WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:05.519 Hey guys and welcome back to the salt not sweetener 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:09.439 podcast. I'm your host Danielle Townsend I hope 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:15.019 everyone Has had a wonderful week. I hope you're 00:00:15.019 --> 00:00:18.699 enjoying The fall weather the winter weather 00:00:18.699 --> 00:00:20.699 if that's what you're getting. That's what we've 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:22.839 been receiving here y 'all. We've already gotten 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:25.739 snow We've already had our first snow of the 00:00:25.739 --> 00:00:29.039 season. It's not even officially winter yet and 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:32.570 guess what? The snow has already melted and that's 00:00:32.570 --> 00:00:35.549 supposed to be in the 60s tomorrow. Indiana weather 00:00:35.549 --> 00:00:39.950 is truly crazy. It cannot make up its mind. It 00:00:39.950 --> 00:00:46.570 is wild. But today's podcast episode is something 00:00:46.570 --> 00:00:50.509 I'm looking forward to speaking on today because 00:00:50.509 --> 00:00:54.890 it's something that has truly impacted my life, 00:00:55.189 --> 00:00:59.409 has truly changed the way I react, has truly 00:00:59.689 --> 00:01:03.130 change the way I connect has truly changed the 00:01:03.130 --> 00:01:06.569 way that I perceive myself and perceive others 00:01:06.569 --> 00:01:11.129 and What we're gonna talk about today is praying 00:01:11.129 --> 00:01:15.189 for your enemies praying for the people who persecute 00:01:15.189 --> 00:01:22.069 you forgiving people and turning vengeance over 00:01:22.069 --> 00:01:24.310 to the Lord and let me just tell you all that 00:01:24.310 --> 00:01:28.400 that wasn't always something I prioritized. If 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:31.640 you've listened to my past podcast episodes, 00:01:32.019 --> 00:01:34.859 specifically Crash Out, I know Crash Out was 00:01:34.859 --> 00:01:37.359 one where I talk about this a lot, I used to 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:41.439 have a thing for revenge. I didn't always give 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.280 vengeance to the Lord. Growing up, y 'all, I 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:47.489 didn't feel like anybody had my back. I never 00:01:47.489 --> 00:01:50.890 felt like justice was served. I felt like everybody 00:01:50.890 --> 00:01:54.010 was always getting one over on me. I didn't feel 00:01:54.010 --> 00:01:57.030 like I needed a savior from my sin and a savior 00:01:57.030 --> 00:01:59.310 from myself. I feel like I needed a savior from 00:01:59.310 --> 00:02:02.689 everybody else. And somehow I was the victim. 00:02:02.810 --> 00:02:05.590 Even in times when the things I did weren't the 00:02:05.590 --> 00:02:08.729 most morally sound, I still viewed myself as 00:02:08.729 --> 00:02:13.610 the victim in the situations. And there were 00:02:13.610 --> 00:02:19.740 a lot of habits I had. lot of Things that I turned 00:02:19.740 --> 00:02:22.340 to that weren't righteous a lot of responses 00:02:22.340 --> 00:02:24.699 I had that weren't righteous a lot of things 00:02:24.699 --> 00:02:32.719 that I blamed on my trauma I I was one of those 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.659 people who as much as I said I wanted to be healed 00:02:35.659 --> 00:02:38.539 and I wanted to be better When I look back now, 00:02:38.539 --> 00:02:41.639 I truly wanted to stay in that space of victimhood 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:44.180 I wanted to stay in that space of hurt because 00:02:44.180 --> 00:02:47.530 it gave me a reason to excuse the things I was 00:02:47.530 --> 00:02:50.270 doing. It gave me a reason to excuse my trust 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:51.990 issues. I didn't have to work on my trust issues. 00:02:52.030 --> 00:02:55.909 I could blame them on my past. When I turned 00:02:55.909 --> 00:02:58.729 to smoking and drinking to feel comfortable or 00:02:58.729 --> 00:03:01.750 feel better, I was able to say, well, my trauma, 00:03:02.210 --> 00:03:03.849 this is how I handle things. This is how I deal 00:03:03.849 --> 00:03:07.090 with things. You know, when I would have trust 00:03:07.090 --> 00:03:09.550 issues with new people in my life, I'd say, well, 00:03:09.550 --> 00:03:12.569 I had this growing up and I had this person I 00:03:12.569 --> 00:03:16.629 liked. in all honesty i wouldn't have viewed 00:03:16.629 --> 00:03:18.870 it that way or admitted it back then but i'm 00:03:18.870 --> 00:03:21.009 able to see it now that there was a part of me 00:03:21.009 --> 00:03:24.530 that found comfortability in the traumatic backstories 00:03:24.530 --> 00:03:29.270 and the pain and all of those things because 00:03:29.270 --> 00:03:33.009 it gave me an excuse to continue the sinful behaviors 00:03:33.009 --> 00:03:37.610 i was living in it gave me a reason to continue 00:03:37.610 --> 00:03:40.530 doing what i wanted to do and submitting to myself 00:03:40.530 --> 00:03:43.280 and submitting to the flesh instead of submitting 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:48.439 to Jesus Christ and there are so many people 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:52.280 that I even know today that you know when when 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:57.300 they are crashing out when they are losing their 00:03:57.300 --> 00:04:02.340 temper when they are seeking revenge when they 00:04:02.340 --> 00:04:05.439 are cursing people when they are doing all of 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:12.340 these things they blame it on their hurt I know 00:04:12.340 --> 00:04:15.620 so many people that say, well, I'm continuing 00:04:15.620 --> 00:04:17.560 to curse this person because if it wasn't for 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:19.639 them, I wouldn't have this pain. If it wasn't 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:21.259 for them, I wouldn't have this. If it wasn't 00:04:21.259 --> 00:04:25.579 for them, there's no actual forgiveness, right? 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.839 Because there's a continuing to blame who they 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:33.740 are, what they're like now on the past. And y 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:35.899 'all have heard, if you have listened to that 00:04:35.899 --> 00:04:39.110 past podcast episode, I am not negating. I'm 00:04:39.110 --> 00:04:41.189 not saying that your past does not affect you 00:04:41.189 --> 00:04:44.850 because it does. What you grow up in, your environment, 00:04:45.490 --> 00:04:51.129 that molds you and that shapes you. But as you 00:04:51.129 --> 00:04:54.750 go through life, you have to make the active 00:04:54.750 --> 00:05:01.360 decision to do better. y 'all hear the way I 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:03.819 speak and how you see how I live my life now 00:05:03.819 --> 00:05:05.660 and you see that I live a life pleasing to Lord 00:05:05.660 --> 00:05:08.060 you see that I've left behind crash out behavior 00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:10.519 you see that now I pray for people you see that 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.220 now I turn vengeance over to Lord and that is 00:05:13.220 --> 00:05:16.899 because I made the active decision every day 00:05:16.899 --> 00:05:21.980 waking up to deny my flesh and to try to live 00:05:21.980 --> 00:05:26.199 more Christ -like it wasn't easy at first waking 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.610 up and having to pray for my enemies as they 00:05:29.610 --> 00:05:34.290 were actively attacking me. It wasn't easy. It 00:05:34.290 --> 00:05:36.389 would have been a lot easier to curse them and 00:05:36.389 --> 00:05:38.569 get angry and try to get my look back and do 00:05:38.569 --> 00:05:43.790 all those things. But I had to trust that vengeance 00:05:43.790 --> 00:05:45.670 was the Lord's. And I'm telling y 'all today, 00:05:45.689 --> 00:05:50.209 if I can do it, you can do it. And it wasn't 00:05:50.209 --> 00:05:54.199 my strength. It was Jesus Christ. it was the 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:56.980 Word of God and submitting myself to the Word 00:05:56.980 --> 00:06:01.480 of God that got me to this point. There's some 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:04.899 scripture I want to start off reading you guys 00:06:04.899 --> 00:06:10.259 today and this is Romans we're gonna be in Romans 00:06:10.259 --> 00:06:15.019 chapter 12 starting in verse 16 live in harmony 00:06:15.019 --> 00:06:18.920 with one another do not be proud instead associate 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.569 with the humble do not be wise in your own estimation 00:06:22.569 --> 00:06:27.509 do not repay anyone evil for evil give careful 00:06:27.509 --> 00:06:31.389 thought to do what is honorable in anyone's eyes 00:06:31.389 --> 00:06:35.230 if possible as far as it depends on you live 00:06:35.230 --> 00:06:40.089 at peace with everyone friends do not avenge 00:06:40.089 --> 00:06:43.329 yourselves instead leave room for god's wrath 00:06:43.329 --> 00:06:47.250 because it is written vengeance belongs to me 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.339 Will repay says the Lord, but if your enemy is 00:06:51.339 --> 00:06:55.079 hungry feed him if he is thirsty Give him something 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.680 to drink for in doing so you will be keeping 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.240 fiery coals on his head Do not be conquered by 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:06.959 evil But conquer evil with good y 'all we live 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:11.459 in a generation nowadays It is socially acceptable 00:07:11.459 --> 00:07:14.040 to I'm doing quotation marks of my fingers right 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:19.629 now y 'all match energy If someone's crappy, 00:07:19.750 --> 00:07:22.430 do you be crappy to them? If someone's talking 00:07:22.430 --> 00:07:25.990 bad about you, talk bad about them. If someone's 00:07:25.990 --> 00:07:27.629 making you feel some type of way, do what you 00:07:27.629 --> 00:07:29.750 can to make them feel that type of way. That 00:07:29.750 --> 00:07:32.350 is the society we live in right now that that 00:07:32.350 --> 00:07:35.990 is acceptable, that that is normalized. I cannot 00:07:35.990 --> 00:07:38.709 tell you how many times you're scrolling through 00:07:38.709 --> 00:07:40.430 social media, how many times I've scrolled through 00:07:40.430 --> 00:07:43.610 social media. And I see people talking about 00:07:43.610 --> 00:07:46.959 that, matching energy, getting a lick back. matching 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.540 evil for evil, which goes directly against God's 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:52.779 word. Y 'all, someone needs to hear this today 00:07:52.779 --> 00:07:55.720 just because it's normalized in society, just 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.519 because your parents normalized it, just because 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:00.740 your friends normalized it, just because social 00:08:00.740 --> 00:08:03.220 media normalizes it, just because our TV shows 00:08:03.220 --> 00:08:05.720 that we watch normalize it, just because the 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.019 songs that we listen to about lick backs and 00:08:08.019 --> 00:08:12.459 revenge and matching energy normalize it doesn't 00:08:12.459 --> 00:08:17.959 mean It's righteous. It's holy Doesn't mean that 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:20.720 it is going to build up doesn't mean it's going 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.180 to edify your relationship with Christ Just because 00:08:26.180 --> 00:08:31.100 something's legal doesn't mean it's God or doesn't 00:08:31.100 --> 00:08:39.000 mean it's God approved Whether or not you have 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.419 the ability to do something shouldn't be What 00:08:43.419 --> 00:08:46.519 you used to determine whether or not you do it 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:49.740 and I'm speaking from experience y 'all I used 00:08:49.740 --> 00:08:52.700 to be that person that I would badmouth someone 00:08:52.700 --> 00:08:55.899 if the opportunity came up I Would get my look 00:08:55.899 --> 00:08:58.700 back if the opportunity came up if the opportunity 00:08:58.700 --> 00:09:01.480 presented itself. I would say well Opportunity 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.600 clearly present itself for the reason for a reason 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.960 I would take it as a sign forgetting that the 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.460 devil too places temptations in front of you 00:09:09.460 --> 00:09:11.720 just because you have the opportunity doesn't 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.759 mean it's from God. That's why you need to know 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.740 Scripture and hold it up to Scripture. Hold the 00:09:17.740 --> 00:09:19.820 opportunity up to Scripture. Does it require 00:09:19.820 --> 00:09:22.779 you to go against God's Word? Does it go directly 00:09:22.779 --> 00:09:24.580 against God's character? And if it does that's 00:09:24.580 --> 00:09:28.159 not from God. No matter how appealing it may 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.990 be to your flesh. I want to share with you all 00:09:33.990 --> 00:09:36.230 a testimony before I dive in a bit more on the 00:09:36.230 --> 00:09:40.690 scripture. I remember when I had freshly, this 00:09:40.690 --> 00:09:42.809 was just a couple months after I had given my 00:09:42.809 --> 00:09:45.129 life to Christ. This was actually just a little 00:09:45.129 --> 00:09:47.350 over a month after I'd surrendered my life to 00:09:47.350 --> 00:09:49.970 Christ. I was a really new Christian, right? 00:09:50.570 --> 00:09:53.649 And y 'all know that before I truly surrendered 00:09:53.649 --> 00:09:55.409 my life to Christ, I spent a couple years in 00:09:55.409 --> 00:09:57.929 New Age. And when I was in New Age, I was a tarot 00:09:57.929 --> 00:10:00.490 card reader. I was participating in the witchcraft. 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:04.600 and the divination, astrology, all these different 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:08.759 kinds of New Age practices. And I was dealing 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:14.460 with a lot of spiritual warfare. And when I left 00:10:14.460 --> 00:10:17.440 New Age, there was a lot of spiritual warfare 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:21.519 trying to pull me back in. I will say this so 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.539 clearly, the devil didn't want to let me go that 00:10:23.539 --> 00:10:31.639 easy. There were people that the devil was using 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.980 to operate against me and these people were participating 00:10:34.980 --> 00:10:37.639 in divination These people were participating 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.919 in witchcraft These people were participating 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:47.659 in new age practices And I remember it was the 00:10:47.659 --> 00:10:50.779 day before Halloween and I was at a church service 00:10:50.779 --> 00:10:54.940 I was at a service and Afterwards, I seek some 00:10:54.940 --> 00:10:56.639 spiritual guidance from the spiritual leader 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.419 in the church and I remember telling them like 00:11:01.419 --> 00:11:06.259 the spiritual warfare is so heavy and I know 00:11:06.259 --> 00:11:09.139 that I am not supposed to seek revenge and I 00:11:09.139 --> 00:11:11.659 have been constantly praying that God gives me 00:11:11.659 --> 00:11:15.740 peace but I know that there is a lot of spiritual 00:11:15.740 --> 00:11:17.940 attack going on and I remember telling the spiritual 00:11:17.940 --> 00:11:23.419 leader that like at risk of sounding crazy because 00:11:23.419 --> 00:11:31.419 I know That not everybody Although it's clearly 00:11:31.419 --> 00:11:33.299 spelled out witchcraft is talked about in the 00:11:33.299 --> 00:11:35.759 Bible divination is talked about in the Bible 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.980 Not everybody has an understanding that there 00:11:39.980 --> 00:11:43.759 are people who are truly Practicing that are 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.639 truly trying to summon demons and are truly trying 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.860 to like call on the devil and You know, I told 00:11:50.860 --> 00:11:53.179 the spiritual leader at risk of sounding crazy 00:11:53.179 --> 00:11:57.679 to you. I'm gonna say this out loud anyway I 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:01.600 left near -age spirituality and there are people 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.799 who are participating in witchcraft and divination 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:12.200 and Sending monitoring like I was very clear 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.679 with what I thought was going on and saying I 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:17.909 know I'm not supposed to seek revenge I know 00:12:17.909 --> 00:12:21.789 I'm not supposed to match that, but what do I 00:12:21.789 --> 00:12:27.190 do? I was like, I don't know how to handle this. 00:12:27.590 --> 00:12:30.210 Like, what do I do? I've been praying for protection. 00:12:30.490 --> 00:12:32.950 I've been praying for peace, but what else can 00:12:32.950 --> 00:12:37.350 I do? And I remember this person telling me, 00:12:37.350 --> 00:12:40.330 pray for them. You need to pray for them. That 00:12:40.330 --> 00:12:45.500 was his immediate answer. And he said, and then 00:12:45.500 --> 00:12:48.379 pray for them some more. And you know, that's 00:12:48.379 --> 00:12:50.679 what I did when I went home that day. I started 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:52.879 praying for them. I started praying that they 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.500 are delivered. I started praying that God moved 00:12:56.500 --> 00:12:58.740 in their life and worked on their heart. I started 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:06.100 praying that they know God's word as truth. That 00:13:06.100 --> 00:13:09.379 they encounter Jesus Christ. That they know God's 00:13:09.379 --> 00:13:12.500 word is truth. And that in knowing his word is 00:13:12.500 --> 00:13:14.740 truth, They feel conviction for what they're 00:13:14.740 --> 00:13:20.179 doing. And in that conviction, they repent and 00:13:20.179 --> 00:13:24.720 they turn away. I started praying that they had 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.460 deliverance from whatever demonic forces were 00:13:28.460 --> 00:13:33.100 oppressing them or possessing them. I started 00:13:33.100 --> 00:13:35.759 praying that they were broken free of the demonic 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.019 agreements they came into. Eventually I felt 00:13:38.019 --> 00:13:40.320 the Lord start praying me. I started putting 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:45.049 on my heart to pray to him that their comforts 00:13:45.049 --> 00:13:48.850 in this were taken away like make them no longer 00:13:48.850 --> 00:13:51.350 comfortable in divination make them no longer 00:13:51.350 --> 00:13:57.750 comfortable in witchcraft like take it away whatever 00:13:57.750 --> 00:14:02.690 temptation they have to go into this I pray in 00:14:02.690 --> 00:14:08.149 the name of Jesus that that flees I pray that 00:14:08.149 --> 00:14:12.710 they no longer find knowledge wisdom comfort 00:14:12.710 --> 00:14:15.730 in divination. I pray that they no longer find 00:14:15.730 --> 00:14:19.590 a sense of control in witchcraft. I pray that 00:14:19.590 --> 00:14:23.629 the conviction of what they're doing sits in 00:14:23.629 --> 00:14:26.929 them so deeply that they cannot help but repent 00:14:26.929 --> 00:14:30.629 to the Lord. And I started praying that God bless 00:14:30.629 --> 00:14:34.679 them. I started praying that their knees bow 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.740 before the Lord and that they too have a desire 00:14:37.740 --> 00:14:40.419 to serve the Lord and that they know the love 00:14:40.419 --> 00:14:45.940 of Jesus Christ. And that they also become champions 00:14:45.940 --> 00:14:49.320 for Jesus Christ. I prayed not for their condemnation, 00:14:49.659 --> 00:14:53.340 but for their restoration. That whatever the 00:14:53.340 --> 00:14:56.710 Lord had to strip from them, That he would one 00:14:56.710 --> 00:14:59.769 day build them up in his name that they would 00:14:59.769 --> 00:15:02.710 also become people who glorify God That they 00:15:02.710 --> 00:15:04.950 would also become people who have testimonies 00:15:04.950 --> 00:15:07.570 to share that God would use them for the kingdom 00:15:07.570 --> 00:15:15.649 of heaven I Wasn't just praying God exposed them 00:15:15.649 --> 00:15:19.629 God hurt them. No, I was praying God used them 00:15:19.629 --> 00:15:28.490 God teach them God I pray bless me y 'all I started 00:15:28.490 --> 00:15:33.309 praying that they too that the devil loses another 00:15:33.309 --> 00:15:38.409 one with them I was praying for them not praying 00:15:38.409 --> 00:15:40.389 against them someone needs to hear that today 00:15:40.389 --> 00:15:44.090 we need to stop praying against people and start 00:15:44.090 --> 00:15:47.850 praying for them that's what God started teaching 00:15:47.850 --> 00:15:50.789 me to do because y 'all I was wondering I was 00:15:50.789 --> 00:15:53.309 like God you're allowing them to attack me for 00:15:53.309 --> 00:15:55.669 a reason you wouldn't be allowing these attacks 00:15:55.669 --> 00:15:59.649 to happen if there wasn't something you could 00:15:59.649 --> 00:16:02.309 bring out of me if there wasn't something you 00:16:02.309 --> 00:16:04.110 could do in my life if you weren't going to be 00:16:04.110 --> 00:16:07.370 able to use this for my good and God used it 00:16:07.370 --> 00:16:11.340 to show me how to intercede for people how to 00:16:11.340 --> 00:16:14.879 pray for people and the power of prayer I have 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.860 seen people that God has called me to pray for 00:16:17.860 --> 00:16:20.980 delivered from the mindsets that they were in 00:16:20.980 --> 00:16:24.500 delivered from the habits I'm not saying it's 00:16:24.500 --> 00:16:26.279 always pretty there are times that people have 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.440 had to go through suffering oftentimes we learn 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:34.590 by experiencing Have seen people have to have 00:16:34.590 --> 00:16:37.149 things stripped away. I have seen people have 00:16:37.149 --> 00:16:38.929 to change their habits I have seen them have 00:16:38.929 --> 00:16:40.570 to go through periods of suffering but in those 00:16:40.570 --> 00:16:42.629 periods of suffering they have turned to the 00:16:42.629 --> 00:16:45.610 Lord and then turning to the Lord they have been 00:16:45.610 --> 00:16:49.850 delivered from their previous perceptions their 00:16:49.850 --> 00:16:53.429 previous belief systems their previous Mindsets 00:16:53.429 --> 00:16:56.669 their previous habits. God has started to rewire 00:16:56.669 --> 00:17:00.090 them just as he has rewired me God use these 00:17:00.090 --> 00:17:05.130 experiences To show me how to pray for people 00:17:05.130 --> 00:17:07.609 and not pray against people for the longest time 00:17:07.609 --> 00:17:09.509 Before I actually submit my life to the Lord 00:17:09.509 --> 00:17:12.450 when I was trying to pray I'd start praying God 00:17:12.450 --> 00:17:15.930 take down my enemies Take them out. Take them 00:17:15.930 --> 00:17:18.089 out. Let me stand, you know, let me get through 00:17:18.089 --> 00:17:22.549 like arrest them Lock them up. If you guys know 00:17:22.549 --> 00:17:25.589 the tick tock sound lock them up Like those were 00:17:25.589 --> 00:17:28.230 my kind of prayers like restrain them restrict 00:17:28.230 --> 00:17:32.140 them walk them up strike him down, cast him down 00:17:32.140 --> 00:17:35.039 and it is in God's character to allow people 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:37.839 to fall on their own sword to turn them over 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:40.319 to the consequences of their actions when they 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.299 will not listen to him I'm speaking from experience 00:17:42.299 --> 00:17:45.799 he turned me over I could no longer find comfort 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:47.640 in my sins that he allowed me to be turned over 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.299 to I've shared that testimony that he showed 00:17:51.299 --> 00:17:54.059 me don't pray against these people don't pray 00:17:54.059 --> 00:17:57.740 these people into condemnation Don't be praying 00:17:57.740 --> 00:18:01.039 for these people with no uplifting. He taught 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:03.940 me to start praying for these people. Pray for 00:18:03.940 --> 00:18:08.160 their mind. Pray for their spirit. Pray for their 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:12.519 eternal life. Pray for their deliverance. I knew 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:15.180 that the way these people were living their lives 00:18:15.180 --> 00:18:17.319 and the things that they were putting their faith 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.740 in were not gonna lead them to life with the 00:18:20.740 --> 00:18:23.819 Heavenly Father. So I started praying for the 00:18:23.819 --> 00:18:27.150 things that would. Started praying that they 00:18:27.150 --> 00:18:28.910 put their faith in Jesus. I started praying that 00:18:28.910 --> 00:18:30.529 they know that he is the way the truth of life 00:18:30.529 --> 00:18:32.109 I started praying that they feel conviction. 00:18:32.289 --> 00:18:36.150 I started praying that they are repentant and 00:18:36.150 --> 00:18:39.730 I have seen God move mountains off of that prayer 00:18:39.730 --> 00:18:42.309 and I will give you I will let you guys in on 00:18:42.309 --> 00:18:47.730 something there is a protection a covering I 00:18:47.730 --> 00:18:50.970 Have found comes when you pray for other people 00:18:50.970 --> 00:18:53.369 and give that vengeance to God now. I'm not saying 00:18:55.719 --> 00:18:58.700 That everything was sunshine and rainbows there 00:18:58.700 --> 00:19:02.299 was pain But what's interesting y 'all when I 00:19:02.299 --> 00:19:06.099 was in New Age spirituality I Had learned to 00:19:06.099 --> 00:19:08.579 go back and forth when you felt like someone 00:19:08.579 --> 00:19:12.140 was spiritually attacking you Wait when you felt 00:19:12.140 --> 00:19:14.220 like because see that that's thing was a new 00:19:14.220 --> 00:19:18.750 age. I didn't know to discern the spirits I didn't 00:19:18.750 --> 00:19:21.250 recognize that you need to separate the spirit 00:19:21.250 --> 00:19:24.269 from the person. I didn't recognize the principalities 00:19:24.269 --> 00:19:26.410 that were involved. That at the end of the day, 00:19:26.509 --> 00:19:28.890 this is the kingdom of darkness operating through 00:19:28.890 --> 00:19:31.630 people to get at you, to separate you from the 00:19:31.630 --> 00:19:35.730 Heavenly Father. I just viewed it as me versus 00:19:35.730 --> 00:19:40.509 them, me versus other fleshly people, right? 00:19:40.890 --> 00:19:44.380 And when I was in new age, What I had really 00:19:44.380 --> 00:19:46.119 learned and what had really been instilled in 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:50.519 me was to like return it to sender, which my 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:52.559 understanding then was like a spiritual back 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.519 and forth. Like someone sends you bad things, 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:58.759 negative things, you send it right back to them 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:01.779 and it goes back and forth. And the Lord has 00:20:01.779 --> 00:20:05.799 shown me that there is a protection. And instead 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:09.000 of doing that, instead of matching evil for evil. 00:20:09.870 --> 00:20:12.029 Matching evil with good that's actually what 00:20:12.029 --> 00:20:14.950 snuffs it out. That's actually what kills it 00:20:14.950 --> 00:20:18.910 You don't ping pong it you don't send it back 00:20:18.910 --> 00:20:21.750 and forth instead you snuff out the wickedness 00:20:21.750 --> 00:20:27.569 with goodness with love with kindness When people 00:20:27.569 --> 00:20:30.009 were speaking word curses over me speaking death 00:20:30.009 --> 00:20:34.109 at me Trying to get me to a big thing was there 00:20:34.109 --> 00:20:37.200 were a lot of people trying to get me to be the 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:38.960 past version of myself before Christ. A lot of 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.019 people trying to bring out the crash out of me. 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:43.299 A lot of people trying to get out negative emotions 00:20:43.299 --> 00:20:45.980 out of me. Trying to get me to go back to drinking 00:20:45.980 --> 00:20:47.960 and smoking and fornicating and different things 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:52.859 like that. And each time I didn't go back to 00:20:52.859 --> 00:20:56.400 that, but instead I met them with love. Instead 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:01.680 I did what I could to create peace. That actually 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:04.220 many times kind of killed the back and forth. 00:21:07.190 --> 00:21:09.369 It's unbelievable how many times people kind 00:21:09.369 --> 00:21:12.769 of have to walk away feeling defeated At the 00:21:12.769 --> 00:21:14.609 end of the day kind of have to shrug it off or 00:21:14.609 --> 00:21:18.809 have to just kind of keep quiet Because my lack 00:21:18.809 --> 00:21:23.670 of participation and meeting meeting them with 00:21:23.670 --> 00:21:31.230 kindness I'm telling y 'all today if you are 00:21:31.230 --> 00:21:35.869 someone who is dealing you you want to live life 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.720 for the Lord, but you are in an act of war zone. 00:21:38.980 --> 00:21:42.079 There are people that are being used by the enemy 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:44.079 to attack you and you're like, how do I match 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:47.799 this? I'm telling y 'all today that scripture 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:52.279 says to match it with love. You don't repay evil 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:57.680 for evil. You bless the people that curse you. 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:02.420 Y 'all, I have people speaking word curses over 00:22:02.420 --> 00:22:06.460 me, speaking death. There were people heavily 00:22:06.460 --> 00:22:10.559 involved like in like rich crap that were legit 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:14.920 Like I don't want to get too deep into it, but 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:22.380 I was on their list And God gave me the same 00:22:22.380 --> 00:22:26.599 command that he gave me towards people who were 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.539 just who were gossiping about me Or doing other 00:22:30.539 --> 00:22:32.940 things like that which gossip can be word -cursing 00:22:32.940 --> 00:22:38.440 too, right? To show them love and kindness and 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:43.039 most of all pray for them To not match evil for 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:48.480 evil Because when you start doing that and I 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.359 don't want to call myself innocent by any means 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:57.920 But when you start doing that What sets you apart 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:04.220 Yeah, I think that's our prompting to this there's 00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:08.420 some more scripture That I want to get in and 00:23:08.420 --> 00:23:14.140 read to y 'all and this is Matthew chapter 5 00:23:14.140 --> 00:23:18.240 starting in 42 verse 42 You have heard that it 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:20.440 was said love your neighbor and hate your enemy 00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:24.359 But I tell you love your enemies and pray for 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:27.960 those who persecute you So that you may be children 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:31.779 of your father in heaven because he causes his 00:23:31.779 --> 00:23:34.579 son to rise on the evil and the good and sends 00:23:34.579 --> 00:23:37.099 rain on the righteous and the unrighteous for 00:23:37.099 --> 00:23:40.119 if you love those who love you what reward will 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:43.160 you have don't even the tax collectors do the 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:46.140 same if you greet only your brothers and sisters 00:23:46.140 --> 00:23:49.059 what are you doing out of the ordinary don't 00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:52.680 even the gentiles do the same be perfect therefore 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:54.740 as your heavenly father is perfect it's easy 00:23:54.740 --> 00:23:58.140 to love people who love you it's easy to be kind 00:23:58.140 --> 00:24:02.940 to people who are kind to you It's not as easy 00:24:02.940 --> 00:24:06.359 to love people who hate you, to be kind to people 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.180 who are attacking you, to be kind to people who 00:24:09.180 --> 00:24:11.619 are trying to persecute you. And that's what 00:24:11.619 --> 00:24:14.519 sets you apart as a follower of Christ from the 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:18.579 world. Loving someone who loves you, being kind 00:24:18.579 --> 00:24:20.440 to someone who's kind to you, hyping up a person 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:22.900 who hypes you up, giving to someone who gives 00:24:22.900 --> 00:24:28.319 to you. The world does that too. Whoop -de -doo. 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.880 Now meeting someone with love Who is not meeting 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:37.400 you with love who's meeting you with anger and 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:39.559 frustration as hate? There's a lot of people 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:42.480 in the world that aren't doing that And a lot 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.500 of people that are doing it with a false motive 00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:50.259 an ulterior motive There's a fakeness with it 00:24:50.259 --> 00:24:58.380 I can tell y 'all I remember The like astounded 00:24:58.380 --> 00:25:01.700 feeling I had after the first couple times of 00:25:01.700 --> 00:25:05.240 praying for those people like I was Because it 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:07.700 was such a weird feeling. I remember this so 00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:09.839 clearly one day I was out taking a walk throughout 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:13.460 my neighborhood and I remember just Meditating 00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:15.700 on the situation just thinking on the situation 00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:18.660 being like the craziest thing is those prayers 00:25:18.660 --> 00:25:22.559 just let it out of me And there was there was 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:28.279 a real my heart truly wanted these people to 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:30.519 experience the love of Jesus. And in the past 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:32.720 when I would try to say nice things about people 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:34.980 who were hateful and mean to me, I'd always feel 00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:37.599 a little bit fake and would always feel like 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:39.339 I had an ulterior motive and I was always giving 00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:43.160 a backhanded compliment or something like that. 00:25:43.500 --> 00:25:46.259 But when I started praying, Lord, like I pray 00:25:46.259 --> 00:25:49.460 that they know your love and your peace and I 00:25:49.460 --> 00:25:51.400 pray that they know what it feels like to be 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:56.720 a child of the most high. Because the Lord was 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.119 the answer to everything I was seeking and I 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:01.720 knew that these people turned into witchcraft 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:06.900 and divination and revenge All of these things 00:26:06.900 --> 00:26:14.960 Y 'all I keep getting phone calls. Sorry. Sorry. 00:26:15.059 --> 00:26:16.819 I'm pausing y 'all. I don't know what's going 00:26:16.819 --> 00:26:19.039 on today I've been getting phone calls like out 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.859 the wazoo and they're just very random numbers 00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:26.299 calling me it's kind of weird but so if we're 00:26:26.299 --> 00:26:29.140 having some pauses here on the podcast I keep 00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:36.319 getting phone calls a little strange but I knew 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:39.200 that these people were participating in these 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:42.000 things because they had their own areas in their 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:47.039 life where they were hurting and lacking and 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:52.049 not all of them will admit it because of pride 00:26:52.049 --> 00:26:58.309 ego their own understanding that that's what 00:26:58.309 --> 00:27:01.730 tempts someone you have to be in a legit prideful 00:27:01.730 --> 00:27:08.430 egotistical space to turn to witchcraft and to 00:27:08.430 --> 00:27:12.109 turn to yourself and your own control and to 00:27:12.109 --> 00:27:14.599 start believing that you're You know some of 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:16.900 the lies of new age of like you're the creator 00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:19.259 and you have this manifestation and the gifts 00:27:19.259 --> 00:27:22.000 are yours We know that all spiritual gifts come 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:24.420 from god and are supposed to be used to further 00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:27.259 the kingdom of heaven And to bring people closer 00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:29.519 to god not for our own reasonings. That's in 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:38.220 first corinthians But I knew that these people 00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:40.859 were participating in witchcraft and divination 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.000 Speaking word curses, some people just gossiping, 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.599 making up things about me, doing what they could 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:50.359 to block me and to delay me, trying to stop me 00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:53.180 from having, you know, when they would hear that 00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:54.960 an opportunity was coming my way, doing what 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:57.119 they could to kind of try to prevent me from 00:27:57.119 --> 00:27:59.339 getting the opportunity. I knew that each of 00:27:59.339 --> 00:28:01.359 these people were doing it from some kind of 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:05.000 place of hurt. Not only Jesus Christ could fill 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.400 when you turn to witchcraft when you turn to 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:10.819 these things you are seeking control You're seeking 00:28:10.819 --> 00:28:13.700 answers. You're seeking something But you're 00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:16.819 seeking it apart from the Lord So I knew that 00:28:16.819 --> 00:28:19.759 every single one of them had some kind of pain 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:22.920 Had some kind of hurt had something that needed 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:30.190 healed and Jesus Christ was the answer And I 00:28:30.190 --> 00:28:32.509 also know from personal experience that when 00:28:32.509 --> 00:28:35.390 you open up those doors, whether or not they 00:28:35.390 --> 00:28:37.789 realize it, I'm able to realize it a lot more 00:28:37.789 --> 00:28:40.190 now because I'm able to compare it to the peace 00:28:40.190 --> 00:28:43.589 I have with Christ. And even the most peaceful 00:28:43.589 --> 00:28:45.529 periods of my life that I believed I had had 00:28:45.529 --> 00:28:47.869 in the world do not compare to the peace I have 00:28:47.869 --> 00:28:52.109 now walking with Jesus Christ. And the life I 00:28:52.109 --> 00:28:54.910 live now compared to the life I lived then, I'm 00:28:54.910 --> 00:28:57.509 able to see just how little rest was actually 00:28:57.509 --> 00:29:02.960 involved. and how much more of like a high stress 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.339 environment I was living in compared to what 00:29:06.339 --> 00:29:09.599 I live in now. Despite the warfare that picks 00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:13.259 up when you become a follower of Christ, there 00:29:13.259 --> 00:29:16.480 is more of a peace in my experience because I'm 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:20.000 able to give things to God and rely on his strength 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.279 and not my own strength. And I also recognize 00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:28.079 that all these people who were doing this, They 00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:31.420 don't have that peace you ever hear people saying 00:29:31.420 --> 00:29:34.920 like there's no rest for the wicked There's a 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:36.740 lot of people who would very quick say I'm not 00:29:36.740 --> 00:29:42.019 wicked. Well news flash the things that are Righteous 00:29:42.019 --> 00:29:46.420 the things that are God condoned God ordained 00:29:46.420 --> 00:29:49.099 God approved those things are good all things 00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:53.420 that are not from God are Not God approved or 00:29:53.420 --> 00:29:58.380 not. God ordained are wicked A lot of our fleshly 00:29:58.380 --> 00:30:01.400 desires are wicked. What's of the flesh is not 00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:04.900 of the spirit. The spirit is what's Christ -like, 00:30:05.059 --> 00:30:07.660 and the flesh is the wickedness. And there's 00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:11.680 wickedness running rampant in this world. And 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.700 I recognize that so many of them are living in 00:30:15.700 --> 00:30:20.579 wickedness, and there is no rest in that. There's 00:30:20.579 --> 00:30:23.220 an anxiety, there's a fear, there's an anger, 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:25.019 there's a frustration, there's a need to get 00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:26.960 a lick back, there's a need to monitor, there's 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.500 a need to take control, there's a need to force 00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:31.579 your own this or force your own that or expose 00:30:31.579 --> 00:30:33.599 this or do this yourself or do that yourself. 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:35.599 They don't have a Heavenly Father that they're 00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:37.599 relying on and trusting to take care of things. 00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:39.980 They don't have the protection and the blood 00:30:39.980 --> 00:30:44.079 of Jesus covering them. And I empathize with 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:50.210 that. So I pray that they one day receive that 00:30:50.210 --> 00:30:52.869 I pray that they're a new creation in Christ 00:30:52.869 --> 00:30:55.009 and that they submit their lives to Christ and 00:30:55.009 --> 00:30:57.450 I'm telling y 'all that there is actually a peace 00:30:57.450 --> 00:30:59.890 that you receive after you start praying for 00:30:59.890 --> 00:31:05.029 your enemies Like the more I pray for people 00:31:05.029 --> 00:31:07.049 who are coming up against me and persecuting 00:31:07.049 --> 00:31:09.809 me because it happens to this day I'm not saying 00:31:09.809 --> 00:31:12.910 that like every everything just fell off Throughout 00:31:12.910 --> 00:31:15.509 your life as a Christian, there are going to 00:31:15.509 --> 00:31:17.309 be people coming up against you. There's going 00:31:17.309 --> 00:31:20.029 to be opposition people being used by the enemy 00:31:20.029 --> 00:31:22.269 Giving your life to Christ doesn't mean that 00:31:22.269 --> 00:31:25.950 all falls away anything it picks up more Now 00:31:25.950 --> 00:31:29.269 your competition for the enemy not now you're 00:31:29.269 --> 00:31:32.930 now you're a hitter for God Now you're you're 00:31:32.930 --> 00:31:35.289 a fisher of men and you're pulling more people 00:31:35.289 --> 00:31:37.950 away from the kingdom of darkness Towards the 00:31:37.950 --> 00:31:40.890 kingdom of heaven on behalf of the Heavenly Father 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:43.720 on behalf of Jesus Christ you're now an ambassador 00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:50.720 for him and there is actually a peace and a forgiving 00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:57.079 that comes along with that and if you're new 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.619 in this walk I want if you're new to forgiving 00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:02.140 and to praying for other people I want to give 00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:07.880 y 'all a couple pieces of just my personal walk 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:13.380 that may help you And these were the steps that 00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:16.900 God kind of took me through, right? Because when 00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:21.599 I gave my life to Christ at first, I was... I 00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:25.339 kept it pretty much to myself at first. I was 00:32:25.339 --> 00:32:27.859 completely ghost off social media. I wasn't talking 00:32:27.859 --> 00:32:30.359 to anybody. And not too long after I gave my 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:33.180 life to Christ, the Lord moved me back from California 00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:35.819 to my hometown, a place where a lot of people 00:32:35.819 --> 00:32:39.670 knew me. knew my past, knew my history. And at 00:32:39.670 --> 00:32:43.269 this time, I knew that there were a lot of people 00:32:43.269 --> 00:32:45.750 who were still in New Age and in witchcraft. 00:32:46.109 --> 00:32:49.630 And those things who were watching to see what 00:32:49.630 --> 00:32:53.230 I would post on social media, watching to kind 00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:55.289 of attack whatever they saw me building. You 00:32:55.289 --> 00:32:57.210 can think Book of Nehemiah. The second they saw 00:32:57.210 --> 00:32:58.930 me start building again, they were ready to start 00:32:58.930 --> 00:33:01.630 tearing it down and taking it down. And I had 00:33:01.630 --> 00:33:05.759 for a while a fear and a worry of posting. or 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:08.079 telling anybody about what God was building. 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:12.380 And that was, you know, me not having a real 00:33:12.380 --> 00:33:14.759 deep faith in God's ability to protect me because 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:16.859 up until that point what I had seen was just 00:33:16.859 --> 00:33:20.460 a lot of destruction and a lot of the enemy being 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:22.839 allowed to kick me and tear me down due to my 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:25.019 willful sin and the open doors of sin I had lived 00:33:25.019 --> 00:33:28.359 in. I wasn't obeying the Lord, so He allowed 00:33:28.359 --> 00:33:30.940 me to be stripped and things to be taken from 00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:33.690 me so that way I may glorify Him. Up until that 00:33:33.690 --> 00:33:36.269 point, that was more of the rapport I had had 00:33:36.269 --> 00:33:40.029 with spiritual warfare. When I started learning 00:33:40.029 --> 00:33:41.970 about spiritual warfare at first, I was in New 00:33:41.970 --> 00:33:47.190 Age and had a very skewed understanding of it. 00:33:47.289 --> 00:33:49.509 I didn't have the understanding then that I do 00:33:49.509 --> 00:33:51.750 now. As a Christian, as a follower of Christ, 00:33:51.849 --> 00:33:57.210 as someone who has repented of all of that, that 00:33:57.210 --> 00:34:05.920 lifestyle I lived before. it was slowly that 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:09.039 the Lord started taking me step by step of like 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.280 getting me just in the world like what I mean 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:14.860 by that is like getting me integrated into society 00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:19.139 again I kind of went into like a recluse a little 00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:21.960 bit I was afraid of anyone seeing the good things 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:23.940 God was doing in my life and he had convicted 00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:27.019 me that like I'm doing these good things yes 00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:30.079 yes I love you but I'm doing these good things 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:33.139 so that way it may glorify me and that you may 00:34:33.139 --> 00:34:37.920 be a testimony to my restoration. But I can't 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:40.039 do that if you're not gonna allow anyone to see 00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:43.559 it. And the Lord started taking me through slowly 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:46.880 getting me back on social media and slowly getting 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:49.659 me involved like in church again and in Christian 00:34:49.659 --> 00:34:53.199 groups and like slowly over time expanding my 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:56.679 territory and expanding the reach I had on people 00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:59.800 and slowly increasing my confidence and sharing 00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:03.000 my testimonies. But there was warfare that came 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:05.880 along with that. There was someone that I was 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:09.059 seeing consistently every day that was not a 00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:11.599 firm believer, that actually mocked my faith. 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.079 You know, every time I was ready to glorify God 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:16.699 and all these things, this person was ready to 00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:21.340 sow a seed of doubt. Or any time they witnessed 00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:23.360 a blessing, they had to point out something that 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:26.019 they didn't think was good with it, to try to 00:35:26.019 --> 00:35:29.099 lower my appreciation and my gratitude. The whole 00:35:29.099 --> 00:35:31.500 time God was building me, and he's still building 00:35:31.500 --> 00:35:34.960 me y 'all don't get me wrong the whole time there 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:38.280 was opposition in my ear it wasn't just people 00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:42.280 online which i knew there were people online 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:49.199 too um it was people around me i had people mocking 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:51.920 my faith i had people telling me that like if 00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.340 you don't get your if you don't take action or 00:35:54.340 --> 00:35:58.239 do it like no one else will like i have seen 00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:03.010 god Deliver justice. I Have seen what God does 00:36:03.010 --> 00:36:05.050 when I give vengeance to him. I have seen the 00:36:05.050 --> 00:36:07.289 restoration. I have seen the justice I have seen 00:36:07.289 --> 00:36:10.989 the exposure. I don't need to do anything that 00:36:10.989 --> 00:36:13.510 God isn't calling me to do I'm gonna give it 00:36:13.510 --> 00:36:15.690 to him and if there's a step of obedience He 00:36:15.690 --> 00:36:18.809 needs me to take I'll take it But my plan is 00:36:18.809 --> 00:36:23.130 I give it to him and I pray Sometimes I fast 00:36:23.130 --> 00:36:28.210 and I intercede on these people's behalf And 00:36:28.210 --> 00:36:29.750 that person, the whole time they whisper in my 00:36:29.750 --> 00:36:32.269 ear, I learn to start praying for them and praying 00:36:32.269 --> 00:36:34.369 for their deliverance. And I believe God is moving 00:36:34.369 --> 00:36:36.650 and working in their situation. There's a lot 00:36:36.650 --> 00:36:40.989 of pride there, but God is going to move. I believe 00:36:40.989 --> 00:36:44.949 it with my heart that God is moving. It might 00:36:44.949 --> 00:36:47.710 not be what I expect it to look like, but God 00:36:47.710 --> 00:36:51.849 is moving. I know I'm not the only person praying 00:36:51.849 --> 00:36:55.030 for this person. This person has some real prayer 00:36:55.030 --> 00:36:59.199 warriors praying for them, too. And whatever 00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:01.219 change and shifts happen, that will be the glory 00:37:01.219 --> 00:37:04.659 of God. But y 'all, when I did start getting 00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:08.179 back on social media, there were a lot of shots 00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:10.679 at first to my faith and to my testimony trying 00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:13.980 to poke holes, trying to make me feel like not 00:37:13.980 --> 00:37:17.420 confident in sharing it. I had people from my 00:37:17.420 --> 00:37:20.320 past start trying to pop in and trying to remind 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:23.739 me of who I was and what I did and trying to 00:37:23.739 --> 00:37:25.920 dig that up and trying to get me to relive the 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:31.260 past and go back to the past. I was kind. I prayed 00:37:31.260 --> 00:37:36.320 for these people and I kept it pushing. I didn't 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:40.800 turn back. I didn't reminisce. Misery likes company 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:50.079 and I wasn't sticking around for that. I'm saying 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:54.360 this and sharing this with y 'all because sometimes 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:58.670 when you look at someone's walk and you don't 00:37:58.670 --> 00:38:01.849 see the opposition, it looks like an easy cakewalk. 00:38:01.869 --> 00:38:04.889 I'm telling y 'all that I learned forgiveness. 00:38:05.409 --> 00:38:07.989 I learned intercessory prayer. I learned praying 00:38:07.989 --> 00:38:11.550 for other people by going through the act of 00:38:11.550 --> 00:38:14.510 warfare. You don't learn just by reading. You 00:38:14.510 --> 00:38:18.530 learn by suffering. You learn by being put out 00:38:18.530 --> 00:38:21.250 on the front lines in the battlefield. And there's 00:38:21.250 --> 00:38:24.320 this misconception people have that like, If 00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:26.099 the Lord is pleased with you, if you have the 00:38:26.099 --> 00:38:29.420 favor of God, like you'll never get touched. 00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:32.219 You'll never walk through battle and that's not 00:38:32.219 --> 00:38:34.940 biblical. We know that as followers of Christ 00:38:34.940 --> 00:38:37.300 throughout our lives we're going to be persecuted 00:38:37.300 --> 00:38:39.960 on behalf of the name of Jesus Christ. That there's 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:41.639 going to be opposition, that there's going to 00:38:41.639 --> 00:38:43.280 be warfare, that there's going to be attacks, 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:45.840 that whatever. When we're trying to further the 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:49.840 kingdom of heaven, when we are submitting our 00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.449 will to the Lord, and we're doing something that's 00:38:52.449 --> 00:38:55.889 going to be very good for the kingdom of heaven 00:38:55.889 --> 00:38:59.289 bringing other people closer to christ the devil 00:38:59.289 --> 00:39:04.250 is going to try to block it to stop it he's going 00:39:04.250 --> 00:39:07.869 to try to stop it before it even starts but god 00:39:07.869 --> 00:39:10.389 will use that for your good god will use the 00:39:10.389 --> 00:39:14.070 attacks of the enemy as training ground look 00:39:14.070 --> 00:39:18.750 at the book of jobe job wasn't attacked because 00:39:18.750 --> 00:39:24.409 he was such a horrible horrible person that he 00:39:24.409 --> 00:39:26.250 he wasn't attacked because he had no faith in 00:39:26.250 --> 00:39:29.210 God he was actually attacked because he was favored 00:39:29.210 --> 00:39:33.389 by God God was actually the one who said have 00:39:33.389 --> 00:39:37.050 you not seen my servant job like isn't he the 00:39:37.050 --> 00:39:41.409 most faithful dude like I am so well pleased 00:39:41.409 --> 00:39:44.849 with him the devil was like well he's only acting 00:39:44.849 --> 00:39:46.429 like that because you gave him everything I bet 00:39:46.429 --> 00:39:50.820 if you took it all away he'd curse you And God 00:39:50.820 --> 00:39:53.519 allowed that to be tested so that way he could 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:56.920 prove that even throughout all of that Job was 00:39:56.920 --> 00:40:03.820 not gonna flip Job loved the Lord despite His 00:40:03.820 --> 00:40:06.019 circumstances there are a lot and I've talked 00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:08.179 about this a couple days ago in a tick -tock 00:40:08.179 --> 00:40:12.300 video y 'all that Testing God will allow our 00:40:12.300 --> 00:40:15.320 faith to be tested and that happens by us experiencing 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:17.780 suffering trials and tribulations because it's 00:40:17.780 --> 00:40:21.440 really easy to say believe in God Throw in your 00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:24.559 faith to Jesus glorifying him When you have a 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:27.039 lot to brag about when the season feels good 00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:29.800 when you don't feel like you're stressing But 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:33.480 it's when you are facing trials when you're facing 00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:37.119 tribulations When you feel like you have things 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:38.960 taken from you when you feel like there's an 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:44.619 injustice done When your circumstances don't 00:40:44.619 --> 00:40:48.300 look like circumstances least from the world's 00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:50.079 perspective that would bring about rejoicing 00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:53.039 and You still choose to put your faith in the 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:54.860 Lord because there are a lot of people who will 00:40:54.860 --> 00:40:56.780 glorify God with their mouths But once they're 00:40:56.780 --> 00:41:00.099 put in that situation, it's what you say. What 00:41:00.099 --> 00:41:02.900 are the next steps you take? You choose to put 00:41:02.900 --> 00:41:04.820 your faith in yourself or do you choose to put 00:41:04.820 --> 00:41:07.579 your faith in God? You choose to create your 00:41:07.579 --> 00:41:10.079 own solutions rely on your own understanding 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:14.260 Do whatever you feel you gotta do or do you turn 00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:17.559 to the Lord? And there are a lot of people who 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:20.139 will in good seasons glorify God, but the second 00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:22.019 they're not getting what they want, the second 00:41:22.019 --> 00:41:23.659 they feel like the prayers aren't being answered, 00:41:23.940 --> 00:41:26.519 how they want them to be answered. When they 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:28.079 start going through this suffering that they 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.940 can't explain, and they feel like, well, I'm 00:41:29.940 --> 00:41:33.440 a good person, I don't deserve it. And they decide 00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:35.699 to turn to things that aren't the Lord. They 00:41:35.699 --> 00:41:38.460 decide to sin, they decide to curse, they decide 00:41:38.460 --> 00:41:42.000 to do all these things. God, use those as an 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.599 opportunity to reveal what is in your heart. 00:41:44.860 --> 00:41:47.960 Where are you rooted? Has your faith been built 00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:50.820 on firm foundation or has it been built on sand? 00:41:54.340 --> 00:41:56.280 And when those testings and those tribulations 00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:59.420 happen, some of the things are revealed. You'll 00:41:59.420 --> 00:42:02.739 see, oh wow, I've come a really long way. You 00:42:02.739 --> 00:42:05.980 know, compared to the last testing I had, I wasn't 00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:07.900 rooted in faith like this. I didn't react like 00:42:07.900 --> 00:42:09.719 this. This was really good. And then there are 00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:11.239 other times and other things that you'll look 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:13.400 at and see that was not a Christ -like response. 00:42:14.340 --> 00:42:16.900 That was not what God told me to do. And that 00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:20.159 was not the righteous method. And you're able 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.500 to see, okay, that needs worked on. And that 00:42:22.500 --> 00:42:26.000 right there too, what you do, how you react to 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.739 that thing being exposed also says a lot. About 00:42:29.739 --> 00:42:32.800 where your priorities lie. Do you choose to get 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.920 angry and upset Defend it and shove it under 00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:42.079 the rug Or do you say at the end of the day this 00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:44.760 is not righteous no matter what triggered it 00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.360 This is not righteous and God. I need your help 00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:51.860 to work on this God I need you to help me help 00:42:51.860 --> 00:42:55.380 heal this help me learn to do better change my 00:42:55.380 --> 00:43:00.159 heart change my weights That is a sign of humility, 00:43:00.579 --> 00:43:03.579 okay? A lot of people think humility and humbleness 00:43:03.579 --> 00:43:05.840 is being able to live below your means and do 00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:09.099 all these things. There was a point in my life 00:43:09.099 --> 00:43:11.239 when I was in New Age spirituality where I was 00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:14.420 living in my car and only getting the bare minimum, 00:43:14.420 --> 00:43:16.039 the necessities, and I thought I was the most 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:18.719 humble person ever. But I wasn't, because if 00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:21.400 I was truly humble, I would have known I needed 00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:23.639 God. I would have known any of Jesus Christ. 00:43:24.460 --> 00:43:26.619 I would have seen that the tarot card reading 00:43:26.619 --> 00:43:30.960 and the divination in the new age was ego out 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:35.079 the roof thinking I could find the answers without 00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:39.679 God and do things apart from God. Humility is 00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:41.739 recognizing that you cannot do anything apart 00:43:41.739 --> 00:43:48.719 from Christ. Spiritual bankruptcy recognizing 00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:51.619 that apart from Christ like you don't have salvation 00:43:51.619 --> 00:43:55.539 apart from Christ. You cannot do anything the 00:43:55.539 --> 00:44:00.760 father Like you cannot do anything apart from 00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:05.260 the Creator we are simply branches Jesus is divine 00:44:05.260 --> 00:44:10.159 We can't do anything apart from him that is true 00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:13.340 humility And when you truly believe that you 00:44:13.340 --> 00:44:15.599 can't do anything apart from him, you start submitting 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:19.059 to his ways. Which means when someone slaps you 00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:22.639 on the cheek, you turn it to the other one. You 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.760 forgive them 70 times 7. You meet them with love. 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:27.440 You meet them with grace. You meet them with 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:29.579 humility. You pray for the people who persecute 00:44:29.579 --> 00:44:32.739 you. And I want to be so clear when I say this. 00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:35.059 If someone is actively being used by the enemy, 00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:40.670 like they are actively Trying to cause like roadblocks 00:44:40.670 --> 00:44:45.210 and they are not repenting Take it to the Lord 00:44:45.210 --> 00:44:49.650 on are you supposed to stick around? Because 00:44:49.650 --> 00:44:51.949 there is some people and I want to say I say 00:44:51.949 --> 00:44:54.389 this with the most love That God has called you 00:44:54.389 --> 00:44:56.730 out of that relationship or out of that situation 00:44:56.730 --> 00:44:58.909 a while ago yet You're still choosing to stay 00:44:58.909 --> 00:45:01.670 around whether it's you trust God won't provide 00:45:01.670 --> 00:45:05.070 for you or You don't think you're gonna find 00:45:05.070 --> 00:45:09.579 love or appreciation or whatever There are a 00:45:09.579 --> 00:45:11.960 lot of people who are in connections and friendships 00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:16.079 in situations simply because it's provision And 00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:18.280 God has called them to leave God has called them 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:20.500 out, but they don't trust that God will provide 00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:26.599 for them elsewhere They don't trust that he will 00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:33.940 bless their obedience There are people who want 00:45:33.940 --> 00:45:36.099 to stick around simply so they can see if someone 00:45:37.110 --> 00:45:42.010 gets what they believe is coming to him. One 00:45:42.010 --> 00:45:46.949 thing that the Lord has revealed to me, and I'm 00:45:46.949 --> 00:45:48.909 not saying this is the rule, I'm just saying 00:45:48.909 --> 00:45:51.389 this appears to be the way God has moved a lot 00:45:51.389 --> 00:45:55.599 in my life. before he has taught anybody a lesson, 00:45:56.039 --> 00:45:59.199 he usually separates me from that person. I'm 00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:01.980 not in their life on a daily basis watching and 00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:04.019 being fed what they're going through as they're 00:46:04.019 --> 00:46:06.519 going through it. There's usually some distance. 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.119 And in my prayer time, the Lord has really spoken 00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:12.360 to me like I don't need to be around the fallout. 00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:15.179 If I'm a little too close, I'm going to start 00:46:15.179 --> 00:46:17.360 taking hits too. I'm going to get involved in 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:19.579 areas I don't need to be involved in. But also, 00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:21.539 there's a temptation to rejoice in suffering 00:46:21.539 --> 00:46:23.699 when we shouldn't be rejoicing in people's suffering. 00:46:24.420 --> 00:46:26.340 We should never be taking joy in people's suffering. 00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:29.159 That shouldn't be a ha -ha I told you so. And 00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:30.619 if that's where your heart is, you need to take 00:46:30.619 --> 00:46:34.059 it to the Lord. Because that's not the best place 00:46:34.059 --> 00:46:40.940 to be in. Pray for your enemies. That is the 00:46:40.940 --> 00:46:42.920 root of this message to y 'all. Pray for your 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.139 enemies. Pray for the people who are being used 00:46:45.139 --> 00:46:47.039 by the devil. Pray for the people who are blocking 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:50.460 you. Don't pray against them. Pray for them. 00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:54.360 And yes, pray that God protects you. Pray that 00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:56.840 he uses this for your good. Pray that he uses 00:46:56.840 --> 00:47:00.360 this to teach you and to strengthen you. Plead 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:02.579 the blood of Jesus over your life. Plead the 00:47:02.579 --> 00:47:05.960 blood of Jesus over your situation. Put on the 00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:11.619 armor of God. I am also saying pray for these 00:47:11.619 --> 00:47:15.860 people's deliverance. Pray that they are no longer 00:47:15.860 --> 00:47:19.659 able to be used by the devil. Pray that whatever 00:47:19.659 --> 00:47:23.039 strongholds the devil has in their life are broken. 00:47:23.420 --> 00:47:27.000 Pray that they have deliverance. Pray that they 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:34.480 see a move of God in their life. There's one 00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:36.059 more piece of scripture I want to read to y 'all 00:47:36.059 --> 00:47:39.519 which is Luke. Chapter 6 love your enemies But 00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:42.519 I say to you who listen love your enemies do 00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:45.099 what is good to those who hate you Bless those 00:47:45.099 --> 00:47:47.880 who curse you pray for those who mistreat you 00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:51.039 if anyone hits you on the cheek Offer the other 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.179 side also if anyone takes away your coat don't 00:47:54.179 --> 00:47:58.159 hold back your shirt either Give to everyone 00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:01.179 who asks you and from someone who takes your 00:48:01.179 --> 00:48:04.460 things don't ask for them back Just as you want 00:48:04.460 --> 00:48:07.480 others to do for you, do the same for them. If 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:09.920 you love those who love you, what credit is that 00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:12.800 to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 00:48:13.420 --> 00:48:15.940 Which is a bit of the reiteration of the last 00:48:15.940 --> 00:48:22.179 scripture we read. But isn't it? Scripture right 00:48:22.179 --> 00:48:26.300 here tells us to do unto others as we would want 00:48:26.300 --> 00:48:29.760 done unto us, the basic thing we learned in kindergarten 00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:33.760 and school. The basic rule of how to treat others, 00:48:34.099 --> 00:48:36.320 treat others the way you'd want to be treated. 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.500 Now that doesn't say, and when you get treated 00:48:39.500 --> 00:48:41.400 a way you don't like, treat them that way too 00:48:41.400 --> 00:48:43.679 so they know that you don't like it. That's not 00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:47.460 what scripture says. Scripture does say that 00:48:47.460 --> 00:48:51.400 the Lord will avenge. Vengeance is his. And I 00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:53.440 can tell you right now, the Lord is a lot more 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:55.920 creative in his vengeance. And at the end of 00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:58.639 the day, he will make sure it's a way that furthers 00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:02.469 the kingdom of heaven above all things. I'll 00:49:02.469 --> 00:49:06.969 let y 'all in on something. when we are creating 00:49:06.969 --> 00:49:10.050 vengeance for ourselves most of the time what 00:49:10.050 --> 00:49:13.309 we are seeking is people's embarrassment and 00:49:13.309 --> 00:49:16.190 pain and suffering and we're not actually thinking 00:49:16.190 --> 00:49:18.329 about how it's going to bring that person closer 00:49:18.329 --> 00:49:21.550 to God or how it can bring other people closer 00:49:21.550 --> 00:49:24.110 to God we're thinking about what's going to be 00:49:24.110 --> 00:49:26.489 the most embarrassing painful way to teach someone 00:49:26.489 --> 00:49:29.170 a lesson what's going to elevate me what's going 00:49:29.170 --> 00:49:31.050 to make me look right what's going to make me 00:49:31.050 --> 00:49:34.289 look good but when you give it to God He's going 00:49:34.289 --> 00:49:36.130 to use it in a way that's going to further the 00:49:36.130 --> 00:49:39.849 kingdom of heaven. And if you are truly submitted 00:49:39.849 --> 00:49:42.809 to Christ, if you truly love the Lord, submitting 00:49:42.809 --> 00:49:46.949 yourself to God, becoming a fisher of men, becoming 00:49:46.949 --> 00:49:50.469 a servant, making disciples, that should be your 00:49:50.469 --> 00:49:54.150 greatest goal, is that other people seek repentance 00:49:54.150 --> 00:49:57.289 and seek the kingdom of heaven. It shouldn't 00:49:57.289 --> 00:49:59.590 be making other people feel mad, sad, or like 00:49:59.590 --> 00:50:03.980 crap. It should be that person finding Christ, 00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:08.800 giving their lives to Christ, and being redeemed. 00:50:10.539 --> 00:50:15.679 And I want to end this episode with just a simple 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:20.599 prayer, and I'm gonna read, I'm gonna do this 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:24.219 off of memory. We're gonna pray Psalm 23, as 00:50:24.219 --> 00:50:27.079 this was a psalm that when I was dealing with 00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:30.920 warfare, like, Heavy, heavy warfare, just giving 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:33.159 my life to Christ that brought me so much peace. 00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:35.579 Again, y 'all, this is all from memory, so bear 00:50:35.579 --> 00:50:38.659 with me. The Lord is my shepherd. There is nothing 00:50:38.659 --> 00:50:41.960 I lack. In green pastures, he makes me lie down. 00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:44.539 To still waters, he leads me, he restores my 00:50:44.539 --> 00:50:47.340 soul. He guides me along right paths for the 00:50:47.340 --> 00:50:50.079 sake of his name. And even though I walk through 00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:52.099 the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear 00:50:52.099 --> 00:50:55.579 no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your 00:50:55.579 --> 00:50:58.579 staff comfort me. You prepare a table before 00:50:58.579 --> 00:51:01.320 me, in front of my enemies. You anoint my head 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:04.760 with oil, my cup overflows. Indeed, goodness 00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:07.460 and mercy will pursue me all the days of my life. 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.619 I will dwell in the house of the Lord for endless 00:51:10.619 --> 00:51:14.820 days. Amen. And y 'all, when I was going through 00:51:14.820 --> 00:51:18.420 that work there, that prayer brought me so much 00:51:18.420 --> 00:51:23.559 hope and reminded me of who God is and what he 00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:27.389 does. That when when you are submitted to the 00:51:27.389 --> 00:51:32.489 Lord, there is nothing you shall lack There is 00:51:32.489 --> 00:51:35.050 nothing you shall lack that when you are submitted 00:51:35.050 --> 00:51:37.369 to the Lord There is a rest you will find that 00:51:37.369 --> 00:51:40.369 he will lead you beside still waters You will 00:51:40.369 --> 00:51:43.670 get to lay down in green pastures The wonderful 00:51:43.670 --> 00:51:46.030 thing about submitting yourself to Christ is 00:51:46.030 --> 00:51:49.170 in the middle of a battle you get rest He'll 00:51:49.170 --> 00:51:50.949 call you to lay down and say I'll take it from 00:51:50.949 --> 00:51:53.849 here. There have been times when there was someone 00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:57.239 actively attacking me, sending me a message, 00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:01.559 saying something to me. And the Lord says, don't 00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:05.639 respond. I'm like, what? Like what? And he's 00:52:05.639 --> 00:52:07.519 like, no, no, don't respond. Just wait, just 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:10.940 wait. And I obey that. I listened to that. And 00:52:10.940 --> 00:52:15.139 a couple hours later, the situation worked itself 00:52:15.139 --> 00:52:18.300 out. Like God gave them a conviction. Instead 00:52:18.300 --> 00:52:20.480 of popping off on me, that person's apologizing 00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:25.789 to me. That person feels convicted. Or when they're 00:52:25.789 --> 00:52:28.530 trying to get information they get in the information 00:52:28.530 --> 00:52:30.670 they need and I don't even have to talk to them 00:52:30.670 --> 00:52:33.969 They figure it out God moves on my behalf. He 00:52:33.969 --> 00:52:38.809 says no you rest I'll bring someone else up I'll 00:52:38.809 --> 00:52:40.710 give a revelation. I'll give a conviction. I'll 00:52:40.710 --> 00:52:46.269 give a clarity you rest Even though I walk through 00:52:46.269 --> 00:52:47.989 the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear 00:52:47.989 --> 00:52:52.420 no evil for you with me like even though The 00:52:52.420 --> 00:52:55.820 enemy is doing the most, even though the biggest 00:52:55.820 --> 00:52:59.820 attacks are being sent. Even though everything 00:52:59.820 --> 00:53:02.559 around looks like a recipe for death or looks 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:05.659 like a recipe for disaster, I will not fear that 00:53:05.659 --> 00:53:08.780 because I have God. And if he is with me, what 00:53:08.780 --> 00:53:15.179 can stand against me? You anoint my head with 00:53:15.179 --> 00:53:19.599 oil. My cup overflows. God is the one who anoints. 00:53:19.659 --> 00:53:22.059 It's not the world. It's not whether or not the 00:53:22.059 --> 00:53:24.280 world decides you're worthy of the anointing 00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:28.920 of the assignment of the calling Of whatever 00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:33.300 whatever god intends you to use where god anoints 00:53:33.300 --> 00:53:36.000 Not the world what the world thinks about you 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:39.099 the world's qualifications do not matter when 00:53:39.099 --> 00:53:44.239 god is involved And that your cup will overflow 00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:47.380 you will be taken care of exceedingly and abundantly 00:53:49.469 --> 00:53:52.130 You will prepare a table before me in front of 00:53:52.130 --> 00:53:55.110 my enemies. The same people who mocked you, who 00:53:55.110 --> 00:53:56.929 laughed at you, who tried to block you, who tried 00:53:56.929 --> 00:53:59.530 to stop you, who were used by the enemy, are 00:53:59.530 --> 00:54:01.849 the same people who are going to have to watch 00:54:01.849 --> 00:54:07.710 God bless you. Are going to have to see God fulfill 00:54:07.710 --> 00:54:11.210 his word in your life. He will make sure that 00:54:11.210 --> 00:54:18.119 they know that it was God and only God. Indeed, 00:54:18.179 --> 00:54:20.440 goodness and mercy will pursue me all the days 00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:21.800 of my life. I will dwell in the house of the 00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:24.079 Lord for endless days. Amen. When you're walking 00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:26.400 with God, His goodness and His mercy will follow 00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:29.139 you all the days. There is nothing that the enemy 00:54:29.139 --> 00:54:33.780 can do about it. And I pray that this psalm brings 00:54:33.780 --> 00:54:37.739 you peace and hope, just as it has brought me 00:54:37.739 --> 00:54:40.679 peace and hope, and that it reminds you of who 00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:45.239 God is and what He will do when you submit to 00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:50.139 Him. Put your faith in him. 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