DELIVERANCE FROM DISCOURAGEMENT The objective of this teaching is to equip believers with the biblical tools to overcome discouragement by relying on the Word of God as their spiritual weapon. It seeks to encourage Christians to remain strong and courageous in the face of trials, recognizing that discouragement is a spiritual battle fought with God’s promises, prayer, and faith. The lesson aims to help the reader align their perspective with God’s timing and purpose, so they may walk in victory and hope regardless of changing circumstances. DELIVERANCE FROM DISCOURAGEMENT Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to equip believers with the biblical tools to overcome discouragement by relying on the Word of God as their spiritual weapon. It seeks to encourage Christians to remain strong and courageous in the face of trials, recognizing that discouragement is a spiritual battle fought with God’s promises, prayer, and faith. The lesson aims to help the reader align their perspective with God’s timing and purpose, so they may walk in victory and hope regardless of changing circumstances. Synopsis: In Deliverance from Discouragement, Pastor Marcos Marrero draws from Joshua’s journey into leadership after the death of Moses to highlight how God strengthens His people against discouragement. God repeatedly commands Joshua to be strong and courageous, teaching that His Word must be meditated on, spoken aloud, and used as a weapon against spiritual attacks. The teaching explains that discouragement feeds on death and change, both of which bring uncertainty and fear. Yet God’s command to Joshua—“Moses My servant is dead…Arise, go over this Jordan”—reveals the call to move forward in faith instead of remaining bound by despair. Pastor Marcos compares this to today’s world, where moral decline, cultural changes, and spiritual compromise can easily lead Christians into discouragement. However, God’s timing is always perfect, and His promises remain sure despite shifting circumstances. The message emphasizes the need for prayer, unity of the Spirit, and confidence in God’s eternal refuge. Using biblical examples, Marrero encourages believers to wield the “sword of the Spirit,” remain steadfast in faith, and find joy in the unchanging promises of God. Ultimately, the teaching reminds Christians that discouragement cannot prevail when we understand God is in control, and that even in times of decline and suffering, our blessed hope in Christ draws nearer. Written teaching: Joshua 1:7 “Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.” Several times the Lord tells Joshua to be strong and very courageous, for this is a critical time in the life of Joshua, and the Lord is ministering to him personally, to keep him from getting discouraged by the circumstances that he is presently facing and those which he will be facing later. We need to remember that discouragement is a spirit, and we do not fight spirits with physical weapons, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, we fight spirits with the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, and that is how we overcome them. Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law (the Word of God) shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” God tells Joshua that His Word, which He gave the Israelites through Moses, is an indispensable weapon that he needs to use and maintain continuously in order to overcome the spirit of discouragement. How do you fire this weapon? With your mouth! Watch what you say! We are to meditate in His Word day and night, that is how we keep our spiritual weapons clean and loaded, and we are to fire it every time that we come under attack from the enemy. If the spirit of discouragement has a favorite meal, the spirit of death would be it, for discouragement feeds on dead things like worms do. Joshua 1:2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel.” Death always brings change with it, and change is something that we naturally mistrust, for with change comes another opportunity for us to fail, and in our relationship with God, having a new opportunity to fail God again in a different way, is not something that we welcome. God simply tells Joshua with five little words that, Moses My servant is dead, and with that simple, yet very powerful statement, He tells Joshua that it is time to move one and to, Arise, go over this Jordan. God is basically telling Joshua not to be afraid to cross that river that stands between him and God’s promises, and to not let the spirit of discouragement keep him from fulfilling God’s destiny for his life. From Joshua’s experience we can learn that he had plenty of opportunities to be discourage, when God took Moses to the mountain top for forty days, Joshua was kept out in no man’s land, while the children of Israel that stayed back and fell into idol worship. It is very difficult for us humans to deal with the reality of not belonging, for what we are a part of, is what helps us to identify with who we are as a person. Joshua was in a transition period for many years, kept there by God until the day came when he was to step into the new order of things that God had prepared him to fulfill. Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Perhaps the most difficult part for us to understand when we are in the midst of no man’s land, spiritually speaking, is that we are still part of the purpose and will of God, not only for our lives, but even within the will and greater purpose that Jesus has for His church. There are so many things changing right now that it is impossible for me to enumerate them all, but it is this change that is taking place right now, that is discouraging so many Christians today. We are living witnesses of the demise of western civilization. We are witnessing the death of the institution of marriage, and we are witnessing the death of the godly principles that the martyr’s of the Gospel of Jesus Christ died to secure for us. Life has become a choice as well as gender. Many churches have fallen prey to the gospel of conformity, so that the spiritual life of many churches has been drained out, leaving many of the faithful within those churches to ask this question, where has the Spirit gone? Death and change seem to be the only certainty. In order for us not to get discourage we need to keep all that is going on right now within the context of the Word of God. Remember that God promised Abraham four hundred years earlier the land that they were about to enter, and God also told Abraham that the iniquity of the inhabitants of the land had not reached its peak at that time, so that his descendants would have to wait for their inheritance before they could enter and possess the land of promise. Genesis 15:13, 16 “...Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs (Egypt), and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years...But in the fourth generation they shall return here (the land promised to Abraham), for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” So that God’s timing precedes everything, way before Moses was born, and before Joshua was born, and before whatever circumstance arose that Joshua was facing, God had already set up the time and date for their conquest to begin four hundred years earlier. Had Joshua concentrated on the facts that his circumstances presented him with, he would have had reasons to be discouraged. But God was there to remind him to keep his eyes on the Word of God, for therein lay the promises of a God who cannot lie. 2 Timothy 3:1-4 “ But know this, that in the last days perilous (times of stress) times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.” But know this: Can you hear the certainty with which Paul makes this statement about our present day condition? It helps us to know that whatever it is that is going on right now, God knew what it would be like thousands of years before it came to pass. Let us ask ourselves a few questions in regards as to what is going on today, and let us see if we can answer them within the context of what God said would take place, and what took place during the days of Joshua. Is the world as a whole and society in particular going through a radical change right now for the worst? Yes it is. Did God say that it would happen like this at the end of time? Yes He did. Is there a reason why God is letting the moral fibers of society to become undone? Yes there is. Why is God letting those things that kept us together for centuries all of the sudden become undone? Have we reached the point of conclusion? Our prayer emphasis has been for the unity of the Spirit, the more united that we become in the Spirit in our prayers, the stronger that we are at restraining the power of lawlessness. It is my belief that true Christianity does not slack in prayer in the face of discouraging news, it is the opposite, the more bad news that we hear, the greater our prayer emphasis becomes, for we know that the more that sins abound, the more that the grace of God abounds as well, so that we do not give up in our praying no matter what. I’ve then reached the conclusion that the reason why the power of lawlessness seems to be increasing it is because we are within reach of the point of conclusion, the event horizon, the point of the end. If that is the case, the death of Moses before Joshua lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land, can be likened to the death of our Judeo-Christian values before our Joshua, Jesus, leads us into our Promised Land, the resurrection and rapture of the body of Christ. Isn’t it amazing that from Christianity’s point of view death does not lead into depression but into salvation? For us Christians, natural death is welcome for as stated within His promises, Absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, so that as we are witnessing the death of everything that is near and dear to us, be it civil or moral, religious or traditional, the things that are dying, be it good or bad, can only mean one thing for us Christians, our blessed hope is nearer than we think. Here is the last will and testament of Moses, the servant of God, before He died and blessed the children of Israel with these promises. Deuteronomy 33:26-29 “There in no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, and in His excellency on the clouds. The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, ‘Destroy!’ Then Israel shall dwell in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine; His heavens shall also drop dew. Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty! Your enemies shall summit to you, and you shall tread down their high places.” Here are some promises that will keep us from getting discouraged no matter what changes we are going through right now. Who rides the heavens to help you. We can count on His spiritual help; just this week I saw on the news how Christians are being killed and persecuted in the Middle East, and how their places of worship and homes are being burned, I saw this Christian priest forced face down to the ground before he was beheaded, and I thought to myself, what a great honor this man was given, it humbled me to the core, how God allows some of His servants to die a martyr’s death, I could just hear the cheers from heaven as he was welcome into the joy of our Lord and given a place of honor among those who have died for the faith, like apostles and prophets of old. It touched me because every night my wife and I pray for those who are being persecuted for the sake of the Gospel, and in my prayer I always pray that God would give His strength to those whom He has called to give their life as an offering to God, seeing this man, not resisting but peaceful, encouraged me to know that God always answers our prayers. The eternal God is your refuge. In the natural, those killed and those persecuted and tortured for the sake of the Gospel, might be viewed by unspiritual people as unfortunate or disadvantaged, but what does the Word of God say? Hebrews 13:6 “So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’” Our time here on this earth is temporary, our refuge in God is eternal! Happy are you, O Israel. Happy people are people who are not discouraged. For their happiness is based on the eternal promises of God that do not change with the circumstances. The shield of your help and the sword of your majesty! Remember how God told Joshua that, This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, well, the shield of our help is the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation and the breastplate of righteousness which cover and protect our vital parts, but we have also been given a majestic sword, and this is an offensive weapon, which we can use to execute against our spiritual enemies the will of God, to tread down and subdue the strongholds of the enemy, with the words that proceed out of our mouths, as we enforce the Word of God over our enemies. Psalm 149:6-9 “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute on them the written judgment—this honor have all His saints. Praise the Lord!” Once we understand that if we are in the will of God, whether we are called to martyrdom, suffering, or to triumph over our enemies, it does not matter what the circumstances are, as long as we believe that we are within the will of God for our lives, no discouragement can afflict us. Nations may fall, they may rise, or nothing may end up taking place after all, it does not really matter, as long as we know that our God is in total and complete control of whatever situation we might be facing, we have peace and the assurance of His promises for us who believe. Joshua 1:5 “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.” Go into God’s spiritual bank today, and in the name of Jesus deposit some of these promises, for they will suffice to cover for whatever debt or lack you may have that is causing you to be discouraged. 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To reveal God’s divine design for the woman as “the helper,” formed from the rib, reflecting God’s own role as Helper. This lesson aims to show how women are uniquely created to protect, strengthen, and pray over their husbands—just as God protects, strengthens, and intercedes for His children. Through Scripture, we explore how the role of “helper” mirrors God’s nature, how the rib symbolizes covering and safeguarding, and how prayer becomes the woman’s spiritual expression of this calling. Whether married or single, every believer can commit to God as their ultimate Helper and walk in the order, strength, and blessing He designed. THE RIB Video Teaching Minister Lisa Kane November 19, 2025 Objective: To reveal God’s divine design for the woman as “the helper,” formed from the rib, reflecting God’s own role as Helper. This lesson aims to show how women are uniquely created to protect, strengthen, and pray over their husbands—just as God protects, strengthens, and intercedes for His children. Through Scripture, we explore how the role of “helper” mirrors God’s nature, how the rib symbolizes covering and safeguarding, and how prayer becomes the woman’s spiritual expression of this calling. Whether married or single, every believer can commit to God as their ultimate Helper and walk in the order, strength, and blessing He designed. Home Read the Written Teaching

ENTER HIS REST The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the biblical meaning of entering God’s rest, as taught in Hebrews 3–4 and supported by the Psalms. The message aims to show that rest is not merely physical relaxation but a spiritual act of faith and obedience. By choosing to trust God instead of striving in unbelief or frustration, Christians can experience peace, healing, stability, and victory in their daily lives. ENTER HIS REST Minister Lisa Kane January 6, 2024 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the biblical meaning of entering God’s rest, as taught in Hebrews 3–4 and supported by the Psalms. The message aims to show that rest is not merely physical relaxation but a spiritual act of faith and obedience. By choosing to trust God instead of striving in unbelief or frustration, Christians can experience peace, healing, stability, and victory in their daily lives. Synopsis: In Enter His Rest, Lisa Kane explores the scriptural call for God’s people to enter into His promised rest. Drawing from Hebrews 3 and 4, she highlights the example of Israel’s disobedience in the wilderness, showing how unbelief kept them from receiving the rest God intended. In contrast, true faith and obedience open the door to peace, stability, and blessing. The message also weaves in insights from Psalms 37, 38, and 116, which connect rest with patience, forgiveness, and the quieting of the soul in God’s presence. Rest is shown to be both a command and a gift—an intentional act of ceasing from striving, trusting God’s provision, and allowing Him to heal both body and spirit. Lisa emphasizes that entering God’s rest equips believers to resist anger, frustration, and fear, while cultivating boldness, faith, and testimony before others. Just as God rested on the seventh day, Christians are called to follow His example by stepping back from self-effort and allowing His Word and Spirit to work within them. Ultimately, rest becomes a weapon of victory, crushing the enemy underfoot, and a testimony of faith that demonstrates God’s peace and power in the midst of life’s challenges. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this message on Saturday, January 6, 2023. This message is called Enter His Rest. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your presence and we thank you for your anointing and we thank you for the power of your word, the living word of God. And we thank you that it moves forward. That it strikes and divides and meets the needs of every person deep within their bones. Father God, I thank you. I thank you. And I thank you because you are all powerful. You are glorious. You are the creator. You are the healer. You are the provider. Thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. And amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here in Hebrews. Hebrews 3:19. And so we see that they cannot enter in because of unbelief or that word unbelief means faithlessness or another word for it is faithlessness. Well, you know I am teaching a different kind of message. So this is called enter his rest. My pastor taught on Sunday uh a message on rest and the Sabbath and I you know resonated with me. Normally I don't teach on something that another pastor's taught on but then I heard three other messages. So, I got a total of four messages this week on the topic of rest in the Sabbath. And I thought, wow, Lord, you're talking to me. So, this message is really more for me, but I'm going to share it with you while I teach myself. Amen. So, I've done some research here. We are going to be focusing in Hebrews, and we're going to be focusing on uh Hebrews 3 and 4. So, if you want, get your Bibles ready because we're going to be reading some good chunks of scripture through there. In the meantime, there are three scriptures in Psalms that I want to show you that apply to rest. And it kind of really uh brings to heart the difference between living in sin, living with Christ, because you got to know the difference between the two. I taught on this last week, what the difference between salvation and living for Christ is. So there is something visible that we can see and actually entering or not entering into that rest gives us a clue as to who you are and what kind of life you're living. Amen. So Psalm 37:7, rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prosperth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. All of us look out at other people and we all see those that are doing so good, so prosperous, have all the money. I mean, look at our current leadership in the government of the United States of America and how prosperous they are. It's frustrating. But God is saying, look at this or this the author of Psalm here is saying rest. Look at the word rest. To be dumb, see, stop in the Lord. Okay, let's explain because it takes a moment to think this through and understand it. So to be dumb. Okay, so in other words, what you're doing is because you're so frustrated, you get mad and you see these situations. So what that word rest is telling you to do, just stop, pretend that's not going on, be dumb about it, and go to the Lord. Wait a second. How do I do that? Because now the emotions are flying. Look at what kind of emotions he's talking about in the Psalms. He says, "Fret not thyself." And what does that mean? Glow or grow warm. The blood pressure, you're you're getting heated. Your your face turns color when you get angry. It turns red. It just that's the way it happens. Darkens and reds and bulges. Well, he's saying, "Don't let that get to you. Rest in the Lord." What does he say? rest, which means to be dumb. Cease. Stop. Stop yourself. Oh, okay. I gotta stop myself. How do I do that? So, we're gonna be looking into that. Um, now let's look at another verse in Psalm. Psalm 38:3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Here we are again about anger. If you're angry at something or someone, look at this. I have no rest. There's no soundness, no wholesome, no I'm not complete in my flesh. My my my bones are not at safe. They they're not healthy. They're not prosperous because I'm in sin and I haven't been forgiven of my sin. So taking rest is an act of obedience or if you don't do it, you're in sin. [Music] which we all know that Jesus, he's the the Messiah. He came to redeem us and pardon us. And because he did that, we get to stop and say, "Lord, forgive us." So, he's showing us, these scriptures are showing us a little bit of self-control here. We have to take heed, make sure we don't let this get out of hand. Let's look at a third verse in Psalm. Psalm 116:7. Return unto thy rest, oh my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. Look at this. Return back. You got to get your life back with God in the secret place with the Lord. You have to find that rest, quiet, settled spot home for your soul. Your soul needs to have that quiet moment. And look at because the Lord is treated bountifully with you. You are God will treat you bountifully. This is an act of obedience. He's going to do that. So, let's go to Hebrews. We're going to look at start at three. We're going to go in start at chapter 3. We're going to go into chapter 4, but let's start at verse 11. And this is the chunk of scripture we're looking at is the author is trying to tell us, okay, we're going to look at the Israelites who wandered the wilderness for 40 years and what they did. And look at what God did here. So now God, he swore an oath in his wrath. Okay? Because it's talking about God. So I swear in my wrath, and it was a justifiable, violent, passionate wrath that he's talking about that this is God talking. They shall not enter my rest. Because see, God said to the Israelite, he was so vexed and frustrated with him that he's like, I'm not going to let you enter my rest. I mean, he just got mad. And this is where he's saying, "They shall not enter my rest." Look at the word rest there. It means reposing down or dormant sleep, abode, which is like a home. And uh as you can see what I'm teaching here is the bold words are in the King James version. The words in parentheses are additional meanings of that word in bold. Okay. So as you can see here he swore in his wrath and he's a they're not going to get into a reposing down dormant sleep or abode. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil which is a hurtful influence heart or thoughts or feelings of unbelief which is faithless faithlessness in departing from the living God. You see, when you're in hardness of heart, which is what these people in the wilderness were, you are in evil. You're you have a hurtful influence on the thoughts and the feelings of those around you because you don't have faith. you're not following the living word of God. You're not living in the living word of God. And these people were doing that. So this writer, the author of Hebrews is telling us, get a hold of yourself. Now let's continue on. 13 But exhort one another daily while it is called today, lest any of you follow the same pattern, be hardened through the deceitfulness, delusion of sin. You see, when the Israelites had wandered around and they were eating heaven, bread from heaven, mana, they got bored with it and they wanted their onions back from when they were in slavery with the Egyptians. Oh, those onions. Oh, I miss those. Oh, if I could only have another, you know, had they had just humbled themselves and took hold of themselves and say, you know, Lord, went to Moses and said, "Hey, Moses, can you go talk to God? I'm thankful we have the mana. I'm grateful for it. Can he add some flavor to it or give us a a difference? Because see, we're in the flesh. We want something different all the time. And God knows that and he will work with you. This is why he said, "Enter your rest." Because you got to deal with your flesh. Which is what Psalms was trying to tell us about our bones not being in good, safe, healthy, prosperity areas because we're not entering into that rest. This is where people get cancer and things of that nature. This is why you'll see a lot of medical offices and systems try to provide a tw tranquil atmosphere for their patients because they're trying to calm them because if they can calm down a bit, it brings the blood pressure down. Right? Verse 14. For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Basically saying we're participants of of Christ and what he did. We need to stay confident in and we have to set ourselves under his support and be stable unto the end. You see that's what entering rest is all about. Stability. How many times you do good, you do good, you do good, you do it for several months in a row and all of a sudden you crash and burn because you got to enter your rest to keep it going to the end. While it is said today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation or the irritation of the Israelites to God back in the wilderness. And he's saying today, now today meant, let's say we were here yesterday. Yesterday was today. Tomorrow will be today. So he's saying now, this is the now you have to get a hold of yourself, take heed of yourself and watch out for hardening your heart. And then he says, "For someone they had heard did provoke or exasperate. How be it not all that came out of Egypt by Moses." See, some did. And what's happened is when you get a bad apple, it kind of affects all the other apples in the basket. Well, you had these moaner and groaner and complainers. And then these people who weren't moaning and complaining heard that and oh yeah, okay. and they agree and it becomes fruitful. It multiplies. Well, we have to stop that. We have to take heed of ourselves. If you hear someone complaining, you should be entering the Lord because that's where your rest is. Let's continue on because the author is going to get to that. Says verse 17, "But with whom was he grieved or vexed?" 40 years God whom was he grieved and vexed with? Was it not with him that had sinned or missed the mark? whose carcasses the limb of the body fell in the wilderness. You see, there's a consequence to not entering in his rest, to not following the obedience of God's call. The people of the Israelites in the wilderness did not make it into his rest because God swore they will not enter his rest because they were provoking him to anger. They weren't taking heat of themselves and getting some self-control to say, "Hey, so this is what he's saying." So those people, they died in the wilderness. This is why your bones get sick. This is why you get sick because you didn't take the rest that your body requires. And God used that to just basically tell them, "You're not entering my rest." And he killed them all off. I think it was 21 years and younger entered into the promised land. the rest didn't because of their act of disobedience. Verse 18, and to whom swear or an oath he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believe not. So what he's saying is they there's a promise here. And this is what the author is trying to point out. He's telling them they're the ones that were acting in disobedience and I swore that they cannot have rest. Which means there's a rest for those of us who do obey. Let's look at that. Let's look at that. This is awesome. So, we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. We know that they lacked faith. You know, they you know, it was different because Moses would go speak to them face to face and he they got scared of them. Yes. But then they went and built a golden calf and they went and did this and they went and did that. Wandering for 40 years, moaned and complained and groaned and and vexed the Lord. So now look at what he says about this. We're now in chapter 4 verse one. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of us enter into his rest. Any of you should seem to come short, deficient in fear of it. You see, he's saying if you're going to believe you, if you're not going to believe me, you're going to act in disobedience. This is what's going to happen to you. But if you choose to believe, this is a promise for you to enter into his rest today, not tomorrow. But tomorrow will be today, and you will be in that rest if you choose to have faith and believe. How do you have faith when faith is you? A lot of us don't have faith that even measures up to the size of a mustard seed as Jesus pointed out. And these people in the wilderness did not have any faith. They wanted to go back to what they knew. They couldn't see the future that God had for them. And remember, even when Joshua entered into the promised land, they had to go to war and fight the um other cultures that were around and all the other kingdoms that were there. They had to fight them. But God was with Joshua and he used different tactics to beat them all and God showed himself more and more because they had faith. This group of people believed. So the question is, are you going to be the one who's going to die out in the wilderness where your carcass dies, your bones become sin, uh corrupt, full of sin and disease, or are you going to have the belief and the faith that Jesus is the son of God and that you can enter his rest? I mean, I don't know if you're struggling with sleep right now or if you're struggling in your mind where you need to have a peace. I'm going to tell you right now, all of this action of being obedient, entering into his rest gives us the victory for the situations and the circumstances we've been dealing with and praying for and whatever we're facing. Let's go on. Let's go on. I want you to see this. Verse two. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. You see, now you're looking at two groups of people, which is what I've been talking about. Ones that don't have faith, they lack belief. They're not believing. And then you have a group that is believing. And all it takes is the moment you choose to be obedient. Okay, God, I don't understand why you're telling me to sit down or why I have to come to you and I can't deal with this situation myself. I can't go deal with our current government and current powers. I can't go deal with that myself. Okay, I'm going to put myself in this situation and I'm going to wait on you in obedience even though I don't want to. God respects that. He does. He wants you to act in that obedience because that act is your act of faith which activates God and he moves on your behalf. Now your bones are safe. You're in good health because those that try to attack, let's say a prominent position that's being ran by evil right now and you try to go take it out, what happens? You end up dying most of the time or they arrest you and you go into jail and you never come out again. That's just how that works. So, this is where now we have to take heed, self-control, and come into believe. And whether you believe or not, you say, "Okay, Lord, I'm going to have to trust you. I don't understand what's going on. I don't know why evil is so prominent right now. I don't know why these these things are taking place for I know that the the gates of hell will not prevail. So, I'm just going to take a step of faith and I'm going to enter your rest and I'm going to pray about it. Or you've got managers at work that are just picking on picking on you. You've got situations in your home where people are aggravating you and and I'm going to go enter my rest with the Lord because I need it. Lord, I come to you. I give this to you. I'm going to sit here. I'm going to put some praise worship music on. I give it to you. It's done. I'm going to leave it alone and I'm going to do something different. I'm going to read scripture. I'm going to do some crochet. I'm going to do knitting. I'm going to bake some bread. I'm going to go work on an engine in a car. But I'm giving it to the Lord first. You see how powerful the presence of rest does for us? For us, for me, the me. This is so important. Oh, and that that takes that's taking faith and belief and mingling the two together. That is our responsibility that we need to do. Now, verse three, for we which have believed do enter into his into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works toil, acts were finished from the foundation of the world. You see, God entered his rest after he did his works and all the works were done at the end of the sixth day. So if all the works were done, all the evil was already taking place and we know the victory and the outcome of the war, then this is where now we can win the battle because we choose to come into the rest knowing faith, knowing belief we got the victory. Oh hallelujah. Look at Jesus. Look at what God did on the seventh day. This is the author still Hebrews. He's still talking about God on the seventh day. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and God did rest that seventh day from all his works. Now that word wise there means it's referring to a precedent. Uh it's going to go be it's going to become the rule to follow. So God rested on the seventh day. This is why we have what's called the Sabbath. This is one act of obedience that we can take upon ourselves and have that um that satism that that peace at rest. Now it doesn't mean no work or it doesn't mean sleep or don't walk to your neighbors or things like that. Now I know the Israelites followed it that way but as a believer in Christ a little different for us. It is the act of obedience to say I'm going to settle down. I'm going to calm my soul. you know, because I've been praying in the spirit now um for the prayers I posted up on our website recently and I've been doing it for several weeks in a row and I was kind of getting burned out of it and I was like, Lord, I can't keep doing this. I'm going to treat it kind of like a job and take my weekend off and do it during the week. And then all of a sudden, here comes this message teaching me how about rest. Now you see why I want to teach this to you. Because now I'm finally beginning to understand what it is that God did when he rested on the seventh day. So now I've done my prayers. I did my obedience. And now Lord, I enter your rest. I'm going to sit down. I'm put some praise and worship music on. I'm going to knit. I'm going to crochet. Whatever I'm going to do for that that settles me, that keeps me calm and the things that I like to do. But I'm sitting there and all I'm doing is just I'm not having to do anything I don't want to do. That's the rest our bodies needs. And you know, it's a mind and body thing that your your bones are going to appreciate because you need to heal. They need to heal. This is what I I've been aching and hurting because we've been moving all this kind of stuff and getting settled. And the other day I sat down and I was I was crossstitching and and a couple hours later, you know, as I got up, walked around, I was like, even the next morning I got up and I go, man, I feel a whole lot better. I'm telling you guys, this is very powerful. Very, very powerful. Um, and and so here God rested on the seventh day. Verse five. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest, seeing therefore it remainth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not in because of unbelief. It was first preached to the Israelites, and they didn't enter. They rejected Jesus as the son of God. And as a result, and well, they rejected God and his provision out in the wilderness. What he was trying to do is work on their heart so that he can get them humbled so he can bring them into the promised land. this group of people were so stubborn and hard and necked hardhearted that he couldn't get them out of it. So he says, "Never mind. You're not going to enter the rest I have for you." But he's telling the rest of us who look at that as an example to say, "I do have a rest for you." It's a promise. I love it. I love it. Let's continue on. Verse 9. There remainth therefore a rest. And look at what that word rest means. Type of heaven, sabbaticism. It's a repose, which means a sleep, peace, tranquility, calm of Christianity to the people of God. Meaning, all hell can be breaking loose. And you've entered into God's rest. And you say, "You know what? I've already given it to the Lord. He's taken care of this. I don't have to worry about it." And you have victory just from that alone. That act, that statement, because you are now stating as a fact, which is an act of faith of belief that God already took care of it. I don't have to worry about it. A that's awesome. I hope you guys are grasping this. Verse 10. For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall under the same example of unbelief. We got to take heed, have some self-control, put ourselves in that rest. It's something we have to do. God is expecting us to do it because now it becomes an act of obedience. And did you see that he says settle down cease for he that entered into his settle down cease moment we ceased from our works. You know, all these prayers that I've been praying, actually, the moment I enter my rest, it's like the amen and the amen. Let it be done. Okay, Lord, I'm going to enter my rest. I've done my part. It's up to you to do your part. This is now to show you what I'm talking about in that because I want you to see this. Those scriptures preede this. This is now Hebrews 4. We're still in Hebrews 4. We just finished verse 11. Look at what verse 12 is. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of sunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hearts. You see, you're now in a situation. And I'm going to pause. I'm gonna let God handle this because he's going to take care of it better than I would anyways. So every time you're praying and you're giving God the glory, and then you enter into that moment of confidence, boldness, rest, I feel good. God's got it. God's got it. And every time that all hell breaks loose and it's all, you make a better decision when you're in your rest. You know how to decide where to go, what to say, what to do. you are prepped and ready as a believer in Christ. And then what does that do? That establishes your testimony to those running because they're looking at you like, why aren't you all in all up in arms about this management change or this this kind of issue or situation? Or why aren't you more concerned about our loved ones and da da da why aren't you concerned that he's not getting well? And what you're doing is you're saying, "I'm in faith by obeying God because I gave it to him and I'm not going to let it worry me." [Music] That's what this scripture means by the dividing of the soul and the spirit. You know, like I said earlier, when I had laid down and rested and finally got in my rest, I sat down and the next morning I got up and I was like, "Man, my bones feel a lot better. I'm not so achy today." That is the rest of God that he has promised us. The healing that we have the right to have. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is how the word of God penetrates our hearts and minds. It's that act of obedience where we step out and say, "God's got it. God's got it. Quick. It's powerful. It's sharper. God's got it. It discerns. Oh, God's got it. Look at verse 16. Let us therefore come boldly into the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You We got to do this for God's grace and to help those in the time of need. Because how many people are out there that are not in the rest of God? They're not resting in God. Now, Paul talks about this in Romans. Look at Romans 16:20. And the God of peace, look at that word peace here. Prosperity, rest, quietness, shall bruise, crush completely, shatter Satan under your feet shortly. That's in the state of rest. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Are you catching this? The moment you enter into your obedient rest time and rest period, the grace of peace, the God of peace, your prosperity, your rest, your quietness is going to bruise the devil because every time the devil throws something at you, God's got this. I'm at peace. I've settled my soul down with the Lord. I'm good. Woo. And he says, "Satan, it'll crush completely, shatter Satan." Now, Satan is, it's another word for any evil that comes in your life that comes after you. Bad health, bad finances, and and a lot of these things you're in that situation because you made bad decisions because you didn't enter your rest that you have that God has given you to enter. Oh, and it crushes crush completely shatters Satan under your feet shortly. And that's that state of rest. How long does it take for healing to take place? Sometimes it could take days. Sometimes it could take months. Um I went uh when I was getting out of that diabetes and high cholesterol, that kind of stuff. And I've been healed of all of that. It took several weeks of me praying. I had the elders pray over me, casting the demons out. I did everything I possibly could. It took weeks, but finally when I finally said, "You know what, Lord? I'm going to trust and take this step of faith and I just got rid of all that insulin. I got rid of all that those pills." Do you know that to this day I still have no issues? None whatsoever. You know, and and there are moments that it tries to come back and it's like, "Nah, get lost. I already defeated you, devil." Talk about having some confidence and boldness. This is going to trigger that when you enter your rest. Because what you're doing is you're telling the Lord, "You got this. I'm done trying to handle it myself. And I choose to walk in the quietness, in my rest, because you promised me rest." And that means I know that you and the angels and the Holy Spirit are going forth and doing your thing. Amen. Amen. Amen. Oh, I hope you get this message. I hope you stand on Christ and I hope you apply it to yourself. Oh, let's close the word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the power and the anointing of your word. And we pray and ask that we apply it to our lives. That we do enter our rest that you promised us. That we live in that rest. that we live in that confidence and the boldness knowing that you and the angels and the Holy Spirit are taking care of whatever's going on around us, Father God. For we do it in the act of obedience. We do it in an act of faith because we believe. We believe that you are the son of God, Jesus. We believe that you redeemed us and pardon us. We believe that you are God. You are holy. 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YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON Written Teaching Minister Lisa Kane November 25, 2023 Objective To empower believers with the understanding that they are God’s chosen instruments of spiritual warfare, prepared vessels equipped by the Word and Spirit to break strongholds, overcome battles, and walk in righteousness and victory through Christ. Synopsis In this powerful message, Minister Lisa Kane teaches from Jeremiah 51:20 that God calls His people His “battle axe and weapons of war.” Believers are not passive bystanders but chosen vessels, prepared and empowered to confront spiritual opposition. Just as Israel was called to be God’s weapon, Christians today—grafted into the family of God through Christ—are equipped to demolish strongholds, resist the enemy, and reclaim what has been stolen. Drawing parallels to a lioness training her cubs, Lisa explains how God carefully prepares His children for battle, teaching them step by step to overcome sickness, fear, financial struggles, and spiritual bondage. Through prayer, the Word, and obedience, Christians become sharpened weapons in God’s hands. Referencing Romans 9 and 2 Corinthians 10, she emphasizes that God shapes His vessels for honor, preparing them in advance for spiritual campaigns. Victory is not through fleshly might but by the Spirit, through the spoken Word, prayer, and steadfast obedience. Believers are called to cast down imaginations, break demonic strongholds, and stand as defenders of truth, bringing deliverance and healing to others. The message closes with an urgent call for believers to take their rightful place as God’s weapons of warfare—dwelling in the secret place, hearing His voice, praying persistently, and advancing His Kingdom with boldness and authority in the name of Jesus. Written and/or Transcribed Teaching from Video Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Saturday, November 25th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called You Are God's Choice of Weapon. I'm excited about this message, folks. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for the anointing of your word. We thank you for the presence of your spirit upon our ears and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living word of God. We thank you for your word and we ask that we apply it to our lives. Live it the way you're asking us to live it, Father God. That we are walking in godliness and righteousness with you in a deep, passionate relationship. Thank you, Father God, for you are awesome. You are God. You are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you. You belong to me. Thank you, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. And amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called, "You are God's choice of weapon." We're opening up with Jeremiah 51:20. Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war. For with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms. You guys, this is an awesome powerful scripture in the living word of God. Now, let's put some context behind it here so that you can understand what God is doing here. So, we the nation of Israel is at a point in in its life where it's going to go into captivity and it has done so here. Uh we are at the end of Jeremiah. This is Jeremiah 51. So, at the end of Jeremiah here, they are in captivity and they will be in captivity for 70 years. Now, um you can go in and read the whole thing about Israel and what they've done to get into captivity. You've got good kings, evil kings, goes up and down and and here we are at this point where they're now in captivity and basically they're being destroyed. Um they're being killed. But God is prophesying through Jeremiah here that you're going to be a weapon of war. Now, I want you to understand something here. The scripture just doesn't apply to Israel back then. Keep in mind that when we become a believer in Christ, we are brought into the nation of Israel. We are grafted in. We are adopted in because Jesus is Israel. He's um an heir through the line of the king of David. So because that he's Israeli, he's a Hebrew, we are adopted into that and that is what we are. So this applies to us and this is very spiritual scripture because I want you to see something. It says, "Thou art my battle axe." Now that word axe there means war club and weapons. Look at this. Something prepared, a vessel that is prepared. We're going to look into scripture here talking about different vessels and what the Lord does with these vessels. But a prepared vessel is the choice of God to use as a weapon against other nations, against strongholds, against captivities. You know, I have been teaching in deliverance here this entire time about prayer and using your words to break through things. You're going to see that happen here with this. And you're going to see the Lord move in this. He says, "For with thee." So in other words, God in Israel, God in me, will I break in pieces or dash or scatter the nations and with thee, God in me, will I destroy, decay, put into ruin, batter, cast off, perish kingdoms, which is dominion, or the country. So these kingdoms and dominions that we have all around of us, we're going to battle those with God because God chooses us as his weapon. This is absolutely incredible. So I want you to understand the concept of what I'm going to be teaching here as I get into the next set of scriptures. But I want to give you uh uh something to look at uh that will help you understand this because we see it in nature surprisingly. So this this is already here. This is a principle that God has placed out here in the world for you and I to walk in and know and live by. Amen. So here, take a look at it. Think of a lioness and her cubs. What does a lionist do with her cubs? She teaches them how to find their food, how to take care of themselves, and they have to fight some big giant animals to get whatever it is that they're going to get. And you know, it's interesting how she does it. She starts them off young. Now, she'll bring them their food. you know, as they get a little older, she brings it or she'll start to maim an animal, say a deer, partially ma it, and then teach her cubs how to fully destroy it and kill it. And then they're satisfied with food. And then as they get older, then she will stand off a little further away, watch her cubs go into action, and take the ash. This is God doing this with us, his believer, the people he has prepared in advance. You and I are walking in righteousness. And if you've been watching my videos, we're walking in righteousness and godliness because we choose to put God first because we dwell in the secret place with the Lord. So, he's taking us from here because we purposed in our mind to have that relationship with God. But he's taking us from here and he's going to bring us up here now because he's trying to show us how to go to war and how to be victorious in every battle. We've already won the war, but now we're dealing with battles that we face every day. There are battles of cancer or some sort of sickness and disease. There are battles of financial uh issues where you have no money. There's battles where you're in bondage with a spirit of fear or anxiety or anything of that nature. Well, God has purposed in his heart to teach you how to deal with that. So, he's going to choose you how to deal with it. He's going to walk you through that. And you're going to be able to walk through it. And it's going to be absolutely incredible because you are going to have a release, a victorious release in the name of Jesus. and you're going to take back what the devil's taking. You know, if you go to the end of Revelation, I can look up the scripture. I didn't bring it here, but I'm just recalling off the top of my mind. But when we're there in the kingdom and the judgment's taking place, a lower ranking angel brings over chains to put on the devil to bind them up for a thousand years. Well, that John actually records in Revelation the reaction of the people, you and me. Our reaction is that little puny thing gave me all this hardship. Let me also bring to mind uh something that's going to help you understand this. So, as a lioness is teaching her cubs how to fight, what is it? She's right there with them. She's nudging them, pushing them along, showing them how to take down the animal, how to be victorious in the kill. Well, God is right here with us. He's nudging us. He's showing us how to pray. He's telling you, "Nothing's going to hurt you. I got you. You're protected. I just want you to go and take down the enemy." You see, you're his chosen weapon. Well, in order to become that chosen weapon, you need to be walking in a right standing with God because one, you need to be able to hear him. You need to be able to know it's his voice. You need to be able to know the word of God in order to do this because you need to know what scriptures to apply. So, what does that mean? You dwell in the secret place. You open the word of the God, the word of the living God, and you begin to know it, know him. And every time you're praying, you're sharing the scriptures there and taking down strongholds. So let's go to Romans. I want you to see this now in action. Romans 9 19-26. You see Paul realized what was going on, how God was doing this. And and you know, just to add one more element to this. So here's God up here. Satan has no chance against God. If you go again, read the end of that revelation, you will find when Jesus comes down on his white horse and we're following him, there's actually no battle. It's just all of a sudden, like in the next scripture, you see them all bound up. The beast and the prophet are bound up. They don't have a chance at all. So that, you know, it isn't a God versus Satan kind of scenario here. And I taught on this a few years ago. You can go look it up on the website, houseof faithministries.org, but you know, it's now Satan versus us. It's just the two of us battling. So, the question I have for you is, do you want to let Satan rule your life or do you want to live in victory in the flesh while we're here waiting for our eternity? I hope you make the right choice. Okay? I hope you make the right choice. Let's go to Romans nine. We're going to start in verses 19. We're going to read verses 19 through 26. Let's start in verse 19. Thou wilt say thee then unto me, why do he yet find fault? For who hath resisted or stand against his will? Nay, but oh man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Why hast thou made me thus? to be a weapon to bring down strongholds and to be serving God in righteousness and godliness, which we can do. We don't have to live by the flesh. You're going to see that here more. But I want you to see some key words here. Resisted. You're you're standing against the will of God. When you're not doing the things he asks you to do, when you're not spending time with him in the secret place, you are another word for it is rebel. You're rejecting God. You're finding fault with his principles with what he does because it's why why does he do this? Why do uh bad things happen? Hey, you know, you need to get into the word of God. One, you will find your answer. Two, you will also know that God is in control. And because he's in control, you have to line yourself up with him so that he can nudge you, push you gently in the right direction of what to pray for, what to bring down, and be the effective weapon he called you to be. Amen. Verse 21. hath not the potter uh power privilege over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor value and another unto dishonor, disgrace, infamy. You know what Paul is saying here is God has made vessels for good and he has made vessels for evil. And I believe that every vessel has the opportunity to choose to be good and have the opportunity to repent and call on the name of Jesus. Now, if he didn't make it fully for um evil and they continued to reject, God hardened Pharaoh's heart and kept hardening his heart all the way through. He says, "I gave up Egypt for you, Israel." This is what he says. Things, see, God has a purpose and a plan that is to the benefit of Israel, that is to the benefit of his righteous people. You see, he will give up things for you because he loves you. So much so that he gave up his only begotten son for you. Jesus redeemed us and then Jesus rose from the grave and now he is more victorious than ever. And so we have him to follow as an example which what did he do when he walked out? He healed the sick. He delivered people. He cast out demons. He brought down strongholds. He resisted the devil in the wilderness for 40 days. I'm telling you, the things that Jesus did, and I just taught it in last week's message, we will do and do greater. We're taking down strongholds. We're delivering people from bondage and captivity. And we are setting free those captives. And we are healing the sick, which means we need to be in right standing with God, hearing the word so we know what to do, when to say, how to say it. Amen. Amen. Verse 22. What if God willing to show his wrath and to make his power known declare himself powerful or capable endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? So let's read this uh without the parentheses and the extra words. What if God willing to show his wrath to make his power known endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? See what Paul is saying is he made these things for destruction. so his power can be known. He did it. He's in control of all this. That's the answer to the big giant. Why? He decided he goes, "I want to make my power known. I want to declare myself powerful and capable that I'm able to protect you, keep you safe, but I want to use you as it." You see, God has his way. We should not ever limit God in how he wants to do something or how he wants to accomplish a goal. It's amazing. You know, you I I remember using it as a personal testimony. I was dealing with diabetes back in the day, and I remember saying, "Why, God, are you not making my meter match what the doctor's numbers were?" Because that's what I was limiting my prayer to with God. And he he said, "Who's your doctor? Me or that doctor?" And I it was a big eye opener. And I'm healed and delivered of all that today because I'm not under what these doctors are telling me because I don't believe half of what they say. And I really truly believe that, you know, if if I'm a Rolls-Royce that God has created, then I should go back to my creator and not go to Jify Lube for maintenance. Okay? I'm sorry, but these doctors, you know, I know they mean well, but they are under an influencer of the spirit of evil and they don't even realize that they're under witchcraft. What? What? Every time you take a drug, it only deals with the symptom. It doesn't deal with the root. So, you just keep it's perpetual. You just spending your money. all your money's coming out of your pockets into all of these drugs just for relief of a symptom when all you got to do is go to God and say, "You know what, Lord? I'm giving this to you and I cast it to you. I'm going to be free." I'm telling you, he will give you the the right tools, the right scriptures to say that's going to deliver you from those sicknesses and diseases that you face. So, look at verse 23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had of prepared. Notice that. I want you to see this. He had a for prepared. And that word prepared there, by the way, is to fit up in advance. When you go dwell in the secret place with the Lord and you start spending time in the scripture, you're reading it, you're speaking it, you start praying it, and the Holy Spirit starts to teach you how to pray. He is preparing you in advance. You are the vessel being prepared for his tool, his weapon. Amen. This is him preparing. You need to be prepared. Every soldier that goes into war goes into war prepared physically, spiritually. A lot of them tend to pray to whatever god that they're going to pray, but they tend to prepare for that. They get all their weapons, all of the um bullets they need, the swords they need, whatever it is that they need out there, they prepare. They even put in their their uh backpacks and what have you. All the the little foods and snacks and stuff that they need to sustain themselves in a war, the food and they've got to have their weapons. And this is why militaries provide all this for their people. This is why they need their convoys coming in behind the scenes preparing. But this is what God does to the body of Christ. He's preparing us, getting us ready, getting all of our weapons ready, which is the spoken word of God. is one of the weapons and to know it is to get in it and re receive it, believe it. Say it in your prayers. Amen. Amen. Verse 24, even as whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. You see, he's also saying, listen, I'm the one who's teaching to the Gentiles. You can read that in other scriptures because that's the calling that God placed on his heart. So he's saying it's not the Jews, just the Israelites as Jeremiah was referring to, but he's saying it's for the Gentiles, too. You have the right to pray this way and live this way. You have the the you're the vessel that you could be evil or you could be good, but you have the choice to repent. Everybody has a choice to repent. It says anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And that word any man, anyone means anyone. If you are a vessel of evil, that God has made you as a vessel of evil, you can repent too. This is powerful. Look at verse 25. As he saith also in O, which is Hosea, I will call them my beloved people, which were not my people, and her beloved, which was not my beloved. Again, that's talking about you and I today. We were not the chosen ones. Israel was. We're the ones being grafted in because we choose God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which is the God over Israel. So, we choose the difference between Israel and us is that we become the body of Christ because we believe that Jesus, the Messiah, is the first. He He's the only Messiah, but he's the one. He's already came one time. He's coming back. Israel rejects that. That's a difference between the two of us. But we believe that Jesus is the son of the living God. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God." This is you and I. This is what we're called to do. Let's go look at what Paul is referencing here. Hosea 2:23. And I will seow her unto me in the earth. This is God talking. And I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy. And I will say to them which were not my people, thou art my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God. If you take a look at my opening prayer, you are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you. You belong to me. I was saying that in prayer because I was directed by the Holy Spirit to do that before I even knew this verse existed. Amen. But look at what he says here. will sew as plant, bear, conceive seed. We're going to manifest the fruits and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We're going to know exactly what to say, when to say, how to say it, and where to say it in the name of Jesus. He's also referring uh Paul is to Hosea 1:10 where he says, "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not my people." There it shall be said unto them, "Ye are the sons of the living God." And look what that word sons mean. As a builder of the family name, I want you guys to catch this. This is incredible. See, there's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You got David, Solomon. You got Noah, Moses. You have all of the prophets. You have all of the apostles, disciples. You have Paul. These are men and women of God in the living word of God that were written in history because the the Bible is historic. These are real people who lived. And you and I are part of that lineage. And we get to walk in the powers that they walked in in the name of Jesus. Amen. This is the anointing and the call that we have. This is how we go and pray because he's teaching us how to bring down those strongholds. God is so good. God is so good. And yes, I do speak in tongues. So anyways, tonesues are for men and of angels. When you're speaking in tonesues, you are also speaking to the angels around you. Okay, that's for another teaching of another time. Let's go back to Romans 9. Let's look at verse 27. Isaias, which is Isaiah, also crith concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved, for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. Because a short work with the will the Lord make upon the earth. That word righteousness is equity, justification. But he's going to finish the work and cut it in short. Cut it short in righteousness. So in order for us to be the effective tool that God has called us to be in the secret place is in righteousness, which means you need a purpose in your heart what you're going to do, what how you're going to do it. You know, um, think of it as the medical industry. You got a purpose in your heart. I'm not going to take those pills because I do not want witchcraft in my life. Or I purpose in my heart that I'm going to pray for my loved ones because I want them saved. I'm going to purpose in my heart I'm going to pray for Israel. And you do it. By the way, you do these things. You take these actions. And what does this mean? It means that you're separating time aside of your life for God to be that weapon because you need to be that weapon. We're taking back. You see, we're part of the body of Christ, and we get to take back what was stolen from us. I want you to hear this, and I want you to understand something. The devil has stolen too much already. He has stolen loved ones who have died prematurely from some wicked disease that they got because we didn't know how to go in the back room in our secret place and pray and ask God to forgive them and ask God to heal them. That we weren't doing that. That's on us. Do you really want that to continue on? God has directed us to pray for Israel and Jerusalem for peace. Are we doing that? Some are, some aren't. Some are walking in that biblical righteousness, but some are not. We need more people in the secret place with the Lord doing battle against the strongholds. How do you bring down a stronghold? You make a new stronghold that's stronger than the other one. And a stronghold is defense perimeter around like a castle or a moat, a moat around the castle, walls that are thick. You place the name of Jesus around something. You place it over that person. You name the name of Jesus over cancer, over your finances. You are placing a hedge of protection around those items. That is how God works. that keeps the enemy at bay. You have the right to bind and loose things. You were given the keys of the kingdom of heaven. You have already been given that. I've already taught on that. I'm not going to go back into details for that, but I want you to understand you've been given it. So, the choice is, are you going to continue walking in your flesh distracted and busy with the stuff of the world, or you going to walk in the world? Let's go read first Corinth or excuse me 2 Corinthians 10 3-6. For though we walk to live in the flesh, we do not war. Look at this word war. To serve in the military campaign after the flesh. We are not to be in the military campaign of our flesh and blood. No. Why? Because this is going to fail. This is going to die. Every man is appointed to die once. Hebrews 9:27, well then if my flesh is going to die and go away, then I better be investing in my spirit. So Paul is telling us clearly. Then he goes to verse four here. For the weapons of our warfare, look at the warfare apostolic career. Do you think that's what I've been talking about with casting out demons and laying hands on the sick and and having people healed? Calling out the name of the Jesus name of Jesus, the son of God in the secret place. Because see, when you're doing it in secret, God will manifest it out in the open in the name of Jesus. This is how he works. So, he's doing it behind the scenes. You need to be behind the scenes, praying it, saying it, speaking out so that the strong angels move and do what they're supposed to do because you're speaking to them because you're a tool from God. And the Holy Spirit's going to give you the right words to say on the right thing he has you praying for. For the weapons of our warfare are not not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down or the demolition of strongholds. You see, the demons have set up their own strongholds and they've put their claws in deep into people. They put curses there. They put these walls up. You've got to be able to break those walls. And you've got several ways to do it. You can march around the wall as the Israelites did uh to bring down the walls of Jericho. You can march around the walls and then do a shout. And you can do it right here in the secret place. One day in a circle, do it for six days. And on the seventh day, march around it seven day. And you can put something in the middle of your circle that represents what it is that you're trying to bring down. And you get to say to that thing, be down and do that powerful shout on day seven after you go around it seven times. You have the right to do that. You see, we were shown already warfare and how the Israelites did it. Now we get to do it in principle through our spoken word in the secret place under the anointing of the Holy Spirit because this our to serve our military campaign. We serve our military campaign in spirit. Remember Jesus said it's not or God said it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord. And that is what we get to walk in. Oh hallelujah. So we are to pull down these strongholds in the name of Jesus and casting down imaginations. This is how we do it for ourselves and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. You see, when you purpose in your heart the secret place of the Lord and you choose to learn his word and you choose to go into battle because you want a loved one saved and and you just You just start and you don't even know what to say. You just simply start it. Lord, I want so- and so saved. I'm calling him back in the name of Jesus. And you just start speaking it over and over and over again. And you are persistent. You keep doing it every single day. I promise you that loved one will get saved. Imagine if the whole body of Christ did that. Oh my goodness. The devil would have a very difficult time succeeding in anything. Anything. He will not prevail because we're purposing in our hearts the name of Jesus through the spoken word of God in this secret place over whatever situation we're facing and dealing with. So, and it takes you know in our minds we have to take self-control here. This is a gift of the Holy Spirit casting down imaginations. You know, there are things that we see. We see someone taking action and we'll think in our mind or roll the eyes or whatever it is. Oh man, he missed that. And then we'll run it through our minds what's going to happen. Well, Paul is saying, you need to cast that down because with God, it can change. You see, we have grace. We're in the period of grace right now. It doesn't matter what bad thing you did. If you killed someone, you can be forgiven. The only time you cannot be forgiven is if you kept blaspheming the Holy Spirit, resisting him, resisting, and then you died. That's it. You got to make your choice here in the living. And look at this. You have to know the science of God. This is, you see, and it takes faith and a belief to know the living word of God. I mean, how much corruption of evolution and our scientific community has put in our hearts to knock down our belief and faith in the living word of God. And let me tell you, I'm praying for the scientific community to be saved. You want to know how I'm doing it? I simply go to the Lord and I say, "Lord, I lift up the scientific community to your throne room and I forgive them of their sins and I forgive them of the iniquities found with them within them. I ask you, heavenly father, to forgive them as well in the name of Jesus, the son of God, because he says in Matthew 6:14, if you forgive them of their trespasses, I will forgive them of their trespasses." And because we're now in unity, in agreement, hey demons, you let go of the scientific community in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. I bind you with feathers of iron to the iron below my feet, preventing you from interfering in the scientific community anymore. Father God, I bless the scientific community with restoration that what was taken from them and the deceits that they've been spewing for the last several hundred years. Well, Lord, we're going to take back and reverse those results and pray for the fruit and the gift of the Holy Spirit of truth and fact to manifest out of the scientific community. I thank you, heavenly father, for letting the spirit of God move forward, letting your strong angels go forward, that the truth and the facts are spoken through the scientific community in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. Amen and amen. That is an example prayer right there that you can pray for the education system, you can pray over the presidency, all of his cabinet, you can pray for Israel, you can pray for Hamas that way. I was praying for Hamas and I didn't want to. And I prayed in obedience. And yet 200 men, over 200 Hamas men saw or had the same dream of a man that they had to go find a missionary for interpretation of. And come to find out they were seeing Jesus. All of them saw Jesus and they all repented and became believers in Christ. This is how this works. You're obedient. You don't want to pray for you're tired. You You've been busy. You don't want to get it. You have to cast down the imaginations. You have to purpose in your heart to get into that presence. And you got to say it because that's your battle that you have to get to God because the devil is trying to resist you from doing that. But once you get past that and you get into it and you purpose it, you will see victory. I promise you this. God promises you this because victory is what God is asking us to do. He's the lioness over us, the lion. And he's teaching us how to take back what is ours. And we need to be bullies about it in the name of Jesus. We need to kick down those strongholds. Those walls are going to be broken in the name of Jesus because we choose to walk in the spirit of God and not in the flesh. And this is how we do the battles. Amen. Verse six. And having in a readiness to revenge. Look at that word readiness. Adjust prepared. You see, how are you going to be prepared to do this? You've got to purpose in your heart and start getting into the word of God. It starts now. If you're not doing it, get in there now. Get in there now. You need to be spending time with God so he will make you into a an effective warp piece, an effective weapon to go and defeat the enemy in the name of Jesus because that's his choice for you. It's what he wants to do. Look at this. to revenge. We get to vindicate, retaliate, punish all disobedience. And what's that word disobedience? Inattention. You know what? Most people are dying from lack of knowledge, which is being dumb and uh uh silent. Well, now what's happening is because people aren't sharing the word of God and it is not getting out there. There's like this barriers over the people's eyes and ears. We need to go and pray against that as to break down that wall so they can open up their because Jesus says if they saw and heard the living word of God they would believe. Do you see these are the scriptures you use when you're praying and you get to so they're doing disobedience and probably uh they're doing it in a way that you know they're not even aware they're doing it but they're still going to suffer because they're not paying attention. We have to pray for them to pay attention to get into the word of God. Uh let's read that again. and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. Your obedience is fulfilled. Did you hear that? You have to obey. I didn't want to obey paying for terrorists because, you know, I saw or, you know, I heard and watch a little bit of the snippets of videos. I didn't want to watch the whole thing of the atrocities that they did. And I kind of felt like Jonah. They didn't deserve it, Lord. But then he reminded me how much he loves them because he loves me as much as he loves them. Okay, Lord. Then and and it started off with like, "Okay, Lord, I don't want to do it, but I'm going to pray for it anyways." And then it got better because it was like, "Okay, Lord, I'm do." And as my heart change, come to find out, I love them, too. And I want to see those strongholds come down. And I'm going to tell you right now, I can't be the only one hearing the Holy Spirit tell us right now to go into warfare with our prayers. I'm sure absolutely positive that each of us are being called right now to go into warfare in the secret place and to take back what belongs to us. We need to take back our churches. We need to take back our pastor's teachings. We need to take back the Bible studies that we attend. Is it see if if it becomes wrote, it's just a repetitive action. We just go to church every week or we go to Bible study every week. Is it just a repeat thing or do we learn and get ministered to and walk away going, "Wow, I learned something new today or the Holy Spirit really ministered into my heart." That's where we need to be at that point where we're going, not because it's wrote, but we're going because I'm going to get something new today. And I purpose in my heart to get something new. I p Home Watch the Video Teaching

GIVE AN ACCOUNT Written Teaching Minister Lisa Kane July 25, 2025 Objective The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the biblical command to “give an account” (Romans 14:12). It emphasizes that God not only evaluates our actions but also the motives behind them. By examining Scripture, the teaching encourages Christians to use their God-given gifts, talents, and opportunities with faithfulness, love, and humility so that their lives may bear fruit that glorifies Christ and withstands God’s judgment. Synopsis In this teaching, you are invited to reflect on Romans 14:12, which reminds us that each one of us will give an account of ourselves to God. This is not only about the things we do, but also about the motives behind them. God is interested in why we act, not just what we do. You’ll see through passages like Titus 1:16, Luke 16, and 1 Peter 4 that every believer has been entrusted with gifts, talents, and the grace of God. These are not meant to be hidden or taken for granted, but to be used in service to others, in prayer, and in acts of love. As you use what God has placed in you, He continues to pour out more, multiplying His work through your life. This message encourages you to live intentionally—showing hospitality, interceding for others, speaking words that build up, and enduring trials with the peace of Christ. It’s about being faithful in small things, taking steps of action in your faith, and letting God’s Spirit flow through you daily. Ultimately, when the day comes to stand before the Lord, your desire should be to present a life that honored Him, a life where His gifts were used for His glory. The goal is not perfection, but faithfulness—so that you may hear HisHello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this teaching on Friday, July 25th, 20125. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your mighty word. For your mighty word is holy and powerful. You are faithful and true. You are worthy. You are glorious. Father God, I pray for the listeners to hear your word, to receive your word. I pray that it makes an impact on their lives that they don't forget it, that it actually simmers and boils within them so that it manifests out and is shared unto others. This is your word and you are the king of glory. Thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. It's a good word today. I'm very excited about it. The anointing has been very powerful this week uh since uh Wednesday. Every time I go into prayer with the Lord, it's been been very very good. So this teaching is called give an account. Let's go to our opening scripture here in Romans 14:12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. Now if you notice there, there's a bolded word. The word account is in bold and the word motive after it is in parenthesis. The word account is what the translators used when they translated the King James version. The word motive is from the Hebrew or the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. It's another word that the translators could have used. I like to add those extra words in. It kind of gives us a a better understanding of what the original text was and how it's translated to our language today. Amen. So look at this. Give an account. So then every one of us shall give an account of him of himself to God. Every one of us. Now there are two types of judgment that we are aware of. We have the judgment for the sinners at the very end. We have what's called the judgment seat of Christ where uh those of us who are believers are judged upon the works that we do. We have to give an account. And by the way that word account means motive. Why did you do something? God is interested in the motive activities not just the actual doing. If you do something with a bad attitude, that's going to be counted against you. So, here we're going to look at some scriptures. And I've got it's a neat revelation that uh I I got a part of it Wednesday night when I was at church. So, look at this. Uh let's go to Titus 1:16. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being admon abom abominable and disobedient unto every good work reprobate or unapproved rejected. So basically somebody who says they know God but they're rejecting, look at what it says here, they're rejecting him. They're rejecting the works to him. What I'd like to show you here is that you every one of us is given a gift, a talent. We know about the fruits of the spirit. We know about the gifts of the spirit. You can go research those and look them up. Uh, I will say this that as a believer in Christ, we're given a a very special, precious gift. A gift that can we just keep it to ourselves? No. This is a gift that we need to let the whole world know about what we have in Christ. There's a parable that was taught Wednesday night at church. I'm only going to get one scripture out of it. You can go read uh the beginning of Luke chapter 16 here and read the whole parable for yourself. But this kind of gives you an idea. It says, "And he called him and said unto him, how is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account motive of thy stewardship or administration, for thou mayest be no longer steward." So it's a rich man who hired a steward to manage his home, and the steward did not do a good job. God gives us gifts. He gives us the fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit. He gives us things. So the question then comes to us is what do you do with those gifts? What do you do with those things that God has given us that are precious that may you know do you just take it for granted? Now that's not something we want to see. Do you just take your Christianity for granted? Um you are forgiven. Yes. And he will continue to forgive you because that is who Jesus is because that's what Jesus does. He forgives and he will continue to forgive. But there does come a point. He will continue to forgive. But you will be having to give an account to God for the things that were given to you. If you were given the ministry of worship, you need to be in that ministry worshiping. If you're given a ministry of going out on the streets and preaching the good news, then you need to do that. I know that the Lord gave me a gift of teaching. So, I may not be out in front of a pulpit or in front of millions of cameras. No, but I'm still doing it. So, when you're faithful in the small things, you will be faithful in the bigger things. You'll see that scripture here very shortly. This is where we need to be with Christ. Be ready to give give an account of the gifts and the fruits that he has given us. Amen. So, let's go to first Peter and let's look at this. We're going to look at the whole chapter 4 and we're going to go through this one step at a time. And I just really want you to see how Peter addresses this. He says, "For as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, thoughtfulness, moral understanding." So being thoughtful of what Christ was thoughtful of as he suffered for us. Being of understanding is what Christ was as he understood us. For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath see ceased from sin. We're no longer in sin when we start being likeminded with Christ and what he did. He suffered for us. Yes, he has blessed us and we're blessed beyond measure. There are many of us that there are There are Christians who are believers that have money that are philanthropist that they give and they give and they give and they the Lord just keeps blessing because that's a promise he gave to us in his word. He says try me. That's in Malachi 3. Test me. You won't even be able to have a storage enough to fill the things because you keep giving. He keeps blessing you. So as you have your gift, you keep giving your gift. He keeps pouring more into your gift. So that by the time it comes for you to give an account to the Lord of what you have done, you will find your account is paid in full complete because you were a manager and administrator over the gift that he gave you. Now what is that price? It's nothing in the reality of the fact that you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior and it's a free gift that he gave you. So you freely give it because it mean it costs you nothing. It simply means that you are here ready to give an account to God. But here you don't do it because of the motive being ready to give it to God. You do it because you love the people that are hearing your word, hearing the teaching of the word of God. praying over them, healing them as you pray over them, as you minister to them. Because as you do that, the more the spirit pours out into you. So, you're giving, paying, just throwing it out there. your your payment is your time is your precious time that you gave up from the world because you didn't want to be a part of the world where you gave it to God where you said I want to know more of you Lord and the more you know of him the more you pour it out your cup runth over and it just keeps pouring out of you it keeps ministering to those around that is giving an account this is where we're getting into understanding what Christ did for us and that we do the same. Look at what it says here number two verse two that he no longer shall live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust longing of men but to the will or determination choice of God. God chooses you. So are you just let's talk about this for just a quick moment because I really want this idea to come across. Are you just saying, "Okay, God, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me." But you're not taking any action. You're not, you know, faith comes by hearing the word of God. So, you have to act on your faith. Remember the woman who touched the hem of his garment? She was unclean. And since she kept being unclean, she couldn't leave the tent because it was against the law to leave unclean because then you would make all the others unclean around you. But she made a choice, a determination. She heard about a man named Jesus. She heard about his healings and she said, "I'm going to go touch him unclean and all because I need my healing. I want my healing." And she went and got it. And she was healed. And the Lord said, Jesus said to her, "Your faith has made you whole." She took action. She didn't just lay there and wait and say, "Lord, magically work through me." How can he work through you if you don't even take the steps or if you don't get up out of bed or you don't even go to the pulpit or you don't even go and ask pastors, "Can you teach?" Or even if you don't even go and say, "Can I pray with you?" If you're not taking the actions, now sometimes we want to say, "Okay, Holy Spirit, I don't know if I should do this." You're going to have to open the door. And then he does, you need to take that action because it is time for you to move in that area because you will eventually give an account of your talents and gifts. And there are a lot of parables that Jesus talks about this. You can go research that. I want you to do your homework. Uh I only have 30 minutes. I'm trying to give you just a 30 minute teaching where it's not going to take your entire day, but that you do learn a good golden nugget. And I'm hoping, you know, out of this entire message, I'm not here to condemn or judge you. You do you with God, but I am here to encourage you to say, get up, use your talents that he gave you. Use them to minister. Amen. Continuing on in chapter four of First Peter, we're in verse 6. For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to the men in the flesh, but live according to the God in to God in the spirit. You see, the gospel was preached to everyone. people who won't receive, people who receive but don't live, and people who receive and choose the determination to live for Christ. But that gospel is the same to every single one of us. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and he has forgiven us. He has redeemed us. Now the question is, how much do you want to share that with others? Did he really really save you? Did it mean something to you? Did it transform the inside of you. This is something to think about because if it did, you ought to be willing to show the world how much it changed you. You know, as much as I spend time in the secret place with the Lord, I'm certain that as I go out, people notice and see things. And I always tell them, it's Jesus, King of glory. Amen. That's who we're giving the glory to is Jesus. Verse seven, but the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober or sound minded and watch abstain from why unto prayer. Now that's another thing that every one of us can do in the secret place with the Lord is pray. I've taught on this many times. You can go look at my past teachings. But I teach on intercessory prayer. And I know that God answers my prayers. I come before him. One, I I pray for myself because I really don't know how many people are praying for me. And even so, I need to forgive myself and I need to just humble myself before the Lord and start fresh and new. His mercies are new every morning. So then I come to him in likemindedness. I'm trying to be likeminded, trying to do what he does. I come and renew my humbleness and forgiveness every morning because that's how he taught me to do that. And then I go in and I ask for my family. I ask for my church. I ask for and I pray and intercede for healing, for deliverance, for belief. Uh this is the things that I do because that is what's been given to me. And every one of us have that responsibility to pray for our household, to pray for our loved ones, to pray for our church, to pray for our pastors, to pray for our elders, to pray for our neighborhoods, to pray for our community, to pray for our government, to pray for our presidents, whether we like them or not. These are our responsibilities and you will give an account to that. So what you measure after the fire burns the hay and the wood when you're there before God, all that's left is whatever survived the fire. What will survive the fire? I'm going to tell you right now, prayer will. And I've got a long I mean I've been praying for so long and for so many years that if it was a continuous book it would be very long miles upon miles long. I will be given an account. I have to give an account to that. But at least I can say I did this much. Could I have done more? Sure. But I didn't just do a little. I gave what I could the he in the here and the now because I know I'm going to have to give an account. I pray for healing. Does that mean everybody gets healed? No. I don't know why. I don't understand that. God is who he is. You see, God is God because he knows what's in the minds and in the hearts of the individual. And for whatever reason, if he chooses not to heal you, that's on you and him. That's not me. But my part is to pray for you. And if I did my part, I partnered with Jesus and I said, and he said to ask and whatever you ask, it shall be given. I ask for healing over people. So, I'm expecting it. So, whatever the other side of that is that I don't know just reminds me that I'm not God. But it does remind me that I still have to do my duty to be prepared to give an account for what's coming for me when I'm judged. And I've got to do it soberly. You know, that's another thing is um we have to be very cautious uh cautious conscience of all of the things that are going on around us because there are doctrines that are being taught that are false and we you know will God accept you in heaven whether you give a very little bit of account or no account. You everything you did wasn't for God but you called on him at one time. And it says in Romans 10:13, "Anyone who dwells upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Will you be saved? Yes. This has nothing to do with salvation. This has to do with your reward as you come into it. Now, that doesn't mean you go and do the things that you do just because you're expecting a reward. You can start that way, by the way. There's nothing wrong with that, per se. But what happens is when you start doing things for the Lord and it starts transforming you on the inside because your your spirit changes, your soul changes, your goals change, you become a more godly, righteous person because now you're putting God first. You're putting love first. You're seeing people through his eyes because he's changing you. Now there's an account that he will love to see. And that's another thing is when I think about giving an account to the Lord am I looking at it as judgment? No. I'm looking at look how much I did for you Lord. This is what I could do and I'm so well pleased for what I've done because I yeah I could have done better but I was able to do this. This is when you have to just say look Lord and he will say you did perfect. You did good. come in thy good faithful servant. We need to be prepared spiritually, physically, mentally, in our minds, and in our hearts through the word of God, through being in his presence, through prayer ready for that day because it is coming. Don't think that you won't be judged because you will be. Everybody will be judged. That's that first scripture we read. Verse eight. And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitudes. And you know, when somebody obviously shows you they're not worthy. And it really you can see that they they don't love themselves. This is when you show them how much you love them because then God is showing his love through you to them. Love will wipe out that sin. This you will be given an account just even on that. You may not even know it. In fact, when you're there that day, there can be things that you did you didn't even realize, good and bad. But the best part of it is is when you see those moments that you show love, that you show godliness and you were just like, "Here you go, Lord. You're just going to show what you do." And you don't even it's something you don't even remember. But at that moment, you're going to look back and go, "Wow, Lord, you did that. Look what you did through me. It it I hope this is motivating you and encouraging to you to realize you want more of the scriptures to come out of you, more of his love because he will move through you and you will have a good account to give. Amen. Verse nine, use hospitality one to another without grudging. I have a lot of scriptures, but I'm going to take a moment here to if you notice this generation back 20 years ago, you know, uh my mom and neighbors, they would always have something prepared, danishes, donuts, pastries, and and always have some sort of drink around that uh you know, like a tea or lemonade. And so when visitors came in, you were ready for visitors. Your house was always But then all of a sudden this generation came up where someone knocks on the door. We're hiding behind them. Nobody's home. Well, look what it says. This is scriptural. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. Receive your guest in. If the house isn't clean, don't worry about it. Just say, "Hey, you know what? I'll get to it." And then go clean your house. What if God shows up at your house all of a sudden? Don't you think you ought to be prepared? Just like getting being prepared to give an account, you ought to be prepared to have a visitation from the Lord. That's another one that I wasn't expecting out this teaching free verse 10. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards, manager of the manifold grace of God. You see, you've been given the gift of grace. God has forgiven you. You are a manager of that grace. You ought to be giving that same gift to everyone around. So if you're walking in hatred towards Trump or hatred towards the way the world is working or acting, you need to forgive. Manage your grace because you'll be given an account for that. Oh hallelujah. Verse 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. You see now every spoken word ought to be words of God that are good, that are scriptural. This is why I teach. You know, when I realized I I could teach and the Lord was showing this all to me, I was like, you know, I I can't do this. But then as I began to study the scriptures in the Holy Spirit, because, you know, I didn't go to seminary school. I didn't get taught by man. I'm not taught by man. I'm taught by the Holy Spirit. So, I what the Holy Spirit reveals to my mind and my heart. And that is what I'm going to show you through scripture. And I will tell you when I'm wrong. If I'm wrong and I missed it, I will tell you. I remember misquoting uh Joel 21:13. I was quoting as Joel 2:32. I did that for like four uh teachings in a row. Caught myself through the Holy Spirit and I was able to correct. I didn't go back into uh those videos. I just went ahead and corrected myself on that next video and moved forward. But you see, this is where we have this gift that we ought to be managing. We ought to be sharing it with others and we should be teaching whether we're good at it or not. The Holy Spirit is Yeah. Here's the funny thing is you're probably not even hearing exactly what I'm saying. You're hearing what the Holy Spirit is talking to you in your mind. And it's funny because I'll hear comments of what people say I taught and I'll be like, I don't remember teaching on that. But see, that was the Holy Spirit teaching it through this message because your heart was in that place and he was working in your heart at that time. It's how the Holy Spirit works. This is what a good uh a great teacher and uh word of God minister is. I love that. I love that. Verse 11. Starting at verse 11 again, if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth, which is what I was just talking about. Whether you're a very good speaker or not, I know that some of my early teaching, they're hard to hear, but I still did it. And the more you practice, the better you get at it, the more you do it. So, if you're a person who's been put into ministry, you minister, and you do it to the ability which God has given you. And then says here at the end of verse 11, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. You see, you're doing it for God. You're not doing it for if somebody gets saved or not. You're you're saying, "Okay, I'm going to teach this word, but it's to give him the glory. The glory belongs to God. This isn't about me and how many people I can reach. I have a very small following if if even it comes and goes." So, you know what? Again, I do this because I know someday I'm going to be a given. I have to give an account for the talent that he has put in me. So, I'm using that talent to the best of my ability. Same with intercessory prayer. I've been given two talents. Hey, you may have been given 10. You ought to be showing them, ministering, manifesting them through the word of God, giving him the glory. You know, I I follow a lady who who does cooking and while she's in there cooking, she's talking about Jesus. She's demonstrating the grace of God just in her spoken words as she talks about her life and then she's teaching how to cook and she's talking about her life. That's a ministry and a very powerful one. She's got a very large following. If you want to know who that is, it's Brenda Gant and she's got cookbooks and stuff. I like her because of her belief in Christ and she's ministering. Oh, this is the time where we just need to stand with Christ and demonstrate him in everything we do because we will be giving an account. Don't be lazy about that. If you're given a house, keep it up. Have some respect. It is hard. It's harder to respect something that was given to you than it is if you worked at it. If you built your own house, believe you and me, you're going to have every nook and cranny always clean because you put sweat and blood into it. Amen. Now, with the gift of Christ, there is you're not putting anything in. It's a gift. He's given it to you for free. So, with that gift, what do you do? Well, I'm going to get self-control, gift of the Holy Spirit, and I'm going to manifest and teach his word through whatever ability I can. Amen. So here it says in verse 12, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange uh some strange thing happened unto you." But see here, I love this. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you. the time you feel heat or you're under pressure or something didn't go right, you you feel it, then all of a sudden you're calling out to God like it's a strange thing. You have God all the time. He is your gift. You need to be demonstrating him all the time. But rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. You see, you are walking testimony. Whatever trials you've been through and whatever trials I've been through, they're they're different. Some are similar, but they're different. And if we're all sharing our trials, we're sharing Christ and his grace because his grace still supersedes all of this. And eventually one day we're going to be in the presence of God past judgment, past all of that. We're just going to be basking in his presence. I don't know what else heaven is going to be like, but just for that, I look forward to being in the presence of my Lord and Savior. Amen. Verse 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory and of God rested upon you. On their part, he is evil spoken of, but on your part, he is glorified. You're glorifying him. You're showing the world, look at I've got peace because he is king of glory. Amen. Verse 15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, as a thief, or as an evildoer or as a busy body in other men's matters. You see, we don't have to be in other men's matters. Notice this says by murderers, too. You know, we murder people through our spoken word. You need to humble yourself before the Lord. Ask him to help you control your mouth to have that selfcont control. Let that peace supersede everything else in you. And that peace comes from him, not you. Yet, if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. You see, when you're a believer in Christ and you suffer, you know what? You're showing the world, I'm a believer. You know what? He's king of glory. I don't care what I'm going through. Eventually, I'm going to be in his presence forever. So, this doesn't bother me. I have peace because of who he is. That is where believers need to be standing strong in today. Because this is where we show the world how much better it is to be a be a believer. Because I don't know how anyone can suffer somebody dying or somebody suffering without having Christ in you. We need that Christ in us. We need his peace. We need that. For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And it first begin at us. What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Oh, it begins with the word of the church. So, it has to begin in us. So, we have to take make a choice, a decision and say, I'm going to give a good account. That means I'm going to give all the talents that God has given me. I'm going to utilize him to share the gospel. Whether I'm giving gas at the gas station or putting gas in my car or I'm at the grocery store, somebody asks me or I look at somebody, we make eye contact. Hey, are you a believer in Christ? He can give you peace if you need it. Let's pray together. That is putting Christ first in you. And that is getting the talents. You're going to give a good account afterwards. Verse 18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore there wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in welloing as unto a faithful creator. You see you are letting him have control and letting him determine. So when you do come into your presence you can say listen Lord with what I had and what I could do here's what I did. It isn't much but it's as much as I can give you. And he's gonna say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Just because one, you believed, and two, you took it seriously. You took your belief seriously, you took the grace of God seriously. Oh, hallelujah. And in 1 Timothy 4 1-5, now the spirit speaketh this expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, or having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. for it is sanctified, made holy by the word of God and prayer. I bring these scriptures in. I know I'm going over time a little bit here, but I want you to see something here. When people are telling you, you need to be on a diet, you shouldn't eat that, don't eat these meats, this is bad for you, this causes cancer, they're walking in the flesh. They're not walking in the spirit. As a believer in Christ, your body is made whole. You are already healed. you have and if you're taking holy communion and you you take the grace of God seriously, you take his presence and have that relationship with him, you're you're in your devotionals with him, you're in the secret place with him, and you go and talk to him boldly and confidently and say, "Lord, you know what? I'm doing this for you." And as you do that, because that's what he's teaching you. He's teaching you the boldness and the confidence. As you express that in his presence, God almighty, the creator. When you go out into the world and you're getting gas or gas station or the grocery store, you're it's much smaller thing to talk to somebody else in the flesh, human, than it is to talk to God, the creator. Isn't that amazing? come to the revelation and let the realization that as you're going to give an account eventually one day you want to give a good account. You want to give an account that says listen Lord you gave me this talent and some people will do it at 100%. Some will do it at 60%. Some will do it at 30%. But do something with the talent that he has given you. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Thank you for teaching us how to give a good a good account that we are ready to do that that in every moment of every day to the best of our ability because we're flesh. We're we're human and it is challenging and difficult but because we're not God. But we're going to try to be as much like you as possible and as much use the talents that you have given us. Help us use those talents. Help us take up the responsibility of the grace that you've given us to utilize it to save more souls, especially as we come closer to the end times here. Father God, thank you. Thank you for motivating us, encouraging us to share the grace and the gospel with others to let people know that we can be at peace because it is your peace that can that surpasses understanding and that is within us because you gave it to us. You are king of glory. We love you, praise you, and honor you and worship you. And in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye bye. words: “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Written and/or Transcribed Teaching from Video Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this teaching on Friday, July 25th, 20125. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your mighty word. For your mighty word is holy and powerful. You are faithful and true. You are worthy. You are glorious. Father God, I pray for the listeners to hear your word, to receive your word. I pray that it makes an impact on their lives that they don't forget it, that it actually simmers and boils within them so that it manifests out and is shared unto others. This is your word and you are the king of glory. Thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. It's a good word today. I'm very excited about it. The anointing has been very powerful this week uh since uh Wednesday. Every time I go into prayer with the Lord, it's been been very very good. So this teaching is called give an account. Let's go to our opening scripture here in Romans 14:12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. Now if you notice there, there's a bolded word. The word account is in bold and the word motive after it is in parenthesis. The word account is what the translators used when they translated the King James version. The word motive is from the Hebrew or the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. It's another word that the translators could have used. I like to add those extra words in. It kind of gives us a a better understanding of what the original text was and how it's translated to our language today. Amen. So look at this. Give an account. So then every one of us shall give an account of him of himself to God. Every one of us. Now there are two types of judgment that we are aware of. We have the judgment for the sinners at the very end. We have what's called the judgment seat of Christ where uh those of us who are believers are judged upon the works that we do. We have to give an account. And by the way that word account means motive. Why did you do something? God is interested in the motive activities not just the actual doing. If you do something with a bad attitude, that's going to be counted against you. So, here we're going to look at some scriptures. And I've got it's a neat revelation that uh I I got a part of it Wednesday night when I was at church. So, look at this. Uh let's go to Titus 1:16. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being admon abom abominable and disobedient unto every good work reprobate or unapproved rejected. So basically somebody who says they know God but they're rejecting, look at what it says here, they're rejecting him. They're rejecting the works to him. What I'd like to show you here is that you every one of us is given a gift, a talent. We know about the fruits of the spirit. We know about the gifts of the spirit. You can go research those and look them up. Uh, I will say this that as a believer in Christ, we're given a a very special, precious gift. A gift that can we just keep it to ourselves? No. This is a gift that we need to let the whole world know about what we have in Christ. There's a parable that was taught Wednesday night at church. I'm only going to get one scripture out of it. You can go read uh the beginning of Luke chapter 16 here and read the whole parable for yourself. But this kind of gives you an idea. It says, "And he called him and said unto him, how is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account motive of thy stewardship or administration, for thou mayest be no longer steward." So it's a rich man who hired a steward to manage his home, and the steward did not do a good job. God gives us gifts. He gives us the fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit. He gives us things. So the question then comes to us is what do you do with those gifts? What do you do with those things that God has given us that are precious that may you know do you just take it for granted? Now that's not something we want to see. Do you just take your Christianity for granted? Um you are forgiven. Yes. And he will continue to forgive you because that is who Jesus is because that's what Jesus does. He forgives and he will continue to forgive. But there does come a point. He will continue to forgive. But you will be having to give an account to God for the things that were given to you. If you were given the ministry of worship, you need to be in that ministry worshiping. If you're given a ministry of going out on the streets and preaching the good news, then you need to do that. I know that the Lord gave me a gift of teaching. So, I may not be out in front of a pulpit or in front of millions of cameras. No, but I'm still doing it. So, when you're faithful in the small things, you will be faithful in the bigger things. You'll see that scripture here very shortly. This is where we need to be with Christ. Be ready to give give an account of the gifts and the fruits that he has given us. Amen. So, let's go to first Peter and let's look at this. We're going to look at the whole chapter 4 and we're going to go through this one step at a time. And I just really want you to see how Peter addresses this. He says, "For as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, thoughtfulness, moral understanding." So being thoughtful of what Christ was thoughtful of as he suffered for us. Being of understanding is what Christ was as he understood us. For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath see ceased from sin. We're no longer in sin when we start being likeminded with Christ and what he did. He suffered for us. Yes, he has blessed us and we're blessed beyond measure. There are many of us that there are There are Christians who are believers that have money that are philanthropist that they give and they give and they give and they the Lord just keeps blessing because that's a promise he gave to us in his word. He says try me. That's in Malachi 3. Test me. You won't even be able to have a storage enough to fill the things because you keep giving. He keeps blessing you. So as you have your gift, you keep giving your gift. He keeps pouring more into your gift. So that by the time it comes for you to give an account to the Lord of what you have done, you will find your account is paid in full complete because you were a manager and administrator over the gift that he gave you. Now what is that price? It's nothing in the reality of the fact that you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior and it's a free gift that he gave you. So you freely give it because it mean it costs you nothing. It simply means that you are here ready to give an account to God. But here you don't do it because of the motive being ready to give it to God. You do it because you love the people that are hearing your word, hearing the teaching of the word of God. praying over them, healing them as you pray over them, as you minister to them. Because as you do that, the more the spirit pours out into you. So, you're giving, paying, just throwing it out there. your your payment is your time is your precious time that you gave up from the world because you didn't want to be a part of the world where you gave it to God where you said I want to know more of you Lord and the more you know of him the more you pour it out your cup runth over and it just keeps pouring out of you it keeps ministering to those around that is giving an account this is where we're getting into understanding what Christ did for us and that we do the same. Look at what it says here number two verse two that he no longer shall live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust longing of men but to the will or determination choice of God. God chooses you. So are you just let's talk about this for just a quick moment because I really want this idea to come across. Are you just saying, "Okay, God, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me." But you're not taking any action. You're not, you know, faith comes by hearing the word of God. So, you have to act on your faith. Remember the woman who touched the hem of his garment? She was unclean. And since she kept being unclean, she couldn't leave the tent because it was against the law to leave unclean because then you would make all the others unclean around you. But she made a choice, a determination. She heard about a man named Jesus. She heard about his healings and she said, "I'm going to go touch him unclean and all because I need my healing. I want my healing." And she went and got it. And she was healed. And the Lord said, Jesus said to her, "Your faith has made you whole." She took action. She didn't just lay there and wait and say, "Lord, magically work through me." How can he work through you if you don't even take the steps or if you don't get up out of bed or you don't even go to the pulpit or you don't even go and ask pastors, "Can you teach?" Or even if you don't even go and say, "Can I pray with you?" If you're not taking the actions, now sometimes we want to say, "Okay, Holy Spirit, I don't know if I should do this." You're going to have to open the door. And then he does, you need to take that action because it is time for you to move in that area because you will eventually give an account of your talents and gifts. And there are a lot of parables that Jesus talks about this. You can go research that. I want you to do your homework. Uh I only have 30 minutes. I'm trying to give you just a 30 minute teaching where it's not going to take your entire day, but that you do learn a good golden nugget. And I'm hoping, you know, out of this entire message, I'm not here to condemn or judge you. You do you with God, but I am here to encourage you to say, get up, use your talents that he gave you. Use them to minister. Amen. Continuing on in chapter four of First Peter, we're in verse 6. For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to the men in the flesh, but live according to the God in to God in the spirit. You see, the gospel was preached to everyone. people who won't receive, people who receive but don't live, and people who receive and choose the determination to live for Christ. But that gospel is the same to every single one of us. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and he has forgiven us. He has redeemed us. Now the question is, how much do you want to share that with others? Did he really really save you? Did it mean something to you? Did it transform the inside of you. This is something to think about because if it did, you ought to be willing to show the world how much it changed you. You know, as much as I spend time in the secret place with the Lord, I'm certain that as I go out, people notice and see things. And I always tell them, it's Jesus, King of glory. Amen. That's who we're giving the glory to is Jesus. Verse seven, but the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober or sound minded and watch abstain from why unto prayer. Now that's another thing that every one of us can do in the secret place with the Lord is pray. I've taught on this many times. You can go look at my past teachings. But I teach on intercessory prayer. And I know that God answers my prayers. I come before him. One, I I pray for myself because I really don't know how many people are praying for me. And even so, I need to forgive myself and I need to just humble myself before the Lord and start fresh and new. His mercies are new every morning. So then I come to him in likemindedness. I'm trying to be likeminded, trying to do what he does. I come and renew my humbleness and forgiveness every morning because that's how he taught me to do that. And then I go in and I ask for my family. I ask for my church. I ask for and I pray and intercede for healing, for deliverance, for belief. Uh this is the things that I do because that is what's been given to me. And every one of us have that responsibility to pray for our household, to pray for our loved ones, to pray for our church, to pray for our pastors, to pray for our elders, to pray for our neighborhoods, to pray for our community, to pray for our government, to pray for our presidents, whether we like them or not. These are our responsibilities and you will give an account to that. So what you measure after the fire burns the hay and the wood when you're there before God, all that's left is whatever survived the fire. What will survive the fire? I'm going to tell you right now, prayer will. And I've got a long I mean I've been praying for so long and for so many years that if it was a continuous book it would be very long miles upon miles long. I will be given an account. I have to give an account to that. But at least I can say I did this much. Could I have done more? Sure. But I didn't just do a little. I gave what I could the he in the here and the now because I know I'm going to have to give an account. I pray for healing. Does that mean everybody gets healed? No. I don't know why. I don't understand that. God is who he is. You see, God is God because he knows what's in the minds and in the hearts of the individual. And for whatever reason, if he chooses not to heal you, that's on you and him. That's not me. But my part is to pray for you. And if I did my part, I partnered with Jesus and I said, and he said to ask and whatever you ask, it shall be given. I ask for healing over people. So, I'm expecting it. So, whatever the other side of that is that I don't know just reminds me that I'm not God. But it does remind me that I still have to do my duty to be prepared to give an account for what's coming for me when I'm judged. And I've got to do it soberly. You know, that's another thing is um we have to be very cautious uh cautious conscience of all of the things that are going on around us because there are doctrines that are being taught that are false and we you know will God accept you in heaven whether you give a very little bit of account or no account. You everything you did wasn't for God but you called on him at one time. And it says in Romans 10:13, "Anyone who dwells upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Will you be saved? Yes. This has nothing to do with salvation. This has to do with your reward as you come into it. Now, that doesn't mean you go and do the things that you do just because you're expecting a reward. You can start that way, by the way. There's nothing wrong with that, per se. But what happens is when you start doing things for the Lord and it starts transforming you on the inside because your your spirit changes, your soul changes, your goals change, you become a more godly, righteous person because now you're putting God first. You're putting love first. You're seeing people through his eyes because he's changing you. Now there's an account that he will love to see. And that's another thing is when I think about giving an account to the Lord am I looking at it as judgment? No. I'm looking at look how much I did for you Lord. This is what I could do and I'm so well pleased for what I've done because I yeah I could have done better but I was able to do this. This is when you have to just say look Lord and he will say you did perfect. You did good. come in thy good faithful servant. We need to be prepared spiritually, physically, mentally, in our minds, and in our hearts through the word of God, through being in his presence, through prayer ready for that day because it is coming. Don't think that you won't be judged because you will be. Everybody will be judged. That's that first scripture we read. Verse eight. And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitudes. And you know, when somebody obviously shows you they're not worthy. And it really you can see that they they don't love themselves. This is when you show them how much you love them because then God is showing his love through you to them. Love will wipe out that sin. This you will be given an account just even on that. You may not even know it. In fact, when you're there that day, there can be things that you did you didn't even realize, good and bad. But the best part of it is is when you see those moments that you show love, that you show godliness and you were just like, "Here you go, Lord. You're just going to show what you do." And you don't even it's something you don't even remember. But at that moment, you're going to look back and go, "Wow, Lord, you did that. Look what you did through me. It it I hope this is motivating you and encouraging to you to realize you want more of the scriptures to come out of you, more of his love because he will move through you and you will have a good account to give. Amen. Verse nine, use hospitality one to another without grudging. I have a lot of scriptures, but I'm going to take a moment here to if you notice this generation back 20 years ago, you know, uh my mom and neighbors, they would always have something prepared, danishes, donuts, pastries, and and always have some sort of drink around that uh you know, like a tea or lemonade. And so when visitors came in, you were ready for visitors. Your house was always But then all of a sudden this generation came up where someone knocks on the door. We're hiding behind them. Nobody's home. Well, look what it says. This is scriptural. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. Receive your guest in. If the house isn't clean, don't worry about it. Just say, "Hey, you know what? I'll get to it." And then go clean your house. What if God shows up at your house all of a sudden? Don't you think you ought to be prepared? Just like getting being prepared to give an account, you ought to be prepared to have a visitation from the Lord. That's another one that I wasn't expecting out this teaching free verse 10. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards, manager of the manifold grace of God. You see, you've been given the gift of grace. God has forgiven you. You are a manager of that grace. You ought to be giving that same gift to everyone around. So if you're walking in hatred towards Trump or hatred towards the way the world is working or acting, you need to forgive. Manage your grace because you'll be given an account for that. Oh hallelujah. Verse 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. You see now every spoken word ought to be words of God that are good, that are scriptural. This is why I teach. You know, when I realized I I could teach and the Lord was showing this all to me, I was like, you know, I I can't do this. But then as I began to study the scriptures in the Holy Spirit, because, you know, I didn't go to seminary school. I didn't get taught by man. I'm not taught by man. I'm taught by the Holy Spirit. So, I what the Holy Spirit reveals to my mind and my heart. And that is what I'm going to show you through scripture. And I will tell you when I'm wrong. If I'm wrong and I missed it, I will tell you. I remember misquoting uh Joel 21:13. I was quoting as Joel 2:32. I did that for like four uh teachings in a row. Caught myself through the Holy Spirit and I was able to correct. I didn't go back into uh those videos. I just went ahead and corrected myself on that next video and moved forward. But you see, this is where we have this gift that we ought to be managing. We ought to be sharing it with others and we should be teaching whether we're good at it or not. The Holy Spirit is Yeah. Here's the funny thing is you're probably not even hearing exactly what I'm saying. You're hearing what the Holy Spirit is talking to you in your mind. And it's funny because I'll hear comments of what people say I taught and I'll be like, I don't remember teaching on that. But see, that was the Holy Spirit teaching it through this message because your heart was in that place and he was working in your heart at that time. It's how the Holy Spirit works. This is what a good uh a great teacher and uh word of God minister is. I love that. I love that. Verse 11. Starting at verse 11 again, if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth, which is what I was just talking about. Whether you're a very good speaker or not, I know that some of my early teaching, they're hard to hear, but I still did it. And the more you practice, the better you get at it, the more you do it. So, if you're a person who's been put into ministry, you minister, and you do it to the ability which God has given you. And then says here at the end of verse 11, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. You see, you're doing it for God. You're not doing it for if somebody gets saved or not. You're you're saying, "Okay, I'm going to teach this word, but it's to give him the glory. The glory belongs to God. This isn't about me and how many people I can reach. I have a very small following if if even it comes and goes." So, you know what? Again, I do this because I know someday I'm going to be a given. I have to give an account for the talent that he has put in me. So, I'm using that talent to the best of my ability. Same with intercessory prayer. I've been given two talents. Hey, you may have been given 10. You ought to be showing them, ministering, manifesting them through the word of God, giving him the glory. You know, I I follow a lady who who does cooking and while she's in there cooking, she's talking about Jesus. She's demonstrating the grace of God just in her spoken words as she talks about her life and then she's teaching how to cook and she's talking about her life. That's a ministry and a very powerful one. She's got a very large following. If you want to know who that is, it's Brenda Gant and she's got cookbooks and stuff. I like her because of her belief in Christ and she's ministering. Oh, this is the time where we just need to stand with Christ and demonstrate him in everything we do because we will be giving an account. Don't be lazy about that. If you're given a house, keep it up. Have some respect. It is hard. It's harder to respect something that was given to you than it is if you worked at it. If you built your own house, believe you and me, you're going to have every nook and cranny always clean because you put sweat and blood into it. Amen. Now, with the gift of Christ, there is you're not putting anything in. It's a gift. He's given it to you for free. So, with that gift, what do you do? Well, I'm going to get self-control, gift of the Holy Spirit, and I'm going to manifest and teach his word through whatever ability I can. Amen. So here it says in verse 12, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange uh some strange thing happened unto you." But see here, I love this. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you. the time you feel heat or you're under pressure or something didn't go right, you you feel it, then all of a sudden you're calling out to God like it's a strange thing. You have God all the time. He is your gift. You need to be demonstrating him all the time. But rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. You see, you are walking testimony. Whatever trials you've been through and whatever trials I've been through, they're they're different. Some are similar, but they're different. And if we're all sharing our trials, we're sharing Christ and his grace because his grace still supersedes all of this. And eventually one day we're going to be in the presence of God past judgment, past all of that. We're just going to be basking in his presence. I don't know what else heaven is going to be like, but just for that, I look forward to being in the presence of my Lord and Savior. Amen. Verse 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory and of God rested upon you. On their part, he is evil spoken of, but on your part, he is glorified. You're glorifying him. You're showing the world, look at I've got peace because he is king of glory. Amen. Verse 15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, as a thief, or as an evildoer or as a busy body in other men's matters. You see, we don't have to be in other men's matters. Notice this says by murderers, too. You know, we murder people through our spoken word. You need to humble yourself before the Lord. Ask him to help you control your mouth to have that selfcont control. Let that peace supersede everything else in you. And that peace comes from him, not you. Yet, if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. You see, when you're a believer in Christ and you suffer, you know what? You're showing the world, I'm a believer. You know what? He's king of glory. I don't care what I'm going through. Eventually, I'm going to be in his presence forever. So, this doesn't bother me. I have peace because of who he is. That is where believers need to be standing strong in today. Because this is where we show the world how much better it is to be a be a believer. Because I don't know how anyone can suffer somebody dying or somebody suffering without having Christ in you. We need that Christ in us. We need his peace. We need that. For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And it first begin at us. What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Oh, it begins with the word of the church. So, it has to begin in us. So, we have to take make a choice, a decision and say, I'm going to give a good account. That means I'm going to give all the talents that God has given me. I'm going to utilize him to share the gospel. Whether I'm giving gas at the gas station or putting gas in my car or I'm at the grocery store, somebody asks me or I look at somebody, we make eye contact. Hey, are you a believer in Christ? He can give you peace if you need it. Let's pray together. That is putting Christ first in you. And that is getting the talents. You're going to give a good account afterwards. Verse 18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore there wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in welloing as unto a faithful creator. You see you are letting him have control and letting him determine. So when you do come into your presence you can say listen Lord with what I had and what I could do here's what I did. It isn't much but it's as much as I can give you. And he's gonna say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Just because one, you believed, and two, you took it seriously. You took your belief seriously, you took the grace of God seriously. Oh, hallelujah. And in 1 Timothy 4 1-5, now the spirit speaketh this expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, or having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. for it is sanctified, made holy by the word of God and prayer. I bring these scriptures in. I know I'm going over time a little bit here, but I want you to see something here. When people are telling you, you need to be on a diet, you shouldn't eat that, don't eat these meats, this is bad for you, this causes cancer, they're walking in the flesh. They're not walking in the spirit. As a believer in Christ, your body is made whole. You are already healed. you have and if you're taking holy communion and you you take the grace of God seriously, you take his presence and have that relationship with him, you're you're in your devotionals with him, you're in the secret place with him, and you go and talk to him boldly and confidently and say, "Lord, you know what? I'm doing this for you." And as you do that, because that's what he's teaching you. He's teaching you the boldness and the confidence. As you express that in his presence, God almighty, the creator. When you go out into the world and you're getting gas or gas station or the grocery store, you're it's much smaller thing to talk to somebody else in the flesh, human, than it is to talk to God, the creator. Isn't that amazing? come to the revelation and let the realization that as you're going to give an account eventually one day you want to give a good account. You want to give an account that says listen Lord you gave me this talent and some people will do it at 100%. Some will do it at 60%. Some will do it at 30%. But do something with the talent that he has given you. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Thank you for teaching us how to give a good a good account that we are ready to do that that in every moment of every day to the best of our ability because we're flesh. We're we're human and it is challenging and difficult but because we're not God. But we're going to try to be as much like you as possible and as much use the talents that you have given us. Help us use those talents. Help us take up the responsibility of the grace that you've given us to utilize it to save more souls, especially as we come closer to the end times here. Father God, thank you. Thank you for motivating us, encouraging us to share the grace and the gospel with others to let people know that we can be at peace because it is your peace that can that surpasses understanding and that is within us because you gave it to us. You are king of glory. We love you, praise you, and honor you and worship you. And in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye bye. Home Watch the Video Teaching

THEREFORE WE HOPED The objective of Therefore We Hoped is to inspire believers to embrace hope as a daily, renewing force that empowers them to overcome failures, face life’s challenges with perseverance, and live in the fullness of God’s promises. Pastor Marcos Marrero seeks to show that hope is not only a spiritual gift but also a divine foundation for faith, joy, and peace, allowing Christians to rise each day with fresh strength through Christ. THEREFORE WE HOPED Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of Therefore We Hoped is to inspire believers to embrace hope as a daily, renewing force that empowers them to overcome failures, face life’s challenges with perseverance, and live in the fullness of God’s promises. Pastor Marcos Marrero seeks to show that hope is not only a spiritual gift but also a divine foundation for faith, joy, and peace, allowing Christians to rise each day with fresh strength through Christ. Synopsis: In Therefore We Hoped, Pastor Marcos Marrero presents a teaching on the biblical truth that hope is an indispensable gift from God, one that remains steadfast even when everything else is lost. Using Romans 15:13 as the foundation, he explains that hope is the divine key to living with confidence in God’s promises, filling believers with joy, peace, and strength through the Holy Spirit. The teaching highlights the transformative nature of hope, describing it as a “default setting” within every believer that allows them to start anew each day, leaving behind past failures. Pastor Marcos ties this renewal to the principle of “dying daily” (1 Corinthians 15:31), teaching that surrendering selfish desires makes room for God’s better plan, which brings lasting fulfillment. Through biblical examples, such as Abraham’s faith “against all hope” (Romans 4:18), and practical illustrations, Pastor Marcos shows how hope fuels perseverance, repels bitterness, and nurtures faith. Hope not only sustains the Christian walk but also empowers believers to rise again after setbacks, seeing each new day as a fresh opportunity in God’s mercy (Lamentations 3:22–23). Ultimately, Therefore We Hoped emphasizes that hope is rooted in God’s Word, sustaining believers until Christ’s return. No matter how many times they stumble, what matters most is that they are found holding on to hope—because in the end, therefore we hoped! Written teaching: But also, if we die daily, that means that we start anew daily. So that hope springs new and eternal every morning, leaving yesterday’s failures, and the thoughts about them, behind. Romans 15:13 “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” What is hope made of? According to our opening Scripture the God of hope is able to fill us with all joy and peace in believing, and it is also able to endue us with power from the Holy Spirit. We could say that hope is the key ingredient that allows us to live a life that is confident and secured in the promises that God has given to each and everyone of us. When all else is lost, hope remains! As a matter of fact, hope even triumphs in those who feel that they have lost all hope—when against all hope, they hope anyway. Romans 4:18 “Who, contrary to hope, in hope believed…” We get a sense then, that hope is that indispensable gift that remains, even after all else is lost. So that if we had to choose which of the many qualities that makes up hope is the greatest, undoubtedly, we would all agree that the fact that hope can never be truly lost is the greatest of all of its qualities. We could say then that hope is like a default setting that has been placed inside each and everyone of us. No matter how much we mess up and deviate from God’s original plan for our lives and therefore end up losing everything, we can always turn to the default setting of hope and start all over again. Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The seed of hope brings forth a blooming faith. Were it not for hope, no one could start a new life after wasting a previous one. In order for a new beginning to be successful it has to start in a positive note, so hope brings not only faith, but joy and peace as well. We could say then that hope is a repellent against bitterness, anger, and fear, all those things that would hinder a new beginning. Now here is a mystery, how can hope and a new beginning be part of my daily Christian walk? 1 Corinthians 15:31 “I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.” The salvation of our souls requires that we die daily to ourselves and that we also die daily to our own selfish desires. The only way that a person is able to truly die daily to their own self-interests is if they live their lives in the hope that Christ’s plan for their lives is better for them, than the plan that this world is offering them. So that our hope of a better life from Christ, brings to us the daily dose of faith that its needed to make it through each day, no matter what evil that day may bring with it. But also, if we die daily, that means that we start anew daily. So that hope springs new and eternal every morning, leaving yesterday’s failures, and the thoughts about them, behind. Lamentations 3:22-23 “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.” And that is the source of our joy and peace, the fact that we get a brand new start each and every day, for His compassions for us never fail. Think of a steep climb and of reaching the top of the hill as the goal. At the base we start with two climbers, one is strong, powerful, and highly skilled in climbing difficult terrains, his only flaw is that if he falls just once, he has been known to give up the climb and quit. The other is prone to falling down, and not very skilled as a climber, but he has one great quality going for him, no matter how many time he falls, he will not give up the climb! Human nature gives up in the face of failure, however, hope thrives in the face of failure, for it does not carry failure over from one day to another, it sees each new day as a brand new start with an opportunity to conquer unconquered ground. Psalm 119:147 “I rise before the dawning of the morning, and cry for help; I hope in Your word.” The essence of hope, is that hope, is the essence of God and His Word. Romans 15:4 “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience (perseverance) and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” It does not really matter what our last fall might be before the Lord returns to take us all home, the only thing that will matter then will be the fact that even in the face of our daily failings it was found that…. THEREFORE WE HOPED! Previous Home Next

Say this prayer out loud: Mighty Heavenly Father, I lift up the United States of America from the highest to the lowest to Your throne room and I forgive it of its iniquities, the sins America has committed, the curses against America, the curses spoken from America, and the sins of the land America sits on; and I ask You heavenly Father to forgive as well per Matthew 6:14 KJV “14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” Demons, loose the United States of America; the Lord rebuke you per Jude 1:9 “9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” I bind you with fetters of iron to the iron below my feet here on earth preventing you from interfering in the United States of America ever again per Matthew 16:19 KJV “19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And per Psalm 149:6-9 KJV “6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.” Father God, I bless the United States of America with open ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living Word of God because you state in Mark 4:12 KJV “12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” I pray in hope that they see and perceive, hear and understand so they would believe in Jesus the Son of the living God! And Heavenly Father, I bless the United States of America with softened hearts to be able to perceive and live by Your Word because even you showed the disciples how hard their hearts were when they didn’t believe when You rose from the dead: Mark 16:14 KJV “14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” I also bless the United States of America with a spirit of reconciliation because that is the ministry You have given us. Let the spirit of God move forth in the hearts of the people of the United States of America to forgive and reconcile the nation back to Jesus, the Son of God as Paul states in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 KJV “18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” I pray that the United States of America is restored into the joy of salvation, and to the paths of righteousness as the following scriptures state: Psalm 23:3 KJV “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 51:12 KJV “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” I pray that the fruit of the spirit stated in Galatians 5:22-23 KJV “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” manifests within the hearts of the people in the United States of America. I pray that the gifts of the holy spirit stated in 1 Corinthians 12:7-12 KJV “7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ”: would unite the body of Christ under one leadership, the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit of God moves through each of us so that we know what to pray, how to pray, when to pray, and praise the living God in all that we do. And gracious Heavenly Father, we praise You as Psalm 150:1-6 KJV says “150 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” You are praised because You are. We now walk forward in peace knowing that You and Your angels are moving behind the scenes doing what You need to do to accomplish Your will as Psalm 103:20 KJV says “20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” In the Name of Jesus, the Son of the living God we pray in unity, Amen!PRAY FOR THE USA PRAY FOR THE USA PRAY FOR THE USA Say this prayer out loud: Mighty Heavenly Father, I lift up the United States of America from the highest to the lowest to Your throne room and I forgive it of its iniquities, the sins America has committed, the curses against America, the curses spoken from America, and the sins of the land America sits on; and I ask You heavenly Father to forgive as well per Matthew 6:14 KJV “14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” Demons, loose the United States of America; the Lord rebuke you per Jude 1:9 “9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” I bind you with fetters of iron to the iron below my feet here on earth preventing you from interfering in the United States of America ever again per Matthew 16:19 KJV “19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And per Psalm 149:6-9 KJV “6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.” Father God, I bless the United States of America with open ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living Word of God because you state in Mark 4:12 KJV “12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” I pray in hope that they see and perceive, hear and understand so they would believe in Jesus the Son of the living God! And Heavenly Father, I bless the United States of America with softened hearts to be able to perceive and live by Your Word because even you showed the disciples how hard their hearts were when they didn’t believe when You rose from the dead: Mark 16:14 KJV “14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” I also bless the United States of America with a spirit of reconciliation because that is the ministry You have given us. Let the spirit of God move forth in the hearts of the people of the United States of America to forgive and reconcile the nation back to Jesus, the Son of God as Paul states in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 KJV “18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” I pray that the United States of America is restored into the joy of salvation, and to the paths of righteousness as the following scriptures state: Psalm 23:3 KJV “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 51:12 KJV “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” I pray that the fruit of the spirit stated in Galatians 5:22-23 KJV “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” manifests within the hearts of the people in the United States of America. I pray that the gifts of the holy spirit stated in 1 Corinthians 12:7-12 KJV “7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ”: would unite the body of Christ under one leadership, the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit of God moves through each of us so that we know what to pray, how to pray, when to pray, and praise the living God in all that we do. And gracious Heavenly Father, we praise You as Psalm 150:1-6 KJV says “150 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” You are praised because You are. We now walk forward in peace knowing that You and Your angels are moving behind the scenes doing what You need to do to accomplish Your will as Psalm 103:20 KJV says “20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” In the Name of Jesus, the Son of the living God we pray in unity, Amen! Previous Next Home

GODS GIFT TO THE WORLD DO YOU BELIEVE Written Teaching Minister Lisa Kane December 22, 2023 Objective The objective of this message is to highlight Jesus Christ as the greatest gift ever given to humanity by God. The teaching encourages listeners to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas—the birth of the Savior—and challenges them to personally consider their faith: Do you believe? The purpose is to inspire believers to receive and share the gift of salvation with others through faith in Jesus Christ. Synopsis In this Christmas message, Lisa focuses on the profound truth that Jesus Christ is God’s ultimate gift to the world. Beginning with 1 Peter 4:10–11, the teaching reminds us that as we have received this gift, we are called to be good stewards of it by sharing God’s grace with others. The birth of Jesus, described humbly in Luke 2, demonstrates how the Son of God left the riches of heaven to enter the world in simplicity, becoming the Savior for all. Lisa emphasizes that the angelic proclamation to the shepherds was not just a story, but a true historical event testifying to Christ’s arrival. Scriptures such as 1 John 5:20, John 1:12–14, and John 3:15–17 confirm that through belief in Jesus, we are given eternal life and the right to become children of God. The message asks a pressing question: Do you believe? Salvation is not based on rituals or works but on faith, as seen with the thief on the cross. Romans 10:9 makes it clear that confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in His resurrection brings salvation. As Christmas is celebrated, Lisa encourages everyone to remember and share this ultimate gift—the name of Jesus. The message closes with a prayer of thanksgiving, urging believers to glorify God for sending His Son and to carry the gift of salvation into the lives of others. Written and/or Transcribed Teaching from Video Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Friday, December 22nd, 2023. Welcome. This message is called God's Gift to the World. Do you believe? Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your presence and we thank you for the greatest gift that we could ever receive, Father God. And that G gift is your son, the name of Jesus. And I thank you, Jesus, for going to the cross and dying for me and for everyone else so that we our sins are redeemed and pardoned. Thank you, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. And amen. Amen. Well, merry Christmas to all. We are This is the last message I'll be teaching before Christmas. I'll do one more before New Year's, but this is called God's Gift to the World. Do you believe? Our opening scripture here is 1 Peter 4:10 and 11. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as if as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Jesus Christ is the son of God and he is the gift the only gift that we can ever ever look at and and receive and truly believe and I the question I have for you um just before this Christmas do you believe do you believe let's go look at the testimony of what happened this is going to be just a simple easy message just giving God the glory and thanking his son for what he's done. Amen. Luke 2:7. And she bought forth she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the end. Mary and Joseph. So neat to see how the son of God came. So humbled. I mean it is so believable for the fact alone that they acknowledge that they put him in swaddling clothes and in a manger. He wasn't born to richness. He came from richness. He came from glory. He came from honor. He descended from heaven to become a man. And here the scriptures tell us that he was born verses uh 8-16 in that same Luke chapter 2. Let's continue on. And there were in the same country country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night. Now, I'm not going to go into this entire event that took place, but I want to show you the scriptures so that you know that this is true because the Bible is true. And u as these shepherds are out here, they're just doing their job, but they testify to the son of God being born. Amen. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." Oh, what did God do here? Because God did something for you and I. the greatest ultimate gift that we could ever receive and believe in. Amen. Verse 11, for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was the angel, a multitude of heavenly hosts. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly hosts praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven." The shepherd said one to another, "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us." and they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. You know, a lot of people would like to get semantic about this, but the re the reality of it is let's just put aside all the little details here. The Lord showed himself through angels to the shepherds so that they can go find this baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. And what did he say was for unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord. Why do we need a savior? Well, we all messed up. We've all fallen short of the glory of God. The moment we were born, the the moment we were conceived, we automatically fell because we were born in sin. But God God said to his son Jesus, "Go do this thing for me." Jesus said, "I will do it." And he did. First John 5:20. And we know that the The son of God has come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. Do you believe? Are you sharing your gift with others? It's the ultimate best gift that you could ever have. You just got to look into your hands and see and say, "Jesus, forgive me. Come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior." John 1:12-14. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the word was made 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. And the word was made flesh. The word's been there from the beginning. and he came down to his creation in a book and he became alive. And this book is real. These are true events. I do apologize for every teacher and pastor and preacher out there who has called any of this a story because the reality is these are not Sunday school stories. This is not a story. This is true events. Do you believe? Do you believe that Jesus the Christ, the savior, that these shepherds witnessed because of God? Do you believe that he is the son of God for the the walk he did in his life? He walked this earth very simply, healing people, delivering people, saving people. The the thief on the cross never was water baptized. never went door todo, never shared the gospel with anyone, but he knew and he called on Jesus and Jesus accepted him. Do you believe? John 3:15-17 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. Do you believe that you have a way out of all this? You should. His name is Jesus. He saved you and he saved me. Question is, do you believe? And how do I know that? I just have to confess that he's Jesus. Look at this. Romans 10:9. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Do you believe? Do you believe in this gift from heaven that God sent us his son so that we are redeemed and pardoned from our sins? Put aside everything else and just remember that gift as you celebrate the holiday weekend. Remember the ultimate gift, the name of Jesus and share that gift with someone. God bless you. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless this word and uh thank you for the anointing as you move through my heart, my spirit. I pray that people receive your word and call your name and glorify you in the name of Jesus. Amen and amen. God bless you. Merry Christmas. I'll see you in the next message. Bye bye. Home Watch the Video Teaching

SPIRIT OF LEVIATHAN Written Teaching Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective To reveal God’s prophetic timeline and emphasize the importance of recognizing and defeating the spiritual stronghold of Leviathan in preparation for the Third Great Awakening and end-time revival. Synopsis The speaker shares a powerful testimony of divine encounters beginning with a dream on September 2nd, in which repeated numbers and visions pointed to a prophetic countdown of Jubilee and restoration. This led to a series of life shifts, including a move on December 31st, and culminated with a fresh word from the Lord on September 25th declaring, “The new has begun.” He connects these experiences to a larger prophetic framework, including Chuck Pierce’s timeline, identifying this season as the doorway into what may be the Third Great Awakening. Drawing from Isaiah 26–27, the teaching warns of the Leviathan spirit—a serpent-like force that blinds believers, manipulates human DNA, and hinders true worship and revival. Scriptural parallels with Job and the tabernacle illustrate how Leviathan entwines itself within humanity, blocking spiritual illumination and breeding pride. The message emphasizes that God is raising up His people, armed with His mighty sword, to expose and defeat Leviathan. This will unlock unprecedented deliverance, healing, and restoration in preparation for the end-time harvest. The call is urgent: believers must reject fear, pride, and unbelief, embrace their new creation identity in Christ, and step boldly into the season of awakening and revival that God has initiated. Written and/or Transcribed Teaching from Video There's been such an anointing. Oh my god. I can't even talk to my wife about the Lord without crying all these couple of weeks. It's just been It just been uh awesome. Uh I'm excited. The reason why I'm so excited is uh September 2nd, I think it was of last year. I was laying down in in my bed and I was dreaming seven times 749 and then count 50. And it just went on all night long. One of the things that just bugs you, bugs you, bugs you all night long. That's all my mind could do. And then right right when the sun was rising up or it was morning, it was like a big old light just flashed with my eyes closed and it was a big old flash card and it said day two. And I had no idea what that was. But then I knew that I was supposed to start counting from the day before, which was either September 7 or September 2nd. 50 50 is Jubilee. By the way, when Jesus came, he says um I came that set the captives free to open the eyes of the blind. And he says, "And to proclaim the year of Jubilee." Jubilee means when everything that has been taken away from you, that has been stalling from you is restored. And then after that, then the Lord says, "Okay, now you wait 70 days." And then I added up and 70 days came out to December 31st. and he wanted me to disengage from everything. And little did we know that in December 24th we found out we were moving and we were out within six days we were out that December 31st we moved. Then all of this year has been a year of of just waiting and waiting and waiting. And then uh on September 25th of this year I'm driving and the Lord says the new has begun. And I got all excited. I didn't know why. And then there was a prophecy that Chuck Pierce gave that began the time set for this year's and it's from September 5th to October 12 which it was yesterday there was a new positioning in the heavens. God is moving things. And then all of a sudden today, the Lord said, you know, remember when I when I told you day two, he says, well, when I told you the new has begun, meaning it's day three or the third awakening, in case you you don't know the history, this nation in the last 500 years have experienced two major revivals which are were called the first awakening and the sec second awakening. So what I believe is going on in the spirit right now, we're ready to enter. I mean, today the 13th, beginning yesterday, the 12th and and it is no coincidence. He had asked me to teach two weeks ago and before even knowing that I'm just getting ready to teach and and the Lord has just given me this revelation that in the spirit at least the door has been open. Now remember when the uh Israelites came into the promised land to go through God had already removed the protection of the enemy, but they did not enter into it because of a bad report. 12 spies went out, 10 gave a bad report, and because of that, they had to wait another 40 years. Well, I don't want to wait another 40 years. I ain't got 40 years. I'm 59. That'll be a be 99. I can't afford 40 years. I want to go now. And and so I believe that that's been my heart. And so, that is what's going on. Now, what I'm going to be teaching on tonight is about the spirit of Leviathan. And I think it goes with what we're talking about. Because Leviathan is a spirit in the Bible, which is what keeps the church blinded. And you know who's the church? Us, the believers. It keeps us blinded. And because of that, then we suffer loss. I got notes. I have I made 10 notes. I I don't know if there's any. If everybody got one, I hope you did. You can follow along. Okay. Isaiah 27:1. And I want to see if I can get through all four pages. So, I'm going to go in in Isaiah 27:1. It says in that day the Lord with his sword and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent even Leviathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. Now I want you to open your uh uh your Bible to Isaiah 26 and I want you to see the context of this prophecy. In Isaiah 27:1, God says, "In that day, the Lord will punish uh in the NIV says, "In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce great and powerful sword, Leviathan, the gliding serpent, Leviathan, the coiling serpent, and he will slay the monster of the sea." Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus, as we come into your presence right now, Father God, I pray your covering over us, Father God, I pray that with the sword of the spirit, which is your great a mighty sword that you will cut down right now, Father God, the course, the whole darkness and blindness and and that keep us bound, Father God, to the old ways. I pray that you will bring revelation that your light will shine into our souls tonight, Father God, and drive away every spirit of fear, every spirit of contentment, every spirit of disbelief and unbelief, and every spirit that will hinder us from receiving the revelation that you have for us in this last day in Jesus name. Amen. Now if you look at uh in Isaiah 26 verse 19 it says but your dead will live their bodies will rise. What is that talking about? The rapture. It's talking about the rapture. The the this chapter 26 is talking about uh when Jesus will will come. It says but your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust mean those who have been dead and buried or being cremated and their dust is some place. He says wake up and shout for joy. Your due is like the dw of the morning the earth will give birth to her death. Speaking about the resurrection. So when Isaiah 27:1 says in that day he's talking about the end times. He's talking about today the heading for this uh uh uh for this chapter is deliverance of Israel. Okay. Was too loud? Oh, okay. Anyway, he's talking about in in in in Isaiah 27 the deliverance of Israel. So, what I believe is that with the end time, right before the rapture comes, God is going to bring the greatest revival that has ever been seen. Because, you know, there's a lot of people that love God and and they want to be with God, but they're so bound by sin. They're so oppressed. Some believers, their minds is so cast down. Their souls are so oppressed and cast down, they cannot even worship or praise God. So God in the end time is going to bring a revelation, a a a lighting up to where we're going to be able to worship God in spirit and in truth and with power. And the word of the Lord will go forth with such power and authority that there's going to be deliverance that people are going to be walking around like Peter and their shadows is going to fall on derelicts that are their mind has been gone and God will bring restoration. Why? Because Leviathan is the spirit that God says, I am raising up a large sword. Hallelujah. And that sword is going to be of my saints and they're going to bring judgment upon this serpent. Okay? Now, who is Leviathan? And and you know, uh uh Leviathan is mentioned in the Bible, I think, six times because he's the number of men. Leviathan represents the strongest demonic spirits that has ever been unleashed against all of humanity. All of the infirmities that we humans suffer and cause other humans to suffer are the direct result of this demons this demon's influence on humankind. This is I believe the the power that messes up all humanity because as we will read on he resides in the waters or in the sea and the sea is always symbolic of humanity. The sea of humanity. All humans are affected by this awful creature. And I believe that the end time revival will begin by God judging him. And look at if if if you see there, Isaiah calls him a dragon and a serpent. Both of those names are applied to Satan directly. He's a serpent. He's a serpent that beguile Eve. By the way, that's where we that's where he came in. Leviathan came in into Eve like he was coil around the tree. her genetic tree uh Eve has passed down that vile creature to every human that's alive today. The only one that wasn't affected by that was Jesus. And that's because Jesus even though it was conceived by a woman, the blood that that that con which is in the semen that the blood that bring conception, it was the Holy Spirit. So that's why when Satan was coming or or Judas was coming had betrayed Jesus, Jesus could say uh the enemy is coming but Satan has nothing in me. But we do know that Satan has something in us. And that is what God wants to deliver out of us this spirit that causes everything that brings troubles into us. So he calls the spirit a dragon and a serpent. And then he calls him the dragon that is in the sea, meaning he's in humanity and he's hidden from the natural view. He affects everybody, but nobody knows uh about it. Notice what it says. The piercing serpent and the crooked serpent is talking about his nature and his working. Uh a serpent, what does a serpent does? Serpent coils itself around. But that is magic. We all know that. But what about the piercing? What does it mean by piercing? Piercing it if I is when you uh let's say like uh uh the female egg when she's about to get fertilized, there's a piercing that breaks into that egg. And as soon as the piercing goes in, it crystallizes and the egg become fertile and it begins to to multiply and give life. Basically what he's talking about this serpent because you see the uh our genetic code when they began to figure out the DNA system they could see the parts but they couldn't match they didn't understand how they could make sense of and it took years and years and years and then finally somebody came with a revelation that if you take the genetic code instead of just trying to put it lineal like that that if you coil it then it makes sense. See, in order for the parts to fit, you got to follow a coal coil or like a wreath. That's what the genetic code is. So, what does a snake take shape of? Of a coil. So, that means that Leviathan gets not just into our soul and not just into a different part. He become the very part of our genetic makeup by coming and piercing himself or his influence into our genetic code. This is why there's birth defects because any genes that he can can transform or pollute becomes deformed becomes faulty. As a matter of fact, the reason why many many many especially Christian can overcome their sins is because their genetic code is predisposed to that certain thing. I mean it is in your genes. It is there and there's nothing that we can seem to do about it. You work hard and you try to do all of these things but the thing is wrap itself around or it coil itself around you to where you just h have been transformed. Basically what it says is you become the person that God never intended for you to be. And so this is why I believe that in this end time God is going to deal with a serpent because you cannot deal with humanity until you deal with a serpent. because the serpent is in the sea. It's in the humanity. Now this uh snake is so terrible as if we could call it that that in Job 41, God spends the whole chapter 40 34 verses from Job chapter uh uh Job 41 from verse one to verse 34 God spends 34 verses telling about him. But I want you to see this because this is the key. In verse one, he says, "Can you pull in the Leviathan with a fish hook or tie him down his thong with a rope?" In other words, God brey by the way, Job is the oldest and most complete manual on deliverance. If you look at the um uh the human soul is made of nine compartments as if it were nine nine uh divisions or nine is one soul but it's like a complex it has different parts in it and I believe it has nine parts. This is why in in in uh Galatians 5:22 and 23 there are nine fruit one but nine different manifestations of that fruit. Love, joy, peace, uh long longsuffering, gentleness, kindness, self-control, faith, and um and what's the last one? Meekness. So our soul is designed to have each one of those spirit fruit operating in it which is what Leviathan does. He takes away the peace. He takes away the joy. He takes away love from us. He takes away the ability to wait patiently on the Lord. He changes our personality. The spirit of God that was breathed into uh uh Adam made him a good and gentle and kind person. And today we see wrath and anger and fear and all of the things. Why? Because the genetic code has been transformed. By the way, that's what Satan was up before the flood. That's why God destroyed all of humankind because of the genetic messing up with the genetic system. But then God gives revelation to Job. Uh the reason why I was talking about that is there's nine fruit of the spirit. There are nine gifts of the spirit and there are nine spiritual blessing. There are 27 books in the New Testament. Three times 9 is 27. That means that everything that we need is in the New Testament. It the the Old Testament is fulfilled in the New Testament. That's why our souls can now be set free because we have this revelation from God. But uh uh the uh um the soul has been so perverted. And so the oldest book of the Bible when God is dealing with Job, what happens to Job? Nine times is Job confronted. First it comes to one friend and he says you sin. It's your fault. That's why God is judgment. The next friend come in, no your children sin and they're the ones. So that's why God got judgment. And then the third spirit comes up which represents itself speaking through Job's friend. And there's nine direct attack on soul. The last one, the ninth one is a new person that comes in that wasn't there Elihoo. And he represents Satan himself. He sounds like God. Everything he said is just like God. That is, I believe, Leviathan himself who actually replaces God in the human soul. So we have a God in our soul which is not the God. And even when we're born again and our spirit is born again, our soul now is controlled or manipulated because his spirit hinders what God wants to do. And so in the book of Job where Job, a righteous man, because this is for Christians, the minute that you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, you became righteous. You became holy. You became a saint. Immediately you were saved because God knows our condition and he doesn't judge us in our sins anymore. Romans uh 7:20 says if I do the things that I don't want to do, it's not me who do it but sin that lives in me. So God understand that there our genetic code has been messed up and we've been predisposed to sin and God is saying let me have a hold of you and I'll bring a revelation. I'll bring Lord into your soul and I'm going to drive that spirit that has replaced me in the parts of your soul. And that's what God is dealing with Job. God brought Job through all of those suffering and these men suffered tremendously. And then he God asked him this question. He says, "Can you pull in the Leviathan with a fish hook or tie him down?" God was saying, "Can you get him out or at least shut him up?" Job, since you're so righteous and so holy, you're bragging how you've been uh uh uh you know, attacked and all the things, can you get Leviathan out? and you get rid of that nature that is in your soul or at least shut it up so it doesn't bugs you no more. So God is speaking about deliverance and as we just read it is during our day the day of the resurrection the day of the rapture when God is going to unleash his mighty and fierce attack uh against him. Leviathan on the Strong's concordance means a wreath, animal or a serpent. It means to twine, to unite, to remain, to cleave or to join. And then he is also called uh the constellation of Orion is is named after him. In other words, he's his he's his name that uh since he's a dragon and a serpent, the dragon in the sky. There's a constellation is the constellation of Orion, which usually goes by the name the constellation of the dragon or Draco. And so this is what what God wants us to see. And then like I said in in the uh in the sea everything represents the humanity. Now, one of the stars, the constellation of Orion, has seven major stars. And one of those stars, each each star represents a demon, by the way, because remember, the dragon has seven heads. We'll get that towards the end. But Leviathan has seven heads. So, in the constellation of Orion, there are seven major stars, and that represents the seven heads of Leviathan or the seven manifestations. And God asked Job in Job 38:31, it says, "Can thou bind the sweet influences of the plagus?" And this is in the original King James translation, or lose the bands of Orion, which is Leviathan. And what I want you to see here is that the way the Leviathan comes in is by influence. The piercing that he's talking about, he pierces right into that area of our soul where our mind and our will and our emotions and he begins to exert because to twine. See, his nature is to entwine. And untwin means the two become one. Like when a man and a woman get married, God says the two become one flesh. They are coiled around. They are wrapped around their own twine. And so by coiling himself around our our our nature, our DNA, he begins to exert pressure, but it's not forcible. It's well, one of the one of the heads is not it's an influence. He begins to influence. That's what he did with Eve. Well, doesn't it look good? Wouldn't it be good for food? He begins to influence her way of thinking to where she said, "Wow, yeah, that's right." How many of us got some revelation at some time? Oh yeah, man. That's great. He left the keys on the car. He probably wanted me to take it for a ride. Why not? You were influenced to get into that car and before you know it, you know, you're on the back of it, then put a handcuff on you and you got to do a couple of years. A lot of us are influenced like that. And it didn't begin with evil. We didn't intend to do evil. It was a sweet influence. Oh yeah, man. She looks fine. I won't go there. But he is a spirit that wraps himself around our soul, our very DNA, our very nature. And then he begins to exert influence since he's stronger than us because God asked Job, "Can you pull him out?" Job definitely couldn't pull him out, but God did because Job said, "I heard, but now I seen." And when Job saw it, that's when he got delivered. I know that that thing is big and strong, but God, you're a lot bigger than he is. Glory to God. You are able to deliver me from this. And then when Job went in and prayed for his friends, he was restored. And the three daughters, Jamaima, Karen, Capush, and I don't remember the name of the other one. Each one have a meaning. And the names of the daughter of Job, the only three that are named of the 10 children that God gives them, one means is being stripped off like down, taking all of the bark off your tree. Talking about deliverance, being stripped off. Then he's talking about God bringing restoration. God took Job's DNA strand that had been polluted. God strip it off of that coiling thing that was around him and ripped it out. And it all came when Job was able to see. I heard of you, but now I sing. And God is calling his church in this end time to see. To see that I don't care how big that enemy is, how strong he is, and how bound he's had you or messed you up. That God is stronger. God is bigger. God is more powerful. He is the one that is able to strip that from you. Amen. Now, how can we do it? I mean, if Job, a righteous man that was so blessed in Ephesians 2:6, we're told, "And God raised us up with Christ and seated us up with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus." What that means is that Leviathan operates in the second heaven. He is that one that sets himself to block our prayers from coming up to God. He is in the way to hinder. But when Jesus Christ went onto the cross and he took every sin, every every wrong thing that we humans have ever done because of that sweet influence, because of this genetic uh uh makeup that that has corrupted us. That's why God said there is not one righteous. No, not one single one. There's no one who does good. Why? Because our nature has been transformed. This thing has coiled itself around our very own DNA to where we're predisposed to do wrong. That's our predisposition. But he can only operate on the second realm. But Jesus Christ when he went into the cross, and by the way, the cross represented a connection between heaven and earth or between the second heaven and the physical he the physical earth that we're in. And it was right in that middle that Jesus Christ defeated every foe, every principality and power, stripped them all of all of their power. And then Jesus was able to take a man, a physical man, even Abraham and and and all of those righteous peoples of the Bible, they were down in in in paradise, which was at the center of the earth at that time. And it wasn't until Jesus died on the cross that he went down. He preached to the spirits down there. Ephesians tells us then he led captivity captive. He took the train of all the souls that were in that paradise. They could go now go to heaven. Why could they go to heaven? Because Jesus Christ took the accuser of the brethren, shattered his teeth. He when when he rose up, he kicked him in the mouth. And and uh I think it's Psalm three, he says, "The Lord shatters the teeth of the wicked." He just destroyed his power. And so now we by being born again are on the third heaven. And from down here, we cannot fight him. But from up there we can because you see we're seated. Seated means a place of authority. I am seated now on a place of authority. Jesus says I give you power over I give you authority over all the power of Satan. And he says and and you going to be able to to to trample on snakes that's Leviathan and on scorpions. And he says nothing shall by any means harm you or hurt you. Why? because we have been seated far above principalities and power. And then you say, "Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait. I still have my my human nature." Well, look at 2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. That means that Jesus Christ changed your DNA. Hallelujah. He gave us a brand new strand of DNA. I don't have to be predisposition to the old things anymore. He has changed my nature. As a matter of fact, read on. He says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, take a look. Look." Like Job said, "I heard of you, but now I seen." Behold means look. He says, "Look, look. All things have become new." Anyway, the word for new creation in the Greek means original formation. Our DNA was originally formed to do the will of God. Hallelujah. Our DNA originally was designed to worship God. When when when the cool evening, it would come, Adam and Eve will go like little kids running to daddy God, and they would have a great big old time with him. They were still human. They were still naked, but there was no lie that worked his way into their DNA until the coiling snake on the tree came in and perverted the word of God. And that is when he came in. But when Jesus Christ climb up on that tree and he was nailed himself to that tree, he took our old nature. He took that old Leviathan and he destroyed him. And now we have the new nature. But we need to understand that that new nature is in the spirit. Man has to be brought into the place of everything. See this is why Leviathan is so dangerous because Leviathan blocks blocks our entrance to the holy place. Let me look at my notes. I I don't want to lose anything here. I don't want to get ahead of myself. But let me go. I tried to put as much as as as we could there so that if I don't get through the whole thing at least you can have the notes. Uh I want to read Psalm 425-7. He says why are you cast down oh my soul and why are you disqued within me? Now remember our soul is the part that responds to our physical nature. Our soul uh uh we have spirit, soul, and we're in a body. The soul is connected to our physical body through these senses. Our eyes, our ears, our nose, our mouth, our sense of touch. All of those are connected to the soul. Our soul, that's our personality, gets this information of this physical world. Because the soul and the spirit are both spirit through the human senses. But our soul in his upper part is connected to the spirit of a man and and the spirit of a man is the one that is born again and that is seated in the right hand of the father with Christ Jesus. And the way that our soul connects to the spirit is through intuition and through worship. And so a Leviathan can come in and block our worship to where we cannot come to God. Then our spirit can have everything that God has for us, our healing, our provision, our protection, the plan, the future, the wisdom of God. But yet, if there's something blocking it, and that's what Leviathan does. Uh uh what do you call a uh you know, Roman uh what do you call it? Mythology. In mythology, Leviathodan went by different name. Neptune, Poseidon, different names. He was always involved with with with the sea. And in mythology says that every time there was an eclipse of the sun is because he would wrap himself around and block the sun. And you see the sun or the light for us is our spirit. the the the scripture that you quoted when you were praying. Proverbs 20:27, the spirit of a man, that's our human spirit, is a candle of the Lord and he searched all of the inward parts of the heart. He looks inside. So in order for me to know what is it that is in me that predisposes me to do certain things that I don't want to do, I need to have a time with God. My spirit needs to worship God, needs to come in communion to God, needs to get the revelation from God. And then my soul has to have a good connection with my spirit. In other words, God takes my spirit which lives in the same place where the soul lives in the heart and like a flashlight he begins to search. H I see something dark over here in this corner. And then in our soul there's no knobs any of the doors. All of the knobs are on the inside. Revelation 3 uh 20 Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." So he comes in who's there? He wants to know because what's in that dark room is affecting your life. It's affecting your walk. And that's what deliverance is all about. Bringing light because the Lord is light. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. The spirit of the Lord brings light. And the light makes all of the creatures of darkness flee because darkness cannot comprehend or overcome the spirit of the living God. So we have to have a good communication with God through our spirit and there had to be a connection between our soul and God in order for this thing to be exposed for us to be deliver of this thing. And uh so that our human makeup as if it were can be brought into um be set free from the influence of this demonic creature in Psalm 42:57. Now remember the soul is the one that's in the middle. This is the spirit man speaking to the soul. Why are you cast down, oh my soul, and why are you disqued within me? Hoping God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Oh my God, my soul is cast down within me. This is a spirit of the Psalms of Kora, I believe, who's writing this psalm. And his spirit is crying out to God, there's something wrong with my soul here. I'm alive with you. I'm praising you, but there's something wrong with this soul. All you giving me, Lord, it's all messed up. But then he said, "Therefore, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan." That's the river Jordan where you get baptized and from the highest of Hermon. That's your spiritual high and from the hill of Miser. That's our lower part. And then he says this mystery. He says, "Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and billows have gone over me." The deep calling into deep is the spirit of God speaking to your spirit. God is saying Leviathan is a monster of the sea. That means he's in your humanity. He's signing into that. But God says, "I got a few tornadoes of my own. I got a few water spouts. I can come up in there and vacuum that thing right off of your heart. I can just go in there and go and pull all that out." That's what God is saying. But how did it happen? Deep. called onto deep. The spirit of God in in capital letters speaks to our spirit. And as he begins to speak to our spirit, the revelation becames to to be made known. And uh I have some notes there as to being baptized. What is it that is commanded? Two things Christians are commanded to do. Take communion. It means the bread and the wine represents the blood and and the broken body of Jesus Christ. And the other thing is to be baptized. What does baptismal means? Death by water. Where does Leviathan dwell? In the water. When you're baptized into you. See, you cannot get saved until you're baptized into the Holy Spirit. The the baptismal of the Holy Spirit is different. I'm not talking about that. He says we the way that we have said we have all been baptized into one spirit. Baptismal simply means let's say that I'm a drop of water and I go and I take that drop of water to the Pacific Ocean and I dropped it. Can you ever again find that drop of water? No. It becomes part of the whole ocean. That's what God is saying. You were a little piece of water someplace. And when you were baptized in Christ, you were placed into See, we were all baptized by Adam and Eve. We're all descendants of them. Everything they they had, good or bad, has come down our way. And then Satan has done his best to mess it up so that I'm sure Adam and Eve will be surprised to see what their children look like because boy, they we should mess it up. But the same way that we're all baptized into this waters, the deep waters where Leviathan dwells, God has called us from the that deep. He was called us out of that deep into his deep deeper. That's his spirit. You see, when you were baptized, when you went into the water, you declared that you were self dead. Death to sin, dead to the world, death to Leviathan. And therefore when you rose up now your spirit is seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And then now God wants to bring changes in our life. Now Job 41 15 and 16. And this thing is so so big I could have went uh verse by verse but I knew that I wouldn't have that much time. So I condense it to four pages. And then tonight I'm condensing it even more so that I can get to the end of it. Uh Job 41:15 and 16 says, "His rose of scales are his pride. Shut up tightly as with a seal. No one I mean one is on air to another that no air can come between them." You know what that means? This demonic spirit that formed this alliance of Leviathan. He's a seven-headed monster. He's the king of all of the children of pride. By the way, anybody that is operating in pride is is a servant to that because Job says that. You can read in that chapter two. He's he's the uh the father. Everybody who seems to pride, he controls him. I don't care how godly the person is or how great he thinks is in the Lord. Pride comes before the fall because Leviathan is destined to fall and so will all that are proud. But what he's talking about here is that his scales or his demonic shields are so tightly connected to one another that no air can come through. Well, the word for air in both the Hebrew and the Greek in which the old and the New Testament are written speak about spirit, wind, speak about breath. So if he's able to encamp himself between you and God, nothing from your spirit can penetrate him. That's what he's talking about. And that's what he does. Wherever Leviathan comes in, you did you know uh many people, especially the guy that was writing the book that that actually Fred gave me copies of all of that the stuff that I was reading. I've been going through my garage and I got everything so organized. finally opened all the boxes from our move and I know where everything is at so I've been able I've been reading a lot but uh uh he that that snake comes in so tightly that nothing can penetrate and he says that when there are revivals many revival that have started in churches as soon as pride comes up he comes in and he blocks he has destroyed many many many revival working through the people that God was moving through to through the anointing that God was moving through bringing pride. Wow, look at myself. Look what I did. I lay hands and they came to life or I did this and and and you know and that spirit of pride is what terminates and churches go through this. the Holy Spirit will come in because of some prayer or because of some fasting or because something that some of the leaders did and then the Holy Spir Home Watch the Video Teaching