 Okay. 219 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:28,040 That it causes like this, the stress hormone cortisol kicks in and it kicks in adrenaline. 220 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,400 You know, adrenaline is the fight and flight thing. 221 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:31,400 Yeah. 222 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:36,520 Either, either it's going to give you what you need to fight or what you need to flee. 223 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:43,420 And what I learned from this was that the blood flow kind of doesn't go to your brain. 224 00:13:43,420 --> 00:13:48,280 It goes to your limbs so that you can fight or run. 225 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:53,840 Whichever, whichever thing that the situation calls for, you can either run or you can fight. 226 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:55,080 Oh, that's amazing. 227 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,480 But your reasoning begins to go down. 228 00:13:58,480 --> 00:13:59,480 Okay. 229 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,160 So we can't just reason our way out of this. 230 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:11,680 So that's why it's so important that we have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. 231 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:18,720 Like in the book of Luke, it says in Luke 12 verse 11, it says, when they bring you 232 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,580 before the synagogues and the magistrates and the authorities, do not be anxious beforehand 233 00:14:23,580 --> 00:14:28,920 how you shall reply in defense or what you are to say, for the Holy Spirit will teach 234 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,080 you in that very hour and moment what you ought to say. 235 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:41,080 And then Jesus said again in Luke in chapter 21, it says, they will lay hands, lay their 236 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:46,000 hands on you and persecute you, turning you over to the synagogues and prisons and you 237 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,800 will be led away before kings and governors for my name's sake. 238 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:54,640 This will be a time, an opportunity for you to bear testimony. 239 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,080 In other words, don't get afraid. 240 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:01,560 Resolve and settle it in your minds not to meditate and prepare beforehand how you are 241 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:07,620 to make your defense and how you will answer, for I myself will give you a mouth and such 242 00:15:07,620 --> 00:15:12,520 utterance and wisdom that all of your foes combined will be unable to stand against or 243 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:13,860 refute. 244 00:15:13,860 --> 00:15:18,820 And then it says in verse 19, by your steadfastness and patient endurance, you shall win the true 245 00:15:18,820 --> 00:15:20,520 life of your souls. 246 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:21,520 Beautiful. 247 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:22,520 It is. 248 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:23,520 It's really beautiful. 249 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:32,240 But it comes from when your reasoning isn't there, your spirit still is. 250 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,920 You can depend on that. 251 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,640 There's a part of your spirit that's your intuition. 252 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:44,160 And when your intuition is connected to the Holy Spirit, you're going to have something 253 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:49,160 that others don't have in a moment of crisis. 254 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:53,400 And that's one of the things that the Lord is trying to help us get ready for whatever 255 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,320 kind of crisis is coming down the pike. 256 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:03,220 Now at the moment when we're recording this, Israel is at war. 257 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:06,440 They were unprepared for it. 258 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:11,560 And the whole of the nation is suffering trauma. 259 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:18,200 Because everybody knows somebody who was kidnapped or murdered or whatever, all of these horrible 260 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,440 heinous things that were done by Hamas. 261 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:30,980 But there's something that is from inside our spirit that will overcome trauma. 262 00:16:30,980 --> 00:16:36,440 It will overcome these horrific things that happen. 263 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:43,820 I wrote in my book, Rich Wounds, the testimony of a woman that was raped. 264 00:16:43,820 --> 00:16:46,120 And she was not a young woman. 265 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:51,200 She was, I think she was in her 80s already when this happened. 266 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,800 At least late 70s, I'm not sure. 267 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,080 But here's what she says. 268 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:02,520 I was robbed and raped by two men in the early morning hours of June 1st, 1991. 269 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,500 She's gone to be with the Lord now. 270 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:10,000 As soon as the men left, I picked up my Bible and started reading out loud the first five 271 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Psalms. 272 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,920 I read five per day. 273 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:17,040 The next thing I recall was all this love being poured into my heart like a whooshing 274 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:18,040 sound. 275 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,260 I was lifted up into heavenly places. 276 00:17:20,260 --> 00:17:23,560 Then out of my spirit came the song, my glory and the lifter of my head. 277 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,480 I sang the song over and over for many days. 278 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,080 The same afternoon of the incident, the Lord said for me to pray for the two men. 279 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,520 I had no anger, resentment toward them. 280 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,440 I told the Lord, first I'll forgive them. 281 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:36,440 And then I prayed. 282 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,080 I have no idea how I prayed, probably in tongues. 283 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,840 Days later, the Lord said, this is how I want you to pray for these two men. 284 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,600 As Jesus said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. 285 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,420 And as Stephen prayed, Father, lay not this sin to their charge. 286 00:17:51,420 --> 00:17:56,000 Every day I prayed for these two men after first meditating on 1st Corinthians 13, 4 287 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:02,080 to 8A from the Amplified, especially verse five that says, I'll take no account of the 288 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:06,820 evil done to me, not to have suffered wrong. 289 00:18:06,820 --> 00:18:12,440 From the beginning, the Lord said, as I would read his word, the word Jesus would heal me. 290 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,400 It was very hard to come back home and be by myself after spending some weeks with family 291 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:22,800 members from the first day I kept prophesying that I would have to go through this twice. 292 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,200 I had to return to my family to get some sleep. 293 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:32,160 During this time, I meditated on fear scriptures, man and gods, and on peace and healing. 294 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,320 I was also praying for the police and special investigators for my case that God would give 295 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,720 them success. 296 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,360 This was done in love. 297 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:43,240 I praise God for the gift of tongues to help me pray during the night hours against the 298 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,100 fear and terror. 299 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:47,660 In September, now remember this happened in June. 300 00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:50,400 In September, the Lord spoke to me through the book of Jonah. 301 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,920 I was no longer to pray that the police would capture these men. 302 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,640 That night was the first night I slept in over three months. 303 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,360 That's real forgiveness. 304 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:04,720 I continued to pray for the two men and their salvation. 305 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,880 On Sunday, October 6th, the Lord said I was no longer to call them my enemies, but my 306 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:10,120 brothers. 307 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:11,480 The burden was lifted. 308 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,080 I believe with all my heart that these two men are now saved. 309 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,320 And isn't that what this is all about, to get people saved? 310 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:19,320 Glory to God. 311 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,760 I can't believe it only took four months to get the victory. 312 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,160 To God be the glory, the lifter of my head. 313 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,160 It's powerful testimony. 314 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,560 It is. 315 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:35,960 And the Lord led her to praise the Lord for allowing her to go through this for His eternal 316 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,380 purposes. 317 00:19:37,380 --> 00:19:39,880 This is how you get over PTSD. 318 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,520 See, she had a trauma. 319 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,480 That was a serious trauma. 320 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:50,800 It affected her for four months, but it didn't continue for years. 321 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:57,800 Some people, like Vietnam vets and World War II vets, they would continually, their whole 322 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:58,800 life. 323 00:19:58,800 --> 00:19:59,800 Right. 324 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,120 Having nightmares and so on. 325 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:04,240 But the difference is the Holy Spirit. 326 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,760 And I believe we need to press in. 327 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:13,400 If you, listener, if you have PTSD, there is hope for you. 328 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,560 You do not have to live with this the rest of your life. 329 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,320 The Holy Spirit will deliver you. 330 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:28,040 Now, a lot of times we learned from our chaplain course that we had some years ago that many 331 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:35,720 of the people who go through some kind of a trauma in the military and they come out 332 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,620 with PTSD, a lot of them were traumatized as children. 333 00:20:40,620 --> 00:20:47,120 If they're already suffering from PTSD from childhood, they're far more likely to have 334 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:50,040 PTSD from something going on in war. 335 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,040 Yeah, it really triggered it because of the severity of it. 336 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,040 Sure. 337 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:56,440 It just increases it. 338 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,320 And that's the way fear operates, you see. 339 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:00,600 That's the way trauma operates. 340 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:09,160 It's all about trying to get us to lose our courage, to lose heart, to become unable to 341 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,320 operate and unable to resist. 342 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:18,520 You know, David, in many of his Psalms would start out, Oh Lord, I've been forsaken of 343 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,440 all these, many, many of his Psalms. 344 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,440 But by the end of the Psalms, he's rejoicing and he's praising God. 345 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,040 I thought that's a real key. 346 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,640 That's why he was so successful. 347 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:30,640 Exactly. 348 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:31,640 Because he had battles. 349 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:32,640 He certainly did. 350 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:33,640 He had mutiny. 351 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,640 Oh yeah. 352 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,400 He had betrayal. 353 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,360 And yet he just praised God. 354 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:40,360 Right. 355 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:47,060 And I love the story of when they came back to Ziklag and found it burned down and their 356 00:21:47,060 --> 00:21:49,560 wives and children had been carried away. 357 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,120 And they're ready to stone him. 358 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:56,360 And his own buddies that he's gone to war with are ready to kill him. 359 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,520 He encouraged himself in the Lord. 360 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:04,040 Now that word courage is a beautiful word. 361 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:10,960 And I don't think we even realize it so much when we just think about it in English, but 362 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:15,320 it really means heart as the seed of emotions. 363 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:22,960 I'm reading from the Atomology Online app that I have. 364 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:29,500 So it also means spirit, temperament, state or frame of mind. 365 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:33,600 From old French courage, heart, innermost feelings, temper. 366 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:39,620 And it goes back to Latin and so on. 367 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:47,040 It means valor, quality of mind which enables one to meet danger and trouble without fear. 368 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,040 That's what courage is. 369 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,620 But my point is it starts at the heart. 370 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:55,880 When your heart, I'm not necessarily talking about your physical heart, but I think your 371 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:00,320 physical heart is affected by your emotional heart. 372 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:07,560 And if we are filling our hearts with the word of God, our hearts are going to help 373 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:13,220 us to overcome just because there's word there. 374 00:23:13,220 --> 00:23:15,780 There's the power of the word. 375 00:23:15,780 --> 00:23:21,780 So this idea of courage, David encouraged himself in the Lord. 376 00:23:21,780 --> 00:23:25,800 So he was getting his heart right before the Lord. 377 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,660 He was getting strength of heart from the Lord. 378 00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:33,400 And that is all about our relationship. 379 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:40,360 That is what keeps us walking towards him, keeps our eyes on him. 380 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,360 And that's what gives us courage. 381 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:48,840 It gives us that fearlessness that makes our adversaries really scared. 382 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Hallelujah. 383 00:23:49,840 --> 00:24:00,800 You know, the fear thing for most people boils down to the fear of death. 384 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:07,880 And Hebrews 2.15, I just always go back to that all the time when we're talking about 385 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:15,120 fear, because it's the fear of death that keeps people in bondage. 386 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:19,880 And the way it reads in the Amplified Classic is, I'll start with verse 14. 387 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:25,180 Since, therefore, these his children share in flesh and blood in the physical nature 388 00:24:25,180 --> 00:24:30,760 of human beings, he himself, talking about Jesus, he himself in a similar manner, part 389 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:37,960 took of the same nature, that by going through death, he might bring to naught and make of 390 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:44,320 no effect him who had the power of death, that is the devil, and also that he might 391 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:51,480 deliver and completely set free all those who through the haunting fear of death were 392 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,720 held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives. 393 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:03,940 How many people have not served God, have not done something that God said to do because 394 00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:05,840 of the fear of death? 395 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,800 They didn't want to take the risk to obey God. 396 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,080 They could see that they could lose their life. 397 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:17,720 Yeah, but you have a saying, you know, you're safer in the will of God in a war zone than 398 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,400 you are going down the highway by your house out of the will of God. 399 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:22,400 True. 400 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,960 Or even in your own bed out of the will of God. 401 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:25,960 Yeah. 402 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,680 A tree can fall on the top of your house and that'd be the end of it. 403 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:36,040 But obeying God is always the safest place to be because even if you do lay your life 404 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,840 down, it's still a win-win situation. 405 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:46,860 You know, I'm reminded of the five missionaries in Ecuador back in the mid-50s that laid down 406 00:25:46,860 --> 00:25:51,560 their life for the local people that they were trying to reach. 407 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,200 I think they're called the Wodani people. 408 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:59,040 In those days, they called them the Alcas, but they found out that that's really a slam 409 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,560 kind of a name for them. 410 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,680 But Jim Elliott was one of those. 411 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:10,560 And there's a quote from him that has always stayed with me from the first time that I 412 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,160 heard it. 413 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:18,320 And he said this, he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he 414 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,320 cannot lose. 415 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,640 Why don't you say that again for everybody? 416 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,840 I think it's good to repeat it. 417 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:30,960 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. 418 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,040 And of course, that goes with Mark 8.35. 419 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:39,500 It says, for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because 420 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:42,760 of me and the gospel will save it. 421 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:49,560 So Jim Elliott and the others, Nate Saint and the others, they gave their lives, but 422 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,280 they got their lives. 423 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:58,160 The eternal rewards for a martyr are out of this world. 424 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,760 And that whole tribe ended up, the son went back. 425 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:03,760 Yeah. 426 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,920 One of the wives went with her children. 427 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:17,600 And the man who actually killed his father became a father to him when he got born again. 428 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,200 He took responsibility for the young man. 429 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,640 He got saved. 430 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:22,640 He got saved. 431 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:31,840 And the story is told, the end of the spear, that we'll put a link to where you can get 432 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:32,840 the book. 433 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,080 I think there's a movie about it as well. 434 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:42,440 But the point is that you can't lose when you obey God. 435 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,960 Even if you lose your life, you're not losing it. 436 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,680 You're gaining it. 437 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,100 You give what you cannot keep to gain what you cannot lose. 438 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:54,520 You can't lose eternal life when you're obeying God. 439 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,280 Yeah, that's very good. 440 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,280 It's beautiful. 441 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,760 It's just so wonderful. 442 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:10,680 And I just want to really, really hammer it home how our fearlessness, a position of fearlessness 443 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:18,760 is not only going to make the devil scared, but it's going to encourage others. 444 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,480 Fearlessness is contagious. 445 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:30,980 And when we stand up with the power of God in a crisis situation, it is going to make 446 00:28:30,980 --> 00:28:33,640 a difference in that situation. 447 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,160 I think a good example of that was 9-11. 448 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:44,920 The two planes flew into the towers and the people that was on the plane that had turned 449 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:50,720 around it was coming back and they start getting calls on their cell phone. 450 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,560 What happened? 451 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,760 And I don't remember the fellow's name. 452 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,880 They wrote a book about him. 453 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:57,880 What did he say? 454 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:58,880 Let's go. 455 00:28:58,880 --> 00:28:59,880 Let's roll. 456 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:00,880 That was it. 457 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:01,880 Let's roll. 458 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:02,880 That's the name of the book. 459 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:08,160 And they took courage because they knew that they were probably going to die, but at least 460 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,840 they wouldn't die crashing into a building, taking a whole lot of other people too. 461 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:13,840 Exactly. 462 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,720 They could have all sat there. 463 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,720 That's what would happen. 464 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,680 You remember the days there was a lot of hijackings? 465 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:24,440 That was before security got what it was and more sophisticated. 466 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,120 And we heard of hijackings that was frequent. 467 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,800 It would happen. 468 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,120 And do people do anything? 469 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,120 No. 470 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,120 They sat there in fear. 471 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,120 Exactly. 472 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,080 Like one person, two persons. 473 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:43,200 But if you had people rise up, and I think that book encouraged a lot of people. 474 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,200 Right. 475 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,200 We can do this. 476 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,200 That's right. 477 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,200 We're not going to sit. 478 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,200 Why sit here until you die? 479 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,200 Right. 480 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,200 Right. 481 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,200 Do something. 482 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,200 Exactly. 483 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,200 That's just what they did. 484 00:29:53,200 --> 00:30:00,040 They all died anyway, but they died not under control of the situation. 485 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,040 Well, they did. 486 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:06,000 They died because of that, but they did something. 487 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,000 Yeah. 488 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,720 And they stopped the terrorists from accomplishing their goal. 489 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:18,760 And that's the point here, that when we stand up, we can stop terror. 490 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:24,980 If we don't let terror have a place in our hearts, we can stand up with courage. 491 00:30:24,980 --> 00:30:27,080 We can stand up with peace. 492 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,440 We can stand up and command shalom into a situation. 493 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,260 A soft answer will turn away wrath. 494 00:30:33,260 --> 00:30:40,400 If you don't let that stress hormone and that adrenaline make you fight or fly, if you will 495 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:49,320 let the Holy Spirit control the situation, it will make a huge, huge difference. 496 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,320 Yeah. 497 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:55,320 I remember when we were talking about Michael Van Vleimen earlier with that demon that was 498 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,720 in his bedroom, Smith Wigglesworth. 499 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:58,720 Oh, yes. 500 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,960 I don't know if he was in bed or... 501 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,960 Yeah, I think he was. 502 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:07,600 He was in bed and all of a sudden the devil or big demon just appears in the room. 503 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,120 And he just looked at him and says, ah, it's you. 504 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,120 It's just you. 505 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:12,120 It's just you. 506 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,520 He rolled back, went back to sleep. 507 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:17,520 We had a time in India. 508 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,360 We were in a hotel room. 509 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:27,200 And then the pictures in the rooms, if you've ever been to India or you go to a Indian restaurant 510 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:32,120 and you'll see pictures on the wall of garden scenes, this or that, and you'll see that 511 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,440 some of the people are blue, they're gods. 512 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,120 That's some kind of a deity of some kind. 513 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,120 Demon. 514 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,080 So we're in our hotel room. 515 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,920 We had a big day. 516 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,200 And I saw that they have one of these in our room. 517 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,160 And I hung the picture upside down. 518 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,160 I just... 519 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,160 Or backwards. 520 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,160 Or backwards. 521 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,160 I thought, nah. 522 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:56,840 And I took it off and I just took it off the wall and I put it in the closet or something. 523 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,440 And I could feel something. 524 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,600 I mean, I made something mad. 525 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:01,600 I remember that. 526 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,760 And Sharon was already asleep, I think, on the way out. 527 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,760 So I just prayed. 528 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,440 I just spoke the blood of Jesus over us and this room, you can't touch us. 529 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,200 And I went to bed and I slept real good. 530 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,480 And I did hang the picture back up when we left the next morning. 531 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,800 You just weren't going to let it influence our stay. 532 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:20,800 That's right. 533 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:21,800 Or our sleep. 534 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:22,800 Yes. 535 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:23,800 And I remember... 536 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:24,960 I don't remember who it was. 537 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,240 I think it might have been Lester Sumrall, but I'm not sure. 538 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:34,520 That there was some missionary anyway that had this demonic entity come into his room 539 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,480 and shake his bed and move the bed over. 540 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,480 Oh, yeah, I remember. 541 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,080 Do you remember who it was? 542 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,040 I don't remember who it was, but he said, you put it back. 543 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,040 Yeah. 544 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,680 First, he commanded the thing to leave. 545 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,840 And then he realized, wait a minute, he moved the bed. 546 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,280 And he commanded the thing to come back and put the bed back where it was. 547 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,280 And it did. 548 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,280 And it did. 549 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,080 There's authority in our relationship with God. 550 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,080 There's authority. 551 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:03,200 As we read the word to get to know the author, as we walk with him, as we talk with him, 552 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,880 we will get this victory. 553 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,640 And it comes from our trust in him. 554 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:15,080 Comes from drilling down into him and letting him just permeate us with his light and his 555 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,080 life and his love. 556 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:26,900 And I just want to close with 2 Corinthians 2 verses 14 to the first part of 16. 557 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:33,800 And it says, But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph as trophies 558 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:42,260 of Christ's victory, and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge 559 00:33:42,260 --> 00:33:44,800 of God everywhere. 560 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:51,520 For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ, which exhales unto God, discernible alike 561 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:56,280 among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 562 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:03,240 To the latter, it is an aroma wafted from death to death, a fatal odor, the smell of 563 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,840 doom. 564 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:12,560 To the former, it is an aroma from life to life, a vital fragrance living and fresh. 565 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:19,680 So when we stand up in our victory, the victory that Jesus paid for, we don't even have to 566 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:21,240 do it. 567 00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:22,240 He did it all. 568 00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:23,400 It's been paid for. 569 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,880 It's been paid for. 570 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:32,440 And when we realize that we can trust in that, you know, the idea of letting go of the stress, 571 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,960 letting go of stress comes from trusting. 572 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,880 When you trust, your whole blood pressure can go down. 573 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:47,920 The fear dissipates as you anchor your soul in trust in the Lord and resting in the Lord 574 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:57,480 and just getting into his presence and letting just the delight of his presence transform 575 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,480 you. 576 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:08,240 It will cause all of the stress to just right away down, all the way down. 577 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:15,140 The stress goes down, the peace returns, and the courage comes to your heart that it does 578 00:35:15,140 --> 00:35:19,480 not matter what your circumstances are. 579 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:26,380 Your Lord, your life, your life giver, your King, your lover of your soul is there with 580 00:35:26,380 --> 00:35:27,380 you. 581 00:35:27,380 --> 00:35:32,440 He is there with you right now, no matter what you've just been through, no matter what 582 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,980 your family members have been through. 583 00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:36,560 You may have been through trauma. 584 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,600 You may have been through PTSD. 585 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,720 You may be suffering from something that has happened. 586 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:49,440 Now, we just declare in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, this is your time for freedom. 587 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,700 This is your time for victory through the victory that Jesus paid for. 588 00:35:54,700 --> 00:36:00,640 He paid for it in the horrible beating and abuse that he took. 589 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,640 Every possible thing that's happened to you happened to him. 590 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,960 Just know that he took it for you. 591 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:13,840 And he will deliver you right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 592 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,160 Just reach out to him. 593 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,280 Inhale of his presence. 594 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:23,160 His presence, the air all around you, the oxygen all around you is his love. 595 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:32,800 Just draw his love into yourself and let all the stress go as you just begin to worship 596 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,240 him. 597 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:35,600 Breathe in of his presence. 598 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:36,600 Breathe out worship. 599 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,000 You don't even have to say anything. 600 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,880 Eventually you'll begin to sing. 601 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,300 You'll begin to praise. 602 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:48,920 You'll begin to give glory as you just, but start with resting in his presence. 603 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,120 Start with trusting in him. 604 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,240 Father, I trust you. 605 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:53,640 Just say, Father, I trust you. 606 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,760 Holy Spirit, I trust you. 607 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,120 I trust you to deliver me from the snare of the fowler, from the noise and pestilence, 608 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,000 all of those things that attack us. 609 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:10,720 In Psalm 91, we declare the power of Psalm 91 over you right now to come and dwell in 610 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:17,140 the secret place of the most high and abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 611 00:37:17,140 --> 00:37:19,440 He is there for you right now. 612 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,280 He is there for you right now. 613 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,120 He is there for you right now. 614 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,880 Receive him. 615 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,580 Receive him. 616 00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:32,240 Receive what you need from him and just keep coming back. 617 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:34,320 Just keep coming back. 618 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:39,920 Every time that the trauma tries to arise again, just keep coming back to the Lord. 619 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:40,920 Just keep coming back. 620 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,920 Just keep. 621 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,160 And every time you come back, it gets easier. 622 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:50,040 Every time you come back, it gets easier until you're able to stay there in his presence. 623 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:56,800 And those things just begin to fall off or roll off like water off of a duck's back. 624 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:02,720 The oil of the anointing of his presence will cause these things to just roll off of you 625 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:05,080 and heal those wounds. 626 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,920 He's there to heal those wounds. 627 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:13,560 We declare healing over the wounds and we declare the grace of God to forgive the people 628 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,560 that have hurt you, the circumstances that have hurt you, the trauma, the accident, whatever 629 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:25,000 it was, the attack, the brutality that has happened to you, the betrayal that has happened 630 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,360 to you. 631 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,640 All of those things just dissipate in the presence of the Lord. 632 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,760 Just start worshiping him. 633 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,240 Just start worshiping him. 634 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,600 Lord, we give you praise. 635 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,320 We give you honor. 636 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,080 We give you glory, Lord, as you're bringing healing to each listener. 637 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,720 Lord, thank you, Father. 638 00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:46,200 We thank you. 639 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,720 We thank you for your glory, Lord. 640 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:50,040 Pour your glory on each one. 641 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,040 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 642 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,040 Amen. 643 00:38:53,040 --> 00:39:05,120 If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate and review this podcast on Apple 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