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THE POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE The objective of The Power of an Indestructible Life is to reveal the unique foundation of Christianity—rooted not in human traditions or religious systems, but in the person of Jesus Christ, whose priesthood and authority are secured by the power of an indestructible life. The lesson aims to help believers understand the eternal significance of Christ’s resurrection, the promise of eternal bodies for the redeemed, and the ultimate destinies of both the saved and the lost. It encourages readers to embrace the hope of eternal life and to live in the transformative power of Christ’s indestructible life through faith. THE POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE Pastor Marcos Marrero January 1, 1900 Objective: The objective of The Power of an Indestructible Life is to reveal the unique foundation of Christianity—rooted not in human traditions or religious systems, but in the person of Jesus Christ, whose priesthood and authority are secured by the power of an indestructible life. The lesson aims to help believers understand the eternal significance of Christ’s resurrection, the promise of eternal bodies for the redeemed, and the ultimate destinies of both the saved and the lost. It encourages readers to embrace the hope of eternal life and to live in the transformative power of Christ’s indestructible life through faith. Synopsis: Pastor Marcos explains that what separates Christianity from all other belief systems is its foundation on the reality of eternal life through Christ. While religions and philosophies speak of legacy or immortality, true Christianity offers believers a literal eternal existence—soul and body—secured by the resurrection of Jesus, who lives forever as High Priest on the basis of an indestructible life (Hebrews 7:16). The teaching outlines the believer’s journey after death: appearing before the judgment seat of Christ for purification, receiving a spiritual covering, and later being clothed in a glorified, resurrected body. In contrast, unbelievers await the final resurrection, where their bodies and souls are cast into the lake of fire—the second death. Scripture affirms that all human bodies were originally designed for eternity, but sin introduced death, requiring Christ’s indestructible life to restore creation. Pastor Marcos further illustrates the eternal nature of the soul using analogies of recorded information: just as data is never lost, human souls carry all experiences, and believers’ souls are refined and redeemed through Christ before entering eternal glory. The indestructible life of Jesus is the divine energy that sustains creation, as every atom responds to the Word of God. The resurrection of Christ is proof that mortality will be swallowed up by life, offering believers the hope of eternal fellowship with God in a new heaven and new earth. Ultimately, the teaching emphasizes that Jesus’ indestructible life is not only the foundation of salvation but also the power that guarantees victory over death, eternal hope for believers, and the final judgment for the lost. Inspired Teaching: Hebrews 7:16 “One who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.” NIV What makes Christianity different from all other world religions, for true Christianity is not a religion at all, but a way of life; is that its foundation rests on the predicate of the power of a human life that is indestructible. Many religions peddle immortality, even secular humanism applauds the immortality that a commendable legacy, according to their standards, leaves for posterity. But the reality is that once you die, you are dead. Let’s face it, if a person dies and ends up in hell, once there, its not going to matter much to the person that died what people thought about them or what their legacy to humanity really was. If any thing, they will be more worried about those who are following in the footsteps of their legacy, for after all it was their wrong belief that got them to hell to begin with, especially if those loved ones they leave behind are following in the footsteps of what they themselves believed. At the core of true Christianity is that it offers a personal and blissfully eternal human existence to those who are converted, in a new and physically recreated heaven and earth. True Christianity offers the promise of a brand new physically eternal body into which the delivered soul of an individual will reside eternally. A delivered soul is one who had to appear before the judgment seat of Christ after departing the physical body that died. As it is written: Absent from the body, present with the Lord. When a soul appears before the judgment seat of Christ it undergoes a fire of purification, this is the place where all the information that the soul gathered after being saved, while still in the physical body, is judged. 2 Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” The judgment seat of Christ is for believers only, the soul of the unbelievers who die go to Hades, and there await the final judgment that takes place during the final resurrection. The believers who die, go to heaven in soul form, and do not get their physically resurrected bodies until after the first resurrection takes place. 1 Corinthians 3:11-15 “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day (of the judgment seat of Christ) will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it (the foundation of Christ’s salvation when it was laid in the born-again person’s heart) endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.” That means that after appearing at the judgment seat of Christ, the saved soul receives a non-physical body to be clothed with while it awaits to be furthered clothed with the physically resurrected body that it has been promised. 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 “For we know that if our earthly house (our physical bodies), this tent, is destroyed (dies), we have a building from God, a house (a spiritual body) not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having being clothed, we (our souls after leaving the dead physical bodies) shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent (physical body) groan (dislike our mortal physical bodies), being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed (die and become spiritual creatures), but further clothed (receive our physically resurrected bodies), that mortality may be swallowed up by life.” All of that to say that the Bible clearly teaches that our physical human bodies were originally designed to be eternal. What that means is that in spite of the fact that when we humans die in our present day, and our dead physical bodies dissolve back into the dust that they came from, someday they will all be raised from the dust and will be reunited with their departed souls, and live together for eternity. The Scriptures that we’ve read told of the future that awaits those who have died, or will die in the faith, but what about those who after they die, end up in hell or Hades? What is their fate? Revelation 20:11-15 “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” The lake of fire is the place where the eternally resurrected physical bodies of the dammed are sent to spend eternity after they are reunited with their dammed souls. The false prophet and the antichrist who rise up to oppose the Two Witnesses during the tribulation period, are both captured alive physically, and sent to the lake of fire one thousand years before anyone, that is because their eternally dammed physical bodies are brought up from the pit, where they were originally sent physically alive after they rebelled against Moses during Korah’s rebellion. Numbers 16:28-33 You can read the details of these events in my book Man’s Final Destiny, in the books section of the houseoffaithminsitries.org, in the chapter titled the identity of the antichrist. In verse ten we read that the devil is cast into the lake of fire with all those whom he deceived to be: Tormented day and night forever and ever. Eternal physical damnation is the fate of those who are lost. Paul tells us that for those of us who believe, mortality will be swallowed up by life. Since Jesus came to give us life and life in abundance, we know that it will be a blissfully eternal life. In our opening text we are told that Jesus is our High Priest on the basis of an indestructible human life. Let’s take a look at it from a scientific point of view. What is the human soul? For those of you who are old like me, you may remember the old cassette recorders. They consisted of three main parts, the battery, the tape that stored the information, and the cassette player itself with the different buttons that you pushed. You pressed the record button, spoke into the built-in microphone and recorded a message, you then pressed the re-wind button and played back what you recorded. The human soul is like the tape that records everything that the human body experiences, the recorder represents the human physical body with all its senses that will eventually grow old and break down to be discarded as soon as the energy, or power source runs out, which represents the human spirit leaving the body when it dies. All the information however, remains recorded in the tape which is ejected from the player to be salvaged, which represents the human soul leaving the body after it dies. In today’s technology you would just download the information from the tape into your computer, where you can edit the information and format it to be played or viewed through a new player. When an unbeliever dies, his soul, or data, is unredeemable, for it is corrupted and cannot be downloaded, so it will not appear at the judgment seat of Christ to be edited and formatted. Instead it is placed on a file called Hades, awaiting the final resurrection of the physical body from whence it came, at which time it will be reunited with it and discarded into the lake of fire for ever, which is like a containment place for all malicious viruses and malware. When a believer dies, his soul, or data, has to be redeemed from the corruption from whence it came, so it goes first through a refining fire, where every selfish act, or virus, has to be removed before it can be uploaded into the heavenly mainframe. In this editing, only those actions that were produced in the born-again believer’s heart by the prompting of the Holy Spirit, and emanated as spiritual fruit, are accepted, everything else is discarded. For spiritual fruit always leads the believers into walking in self-control, which is the opposite of the destructive ways of selfish ambitions. Once the redeemed human soul is refined in the fire of the judgment seat of Christ, it is placed in a house not made with human hands, a spiritual folder as its covering, if you will. While there, it is able to interact will all of the other souls that are awaiting the resurrection of their soon to come, eternally incorruptible physical new bodies. We know from science that one of the main laws of physics that govern the universe states that no information is ever lost, no matter how scrambled the physical matter that produced it becomes. We also know from Scripture that all physical matter, which in now under the entropic law of decay, will have to go through the fire of purification, before the new heavens and the new earth that are introduced into a perfect and new physical creation is reunited with its future inhabitants. 2 Peter 3:12-13 “Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat (refining fire)? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness (no decay) dwells.” What do you think was God’s purpose when He originally created the heavens and the earth? We can safely assume that the purpose why God created the heavens and the earth was to introduce something new that He did not have before the creation. We can also safely assume, from what Scripture reveals, that before physical man was created, there was no physical realm for any physical men to dwell in. Hebrews 10:5 “Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: ‘Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.’” Not just a body, but an indestructible body that secures the foundation of the entire creation of the heavens and the earth, that which is visible as well as that which is invisible, since the creation itself consists of both, to something that has always existed. 2 Corinthians 4:18 “...For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” Everything in the universe is made of atomic particles, except for energy, yet without energy itself there cannot be any atomic particles, as Einstein figured out, that all matter was made by energy. Where did the energy that made all the atomic particles that comprise the entire visible and invisible creation come from? John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He (the Word) was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him (the Word), and without Him (the Word) nothing was made that was made.” What is the substance of the Word of God? Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living (means life creating, life sustaining) and powerful (means energy), and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner (the refining fire or energy that restores the soul and recreates the physical bodies that died, to their original settings) of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Every single atom that comprises everything in the creation came directly from the Word of God, and answers directly to Him. If Jesus speaks to the mountain and tells it to be removed into the sea, every single atomic particle that gives body to that mountain would just instantly float directly into the sea. But here is what’s really important: John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” The human physical body that The Word of God came to indwell offered Himself as a sacrifice on God’s altar, the cross, on behalf of all the rest of the humanity that He created, His shed blood was taken by the Holy Spirit and sprinkled on the mercy seat of the heavenly Holy of Holies, after three days and three nights, the physical dead body of Jesus was infused with the energy contained in the Word of Promise, for it was written that He would not let the body His Holy One see decay, and He rose triumphantly full of that indestructible life that holds the universe together. May His name be forever bless, I bless You sweet Jesus! Psalm 16:10 “For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see (undergo decay) corruption.” How do we become partakers of this amazing life-giving energy? The same promises of God apply to all of us who are willing to believe them. Romans 8:11 “But if the same Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” Previous Next Home

PERSEVERANCE The objective of this message is to encourage believers to remain steadfast in their faith during trials and tribulations by holding onto the hope, peace, and confidence found in Christ. It seeks to show that perseverance produces character, character strengthens hope, and hope anchors us in God’s eternal promises. < Back PERSEVERANCE Minister Lisa Kane July 10, 2022 Objective: The objective of this message is to encourage believers to remain steadfast in their faith during trials and tribulations by holding onto the hope, peace, and confidence found in Christ. It seeks to show that perseverance produces character, character strengthens hope, and hope anchors us in God’s eternal promises. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane opens with Romans 5:1–5, highlighting how justification by faith brings peace with God through Christ. She explains that while life is full of trials, tribulation produces perseverance, perseverance builds character, and character fosters hope that does not disappoint because it is rooted in God’s love poured out by the Holy Spirit. Lisa emphasizes the sacrificial love of Christ demonstrated in Romans 5:8, reminding listeners that Jesus died for all humanity while they were still sinners. This truth is framed as the ultimate example of real love, contrasted with the world’s distorted definitions. God’s plan from the beginning—foretold in Daniel and fulfilled in Christ—shows His intent to end sin and bring everlasting righteousness. The message then turns to Psalm 27, where David’s confidence in the Lord through trials serves as a model for modern believers. Lisa applies this scripture to contemporary struggles, including cultural ideologies and societal pressures, stressing that Christians must stand firm on God’s Word, knowing that they will one day give an account before Him. Perseverance, she teaches, is not only about enduring hardship but about keeping the eternal perspective of standing before God. This perspective equips believers to resist fear, find strength in the Holy Spirit, and experience the joy and peace of knowing their eternal destiny. Lisa reassures those facing despair—even suicidal thoughts—that hope in Christ offers deliverance, strength, and a transformed character on the other side of trials. The sermon concludes with a call to remain faithful, patient, and courageous, clinging to the vision of eternity with Christ. Believers are urged to live with the assurance that one day they will hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” and to let this confidence fuel their perseverance through every tribulation. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this on Sunday, July 10th, 2022. This message is called Perseverance. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift up this message and we bless it in the name of Jesus and we thank you for your blessing on it. Let our spirits be nourished and fed and let our minds grab hold of the hope that we have in you. knowing where we're going to stand with you in the end. Thank you, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Oh, it's going to be one of those messages. By the way, just so you know, I do have the air conditioner running and the fans running, so you're going to hear that hum in the background. I humbly apologize, but it is 95 degrees outside, and so I'm trying to keep it cool inside. We are in the middle of summer here, July 10th, 2022. All right. So, let's go to our opening scripture here. We're going to be looking at Romans chapter five. We're going to start here with verses 1-5. Uh, therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, let's keep in mind, how are we justified by faith? The moment you ask Jesus into your heart to be your Lord and Savior because you can't see him, that is an act of faith. And notice when you do that, look at this. You have a peace with God through Jesus because you're asking Jesus to forgive you of your sins. So you have this peace. It is incredible because we do have tribulation. So I want you to see this that this is yours that you have this in spite of all that's going on. I'm going to show you the hope and the confidence that you have that's going to get you through all of this. Amen. So perseverance. Here we go. Uh verse two. through whom we also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. So we can rejoice in this. So when all hell's breaking loose, guess what? You can say, "I don't care. I know where I'm going to be with my God in heaven." Amen. Oh, let's look at how we know. Let's look verse three. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations. This is what I'm talking about. Paul says it so perfectly here. We glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope. Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Oh hallelujah. So in spite of all the tribulations and the sufferings that we deal with, we get to see a visual of where we're going to be and have a hope. And remember what hope is. Hope is something we cannot see, but we can know. It's called faith. You're having this little bit of faith here that's going to get you through these things. So in spite of all the tribulations that we deal with, we get to see this hope and know where we are with Christ. Now, how does this work? Because that's going to be important here. How does that work? Well, let's continue with Romans 5 and look at verse 8. But God demonstrates his own love toward us. And now, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Oh. Oh. Okay. Hold on. hold everything. So if you're lying, you're cheating, you're committing adultery, you committed murder, hey, you're living in homosexuality sin or you're trying it out, it's sin. Sin is sin. Okay? You are living in sin. Now whether you have asked Jesus to believe uh to come into your heart and you believe in him or not uh whatever you've done Jesus performed the most important act of love. Remember love is love. Well, how do you demonstrate love? Look at this. It he demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. If you read the previous scriptures between the first set and this one that I read, you will find and this is a true statement. Will you die for someone that you love? For that matter, will I die for someone that I love? You know, you have to wonder if you ever face that kind of situation what you would do. Some people have the gumption and will do it. But there are others that won't. And it doesn't matter how much of you're a believer or a sinner. If you're not going to die for someone, you're not demonstrating love. Simple as that. So, love isn't love as the world would like us to believe. Love is dying for someone. And Christ died for all of us. And you know what? We were still sinners when he died for us. Oh, you you got to capture this. Think of this. Think of this. Imagine when the flood came out thousands of years ago and God was facing a situation. Now I I'm I'm looking at it from a human perspective, but I this is something to grasp on to because this is so mindblowing. Imagine him facing ending the the world at that point with the flood and starting over because he looked at mankind and saw the sin was continuously in their hearts. But you know what he was thinking? He was thinking, "Lisa in 2022 on July 10th is going to be talking about this very moment and she's going to believe in me. I got to save this world." That is how God thought this through. And in whether he was at the point of the flood or this was in his planning phase when he saw the whole thing and knew the outcome, whenever it was, he saw Lisa. He saw you. He saw what we will be like. And he knew some would believe and some wouldn't believe. But he couldn't abandon the ones that chose to believe. So he demonstrated the greatest act of love by sending his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now, you got to understand that God has a plan here. This perfect plan, the one that he started in the beginning. And he knew. He knew that Lisa would believe. He knew that you would believe. He knew that us believers would be here. And in knowing that, he decided, "Okay, I got I'm going to put a plan. I'm going to put an end to sin." Now, take a look. Because see, we live in sin and we only know sin because that's what we're born into. We do not understand a world without sin. In fact, it's very difficult to comprehend who Jesus is. It really is confounding to say the least. You know, when you think of him as a god and then you think of him as a man and you think, "But I've sinned. Shouldn't you have?" But he didn't. And he went to the cross, but he took on all that sin and he started the act of putting it to an end. Look what Daniel says about uh this to the Israelites and talking to them. But this is the overall plan he's talking about. Daniel 9:24. 70 weeks were determined for your people and for your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. So he has a plan. And that plan is moving forward. So when you believe and you do have this peace and a hope that you can stand and we're going to look at that in just a moment. You can know that his plan is going forward and which means we're going to see tribulations. We're going to see hell on earth. And in reality, you know what? I've seen some news stories and I've seen some of the stuff that these people do. They get what they deserve. Okay, just saying the reality of the situation is they get what they deserve. And I hope though that they would repent and turn and try to make a better life for themselves. So even though you're a believer and remember as I taught uh actually over it's like a couple years now maybe uh I taught on being a soldier in God's army because as a believer in Christ you're going to have to deal with things and as you deal with things you've got to know the authority that you have and you got to know the tools that you have and how to use those tools. You can go check it out on our website. It is there. All that teaching is there and it's all in video. So you can go watch each step of being a soldier in God's army. It's based on Ephesians chapter 6. So now we know that God has a plan. We know that we're going to face tribulation. So but he said we had a hope and we have a comfort and a peace. He left us the comforter, the Holy Spirit. So what is how do we grab that? How do we have that sustained in our mind? Because sometimes it's very difficult. You're in the situation and all you're thinking of is, "Whoa, there's that mountain, right? You're just being attacked, attacked, attacked." You know, this week wasn't one of my best weeks. But that's okay. I just trust in the Lord that I know where I'm going to stand. So, let's look at what Psalm 27 has to say. We're going to go through that entire chapter because it is so powerful. It is the and and David wrote this psalm the and it it helped him sustain and he went through some serious trials and tribulations. This is your rock, your comfort. You got to remember this chapter. You got to hold on to it because as you get the vision of where you're going to be in the end, you're going to be looking at the straw going, nobody's going to care in 100,000 years. And here's the best part. It builds your character. It helps you persevere. It you just keep on going. For those of you who are dealing with uh suicidal thoughts, listen, there is a life right on the other side of getting through this trial and tribulation. And I want you to capture that. You need to repent. You need to ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins. And I promise you, I promise you, and Jesus, I'm on his side. This is a promise from him that you will be saved and that you will get to the other side and a much stronger individual. Amen. So, let's go look at Psalm 27 and start there. I I you guys, this is going to blow your way. Psalm 20. We're going to start here with verses 1 and two. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? We're gonna stop there. There's other scripture. And again, I don't want to give you all the scripture. I want you to go look these up yourself. Oh, death. Oh, death. Where is your sting? Think of it this way. There is life, there is death, and there's eternity. Eternity is where you're going to spend after death. Now death could come in the form of anything. Cancer, car accident, swimming accident, you name it. COVID, you name it. Death happens. The rapture will take you out of this body in essence as a form of death. But here's the best part. When you stand to face God at your judgment, who is the greater to fear the tribulation you're dealing with now, which is minuscule and nothing according to God or God. So when you put your mind right with God and you are looking at God and you're looking at that moment where you're standing in front of him and that moment should drive your entire life. So when you're faced with the current woke society because we're at war. We have ideology wars on us. They have the genderless war taking place currently in the news the other day. Uh, they don't want to call him mother or mother. They want to call her the birthing parent. Listen, you want to call her a birthing parent? Sure, it makes sense. Put it in a book, whatever. But don't eliminate the word mother. You see what they're doing here? They're trying to indoctrinate us into their ideology that all men and women are the same. And in all reality, we're not. In fact, there are no two people alike in the world. Even twins are not alike. You might see the similarities of people across the world, but we're all different. We're all different. And you know, that's we got to grasp onto the uniqueness that we're all different. And here's the best part of it though. In that uniqueness, you get to stand in the presence of God of who you are. You, me, Lisa, the uniqueness of Lisa is going to stand before God. So when you the uniqueness of you stands before God, how are you going to face him? Trying to be like the world or trying to be like yourself. So you have to overcome the ideologies. Even what I was saying earlier in homosexuality, love is love. You see, when you're attacked with this, you have to think of what is more important in the long term of things. you standing before God and facing him or and acce or accepting what the world is trying to force on you to accept their ideology to bless it. In essence, that's what the movement of the LGBTQ whatever it is that is moving forward today. That ideology is saying you have to accept me for who I am. Whatever God accepts you for who you are, by the way, so there's nothing wrong with that. Uh but they also want you not only to accept you but to accept their sin and bless it and and in in essence giving them a word that says when they face God, hey look God, I had the whole world behind me, I got their blessings, which means we're right, you're wrong. You know what? God is patient though and God is trying to get your attention and he's saying, "Listen, yes, you're going to face me, but I'm going to assure you, you're not going to be feeling that way at that moment. You are not. It's going to be you and him and the books." So, you have to look at that moment and realize, okay, so then if they're forcing this ideology on me and you say, "No, I'm not going to approve or bless your sin. You want to be a sinner, that's between you and God, go sin. Sin is fun for a season. It feels good for a season, but it backbites you. It comes after you later, and it will haunt you on the day that you're in the presence of the Lord. So, you have to realize that there's got to be a moment where you need to repent and turn from that and say, "Okay, Lord, what am I going to do here?" and and say, "I I'm sorry, and I need to call on you and I need you to be my Lord and Savior." And as that believer, when you're faced with these ideologies, remember where you're going to be standing on judgment day. And the answer is simple. I don't accept your ideology. I got to face God in the future. And when I do, I'm going to do it on his terms in the word of God, not your terms. That, my friend, is the secret to persevering because you have that hope because you know it's going to happen. For all of you who are telling you there is no life after death, they're lying to you. Yes, I get it. I have no proof. But I promise you that the moment you repent, you will have your proof because you will know it. You will feel it. It will be a part of you and it is very comforting. So then whom shall you fear? I would go with God and not the world. The world can do nothing. I just taught on Nehemiah and I taught about discernment there. But I also taught that he had the authority of God. He had the authority of the king to do what he was doing. And even though the whole wicked world around him was trying to stop him, he kept persevering and he did it. and he got to the other side because of his authority. So you can get to the other side and you will have a better character. You will be full of hope and comfort because I promise you as you go through every tribulation and some are small, some are bigger, you do come out with a better character. Amen. Whom shall you fear? So remember you have the authority of God. Stand on God's word. Verse two, when the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell. Look at Nehemiah. The enemies fell. They couldn't do anything. And for all of you who have testimonies, you already know this. I have testimonies. It is absolutely amazing. When you get to the other side, you go, "Wow, I stressed over that and it was nothing." It's amazing. We're just we're in the flesh and that is very hard. But if you keep your mind on where you're going to be standing in the presence of God, decision-m should become much, much easier. Let's go to verse three now. Though an army may encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war may rise against me, in this I will be confident. And I just talked about wars, the war of ideology, I can be confident in knowing because see, you make the decision because you're standing in the presence of God. And so you make the decision based on his word. You stand for his word because the word is Jesus. I know it's all beaten up. I I use my word. I get in here. Get into your word. This is Jesus. This is how you're going to get to know who Jesus and God is. Don't listen to the world tell you who Jesus is. You need to get into the word of God and find out who he is. And then you can stand in confidence when you're in this war. And we are in war. We're being attacked with all of these ideologies. And we need to stand strong. And I'm telling you too, there's a physical war coming because whenever you have a spiritual war like this, it's in the heavens. Whatever happens in the heavens happens on the earth. Whatever happens on the earth happens in the heavens. Look at what uh Jesus said when he gave the key keys to the kingdom of heaven. He said, "Whatever you bind on heaven is bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth is loosened in earth." So or loosed in heaven. So get into those scriptures, study them, learn them, and have the confidence. Remember where you're going to be standing. You're going to be standing in front of God. And so you say, "You know what, Lord? Your word said this. I'm going to stand on your word and I'm going to be confident in knowing that I'm going to be better than what this war is after me." And yeah, there were consequences. They're going to try to hurt you. But in Nehemiah, they couldn't do nothing. They had no authority. And until God is ready to remove you, they can't do nothing. Oh, death. Oh, death, where is your staying? Oh, this is awesome. You should have the confident and the hope now. And watch how this works out. This is so amazing. Verse four. One thing I have desired of the Lord that I that will I seek. That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. If you are still thinking or have thought that you're going to be like some angel with wings and a harp and sitting on a cloud, come again. Because I'm going to tell you right now, that is not what heaven is like. And you are going to be blessed. And and if you just think about being in the presence of the Lord, the the healing, the feeling of being healed, the feeling of being delivered and no more sin, no more darkness, no more pain, no more. That alone should be a a mind opener, a an eyeopener as to what heaven will be like. Okay? You don't want to go to hell. Hell is for the devil. and and the Lord will put you there because if you choose him over he God then that's you know you you made your decision but I'm asking you to think about this think it logically through and say you know what I think I'd rather be in the presence of God listen you're made in his image so you have these self- thoughts and idea ideologies that you're kind of up here and that well I could be better or like you you stand on hey I know what's right God not you oh and And we do have that kind of characteristic traits that come out of us. Well, this is the time to say, "No, you know what? I'm going to humble myself before the Lord and I'm going ask the Lord why." And then when you go and find out because he will give you the answer. I promise you that. I've asked why many times, many times. And I got my answers. I promise you, you will get your answers. So, think of what heaven will be like. Think of when you're in that moment of judgment. That's more important than whatever trials and tribulations you're facing. And that should give you hope and confidence and should make your decision- making way easier on what to stand. So, if you have trouble believing, let's say, in evolution or creation, again, think on what heaven's going to be like and understand that if man hadn't fall, you wouldn't have to believe. But because he did fall, you have to believe, which means evolution is debunked. It couldn't happen. That's because you're keeping your eyes on the prize of where you're going to be for eternity. It helps. I'm promising you that. Builds your confidence, builds your character, and helps you persevere through the trials and the tribulations. Amen. Let's continue on Psalm 27. We're in verse 5. For in the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret place of his tabernacle. He shall hide me. He shall set me high upon a rock. Rock. The rock. Jesus is our rock. The righteous shall run into it. The strong tower a righteous shall run into. I taught on Jesus being our ark, our salvation when the end comes. Now remember Noah for the flood. Remember God was thinking Lisa at that time. He decided to save mankind and he saved eight people. And if you go and look at uh the ark encounter and you look at creation museum and you look at their studies that they did on DNA, you will find that our DNA goes back to eight lines. Eight people survived the flood. So there is scientific proof, one that the flood took place. They already know that. They're just trying to decide how big it was. And two, that our DNA does go to eight people, eight lines. So there is scientific proof. So if you are struggling in believing the Old Testament or believing Genesis, I promise you it is truth and the science is coming out. The world don't want it to. Again, here's another war that you're going through. The world don't want you to go through that or know that because if you didn't think that man fell, they can keep you in sin. You see how the devil works? But if you're a believer in Christ and you know what's coming, God has already prophesied about the tribulation in Revelation. Ezekiel has already prophesied there's going to be a great earthquake earthquake where all the walls fall. And that is before the Israelites are are covered or uh marked in the book of Revelation. So that's before the rapture because the the the Christians have to be removed in order for the uh 144,000 to be sealed. So on the day of the Lord, this earthquake happens. The sun turns dark, the moon turns red. There's there's a series of events. It's a day, a day you will never forget. I promise you, you want to be in that rapture. You do not want to be here for the tribulation. That is going to be hell on earth, literally. Uh and in in fact, the first five months, you're not going to be able to die. I just know that. Okay? go into the scriptures and look at it. But look, he says you will be hidden. Look at that. He shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret. There is a secret place. Now here we create our secret place when we spend time with the Lord. But God has a secret place for us. Don't know what it is yet. Secret, but I promise you it's there. And we are going to be comforted and held and protected in spite of all of that going on. Because you know what? One, it doesn't matter per se because when I stand before God, he's going to tell me some good words. I'm going to share those words with you. And I'm hoping he shares those words with you, too. You're going to be standing in his presence. And you're going to be in his eternity. And you're going to not be in hell. And you're going to be not hurting. You're going to be free. You're gonna be loved and at peace. That, my friend, is absolutely so important. So now you can look at that and let it be your confidence. Let it be your hope. Let it get you through the p the tribulations so you can persevere and be strong and have a better character when the next trial and tribulation comes through that you have to persevere through. Verse six. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me. Therefore, I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tabernacle. I will sing. Yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. You know what? When you grab hold of this, you should be singing and you should be jumping up and down for joy, you should be like, "Yes, I I'm telling you, it is a a great mental picture to have because as you stand up strong, your head is above the shoulders. you are above your enemies. They look at you and in fact people of the world. They're considered your enemy right now until they become a believer. But they will be looking at you like what happened to you? Are you in la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la land? Good. You ought to be you ought to be in in the mindset of thinking of where heaven is and what heaven will be like because that is your comfort. That is your strength. And when they ask you because they will ask you and this is your testimony. You can say, "I know where I'm going to be with God when all is done." And you're going to say, "I'm going to be saved." And you can ask them, "Do you want to be saved, too?" And you know, when they see your confidence, your strength, and they see you expressing yourself, and they see the peace and the joy that you have and you singing the praises that you have, they will repent because it is a a catching it catches you. You know, Nehemiah, when I taught on that, the neighbors caught on like, "Okay, he he's going to fix this part of the fence. Well, I'm going to do my part." And then and it got it just kept catching on. It's like a fire that catches on. Amen. Amen. This is awesome. God is so good. Verse seven, here. Oh Lord, when I cry with my voice, have mercy also upon me and answer me. When you said, "Seek my face." My heart said to you, "Your face, Lord, I will seek." Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not leave me nor forsake me, oh God of my salvation. And when you finally grab hold of God and you ask, you repent and you get, you grab hold and you hold on tight. Put his face right in front of you. Put it right there. Don't let go. You say, "Lord, do not leave me. Do not forsake it." and he won't. And that's what he gives you, that comfort, that hope that you can know that you are in his presence. Hallelujah. Because you're seeking his face. You're seeking him. Find out who he is. You're going to be shocked. The world's angry at nothing. But God is all knowing. He has the answers. He's righteous. He is just. But he loves you so much. He sent his only begotten son even as you are a sinner. Verse 10. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me. I want you to understand something. as you age and sometimes when you're young, you you have to face this. Um our parents die, you know, people die and whether it's a parent or uh a loved one, someone who's cared for you and taken care of you and they're removed. They're they're no longer a caretaker. They're no longer available to take care of you, whether they're living in an Alzheimer's home or they've gone on to be with the Lord. They forsake you. But I'm going to tell you right now, Jesus doesn't forsake you. He's the rock that you can rely on. And you know what? And you know, he will take care of your parents and your loved ones. You can have the confidence to know he's got life and death in it. He made it. He understands it. And he understands that you are afraid. You know how many times he said, "Do not be afraid." I forget how many times it is written in the Bible, but it is written so many times to not be afraid. And it is hard, especially when you're in the middle of that trial or tribulation, grieving for a lost one. You're sitting there and you're just like, "Wow, Lord, how am I going to get through this?" But you go to him, you seek his face, you hold on, you don't let go, and you know that he is your strength. and remember where you're going to be standing in his presence in the future. Verse 11, teach me your way, O Lord. And think about that. Teach me your way, oh Lord. His way. He knows about death. He knows what the spiritual realm is all about. He will teach it to you. But you have to get into his presence to find out. It is all in here. But as long as you let the world get in your way first, you will never get your answers. And then you wonder why you have such a hard time with the trials and the tribulations even as a believer. Because it is hard. It's hard to have faith. But if you're seeking him, you can have that confidence knowing where you're going to be in in the future because you're going to be there. You will be there. You will be there. So grab on and say, "Okay, I'm going to hope and know I'm going to be there." And that should give you the confidence of how to live your life. Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in a smooth path because of my enemies. Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries. For false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. Again, the enemy is going to do everything they can to get to you. Even lie. Look at what Trump's going through. And there's so many lies about him, but he stands for God. And he'll say, he comes out and says, "This is not truthful." And you know what? I'm gonna promise you this. He'd be in jail or even dead by now if they had found anything evil on him. They didn't. They wanted it so bad and they can't. So, they're trying to figure out what's the best way, best lie we can make up. So what do you do? You seek his word and you remember where you're going to be when it's your time to face the Lord. I'm going tell you right now, it it it it makes the tribulation not so important anymore. Amen. Amen. The last two verses, verses 13 and 14. I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Oh, it is so easy in the middle of that trial and tribulation. Look at people who have committed suicide. It is easy to lose hope and to lose sight of where you're going to be because the enemy wants you to think that way. He He's trying to confuse you and keep you pushed down. Stand with confidence and remember where you're going to be. Look at that moment. You're in the presence of the Lord. You have to make an accounting for yourself. So, what's it going to be like? You going to live by the rules of the world? Are you going to live by the rules of God? And look what else he says here in verse 14. Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. you know, as you are patient because, you know, we know we're in the trials and tribulations we're facing right now. And this is just the beginning of birth pains as Matthew, Mark, uh, as Jesus says in Matthew and Mark and Luke, this is just the beginning. So, there's going to be it's going to get real bad and it's coming. So, as we sit here, this is the time to reinforce our mind on that visual. Picture yourself in front of his presence. Picture yourself knowing what he's going to say. Picture yourself seeking the word. Picture yourself standing up going, "These trials and tribulations are nothing because I've got a better place to be." Picture yourself making the decisions of the word of God and not of the world. Picture yourself in the knowledge that you have hope, faith in Christ, and keep that in mind and wait for it. So as you wait for it, as you get to you're visualizing it, you see it coming and it's coming. Every day that every day passes, it gets closer and closer. Amen. name. Remember, these are the words that you should be hoping to hear. Look at these words. This is when you stand in the moment of God. Matthew 25:23, his Lord said to him, "Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord." I use that scripture because these are this is about um the talents that we're given. You're given a testimony. Share your testimony. Let your talent be rewarded. Stand strong. Well done, good and faithful servant. Remember that moment. Hasn't happened yet, but remember it by seeing it. Hold on to it. Let it be your comfort. Let it be your confidence. Let it be your hope. And when you come out of the trial and the tribulation, your character goes up and you can say with confidence, I persevered and I made it. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this word and we thank you for your blessing on it. Oh, let us have our strength and our courage and our confidence and our hope in you. And let us hold on to that visual that we have for you and with you in that moment. We're going to be with you. Thank you, Father God, in the glorious name of Jesus. Amen. Well, amen. God bless you guys. I will see you in the next video. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

THE BATTLE (SKIRMISH) & THE WAR The objective of The Battle (Skirmish) & The War is to help believers understand the spiritual distinction between the daily battles they face and the overarching war between God and Satan. It seeks to reveal the biblical foundation for why we are in this war, the importance of choosing God’s side, and how victory is secured through Christ. By connecting Genesis, Revelation, and other key scriptures, the teaching provides clarity, encouragement, and a call to live with awareness, faith, and testimony as conquerors in Christ. THE BATTLE (SKIRMISH) & THE WAR Minister Lisa Kane June 26, 2021 Objective: The objective of The Battle (Skirmish) & The War is to help believers understand the spiritual distinction between the daily battles they face and the overarching war between God and Satan. It seeks to reveal the biblical foundation for why we are in this war, the importance of choosing God’s side, and how victory is secured through Christ. By connecting Genesis, Revelation, and other key scriptures, the teaching provides clarity, encouragement, and a call to live with awareness, faith, and testimony as conquerors in Christ. Synopsis: In The Battle (Skirmish) & The War, Minister Lisa Kane explains that while believers face daily battles—or skirmishes—these are part of a much larger spiritual war. Drawing parallels with history, such as the battle of Gettysburg within the Civil War, she highlights how some battles may seem small, but all play a role in the ultimate outcome. The war itself began in the Garden of Eden, when Lucifer, filled with jealousy over God’s relationship with Adam, sought to undermine humanity in order to wound God. Through Genesis, Lisa clarifies common misconceptions about creation and demonstrates how Adam’s unique relationship with God became a target of Satan’s envy. Lucifer’s deception of Eve reveals the enemy’s strategy: he seeks to separate us from God because he hates the attention and love God lavishes on His children, who are made in His image. This is why humanity is caught in a spiritual war—because Satan attacks what God loves most. Scripture shows that the war’s outcome is already decided: those who stand with God are victorious, for Satan’s ultimate end is the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10). Yet, believers must still engage in daily skirmishes. Minister Lisa emphasizes that victory in these battles comes through the blood of Jesus, the word of our testimony, and living as new creations in Christ (Romans 8:37, Revelation 12:11, 2 Corinthians 5:17). Ultimately, the message calls Christians to choose God, put Him first, and walk in His presence. Each testimony of victory strengthens others, proving that through Christ we are “more than conquerors.” The war is already won, but the battles we fight daily testify of our faith and proclaim God’s triumph over the enemy. Inspired Teaching: I’m sure you understand what the difference between a battle and the war is but just in case, the battle are small skirmishes in the war and the war is the overall event. For example, the battle of Gettysburg was a battle within the Civil War. Some battles affect the outcome of the war and others have little impact but are important, nonetheless. The same is true for a believer. We deal with battles or skirmishes in our everyday lives but we are in an overall war. I asked myself, why are we in a war and what is this war we’re in? Sneak peak, if you’re on God’s side, you win the war. Revelation 20:10 NKJV 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where[a] the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Notice, I said if you’re on God’s side. So far, now we know, we need to choose a side…again, why? Do you know why you’re in this war? It’s likely you don’t and this message will help you understand the larger picture and I hope it changes your paradigm, thinking of what being a Christian means. And it begins in Genesis. Before we continue, I need to clarify ‘confusion’ related to Genesis chapters 1 and 2. There are not two Adam’s and there are not two Eve’s, etc. Chapter 1 is a supply list of what God creates and chapter 2 clarifies what He put into action. Think of it like this…if you plan to build a house, or fix a car, or create a quilt, you need all your supplies before you begin but it doesn’t become a house, or a fixed car, or a quilt until it’s put together or ‘completed’ or ‘finished’. Genesis 2:1 NKJV 2 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. See, He completed ‘creation’ at the end of verse one in chapter 2. That means now that it’s finished, it’s the universe. But notice what the author says in verse 5 chapter 2: Genesis 2:5 NKJV 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; Notice, He created (formed) male and female in chapter 1 but didn’t put him into creation until Genesis 2:7-8. Genesis 1:27 NJKV 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 2:7-8 NKJV 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. So, one Adam and one Eve. No confusion. Now let’s take a look at ‘why’ we’re in a war. Genesis 2:19-20 continues to show ‘how’ God creates animals and birds. Again, they were formed in chapter 1 and brought to Adam in chapter 2 for naming. Genesis 2:19-20 NKJV 19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to [a]Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. There are several mysteries within these two verses that will change your paradigm as a Christian. First, God wants to spend time with Adam. Adam was created in His image. Adam is the only creature that can procreate and produce more in His image. Angels cannot mate with other Angels nor procreate more Angels, and yes, there are female Angels. Zechariah 5:9 NKJV 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. However, we do know that Angels mated with women on the Earth and produced Giants. Genesis 6:4 NKJV 4 There were [a]giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. It took the human female host to actually produce a being and even then, those beings, the giants were cursed and were not given a soul/spirit. There are some teachings that even think these giants became the demons we deal with today. You can research that on your own. God created us in His image and we’re able to produce more of us in His image. God wanted to spend time with Adam to get to know Him because Adam was unique and had his own personality. Just like you and I have our own personalities. Let me give you an example (scenario) of how this time was spent with Adam. God brought a male and female type of big gray fat things to Adam to name. God asks him, what do you want to call these? Adam says, I’m going to call them elephants because they have trunks. God smiles. Then Adam says, I have a question though. God says, oh, ask. Adam says, in all the previous big creatures, you gave them long strong thick tales to help support them (dinosaurs) and here, you gave the elephants long skinny tales. Why? That gives you an idea of the relationship building up between God and Adam. There’s another mystery you want to know while you’re here. (Rabbit trail…) Romans 6:23 NKJV 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the [a]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. No sin, no aging. We don’t know Adam’s age here but he remains fully mature during this time because he had not sinned yet. Here’s another mystery and this one tells you ‘why’ we’re in this war. Ezekiel 28:13 NKJV 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. Look who was in the Garden of Eden, Lucifer. He was the most beautiful creature ever created and I’m sure you’re saying to yourself at this moment, ‘this isn’t a mystery’. We know he was there because he deceived Eve.Theologians will tell you Ezekial 28:13 confirms that the ‘serpent’ was Lucifer but I take it one step further and say that Lucifer was watching God and Adam during this time where it was just the two of them. In fact, he was watching and seething. He was angry. He couldn’t believe that God would give ‘all’ His attention to this worthless, frail creature called a human being – named Adam. He was thinking that God should be giving him His attention and only to him. He wanted God to worship him and it made him angry that He wasn’t. In fact, Lucifer came to the conclusion that he will show God how stupid and frail these human beings can be, which reveals another mystery. Notice Lucifer went after Eve and not Adam. Genesis 3:1 NKJV 3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’? He didn’t touch Adam because Adam spent quality time with God. Hmmm…maybe if you spent quality time with God, Satan wouldn’t touch you?!?! So, Lucifer wanted God to worship him. Instead, God spent time with Adam and built up a relationship because Adam was His son made in His image. When you have your first child, it is absolutely amazing to hold that beautiful baby in your arms. And as they grow, you get to see what type of personality comes out and what type of person that baby becomes. It’s awesome. That’s what God wanted to see with us. He was thrilled and made a place for us to live (Earth) so he could see that, but Lucifer hated God so much that he went after God’s most precious loved commodity – man. That’s why we’re in war. It’s because Satan hates God so much that he believes if he can get you, he will hurt God. John 3:16 NKJV 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Doesn’t John 3:16 mean more to you now that you know why you’re in this war? It’s similar to America getting drawn into WW2 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. You were drawn into this war. Notice the issue here – Satan wants to hurt God by making you fail. Do you want to let Satan succeed? Do you really want to hurt God’s feelings? Every battle you face each day can be either a victory or defeat. That’s up to you. God already sent His Son Jesus to ‘redeem’ you with the blood. You have a choice. Romans 8:37 NKJV 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Revelation 3:21 NKJV 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. Revelation 12:11 NJKV 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. How do you be more than a conqueror and/or how do you overcome daily battles/skirmishes? By the word of your testimony. Every battle you win in this war, tells others they can win too. 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Here’s the best part. When you make God a priority in your life, (YOUR CHOICE) you become a new creature. That means those old things won’t affect you anymore. You overcame them. That means you have a testimony to share. SHARE IT! Psalm 91:1-3 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” 3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the [a]fowler from the perilous pestilence. You see, when you put God first, you enter His presence. You seek Him out. You put Him first. That’s saying to Satan, YOU CHOOSE to WORSHIP GOD and not him. HALLELUJAH! Choose God and win the battles. You’ve already won the war. Previous Next Home

THE AWAKENING The objective of The Awakening is to reveal how the unfolding of prophetic scripture, particularly through the breaking of the seals described in Revelation, has directly influenced human history and continues to shape the spiritual and political landscape of the modern world. The lesson aims to awaken believers to the reality that worldly wisdom and technological progress cannot save humanity, but only God’s wisdom through Christ leads to true redemption and victory over the powers of darkness. THE AWAKENING Pastor Marcos Marrero January 1, 1900 Objective: The objective of The Awakening is to reveal how the unfolding of prophetic scripture, particularly through the breaking of the seals described in Revelation, has directly influenced human history and continues to shape the spiritual and political landscape of the modern world. The lesson aims to awaken believers to the reality that worldly wisdom and technological progress cannot save humanity, but only God’s wisdom through Christ leads to true redemption and victory over the powers of darkness. Synopsis: In The Awakening, Pastor Marcos presents a call to discern the hand of God in the progression of human history and the present spiritual climate. He begins with Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians, showing how God confounds human wisdom by unveiling His plan in ways that surpass intellect and science. The twentieth century is described as a turning point—marked by war, innovation, and technological advancement—that aligns with the prophetic increase in knowledge foretold in Daniel. Pastor Marcos connects these world events with the breaking of the seals in Revelation. The first seal loosed the spirit of antichrist, already influencing the world though not yet fully revealed. The second seal, tied to World War II, unleashed global conflict and unprecedented technological progress. The third seal, he argues, is unfolding now, bringing forth a new world order centered on economic control and paving the way for a one-world government. These events, ultimately orchestrated by God’s timing, expose humanity’s attempt to run the earth apart from Him under the deception of Satan. The lesson emphasizes that just as the Word of God became flesh to impart divine wisdom, Satan seeks to rule through the antichrist as his human agent. Yet, Christ will ultimately defeat him with the breath of His mouth and the brightness of His coming. Pastor Marcos stresses that this understanding constitutes the true spiritual awakening: recognizing that worldly knowledge enslaves when divorced from God, while the knowledge of Christ liberates and saves. He closes with an urgent appeal—humanity must awaken to the truth of God’s Word and trust in His wisdom, not in man’s intellectual pride or technological advances. The time is short, and the decisive battle is already underway. Inspired Teaching: 1 Corinthians 1:19 “For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.’” The twentieth century witnessed the unleashing of man’s ingenuity in such a remarkable way that life as it existed for thousands of years was radically changed forever. I could say, and not be too far off, that in the twentieth century, we, speaking of the human race, became of age. I have neither the desire nor the abilities to enumerate all the history, discoveries, and events that came together to make the twentieth century such a pivotal time in human history; from the industrial revolution to two world wars, to the splitting of the atom, and the space race that lead us into the technological age of cyber space, but I know that in all of this, God’s final plan for the human race was being intelligently crafted by divinity in accordance with what the prophets of old had foretold. Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Nothing happens on the earth unless it is first released from heaven. It does not matter how wise and learned men of old were, or how dedicated to their crafts, or how many resources they had available to them, if it was sealed in heaven, all of their human endeavors did not suffice. After Jesus rose from the dead and was taken up to heaven, He took possession of a scroll that contained written things within and on the back, that had been sealed with seven seals. Revelation 5:3 “And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.” It seems that only an immortal human of divine origin, one who could save and make other humans immortal like Himself, was qualified to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals, since its unveiling unleashes upon the human race the symphony of events that eventually propels God’s final judgments upon all human mortals. The first seal was loosed right after Jesus took possession of the scroll after arriving in heaven, it released the spirit of antichrist upon the world stage. The antichrist himself will not be revealed until that which hinders him from being revealed is removed. 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work (the spirit of antichrist has already been released); only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one (the antichrist in person) will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” The second seal was loosed from heaven during the twentieth century and that is what brought about the second world war and the technological breakthroughs that ensued. Revelation 6:3-4 “When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, ‘Come and see.’ Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth (world war II), and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword (technology).” You can probably trace the origin of many, if not most, of the technological advancements of today to the events leading to and surrounding the second world war, for that is when the unveiling of the second seal took place, according to the divine plan. If we tie the first two seals together, we get the antichrist type leading the world into a colossal war that increases human knowledge to levels not even dreamed of by the preceding generation. Revelation 6:5-6 “When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, ‘Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.’” The results of the first two seals opened the door for a new world order, something that has been the unreachable dream of the elite world luminaries for centuries, but with this open door their dreams of a revived roman empire that rules the world has become a very possible reality. In order to facilitate a one world government, they need to have a one world economy, and to achieve that they need to implement a one world financial system that regulates the world economy; according to the golden rule, he who has the gold, makes the rules. Revelation 13:17 “And that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” We are in the midst of the unveiling of the third seal right now, it is taking place before our very eyes. All the pieces are falling rapidly into place awaiting the unveiling of the fourth seal that will feature a war over one fourth of the earth, the invasion of Israel by a northern confederacy. Israel is the last obstacle that stands between them, those who think they own the earth, and their dreams of declaring earth’s independence from the rule of God. It is all spiritual, since Satan was thrown out of heaven he has been looking for a place to call home; the earth belongs to the Lord, but man has been given dominion over it, the devil has duped, through the spirit of pride, those who think they can run the earth better than God, through the agency of human intelligence, for they truly think that they know better than God how to run the earth. 1 Corinthians 1:30 “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” All the spirits know that if you are going to rule the world you have to do it through the agency of a human man, that is why the Word of God had to become flesh, in order to infuse into humanity’s mind the wisdom that comes from God, the wisdom that redeems, sets apart for God, and makes right with God those who choose allegiance with God. Revelation 13:2 “...The dragon gave him (a human being, the antichrist) his power, his throne, and great authority.” The spiritual battle that rages now in the heavens will be fought here on the earth by the human Son of God who is indwelled by the Spirit of the living God against the spirit of Satan, the dragon, that will one day be revealed in the human antichrist. It will be a one sided battle: Whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. This is the truth that brings the awakening, and it is what the first chapter of first Corinthians is all about, whose wisdom are you going to trust? 1 Corinthians 1:20 “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” How did God make foolishness out of the wisdom of this world? He told them ahead of time what was going to happen, when it was going to happen, and how it was going to happen. Nothing happened without His hand allowing it to happen first. These empty headed illustrators really think that they’ve actually thought of all these things and that they have created by the power of their own intellectual prowler. 1 Corinthians 1:21 “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.” Imagine the simplicity of the message that was preached confounded the wisdom of the wise and brings to us an awakening to the revelation of what God is doing in our present time. 1 Corinthians 1:25-26 “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.” And here is the reason why God does it this way. 1 Corinthians 1:29 “That no flesh should glory in His presence.” I believe that we are now ready to experience the great spiritual awakening that the prophets of old predicted for the last days. Humanity has been sold a bill of goods that predicted that man’s salvation was going to come as the result of technological advances. Knowledge is power, in God’s case, knowledge of Him and of His Word brings liberty to those who live and practice His Word. Knowledge of the populace in the hands of the world gives the world the power to enslave the masses. Everything about us today is known to the government, and that knowledge has been used already to deprive many Americans of their constitutional rights. But the majority of that knowledge awaits for the restraining power to be removed, as prophesied by Paul, so that it can be used to coerce, intimidate, and blackmail law abiding citizens into conformance with their new world order. If you did not believe in the past that what had been foretold by the Word of God was possible, do you believe it now? Are you awake yet? Better hurry, there is not much time left. Previous Next Home

OBEDIENCE IN YOUR CALLING To encourage believers to walk faithfully in their God-given callings with humility and obedience, understanding that every follower of Christ is commissioned to share the gospel, serve others, and operate in the power of the Holy Spirit. < Back OBEDIENCE IN YOUR CALLING Minister Lisa Kane November 18, 2023 Objective: To encourage believers to walk faithfully in their God-given callings with humility and obedience, understanding that every follower of Christ is commissioned to share the gospel, serve others, and operate in the power of the Holy Spirit. Synopsis: In “Obedience in Calling” (Mark 16:15), Minister Lisa Kane teaches the importance of recognizing and submitting to the calling God has placed on every believer’s life. The message begins with the general commission to go into all the world and preach the gospel, reminding us that our mission extends beyond the church walls into everyday encounters—whether at the grocery store, workplace, or neighborhood. Drawing from scripture, Lisa shows how Jesus lived His calling (Luke 4:18–19), how Jonah initially resisted his call, and how Saul misunderstood his anointing, contrasting their responses with David’s servant-hearted obedience. Believers are urged to understand that being called is not limited to preaching—it includes gifts of service, healing, prayer, and leadership. The teaching emphasizes that the Holy Spirit empowers us through baptism, anointing, and prayer to walk in these assignments. Each act of obedience carries eternal weight: not only bringing deliverance and healing to others but also establishing believers as future witnesses in God’s judgment. Ultimately, the message calls Christians to servant leadership, daily obedience, and prayerful intercession—living as Christ’s hands and feet in the world. By humbly yielding to God’s direction, we bring glory to Him and fulfill our role in the harvest of souls. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this on Saturday, November 18th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called Obedience in Calling. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for the anointing of your presence and we thank you for the living word of God to be alive and to superimpose itself upon us, Father God, that we may walk in your calling, that we may deliver your word, that we may preach the gospel, share the good news to all around us, so that each and every person can hear and be saved. Father God, we glorify you and honor you. We thank you for calling us to the callings that you have in our lives. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. And amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to uh our opening scripture here. That's obedience in your calling. We're going to start here in Mark 16:15, the King James version. And he said unto them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." I get it. Sometimes we wonder, "What is our calling in life?" So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you the general calling that the scriptures tell us to follow. We do have special gifts that we will be anointed with and blessed with those that are walking in those gifts by the Holy Spirit. We're also going to see in the scriptures what Jesus calling was. We're going to see uh different people and how they reacted with their calling that was that they should have followed and obeyed. So, I'm going to bring all that here because I really want you to see the different reactions that are out there is kind of interesting, but at the same time, I'm hoping to encourage you to be attentive to what you're hearing around you. You should be listening to other preachers and pastors teaching as well. And if you are, you're going to find that there is a general consensus like with what we've been praying and teaching on um you know uh deliverance within ourselves. This has been a thing going on and and like Lance Wallnau uh his prophecy prophetic summit here in 2024 that he got to speak at, you know, he's one of the teachers there. He shared and we need to go out into the world. He's talking about his uh seven mountains. You can go check him out. That's Lance Wall now. W A L L N AU's I I was blessed by his message and I hope that you are too. that you should be listening to others because what you find is that they're teaching similar to what you're teaching or what the low Holy Spirit is showing you in the secret place. So if you've been reading his scriptures, which is what I've been preaching, you will find pastors and preaching pastors and teachers preaching the same thing and you'll be like, "Oh, the Holy Spirit is speaking to me." And that's how this works. So let's start here. Mark 16:15, he says, "Go." Which means, you know, get out. get out of the the church. You see, most people that attend a church attend it once, twice, maybe three times a week. You do have your occasional Easter and Christmas service attendees as well, but for the most part, most people tend to go about two, three times a week. Well, the issue is what about the rest of the week? You see, we need to be outside the walls of the church ministering the word of God out there. The church is already in the presence of the Lord in our secret place. The body of Christ is already there. What we need to do is go out there because the harvest is out there. So, we have to go reap the harvest or water it, whatever. We're called to tend the garden as Adam was called to do. Well, that's what you're saying here. He's telling you to go. you need to travel, depart, whatever it is, you know, and when you walk into like your grocery store, your gas station, when you start speaking to the people and you interact with people, God bless you. Have a wonderful day. How are you? You know, interact and have that conversation because you'll be surprised how many lives you will impact just from doing that. And there you don't even have to have any scripture. When Paul was talking to I forget what church it was, but as he's talking to that particular area, he met them at their area of being knowledgeable or they thought they were knowledgeable. He b he used their gods and their messages and turned it around on them. He didn't have to use the word of God there. But the Holy Spirit will give us what to say, when to say, and how to say it. So, we got to get out into the world. And that world there means orderly arrangement. Let me remind everybody the way I teach this is the word word in bold is the word in the scripture. What's in italicized in parentheses is other words that could have been translated in that world in in that word. All right. So we got go which means travel depart. We have world orderly arrangement just things that are set up in arrangement. And to preach and what does that word preach mean? to herald divine truth, herald divine truth, proclaim, publish. So with when you can do it multiple ways, do it with your body language. Do it with your mouth. God bless you. Hey, how you doing? You don't even have to say God bless you. Just smile and are you doing okay? Is everything okay with you? It's great to see you. How's everything going? And even if this is strangers, you simply say, hey, you look nice. or hey, you know, I hope you're having a great day cuz God is with you or the L the Holy Spirit will give you the right thing to say at the right time. Amen. So, we're told to go into the world. We're told to herald the divine truth, which is the gospel, the good news, and that gospel there's good message to every creature. That word creature, there's building, creation, ordinance. You see what I'm doing now? I'm called to teach and preach the living word of God, but I'm not in a church. I'm with the house of faith ministries. And that is the covering I have over me. That's what I'm called. House of Faith Ministries is an ordinance, a building. That is what this is talking about when it says every creature. It's like going and preaching to uh Elon M Musk and X or going to Walmart because see all of these buildings are part in part we all walk in part of that system that's in place. I'm working on getting the prayers written up so we can place them here on in the section in the website called empowering prayers. As I get the prayers broken up, we'll be praying for businesses. So, as you're praying for them behind the scenes, when you walk into them, you want to make your presence known by you smile because the people will sense it and they will know. Amen. Let's look at Luke 4:18 and 19. This is Jesus speaking. This is the calling Jesus had on his life. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Okay, so this is what Jesus had. Now, we can always go back to Psalm 149 and realize that through his blood and his redemption, we're to be Christlike and we've been given authorities, which is what those prayers. And I just finished teaching on this in the last couple of weeks. So, you can get into that and go check it out. I'm just going to get it up on the website so that it's written down so we can follow it. But, I want you to see the things that Jesus were tasked to do. It wasn't just to die on the cross. He had things to accomplish in his ministry. Now remember, he is the word of God, the living word of God. He's the embodiment of it, personification of it. He's the one that came to life out of that because he wrote it. So he knew every word in the entire scriptures but written by all authors. He knew them all and he knew what he had to fulfill while he was walking here on the earth. So he says, "The spirit of the Lord upon is upon me." Now, if we're to be Christlike, we need the spirit of the Lord upon us. To do that, you get water baptized. When Jesus was baptized, the dove came upon him. Now, you when you get baptized and this the spirit of the Lord comes upon you, that's when you're ready to go into ministry. Now, you could always go look at the day of Pentecost where Peter stands up in Acts and prior to that there were flames coming out of his head or all of their it was 120 of them. They're speaking in tongues and people heard them in their own language. So, there was a manifestation of the spirit there and that spirit is something we can be giving out to others and praying over. Elders should be praying the Holy Spirit anointing upon their congregation, people that are ready to walk into their calling. So, this is a couple of ways that you walk in. One, you get baptized, and two, have the elders pray the anointing over you. Get the spirit of the Lord upon you. Now, if you're being called to, let's say, be a pastor, they will pray over you. They will anoint you with oil. So when you have a special calling, be a king, a senator, uh whatever calling, the leadership of your company, whatever it is that has, you can do that in the name of Jesus, have someone pray over you and anoint you with oil. This solidifies the contract and lets the enemy and the heavenly realm know that you are covered and called in this area. This is how this works. Okay. Now, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed. There was contact with oil made to preach the gospel, the good news to who? The poor. What is the churches supposed to do? You need to have food for the poor. Do you have money? You should be buying groceries for your neighbors that you know that don't have any. You should be buying groceries for your church and not outdated things. It should be current fresh food that you can hand out to your followers. This is very important. This is that's another part of a calling in our lives. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to make whole. You see that word heals, cure, make whole, and the brokenhearted is crushed and shattered. How many people do you hear in this service or in a Bible study where they're sharing in confidence things that are going on around them? They're in really bad shape. They're broken and you can see it. And it's like, wow. Well, if Jesus came to heal them, guess what you are called to do? To heal them, too. to preach deliverance, freedom, pardon to the captives because there's people in bondage. They have no idea how to get out of it. But if you are listening to this message and have been following this message, you are in the secret place with the Lord. You are filled with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. You can go pray for them and know exactly what to pray, which is what I've been teaching. That's why I want to put it in writing and get it on the website to the captives which captives are prisoners of war. There's a war you know you're born automatically into a war the moment of conception your mother conceived you in sin and now you are sin. So immediately you have to repent. So it takes a few years because you grow up and as you grow up you finally say, you know, Lord, I need you to be lord my lord of me, be my savior because I have sinned and I messed up. And see, now you get on your path with God and you start growing with him. Start learning and recovering of sight to the blind, restoring the blind's eyes. They can't see. There's people out here who are under a strong delusion right now. They can't see what's going on. They're blinded. They're It's just opaque to them. And in fact, they think that you're nuts. Well, guess what? They're the ones that are blinded. It's not us. To set out liberty, them that are bruised. So, we can also take these people that have been buffeted and hurt by the devil and proclaim liberty and pardon them. We get to pardon them. This is the atonement and the priest and the priestly acts that is our responsibility a calling in our lives. These are little things that we should be doing. Jesus was doing watch what he says here to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Look at that. So we get to proclaim an acceptable or approved favored year. We get to do that just as much as Jesus did. He did it. I'll show you the scripture here regarding that. Watch it here in a moment. So, and then the Lord is the authority. So, we get to set this year apart. We have a new year coming up here very shortly. We get to proclaim it as an acceptable year of the Lord placing God's favor on it because we, the church, the body of Christ, taking back what the enemy had stolen from us because that is the prayer, the calling we have in our lives. This is awesome. what the Lord is doing. Now look at this in John 14:12. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my father. You see, Jesus was in the flesh, and he walked the earth for 33 years. He healed the sick. He showed he healed the blind. He let people be delivered. He cast out demons. These are the things we should do because we're in the flesh. He had to go to the father. He's now in the spirit. So now in the flesh, we have to take up his duty. And it was Did you see the the extra part there? And greater. I've got to do more than Jesus. I'm going to tell you when Peter cru was crucified, martyed, upside down on the cross, he did it willingly. He went up there and says, "I did what I was told to do. I've been waiting for this day because I knew I was going to die for Christ." And I taught on this a few weeks ago. So when you see the calling in your life, these are the things you're going to do which is greater than what Jesus did here on the earth. And if you don't think that you can do that, you better get the Holy Spirit because this is biblical and this is what Jesus is saying to us. get it. I'm reading it right off the living word of God right here in front of you. But notice, look at he says he he that believeth that believeth means to have faith and the works, the toil, the deeds, the labor that Jesus did greater, larger, the elder of those works shall we do. And what is that word do? To make, agree, appoint, band together, cast out. because we're still in the flesh while he's gone on to the Holy Spirit. You see how we had to come in agreement there? This is interesting. Okay, we have to come into agreement and we have to walk and choose to walk in this. Now, you may think, well, I can't do any of that. That's exactly what you should be thinking. Not by might nor by power, but by his spirit, says the Lord. So all you're doing is saying, "Okay, Lord, in obedience, I'm going to go lay hands on this person." Now look at what Jonah did because I want you to see Jonah, his calling. Now the word, so this is Jonah chapter 1 1-3. Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah, the son of Amiti, saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry, call out against it, for your wickedness has come up before me." But Jonah rose up to flee into unto Tarses for the presence of the Lord and went down to Japa and he found a ship going to Tarses. So he paid the fair thereof and went down into it to go with him into Tarses from the presence of the Lord. He was supposed to go to Nineveh and because that's his calling. But he got mad because he felt that Nineveh did not deserve grace. He knew they would repent. See, Jonah knew the moment he spoke, they're going to re receive and believe. And he took off because he was mad. And he told God straight up. See, God understands relationships. He understands your hurt. He wants to hear you tell him these things. Now, in the case of Jonah, he went running and God sent a great fish after him. And he ends up staying in this fish for three days because it took him that long to come to the conclusion that God was in control. Yeah. And and then he repented. He humbled himself. He went to Nineveh and they got saved and he was all happy about it, but they repented. And I wanted you to see that because he disobeyed his calling. We have to obey our calling. Where are you? Did you run? Are you the one running? Or are you in a situation where you are praying? You're going to church, but you don't know what to do. This is where you have to purpose yourself to get the knowledge of the living word of God in you, which means you spend time, quality time with the Lord and his word. Amen. Now, I want you to look at Saul. This is a man that was going to become King Saul. Watch what happens here. So in 1st Samuel 9:16, "Tomorrow about this time," so God is talking to Samuel. He says, "Tomorrow about this time, I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be what? Captain, commander." Did he say king? I want you to see some revelation here. This is awesome. Over my people Israel. that he may save free safe entity my people out of the hand of the Philistines for I have looked upon my people because their cry is come unto me. Saul was not called to be king. The people asked for a king and God says to Samuel, I'm going to give them what they want. He gives them a commander to rule over them to help them defeat the Philistines. So he's a captain. He's a commander, but his calling was to save the people out of the hand of the Philistines. That's what his calling was to do. That's all Saul was called to do. And yet, he went a little step further. Now, Samuel prophesies and he tells him everything that's going to go happen. But in the meantime, Samuel took a vial of oil. This is now Samuel 10:1. And poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, "Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain commander over his inheritance?" I want you to see something. You notice he anointed him with oil. If you're called to be an elder of a church or a pastor of a church, they got to anoint you with oil to be able to do that. You can't do it without having the calling and the anointing on you. And there's specific words. And look at the specific words. He's called to be the captain, a commander over Israel, which is the inheritance. They're going to occupy that land. This is their heirloom. This is their possession. This is what's been given to Saul. And by the way, if he defeats the Philistines, his kingdom now will be establish. His captain, his commandership. He's got blessings ahead of him. Oh, but let's look at what happened because this is very important because now Samuel prophesies over Saul and says this is exactly what you're going to do. Verse six of chapter 10, the spirit of the Lord come upon thee and thou shalt prophesy with him and shalt be turned into another man. So Saul is not a spiritual kind of man, but he's going to have an encounter that is spiritual, and it's going to make him think like he's a prophet or a seer himself. So he is going to be turned into another man. He and verse seven, and let it be when these signs are come unto thee that thou do as occasion serve thee, for God is with thee. So see, God gave him his calling. He got anointed. So now God and Saul are joined together to defeat the Philistines. That's what Saul's calling is. When you're called and you're anointed, you and God joined together and you need to do exactly what your calling is. Now watch this. Verse nine. And it was so that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart. Look at that word though. It means hinder next and other. And all those things came to pass that day. God already purposed. He knew exactly what Saul was going to do. So now Saul was going to become a hindrance to David. Because see the people wanted Saul and Saul ran ahead from it but pulled him out, anointed him with oil and then simply gave him a captainship, a a commander. They didn't give him kingship and he gave him a new heart. He had a new heart. He now had a covenant with God. But part through there, instead of going after the Philistines and serving God, he decided to put a crown on his head and serve as king to the people because that's what the people wanted. But that word heart meant hindrance. And then comes David, the apple of his eye. Look at Psalm 89:3 and4. I have made a covenant with my chosen. This is God talking. I have sworn unto David my servant. Thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all generations. You see now, God, he God's the one handling all this. So you're you if you're obedient to your calling, how little or how great it is. If it's just a smile unto people, because there's not everybody's made to be a preacher, not everybody is made to walk in wisdom, knowledge, understanding, but there are tongues, there are gifts of healings, there's gifts of administration, there are all kinds of gifts from the Holy Spirit that you can have a calling on. So don't limit yourself and don't limit God. But look, if Saul had continued obeying God, do you think that his seed would have been the one that was established and Jesus would have came through his seed? See, God chooses you. You're his elect, and he will swear unto you. And look at what David is, though. He's a servant. You see, to be a king, you need to be a servant. The best commanders, captains, kings, leadership. The best ones are the ones who serve the people. So your calling is servantthood. Be humbled before the Lord as you share the living word of God. As it per person personifies itself, it comes out of you. That is walking with God. Now let's go to Acts 18. Now this is Jesus talking to the 120 or to the disciples. But ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses upon me unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Look at that. You shall receive you're going to take get hold of force a miraculous power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. superimposes himself on you and you'll be witnesses. Look at that word witness. It means to martyr, record. You see, there's two parts to your calling. It's not just being obedient and going out and doing what you're told to do. You're serving that. You're obedient. You do that. But when you do that, you're doing it to a recipient. And whether that recipient receives or not, you're going to judge that recipient in the future. That's how this works. So let's go take a look at that because this is very important because this is part of your calling. Matthew 12:40 through42 Jesus is talking. For as Jonas was, this is Jonah, but the King James version translates it and said Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly or the fish's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation. And what was Jonah? What did he do? He had to go to the city of Nineveh, preach to them so they would get saved. He ended up doing it because he didn't want to, but they got saved. So what Jesus is saying, that generation that got saved is going to stand up in judgment with this generation that Jesus is currently walking and ministering to and shall condemn it. the folks of Nineveh that got saved in the time of Jonah, they're going to stand up and they're going to condemn this generation. And the reason they get that right to do it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. Do you see the power and the authority of the calling now you have? Because it's twofold. It's not just you being obedient going there. that's in the flesh, but in the spirit, you're going to come back and you're going to judge because this is how this works. This is how God has established it and set it up. Verse 42, the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because why would she do it? For she came from the innermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold a greater than Solomon is here. See, they went out of their way to believe in God and they didn't even have the Messiah there. But now that the Messiah is there, this generation is rejecting him. But he's he's saying, "Okay, well, you know what? I'm going to the these generations are going to rise up and judge you because they rejected the Messiah." Oh. So even though you're preaching and you're sharing the gospel, you smile. If somebody goes h and just walks away from you, guess what? You're the one who's going to judge them if they go to the afterlife life and never repent. That's your calling. So if you're obedient, you're the one sharing the good news. You're not the one on the other side supposed to be receiving it but rejecting it. There's a lot of people who are rejecting. We have to be very careful and cautious of this because when we're teaching, when we're sharing the spirit of God when we're saying the right words that the Holy Spirit gives us to that person in the grocery store or at the gas station or the laundromat, wherever you're at, I promise you that the Holy Spirit's going to give you those right words. and they're either going to accept or reject. Either you're part of the watering line that goes on on top of a person because people get saved weird ways. It the reaping of the harvest for that individual can happen after 20 different people God sent to them telling them the same thing over and over again. you. Sometimes it takes that kind of thing to happen from God to make that happen to get that person to realize maybe there is a God and he is talking to me. What do I do to get saved? And then the doors open. But this is our calling. This is what we do. Let's go back to John 14:12 because now I want you to see this with all of that knowledge behind you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my father. So Jesus clearly telling us we're going to be doing greater works than he did, which is healing, casting out demons, and being obedient to what his word is, and confessing Jesus as the son of God, sharing that to all those around us. Amen. Go back to Mark 16:15, our opening scripture. And he said unto them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." That's your calling because you are going to judge those people on the aftermath if they choose to reject. Now, if they choose to receive, hallelujah, whether, like I said, you either watered them, nourished them, you're part of that line of people that came and talked to them and they eventually get saved. Whether it's 20 people, 10 people, 50 people, whatever it is, they finally get saved. Woo! Well, then after that, if they choose to reject, you're one of the ones that are come forward in the afterlife and going to judge them because that's just the way things are. So in this obedience that we need to have, the best thing we need to do is be a servant unto that and be obedient to that. So we're going to say a prayer here. I'm going bring it up on the screen. Let's say it together so that we can let the spirit of servantthood come upon our hearts and minds so that we can walk in the obedience that we're called to do. This is called prayer of servantthood the servants covenant and you can find this in the empowering prayer section of the house of faithministries.org website and this is a prayer that's a petition to become a humble servant. This is founded in John 12:26. Whoever serves me must follow me and where I am my servant also will be. My father will honor the one who serves me. So let's pray. Dear Jesus, let's let's do it straight on the screen. Just repeat after me. Father in heaven, I surrender all positions in life to you in order to become Jesus's faithful servant and to follow him. This body is not my own, but it has been purchased with the blood of Jesus. I want to be in your perfect will, Lord Jesus. Let everything that I do bring glory and honor to you, dear Lord. Teach me to be humble. Train me to be your faithful servant. Amen. Of course, if you need to repeat this or you didn't get it all, you can pause the video and go back and say it out loud. You need to say it out loud because what's going on around you is the kingdom of God is there. So, you have the throne room where God is judge. He's righteous and he's up there. And then you have D uh the devil over here accusing you of whatever it is that you've done. You have Jesus standing next to you because you repented and you said, "Okay, Lord, I'm going to be obedient. I call on the name of the Jes the son of God, Jesus, and I repent and I ask him to be my Lord and Savior." So Jesus now is covering you. So here's the devil accusing you of whatever it is. And you repented. And so Jesus is saying to God, I accept hers or his repentance and those things are no longer active. So God's up there in the throne room looking at what you did. He crosses it out with the blood of Jesus says, "Yep, you're clean, saved, and whole." And the devil is frustrated because he can't do anything. And now you get to move forward like Jesus under his obedience. And every time you move forward, you do it in prayer. It starts in the secret place with the Lord. When you're in the secret place with the Lord, you are praying behind the scenes for those folks at your grocery store, for your neighbors, for your government, for your teachers and the education system, for the entertainment system, for your life, for your family and friends. And what you're doing is you say, "Lord, I atone for them. I stand in their shoes and I lift up my hands with them and I say on their behalf, Lord, forgive me. Be my Lord and Savior. Come into my heart and forgive me and help me walk in the living word of God." You see, when you are praying on their behalf, the strong angels now move forward to those people. They start fighting the demons off and the demons are saying no no no no no I have a contract here and see the first thing you do is because you say Lord forgive me of my sins the contract becomes nullified and so they have the demons have to let go in fact you could even go further and say demons get below my feet I bind you with feathers of iron preventing you from interfering in my family's life my workplace co-workers my neighborhood You say all of that. You bind that devil. You put him below your feet. And you can go one step further and say, "Lord, rebuke you." And here's the best part because you get to execute judgment. And like Psalm 149 said, I've already taught on this. You get to tell you because you're starting with forgiveness. You're actually asking God to open their ears and eyes, hearts and minds to he to see, hear, and and receive and believe the living word of God. because you're asking them to do that. There's forgiveness there. So, you're asking God, give them the opportunity to receive repentance because God will give them that opportunity. But I promise you, there are going to be some that are still rebelling, rejecting, and blasphemy the Holy Spirit because you're dealing with people that the devil has gotten into so bad. They're stuck there. And whether they're going to stay there or not, that's between God and them. But what you get to do is you give them that opportunity and then you go to the Lord and said Lord if they continue to reject you then Lord rebuke them and God will take care of them. This is why we have the consequences of sin which is uh cancer diseases people dying before their time should be. You see, these are the things that unbelievers or people rejecting God blatantly and rejecting the Holy Spirit, those are the things they have to deal with until they repent. And then your life turns around remarkably. You won't have those curses upon you because that's the way God works. I encourage each and every one of you to get into the secret place with the Lord and one, open the Bible and read what God is telling you. to pray. You have a calling. Every believer has a calling of prayer in their lives. God may take you further up to your calling, but I promise you, you need to be obedient to the heavenly father and the calling he has in your life because he needs you in place in lie of Jesus who had to go home in spirit. We're the ones still in the flesh and we're the ones that need to serve in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. 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DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE CLEANSED IN CHRIST? To help believers understand the power of Christ’s cleansing work, emphasizing that transformation begins with His spoken word and continues through abiding in Him. This teaching aims to show how abiding in Christ produces lasting fruit, develops love, and brings believers into a deeper relationship with Him. DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE CLEANSED IN CHRIST? Minister Lisa Kane January 12, 2025 Objective: To help believers understand the power of Christ’s cleansing work, emphasizing that transformation begins with His spoken word and continues through abiding in Him. This teaching aims to show how abiding in Christ produces lasting fruit, develops love, and brings believers into a deeper relationship with Him. Synopsis: This message explores John 15:1–17, where Jesus describes Himself as the true vine and believers as branches. The teaching highlights how salvation brings immediate cleansing through Christ’s spoken word, but also how ongoing transformation occurs as we abide in Him. Believers are reminded that cleansing is not something we accomplish by ourselves; it is the continual work of Christ purging old habits, renewing the heart, and producing fruit. Abiding in Christ means maintaining a living relationship with Him—through prayer, worship, and immersion in His word. From this abiding flow the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These fruits not only bless the believer but also serve as a testimony to others, drawing them to Christ. The teaching also emphasizes the necessity of pruning, the process by which God removes what hinders spiritual growth. Though pruning may be painful, it results in greater fruitfulness and joy. Love is central to this abiding relationship: Jesus commands believers to love one another with the same benevolent and affectionate love He has shown. Ultimately, believers are reminded that they are chosen and ordained by Christ to bear fruit that remains. Through His word, His cleansing, and His abiding presence, Christians are empowered to walk in transformation, resist sin, and live in joy as true friends of Jesus. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this teaching on January 12th, 20125. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for bringing the knowledge of your salvation and what it has done to our hearts and to our minds that we may stand faithful, true, strong on your name, on the firm foundation that you have laid for us. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Welcome. I'm glad you can join us today. So, this is going to be a very interesting new teaching. very very basic, very simple, but at the same time very powerful. I love that. This is called, "Do you know you're cleansed in Christ?" Oh, let's bring some knowledge to our minds today, shall we? So, starting here in John 15:es 1-2. This is our opening scriptures. I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman or that word husbandman means land worker, farmer. Verse two, every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgth, or to cleanse, prune it that it may bring forth more fruit. So when we're talking about being cleansed in Christ, let's get some knowledge here. When you become saved, you change exponentially. sometimes slowly through time, sometimes instantaneously, but there's always a transformation that takes place at being a believer in Christ and abiding in him and you know getting to know him as much as he's getting to know you as you let him get to know you. So there's this abiding factor, dwelling factor between you and Christ and Christ in you and it cleanses you. It purges you. It it gets rid of things. And let me just simply make a statement here that I thought was very fascinating. I heard this from uh pastor at the Bendy Canyon Church. He said, "We tolerate the dislikes within us and we don't deal with them. So, we're not expuning them. We're not getting rid of them. We tolerate. We put up with. We don't want to make those efforts and changes in our lives that we need to make." But here's the interesting part is Christ is already doing that change in you every moment of every day. So here we can trust in Christ that who began a good work is going to finish a good work in us. Amen. So let's go to verse three. We're going to be here in John 15 for the most part. Um let let's break this down. So here verse three. Now you're clean or pure through the word something that said which I have spoken unto you. Let me explain how I do the scriptures in case you're new. I'm putting King James version scriptures up here. The word that's in bold is the King James version uh word that was translated from either Hebrew or Greek. In this case, Greek because this is the New Testament. And then the words in parentheses are other definitions or other words the translator could have used in lie of that first word. So, um it's kind of like an amplified Bible thing. I am adding these extra words in, but it's so I can give you the fullness of what that scripture means. And I am not using the Amplified version. I'm using the King James version because I want you to see the definition of what it was meant at the time of translation. I hope that makes sense. So, let's go here to verse three again. Now, you're clean or pure through the word something said which I have spoken unto you. If you follow any of my teachings, I have taught exponentially on speaking the word over your life. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. So, you're constantly saying Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord over cancer. Jesus is Lord over my mind. Well, here Jesus spoke a word unto us. He says you're clean because of that spoken word. He blessed us and he caused us to be clean. So he's saying, "I've already done that for you." I know that a lot of churches and a lot of preachers and a lot of pastors teach on we've got to get ourselves clean. Well, Jesus did that for us and we just need to let him do it. Let it transform us. If you're somebody who has a habit of using God's name in vain or speaking foul language or anything of that nature, what happens is the moment you become a believer, you're things start to change. You realize first I shouldn't be speaking in that. I shouldn't be saying those words. then um you you use it less and eventually you can go by and you'll look back and go, "Man, I haven't said any of those bad words in a long time." That is how transformation in Christ takes place. But it there's a there's a a start to it. Jesus spoke a word over you and he cleansed you. So when you become a believer and you think, man, I am so messed up still or the devil is doing this against me or making me do this or whatever, good news is Jesus cleansed you from the get-go. You are cleansed, pured, because he spoke a word over you. Now he does add on to that in verse four. He says, "Abide." That word abide by the way means to stay, continue, dwell, endure, be present, stand, tarry in me. Abide in me and I in you. How do you do something like this? You need to have a relationship with him. We do have and and remember how Ecclesiastes is spoken and written, there's a time for this, there's a time for that. Well, you need to set your time aside to abide in him, Jesus. And and there's multiple ways to do it. You can do it all at once or bit pieces, however, but praise and worship music, put some on and just give him the holy praise that he deserves. Amen. Um sometimes just opening up the word of God and just looking at it going, "Oh, let him talk to you." And sometimes we got so much on our chest that we just cry to get it out. And when you're crying, that is purging all of the hurt, the pain, the suffering, that's also abiding in God. Amen. Amen. So he says, "Abide in me and I in you." Because he's meeting you there. You're right there with him. Especially if you're reading the word because now it's coming inside of you. But that's a spoken word that is written down. He was the flesh of the word of God. He and it got written down by different authors and his words abiding in you. But it only abides in you if you open it and you read it. He spoke a cleansing word over you. You need to receive that cleansing word. You need to abide in that cleansing word. You need to hear it. You need to listen to it. You need to obey the Holy Spirit because in that is where you're going to see that transformation take place. So, if you've got one foot in the world, meaning nobody at your job or nobody outside of church knows you're a Christian, you have a problem. and you're wondering why things aren't happening the way you hoped there. God should be shaking your life right now and getting you awake and telling you, "I need you to abide in me." Let's have a relationship. Amen. So he says, "Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me." Very important here. What of fruit are we talking about? You have fruit of the goodness that can come out of you and then you have fruit of bringing someone to the Lord. So the the uh the fruit of the spirit is joy, love, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and kind uh self-control. You have the fruit, and you can go look it up. It's in Galatians 5:22 and 23. I should have brought it here. I did not. But I'm going to allow you to do a little bit of homework here and I want you to go look them up. These fruits should be coming out of you because you're abiding in the word. And abiding is a continuous ongoing thing that needs repetition. Once a week is not repetition. If you're going to church once a week, it's not enough. Actually, one of the reasons that we do this ministry is to supplement what you're getting at your church because your pastor can only teach you what he's teaching the entire congregation and his congregation is moving in the direction that the Lord has given him and that's what he's going to teach. But you as an individual have more. You do more. You're part of this. You're a branch of Jesus. And as a branch of the vine, you need to be bearing more fruit. This is how you can bear more fruit of love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness. This is how you build your self-control. It is the abiding in him. And what's happening is as that is manifesting, it's changing you. You are becoming a different person. So he says and and otherwise if you're not doing that, you cannot bear that fruit. You can act like you're good. You know, things happen to people all the time. And one of the questions that is asked is why did this bad thing happen to this good person? That good person was so good that they fooled you. I'm not saying they weren't uh good. They probably were, but we don't know the heart of that person. Only God does. So whatever that circumstance is between that person and God, we shouldn't even be asking. should be asking, am I being filled with the fruit of the spirit? Am I bearing the right fruit? Am I being fruitful to bring people to the Lord? Draw them in, water them, nurture them. Remember, as he's describing himself as the vine and where the branches, take a look at how Adam was created. He's dirt. He was made from dirt. Eve was an extension of that being made from the rib. Well, then a seed is planted in us soil. And that seed needs to get water. We get water baptized. We come up to germinate and keep the seed growing. We need to be in the light of the word. That's where we get our sunlight, the Jesus light, s light if you will. We also get watered and nurtured through the living word of God, the spoken word of God. And this is how we begin to grow branches. And we begin to have fruit. And by the way, the fruit that comes off of the branch, the love, the joy, the peace, all of that fruit is to be partaken from or of from others. They come take the fruit off of our branches and they partake. They like your pen. It's so neat that you show love. It's so neat that you have joy considering what you're going through. is so neat. You're setting an example and you're simply telling him, I abide in the word of God. My foundation is the name of Jesus. He is whom I am dwelling in and this is the manifestation of him. Hallelujah. That is so neat. So he says, I am, this is going on to verse five, I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth, here's that word abideth again, to stay, continue, dwell, endure, be present, stand here in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. You see, you cannot show love without having Christ in you. And I will show that in scripture here in just a moment. You cannot uh you think um by showing love let's say to uh someone who has uh done evil. You can love them through spirit. You can't love them physically. It it is a physically impossible thing for a non-believer to like or love that person because they don't have the spirit of God in them. So they're looking at that person and that person's evil. Oh, that person needs, you know, but when you have Christ in you and abiding you, you begin to love people like that because Jesus loves them just as much as he loves me. Jesus loves you just as much as he loves me. Is that awesome? That was just so neat. But you can't have that if you're not dwelling in the vine. You got to be hooked up to the vine. And and how does a branch get fed by the vine? It's a continuous feed of the nutrients and the liquid through the veining between the vine and the branch on the inside. So you need to get your veins connected to Jesus so you're fed continuously. Oh, what a powerful analogy there. Verse six, if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered. You ever look at a person and they look like the walking dead? They're a dead person walking. They just look so dried up. They're so miserable on the inside. And in fact, it shocks you every once in a while when you see them smile and you're just like, "Where did that come from?" Well, here is the the whole analogy of this. When you are not walking with Christ, you look dead, sad. You look like it's the end of the world. We just had we're having the those fires in Los Angeles right now and seeing the people who lost their homes and the pain and the suffering they're going through. They're grieving. They're in pain. They're they but they look like they're dead. In fact, withered, dried up branches burn easily than someone who is filled with the anointing, the veining of Christ Jesus. Big difference. So it says if a uh a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them to lead together collect convene and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned. You see men are the ones who are going to throw you and cast you out. The way that men will know you is by your fruit. They will know you by your fruit. So, if you're in church playing church and there's a group and you're there part of that group and you're meeting and somebody says, "Well, maybe we should pray uh have a prayer meeting here and meet on Tuesday nights or whatever." You might be saying, "Well, uh, that sounds great, but shouldn't we do that on our own?" You see, you are the one interjecting the fruit of what's inside of you. Here a church trying to pray more as a gathering where two or three are gathered and here you're trying to isolate it by dividing and dividing comes from Satan. That is fruit and you can see it in people. It's very identifiable. You will know them by their fruit. So continuing on to verse 7, it says if you abide in me, here he is again talking about dwelling in him. You abide in me and my words abide in you. We know in Romans 10:9 that it says that if you confess Jesus is Lord. If you confess with your mouth, that's what happens. You're confessing the word of God. He's saying and my words abide in you. If they're in here, so if you see something happening, you need to pray for somebody or a situation, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. You start speaking the word of God because that word is abiding in you and it starts to manifest and bubble out. That's your fruit and people see it, recognize it, hear and know that you are truly a branch in the vine of Christ. You're veining in with Christ. Amen. So it says uh if you abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask. That word to ask means to beg, call for, crave, desire, require. Says, "Ye shall ask what ye will or what your determination is and it shall be done unto you." If you are determined about something that is of the will of God, it is of scripture. I guarantee and promise you that if you're asking him for it, he is going to give it to you. Now, that doesn't mean you're not going to ever have any sufferings in your life or you're never going to be sad or anything of that nature, but he will answer your prayers. And sometimes the answer isn't what we really were expecting because he's got something better planned for you. Amen. But this is part of abiding in him. And as you abide more and you're more pruned, because that's what's happening to fruit that is bearing or a branch that is bearing fruit, you are pruned. You have to be pruned. Meaning there are cuts. You're going to hurt it. It stings. But you learn from that. And that fruit begins to manifest. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Verse 8, herein is my father glorified or honored, magnified that ye bear much fruit. So shall ye be my disciples or your learner, the learner pupil. So all of this is to glorify the father because we glorify Jesus who is of the father and when we know Jesus we know the father and John talks about that in depth. So this is all to the point of glorifying the father. You dwelling in him. You calling on his name. You speaking his word. He goes to his glory and people know it. Recognize it and see the fruit. They recognize the cleansing that's taking place in you because you're walking in that cleansing and it's manif manifesting. That's awesome. And this is you're learning. You're a pupil. This is how you become a disciple of Christ is your learning. That's what disciples mean. Verse nine, as a father hath loved me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. I want you to see something here is very very important. As the father hath loved, that word love is a different love than what we've seen in the past. It's a dative love, accusative kind of love because the father sees us. He knows what he what we're doing. But it's also a social moral obligation kind of love that Jesus always asks us to do. But when you see what Jesus did and what the word love there means says uh so I so have I loved you which is the same loved as the first one and then this third love continue ye in my love that love means affection benevolence difference. You see, when you have a baby and you bring home your baby, you are obligated to take care of that baby. And you may not have the affection and the benevolence of that for that baby yet. And you may have it right away, but sometimes it takes a little bit more for some people. But as you go throughout the years and then that baby grows up and they give you attitude or they tell you, "I hate you or anything of that nature," you're still obligated. That that's your child. You're still obligated or have that love. You still need to take care of them. You still have to take the upper road, the higher road, the moral, the sense, the obligation. You have that Jesus has done that, but he also did it out of affection and benevolence. The teaching of love through the scriptures is so powerful. It's amazing. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole, but I want you to see the difference here of what he's talking about. And then he continues on in verse 10. If you keep my commandments, that word commandment means authoritative prescription. You know, when Jesus says this, do in remembrance of me, when he's talking about holy communion, every time you take holy communion and brings you back to the cross, you repent, you you come back to Christ, you remember what he did on the cross, you take the broken bread, you drink the wine. As soon as you do that, it places you back in a right standing of good health. Because who is our healer? Jehovah uh Jehovah Rafa Jehovah Gyrus uh Jesus is our provider God our provider Jehovah Rafa God our healer he is our healer so he's saying if you keep my commandments which is authoritative prescription you are under his prescription he's written you a doctor's note and you're healed I hope you're getting that it's a fascinating little little point to make here says says, "If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love." Now, see how it says here in his love, which is affection and benevolence. Now, you have the affection and the benevolent kind of love that he has for us. It had to be developed. It had to be pruned. It had to be cut. You had to go through these things in order to get to that love. Because there's more than just having a social moral obligation. There is the affection and the benevolence. And the powerful thing is I cannot see Jesus but I know he's there. That is the affection and the benevolence I have now. I can love him because I know he's there. Amen. And even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. So he's saying you keep my commandments, you're going to abide in this kind of love just like I did my father's commandments and I have his affection and benevolence. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you. And that is a cheerful cheerfulness, calm delight is what he's talking about with that joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full or leveled up. You see, when we face all of these situations, oh man, we can forget the love that he has and it hurts. It's painful. But he's saying, I'm here for you. I'm never going to leave you. I'm never going to forsake you. And because I'm in spirit, because now that he has died and risen from the grave, he's so much more. And he could be with us at all times. This is why he sent the comforter. Now coming to verse 12, this is my commandment. Again, authoritative prescription that you love one another as I have loved you. So now he's telling you as you grow in this, as you abide in me, I need you to love one another because this is your fruit. They're going to see and they're going to know. And when they know this, there it's going to draw them in. He says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man laid down his life for his friends." Look at what that greater love is. It's the affection and benevolence. And look at what friends are. We're dear, actively fond. He is actively fond of us. So he not only calls us a social moral obligation with love, but he calls us with benevolence and uh affection. And then he says, "I'm actively fond of you." In fact, he goes on to say, "You're my friends if you do whatsoever I command you." He says, "If you I'm charging you to love one another. You keep this up. You are my dear friend." That is so neat. That is just how he's So there's this relationship from abiding in him, which he cleansed you of the old. He's purging you of the old, of the bad habits, the things that we tend to tolerate, we put up with because we don't want to change, but yet Christ is changing us anyways little by little. We may fight it tooth and nail, kicking and screaming, but the spirit is changing us. And the more we allow him to change it versus tolerating what we want to keep the sin in our lives, we want to sin, we want this, we want that. Eventually, the spirit helps us release that and let it go. And we can walk in this simply by abiding in him. If you're sinning and you think that's going to keep you from God, you know what? Just ask him to forgive you and and come back into his word. It's a battle and you just keep coming back to that word. You keep coming back and abiding in that word. You keep reading that word even though you may have tripped, you've fallen, you messed up, you sinned again, spoke foul language, whatever it is, but you came back. That's overcoming the devil because the devil keeps telling me, "Ah, you're worthless. You can't do it. You can't do it on That's right. We couldn't do it on our own. But guess what? Jesus did it for us. And I'm going to keep calling on the name of Jesus. keep abiding in him and let him fill me up because he is greater than in me than he in the world. Oh, hallelujah. I hope you guys are getting this. Verse 15, henceforth I call you not servants. You're not a slave anymore. For the servant knoweth or is where not what his lord doeth. See, we don't as a servant, you can't know what your master's doing. But because we're friends, we are says, "But I've called you friends. For all things that I have heard of my father, I have made known to you." You see, you now know what's going on from the father direct through the son because he redeemed you, he purged you, he cleansed you. Because he has spoken his word over you. You're now his friends. Which means you have the knowledge to be healed, to walk in the healing, to be overcomers. You messed up. Yeah, but you can come back. And you always come back. You always open up the word. You always pray. You're always giving him the glory. And before you know it, that's your new routine. That's what you're keeping is his commandments, his prescription, his authoritative prescription in your life. And then you wonder why everything's going so good. That's why. Hallelujah. And yes, even if bad things are happening, you're still sitting there and standing there with a a joy in your heart. That's man, Jesus is on my side because I've done this. Wow. I'm so glad, Jesus, that you've done this in my life. Oh, I hope you guys grab on to this. I hope you do. Says, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you." which all it means is have you now bowed down and kneel ordained you that ye should go forth and bring that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain. So now that fruit in you should be drawing in people who want to partake of that fruit. Oh, and they're going to take it off of your branch that whatsoever ye shall ask, cuz he's saying now, your fruit will remain and then whatever you ask, you're begging, you're calling, you're craving, desiring, requiring of the father in my name, he may give it to you simply because you have chose you're he's chosen you and you're abiding him. He's changed you. He's cleansed you. He's worked something new in you. He's purging you and you're in the process. You're like a work in progress change. Hallelujah. And verse 17, these things I command you that you love one another. So he's re-emphasizing. It is your love toward one another. The fruit that you are growing. How they're going to recognize you one, but they're also going to want to partake and they're going to ask you and you're going to have the opportunity to say, "Hey, it's because Jesus, he's my redeemer." And you know what? Even though I keep messing up, he keeps forgiving me because he loves me that much. They want to hear that. This is you bearing fruit now, bringing in the fruit and drawing in the fruit. This is the cleansing and the purging that's taking place in 1 John 1 7-9 says, "But if we walk, that's the cleansing part. That's the purging part, the abiding." This is exactly what I just read through John 15. That is walking in the Lord. Oh, hallelujah. But if we walk be occupied with in the light because that word walk means be occupied with in the light as he is in the light. We have fellowship or partnership one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth or pur purifies us from all sin. All because you keep coming back. Keep coming back. You are more than a conqueror. Keep coming back. Verse eight. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. We go astray. Uh but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness because he spoke his word over you. So he cleansed you, purified you. You just got to keep coming back and you just got to keep reading his word, keep dwelling. If you couldn't get to it today, make it a priority for tomorrow. But come back. Keep coming back. You have already been cleansed. So now when you are asked the question, do you know if you've been cleansed? You can say, I have been because the name of Jesus is over me because he spoke his word over me. Hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word that it does not return void. Let your word be planted in our hearts and minds so that we live it and abide in your word. we make your word a priority in our lives that we're reading it. We're dwelling with you. We're abiding you and you are abiding in us. Thank you for letting us have that beautiful relationship with you to continue to hear your voice in our hearts and minds and to know and to follow your commandments. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

SPIRITUAL DARKNESS The objective of Spiritual Darkness is to reveal the dangers of walking in spiritual blindness and compromise, to expose the three unclean spirits—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—that work in tandem to keep people in bondage, and to call believers to stand firmly in the light of God’s Word. The lesson aims to equip Christians with discernment to recognize spiritual deception, reject compromise, and embrace the truth of God’s Word as their weapon in spiritual warfare. SPIRITUAL DARKNESS Pastor Marcos Marrero January 1, 1900 Objective: The objective of Spiritual Darkness is to reveal the dangers of walking in spiritual blindness and compromise, to expose the three unclean spirits—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—that work in tandem to keep people in bondage, and to call believers to stand firmly in the light of God’s Word. The lesson aims to equip Christians with discernment to recognize spiritual deception, reject compromise, and embrace the truth of God’s Word as their weapon in spiritual warfare. Synopsis: In Spiritual Darkness, Pastor Marcos explores Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6:23, showing how the condition of one’s spiritual eyes determines whether the body is filled with light or darkness. He explains that spiritual darkness is not merely the absence of light, but a counterfeit light rooted in deception and pride. The three major spirits at work—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—operate together to blind hearts and ensnare souls. The lust of the flesh represents inward selfish desires, while the lust of the eyes operates externally, enticing the flesh to open the door to sin. The pride of life, the deadliest of all, locks people in darkness by keeping them from admitting wrong and humbling themselves before God. Pastor Marcos illustrates how spiritual blindness manifests in addictions, compromises, and religious pride, all of which alienate people from God’s truth. This message emphasizes that the true battle is not over fleshly struggles alone but over truth versus lies. Those who walk in darkness are captives of the enemy, while those who walk in the light of God’s Word are empowered to set captives free. Believers are called to reject compromise, cleanse themselves from filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and remain steadfast in truth. The antidote to spiritual darkness is humility, repentance, and obedience to God’s Word, which brings true spiritual enlightenment and victory. Inspired Teaching: Matthew 6:23 “But if your eye is bad (evil, or in poor condition), your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” There are some great insights about spiritual darkness in our opening verse. First Jesus tells us that the condition of our spiritual eyes is critical for the wellbeing of our entire body. The great second insight that I find is when Jesus refers to the darkness in an individual as if the light that is in you is darkness, referring to darkness as a type of light. Let us deal first with the spiritual condition of the eyes for they have a direct effect on the body, be it positive or negative. 1 John 2:16 “For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.” There are three major unclean spirits that work together to bring the entire person into spiritual darkness, these three spirits work in tandem in order to suppress and/or to pervert the higher calling of God for man. Since we are all descendants of Adam whose flesh was corrupted by the spirit of the lust of the flesh, all of us humans are born with the spirit of lust within us, also known as selfish-ambition, so that the propensity for sin is already in us. But thankfully God has blessed us with cognition, we are born with the natural ability to understand right and wrong, so that when we are tempted by our selfish desires, we have built in discernment that allows us to weigh out the possible consequences of our actions. The lust of the eyes is an external spirit, always operating from the outside trying to get in, in order to do so it has to connect with its kindred spirit, the spirit of the lust of the flesh that dwells in the inside and who is able to open the door to the external spirit that wants to come in. A bad spiritual eye, or an eye that is evil, is in no condition to recognize the spirit that lurks behind the temptation that its being tempted with, so that it cannot fully weigh the consequences of its indulging in the lust that its being offered. A good eye will always caution the person as to what is really at stake if it proceeds to indulge in the temptation. A good example would be that of a person being offered drugs for the first time; the temptation is the experience of a very personal internal high that is attained through the intake of external things, like the ingesting of drugs that alter a body’s normal functions. The effects of the drugs eventually wear out, but the spirit behind it stays in, and it becomes the force that eventually compels that person to continuously seek another, and another external fix to which it becomes addicted. A person with good spiritual eyes has the ability to weigh properly the consequences of its actions. Spiritual vision is the ability to foresee that which at the present is invisible. Let me use the same example, let’s say that a person is offered drugs for the first time, who is aware of the ruinous consequences that drugs can have in a person’s life, no matter how alluring that temporary high may sound, a person in the right frame of mind would immediately say; it is not worth it! Matthew 6:22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good (clear or healthy), your whole body will be full of light (full of a clear and healthy understanding).” Our inabilities to understand the spiritual consequences of our actions is what plunges us into the realm of spiritual darkness. The lust of the eyes is always hard at work to deny the reality of the truth so that it can join forces with the spirit of the lust of the flesh. But there is a third spirit whose work keeps in bondage those who fell into the original deception. So that those who were originally deceived are now kept in the chains of darkness by its power, this spirit has to be defeated if they want to be made free again. Matthew 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Now we are dealing with the third and most deadly of the three, the spirit of the pride of life and it resides deep within the heart of man. It is the folly of a man that ensnares him, but it takes his pride to keep him bound. When a man replaces the light of sound judgment with the darkness that he calls light, because he is too proud to admit that he did wrong deep in his heart, that type of blindness is what is called spiritual darkness. I've been using common illustrations to portray spiritual realities here, but it is not sins or addictions that we are dealing with in this lesson, but rather, the issues here are, light which represents God’s enlightenment, and darkness which is represented by the pride of the wisdom of man. We are in the midst of spiritual warfare, there is an ensuing battle that has raged on for thousands of years, this war is being fought by the forces of darkness against the forces of light. It is not fought with carnal weapons, it is a fight between truth and lies, our mightiest of weapons is the truth of the Word of God which always defeats the lies of the enemy. Those who walk in spiritual darkness are prisoners of war who have been taken captive by the devil to do his will. Those who walk in the spiritual enlightenment of the Word of God are like mighty warriors who conquer the strongholds of the enemy and set the captives free. Who are the captives? Ephesians 4:17-18 “This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their (spiritual eyes) heart.” In times of war there should be no room for pride for it is pride, the pride of man, that blinds the human heart to the wisdom of God’s Word. The pride of a religious mindset can blind its followers to the truth of God’s Word. The pride of religious traditions can blind the minds of its followers to the truth of God’s Word. The pride of religious status, commonly known as the praise of man, can blind the minds of its recipients to the truth of God’s Word. Anything that has been corrupted, of which we are a part of somehow, if we fail to recognize the corruption and do not make every effort to alienate ourselves from it, will surely cause our minds to be blinded to the truth of the Word of God, and we do not want that. Ephesians 5:6-8 “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but now your are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.” Here is what I am trying to say, stay away from compromise; spiritual darkness makes its bed in compromise, and once in it your sleep will be nothing but nightmares of darkness and gloom. Is there compromise between light and darkness? How about between truth and lies? When is it okay to discard the wisdom of God for the counsel of man? But yet people do it everyday, I have to believe that it is because they have no clue as to what the will of God is for their lives. Ephesians 5:17 “Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” If we walk in the light as He is in the light then we have fellowship with one another, according to 1 John 1:7 But how can we have fellowship with those who walk in spiritual darkness? You see the predicament that walking in spiritual darkness puts the body of Christ in. But the promise is that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from that foul spirit of the pride of life that keeps so many in bondage. 2 Corinthians 7:1 “Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” We cannot cast out the spirit of the lust of the flesh that is attached to our natural selfish desires, so that we will always face temptations while in our mortal bodies. But if we are fully aware of the consequences of giving into the spirit of the lust of the eyes, it makes it easier for us to reject the temptations knowing that we do not want to be in spiritual darkness. Remember that the focus of this teaching is not about our everyday struggles with the flesh, This is a lesson about the spiritual warfare that we are engaged in. In this lesson we are exposing the spirits that want to contaminate your faith by making this a carnal fight. Our bodies already died with Christ on the cross, this is a battle for truth, the truth of the Word of God. It is the enlightenment that comes from the truth that makes the captives free. If you have fallen prey to any of the many facets of the demonic doctrines of man’s wisdom, do not walk in pride, admit that you were deceived and refuse to walk in darkness anymore. Reject compromise and stand in the truth of the Word of God and the truth of God’s Word will be your vindication. Nail the spirit of the pride of life to the cross and it will never bother you again as long as you keep your eyes on Jesus. 1 John 2:5 “But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.” Previous Next Home

PRAYING THROUGH OBEDIENCE The objective of this message is to teach believers how to deepen their prayer life through obedience to God’s commandment of love, forgiveness, and humility. By understanding prayer as an act of obedience, rooted in the Word of God, Christians are equipped to intercede effectively for themselves, others, and even nations—breaking curses, binding evil, and releasing blessings under the authority of Jesus Christ. < Back PRAYING THROUGH OBEDIENCE Minister Lisa Kane October 28, 2025 Objective: The objective of this message is to teach believers how to deepen their prayer life through obedience to God’s commandment of love, forgiveness, and humility. By understanding prayer as an act of obedience, rooted in the Word of God, Christians are equipped to intercede effectively for themselves, others, and even nations—breaking curses, binding evil, and releasing blessings under the authority of Jesus Christ. Synopsis: In this message, Minister Lisa Kane explores the powerful connection between obedience and prayer, beginning with Christ’s commandment in John 13:34 to love one another in a moral and social sense—our duty and obligation as followers of Christ. Prayer through obedience requires believers to forgive others (Matthew 6:14–15), releasing bitterness, hurt, and unforgiveness that often manifest as spiritual and physical bondage. Minister Lisa emphasizes the importance of entering the secret place with God, where transformation occurs. From this place, believers are set apart, their desires change, and they are empowered to pray with authority. Spiritual warfare, she explains, always begins with praise and worship, which ushers in God’s presence and aligns the heart with His will. The teaching highlights the authority given to believers (Psalm 149), showing how to bind kings, governments, and demonic influences through prayer, while also interceding for repentance and transformation rather than destruction. Using Scripture as a two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12), believers are instructed to pray strategically—beginning with forgiveness, casting out demonic influences, then replacing curses with biblical blessings and life-giving promises (Psalm 133:3; Psalm 5:12). The message provides a practical prayer model, applying these principles to personal struggles, families, governments, industries, and nations. Minister Lisa stresses the need for humility, self-control, and faithfulness when using the authority of Christ’s name. By praying in obedience, believers become effective spiritual warriors who can shift atmospheres, weaken the hold of evil, and prepare hearts for revival. Ultimately, “Praying Through Obedience” calls Christians to submit fully to God’s will, intercede in love, and walk in the authority and responsibility given by Jesus to bring transformation to individuals, communities, and the world. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Saturday, October 28th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called Praying Through Obedience. This is a good message. You're going to be blessed by this one. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for teaching us how to pray. We thank you for teaching us how to be obedient to our calling to love one another with obedience and moral sense. Thank you, Father God, for your living word of God. And let your scriptures implant in our minds and our hearts that we know them and that we can just share them at the moment that we need to under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, heavenly father. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scriptures here where this is called praying through obedience. We're going to start here in John 13:34. A new commandment I give unto you that ye love. That word love there means in a social moral sense, duty, obligation. This is G35 Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. So, let's read that again. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. All three loves in that scripture is the same love. So Jesus is saying, you know, you got to love me with a moral sense and an obligation duty. So before we dive into this beautiful message, this is an awesome message. I'm I'm going to teach you how to pray this, how to apply it to your life and all those around you, to America, to the world. Uh this is going to be amazing and I hope that you're blessed by it and truly truly blessed. But as you see, we're to love one another, which means we need to love our country. We need to love our governments. We need to love our neighbors, ourselves. But notice that word love. What is that word love? It is a moral sense. social moral sense. It is our duty, our obligation to do that. So, how do you love one another? Because this is where things get interesting now because you want to look at this and see, should I be praying for them? And that's the key right here because when you're praying for them in the spirit, things change. So this is where you're called to fulfill your commandment is here in the secret place praying. Boy, have I been talking about that secret place for a few years now. And I've been talking about this love now for the last few messages. So we're just now going to bring this to the act of obedience. And I'm going to show you who to pray for and what to pray. And I'm going to show you how to pray. So bear with me as we get to every scripture here. And it starts with the spirit of forgiveness. So, we're going to start here in Matthew 6:14 and 15. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. Before I dive into that scripture, this is not about your salvation. Anyone who calls upon the upon the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13, Joel 2:32, and I believe it's Acts 2:21. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. This is different. Look at what this says. It says, "For if you forgive." You see, when you call upon the Lord, you're saved. Now, he's saying, "I want you to forgive." Look at this. What's the word forgive? You need to put away, send forth people, men, women, children, whatever. That trespass. Look at this. It's a sides slip, an offense, an unintentional error and or a willful sin. So he's telling you put it away. You need to forgive and let it go. And he's saying if you do that, your father will also forgive you. If you don't do that, your father won't forgive you. What happens is let's say you're harboring sickness, cancer, disease, whatever. likely it is from holding on to unforgiveness, hatred, bitterness, anger, hurt, suffering. Well, you need to let that go. To let that go, you've got to go to the root of why you have that and you're holding on to it. So, if you're upset with somebody, you've been holding on to it and you're like this, you're just really, really tight. What happens is your body never relaxes. Those cells never relax and they harden. They're so stressed. They're so tight. They never they don't hard or they don't soften. So they harden and when a hardened cell what it does it turns into cancer. It turns into some form of sickness or disease. So nine out of 10en times when you hear somebody who has uh was diagnosed with cancer, this prayer is going to help with that because it starts with the spirit of forgiveness. Why? Because the power and the authority you're about to find out in this message is so amazing that the Lord has to know that you are humble and you will be under humility as you pray this prayer because we got to realize what Moses did when he talked to the Lord about the nation of Israel like stop don't punish them hold on we got to have that heart for the beloved of the people that God loves just as much as he loves me he you know what I'm going to share bitter In reality, he loves Hitler just as much as he loves me. Got to get that concept in your mind. He loves the terrorists as much as he loves me. So, the act of forgiveness is that moment of humility that you have within you. And that's what the Lord is showing us with the concept of the scripture. Amen. John 3:34, for he whom God hath sent set apart, speaketh the words of God. For God giveth not the spare by measure unto him. Okay. So, we're going to be talking about being set apart for this. So, for the most part, anyone who's been following any of my teachings for several months now know that I've been talking about the secret place of the Lord. As you get into that secret place, your life transforms and it changes. Your prayer life changes. That's what's so amazing about this. That's what I love about this. God changes you. He transforms you. So he's going to take you now to that next level where he's going to teach you how to pray. Now what does he have to do first? He sets you apart because you purposed in your heart to put him first in your life. You said, "I'm going to go to the secret place and I'm going to give it to the Lord." Once you do that, guess what happens? He enters into your life. He changes you, but he sets you apart. It's like the desires of your heart changes. And let's say you're someone who used to like to watch horror films. Found out my sister-in-law like that up until this month. We're interceding and we're getting closer to the Lord. She's realizing I don't want to even do that. That's a testimony. Amen. So set apart. Look at and you're going to speak. So we have to know what words to speak. We have to know the word of God. This message is targeted to the people who spend time with the Lord in the secret place that is studying the word of God and getting to know the word of God. So this is going to be powerful going to teach you some good stuff and you're going to be blessed by this. I promise you that. So let's go to the authority we have. We're going to look at Psalm 149. Let's start with verse 1 through3. Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song and his praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their king. Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises unto him with the temporal and harp. Spiritual warfare always begins with praise and worship. And most of the time a lot of people tend to do praise and worship in the church or in the sanctuary. But YouTube has got a lot of praise and worship songs now. You can actually put it on in the background or even put it in on in your secret place while you're praising and praying to the Lord. You could be praising and worshiping him at the same time. Praise and worship is key. Find scriptures that praise the Lord. The mountains rejoice you Lord or or praise you, lift you up. There are many scriptures that praise the heavenly father. Praise him yourself. find something, you know. Um, wow, Lord, today's got a beautiful blue sky. Doesn't hear, but he you just say, "Man, Lord, you really know how to make the color blue. You know how to make the sky look great. You're praising him for what he accomplished in creation." This is key. You got to praise and you got to worship him. Worship is adoration, putting him first. When you go into the secret place and you open up the Bible and you say, "Okay, Lord, let's you and I talk." That's worship because you prioritized him and put him first. Now, I want you to see something here. He says, "Let Israel rejoice in him that made him. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their king. We're adopted into the nation of Israel. We are part of Jesus." When you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, he is Jewish. So, you are actually now part of the nation of Israel. So understand that they've got to rejoice in their king. You're rejoicing in King Jesus. Jesus hasn't come back as king yet, but he will. So get ready. And that's something also to acknowledge that he's your king. This is and all you're what you're doing here is is obedient. Because when you do these things and you're being obedient to it, you're saying to the king, I'm going to do what you commanded me to, which is to love one another. And how do you love in that social moral sense? with your duty and obligation. Amen. All right. Now, verses four and five. For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people. He will beautify the meek with salvation. So, see, this is why we start with spirit of forgiveness. We've got to get humbled before the Lord because of the power and the authority that he's giving us can do some serious damage. And so, we have to have the self-control of the Holy Spirit with the with our tongue. We've got to be able to speak appropriately with the Holy Spirit covering and guiding us and telling us what to pray for. I'm gonna show you how all that works here in just a moment. When you do that, you are obeying him because there's going to be times you don't want to pay pray for a person. I didn't want to pray for a terrorist. And then I went ahead and I did it anyways because the Lord told me to love one another. That's his commandment. I got to obey the commandment. I'm like, "All right, Lord. I'm going to go ahead and pray for him. I'm going to tell you right up front, I don't want to do it, but I'm going to do it anyways because you asked me to. And then what happens is he just he transforms you. Now I want to pray for them because I don't want them to go to hell. I don't want anyone to go to hell, you know. And let that sit in your mind, in your heart. Everybody has a choice out here. Yes. But imagine if we're praying for them. We can save them. We can save them. Oh, you got to get this message. It's awesome. Verse five, let the saints be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud upon their beds. And I I'm going to tell you how this that scripture means to me personally. Uh I remember years ago we I had a long drive to and from work and I would take my daughter to school. It was about a two-hour drive one way and I turned off music. She was sleeping anyways. and I would put on preachers and I would listen to the word of God. And I did this for like three years. It was a good amount of time that I did this. So I had no music in my my spirit, my soul during that entire time. Well, now you know, I listen to music. I I love putting my headphones on and relaxing to some good Christian music that touches me on the inside. So, what I do now is I'll play this music and I don't do it every day. It's probably once a week or something like that, but I I have, you know, 10, 12, sometime maybe about 20 songs. But I rotate them out with newer things and stuff like that. But I will wake up in the morning now and my spirit is singing that song as I wake up in the morning in my bed. And that is because as I'm waking up, I'm I'm my spirit is still praising the Lord because I'm walking in godliness and righteousness. And I hope this is a testimony to you that I hope it changes you because you can be transformed. And if God can change me, he can change you. I promise you this. And that's what the scripture is saying. So he's identifying this group of people to do this kind of prayer. And I already fit the category and I started doing this. So as he's teaching me, I want to teach you. And that's why I'm doing this message today for this verse six. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a twoedges sword. And that is the word of God according to Hebrews 4:12 in their hand. So when we start to pray, we want to pray with scripture. And you are going to realize how much authority you have when you start applying scripture to your prayers. And it changes everything. So he's saying right here, let the high praises be of God be in their mouth. And and notice he said the mouth. And remember what Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, your mouth is your key power, total authority here. It's what you say. So all of us who are in this place where the Lord has transformed us, this is what he's saying. Let the high praises of God be in your mouth as you're praising him because you're putting him first. The in the it goes in front of the battle when um you go look at Jericho and the way that the army was set up. The praisers were in front. They're the ones that go out to do the front battle lines because they're praising God, giving him the glory. Because when you put first God in your life when seek first the kingdom of God and then all these things will be added unto you. Catch that. Catch that. So he says, "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand." And that see the the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword. So he's saying, "Put this word in your hand. You're going to be speaking it and you're going to be speaking it in authority." This is how this works because it works with the mouth. This is why we speak to the mouth. We have a cloud of witnesses around us. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. You've got the angels and the demons, and they're all listening to you. And you've got to determine what you're telling them. Because every time you go into prayer and you go in to do that battle, you start with your praise. But as you enter into the throne room, because you march in, you're marching in. You enter into the throne room. The first thing you're doing is you're addressing the heavenly God and Jesus, your savior. But there's a whole throne room there. And they're listening to your petition. And Jesus will go to God and interrogate him as to where's this going to go if we allow it to happen. You can get that from the last message or the one before it I taught. Either way, it's there. Okay, look at verse seven now here. Okay, you know what I really want to do? Hold on a moment. I want to go one more slide. I want to show you the authority you have. So, we're going to go to verse 9 first. To execute upon them the judgment, this honor have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord. So, you end with praise. So, he's saying what you're about to read because I I put I went to verse nine. What you're about to read in verse seven and 8 is the authority that you have all all well let's read again have all his saints this honor have all saints honor there means magnificent this is incredible this is what we get to do we get to do this we have the power and the authority to do this let this sink into your mind here you know uh what's that Spider-Man with great power comes great responsibility Well, this is what you're seeing it in action here in the scripture with you and me. I don't have to be a superhero, but I got the words to say of God that will penetrate and will release people from demons and will set them free, heal them, and deliver them. We have this power and the authorities. So, let I'm jumping in. Let's get into it. Verse seven, to execute. That word execute there means to do, to make, or accomplish. Vengeance. Wait a minute. We get to execute vengeance. That word vengeance. Revenge. Wait, wait a minute. I get to accomplish revenge. Get this. I know. Revenge from the Lord. Watch. Must show you how this works because this is very powerful. Upon the heathen. And by the way, heathen here, it's translated as foreign nation, gentile, unbeliever. You can add that in. I I should have typed it in there. Unbeliever. Any heathen, somebody who is under the influence of evil, and by the way, could be a believer in Christ, too, that is under the influence of the devil. Keep that in mind because there are people who claim to be Christian and they're claiming it and they might have said it salvation and repented unto the Lord, but they're not living. You see, you have a choice to live for Christ or not to live for Christ. You see, anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That doesn't mean that you live for Christ. It simply means you're saved. You're saved. You go to heaven. Hallelujah. That's better than hell. Okay? And I rather you get there even if you choose not to live for Christ. The problem is is when you do not live for Christ, you are vulnerable to the spiritual influences around the demonic activity and things that way. This is why people get um confused about all this. We got to be very very careful. Okay. So let's get back to this. So to execute vengeance upon the heathen or unbelievers and punishments upon the people or chastisements or corrections. So hold on a minute. We can execute, we can accomplish revenge on the unbelievers, the heathen, the Gentiles, and that's a key word there and the chastisements correction upon the people. I I love watching Jonathan Khan teach. Rabbi Jonathan Khan, if you haven't um met his ministry or got aware of his ministry, he's very powerful teacher. He has gone boldly to send messages to Biden and to the government to let him know what you're doing and and what you need to stop doing. It's time to repent. So, he's he's been sending out the chastisement. Okay. So what we're going to do here is we're going to do it behind the scenes in the spirit. So look at verse eight and it says to bind, which means to yoke or hitch their kings with chains and their nobles with feathers of iron. Okay? Want you to pay attention to this scripture right here. You get to yoke the the king. If Biden's doing something evil, we have the right to yoke him. He's the king of America. Okay? He fulfills that role. The title is president. It means the same thing. You go a little further. You get to bind him with chains. Now, the word chains there is a leap forth word or a spark because it's really focused on fire. But when I see leaps forth, I see it grabbing him. See, you're now speaking action word into the spiritual realm. Remember, we can bind what we bind on earth is bound in heaven. What we loose on earth is loose in heaven. We get to bind the king. It grabs him. It it it sparks him and it it braids him. That word fetter there is braided twine. Um, in this case it's with twine or chains of iron, feathers of iron. And look at this. And then it says, "And their nobles," which means the word to be heavy. But because it's associated with the king, I'm adding the word government in here. Yes, I added this in. It was not in the Strong's dictionary, but it's very applicable. And I want you to see why. Oh, in fact, why is because when you are required to pay your taxes and it gets burdensome, it's hard because that's a thing on you that you're like, I don't want to pay those taxes. I know where they're going. They're going for evil or they're too much. Well, it's heavy. It burdens you. That is our government. So, that's why I'm applying this word here. So, look at this. So, you get to bind the king. You can yoke him, hitch him with a a chain that just leaps forth and grabs a hold of him. And the government with feathers of iron, you get to do that to execute upon them the judgment written. Now, what is the judgment written? Now, the word judgment there means verdict. The verdict written. Okay? The Bible is full of prophecy. I think you see where I'm going with this. Now, the word of God, you know, if you go read Jeremiah, Isaiah, and any of these prophets, and they come against certain kingdoms and nations, they are executing verdict, written judgment against them. When the Lord says this I have against you, remember Jesus did it to us. By the way, we are going to be doing Christlike things. So, we have to be like Christ. He did it when he wrote seven letters to the churches. But this I still have against you as you read through that. Oh, if you haven't read that, you haven't read any of this, you got to go in and read it. See how the written word judges. It's a verdict. Well, we get to make accomplish that written verdict on. Now, look at this. To execute, to do, make accomplish upon them the judgment written. This honor have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord. So, we get to do this to our kings, to our governments, and to ourselves, to those around us. And we get to speak these words of power and authority in the name of Jesus. Let's remember what Jesus said because it starts with spirit of forgiveness. Matthew 6:14 reiterating it here. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. Okay. So starts with forgiveness. Now let's start with an example prayer here. So, we're going to start this for me. Okay? So, put yourself in my shoes right now and be me or you be yourself. This is you individual. You're praying for yourself. Okay? That's what this is about. Dear heavenly father, I ask you to forgive me. Now, look at what I put in parenthesis here. I'm going to give you a list of things you can pray for. But you can pray for governments, kingdoms, world industries, family members, any special request request, you put that here, right here in this spot. So you acknowledge, you're telling the demons, you're telling the angels, you're telling the heavenly father, you're telling Jesus in the courtroom, I'm praying for and then you tell them. In this case, for this example, we're going to do me. So I ask you to forgive me of my sins. Forgive the sins of the land I walk on. forgive the curses spoken against me and the curses I've spoken. I also ask you to forgive the iniquity found within me in the name of Jesus. And I forgive myself of these things too. So you start with yourself. Why do you do this here? Because you're the one who's going to be praying. So you need to be in godly righteousness because when you speak the words of authority and you are actually atoning and you're going to stand in. You have to make certain that the devil has nothing against you. And it starts here. So you start asking for forgiveness. And when you do that, this is where now because when you speak words, the devil has nothing against you to stop you and what your words say. Oh, you better grab a hold of that one. Oh. Oh, this is awesome. This is awesome. Let's continue on. So, now that everything is forgiven, what you do now is you go after the demonic activity because they think they still have authority because they have a contract. You see, what happens is us, me, or the government or whomever you're praying for goes into a binding contract with the devil and allow the devil to do what he's doing to us. It's a contract and he's legally right to be there because of something we said, something we did, we sinned, whatever it is, he has the right to be there. So now that we forgave it though, we nullify that contract. And guess what happens? He no longer has a right. Because see, when you're standing before the throne room and and you say, "Forgive me of my sins." Jesus says, "Well, I forgive her." And then he goes to God um and heavenly father says I forgive her too. Okay. And he clears off all the contracts. You're clear. You're clean. You are righteous. That is how then I say okay Lord. And watch what you do next. Demonic activity loose me now in the name of Jesus. I bind you with chains of iron preventing you from interfering in my physical and spiritual life again. Ever again. get below my feet where you belong in the name of Jesus. He has to let you go. So, let's say you have a loved one who's dealing with alcoholism or drugs um or is in jail for whatever reason or whatever. This is where you start. Forgive the curses against them. And notice I added the curses on the land because we're walking on the land. The land has been cursed. witchcraft, warlocks, and whatever they that's the they do everything they can to interrupt the land below your feet. So, you have to remove that curse. So, what I do, let's say I'm praying for a family member. Let's say it's my parents. I not only so when I put me in the spot of prayer, I'll put my parents there and I will say, "Okay, and any of their associates or family members with them because every one of us who associate with one another, we're cursing each other like it's no big deal because our language has gone that way. Oh, that food was too hot that they served or it was too cold. Why can't they serve hot food? Uh, this service here is lousy." These are curses that you're placing on whatever establishment you're speaking on. And the devil knows it and he's like, "Yep, that's what I'm doing. Anything to make your life miserable, that's a curse." This is why we have to forgive them. Because the moment you forgive them, wait a minute, God, how could you clear that? They did that. And he said, "Nope. Nope. They're forgiven. I don't see it." That is how God works. So let's let's continue on here. So you're going to now you're going to tell it demonic activity to loose you. And then look at this. Remember I told you you're going to apply scripture. Say I'm allowed to do this per Matthew 18:18. Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. And whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. I know the devil knows the scriptures, but it is our duty to say them when we're praying in the name of Jesus. Oh, hallelujah. So, now let's continue on because we cast out the demons, everything's forgiven. Here is Psalm 133:3. As the do of Hermon and as the do that descended upon the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forever more. This is where you say, I bless my life as you have, heavenly father, life forever more. Oh, this is the part where you add whatever blessings that are in the Bible. I'm blessed to live a long life forever more. I have that right. When you bless your life with this, because remember the curses have been active in your life. You've just broken the curses. You got to replace the curses with something. You're bless you're replacing them with blessings. When you bless all the demonic activity going on around you where you might be in a place where it splatters on you, you're not involved with it, but it it's there. It could affect you where it kills you accidentally or something like this. But by you blessing your life or whomever you're praying, you're blessing them for that long life, which we're entitled. We're entitled to have that as you saw in that scripture. You can find other scriptures and put them in here. We're blessed with life as seek first the kingdom of God. All these things. Psalm 91. Find the scriptures. Put them in there. Speak them as you bless your life. Let's continue on. You know, and yeah. So, now that everything is forgiven, the demons are bound and whatever you're praying for. Now, here's Psalm 5:12. For thou, Lord, will bless the righteous with favor. Wil thou com compass him as with the shield? Here's another blessing. I bless my life with your righteousness and reaffirm your shield round about me. Look at what else you can add here. The fruit of the spirit, the gift of the spirit. Because if you're praying for somebody who's a non-believer, here's where things get very interesting. The gifts of the Holy Spirit works in a very interesting way. When you ask for the fruit of the spirit, you're asking for love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, meekness, faithfulness, and self-control. You're asking for those seeds to be planted in their lives. And what happens is you are asking them to be watered so that they grow and manifest in that individual to become a believer. Or let's say they are part-time church tenders go during Christmas or whatever. Now you can ask for the gifts of the Holy Spirit to start talking in their minds. Give them the gift of discernment, the gift of wisdom, knowledge, gift of speaking in tongues, the gift of interpreting tongues, what and you and you know what? Because the Holy Spirit is not limited to all these gifts that Paul wrote because there's more. Ask the Holy Spirit to give them the gift that is appropriate for them at their time in their life. Sometimes you just got to go walking around smiling at people and that makes a change in their lives. Amen. Now, same principle when you're praying for governments and kingdoms. When you add the your your United States of America or any nation, here is where you can say Psalm 149:7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, which is what we're studying here, and punishments upon the people. Every per, this is what you pray. Every person in leadership out there in the world, if they choose evil versus good, bind them tight so they can't breathe. Heavenly Father, place them in their sick beds until they repent, they will not be fruitful with evil in the name of Jesus. You have the right and authority to judge them and put you see the Bible tells you that when you are living in curses and you're rejecting God, you get sick and you die early. You can't breathe. You can't breathe spiritually. Well, you have the right and the authority to do that here. Um, same thing with verses 8 and n. every king or person in charge of anything that affects the people of the world. If you do not choose good for the people, but choose to do evil, I bind you tight in the name of Jesus. Heavenly Father, bind them so hard that they can't breathe. Place them in their sick bed so they cannot move forward with evil until they repent. I'm not asking them to be dead. Now, they may die because they ch they don't choose repentance, but the Holy Spirit is working in them. But because you make them so tight with sickness, they cannot move forward in evil. And I can tell you right now, nobody's been praying this because evil is running rampid in our country. Look what else you get to do. I get to stand in their shoes. I can stand in Biden's shoes. I can stand in my loved ones shoes who don't believe. I put myself in their place. Look at how this works. And atone for them, heavenly father. I speak on their behalf. It's like this. Lord, I say I'm stand in in so and so's shoes and I say, "Jesus, save me on his behalf. Jesus, heal me on his behalf." You see, this is how you do that. You're now interceding, atoning for them. Jesus, deliver me. Jesus, help me. Thank you, heavenly father, for your grace, mercy, and salvation, and allowing your saint saints to walk in authority with your name in the Jesus name. Amen. This is now you interceding and atoning for those around you. And I would make sure not just to target the one person you're wanting to see change in, but get everybody around them. If it's one cousin, get their spouse, get their children, get their parents. You want to cover all of them and include them all in that group prayer. That way you are ministering to them. Look at what you get to pray for. You start with me and you can do the nations and their governments and look at the people within those nations and their enemies. When Hamas attacked Israel, I was all upset, man. Al and the Lord reminded me, this is why he's showing me this. And he says, "I want you to pray for them." And I was like, "Okay, I'm gonna do it, but I don't want to." But I did it because it's obedience. Notice the title of this message. Praying through obedience. We've got to be able to be obedient. Control our mouths or tongues. Self-control. I'm not going to curse those that are supporting terrorism. I'm not going to curse them. I choose not to. I'm going to bless them and I'm going to ask the Lord to forgive them. But I'm also going to bind them if they choose evil over good. And I'm going to bind them so hard that they can't breathe. and they're in their sick beds and can't do anything until they repent. Oh, I hope you're grabbing this. I hope you are. Look, you can pray for our Previous Next Home

A CHRISTIANS TRANSFORMATION The objective of this teaching is to reveal the biblical process of a Christian’s transformation—from redemption through Christ, to renewal in the Spirit, to active participation in God’s harvest. By examining Old Testament prophecies and their fulfillment in the New Testament, believers are encouraged to dwell in the secret place of God, be filled with the bread of life, oil of the Spirit, and new wine of renewal, so they may live transformed lives and bear fruit as the bride of Christ. < Back A CHRISTIANS TRANSFORMATION Minister Lisa Kane February 4, 2023 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal the biblical process of a Christian’s transformation—from redemption through Christ, to renewal in the Spirit, to active participation in God’s harvest. By examining Old Testament prophecies and their fulfillment in the New Testament, believers are encouraged to dwell in the secret place of God, be filled with the bread of life, oil of the Spirit, and new wine of renewal, so they may live transformed lives and bear fruit as the bride of Christ. Synopsis: This message explores the journey of a Christian’s transformation as foretold by the prophets Jeremiah, Hosea, and Isaiah, and confirmed in the New Testament writings. It begins with the ransom Christ paid for His bride and the promised joy, abundance, and satisfaction for God’s people. Using the imagery of grain (the bread of life), oil (the Spirit’s anointing), and new wine (renewal and revival), the teaching outlines the essential steps of growth in Christ: feeding on God’s Word, dwelling in His presence, and embracing newness of life. Believers are reminded of the necessity of the secret place with God (Psalm 91), where oil and strength are replenished, questions are answered, and intimacy with the Lord is deepened. The parable of the virgins highlights the importance of keeping spiritual oil filled, while Isaiah and Hosea reveal both the blessings of obedience and the consequences of rejecting God’s call. The transformation continues as Christians become ambassadors of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5), laborers in the harvest (John 4), and part of the Spirit-filled cluster of fruit (Isaiah 65). Practical application is emphasized—spending time in prayer, Scripture, and personal communion with God in order to live righteously, evangelize effectively, and be ready for Christ’s return. The message concludes by affirming that transformation is not just for eternity but begins now: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Living in the secret place empowers believers to walk in liberty, reflect God’s glory, and participate in the great harvest as God pours out His Spirit in these last days (Joel 2). Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Saturday, February 4th, 2023. And this message is called a Christian's transformation. Oh, let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this word. We thank you for your blessing and your anointing on it. We thank you for opening our ears to hear, our eyes to see, our hearts to receive, and that we can live and walk under wisdom, knowledge, and understanding through the Holy Spirit. so that we can apply your living word to our lives daily in every moment of every day and be ready for the harvest that is already here so that we can evangelize and reap and sew your fruit. Father God, in the name of Jesus we pray. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Oh, you're going to love this message. This message is going to take some old prophecies and it's going to show you the result of what a Christian will be. Now, we have to take measures to get to be that Christian. And you're going to see that walk in here. You're going to see the transformation take place. So, we're going to start with Old Testament pro prophecy and then we're going to move into the New Testament. But this is so powerful. It's going to change you if you choose to take these steps. So, let's go to our opening scripture here in Jeremiah. We're in Jeremiah 31 11-14. For the Lord has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he. I'm going pause here for a moment. I want you to see ransom. Jesus paid the ransom for you and I. Amen. So, this is talking about the bride of Christ. This is talking about Christianity. Now, the nation of Israel will have that opportunity and we're all going to be living together in that wonderful peace and eternity that we're going to have. uh there's that seven-year tribulation period, then you have the thousand-y year reign, and then you have the new Jerusalem. And we're going to be living in that new Jerusalem. So, here you've you've got Jeremiah, and we're going to read Hosea here in a moment. And they're talking about a celebration, a joy. What does that sound like? Our feast or a wedding uh reception that we're going to have when we come into the presence of the Lord during this time. So this is talking about the bride of Christ and those that put Jesus as the son of God. So you're going to see what this is applying to. Nation of Israel missed when they crucified Jesus, which they needed to. The Lord handled all that. He took care of it. But they're going to catch it here in the end at the midway of the seven-year tribulation. They will catch it, and they're going to be right there with us. So let's take a look. Let's continue to read on here. Verse 12. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of the Lord for wheat and new wine and oil for the young of the flock and the herd. Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all. They then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together. Notice the key word then. For I will turn their mourning to joy, will comfort them and make them rejoice rather than sorrow. I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord. Saturate the soul of the priests. Remember, we're are priests. I've been teaching on that. So, our souls are going to be saturated here. We're going to be and and I don't know if you've ever seen a beautiful garden that is well watered but I am telling you right now when you look at one of those it is incredible to see the effort that they put in here but it's so peaceful when you look at it and look at it says their souls shall be like a well-watered garden. So this is talking about the end result of being a Christian whether you're in the human form still alive on this planet or you're in the presence of the Lord but we're well satisfied. Now I take it as here and now because he says uh let's go back to that scripture. He says then look at this then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance and the young men and the old together for I will turn their mourning to joy. There is no mourning in heaven. So this is talking about our earthly presence here and he's talking about the bride of Christ. Now there is something key here I want you to see because this is very very very important. You know, I could teach for months on just these scriptures alone in Hosea. We'll get to that in a moment. But look, it says for wheat and new wine and oil. Okay. So, let's look at this for a minute because there are three ingredients here that goes with the Christian's walk. Okay? And yes, I'm taking it from the Old Testament. We'll see it in the New Testament. So, you got the wheat or the grain, and that is the bread of life. Jesus is the bread of life. So we grab onto him and we fill up on the bread of life. Now you are also going to have the new wine and the oil. Now let's talk about the oil for a moment. I'll get to the new wine because that's what I want to focus on with this. The oil is when you spend time in the presence of the Lord. If you take a look at Solomon's temple or you look at when Moses spent time with God on the mountain, Moses shined. He he had such a shine they had to put a veil over his face. The temple nobody could enter it. They would die because of the shikina glory that emanated from it. So when you enter the presence of the Lord now in your flesh because remember the temple uh the the veil was torn in two at the temple. We get to go to Jesus directly which means we feed off of his living word which is the bread of life. And then that's the Christian. And then you have the oil. You fill up on the oil when you're in his presence. Well, how do you get that oil when you're in his presence? And remember, the oil is the numa, the power, the spirit that moves forward for us. You see, when you dwell in the secret place, I'm going to remind you of that scripture here in just a moment. You are filling up with the oil. Remember the the parable of the 10 virgins. They 50% had enough oil, 50% didn't have enough oil, but they were all Christians. So, how do you get enough oil so that you're on the right side? You spend time in the presence of the Lord. Let's go and look at that. Let's look. Psalm 91 says, "He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty." This is where you get your oil. This is also where you're going to get your grain because it's a two-way conversation. You're reading the Bible and you're praying. And let me add a little step here. Write down your questions in a journal. Date it and just wait on the Lord. And I promise you, you'll have your answers within a few days and answers to tough questions. This is how I can come into the presence of the Lord because he's answered. He has satisfied my soul with those questions that how many people call Christians hypocrites because they have questions that we cannot answer because we are not being we're not apologetic to the word of God. We're not standing up and representing the word of God because we don't know. But when you spend time, you know. And then did you see that? He says, "And then new wine for wheat and new wine and oil." Now there's something else. We have seen the grain because those of us that are dwelling in the secret place, we're reading our word and we're being sustained by the bread of life. And those of us that are spending get the oil, too. Because now we're seeing how that numa moves that in fact when you spend time in the word of God, you have you're preparing to go to battle. When you go to church or you go to the grocery market, wherever you're going in your daily routine, you have the power of the Holy Spirit moving ahead of you. And it shows and represents that because you're when you're filling up your cup with oil, it bubble bubbles out. It boils out and it falls on people around them and they know it. They sense it. But then there's the new wine. First of all, new wine is not fermented. Hasn't fermented yet because you got to put the wine in a new wine skin so it can ferment. That means you got to take off the old and put on something new. So, we need to be doing that. And I tell you, if we were doing that, we'd already be in our revival, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We're going to be talking about that because that is the end result of all of this. Let's go to Hosea now. Let's continue and look at it from Hosea's perspective. Same type of prophecy here. This is Hosea chapter 2. We're looking at verses 2 uh 20- 23. I will betro you to me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord. What? When Romans 10:9 says that if you confess Jesus Lord, you confess him with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and you believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead because you're talking to you the spirit. You cannot see it. That's an act of faith. So that moment that you speak that word, look at that. You become betrothed to God and it's through faithfulness. You have to be in faith to do it because you cannot see God when you're talking to him. So you see this is about the Christian. This is the bride of Christ. Look at how Hosea is bringing this out. God is very he's clear in identifying who this belongs to. Verse 21. It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer, says the Lord, and I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth. The earth shall answer with grain, with new wine, and with oil. shall answer Jezrael. Then I will sow her for myself in the earth, and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy. Then I will say to those who were not my people, you are my people, and they shall say, "You are my God." I'm going to tell you right now, let me in the past few years, my prayer has changed. And I say this multiple times throughout the day. I always say, "Lord, you are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you and you belong to me." Did you know I was saying that before I even knew this scripture existed? That is how the Holy Spirit works. So, I'm a walking testimony to the fulfillment of that prophecy here. Please understand that you can be doing that and you should be doing that because as you spend more time with the Lord, you're saying you are my God because look at you are taking care of me. I mean, you see him move. You see the spirit move around you. Things that shouldn't have happened happen that were good that blessed you. And you're just sitting there going, "Wow, Lord, how'd you do that?" Isn't that just absolutely incredible? This is how the Lord works. Now, look at this. I want you to see this. I will enter the heavens and they shall answer earth. Now, look at here. How our earth answering in the earth. We're going to have new grain. So, not only are we going to have the bread of life and flour and wheat and all that that we need, which we do, even in these times where our economy is just out the window right now. You see, God still provides. He has blessed our household amazingly simply because I'm spending time in the secret place with the Lord, which you saw is Psalm 91:1. You choose. That's your action. You choose to do that. See, it's secret. When you go to church, that's not secret. Everybody can see you there. You see the difference? You got to spend time with God in the secret place. One, you get your oil. And two, he knows your name. You know his name. Now look at this. So now he's again talking about the grain, the new wine, and the oil. So now you can see how this Old Testament is telling you what you and I today are going to be like. You got to realize the word of God, you know, the whole action of the word of God that took place in history because this is true history. It happened to be written for you and I today. Paul didn't have the New Testament. He wrote it. Abraham didn't have a church to go to. He had to build it. Moses didn't have the five books of the Bible. He had to write them. Do you see now what when you say, "Okay, well, Jesus is the son of God and I acknowledge him because I hear it in the word of God, but I believe in faith." Now, you have the word of God because it happened in the past and you get to live it today. They lived for you and I today to have that word and it is being fulfilled. This is very, very powerful. Now, I'm going to show you Isaiah 65 because we're still in the Old Testament. Now, Isaiah is clearly telling you, you got a choice. And this is, remember, uh, when you're evangelizing and you're going to reap and sew, we're going to get into this here in just a bit. People have a choice. You choose God or you choose not God. So, and and they don't understand that, you know, they'll say something like, "Jesus is cool. He's a prophet. He's a great guy." That's not acknowledging he's the son of God. You know, even Israelites will say he he was a good pro prophet. He he you know, he did okay. But they'll tell you straight up, we're not looking for the son of God. We're looking for a man to be our Messiah. And they tell you that. So you can see how their vision, they have a veil over their eyes. You're going to see scripture related to that. But you can see now they there's a choice. Isaiah 65 tells you the consequences to the choice. Now remember, I am showing you what it's going to be like to be that Christian. We're the transformation that we're going to go through that we're going to be walking in this new wine. Watch this. So Isaiah is giving us two choices. So we're I'm going to take snippets from Isaiah 65:8. Thus says the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster and one says, do not destroy for a blessing is in it, so will I do for my servants sake that I may not destroy them all. Now I want you to see that. See the new wine? Now he's defining the new wine because how do you take off the old wine skin and put on a new wine skin? Did you notice that? Look at he says is found in the cluster. Oh, get this. Get this. I need you to get this. When you reap, not just sew, you're going to be sewing, too. But when someone becomes a believer under you, they're with you. They confess Jesus as the son of God and become a believer under your tutelage. Your branch just produced a grape of fruit on it. So you're that branch and now you've got fruit and is your responsibility to take that person in. Oh, I want you to see this church. See this Christian who's been a Christian for 50 years. Listen, when you bring that person into the church, you get them to start reading the Gospel of John. You get them to start writing down their uh their questions for God in a journal in their own quiet time because you're starting to teach him how to be in the secret place with the Lord. You get them to start talking with God on a daily basis because that's your responsibility. When people don't take up that responsibility, you can see it today. The evidence is there. What's the main person or personal type of person that comes after the church? It's people who got saved. They confess Jesus is Lord. But what happened? They got in the church and they put Christianity on such a high pedestal that we cannot meet their standard because they think now the whole church has to be godlike standard, but we're still human beings. But there's nobody there to tell them, "No, we're still working on it." There's nobody there to tell them, "Get into the word." And look at how people need to keep repenting. These people didn't do that. Wait, get in the word and start praying for them because they need your prayer. But no, instead they walk away from the church. They criticize the church. They call the church hypocrites. Those are your biggest voices are those people. And those are the people that somebody didn't take in. They probably became a Christian at a concert or something, but nobody stepped in to pull them in. Now, the Holy Spirit will work only as much as we're willing to give. So, you can see they already had a standard set uh an expectation and that expectation failed and they blamed it on the church, on God, and like God's not working on anybody. But I promise you, it takes us a step into the presence of the Lord. Now, of course, if you're going to teach somebody how to do that, don't you think you ought to be doing it? So, for you Christian who's been a Christian for 50 years, but you're not doing that. You're only going to church. Well, that's great for sustainment, but you have to understand when you go to church, you are going to church to do battle. you're not going to church to receive at that time. A lot of people think they go to church to receive and they're acting like that and they're taking it for receiving. In fact, what they do is they walk up to the door, they take off their cloak of distress. They take off whatever pain and suffering they have and they leave it at the door. They come in, they receive because see, they in their mind they're coming into the presence of the Lord. Fine. This is good stuff. But you never dealt with the cloak. And what happens? you leave, you pick it back up and you put it on and you wear it for the whole week. But when you enter into the presence of the Lord, Psalm 91:1, in the secret place in your home, you take it off and before you know it, you leave it off. Why? Because God already dealt with it. He dealt with you in that secret place and he built you up and now you get to represent him. So now he brings you into you because you spent time in that secret place. You built up your oil. Now when you come into church, you get to do battle. And the first thing you do is you pray for your church services coming up. Lord, I bless it. You see, now you speak the spoken word of God. I just taught on this a couple of messages about speaking your blessings or speaking your curses. You have a choice and you can see what that consequence is. But now I want you to see this new wine in this vine cluster. Look at what he says here. He says is found in the cluster. Now watch this. I'm going to get more into the scripture, but watch how this works. Imagine your branch has a cluster of fruit on it. Now all of that fruit is coming from the same branch. Jesus is our branch. Now what happens is as that Christian because we're spending time in that secret place we're producing the fruit we're a piece of fruit as well we hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and now the church this cluster operates under one the Holy Spirit no man no man there's a story oh I think it's in um Ukraine or some place out there they had um they had stopped Christianity so much so that you know they got rid of scriptures and what have you that even when they pass papers of where they were going to meet uh they caught on to that the guards did they got arrested beaten up what have you well people just started showing up there was no written paper they just started showing up and guess what other people showed up because the cluster together heard the Holy Spirit tell them where to go Now imagine when you're reaping and sewing, you are talking, you are evangelizing to people in the church or out on the streets, in the grocery store, wherever you may be. Sometimes you're sewing seeds. It could be just a simple smile, but because you're spending time in that secret place, you are now operating. So all those people that you sew a seed on, others have seown a seed on them as well. And what happens is these people are looking at you like, "How did you know? How did you know what to say?" Especially when the Holy Spirit tells you, "Your grandmother's been praying for you. Why haven't you uh repented? What's going on? Can I help you?" Boy, you you can imagine the wakeup call this person has like, "How did you know? You don't know me. You don't know my grandmother." And that's exactly what you say. That's what you do. That's that's how the Holy Spirit works in this cluster. So now you're starting to see where the church where the Christian's transformation goes to. Do you see how neat that is? Oh my goodness. So and one says, "Do not destroy it for a blessing is in it." I'm going to tell you right now, when you have somebody who's bitter in the church or angry at the church or angry at a person in the church or doesn't like that worship song or whatever, they ruin it because they're not spending time in the secret place of the Lord and giving that to the Lord, saying, "I don't like that, Lord. Either help change me or change them." They haven't done that when that is their responsibility. And instead, they prevent the cluster from working. Isn't that amazing how that can happen in the church? Now, we're still in Isaiah 65. Now, let's look at the consequences when you don't choose to be that Christian in the secret place. So, he's telling you straight up, therefore, I will number you for the sword and you shall all bow down to the slaughter. You see, death comes quicker for you. This is powerful. This is so you know there are benefits to getting in the presence of the Lord. Not just the fact that oh well he's amazing. It was great to be in his presence and that he let me be alive today in and of itself. But the fact is you get to live longer because you have the blessing of life on you. But when you don't do it, you have the bless the cursing of death on you. Now look, let's continue. Because when I called you did not answer. The secret place is where he's going to call you. This is the place that you need to be spending time with him so he can prepare you to take you out into ministry wherever it may be. It may not even be in the church. It could be in the street corner or it can be in the jail cells. Wherever you will be called, he will call you but you did not answer. You're a believer but you didn't answer. Could have been this way for 50 years. But I'm telling you right now, there's going to be this cluster coming in. You're going to have to shuck your oldness, your old ways. Put on the new wine skin and get ready. Prep yourself now in the secret place of the Lord because he called you. You are called. And when I spoke, you did not hear but did evil before my eyes and chose that in which I do not delight. You know, speaking of a this is the type of person you're going to be dealing a lot with here in these end times. So, I have a little testimony here. Here I was at the grocery store waiting for the cashier ringing up all my groceries. The person bag the gal bagging my groceries is talking to the cashier and is mad at the church. She and she named the church and I knew the church and she's mad because she's um homosexual and the church kicked her out and they wouldn't even let her wait for a drive or a ride to come pick her up. They made her walk and it was on a mountain and she had to walk down the hill and she was mad and she just whatever. And then out of the blue, she looks at me and, you know, basically asking me what it is, you know, that's going on. And D and I don't know her. She don't know me. But see, she senses the spirit. And the one thing I said to her was very simple. I said, "How can you expect God to bless you when he told you homosexuality is a sin?" She responded, "Well, she says, "I know. But you know what? She gave me a hug, thanked me, and she continued on her way. She didn't change. You see, that's what people want today. Whether you're a sinner or a Christian who's got one foot in the church and one foot in the world, you want both. You want evil, you want, well, not evil, you want sin because it's feels good for a season. You want your sin and you want to live uh and have God's blessings on you. You can't have both. You have to choose and Isaiah clearly tells you. Now look at what it continues to tell you though when you choose him. So you have for uh verse 17. For behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. Remember we are also talking about what's coming up after the the millennial. You're going to have a Jerusalem, a new Jerusalem. We're going to be shucking off of the old wine skin, putting on the new one, and we're going to be part of the new heavens and the new earth. So, he's telling you straight up where this is going. Now, look at this. And he's prophesying in verse 24 and 25. And it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer. Here's the most amazing part talking about us here and now. Let's say you're not feeling very well. something you just know you're down or whatever, whatever's going on. Before you even prayed and asked God cuz you've been dwelling in the sequence, he already knew and he sent you your healing. You already have it. In fact, it goes away. You get up, you decide to nope, I'm not going to be it. That's it. I'm moving on because I don't have time for that one. Or you know what? I'm not going to get sick because I know that I was already healed. I say it already healed. So now once you know that, that it goes right out the window. He answered you even before you needed to. Which that is prophetic anyways because Jesus took the healing. The beating his back was torn to pieces. He took the stripes for us. By his stripes, we were healed. By his stripes, we are healed. So, it's amazing to see how he already did all that. You're in a financial situation. He knows. So, before you even ask, he answered and already provided. It's on its way. Now imagine being part of that cluster where you're moving under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Put a check here. You do this. You do that because the Holy Spirit told you. You're doing what you need to do. This is how this is going to be working. And while they're still speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together. The lion shall eat straw like the ox. And thus shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord. The lion and the lamb living together. We're going to see that. But the me best part is to see that it is now. You see, our heavenly eternity already began here and now in our flesh. You I I get to say, I'm already saved and I've already started my eternity because I've already died to this world. Because I enter into the secret place with the Lord. And when I spend my time there, I get to sin runs. It leaves. I don't have to have sin on me. I'm considered righteous. Oh, you got to grasp this. Got to grasp this. Let's look at um 2 Corinthians 5:17-21. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. And now all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. Pause here. Remember what I was talking about? If you if if a Christian becomes a Christian or believer under your moment, you shared the word of God with that person and they accepted Jesus Christ into their heart. You are given the responsibility of reconciliation. How do you reconcile? You bring them into the secret place with the Lord because you want him and God to bond. Do you see that? And he's telling us that's our responsibility. I want you to see that. Says uh given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Hallelujah. And now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us. You know, when you're in the secret place, he is getting you prepped and ready. He is preparing you. He's giving you scripture that you're it's going to click with you and you're going to have it in your mind and you're going to be able to share it with somebody and you're going to be reconciling them to the Lord. And that see you have become that new creation. Oh, so awesome. Look at this. For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him. So when you are spending time getting the oil, getting the grain, getting prepped, getting rid of the old wine skin, putting on the new wine skin, getting ready to operate in that cluster. You are now righteous in the presence of God. Now you're ready to evangelize. You're ready to go forward. Look at this in John. What What do you have to do when you evangelize? John 4:35-38. Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields for they are already white for harvest. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life. That both he who sws and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, one sws and another reaps. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored and you have entered into their labors. Again, these people are going to be amazed because you're going to say things others have already told them and they're going to wonder how did you know? And they're going to realize that God is real and they're going to repent hopefully in that moment. But you also got to bring them in to the reconciliation into that ministry so that they get close to God so they don't become that person who hates the church and calls the church hypocritical. You are ministering to different types of people. Realize this. Go read the parable of the sewer. When God is sewing seed, there's some that land on hard soil. Ha. Have you ever tried to germinate a seed and grow seed from scratch? Some are very temperamental and you may not even be able to grow any seed of that kind. Just you can't. It's your your where you live. It's the weather. You just can't. But someone else can. in another area. And that's exactly how it is. Now, remember, I've been talking about that this is your responsibility. Let's go back to the life of a plant for a moment. When a plant is sitting in a pot in your house, does it get watered by itself? No. You have to go pick it up and go water it. Meaning, you have to go get the water, the grain from the living word of God, the bread of life, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and then the oil. And now the new wine. You're going to be taking the action of removing your old wine skin and getting ready for the new wine skin and what God has set for you. And this is preparing you to evangelize, preparing you to do battle because you will be dealing with spiritual matter. I mean, take a look at the room you're in. You can't see it, but there are angels and demons standing around you. So, how do you get the victory? You have to be in the secret place with the Lord first. And you pray over your service. You bless the service because that means when the devil or the demon and the angel are fighting, the angel has a victory over that service and people come in and they feel a difference and it's like, "Wow, this is neat. Wow, I got I got blessed. I'm going back." You see, that is how you get prepped for warfare. You go into it and that is how you have the victory. And it's because you are transforming as that Christian because why your seed is growing. You know what God you accepted Jesus Christ in your heart. It was a seed that was planted in you. Remember Adam comes from the dust of the earth. So you got a seed and then you got baptized. And when you got baptized that put you in a ministry. Remember when Jesus was baptized he went and dealt with the devil first. So imagine a new believer, a new Christian, that first love. Remember your first love. You get baptized. you're ready to go into ministry. You and in fact a new Christian is a sink or swim moment here in that beginning. Why? Because now they get a taste of the spirit world and they they start to see and understand and they should have questions. They should be coming to you and asking you questions. You should be answering them with the Holy Spirit. And if you can't, you work with him and said, "Let's go find that answer together." Amen. Amen. That is that first love. So when you who's been a Christian for 50 years now get into that secret place, you're going to remember your first love and you're going to be getting ready because you're now going to have that grain, the bread of life. You're going to be sustained by the living word of God and you're going to have the anointing of the oil which is going to splatter on people because it's going to be flowing over your cup. And now you're going to have the new wine where you're going to be operating because you're going to hear the spirit of the Lord, the Holy Spirit talk to you. Do you see that transformation a Christian takes in their life, in their walk? 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THE FOUR PILLARS OF EVIL The objective of this teaching is to expose the strategies of the enemy through the “four pillars of evil”—perversion, division, false religion, and malfunction—and to equip believers with the knowledge and spiritual understanding necessary to overcome these works of the flesh. By contrasting selfish ambition with the fruit of self-control, Pastor Marcos seeks to lead believers into deliverance, maturity, and a fruitful walk in the Spirit that aligns with God’s will and secures their inheritance in the Kingdom of God. THE FOUR PILLARS OF EVIL Pastor Marcos Marrero January 1, 1900 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to expose the strategies of the enemy through the “four pillars of evil”—perversion, division, false religion, and malfunction—and to equip believers with the knowledge and spiritual understanding necessary to overcome these works of the flesh. By contrasting selfish ambition with the fruit of self-control, Pastor Marcos seeks to lead believers into deliverance, maturity, and a fruitful walk in the Spirit that aligns with God’s will and secures their inheritance in the Kingdom of God. Synopsis: In The Four Pillars of Evil, Pastor Marcos Marrero draws from Galatians 5:19–23 to reveal how the works of the flesh are rooted in selfish ambition and serve as tools of the enemy to hinder spiritual growth. He explains that, while salvation makes us righteous before God, deliverance from selfish desires requires knowledge of how the Spirit of God operates in contrast to the flesh. Pastor Marcos classifies the seventeen works of the flesh into four categories: Perversion, which twists truth and sows doubt; Division, which causes inner conflict and separation; False Religion, which binds believers to ritual and legalism instead of faith; and Malfunction, which renders believers ineffective and unfruitful for God’s purposes. Together, these pillars uphold the structure of evil that opposes the fruit of the Spirit. Through vivid examples, such as how a lie or doubt can destabilize relationships and faith, Pastor Marcos demonstrates the destructive power of perversion and the chain reaction it sets in motion—leading to division, false religion, and ultimately spiritual malfunction. He emphasizes that Satan, the accuser of the brethren, seeks to undermine believers’ confidence in God’s love and truth. Yet, the pathway to victory lies in embracing the truth of God’s Word, walking in the Spirit, and producing spiritual fruit, particularly self-control. By doing so, believers can dismantle the enemy’s strongholds, resist deception, and experience the freedom and joy of God’s Kingdom. Inspired Teaching: Galatians 5:19-21 “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you before hand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” All the works of the flesh are driven by selfish ambitions, the goal of the fruit of the Spirit which emanates from God’s love for us, is to deliver us from our bondage to the selfish desires of our flesh, so that we can walk under the fruit of self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness (meekness), self-control. Against such there is no law.” If you have already accepted the forgiveness of sins that the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross purchased for your salvation, then the Spirit of God is already within you, and you have been qualified to produce spiritual fruit, and you can be delivered from the strongholds in your life that are keeping you from walking under the fruit of self-control. Proverbs 11:9 “The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.” Once we accepted Jesus as our Savior, we became born again, born of the Spirit of the Living God, what that means is that we were made righteous before God, but now we need to seek the goal of our faith, 1 Peter 1:9, which is to be delivered from the selfish ambitions/desires of our soul and learn how to walk after the Spirit of God by producing within us the fruit of self-control. Proverbs tells us that it is through knowledge that we are able to obtain deliverance once we have accepted Jesus as our Savior and Lord. What kind of knowledge is there that we need to know in order to be delivered from our earthly desires that keep our souls bound? We need to know and understand how the spirit of Selfish Ambition and the spirit of Self-Control operate, and how they influence our behavior. In our opening text, where the works of the flesh were enumerated, we see that there were a total of seventeen works that were mentioned, one of them, which I highlighted, is selfish ambitions. In order for us to best understand how our flesh operates, I took the liberty to classify the works of the flesh by their function when I wrote about them in my book The Liberation of the Human Soul, which you can find in the book’s section of the houseoffatihministries.org. I classified four of the works of the flesh as perversion, for that is what they aim to accomplish. I classified another four of the works of the flesh as division, since that is what they aim to accomplish as well. Another four I found to be part of what I called false religion, for their aim is to bind us into legalism and away from true faith. And the last four I defined as malfunction, for that is the aim of all of the works of the flesh, to get humanity to falter to the point where it becomes worthless and useless to God. So that through the manipulation of our selfish desires and ambitions the devil tries to hinder the believers from implementing God’s will and purpose in the earth. That is why our opening text says that: those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Romans 14:17 “For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” The kingdom of God is about producing spiritual fruit, and when we believe in a perversion of the truth, we open the door of our self or soul to the enemy to tempt us, who will then try to keep us from inheriting the kingdom of God by stifling our ability to produce spiritual fruit. PERVERSION 4 FALSE RELIGION SELFISH AMBITION DIVISION 4 1 4 MALFUNCTION 4 If you follow the chart above starting with perversion, you can see the progression of how the works of the flesh operate within us. The very first thing that the devil does is to try to pervert what we believe to be true by bringing the truth that we believe into question: did God really say? was the very first thing that the devil said that is recoded in the Bible. Once what we thought to be true comes into question, immediately we become inwardly divided, we do not like uncertainty so we look for a way out, what we naturally end up doing is trying to reestablish our sense of the truth through natural means instead of faith, that always leads to religious rituals; if we do certain things or pray in a different way, then what we believed to be truth will be realized once again, we think; but remember that reliance on religion is a false way to go about searching for the truth, for it is written that without faith it is impossible to please God. So that we end up malfunctioning until the issue is settled. John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Here is how it works; Let’s say that you are a young adult and have your mother and father in your life, but out of nowhere the thought comes into your mind that they are not your real parents, at first you think of that thought as nonsense, but then memories come to mind that give some credence to the idea that maybe you were indeed adopted. You see, it does not matter whether you were really adopted or not, once you entertained that possibility, immediately your heart became divided, the equation of your relationship with your parents is forever altered. The first question that usually pops up is, If they are not my real parents, then who are my real parents? And then other questions follow, like, Where are they? Are they alive or dead? Why did they give me up? So that without a scintilla of facts our lives can be turned upside down in an instant, that is how the power of perversion works, and it works with the same power and in the same manner against anything that we believe to be true. So how do we deal with all of these new feelings and emotions? We try to reason our way out of them; we might say, if they are not my real parents at least they cared enough to adopt me. But the thought that they lied to you, or at least concealed the truth from you will not let you rest. So that the next time that you go and visit with your parents you will feel like your innocence was violated by them by not telling you the truth, and is now affecting your relationship with them to the point that is malfunctioning, for what else is there that they have hidden from you? What if your aunt, your mother’s sister, whom you have not seen in years, comes to visit and while you are all there, she begins to reminisce and starts telling you about when her sister, your mom, first told her that she was pregnant with you, and you can see them reliving that excitement of what they were going to name you is you were a boy, and just keep on talking about all those minute details of her pregnancy. The truth would immediately engulf you in such a liberating manner that you would feel so foolish that you even thought to doubt the truth that you had embraced for all your life. I used that long illustration to reveal to you how the truth of the Word of God can make you free. Satan is called the accuser of the brethren, and we are told that he accuses us before God day and night. Jesus is our advocate in God’s presence who is continuously covering us with His shed blood before God day and night as well. It is told of the saints in heaven that they overcame all the devil’s accusations with the blood of the Lamb and with the words of their testimonies. Revelation 12:10-11 “Then I hear a loud voice saying in heaven, ‘Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.’” What is the root of all the accusations that the devil is continuously hurling against us? Did God really say that He loves you? God speaks truth, the devil tries to cast doubts on our minds about God’s spoken truth, but ultimately, we decide what it is that we are going to believe. It is not until we embrace the truth that God loves us no matter what, and that He will never leave us nor forsake us no matter what, that we will be made free indeed, for whomever the Son makes free is free indeed. We can do better than just barely getting by in our walk of faith, we need not fear failure, and we need not embrace mediocrity of faith. I dare you to find somewhere in the Bible where it says that God does not love us, or that He does not care for us, so why entertain the lies of the devil any longer? Let us receive the truth today that we are accepted in the beloved, who gave His life as ransom for us, who is our shield and our deliverer. Pray according to our next Scripture. Psalm 86:11 “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.” The truth of the Word of God will unite your heart in such a manner that you will have no need of rituals or dead religions to rely upon, for the foundation of God’s truth is an unmovable foundation that will carry you out of whatever hell the devil throws your way. What is the word of your testimony today friend? Previous Next Home

FACTS AND ACTS The objective of this teaching is to help believers discern the difference between the responses of the soul and the spirit when faced with God’s promises, and to encourage them to align their faith and actions with the unchanging facts of God’s Word. By understanding this distinction, Christians can grow in faith, avoid the pitfalls of doubt, and respond to God’s promises with confidence and obedience. FACTS AND ACTS Pastor Marcos Marrero January 1, 1900 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers discern the difference between the responses of the soul and the spirit when faced with God’s promises, and to encourage them to align their faith and actions with the unchanging facts of God’s Word. By understanding this distinction, Christians can grow in faith, avoid the pitfalls of doubt, and respond to God’s promises with confidence and obedience. Synopsis: In Facts and Acts, Pastor Marcos Marrero explores the difference between the soul and the spirit in responding to God’s Word and promises, using Mary’s response to the angel’s announcement in Luke 1 as a model. Mary’s spirit rejoiced in the fact of God’s promise, while her soul magnified the Lord through acts of worship. This contrast highlights that the spirit receives and accepts divine truth as fact, while the soul acts and reacts based on those facts. Pastor Marcos contrasts Mary’s faith-filled acceptance with Zacharias’s doubt, showing how unbelief can hinder the fullness of God’s blessing, even though His purposes ultimately prevail. He stresses that faith in the unchanging Word of God enables believers to rejoice in spiritual facts, regardless of circumstances, while doubt causes the soul to be swayed by natural limitations. The lesson further emphasizes that God’s promises—redemption, salvation, and covenant mercy—are eternal facts. When believers magnify these truths in their souls and act upon them, they align themselves with God’s plan. However, rejecting or doubting these facts leaves one vulnerable to deception and spiritual loss. Pastor Marcos concludes by reminding believers that Jesus is the ultimate fact of salvation—His incarnation, death, resurrection, and promised return are the foundation of Christian faith. These truths demand a response: either to act in faith and obedience, or to ignore them and risk eternal separation from God. The Word of God is forever settled in heaven, and our acts, when rooted in these eternal facts, will never be forgotten. Inspired Teaching: Luke 1:46-47 “And Mary said: ‘My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.’” After receiving the great news that she was going to be the mother of the Son of the Highest, Mary sang a song of worship and adoration to God. Notice how her song begins with her soul and spirit responding to the great news of being chosen by God for this great honor. I want you to notice the difference between her soul and her spirit, and how different her soul and her spirit reacted to the same great news. I believe that we can get great insight here between their interactions. Notice how her soul responded, my soul magnifies, that is an act of her will. While her spirit stated a fact, my spirit has rejoiced in what I was told. So that by nature our souls act and react, while our spirits put the emphasis on the facts as they are revealed to us. Psalm 9:1-2 “I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart (spirit and soul); I will tell of all Your marvelous works (facts). I (David’s spirit speaking) will be glad and rejoice in You (a matter of fact); I will sing praise to Your name (David’s soul acting on the facts), O Most High.” It may seem a little difficult at first, but if we consciously try to discern the difference between the spirit and the soul speaking, we can learn a great deal more from the narrative that we are reading. We can do that while reading Scripture; we can also try to discern while we are communing with Jesus in prayer, if it is our spirit who is leading the conversation with Him, or if it is our soul that is doing the talking. The issue here is faith; if our soul’s nature is to respond or act to the facts that it receives, and since our spirits by nature deal with the basics of the facts that are revealed to them, being trained in the art of knowing the one from the other can make all the difference in a time of crises or during the times when the Lord gives to us great spiritual revelation. Luke 1:38 “Then Mary said, ‘Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.’ And the angel departed from her.” Notice how it was Mary’s spirit who responded to the angel, Let it be to me according to your word, the fact of what was promised to her. Luke 1:37 “For with God nothing will be impossible.” Mary spoke through her spirit the fact that she believed everything that she was told—and accepted it as fact—and as soon as she did that, the angel left, the matter was closed. Notice the difference between Mary’s response to the angel, and the response of Zacharias, the father to be of John the Baptist, when he was given the great news that he would be given a son who will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God: Luke 1:18 “And Zacharias said to the angel, ‘How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.’” Zacharias was reacting to the fact of his condition and the age of his wife, instead of reacting to the fact that an angel was giving him a promise from God Himself, the God who cannot lie. His soul naturally responded to the limiting facts that he was surrounded with in the physical realm. Had he been spiritually minded—focused in the promises contained in the Word of God, he would, like Mary, rejoice in the fact that a messenger from God was talking to him, and he would have consented immediately. Luke 1:19 “And the angel answered and said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings.’” God’s will was done anyway, for God’s plans cannot be thwarted by a man’s lack of faith, but Zacharias was unable to speak until he named his son John according to the command of the angel Gabriel. Luke 1:20 “But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.” It makes me wonder how many times I missed on realizing a promise from God, because I let my soul respond through the prism of the circumstances that surrounded me at that time, instead of letting my spirit rejoice in the fact that the One who was giving me His promise can never lie, and always fulfills what He promises to those who believe Him. We can see the effects of this duality. If what God has promised us is a vital part of our Christian walk, we will receive it in their own time, but because of our lack of faith at the time that the promise was given, our abilities will be hindered until what was promised is realized. The other part is, that if what was promised was not a vital part of our Christian walk, we will forfeit it and will have to do without it, until we learn to trust and rejoice in the fact that a promise from the Word of God deserves to be magnified within our souls, based on the fact that He who promised is faithful, no matter what the circumstances around us dictate. Let us remember that as believers, we are all disciples, and as such, we are always learning how to truly follow Jesus. There is redemption, so we should not let what we failed to receive in the past, keep us from receiving what our Lord has for us in the now. Luke 1:68-69 “Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David.” As soon as Zacharias named his son John, according to the word that the angel gave him, he was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied about God’s redemption and salvation, which are the facts and the acts of Christianity. Let us take a sober look today at the facts on which our faith is founded, for they will determine how our soul will act and react, when faced with the unrelenting accusations and distortions against the Word of God that those of us who put our trust in it and its promises have to face daily. Luke 1:70 “As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who have been since the world began.” Do you believe that Adam was created or that man evolved? God’s prophets have been since the world began, and they tell us not only that Adam was created, but how and why he was created, and how he was driven out from Paradise after the fall. If you’ve fallen for the perverting influence of the theory of evolution, you have lost the facts, and have lost the will to act spiritually. The only expectation that you are left with after denying the facts, is to react and be driven by the ever changing winds of conformity to this world’s system. If man evolved, then he is not a fallen creature; if he is not a fallen creature, then he does not need to be redeemed. If man does not need to be redeemed, then Jesus came and died for nothing. Don’t you see the demonic connections? It is all about separating you from the only One who can save you from all your sins. Jesus told us that His Words are Spirit and that they are Truth, based on the fact that He is the Word of God who came in the flesh. If at any time you deny the veracity of the Word of God, you also deny the deity of Jesus and the redemptive power of the blood of Jesus, for they are one and the same—these are the facts that act upon our souls, for either good or bad. Luke 1:72 “To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant.” A covenant is a will, a promise to act on behalf of a fact—that fact being that after the fall of Adam, man was in dire need of God’s mercy, which God promised us that He would bring at His appointed time. Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God? If you believe that Jesus was just a good man, the son of Joseph, and that there were no angels talking with Mary and the others, and that Mary did not miraculously conceive Him by the power of the Holy Spirit, then you are still in your sins and are lost, that is the devil’s goal for your life. Here is a fact—that once acknowledged—will require immediate action on the part of those who have been deceived by the devil. Luke 1:77 “To give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins.” Jesus did not stay a baby in a manger, He did not come into this world so that we could have presents on Christmas day. He grew up into a man, condemned the world of sin, then paid the penalty for all our sins by dying on an old rugged cross. He rose from the dead on the third day, after showing Himself to many, He was taken up to heaven and is now seated at the right hand of God, making intercession for us, that we may come into the enlightening truth of the facts of who He really is and what He came to do. Luke 1:79 “To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” Here is a fact that should cause all of us to act: Jesus is coming back soon, but this time He is coming to judge all those who failed to receive His free offer of salvation, and to deliver out of this world those of us who have believed in Him, and have trusted in His Word. Acts 1:11 “Who also said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.’” We have a clear choice, we can choose to act in response to the fact of the work of salvation that Jesus accomplished on our behalf, or we can ignore the facts and act to fulfill our fleeting selfish desires and be lost forever and ever. That sounds like a no brainer, but it all depends on where you get your facts from. Here is one last fact for this lesson: Psalm 119:89 “Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.” The advantage of getting our facts from the Word of God, is that it never changes, and it shall never pass away. Every act of ours that is based in our love and desire for the Word of God to be the foundation for our lives, will never be forgotten either. My soul magnifies the Lord, while my spirit is rejoicing in the fact that He loves me, and that He has redeemed my life from the pit! Behold, He is coming quickly, and every eye shall see Him! Previous Next Home

CITY GATES - SPIRITUAL MATTERS Equip believers to recognize and “possess the gates” God has placed within their lives—points of spiritual access where heaven’s authority meets earthly circumstances—so they can seek God intentionally, guard those gates by the anointing and the Word, make righteous decisions, turn back spiritual battles, and release freedom and blessing over their homes, churches, and communities. CITY GATES - SPIRITUAL MATTERS Pastor Marcos Marrero March 18, 2024 Objective: Equip believers to recognize and “possess the gates” God has placed within their lives—points of spiritual access where heaven’s authority meets earthly circumstances—so they can seek God intentionally, guard those gates by the anointing and the Word, make righteous decisions, turn back spiritual battles, and release freedom and blessing over their homes, churches, and communities. Synopsis: Drawing from Jacob’s encounter at Bethel (Genesis 28:16–19), the teaching unveils a biblical framework for “city gates” as spiritual portals between the natural realm and the heavens. Jacob discovers a gate, marks it with oil, and names it—modeling how believers identify, consecrate, and steward places of God’s presence. The message explains the interplay of realms (earth, the “second heaven” of opposition, and the “third heaven” of God’s rule) and shows how prayer, worship, and obedience “find the gate,” much like historic revivals that tapped a spiritual well. Acts 17:26–28 is used to show that God pre-appoints times and boundaries so people will seek and “grope” for Him—implying that gates exist right where we live. Isaiah 28:6 frames the gate as the place of (1) wise judgment for life-shaping decisions and (2) warfare where strength “turns back the battle.” Isaiah 29:21 warns that offenses and empty words are Satan’s snares to move gatekeepers off post. The conflict at Bethel (Amos 7) illustrates prophetic authority at the gate: when darkness claims territory, God’s word confronts and reclaims it. Practical application flows through testimonies of household covering, anointing thresholds, and deliverance: name the gate (peace, healing, etc.), anoint it (symbolizing the Spirit and Christ’s blood), guard it with Scripture, and prophesy God’s purposes over families and regions. Believers are urged to stand in Christ’s authority (Luke 10:19), break generational patterns, and persist in seeking until the “switch” of revelation flips. The call to action: find your gate, consecrate it, hold your ground, and let living water flow for the salvation, healing, and freedom of many. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hallelujah. Precious father in heaven, we love you. We praise you. And yes, your arms are wide open for us, Father God. And we need to come into the bosom of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father God, bring all of our cares and all of our pain and all of our sorrow, our fears, our hurts, everything that hinders our walk. Let us come into the precious arm of our loving father that have been extended through Jesus Christ our savior. And father as we come in. We thank you father god for touching us with your precious love that is able to cleanse that he's able to drive away all fear and all doubt and all unbelief. That is able to give the comfort and the peace that we know that we are loved. Hallelujah. that that that that that we have been accepted in the beloved that we are part of the family of God. Hallelujah. We are of your kingdom and of your power and of your glory. We're your family, Lord. And father, in the name of Jesus, as we come to partake of the bread of your word tonight, we ask that you provide the wine, the Holy Spirit would come in and provide the the the divine wine that we are able to partake your word as the Holy Spirit gives us the revelation to partake, Father God. For it is the word of God that makes us free. In Jesus name, we come in agreement and we thank you, Father. Amen. Praise God. There's an anointing here tonight. I'm loving it. Praise God. So, if I start weeping, that's fine. Right. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I want to talk about uh the city gates and I'm talking about spiritual things tonight. And basically um the notes uh that I made are just like a guiding point. You can probably make 10 15 lessons out of this, but I want to give you the framework tonight of of uh something that perhaps most of us uh really have no understanding of. And we want to begin in Genesis chapter 28 and then we're going to go verse 16 through 19. And it's a story about Jacob who is fleeing his brother after he stole the uh the firstborn blessing and it reads and it says uh then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it. And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place? This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." Then Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put at his head. He set it up as a pillar and pour oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethl. But the name of that city had been loose previously. Now I want you uh just to uh paraphrase things here a minute. We live in a physical realm. Okay. But next to this physical realm, there are two more dimensions of time and space that go together with this with this reality that we're living in. Uh is the second and the third heaven. Paul says that he was taken to the third heaven. When Jesus prayed, he says uh our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus was speaking about the third heaven where God is. See, where God is, Satan cannot be. No demons can be. Where God is, there's perfect rule, perfect harmony. And that is the heaven that we have access to Jesus Christ. The Bible says that we're now seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. That's our address. I like when Fred preaches that. That's our address. You want somebody to mail you something uh next to Christ Jesus. That's our address. We're seated right now. That's where we dwell. That's where our spirit dwells. And so we need to understand that uh between our physical realm uh there's a second heaven which is the where the prince of the power of the air is Satan and the demonic forces are. And the third heaven is where God is and his angels are. Okay. Between our physical dimension and the spiritual dimension, there are gates. In the scripture that we just read, Jacob was fleeing. And as he was fleeing, he came to this place and and he went to sleep for the night. He took a a a rock and and put it on a place and he leaned his head in it. And as he fell asleep, the uh curtains, if it were, of this physical realm was removed. And he saw what that place looked like in the spiritual realm. And he saw a ladder. And the ladder went straight up to the third heaven. And he saw angels coming up and down this ladder. And he saw it just as plain more real than the physical is. And then he said, "Wow, I could have been walking by right here and missed the whole thing. I didn't know that there was a a gate to heaven in this place. And so we need to understand, and this is what the lesson is going to be about tonight, that wherever man is, wherever man has settled, where wherever men civilization abides, there are doors into the spiritual realm. God has placed gates or doors into the spiritual realm. So the man h of God can have access to him. And this is what we need to understand. Now remember that when before Jacob was even born, God called Abraham and he says, "I'm going to bring you into a place and this place that I'm going to bring you is a place that I'm going to give it to your descendants forever." And as Abraham sojourned, one of the things that he did, he came into contact with the different places where the doors were open. Isaac, the same way Isaac and Abraham, they dug wells. Wells was a type of a gate. You uh broke through the desert and you dug deep enough and you hit water and then water would come in. That's a type of when we connect with the spiritual door, the water from heaven comes in. This is why you see revivals in Toronto and you see revival over there in Pensacola, Florida. All of those places where there's the spirit of God is flowing. There's a man or a group of people of God who have found the key to the gate. And as they found the key to the gate and begin to pray and begin to worship and begin to do the right things that need to be done when we come to the gate, we're able to tap into the spiritual well. Hallelujah. To where there's an anointing. I remember when we went to uh uh uh Pensacola to the Brownsville over there. You know, I I'm very skeptical when it comes to going out of my zone. You know, I already know my church and I already know the thing, but I'm going over there. I'm says, "Okay, I'm here as a eyewitness. I'm just here not to get excited about anything. I want to see what's going on." And then we we flew it. Uh we had a flight to Houston and then take another plate from Houston to Pensacola. And it was the worst trip. I was in the back the last seat. It was right by they had the the jet had those engines. I was right next to the engine. My seat since it was back against the restroom. Didn't lean back and everybody was coming to the restroom all night long and it was red eye. We left at remember 12:30 that night. We left after a Wednesday night after a service. And I tell you by the time and then we got over there to Pensacola after fly. We couldn't get into the hotel until after 5. and we had to go back in there because the lines were like forever and forever. So, I mean, I was so tired and I said, "Man, you know, this is no way to travel to come to a place where you want to get excited with God, right?" Anyway, when we got in line, we're so far back that here was the main sanctuary. Here's the other the old sanctuary full of people and and the people over here saw it on TV. That is really Well, you know where we went up? We went up on a choir room where people went from the choir to get dressed. We were in a little like like like this and they had a screen on the wall. That's where we saw this revival. Might as well being at home and watching it in TV because we're like three buildings over in a little room without windows. And then they had this uh the chairs so close that my feet didn't even fit in there. And I said, "You know what, Lord? This is not going to work for me." You know, I've been up all night. I haven't slept. I'm tired. And you know, and the screen is there. The minute that the guy went up in there and hit the keys on the keyboard to begin the worship, I felt a heaviness just come in. And as he touched the top of my head began to go through me and I just began to weep uncontrollably. Here I'm in the middle of a room back in there someplace. I'm not even where the people are at. I'm back in there. But I sense the presence of God. And see what happened is they found the gate. They found the door. They were able to access this river of water. And I don't care how tired you are, how how how troubled you are, how confused you are. This is why people would travel there from miles from all over the world. Why? Because they're able to sense the spirit of God, a presence that you never sense before. And then, you know, next day we were able to get to the building next to it. And the next day we got to the other one. So, we work our way up in there. But the anointing of God was there. The same thing happened in 1906 in in a stable over there in Asusa street. The same thing they came into a gate into an opening to where the spirit of God began to come. And back then people had to get on ships and travel for months across and they would come from all over the world to experience that. You see, this is what we need to do a as believers. Whatever area we're in, we need to find that gate. Okay. So that we can access this river of living water. Hallelujah. Which is the spirit of the living God. Because once you experience that, oh man, I'm telling you, it changes your life forever. Once you taste that, you don't want nothing else. Now, staying with the same scripture, I want to bring out seven things that Jacob, seven keys. And like I said, if you want to do a Bible study with this, take this and and go through each one. You can get all kinds of different scriptures. I was checking it today to to to deal with the different areas that it's talking about. Jacob says that he awoke from his sleep. And it says, "Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it." The first thing we need to understand that the gate cannot be found through physical means. The gate is a spiritual gate and it has to be revealed to you by God. It wasn't an accident or a coincidence that Jacob stopped in that place from his traveling to sleep that night. But you see, he was in a journey. He was in a journey on a pilgrimage. He was heir of the promises of God because God made a covenant with Abraham. And God confirmed the covenant to Isaac. And now on Jacob, the covenant is going to be confirmed that night. As a matter of fact, you read the scripture, you'll see, I am the God of Abraham and Isaac. And I'm confirming with you tonight the covenant that I made with him. This is what God is telling him. So you have to understand that first of all, Jacob was in a pilgrimage. And as he was traveling through, he happened to come right to where the place was. And he says, "I did not know it." And this is the key. We need to understand that because a lot of time we complain because there's a situation that we find ourselves in and we say, "If God is God and if God loves me and if he cares so much for me, why am I going to what I'm going? Why is it that I'm having to deal with all of this stuff with the spiritual gates? In order for us to see him, certain circumstances, certain condition had to take place. Jacob wasn't going out on a picnic. He was fleeing for his life. Esau was after him with a big sword. We need to understand that he was going away from everything that was promised to him. He was being rejected from the family. He was being kicked out. He was going to go to the other side of the world of where the promises were. But you see, a lot of time we as believers get to hang up on the circumstances around us and miss that God has put us into that place and that position and that circumstance so that we can seek for the gate. Doesn't he said that with whatever temptation, God always makes a way of escape? But you see, if you're not running from anything, you're not going to find the way out. You see, as long as you're in the mall and you're having fun, you you don't care to get out of there. It's when somebody scream fire, fire, and you begin to run and you want to find an exit real quick. And a lot of times, the Lord has to bring us into that place. So the first thing we have to understand if we want to find that gate and this applies by the way it applies for a church it applies for a community but it also a personal it applies personally too because see all of us are going through a certain thing to where we need to find that door of escape. So he says I did not know it. So the first thing is we need to be aware. The very first thing we need to know is when things are not going like they need to go. You know, I I tried to develop this through the year. I don't make mistakes in the sense that if I'm driving and I took the wrong turn and it was something really stupid, I I say, "Well, maybe God wanted me to come this way. Is there anything here that you I mean I done that one time I was way out in in in Topanga Canyon Calabasas way up in there and I just kept taking wrong turn I say okay Lord you drive I wound up all the way Ventura all the way by the beach all over the place you know but hey I was I was being trained I was being trained if there's something you want me to do finally I wound up in Wilmington out of all places a couple that needed prayer and just when I was about to give up and get on my car leave somebody just wave at me. Oh, we need prayer. We need So I went into their apartment and and just pray. Took me three hours to get there. I said, "Okay, Lord, I definitely need work on this." You know, but but but we need to understand that that whatever circumstance you're going through may be the Lord leading you to the place that you don't know that it's there. The second thing he says, "And he was afraid." We need to understand that spiritual doors or when the Lord opens the gate cannot be taken lightly. We need to understand that you have to have respect for the spirit of the living God. You know when you come to a church you expect that that church that you go to is is the altar is a place where the presence of the Lord is. And we need to come expecting. We need to come expecting. We need to respect the glory of God. We need to respect the presence of God. The very first thing that happens to a human when he's confronted with the divinity of Christ is how nothing we are, how inadequate we are, how base we are, how much we fall short of it. And we need to have that humble heart that says, "Lord, it's only by your grace that I have found this place." Because you see, some people, they want to get their spirituality and put it here as well, I'm captain now or I'm a general now because I'm spiritual, you know, and it's the opposite. When you find that door where God's presence is at, it's going to humble you. It's going to get you so close to the floor. sometimes to put my face on on the carpet and and the carpet doesn't go down enough for the face to go in when you're in that prison. The third thing is he said, and I love this, how awesome is this place? Amen. How awesome is this place? I've been into this this other side a couple of times in my life, and it is so real than this is. As a matter of fact, when you have an experience where you step through that door and when you come back, everything here looks so dark and dingy compared to the clarity and the reality of this spiritual dimension. And and so Jacob did not know that there was such a big door there and uh he was definitely scared seeing these things that would happen, but he said, "Man, this place is awesome. I'd like to come here more often. He He I I I like to abide in this place. It would be really nice to get into this place. So, we need to understand that when we step through that door, it's going to have an effect on us. And you know what that effect is? It'll change you. and it'll change you into. Do you know why the Bible says that gay was the most humblest or the meakest man on earth? Did you know that Moses traveled through all of those days? He was 40 years in Egypt where the biggest demonic gate was open. Egypt is where they had the worship of Osiris and and and all of this, the god of the dead. And they were into big demonic stuff over there. God took him out of there and he took him out to a pasture and one day boom there's a door. It's a bush and it's burning but it's not consumed. This is always spiritual when when something defies nature. When the reason why you get scared when you go into the place is because the principles of our physical reality do not apply. Everything is where people don't walk, they float and and different things that uh uh that that you know that that shake your psyche, shake shakes your soul because you're not used to seeing this. But in in in in in Moses's travel during that wilderness there, God was preparing him because 40 years later, he would have to bring millions and millions of people with him. Don't you know that Moses already knew which rock to strike and he already knew which place to go and which not to go? See, he he w he was in in Saudi Arabia. That that is really where they crossed to the Mount Sion. Uh Sinai was in on on the part of Israel was they they crossed way down there. I think it's called the Gulf of Akabach and they cross into Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has this mountain which is still burned on the top to this day all fenced in and they won't let anybody in there. But anyway, Moses had already been in that wilderness. Moses had already experienced in his spirit where the gates were up. And so when Moses came and led those people, it wasn't by chance that he was there. The cloud was leading them, but Moses knew what God was up to because he was already being aware of these things. So you see in our journeys we need to understand that a lot of time the journey where life takes us is places to where you have experienced certain things that there's a gate open there for you that you may have to have need to have access to it in a future time. And then he says this is the gate of heaven. This is the gate. In other words, here's an opening between my physical reality and the spiritual reality. So, so far we see that the gate was revealed to him. He didn't know that it was there. He had respect for the gate because he feared what he had uh uh come into. He knew that it was an awesome place to be. He knew that it was the gate to heaven or the gate to a spiritual realm. Now, what is the first thing that he did when he woke up? See, his head was on this rock. That's where he was sleeping on. He takes that rock, which symbolizes this is where my head was laying when I was sleep. He puts it right where the gate was at. Remember, the gate is not there. That he only saw that in a dream. He's on a physical place now. But right there where he was, he takes that rock and what does he do? He gets his horn of oil and he pours oil on that gate. You know what that anointing does? It assigns an angelic good angelic gatekeeper to that gate. You see, when God opens the gate for you, since both of those places you have the second and the third heaven or or the demonic and the heavenly, when God opens that gate, you have to guard that gate. You have to protect that gate. You that gate has to be anointed because it is the anointing that breaks the yoke. It is the anointing that forbids the enemy to step through. You see, the gate is a door that has a length and it has a the the two posts to the right and to the left. Once that gate is open, spiritual things can come in. The anointing is the blood. Remember what Moses did? He took the blood, he put it on the top, he put on the side. When the angel of death came that night, the angel went there, step through the open door because there was blood there. Blood speaks of death. He was killing the firstborn. They were already dead. You see the first the blood symbolize Jesus the firstborn. He is the firstborn who gave his life for us. And so that's what the gay symbolize. That's what the anointing symbolizes. When God opens a spiritual door for you, the very thing first thing that we have to do, we have to take the oil because it represents the anointing. It represents the blood of Jesus. And when we place that anointing in there, only good angels can come through because they don't fear the blood. As a matter of fact, they worship the Messiah who gave the blood. They're on his presence. They say, "Holy, holy, holy, hallelujah. Worthy is the lamb." They're saying continuously. So, they don't fear his blood. Satan does. That's like poison. It burns them to the crisp. our very first experience that my wife and I had, we we uh got saved and we was living in Carson at the time at Avalon Village and uh and then we were u uh found out that we were arguing a lot and I came from work and and I said, "You know what? we we are being infiltrated or there's an influence that is causing us to do these things. So we got our kids that were four, five, and six. We sat in our living room. We form a circle and we held hands and then we asked the Lord to to protect us and to put his covering and his anointing over us. And we put the kids to bed and I'm sitting on the couch and and she's sitting on the other chair. And then all of a sudden this spirit contention I guess it was a spirit. I don't know what it is. It was coming in. Our door was closed but he didn't know what we had pray and put an anointing. And as he was coming in he bang his head into that door. I mean it's like somebody took a big break. He'll tell you. Boom. Our door just shook. And man I got up on the couch. I'm ready to go fight somebody. I'm thinking somebody coming in here. I open the door and nothing. Even my door is completely the pain is perfect. There's no nicks. I said, "Man, I just heard this brutal heavy thing just hit the wall and and and shake it." No, the spirit couldn't come in. Couldn't pass through the anointing. The dummy should have slowed down before he came to the door. It was going too fast. It must have been blonde. Blonde demon. We just saw something about a blonde thing that ran into a tree. Anyway, that's why I was saying that a gazelle blonde gassel to run into the tree and knock herself out. So, but it reminded me of that. But see, it is the anointing through that gate, through that open door that prevents the enemy from stepping through that door. And so, the very first thing that he does is he pours oil on top of it. And then what's the next thing that he did? He named the gate. He named the game. You see, if you are dealing with spirit of infirmity in your house, in your family, and this spirit of infirmity keeps coming in, and there's always sicknesses, and every time a flu comes by, you're the first one that gets it and the last one that gets it. And every time things are going, you need to look for that gate. The gate is named healing. And the Lord has it for you. Jesus is the gate. He has provided the gate. But as we find that spiritual connection and we find it and and we follow what what what what Jacob was teaching us there and then you pour your anointing on that gate and then you call it peace. We call our gate peace that night. You know, we know we're keep fighting and we shouldn't be fighting. We're Christians. There's a spirit that is causing us to condemn and to fight. The spirit of contention couldn't go through the door of peace once the anointing is there. So that's what he does. He takes this door and he names it Bethl, House of God. You know what that means? There's no demons that could step through that door from there on. There isn't one single unclean spirit that could step through the door. Why? Because it's called the house of God. And devil do not dare to tread where where God's angels are, where his presence is at. So I mean, think of it. Find the gate. You know, if you need healing, find the gate of healing. If you need peace, find the gate of peace, seek it. God will open it for you. Heal. You may not know even where this place is at, but we're talking about spiritual connection with the spirit of God. And then I want you to see here that in in um and a lot of you here probably understand Spanish. It says but the name of that city had been loose previously. If you speak Spanish you know that loose means light. Loose is where we get in Spanish we and in Latin the word for loose the word for light is loose. So this place was named before this had the name of loose or lie. Actually that doesn't mean that in Hebrew you know what it means in Hebrew almond. Now guess what in the manora you have almond blossoms through there all through there. What is this light? It gives light. The almond blossom symbolize the the the oil or the spirit. So that place that he ran into was a door that's been there for a long time. And the people that used to live there, he said, "That place, there's light in that place. There's a blossoming, an almond type of blossoming, some kind of a oil that gives light and it's in that place." So what it means is once God because light means revelation once God gives you the revelation that you're able to step through that door you will have victory because you see if you walk in darkness you're stumbling in the darkness but if you have light you know the word of God the Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters 22 is a number for light everything in the Bible. Just take the scriptures, any scripture where the numbers two two appear and you will see this talks about light light containers. So as a matter of fact on this picture you can see the almond blossoms I think maybe down here I think but it means light or illumination or understanding. What the gate will do for you is give you the knowledge for it is through knowledge that the righteous is delivered. It is through knowledge that you are kept from perishing. My people perish for lack of knowledge, Hosea said. So, we need to have spiritual revelation. And we need to understand that we're not going to be able to see where the gate is at. So, it has to be sick. It has to be respected. We need to tr when the Lord brings you into a place, we have to be uh uh reverent of that place. We have to know that this is an awesome place where you can get all of the victories that you need. That this is a a an opening to the spiritual realm. So you need to anointed to protect it and then you need to name it so that Satan cannot take it. And then we need to understand the last one that these gates are a place of spiritual enlightenment. Now let's go to our next scripture which is in Acts 17 26- 28. Now the book of act tells us that it says and he God has made from one blood every nation of men. This is Acts 17:26 27-28. God has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling. Why? So that they should seek the Lord. Look at this. Listen listen to this. in the hope in the hope that they might grope for him and find him. You have to see this. Says God before he created mankind, he created the earth and he put gates all over the world. Wherever man was going to go in to live, he put gates there. And he says he put the gates there. Then he gave men their appointed. In other words, there's a gate for this, there's a gate for that, there's a gate for that. He proportioned the gates. He put them all through the time because they're spiritual. And he did it for this one reason. Hoping that men when they got to the place where God brought it would seek him. How do you seek him? Through the gay. You got to find the gate. You got to find the spiritual door lord. That's why Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." That's what Jesus said. He has the gate. So, and look what he says. Since remember Jacob said, "Man, I could not see this door." And what is he saying? That they may grope for it. You see, when you're in darkness, there's a light switch somewhere in the walls and it's pitch dark. And what do you do? You're groping. What are you looking for? You're looking for the switch. And what is that switch is going to do when you turn it on? The light's going to come on. And hallelujah. You're going to be able to run between the furniture. you're going to be able to jump. But as long as it's dark, you can you you you you see what what this means. The gate is the place of enlightenment. The gate is a place where the switch is turned on. Hallelujah. And it's all over the earth. That's what it says here. Look at the very first thing he says. All the face of the earth. That means that there's gates everywhere that God had placed. And it says for their pre-appointed times. Did you know that at that time Jacob was fleeing? In other words, it wasn't his time to come back yet. As a matter of fact, if you read about Jacob, he says, "Well, God, if you're God and if you feed me and close me to this place where I am going and make me that I'm able to come back to my family in peace, I'm going to serve you, God, because in the mess I am right now, nothing can come out of it. But if you do that for me, God, oh, you can't count me. I'm g and not only that, I'm going to give you a tenth of everything that I have." That's a covenant. He He said, "God, I mean, he he wasn't a a mushy, what do you call it? Emotional type. Oh, God, I'm in a bad spot here if you help." No, he's saying, "Hey, I'm a reasonable man. I just stumbled into something that I didn't even know it was here, but God, if you do this for me." What did Jacob said? I have a need. I'm fleeing. I don't have a penny on on me. I don't even have no clothes. If you if if you take me to where I need to be, because right now my brother is angry, he's trying to kill me. If you take me and you feed me and you take care of me and then when I come back, I find peace and restoration with my family, then I'll know that you're God. What did the gate do for him? It gave him the encouragement to come back. He was 14 years later, I think, and two wives and and some kids when he came back. and he came back through the same place through the gate that God had opened. So, we need to understand that your gate has a pre-appointed time. Maybe you've been seeking and and and you kind of get discouraged, but no, knowing where the gate is at, even though if it's not the time for it to open, you know, if you know where the safe is at with all of the money, that's that's the biggest part of the battle. You can know that that that the safe opens automatically at 9:00 or or June 2nd or or whatever. But if you don't know where it's at, doesn't do you no good. Oh, but once you find the gate now, all you need to know is the time. In due season, the Lord will visit you. You see, you will stand by that door. It says, "I know that this is my door. I know." You know, this is why people take sabaticals and this is why people step off. Why? Why you do that? Because sometimes we get so caught up in life that we miss the boat. A lot of times we need to just back off and just find that gate and said, "Okay, Lord, whenever you're ready, I'll move." Isn't that the way that the the Israelites were led, the cloud would settle over them, and as long as the cloud was there, they're there. You know what? God didn't tell them, "Hey, we're going to be here in 10 days." So, or we're going to be here a year, we're going to be here six months, or we're moving to more money. God never tell them. You know what God would do? The cloud would lift up. And as soon as lift up, back up, honey. We got to move. Hurry up. We don't want to get behind and then you would go. And that's what it is. God has a time and he has a purpose. And he's not going to tell you when the time is. He's looking for faithfulness. And and so we need to know that number one, we have a gate for us because they're all over the earth. That they're open at a pre-appointed time. And he says the gates exist within the boundaries of our dwellings. You know what that means? That means that whatever situation you're in right now, I don't care how bad things are or how good or how indifferent may seem, there's a gate right where you're at. There's a door right now that God has for you, right where you're at. You don't have to go. You That's one of the mistakes I make when I knew that the Lord was calling me. I We went all over the place. We went all the way to Washington. We went to uh we drove in Wilmington, North Carolina. He said, "Here, Lord, no. Okay, get off on the next exit." We had been in in the middle of New Mexico. Got off on a place called Cross Mountain Road. you get off and it's dirt that way and it's dirt that way and we pour oil and anointed there and said here Lord. Hey, at least we're looking, right? That's half of the battle. At least we're looking. I don't I don't mind making a fool of myself. Before I got saved, I made a fool of myself any time for the devil. You know, I'm a believer now. I'll make myself a fool for God anytime. But I'm looking because I know God has a call. He has a plan. He has a purpose for my life. But the thing that I found out is I don't have to go to North Carolina or New Mexico or or all the way to Washington State. It's right here. It is I I can get up at 3:00 in the morning. I remember one time went to a men's retreat and I got up at 3:00 in the morning and climbed the mountain in the dark and there was a rock. I used to go to play uh pray to in this place and there was a rock there and I was able to find it in the dark and I sit there all night from 3:00 until about 6:00. The moon was on this side of the trees and by the time it was over the moon had crossed all the way over. The whole time I'm sitting over there, man, there could be a wild dog or a a coyote or a bear or something come up. I'm in the middle of the wood. I was way up there in the middle of the woods, you know, and I'm sitting there. I'm looking for my door. I'm not going to find it. If I'm in there in the bunk, nice and warm and covered with my blanket. I want to find God. I better go looking for him. And I'm going to look right here. I didn't have to drive anywhere. I was there. So, I'm going to do it. I'm going to look for him. And we need to understand that the Bible says the spiritual gift, you have to be selling those spiritual gifts. God is not going to drop it on you while you're sitting Starbucks enjoying your coffee and having a nice cheat chat with your neighbors. Okay? Usually going to be on your face and your knees with your back against the wall when you have no other one to turn but to God. That is usually uh uh when he will do it. And then he says that the gates are hidden in order for us to seek the Lord. He says so that they this amazed me. I read this so many times and I never saw it until I saw it like this. He says uh so the the Lord opened these things over the face of the earth. He determined the pre-appointed time. He said at the boundary for the dwelling and then he says so that they should seek the Lord. So that they should seek the Lord. That is exactly what it's talking about. God wants men to look for him. You know, it's just like you you and your dad and your dad is playing hide and seek with you and your dad is is hiding and you can't find him and you go and look under the bed and you go look in the closet and you go look in the garage and you're going all over the house and you're seeking for him and then you begin to get scared when you're a kid. Oh my god, where's my dad? I can't find him. Where is he? And you begin to go, "Dad, dad, I'm scared now. Where are you?" And dad is not answering. and you're playing this. Why? He wants us to get really desperate for him. He said to the point of groping. I I mean, this hit me so much when when I saw it. In the hope that they might grope for him and find him. Groping. That means you're in a dark place. That means you can't see. That means God, I'm going to find you. I'm going to stick my hands. I'm going to put my I'm going to look all over the place. I'm going to find you, Lord. And and the gates are here. How many times have I driven or walked right by my gate where every blessing that I ever needed is there and I did not know that it was there. Amazing, huh? That all of us have done the same thing. Next page. Isaiah 28:6. Why do we need the gate? Like I said, this is just an outline because you can go through all of those areas and find all kinds of scriptures that would have to do with every single one of those case that we spoke about. I'm just giving you the points. Isaiah 286, for a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment and for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. Now notice what it says in Isaiah there in order for us to understand that. Let me give you a little rundown how it is. Back in Bible days, they would come in and they would build the city whether it was on top of the hill or in the valley. And then this city, they would build the wall around and then all of the houses were inside. All of their storage place for their grain was inside the walls. And then this city, depending to how big it was, would have gates that were open during the day and then they would close at night. And then around the city, it would be where their fields were. And so they go out every morning to tend the fields and everything. There will always be people, watchmen, who stood at the gates. The gates will have a tower. And if they saw an enemy coming, they would blow a trumpet or make some kind of a sound to warn the people, and they would all come in and close the gates. You said, "Well, they couldn't put a ladder, of course, but they would have an army. They would defend themselves. They had rocks. They had boiling oil, boiling water. So, if anybody tried to scale the walls, they would fight him off." Okay? So, the gates were the most important part of the city. So, the gates where the elders of the city sat. You see, back in those days, patriarchs, the the father or the elder one, they became the judges. They were the ones uh uh they they're called today the city elders. They made the decision. So the elder who didn't work anymore, they had already achieved the point to where they were the judges of the city. The first thing they would do in the morning, they got up and they went and they sat by the gate. And so if I had a problem with my neighbor because I plowed his field and then he went in and took it and I said, "No, I did that." He said, "No, I did it." And and there was an argument. We would go to the gate to look for justice. Justice would be found at the gate because that's where the judges or the rulers sat. And then the ruler would decide. He says, "Okay, that the field belongs to you or not to you." And that was it. That's the law. He's like a judge today ruling against you. You have to pay and that's it. So notice what it says here. The number one thing is that in the gate there is a spirit of justice for the person who sits there to pass judgment. Now do you have decisions to make that will impact the rest of your life? All of us do, don't we? Well, you see, did you know that Jesus before he chose the 12 disciples, the ones that was going to be his inner circle, he went out and spent all night out, he went out to the mountains that evening. He didn't go in to uh to um uh to rest or to sleep. He went up and he was in the mountain all night all by himself. Do you know what Jesus did? He found himself a spiritual gate someplace. He spend the night there crying and weeping before God for God to give him the spirit of making the right decision. That's all it is. See, he had to pick up a devil. He didn't just have to pick up 11 good guys. He had to pick up a devil. He had to pick up the one that's going to betray him. This is important. If nobody betrays Jesus, we wouldn't be here right now. There had to be a devil. They had to be a betrayer. Okay? He went and he spent the night praying. The next day he made the choice. Why? Because the gate when you grow up for it, you're going to find the spirit of judgment. The ability to make the right decisions. You see, once you find that gate, once you find that connection with God, you're going to make the decision that you know what the worst part is of making a wrong decision is regret. We can spend the whole life looking back in regret. When you know that the decision that you made is what the Lord wanted to do no matter what happens. You say, you know, whatever comes, this is what the Lord wanted and this is where I am and I'll go through it. I have that confidence to go through it because I know this is what God wanted to do. But look at the second thing that happens on the gate. Not only are you given the spirit of justice so that you can make the right decision, but he says, "I'm for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate." See, Jesus says, "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." What are the gates of hell? the spiritual uh uh realm, the the spiritual of darkness. The anointing is what you battle with at the door. Remember I said the anointing symbolizes the blood on the doors. That's what you battle with. You got to turn back the battle at the gate. You see, as a father, I am called to be a covering to my wife. In in in Corinthians, he tells you that God is the father. Jesus is the head and then the man and then the woman and then the children. Satan cannot touch my wife or any of my children unless he first goes through me. See in this gate I stand then she stands behind me and then our kids stand behind. As a matter of fact on the ministry of deliverance we saw that many times when we had a child that was really uh bad and instead of trying to force the child to do anything we deal with the mother. She's the one in authority over the child. Okay, let's take authority over that. We had this kid. Remember Fred? The first time this happened, we're upstairs on an upper room and there's all kinds of furniture and everything and we're trying to get a hold of this kid on this kid. Man, he could run. He is going all over the place. He's hiding behind chairs behind the thing. We all we try to do is put a little oil on the kids, you know, to to get this demonic thing that's attacking him all the time and we can get a hold of him. And I said, "Okay, Lord, what do I do now?" These people drove all the way from LA road Fred a pastor from the the Fred knew in LA brought the mother and the child and the pastor all came over and we're up there and I said, "Okay, Lord, what do I do now?" Then he says, "Use your head." I said, "Okay, Lord, I got to hear. What do I do?" He said, "Well, you know how authority flows? It's not the kid you're having the problem with. It's the mother. You got to pray for the mother first." Well, I said, "Okay, that that sounds good." So, the kid was way up in there. We couldn't even see him hiding in all of these things up in there. And so we anointed uh the mother and says, "Okay, let's let's let's deal with you. Why is it that Satan somehow has gotten by you and got to your child?" And just as we anointed the woman and we're to begin to pray for her, I feel something grabbed my leg and I jump. And it was a kid. He just crawled right out. Crawl up on my leg. He says, "Do that to me. Do that to me." He wanted me to anoint. We couldn't find him for 15 minutes looking for him. The minute we touch the mother immediately he comes up. So see we need to understand that the battle is at the gate and you stand at the gate and whether you win the battle or fail the battle will have consequences for a lot of people behind you that are behind you. So we need to understand that the battle has to be turned at the gate and at the gate it is turned by the sword which is the word of God. You know that whenever you go into any spiritual realm, the word of God is absolute. I don't care if there's a million demons there. The Holy Spirit tells you speak this and you speak this which is the word of God and they all have to bow immediately because in the spirit realm, God's laws only in the human realm is God's laws not kept because we're created in the image of God and we can do whatever we want. But spirits are not created in the image of God. Spirits have to obey God perfectly and immediately. And this is why we need to understand when when a demon goes into a person and you want to get him out, you need to understand what legal right he has there because as long as he has a legal right like in that case the mother had have not won the battle at the gate. And so the spirit had the right to torment that kid. But as soon as we brought the attention to the mother and said now you have authority over this situation and we anoint her immediately the spirit was broken. And then thank God for that because then after that every time they would bring us a child. Okay, let him be. One night we had a kid was sound asleep. Every time we tried to pray she leans on her table. Remember pray there and she snore and snore the whole thing while we were coming against things on the mother and the grandmother at that time. I think the mother and the grandmother were there. The child was was sleep and think were coming out of what she was sleeping and we're just praying for for the people that had authority over her. And this child was being tormented grievously too. So we need to understand that the battle is at the gate and you stand at the gate and you need to understand about the anointing and about the word of God and about the power that God has so you can turn that devil back. You see you say to the devil in the name of Jesus, you cannot have my kid. You cannot have my marriage. you cannot have my my my nephew or whoever it is you're interceding with because you are part of the house of God and you stand at that gate and you stand in front of the devil and you tell him in the name of Jesus you cannot cross his bloodline. Hallelujah. Would you do that? Remember to threat put a line there. The demon cannot cross him. That's the blood of Jesus. That's the gate and that's where the battle is at. But you know what? We're so earthly minded that we get no spiritual concept at all of what the battles are. Okay, the next one, Isaiah 29:21. Now listen to this because this will tell you the weapons that we use at the gate. He says, "Who make a man an offender by a word and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate and turn aside the just by empty words." You know what that scripture is talking about? It's talking about Satan is going to go after the gatekeeper. Satan is going to go after the gatekeeper because if he can get to the gatekeeper, he's going to get to everybody else. If he can get to the shepherd, he'll get to the sheep. And how does he do it? Offending words. An offender by a word. The word offense will lay a snare for him. Matthew 24:11 Jesus said that in the last days many people would fall away because of offenses. Offenses. See, Satan get you offended and he can move you from your gate. I had this book when I was a kid and I was reading it and it's about stories you know and anyway in this story there was a stare and you know they it had illustrated there was a there and at the top there was this sword or something that you had to get and these kids were he had two boys and a girl that were princess and she was a princess and their father was a king and he tried to go up the stair to get the sword or whatever was in in the story and um all the way to the step there were all kinds of stones and what it was is as you were going up to there if you turn around and look you became a stone and then the the the king said hey I'll be able to do this so as he was going up this word came up that said a word that was very offensive to him either challenge him to something he turned around who in there who in the world there said that to Boom. He became a stone. Now, whoever got to the top, all of the stones will be come back to the people. So, the older stone went up in there. He says, "I'm going to fight this thing." And he went up and almost getting to the top. A word came that was so vile and so offensive to him, he turned and he dropped. And the same thing with his brother. So, the girl was left to the girl, the princess. She went up. She goes up the stair. And man, this voice was really laying it on her big time. all kinds of nasty words and she got all the way to the top and got it and everybody was free. Everybody looked at her, "How did you do it? How did you do it?" She said, "What? What?" Then she took cotton out of her ears. What were you saying? And see, the principle is that if you cannot hear the offensive words, they cannot have an effect in you. This is why the Bible says that we're supposed to be intent to the world because Satan says and and he says this vile word to offend you and you're Have you ever stood in front of a casket with a dead person there and and said, "Man, they did a bad job on you fixing you up, man. Look how ugly they You can call them all kinds of things. Not going to matter. Why? They're dead. They can't hear. They can't see." That's what the Bible says we need to be. We have to be dead to the things of the world. Why? Because Satan is the accuser of the brethren. He's a slanderer. He's going to try to throw you out of your game by getting to you. He knows which buttons to push. But if you're going to win the battle of the gay, you can't turn back and listen to that dirty liar. Why? Because if you do that, look what the end says. And turn aside the just by empty words. See, those empty words are going to turn back the just or the righteous. Whatever victory God has for you, you may be praying for somebody that doesn't deserve to be praying for. Maybe you work for him or for her and God really put it in your heart that this person needs prayer. And then you go to work next day and the spirit of that person knows it. And man, they going to treat you mean. I ain't gonna pray for that person no more. What do you do? You just turn that person's salvation or that person deliverance. You lost it with what? With empty words. That's all Satan has empty words. Now what happens after that in Amos 7:13? Look what it says there. But never again prophesy at Bethl for it is the king's sanctuary and it is a the royal residency. I want you to see this. Bethl is the place that Jacob discovered. Bethl is the place where the house of God is. Bethl is the place where every righteous king of Israel, every righteous judge, every righteous prophet could go to and get a word from the Lord and prophesy. Why? Because you need to tell the devil where to go. That's what prophecy is all about. Just simple. You want to prophesy, tell the devil where to go. You're prophesying. Tell him what Hannah said. I am not worthless. You devil, get out of my life. God has a plan and purpose for my life. You're prophesying. You're prophesying the word of God. Okay. Now, what happened on this situation? Let's read the scripture. I got it at the bottom. It's Amos 7 12-17. And I'll close here. Says, "Then a Messiah said to Amos." Amos was a prophet by the way, and Aessiah was a king at that time. So, Amosiah said to Amos, he said, "Go you seer." In other words, get out you prophet or you see her. Flee to the land of Judah. Now, he was in Bethl, which is in Israel. He said, "Get away to the land of Judah. Go over there and eat bread and and prophesy all you want to over there, but don't you dare ever again prophesy here at Bethl." Now, what is he talking about? Amos is just telling him that since he's a wicked king, he is going to lose his reign. And he tells them, "Get away from my territory. Get away from my area. Get out." And look what what he says, "For it is the king's sanctuary and it is the royal residence." That's the spirit in the king saying, "This is my territory. I taken over the gate of Bethl and you have no right to prophesy here no more. You understand that? This is my place. This is my stronghold. Get out. Go to Judah. Go wherever you want to prophesy all you want to, but leave this area alone. The king of Israel who supposed to be the anointed man, the men who got to the gate have been taken over by the prince of darkness. And that spirit is now saying, "I own this place, so get away from here." But look what Amos does. I I I love this part. Amos is a cool guy. Then Amos answer and said to our Messiah. Hey, listen. I I never dreamed of ever being a prophet. I am no prophet. Neither was I the son of a prophet. You know what I am? I'm a sheep herder. I'm one of the little guys that that follows the sheep up there and attend there are the sycamore fruit. I'm you know I pick up the fruit when it ripens. But then he said, "Then the Lord took me as I follow the flock." In other words, he found the gate and the Lord said to me, "Go prophesying to my people Israel," which is where Bethl is at. He says, "Hey man, I have no aspirations. I have no idea that God was going to do this, but he got a hold of me. I found the gate. He called me and he told me to prophesy. And guess what? I'm going to prophesy. And watch what he told him. Oh man, you don't like this. He said, "Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord. You say, do not prophesy against Israel and do not spout against the house of Isaac. Therefore, thus sayith the Lord, your wife is going to be a harlot in the city." Whoa. He said, "Your wife is going to be harlot in the city. Your sons and your daughters are going to fall by the sword and your land shall be divided by a survey line. You are going to die in a defiled land and Israel shall surely be led away captive from his own land." You know what he was saying? Israel had committed sin. God is calling prophets to prophesy and warn Israel of their sin. The highest guy is the king says, "Don't tell me what God says. I don't want to hear what God says. I made up my man. I own the gate." Now, you understand that. Oh, you think you do? You think you own the gate? Huh? You think you can sit on that door? I'm telling you, I'm nothing but a cheap herder and and a fruit picker. But God got a hold of me and he says, "I want you to go tell that big old high king there. I want you to tell him something because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord. This is what's going to happen to you. This is what's going to happen to your wife. This is what's going to happen to your family." You see, when God calls you in, I think it says in Isaiah, "Wherever dream, let him have dream." He said, "But whoever has my word, let him speak it and let him speak faithfully." That's one thing you're going to find in the gate. When you get to that gate to the place where where God has placed you, you're going to be authorized to speak. And you know, uh, when I see that, I don't see him speaking as necessarily as much as to the king, as to the king's wife, and as to the king's children, but to the spirit. Because that was the spirit speaking to him. That was the spirit speaking to him through Amos. The spirit was saying, "Hey, get away from here. I'm at the gate right now. Who do you think you are? You're nobody. Get out. I own this city now. I own the gate." And this little shepherd boy said to him, "Not so fast. Not so fast. I got a word from God and I'm going to prophesy it. And I'm going to prophesy it over you." And when he spoke to that spirit, all hell broke loose because his door was closed forever. And so we the model of the lesson tonight is find out. Grop for the gate. Find it. And if there's a a big old bad wolf standing at the gate saying, "I ain't moving from here. I've been in your family for 50 generations." Or he could tell you, "I own this city. I've been here." We had a lot of the demons speak through the people. says, "I own her." Psalms 24:1 says, "The earth is the Lord and everything in it belongs to him." You don't own nothing, Jack. Just shut up and get out. You know, you ain't got you ain't got no ownership of nothing. God owns the whole thing. He owns every human, every cattle, everything. You know, that's the word. And when you speak the word, you're prophesying the word. And when you prophesy the word, you're bringing the right judgment. You are taking the authority that God has given you. Do you know that God promises in in Exodus 20 I think is verse four and five where he says that uh those who disobey the word of the Lord uh bring a generational curse to the third and fourth children but he says I will bless the generation of those who obey me and who do my work to a thousand generations. Did you know that when you take a stand on that gate and you use the sword, which is the word of God, and you prophesy it and you speak it and you say, "God did not bring me into this world to produce children and grandchildren that's going to be uh meat for uh uh jailbaits and who going to be prostitutes and who's going to be all of these things." Just the same way he told that spirit, you can reverse that. You can speak it. You can say God did not bring me into this world to give out cannon fod for the devil. God brought me into this world to raise up for his sons and daughters, princesses and princes and that's what I'm going to raise. And you stand at that gate and you take a s I don't care how bad it looks up in there. You prophesy. You look at the spirit right on the eye. He said you have no part here. This gate is anointed. I I put the blood of Jesus is on this gate. You know, every night my wife and I will hold hands and we pray and we pray for every single one of our family, nieces, nephew, aunts, uncles, and c. I believe that God is a God of a house. That's why my ministry is called a house of faith ministry because I am a house. I am part of a house. My house, you know, my grandfather and my great-grandfather and my father, they used to drink and womanize and get drunk and have all of the things. When God saved me, he says none of that stuff will ever come. You know, the very first person that got saved was my dad because when you take a stand on the gate, it goes back and it goes forward. You break all the power of the enemy. Hallelujah. My dad look at me and then he knew there was something different about me. And then we're going to work and I turn the radio on. I turn it in Spanish because he didn't speak English. And I find a place where they were preaching the gospel. He would take his hat off as the word of God was being preached. Hallelujah. Then one day he got saved and then he would tell everybody. He bugged my brother and my mom so much he wouldn't leave him alone. He went in the morning. He called him at 3:00 in the morning. I just had a dream. The Lord showed me this. When I had the experience with Jesus, I called my mom at quarter to 5 in the morning. Mom, I was crying. You got to get saved. You got to get saved. Jesus is coming. They don't get no rest. here and he called his mother. He was not I know but the idea is that we need to find that gate. We need to take a stand on that gate. We need to anoint him. We need to prophesy. And you once you stand on that gate that's the see that's the door to your family. Did you know that there there's generational curses have been at work in that family? You can stand on that gate and defeat that. Amen. Amen. Father in heaven in Jesus name we thank you and we praise you father God that your word is so good. Oh hallelujah. Your word father God is like water to a thirsty traveler. Father God your word is like a shade a an oas an oasis in the middle of the desert. Father God, as we have partaken of your word tonight, Father God, I pray that you will nourish it. Father God, in the name of Jesus, I bind all of the fowl of the air that they will not be able to steal the word that has been a a seed spread on the hearts of those who are listening here tonight. I pray, Father God, that you will water it, that you will cause it to grow, that we may stand up, Father God, in the power and anointing that you have given us because you said, "I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all of the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm you." That that prophecy that you prophesy may be fulfilled in us, Father God, that we may tread down the enemy. That's what dominium means. to tread down, to take control, that we may possess our gates, Father God, that we may bring life to our families and to our community and to our church. In Jesus name we thank you, Father, for your blessing. Amen. Home Previous Next