Hey guys and welcome back to the salt not sweetener
podcast. I'm your host Danielle Townsend and
Today is gonna be a really important message
Something that I can already feel God is going
to move through this message today and honestly
y 'all My sermon this morning at church the message
today that I listened to gave me the encouragement
to speak on this and to share this with y 'all
today now I said in my first ever episode of
the salt not sweetener podcast that this podcast
was titled salt not sweetener and I was pulling
from the scripture where God calls us the salt
of the earth Now remember when I was reading
that scripture he emphasized to me so heavily
I did not call you the sweetener I did not call
you to sugarcoat things I did not call you to
people please I did not call you to tell people
just what sounds good to their ears and what
makes them feel warm and fuzzy I called you to
be the salt of the earth and salt is bitter to
some people just as the truth is bitter just
as there are some people who the truth just offends
and I said in my first episode that the gospel
is offensive the gospel is offensive to people
who are living in their own truth and not in
the truth of the gospel not in the real truth
people who are Listening to the things that are
sweet to their ears people who are listening
to the flesh people who are listening to the
Comforts people who are listening to the desires
of their heart when they hear the truth of the
gospel Which tells you to die to self Which tells
you to serve others to forgive to love in a Christ
like way when it tells you to deny yourself And
I even have that in the description of this podcast
y 'all that when Jesus tells us these things
these aren't sweet to our ears these aren't things
that we want to hear these aren't things that
make our flesh feel good but we know that the
flesh the flesh when we are referring to the
flesh y 'all that we're jumping right in today
the flesh is referring to our innate desires
the desires of the flesh the things that make
us comfortable the things that make us feel good
in the moment the things that please our desires
but the spirit the spirit is things that are
pleasing to christ things are pleasing towards
the lord and we know from reading scripture that
the flesh and the spirit are enemies the things
are of the flesh are not of the spirit the things
are of the spirit are not of the flesh and when
you are leaning into the spirit it requires you
to crucify the flesh we've talked about fasting
before y 'all fasting is denying the flesh I
cannot tell y 'all how many times I had revelation,
I had clarity, I saw moves of God in my life
when I denied the flesh and substituted that
time with the Word of God and truly seeking the
Lord. Scripture says in the book of Jeremiah
it says that when you seek the Lord and you seek
him with all your heart you will find him. And
what our message today was in church, y 'all
the pastor was so heavy on emphasizing our it
is Our role to love one another as Christians
Jesus gave us that commandment right to love
one another as Christ loved you and he emphasized
that it is Love to share the truth of Jesus.
We know that Jesus is the truth the way and the
life He came here to testify to the truth There
is there there is such a big movement going on
and I am someone who fell into it for years of
Embracing your own truth and living in your own
ways y 'all I fell victim to New Age spirituality
and I'm gonna say this I want to say this right
now starting off the podcast New Age spirituality
is a one -way ticket to hell to separation forever
from the Heavenly Father Because new age gratifies
the flesh New age spirituality tells you that
you are a god That you are the one with the power
that you are the creator of your own reality
That you can manifest things that you can do
all these things that you can heal yourself that
you can do all these New age teaches you to rely
on yourself To chase your heart's desire saying
if you want something enough, it'll be yours
If you set your mind on it, if you think on enough
you can create it New Age spirituality teaches
you to worship yourself The devil doesn't have
to get you to worship him. He just has to get
you to worship anything other than God We know
in order to go into eternal life to go into heaven.
Jesus is the only way. And New Age spirituality
teaches you to do in every way apart from Jesus.
That you can be your own savior. That you can
break things down. That you can heal. You can
use crystals. You can use rocks. You can use
meditations. You can use these different mantras.
You can do all those things. You could use divination.
Teaches you just enough shadow work and picking
it apart and enlightenment and spiritual awakenings
and all this stuff That is just a hamster wheel
and there is no actual salvation I'm gonna read
scripture to y 'all in a minute that scripture
tells us and we know that Jesus came here to
testify to the truth He is the truth and the
Word of God is truth And someone listening to
this podcast needs to hear today that new age,
those new age beliefs, those beliefs in self,
that following your heart and following what
feels right is going to lead you straight to
hell. I'm also here today to tell you as living
proof that you can repent. And you can be moved
by the word of God put your faith in Jesus Christ
and see How Jesus can move in your life I believe
that I am saved y 'all. I believe that I am covered
in the blood of Jesus I have seen way too many
transformations in myself that I thought to be
impossible through Jesus Christ to not believe
I have seen way too many moves of God in my life
to not believe And I am here to tell y 'all today
as someone who used to fall into people -pleasing
and called that love Who used to fall into telling
people what they wanted to hear and just doing
what people wanted to do and said that that's
The most loving thing I could do because I'm
not offending anybody I'm not hurting anybody
when I took my feelings and took them as truth
When I listen to all these other things y 'all
when I was in new age spirituality, I believed
I Believed in all these relative truths Right.
I believe that like maybe it's just a mishmash
of everything in New Age spirituality It was
a mishmash of Christianity Hinduism Buddhism
Satanism like this witchcraft New Age spirituality
is just a pot full of All of these different
ideals and you just take what sounds right to
you and what feels right to you and you call
it truth But that is not true And I am here today
to testify of how when I started walking by the
spirit and denying the flesh, I saw actual healing.
I saw restoration. I saw protection. From the
devil from the demonic forces that I have never
seen before in my life I was trying to do spiritual
warfare from a new age perspective when I was
facing spiritual warfare in new age I was trying
to protect myself of mantras and with cleansings
and with crystals and with all these things and
incense and all this crap and I was wondering
why is none of this like working like I feel
like it should and Then I experienced spiritual
warfare after being Covered in the blood of Jesus
and I saw weapons forming against me. Not only
were they not prospering but I saw The enemy
getting caught in the traps that he laid out
for me I saw God using all of these weapons forming
against me for my good I saw protection from
being covered in the blood that you cannot be
covered in anywhere else No, I was watching a
video the other day on tik -tok and it was this
it was someone interviewing this witch this which
was saying that there's a small group of people
that Witchcraft can't touch and it's people who
are living in their truth and people who are
embracing their truth and You know there was
someone who duetted that video and said, you
know, she she is not having the full She really
tried to emphasize. She's like I'm not saying
Christians I'm just saying anybody who believes
in their higher power and You know this this
person was very quick to say she's referring
to being covered in the blood of Jesus but she
has it twisted and there are people in the comments
saying see you know that this doesn't mean Christians
like it's just if you really walk in your truth
there's a protection no I'm here to tell y 'all
no that is not what scripture says Jesus is the
only way Jesus is the way, the truth, the life,
the authority that we have to trample on serpents
and scorpions. The no weapon formed against us
that shall prosper comes through our faith and
being covered in the blood of who? Jesus. I'm
here to tell y 'all, when I was a new age, I
truly believed in my truth. I believed in who
I was. I believed in what I was doing. I had...
What I don't I believed at the time to be a troop
and I was not protected I know so many other
people who the weapons Were forming and appear
to be prospering the only true protection is
through being covered in the blood of Jesus and
walking in that authority And that comes through
confessing Jesus as Lord Putting your faith in
him with your words and with your heart you can
call yourself a Christian and go to church and
all these things and not actually believe in
who Jesus Christ is and not actually have the
faith and his ability to Protect you and to pay
the debt for your sins You can confess it with
your mouth and not have your faith in the heart.
I know because I did it growing up in the church
I know because I did it and I saw the weapons
forming, and they appeared to prosper for a while.
I've said this in episodes before, y 'all. You
can't one foot in and one foot out. God doesn't
do lukewarm. And you can't put one foot in and
one foot out and expect the 100 % of His promises
when you're giving like 50 % submission. He said,
no weapons that formed against you shall prosper.
Right? But when you're not submitting to Him,
when you're having all these open doors to the
devil, when you're participating in divination
and horoscopes and witchcraft and lies and slandering
and wicked works and then other areas trying
to hand that over to God, how can you 50 % invest,
have all these open doors where you're giving
the devil access to your life and be mad that
you're not seeing 100 % of God's promises fulfilled?
When you're not giving the hundred percent I'm
speaking to y 'all from experience today, and
if you feel convicted good You need to I needed
to I wish someone spoke to me this way But that
path that you're going down With putting faith
in yourself and your truth and your desires taking
your feelings as truth We know scripture tells
us that the heart is deceptive. So when you're
putting your faith in your heart and what you
believe to be true at that time That is a one
-way ticket to separation And the flesh doesn't
care about eternity the flesh thinks about here
and now what makes me feel good right now What
do I want five minutes from now? What do I want
in this lifetime? The flesh isn't thinking about
your eternal destination where you're going to
be Forever and i'm here to tell y 'all you think
you know what life is like without god because
you're rejecting him right now. You don't Everything
good on this earth is because of god The breath
in your lungs is because of god the sun coming
up is because of god The love that you experience
is because of God the lowercase G God of this
world the devil Satan everything Evil and wicked
comes out of him the things that you're angry
at God about the thing that addictions that you're
angry about The negative things that you've experienced
the hatred from other people the jealousy from
other people the animosity from other people
amen All of those things came from the devil.
He is the one who brings about these things.
He is the father of lies, of wickedness, of evil.
He only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. These
things that you're angry at God about, you should
be angry at Satan about. then turning away from
God and rejecting his goodness you're welcoming
these things from the devil that sure feel good
to your flesh for five minutes but he's the one
running amok and it took me so long to understand
this I was so y 'all for so long mad at God of
God why'd you let addiction happen in my life
why'd you let people hurt me this way why'd you
let all these other things happen But when I
look back, I also wasn't walking in submission
to God. I wasn't fully putting my faith in Him.
I wasn't seeking Him with all my heart. I wasn't
trusting Him. I was still trying to control things.
I was still opening all these other doors to
the devil. And when I finally got right with
God, He revealed me. He's like, You had all of
these other, you were confessing Jesus with your
mouth, but in all these other areas, you were
welcoming the devil to come in and take root
and wreak havoc in your life. How can you be
mad that I didn't protect you when you aren't
following any of the commandments that I give
you to be protected? And that's not saying that
walking in submission, bad things will happen
because we do live in a fallen world. But I wasn't
even doing my part in the first place. There
were a lot of things that I allowed in my life
that I did not have to allow in my life that
came through my disobedience. And when I started
living a life submitted to the Lord and there
were still weapons forming, the enemy was still
coming at me. But I saw God starting to use those
things for my good. Even though there was a painful
season when I came out on the other side, there
was a harvest to reap. There was blessing. I
saw how these things were lessons and not just
pain. God actually used them. You know, my whole
life where I felt like there was injustice and
all this pain and all this suffering, once I
was walking in submission to God and trusting
it to him, I saw how those things, although the
weapons were forming, I saw how they turned around.
I saw how Satan fell into his own traps. I saw
how God protected me from things. When I listened
to him tell me, no, don't go there. Don't hang
out with those people. Don't participate in that
thing. Stay here. Read the word. Pray to me.
And then later on I hear what went down. later
on I saw what happened later on that person things
were revealed that I wasn't seeing and I was
like wow I'm I'm glad I listened to God because
if I didn't I would have walked in that situation
got really hurt harmed damaged delayed blocked
for so long y 'all I was saying God just doesn't
want us to have fun he's given us all these rules
because he doesn't want us to have fun that is
not true Satan paints these sins as fun, but
they are bondage. Because once that becomes a
cycle, once that becomes a routine, it is so
hard to break it off of you. Once drinking and
smoking to deal with your emotions, to make you
bold or brave becomes a routine, it's really
hard to do it apart from that thing, right? Addictions
form mental, emotional, physical. When you get
used to exposing your body and that's how you
feel good about yourself. When you start to try
to dress modestly or cover up, you don't feel
good. You don't feel right. You feel like a grandma.
You feel like this. All of a sudden you're insecure.
When you're used to all the worldly ways of you
feeling good about yourself, you can't break
them off. Sin feels good until you try to leave.
The people who are in witchcraft, the people
who are in divination, It feels fun. It feels
like control. It feels like power until you try
to walk away. When you try to come out of those
agreements you came into. And all of a sudden,
you feel bound. All of a sudden, the enemy is
pulling you back in, is reeling you back in.
All of a sudden, you feel like you can't think
without divination. All of a sudden, there's
panic and there's worry and there's anxiety.
Y 'all, when I left New Age, I had to have such
heavy deliverance. I didn't realize how many
demonic agreements I came into. there are so
many people who want to leave but feel like they
can't because they believe the lie of Satan that
now they're Satan's that they're forever stuck
in these agreements that they're forever stuck
in these bondages you're not you can break free
Jesus broke me free but you have to believe in
his ability to break you free and you have to
continue to put your faith in Jesus over what
the enemy is saying and what the enemy is telling
you but there are so many people Who are stuck
in that there's so many people who don't believe
that Jesus has the power he does That believes
Satan to be the ultimate authority wickedness
evil and darkness and that is not true when you're
covered in the blood of Jesus You have the authority
to stop that out and to rebuke it But that authority
Comes through following Jesus truly with your
heart I saw y 'all when I was in new age people
who were witches trying to use Psalms and Proverbs
to curse and hex and I saw that backfire zero
to 100 real quick It is in the book of John where
Jesus Jesus makes it clear that there are children
of God There are sons of God and their sons of
the devil We are all God's creation. But the
people who are God's children are the people
who are doers of good, are the people who are
submitted to God. And the people who are children
of the devil, the people who are children of
darkness are the people who reject God's ways.
And we know that Satan masquerades as the angel
of light. There are people who think that they
are really good and all their works are good.
But when you look at the root, They're pointing
to separation. They're pointing to desires of
the flesh. And they're actually workers of evil.
They're people who feel like they're very, very
good people who are actually sons of the devil.
I was one of them. I thought in new age, well,
I'm trying to help people and give them new coping
mechanisms. And I don't try to purposely hurt
people and do all this and telling people what
they want to hear and like, you know, trying
to make them feel good about themselves and all
this, all these things. And I realized later
on, I was pointing them away from Jesus. I was
pointing them towards themselves. I was pointing
them towards fleshly desires. So even though
what I was saying sounded good to the ears, and
even though I felt like I had good intentions
for these people. I was a worker of iniquity.
I was a worker for the devil. I was a worker
of wickedness. I was a child of the devil. And
when I gave my life to Christ, I started walking
in his ways, and I started looking like him,
I was a child of God. I'm going to read some
scripture to y 'all. We have Romans chapter 8,
and this is the CSB. Therefore, There is now
no condemnation in Christ Jesus because the law
of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus Has set
you free from the law of sin and death for what
the law could not do since it was weakened by
the flesh God did He condemned sin in the flesh
by sending his own son and the likeness of sinful
flesh as a sin offering Order that the laws requirement
would be fulfilled and us who do not walk according
to the flesh but according to the spirit I want
to pause this right here y 'all As I said in
the beginning of this podcast episode the only
way into heaven is Jesus Christ That's because
every single one of us has committed already
way too many sins To go to heaven We we are not
eligible to be in the eternal presence of God
Every single one of us and I've said in a previous
podcast episode and reading the book of Ephesians
that we are saved By faith through grace like
our faith in Jesus Christ given to us by the
grace of God is What gives us the ability to
go into heaven because every single one of us
was sinful? God sent Jesus Christ down Jesus
Christ was here. He was tempted, but he was not
sinful and his spilling the blood on the cross.
Was the payment for our sins so when we put our
faith in him not just confessing him as Lord
with our mouth but with our hearts and believe
in what he did and we believe that he was risen
from the dead and we believe that he ascended
into heaven and we believe that he is going to
come back and establish the new like we're gonna
have eternal life with him and he's gonna come
back and Wickedness has already been defeated
when Jesus Christ went to the cross. He already
the few wickedness We already know from reading
the book of Revelation that one day Satan is
going to be like total So the people right now
who are children of darkness, the people right
now who are serving the devil, who are serving
witchcraft, any of that, there is no winning
battle here. They are already on the losing team.
It has already been spoken. It has already been
prophesied. Jesus has already said it. When we
read the Bible, we already know what is going
to happen. We already know that Satan is going
to be bound. We already know that he's going
to be destroyed We already know that one day
every knee will bow It's not a matter of if it's
a matter of when So everyone who is a worker
of evil worker of iniquity a child of the devil
is gonna follow him into the pit of hell and
That wasn't God's intent for us. God created
held not for us But for Satan and for the fallen
angels And Satan is around tempting us away from
God and to follow him. And for some people they
outwardly worship Satan, but for other people
they worship themselves, their emotions, their
thoughts, their feelings. And because they're
not worshiping God, they're worshiping self.
That is the separation. And we choose, I want
to be so clear with this, we choose in this lifetime
if we want eternity with the Heavenly Father
or separation. And that is do we put our faith
in Jesus Christ? Do we confess him with our mouths
and with our heart and once you have your faith
in him You and you're walking with him your life
start to look different We talked about that
in the last episode of works and where works
fit in You cannot encounter Jesus believe in
Jesus and not actually be changed You don't go
to heaven because you're a good person you go
to heaven because of your faith in Jesus Because
when you put your faith in Him, His blood covers
you and pays your basically admission fee. It
pays your debt. And when you go before the Heavenly
Father, Jesus is able to intercede on your behalf
and say, this one had their faith in me, they're
covered. It is through Jesus. I'm going to move
forward here. For those who live according to
the flesh, have their minds set on things of
the flesh. But those who live according to the
Spirit, have their mind set on things of the
spirit. Now the mindset of the flesh is death,
but the mindset of the spirit is life and peace.
How we talked about, y 'all, that the works of
the flesh lead to death. Death here is spiritual
death, eternal separation from God. And I said
this earlier in the podcast, For those who have
spent their lives rejecting God, you don't know
a life truly without God. A life truly without
God is the absence of all the good things in
this world. You think you know a life without
God, you do not. You think you know a life without
goodness, you do not. Every good thing that you
have experienced in your life is from God, and
that's who you thank for it. And when you have
eternal separation, you do not have that goodness.
You don't. And the works of the flesh, the your
truth, your thoughts, your understanding, your
temporary hearts desires, what you want, the
inclinations of the flesh, that is where it will
leave you, is to eternal separation. Is where
you go before, because every single one of us
is gonna have to go before God when we die. And
that is when you'll hear, You worker of iniquity,
I never knew you. Depart from me for I never
knew you. The people who confess with their lips
but not with their heart, who outwardly confess
that they believe but they didn't have in their
heart that they believed, they didn't truly accept
Jesus Christ, that works of the flesh, that is
where you're led. Now we know that the works
of the spirit what leads now I want to be so
clear that works do not buy your way into heaven
we know that from reading Ephesians so that way
no one may boast but your works are a sign of
what Jesus is doing in you eternally internally
your external is a sign of what's happening internal
you cannot believe in Christ and be walking with
him and not experience changes We'll go we can
go further to read in the book of Romans that
or this is actually in the book of John Sorry
that those who love the Lord are going to live
like the Lord When you love Christ you start
to live like And the world especially our generation
has this painted up a version of love That isn't
the same as Christ like love I've talked about
this in previous episodes y 'all that for the
longest time I thought I was showing love to
other people and then once I truly experienced
the love of Jesus I realized that the love I
was giving to other people wasn't actual love
because it wasn't leading them back to Jesus.
It wasn't truth -based I Thought love was making
other people just feel comfortable and making
other people feel good about themselves and not
willing to cause a stir Or anything like that
and I look back and I realized like no that was
not love That was comfortability. That was me
keeping other people comfortable. That was me
keeping myself comfortable, avoiding conflict,
avoiding dramatic things, telling people what
they want to hear, but that wasn't Christ -like
love, because Christ -like love is rooted in
truth. And I'm speaking so passionately with
y 'all about this today. because I know what
it's like to need to hear this and I wish I heard
it and had ears to hear the way that I'm saying
it to y 'all now because I truly believe that
what I was doing when I was in new age when I
was listening to my truth and my da -da -da -da
-da was the best way and glory be to God I had
He gave me eyes to see and ears to hear when
I started seeking him with all my heart I want
to tell you all this I had the most hardened
heart You know before I started seeking the Lord
someone probably could have said all these things
to me and I would have just seen them as Judgmental
and I would have just closed out whatever they
had to say and move forward But it was when I
started reading my Bible started praying to God
and started slowly submitting and surrendering
things that I started to be humbled and I started
the scab started to fall off of my eyes and ears
and I could start to see things in a different
way I was open to my truth not being the truth
and once I was open to that I was able to accept
the truth Jesus Christ and y 'all I I didn't
want to like for the longest time in all honesty
I didn't want I feel like when we experience
testimonies in our lives and transformations
things that God pulled us out of that ends up
being a community or a group of people that were
able to relate to and speak to and for a long
time I was like To be so real with y 'all. I
was telling God. I don't want to speak to the
New Age community I don't want to speak to the
witches. I don't want to speak to the diviners
I don't want it like that's I don't want that
to be my one of my target audiences Because I
noticed so many of them I'm just judge I just
sound judgmental and ignorant and close -minded
and all these things and like There were some
that had real we're not afraid to do evil things
Y 'all when I was in New Age, I I met some people
Okay, who were not afraid to make legit deals
with demons to spill blood To sacra like I there
are some people who there there are no bounds.
There are none of that and I was like God I don't
want to I don't want to Directly talk to these
people. I don't want the drama that's gonna come
along with it. That was honestly Where I was
rooted in for so long. I was like, I don't want
to be attached to that group I don't want that.
I have a new I'm a new creation in Christ. Can
I like let that go? Dealt with you know substance.
Can I talk to those people in the Lord? Yes,
you can talk to those people I've dealt I've
dealt with and security I've dealt with a modesty
can't talk to those people and God has used me
to talk to those people too But he has really
showed me you need to talk to the people who
are living in their own truth You need to talk
to the people who are embracing new age. You
need to talk to the people who are embracing
witchcraft I'm telling y 'all today. Stop putting
your faith in those angel numbers There are so
many people who hear because they're called angel
numbers. I know people who are trying to follow
the Lord, but are also looking at angel numbers
for confirmation. No, I'm not saying that God
can't use numbers to catch your attention. I'm
not saying because I never want to put God into
a box. But repetitive numbers, number patterns
should not be Soul alone a confirmation or me
y 'all when I was in New Age spirituality when
I would see like One one one I would think oh
well This is a new beginning or when I'd be thinking
a thought and I would look and see like angel
numbers I would think of confirmation Yep, this
is true. Put my faith in this believe in this
and I started thinking I was like how many times
I write this down the devil sees this too How
many times like once I started putting my faith
in the Lord I started thinking of the things
that when I would see angel numbers I would think
confirmation or this is a good sign or this is
a thing and then when I would hold it up to scripture
I'm like wait scripture tells me the exact opposite
like I'd be looking at like I'd be thinking about
a person I was into For a time right and then
some angel numbers 11 11 will pop up and I'll
be like oh well I'm thinking about them and everything
and these numbers are popping up this must be
my person and Then when I hold up to scripture
And I'm thinking of that person, the quality
is that person of like, just saying like, what
is love? Love is patient, love is kind, love
is not boastful. And the person I'm thinking
about is impatient, unkind, very boastful, leads
me to lust, one to lead me to the bedroom and
all these things. And it's like, huh, the angel
numbers are telling me this is a good thing.
But when I hold up to scripture, this is everything
God says not to participate in. This is everything
God tells me to stay away from. I'm not saying
that God cannot use Something like that to catch
your attention But I am saying that you should
have you should be testing things with the word
you should be taking things to God a New age
has really gotten people to put their faith in
anything outside of God to meditate with crystals
and that'll heal you to Put crystals on your
body now cleanse you from negative energy and
protect you and all this stuff to veil to incense,
to do all of these things. New age really gets
people in like doing offerings and whether or
not they realize that new age is actually really,
really works based, right? And I've spoken on
this before, y 'all, that new age actually is
like hell for someone who has control problems,
anxiety, like anything like that, because at
first it looks like a dream. Right if you're
if you're someone who feels like you have no
control over you're just looking for a sense
of control and you're just like Looking for empowerment
like new age actually seems like the perfect
thing That's why a lot of people get into new
age a lot of people get into witchcraft Because
it feels like empowering it feels like you can
take control It feels like you can deal justice
or like you you can have some inside knowledge
and all these things but When you subscribe to
an ideal that becomes you are your own savior,
you are your own creator, you are all these things,
guess what? When it starts inevitably going bad,
when you inevitably see that you're on a hamster
wheel of just going round and round and round
and round and round. When you keep going through
all the they call it shadow work in new age and
realize that there's just more and more and like
you keep going back to the same thing Eventually
You're the one to blame you and that is hell
for someone like y 'all for me when I it started
off for me like the most empowering thing of
like oh I can manifest this and I can create
this and I can do all this and then all of a
sudden when I was putting in all these works,
I was doing all these meditations, I was doing
all these mantras, I was doing all these things
and things still kept going downhill. Weapons
forming still appeared to prosper. I kept seeing
things slipping through this happening that happening
my mental health, you know things I thought were
healed Revealed to me they were not healed and
they were just manifesting in another area all
these things I started to be the one solely to
blame too It became a real works whereas like
maybe I'm just not working hard enough Maybe
I'm just not maybe I seem to work more and I
need to do this more and I need to do that more
they end up turning into like a Workspace thing
of just not good enough And for someone who already
has like a control thing that actually turns
from empowerment into like hell Because when
we read the gospel we know the truth that we
are not our own Savior Jesus is our Savior That
we cannot do anything apart from him He is the
vine his father the vine dresser. We are merely
the branches everything good comes from him He
is the living well We're supposed to be coming
to him daily for our daily bread Those beliefs
I was subscribing to were very anti scripture
Very anti scripture very anti truth no matter
how good They felt to the ears And that's a real
thing that you have to be so watchful for that
new age has gotten really good with y 'all is
it takes relative truths That's what manifestation
is in itself is a relative truth Like it takes
a little bit of biblical truth, but it puts its
own spin on it. I've said in many episodes that
the devil is great with deception and the difference
between an out like just lie and deception is
deception has some kind of truth in it. It's
a lot easier to believe something when there's
a little bit of truth that you can verify. We
know that scripture says that power lies in the
tongue, right? That you can be speaking death
and that you can be speaking life. we know that
scripture says like whatever you ask for and
faith will be given to you and what does new
age say new age starts to say well you're the
creator and Whatever you think if you think about
it enough if you envision it enough and you believe
it enough It'll happen and that you could you
know I truly believed y 'all when I was in New
Age that everything around me was the result
of what I was speaking. That if I spoke enough
life and positivity, I would see life. And if
I just spoke enough death, I would start seeing
death. And when bad things were happening, maybe
I was just speaking too much. I was coming into
too much agreement. And I felt like those things,
because of like my memory of some things I had
heard in scripture, like it felt believable enough
to me. New Age took... the truth of God and put
its own wicked spin on it. Now I know that whatever
I ask for in prayer, if it is in God's will,
if it aligns with His will, if I'm praying to
God like, God give me this wicked thing, this
sinful thing, He's not going to give that to
me. If I'm asking Him for something that aligns
with His will for my life, that aligns with Scripture,
asking you shall receive. there's so many people
led astray right now by relative truths and There
is this idea that is coming after so many people
that you can just decide what is true and what
isn't true That was what got me a new age y 'all
But Jesus came here to testify like that. That's
not it. Jesus came here to testify to the truth.
He was the truth And when you read The word of
God I want to be very clear y 'all the Bible
is the word of God There are people who say well
it was men who wrote the book men wrote the book,
but God was moving through them everything I'm
holding up this Bible right now is God inspired
everything in here is a testament to God's character
So when I read it doesn't matter that a man wrote
it with his hand every word that I'm reading
in this Bible I know is the word of God and Every
word in this Bible I take as truth over what
I think over what I feel over what the world
around me tries to say and I would tell y 'all
right now when I started living my life that
way I saw breakthroughs. I never saw before in
my life. I saw protection. I've never seen before
in my life I had clarity, understanding that
I'd never seen before in my life. I had things
broken off of me that I never thought were gonna
be broken off of me. Y 'all, I was told that
I was gonna have to live with, I rarely spoke
about this, but there was a supernatural healing
that the Lord did in me. I was told when I was
14, I had epilepsy and I would have to live with
that for the rest of my life. When I put my faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ and gave my life to
Him, I felt, I knew He made a promise to me that
He was gonna break that off of me. That I was
no longer going to have that disorder and he
broke that off with me glory be to God medication
free I Was told I was gonna have to deal with
my depression my anxiety my PTSD my eating disorder
for the rest of my life I saw so many counselors
throughout my young adult years and my early
preteen teenagers And I saw it was gonna be something
I was gonna have to medicate and have to deal
with I was told I was too self -aware And that
there really wasn't much they could do for me.
And the Lord broke those things off of me. He
delivered me. The lust that I used to subscribe
to and I thought, well, I'm just going to be
a lustful person. Broken off of me. The addiction,
addicted to nicotine for over 10 years I thought
was never going to be broken off. Broken off
of me. There were relationships, familial relationships
I had that were never good, from as young as
I could remember. I went no contact with those
people for years and thought I was never going
to get that back And it was never going to be
healthy. We could never move on. God proved me
wrong Restored those relationships and made them
healthier than they had ever been before when
they were Christ -centered Restored my reputation
Restored my finances restore. I'm telling y 'all
today that I am a living testimony And it was
not my own works. It was me submitting to God
and it was God working through my submission
I'm here today to tell you as a living breathing
testimony and y 'all i'm only a year a little
over a year in I've only been walking submitted
for a little over a year check back in in five
years Check back in in 10 years. I'm still going
through sanctification right now and he's already
done this much And i'm not saying this from a
boastful place. I'm saying this from look at
me If I could move from what I was doing in my
life and be where I am just a little over a year
in, He can do that for you too. It's not that
I said some special prayer or that I'm perfect
or that I'm just some kind of special. God made
that very clear to me when I was giving my life
to Him. He said, I'm going to restore you and
I'm going to use you as a testimony to other
people. Your life is going to be glorifying me.
People are gonna see your glory people are gonna
see my glory through the way that you live your
life God told me that my life and my testimony
what he did was gonna glorify him that people
are gonna see him through me and That wasn't
because I was so extra special or perfect or
deserving or all these things because I said
special prayers or did special works But was
through my surrender and my obedience to him.
He could do anything So I'm telling y 'all that
because it is possible for you to I don't care
how long you've been in new age I don't care
how long you've been a witch I don't care how
long you've been in divination. I don't care
how long you've been in lust I don't care how
long you've been fornicating. I don't care how
long you've been in active lying deceiving Lustful,
I don't care if you're exactly like Jezebel right
now if you humble your heart seek him with all
your heart Watch what he can do in your life.
There is no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus. I just read that scripture to y
'all. Meaning, it doesn't matter what you have
done in your past. When you are covered in the
blood of Jesus, when you go before the Heavenly
Father, he's gonna be able, Jesus is gonna be
able to step in and say, they're covered. Cover
them. I'm telling y 'all today that the first
step is just seeking him with all your heart.
Start reading scripture. Start praying to God
for understanding. Start praying that he changes
your heart. Be open. Humble yourself. Fast. Someone
needs to hear that today. That was the quickest
way for the Lord to break down. When I was seeking
him, I was also going through intermittent fasting.
Denying my flesh. Start trying to deny the flesh.
God says, don't divine. Quit going to the terror
readers. Quit going to the zodiacs. When you
have a question, pray to God. Ask that he reveals
it to you and actually listen. He's been convicting
you about fornicating. Stop calling up that person
that you go and hook up with. Get off the dating
apps. Start praying that he helps you to flee
temptation. Start praying that God gives you
the strength. Start praying that you lean on
his own strength. I love you guys and that is
why I'm sharing this with you and that is honestly
I'm speaking with this authority I have today
because I know from experience y 'all that if
you are actively living in all these sins you
need to hear this with an authoritative voice
you need to hear the truth of God today I'm saying
it like this because I love you You know it hits
so hard today where my pastor said in today's
sermon that the enemy isn't people The enemy
is Satan the enemy is the devil and we're not
fighting against each other. We're fighting for
each other Yo, I'm gonna be praying after this
podcast for every single one of you who is listening
to stay I feel that conviction heavily on my
heart. I Am gonna be praying for you And I'm
going to be praying that the scabs fall off your
eyes and off your ears. I'm going to be praying
that you have a radical change in your heart
too. I'm going to be fighting for you in prayer,
not against you. We need to be separating the
spirit from the person, y 'all. This is not a
battle of flesh and blood. This is a battle of
principalities. We're dealing with the lies of
the enemy. We're dealing with the deception of
the enemy. We're dealing with the temptation
of the enemy Who's saying things that are very
pleasing to the flesh I'll make this so clear
You are not my enemy Whoever is listening to
us today that is also submitted to Christ. Those
people are not your enemy You need to be praying
for them fighting for them not fighting with
them, not fighting against them. I have seen
what prayer can do. I have seen people deliver.
I have seen people who are so sure about moving
one way and defending a sin. And after taking
them to the Lord in intercessory prayer, I have
seen them humbled and not part broken down. I
have seen them glorify God. and change their
ways. It is possible. Y 'all, I have recently
been on one of these podcasts I love to watch,
Ryan Miller. He had a guest on a couple of times
who was at one time the leader of the satanic
temple in a part of Africa. I believe it was
South Africa. Who at one point was trying to
curse Christians. was actively going against
he had radical shifts he had radical revelations
and transformations gave his life to christ and
he is now being used as a vessel for the lord
fighting for the kingdom of heaven instead of
the kingdom of darkness it is possible for you
the blood i want to be so clear with this the
blood of jesus conquers any demonic agreement
you have come into The blood of Jesus can free
you from any of that any kind of other kind of
covenants You came into spiritual covenants demonic
covenants, okay? Someone needs to hear that today
because I knew that that was amen one of the
biggest lies I kept hearing going around when
I was in New Age because when I was in New Age
y 'all I was socializing with all of the occultic
witchcraft wiccans like Satanists like all of
these different and there was like a rounding
belief with all them that they didn't believe
in Jesus or the blood of Jesus like that all
encompassing protection they gave more authority
to satan and wickedness and darkness and they
really believe that like you could actually like
sell your soul like like they believe and what
i mean by that is that when you came into this
demonic agreement or whatever like You've sold
your eternal life to like okay, you're spending
it with the devil or spending it with whoever
and you can't give your life to Christ There
are people who believe like 20 years old 30 40
50 60. Well, I made this agreement I made this
path this covenant whatever it doesn't matter
if I try to give my life to Jesus That is a lie
straight from the pit of hell Jesus can break
it off of you. He has the authority Satan does
not And you need to believe that. I believe that
God is going to move through this episode today.
I believe that there's someone who's going to
be delivered. There is someone who is going to
be freed. There is someone who needed to hear
something that I said in this podcast today in
the authoritative way I've said it. And I just
want to right now speak over all of you. I rebuke
the lies of the enemy I rebuke the lies that
you have believed That have kept you chained
up for this long and in Jesus name. I pray that
you are freed I pray that you are delivered.
I pray that you surrender your life to Christ
I pray that you believe that he is the way he
is the truth. He is the life I pray that He radically
transforms your heart. I pray that your heart
is humbled, that your heart is softened, and
that you hear the Word of God, and that you become
good fertile soil where the Word can take root
and sprout and grow. And I pray that you are
no longer a child of the devil, but you are a
child of God. In Jesus' name. I pray that you
are a champion for the Lord, that you become
a living testimony and that you do things to
further the kingdom of heaven and bring other
people closer to Christ. Amen. I pray that you
deny the flesh and submit your will to him and
that you love Christ as Christ loved you and
that you love one another as Christ loved you.
Amen. I plead the blood of Jesus over your life
today. I plead the blood of Jesus over your mind.
I plead the blood of Jesus over your spirit.
I plead the blood of Jesus over your heart. I
plead the blood of Jesus over your friendships,
over your connections, over your family, over
your relationship. I plead the blood of Jesus
over you, and I pray that you read the Word of
God, that you know the Word of God, and that
you put on the armor of God, and that you too
know the authority and can stomp out the devil
and that you truly know and believe that when
you are covered in the blood of Christ you are
on the winning team because Jesus has already
secured victory when he went to the cross he
already defeated death and defeated the devil
it's not if it's when and I pray that you believe
in that and I pray that you are filled with love
right now like God's love just wraps around you
that you have a peace that surpasses all understanding
from putting your faith in Christ Jesus. And
you see that there is a rest that you cannot
find in the world, that there is a love that
you find in Jesus that you cannot find in the
world, that there is a fulfillment that you find
in Jesus that you cannot find in the world. That
is what Jesus gives us, is he gives us a peace
and a rest that surpasses all understanding that
we can find nowhere else. And I pray that you
see that it is not by your works, but it is by
your faith and that you are freed today from
the lies of the devil, from the lies of the enemy.
Amen. In the name of Jesus, I pray this over
your life. And in the name of Jesus, I declare
that today is a new day for you and that you
will be a new creation in Christ. that the Lord
can use you and he will use everything from your
past as a testimony and that all of these things
work out for your good we know this from Romans
chapter 8 verse 28 we know that all things work
together for the good of those who love God who
are called according to his purpose when you
are walking in God's purpose when you are serving
the spirit instead of serving the flesh When
you are obeying him instead of obeying the world
instead of obeying yourself instead of obeying
the truth You will see how God will use every
weapon forming against you for your good You
will see how every plot scheme trap of the enemy
will be used to glorify God and to better you
in some way I'm not saying it's always gonna
feel good We know Romans chapter 8 verse 18 for
I consider that the sufferings of this present
time are not worth Comparting with the glory
that is going to be revealed to us there is suffering
as followers of Christ But it is going to work
for our good. We know that we will be rewarded
in heaven There is a seat for us at the right
hand of the Heavenly Father, okay? And I pray
that you have faith and belief in that today
in Jesus name Thank you all so much for listening
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encourage you today to pray to god that he softens
your heart And that you see a move of god in
your life and in your spirit I challenge you
today, pray that God changes your heart to match
the desires that he has for your life. That was
a prayer I prayed time and time again when I
truly believed that God had good intentions for
me and good plans for me and I truly started
believing that his will is what's best for me
not mine. I start praying, God make my heart
match your heart. I want my desires to align
with what you will for my life. I want to be
able to walk and step with you. I want my desires,
my inclinations, my goals, my dreams, my aspirations
to align with your word and your will. Take out
from my heart and from my desires what's not
from you and replace it with desires that align.
Make my heart match your will for my life, Lord.
I encourage y 'all, start praying that to him.
Start praying that you are not comfortable in
spaces that he does not want you to be in. Pray
that you don't find peace and you don't find
rest in places that he has not willed for you
to be in. Pray that friendships, relationships,
you don't find peace, you don't find comfort
in connections that the Lord has not led you
to be in, does not want you to be in. Pray that
environments work spaces places like that places
that pray that you do not find peace and comfortability
instability and places that he does not desire
for you to be rooted in to be placed in and Start
submitting to that when you see him closing doors
because his he will answer your prayer through
closing doors submit to that Don't watch him
close a door and try to yank it open anyway Trust
that he is closing that door and he is going
to open a new one up and start walking towards
what he is guiding you to amen Amen Submit to
his will and watch how your life changes. I love
y 'all. God bless