INTO THE LIGHT Equip believers to recognize and choose the wisdom and light that come from God over the counterfeit “light” of human reasoning, so they can fully receive the inheritance they’ve been qualified for in Christ (Col. 1:12), tear down inner strongholds, and walk in freedom, holiness, and blessing. < Back INTO THE LIGHT Pastor Marcos Marrero June 8, 2007 Objective: Equip believers to recognize and choose the wisdom and light that come from God over the counterfeit “light” of human reasoning, so they can fully receive the inheritance they’ve been qualified for in Christ (Col. 1:12), tear down inner strongholds, and walk in freedom, holiness, and blessing. Synopsis: This message—In the Light—lays out a biblical principle: all of life runs on principles, and spiritually there are only two sources of “light” (guidance): from above (God’s wisdom) and from below (earth-bound, sense-driven, demonic wisdom). Drawing from Colossians 1:12–13 and James 1:17; 3:15–17, the teaching explains that salvation qualifies us for God’s gifts, but we possess them by walking in God’s light—His revealed wisdom—not by natural understanding. 1 John 1:5–7 clarifies that God is light; fellowship with Him requires walking in that light, where the cleansing power of Jesus’ blood is applied and faith flourishes. Jesus models this life (Isa. 11:2–3; Matt. 3:16): anointed by the Spirit, He doesn’t judge by sight or hearing, but by the Lord’s counsel and knowledge. Jesus’ warnings about the eye as the lamp (Matt. 6:23; Luke 11:35–36) press the danger of mistaking darkness for light—living by feelings, appearances, and cultural “common sense.” Proverbs 14:12 underlines that what seems right to us ends in death. A case study in spiritual warfare (2 Kings 3) shows how partial obedience and hidden allegiances to false “light” sabotage victory. Israel, Judah, and Edom receive a prophetic strategy (dig ditches; God supplies water; pursue and utterly ruin the enemy’s strength). They comply—except they refuse to tear down the sun-baked stones of Kir-Hareseth (“wall/city of the sun”), a symbol of entrenched idolatry. When the Moabite king sacrifices his son on that wall, terror rises and God’s people retreat. The lesson: leaving any stronghold (a protected area of natural reasoning, superstition, unforgiveness, pride, or religious tradition) gives the enemy leverage and perpetuates curse-cycles and loss. Practically, the message calls believers to let the Spirit shine on the root, not just the symptoms, of recurring sins or bondages—then, in faith, pull down the wall completely: forgive, repent, renounce, reconcile, obey the specific word of the Lord. As we walk in the light, the anointing breaks the yoke, and the qualified inheritance (cleansing, healing, provision, peace, joy) is experienced. The service closes with prayer for revelation, courage to dismantle strongholds, and ministry in the anointing that brings healing, deliverance, and restoration. Inspired Teaching: Hallelujah. Gloria Elbe Jesus B. Amen. Precious Father in heaven, as we come before you tonight, we worship your precious and holy name. We thank you, Father God, for the privilege to come together as brothers and sisters in in the Lord and come as one, Father God, in the unity of the spirit to worship the one God, the one true savior, even Jesus Christ, our savior and lord. We ask, Father God, that you open that fountain, dear Lord Jesus, that you pour on us the bread that came down from heaven, which is Jesus, who became flesh for us. We uh need your word, Father God. We need that fountain of life in our midst, Father God. For we live in a dried and thirsty land, dear Lord Jesus. And we desire tonight to be filled with the bread that comes down from heaven to be washed and to drink of the water of the springs of life, Father God. And we thank you for your anointing here tonight and your favor, dear Lord Jesus. I ask that you bless each and every person that is here uh tonight and that you make us all a house of faith. Father God, we are your house, Jesus. You're the head and we're your body. We're your temple. And we pray, Father God, that life will come in into each and every one of us here tonight, Father God, that we may glorify your house, Father God, in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Everybody's got the notes there that would help you. I have a lot a lot of scriptures and we don't want to be here all night. So, but I want to make sure the the first page is going to deal with me uh revealing from the point of view of the Bible a principle. Uh we have to understand that everything operates through principles. uh there are physical laws or principle and there are spiritual principles understanding especially spiritual principles are vital uh uh for us to to be able to walk to receive the blessings. Now the message as you can see I title is in the light and that comes from the scripture Colossians chapter 1 verse 12. All of the scriptures that we're going to go through I have them there. Uh I think they're all uh from the New King James Version. Um, and only one we're going to go that um that you don't have down there. So, if you want to save time, you can check them later. But in Colossians 1:12, Paul writes, "Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." Now, we all know what qualifying means. Uh, I used to ball in in in in tournaments and uh, the only one that I ever won was here in the Cobalt here in Wington a long time ago. Uh, some of you probably remember where the Cobalt used to be. But the way it was is hundreds of people will sign up for the tournament and all of the bowling lanes will be there and then you bowl all day long. That would happen on on uh on Saturday and out of the and you could enter as many time as you wanted to. If you didn't do good the first time, you would pay another $18 and and go again. And then what they would do at the end of the night after the last uh thing, they will pick up 32 people, the 32 highest scores qualified to go for the grand prize. Then next day, which was a Sunday, the 32 people bowl against each other. And then the top five, they qualified to go for the grand prize, which at the time was $500. And then those five bowlers used to do like they do in TV. The guy that finished fifth would bowl the fourth. The winner will bowl the third. I was top seated. That's I mean I bowl a lot and that was a freak of nature I guess. But qualification doesn't guarantee that you get the prize. It means that you are in the running for the prize. That's in other words, if I did not qualify on Saturday, I could go there Sunday. I couldn't bowl no matter how much money I brought. The only people that would bowl on the next day is the people that qualify. And then when those 32 people bowl, only the top five qualify to go for the grand prize. So notice that it says here and and I gave you that illustration so we get the meaning of it. Giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints. We have been qualified but that doesn't mean we received that yet. This is what we need to understand. There was an effort. I even though I was topseated. I already had the second prize in my pocket which was $225. Meaning I could lose and I would come in second. I had the$ 225. But if I wanted to take the grand prize, the trophy and and my picture on the paper and all of that stuff, uh, you have to win that last game. Now, notice that it says here that he has qualified us. And what got my attention is that it says in the light. I mean, what does it mean? What does it mean to be qualified in the light? And so, that's the principle that I wanted before we get to the message. The message is on the second page. So I had to explain the principle that's all on the first page. Now look at James 1:17. It says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the father of lights." That's where our qualification is in the light. In the light there's good and there are perfect gift. When we're in the light, we receive the gift. The gift is the grand prize, the first place. You're already qualified. We're already qualified. You show up and guess what? Your name is in the roster. You're already qualified to get the gift, but you got to get in the light in order to get the gift. That what he says there. You haven't been qualified to receive the inheritance of the saints in the light. And then he says that every good and every perfect gift is from above and comes on from the father of light. Now if you look to the next couple of chapters in James 3 1516 and 17 we get a little revelation as to what the light is. He says, "This wisdom does not descend from above, but it is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above," now notice that he says, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the heavenly lights." He said, "But the wisdom that is prone above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." So we see that light is being equated with wisdom. Light is being equated with wisdom. And it says that there are two different types of wisdom or two different types of lights. There's a light that come from above from the father of the heavenly light. That means there's an understanding that comes from above from the father of heavenly light. And in that understanding there are gift. We already been qualified just the fact that we have accepted Jesus. We're already qualified to receive him. But we need the revelation. We need the understanding. We need the wisdom on how to receive this gift. And there is another wisdom. And he says that this wisdom is not from God or another revelation or another light. He says this wisdom does not descend from above but is earthly. That means it's physical not spiritual. Is sensual. That means that it's governed by the senses. Is what you can touch, what you can hear, what you can see, what you can smell, what you can taste. It's part of the physical realm. That's where the senses operate from. And then it says and is demonic, meaning Satan is in it. So that means that there are two ways to do things. one is going by our own wisdom by by what makes sense or you know what God told me I'm going to get that job and so I'm going to go by natural means to get this gift that I need. He says that when you go that route through the senses that Satan is in it. Demonic means that there's contaminated verses is other wisdom or revelation that comes from above. So basically what the principle is is that there are two kinds of wisdom. The one comes from God and one from from the world. There's two ways of doing thing. One is by the revelation of God and one is by the revelation of man. Okay. And in the light, whichever light we're in, will determine what gift we're going to inherit. Because if the light that we follow is the light of this world, Satan is in it. And if Satan is in it, Satan does not come except to what? To steal and to kill and to destroy. But it is the wisdom of God or the life that comes from above. Then there's life and there's abundant life. Now, let's look at some more scriptures that that prove this point. Going back to Colossians where we read in in 1:12 where it says, "Giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saint and the light." In verse 13, he says, "He God has delivered us from the power of darkness and convey us into the kingdom of the son of his love." Now notice what this other wisdom is referred to power of darkness. It says that we were in under the influence of the power of darkness before we were qualified before we were brought into the kingdom of the son of his love. We were under the power of this darkness. Now what is that darkness? doing things in the way that seems right to your eyes. Let's look at that. Look at the uh the only scripture that is not there is in First John. Uh when I was praying this morning, the Lord just brought it to me, so I didn't get a chance to put it. I had already made everything. go to first John and look at uh chapter 1 and then we're going to read verse 5, 6, and 7. 1 John 1:es 5, 6, and 7. He says, "This is the message which we have heard from him, from God, and declared to you." John was just taken up to heaven. He wrote the book of revelation by the being taken up to heaven was told to write everything he saw. Many believe that first, second, and third John these three letters he wrote after he went to heaven and that the gospel of John he wrote after he came from heaven because he was taken up to heaven and he saw things from a different perspective. That's why Matthew, Mark, and Luke all make sense. They're called synoptic because those three gospels are all interrelated. John's does not have nothing to do with them. It's separate. He was taken up into this heavenly realm and he saw that this letter was written and look what he says. Now remember, we just read in James where it says that um uh uh uh every good and perfect gift comes down from above from the father of lights. Right? Now look what John who was up there where the light is says. He says this is the message that we have heard from him and declared to you. What is that message? God is light. God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. Now look at verse six. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and we do not practice the truth. Verse seven, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his sons cleanses us from all sin. Now, God cannot walk in darkness because there's no darkness in God. But we can walk in darkness because we were part of the kingdom of darkness before we came into the kingdom of the son of his love, the kingdom of light. So we do have a choice. Even though we're born again believers, even though we have been qualified to receive all of these gifts in the light, when we walk in darkness, we do not receive the gift. If I went over there and I bowled 10 gders in a row, I would never have gotten the prize. I was bowling against a guy that was a lot better than me. The guy had like a 220, 220 average. I got like a 160 average. But in the tournament, they use your handicap. So with my handicap, I started like with 25 points ahead of him. But man, I threw three uh six strikes in a row and that just blew him out of the water. Man, I cannot catch up with a six rackon plus a 30 some panhandah handicap. So I still had to troll even though I was qualified. I still had to do something to do it. And he's saying here you got to walk in the light. You were part of the kingdom of darkness, but now you're into the kingdom of the son of his love and you have been qualified to receive all of these gifts. What is the greatest gift? Look at verse seven. What is the greatest gift? And the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin. Did you know that sin is what keeps us from the blessings? Sin is what brings sicknesses. Sin is what brings poverty. Sin is what brings uh h uh you know lack of joy, lack of peace. Sin is is something that always condemning, something that always brings us down, right? Well, that is the greatest gift. We're walking in the light. Revelation from above. We recognize that our sin has all been forgiven, has been dealt with. And now we open ourselves to the joy of man, God loves me, and he wants to bless me. He wants to prosper me. He wants to heal me. He wants to set me free. And hallelujah, I begin to walk in that light. And as I walk in that light, in the wisdom and the revelation of God, the doors begin to open for me. Because without faith it's impossible to please God. And they that come to God must believe that he is. And we cannot come to God unless our sins are washed away. So this is the message we heard from the start. God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. So we need to walk in the light. Now this light it is talking about spiritual revelation. But God uses a natural setting for us to understand. If you're in a place and all of the lights go out and it's the middle of the night, all of the sudden all your senses betray you. Because if he just gets turned around a little bit, you won't know which way the wall is, which way the door is. Have you ever been I went into the uh the drainage down in there by by the LA River and we walk in there. That's a long time ago. And you get to a place where it gets so dark you cannot see your hand in your face. We have some flashlights and we turn them off completely. And I mean you can get totally and completely dis disoriented immediately. So the idea is that in the darkness we cannot see. We cannot find our way around. We will stumble. We will fall. So we need light to be able to see. So that's the same way in the spirit. If we're going to walk this walk with the Lord, we have to walk in the light, meaning in the revelation of the Holy Spirit. Now, look at look at the next scripture in Matthew 6:23. And this is in your uh in your note. Jesus speaking and he's using this natural principle and he says, "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness." And then he says, "If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?" Jesus is saying, just like in the natural, you need your eyes to be able to receive what the light reveals. In the same way, if you are guided by the wrong light, because he calls light darkness. There's a light. See, we're talking about wisdom. We're talking about revelation. We're talking about understanding. Spiritual understanding that means the revelation that the Holy Spirit gives us is light that comes from above and brings the blessings. But the light of the natural senses the way that we perceive this world is darkness because is demonic. Satan is in it and Satan is a liar. Satan is a cheater. Satan is false. Everything that he does is a trap. So if we walk under the light of the natural understanding, we fall into a trap. We fall into a trap because that is Satan's domain, the human understanding. That's why Jesus says, "How great is that darkness?" Now in Proverbs 14:12 and it appears also in Proverbs chapter 16 says there is a way that seems right to a man but his end is the way of death. So, so what he's talking about here, and I put it there on the notes, under the spiritual or the heavenly light, under the revelation of God, there are good and perfect gifts and gift graces that empower us that lead us to abundant life. In other words, if I have spiritual understanding, if I have spiritual revelation, if I understand the spiritual principles that are in the word in the word in the word of God and I follow them since I've been qualified by the fact that I am saved, then all of these gifts that God has prepared for me, I will find them because they are revealed to me. This blessing is now revealed to me. It's just like somebody turns the light on and then all of a sudden I see I am thirsty but it's dark and I don't know where the water is at. I don't know if the bottle that I found if it's totally dark, whether it's polluted or I don't know what it is. But when the light switch is turned on, the understanding the spiritual revelation of God I see was good. I see was bad. You see when I'm walking by the revelation but this revelation doesn't come by the human senses. See the human senses are contaminated by the devil because this physical world has been contaminated by the world. So in Proverbs two different chapters he tells us there is a way that seems right to a man. How do you see it? With your eyes. Oh, you know what? if I do this, if I do this, and there's so many people that are fooled all the time, the natural principles of this world, you follow them. If you want to be prosperous, you follow them. And you know, we're living in a nation to where we have the one of the highest wealth. And I'm not talking about just the rich people, but the middle class. Tremendous wealth. I mean, you can see just go by the marina, you'll see boats and boats. Go by the mountains, you see houses upon house. There's so much wealth in this nation. But yet, billions and billions of dollars are spent every year on drugs. I think by 20 years, every American will be on in in in in in prescription drugs. That's why they're putting a a drug house in I mean a drug store in every corner. This is the fastest growing industry there is. Everybody is getting ready. But why? Because that is where the natural understanding leads you. See the real things that have value in life are joy, peace, security, uh you know having a mind that it is sound. God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of power and of a sound mind. And that comes through spiritual understanding not natural understanding. And so we have to understand the spiritual principle that we're dealing with today has to do with light which means revelation, wisdom, understanding, knowledge. And that there are two types of it. There's a natural one, the one that we can make our own sense out of it with our own natural understanding or with the world's understanding. Or there is the the light or revelation that come from God that most of the time does not make sense. God's way do not make sense to the natural mind. I mean, one day I was a sinner and on my way to hell. I stumbled into this church. I accepted the Lord. I came out and now I'm in heaven for eternity. I mean, I'm I'm all my sins are washed away. I'm set free. I couldn't understand. For 29 years, I tried. I was a Catholic and I tried I had prayed every night. I tried to deal with the burden of sin and nothing could take it out. Then one night without me understanding anything about it. I just said yes when the preacher asked for for hands for salvation and I was changed. I was changed. I walked out of that place. I could have walked on water. It doesn't make sense to the natural mind. I look in the mirrors and I look the same but it feels so different. You see, and now he could not take my salvation away. So now he's trying to take my ability to walk in the light. For he can turn me back into the ways of the natural men, then I disqualify myself even though I've been qualified already. Because the only way we can receive the graces or the gift of God are when we walk in the light. If we don't walk in the revelation that comes from above, we forfeit everything. Now under the natural or the physical light or understanding all roads lead to destruction. Now how did Jesus handle it when he was here on earth in Isaiah 11:es 2 and three. It tells us Isaiah is probably writing 800 years before Jesus came. And it says talking about the root of Jesse who would come in the Messiah. It says, "The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord." Speaking about Jesus prophetically almost a thousand years before Jesus died on the cross. His delight, Jesus's delight is in the fear of the Lord. And look what it says about Jesus. And he shall not judge by the side of his eye, nor decide by the hearing of his ears. You see, when Jesus was baptized, the spirit of the Lord God came down from heaven in the form of a dove and lighted upon him. And they use that word, we're going to go to it. United means he lit him up, open his understanding to the spiritual realm and therefore he did not judge according to what his eyes saw or to what his ear heard. You know what Jesus's eyes saw? He saw Judah Judah as a thief and as a traitor. He knew it. He was sitting there on the table after he washed their feet and he says, "Okay, Judas, you got to do what you're supposed to do now." Jesus knew it. The disciples later found out that Judas used to help himself to the money on the treasury. Jesus knew it. But you see, he wasn't looking with the natural eyes. When he looked at Judas, he didn't see a traitor. When he saw Peter, he didn't see somebody who will betray him either. when he sees you, he doesn't see somebody that's going to fail him a million times. You see, he doesn't make judgment by what he sees with his natural eyes or by what he hears with his natural ears. He makes judgment according to the wisdom and understanding. As a matter of fact, that there makes a perfect manora. The spirit of the Lord, it says wisdom and understanding, the fear of the Lord, the power, the knowledge, all of the things make a perfect manora. What is a manora? A candle light. This is the only article that is inside of the holy place that gives light that gives revelation. Jesus became a walking manora. The spirit of the lord came upon him. The understanding of the lord it says there that the uh the spirit of the lord came in. That's a center lamb. Wisdom is one branch. Understanding is the other one. Uh counsel is one uh branch. Might is the other one. Knowledge is one. the fear of the Lord of the elephant. He became enlightened by the spirit that came upon him and now he is able to look at the woman who committed adultery when everybody's judging her and he can say to her, "Where are those that condemn you?" Oh, I don't know. They all took off. Well, neither do I condemn you. Go away. Sin no more. You see, the only way that we can receive this revelation from God is when we don't look by what the eyes see. Did you know that you can tell people something, but your feelings can betray you? How many married people we have here? Oh, honey, I didn't mean that. Your eyes betray you. Yes, you did. You see, our body speaks. Our action speaks louder than words and are known. But you see, the only way that you can walk in that light, the revelation is when the spirit of God is upon you. That is the revelation. That is the light. That is a wisdom that come from above. Now look at how this light came upon Jesus. Matthew 3:16. When he Jesus had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water. And behold, the heavens were open to him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and a lighting upon him. Now, why do I say that? Because you and I when we were born again, the Holy Spirit came down and descended upon us and a light on us. Did you know that that's what qualifies us? It is that that qualifies. Now I did get baptized. We got baptized at the YMCA in San Pedro and I had a beautiful experience coming out of the water because reinforced but that's not when the spirit came. When I came out of the water, that's when I made a public confession. But the spirit came deny that I was born again. When I confessed my sins and accepted Jesus Christ as my savior and lord, there was an alike, an understanding that came upon me that I wasn't going to hell anymore. Oh man, it felt good. All my sins were forgiven. I am cleansed. And I could I felt like I could walk on water. That revelation cannot come through manmade works. You can repent all you want to. You can do all kinds of natural things. They do not bring peace. They do not bring understanding. They're of the earth. They're of the natural. They go by what you see. Oh, I'm doing good. I read my Bible three days in a row and I haven't said a bad word and I haven't lit up. And so you feel in the natural doing okay. And then all it takes is one little trip. Okay. And now you go again. Now your emotions go all the way. See, that is a natural understanding. That is a natural light. But when we walk in the light, the light is that Jesus loves me. The light is that Jesus died for me. The light is that Jesus saved me. And the light is that Jesus is going to bring me there no matter what takes him between here and there. He said, "I will never leave you. I will never forsake you." His blood will never ever lose his power. And as long as I walk in that understanding and that light, neither my peace nor my joy will ever be removed. There is nothing that Satan can do to take away that assurance of salvation, that peace, that knowledge of his love. That is what it's talking about. Now look at the next scripture. Luke 11:35 and 36. Therefore, this is Jesus speaking and it's related to the uh instance I think that um after being baptized he said therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. He says make sure this is a command take heed that the lie which is in you is not darkness. In other words, make sure that the lie that is in you is not human reasoning that comes out of a human understanding. Then he says, if then your whole body is full of light, this is a light that come from heaven above having no part dark. That means that there are some parts of us that could be in darkness. The whole body will be full of light as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light. Talking about the minora when you lit up a huge candle. He says that's what it's going to be like. So then the spiritual principle that I spend this whole page before I bring the message which is going to start right now has to deal with the principle of light and darkness or spiritual revelation or natural revelation. And why is this so important is because our whole world system is founded in the false light. This is why you send your kids to college and when they come out their faith has been destroyed because all of those professor have one aim and one aim in mind and that is to destroy the word of God to destroy the faith of all of those who have placed their trust in the living God. So then uh now what I want to do is I want to bring it to the ancient the people of let's say uh the time of King David about 3,000 years ago. Why was it that the ancient people worshiped the sun? Because the sun is the natural replacement to what God is in the spirit. You see, the sun gives natural light. We saw Jesus using that light and darkness. Be sure that the light that is in you is not darkness. The sun also provided what they ate. You see, they planted their seeds. See, there was no sun. they wouldn't grow. The sun also baked their bricks that they build the houses with. They would take the clay, the mud, they would lay it out to dry it and boy, in one of those hot summer time, they could make a whole bunch of brick and build them a house. So, the natural light or the sun became the source of their life. And so what would happen is they would follow the sun. They would follow the moons. They were fascinated with that. So they found out as they would follow this that the sun after the summer solstice will begin to die. In other words, the the sun the time of the sun will be shorter. And you see that as summer ends, winter begins, the night get longer. Okay? And the sun gets shorter. So when it came down to about the end of December, at that time way back on December 24th, December 25th, the longest night came and the shortest day for the sun. There was snow, there was cold, the sun was so far down there that their crops wouldn't grow. They have to save the seed until springtime. So the very next day when the sun began to be longer again, that was a great time of festival that has been celebrated for you can go all the way back to uh Nimrod back to after Noah and his three son came out of the ark. So there's always been you you can look at it there there were gifts exchanged because they feared that if the sun kept getting shorter and shorter and shorter they will all die because their sustenance depended upon the sun. You need to understand this. This is very this is at the root of everything is that the false light and the real light. Now all of our system today we're refined. We don't say that to the sun and we don't say that but it's the same thing. All of our economy is based on that. If our economy fails then we all lose our jobs or we this happened. So everything works like this. Now I want to go to go to the next page and I'm going to show you how this affected the people of Israel. And this is going to be in the context of spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare is something that all of us are engaged into whether we like it or not. God, if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior and lord, the Bible says that everything that pertains to your life and to your godliness has already been made available for you. Colossians 1 where we read first scripture. You have already been qualified to receive all of this blessing. They are yours. You have been qualified to receive. God has provided them for you. Guess what? Satan does not want you to be blessed to have joy or to receive this blessing. So, Satan, who is the false light, his is a kingdom of darkness, will do everything possible to keep you from receiving the blessing that you have been qualified to. Now, guess who is it left up to to make the decision? Guess what? It's you and me. We either walk by the light of a natural understanding which is called darkness which leads to death or we walk by the light of the revelation of the spirit of God. That is what spiritual warfare is. Satan says you cannot have it. You do not disturb it. You did too much uh uh uh uh damage. You hurt too many people. You betrayed too many people. You're a loser. You'll never amount to anything. This is all in the natural understanding. Okay? in the spiritual understanding says your sins have been forgiven. God has put them as far as the east is from the west and I qualify you to receive every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus. And there's nothing Satan can do about it as long as I walk in that light. And I'll have to make the fight because my natural senses are going to fight me every step of the way. They are going to fight me. Why? Because the demons are in it. It says the the wisdom of the earth is demonic. It's sensual and that thing will fight me. Now, what's happening over here on this chapter is a a battle, spiritual warfare that they fought way back then. It begins in 2 Kings 3:27. And of course, we're not going to have time to go through everything there. So, I'll just give you some highlights of what's going on. And and if you want to put in the time, you can go ahead and uh and and read it. But look at 2 Kings 3:27. It says, "Then he took his eldest son, who would have reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel, so that they departed from him and returned to their own land." Now something happened in the spiritual realm when this man offer up his son as a sacrifice that caused a great deal of wrath. The word in the nation means wrath to arise against Israel and it kept them from fulfilling the word of the Lord that was spoken to them by the prophet. Now the setting in this sentence is Israel and Judah which are both Jews have become divided. When Solomon died his son that took his place abused the tribes of the north by putting too much taxes on them. So they rebelled against him and Israel became two kingdoms. The north were 10 tribes. They were called Israel. And to the south it was Judah and uh and Benjamin I think it was and they became Judah. So when you see here you will see that they are divided. Now the setting here is that when Ahab who was king of Israel died his son took his place. There was a nation which in this time it represents Satan. It was the nation of the world. Moab who pay them tribute. A 100,000 lambs and 100,000 skins of different animals they ha Previous Next Home

JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD AND HE LOVES YOU To proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ as the Son of God, highlighting His birth, death, and resurrection as the greatest gift humanity has ever received. The message aims to encourage listeners to accept His love, confess Him as Lord and Savior, and embrace the free gift of eternal life He offers. < Back JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD AND HE LOVES YOU Minister Lisa Kane December 25, 2022 Objective: To proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ as the Son of God, highlighting His birth, death, and resurrection as the greatest gift humanity has ever received. The message aims to encourage listeners to accept His love, confess Him as Lord and Savior, and embrace the free gift of eternal life He offers. Synopsis: In this Christmas message, Jesus is the Son of God and He Loves You, Lisa Kane shares the heart of the gospel, rooted in the humility and love of Christ. Beginning with Philippians 2:7–8, the teaching emphasizes how Jesus, though Creator of all, chose to humble Himself by being born as a man, living among us, and ultimately dying on the cross. His birth in Bethlehem, announced by angels and confirmed by shepherds, marked the fulfillment of God’s promise to send a Savior. The message walks through key scriptures (Luke 2, John 1, Matthew 16, 1 John 4–5, John 3, Romans 10, and more), each affirming Jesus’ identity as the Son of God. It stresses four central acknowledgments: His birth, crucifixion, resurrection, and the personal salvation available through confession and belief. The sermon contrasts Israel’s rejection of Jesus with the believer’s invitation to receive Him today, underscoring the urgency of responding before the return of Christ and the coming judgment. Lisa explains that salvation is not earned but freely given by God’s love through Christ, and that confessing Jesus as Lord brings transformation, forgiveness, and victory over sin, death, and the world. She calls on listeners to accept this priceless gift, leading them in a prayer of confession, and reminding them that Christmas is not only about His birth but also about the full gospel—His life, sacrifice, and resurrection. The message closes with encouragement to abide in Christ’s love, share the gospel with others, and live as overcomers through faith, celebrating the true meaning of Christmas: Jesus is the Son of God, and He loves you. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Sunday, December 25th, 2022. Merry Christmas. This message is called Jesus is the son of God and he loves you. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing on it as well so that we have knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and we know what your love is. we can experience it, share it with others, and share the good news, the gospel that you not only came as a man and was born, but you also went to the cross and humbled yourself before the heavenly father and did what you needed to do to save us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you our savior in the name of Jesus. Amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. We are looking at Philippians 2 7 and 8. but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondervant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. what we're going to be talking about here on December 25th here at the end of 2022 is the greatest gift that you could ever receive and that is acknowledging that Jesus Christ is the son of God and asking him to forgive you of your sins. Letting him be your Lord and Savior and letting him letting him change you on the inside because he loves you so much that when he realized he was born a man, he you know he's the one who created this world. You know he is the embodiment of let there be light. He is the numa the power. He was there in the beginning. Go read John 1:1 through4. He was there in the beginning and nothing is created without him. And he actually gave himself a role in his creation by being born a male child and not only being born but then humbling himself to the point of going to the cross and cru getting crucified. Uh you know this is the greatest gift you know it is acknowledging that Jesus Christ is the son of God. One acknowledging that he was born which brings the good news. Two, acknowledging that he was crucified. Three, acknowledging that he was resurrected. Four, and acknowledging that you can be saved if you would simply confess. What a gift. What a great gift. What a thing that Jesus did. It is so powerful and so true. He is Jesus Christ is the son of God and he loves you because he did this for us. you, me, doesn't matter what you did. Let's continue. Let's look at the scriptures now. Let's look at his birth. Luke 2:10-12. Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." And this will be the sign to you. you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger. So, did they find him? Because that's the sign that they gave him. Let's continue on. Look at verse 15. Now, so it was when the angels had gone away from them into heaven that the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us." And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. Now when they had seen him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this child. The angels came and told them what to do, where to go, and how to find their Messiah, their savior, and they found him. You know, I have been teaching about the wise men finding, which was remarkable in and of itself, but these guys did, too. So the angel said, "You go to the town of Bethlehem. You're going to find the babe lying in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes." And they did. I mean, how odd of a situation is that? So, here was such such an odd event, but he did it and he became a child, a male child, knowing that he's going to have to grow up, become a man, and humble himself before the Lord and be crucified because he loves us. Let's continue. First John 5:20. And we know that the son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we may know him who is true and we are in him who is true in his son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. I'm telling you, the scriptures are telling you that Jesus wasn't just a good man or a good guy, cool guy, a prophet, but he's the son of God, and that he came to die for you. The nation of Israel was expecting a king who would save them out of their what they thought was trials and tribulations. Jesus is coming as king. But he didn't come as king the first time. He came as the son of God, the Messiah, perfect with his love. He humbled himself and took the pain of the cross in humiliation because he loves you. And then you now have the opportunity to say, "Jesus, you are the son of God." Let's continue. Matthew 16:15-17. He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" This is that was Jesus talking. Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the son of the living God." Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven." Jesus and the heavenly father have been letting the world know that Jesus is the son of God. And that was what all the hubbhub was about. why Israel got so mad being called the king of the Jews because they rejected him. They said if he was truly the king, he wouldn't have let himself get up on the cross and be humiliated the way he does. And in fact, because he was so humiliated, the nation of Israel said there there is no way this is our God. That there's no way that this is the son of God. And you see now they get to be the guest of honor during the seven-year God's wrath time period that's coming. So they rejected. So don't do what Israel did and reject Jesus as a son of God. He is the son of God and he loves you. He loves you so much. He became born a child. What aches and ailments and pains do we have as we grow up in our childhood? How much suffering, rejection we go through? Pain and suffering, sicknesses, diseases, and some die prematurely. Jesus went through it all and took it to the cross and then took your sin that you committed, I committed, opened the door for, allowed in. He took it to the cross and said, "I take it and I apply my blood to it." And he cleansed it. He redeemed us and he rose from the dead. This is what Christmas should be about is his resurrection. So, you're celebrating his birth, his resurrection, the death, and his resurrection. Oh, hallelujah. This is the son of God. Continue. Let's continue on. 1 John 4:9. In this the love of God was manifested toward us that God has sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him. Now we get to live through him because we acknowledge that Jesus is the son of God. Look at this. 1 John 4:15. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him and he in God. You have this relationship when you say Jesus you are the son of God and you say I ask you to forgive me of my sins. You see, it's a free gift. You do not have to work for your salvation for eternity. You work to better your relationship with God, but you don't have to work for the free gift of eternal life because Jesus did it for you. And it's a gift. And all you have to say is, "I'm sorry. You're the son of God. Come into my life. Be my Lord and Savior. And let's abide with one another. teach me your ways so that I may get closer to you and be more like you and share the good news with this world. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is amazing, you guys. This is this is the good news that the angels were talking about. Let's continue. John 3 15-1 17. That whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. You see as a king he has to condemn the world and he will. But as a savior, as the son of God, he came to might say the you see that go back says that through him, but that the world through him might be see might because not everybody's going to do this that people are going to reject. That's what they do. But you have a choice. You're listening to this. You need to acknowledge, confess that Jesus is the son of God. and ask him to be your Lord and Savior. It changes you on the inside. Changes your DNA. Changes your whole persona because now you're demonstrating the love that God showed us. He loved us so much. He gave his son. So now when you need to sacrifice for your loved ones, sacrifice time, sacrifice atonement, you need to atone for them, pray for them, give them to God, and hope that they might get saved. You start to have that love that God had because God is saying, "I love these people." He said to Jesus, "I need you to go save them." And Jesus said, "I got this." He came as a man and he humbled himself and said, "I take your sin and I forgive you. Do you want my forgiveness?" And all you have to say is yes. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is an awesome message. Confess that Jesus is Lord. Jesus is the son of God. Let's look at first John uh 5:es 1-5. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves him who begot also loves him who is begotten of him. See, when you love the way God loves, now those that sin around you, whether ignorant or doing it on purpose, who hate you, all of a sudden, nah, I know it's not you. It's a demon behind the scenes, I know God loves you. I love you. I forgive you. Jesus forgives you. And all of a sudden, the power of forgiveness, the power of love moves. This is what love is all about. You know, when the world says, "Well, love is love. You've got to accept me in my sin for whoever I am." Guess what? No, I don't. But what I can say is that Jesus is the son of God and I love you, not your sin. But I'm telling you to confess Jesus as the son of God. And he will change you in such a way that you won't ever want to sin again. You see, you want to sin right now because it's pleasurable, but it's pleasurable for a season, but it opens the door for consequences. Do you really want to live those consequences? Some of you already are. You already know you had to stop sinning because the Lord worked a a a transgression in you. He worked something in you to chastise you, to get you back on your feet. He He brought a sin into your life to heal you in the long run. So in other words, like a cancer, he opened the door. He allowed that to happen. God is in control of everything. So you get a cancer. That's because you've been sinning and he's saying, "I need you to come back. I will heal you if you acknowledge that Jesus is the son of God and ask me to forgive you. I will do it because I love you. But I have to do these things because I got to get your attention. Do you see how this works? How this gets manifest. Let's continue on here. Verse two. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome. What? So you spend time with God in his word because it is fascinating to find out who he is. Can you imagine getting to know the creator of who made you? It is absolutely amazing and it is divine. It is absolutely incredible to spend time with the Lord. And you still have to go out in the world. You still got to go do your things. You know what, Jesus? Drink wine. Go have a little wine. Don't let it abuse you. Don't let it control you. You know, this is the things that you begin to learn and understand as a believer in Christ when you confess that Jesus is the son of God. Let's continue on verse four. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. Then see when you confess Jesus is God. Jesus is the son of God. You are of God now. And did you see this? Look at this. You're born of God and you're you overcome the world. You overcome cancer. You overcome CO. You overcome death. You see, your eternal life now is in God's hand. And if you're alive on the day of the Lord, when the rapture takes place, you overcome death because you already died to sin. And you died to this world because it changed you. That is the better. That is the better. Let's continue on. And this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith. You see, you have to take a step of faith for this. It's very challenging. I get that. But it's taking a step of faith. How do you do that? You talk, you confess that Jesus is Lord. You say, "Okay, Lord, I can't see you, but you know what? I'm going to take a leap of faith here and I'm going to say that you are the son of God and that I'm asking you to forgive me." It's a leap of faith. So now look at what he says. And this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith you overcome because now you become part of God. God becomes a part of you. You are now an overcomer. And look at this. Who is he who overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the son of God? You become an overcomer because you confess and believe that Jesus is the son of God. Now let's take a look at what Jesus did for his death. Because you got to understand he was born. This was good news but he had to die. Let's look at the death and the resurrection. Matthew 27:5-53. And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. Then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming out of the graves after his resurrection, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many. Can you imagine that? You know, he buried Aunt Lulu, Aunt Suzy, Uncle John, and all of a sudden they come up knocking on you. I got to tell you about Jesus. And you're just like, that had to be most interesting. I'm going to tell you that. But I'm going to tell you something here. When Jesus died, he was crucified and that temple or the veil in the temple was torn into which was a thick carpet. He did something so powerful that this is going to be for the end times. He tore his representation out of the hands of the nation of Israel and gave it to himself which then as he walked around for 40 days after the crucifixion, he said, "I'm leaving. I'm going to go away for a while. Here you represent me." You see, when you confess Jesus as the son of God, now you represent him. He says, "Get as many people as you can saved because there's going to come a point where that salvation will come to an end." Now, let's look at his resurrection here. It says Matthew 28:5-6, "But the angel answered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He's not here for he is risen as he said, "Come see the place where the Lord lay." So you can see he was born a man. He humbled himself before the Lord, went to the cross, died a humiliating death in his loin cloth of all things. And then he rose from the dead and redeemed you. Gave you salvation, a free gift, the greatest gift that you can open up on December 25th. Look at this. Romans 10:9 and through 10 and verse 13. That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes in righteousness and with the mouth confession is made into salvation. And then verse 13, for whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. You see, you confess that Jesus is the son of God. You become a part of God and God becomes a part of you and you accept that free gift. Now, the nation of Israel rejected Jesus as the son of God and they crucified him. They've got front row seats to the sevenyear tribulation time period of God's wrath. Now, they'll be covered. God's going to protect them, but they have to go through that. You don't have to go through that. You see, you confess today now that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Accept his love. Accept his mercy because doesn't matter what you did. You could have killed someone. Doesn't matter. He will forgive you of anything and everything. But once you die, you don't get that grace anymore. And I will also tell you this that once the rapture happens at the day of the Lord, it happens sometime on that day. We don't know the time. We don't know when that day is. We don't know the day nor the hour, but we know it. It's a part of that event structure in there. When that happens, the message we teach today no longer is applicable. You can no longer now say Jesus is the son of God. You might not even be able to do it. Now, in that seven-year tribulation, the first five months, nobody can die. And then after that, because nobody can die, after that it is highly likely you will have to die to show God that you truly are acknowledging that he is the son of God. So anyone alive on the day of the Lord that acknowledges Jesus is the son of God, you're in a special place with the Lord. He's got you covered and he's going to take you out because you are not appointed to go through that wrath of the seven-year tribulation. But anyone who does not confess Jesus as the son of God will have to go through that seven-year period. And the first five months, you cannot die. And there's going to be horselike scorpion things, demonic things coming around stinging you, and you will be in suffering. I don't wish that on anyone. I don't wish hell on anyone. I am begging you and asking you to accept this free gift from Jesus while you still can. Jesus is the son of God and he loves you. That doesn't matter what you've done. You can ask for forgiveness and be saved. Oh, hallelujah. Let's say it together. Jesus, repeat after me. Jesus, I acknowledge that you are the son of God, and I ask you to forgive me of my sins because I've sinned. I'm sorry. I ask you to come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Jesus name. Amen. And that, my friend, is what we celebrate as a believer in Christ with Christmas and the resurrection day, also known as Easter. I don't call it Easter, call it resurrection day. Well, let's close in a word of prayer. And I wish you God's blessings on your beautiful day here with your family and loved ones. Father God, we bless you. We thank you. We thank you Jesus for your salvation, your mercy and your grace, for humbling yourself and saving us. I pray that many, many, many and everyone receive you and live for you and acknowledge that you are the son of God in the name of Jesus. Amen. God bless you and I'll see you in the next message. I will see you in 2023. Bye. Bye. Previous Next Home

WALKING IN KNOWLEDGE To encourage believers to walk in the knowledge of God’s Word, developing wisdom, discernment, and boldness through the Holy Spirit, while rejecting unbelief, silence, and disobedience. The goal is to lead Christians into a deeper personal relationship with God in the secret place, where true understanding and spiritual renewal are found. < Back WALKING IN KNOWLEDGE Minister Lisa Kane November 10, 2023 Objective: To encourage believers to walk in the knowledge of God’s Word, developing wisdom, discernment, and boldness through the Holy Spirit, while rejecting unbelief, silence, and disobedience. The goal is to lead Christians into a deeper personal relationship with God in the secret place, where true understanding and spiritual renewal are found. Synopsis: In Walking in Knowledge, Minister Lisa Kane draws from Hosea 4:6 and Colossians 3:6–17 to emphasize the importance of living by the knowledge of God’s Word. She explains that destruction comes not only from rejecting knowledge but also from spiritual silence and unbelief, which hinder prayer, obedience, and God’s power from operating in our lives. Believers are called to boldly seek God’s wisdom through Scripture and the Holy Spirit, not relying solely on pastors or leaders but developing a personal, intimate relationship with God. Kane warns that rejecting knowledge leads to serious consequences, even impacting one’s children, while walking in knowledge brings blessing, renewal, and the ability to intercede effectively for others. Practical teaching is given on putting off anger, malice, lies, and filthy communication, and instead putting on forgiveness, humility, meekness, patience, kindness, and love—the true image of Christ. Walking in knowledge transforms the heart, renews the spirit, and empowers believers to live boldly, pray effectively, and act with discernment. Ultimately, Kane calls Christians to live as powerful intercessors, walking in God’s peace, unity, and thankfulness, so that everything they do brings glory to Jesus Christ. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this on Friday, November 10th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called Walking in Knowledge. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you that your word does not return void. We thank you that we have ears and eyes open to hear and see the living word of God. And we pray that our hearts and minds are open to receive and believe. Father God, help us stand strong in the knowledge of your word and and to walk with the spirit of discernment with your wisdom and your knowledge and your understanding to be a part of our lives. Father God, thank you Lord for blessing us and your favor upon us and enhancing our time alone with you in the secret place. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. We're going to be looking at Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because thou hast rejected knowledge. I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me, seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God. I will also forget thy children. So, in the last handful of weeks, I've been teaching on deliverance and changing our way we pray and and things of that nature. Well, this goes right along with it. It's kind of the culmination of it. So, we're going to be focusing on Colossians 3 6-17 for the most part of this um teaching. But here, I want you to see something because this is why we have to walk in the knowledge of the word of God. And in order for you to have knowledge, you need to be going to the source. That's the living word of God. That's God himself in the present. You need to be entering into that. And you can't get that just from church. You see, pastors and ministers and leaders of groups of people have to minister to the whole. They're the shepherd for the whole. Well, for you to get your individualized uh understanding and teaching, you got to go straight to the Holy Spirit. And the only way to do that is when you schedule time to do that. I've been teaching on this now for a handful of years. All right? So, take a look again. I want you to see this now with the rest of the meanings. And a reminder, when you see the words in bold, that's the word in the scripture. Well, when you see the words in italicize, those are other words that could be placed in that bold word. So, in other words, Strong's dictionary is what I'm using and they're the ones that provide the other trans, you know, other words that can be translated from the original text. So, gives you a bigger picture and a fuller picture and the understanding of the scriptures. So, my people are destroyed. When you think of the word destroyed, you think they're just blown away by a bomb or something. Uh, but instead that word destroyed means dumb or silent. Let's let's examine that for a minute. The only way you would ever be dumb is because you're not reading the word of God and you're not getting the truth from it. Because God, the gift of the Holy Spirit is wisdom, knowledge, understanding. These are some of the gifts that the Holy Spirit gives us. You do not have that when you're in the world. So, it's going to seem foolish to you, but you can have that wisdom because you're seeking the word of God. Notice also it says the word silent there. When you're silent, you're not praying for people or you didn't vote um the way God tells you to vote, which is through, you know, you don't vote for someone who supports abortion. That's murder. So if you're voting for that person, you are doing it silently and you are complicit to it, which means you're bringing a curse upon yourself and you don't even know it or realize it or you're doing it on purpose thinking that God is going to give you justification for it. The reality is no. So you cannot be dumb. You cannot be silent. You need to be praying. You need to be praying boldly. You need to be praying effectively for change, which in order for you to do that, you need to have the living word of God in you, his knowledge. So now look at this. It says, "My people are dumb or silent for lack of." Look at this. That word knowledgeers means knowledge there means cunning, aware, wittingly. You need to be cunning. Go back to Joshua. Take a look at Joshua and the way he was handling uh some of the the enemy camps that he had to deal with. At one point, he told God, "Stop the sun from moving. Stop the the the moon from moving as well till we finish getting these people." God said, "Okay, God did what Joshua told him to do." I'm telling you, God appreciates boldness in prayer. You know, when I go and I pray and and I prayed for California and the weather to be restored there when I was living out there and we had like six weeks of a deluge of water coming down. Part of it was I went to the Lord and said, "Shut the mouths of those that are cursing what we're trying to bless. I went straight up to the throne room praying that saying it. Actually, just telling God that boldness. Got to have the confidence in the boldness." And you see, if you're spending time with the Lord, you know you can do that. That's awesome. So, he's very clearly saying, you're dumb. You're silent. You're not being cunning. You're not aware. You're not being wittingly. You have to be aware of the things that are going on. You should be watching the news. Don't put your head in the sand. Uh you can't do that. You have to be watching the news. You have to be paying attention. You have to pay attention to what your preacher's preaching. You have to pay attention to what our representatives are doing in the government. And you need to be praying for them for salvation, but at the same time that they're following the living word of God. That's your responsibility. And if you're aware, you can get real cunning about it. You know, one of the things I just taught was prayer. You can go to Psalm 149 and it really tells you what you have a right to do as a a believer in Christ, but you can bless and you can curse. And so I'm asking God to forgive and forgive and forgive and that's exactly what I'm doing. But at the same time, I'm saying, "Okay, Lord, now that they're forgiven, let's open up their ears and eyes." Because Jesus said, "If you open up the ears and eyes, they will hear and believe." But there are some who continue to choose to reject the Holy Spirit, to continue to blasphe the Holy Spirit. Oh, okay. If you're going to continue to do that, then Lord Lord, rebuke them. Michael the Archangel said, "Lord, rebuke you, Satan." Talking to Satan, when he uh Satan was stealing Moses' body, he could have fought for him, but instead he humbled himself. Says, "I'm going to let the Lord handle you." You see, you there you can be cunning and aware and bold in your praying for that. And look at the consequences when you're not walking in his knowledge. Because thou rejected you, you cast awareness away. You were disdain knowledge. I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me. And see, we're supposed to be priests and priestesses unto God to God for the salvation and the mercy of all those around us and those that we are responsible for in prayer in the name of Jesus. Look what further happens. Seeing thou has forgotten, listen that word forgotten there is mislay or oblivious. You're oblivious to it. You haven't purposed to go find out the knowledge of the living word of God. You haven't done that. But because you're oblivious of the law of thy God, you know what the new law is that we follow? Love one another with all your heart, mind, and soul, and love your neighbors as you do yourself. Because that's the new commandment that Jesus gave us. And that word love is obligation, duty. I just taught on all of that. It's a different kind of love than benevolence or having an emotional attachment. Love is a duty and an obligation to serve the Lord even when you don't feel like it, even when you don't want to do it or even if you don't know what to say. It is putting yourself in that place and saying, "Holy Spirit, you're going to have to take over because I'm not feeling it today." And he will. He answers that kind of prayer. But seeing that you've forgotten the law, you're not following it, I will also forget thy children. Do you love your children? You better put God first in your life. That's just simple reality of it. There are so many children out there suffering and it's because the parents aren't spending their time with the Lord and not getting right with the Lord, not walking in the knowledge of God when they're supposed to. That is your responsibility as a believer in Christ. And then you should be reaping the harvest, too. Okay, we're going to focus here in Colossians 3. So, let's uh start in verse six here. for which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. Okay, so here is now the children of disobedience which we just read from Hosea 4:6. Look what he says. He says wrath or the punishment of God comes on the children of disobedience. And that word disobedience is disbelief and unbelief. You know, if you go read Jeremiah and I think it's 38 or 39, he's talking uh they just pulled Jeremiah out of the mire in the pit and he meets with King Zedekiah and the king is saying in confidence, tell me what the Lord has said. And the, you know, he's telling them, hey, the Lord told you, you need to go to Babylon and you will live if you go to Babylon. If you don't, you got problems. Well, he didn't. And when Babylon invaded and he ran, they captured him. and they plucked his eyes out and they killed his children in front of him before they plucked his eyes out. He had a choice. He chose the wrong way and that's the consequence. And his children were were killed as a response uh uh to that. Do you love your children? Take up your responsibility and be a good parent and start spending time with God so your children can be saved and your children can live for Christ. Amen. And and when you don't believe and I want you to think about this for a minute, instead of saying, "Lord, that's just that that's not real. I just cannot believe it." Instead, I want you to say, "Lord, you know what? I don't understand what that is, but I'm going to trust in you, and I'm asking you to help me understand that so I can believe." You see, now you're putting that unbelief or disbelief. You know, did God hold the sun and the moon for Joshua? The Bible says he did. How many of you truly believe that or don't? How many truly believe Zedekiah did reject the word of God through Jeremiah and got what he deserved? Some of you are saying, "Well, that's cruel. What kind of a God is this?" Hey, I'm telling you, he's the righteous, justice God who created you and me. He is the creator. You better have a lot of respect and humility for him in the name of Jesus, right? But these are consequences. And by the way, these are consequences that you cause because you chose to disbelieve. This is why we have to walk in knowledge. This is why we obey and pray through obedience. I just taught on that. This is why we have to go and ask the gifts of the Holy Spirit to be upon our minds and our hearts in the name of Jesus. Amen. Verse seven. In the which ye also walked followed some time when you lived in them. See, we used to be like King Zedekiah. We used to be like the enemies running from Joshua. Not any longer. I'm a mighty warrior of God and intercessory prayer behind the scenes. You may not even know it. You don't even know I'm praying for you, but I am. And I'm being very cunning and aware about my prayer, too. This is a job and a responsibility that you can do too if you choose to do it. Amen. Verse 58 in Matthew 13:58. And he did not me many mighty works there because of their unbelief. See, unbelief affects your entire atmosphere around you. You see, when you don't believe in something, God's miracles can't prevail. Look at this. He says there were not many works there. There were not many mighty works there. Then mighty works by the way is the force or the miraculous powers the whole you know the healings and and if you read the gospels you will find that Jesus was healing a lot of pe people. But in this particular situation he wasn't because they didn't believe. In fact I think when he um uh delivered the guy from the demon of legion is when he went and started telling everyone look what God has done for me and then they believed. So he that had that's what the situation is. You can go read that and do a little extra homework. But your unbelief is affecting your surroundings. If you're wondering why you're not getting answers to prayer, and I just taught on this a few weeks ago, is because you're sending mixed messages to God. You don't believe the miracle could happen. But you go up and get prayed thinking, "Okay, it's going to happen." But you're not believing it. You're not saying, "God, I'm having trouble here with this, but I'm going to go do it anyways." because you want to be obedient, but you're having trouble with it. And God has to work in here as well as in here in order for you to walk in godliness and righteousness and to have faith because you you can be healed. You can be delivered. Prayer can be answered. And prayer does work. I promise you that. I've seen it work so much in my life. I've seen it work in other people's lives. Prayer works. It transforms a person because we're allowing the Holy Spirit in to move in that person's heart and mind. It's all the battle's done behind the scenes. This is why we're called intercessory prayers. We're interceding on your behalf. Verse 8 in Colossians 3. We're back at Colossians 3 now. But now ye also put off all these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Everything that we do and everything that we're in has a consequence of the result of what the words we spoke. If you think you're going to win a million dollars because you want b went and bought one lottery ticket and you're like, you know what, I'm believing that and and you know what? It can happen. You you can definitely win that million dollars because you walked in with with belief. It's like the only ticket you ever buy, you went in and you just bought it and said, "Lord, I'm giving this to you and it could happen now. For someone like me, I'd be like, "Uh, no." And see, I don't believe it. You know, the Bible tells us we need to work for our food. We're not going to just be handed a million dollars. But that's my belief. Your belief can be totally different. He says, "If you believe enough to move this mountain out of the way, the mountain will move." Well, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't because it's my level of belief. It's what I've learned. I have to unlearn things that I learned growing up. It was so easy to call the doctor's office, make an appointment, go in and get the little pill that will take care of the symptom. What I found out though, and I did learn this, is I want the root taken care of. And in order to have the root symptoms, the root of the problem that's causing the symptoms to be taken care of, I had to go to God. It's like taking my Rolls-Royce to a Jify Lube. Why do I want to go to the hospital or a doctor's office to take care of something when I'm a Rolls-Royce? I should be taking it back to my creator and let him find the problem and fix it. And nine out of 10en times it has to do with unbelief and it has to do with the hardness of the heart and it has to do with my spirit. Has nothing to do with the physical because the physical manifests what's in the spiritual. Been teaching on that too. Binding and loosing. I just taught that. We got a lot of teachings on that on the House of Faith Ministries website as well. You can go check it out. But he's telling us in our mouth to put off these things. There's anger, which is violent passion. There's wrath or fierceness, indignation. You know what? When you you're right. Oh, that person was wrong and they should apologize to you and you're not going to give. Well, that is fierceness and indign indignation. Guess what? You got to get it out of you. You got to let it go. Yeah, you're right. But why don't you forgive them and and dissolve the whole thing? And that way both of you are saved. Just cuz you're And by the way, just cuz you're right doesn't mean anything in the long term of things. You're still going to either end up in heaven or end up in hell, depending on the circumstance and situation of what you're at, whether you got saved or not. But if you're a believer and you're walking in that there there physical consequences that are going to manifest out of your body. Sores, cancer, pain, ache, suffering. You don't want that. It ain't worth it. I promise you that. I don't care how right you are. It ain't worth it. Let it go. Just let it go. Make your life a whole lot better. And he's telling us to cast that out. Uh malice. Well, that's just simple badness. You know how many people walk across uh like a train platform? I see this in the New York uh news often. There's somebody walking around push somebody in front of a train. You can't do that. They just did it. Or push someone out in front of a car, push someone off a bridge. Uh there was a video u and this went to court. This friend pushed her friend off the edge of a cliff so she can finally jump into the water below. and it was like 60 ft. The friend survived with several broken bones, but she ended up going to jail for it was a short amount of time, too. I thought, man, our justice, we need to pray for our justice system. By the way, I'm just stepping into these prayers. Just because you're not seeing the results yet, that doesn't mean it's not going to happen. And if we get more people that are praying like what I'm praying or praying the way the Holy Spirit teaches you how to pray, then we're going to see the power of God move. Amen. But we need to put off badness. We have to stop blaspheming or vilifying something else. We have to take responsibilities for our issues. And then we have to stop filthy communication. That is vile conversation. Cursing someone, man, so and so just needs to go to hell. Yeah, people say that kind of stuff. You cannot say that. You have to get it out of your mouth. So, we're trying to teach you here to walk in knowledge. This is part of it. It means you need to have the gift of the Holy Spirit of self-control over your mouth, over your behavior, over your attitude. And we need more self-control in the world. Amen. Simple as that. So, he's teaching us how to do this in Colossians 3. Now, we're in verse 9. Lie not to one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds. Okay, look at this. Lie not to utter untruth. Don't lie to people. Don't lie to anyone. Don't lie. God hates lying, by the way. He hates it profusely. He hates it. He doesn't like it at all. Just just don't lie. Simple as that. And he says, uh, seeing that ye have put off. See, now he's talking about what you've done. You have de dvested wholly oneself. You desoiled yourself. You had let go of all of those things. Anger because you're forgiving. When you're forgiving and you have the attitude forgive is awesome. Take a look at what Hamas has done. I I can't say the atrocities here, but and I don't want to say the atrocities that they've done, but they've done some vile things. I mean, horrific to the people of Israel that they went in and invaded there. Ask yourself, can you forgive them of that? Can you forgive someone who raped you if you're a a victim of rape? Can you forgive the person who got you hooked on drugs? If you can do that, God can work with you because now he's realizing and you're realizing that you're trying to change your inside man and you've done that. Which means don't go back to badness or lying and letting your mouth control you. No. Now use it for good. He says, and look at these are practiced. See, he says the old man with his deeds practice. You've always practiced these things in the past because that's who you were. You would say these fleeting thoughts that you shouldn't have. Well, now it's time to practice the new the new stuff, the living word of God, scripture, apply scripture, and see you can do that if you know what the scripture is because you've been reading it in this secret place with the Lord. You have to do it and you got to practice it. And sometimes you have to focus on trying to memorize the scripture or write it down so that it sticks with you. Whatever you got to do, you know you and you know how you would remember it. Put a a little rhyme in there or put a little tune with it. Something to help you remember it. But you can remember the living word of God. Amen. Verse 10. And have put on a new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. All right. This is what's so powerful. This is why I called this message walking in knowledge because I want you to understand something here. He says you put on the new man and it is renovated. You have been renovated by what? In knowledge after the likeness of him, God that created me or you. This is what I'm talking about. You find the knowledge and you you you find I don't want my kids to suffer. I want them to be blessed. I don't want them to be cursed. I want to do better for myself because I love the Lord and I love what he does. He is such a good person. So, I do my best to be obedient and to go find the knowledge of the living word of God so that I can walk in it every day in my prayer life, in my Bible study life, in teaching the word of God, in sharing testimony to people around me. That is how God moves. So, I need to make certain my mouth is renovated. My body is renovated in the name of Jesus Christ, the living God. This is how you do that. So, and you put on the image of God because you're made in his image. And now you've been renovated back into his image. That's awesome. Look at this. And then verse 11. where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, githian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all. So when let's talk about that forgiveness of of um Hamas and these the acts that they did that were horrific. If you can forgive them and let that go, you have a self-control upon you and you should be following God. You are now in his likeness. Do you want to know why? Because he loves that person, a murderer, a killer. Uh he loves anyone just as much as he loves me. You mean God loved Hitler, too? Yes, he did. He didn't love the deeds. He just he loved the man and he hoped he would get saved. And you know what? If Hitler called out to God and asked Jesus to save him before he offed himself, he might be in heaven. You never know. This is why we can't ponder these things. We have to look at ourselves and realize that if God loves me, and it's not because of my actions, by the way. He simply loves me because he can love a terrorist just as much as he loves me. If God can love me and he loves them, then we need to love them, too. This is why we need to practice forgiveness and praying in the spirit of forgiveness and letting go and casting away because it's not you can be as good as you want. It will do you no good. It is not by your might. It is not by your will. But it is by God's spirit in the name of Jesus. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. This is a good message. Verse 12. Put on therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, knowledge or excuse me, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. So now he's giving us another list of things that we can follow. So put off all that anger, fierce, wrath, what have you. And look at now he says, "Put this on. You're the favorite chosen of God." You see, now God, he God loves a terrorist as much as he loves me. But my actions say God I I'm his favorite because I'm chosen by him. That terrorist is not his favorite. Anyone doing evil deeds is not God's favorite. He's going to hope and try to get you saved, but you're not his favorite if you're following badness or evilness. So this is where we come in now. Putting on the righteousness of God, putting on these things that Paul is listening for us, listing for us. And when we go walking in that, we have the favor of the Lord upon us. Oh, hallelujah. And that's what we want. Oh, you guys got to get that. You want the favor of the Lord upon your life. Not for the goodies, just because you can have a beautiful relationship with your creator. He is awesome. He created us. He allowed me to be born and live today and to choose him. How awesome is that? Oh, we got to get that. We got to get that. So, we got to put on. Look at this. The bowels inward affection. You see, you got to have that affection on the inside. This is why even if you don't feel like it, you do the act of obedience and you speak the word. I'm going to forgive those terrorists, Lord. I don't want to. And I'm telling you straight up, I don't want to, but I'm asking you to help me change my heart. And I wept the other day when I was in prayer for Hamas because these people have no idea what they're doing. Or if they do, they they've chosen the wrong side. Oh, we got to pray for these people. You see, God changes your inside to begin to pray and minister to those around us that are walking in anger and hatred, bitterness, especially, let's say it's one of your friends and they're talking about so- and so, you know what, try to change the subject. Put on there, you know, hey, how about um how about God and what he's doing? I I see that he's moving over here at this church or this university. I see revival happening over here. Why don't we go to that? And they might look at you and they may reject you at that point, but that's on them. But behind the scenes, if you were praying for them in advance, you might get through them. You might reap the harvest there, but you got to be ready for it. This is what we're talking about. getting the knowledge of God, walking in the spirit of discernment, in this boldness, in this confidence, and knowing what to say, when to say, how to say it, and have pity on others, kindness, you know, kindness is just moral excellence, humbleness of mind. You're need you need to be modest. I mean, I got a great relationship with the Lord, but I'm not going to go and and tout that in front of you. I'm not here to do that, okay? I'm here to show you how much I love you and how much I love God and that we can all have God in our lives. Amen. Amen. Meekness, which is gentleness, longsuffering, that's forbearance and fortitude. These are the things we need to have. We have to be persistent. You know, I think it was yesterday uh I uh yeah, I think it was yesterday. I um went to the Lord and I said, "You know what, Lord? I'm going to keep praying the same thing over and over again like that lady did to the judge in um in the Gospels because you taught us how to be persistent. And I'm going to nag. I nag for salvation. I nag for uh revelation, revival, repentance. I'm nagging for it all Lord in the name of Jesus. This is why this is how you become cunning and aware of how to pray because you start applying the scriptures and you're you're walking in the steps that God has showed us how to walk in through his word. Why? Because you purposed in your heart to go live it. Look at it, read it, study it, and get it deep down inside of you. That's what we need. Hallelujah. Verse 13, forbearing. Hold oneself up against bear with endurance suffering. That's what that whole forbearing means is to hold oneself up against whatever it is that you're facing. To bear with endurance that you bear it, you suffer it. You're suffering one another and forgiving, pardoning, rescuing one another if any man has a quarrel or a blame against any. Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye forgive them. They have a complaint against you. They blame you for something. That's the accuser, by the way. That's the devil. You see, a lot of people like to do the devil's job for him. And I'm going to tell you, stop. Looks better on him than it does on you. God loves you so much that he wants to save you. So, stop blaming. And see, if we're in the behind the scenes, we're praying for these individuals. We're praying that they don't blame one another, that they don't accuse one another, but we're praying and asking for mercy and forgiveness and humbleness upon them, and that they get the knowledge of the word of God so they can walk in obedience in the word. And by the way, if they see you doing it, it's an awesome testimony because you know I there's a gal I used to work with and uh she believes in Allah. She's a Muslim or Islam. And she saw me in my relationship with the Lord, reading my Bible and praying every day for at lunch on my lunch break for the food and whatever. She got actually closer to God it through Allah just because of that. People watch you and see you. And I'm not, you know, I don't promote Islam because, you know, Jesus is the living word of God. But she at least saw it and responded to it. And that to me is amazing. Now I pray and I'm praying every day that she finds Jesus the son of God. And I'm hoping for it, too. And I believe that it's going to happen because I know that she was a very religious person because she wanted to be. She She recognizes the power that's behind the scenes in prayer and having a relationship with God. She recognized that. She knows but this is what you have to do. So you got to forgive and then above all these things put on charity and that is affection benevolence which is the bond. It's a uniting principle of perfew awesome. This is how we become complete in him. And when we become complete because we're walking in knowledge, we become cunning, aware Christians. And we are individuals who give God the glory, honor, praise, and strength. And we are the ones behind the scene interceding for everything. Every church service, every Bible study, every person in our neighborhood, every person in the government, every person in Israel and and Jerusalem, we're praying the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus. Jesus, you're over this person who has cancer. They will not have cancer anymore. We're breaking that cancer. We're breaking the curses. I atone for them. I am being the priest or the priestess to them, Father God, in the name of Jesus. This is walking in knowledge with God. This is what we need to be doing in the name of Jesus. Amen. Verse 15. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body. And be ye thankful. Let's let's delve into this because see this is now the attitude that we should be having behind the scenes. Peace and where does peace come from God. It's a fruit of the Holy Spirit. Love, joy, peace. That's the fruit of the spirit. So peace comes from the Holy Spirit. And that word peace by the way means prosperity, quietness, and rest. You want to be prosperous, prosperous in your spirit, in reaping the harvest. Yes. Prosperous in your finances. Abraham was rich. King David and Solomon were rich. These are people that were well off in the name of Jesus and they served the Lord still. So don't think that you can't be blessed. And I don't want you to limit yourself and put yourself in a box or to put God in a box about that. You have the right to believe in prosperity. The issue is is you got to make sure that God fixes your heart so that it doesn't own you but that you own it. Amen. You see, you got to get that right. And then of God rule arbitrate. So we and let the peace of God rule in your hearts. Meaning let God arbitrate because see our hearts have to go up to the justice system to the courtroom where God is because God operates in the law. He has a principle and everything is there in order. He made an order for it. But the moment you forgive. Oh, you're not acc You can't be accused of that anymore. No, no, wipe that all off. You're clean. And the devil's shouting over there, "No, no, no. That person's evil. That person deserves hell." And Jesus said, "No, I forgave them." And and God looks back down. No, I see the blood of Jesus over that person. They're saved. And the devil is so rattled by it. That is what arbitration is, folks. You get into the presence of the Lord because you're in the sacred place. You're praying and you're reading his word and you're having the relationship. You're letting him rule your heart. Arbitrate your heart because he's telling you you're forgiven and you're saying, "I believe it. I take it. 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INTERCESSION SPIRITUAL WARFARE Taught by Pastor Marcos early 2006 (unknown recording date) AUDIO ONLY - uploaded to HoFM website on 7.15.24. Note, the ending is cut-off with no closing prayer, but the substance of the message is there, and this is a good teaching on spiritual warfare. Objective: Equip believers to practice intercession as true spiritual warfare: knowing the real Jesus, standing in their God-given authority, and speaking God’s Word to confront principalities and powers, break curses, and apply the blood of Jesus over their lives, families, and communities. < Back INTERCESSION SPIRITUAL WARFARE Pastor Marcos Marrero January 1, 2006 Objective: Taught by Pastor Marcos early 2006 (unknown recording date) AUDIO ONLY - uploaded to HoFM website on 7.15.24. Note, the ending is cut-off with no closing prayer, but the substance of the message is there, and this is a good teaching on spiritual warfare. Objective: Equip believers to practice intercession as true spiritual warfare: knowing the real Jesus, standing in their God-given authority, and speaking God’s Word to confront principalities and powers, break curses, and apply the blood of Jesus over their lives, families, and communities. Synopsis: After welcoming the Holy Spirit, the message frames intercession as active spiritual warfare. Using Psalm 18, David’s experience illustrates demonic assault—fear, death, and floods of ungodliness—met by crying out to God, who “shakes the earth” and delivers. Words are shown to carry jurisdiction: attacks often ride on hateful or cursing words, which must be condemned (Isaiah 54:17). A key contrast appears between David and Saul: not sinlessness, but allegiance. Spiritual warfare begins with knowing the real Jesus and refusing syncretism (mediums, rituals, horoscopes, cultural paganism). From Ephesians 3:10, the church—God’s living temple—is tasked to make known God’s wisdom to principalities (jurisdictions) and powers (delegated enforcers). Jesus grants superior authority (Luke 10:19) to trample serpents and scorpions and to nullify the enemy’s manifested “dunamis.” The message unveils the manifold (sevenfold) Spirit on Jesus (Isaiah 11:2) and explains how wisdom, understanding, and knowledge build and establish God’s plan (Proverbs 24:3–4). Reverent fear of the Lord gives “quick understanding,” guarding against self-use of spiritual gifts. Believers are called to strike the earth with the rod of their mouth (Isaiah 11:4): declare Scripture, apply the blood of Jesus to silence bloodguilt in the land, and break family and regional curses. Practical targets include religion-bound strongholds (“bulls,” Psalm 22) and secular governmental/ cultural pressures (“lions”). Intercession starts at home—speaking over family, health, finances, schools, workplaces—while trusting God to dispatch angelic help as His Word is declared. The call to action: stand in Christ’s righteousness, speak God’s Word boldly, and contend for God’s kingdom to manifest on earth—for protection, deliverance, and revival. Inspired Teaching: We welcome you, Holy Spirit, right now. We thank you that during the time of praise and worship, you you brought us into the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and grace in the time of need. And even now, as we have prayed for the people that were anointed and commissioned, you were there, dear Lord Jesus, to touch and to fill and and to fulfill your promises in the lives of those that we were prayed for. And now we ask you that you will anoint your word that as h I offer my lips, Father God, as a sacrifice of praise to you that the Holy Spirit may use, Father God, let your anointing, Father God, touch the hearts of each of every one of us here tonight. For we need you, Lord Jesus. These are desperately wicked times. We need you now more than ever before. We need your presence. We need your power. You need We need your anointing. So Lord Jesus have your will with us tonight. Amen. Amen. Praise God. You may be seated. Thank you Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise you father. I want to talk about the uh intercession. Uh I first of all I want to apologize for not making it last week. As you know, we moved to Lake Elsenor and my wife and I first time in the two and a half months we've been there. We ordered pizza on Thursday night and uh oh my god, I puke all night long Thursday night. I mean, and then she started on on uh on Friday morning. We This is incredible. We got in bed at 10 or 11 in the morning and slept like six hours straight. Then we got in bed Friday night at 6 o'clock and we slept until the next day and you know getting up and and getting sick and and all that stuff. But there's no way we could have drove out here. Believe me, uh we were dying. We thought we were poison. We thought they they put poison or something in there. So, but we're here tonight. Um let me show you. If you go to Psalm 18, let me show you what intercession is all about. Intercession is about spiritual warfare. Okay? And and I want you to see um what from from David's uh point of view uh what uh spiritual warfare is all about. The Psalm 8 thing it is all is also in 2 Samuels I believe and is about uh doing spiritual warfare. If you look at verse four Psalm 18 verse4 this is what David says. Now remember David is a mighty man of God. David is anointed of the Holy Spirit and he says the pains of death surrounded me and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. The sorrows of shield that's hell surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me. That is talking about spiritual attack. David came under a demonic spiritual attack. He says the the spirit of death just came and in around me the floods of ungodliness. That's when all every wicked thing that you can ever think of begin to flow through you through your mind. and all of a sudden you you feel like killing somebody or doing those vile things and you step back and said, "Where in the world was that coming from?" So, he's talking about not only the spirit of death coming after him, but the the this filthy uh uh things that that that surrounded him that made him afraid. He says, "The sorrows of hell shield surrounded me and the snares of that confronted me." He says, "In my distress, I called upon the Lord and I cried out to my God." And then if you go on to read on, he says that God heard his his cry from the temple. And look at verse seven says, "The earth shook and tremble." And it's important that you understand this because the earth is very much connected to spiritual warfare. The spiritual warfare takes place here on the earth. The battle may may have its origins up in there. That's where shield is at. That's where these things are at. But I want you to see that it was down here on the earth where God answer and moved. What does it say there? It says God shook the earth. I don't think this was a regular. It might have been that this was a regular u uh earthquake. But what this is saying is whatever this demonic thing that was rising out of the earth coming against David, God began to shake him. Then he says the foundations of the hills also quake and were shaken because he was angry. And then he talks about like God getting h smoke coming out of his mouth. And this is very important because it symbolizes the word of God. When God speak his word is like a fire. Isaiah says, "Isn't my word like a fire that sets stuff on fire?" Uh, you know, uh, stuff that that needs to be burned out. And he said, "My word like a hammer that breaks rocks into pieces." He says, "He bent down the heavens and came down." And then he says that, um, all of the things uh, verse 12, verse 13, the Lord thunder from heaven, the most high utter his voice, hailstones and calls of fire. And then he goes all the way uh to verse uh 15. The channels of the sea were seen. The foundations of the world were on cover at your rebuke Lord at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. So he's saying that he came under a demonic attack. A demonic attack that originated in hell itself. This is what David is saying. All of the things were coming up against me was like a flood of iniquity. Think of every vile thing you can ever think of. Have it all flowing through you at the same time. Plus at the same time having this fear like a a a spirit that is trying to snuff your life out and you're feeling all like choked to death by this thing. Did you know that more people wake up in the middle of the night frightened or panicked because things like that happen to them? There are people that cannot sleep on their beds. I know many people sit on their sofa with the TV on all night long because they cannot get into that deep area of sleep because that demonic attack is able to come in against them like that. So what we're going to talk about tonight, this is not part of the message, but I want you to see why it is so important to understand spiritual warfare because spiritual warfare does not prevent the enemy from attacking you. But it does enable God when we pray the prayer, when we call upon him to do what he needs to do to get us through and get us over the demonic attack. He says in verse 16, "He sent from above and he took me." Oh, I love that. He says, "God all of a sudden saw that David was in trouble and God just sent from above and took it. He drew me out of the many waters and he delivered me from my strong enemy." And look who the enemy was from those who hated me for they were too strong for me. Those who hated me. Did you know that Satan hates us with a passion? And did you know that Satan the people that he possesses or the people that he works through that hate can be vented out through them? Did you know that people will, especially family members or close friends, can hurt you a lot more than anybody else could ever will? And that's because when Satan is able to come into their their way of thinking, he can vent this hate. And that hate manifests itself through cursing words. I hate you. When that word is spoken like that with the passion that is spoken like that there's a torrent of death that is poured out through that and we need to understand that in the the real spiritual warfare those words have to be confronted in Isaiah 54:17 no weapon formed against me shall prosper meaning that and then it says every word that rises against you meaning that when a word is spoken that word is like a seed that wants to grow into a free, wants to prosper, wants to grow. And that's what Satan does. He speaks the light. And the more that that that light works in us and and and is reinforced by other people, the more hate and the more fear that it builds up on us. And those words have to be condemned. He says, "But every word that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn." Spiritual warfare is taking the words the Satan speaks against us and making them null and void saying that word is not going to take a stand against me. Now then David goes in it says verse 18 Psalm 18:18 they confronted me in the day of my calamity. You know what the day of your calamity is? Is when you're down. I believe I don't know I didn't research it but I believe that this psalm was written at the lowest part of David's uh sin. I believe like Psalm 51 he was confronted with his sin. That was the day of his calamity. Now David had many days to where he faced calamity. But when you're down, when you're the worst at the worst point in your life, when you're at your lowest point in your life, that is when Satan comes in and he will attack you. He will attack you. He will send that coil to to wrap around your neck and he he will bring those bitter words, those hateful words. He will bring everything he can to destroy you. And this is why we need to know how to call upon the Lord because David says that in the day of his calamity when he was confronted by the enemy, the Lord was his support. In verse 19, he also brought me out into a broad place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. The Lord delighted in David. And yet he was a sinful man. He was a man that failed. Now, here's the key. This is why I'm reading this before I teach the lesson. Here's the key that I want you to understand. It wasn't that David was perfect. It wasn't his calamity. It was brought upon probably by by sins that he did by something where he disobeyed God or some some act that he did because Satan is the accuser of the brethren. And every time we step out of line, he takes advantage of that and he comes like a flood trying to destroy us. But then look at verse 20 because this is the key that I want you to see. David is able to say this. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands. He has recompensed me. Now, the very first thing that went through everybody's mind over here is, "Oh, man. I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble according to my righteousness." But no, this is why I prefaced that where David wasn't a perfect man. David sinned and that's why God allowed to sin. What was it that David was talking about the righteousness of my hand? Did you know that the difference between David and Saul, King Saul, the difference between the two is that Saul was never sure who the real God was. There was no doubt on David's heart who the real God was. He knew that God was Yahweh and he worshiped Yahweh. He prayed Yahweh. He was a a a a man like of flesh like we are. And he had a propensity toward sin. But never ever ever in his heart did he allow another god to take his place. How do I know that? Because when Saul felt abandoned, who did he go to? To the witch of Endor. Whatever you do, my friend, don't ever ever and if you have done it, repent and say, "Lord, I will never do that again." Never seek God through a medium. Never seek God through a fortune teller. never sink out through a saint or through a religious uh h ritual or item. We have to this is at the heart of spiritual warfare. We have to know who the real god is. The real god is a holy god and it's a jealous god. And when you get to to somebody else that imitates god, he doesn't like it. And when that time the of the uh demonic attack comes against you, you better know who the real god is. This is why I come so strong against Christmas and against Easter and all of these pagan rituals that have been uh instituted through the church through the centuries so that the church has no power. Why would the Lord when you say in the name of Jesus and and be healed and and why would the Lord heal it when we're worshiping a Jesus that is not the Jesus of the Bible? You know, if somebody comes and say, "Oh, happy birthday." Well, it's not my birthday today. you know, why would I accept that? And you see that that the church through traditions and through things has been polluted and to where people don't know who God is. You know, it is so easy for a Christian to go from uh uh from reading the Bible and getting the council of God to reading a fortune cookie and getting a revelation from the fortune cookie or reading their horoscope on the newspaper and say, "Oh, well, the Lord spoke to me through that." There's just no difference. We we don't realize it that God is a God that's pure and holy and that is the only thing that's going to keep our hands clean when we know who the real God is and when we pray to the real God. Amen. And the same way and and and it was the same way with u uh with Jonah. Jonah was a man that was in rebellion. And you can read in Jonah chapter 2. He was a man that was in rebellion. The same thing happened to him. the coil, the waters uh surrounded him. The the snares or the coils of hail shield went around him. And when God delivered him, he cried from the uh uh the belly of the fish with he had been dead for three days. He wasn't alive and he was dead. He went down to hell and he cried to the Lord from down in there and God answered him. And then he says, "God rewarded me according to the cleanliness of my hands." And you say, "Well, what do you mean cleanliness of my hand? you were in rebellion to God. God said, "Oh, go over there and you went this way." Well, because he believed that if he went where God went, that God would heal the people. And he didn't want those people to be healed. He believed God. He had faith. He knew who the real God was. And even though he was in rebellion to God, when he called to the real God, the real God answered. So, at the heart of uh spiritual warfare, at the heart of intercession is first of all the foundation. You better know who the real Jesus is. You better know who the real Jesus is. Not everybody that says Jesus or says Lord, Lord is talking about the Jesus you're talking about. Not everybody that's quoting the scripture is talking about the same Jesus of the Bible. And not everybody that is singing son to Lord Lord is singing to our Lord. You know that's that's what one of the Beatles tried to prove. Who was it? Uh uh what was his name? The no the other guy. Yeah, the one that died. George Harrison. Harrison. George George Harrison tried to prove Yeah. Thank you. But George Harrison tried to prove that anybody could sing to anything. So he wrote a song to Ham Maharaji in India. One of those new age guys or whatever. He My sweet lord. You guys probably remember that song. My sweet lord. My sweet lord. And people think thinking that he was singing it to the Lord Jesus Christ. No, he was singing it to some Maharachi over there in in India or Tibet some place. And he wanted to prove that all you have to do is put word the word Lord to it and everybody will go with it. And ever since that time we have all kinds of son says my sweet Lord my sweet Lord and they say Jesus and they say this and they say that and they're not of God. And if you're going to know about a spiritual warfare and intercession, you better know the real God because it's only in the name. That's the name that God responds to when hell comes after you. You better know you better know Jesus real number. You know, you don't want to get a wrong number. You don't want you don't want to dial Jesus and and and wind up, you know, with a with with with a house of ill repute, which that that is what the demonic thing is. Go to Ephesians Ephesians chapter 3 and we're going to deal with spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 10. And the reason why I I put that emphasis on that is because we need to know Jesus, the real Jesus. And you know there is a cost to knowing Jesus. In John uh chapter 6, as a matter of fact, 666 666, he says, "And many of the disciples turn away from Jesus." John 666. That's a sign of of And then uh uh the 12 disciples went to Jesus and and then Jesus said, "Aren't you going to leave me too?" He said, "Where, Lord? We left everything for you." And you know, you want to be with the real Jesus, give everything to the real Jesus. You got nowhere else to go when you run out of things. So, praise God. Ephesians chapter 3, 10. Now, how many of you know that you're the church, not the building? I mean, thank God for the building and thank God that we're out of the rain and out of the cold, but this is not the building that God dwells in. Back in the old days, they build the tabernacle and then later a temple and the glory of the Lord dwells in the tabernacle in the temple in the holy place in the holy of holies. The shikina glory of God would hover over there. But God says he was looking for a temple that is not made with human hands. Okay? And the temple is you and I. We are the church. When you confess Jesus Christ as your savior, God placed the Holy Spirit within within you as a deposit or as a guaranteed. In other words, there's a stamp in your spirit, the spirit man, the real spirit man. Your spirit man has ears. Not these ears are probably up in here. You know when you see Batman with a little ears up in there, this is your soul has ears. Uh your spirit has ears. Your spirit man is stamped. It says holy to the Lord is reserved. This is what happened when you were born again. Immediately your spirit was stamped with with a holy to the Lord in there meaning it belongs to God. That spirit is the one that that God now wants to that makes God dwell in us where we're the church. In other words, through his spirit, he he says in in John 16, he said, "Father, I will live in them and you will live in them." God and Jesus are both living in us through his spirit. It's just like taking a drop of water and dropping in a huge pool. We are the drop of water, the huge pool or the huge ocean is God. His spirit is in us. We belong to him. That makes us the church. That means that now we're the church. Now, why am I saying that? To the intent. Now, this is Ephesians 3:10. To the intent, now that the manifold wisdom is God, manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church. God has an intention for you. God intended something that he wanted to do through you and through me. When he saved us, he made us a church. The church is the body of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is a head. If you use the body as an example, he is the head. The head, he's sitting at the right hand of the father in heaven. We are his body here on the earth. Okay? And he has a purpose. That's what the word intent means to the intent that that means we have something that God intended for us to do here on earth. Okay? And we're talking about spiritual warfare. We're talking about bringing the kingdom of God here to the earth. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done where? On the earth. Remember, he shook the earth. God shook the earth. When David was in spiritual warfare, God shook the earth. We are to bring the kingdom of God where to the earth. The kingdom of God is to be brought down to the earth. That's the intention for God for you and me. We are to bring the kingdom of God to the earth. That's God's intent for us. Okay? Okay. And so we read to the intent now that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to principalities and powers in the where heavenly places. Okay, we're here on the earth. The earth is filling the consequences of the sin that is taking place where this principalities in power. And God says,"I want you to do something to this principality disempowered so I can bring my kingdom here to the earth." Spiritual warfare is about that. Spiritual warfare is about that. If we do not understand anything else, we need to understand that this has to uh be made known. Look, look at look at that again. to the intent now that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known. Might be made known. Meaning something has to be revealed. Something have to be brought out. Something have to be exposed. As a matter of fact, if you look right there, uh I'll just show you one of uh uh six uh where the word mystery appears. Uh Ephesians 6:19, Paul says, Ephesians 6:19, "And for me that utterance may be given to me." He's asking the Ephesians to pray for him. He says, "And for me that utterance might be given to me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel." The church is to make something known. Okay. The word mystery appears in the Bible 22 times. If you look at in the King James version, the original King James version, which sticks to the most original uh as they translated it, you do not find the word mystery nowhere is in the Old Testament. Look it up. All the mysteries of God were hidden in the Old Testament. They could not be revealed because they're spiritual. They were hidden. It took Jesus to come in and to make the revelation known. And when Jesus came and made the revelation known, now in the New Testament, the word mystery appears 22 times. Why? Because the Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. See, God created everything with 22 letters. That is a celestial uh uh alphabet. No vowels, no nothing. 22 letters. Everything that God ever spoke, he used those 22 letters. Okay? And so the 22 letters represents the completion of the creation of God. And it was hidden in the New Testament in the Old Testament and it is now revealed in the New Testament. Now 22 times appears in the 27 books of the New Testament. And on Ephesians alone, the word mystery appears six times. Six times appears. Why? Because Ephesians is a book about spiritual warfare and bringing revelation into how to do the revelation. This why Paul says uh pray for me that I may be bold and speak the mystery the hidden thing that which been hidden in the gospel. So, we have God intended for us to have as we go back to Ephesians 3:10, God intended for us to make known the manifold wisdom of God. We're to make it known. Now, we're going to break this down. So, first of all, we're going to we know that has to be spoken. We know that it's something that's hidden that has to be revealed. We know that the essence of spiritual warfare is speaking to these principalities and powers. So the first thing we want to deal with is principalities. Verse three, Ephesians 3:10 that to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be may be known by us the church to the principalities and powers. The word principality is a word that means arc. A ray is is a word in in Greek. A ray. And using those huge arches that that they would build in order to enter into a building. Okay, that's where the word arch comes from. Arch. Arch comes from ar meaning a principality or a covering or a ruling. One of the um dictionaries translated as a um a magistrate with jurisdiction over a specific area. A magistrate a magistrate is somebody like a judge that gets appointed and he has jurisdiction over a specific area over an area. Now the word jurisdiction meaning he has authority to speak. iction means words. He has whatever he speaks. See, you go to a court and if you did your your crime over here in in in women, you where you wind up at San Pedro there or or this there's there's a station over here. If you go to Quantum, there's somebody who has a jurisdiction there. If you go to Long Beach, there's a jurisdiction there. If you go to Ingldwood, and you see this judge in in in in Long Beach has no authority over Englewood. You see, his word has no power over there. But if you're in this land over here, he has authority over you. He has power to speak words. That's what jurisdiction means over the area where he's at. So Paul is saying God intended for you and for me to get a hold of the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ and to speak to that jurisdiction and tell him, I got something to say to you that is more powerful than whatever you've been saying over here. See, that's what spiritual warfare is. Spiritual warfare is taking the words that God has given us. Hallelujah. And speak to the arch. Now, why? Why? Because this arch or this principality, this arcade, they have authority to speak things against you, against your family, against your children, against your finances, against your health. They do. This is what Satan, he's the accuser of the brethren. He is continuously accusing. you don't deserve to have good health because you smoked for so many years or you did this for so many years and so he speaks like a judge would speak to say I'm putting out a warrant against Marcos and then the powers because you see he said to speak to the principalities and to the powers the powers now go on to enforce the word see they cannot come into your house when there's a Paul, they cannot come into your house without a warrant. Who gives a warrant? The jurisdiction, the principality, the person that has the power, the Joshua magistrate has power to speak and say, "Yes, go search his house." But you got your attorney, Jesus, who has a greater power, greater word. So then this magistrate, and the reason why I'm here tonight is because I'm speaking about the magistrate that's over women. There's a magistrate over this city and the dude ain't too happy with us because we're messing up his work. Okay? We're messing up his work. But God intended for us to mess up with him. God intended for us to break up this little party that he has going on over here. God intended for us to speak to those principalities and those powers that gang violence and rape and drive by shooting and drugs and alcohol and prostitution are coming down because that's what God intended for us to do. God intended for us to speak to those things. Now the word powers is the word exosa and it means delegated authority of superhuman strength or supernatural power meaning a delegated authority meaning just like Satan gets over there he's got his magistrate over this area and he's watching over and he looks at your family and man I'm I haven't messed with him for a while I'm going to mess with him some more and so he sends some some words against you and then all of a sudden this exosa powers, meaning uh delegated authority. They now have delegated authority from this magistrate to come in and to mess with you. They're going to begin to mess with your marriage. They're going to begin to mess with your family, with your health, with your finances, and they're going to do this thing. Why? Because that's what they have been ordered to do. Okay? But then hold your place here. We're coming back over here. This is such a mother load here. But go with me to Luke 10:19. And then let me show you how Jesus deals with this situation. Luke 10:19. Jesus says, "Behold, I give you the authority." Guess what that word is? Exosa. that delegated authority of superhuman nature or supernatural power. I give you exos. Now that is what the principalities give to the power. The principality speaks and those powers with supernatural powers of the superhuman power come in and begin to mess with you. Well, Jesus says, "I give you exosa to trample on serpents and scorpions." Those are demons in case you're wondering about how they crawl upon the ground upon the earth. I give you authority to trample on serpents and corp and over all the power of the enemy. And I love how it ends and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now the word power there is dunamis. Dunamos. This is dynamite. That is the power that is manifested. Because you see, exose is delegated authority, but it's not manifested until, in other words, it's not manifested until you become sick. If Satan speaks exosa against you, he authorizes some creature of darkness to come against you. That thing is not manifested until it becomes real, until you become sick or until you get fire, until you fall from grace and and do all kinds of weird things that we don't want to do. Okay? That is how it manifests. That's dunamis. That's power that it forces us is a supernatural strength that causes us to do things we don't want to do. Paul says in in Romans 7:20, "If I do the things that I don't want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it's sin living in me." He says, "I find this power or this law at work within me that the good that I want to do, I cannot do. And the bad that I don't want to do, I can't keep from doing. What am I going to do?" Well, we're going to have to speak to that exosa or to that power with the authority that Jesus said, "I give you authority." Did you know that Jesus has been raised up? And you read that in Ephesians, far above all principalities, far above all powers. He is the head honcho. He is a head honcho over every head honcho there is anywhere. And he has given us authority to speak. He has given us authority to speak. He has given us jurisdiction. He has given us jurisdiction. He has given us authority to speak to the principalities in power. Now a lot of us know that. But what we don't know is we don't know what to say. Why? Because it's a mystery. It's been hidden for all of these years and now all of a sudden it is revealed. It's called the manifold wisdom of God. We God intended for us, we the church to make something known to these principalities and power. And this something that we're to make known to them is a manifold wisdom of God. You say, well, what in the world is that? What is the manifold wisdom of God? Manifold wisdom of God is like a manora. This represents the Holy Spirit. The nine uh uh you have the nine uh fruits of the spirit. love, joy, peace, longs, suffering, gentleness, meekness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control, and then you have the uh uh the nine uh gift of the spirit uh word of wisdom, word of knowledge, discernment of spirit, speaking in tongue, interpreting tongues, prophesying, miracles, divine healing, and and divine power. All of the things are represented uh Matthew 5 3- 11, nine spiritual blessings. Well, here God, this manifold wisdom that God is speaking about, although they all fold flow through the Holy Spirit, comes in a seven in a minority. That's what manifold means. A a sevenfold something God has given us. He's being hidden all through the Old Testament and it is now revealed by the Holy Spirit. Let's go to Isaiah. And I believe we'll come back over here. So, you may want to mark it, but let's go to Isaiah 11. And then we'll see how this operated in Jesus because Isaiah is prophesying about Jesus in in Isaiah 11:1 and 2. Now here in in Isaiah chapter 11, Isaiah begins to prophesy about Jesus when he would come. He said, "There shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse. A branch shall grow out of his roots." Verse two. And this is this is what the manifold wisdom of God is. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. Now remember, before Jesus went into the ministry, he went to John the Baptist. John the Baptist says, "Behold the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." John the Baptist wanted to be baptized by Jesus. Jesus says, "No, it has to be done this way." As Jesus is baptized, meaning he's reckoning himself as one of us. He is coming. He's bringing himself down as a priest, a minister. He's coming down to our level. When Jesus took his robe, see, Jesus was born a king. He was worshiped as a king. When he was born, he was brought the gift of a king. And for those 12 years uh uh for those 33 years from from from that age up until when he was 30 years old, Jesus could not be touched by Satan. He could not be touched because he was a king. He is a mighty king. Any any demons that would come anywhere, Jesus will be splattered instantly in in the middle. He is a king. But when Jesus said Jesus said, "I I have come to do your will, oh father, because you were tired of of uh uh goats and bulls and the sacrifices. So you prepare a body for me." When he brought that body and he said to John the Baptist, "We have to do it this way." When Jesus took that robe in the spirit, that meant that he took his kingship. He identified himself with you and me. Because the only people that were going to John to be baptized were the sinners, were the prostitutes, were the beggars, were the the the rich of the world. They were all they John was saying, "Repent. The kingdom of God is coming." They didn't want to miss it. Said, "We live in misery and in pain and sorrow. I don't want to miss." So they were repenting. So Jesus comes and he identifies with him. And when Jesus goes onto the water and he comes up, God speaks. He says, "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased." From that day forward, Jesus walked as a priest, not as a king. He will come back as a king. And we got a glimpse of his kingship when he went up into in in into h into into the mount of transfiguration and he shone in radiance. But no, Satan, he he he was open season for Satan. 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THE NAME OF JESUS To teach believers the power, authority, and responsibility given through the name of Jesus Christ, showing how prayer, confession, and abiding in Him bring victory over spiritual battles in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. < Back THE NAME OF JESUS Minister Lisa Kane October 14, 2023 Objective: To teach believers the power, authority, and responsibility given through the name of Jesus Christ, showing how prayer, confession, and abiding in Him bring victory over spiritual battles in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. Synopsis: In “The Name of Jesus,” Minister Lisa Kane emphasizes the supreme authority and divine power contained in the name of Jesus. Rooted in Philippians 2:10–11, the teaching explains that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess Jesus Christ as Lord, highlighting the believer’s call to demonstrate this authority. The message breaks down how praying, speaking, and living in Jesus’ name establishes victory across three realms—heavenly, earthly, and beneath the earth. Believers are reminded that effective prayer requires using the name of Jesus specifically, rather than generic references to “the Lord,” which can leave room for deception. Lisa underscores that abiding in Christ, guarding His commandments, and maintaining a daily relationship with God are conditions for answered prayer. The lesson connects John 14 and 15 to the practice of asking “in His name,” revealing that Jesus Himself intercedes with the Father and releases the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to dwell with believers. Practical applications are given: binding and loosing in Jesus’ name, overcoming demonic strongholds, praying with persistence, and interceding for others with confidence. Real-life testimonies show how others recognize the spiritual authority operating in a believer’s life. Ultimately, the message calls Christians to live as effective witnesses—abiding in the Word, speaking with power, and demonstrating the love of God—so that the world may see and experience the reality of Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this on Saturday, October 14th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called the name of Jesus. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your blessings and your favor and your anointing on us. And Lord, we glorify you. We honor you and worship you. And Lord, whatever we ask, we know that you will give it to us in the name of Jesus. So teach us how to pray in the name of Jesus. Teach us how to hear and know what to ask for in the name of Jesus, your glorious son, the son of God. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. Philippians 2:10 and 11. that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. So, as you can see here, I'm going to give you some other additional words in here. The bolded words in the scripture mean those are the words in the King James version. the words next to it in parenthesis italicize are other words that meant that the original Hebrew or Greek word meant. So in other words, you can translate the word into other meanings. Here thing about language is you've got to understand it doesn't always translate word to word. It has to be a concept or a meaning behind whatever the structure of the sentence is. So I've been teaching in that. So this message is called the name of Jesus. And let me remind you uh judge me. That is your responsibility. You need to judge if I'm teaching correctly in context, if I'm teaching the word translations correctly. You need to do homework and research this. You need to choose whether you accept or reject this message. So I remind you to do that. And then that doesn't mean you come and harass me if I'm doing it wrong. It means you go to the Lord and I promise you he will correct me. I for a while there I was quoting Joel 2:32 as Joel 21:13. I did it for three or four messages in a row. Didn't even realize it and the Lord brought it to my attention and I corrected it. So I am ever learning. You know I'm a human being just like you are. So that means you have a responsibility to test what you hear, what you're going to believe in, what you're going to receive. Amen. All right. This is called the name of Jesus. So that now that word that is to demonstrate in the concept of what we're talking about. So you're demonstrating at the authority which is what the name means. Authority of Jesus. By the way, Jesus name in the Greek is Yahosua. And I am pretty confident I'm not sounding that out appropriately just to be fair play here. Um I sometimes I can get some of the accents right in other languages and there are other times I just can't. So this is one of those times. So demonstrate the authority of Yahushua all every knee everybody's knee that's everyone the whole knee should bend of the things in heaven. Now I want you to see something here that's very important. So we see we have the authority of Jesus. That is our demonstration. We're to demonstrate the authority of Jesus. We are called to demonstrate that as a believer in Christ. So keep that in mind. That's what this means. Now I want you to see three uh three things here of things in heaven which is above the sky, things in the earth that are worldly and things under the earth subter subterranean and infernal. We operate in three levels. And yet we're just a little human being higher on the planet earth. But we do operate in the heavens where God sits and is his heavenly reign and his abode. We actually every time you go in prayer in the name of Jesus, you are constantly going up to his courtroom, the throne room. And guess who's all there watching? The devils and the angels. This is why we have to speak. This is why our tongue does the work. This is how we do battle is through our mouths and what we speak. So when you and and Jesus gave us his name. So when you speak and you speak in the name of Jesus, you are speaking authority and demonstrating it not only to the earthly or the heavenly realm in that throne room area in the courtroom, but you're also demonstrating here on earth. And guess what? Below the earth. Why below the earth? Because the devil was defeated. F E T E D. He lost his feet when he was a serpent who had feet and he has he was a serpent who had no feet. He had a crawl on his belly. He gets below our feet in the name of Jesus. Which by the way, he's also below all the creeping crawies. He's below spiders. He's below anything that crawls on the earth. This is the power and the authority that the name of Jesus is granted to us. Now I'm going to show you how this works. So let's go a little further because you now that you understand where it applies which is the heaven above the earth and then the earth below. It says now every tongue remember I said it's spoken word. So every language this is what the word tongue means should confess. Look at this. Acknowledge profess promise. You're saying in the name of Jesus I profess and I promise you healing in the name of Jesus. Do you see how that works? That is using the authority that we've been given. So you should confess or profess that Jesus Christ, the word Christ there means anointed. So Jesus is anointed. He is Lord. Look at what that word Lord means. Supreme in authority. I want you to understand something. The word Lord means supreme in authority. But when you speak in the name of Jesus, not the name of the Lord. Because see, the devil thinks he's supreme being and wants to be called Lord. Are you wondering why some of your prayers are not being answered? Are you using the name of Jesus? Or are you just saying, "Hey, in the Lord's name, if you really want your prayers to change and be effective, continue to watch this message." Keep in mind, you should be analyzing yourself every day. You should be looking at yourself. Look at your church. Look at your Bible time with the Lord. Look at your relationship with the Lord. Are you effective in your ministry? Are you impacting others lives? You know, I I have a sister-in-law. We I've been interceding now for a handful of months now, and I'm really really going after the devils and telling them to get below my feet in the name of Jesus, the son of God. I I mean, I'm going all out now. And she texts me. We haven't hardly text in years. And in the last couple weeks, she's been texting me. But she made a little odd statement there. Says, "Matt, you are powerful." I'm like, "No, I give God the glory." But see, they recognize it. They see it. They hear it. They know. This is why you have the right and the authority to use the name of Jesus and affect those around because they know in their spirit they will be listening. They will hear. They will know. They will recognize that you're the one doing it and they're going to be like they're they should be thanking you. They may not know. They may not know so much in the sense of you're actually doing it, but they can feel it in their spirit. Someone's praying for them. Someone's taking care of them. And then to top it off, when they come into you, and anyone who comes up to you, if you're living your life like this, I promise you, they notice. They take uh they they notice, they see it, they feel it, they know something's different. This is how we're supposed to be operating as believers in Christ. So every tongue, that's the language, that's our spoken tongue, our words, confess, meaning you're speaking it with your mouth, that Jesus Christ, the anointed, is Lord to the glory. By the way, that word glory means very apparent of God. He's the son of God. And who is God? He's the supreme divinity and of course we call him the father which then he becomes a parent to us. He is parent. He's dad. He is that and I did a teaching on father and who he is and trying to build your relationship with him and not to build your relationship based on the known relationships you have here on the earth but try to build it through the word of God through the father through the son Jesus. follow Jesus' example and whatever Jesus did, he did it because of his father. Because of what he saw through his father. So this is where we get to come in and say, "Okay, well, I'm going to do what I saw Jesus do." Name of Jesus, you're given the authority. You get to heal people, lift them up, get them up walking. That is our responsibility. And saving souls at the same time. This is how we become fruitful. This is how we multiply. But it starts sp with spending the time in the private secret place with the Lord. Boy, I keep going back to that, don't I? I've taught that multiple times now. Oh man, I got to actually probably over 50 times in the last two, three years I've taught about being in the secret place with the Lord. Oh my word. Let's continue on. Look at this in John 14:13 and 8 through 18. and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the father may be glorified in the son. So, we're going to pause here and let's expand this verse. You know, it is amazing. I like this teaching method. It gives you a whole new perspective of what Jesus is saying in the scriptures. Now, this is Jesus talking. He says, "And whatsoever, anything that you ask, any that any that the word whatsoever means any and then whatever you're talking about in context, any that ye shall ask." Look at what the word ask. Beg, call, require. And look at the word in fixed position meaning now. I require now. Okay? And then he says, "My name," which by the way, his name means authority that I will do. Look at what he's going to do. This is Jesus talking. He says to make, agree, cause. We're going to band together that the father may be esteemed in the son. This is whole. So you are building your relationship with Jesus and the father. So everything you do in the name of Jesus is going to go direct to the father. We're going to see what Jesus does when he goes to see the father here in a moment. But I want you to see that he is coming in agreement with you when you use the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus, the son of God, his only begotten son. You've, you know, like I said, the devil tries to sneak in and tries to make himself lord. Because see, how do the demons know who you're speaking of? And if they think they have any way out that you open the door for that means anything but the name of Jesus the son of God, they're going to use that. They're going to use whatever method they can to not answer your prayers. When the reality is God because see when God answers your prayers, those demons have to follow. So if you're not getting that movement in your life, you're not getting the breakthrough of your healing, you're not getting breakthrough of your financial situation, these are the things that we need to pay much attention to the name of Jesus because the demonic activity can say, well, he said in the Lord, well, I'm Lord and I don't want to do it. You see how the demons think you what was it a couple weeks ago? We taught what of a a Christian to be aware and cunning. We got to be aware and cunning. We got to make it so they can't get out of our words because we're fighting a battle of words. Now, amen. Let's continue on to verse 14. If Now, we're coming into conditional statements. So, if you're having trouble getting your prayers answered, let's look at the conditions that are put on the request. if which is conditional. Ye shall ask anything in my name. I look at this. He's emphatic about it. Will do or I'm going to make her do it. He says he's going to make her do it. But he says you have to ask in my name. If you're not at the Lord's will be done. Amen. you're not having an effective prayer because the Lord's will is he wants to heal you. He wants to bless you. But you have to do it through whom you believe which is the son of God. He's the one who died for us. He's the one who pardoned us. So our sins are forgiven. Now we are considered righteous and justified. So where do we go with sanctification in the name of Jesus? The authority that we have, we speak it out. If you're not doing this part, this is hindering you, holding you back. And you should be sensing this and being aware of it, especially if you're listening to this message. The Holy Spirit is trying to show you something here. Pay attention. Verse 15 here again. Here's the condition. If ye love me, keep my commandments. I want you to see this. If you look at the word love there means in a social moral sense. For those of you who are not divorced because you love one another and you have children, you have made it a priority to keep your family together. You're not allowing the dark evil curses and thoughts to come in and tear you apart. You work around it. I remember back in the day marriage counseling, they they came to a statement where they said uh as long as you do not have the word divorce as part of your vocabulary, you tend to overcome because you let go, forgive, move on. And that's on both sides. Okay? This is how you go through. You power through that. You you pray and you give it to the Lord. You trust in him. But you're doing this out of this moral sense. What's morality in a world that well marriage is oh sleep together for nine months and see if it works out and see but a moral sense if you go back just 50 years ago getting a divorce was taboo. Maybe 75 years ago now but it was taboo. You don't want to do that. you didn't do that or you were considered scorned. But look at what he's saying in a social or moral sense. So in other words, you've got to love God this way. You're putting him as a priority, as an important factor of your life. He's the one that's going to work with you and you work with him. Notice though how conditional this is. If you do this, you love me in this moral, social sense. Look at this. You guard my commandments. What are his commandments? To love him with all of your heart, mind, soul, body. You are loving him in that moral sense, social sense. You're saying to the outside world, I'm choosing to live godly by putting God first because I love him. And because you're choosing to do that, here's the if conditional. Anything you ask in the name of Jesus, it will be given. Jesus will do it. He will make it happen. He will make it done. This is the power and the authority that we've been given. Oh, hallelujah. This is awesome. And look at we have to guard his commandments. We have to remember it's an act on our part. Let me tell you something here. When you get up in the morning, you're going to find my week fluctuates. Right now, I haven't started my new job, but today, Saturday, today's the day we go shopping. We went and looked at the new homes this morning. Progress is being made. We're going to have the keys on the day before Thanksgiving. The tiles in, you know, they're getting everything in there and the um uh all the uh cabinets are in all stuff. It's getting exciting. But we do that and then we go and uh do our shopping today. Reload the house with food and what have you. Um, but usually Monday through Friday, first thing I do when I get up, I'm reading the word of God. I'm praying. But Saturday, I have to change it, move it around. So, I've been doing the interceding in the morning, Monday through Friday. Well, guess what? I'm going to do my interceding today. It'll be this evening. Had a busy day. Did all that shopping and now I'm speaking and teaching this word here. So, I have to adjust, but I have to make a point of it. I have to guard the commandments because he is my priority. So I'm moving around my day and that is perfectly acceptable. You don't have to have a set time adjust and adapt to what your schedule is. You just make sure he is your priority. You guard his commandments. And to love him is to make him a part of your life. You should be when you're going like grocery shopping, you got a new recipe. You're picking up something you've never picked up before at the grocery store. Man, Lord, I can't find it. Where is this? I mean, my husband today in Walmart, I'm on the app looking for disposable gloves of all things. I couldn't find it where I thought it would be. It wasn't. And then anyways, I kept thinking, well, maybe it's by the cleaning spice. It sure was. But I'm on the app looking for what aisle it's on. And Lord, where is this? And he helped us. That is uh you you know, he's part of my daily life. I'm going to ask him about something silly like that. That's where we need to get with our relationship with the Lord every day and especially if you're a cunning aware Christian and you somebody says something and it triggers. It's like a red flag and that's when you say, "Oh yeah, but we've got to forgive them and let them go." You change the subject and then you pray with them right then and there. It defeats the whole situation. This is the using the power of our tongue and the authority of the name of Jesus being effective to everything around us. Everyone, everything in the heaven above, on the earth here and below the earth. Let's continue on. Verse 16. Now Jesus is talking about this. And I will pray. He's he's joining with us. Interrogate, request the father. I love that. He's going to go to the father and he's going to question the father as to can this be done? What is it that it becomes a priority where we have to answer no? Because sometimes he's going to answer no. Because see, even though you're praying for somebody to get saved and you pray, as long as you're persistent, the Holy Spirit will continue to work on that person. Uh the moment you give up, who knows what happens. But yes, that person can refuse all the way till their death. That's their free will. They get to do whatever. But what happens is when you're praying with them, the Holy Spirit takes opportunities to open their eyes and show them something and he brings them closer to making the decision for Christ. And sometimes you'll have victory, sometimes you won't. So he interrogates, he questions, where is this going? What's going to happen? He questions his father this way. And he goes, "And he shall give." This is he's he's talking uh Jesus is talking. He's going to give. He's going to bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver, grant you another. This is a different the comforter, the Holy Spirit. He's the intercessor, the consoler, the advocate. Because what if we don't know someone who got may have gotten saved, but they passed away? We don't know, but God knows. So, the comforter is going to be there to be with us, to comfort us. Jesus says he's going to be there with you all the time. Watch this. That he may abide. He's going to stay, dwell, endure. He's going to remain and stand with you forever into perpetuity. This is the Holy Spirit, the comforter being with you at all times through everything. So even if you're not getting your answer right away, the comforter is there and he's holding your hand and he knows you prayed that and you prayed it in the name of Jesus. And God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit are working together to bring together what you asked for to make it manifest to give it to you in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Verse 17, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and you and shall be in you. This is very powerful because I want you to see something. Look at this. Even the spirit of truth, what you're dealing with is spirits, familiar spirits, demonic spirits, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of understand. And by the way, there's a spirit of wisdom, God's wisdom, and there's a spirit of wisdom, earthly wisdom. Here you have the spirit of truth. He's showing you. And we know that in today's world, truth becomes what's truth to me when that's not the real issue. The fact is, and that's the truth. Okay? So even the spirit of truth, he's verifying this is the spirit. He's current. He's an air. Uh he's of the air. whom the world the world cannot receive, cannot take him. Look at the world as an orderly arrangement. God has put everything in an orderly arrangement. It everything is military and it has rank. It is in order. And once we learn that, by the way, boy, we can be really effective in this. And the world cannot receive, cannot take this Holy Spirit or comforter. And it sees him, but it can't discern him. This this spirit is baffling wind and backwards to them. Think of it like this. Hamas in Israel today and all of the things that went on this past week. You got people out there voting for Palestine and you got people who are voting for Hamas and what they're saying. I mean, this is how backwards this is. I saw one video of a guy talking to a reporter. She talked about beheading the babies and he's like that's just fake because nobody ever does it. And even her mom came out and said, "Yeah, we did it. Do you see?" And but they can't see it. They can't discern the Holy Spirit in all of this. They cannot discern the comforter. This guy is so angry. He's so upset with what's going on and he thinks he knows the right answer when he doesn't even accept the terrorist admission to what they did. That's crazy. That I can't even explain that. It's just so weird and crazy to me. But they cannot. It's baffling. It's backwards. But look, they don't know him to know. Absolutely no. They do not know him. Absolutely. They don't know him. I heard of that Jesus. Yeah, he's okay. But they don't know him. They don't know the Holy Spirit. They don't know Jesus. But you know him and he dwells. He stays and abides with you. And look at this. He shall be in which is a fixed and relation of rest to you. So while you're waiting for your prayers, you're at rest in the Holy Spirit. Isn't that amazing? Because that's what he does to you. This is awesome. And look what he further says in verse 18. I will not leave. I'm not going to lay you aside and leave you comfortless. I'm not going to leave you bererieved or an orphan. I will come. I'm going to go with you. I'm going to accompany you. I'm going to appear with you. I'm going to appear to you and I'm going to be with you. This is what Jesus is saying. You will not be left alone. Keep that in mind. Keep that up upfront. This is the anointing of the Holy Spirit. when you guys are abiding, you have this gift, the authority of his name. And he gives you the rest and the comfort that you need so that you can move forward as you continue to pray. You're not afraid. You know, when all this jihad stuff was being declared, I went immediately into intercessor. Yes, I was upset and affected by it for a few hours initially, but my prayers went in for every Jew and for every Christian. And I said, "Not do not let one get lost or um uh lose in any way, but let them be in authority and let them be saved and kept from the enemy." And it actually turned out to be a very peaceful jihad. I think there was just one teacher who was stabbed in France of all the news that I'm aware of. And I get a lot of it, but today, Saturday, I haven't seen a whole lot today. It's been a busy day. But that is absolutely amazing. But that's the authority that we have. You see, here's the month of August. What are we going into Halloween? What are the witches and the warlocks and all these people doing right now? They're casting spells and curses. You know what I did at the beginning of this month? Because I'm cunning and I'm aware. And in the secret place with the Lord, I said, "Every curse that they speak, Lord, I forgive them immediately." So, they're now ineffective and cannot do anything and be profitable. That's how you fight the enemy. You get cunning. You get aware. I was aware of Halloween. I knew what these people were doing behind the scenes. See, they're working harder than you. They're out at midnight doing evil things. Actually, there's scripture that tells you that they can't even sleep until they do something evil. So while they're doing that, I went into my sacred place and says, "Hey, we're going to stop those now." And then I said, "Lord, stop them from cursing. Keep them from going to shut their mouths." I did that in in California about the weather because they kept talking about a drought. I hear we had so much rain. It was like, "Really? Really? The lakes were all full up again." It's like, stop them from cursing. It's like they want to go back to being a drought. It was a piece of news that they were living on. But no, you got to let it go. This is where we the believer get to be effective and powerful behind the scenes. Amen. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. We are talking about the name of Jesus. John 15 where six and seven. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned. You see, when you are not spending time with the Lord, you are ineffective. You are heading towards being burned and shriveling up and dying. This is why your health, you're affected. I just taught on this a couple weeks ago. Your health is affected by this because you dry up and that becomes kindle for fire. You get to burn. So you have to stay in Christ. He otherwise he's going to throw you outside away and you're going to wither, shrivel, and men are going to gather you up. See, this gives authority to others over you, and your prayers won't be effective. Here's the condition. You got to be abiding with the Lord. Oh, so powerful. Verse seven here again. Here's the condition. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. You get what you ask for. Now, if you're asking to win the lottery and God knows what that's going to do to you, because I don't know if you realize how many people commit suicide when they win the lottery, or how many are murdered because family members are trying to steal the money from them. If you're going to win the lottery, he's got to make you cunning in a way. He's got to change your heart and your mind in order to manage that money. So, if you're not letting him do that, he's going to tell you no until he until you let him change your heart and mind. But if you're asking him to meet your needs, he will meet them. Everything will be met. And all you got to do is abide. Actually, he does it automatically. I would never have to pay for our finances or anything. And yet, I still haven't started my new job yet. And yet, and we're paying more out right now than we're receiving in, but we do have money saved and prepared. And now we're going to be paying less because of the buy out of the houses. God is good. He is providing and it's all in his perfect timing. This is how he works. But look at what he says here in the deep part of the scripture. Abide. You're going to stay and dwell in me and Jesus. You got to let his words hit utterance. His words need to utter utter into you. Abide in you. You need to be able to remember scripture. You know, as we saw this pickup truck today driving down the freeway passes, he had Philippians 4:13. Well, he didn't put the scripture on there. And you know, it's hard to remember scriptures at all times. This is a popular one, but anything is possible through Christ who strengthens me. And I remembered it. But I I I wish people would put the whole scripture there. And anyway, that's a whole another ball game. But look, Dwell, let his words uttered. Let the utterance be in you. By the way, that utterance is the Holy Spirit. When you are speaking in tonesues and you don't know what to speak and say, he manifests himself by speaking in tonesues in another language, a secret language only between you and God. And it could be a a language that existed 5,000 years ago. Who knows? God knows how to speak with you without the enemy hearing you. That's utterance. That's how that works in the name of Jesus. Because you need that because you're in warfare. You don't want the enemy to know what you're praying unless you're going after the enemy because now you're telling the enemy, you better run. That's what we get to do as a Christian. This is the authority and the power that we have been given. So where is the power? Where are the Christians doing this? Who are you? Are you being that Christian in that secret place? You ought to be. And you should be seeing him manifest in your life in the name of Jesus. And look, it says, "And what ye ask? You ask what?" And look at this uncertainty because you don't know what's going to happen. Like the jihad thing, I didn't know what was going to happen, where that was going, but we can prevent it. You know, Perry Stone teaches about visions and dreams that he had. He and they were bad, but he goes into prayer about it and now it prevents it. So, was it prophecy that he was able to prevent it? But if you're shown these things, but you don't know what it is, but you're praying in the tongues, you're praying in the name of Jesus, whatever. You say, "Lord, I'm giving this to you. I don't even know what it is, but but you're praying for it." He knows and he is taking care of it. Says uncertainty. Look at this. You will. And what does that word? Means you're determined. I'm determined to get my cousin saved. I'm determined to get healing. Oh Lord, I'm going to keep coming to you. Um there's a pastor I know, Pastor Oed Martinez in Palm Springs, I think is where they're at. Anyways, his mother, she used to walk up and down the altar at church with her checkbook. Here I am, Lord. I need you. I need you. And she'd be laying it down and then the Lord would provide determination. And Jesus talked about I I wish I put that. I didn't put it in here. It' be a very long message if I did. But look at the judge where that woman, the widow, kept pestering him. He says, "I'm just going to give you what you want because you keep pestering me and I got to let I got to get you away from me." How much more will Jesus answered if you keep being determined and persistent in your prayer request? And then he will eventually give you if he's telling you no and he's showing you why, he will show you that in scripture. If you're abiding with him, his scripture will manifest and it will show, oh, I guess I can't pray for that. Let's change this. And you start praying and he will show you. You got to be prepared for that. Hallelujah. And then and it shall be done. Look at this. Cause to be and then become unto you. You get the answer to your prayer request. Now, I want to show you how, remember I was talking about this being heavenly on the earth and under the earth. Look at how this works because Jesus did this. Matthew 16:19. You can also find this in Matthew 18. He says, "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." I want you to see the deeper meaning of this. So, look at what's a key do. It shuts a lock. Oh, by the way, keys open locks. So, who is the key? The name of Jesus. So, Jesus says, I'm giving you the keys. That's he gave you the comforter. He gave you the name of the his power of his name and he also gave it to you in a conditional manner where you have a relationship with him. And as you're righteous and you're continuing to be righteous, abiding and dwelling in him, those keys are given unto you. What do the keys do? They're It's a key to the kingdom of heaven, royalty, realm of heaven, where God abodess. It's the sky. Look at this. It's where the power exists and eternity exists. And look, and whatever you bind, what is that word bind? Knit, tie, be wind. I when I saw wind, I thought that was I stuck that in here. Have you ever tried to go forward against a windstorm and you just can't get very far or it's so hard on you that you you just can't remember windstorm many many years ago in our uh house we just left. My daughter was trying to get the the lawn furniture tied down. We weren't watching the weather and I could just see her hair blowing behind her and she's leaning into the wind but she was fighting it. Well, here you go. You are leaning into these winds fire because you are binding some you're bound. You can't go further. That's what the Holy Spirit does. Paul was buffeted. He couldn't go forward. You can go read more about that. But that's what he's talking about. This is what binding does. And then look at this on. By the way, that means a time, a place, and an order. A whole order, a command on time. Now lo Previous Next Home

GOD'S COVENANT AND RESTORATION To teach believers the unshakable nature of God’s covenant and promises, using Psalm 89 as the foundation, and to lead them into personal repentance, renewal, and restoration through prayer and alignment with God’s Word. < Back GOD'S COVENANT AND RESTORATION Minister Lisa Kane September 23, 2023 Objective: To teach believers the unshakable nature of God’s covenant and promises, using Psalm 89 as the foundation, and to lead them into personal repentance, renewal, and restoration through prayer and alignment with God’s Word. Synopsis: In God’s Covenant and Restoration, Lisa Kane expounds on the eternal faithfulness of God’s promises, drawing from Psalm 89 and the life of King David. She emphasizes that God’s covenant is firm, His mercy everlasting, and His strength sufficient to uphold His people even in times of difficulty. The message explores David’s anointing as king, showing how God established, strengthened, and protected him, and how the same principles apply to believers today who are called into various forms of ministry. Lisa highlights that each believer has a unique calling, and stepping into that calling requires repentance, surrender, and reliance on the Holy Spirit. She teaches that God’s covenant brings blessing, protection, provision, and authority over the enemy, but disobedience and drifting from His ways open doors to discipline and loss of blessing. Still, even when believers falter, God’s faithfulness and mercy remain steadfast, offering restoration to those who repent and return to Him. The message concludes with a powerful intercessory prayer of repentance, renunciation, and declaration of freedom in Christ. Through this prayer, listeners are invited to realign with God’s covenant, break generational curses, and walk in renewed relationship and authority, fully restored in His mercy and promises. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Saturday, September 23rd, 2023. Welcome. This message is called God's Covenant and Restoration. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your covenant, your promises. You are perfect. You keep everything firm and strong. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Father God, that you are in control and you are doing the right thing, Father God. Lord, may we line up with you and um be restored that you promised us, Father God, in the glorious name of Jesus. Thank you, Father God. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. This is God's covenant and restoration. Psalm 89:28. My mercy I will keep for him forever and my covenant shall stand firm with him. What we're going to do in this message is something a little bit different. So I'm going to be teaching on God's covenant and his promises and how firm they are and faithful. This is Psalm 89 has to do with King David and what he does with his heritage, his lineage. And so what we're going to do is we're going to apply that to our lives because scripture does apply to our lives. And the way we're going to do that is through prayer. So I'm probably going to teach here for maybe about 25 to 30 minutes and then we're going to say this prayer together. It is uh an intercessor's prayer, but it does help with us first because it helps us line up and then we can intercede for those around us. Amen. So that's what we're going to do. This is a message that I believe is going to change you and I hope that you apply it to your life. So we're going to focus a lot in Psalm 89. So let's start here in verse 19 and 20. Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one and said, "I have given help to one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen from the people. I have found my I have found my servant David with my holy oil. I have anointed him." David became king of Israel and he had a heart uh he was the apple of God's eyes and yes he had a a heart for the Lord and the Lord chose him to be king. So in order for him to be king he had to become anointed with oil. So let's go read what happened for him to get anointed with oil. 1st Samuel 16:1 Now the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse the Bethleamite, for I provided myself a king among his sons. Then, and then jump down to verse 13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Rama. So what happened here? What is happening here is God is calling David to be king over his people. So this is a calling on David's life. Each of us have callings in our lives. Um we could be in children's ministry. We could be an usher at a church service. We could handle um the administration part of a church. We're all in ministry one way or another. Whether you even go to a regular 8-to-five job that's non-church related, your interaction with people, your smiles, your your tone, behavior, your attitude, all of that plays a role into how you share your testimony because people can sense whether you are a believer or not. So you go into ministry. Well, how does as you see, David is called here and the first thing that he does is he gets anointed with oil. So I am speaking to believers here today in this message. If you are not a believer, repent, call on God and become a believer. And I highly recommend it because it changes you. And this message will change even the we can take the the believer that barely goes to church once a year to the believer who goes to church regularly and is involved heavily in the church. This message is going to strengthen your relationship with the Lord because it's not a religion. We are not a part of a religion. We are part of a relationship with God. And that relationship is about to get more then you're going to really really be blessed by this message. So in order to start first, you know, you have to repent and you have to call on Jesus. Get his mercy. Say, "Father God, I'm sorry I messed up." Once we acknowledge that we're we messed up, for lack of a better way of saying it at the moment, I can't think of another way to say it. But once we realize that and we humble ourselves and we ask God to forgive us, the next thing is to get water baptized. And after you get water baptized, the spirit of the Lord comes upon you. Well, in this case, David, the Old Testament way was the anointing oil allowed the spirit of the Lord to come upon him. So now, if you want to move into a calling that you believe the Lord is calling you to, one, you can go to the elders. They can anoint you with oil and pray over you. And the elders at the church, you can go there. Or you can even in your own personal relationship with the Lord, in your own secret place with the Lord, get your anointing oil out. You can buy it online, pray over it, anoint it, and then anoint yourself and say, "This is my calling that I believe the Lord has for me." And you set things in motion spiritually when you do this. So this is what happened to David. David became king of Israel. And it started with the anointing of the Lord. And from this day forward, the spirit of the Lord is upon him. Now, the reason I showed you Samuel because I wanted you to see the physical, the prophet Samuel actually came and put oil on David. So, this is why we put oil on ourselves and you get covered with the anointing oil. It allows the spirit of the Lord to come in and work on you. So, that's the first thing we got to do. So, we establish this foundation. So, now let's continue in Psalm 89 because I want you to see something. here is really really interesting. With whom my hand shall be established also my arm shall strengthen him. Let's pause there for just a moment. God, his hand is the one that's establishing David. His hand is the one that establishes you and I in ministry. Do you get that? Look at what else he says. He says his arm shall strengthen him. meaning we can lean on his arm and he'll hold us up because there are gonna be times when you're in ministry where it is very hard and is strong. It's like your opposition is just coming against you and sometimes you just can't even stand. If you go read the Psalms and read David, you will find there are times where he just had to get down on his knees and say, "Lord," and he cried out to the Lord. Well, God's arm was holding him up the whole time and so was his hand because his hand had established him. So, this is firm. So, once you get into ministry and you go forth at the after the anointing oil or the water baptism, whatever you end up going into ministry with, know this. God's hand established you and his arm is holding you up. You need to believe this. Look what else he says. And look what else he's done. If you go read King David's life, 1 Samuel, beginning of 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles, beginning of 2 Chronicles, you will see God moving in David's life and you can see the whole changes that take place in his life because God had established him. But look at the second part of this or verse 22. The enemy shall not outwit him nor the son of wickedness afflict him. So when you go read about David and you read about all the oppositions he faced, they never outwitted him. David knew exactly what to do at all times because God gave him the wisdom, God's wisdom, knowledge, and understanding for David to handle the situation. So when you go into ministry, you are going to outwit the enemy. You're going to be thinking outside the box and doing things that God's going to tell you, the Holy Spirit's going to tell you. You're going to be thinking, "Wow, this is awesome." Because he's given this to you. And did you see wickedness will not afflict him? You will not be afflicted by the enemy. What does the enemy do to afflict someone? Takes your way your finances. God provides. Go uh look at Elijah. Even the crows came and fed him because he needed to eat. And God's like, "I'm going to give you food." You see, he was not afflicted because God still provided for him. So, he takes your finances away. Guess what? God still provides. He tells people, "Hey, you need to go get a bag of groceries for that person over there." And I promise you, God always provides. So, he keeps you from getting afflicted. What about sickness? The sickness will not touch you. Was King David ever sick? I don't read that in scriptures and I've not read that and I've read all through that. So, you shouldn't be sick when you're in ministry. Watch how the Lord shows us where we can go into this new ministry, whatever it may be, whether children's church, teaching behind a pulpit, singing worship songs, you should never get sick. Never. Why? Because you have taken his calling in your life and you move forward in your relationship with the Lord. David had a relationship and God called him to be king. You have a relationship God calls you to be. You fill in the blank. And once you fill that in and you move forward in that, it begins you begin to have a relationship with God. And I've been teaching on relationship with God for a long time now. Let's continue on in verse 23. Look at what else God does. I will beat down his foes before his face and plague those who hate him. So now people hate you. They hate you for being successful, for looking so good and being to them. They get jealous and envious of anyone who has a beautiful calling on the your life from God. They get jealous of that. And what happens is God, look what he says here, beats down his foes. Because see, when they get jealous, they say things they shouldn't say. And when they say them, they curse you. But God says, "Nope, I'm going to In other words, those curses are going to come back beat down. They're going to feel the crushing pressure of God, not Satan, of God. Because now you're messing with God's anointed. Never, never mess with God's anointed. If you see somebody who is beautiful, who is supporting Israel, Jerusalem, who is giving God the glory and all that they do, and they acknowledge God and everything, that's somebody who's anointed by God, do not mess with them. Do not curse them. Don't say anything bad about them. God's coverings on them and he will beat you down. And he says it right here in scriptures. Look at that. I will beat down. That's God talking. Because you become a foe or an enemy against his anointed. Now, let's continue on and plague those who hate him. Guess who gets sick? If you've been sick, I promise you it has to do with some sort of sin, some sort of unforgiveness, something you said against God's anointed somewhere along the road of life. You may not have actually meant it. You may not even remember it, but God does. And hence, you get sick. So keep that in mind. If you're getting sick, you should you it should be telltale signs to you. This isn't a bad thing. You know, I got spanked when I was growing up. It's not a bad thing to spank your children. Why? Because they get to learn respect. And it goes to show how much my parents loved me to keep me from going around and doing things I shouldn't have been doing. They keep me safe. And that that action of discipline, thy rod, thy staff, they comfort me. David said this of God. He was comforted when he was disciplined. I am comforted when I am disciplined. So if I get sick, h that's a reminder. Okay, I know in the back of my mind I need to do what? Time to repent. Time to start talking to God again. Time to get back in. Because we're humans. We are flesh. And what do we do? We forget. We we separate ourselves. We get caught up in the world, the busyiness of the world. Oh, and it it gets frustrating. I understand that. But we got to remember, we got to put that effort forward. Look at verse 24. This is now God saying, "But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name his horn shall be exalted." You see, when God exalts somebody, he's doing it through himself. God is saying, "Okay, Jesus, you are my son, my beloved. I love you." and he tells the people around him, "Listen to him." And he he set up the hierarchy. So he lifts up his son Jesus. Well, he lifts up David and he's saying, "I'm doing it through my own name because he honored David for David honoring him." God is a God of honor. Oh, so God will honor you. what you do in secret behind the scenes, having that relationship with God, he exposes out in the open and he honors you. David was very honored in his walk even though he killed someone on purpose. David was a murderer. Yeah. We It's time to get our lives set up with God because when we're in this relationship with him and we've taken this step, Yeah. this is what we do. We get blessed by him. He is protecting us. He's holding us up. Look at verse 25. Also, I will set his hand over the sea and his right hand over the rivers. What does that mean? Well, if you go look at the ocean, can you see underwater? No. The ocean, especially in the deeper parts, it's very dark down there. In fact, that is Satan's domain. That's where he reigns. He sits on the waters in the world over the oceans and the rivers. But look what God says he does to the people that choose to come in and be his anointed. Watch this. Watch this. He says, "I will set his hand over the sea and his right hand over the rivers. You have dominion over Satan and the demons." Again, you should never be sick. You should be the one casting out demons. You should be the one ministering to people because that is your calling and this is where God is taking us and we need more people doing things like this. Look what else. Now he shall cry to me. Now he's saying David's going to cry to me. You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. You know, when I'm in intercessory prayer here in my secret place in this room, I'm always Lord God, you are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. You belong to me and I belong to you. He is my rock and my salvation. He is the son of God. He is my Lord and Savior. I declare the name of Jesus over everything about me because I cry to him because this is my calling to teach and preach the word of God to intercede in prayer. These are the callings I have in my life. I've been anointed. And because I've been anointed with the oil and I've been approved by God to do this, I push in and begin to have this relationship with God and I cry to him. I let him know what's going on. I say God, I say Jesus, the name of Jesus shall save. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13, Joel 2:32. Look at verse 27. And also I will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. David really, really got blessed here. Jesus is king and will be king after he comes back and returns. But he came first as priest, not as king. But he came through the lineage of David. But David is his the first king. Even though King Saul was there, God chose David. And this is his firstborn. Guess what? We are adopted and grafted into the lineage of David. Into the lineage of Jesus. Jesus comes from David. We are part of being the firstborn. We are part of being the one who has been called. We just like the disciples, just like the apostles in the old church, how they were ministering people, casting out demons, healing people. We should be doing the same thing today. And you know what? Because of this teaching and the things that are going on, the Lord's getting everything ready for this part. So get ready because when we say this prayer here at the end, this is preparing us for his return and the revival that is coming. Amen. Verse 28. My mercy I will keep for him forever and my covenant shall stand firm with him. This is that was our opening scripture. I want you to see something here. My mercy, let's read that again. My mercy I will keep for him forever. You know, God is so full of mercy and loving kindness and he is telling David's line, I will always have mercy on you and every one of us who are grafted and adopted in there is nothing bad that you can do that God cannot forgive. He will have his mercy for you forever. Oh, that's powerful. Powerful. and my covenant shall stand firm with him. God does not waver once he speaks. His word is true. And we're going to see that in a moment here how it stays. He says his seed also I will make to endure forever and his throne as the days of heaven. Jesus is going to be king and it's going to be eternity. We're going to be in heaven in eternity forever with God and with Jesus. This is awesome. God is not removing the covenant. Now watch. Let's go here. Now, now we're going to start to see something here. God is giving a rule to this. And it's a rule. This rule applies to us as well. Says in verse 30, if his sons, okay, we're adopted and grafted in because we believe the I'm talking to believers now. So think of this, believers. If his sons forsake my law, or if believers forsake my law, and do not walk in my judgment, if they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. Now, I want you to see something here is awesome. You notice he said he said he'll do it with the rod. That's discipline. Meaning, you're the believer. You're in covenant with God. You drifted away. I'm going to use the rod and bring you back. He's telling you straight up, if you're not going to keep my commandments, what is his commandments? To love with all your heart, soul, and mind. Love God or love your neighbor as you do yourself. So when you drift, he says, I will punish your transgression with the rod. Look at this. And your iniquity or their iniquity with stripes. Who took the stripes for us? So he's saying, look at this. This is awesome. He's saying, "I'm going to send Jesus and he's going to take the iniquity when you drift away and he's going to take it with his stripes." Meaning, you were healed by his stripes. So, even though you should be punished with iniquity, guess what? God sent his son Jesus to take it. So, when you're in covenant and you are part of God's anointing, you are never sick because Jesus handled it, took care of it. You just got to come and say, "Jesus, you are the son of God and I messed up." That's it. Oh, that's so powerful. Do you see how God is saying this about his covenant? All the kings of Israel, all they had to do was repent and come back and they were well established. God's promise would be firm. Let's continue because there is but right here there is a nevertheless in verse 33. Nevertheless, my loving kindness I will not utterly take for him. You see, we know what happens with the kings. We know what happens with Israel. Go read all of their first Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles. Go read all the prophets and they will be sharing with you what the kings are doing, how evil these kings are, many of them are. And that they were dispersed to the world and was no longer considered a nation. But God restores. His covenant stands. And the nation of Israel came back in 1948. If he can restore the nation of Israel, he can restore you. Do you see why I'm teaching this message? Oh, wait till we get to the prayer. We start restoring ourselves. But he says, "Nevertheless, my loving kindness, I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail." You see, this is all about God and his faithfulness. He's got faith in Israel. He's got faith in us. So when I'm casting out demons or I'm dealing with some sort of sickness because he's having to discipline me and bring me back. Guess what? It is his faithfulness. I don't my faith may not be that big to take it over and overcome it and walk out of it. You know when he say uh pick up your mat and walk and be healed. You know, the disciples said that, Jesus said that. They got up and it and even Jesus says, "Your faith has made you whole, made you healed." Guess what though? God is saying, "My faithfulness will do this because you've already been in covenant." And he is now trying to bring you back. Oh, this is so good. Look at this. Verse 34. My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out on my lips. So you see, he knows already the kingdom is going to fail, but he says, "No, I'm not reversing my words. My words still stand." Then he says, "Once I've sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David." So he's telling David what's going to happen, what's going on. And he says to David, "His seat shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me, it shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky. who it will be on the throne forever that we get to worship is Jesus the son of God. Oh hallelujah. Hallelujah. So now you're beginning to see what the Lord is doing. Now look at though because see in covenant with God and if we forget or we get mad because we've been made in his image and God has gotten mad, we can get mad too. So, if we're lacking self-control and we're lacking the holiness of the Holy Spirit, well, look at what he says here in verse 38. But you have cast off and abhored. You have been furious with your anointed. God gets mad with his anointed. And until you repent, he is mad. And look at this. He's cast you off and he abhores you. You see, he's got his loving kindness. He's got his mercy there. He's telling you, "Come on. I'm sending you iniquity after iniquity. I'm sending you the rod. I'm disciplining you, but you're not listening. You're not repenting. You're not returning." And then what happens? The church dies. The spirit is not there. There's sickness and diseases. People are dying in the church when they should not be dying. God is saying, "I'm telling you, I'm furious with you. You are my anointed." It's not just David. It's us who are grafted in. We're his anointed and he's mad. Look at verse 39. But okay, so look at this. You, this is God talking, have renounced the covenant of your servant. He took the covenant back. Did you see that? Watch. You have profaneed his crown by casting it into the ground. Basically, God took your crown off and he slammed it to the ground because you are not repenting, renouncing yourself. You are not turning back and getting into the relationship with God. He is doing this to you. You see, most of our time, we don't really deal with the devil. We deal with ourselves for cursing ourselves and not speaking the blessings. And then we live, we deal with God and his curses. You see, when you're an anointed person, you've been going to church and you've been with God and you've been in that personal relationship with him. You should be in his standing and fully healed completely. This is your call. This is a promise, a covenant he's given to you. But when you break the covenant because you got him furious and he abhores you, it takes See, you have to separate yourself from the world. You've got to get back in with the Holy Spirit. You got to start again. Start fresh and again. Look at verse 40. You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. You're no longer protected. Now you know why you're getting sick. Now you know why you do not have financial blessings in your life. It's like a hole in your pocket. The money keeps flowing through. God's done this. It's not the devil. God's done this. He did this because you're not aligning yourself with his covenant. We're going to do that here very shortly. Trying to keep an eye on the time here. And then look at he says, "All who pass by the way plunder him. He is reproached to his neighbors." So going to plunder you. So that's why I said it's like a hole in your pocket. People coming by are going to be taking money from you and you're wondering why you have no money. Well, that's why. Look at this. You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Now he's promoting the enemy saying, "Go for it. You you got my blessings to go after him or her because you're not doing what he asked you. You're not honoring his commandments. Love him with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul. These are what he's calling you to do. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. If you're holding on to unforgiveness, bitterness, envy, jealousy, any of this kind of stuff, you are not in his commandments. And you now are being blessed. The adversaries are being blessed to come after you. Oh, and take what you have. They'll take your home. They'll take your money. Why do we have so many homeless people? They don't forgive. They don't let go. They don't come back to God. They don't repent. They don't renounce. We need more renouncing here in the church and in the congregation and in the people's hearts and minds. We got to teach this. Look at this. You made all his enemies rejoice. You know what? When 911 happened, the towers came down. Who was rejoicing? Those in the Middle East. The enemy. They were very happy. Happy as a clam. God blessed that. God allowed it to happen because the nation now he was warning the nation here is I'm letting you know this is what's happening. I'm getting the rod now but you're not coming back to me. So he sends the adversary to come after you. This is now why the nation is in the condition it's in. But the church doesn't need to be this way. Even though we're under America's covering, we're under God's covenant covering covenant. And that's what we should be standing with and repenting and renouncing. Uh also, okay, verse 43. You have also turned back the edge of a sword and have not sustained him in battle. This is what I'm talking about. This is why 911 happened. Look at this. You have made his glory cease and cast his throne to the ground. The days of his youth, you have shortened. You have covered him with shame. That's the condition of America right now. So you can apply this to America. You can apply this to the church. You can apply anyone who's been with God but got taught a false teaching, got misled, and you're just not going back to God and repenting. This is what happens to you. This is why it happens. A lot of people don't understand why things like this happen. The scriptures just told us. Look at 2 Corinthians 4:1 and2. Therefore, since we had this ministry or calling, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. And there Paul sums it up what we've been teaching on. This is very, very powerful. We want to get back. So, to get back now to our covenant with God, we need to repent and renounce. So, we're going to say this prayer. I'm This is a prayer. I've got several screens here. We're just going to go through them and say them together. I'm going to say them slow. If you need to pause the video because you might be struggling saying something, and that's possible, but say the prayers, say them out loud. If you need to say them again, you say them again. And you come before the Lord and you humble yourself before the Lord. And I promise you, you saw his hand establishes you. You see his arm holding you. You see him keep the enemy away from you. You see how iniquity is dealt with. You will have all that back when you do this. And then you can also now minister in your ministry appropriately and effectively. Amen. Now, this prayer is copied from the intercessors manual under the books and manual at the houseof faithministries.org. So, you can get the whole manual there. Lots of more scriptures. Pastor Marcos Morero, my dad, he's the one who wrote that back in 2010, but it is still effective because you're dealing with spiritual matters. Let's begin. This is the prayer. Our Father who are in heaven, creator of heaven and earth, make sure you're saying this with me, okay? God, the judge of all, in the name of Jesus, your only son, I enter into your heavenly court and publicly repent of all my sins and I ask you for your forgiveness in the name of Jesus. Apply. Dear Lord, I pray the atoning blood of Jesus over all the sins in my life and the sins in my ancestors lives life that resulted in a curse. I repent of all of our disobediences and rebellions committed against your word. I now repent and re and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestors life such as the sins of perversion, lust, cheating, lying, adultery, fornication, mistreatment of others, uncleanness, filthiness, wantonness, lwdness, and every perverted thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I have that on there. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestors life such as the sins of indecision, compromise, hatred, contentions, envy, gossip, murder, hostility towards others, hostilities towards myself, ill will towards others, ill will towards myself and every divisive thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins of my life and my ancestors life such as the sins of malfunction, failures, laziness, lack of responsibility, jealousies, outburst of wrath, drunkenness, intoxication, addictions, dependencies and every compromising thing that was connected to our fallen nature. According to one John 1:9, if we confess our sins, continue to say this with me, please. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now that I confessed all my sins, I ask for your forgiveness and cleansing from all my unrighteousness and the unrighteousness passed to me through the iniquity of all my ancestors. Deliver me, Lord, and cleanse me by the power of the blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I now take authority over the devil's accusations against me in accordance with the word of God. I break and condemn any and every curse upon my life in the name of Jesus. I break all curses of poverty, lack, debt, destruction, sickness, death, and vagabond. I break all curses on my marriage, family, children, and relationships. I break curses of rejection, pride, rebellion, lust, hurt, incest, rape. Ahab, Jezebel, fear, insanity, madness, and confusion. The name that is above every name. The name of Jesus. I now break all curses affecting my finances, my mind, my sexual character, my emotions, my will, my intellect, and all my relationships. In the name of Jesus, I now break every hex, jinx, spell, and spoken curse over my life and my family's life. I break every feeder, shackle, chain, cord, habit, and cycle that is the result of a curse. According to Galatians 3:13, continue to say this with me, please. I have been redeemed from the curse of the law by the sacrifice that Jesus offered in my behalf. Father in heaven, I now exercise my faith in the blood that Jesus offered for my redemption and I loose myself and my descendants from any and every curse. I claim forgiveness through the blood that Jesus offered for my sins and the sins of my fathers. All of my sins have been forgiven. So I now renounce all the works of Satan and their effect over my life and my family's lives. And I loose myself from every curse that As a result of our disobedience and rebellion to the word of God, I exercise my faith now in the word of God. Romans 10:9 and 10. And I make confession with my mouth that the salvation, deliverance, healing, and restoration that I believe in my heart is now mine because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Therefore, I confess that Abraham's blessings are mine. I confess that I am blessed and not cursed. I confess that I am the head and not the tail. I confess that I am above and not beneath. I confess that I am blessed coming in and going out. I confess that I am blessed by God and what God has blessed cannot be cursed in the name of Jesus and by the power of his shed blood. I now command spirits of rejection, hurt, bitterness, unforgiveness, bondage, torment, death, destruction, suicide, fear, lust, perversion, mind control, witchcraft, poverty, lack, debt, confusion, doublemindedness, sickness, infirmity, pain, divorce, separation, strife, contention, depression, sadness, loneliness, self-pity, self-destruction, self-rejection, anger, rage, wrath, anguish, vagabon, abuse, addiction, insanity, and the rest to come out now in the name of Jesus, my deliverer, and be forever gone because all of your rights to torment me and my family has now been removed. Dear Fat Previous Next Home

DOMINION Equip believers to exercise God-given dominion by operating in Christ’s authority and grace, not human strength—rejecting presumptuous warfare, rooting out iniquity/idolatry, and embracing a Spirit-led identity—so they can contend decisively with the enemy and contend for real breakthrough. < Back DOMINION Pastor Marcos Marrero February 9, 2007 Objective: Equip believers to exercise God-given dominion by operating in Christ’s authority and grace, not human strength—rejecting presumptuous warfare, rooting out iniquity/idolatry, and embracing a Spirit-led identity—so they can contend decisively with the enemy and contend for real breakthrough. Synopsis: The message opens with a prayer for a spiritual breakthrough and a testimony about learning to teach only what the Holy Spirit gives. From there, it frames dominion biblically as “treading down” the enemy, contrasting authority (exousia) with power (dunamis): authority—like a traffic officer’s badge—outweighs raw power because it’s backed by God’s government (Lk 10:19; Ps 149). Three dominion-leaks are exposed: Presumptuous sins—launching into spiritual warfare from pride or self-effort, which cedes ground to the enemy (Ps 19:13). Iniquity/idolatry—compromises with cultural traditions that dilute consecration and blunt spiritual authority (Ps 119:133). Sin as “missing the mark”—living under law empowers failure, while grace empowers obedience and victory (Rom 6:14; “Grace, grace” to the mountain). Practical counsel follows: wait for God’s timing before confronting higher powers; cleanse idolatrous mixtures; wage warfare by executing the written judgments of Scripture in Jesus’ name; and adopt a deliverance mindset that is decisive rather than drawn-out. Identity is central: “By the grace of God I am what I am” (1 Cor 15:10). As saints align with who God says they are, temptations and accusations lose their hold, and setbacks become set-ups for advancement (Titus 2:11). The message closes with a call for corporate agreement to confront local principalities under the Lord’s commission, expecting breakthrough to manifest first in the spirit and then in the natural, followed by prayer. Inspired Teaching: what the Holy Spirit is speaking into my ears, Father God, to speak out. I pray that you anoint our ears to hear, our heart to understand. And Father God, thank you for favor, dear Lord Jesus. We've been battling and battling and battling, Father God. We're ready for a breakthrough. We want a breakthrough tonight, Father God. It doesn't have to show up in the physical, but we want it to take place in the spiritual tonight, Father God. We want those giants, Father God, to be decapitated, Father God. We want whoever is holding the anointing and the finances and and the the release of the good things that you have for us. Whoever is holding him now, we cut those hands off, Father God. We cut shop those heads up, Father God. And we proclaim a release in the spirit tonight, Father God. A release of the abundance of your grace and your mercy and every all the provision that you have already prepared for us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Uh something strange about the message tonight. Right in the middle of it as I was preparing it, the Lord stopped and when he stopped, I stopped. And then I said, "Well, maybe the Lord will give me the rest of it in the morning." And so I got up this morning and as you can see, we got half a message. So the other half the Lord will work at us as he sees fit. Okay. I I got to tell you a story. This is really uh uh about the teaching. When I got saved, I definitely had the anointing for teaching. His grandpa was a true teacher of the word and love way that uh that he did all that stuff. And I aspire man. I wanted to be a teacher like him. That was like, you know, my desire and I knew I had the calling. And so, but I was so afraid that I was going to say and write and so I would take his tapes and lesson two and every lesson that I ever taught was what he taught up to the jokes and everything. I wouldn't teach anything else. I was just afraid that I was going to mess up. And that worked for a little while. And then finally uh as as I got grounded a couple of years went by then the Lord began to say you know what you got to speak what I tell you and and then you know man and I thought it oh man I might say something wrong or whatever. So anyway the anointing stopped the anointing stopped and for a year I went by and and always had teaching opportunities. We were doing the different things and uh and just things wasn't working. And then one day the Lord clearly spoke to me. He says, uh, you know, if you want the anointing and the teaching, you have to teach what I give you. And if you make a fool of yourself, you have to be willing to do that. I mean, everybody that serves me had to be willing to do that. You okay? Okay. I thought it was my teaching. Okay. I'm okay here. We're gonna have fun tonight. Uh, so, but anyway, this is this is what happened. Joe Herrera who had a a class that he taught on Monday nights is called Keys to the Kingdom. He invited me to speak and the minute he invited me to speak, the Lord spoke to me and said, "You're going to speak what I tell you to speak and and what I choose." So I said, "Fine." And you know, it was a thing with pride with me. I have to have everything together and everything. So a week goes by, I don't hear nothing from the Lord. Four days go by and so I'm teaching that Monday night and I have nothing, right? And finally that Monday afternoon I get there in my Bible and I pray and says, "Okay, Lord." And once I cross that line, I said to myself, I'll stand up in there. I'll make a fool of myself if I have to, but you know, I'm going to give something that the Lord gives me. As soon as I said that in my heart, the Lord said, I want you to write this. And he gave me three letters. It was joy. J O Y said that's what you're going to teach them. I remember it. I mean, this is so that that is the day that I got hooked to to to being anointed to teach. I stood up and she'll tell you my was there. He was visiting and there was quite a huh her son was and her son was there too. I stood up in there and as I began to say whatever was a joy, the Holy Spirit just came. I mean, possessed me. I had never have felt anything like that. And I began to speak on my Cuban 150 words per second type of speed. And it just like started coming out. And I swear to you, I was like, move back. I was standing here. And this was me over here. And I was rambling and I'm standing. I said, "Man, this is strange. Here I'm speaking. I'm thinking and I'm speaking, but yet I'm like up in here." But there was such an anointing and everybody that was up in there, their mouths just were like it was like the anointing just fell on everybody and on that teaching and from that time forward it felt it, you know, I never done drugs. So I don't know what that feels like, but I know what it feels to shoot something in you because I felt it that one day. From that time on, I says, "Man, this is what I want." And so, you know, every now and then, you know, we always have the anointing. And I've always pray before I prepare and and never know where I'm going and allow the Holy Spirit to take me. But this is one of the few times lately to where the Holy Spirit says we're going to do a half part uh on my own. So anyway, let's begin the Psalm 1913 and Psalm 119 133 and then Romans 6:14. If you have the page there, they're all from the uh New King James Version. But look at uh Psalm 19. He said, "Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless and shall be innocent of great or much transgression." We're going to be talking about dominion. And says there that presump presumptuous sins give the enemy dominion over us. He says, "Keep me from presumptuous sins so that the enemy will not have dominion over me." Okay. Psalm 119 133 said, "Direct my steps by your word and let no iniquity have dominion over me." There's a second thing that can give the dominion that we have to the enemy, iniquity. And iniquity, I spoke on that the whole night last week, but we'll touch in it. In Romans 6:14 says, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace." On the uh the definition for dominion means to tread down or to trample down. We have a mentality uh or at least I I had for many years that God somehow um put you in charge of something and it's like uh going to Margaritavville to where you sit by the beach with your coconut umbrella type of thing and you kick your feet back and you watch the the sail ships go by. You know, this is our idea of of when God gives you something. But that's not the idea. If you go to Adam and Eve, when God says, "Let us make man in their own image and let them have dominion." The word dominion means like you build you up a high tower, a watch tower, all that you can see the thing that you've been given dominion. And then you get up in there and then you keep an eye on what the Lord has given you. That's what dominion means. And every time some little critter that doesn't belong there in your terrain starts coming in, you get down and you trample down on that thing. You kick that thing out. See, the the idea here is that God says, "I am putting you in charge." It was um who was it Patton? The one that says when you're in command, command. When you're in charge, do it. You know, don't don't pussyoot around and think, "Well, maybe I'll do this." No, when you're charged, do it. You given a job to do it, do it. That's the heart of dominion. Dominion is doesn't mean, see, nothing gets the Lord more out of it than being lukewarm. And you see that in Revelation, in Revelation chapter 3, the letter to the Leo Deaya, you're lukewarm, so I spit you out. I can't use you. At least if you're raking mad against me like Saul was, I can take that energy and turn it around. You know, at least you're moving. You may be going the wrong way, but at least you're going somewhere. I can turn you around. But if you're just sitting there like a clamp, you know, there's nothing that God can do with it. So the idea of dominion is a a a being in charge and being aggressive and being motivated to do something. Okay? And the thing is that we fail to see that Satan and one-third of all of those angels that fell and follow him are very highly motivated. Those guys don't stop. Have you ever been harassed by the enemy to where he gets in your ear, gets in your case? He just doesn't give up, does it? He doesn't care that you're going to sleep. He doesn't care that you're thirsty. He doesn't care that you have to go to the bathroom. He doesn't care that you got to go. No. He's in your mind. He's in your ear. And he's just there, there, there, there, there. He won't give up. Why? Because he's treading down on us. He has dominion on this area that we're dealing with. And he doesn't give up. You know, I had that that uh revelation when we got back from the trip that one time and I came up into this place. I had the big double sword in in my hand and I looked up and as soon as I saw the the glory of the Lord was like a manifest diamond. I said, "Lord, how beautiful you are." And immediately Satan started jacking up like you know I don't belong there. I can't be shut up. I mean he bugged me. I just said shut up and immediately everything went silent. And so I look again and see this glory. Lord, how beautiful you are. He started again. I said, "Shut up." See, Satan is the accuser. He's, you know, remember the movie The Old Terminator? The guy tells the woman, "He's not going to stop until he kills you. He's just going to go after you." That's what he does. That's what he's programmed to do. We need to understand that. That's how Satan operates. That's how the demons operate. These things are highly motivated to get you to destroy you. And so what God is saying is we have to be highly motivated to destroy him. The Bible says that Jesus came that he might destroy the works of the devil. And you know Jesus was highly motivated. Jesus was highly motivated. He did not spend one single minute of his time wasting it in in watching some Super Bowl or some commercial or something. He was focused. This man came in for a purpose. He says, "I have a cross to go to three and a half years from now." And man, I'm going to go there, but I'm going to kick as many devils out of people as I can before I get there. And when I get there, I'm going to destroy them all. And then I'm going to send the thing in place. The first thing we have to understand that dominion has to do with the exercising of authority. It has to do with trampling on in in in the vision before the one that I just explained to you. I went into three different rooms uh one room at a time and they were all filled with people. And as I'm in there and I'm saying because I'm in this place is more real than where we are. I'm looking at and I'm marveling. I'm saying man what is this place that I'm in and who are these people? a minute the Holy Spirit who was in me speaks from me. He says, "Those are not people. Those are demons." And I say, "Huh?" And and then he he speaks to me. Yeah. You're going to destroy them. I mean, they was led up in this thing. The Holy Spirit says, "Do this." Bam. This baby like 18 months old stood up looking. It's not fair. It's not fair. The Holy Spirit says, "Tell him that it's none of his business." He said, "You got a problem with it? Take it with God." I said, "You have a problem? Take it with God." I took it an 18 months a little and just crushed him right down to the ground. The the voice told me, "That's not a baby. That's a demon." And you're going to crush it. I don't care what form it takes. So, in spiritual warfare, dominion is not a fancy like touch and that thing to where you do the thing. No, in spiritual warfare, we have the authority. We have the power. He raises up his head, you squash him, and that's it. next do the same thing. This is the idea spirit. But you see, we don't have that mindset. We don't have the mindset. This is why deliverance in the places where you sit there and you battle with the demons for 12 hours. I don't see that in the Bible. I don't see Jesus doing that. I don't see Paul doing that. These people couldn't have done all they did if they would have spent 12 hours on the living room on a person. You see, it comes simply by the ability to exercise dominion that we have. You know, so amazing. We can tell Satan who is, you know, as far as our person that that can cause th this dude had had the G to stand up to God. I mean, you got to be pretty up there. Well, Jesus said we have authority over him. Over him. We have authority over him. And that authority is not so that we can reason or or box him in very nicely and say, you know what, I'm going to draw this line. You're not going to cross it. No, that authority is to crush. That's what Jesus did. Jesus crushed the head of Satan. He cracked his skull when he when he crushed it. I think it's Psalm three that says the Lord shatters the teeth of the wicked. You know the picture is here as hell uh knows that that the soul of Jesus is going to come down because he just died on the cross. Him and every demon are blocking this door with all of their might. They're not going to let him in here because he's a higher ruling spirit than any spirit because he's eternal spirit God. So they're blocking the door. Jesus just comes in and kicks the door down. And as he kicks it, he shove his heel right through the mouth of every demon, including Satan. And that's why I said he shatters the teeth of the wicked. The Satan cannot bite you. He's snake without fangs. He has been defanged. So we have to understand that that is at the heart of dominion. But the opposite is true in the scriptures that we just read that if we deal with presumptuous sins, that means uh we're not walking in understanding. What happens is the enemy can take advantage of the advantage. Also, if we do not deal with inequity, he can have dominion over us and also sin. And and notice that he puts in Romans 6:14, you're not under law, but but under grace. So let's begin now with with understanding how this work. Luke 10:19, Jesus says, "Behold, I give you the authority to trample." That means to tread down. That's that's what dominion is. I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now notice that when Jesus is talking about he's not talking about the creatures that crawl along the ground. This is a picture for us of the spiritual realm. What is a serpent? A serpent hides on the dirt. A serpent it coils up. A serpent can can bite you, can poison you. A serpent can kill you. Corp the same way. So when Jesus is talking about I give you authority, he's not saying I give you authority like these people down in Texas some place over there do. They have a service and they got bunch of snakes and they all handle the snakes and stuff like that. That is not what he's talking about. He's using a physical reality to demonstrate a a a spiritual principle that snakes and scorpions talking about demons talking about principalities and power. And Jesus says, "I give you authority." The word authority is exosa. Exosea means an an ability that comes through privilege. In other words, uh it it is not because of you. It is because of the person that allows you to have that ability or privilege. you know, uh you you can go to a a a ball game and and you buy what you just can't afford, the $6 seat that you're way up in there to where you see the I went to see Karim Abdul Jabar one time to play at the forum and we were right against the wall and it looked like ants running around in the thing and I had good vision back then now I probably wouldn't be able to see it but I mean it it means that you have been given the privilege to move right out to the front right next to the front. That's what exosa means. Meaning you are enabled by privilege. The privilege has been given to you to do this. Now this is different because he says over all the power the power of the enemy is the word uh uh dunamis. The word dunamans means strength or or power. And he says that nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now the difference between authority and power is that authority is bestowed and power is inherited. Now this is very important that we understand this. If you grasp this principle, you will understand this. For example, I'm 222 pounds. Was it 220 this morning? Anyway, I can get a hold of somebody that's 100 pound and he can move a little faster. He can move a little stronger, but if I get on top of him, I got 120 lbs that I can move my weight on. So, you see that is inheritant in me. There's a power that is inherent in me to go against an Now, if I go against a guy that weighs 400 lb and a 6'8, imagine that's going to do to me. So you see power is something that is in you already. Okay? And you can move, you can throw your power around, but your power is limited to what you have. And if you come against an enemy that is more powerful than you, then you're in trouble. You understand that? Also, you can come against a karate dude that only weighs 100 pounds and he can take your 220bs and flip them all over the place. I got into a fight with with a guy in Cuba once. four friends and then he got angry about something and said, "Well, I can beat you." And we got into it. It was pretty big. He uh he weighed probably 120 pounds more than me. He was a pretty big guy and he run out of breath real fast. So I said, "Well, you want to get it on? Let's get out." You know, all the guys were. So we stand in the middle of the room there and we started going and man, I'm quick. I'm I was 122 to 30 pounds at the time and I used to play tags and I was quick. I mean I got up in there, hit him in the face and back off. I run to get behind him so he kept turning. Within 10 minutes he was he couldn't even keep his hands up. I just slap him all around. Slap him all around. I took advantage of this weakness. And that's the problem when we're operating in our own power. Satan is not only more powerful than we are because he's a spirit. He's more knowledgeable than we are because he's been around for 6,000 years. But not only that, he knows our weaknesses. Any time that we try to exercise dominion that is inheriting in our own power, he's going to get us because he's crafty. As a matter of fact, that's how he gets a lot of people. He gets up in there. Oh yeah, man. you you got it all together. You got this and before you know it, you and everything the enemy is telling you, you don't even know. You think it is you who's doing it. But he's the one that's manipulating. But see, authority is different. Authority is different because authority is not something that is inherited in you. It's something that is vested in you. I got a little example there that might help you. Here's a 100 pound police woman. Okay? She doesn't have no strength, physical strength. She doesn't have no power. She don't even have a gun. She's a traffic cop. Okay? But she has a uniform on that says she's with the police department. And here comes this big old 350 lb bley guy driving an 18-wheeler and he's coming like 60 miles an hour down the road. And here's little police woman over there stands up and say, "Huh?" Now, who's got the power and who's got the authority? The guy has the power. He's driving an 18er that can squash her, can squash a tank, can squash anything that gets in his way. That's inherited. That's what an 18-wheeler does. But see, she has the authority. The authority doesn't come inherited on her power. the the authority that she has comes because she's representing she's representing a government. She's representing a city. She's representing a state. She's representing a nation. And if that power violates that authority, he gets into trouble because all the world's going to come upon him before you know it. He'll have 150 cops, tank helicopters, and tanks. If you have to call a nuke pump, they can nuke him. That is the authority that we need to understand. that we have authority, not power. Authority is we have been privileged with ability. That ability is the word of God. As a matter of fact, Psalm uh uh I don't have it here, but we can look at it real quick. Psalm 149. If you look at Psalm 149 verse 9, it says to execute on them the written judgment. This honor have all the same. It's talking about verse seven, to execute vengeance on the nations, punishments on the people. A to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with feathers of iron, to execute on them the written judgment. This honor have all. He's saying all of us, all of the saints of God have the honor, that is a vested privilege, an ability to execute vengeance on nations, punishments on people. We have authority to bind kings with chains. We we can bind their nobles with feeders. And it says all of this come because of verse n to execute on them the written judgment. You see, we have authority that is backed up by the word of God. And that authority vests us with a privilege. Satan can come down the road and he can bring a hundred millions of his demons all with tanks and fire and bring dragons and everything. The word says that you can execute whatever God has written against him. That is our vested authority of script in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Then we just read in Luke where it says nothing shall by any means hurt you. Well, if Satan is coming to hurt you, he's violating the word of God. So I can execute upon him upon his kings, upon his princes, upon his nobles, upon the nation that is backing him up. I can execute the written judgment that is in the name of Jesus you cannot hurt me and I can be a little nothing and he can be all this big old thing but see I have authority he may have power but I have authority I can exercise that authority why because I have dominion to tread down on him but now there's a catch like there's a catch with everything and the catch is that presumptuous ious sins can cause us to give up our dominion. So that's inequity and so that's sin. So let's um deal with one of them at a time. Let's do deal with presumptive sins first. What is presumptive sin? Presump sins is when we engage in warfare against the enemy in our own strength. Selfish motivation will always give the enemy dominion over us because we are operating by our own inherited strength. You see this is at the heart of of uh what u selfishness is. Now don't you think Jesus had authority over Satan? Why is it that Jesus had to be filled with the Holy Spirit to exercise that authority? He's the son of God. Isn't that what Satan said to him? If you're the son of God, you can't turn these stones into bread. I mean, you're hungry. You haven't eaten anything for 40 days. You have power within your own strength. Why don't you do that? Isn't that what the trick was with with uh Eve? They didn't God say this? And then she began to contend with him. What did Jesus say? It is written. See, every time that Jesus says, "It is written," he's saying, "I'm not dealing with you on my own strength, even though I'm the son of God, and even though I have all of this power and authority, I'm dealing with you according to what it is written in the word." The word says, "Thou shalt not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceedth." So, what Jesus was saying is, I'm not here to do my own thing. I'm here because God sent me. You see, I believe that many of the ministers that are into ministry today are not there because of the will of God, but rather because of the will of men, the will of other men on them or their own will. And so, because of that, they're operating in power that is inherited in the self rather than in the authority and the anointing of God. You say, "Well, now you're you're saying a lot there. I'm not judging anybody. What I'm saying is if we're operating under that authority of God, then we will have power of the enemy. You see, if the ministers that operate here in the city of Wington were operating on the the authority, they would be able to stop the train wreck that is going on in this city right now. If this nation of ours was operating under the authority of God, we wouldn't have 40 million babies being aborted in the last 25 years. we wouldn't have all of this um uh uh uh drive by murders. You know, you talk about all of the violent in Iraq. More people die in our cities every day from uh violence, you know, and this is uh you know, something that you just look at a paper uh how many dead bodies, you know, that Anna Nicole Smith just like 39 years old. Uh there's curses upon our people. The the Kennedy family has a curse. Everything just comes down the line. Why can't we break those curses? Well, because if we're operating in our own strength, and I believe that that's what the problem with the church is. The church is operating out of its own strength. The church wants to bring its own perception of the kingdom of God into the earth. And as long as we do that, guess what? We're operating in our own power. So power against power, we lose. Because Satan is more powerful, more knowledgeable than everything. is only when we operate under the authority of the word of God. This is why I believe that it is so important for us to wait on the Lord because we didn't break it and we're not going to fix it. Okay? We just got to operate within a broken system that only God can fix. So, what we got to do is we got to say, "Okay, Lord, how do I fit here? How do I uh uh place myself in a position to where you can use me for whatever benefit you can use me for? And then as we do that and allow the the Holy Spirit, then there's a vesting. You see it if if you go back to the history, Adam, God gave him coats, skins of animals to Adam and his wife. And that authority of Adam was handed down was handed down from generation to generation when Seth who is the one that is said um not uh yeah said the the son of Noah no Shem when Shem the son of Noah to whom that vestage of Adam was given to him the authority Nimro led the rebellion Shem had the power to go on to kill Nimra even though Nimro was a mightier warrior that ever arose. Even though Nimra built cities and and and kingdoms and everything, he had the code of authority. Even though it was this broken down authority of Adam that came out of the even the sinful of and he was able to go in and bring the judgment of God upon the great mighty Nimrod. This nimrod was so powerful. There isn't one single day of your life that you're not touched by what this Nimrod man created. I mean this nimrod is all over the place. You see it on every nation. We watch movies and you know I went to h Key West. I go to the places you see this uh obelisk erected to him. Everywhere you go. We went to uh Louisiana was some old cemeteries from the 1600 and there you see it. Everywhere you go this is all you see. This man was so powerful has such an influence in the whole history of the world. This one man with the old raggedy clothes that he inherited from Adam had authority over him. Why? Because authority always trumps power. See, all authority comes from God. All authority comes from God. God is the ultimate backer of all authority. And when we operate on that authority of God, no matter how broken down, how messed up, how raggedy it is, it is greater than the power of the enemy. So presumptuous sins always have to do with selfish ambition. We have do this presumptuous sin always have to do with selfish ambition. Okay. I cannot go on and and you know I've been waiting now for a year and take on on whoever the principality is over the city that I'm living now in Lake Elsenor which I I've done that three times since I've been there and it was in the last couple of weeks when the Lord brought me up to the level. I want you to challenge his principality that rule over a city and challenge. You cannot do that presumptuously. How do I learn that? Maybe I shouldn't tell you. But you see, you cannot get up in there and declare war against a principality unless God is authorizing you to do it. This is what I'm saying. And what I've been telling friends, this church has been authorized to do that. Okay? It's been on the preparation of this three years. Now, I believe that the time has come for the people within this church to come into a a a an agreement and say, you know what, we are going to challenge the principalities of the cities. And the reason why it's going to work this time is because we're going to challenge the principalities, not presumptuously because we just think this is what God, you know, doing. No, because God is saying the time is here, the time is now. See, the key is waiting for the Lord to open the door. When the Lord opens the door, that's when you go through it. Amen. Now, the second is iniquity. And we dealt with this at length last week. Uh iniquity, idolatry is the root of all iniquity. And in spiritual warfare, one must rid oneself of all idolatry. The reason why Satan contaminates things is so that they become powerless against him. You have to understand that if Satan can contaminate your authority or your power, then he can he's able to survive whatever we're coming against him. For example, if you uh uh prepare a glass full of poison and and then you can dilute that poison, then the poison is have the effect that is supposed to have it. This is what Satan has done against all of us Christians. He has deluded our author our authority because of idolatry. See, idolatry is at the root of Nimrod. Nimrod uh uh who is the baby that is worshiped at Christmas. Who is the uh the the the sun god that they worship in Easter? He is behind the Valentine's the cupid. He's behind the the the dead when the loia muertos or or the Halloween all of the thing is behind all of that. And this religion has permeated society such a great and vast way that our dominion over the enemy has been compromised. So that when we say to Satan, we bind them in the name of Jesus, there's nothing there. And the reason why there's nothing there because we have compromised. You see, idolatry is is harlotry. It's just like uh uh you know you're married to somebody but you're sleeping with somebody else and then you go up in there and and you're showing your wife oh yeah where and everybody out there looking knows that you're sleeping with somebody else. Well what what is to say you have not the respect of the people. I mean, I remember this as a boy growing up in Cuba, seeing um you know, things that you shouldn't see. It's a very small town and and words gets around and seeing a woman and a guy that were married to other people and then you see them on a social setting when they're together. You had no respect for those people. I look at I said, I can't believe that I remember that even as a young man burn my bones. You know, I just get so upset about she knows about it. We had hell for eight years when we first got married. I was so jealous. I mean, I was really messed up by seeing these things. But imagine, put yourself in the position of God. Here you are in the public church in the place and you're going to tell Satan, "I'm going to tell you where to go. Say, I'm going to cast down the spirit of divorce and I'm going to cast out the spirit of drug addiction and I'm going to cast out." And then yet we're in bed with this idolatrous thing that we're sleeping with, you know, with this tradition of men that were there. And and so because of that, there's no authority. There's no power. You're a joke. You know, you get up in there and the demons are sitting on the front row eating popcorn like that thing says. You know, they're just laughing up out loud as you're binding the spirit of the B. You know, I heard so many preachers bind the Bors and the spirit this and the spirit of that man. I there's so many spirits bound. I don't know. There's no room in the whole universe to put them. You know, we have bound so many of them. But yet the effect is not changing. Well, why? Because of idolatry. And uh uh and then you know that's what iniquity is inherited. And it is in our DNA. By the way, I believe that that idolatrous system is so is into our DNA. We so desperately want to bow down to something, worship something. We so desperately want to give into something. And for some reason, we just give it to anybody but to God. For some reason, God, you know, it's like our father. We we may love as your father and everything, but he's the last person that we can go through. We can tell everybody else in the world, you know, I remember I d Previous Next Home

DO YOU WANT TO BE FREE The objective of this teaching is to reveal how unbelief, misplaced trust, and personal choices create barriers that keep believers in bondage. By using Scripture, testimony, and practical illustrations, the message aims to help Christians recognize these obstacles, strengthen their faith, and walk in the freedom that Jesus Christ has already provided. < Back DO YOU WANT TO BE FREE Minister Lisa Kane September 15, 2023 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal how unbelief, misplaced trust, and personal choices create barriers that keep believers in bondage. By using Scripture, testimony, and practical illustrations, the message aims to help Christians recognize these obstacles, strengthen their faith, and walk in the freedom that Jesus Christ has already provided. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane challenges believers with the powerful question: “Do you want to be free?” Drawing from John 12:40 and other Scriptures, she explains how hardened hearts and unbelief prevent many from experiencing healing, peace, and deliverance. Just as rulers in Jesus’ day valued the approval of men over God, many today place more trust in doctors, medication, or worldly systems than in Christ as their ultimate healer. Lisa shares her personal testimony of overcoming depression and later walking away from dependence on multiple medications, illustrating how faith in Jesus—rather than reliance on man’s report—brings true freedom. She shows how unbelief blinds people, while faith, strengthened through God’s Word and testimonies, releases healing and restoration. Through biblical examples of the disciples’ hardened hearts and the miracles Jesus performed, Lisa emphasizes that unbelief limits God’s work, but faith unlocks His power. The message concludes by urging believers to make a choice: let go of fear, doubt, and self-imposed chains, and fully trust Jesus as Lord over their health, mind, and life. True freedom comes when we believe His Word, speak it with authority, and walk in the victory already secured through the cross. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Friday, September 15, 2023. Welcome. This message is called, "Do you want to be free?" It's a very good question to ask because did you know that you're putting your own obstacles in front of your freedom? Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We know that your word does not return void. We know that your word is true. We know that we can believe and have faith in you, Father God. So, I do pray and ask that you help us with our unbelief. Raise our faith. Raise our belief and let us hear your testimony and know that you are true and that you are real. And that yes, we can live in freedom from bondage from sickness, from disease, from any chains that are holding us back in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. We're going to be at John 12 and 40. He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn so that I should heal them. Jesus is talking, but he's also quoting the scripture from Isaiah. So, he's already said this through Isaiah well before his crucifixion at the cross. So the question is do you want to be free? There are things that we put in place of Jesus will believe a doctor's report over what Jesus says. Now in this message I'm going to share my testimony. Uh I have a couple areas of testimony I want to share with you. So I'm going to have less scriptures than I ordinarily do when I teach. But I think the power of the testimony is going to help you with your faith. And then at the same time, I'm going to show you scripture of why how Jesus was able to heal and then how he wasn't able to heal and the things that we put in place. So I want to see the scripture one more time. Look at this. He blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts un lest they should see with their eyes. So in other words, if you see, look at that. And if you understand with your heart and you turn, get away from what you're keeping yourself in bondage from so that I should heal them. You can be healed. You see, your unbelief is what's keeping you from being healed. Let's go look at things that we put above Jesus that keeps us from our healing. Let's start here in John 12:42 and 43. Nevertheless, even among the rulers. So he's talking about all these things that he did that were miracles and he says nevertheless. So these guys saw the miracles. Nevertheless, even among the rulers, many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue, for they love the praise of men more than the praise of God. They didn't want to be kicked out of the synagogue. So instead of believing in him for one, their salvation, for eternal life, but two, for the deliverance and the healing from whatever is keeping them bonded, they chose the synagogue to believe. We can put this in another application. Do you choose the doctor? Do you believe what the doctor tells you? Or do you believe that Jesus is your doctor and your healer? You know, Isaiah tells us that it was by his stripes we are healed. Peter tells us that it was by his stripes we were healed. Fact that it's quoted a second time is very powerful. His stripes is what healed us. You can be healed. And bondage um let's talk a little bit about bondage chains. When you're in bondage, there's several things that are going on. You are struggling believing. You're struggling being well because you're always sick. You're struggling with things that are going on in your life. I It's drama after drama after drama and you can't figure out why. You have no peace and no joy. Those are telltale signs that you are in bondage. And you're in bondage because of you. You did it. You thrive on that drama. So what happens is you put yourself in a situation where you make it so that drama happens more. I know of a couple who is struggling right now and um so working on helping prevent divorce. The other is now going to try to film the other. You see they're promoting their drama. They're getting sympathy for their drama. And because they're getting that sympathy, they don't want that drama to go away. And then of course, if the doctor's telling you you have cancer, you know, there's things going on in the back of your mind. The reason you went in to be tested, you knew something was up. So here you are is you already are thinking in your mind, I knew it. That's why the report says what it says. Don't you know that Jesus is a healer? He's your healer. The bonds and then the the decisions that you make, you know, if you were to remove that item from your life, would you get sympathy and love from anyone else in the world? You see, there's a big problem. We love the interaction with our psychiatrist. It's our friend. We want to be there. Instead of having the same interaction only better with Jesus, you pick and you choose and you put yourself in bondage. So when you do something like that, what is it that you need to do to get out of that? Because it's now your problem. You did it. You got to get yourself out. Now Jesus is there to help you, but he's already given you all the tools in the word of God. And I'm going to show you even the disciples struggled with this. Well, let's let's go here to Mark 6:52. For they had not understood about the loaves because their heart was hardened. Just did a teaching on this. This is where he taught the five or fed the 5,000 um five loaves and two fish I believe it was. And as they had 12 baskets left over of food, bread and fish, and the disciples hearts were hardened. They didn't pause. They didn't think about it. They didn't let it impact their heart. So, they didn't believe, but they were witnesses to it. So, Jesus is identifying the hardness of their heart. Let's continue on. Now, further along, we're in Mark 8. Look at verses 17- 21. But Jesus being aware of it said to them, "Why do you reason because you have no bread?" So here they're going into um an area that they're going to teach and the disciples forgot to bring bread. They've already fed 5,000. Look what he says here. Why do you reason because you have no bread? You see Jesus asked a question here about the leaven and the Pharisees. You can go read this all in context. Homework for you is what I give you. And because their heart, their mind went to, oh, he found out we forgot the bread. And so he he knows, he says, look, why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Is your heart still hardened? You see, he's telling you, you are just witnesses to some pretty good miracles, and your heart is still hardened. Does Does miracles really work? Do you know how many people will reject a video that they see? Let's say even in the back of my mind, I saw a video of a woman's arm being restored. It was um she was born with it twisted and and but you can just see it untwisted, but sometimes I wonder is that fake? But I I always go back to no, that was real. And I believe and the reason I see that is because of the the other context behind the video. So, I believe, but there are many who won't. They'll say that's a hoax. This one wasn't a hoax. Let's continue on. Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? You see, he's now pointing it back to the disciples. This is your problem. You're the one who is purposely forgetting. You're the one who is purposely hardening your heart. Now, continue on with the scripture. We're in verse 19. When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of fragments did you take of it? And they said to him, 12. And then also, when I broke the seven for the 4,000, "How many large baskets full of fragments did you take him?" And they said, "Seven." And he said to them, So he said to them, "How is it you do not understand?" You see, you should understand that's a miracle. Jesus blessed bread and he kept giving it out. Imagine if you bless your body with good health. It keeps getting blessed and it keeps getting multiplied. Do you not see the healing? All it takes is you blessing yourself and remembering. Imagine saying Jesus is the son of God. And he is Lord over cancer. He is Lord over this body. He is Lord over my mind. He is Lord over my heart. This is the power of the word of God. And you need to remember it because as you forget, your hearts become hardened. And what happens when you're forgetting? What's causing you to forget? Your eyes are on the world. Your eyes are not on the scripture. Your eyes are not remembering. This is why I want to share my testimony. one, I want to remember what the Lord has done in my life. At the same time though, I want you to hear the testimony and I want you to believe because you were already healed. You're already free. You're free. You just don't know it yet, but you already are. And your words can make you free. Look at Matthew 13:57 and 58. So they were offended at him. These are the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and these are the people in his own hometown. He grew up with these people. This is Jesus in his own town. Look what he says. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house. Now he did not do many works there because of their unbelief." So your unbelief prevents God from healing you. You see, you choose to believe the doctor. You don't choose to believe Jesus. And because of that decision, you are now in unbelief. Did you hear that? I want you to remember this. You're now in unbelief. Well, how do I get out of that unbelief? You You've got to now make a new decision. You need to undo the decision you made. You have to forget. See, he's you already know how to forget. Forget what the doctor told you. If you can forget Jesus and his testimonies and his power of his word, you can certainly forget the doctor. You believe it so much you don't want to forget. You believe it so much that you hold on to it dear for dear life. So when people at church pray over you, you're like, "Oh, I just can't. I know it ain't going to work. Why am I here? This is embarrassing. Do you see what you're doing to your own life? And then you wonder why you're in the situation. Look to yourself. Look to your unbelief. This is very, very powerful. I want to show you something else here. Mark 16:14. Later he appeared to the 11. This is after he rose from the dead. Okay? He is risen from the dead. Watch what he says to his disciples later. He appeared to the 11 as he sat at the table and he rebuked he rebuked his own disciples. Jesus is rebuking you right now for your lack of unbelief or your lack of belief as unbelief. And he rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen. The people are telling he's risen. He's risen. No, I don't believe it. I saw him die. And and that is their physical proof that they're believing. They're now believing their own eyes, their own witness. I saw him die. They didn't remember what he said to them. They were in unbelief. You know what that is? In order for you to remember what Jesus says, you have to spend time in the Bible over and over again until it impacts here and here. That's the only way you're going to remember what he says. This is part of the relationship factor that you need to have. This is also the part that leads you to freedom. You do not need to be in bondage. You see, he's going to teach you in that relationship how to use your words to prevent you from getting into the situation and then to undo what you've already done. You did this. Now, I want to show you um another event that Jesus dealt with. Uh we're going to do this from Matthew 14:34 and 36. I want you to see how this goes. When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Guanesseret. And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, brought to him all who were sick, and begged him that they might only touch the hem of his garden garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well. Now, we just saw where they didn't believe and he couldn't do any miracles because they didn't believe. Now he's in a region that says they believed and they were bringing the sick left to him, left and right to him. You had the woman with the issue of blood. If only I could touch the hem of his garment. You saw that referring to her there. You you have the situation where two men brought their paralyzed friend and had to climb the roof and open the roof and bring him down in front of Jesus for Jesus to heal him. And you know what? in the woman with the issue of the blood and this paralyzed man. Jesus didn't heal them. He said your ma your faith made them healed. Well, they were whole because of their faith. They believed because they were hearing testimonies and to them all they had to do was get them to Jesus and all Jesus did was acknowledge your faith healed them. In other words, you got to get to Jesus. Find your way into the word of God. Read and believe. And I mean believe it from cover to cover. And don't believe it as stories. Believe it as events. As of the living word of God that these are true events. This is history written and that you can speak it and have it over your life. Now why did this group of people believe? There was testimony going around. Look Mark 5:16-17 and Luke 8 and37. And those who saw it told him how it happened to him who had been demonpossessed and about the swine. Then they began to plead with him to depart from the region. Do you see it? Go read the event of Jesus casting out a demon called Legion. And that he told the legion they can go into these pigs. And the pigs ran off the cliff and were killed. Those people that saw that said, "You need to leave." Look it. They began to plead with him to depart from their region. They saw this powerful miracle. They see this miracle. They see power. They see authority. And they say, "Get away. I don't want to have anything to do with you." Look also in Luke 8:37. Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the gatherines asked him to depart from them for they were seized with great fear and he got into the boat and returned. Now he's going to return to the other side. He had crossed this uh lake went from one side to the other. He cast out this demon. They didn't believe. They said get go away. So he goes back to the other side. In the meantime that demonpossessed man asked you and this is Homer. I want to give this to you because I want to share my testimony and give the time for the testimony. He this demonpossessed man who's now free. He's no longer in bondage. He asked Jesus, "Can I go with you?" Jesus said, "Stay here. I need you to tell I want you to show yourself to the people and I want you to tell them what happened to you." And so he stayed. And so when, watch this, Luke 8:38-4. Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged him that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, "Return to your own house and tell what great things God has done for you." And he went his way and proclaimed the throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him. So it was when Jesus returned that the multitude welcomed him for they were all await. They were all waiting for him. Now they sent him out. They were afraid. Now they're welcoming him because they're finally realizing this man is truly healed. And if he was healed, I can be healed. Now, when Jesus was quoting Isaiah earlier, look at what else is in that same chapter or earlier in Isaiah, excuse me, Isaiah 610. Make the heart of this people dull and their ears heavy and shut their eyes. Look at this. Lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and return and be healed. You can be healed if your eyes you can see with your eyes. You can hear with your ears. You understand in your heart and return. Return to who? Return to Jesus. Now Isaiah is talking to the nation of Israel. He's telling them to return to God. Same thing. Jesus is saying return to me and I can heal you. You have to deal with your unbelief. So let's talk about belief and decisions. And and I'm going to go into my testimony. Let me go to my earliest testimony. So over 30 years ago, I was dealing with depression. Didn't even know it. All I know is for about three weeks there, I was an ugly person. very ugly. And I went to the Lord and you know I always had a relationship with the Lord. I became a believer when I was six years old. I was water baptized when I was nine. And um I'm a I was married at this point when I was doing this. So early on in my marriage, too. But anyways, I remember um praying to God. I always have time with the Lord, always share time with him. And um I asked, "What's going on with me?" And I clearly I hear and understand from him whether it's a voice in my head or what I don't know all I know is I hear and say depression and my first reaction was oh no no no no that's not who I am you see as a believer in Christ I already knew who I am and it was not a depressed individual I may not have been living in joy. Yes, I was a mother at the time. Yes, I was married. But I knew I'm not a depressed individual. So, I decided to go deal with it. I went up to my bedroom, told my husband, "Leave me alone for a little while. I got to deal with this." Shut the door, and uh I went before the Lord, prayed, and then I said out loud straight up, "Demon, depression, you're not welcome here in the name of Jesus." And then I said it again. And then I said it again because I wasn't seeing anything happening. And I was like, "Nope, nope. We're not done." And in the spirit, basically what I did was I grabbed that demon by the front of his shirt and I beat the living whatever out of him because I kept saying it over and over again. And I refused to let him stay there. This was my faith that I was building up with Jesus. And you know, I went to bed that night laying there because I still hadn't seen anything. I just knew it wasn't going to happen. I already knew, nope, not going to have this problem. And I'm laying there and I went to sleep, still thinking it in my mind. Fell asleep thinking it in my mind, saying it in my mind. Get out of here, de. You're not welcome here. That's it. That's it. When I woke up that next morning, I'm going tell you right now, you want to feel freedom, you need to do that. Do that over depression. Do that over any um suicidal thoughts you're facing, just keep saying that over and over again. Go to bed that way in the name of Jesus. Make sure you use the name of Jesus. I woke up feeling fantastic. There was no more darkness. There was no more depression in me. And in fact, my physical body felt like I had been in a boxing match. Remember I told you I grabbed it by the shirt? I bet every punch I hit him with, he hit one back at me. But you know what? I've never dealt with it again. It tries to creep up every once in a while and I I look at it like, I already kicked your butt. Get out of here. That is a testimony. And by the way, for anyone who has seen me later in life, didn't know me then, and you see me now, you know that I walk in joy. that I have a smile on my face often when I don't I may be dealing with something and I just go to the Lord and that is my testimony there. Now I've also have been teaching and saying that sin has consequences for diseases and that you need to cast them out but it has to do with unbelief and it has to do with the words that you say. So here comes the next part of my testimony and this just happened this year. This is why I'm teaching this. So remember the question of this message is do you want to be free? So I had surgery like 10 year uh in 2010 I had uh four discs fused in my neck. Technically I shouldn't be able to do any of that. Uh I remember seeing a particular doctor for some dizziness at one time and they make you move your head get the crystals back where they belong and what have you. And he's like wow you you have a lot of movement. You can move. I go yeah well I follow the instructions. instructions told me to stretch and and I believed the doctors, okay? I believed I trusted in the doctors. I've been going to the doctor since I was young. So, you know, but as time went on, uh I was told, you know, I had heart palpitations. They put me on a heart monitor. I had heart issues when my daughter was born. So, I always knew in my mind I was going to be dealing with the heart. I'm g tell you those words affect you. So I had these palpitations and uh they monitor gave me medication for it because there was proof. Remember what I said. Do you believe the doctors? Do you believe what you think you know is true? Here I was in that mentality and uh you know they get you in with that. I had a lot of bladder infections back then too and I had to deal with all of that. Always getting antibiotics, always going in, always asking questions. Why? Why? Why? Why? And then of course as they do your physical, well, we need to do your physical. Oh, your cholesterol is high. Oh, your sugar is high. Next thing I know, I'm on cholesterol medication and I was on um diabetes medication. And then, you know, I was having the hot flashes and menopause and what have you. Now I was on hormonal medication. That was me up to uh about March of this year, end of February, early March of this year. And uh I decided I didn't want to deal with that anymore. And and I knew I can overcome because you know what? After I had that next surgery, I probably was on that tramodol stuff for like six, seven years, painkiller. And I finally decided to stop taking that and I did fine, successful, you know, was a little tough there for a few days, but then get past it and move on. And I remember you know thinking all right I have overcome so many things why and it dawned on me you know why am I taking all these medications and I decided no nope nope here comes that attitude do what attitude do you have well the doctor said I'm gonna tell you right now I wouldn't trust and believe in the doctor for everything granted there are times that doctors are need you cut off your arm or something you need a doctor. Okay, cut off a toe. You need a doctor. But for other things, there's things that they don't know. And even, you know, when I say cut off an arm or a a toe, remember Peter, the ear of the servant, he cut off in the garden of Gethsemane. Jesus picked up the ear and put it back on. He was healed. So don't let me limit you in what you can believe. Okay? Don't let yourself limit you on what you can believe either. gotta think God like if he can create this world. He's your doctor. So I decided, you know, if I can cast out depression, I can definitely cast out diabetes and cholesterol. And I tried. Spent the whole evening. Went to bed thinking that same thing. Woke up next morning, nothing happened. I was like, "What's going on, Lord?" So in February of this year, got out here. Uh, I went to um Missouri. We were looking for a place to live. We ended up moving out here and um we went to a church called James River Church. I went and got prayed over by one of the elders or prayer workers there. And you know, it's interesting what he tells me. He told me to do the exact same thing I had already done with depression. Go in, cast it out. Of course, he's telling me monitor your meter and watch it and watch the numbers come down. So, I go home. We get back to Southern California and I'm watching this meter. I did the same thing. Went cast it out. Watch the meter for the week and nothing happened. And I'm sitting there like, "All right, Lord. I don't know what's going on here, but something's up." And so I started praying and I was curious. I'm like, "Lord, you said I was already healed. I should be healed. This should have worked. I've been in prayer. I declared the name of Jesus. These are things I've been teaching and preaching, by the way, for many years. I should be able to apply his word to my life and live it free. I should not be in bondage to medications I have to take to make my body operate on earth that he made my body for. I shouldn't have allergies. I shouldn't have anything. I shouldn't even get a headache to to be honest. I should not. And I remember, you know, I started seeing videos come across my um social media feed, videos about the hoax of cholesterol. Found out in researching that the brain is coated in a layer of cholesterol. And the biggest side effect for cholesterol reducing medications was Alzheimer's. Now, I had seen my mother-in-law pass away from Alzheimer's and I was like, "Wait, what?" And by the way, I had been taking I finally uh for like two months there I took it every other day. I was getting lightheaded and I knew it was cholesterol medication because my diet was see I was already being healed and I didn't even realize what was going on and I was getting lightheaded and I remember the physician's assistant that I met with over diabetes, they go over all your other medications with you faithfully, too. Oh, why didn't you get your cholesterol filled? I go, well, I'm only taking one every other day now instead of one every day. Oh, you can't do that. Go make me lightheaded and oh, but we have to run tests to see. Um, anyways, I said, I I'll make an appointment with the doctor and got off the phone with her. And so I remember learning about that and uh you know realizing on that cholesterol things like uh I remember Barbara O'Neal talking about it coming from down from oh it used to be you can have a cholesterol number 300 then it was 200 then it was 196 and I was like are they picking numbers out of the hat or did they run some tests here and that was the thing is they could not provide the test that showed that it had anything to do with you know heart disease. And then um for the diabetes, the Lord was reminding me of some things. I was thinking of the conversation I had with my doctor previously. He was talking about people who are 80 years old and older and that their A1C can be 8.0, not a not below seven. He says the reason for that is because they get too laded and they can fall, break their hip. they're at a greater risk of that than heart disease. And I'm sitting there going, "Wait a second." And I pause. My my thought process all of a sudden went, "Wait a minute. They're 80 years old and older. They made an adjustment for them. Why didn't they make an adjustment between men and women? We're different sexes. We should have different levels. We're built different. We have different hormones. H why does it everybody has to be 7.0? And that's when I started realizing well 7.0 and lower for A1C. That's when I started realizing every time I hit that 6.9 they changed medication where I was back over seven because I got it down pat. I mean I was good with that medication. I was getting up faithfully every morning at 5 5:30 and my blood sugar was always around 80 79 to 81 always I I was hitting my targets believe you and me I was doing very well I had this down pat and even when they change your medication would take me about six months or so I'd get it back down but I'm realizing all of this and then there I was either driving to church or driving home and this is when the Lord I was praying And I was like, Lord, I'm not understanding what's going on here. And I said, why can't you make this meter match what the doctor's saying? And the epiphany was, I'm your god. I'm your doctor. Do you really think they know what your sugar levels should be? Do you really trust that they know what numbers your body is supposed to be? And I had this vision of like taking a Rolls-Royce to a Toyota Camry or Toyota company to fix a Rolls-Royce when in reality I should be taking back the car to its original maker company for service and repairs. And all of a sudden, I'm thinking, I didn't I'm not taking my body to Jesus. And then with all the epiphies I was having, it dawned on me. I didn't have diabetes to cast out in the first place. They were diagnosing me this just to put me on medication so they can make money and I have to live on this stuff. Do you know that was the only time I ever had any lows was when I was on medication. not with my natural body the way the Lord made it. So, in a leap of faith, and yes, it takes faith. And by the way, this was the hardest thing to do for me because I had done this before. And I failed at it. I'll just put it that way. But I put all those medication. I got rid of all the medications. I didn't refill any of them. Put them all down. Got rid of them all. I said, "No more, Lord. I'm not taking any of this. My body is in your hands." And do you know those doctors and those uh physicians assist assistants and thearmacies very faithful you don't fill your prescription they call you. We didn't move for another three months. And I remember uh not one single person reached out to me why I wasn't getting my medication. Because the demons, the familiar spirits around us, the ones that knew me, already knew I let go and my faith healed me. I was completely healed. I had no heart palpitations. Do you know there was a sign I have when I would wake up in the mornings and I'd have 80 as my uh sugar and uh my right ear would always drain. I I don't know why it would do that. When it got low, when my blood sugar get low, I knew right away because the right ear was draining. Well, after I put all that down, guess what? My right ear was still draining. And I said, "Ah, Lord, my body is fine. My body was never broken to begin with because I believed a lie. I believed what the doctor said. And the doctor has no idea what he or she is been trained to put you on. They think they're doing you a good job to save you from heart attacks and what have you. You know, if you're having heart issues, take a little bit of water, put like a eighth of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper in there, and just chug it. I promise you, you will not have any heart issues anymore after that. It It works with your blood flow. It clears your cholesterol. It clears it all. And I've done that. And you only have to do that, especially if you're coming from where it's been bad and you weren't doing that. Take a few days. Do it once a day and you're ready to go. Anytime you start to feel like a little sharp pain in your heart, fix them some, and you're perfectly fine. Your body, the herbs that the Lord has provided from the earth is here to heal you. So, what do you believe? Do you want to be free? You know, are you believing what the doctors are telling you? I promise you, I went through this and I am a walking testimony to tell you that I'm free. I'm not in chains, bound to this earth and the way it lives. I'm already living my eternity with the Lord. I just haven't got there yet out of my flesh. But one day I will. This flesh will die. It it dies. You know, all of the raising from the dead that Jesus did, all those people, they died again. Lazarus had to die again. The bones that were laid on Elisha, he was raised from the dead, he he died again. The 12-year-old girl in this uh scene here in this uh event period of time that I talked about with the Legion, she was one of the ones that was healed here. trying to think it was Jaire's daughter and she was healed. Um she was dead. God raised her from the dead. She had to die again eventually. We all are appointed to die. So the only way you're not going to age to die is when you eliminate sin out of your life. And you're thinking, I can't do that. Actually, you can. Do you know that I spend time with the Lord every and every time you spend time with him? You're not sinning. So, do you want to spend time in the world or do you want to spend time in the word of God? Again, this is your choice. You're the one who's putting yourself in your situation. I promise you that even if you take out all the drama, you take out all the medical stuff, you will have an awesome relationship with the one you can trust, who will never stab you in the back. That is Jesus Christ, our Messiah. He is the one who is faithful and true. He is the one who has healed us. You need to choose. If you really want freedom, you got to unlearn what you've learned. You got to let it go. Speak the name of Jesus over your heart. I And that's what I had been doing, by the way, all that time when I was praying. I said, "Lord, you are Lord Jesus over cholesterol. You are Lord Jesus over the heart. You are Lord Jesus over diabetes." And I k Previous Next Home

THE LIVING WORD PART 2 Equip believers at Signal Hill Christian Center to trust and apply God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:3–4) by: understanding salvation and new life in the Spirit, practicing faith-filled speech and prayer, cultivating patience and surrender through seasons of testing, and embracing humble, servant-hearted discipleship that invites God’s light to heal hidden places. < Back THE LIVING WORD PART 2 Pastor Marcos Marrero August 12, 2007 Objective: Equip believers at Signal Hill Christian Center to trust and apply God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:3–4) by: understanding salvation and new life in the Spirit, practicing faith-filled speech and prayer, cultivating patience and surrender through seasons of testing, and embracing humble, servant-hearted discipleship that invites God’s light to heal hidden places. Synopsis: The message opens with 2 Peter 1:3–4: through Christ, God has already provided everything for life and godliness, delivered as promises that make us “partakers of the divine nature.” The teacher explains salvation as union with Christ: at repentance we “die” to sin’s judgment and rise into new life; all of Christ’s provisions reside within our reborn spirit in seed form and must mature over time. Because growth requires knowledge and practice, Scripture and spiritual principles become essential (Hos 4:6; Prov). The enemy’s core tactic is always, “Did God really say?” so believers must answer with God’s Word. Using Israel’s wilderness as a pattern, the message shows how God trains His people to rely on His Word above circumstances. Romans 8:32 assures that if the Father gave His Son, He will “freely give us all things.” A central motif is the seed: promises germinate in a prepared heart, watered by the Word, and develop in God’s timing/season. Hebrews 4:12 is unpacked as the Word’s life-giving energy that surgically separates and heals soul and spirit—like Spirit-led “radiation” that targets spiritual disease without destroying what is healthy. John 1:1–5 adds that the Word is both life and light; believers must invite that light—by their words—into dark, wounded places (Rev 3:20; Prov 20:27), overcoming guilt and shame so healing can flow. The message models warfare through prayerful speech: David “gave himself to prayer” under accusation (Ps 109) and cried out until his soul was released from prison (Ps 142). Jesus interceded for Peter before the sifting and still intercedes for us as High Priest. We overcome “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony” (Rev 12:11). Like Caleb, a “different spirit” (faith-filled words) chooses God’s report over fear. Practical response includes three covenant prayers grounded in Scripture: Covenant of Salvation (Rom 10:9–10) — confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in His resurrection. Covenant of Surrender (2 Tim 2:19–21) — turning from wickedness so Christ is Lord over every area, becoming a vessel useful to the Master. Servant’s Covenant (John 12:26; Ps 143:10) — embracing humble service in God’s will rather than self-directed ministry. The message closes by blessing the congregation and leadership, asking for renewed strength, a fresh wind of the Spirit, and a local revival of the Word that releases healing, holiness, and fruitful ministry to the community. Inspired Teaching: problems from Jesus directly. So Lord Jesus, we ask again that uh what you have for us tonight, what you have for this house, for Sigma Hill Christian Center, what you have for the individuals, Father God, that make your church here in this area, that the Holy Spirit will go directly to you, Lord Jesus, and bring to us what we need tonight. We submit ourselves, Father God. I submit myself to you, Father God, to be now a voice, Father God, for the Holy Spirit to speak what you would want your church to hear. I just pray that you will grant us ears to hear, that you would give us a heart to understand, Father God, and the ability to apply what the Holy Spirit speaks to us tonight. In Jesus name, we agree. Father, we say, "Amen." Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. You can tell I got a little bit too excited this morning. And My voice is kind of wanting. Praise God. That's always good. Anyway, um I'm going to start with the scripture. Second Peter chapter 1:es 3 and 4 is what we finish with this morning. And then uh we read there that according or as his divine power, God through Jesus has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue. Then he tells us what that knowledge brings about. es by which this knowledge have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these promises the knowledge or the understanding of these promises that through this you may be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. So basically by putting things into context we believe that God has already given to us and and I don't want to get too theological but you know uh I think it's 2 Thessalonians 5 says that your whole spirit your whole soul and your whole body may be kept blameless until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. But our spirit is what is born again. The minute that we confess that we're sinners. See, the word of God says that the soul that sinnth it shall surely die. So in June 2nd, 1976, without me knowing or understanding all of these things, when I walked up to the altar with my wife and then um I repented of my sins, basically God declared me dead right then and there. I have to die. See, you cannot go to the court of God and say that you're a sinner and live because God's word cannot be revoked. God's word said the soul that sinned to surely die. So when I confess my sin and admitted that I was s a sinner immediately the judgment of God was brought upon me. I was declared God the judgment of God said he's dead. The reason why I didn't die there is because Jesus, you see, Jesus provided my death in the cross. He satisfied the divine uh uh uh requirements of God. Jesus is my substitute. I think Paul writes in Corinthians when he says that he who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. In other words, when I went forward and and and my wife went forward, we died. As far as God is concerned, we die. The life that now I now live, like Paul says, I live by the power of the risen son of God. In other words, God in in my spirit gave me life. He took Jesus's all of my sins that have been placed in on Jesus on the cross. He took his death on the cross as full payment for my sins. And immediately God, that's why it says that we're baptized by one spirit into one body. Baptized means to be put under. Uh it's like taking a drop of water and dropping it on the Pacific Ocean. As soon as that drop goes into the ocean, you can't tell where it's at. It becomes part of the whole ocean. My spirit was baptized into the Holy Spirit. And when that happens immediately, your spirit is alive to God. All of the promises of God are now in me in my spirit in seed form. You see, because uh we need to understand that even though salvation is immediate and and and um uh and your names are immediately written in heaven and there's rejoicing in heaven, the minute that a sinner repents, the manifestation of that salvation in us and through us takes a while. You know, one of the odd things because when I I was saved, I was radically transformed. I I mean, I I use this analogy a lot. It was just like somehow God just took the half of my skull up and he reached in there, took my brain and turn it around and put it back in and then put my skull back. It was like, "Oh, wow. Now things, you know, I begin to understand and see things uh uh from a different perspective. That's what what salvation was to me. It was like I was turned around completely, but everything that was in there was in seed form. I went home and I look in the mirror and I look the same. How that's the same me but I don't feel like me anymore. You see there was a transformation. It it it is called born again. Means your spirit all of a sudden now becomes alive. Your spirit now becomes uh uh into the things of God. It was a hunger for anything that had to do with the word of God because it had been starved all these years separated from God. Now, we need to understand that all of that, all of these great and praiseful promises over here that we were just reading, we have to apply knowledge to it. How do you know that God just doesn't all of a sudden uh uh uh gives you all of the wisdom and all of the understanding and and all of the things? One of the things you find out when you get born again that you still make the same stupid mistakes sometimes over and over again. Except this time now you have a spiritual understanding. This time now you're aware. This time now you say, you know what, this is not working for me. You know, when you're in the world, it didn't matter. This is your life. That's what you went with. But now that you're born again, you have a different perspective, a different understanding of what sin is or what sin does of of of of decisions and stuff like that. So then knowledge becomes something that is very much needed. Like I quoted this morning in Hosea, I think it's 6:4, he says that my people perish for lack of knowledge. And I think it was Proverbs um maybe 9:11, the last part. I don't remember for sure but it says that uh it is through knowledge the last part of the verse that the righteous or the just is delivered. So we need to understand there is a requirement now for us not only to study the word but to begin to put what the Bible calls spiritual principles to work. And the reason why I I I um harp so much this morning in the principle of the power of words is because that is the foundation. You see the foundation is everything that is going to be challenging you like uh uh the very first words of Satan Quarter on the Bible. Did God really say? Every challenge that you're going to have whether is sicknesses, whether it's family problems, whether it's business or work related, whatever challenge you have in your life has one root cause and that is Satan challenging the veracity of the word of God or of the promises of God to you. You see, it's going to come to this to where you're going to be faced and having to make a decision. Did God really say? Because that's what Satan is challenging. He's not, you know, God is a God of the person. That's why I love him so much. God can be so awesome and so great. But God is into people. God never invest in big buildings or big program. God, everything that God does has an individual at the center of it. Which is the reason why so many churches fail today. They can build great things, but the individual's needs are not met. God is into people. If you can come face to face to God, you will find out that God is into people. One person to God is a lot more important than a million. There can be a thousand people here tonight and there be one person there with a great need. And God's eyes focus on that person. He said, "That's the sheep that's lost. That's the one that I need to get. That's the one that and that's what God is." But Satan is not like that. Satan is like communism. Everything is is for the the system his system of of destruction. So he will always come to you to the point of of your knee and challenge the veracity of the word of God or of the promises of God in your life. Guess what? And God for the purpose of training us in in in the ways of faith because without faith it is impossible to please God. We are going to be faced with challenges that we're not going to pass until we cross that line and we make the decision and dare to believe what God says in spite of all of the circumstances. Abraham had to do that. Moses had to do that. Every person of faith that you read about in the Bible had to do that. As a matter of fact, in Hebrews 11 talks about some of them never received the promises while they were here. The Bible said they were not the world was not good enough for them. So we need to understand that that is going to be the challenge. Uh God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, Previous Next Home

CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the true context and purpose of spiritual gifts. By examining 1 Corinthians 10–12, the message emphasizes that gifts are not isolated abilities but are rooted in fellowship with Christ and proper spiritual authority. The teaching aims to show how spiritual gifts deliver us from the influence of idols and demonic wisdom, positioning us rightly in the body of Christ so that each member functions effectively in unity under the headship of Jesus. < Back CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS Pastor Marcos Marrero April 18, 2008 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the true context and purpose of spiritual gifts. By examining 1 Corinthians 10–12, the message emphasizes that gifts are not isolated abilities but are rooted in fellowship with Christ and proper spiritual authority. The teaching aims to show how spiritual gifts deliver us from the influence of idols and demonic wisdom, positioning us rightly in the body of Christ so that each member functions effectively in unity under the headship of Jesus. Synopsis: This message begins with prayer and thanksgiving for God’s presence and guidance, then moves into Paul’s instructions in 1 Corinthians 12:1: “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant.” The teaching places this verse in the broader context of 1 Corinthians 10 and 11, which highlight two foundational truths: fellowship with Christ (communion) and proper alignment under spiritual authority. The message explains that spiritual gifts flow from this fellowship, placing believers in their unique positions within the body of Christ. Just as seating arrangements at a banquet reflected status in ancient customs, so too does our place in Christ give us authority and responsibility. Unlike worldly systems that exalt power and pride, the kingdom of God exalts humility—God resists the proud but lifts up the humble. Drawing on passages from James 3 and Psalm 115, the teaching contrasts the influence of demonic, sensual wisdom with the life-giving wisdom from above. Before salvation, believers were bound by “dumb idols” that dulled spiritual senses, leaving them unable to see, hear, or discern the things of God. Spiritual gifts, therefore, serve as God’s tools to free His people from these former influences and to equip them for service. The gifts are not given for self-exaltation but for building up the body, ensuring that each member—whether seen or unseen—functions in harmony. The message stresses that communion with Christ must not be taken lightly; failure to discern His body leads to weakness, sickness, or even death among believers. Conversely, rightly partaking of Christ’s fellowship brings healing, authority, and the power to overcome. Ultimately, the teaching shows that spiritual gifts are God’s weapons of deliverance, empowering His people to walk in their rightful position of fellowship and authority, and to minister under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the edification of the entire body of Christ. Inspired Teaching: Right. Praise God. Father in heaven in Jesus name, we thank you for your anointing, for your presence that covers, Father God, and for your hand that heals. Also for your hand of favor upon our heads, Father God, upon our ears, upon our eyes, our mouth, Father God. Touch us father in the name of Jesus that we may see what the Holy Spirit is bringing from you to reveal to us tonight father in Jesus name we thank you Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Concerning spiritual gift and it's our scriptures in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. And I was reading um the other morning sitting in Riverside there in my car while waiting and I opened to this chapter and the Lord gave me a neat revelation and it says in um 1 Corinthians 12 verse1 it says now concerning spiritual gift brethren I do not want you to be ignorant and then immediately was like the Lord uh just brought the revelation to my mind that um uh spiritual gift have a purpose and the purpose has to do what he has been talking about. In other words, when he said concerning spiritual gift, I do not want you to be ignorant. And if you look back to take into context uh as the Lord showed me in um uh for example in in first Corinthians um uh chapter 11, he's talking about spiritual authority. In in verse two, he said, "But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ." And then he's talking about the man being the head of the woman, Christ being the head of the man, God being the head of Christ. So he's talking about spiritual authority. He's talking about uh the dangers of praying or ministering outside of the right proper spiritual authority. That's what he's talking about there. In other words, he's saying uh uh that when things kind of get out of line, uh we're not functioning under the proper anointing or under the proper covering. And if you go back even farther to put into context what he's talking about, he's talking about um he's talking about communion, having fellowship with God. For example, in 1 Corinthians 10 um verse 16, it says, "The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ." So there's an understanding to be had here that when he says in in in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1 when he says concerning now spiritual gift brethren I do not want you to be ignorant he's taking into context two very major points that he just made in chapters 10 and chapter 11. In chapter 10, he's making the point that we as believers because of the blood of Jesus Christ, we have fellowship. You see, and as believers, we also are placed in a position of authority. Now, let's take this back to the time of of the apostles and so that we can grasp and understand. Remember how Sebedes, the sons of Zebedee, Zebedee's wife, the mother of John and Andrew, came to Jesus and said, "Jesus, when you come into the kingdom, why don't you let uh my uh my son sit at your right hand and at your left hand in your throne to rule." And then there's another occasion when Jesus comes in and says, "Listen, when you're invited to a feast, don't seek to sit closer to the head of the table to the master because he may come in and somebody more important than you may come in and he'll pluck you out of your chair and put that other person." He says, "Sit where the most humble people sit and then the master will see you and then he will sit you up." What he's talking about, he's talking about a custom. A custom in those day is fellowship. When you're in fellowship, the position that you sit in that place of fellowship determines what your ranking is. In other words, the higher ranking you are in that fellowship, the closer to the master you sit. The lower in ranking, the farther you are. Now, I want you to take these two principles here because this is what Paul is talking about. chapter 10 and chapter 11. In chapter 10, he says, "Hey, we're seated now with Christ in the heavenly places because we have fellowship with him." In other words, Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me." When we partake of communion, we are recognizing the fact that we are part of the body of Christ. Jesus sits at the head of the table like he did during the communion and the different disciples sit next to him on their positions that are given to him. So the fact that we are now part of the body of Christ places us in a position of authority with Christ. That's what it's talking about. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 1 Corinthians 11 is talking about fellowship and authority. That's what it's talking about. So when in 1 Corinthians 12:1 he says, "Now concerning spiritual gifts, I do not want you to be ignorant." We need to place it within the context is that in fellowship with Christ, we have position and we have ranking. Okay, we need to understand this because this is the whole framework of the gift. This is how they operate. As a matter of fact, if you read farther down, where we're not going to get to tonight, in in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, uh he makes the very statement that in Christ, we're all like part of a body. In other words, we're not all an eye. We're not all an ear. But imagine if you put the eye on the knee, you would have a hard time praying, getting in your knees to pray because your eyes can't handle that. So he is talking about here that no matter what position you have in the body, whatever position has been given to you, whether you're a male or a female as he's using it in in in in 11 when he talking about that the woman not to pray with her head on cover. And when he's talking about that a man cannot pray with his head uncovered, meaning that Christ is his head. And if he's going to do spiritual warfare, he better have Christ as his covering, just like a woman needs to have her husband as a covering or her pastor, he's talking about a position in Christ, a fellowship with him. And then he's talking about not only a position of authority, h a position that brings us to a place of authority. In other words, whether you're the little toe, whether you're the nail, whether you're the eye, whether you're the ear, it does not matter. You fit into that pattern. And to men, now remember, they asked Jesus right in the context of when uh Zebed's uh wife uh wanted one of her sons sitting at his right hand and as his left hand. Jesus says the kingdom of God is not like the gentile world. In the gentile world, you lorded over people. He said, you know, the one with the most drive, the one that can bribe more people or convince more people or lead more people, he takes a head seat. He said, no, in the kingdom of God, the more humble person a person is, the more he to be exalted. In other words, you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be a servant of them all. Now, why is that? Because God governs and rules through principles, spiritual principles. Just like gravity. If gravity was taken right now, we all go floating. And if we don't have nothing to grab on to, man, we're in trouble because we're just out there in space doing nothing. God works always through laws which are called spiritual principle. And God has a very simple spiritual principle which he governs everything by. He says that God resists the proud but yet he exalts the humble. So you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be humble. And God is going to come to your little seat where you're at and going to move you to a higher position of authority because why? Because he has to obey. He governs by the rules that he made. And that's the rule that he made. The humble he lifts up. And now the one that exalts himself, what is it? That God resists the proud. So we need to understand then that in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 when we read verse one when Paul says now brethren concerning spiritual gifts I do not want you to be ignorant. We need to take that into the context that Paul is speaking about as believers. We have fellowship with Christ. And because we have fellowship with Christ within the structure of the fellowship we are given a position. we are given a position of authority. That's what he's talking about in in in chapter 11 being in the right under the proper government uh government ruling uh spiritual ruling of God. So the spiritual gift have to do with placing us in the proper place of fellowship with God and in the proper place of authority with God. So if we start with that then we're going to be able to understand what it's talking about. Now I want you to read. We're going to read verse one and verse two. 1 Corinthians 12. He says, "Now concerning spiritual gift, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant." Verse two, "You know that you were Gentiles carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led." Now Paul very purposely puts the word there d them. He's not putting down on an on idols. He is trying to bring a very very important point. And what he's saying over here is that when we were gentiles and the problem with the word gentile that's become a fancy word. Oh we're all gentiles. The word gentiles mean pagan means idoltor means an idol worshipper. That's what the word pagan means. It means that hey, when you were an idoltor, when you were a pagan, when you were in the world, before you came into the fellowship that you are now in with Christ, and before you came into the position in which God has placed you, you had an authority and you had a position because you were influenced. You were led by idols. You see, so the spiritual gift are designed to take as if it were our nature or carnality or the position that was given to us by these dumb idols by our pagan ways of walking and placing us within the proper framework and context of the purpose and plan that God has for us. That's what he's saying concerning spiritual gifts. Brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. You need to understand that now that you're a believer, you're in Christ. You have fellowship with God in the house of God. There is a seat. There is a spot that is reserved for you on that. You occupy a place of authority. And when you're part of the body and you're exercising your full authority within your context of the place of authority, you're making the body work. Hallelujah. You're making the body work. Things are happening. But when you're not within your position and within the realm of your authority, you're hindering. And that's why we need the gift. The gifts are there to place us in the proper place. That's what he's talking about. Now first of all we need to understand that as Gentiles or pagans all of our ways that means the way we think was influenced by demonic stuff. Now I don't have it there in the notes but u uh uh I need you to to see this. I was thinking today as I was meditating is in James and I think it's chapter 3. Uh James chapter 3 if I can find James. Where are you James? There you go. I'm already there. James 3. And I spoke this many times is James 3 verse 12. Let's begin there. It says, "Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grape vine bear figs? Does no spring yield both salt water and fresh?" Believe it or not, this is the context into which Paul is talking about. We're going to read a scripture later to where it says, "Are you trying to make God jealous because you're partaking of the table of demons and you're partaking of the table of God?" So the context here is that now that we are situated or positioned in Christ, we need to assume or fulfill the responsibility of that office that has been given to us. And then he says um in verse 13 James 3:13 say who is wise and understanding among you. Remember I don't want you to be ignorant brethren. That's what 121 says. I don't want you concerning spiritual gifts. I do not want you to be ignorant. who is wise and under standing among you. Let him show by the conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. Remember wisdom is a spirit. He said, "But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth because this wisdom or this spirit, this influence does not descend from above, but is earthly, is sensual, and is demonic." And I want you to to underline those two words, sensual and demonic. And then he says, "For where there's envy, self-seeking, there's confusion, and all kinds of evil are there." And then he contrasts that by the wisdom that come from above, he says, "But the wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield and and all kinds of things." So I want you to see that what Paul is trying to deal with here is our carnality versus our spiritual position in fellowship and authority with Christ. Our carnality, the influences of the flesh are going to be in contrast with the position that we are in Christ in our fellowship with him and the authority that has been vested upon us as Christian. And so that if we don't see that the spiritual gift are tools that God has made available to pull us out or remove us from under the influence of the wisdom of this world which is demonic then we cannot come into the fullness of our position and fellowship that we have with Christ. This is why so many Christians fail. Now I want to take you in a journey as to why pagan when we were pagans that's before we were saved when we were pagan how much influence that demonic structure of this world that wisdom that we just read the self-seeking and sensual how detrimental that was to us because that DNA is deeply engraed saved in our human nature and that's what the gifts are for to remove that. Let's go first to Psalm 115 and let's read verses 2-8. Psalm 115 verses 2-8. He says, "Why should the Gentiles say, so where is their God?" Now notice he begins with a question. Why do do pagans say where is their God? How many of you know that now that's what the world says to Christians? Where is your God? How come you're dying of cancer the same way everybody else has got cancer? You're getting divorced the same way everybody gets divorced. you know, you're having to do the same things that we're having to do. So, where is your God? Now, watch what he says. He says, "But our God is in heaven, and he does whatever he pleases." Now, the pagans, verse four, their idols are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. And this is what I want you to see. This is very important. The idols, the works of manham, they have mouth but they do not speak. Eyes they have but they do not see. They have ears but they do not hear. Noses they have but they do not smell. They have hands but they do not handle. Feet they have but they do not walk. Nor do they mutter through their thro. And here's the kicker. Those who make them are like them, and so is everyone who trusts in them. Now, if you didn't catch it, he was talking about the five senses. He says they have eyes, they do not see, they have ears, they do not hear, they have noses, they cannot smell, they have mouth, they cannot taste, they have hands, they have feet, they can't do anything. And it says that those who make him, which is the wisdom of this world, the selfseeking that is embedded in all of us, we were under that influence as Gentiles, as pagans becau before we came into the commonwealth of Israel, which is the promise of God of Abraham according to the spirit where he said, "Your seed shall be like the stars of the heaven." That inheritance that we have before we enter into it, that's what we were under. We were this is so are the ones who make him and the ones who worship that lifestyle they become like them. Imagine that. What does it mean to become like an idol? It means you cannot hear the spirit of God. Means you cannot see the reality of spiritual things. Means you cannot does the Bible say come and taste and see that the that the Lord is good. You cannot taste the word of God. You speak it but it's not food. There's it's like eating cardboard, dry box, something like that. Why? The reason is because of the fact that idols are designed to keep men bound so that they cannot hear the spirit of God and be set free. Remember what Jesus said, lest they hear and be healed lest they hear. Isaiah says, you know, they they they hear uh they have ears, but they cannot hear. And and then he says, and and and unless they hear and be healed. So, we're talking about coming into the inheritance of God. But it says that we inherited all of that. You see, before I was born again, I could read the Bible and I could say, "Man, no wonder the world is so messed up." All you could see when I was reading in the Bible was wars and killings and murders and everything else. You see, my spirit was shut up. Could not see, could not hear, could not taste, could not smell. It wasn't until I experienced a rebirth. Born again, born of the spirit where that dumb idol. That's why Paul calls it the no matter why dumb. Because you don't hear and you don't speak, you're called dumb. That's why he called them. They don't have the ability to speak or to hear. We were led when we were pagans by dom idols. And these do idols kept us boxed in to where we could not see the fellowship the the seed of fellowship that we have with Christ. And we cannot understand the authority that comes with a sitting that we're now seated with Christ. That means that we need to be delivered. We need to be delivered. We need to be delivered from ears that cannot hear. We need to be delivered from eyes that cannot see. Have you ever been around a person that is negative all the time and and in every situation they see the worst and and and you're not involved in it and and immediately you perceive man that person will be so negative. He could see the blessing right there. Their attitude is what keeping them. I mean the person might be dying to hire them but they're doing everything in the world to keep the guy from hiring because of the attitude. You cannot see things like that and that's what he's talking about. So then what first Corinthians chapter 12 what he's talking about he's about God has made available for us spiritual gift because he said brethren concerning spiritual gift I do not want you to be ignorant those spiritual gift has been given to us for a purpose and the purpose is to deliver us from the demonic influences. that we have inherited from our old lifestyle when we were pagans. As a matter of fact, there's another scripture that I want to bring it more at home. And it's right there in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. If you're still in in 1 Corinthians 12, just back up just a little bit so that you can see that all of these things that Paul is doing, he's he's he's they're all chapter 10, chapter 11, they're all talking about. Look at ch 1 Corinthians chapter 10 uh verses 19 and 20. Look what Paul says what I am saying then that an idol is anything or what is offered to idols is anything. He's asking the question, but look what he says. The statement that he makes in 1 Corinthians 10:20. Rather, the things with the Gentiles or the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And because of that, Paul says to us, those who are believers, no, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. because you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. So he's saying as a believer now you cannot remain in your old lifestyle. You have been given a seat of fellowship at the Lord's table which is his body, the church. That's what 1 Corinthians 12, if you read it, he says uh uh this gift are given for the profit of all and we're like a body. There's just one head. See, a lot of people say, well, uh, uh, you know, to justify their stronghold in a church or in a group or fellowship, anything with more than one head is a monster, they say. And I agree with that. Jesus is the head. That's what they don't understand. They're not. Jesus is the only head and Jesus operates through the full body. Any healthy church will have different people manifesting and and and ministry through different gifts. As a matter of fact, you read 1 Corinthians 13, it it says there are many gifts, but there's one spirit. There's the same Holy Spirit. He works. And you know, the Holy Spirit loves working through multiplicity of people. Get a group and begin to minister and you'll see that he the Holy Spirit will jump from one person to the other one to the other one to the other. Why? Because God operates in principles. And what is another principle that God tries to keep us from? Pride comes before the fall. And God knows in our human nature, we're very much prone to pride. So if the Holy Spirit does everything through you and you become the big head, pretty soon you're going to fall over. So the Holy Spirit will just use you for for a part and then he'll move to somebody else. And then you said, "Wow, I can't believe the Lord gave him that." And the other person say, "Look at you. I can't believe the Lord gave him that." But the thing is the two parts work together and bring the deliverance to the to to the thing that you need. And so what? Nobody gets full up because everybody said, "Man, if pray had not been here, that would not happen or if this had not happened." So So the Holy Spirit loves working like that. So he says in 1 Corinthians 12, if you read part of there are many gift but one spirit. But then he goes on to say there are different ministries but just one Lord. I don't care whether you're a pastor or a prophet or whether you're an evangelist or whether you're a teacher or whether you're an apostle, whoever you are, Jesus still is ahead. Why? Because he is the chief cornerstone. He's the head of the church. He is he he he he occupies every main office of the church. He occupies he's king. He's high priest. He's prophet. He's the apostle of our faith. Everything that has a title that governs and rules the body, the church is Jesus. All of us are just somewhere in there. And it's amazing that when h as 70 son's mother asked Jesus, he says those position are reserved by God as to who sits to his right hand and to his left hand. Only God has got those position. And you know what? When we get to heaven and we see those seated up there, I can guarantee you we never heard of them. We never knew them. There's some place some place to where and they suffer endure and whatever God knows the heart. He says whatever you do in secret will be rewarded in public. So then in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, what Paul is talking about when he says, "Now, brethren, concerning spiritual gift, I do not want you to be ignorant." And it's not to be ignorant of the fact that we have fellowship through our communion with Jesus Christ. And because we're in that fellowship, we have been given a position of authority, a seat. See, when you're going to uh the feast, everybody sits at a special place. We all sit at a special place. And that sit is reserved for just us. And he says, "And I want you to understand this." And I also want you to understand that when you were pagan, you were led by do idols that blocked your ability to hear, that blocked your ability to see, that blocked your ability to smell and taste and touch. And so because of that, you need deliverance in some of these areas so that you can be set free. And if you're not set free and you say, "Hey, I don't need it." Then you're going to have a problem. And the problem is in the scripture uh before us. Uh look at 1 Corinthians uh 11 verse 27-30. In 1 Corinthians 11:27-30, talking about our fellowship and and what we're commanded to do, the communion, he says, "Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord." Now, it says that there's a proper way to take it in and there's a proper way and and and and and a a profane way of doing it. Verse 18, but let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, partake of the word of God, and drink of the cup, the blood that Jesus shed for us. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. And then look what it says in verse 30. For this reason, what is he talking about? What is he talking about? For this reason, because of failure to understand the our nature that is corrupted, for this reason many of you are weak and sick among you and many have died. So meaning that in the Lord in our table of fellowship that we have with the Lord, the bread is for the healing and the blood is for forgiveness. I don't care what illness any Christian has, he has a right to come to the table of the Lord. Look at uh Psalm 23. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemy. this table, that bread of healing is the bread, the body of Christ. It says Peter quoting uh Isaiah says by the stripes of Jesus, you were healed. When we partake of the bread, it's not necessarily the communion that can happen on the communion, but when we take the word of God that says, "I am the Lord that heals you." And we're facing cancer or we're facing some kind of destructive disease and we can partake of that word. With eyes that see, hallelujah, with ears that hear, with the ability to taste and see that the Lord is good, the smell of the blood of Jesus that was shed for us, we're able to touch the hymn of his garment and immediately were healed. But he says many of you because you're failing to understand that your position of authority and fellowship in Christ cannot be handled in the natural way. You see cannot be handled in the natural rational way of thinking. This is the mistake that most Christians make. Their ministry is based on the human senses. That's what James 3 said. He says the wisdom that comes from here is is it is it it is demonic. It is sensual. It is based on the senses. It's based on what you see and what you hear. And the Bible tells us uh uh not to lean into our own understanding. That there's a way that seemed right to a man and that the end is destruction. So then what Paul is saying before you can handle your position of fellowship and authority you better understand what the spiritual gifts are there for because the spiritual gift concerning spiritual gift is what's going to set you free. Now look at verse three. This this can trouble many people for a long time. 1 Corinthians 12:3 in first he says now concerning spiritual gift verse one brethren I do not want you to be ignorant verse two you know that when you were pagans you were carried away to these dumb idols wherever you were led therefore I make known to you and you have to make sure you you pay attention here I make known to you that no one speaking by the spirit Spirit of God calls Jesus a curse and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Now that doesn't seem to make sense, does it? It is in a place there and it's standing all by itself and you say, "Man, what is that all about?" Well, that confirmed the scripture that I read to you in James chapter 3 where it says that there's two wisdoms. There's a wisdom that comes from above, peaceful, pure, and then there's a wisdom that come from this world which is based on sensual and demonic. That means that there are only two fountains. That means that there are only two wells. That means that there are only two sources. This is what it's talking about. And when we were pagans, guess what source we were drinking and flowing out of? Idolatry. And guess what? That idolatry brought dumb. Can see, can hear, can smell, can taste, can touch. You see? And so now he's saying here that you cannot say that Jesus Christ is Lord unless the spirit of God is saying that through you. And you cannot say Jesus occurs if you're born again because you see only the pagans can say that because the spirit of God is in you will not allow you to say anything bad about Jesus because the spirit testified about Jesus. That's all he does. He's here for the purpose of Jesus. The spirit of God will never ever put in a Christian to say something bad about Jesus. Never. It can't. the spirit of God and in the same way in our own nature we can never say Jesus is Lord unless the spirit of God truth you see we we were dumb our eyes our ears everything was blocked we could not see we could not hear it took the spirit of God to connect us see when Jesus send the disciples and gave him power they came back what Lord we spoke in your name and demons went out said don't rejoice in that rejoice that you had the password to heaven Yeah. And it's your name. Your name is written in heaven. When you say in the name of Jesus, your voice registers in heaven and immediately shows that's Marcos. Whoever it is you're born again, your name is in is written in the register just like a computer. Just type in your password and guess what? If you're not connected, you're not going to get in. Okay? You got to be signed up. You got to have a password. Your name is your password. You cannot say Jesus is Lord unless the spirit of God is in you. That's why he said rejoice that your name is written in heaven. That when you pray by the power of the Holy Spirit immediately it is answered. But now remember Jesus speaking about this he says my sheep know my voice. said, "But there are thieves that tried to come in through through the fence or through the back door, but they're not allowed in." See, here on earth, you can do that. You can fool a lot of people. You know, you wear the right clothes, say the right things and everything, and man, you can build a a great following. But that doesn't fool God. You see, you you cannot say Jesus is Lord. And and since we're dealing with demons because you see super personally sick, you know, and you can talk a good talk and play a good game and you can preach a great service, you say in the name of Jesus, if the spirit of God is not ended, that demon is just sitting over there laughing at you eating popcorn or lighting up one or whatever it is they do. You have no authority. You have no power. You see, the only power that we have is the gift that God gives us. Because the gifts are the tools. are the weapons. The gift concerning spiritual gift are the weapons that God gives us to defeat or destroy the power of these things that work with us. And so what he's saying here is in the spirit realm, in the natural you can fool a lot of people, but in the spiritual realm you're either connected to one or the other source. You're either connected to the wisdom that comes from above. Your name is written in heaven. When you speak, there's authority in your voice and demons have to obey. Or you just pulling a game and you're doing, you know what the thing does? You're you're you're in for self-seeking. You know, you just heard of this this pastor that just retired and the church is building him a $10 million church, a 10,000 um uh uh square feet living and stuff like that. And yet all of the years he's been preaching about the poor, all of the poor people and and and how does that um and and and you know, but people can't see nothing wrong with that. And then you know, and you see that in how many other congregations, people that have, you know, mega mega churches and have this uh big big mansions and all that stuff. You never see Jesus do that because when he said he cared about the poor, he really cared about the poor. He says the son of man doesn't have a nest for the birds have nest for he said son of man doesn't have a house doesn't have a place he has one goal and the goal is deliver the people the the people that are bound he saw the people like sheep without a shepherd who were hassle and and being destroyed by by the enemy. So then we get to the point now to where he says that there are diversity of gifts. Now we can understand how these gifts work. If you break them down and you have them there in your note, three of the gifts are called Ottoman's gift. And it is so important because the idols that we were under were dumb. They cannot speak. Okay. Order and gift. The every time you read in the book of Acts that the Holy Spirit fell on people, the first manifestation that came out of the people is they began to speak in other tongues. Now, why why is that? Why? Why is it that all of the sudden the Holy Spirit brought a prompting within the people to prophesy and to speak because before that you couldn't. It's just that simple. See, you were connected to a dead socket. It looked like a real one and everything and you were plugged in, but there was no juice flowing from there. You could not see, you could not hear, you could not smell, you could not taste. When you were plugged into the spirit of God, guess what? The light came on. Your mouth moved. You were able to speak Previous Next Home

YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON 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. < Back YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON 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. Inspired Teaching: 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 Previous Next Home

THE LIVING WORD PART 1 Equip believers to recognize the spiritual battle of words, trust the supremacy of Christ’s blood and promises, and actively engage the Living Word through faith, praise, and obedience—so they can silence accusation, receive healing where words have wounded them, and walk as ambassadors of God’s kingdom. < Back THE LIVING WORD PART 1 Pastor Marcos Marrero August 12, 2007 Objective: Equip believers to recognize the spiritual battle of words, trust the supremacy of Christ’s blood and promises, and actively engage the Living Word through faith, praise, and obedience—so they can silence accusation, receive healing where words have wounded them, and walk as ambassadors of God’s kingdom. Synopsis: Speaking from Psalm 109:1–5, the message frames life as a spiritual battle waged in words: the enemy accuses and lies, while God’s Word is living, powerful, and creative. The sermon teaches that in the spiritual realm “words are the currency,” and that what gives divine authority to God’s promises is the shed blood of Jesus (Hebrews 12:24). Contrasting Abel’s accepted blood sacrifice with Cain’s works (Genesis 4), the preacher shows how innocent blood “speaks,” yet Christ’s blood speaks “better things,” silencing accusation and securing redemption. Revelation 13:8 and 1 Peter 1:20 are used to show that God foreordained Christ’s atoning blood from the foundation of the world, guaranteeing the reliability of His promises. The message applies this to everyday struggles—family, health, ministry—urging believers to reject the enemy’s narratives (“you’re unworthy”) and answer with God’s Word. The story of Hannah and Eli (1 Samuel 1) illustrates how a rightly spoken, priestly word can unlock God’s purpose. Practical counsel includes praising God to host His presence amid attack, guarding the “belly”/inner life where words take root (Proverbs 18:8; John 7:38), and standing on God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:3–4). A vivid thought experiment reimagines Adam facing God by faith rather than hiding in shame, modeling how believers today should run to God’s Word after failure (1 John 1:9). Hebrews 4:12 is highlighted to show the Word’s energizing power to heal deep wounds and separate truth from lies. Personal testimonies (deliverance, marriage, parenting through difficult seasons) underscore that God is faithful and His Word proves true in real life. The message ends with a call to make Jesus not only Savior but Lord, corporate prayer for protection of the implanted Word, and an invitation for personal ministry. Inspired Teaching: great ministry. You know, 20,000 people in there and you know that uh the enemy has uh them in their target. So, this is um very important that we pray for ministries like that. Uh you're able to transform one life, you can change um a great part of the world. Amen. Uh let's begin with a word of prayer this morning. Hallelujah. Precious father in heaven, we thank you. This is the day that the Lord has made. The word says and it says also, "Let us rejoice and be glad in it." I thank you, heavenly father, that every single one of us here are part of this day that you created, Father God, and that you had a plan and a purpose for putting us on this day and here where we are today at Signal Hill Christian Center. I pray, Father God, that you will fulfill the purpose for which you created us this day. I pray that as we partake of your word, Father God, that your word will become alive in us and Father God, and that we'll bring forth, Father God, the praise and worship to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that he deserves because Bible says that it was for his pleasure that we were created. May we bring pleasure to you this morning, Father God, in all that we do. And everybody that agrees, let us say amen. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. We're going to start with Psalm 109. And u I want to read um five verses. Psalm 109 verses 1-5. And the title of uh the message is the living word. I want to talk about the word of God, the living word of the Bible. But I want to put it in contrast. Sometimes it's hard for us to understand things unless we uh see it in contrast. But let me begin in Psalm 109 verse one. He says,"Do not keep silent, oh God of my praise, for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause. In return for my love, they are my accusers. But I give myself to prayer. Thus they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love. I think all of us can identify with that statement there at a time in our lives. You meant to do something good and boy you wish you would have never messed with it. Everything like just turned back in you. But we have to realize that uh in spirit in the spiritual realm and and by the way that's what we as Christians are uh uh the Bible says that um uh that in order for us to become Christians you have to experience something called the new birth or born again or born of the spirit. Once we become born again or born of the spirit speaking about being born of the Holy Spirit, we become spiritual creatures. The Bible says that we become kings and priests. A king is a person who has authority in the on the physical realm. A priest is somebody a mediator who has authority in the spiritual realm. We become now spiritual creatures with authority to rule over the earth. That that is what we become. We become agents like uh uh she said ambassadors on the scripture that she read. We become ambassadors. We're representatives of the kingdom of God here on earth. And we have been ordained and empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring about the kingdom of God upon the earth. So if you see evil going around, don't blame God. Blame us for failing to do the things that we need to do. We need to implement the words of God. Now in the spiritual realm the currency that it is used mostly is words. Did you know that? As a matter of fact when nothing when nothing had been made or created how did things come into being created? God said God said let there be light and light came into existence. Light was revealed. Light was manifested. God spoken every time. See, words cannot be uttered without breath coming out of one's mouth. That's what makes a sound. So when Jesus said in John, I think it's 6:33, the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. You see the words of God, when God speaks, there's life in his word. The word of God is alive. The word of God is powerful. The word of God brings things about. So in the spiritual realm, words are the currency that it is used. Once the word is spoken, that word goes out. I think it's Isaiah says uh God says, "My word goes forth and it accomplish the purpose for which I send it out." Like the rain goes up into the mountain, comes down the river, but eventually winds up back in the ocean. And this is what the word of God is. The word of God has a purpose. But we also have to realize that in the spiritual realm, there's an adversary. He's called Satan, the devil. One of his names is the accuser of the brethren. He's also called a slanderer. He's also called a liar. And when David is speaking here in in this psalm, David is speaking about words. Why? Because the battle that takes place in our battlefield, which is the spiritual realm, is a battle of words. The words of God versus the words of Satan. As a matter of fact, the very first words recorded of Satan in Genesis 3:1 is Satan saying to Adam and Eve, "Did God really say?" You see the very first act of Satan was to question the veracity of the word of God, the power of the word of God. So in reality, the whole battle that we're facing, it begins with words and words are are are the currency that is spoken in the spiritual realm. Now looking at those verses, look what it says. For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me. This is Satan. He Jesus said Satan does not come except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. In John 10:10, so the mouths of Satan has opened against us. The wicked has spoken against us. Said, "They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred and they fought or contended me without cause. So we see that Satan's weapon is one of accusing. As a matter of fact, you look at the book of Job and you will see a a a rare uh insight into what goes on in the spiritual realm and how it affects us human and the physical. Satan comes in before the presence of God and begin to accuse Job. And this is a something that we need to understand that as we battle whatever it is we're battling with, whether we we're battling on the flesh with our the for the salvation of our families or whether we're battling for our health or whether we're on a struggle for for dear life or the salvation of our children or spouse or or or for the ministry that God has given us. Whatever battle is taking place, we need to realize that the battle has its origin in the spiritual realm through words. Words that are spoken. Satan saying, "You are not worthy to do this. You're nothing but a loser. You're a sinner. You're this or that." And those words condemning and accusing full of hatred and venom are continuously being uttered by Satan against us. And then we need to understand that there is a righteous God, a righteous judge who has also spoken the word. Now to bring it into perspective as to what the sacrifice that Jesus made for us entails, I will go as far as to say that not only are words the currency that uh that is used in the spiritual realm, but I would say what backs up that currency is shed blood. What backs up that currency is shed blood. Just like the money, you know, uh um there was a time when all the gold in Fort Knox uh backed up the the dollar. The dollar the the paper money has no value. You know, that could be monopoly in Cuba where I'm from. That's what the money is is monopoly has no value. They don't have no economy. They don't have nothing. So what backs up the the currency in the natural is gold or an econ or an economic system in today's day. Well, these words are backed by shed blood because when God uh uh was speaking to Moses says the life is in the blood and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. meaning that when when the blood that is in us when is shed the spirit leaves because the life which is the spirit is in the blood. Uh let me bring a couple of scriptures here so that I can bring this into focus. In Hebrews 12 24 speaking about how we the church of the firstborn how we have come. He said we have come to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. We need to understand uh uh uh that blood shed blood speaks and the battle that it is fought in the realm of the spirit through words. Your words better be backed up by something when you're doing spiritual battle when you're speaking. And blood is what does it? Now notice that it uses the blood of Abel. Why? Why does it use the blood of Abel as an example? Why? Because Abel was the very first murder victim. As a matter of fact, there were probably just four people in the world at that time. Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. And then Abel, I mean, Cain fails to bring the proper sacrifice. Adam when he uh uh was pardoned by God and and and and God himself slaying an animal and clothed Adam and Eve with with with the height of these animals that were slain. He taught them how to atone for their sins. The fact that without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. When Abel came in, he offered a blood sacrifice that spoke of the one day God will bring about his son who would shed his blood and pay in full the debt of sin, give value to the currency and pay the debt off. But Cain came in and he offer fruits h probably the very best grapes or or or or uh uh produce that he could bring which symbolizes the works of man. man cannot save himself. And so God said to him, you are angry and your face is cast down because your sacrifice has not been accepted. But if you offer the right sacrifice, won't you be accepted? Why don't you just offer the right sacrifice? And if you don't, if you refuse to obey the words that I'm speaking to you, sin is at the door and is crouching and it desires to have you. But you must master it. This is what God said to Cain. But Cain because he refused the word of God, the spirit of murder, which is what Satan is because Jesus called Satan a a a father of lies and a murderer from the very beginning. The spirit of Satan came into Cain and kill Abel. And this innocent blood was shed. And now this innocent blood from the ground cried out for vengeance. And ever since that time, all of the blood of all of the people that had been shed had been cried out for vengeance. You see that in Revelation, I believe chapter 6 and the opening of the fifth seal, I believe it is, where it says under the altar is sold the souls of those who have been murdered. And they cried out, "How long, Lord, righteous and just, before you judge them?" So you see, blood speaks. And in this case, Satan feeds on the shed blood of innocent people. This is what empowers his words. You know, the I if you could go back to to to to the uh and and listen in the spiritual realm uh uh to the voice of the blood, you would hear the blood of the martyr said, "Watch out. Watch out because Satan can't kill you." Look at how many Christians all the way from uh for 300 years from the beginning of of the church were murdered, burned alive and and all of the things that were done to them. So the blood speaks uh uh in the spiritual realm, but it says that in Jesus uh and I'll repeat it again in Hebrews 12:24. Jesus who is the mediator of the new covenant has the blood sprinkling that speaks better or more powerful things. So you see when we say in the name of Jesus we're not just tagging a name to it. We're speaking about the mediator of the new covenant who signed that covenant with his very own blood. Cuz the Bible says that he shed through the eternal spirit his blood. When Jesus was on the cross and his blood was being shed, his blood was taken by the eternal spirit into the holy place in in heaven, the holy of holies into the mercy seat and it was sprinkled there. And you see, and now the Bible says that you and I who have accepted Jesus Christ as savior and lord are sitted seated. We live that's our address. We live with the Lord Jesus Christ. And so when Satan comes in and accuses and say this lies against me whether they may have a base on truth or whatever that blood of sprinkler that was sprinkled on the mercies it speaks on my behalf. Hallelujah. And said his sins are covered his sins are forgiven. He has been redeemed. Hallelujah. And so therefore the accusing words of the enemy are being neutralized. We see we need to understand that the living word of God becomes the antidote for the venom of uh the poisonous venom that Satan is a snake who bites at our heels. Amen. Are we in agreement so far? Praise God. Hallelujah. In Revelation 138, and now I'm going to bring something here that will get us our minds thinking. In Revelation 13:8 says, "The book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world." H I'm going to ask you this question and I want you to ponder it. If Adam and Eve had never sinned and all of their children never sinned and we live on a world that peace and and no sin will had ever enter into our world, we will be living today on the greatest place that that we could ever think of. If that would had happened, would Jesus have to die, right? He didn't have to die because there was no sin. But yet, the Bible says that Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world. What does that mean? What does it mean that Jesus shed his blood from the foundation of the world? What how does that work? You know what I believe that says? That says that God said, "I am going to create man in our image and in our likeness, we're going to give him freedom to choose. We're going to make him a free moral agent. And if he so chooses to disobey our word, God speaking to himself, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit." If man would choose to disobey God's word, which immediately would require this, he says, "We will provide the shed blood the foundation." See, imagine this. Here's this huge uh uh uh table and and this is way before anything's been created. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. They're sitting and as God as as they are one, they can see everything. Did you know that God eons ago before anything was created so you and so me? Did you know that his soul is here together? Did you know that God knew every sin that we ever committed as that would ever come in? He knew everything. Some of you might be here today thinking, "How can God ever forgive me?" If if if if if you would only know how filthy and how dirty and how many did you know that before God ever spoke a single grain of sand into existence, he looked at that scenario. He saw all of our sins. Everything is open and plain to he saw it all. And he said, "If that is the case, I will provide hallelujah the blood, the shed blood that will speak of greater things." You You see, basically what I'm trying to say is the word of God is more powerful than anything can Satan ever do or say. If God said it, it is it because God cannot lie. He's not man. So even if we would have been perfect and never sin, the fact that God said, "I will give up my son for you if it's needed," was good enough. was good enough. And you see what why why that is important is because we have promises now that has been given to us. Can God keep those promises? Oh, praise God. See in first Peter 1:20, Peter frames it this way. He indeed speaking about Jesus was fore orained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in this last times for you. Meaning God from the foundation of the world says if need be I will provide the blood that will speak of your redemption. And Peter says we needed it. This is why Jesus came in this age. We needed we needed to be redeemed. Is anybody here agrees that we need redemption, right? We need we need something to speak on our behalf that will shut out that accuser that keeps telling us all of the things and reminding us of all of the things all the time. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah. This is how I wrote it when I was meditating on it. God said, "Let us make man in our image, and if he fails and becomes worthy of death, we will supply the shed blood needed to redeem him." So, in essence, the word of God, his promises spoken before the creation, they're alive. The promises of God are alive. You see, they're they're they're they're an entity that lives and moves that exists and that it meets whatever need is required at the time that it is required. It meets the needs of today. It met the needs of yesterday and it meets the needs of tomorrow. You see, I don't care whatever Satan has planned against you in your life and how many traps and and and things you may fall into, but there is a guarantee that the blood that Jesus shed speaks confirms the promises of God that it they're powerful enough to redeem us if we were to fall. Amen. That's that that is what it's saying. Praise God. Hallelujah. And uh this living word or alive word is wonderfully and powerfully enough to deliver us from the venom of Satan accusing words. This living word of God is the antidote against the power of the onslaught of death that is brought about by our slandering enemy. Now in our text in Psalm 109 where we started, I want to show you two verses. Why is David praying this prayer? verse 21 and 22. Psalm 109 verse 21 and 22. David says, "But you, oh God, the Lord, deal with me for your name's sake because your mercy is good. Deliver me." In other words, that blood that testify my behalf is good enough, powerful enough, deliver me. Why? Verse 22, for I am poor and needed, and my heart is wounded within me. Did you know that all of us here at some time or the other have been wounded by words? As a matter of fact, did you know that uh most of us probably ventures to say all of us to some extent are a reflection or we have been shaped or molded by words that were speaking to us whether good or bad. Ain't that the truth? See, words have the power to shape. How many know that having a mother and a father that are loving and are encouragement and encouragement and you know I remember my son when he kept saying oh but I mean oh that mom's doing what I think and this and that and the other I said uh uh son if they didn't hire you they missed on the best person on the world because I know you have it within you son you know you you got to be there for your children you got to be there to encourage them you got to be there to to bring them but there's also a an enemy who has an army army of people and a lot of times Christians themselves who will speak the wrong words. You know did you know that probably more people are hurt and wounded in church than in the world. I mean churches are prime place for you to get stabbed in the back or stab in the heart because the gossip and all the things that is in it. So we are basically shaped and molded by the way we view the world and by the way we view oursel through words that have wounded us. David is he's saying it in Psalm 109 he says I am poor and needy. I'm I'm lacking something. And that's because my heart has been wounded. Did you know that you can take a child that is stray a student at at whatever points of their development and have a tragic thing happen? Maybe a a grandma or grandpa that they love a lot die or a divorce in in in the home or something like that and it just basically destroys their lives sometimes to these things happen. And and the reason why it causes this is because that's part of it their foundation. And when the foundation is shaken or is broken or it's cracked, something falls. and and and and and so we need to understand that all of us need to connect with this living word, this word that is able to bring about the accusations of the enemy to silence them. Because you see, if we don't have that other voice speaking in our ears negative things, we wouldn't have the problem. You know, today they they portray like a a good angel and and a little devil and and one speaking to the other one. You know, they they want to portray that. But we need to understand that as Christians, we have access. We have a blood that speaks on our behalf. Hallelujah. There's a blood that was shed in Calvar's cross that has been taken by the Holy Spirit into the Holy of Holies and is seated there on the mercy seat where Jesus is sitted. And when Satan goes before God and begins to unload upon you and unloads all of this garbage and all this thing that that you have done and and he embellishes and he lies all these things and as he brings out this accusation seeking to destroy your moral fiber seeking to destroy your drive what makes you go there's a blood that speaks Jesus all the father does he looks to Jesus and Jesus says he or She is under my blood. Hallelujah. Then the blood speaks on our behalf. He said he is righteous. She is holy. She is able to do it. She's able to accomplish it. She's able to bring it about. Why? Because that the the word that is spoken is backed up by a God who said, "If you need to be set free, I will set you free. They that call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered." That is a promise of God that cannot fail. Amen. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah. You see, this is not just the Bible. This is a Bible in that is pages and printed and stuff like that. But in there, there's a wealth of life. Hallelujah. That is waited to be waiting to be tapped into by somebody who's there to believe on the promises of God. We will be so much better. You know, you trust the world. And before you did, you know that they're putting a pharmacy on almost every corner. Now they're making it fast so you can drive through and get your drugs. You know, in another 20 years, everybody will be hooked up to some kind of a drug cuz can't handle can't handle what we see. Can't handle what we see here. Global warming, global freezing, nuclear war, AIDS, all of in the natural everything is a mess. But yet for a Christian, he can come into the peace of God. Hallelujah. He says, "This is the day that the Lord has made. God put me on this day." Hallelujah. And my God, I'm going to praise him and worship him and I'm going to rejoice that I'm part of this day. Hallelujah. Amen. That's that that's that's me taking a hold of something that's full of life. And guess what? That life is going to enter into me. And that life is going to manifest in me and through me. Hallelujah. and through my wife and through our children and through our granddaughter and through our friends and to our family. Why? Because whatever words you're feeding on, that is what you're going to produce. If you feed on the lies of the enemy, you don't bring anything forward. As a matter of fact, you go to uh Samuel chapter 1, and there was a woman, I think her name was Hannah, and she was married to to a guy, I don't know, Arcana might have been his name. This guy had two wives. And back in in those days, a wife was seen like a a fruitful vine. She was supposed to provide as many children for her husband. and and this other wife that that he had uh uh this man had man she was producing one child after the other one like watermelon seed she was feeding one after the other pardon and she couldn't bear no children she couldn't bear no children her husband loved her and her husband was being kind to her and giving everything that she could but but she just couldn't one day as they went up to the uh uh uh to to where the tabernacle was to worship. She wouldn't need she when she went over there. She got as close to to to the tabernacle as she could because she knew that's where the word of God was. That's the place where God dwell. He dwells in the holy place. So she got by the door and she was grieving spirit. She was crying. You know what she was saying? I am not fulfilling my purpose. I am not fulfilling my purpose. I am not able to bring forth what God created me for. God created me to bear him fruit. One of the psalms says the fruit of the womb is his reward. Every child that bursts the the womb and comes out belongs to God. Hallelujah. Because that what God created us for to him righteous offspring, right? And so she's crying and she's crying and weeping. And the high priest, Eli, says to her, "Woman, can't you get go get drunk someplace else? You know, do you have to come to the tent to the temple to get drunk? I mean, here's a whole camp. Everybody's having a big party. Find the tree someplace and get drunk there. Why do you have to do it by, you know, by the door of the temple?" And and and it's amazing because the Bible says that when the Holy Spirit fell upon the 120 that were in the upper room, they were acting drunk. This woman is in travail in the spiritual realm. See, she's a woman. She's not allowed. She's not a priest. She's not allowed into the place where God is. She gets as close as she can. And she begins to travail and said, "I got something within me that I can't bring out that the enemy is blocking out. and I need some words spoken on my behalf to bring it out. Right? And so as she's grieving and the high priest, who by the way is the highest man representative to God to the people who has the power to speak on her behalf, what does he call her? A drunker. And she says, "I am not drunk." And you know what she said? She says, if you read it in the original King James, I am not a daughter of Bile. I am not a daughter of wickedness. I am not worthless. That's what she was saying. I am not worthless. I had Satan telling me since I was born that I am worthless. I have this other woman that that is married to her husband telling her that she is worthless. And she's had the whole camp, everybody telling her that she's worthless. But she came before the presence of God and she said, "I am not worthless. I am a child of God. I am a Jewish woman. I belong to the promises of God." Hallelujah. And all I need is God to speak on my behalf. Oh, glory to God. The high priest, I can just see him back up like, "Wow, those words came out of her with power." Like when they came to get Jesus and Jesus said, "Here I am." And they all fell back. He goes back and said, "Wow, hey, hey, hey woman, may the God of Israel bless you with what you need." Hallelujah. And as soon as those words were spoken, see, they were spoken by the man who was in the position. He was the priest. He was the one that had power or access authority. He was mediator between God and man. And as soon as he spoke, that woman conceived. Nine months later, she gave son to a prophet of God. One of the greatest prophet of the Old Testament. So you see, you need to understand that within you, you may not see yourself as much and people around you may not see you as much and everybody may condemn you, but within you there's a Samuel waiting to come out. Within you, hallelujah, within you, there's something that God has placed in there and that is waiting to get forth. And all he needs is for a word to be spoken. We're always looking for for for for a man who isn't a a mediator to speak it. Well, guess who your mediator is? His name is Jesus. Hallelujah. And guess what? He's seated right now. He's face to face with God the Father. Okay? And when Satan goes and and and and brings your name before God to accuse you, that's an opportunity for Jesus to say, "Hey, Father, not only did I forgive her, but here's the plan that I got for her." Hallelujah. I got a Samuel. I got a Samson. I got a David. I got something inside that person and I'm going to speak it and I'm going to bring it out. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So you see the living word is not living to us until we connect with it and make it alive for us. You see if the Bible says the Lord is my healer. Amen. And I have cancer coming out of my ear. Who do I believe? Do I look in the mirror? Man, I'm in pain and I really have this thing. Or who do I believe? Is the Lord my healer or not? See, God has this little way of doing things. He always waits until the last second somehow. You see, with Abraham, it was bringing the knife all the way down to what was most precious to him. Just as he started to come down the end, you say, Abraham, Abraham, stop it. Now, I know that you're believing. In in I think Romans Paul says Abraham against hope believe that if he kill his own son that God can bring him back to life. You see if whatever it is that Satan has brought against you will kill you, you will not die. Jesus said he who believes in me will never die. I believe that one day I had the I was asleep and I woke up in the middle of the night like an elephant. I set on my chest. Man, I don't know if I was having a heart attack or you know, I couldn't breathe. It was just like then all of a sudden like my spirit stood up and I'm standing on our front door. We live there in Wimon and we have a a window on the door. I look and right through the window there's this 9 10t tall dude all with a cape all over him and the sickle of death. And I mean I'm seeing this thing and in the natural I'm like my god this is a grim ripper you know this thing is coming over. But immediately my spirit rose up in me that scripture that I just told you where say, "Hey, Jesus says I will never die if I believe in him." When God says for me, he's going to send a big white lemon with a bunch of angels and I'm going to be taken off to glory. Hallelujah. First class. So I told that dude at the door said, "Amen. You got the wrong door. Get out." Hallelujah. And immediately I woke up back in my van over there and I said, "Well, glory to God. There's power of the living word of God. Hallelujah. Woo. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah. I apologize for getting so excited, but oh man, there's nothing that I love more than the word. Hallelujah. My car says Hebrews 10:23 on my license plate. He that promises faithful. I know the promises of God are true. I seen I'm 30 years my wife and I we celebrated 39 years of marriage. When we got married uh Friday was our uh 39th anniversary. When we got married they nobody would bet that we would last over a month. Not one single person in the family you could find. But even through those dark years, God was faithful. And one day we both got saved on a Wednesday night, June 2nd, 1976. Eight years later, we walked out to the front of Assembly of God Church. And right then and there, we gave our souls. And and for this, not only our 29 years, but the 31 years that we've been saved, I can stand and say to you with all of my heart that God is a faithful God. He may not be faithful in the way you think of it that you need a boat and a Cadillac and and and and all the things. I'm talking about faithful when it comes to life and death. Jesus says, "I come to give you life and to give you abundant life." Hallelujah. And I got that abundant life. I can sleep on a rock. I can sleep under the water. I can sleep anywhere. Hallelujah. I can I have peace regardless of what? See, we raised three teenagers when uh uh I noticed you had the picture of the three boys. Boy, talk about faith being tested when they become into the age. And I remember having to get up at 5:00 in the morning to go to work and being 3:00 in the morning and and Lisa, our daughter, who's the saintly saint that comes over here would drive up on the driveway 3:00 in the morning and I hear the door slam. Thank you, Lord. You brought her home. You're faithful. when I hear the door open, I hear going, you know, you do that with three kids, three teenagers, you know, as they go through those growing years. And every single time things look bad or look desperate, I could go to God and said, "I have a promise for you, God." Because you see, God spoke to us one day when they were like 11, 12, and 13. And God spoke to my heart and says, "You know what? Satan can steal from you, but he can't steal from me." And I said, "What do you mean by that, Lord?" He said, "Give me your children and Satan will never be able to sell them." So my wife and I actually had a dinner, had a communion dinner, and we offer our kids and their future up to God right then and there. And then from then on, we look at our kids as adopted. God gave it to us to to raise them. But in reality, he is responsible for he's responsible for their future. He's responsible for the outcome of their life. And every time a dark time would come, we could say, "God, you promise they're your children, and you have power, more power than Satan has." And you know what? When it looked like it was hopeless, all of the sudden things change. Ain't that true? All of us who've been in the Lord a while, that that God just just comes through, doesn't he? So what I'm trying to say is that the living word of God when he finds the home within us you becom Previous Next Home