SIMON MAGUS To reveal the contrast between the deceptive power of sorcery and the true power of the Holy Spirit, using the biblical account of Simon Magus as a warning for today’s church. This lesson aims to equip believers with discernment against false prophets, manipulative teachings, and secular deceptions that seek to undermine God’s truth. SIMON MAGUS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To reveal the contrast between the deceptive power of sorcery and the true power of the Holy Spirit, using the biblical account of Simon Magus as a warning for today’s church. This lesson aims to equip believers with discernment against false prophets, manipulative teachings, and secular deceptions that seek to undermine God’s truth. Synopsis: In Acts chapter eight, the story of Simon Magus provides a vivid illustration of the clash between counterfeit power and God’s true anointing. Simon, a sorcerer in Samaria, had long deceived the people into believing that his magical abilities were a divine gift. However, when Philip preached Christ and demonstrated genuine miracles, Simon himself believed, was baptized, and followed the ministry. Yet his true motives were revealed when he attempted to buy the apostolic gift of imparting the Holy Spirit. The rebuke from Peter—“Your money perish with you!”—established once and for all that the power of God is not for sale, nor can it be manipulated by human schemes. This event also foreshadows the rise of false apostles and counterfeit ministries, which even in the early church, sought to exploit God’s truth for gain. Pastor Marcos draws parallels to today, where secular predictions, manipulative doctrines, and counterfeit “prophecies” distract believers from the unchanging Word of God. From Simon Magus to modern-day distortions—whether false prophecies about the end times, pseudoscientific theories elevated above Scripture, or ministries that commercialize the anointing—the pattern remains the same: deception thrives when truth is compromised. Believers are reminded that truth and falsehood cannot mix; the moment truth is diluted by lies, it ceases to be truth. The call of this lesson is urgent: “Wake up before it is too late.” The body of Christ must guard against deception by holding fast to the uncompromised Word of God, discerning true prophetic voices, and resisting the allure of secular philosophies masquerading as truth. Only God’s pure Word, empowered by the Holy Spirit, can preserve the church in these perilous times and prepare it for Christ’s imminent return. Inspired Teaching: Acts 8:9-11 “But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery (magic) in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, ‘This man is the great power of God.’ And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries (magic) for a long time.” In Acts chapter eight we are privy to a real life encounter between the power of darkness that flowed through Simon the magician, and the power of light demonstrated through the apostolic anointing that flowed through Simon Peter. Sometimes it takes a real fake to recognize what the real thing is. When I described the power flowing through Simon the magician as fake, I do not mean that his power was not real or that it was not great, what I mean is that it wasn’t from God. Acts 8:5-8 “Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city.” Did Simon Magus really believe that his power was from God? Maybe, but whether he was deceived or complicit in the matter at this time, is not what’s important here. Because when Simon saw the great miracles that flowed out of Philip’s ministry, we are told that he also believed the message that Philip was preaching, He, Simon the magician, was baptized and followed Philip’s ministry. Acts 8:13 “Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with (follow) Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs that were done.” The difference between magic and the real thing is that in magic the magician makes you believe something that is not real, through his manipulation of reality, while the real thing is always self-evident. The way it works is, if the magician or sorcerer can make people believe that his power comes from the real God, then the people’s own faith in the real God will heal them, while he, the magician or sorcerer takes credit for the miracles. So that Simon Magus had no problem recognizing, number one that, the miracles that were flowing out of Philip’s ministry were the real thing, and number two, that Philip had greater abilities than the ones that he, Simon Magus possessed, and that is why he followed Philip. Acts 8:14-19 “Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, ‘Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.’” Here we see what Simon Magus saw from his perspective, the source of Philip’s power came from the laying on of the apostles’ hands. After all, Jesus had told His apostles, “You will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” In Simon Magus thinking, if you can own the source of the power, then you can control it, and give or sell it to whomever you want to. Isn’t that how some ministries try to operate today? Their desire is to control the actions of the Holy Spirit, and in some instances, for the right price or service, the anointing can be given as reward for their faithfulness to their ministry, or so they think. Acts 8:20 “But Peter said to him, ‘Your money perish with you, because you though that the gift of God could be purchase with money!’” Peter’s rebuked of Simon Magus establishes once and for all that God’s apostolic anointing cannot be earn nor manipulated, it is a direct result of God’s sovereign calling and empowerment. Which leads me into the reason why I am writing this lesson on the first place. Revelation 2:2 “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars.” In the early church there was a flood of ministers that claimed to have the apostolic calling and did not, Simon Magus being one of them. Simon Magus has a long secular history of trickery and manipulation that he perpetrated against the church, while he claimed to be part of it, in spite of Peter’s rebuke against him. That same spirit, whose root is magic, or sorcery, is alive and well today, causing many of the saints to lose heart because of the ways that it manipulates the truth, especially as it pertains to prophecy. Mark 13:5 “...Take heed that no one deceives you.” As the return of Jesus draws near, the propaganda and manipulation against God’s prophetic truth is in high gear, as Jesus warned us. The airwaves are filled with so called prophecies of non-biblical origin, that pretend to be in the same, or even in some cases higher level, than that of biblical prophecies. Their intent of course is to equate secular prophecies with true biblical prophecy, so that when the false prophecies fail, people will fill the same way about biblical prophecy. Recent examples can be found in the end of time predictions that were attributed to the Mayan calendar, which got more credence with secular prophets than any biblical true prophet ever did. The same way with the Nostradamus predictions and the many others put forth, that were in many cases, a manipulation or private interpretation of some old sayings. The most recent case being that of the, I believe, Irish monk of many centuries ago named Malachy, that’s supposed to have predicted the names and order of the pope’s that lived and ruled long after his death. He is supposed to have predicted that the pope that was just installed is to be the last pope before Christ’s return, and that his name was to be, I believe, Peter Romanus, of course the newly elected pope selected to go by the name Francis, so there goes that “prophecy”. John 8:31-32 “...If you abide in My word, you are My disciples. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” I know that the temptation to go with secular speculation is great, but we must resist it, because it is, simply put, a manipulation of God’s truth, designed for no other reason than that of undermining the veracity of God’s true prophetic words. Revelation 3:2-3 “Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.” NIV We the church, the body of Jesus Christ, are living in what can truly be described as perilous times, for us the church. Which have come as a result of us elevating secular teachings to the same level as God’s biblical truth, and in some cases higher than biblical truths. For instance, many Christians believe that evolution is part of the creation process due to the secular teaching that the earth is billions of years old. If one follows along those lines of trying to appease secularism, then before long you wind up believing that the resurrection from the dead is nothing more than a metaphor instead of a reality. I wonder how many of those secular humanists have woken up to the reality of hell and then realized that it was too late for them. Wake up! Before is too late for you. In the same way that Simon Magus manipulated truth and made people believe that he was someone great, by the “miracles” that he projected, there are many “miracle” workers today, especially in the scientific arena, that make claims and boasts of things that are nothing more that assumptions based on their distortion of reality. Do you really think that if secular humanists discover something that confirms the truth that the Word of God teaches, that they will tell you? If you do, you do not know the lying ways of devil at all, nor how his manipulative schemes work. You will not know at what time I will come to you. The above verse captures the essence of what the lying spirits of this world are trying hard to accomplish. They are hard at work trying to prevent Christians from knowing the signs of the time. Truth and falsehoods can never combine, I mean, lies mix with anything, but truth can never be corrupted. Truth will never endorse a lie. That is what the temptation of Jesus by the devil was all about. Satan was saying to Jesus, if you endorse (worship) me, I will give to you back everything that I stole from Adam and You won’t have to die on the cross to get it. Well as you know, Jesus who is Truth would not endorse the lie (the devil) even at the cost of dying on the cross for our sins. So that when Christians entertain the falsehoods and perversions of this world, and try to mix them with the Word of God’s Truth, so that they fit in together nicely, guess what happens, the truth is not in them anymore, and when that happens, they do not have a clue as to what’s coming their way. 1 John 2:4-5 “He who says, ‘I know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, (or stays true to God’s Word) is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (truth will not mix with any form of lies) But whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.” The only thing that will protect God’s church from the evil time that we are living in, is His pure unvarnished Word, His Truth, and the revelation and enlightenment that they provide to us when we do not compromise His Word. Look all around you, as a believer, do you yearn for days past when God’s anointing was palpable in so many of His houses of worship. Where has the anointing gone? So many Christians wonder today what happened to it, it left the minute they believed the lie, the second they compromised the truth. Yet that anointing never left the true believers that hold true to God’s Word, however it left with them, as they left their dead churches behind. 1 John 2:20-21 “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know (because you have not compromise God’s truth) all things. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and (you know as well) that no lie is of the truth.” It’s true that there is a great deal of contamination out there, and that there are many so called leaders, both secular and in the church, that do not have a clue as to their true spiritual condition. So, it falls upon us to pray and to interceded on their behalf, let our prayers for them be in accordance with Scripture, Ephesians 5:14. Wake up sleepy heads, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light! My version. Let us remember that the only thing that is going to keep us from the hour of testing that is soon coming to test all the inhabitants of the world, is our firm belief in the veracity of God’s Infallible Word, and an uncompromising belief in the deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and His physical resurrection from the dead. Revelation 3:8/10 “…(you) Have kept My Word, and have not denied My Name (His deity) ...I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell in the earth.” Previous Next Home

< Back Each teaching listed below teaches on the topic of: Spiritual Warfare 9 Page 1 SICKNESS IS A MANIFESTATION OF SIN June 9, 2026 View Teaching PRAYING THROUGH OBEDIENCE October 28, 2025 View Teaching WHAT A CHRISTIAN FIGHTS AGAINST - PART 1 September 24, 2025 View Teaching OVERCOMING YOUR THOUGHTS February 2, 2026 View Teaching A BELIEVER'S UNBELIEF October 22, 2025 View Teaching HEAVEN'S THRONE April 18, 2025 View Teaching COVERING OF THE BLOOD December 4, 2025 View Teaching WHAT A CHRISTIAN FIGHTS AGAINST - PART 2 October 1, 2025 View Teaching SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD December 29, 2024 View Teaching 9 Page 1

OVERCOMING YOUR THOUGHTS The objective of this teaching is to equip believers to recognize that spiritual warfare is primarily fought in the mind and to provide biblical instruction on how to overcome ungodly thoughts through obedience, repentance, renewed attitude, and the intentional application of God’s Word. Using 2 Corinthians 10:3–6 as the foundation, this teaching aims to help believers understand the relationship between sin, sickness, and thought patterns, while learning how to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. The goal is transformation through renewed thinking, resulting in spiritual maturity, steadfast faith, and victory in daily life. < Back OVERCOMING YOUR THOUGHTS Minister Lisa Kane February 2, 2026 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to equip believers to recognize that spiritual warfare is primarily fought in the mind and to provide biblical instruction on how to overcome ungodly thoughts through obedience, repentance, renewed attitude, and the intentional application of God’s Word. Using 2 Corinthians 10:3–6 as the foundation, this teaching aims to help believers understand the relationship between sin, sickness, and thought patterns, while learning how to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. The goal is transformation through renewed thinking, resulting in spiritual maturity, steadfast faith, and victory in daily life. Synopsis: In Overcoming Your Thoughts, Minister Lisa Kane addresses one of the most personal and persistent battles every believer faces—the battle of the mind. Rooted in 2 Corinthians 10:3–6, this teaching reveals that although believers walk in the flesh, the war they fight is spiritual, and victory is found not through natural reasoning, but through God’s mighty weapons that pull down strongholds and bring every thought into obedience to Christ. This message acknowledges a common struggle among believers: possessing knowledge of God’s Word, being able to quote Scripture, and yet still wrestling daily with thoughts that default to worldly responses rather than spiritual ones. Through honest reflection, the teaching illustrates how even something as simple as feeling sick can expose where our thought patterns are rooted—whether in faith or in habit. The teaching explains that sickness entered the world through sin, beginning with Adam and Eve’s disobedience, and that sin and sickness are part of the death process described throughout Scripture. It explores biblical examples of unconfessed sin, disobedience, and unforgiveness as contributors to sickness, while also emphasizing the importance of balance by acknowledging that not all sickness is the result of personal sin, as shown through Jesus’ words in John 9 and the life of Job. Rather than focusing solely on identifying sin, this teaching brings the believer back to the heart of spiritual warfare—attitude and obedience. Drawing from James, Peter, Acts, Romans, Proverbs, and Philippians, it teaches that trials test faith, produce endurance, and reveal what truly governs our thoughts. Praise, prayer, humility, repentance, and a joyful attitude in the midst of suffering become powerful tools that renew the mind and rewrite thought patterns. The message concludes by affirming that transformation happens from the inside out. As believers intentionally meditate on God’s Word and align their thinking with what is true, noble, pure, and praiseworthy, their thoughts begin to change—and with them, their responses, attitudes, and lives. Overcoming thoughts is not about perfection, but about surrender, obedience, and allowing God’s Word to take first place in the mind and heart. Inspired Teaching: 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 NKJV 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. As a believer, I have the knowledge of the Word of God, and I can read it whenever I want. I can recall scripture and quote it because I’ve spent many hours in the Word of God. But here’s the thing, I still fight my thoughts everyday to put God’s Word first in my thoughts. For example, I feel a cold coming on and the first thing I think of is over the counter medication, when I should be thinking about going to God first with humility and asking for forgiveness. Sickness is a result of sin. Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you[a] shall surely die.” Romans 5:12 NKJV 12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— Romans 6:23 NKJV 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the [a]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Death entered through Adam and Eve’s disobedience; sin and sickness is a part of the death process. There is unconfessed sin: Psalm 32:3-5 NKJV 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah There’s disobedience, which we read earlier in Genesis, but we see this clearly in Deuteronomy as well. Deuteronomy 28:58-61 NKJV 58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 60 Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. Scripture tells us sickness comes from unforgiveness and disobedience. Sometimes, we don’t know what we’ve done but the key is to go to God, ask for forgiveness and start over and be obedient. James 5:15-16 NKJV 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 [a]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, [b]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Exodus 15:26 NKJV 26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” And let’s remember, not all sickness is from personal sin: John 9:1-3 NKJV Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. And remember Job. He was a righteous man who went through hell on earth… Job 1:1 NKJV There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and [a]shunned evil. Job 1:8 NKJV 8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you [a]considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and [b]shuns evil?” So, how do we fight a spiritual warfare against our own thoughts? Just because I have knowledge of sin and sickness, I’m missing the whole point. James 1:2-8 NKJV 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces [a]patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be [b]perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 1 Peter 1:6-8 NKJV 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been [c]grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not [d]seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. Acts 16:25-26 NKJV 25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. It comes down to attitude, which will renew, change, and rewrite your thinking process going forward. When you’re sick, or suffering, or stressed, or full of anxiety, count it as joy and praise the Lord. Romans 12:2 NKJV 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Proverbs 23:7a NKJV 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. The transformation that takes place inside you, attitude change is where you overcome your thoughts. Philippians 4:8 NKJV 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. Meditate on His Word, the Holy Bible and let it change you on the inside. That way the Word comes first in your thoughts placing the thoughts that come from the world second. Dear Jesus, help me overcome my thoughts and place Your Word first in my thoughts. Help me to meditate on Your Word and be transformed by You. Help me to put joy and rejoicing first in my thoughts. In Jesus’ Name Amen! Previous Next Home

IMITATORS OF CHRIST To explain the spiritual meaning of imitating Christ as presented in 1 Corinthians 11, emphasizing God’s divine order of authority, the flow of spiritual life through creation, and the significance of Christ’s redemptive blood. This teaching aims to help believers understand how aligning themselves with God’s ordained order allows them to receive His blessings, walk in discernment, and partake worthily of the body and blood of Jesus. IMITATORS OF CHRIST Pastor Marcos Marrero January 18, 2021 Objective: To explain the spiritual meaning of imitating Christ as presented in 1 Corinthians 11, emphasizing God’s divine order of authority, the flow of spiritual life through creation, and the significance of Christ’s redemptive blood. This teaching aims to help believers understand how aligning themselves with God’s ordained order allows them to receive His blessings, walk in discernment, and partake worthily of the body and blood of Jesus. Synopsis: Imitators of Christ explores Paul’s exhortation in 1 Corinthians 11:1 to follow his example as he follows Christ. The lesson compares God’s spiritual order to the flow of energy in an electrical system: God the Father is the source, flowing through Christ, then man, woman, and children, before returning back to God. This divine circuit must remain intact for blessings to flow, as disrupted order leads to judgment instead of blessing. The study highlights that the flow of life began when God breathed His Spirit into Adam, producing blood that gave him life. Eve was then created from Adam’s side, signifying the continuation of this divine flow. However, the serpent’s deception of Eve disrupted the spiritual order, requiring redemption through the promised virgin-born Son—Jesus Christ, the “last Adam.” Through Mary’s miraculous conception, divine blood entered the human race again, untainted by sin. Jesus bore the full consequence of Adam’s failure, suffering on the cross, shedding His blood, and offering Himself through the Spirit to cleanse humanity. Just as Eve came from Adam’s side, the church is being birthed from the pierced side of Christ. Believers are called to discern this spiritual order, especially when partaking in communion, to proclaim the Lord’s death with understanding and to walk in His healing and blessing. Ultimately, the teaching reminds us to keep looking up in expectation of Christ’s return, living as true imitators of Him by remaining aligned with God’s order and redeemed by His blood. Inspired Teaching: 1 Corinthians 11:1 “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” What is the spiritual meaning of imitating Christ? You will see within the context of this chapter that in order to imitate Jesus we need to fall in line with the spiritual order that God has ordained. Imagine how an electrical system allows energy to flow: the energy originates at the power plant, then flows through the power grid and then into the outlet in the house, where we connect an electrical appliance and accomplish the task that we set out to do. 1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” In the third verse we are given the schematic of how the power from God flows: From God the Father through His Son and our Savior Jesus Christ, and then through man, then through the woman; and although not mention here, through the children and then back to God. Psalm 127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” The return of the children to God completes the flow or the circuit of the heavenly blessings. Malachi 4:6 “And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” We can see that when the order is not kept in its proper sequence, the results are a curse instead of the blessings. In Holy Communion we have this progression clearly established. 1 Corinthians 11:26-27 “For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you PROCLAIM the Lord’s death till He comes. Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.” We know that one of the many benefits of our salvation is divine healing, but we are told that if we do not stay within the flow of this spiritual energy, we are not going to receive the benefits. 1 Corinthians 11:28-29 “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not DISCERNING the Lord’s body.” The key here is to attain spiritual discernment of the things that we are supposed to proclaim. Since faith comes by hearing or having an understanding of how spiritual things work, let us take a step-by-step approach as to what this powerful chapter is trying to teach us! 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 “For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.” In the beginning God created Adam first and then the woman out of the man. 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 “Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, IN THE LORD. For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; BUT ALL THINGS ARE FROM GOD.” Because of the marital relationship between a man and a woman this can get a little confusing. In a marital relationship this applies: “The head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God” This does not mean that one is better than the other, for the two are considered one flesh before the eyes of God. It just follows the pattern of the original order in which they were created. Whether a woman is single, married or widow, Jesus is the Man who covers her head with the authority that protects her from the angelic order through which the blessing of God flows. 1 Corinthians 11:10 “For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.” But it is crucial for us to understand the original order in which spiritual energy from God flows. Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” It was the breath or Spirit of God who gave life to a well fashioned lump of clay. According to the Law of Moses the life is in the blood. What that means is that when the breath of God entered into Adam it became blood as it flowed through him. Adam means red as in red face, his face became red not by the color of the clay, but for the color of the blood that flowed through him. Genesis 2:21-23 “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.” If we want to understand the spiritual order, we have to follow the blood. The body of Adam was made of the dust of the ground as a fully grown adult, but it was the power of life that was in the blood that turned his body into flesh and bones. The woman was taken out of the side of Adam that bled when it was cut open, and out of Adam’s flesh and rib bone, the woman was created. The spirit that flowed out of God’s breath became blood in the man first and then in Eve. 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 “For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.” So that if we follow the blood, we begin with the breath of God becoming blood inside the man, transforming his clay body into flesh and bones. Then Adam bleeds as one of his ribs is taken out and God makes the woman flesh and bones out of the rib that He took from Adam. Neither one of them experienced any pain for there was no sin involved. 1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.” Spiritual authority flowed from God the Father who spoke the words: let us make man in our image, and the Holy Spirit provided the breath that became blood in Adam and then in Eve. The serpent deceived Eve by taking her away from the position given to her in the spiritual order, which was: the Father, the Word, the Holy Spirit, then man and then woman. Eve should not have dealt with the serpent anymore than Adam should. The serpent was questioning God’s motives; Eve should have let him talk to God about that. Eve was deceived, not Adam. Adam who is a type of Christ took of the serpent’s poison willingly, in hope that somehow he might redeem Eve from the consequences of her sin, which are pain, sorrow and death. Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the VIRGIN shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” Through the deception of the serpent, the woman was moved out of her position of authority; therefore, God’s judgment against the serpent would come through a Son born out of the virgin woman. This Son would not only redeem the woman from the curse, but also the man, the first Adam who failed to protect her. Why did the woman have to be a virgin? Follow the blood! 1 John 5:8 “And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.” In the natural order of reproduction, a virgin cannot conceive in her womb unless the seal of her virginity is broken. Luke 1:31-34 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end. Then Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I do not know a man?’” Mary did not doubt; she knew about the birds and the bees, and that it required a man to be involved for the conception to take place. So the angel Gabriel told her that her conception would come through a miraculous and unique way. Luke 1:35 “And the angel answered and said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.’” After Mary consented: “Let it be to me according to your WORD” she conceived the Word of God in her womb by means of the Holy Spirit. The last Adam and our Redeemer Jesus, was infused in Mary’s womb with the divine blood destined to redeem the corrupted seed of the first Adam and Eve. Meanwhile Mary remained a virgin until after her water broke, and the Holy Seed broke the seal of her virginity on His way out of her womb, in accordance with the divine testimony of God’s order of authority. “The Spirit, the water and the blood.” 1 John 5:6 “This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.” Thirty-three years later, this same Jesus who came by water and by divine blood is hanging naked on Calvary’s cross. He is bleeding from His head as He is wearing a crown of thorns; He had to become king over the curse in order to dismantle it, making a spectacle of the curse. His hands and feet are bleeding, pierced by iron spikes. Thirty nine stripes let out blood out of His wounded back rubbing against that rugged cross. The first Adam did not suffer any pain when God fashioned Eve out of his side. However the last Adam had to fully bear the consequences of the failure of the first Adam. Jesus did not have to suffer like He did, but it was His love for the woman, His bride to be, the church, that drove Him to the cross. “It is finished” He said, and gave His Spirit back to God who sent Him to die for us. Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offer Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?’ As the dead body of Jesus hung on the cross, they had to take the bodies down before sunset, since the other two who were crucified alongside of Jesus were still breathing, they broke their legs making it impossible for them to push up and breathe. They had to make sure that Jesus was dead even though He was not breathing, so they drove a spear through His side. John 19:33-34 “But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.” God took Eve out of the side of Adam, and she became his wife. God is taking the church out of the side of Jesus and when His church is completed, He is coming back to take her as His wife. Right before this event takes place—the resurrection and the rapture—the water must be broken. Habakkuk 2:14 “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” The knowledge of the glory of the Lord will fill the whole earth. This probably means that signs will appear in the sky that will usher in this great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. To testify of the water and of the blood here on earth. Luke 21:25-28 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” When you see Jesus coming in a cloud, how would you see Him? Will you see Him as your Savior coming to recue you, or as a Judge coming to judge you? If you love Him now and are eagerly awaiting His redemption, you have nothing to worry about. Isaiah 46:4 “Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, AND WILL DELIVER YOU.” It is your choice. If you make Jesus your Savior today, He will deliver you and He will recue you before the great and dreadful Day of the Lord begins. Romans 10:9-10 “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 unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” KEEP LOOKING UP! Previous Next Home

< Back Each teaching listed below teaches on the topic of: Judgment 4 Page 1 What is the Day of the Lord July 2, 2026 View Teaching GIVE AN ACCOUNT July 25, 2025 View Teaching VALUABLE AND INVALUABLE WORKS February 15, 2024 View Teaching Man's Final Destiny: Revelation Unveiled January 26, 2026 View Teaching JUDGEMENT: BELIEVER VS UNBELIEVER August 28, 2024 View Teaching CHILDREN AND THE RAPTURE October 14, 2023 View Teaching THEREFORE FORGIVE THEM NOT September 18, 2025 View Teaching RIZPAH: BLOOD CURSE July 18, 2024 View Teaching PROPHECY BY NUMBERS December 5, 2021 View Teaching 4 Page 1

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH ETERNITY? The objective of this teaching is to help believers and seekers alike understand the biblical reality of eternity, the two eternal destinations revealed in Scripture, and the importance of making a conscious choice in this life about where one will spend forever. It aims to awaken reverence toward God, clarify misconceptions about heaven and hell, and guide listeners toward salvation in Christ as the only way to secure eternal life in God’s presence. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH ETERNITY? Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers and seekers alike understand the biblical reality of eternity, the two eternal destinations revealed in Scripture, and the importance of making a conscious choice in this life about where one will spend forever. It aims to awaken reverence toward God, clarify misconceptions about heaven and hell, and guide listeners toward salvation in Christ as the only way to secure eternal life in God’s presence. Synopsis: In What Would You Do With Eternity?, the author explores the profound question of what it means for humanity to live forever. Ecclesiastes affirms that God has placed eternity in the hearts of men, stirring both curiosity and a holy fear about what lies beyond this life. Through Scripture, the teaching reveals that every soul is eternal and that two distinct destinies await: eternal comfort in God’s presence or eternal torment separated from Him. Using Luke 16, the contrast between Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom and the rich man in Hades illustrates the irreversible nature of eternal choices. Revelation 20 further confirms that all will face judgment, where names not found in the Book of Life are cast into the lake of fire, while the redeemed experience everlasting joy, provision, and God’s presence. Heaven is not an eternity of monotony but a dynamic, glorious existence filled with wonder, love, and unending fellowship with God. The teaching concludes with a gospel invitation, showing that salvation is secured by confessing Jesus Christ as Lord and believing in His resurrection. It underscores the urgency of choosing eternal life now, before death ushers every soul into their unchangeable destiny. Inspired Teaching: Ecclesiastes 3:11 “...Also He has put eternity in their hearts...” Have you ever wonder what you would do if all of the sudden you found yourself with an unlimited amount of time...forever? I mean, let’s really think about it, a never ending life proposition would immediately arouse in any rationally thinking mortal human a variety of questions that are very relevant to the notion of immortality. Like...What kind of immortal life are we talking about? Will it include suffering and pain? What about sorrows and sicknesses? Is there going to be torment or tormentors in such an eternity? In the absence of any of the aforementioned, will I ever get bored in such an eternity? I mean, after all is said and done, how much harp playing can one human stand? It is bound to get to you after a while, isn’t it? Eternity is something that its very hard for us mortal humans to comprehend since we are surrounded by a world that is full of beginnings and endings. We see people that are near and dear to us leave this world, and they never come back. In one sense, life is turbulent like the weather in a Midwest state, if you don’t like the present condition, just hang around, for it will change, and usually not for the better. Ecclesiastes 3:14 “I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.” If there is an alarm that rings loudly in the hearts of men it is, It shall be forever, and our text makes it clear that God does this on purpose, so that Men should fear before Him. You see, according to the Bible, the human race in general, and individuals in particular, though we all had a beginning, we will never end for we are all eternal. And we have a choice as into which eternity we eventually end up in. An eternity that once we are in it, nothing can be added to it or taken away from it. So that we should not take it lightly, because sooner or later we will all enter into that eternal place. There are two eternal places to which we can go, and the choice as to which eternal place we enter is made here on the earth before we die, for that is when we enter into eternity, right after death. Luke 16:22-23 “So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.” Jesus is telling us that there are two clear and distinct destinations for all humans after they die and enter into their eternal abode. One is a place of comfort and the other is a place of torments, plural. Luke 16:25 “...But now he (Lazarus) is comforted and you are tormented.” And not only is Jesus telling us about the difference between the two destinations but He is also testifying to the fact that, once you get there, there is no way to get out, you are there forever. Luke 16:26 “And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.” Outside of faith, humans seem to think that once we die, since we are not in our physical bodies anymore, that we somehow are not really alive anymore and that the so-call torments of hell are not really real, but rather, something imagined. From every experience of the faithful into the spiritual realm, of which there are many Scriptural references, the spiritual realm is always a lot more real than our present reality could ever be, and that view is confirmed by our next verse of Scripture. Luke 16:27-28 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’” It does not sound like the man in the torments of hell was imagining things, if anything, he sounded very logical by saying that if he could not escape the torments that he was experiencing, that at least a warning should be sent to his five brothers that were still alive, to keep them from coming into the reality of this place of which he knew his brothers, like himself before them, did not believe existed, even though the law of Moses spoke clearly about it and warned against it. Luke 16:29 “Abraham said to him, ‘they have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’” Out of the mouth of Jesus Himself, He is telling us that failure in our part to act upon what the Scriptures teach about eternity, that if we abdicate our responsibility to choose into which eternal destiny we want to abide, in accordance with what the Scriptures teach, that that failure will cause us to forfeit God’s eternal comfort and peace and will cause us to end up in that dreaded place of torment. Now why would someone fail to act upon such important matter as the one that deals with our future eternity? They may say that they don’t believe that there is an eternity to be had, but yet our opening Scripture declares that God has put eternity into our hearts, so that right from the get go they are in violation of the Holy Scriptures. Let us look at a few Scriptures that deal with this very important subject. Revelation 20:12 “And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that were written in the books.” Let us begin by establishing the fact that there is, according to Scripture, a final day of judgment coming, that it will comprise the physically resurrected bodies of all who were dead, that have been brought back to life to stand before the great white throne of God’s final judgment, in order for them to give an account for the actions of their lives while here on earth in their physical bodies. Revelation 20:13 “The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.” Let us also establish that this judgment, although it comprises the multitudes that died throughout the ages, now appearing in their resurrected bodies, that it will be a personal judgment for each one of them individually. Each one of them standing or falling based on each one’s individual actions. Revelation 20:15 “And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” So that all of those who ignored the instructions given by the Holy Scriptures on how to have one’s name written on the Book of Life, are cast into an eternity of torments with their eternally resurrected physical bodies into an Abyss from which they can never get out of. Revelation 20:10 “The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” So now that we have seen what this one eternity looks like, let us also take a sober look at the other eternity and see what it entails. Revelation 7:9-10 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’” What a contrast! You can hear the jubilation in the voices of all the redeemed from all the ages, rejoicing in the God who saved them, and in the Lamb who had delivered them out of the trials and tribulations that this world had put them through. Revelation 7:16-17 “They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” In the book of Luke chapter 16, Jesus told us about the man that ended up in Hades, how he was tormented by the flames and its heat, and how his desire was for Lazarus to dip his hand in some water and to touch his tongue with it, to relieve some of the torment that he was suffering. Here we see the opposite, not even the rays nor the heat from the sun is able to touch them, and they neither hunger nor thirst, for to them have been opened fountains of living waters. And next we see that God wipes away every tear from their eyes; the scars caused by all their pain and sufferings are finally removed as they move into a state of perfect bliss. 1 Corinthians 2:9 “But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’” Do not even think of getting bored in this eternity; we need to let go of those antiquated images of what heaven is like, you know, like sitting on a cloud playing with the harp all day long. We need to wake up to the reality of how vast and how great the present creation is, and how much more formidable and perfect the new heavens and the new earth that we will live on for eternity are going to be. Our God is so vast, His love so profound, His goodness unending, that everyday single day with Him will be a brand new exciting day filled with astonishment and unending wonders, as we behold the great and awesome marvels that He performs continuously, but most of all our daily basking in the great and perfect manifestation of His love for us. Sign me up! You say, How do I get my name written in the Book of Life? Romans 10:9-11, 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 unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, ‘Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame...’ For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’” Pray this prayer: (say this outloud) Dear Jesus, I confess with my mouth that You are Lord, and I believe in my heart that God has raised You from the dead. Therefore I now confess before You that I am a sinner and I ask that You forgive me all of my sins and that You cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Thank You Lord Jesus for forgiving me all of my sins and for cleansing me from all my unrighteousness. I declare that You are God, that You are good, and that You are Holy. I declare that You are my God, that You have been good to me, and that by the precious blood that Your Son shed for me, to cleanse me from all my sins, that You have made me holy and have written my name in the Lambs Book of Life. Hallelujah! 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” God willing, I will see you all who prayed this prayer for the first time in heaven someday soon. Amen! Previous Next Home

SPEAK The purpose of this message is to teach believers the power of speaking the Word of God. By examining Ezekiel, John, and Revelation, the message highlights how eating (absorbing) the Word and then declaring it brings life, blessings, and protection. It calls Christians to actively confess the promises of God, speak blessings over themselves and others, and remain rooted in Christ as the ultimate living Word, especially in light of prophetic times. < Back SPEAK Minister Lisa Kane January 8, 2023 Objective: The purpose of this message is to teach believers the power of speaking the Word of God. By examining Ezekiel, John, and Revelation, the message highlights how eating (absorbing) the Word and then declaring it brings life, blessings, and protection. It calls Christians to actively confess the promises of God, speak blessings over themselves and others, and remain rooted in Christ as the ultimate living Word, especially in light of prophetic times. Synopsis: The message opens in prayer, dedicating the teaching to the Lord and inviting His blessing. Lisa Kane introduces the theme “Speak” with Ezekiel 3:3, showing how Ezekiel had to eat the scroll before he could speak it. This principle is paralleled in John 1:1–5 and Genesis 1, where the spoken Word of God brings creation and life. The sermon emphasizes that God’s Word must not only be read but ingested—internalized—so that it can be spoken with authority. Lisa testifies from her own life how a remembered psalm she sang as a young believer eventually became a lived reality, demonstrating the prophetic power of one’s own words over time. Revelation 10 illustrates both the sweetness and bitterness of prophecy: while God’s Word brings life, it also contains warnings of judgment and tribulation. Lisa explains that our spoken words—whether blessings or curses—shape our lives, households, and communities. Speaking blessings brings God’s protection, provision, and peace, while careless or negative speech invites struggle. The message stresses that Israel’s restoration fulfills Ezekiel’s prophecy, showing the importance of spoken promises unfolding across history. As priests in Christ, believers are called to speak blessings over their homes, neighbors, and even enemies, interceding so that God’s goodness transforms situations. Lisa ties this to the gospel message in Romans 10:8–11, urging listeners to confess Jesus as Lord with their mouths and believe in their hearts for salvation. She warns that in the coming tribulation, the current salvation message will cease, replaced by a different revelation, making repentance urgent now. The sermon concludes with a strong call to action: speak blessings daily, declare God’s goodness over your life and surroundings, and watch His Word set boundaries of protection and provision. Believers are reminded that the bride of Christ is not appointed to God’s wrath, and those who confess Christ today will walk in His blessing and safety. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on January 8th, 2023 and this message is called Speak. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message. It will be good and people will receive and understand and apply it to their lives. And I ask for your blessing on it as well so that they receive and apply it as well. And this message then is doubly blessed because I blessed it. You blessed it. Thank you, Father God, for your blessings. Thank you for your goodness, your holiness, your wonderfulness, Lord. And we lift you up and give you this message. This is yours. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So, before I get started here, just so you know, this is 2023, so we are starting off a new year here. What I did is I uploaded four messages from the past that were not on our website, and two of them are from 2004. And two of them are from 2007. Now, two of them are only audio. But oh my word, I'm listening to these this week and I was blessed. You're going to be blessed. Check it out. They're under the live video messages at this time. We want to feature them. I will put them in their permanent home on the website in probably a few weeks. But anyways, I'd like for you to check those out. You are going to be blessed. And they're by Pastor Marcos Morero. All right. So, this message is called Speak. Let's go to our opening uh scripture here. Ezekiel 3:3. And he said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly and fill your stomach with the scroll that I give you." So I ate and it was in my mouth like honey and sweetness. Okay. So in in order for Ezekiel to become a prophet, he had to eat the scroll, the living word of God. So so he had to eat it so he can speak it. So I got very excited about this message because I want you to realize that you and I've taught how to be a priest but even so to be that walking testimony you have to eat the word of God and you have to speak it to apply it to put it in action. So let us see how this goes. So Ezekiel was this way. He had to eat it and then he had to speak it. So he says and you know he said you got to eat the scroll. The scroll is the living word of God. How do we know this? Let's go to John. I want to make sure and give you the foundation of the scriptures here. John 1:es 1-5. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God. And the word was God. You know, pause there. In the beginning was the scroll and the scroll was with God and the scroll was God. So you see how Ezekiel applies to this. Let's continue on. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. Okay. So, now you have Ezekiel and you have John. John wrote his gospel uh about 2,000 years ago. Ezekiel wrote his about 3,000 years ago, give or take. I might be off by a 500y year mark there. I didn't look up the dates, but what I'm showing you here is that we're applying the living word of God and how we speak it. So, Ezekiel spoke it, John speaks it for Revelation. He becomes a prophet for Revelation. So, John is a prophet as well. and he ends up speaking the scroll. So watch how he says though he says it's in the beginning. And so we have to go back now to the very beginning because we have to see how the word became because once we understand that we can see the example set for us because we're inheritors with Christ. We are adopted and because we're a part of Christ, we get to speak the word and we get to apply it to our lives. Blessings or cursings? Let's go back to the beginning. So, we're in Genesis chapter 1. We're going to look at verses 1-4. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. Jesus is the embodiment, and I've said this multiple times now, of let there be light. He's the numa, the spoken word. He became flesh. So Ezekiel absorbed him. John absorbed him. And what we've absorbed, seeing what they've absorbed is they absorbed the spoken living word of God. They ate it and they spoke it and it became actionable. Oh, you guys are going to love this. Let's go to Psalms. Psalm 53. My voice you shall hear in the morning, oh Lord, in the morning. I will direct it to you and I will look up. The reason I bring up this scripture, I want you to hear this testimony. This is my testimony. I'm so excited about this message. Okay. When I was a young adult, married, had a child already and um in my mid20s. And in at that time, you know, I was on fire for God for some time, sometimes I wasn't. Sometimes I was in church, sometimes I wasn't. I was going up and down like a yo-yo. One day I had prayed and asked the Lord, why am I doing this? this is you know disrespectful because you know how can you love something sometimes and not other times. You see what I'm saying? So it was very disrespectful for me. So I prayed that prayer but at the same time during that time I was remembering songs and I was remembering scripture and this was one of those scriptures I remembered and I kept singing it over and over again and I had to delve into because I didn't go look it up. You know back then it was a little different for resources. So no I didn't go to my Bible and just look it up and no there was no website to really go search for it. So I just try to remember and I remember it and I remember it and I will sing it. Sing it. Sing it. Look at that scripture again. Look at this. Says in the morning I will direct it to you and I will look up. My voice you shall hear in the morning when now in the last 101 15 years of my life I've been commuting to and from work uh an hour plus each day. And when I start my drive now I uh used to commute with my husband and carpulled. So it was kind of more of a quiet drive. We just talked and talked about daily things. Well, since co he's been working from home, so I do this drive by myself now. So, what I started doing is I do my praise and worship time at that time. And because I'm driving to work 6:00 in the morning, there's the sun peeking over the mountains. When I reach the top of Ortega Highway at, you know, 6:30 in the morning, I see the sunrise coming up, give or take about that time. And he I had this epiphany. That song, that psalm that I sang, spoke with my mouth became true. It is a prophecy that I placed on my life. Didn't even know it. And look, today I get to say, you hear my voice in the morning. And you know what? I wasn't a morning person back then. I am now because you know I got to get to work in early in the morning. But isn't that amazing how you can see the power of God work in your words and you don't even know it. It may not even take it could take hours. It could take days. It take in my case it took years to see this but is absolutely incredible. Let's continue on with this. Now in Revelation 10:es 8-11, then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, "Go take the little book which is open on in the land in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth." So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." And he said to me, "Take and eat it, and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth." Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter and he said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings." Okay, so you that's John. He is now he had to eat the book, the scroll. Ezekiel had to eat the scroll. Ezekiel prophesied many different things over the nation of Israel. John now is prophesied over people's time, everybody else. And the reason it's bitter is because he's also prophesying the seven-year tribulation that is coming. And that time that's coming is horrible. I do not wish it on anybody. I don't wish hell on anybody. I really hope that everybody repents and gets back into, you know, pray and and seek God because I'm telling you right now, you do not want to go because these are prophecies that John made and it was bitter. It made his stomach sour. But he had to say these are the prophets that had to speak these words that God told them to speak. So they spoke and these words are over us today and they are applicable. Now what I'm also trying to teach in this message not only to show you these prophets prophecies that are over us that are going to come to pass but to show you how your spoken word becomes a prophecy over you because you are a servant of the most high. You are a believer in Christ, you've acknowledged that Jesus Christ is the son of God. And by the way, those that don't acknowledge, your spoken words are over you as well. So if you're a cursor, somebody who curses all the time, those spoken words are over you. Imagine the frustration that you're living with when you don't have to when you can speak your blessings over your life. You know, and I want you to understand something. I'm not saying that you're going to be rich if you speak richness over you. I mean, you could be. God does anything and everything. You You got to understand that. But, you know, I've prayed for the lottery. I've not won it. But, I have a roof over my head. My house payment is paid every month. I've got food on the table. I've got extra blankets when it's cold. And I've got clothing that's applicable to who I am. I am not for need. You see, that's how the Lord works. That's how he blesses. He provides. I mean, he if he takes care of the birds, as he says in the gospels, he's definitely going to take care of you. So, I may not be speaking prosperity, if you will. But I am speaking blessings, but I understand and know that the seven-year tribulation is coming, which is hell on earth. And I know these things are coming. And as long as I acknowledge both, I'm not living in a fantasy world of richness here. I'm living in the reality of it. So I want you to understand though that even in this you know I got blessed with a huge raise uh last year and the year before which compensated for the financial economic situation we're in right now. It didn't impact me and my household at all. Ain't that amazing? You can see when the Lord is blessing you because you're speaking the blessings on your life that you are in good standing and he will cover you. And it is a miraculous thing. In fact, your borders, your boundaries are protected and the devil can't get to you. Go read Job and find out, you know, Job had a protection. The Lord allowed Satan to come through, but he couldn't get through until the Lord allowed him. You could always go to God and said, "Don't allow this Lord." All right, let's go back to Ezekiel 3:12. Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice. Blessed is the glory of the Lord from his place. Now I want you to see God's glory is blessed. This is an angel that spoke this because God's voice is different than a thunderous loud uh loud sound. This thunderous voice was an angel. Whereas God's voice is living waters. You can go look that up. But you can see now his blessing is on the glory which is his boundary. Sin cannot penetrate. You see the enemy cannot penetrate. So God has his protection. So this angel spoke that. It was already spoken before. He's just reiterating it. Okay. Now let's go to Psalm 38. Salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is upon your people. Sa God has already blessed us with his son Jesus. You just need to acknowledge, speak it, and you have that salvation upon you. And it's your boundary. It keeps the enemy from penetrating. Watch your words and speak the blessings. The moment you wake up, you need to speak your blessing on the day. It's going to be a good day. It's going to be a good day. No matter where I go to work, no matter what I do, I speak. It's going to be good. And then I bless it. And then I say, "Lord, I ask for your blessing." He already blessed in the word of God. And I can say, "Thank you for your blessing." Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Ezekiel 28:25-26. Thus says the Lord God, when I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and am hollowed in them in the sight of Gentiles, I want you to see something. Ezekiel prophesied this 3,000 years ago, but it's for today. Look at this. He says, "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among them whom they were scattered, God scattered the nation of Israel and they came back. And when they came back, they became a nation again in 1948. and the the Jerusalem became a capital in 1967. They're back. What? Look what he says here and am hollowed in them in the sight of the Gentiles. All of us who are believers in Christ know that God's chosen people are the nation of Israel. We respect them. We bless them. We pray for them because that's God's chosen people. They are hollowed in our sight. I'm a Gentile, but I believe in God and am I I'm adopted into his kingdom. So, I'm a part of this nation. And so, I bless them and I'm I just I follow them. I respect them. I give them up to the Lord. That's prophecy being fulfilled today. Let's continue reading that on. Then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. And they will dwell safely there. Safely there. Build houses and plant vineyards. Yes, they will dwell securely when I execute judgments, when I execute judgments, and all those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God. Listen, so even though we're speaking blessings, because then that puts that boundary around us, we know that destruction is on its way. Did you see they will be there securely? When Ezekiel prophesies in Isa in uh Ezekiel 38 about Gog and Magog, Russia and their allies attempting to invade Israel, God stops them. They don't get past the borders because nation of Israel is blessed because there's a spoken prophecy over them. Oh, this is so good. I want you to see that even though the seven-year tribulation is coming, destruction is coming, God's wrath is going to report on the earth, the boundary is around us because we're blessed because we're the bride of Christ. We're part of the nation of Israel now. We're part of this. We're part of God and we're blessed. We get to have what the world can't have, but they're dying and craving for it, but they can't have it. Oh, look at this. You guys have to understand that even though destruction is coming, God's wrath is going to be poured out. We have his blessings and we are protected and blessed. Look at this. Let's continue on. Ezekiel 44:30. The best of all first fruits of any kind and every sacrifice of any kind. From all your sacrifices shall be the priest. Also, you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal to cause a blessing to rest on your house. Okay? I have taught you how to be a priest and how to atone for your household, for your neighbors. Oh, so you give your first fruits, you give your children, you give your husband, your spouse, your wife, you give your household to the Lord, give your neighborhood to the Lord. Let me tell you something. When you go to bless your neighbors, listen, listen to this very carefully. Let's say you live in a neighborhood and there's uh thievery going on. Bless them. Say, Lord, bless them with prosperity. Bless them so that they have the things that they need. And say, I forgive them of their sins, Lord, and I ask you to forgive them as well. And when you intercede on their behalf like that, what happens? Suddenly they're blessed. They've got goods. They don't want to steal from you anymore because they've got what they need. Do you see how much it impacts you when you bless your enemies? Oh, you got to grasp this. You've got to grasp this, my friend. You have got to understand that when you give the Lord your first, you give him your home, you give him your children, you give him your finances, you give him, you say, "I cast my cares on you, Lord, and I give you my first. I give you my food. I give you this is yours, Lord. And you're constantly putting God first. You make him the center of your life. And you have that relationship built. And you do this daily. This is all the time. And then you bless bless bless the land for rain. Look at what we're getting. We're getting so much rain. You guys could go back and watch my teachings. I've been praying for rain now for a little over a year. And I'm going to tell you, we finally got it. Yes, it is uh rough. We're having some destruction. I'm praying that people don't get hurt. But I am telling you, we needed this rain here in Southern California and Northern California. And it's finally coming back in because we can be restored because the enemy has tried to take that away from us, make us dry, make us hurt and suffer. We don't have to be that. We get to speak blessings. I speak blessings to the land that it will be rich and moist and will be fruitful and multiply. That is how it works, my friend. Speak. Speak up. You need to be speaking the best the blessings over your life and those around you. If you do your part and your neighbors do their part, everybody's doing their part. And imagine what the world will be like. You know, God then has to change, which he can do anything he needs or wants. But I'm going to tell you right now, whether things get changed or not, we have that boundary around us. And the prophecy still stands, he is still bringing his wrath, and it is going to be poured out on this earth. That is how this is going to be. Now look at Revelation here 1:3. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near. I want you to understand as you're reading the word of God, you're absorbing, you're eating it, you're speaking it. The blessings are on the word that you speak and it becomes a part of your life. And this here is Revelation. This is the very beginning of Revelation where wrath is coming. So he's telling you, you've got to keep the written word. You've got to understand that even though hell on earth is about to break your boundary, your barrier, your blessing, because you are already dead to this world because you live for Christ. This world means nothing to you, but you have everything in it because of God. And the devil gets mad about that. He don't like that. But you know what? Too bad. so sad because my God Jesus is the son of God and I made him Lord of my life and I spoke him as Lord of my life and because he's the Lord of my life. He is the Lord around my household. He is the Lord around everything around me. That is Christ and he is good. Oh hallelujah. Speak the word of God. Romans 10 8-11. I want you to understand something here. I need you to understand so what we're preaching now. So even though we're preaching blessings, we are preaching salvation. This is what the bride of Christ is doing. This is our job. This is the current time. Understand this very carefully. We are preaching that Jesus Christ is the son of God and that you have to confess him as your Lord and Savior. And as you do that, you get salvation and the seed begins to germinate in you and you your life starts to change as you activate that seed. You have an action. You confess, you speak. Let's go look at the scriptures. This is the gospel now. Romans 10:8-11. What does it say? The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith which we speak which we preach. That if you confess with your mouth, you speak with your mouth. Do you see this? We're speaking the word of God the Lord g 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 under righteousness and with the mouth confession is made into salvation. For the scripture says, "Whoever believes on him will not be put to shame." This is what we teach. This is what we preach right now. This is what the body of Christ who are declaring Jesus as the son of God is teaching. But guess what? This preaching comes to an end. You will not be able to do this once you enter that seven-year tribulation. So I need you to understand why the bride of Christ does not go through the wrath of God. As you can see, when you speak and you confess Jesus as the son of God and ask him to be your Lord and Savior, that boundary is placed on you. You are no longer appointed to God's wrath. So, when day one begins of the 7-year tribulation period where Gog and Magog invades or attempts to evade Israel, they're killed, earthquake happens, sun goes dark, the moon turns to red. When all that happens on that day, the message, the gospel of Jesus ends. It stops. It is no longer applicable. Why? And how do I know this one? This is when the bride of Christ is going to be removed. We know the 144,000 are going to be sealed. They're going to get a uh something written on their forehead and then the two witnesses are going to show up. Then something happens. Let's go to Revelation. I want you to see there's a different salvation message in this time. Look at this. Revelation 10:3-4. And cried with a loud voice as when a lion roars when he cried out, "Seven thunders utter their voices." is now when the seven thunder thunders uttered their voices. I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them." For the first time in scripture, now Daniel's was also, so it's really the second time in scripture that the word of God is sealed. And in fact, this these words that the thunders uttered have not been shared. Daniel's book is now open and knowledge is expanding and this is why we can understand a little more about what the is going on in the seven-year tribulation. But you can see these words have not been revealed. These thunders are telling the people who are living on the earth at that time and remember the bride of Christ is already gone. The message of salvation is now gone. You cannot repent now. It it's not there. These seven thunders are going to tell you how to get saved. So, if you're still here during that time, you better listen and listen carefully. Now, some theologians believe that you're going to have to be beheaded. I don't know. I know that there are going to be sacrifices because they will be beheading people who will not take the mark of the beast. Don't take the mark of the beast. Whatever you do, in fact, I want you to see something here. Even if you don't believe, just don't take the mark of the beast because I believe that because you defend Christ, you reject the Antichrist, you're you're not accepting the Antichrist, I think you're going to still get saved. I want you to see something here in John chapter 9. Watch this. This is very powerful. Okay? And in to give you some context here in John chapter nine, uh, a blind man was born. And now he's a young adult or adult I don't know how old he is but uh uh God heals him and and he's got in fact the way the words are uh understood is that he has u no eye sockets he's born weird it's different and so the Pharisees Sadducees are saying well what sin did his parents commit that caused this guy to be born this way and you know and that is what it is there sin brings consequences uh that's why Some people have cancers. Uh depending on what sin you're doing, there are rare blood disease orders. Your city rejecting Christ. All that comes to haunt you later. And this is why you need to repent. Okay. So anyways, the Pharisees, Sadducees are asking, they're hounding this guy. This guy doesn't believe in Christ, but God created healed him. And in fact, Jesus says, "No, there's no sin here. I I just did this because I wanted you to see something." Okay, let's go see what Jesus wanted us to see. Watch what this guy does. This is the guy that got healed and he's saying he whether he talking about Jesus is a sinner or not. I do not know. One thing I know though that I was blind and now I see. Then they said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" He told him, "I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" He's really taking them off. I'm telling you right now. But what happened is Jesus comes back to him later because he defended Jesus but he wasn't saved. But Jesus comes back, meets up with him second time and then converses with him and he gets saved. But you see how he defended Christ. If you're part of that seven-year tribulation and you reject the the mark of the beast, Jesus will save you. I want you to know that. I want you to understand that. You need to defend that Jesus is the son of God. It's easier if you do it now. Believe you me, you want to repent now. Don't wait for that time. And I already told you in many messages that that time is going to happen in our lifetime. When you start to see uh Mark, Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13, those prophecy the spoken word when Jesus said there'll be rumors of wars and wars, Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan and China and any of the other places that are going on. You hear these things, you see these things. Look at what happened since 1900s. We've had World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War. We've had all these wars. And did you see that was like a 100 plus years ago that this all started? Then you have large earthquakes in various places. When's the very first large earthquake that began? Just a shy of 120 years ago. Hear these words, guys. Hear these words. So, and that was in 1906. And it was in April and it happened up in San Francisco. big huge earthquake. Wait a minute. Isn't that when the Isuza strike revival was going on? You guys got to go look that up. So all of that started happening and then pestilence and famines. Wait a second here. COVID HN1, SARS, AIDS. We've been having it. The black uh plague, the bubonic plague, uh we've been having these diseases hit us. And by the way, that was a resurgence of the bubanic plague in 1906, right around that same time. You go look all this up. All of this started. And when you see those prophecies get fulfilled, just know this generation shall not pass away. This is it. This is our lifetime. So now is the time to repent and get close to God. And you want to because then you can be like Noah. You can be like Job. You can be like Moses. You can be like these men of God who God called righteous. And you will know the mysteries of the word of God. You will know because he wants to share it with you. He told Noah, seven days in advance, I'm going to flood the earth, get into the ark. And he did. But the rest of the world didn't know. They were all unrighteous people. My friend, now is the time to repent. Now, now is the time to spend time with God and give him the glory and to speak the blessings on your life. Confess Jesus is the son of God. Confess that he's your Lord and Savior. And every morning you get up, say, "It's going to be a good day." Every night before you go to bed, is going to be a good night of sleep. You start speaking these blessings on you. Speak it over your neighbor. Speak it over your household. Speak it over your work. Speak and have blessings on your life. And watch the words that you say. So if you feel like you're coming down with something, don't say it. Say, "Nope, I don't have time for you. Get out of here. I am blessed. I'm healed. I'm good. And God has already blessed me." Hallelujah. All right. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message. We thank you for your blessing on it. Oh, let us live it and apply it and speak your word and your blessings over our lives, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. God bless you and we will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

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REST IN TIMES OF TROUBLE To encourage believers to remain steadfast in love, forgiveness, and prayer during times of hatred, strife, and lawlessness, while trusting God’s ultimate justice and relying on the Holy Spirit’s restraining power against evil in the world. REST IN TIMES OF TROUBLE Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To encourage believers to remain steadfast in love, forgiveness, and prayer during times of hatred, strife, and lawlessness, while trusting God’s ultimate justice and relying on the Holy Spirit’s restraining power against evil in the world. Synopsis: This teaching, based on 2 Thessalonians 1:7, highlights the believer’s hope of finding rest in Christ amidst troubling and contentious times. Scripture reveals that hatred is the root of strife, and as lawlessness increases in the last days, love will grow cold (Matthew 24:12). The message draws from both biblical truth and personal testimony—such as the 1961 Bay of Pigs incident—to illustrate how easily crowds can be manipulated by hatred and how vital it is for Christians to remain sober-minded and not influenced by the venom of strife. Believers are reminded that God’s justice will prevail, that every person will face judgment (Hebrews 9:27), and that those in Christ already share in eternal life (John 11:26). The church, empowered by the Holy Spirit, serves as a restraining force against lawlessness, exercising authority through prayer and spiritual warfare (2 Thessalonians 2:7). Practical examples—including the stopping of a neighborhood fight through prayer—demonstrate the power of intercession to bring peace. Ultimately, the lesson urges the church to rise in unity, resist the pull of hatred, and enforce God’s peace through love, forgiveness, and fervent prayer, knowing that prayer works and that rest is promised to the faithful when Christ returns. Inspired Teaching: 2 Thessalonians 1:7 “And to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels.” Even for well-disciplined persons, we can all agree, that we are living in the midst of distress and highly contentious days. There are so many misguided people out there, many of which have a huge platform that allows them to stir up trouble and to sow the seeds of hatred and division, just for the sport of it, who do not care in the least if their rhetoric harm others. However, if we understand the spirit behind it, it will make it easy for us Christians to understand what all this chaos is all about and help us not to get caught up in the emotional turbulence of these last days. Proverbs 10:12 “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.” The root of all the contentions that flare up constantly all over the world is the spirit of hatred, but as long as the spirit of love and forgiveness has the upper hand, the strife is contained. But if it seems that strife and contentions are ruling the day, maybe it is because we are living in the last days, because Jesus told us that during the last days the love of many would grow cold. Matthew 24:12 “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” So, the key for us believers is not to get caught up in the emotional hatred of the day, but rather continue in love, forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us all and gave to us His unconditional pardon. I know that for many of you out there, you may feel that the hatred and contentions of these last days will not have a direct impact on your personal life, but you have to remember that most people think that way, and if by chance you happen to get caught up in it, because of your failure to prepare yourself for such an occasion, you may end up failing to respond properly in your heart with the spirit of love and compassion, and instead you may lose your composure and respond with evil intent. When the Bay of Pigs invasion took place in Cuba in 1961, I was just 14 years old. Castro’s soldiers came to our house and arrested my dad and brother who was eight years older than me; I guess I was too young so they did not take me. They arrested everyone that they thought might be a threat to them, even though we lived far from the place where the invasion took place. Their strategy was to lock up everybody that might join with the invading forces in an uprising against the communist government. They took all the people that they arrested and put them in the yard of a government owned building. They put machine guns facing them in the two corners of the yard facing the building, and were ordered to shoot them if an invasion started near our town. I was there on the street watching in unbelief, looking as it all took place. Then communist agitators started fanning the flames of hatred toward those innocent people of the town, whose only crime was that they had not previously joined the communist militia in support of Castro. A large crowd of people had gathered on the street to see, like I had, all that was taking place. To my amazement the people of the town who knew the innocence of those who were locked there for no good reason, all of the sudden under the impulse of those communist agitators who were calling out for vengeance, joined them, calling out loud for the execution of those who were locked in the yard. I was there, in their midst, looking at them and saying to myself, that is my dad and my brother in there, how could you say that, but they were blinded by such a strong hatred that all they wanted was blood. I will never forget that day as long as I live, and thankfully the invasion did not come any where near us, so that eventually, after two weeks most of them were released, including my dad and brother. Who were the people in the crowd? Some of them were our very own neighbors. I remember thinking, as they were loudly chanting for the execution of innocent blood, the many times that my dad had so selflessly helped many of those in the crowd in their hour of need, for it was a small town of about three thousand people. But you see there is no reasoning with the spirit of hate, and the only protection against it is for us not to get emotionally involved with the propagation of such hatred, for those agitators can get pretty good at it. 1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” When the believers were first filled with the Holy Spirit, many thought that they were drunk with wine, but under the influence of the Spirit of Love those believers transformed the world for the good of all mankind. Those in the crowd back in 1961, that were calling for the murder of innocent people appeared to me to be drunk as well, however their intoxication came as the result of them partaking of the venom of hate. By telling us to be sober, Peter means for us not to get intoxicated with the venom of hatred and strife that the world is constantly peddling. Remember that Peter was an eyewitness of that hatred, as he was there, present, when those who were so blinded by their hatred took our Lord away and beat Him into a bloody mess. What about all the injustices that are continuously taking place? 2 Thessalonians 1:6 “Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you.” God always has the final say. That is why He has appointed a day for every single individual to appear before Him in final judgment. Nobody gets away with anything, for if they repent and our Lord forgives them, then the sufferings that our Lord endured on behalf of all mankind pay in full for their misdeeds as well as ours; now that is something that we should all be glad about. Hebrews 9:27 “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.” Now those of us who are in Christ have already been judged and have already passed into life eternal, though it does not yet appear like we have, because we are still here in this world. John 11:26 “And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” So that the only reason that we are still here is for our presence to be a restraining force against the spirit of strife and lawlessness that wants to intoxicate the whole world and drive them into killing each other. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 “For the mystery of lawlessness (hatred stirs up strife) is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.” What restrains the mystery of lawlessness, which is nothing more than hatred stirring up strife, is the Holy Spirit that is within us, His church. Once the Holy Spirit takes the church away to meet the Lord in the clouds, His restraining presence is removed as well. What that means is that we are privileged to exercise God’s restraining power over all these demonically manufactured crises, through our prayers of binding and loosing that which God has already foreordained to be bound and to be loosed. But how can we be effective in this ministry of restraining and reconciliation if we ourselves get caught up in the vileness and hatred that is so pervasive out there? 2 Thessalonians 3:1-3 “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. The evil one is a master at manipulating human emotions and does not care who is right or who is wrong. All that he is interested in is causing hatred to flourish, for that is what stirs up strife and contentions. I once heard screaming outside of my kitchen window that looked into the street to see a fight had broken out between three or four teenage boys. And in the middle of the chaos from inside my kitchen window I prayed: Lord, this is my neighborhood, I bind every spirit of contention that is at work right now between those boys and in my street. Immediately the fracas stopped, amazingly they started to converse as to what offenses they had committed against one another, and it was then that they saw the whole thing as a simple misunderstanding and shook hands in friendship. Needless to say my jaw dropped, as I turn to my wife who was standing next to me and asked her, did that really happened? I was just praying instinctively, but even in my best faith posture I did not expect such immediate results, yet there it was, once the spirit of contention was removed, animosity slipped away and reason prevailed. Imagine the power that the church has if we can just come together in the spirit of unity and enforce our restraining power over all the power of lawlessness that has engulfed our land! PRAYER WORKS! Previous Next Home

WHAT A CHRISTIAN FIGHTS AGAINST - PART 1 The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand that the Christian battle is not against people but against spiritual forces and internal struggles that oppose God’s will. By examining Paul’s exhortation to put on the whole armor of God, this lesson emphasizes the difference between walking in the flesh and walking in the Spirit. It aims to equip Christians with a deeper awareness of principalities, powers, and spiritual wickedness, and to encourage believers to stand firm in Christ, knowing that through Him we have the authority to overcome the enemy and claim God’s promises of restoration and victory. WHAT A CHRISTIAN FIGHTS AGAINST - PART 1 Minister Lisa Kane September 24, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand that the Christian battle is not against people but against spiritual forces and internal struggles that oppose God’s will. By examining Paul’s exhortation to put on the whole armor of God, this lesson emphasizes the difference between walking in the flesh and walking in the Spirit. It aims to equip Christians with a deeper awareness of principalities, powers, and spiritual wickedness, and to encourage believers to stand firm in Christ, knowing that through Him we have the authority to overcome the enemy and claim God’s promises of restoration and victory. Synopsis: In this teaching, Minister Lisa Kane unpacks Paul’s instruction in Ephesians 6:11–12, showing that our fight as Christians is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual influences that seek to corrupt and destroy. Drawing from Galatians 5, she contrasts the destructive works of the flesh—such as envy, strife, and immorality—with the life-giving fruit of the Spirit, which believers are called to walk in daily. The lesson highlights how Christ Himself broke the “rules” of sin and death through His victory at the cross, giving us authority as joint heirs with Him. Scriptures such as John 10:10 and 1 Peter 5:8 remind us that the devil seeks to steal, kill, and destroy, but he is limited and subject to God’s judgment. Believers are encouraged to bring their case before the Lord when the enemy steals from them, trusting that God will require sevenfold restoration, as promised in Proverbs 6:30–31. This first part establishes the foundation of understanding what a Christian truly fights against—spiritual powers, not people—and calls us to walk in the Spirit, live in close relationship with God, and stand in faith for His promises. Part 2 will continue with a deeper exploration of Ephesians 6:12. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Opening scripture: Ephesians 6:11-12 KJV 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. As believers in Christ, Paul tells us to put on the whole armor of God and then explains why. The first thing he notes is that we don’t fight against flesh and blood. What does that mean, especially when we see people fighting each other everyday? Paul defines this in Galatians 5:14-21 KJV 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. When we don’t operate in love by loving our neighbor as ourself, then we bite and devour one another. Paul tells us to not be consumed with that but to walk in the spirit. When we walk in the flesh, we manifest adultery, fornication, etc. We allow envy and jealousy to rule within but as believers we’re to walk in the spirit. Galatians 5:22-26 KJV 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Now that we understand that we’re not fighting each other but our internal influences and the influences of others, let’s continue with Ephesians 6:12 KJV 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. We fight against principalities. What are principles? According to www.dictionary.com , a principle is: noun 1. an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct. a person of good moral principles. 2. a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived. the principles of modern physics. So, why does Paul tell us that we fight against rules of action or conduct or the general law of truth? Are rules actually meant to be broken? Do you know that Jesus broke many rules while walking the earth? He cast out demons. He healed the sick. He walked on water. He brought the dead back to life and even rose from the dead three days after His crucifixion. Romans 6:23 KJV 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. If the wages of sin is death, shouldn’t we all die and stay dead? Isn’t that our due justice according to God’s law? And yet, Jesus tells us this rule is broken. Those that choose to believe, will have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Even Psalm 103:1-5 KJV – read the whole chapter 103 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. We’re told that He forgives and heals our diseases. We shouldn’t have these benefits and yet we do because of God’s tender mercies. Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. So, what does Paul mean that we fight against principalities: John 10:10 KJV 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 1 Peter 5:8 KJV 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: We have an enemy that will do everything in his power to steal, kill, and destroy us if given the chance. Remember, the devil needs permission to do anything. Read Job 1. We have the right to break the rules just like Jesus did because we’re joint heirs with Him. Romans 8:17 KJV 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. And just like Jesus suffered, so do we. But here’s something more that Jesus promised us: Proverbs 6:30-31 NKJV 30 People do not despise a thief If he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving. 31 Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; He may have to give up all the substance of his house. A thief is required to restore sevenfold. I asked chatgpt, what does sevenfold mean and this is what it provided: The word “sevenfold” means seven times as much or multiplied by seven. It can be used in different ways depending on the context: 1. General Meaning • If something increases sevenfold, it becomes seven times greater in size, number, or intensity. o Example: “Profits increased sevenfold” = profits became seven times larger. 2. Biblical / Spiritual Meaning • In the Bible, “sevenfold” often symbolizes completeness, fullness, or divine perfection, since the number seven carries special spiritual significance. • For example: o Genesis 4:15 – God says that anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance sevenfold (a complete and perfect retribution). o Psalm 12:6 – God’s words are described as pure, “purified seven times,” symbolizing perfect refinement. o Proverbs 24:16 – “For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,” showing fullness of perseverance. 3. Figurative Usage • “Sevenfold” can also mean in every way or completely. o Example: “He repaid evil sevenfold” = he repaid fully, completely, and overwhelmingly. ✨ So, sevenfold means “seven times over” in the literal sense, and “full, complete, or perfect” in the symbolic/spiritual sense. So, when the devil steals your health from you, your finances from your, a loved one from you, he is required to recompense you seven times. Psalm 7:8 KJV 8 The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. You can go before the Lord and ask Him to judge you if you believe that a thief has taken something from you but be ready for that judgement. Are you in the secret place with Him as Psalm 91 says? Have you made God a relationship vs a religion? Have you sought first the kingdom of God and His righteousness first as Matthew 6:33 says? Do you know you are saved and that Jesus is the Son of God? Have you confessed Jesus as Lord, Romans 10:9? Once you are firmly minded, humble yourself before the Lord and simply tell Him that the thief took from you, and then ask Him to make the devil recompense you. Matthew 7:7 KJV 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Whatever you ask it shall be given. This is part 1 of understanding what a Christian fights against. 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DO YOU KNOW HIS LOVE The purpose of this teaching is to help believers grasp the depth of God’s love revealed through Christ’s sacrifice, understanding redemption as both a legal and spiritual restoration. By exploring Scripture, the message aims to show how Jesus’ blood fulfilled the law, paid the ransom for sin, and restored believers as children of God, leading to transformation of the heart, mind, and spirit. DO YOU KNOW HIS LOVE Minister Lisa Kane September 12, 2024 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to help believers grasp the depth of God’s love revealed through Christ’s sacrifice, understanding redemption as both a legal and spiritual restoration. By exploring Scripture, the message aims to show how Jesus’ blood fulfilled the law, paid the ransom for sin, and restored believers as children of God, leading to transformation of the heart, mind, and spirit. Synopsis: In Do You Know His Love, Lisa Kane opens with Luke 23:46, reflecting on Jesus commending His spirit into the Father’s hands as the ultimate act of trust and love. The teaching examines redemption through passages in Psalms, Galatians, Titus, 1 Peter, and Romans, showing that Christ’s sacrifice was foretold, fulfilled, and remains the central act of God’s covenant love. The message highlights redemption as a ransom paid to release humanity from the dominion of sin, death, and the curse of the law. Through the imagery of Jubilee, Lisa explains how Jesus restored believers to their rightful inheritance as children and heirs of God. The teaching emphasizes that salvation is a gift—not earned by works—but received through confession and faith in Christ. Listeners are urged to let God’s love penetrate deeply, transforming their emotions, thoughts, and actions, producing zeal for good works and a testimony of His power. Lisa stresses the importance of speaking faith, confessing Christ openly, and remembering the cross as the supreme demonstration of divine love. The message closes with an invitation to salvation through the sinner’s prayer, calling all to embrace Christ’s redeeming love and to live watchfully in expectation of His return. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kain and I'm recording this message on Thursday, September 12th, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift you up and we bless your word. We bless you and we thank you for your word. Move me aside. Let your Holy Spirit do the talking here, Father God, and show us the love that you have demonstrated for us. Thank you, Father God. and let that love penetrate and let it transform us. So much so that as we walk in your word, everyone who sees us will know that it is your love that is the power behind everything that is happening in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Welcome. I'm grateful that you are here. I hope that you are blessed by this content. Share it with anyone you like. Uh this is uh good teaching. Good teaching. So I hope you en enjoy it. Let's go to our opening scripture here. This message is called Do You Know His Love. And our opening scripture here is in Luke 23:46. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." And having said thus, he gave up the ghost. So, just to kind of reiterate a little bit of how I teach, what you're seeing here is the bolded words are the uh the original words that were used in the translation from the original to the King James in the English. And so that word could have other meanings. They could have used other words in that place. So what I do is when I bold the word in the screen that means that's the word in the Bible King James version but the ones after in the parentheses are other meanings of the word. So example here for father into thy hands I command I place alongside I present I deposit my spirit. In other words he's depositing his spirit into the hands of God. And having said thus he gave up the ghost or expired. So that's how I teach. That's how I present the scriptures to you and everything is done through the King James version. Now that's our opening scripture. So what I want to do is I want to share with you um an interesting teaching uh talking about the love of God. I'm asking you do you know his love? purpose I have for this teaching is I hope that by understanding through knowledge and what Christ did for us that it would change you by his love that the change the transformation would be emotional spiritual maybe even cause you on the inside to just break um I've been through that and I know that when you get this it penetrates deep into the heart where your thoughts and your feelings are and It transforms you. I am hoping beyond all hope that you grasp this and get it. Now remember, it's not by might nor by power. It is by his spirit. So I've been praying and asking the spirit to work through you, the listener, for this teaching. Okay? So be ready, be prepared, and listen to what the word of God is telling us today. Amen. So let's go to Psalm 49:15. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave. For he shall receive me. Saha. Now let's add those extra words in because I really want you to get this. But God will redeem or sever ransom, release, preserve my soul from the power or the hand and dominion of the grave which is Hades or the world of the dead. For he shall receive or take me. Sila sa not sure exactly how to pronounce sa and they don't really know what the word sa means but a lot of theologians take that as to pause and think on this but what I want you to see what the psalmist is saying here is redemption means to pay the ransom for whatever is being held captive in this case the world is what's been held by been held captive by the grave and death but by Jesus giving up his blood and life on the cross. He paid that ransom. And the psalmist in the Old Testament, thousand so years before Jesus went to the cross, he's talking about the redeemer because the redeemer has been prophesied to do this and Jesus did it. Let's go to Psalm 103:4. Who redeemth thy life from destruction? Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies? Now let's read it with the extra words. Who redeemth? Look at this word next to kin by back thy life from destruction or the pit corruption grave. Who crowneth which means encircle compass thee with loving kindness. Favor and tender mercies compassion. Oh this is so good. So here I want you to notice something. Redeemer. Redeemth here means it has another flavor to it. Next of kin. You see what Jesus is doing when he redeems us. He's following the process Israel follows through the process of Jubilee. If you go look at Leviticus 20 and it's about verses 8 through13, you're going to find that the Jubilee is a year of rest and it happens every 50th year. And it's a not only a year of rest. So they do not eat their crops because it's already been provided. Everything was doubly provided in the 49th year. So that double portion comes out in the 49th year so that you can rest in the 50th year. But what happens is every slave, every person who had sold themselves in that 50th year is given back to the original owners. The land that was sold any time in that time frame was given back to the original owner. Jesus is paying this price as if a 50th year of Jubilee, giving us back the authority that we had with Adam and Eve before Adam and Eve disobeyed God and fell. So when this word here says next of kin, remember we are a child of God. We are joint hes with Christ. So this puts us back into eternity with Christ, not the grave, not death. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is life. And if you go follow that, you will see that through repentance, because of the redemption of what Jesus did, we have eternity with Christ and not death, not a dying at hell. And I love how he used the word crown there, that that word crown is placed on our heads, but it encompasses us with his favor and compassion. That's absolutely amazing. You have got to see what Christ did in this moment on the cross. He died that we might be saved. Let's go read Galatians 3:13-14. Christ hath redeemed by a ransom rescue us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. That the blessing which is a fine speaking elegance of language of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. that we might receive the promise, which is an announcement, a pledge of the spirit through faith or persuasion, moral conviction. So, what's happening here is you're seeing that Paul is reiterating what the psalmist said in in both Psalm 49:15 and Psalm 103:4. He's stating that Christ took the curse and paid it in full, buying us back from the law and placing us back into the promises or these announcements given to Abraham that we are joint hes in. So remember when he said next of kin, he is restoring us back to the state that Adam and Eve had before they fell, which is giving us the authority now to overcome. Because see, he didn't remove the law and he didn't um take away the law. You have to understand what the Lord did here. See, God is a God of rightness, justice. He established the law. So Jesus had to fulfill the law because none of us could do it. The law told us that we were sinners and we couldn't fulfill it. So, you had to have Christ do what he did because that was what God called for and he did it. But he has to leave it until he completes his entire plan that he has for us in this world. You can go look at that in Daniel 9:24. He's going to abolish sin. He's going to take care of all of this. But because we are in a justice system, we have to wait out the court system of what he's doing. Now, I want you to also notice something that Paul is uh saying here might be saved. It's a choice. You can receive this spirit, which is the spirit of Christ through faith by believing. And it is by this faith that we can know that our salvation is secure in Christ. But you can also walk away. That's incredible. So Christ not only did this to save the world, but he also did it knowing that some would not believe, some would not accept. And he still did it so that the rest of us who want to believe can get it. Oh, how precious, precious this is. This is so powerful. Let's go to Galatians now 4:es 4-6. But when the fullness or completion of the time was come, God sent forth or he sent him on a mission. He dispatched his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem, buy up, ransom us them that were under that law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, which is where the thoughts or feelings are crying, "Aba, father." Oh, I hope you are getting this. What he has done, God purposely sent his son as a man born of a woman to pay the ransom and fulfilled that law that we couldn't do. You know, Satan deceived Adam and Eve and then ever since they fell, we've been born under this curse generation after generation. But it is by this law that we were held captive because we were accused of our sins by the devil in the court system. He accused us. But Jesus, part of his plan was to set the captives free. So he freed us those that choose to believe in Christ and and when you choose because you're choosing based off of knowledge. Yes, the Holy Spirit is moving through you, but he's planting this knowledge in your mind, in your heart, your thoughts, and your feelings. And he's telling you, "This is right." And you're sitting there listening to it going, "Yeah, that is right. I could tell it's right." And then you choose to believe. Now with that knowledge when we choose to believe our hearts are at a point where now we start expressing the thoughts and the feelings of what Christ did. And at that moment that's when we realize the impact of his love for us. He went to that cross. He wore a crown of thorns. He bled from the top of his head all the way to the bottom of his feet. The blood went on that cross on that piece of wood. That was a curse. Blood went on that. It traveled down because he had so much blood. When they pierced him inside that water and blood flowed. When that water went down that cross, it hit the ground. It shook the ground. And if you believe what Ron Wyatt said, he found the ark of the covenant right under that spot. The blood landed on the mercy seat, fulfilling the law that God established. That's love. Oh, I hope you're getting it. Because see, this is where we can know that we are free. We're no longer obligated to live under that law. We are free to live Christlike. We are free to live in the gift of God's life and what he did to us. Let's go look at Titus 2:14. Who gave himself for us that he might, here's that word might, redeem, ransom us from all iniquity. Look at what this word iniquity means. Illegality and purify unto himself a peculiar which were being beyond usual people zealous of good works. Oh, so what is that saying? The word iniquity means illegality. And that's what we're charged with is the iniquities of our sin. And that is where it's now we're realizing we are illegally here until we have a redemption or a redeemer or a pardon for our sins. It's like we're illegally here on this earth until we receive Christ. So this is the justice system that God has established and he works with. It means his son paid that ransom for anything we've done illegally against God. That redemption is what sets us free. That freedom causes our hearts and thoughts and feelings to change, transform. We become zealous for the goodness of things because we want to do good works. And it starts with Christ understanding what he did at the cross. That's the power of the cross. and what he did to our hearts and those good works follow. That's what we manifest once we get it. We manifest the good works because we're understanding. We have that knowledge of the love that he did for us. And we don't want to belittle it. We don't want to take it for granted. We don't want to treat it vain. This is precious that we can't be blas about it. We got to be zealous for the goodness of him. And when we do those good things, we show the world because we're sharing a testimony that God is the one who changed us on the inside. And that's where the power is. This is where the true power of God resides. It's within us because we got it. And so eventually people will get it and they'll be like, "Wow, Jesus did that for me. He did it for the whole world." Yes, but he did it for me. When you get it, oh, it's incredible. Let's go to First Peter. We're going to be in chapter 1 18- 21. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, and corruptable things are things that decay. They're perishable like or as silver and gold from your vain empty conversation received by tradition from your fathers. See, when your fathers teach you how to do things, they they tell you do it this way, do it that way. But if you don't have the love from Christ in there to do it is vain. It's empty. You can go read 1 Corinthians 13 on that verse uh 19. but with the precious which is valuable blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. who verily has fore ordained to know before him before the foundation or the conception of the world, but was manifest rendered apparent in these last times for you who by him do believe have faith in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith which is your persuasion, credence and hope, your expectation might be in God. Let's talk about that for a moment. Let's see what Peter's saying. Peter is establishing the value of God's love here. He's telling us that it isn't corruptible things that saves us. It's the blood of Jesus that paid the ransom. So many people want to do good things. They want to show God how worthy they are by their works. The thing is is it's a gift from God himself. He dispatched. He sent his son forth and said, "Go save them." And Jesus said, "I got you. I'm going to do this." And he went, "It's a gift. You don't have to do anything but believe." And yet, we want to go do works. I want to see how many people I can serve food to. I want to see how many services I can go to in a week. I want to see how much I can pray and be that better prayer and so on and so forth. And yet, it has nothing to do with that. Your salvation is of the Lord and it is a free gift. So we need to remember what the blood and the power of the cross of what Jesus did. This is why we take holy communion. This is one way to show that we remember Jesus on the cross because remember he commanded us this do in remembrance of me. Another way to acknowledge his love for us which is more important than anything else is that we shouldn't do things that are vain or empty that mean nothing. Don't take it for granted, but do those good things. And it it's something you want to do because you're portraying Christ through your actions. Your actions are being your testimony, fulfillment of the love of Christ in our hearts, but you're doing it without attitude, without complaint. You're doing it because you want to and you desire it. And you know, you're doing it for God. And this is the manifestation and the testifimmony that you're testifying through the knowledge that God designed this redemption long before the conception of the world. You are acting it out with a beautiful love and heart because that's what God does. He transforms us. And he made it, by the way, he made this apparent by prophesying it long ago through the psalmist and the prophets for us to know, to know his redemption and have this knowledge manifested in us to be the example that others can look to and be saved today. Because that's exactly what happened here. That the psalmist knew there was a redeemer, but he didn't know his name. He just knew God the father. Which remember what Jesus says, if you know me, you know the father. So that means if you knew the father, you knew Jesus. So the Old Testament had it just like the New Testament. And they can walk in that belief. They can walk in that faith. And they knew. And so God had separated those that died back then. You went to a place called paradise if you were a believer in God. And when Jesus was crucified on the cross, he descended and kicked out the gates of hell. And he grabbed those out of paradise. And by the way, on his way up, he stopped to talk to Mary Magdalene. You can go read this, and I just taught on this a few times now. But he stops with all those souls behind him, billions, and he he says to Mary Magdalene, "My God, your God, my father, your father, because Jesus restored us as the next of kin in the right standing with Christ, joint hes. We are brothers and sisters with Christ." Now, that's the power of what Jesus did on the cross. That's the love. Understand the word love in in the English language doesn't do it justice. It doesn't uh demonstrate the type of love that God is doing here. closest thing we have in our language is probably the the love of a mother to a child because um that mother she knows the child is so fragile she's holding the child in her hands who is fragile that child cannot do anything of its own she is morally obligated to take care of that child Jesus was morally obligated to come to our salvation to save us. And he did it. He did it. And he saved us. Now, I want you to see something here that's so powerful. Look at Romans 10:13. For whosoever, that is all whole. Everyone shall call upon, they're entitled. They can invoke the name, the authority of the Lord shall be saved, delivered, healed, preserved. That is what we have. We anyone who confesses who has who calls invokes on God, save me Jesus. I'm telling you, and if they're not doing it in vain, they're doing it in with the intention of God, I need you to save me. Whether they're calling on God the Father or Jesus the Son of God, either way, anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. You saw that happen here. In fact, it goes a little deeper. Let's see it in Romans 10. uh verses 9 and 10. We're going to go back a little bit in this this chapter says that if you if thou shalt confess or acknowledge with thy mouth your language the Lord who is supreme in authority Jesus and shalt believe you have faith in your heart the thoughts and the feelings because see it starts with knowledge thoughts and feelings that's where it starts so you're you're hearing you're feeling the thoughts and feelings that God raised awakened him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, delivered, protected, healed, preserved. Look what it says. For with the heart, that's your hearts and feelings. That's your thoughts and feelings. Man believeth unto righteousness, which is justification. You are just with your thoughts and feelings. You can have, you have the right to be just because you know that you called on the name of Jesus. And you know that when you did it, you had to have faith because you can't see that you're calling on him. I mean, you can't see him. He's not there. So, you're calling on him in faith, which is what activates God. This is so that manifests it. That pulls the thoughts and feelings. But look what else it says. And with the mouth, confession is made into salvation. So when you speak it, because everything is spoken by our mouths, this is what affects us. This is what takes us to that next level is when you speak scripture into your situation. When you speak the name of Jesus and you're calling on him whether you say anything or not, your thoughts, your hearts, your feeling is right there, it is manifesting inside of you through the anointing of the Holy Spirit. That is the Holy Spirit moving through you through his love of what he did on the cross. Even if you don't grasp it at that moment, that's what he did. So, we are saved by confession of our mouths, speaking out loud what Christ did to us because we're speaking to all the witnesses around us. Who's around us? God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, angels, demons, and the like. They're watching us. There are witnesses. So whether you have anybody else around you, whether you're in the bathroom, in the toilet, and you call on God, and no one else is around you, God is your witness. Oh, I hope you're getting that. And with that confession, that means you're using your language of faith, and you're manifesting salvation, healing, deliverance, and preservation within yourselves. And others can do this, too. Anyone can do this. Anyone could call upon the name of the Lord. And see, you don't have to just do it for salvation of eternal life. That's for even an immediate situation. If you walk into the bank and a bank robbery takes place, the name of Jesus has the authority there. He will save you, preserve you, heal you, deliver you of anything. Like I said, bank robbery, you're dealing with, you're you're worried about your soul or spirit on the inside, the just call on the name of Jesus. He saves you. That's what he did. Let's go look at the basics of what he did here in John 3 15-17. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish. Look at the word perish. It means destroy fully, lose, die, but have eternal or perpetual life. For God so loved, there's that word love. See, it's social, moral, sense, obligation. He was obligated. He loved the world. He obligated. He He kept his obligation to the world cuz you know what? God could have stopped everything long ago when Adam and Eve messed up. He could have said, "We're done. He almost did it with the flood, but he saw Noah. He saw something there." Maybe he was looking at the future from that moment. He saw Lisa, me, praising him, thanking him for saving me. Maybe he did the same for you. What a thought to think of. and to have in your heart to know that this is what he did because of his love. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes or has faith in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn, decide, or punish the world, but that the world through him might be saved. There's that word saved. Save, deliver, protect, heal, preserve, and might because it is a choice. It is a choice. This is what we have based on what God did. This is what love is. The laying down of one's life to save another. Christ demonstrated that love. And we should not take it for rain or granted or empty. We should let that love fill our hearts, our thoughts, and our feelings. let it manifest us emotionally in him so that we're getting it. Because that is where the Holy Spirit does the most work because once the hardenness of your heart, your stiff neckness if you will, is broken, the Holy Spirit's in there and he's got you and he's going to continue to work in you and change you, transform you. And this helps us remember the power of the cross of what Jesus did. That Holy Spirit moving in us, transforming us. we remember and we know it. So even though we have down times or slow times or we're not in the word for a moment or two, Jesus is always there. The Holy Spirit is always there. This is how much God loves us. And I hope you get it because when you get it, you should be an emotional wreck. But you know that you're saved by his actions. Catch his love and his salvation now. Don't wait. We don't know when he will return. And he is returning. We need to be ready and watchful for his return. And there is no better time now than to get saved. Amen. Let's say the sinner's prayer together. I'm going to say it. I'll pause and allow you to speak it and let's close in this sinner's prayer. Amen. Dear Jesus, we ask you to come into our hearts where our thoughts and feelings are. And we ask you to forgive us of our sin, of our iniquity, of our illegal status. And we ask you to be our Lord and Savior and to help us be saved, delivered, healed, and preserved in anything we face. Thank you. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I hope you are blessed. Share this message with others who need to hear and need to know what God love God's love is. And I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

I AM SOLDIER Equip listeners—especially those who’ve carried labels like “black sheep,” worthless, or dumb—to anchor their identity in Christ. Through Pastor Marcos Marrero’s teaching, which weaves Lisa’s healing testimony, prophetic confirmation, and Scripture on spiritual authority, the message aims to: (1) minister inner healing, (2) call the weary to re-enlist as soldiers in God’s army, and (3) impart how the Word, the blood of Jesus, and the anointing empower believers to resist the enemy and enter God’s rest. < Back I AM SOLDIER Pastor Marcos Marrero February 16, 2007 Objective: Equip listeners—especially those who’ve carried labels like “black sheep,” worthless, or dumb—to anchor their identity in Christ. Through Pastor Marcos Marrero’s teaching, which weaves Lisa’s healing testimony, prophetic confirmation, and Scripture on spiritual authority, the message aims to: (1) minister inner healing, (2) call the weary to re-enlist as soldiers in God’s army, and (3) impart how the Word, the blood of Jesus, and the anointing empower believers to resist the enemy and enter God’s rest. Synopsis: Pastor Marcos Marrero opens audience attendee testimonies—seeing her late father, feeling his embrace, and hearing the liberating words, “You are not worthless and you are not dumb.” The Holy Spirit marks this as a deeply personal deliverance timed with a message on rejection. A confirming prophetic word (“I am reenlisting My army again… Go up again.”) underscores God’s call for those who’ve felt like the family “black sheep” to rise and advance despite past defeats. Teaching from there, Pastor Marcos explains: We don’t fight in our own strength; Jesus gives authority (exousia) over the enemy’s power (dunamis) (Luke 10:19). God’s Word is life-giving energy that exposes lies and heals the inner life (Hebrews 4:12). We enter God’s rest by rejecting a “grasshopper” identity and confronting giants in the truth of who we are in Christ. The blood of Jesus brings us under God’s unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:15–16), a protective radiance the enemy cannot penetrate—fueling bold, loving deliverance ministry. Pastor Marcos closes by inviting listeners to receive the Father’s affirmation, renounce old accusations, and re-enlist. By grace, we are soldiers in God’s army—empowered to expose darkness, set captives free, and move with the fresh wind of the Spirit. Inspired Teaching: This is uh the Lord did something really special. Um my dad passed away uh two years ago, a little over two years ago. And um you know um I just love him so much. And um you know it's like every night I would tell the Lord even though he passed away. I would tell God in my prayers, you know, God tell my dad I love him and and tell him that I'm doing good and you know and uh although I'm the black sheep of the family, I'm going to be the one that makes it. I'm going to see you again, you know. and uh you know and and and then uh the Lord would just you know the Holy Spirit would just you know it was like the Lord just like yeah you know he knows you know I'm I'm going to bless that and I'm going to you know I knew that he knew uh that the Lord told him or he heard me and uh so anyways uh this was Monday at 3:00 a.m. I looked in my journal today and um it was the night that Rod was sharing or or the day that Rod was going to share uh the sermon on rejection and different uh spirits, you know, things like that. And um all my life I have always felt I felt that I wasn't worthy and that I was dumb and I didn't belong. And uh I always just felt, you know, like the the odd man out. And um so um anyways, just to let you know that. Um, so, um, Monday at 3:00 a.m., uh, I had a dream and I had a dream that it was, uh, my family, we were standing in the backyard and it was funny because it was super sunny out and it was like, it was like the 70s, 80s, how I remembered the backyard because of the crab grass we used to have. And it was super sunny out. I mean, extremely, it was really interesting how bright it was. It was almost, you know, you couldn't really. And there was a gentleman standing there. We were standing around him and he was talking about Falling Springs, Big Bear, saying that he just put some money down on some property and that he got a cabin there. And it's interesting because my dad, we used to go to Falling Springs and there was this particular cabin our family used to uh stay at and he just loved Big Bear. And um so we're standing around in the group and um I was on the outside and um on the side of the house here comes walking my dad and I I kind of look I what that's my dad you know and I was really excited you know to see my dad and uh he he was walking like the look on his face was like he was just really really deep in thought. He was like, "Wow." You know, he had that look and he walked around and he came over and he bypassed the family and he sat on the in about the middle of the backyard on the grass Indian style with his arms like this and he just sat there and I left the group and I went over. I was so thrilled to see my dad and I sat down the same way and um my my head was perfect right where his neck was right here and I was oh dad you know was doing that you know and when I reached leaned in to do that I went like that and my skin felt his skin and I felt his warmth and I felt his whiskers and I even smelled his dial soap and my dad's from the south so he was dial soap on his hair. He didn't believe in shampoo. So he always had this dial soap smell and um and you know he was just so in other words I I had it was like all of a sudden I had my five senses. I could smell him. I could feel him. And he was really really there. I was sitting with my dad and he put his arm around me like this. He he never looked at me. He just looked straight ahead and he put his arm around me like this and he just kind of, you know, held me close and and I kind of straightened my neck up and all of a sudden I I I felt uh his his mouth right here and he said to me, I heard his voice and he said to me, he said, "You are not Thank you. You were not worthless and you were not dumb. And I mean he was just said it with such meaning to me and and then he said something really interesting. He said just staring and I looked at him. I saw the side of his face and I looked at him. I was I was really surprised. And he was just like, I'm a dumb dumb dumb daddy. And you know, I guess because of the way my dad was raised with verbal abuse, he was always a macho type man, you know, and he was pretty um verbally, I guess, abusive before the Lord got a hold of him. And it took many years, but I saw God change my dad from a really verbally abusive person to a from a wild man to a really really really loving man. And um and so um I guess maybe that's where I got some of that, but I think most of it too was my drug and alcohol use. I was just the the black sheep in the family. I was a lot like my dad. I was very wild like he was when he was younger. But anyways, um um to make a long story short, I guess um won't take too much time. Um I woke up and I just I sat straight up in bed cuz I was in shock. I needed to hear that so desperately and I had no idea. And you know, but it's true. I did think that I was, you know, unworthy and and I was worthless and I was dumb. And I mean, I would hear that tape play dumb especially all the time. if I couldn't get something, you're dumb. You're not like everybody else. You're stupid, you know. And it was constant. And um so my dad told me that I really needed to hear that. And I was just sobbing and sobbing and sobbing. And it's funny because the night uh the night before that that day, my son had got back from snowboarding. My mother and my brother had the kids uh all weekend. They were really tired. And uh and my brother was passed out. Everybody was passed out. So, I had gotten up going to the bathroom and I had to put a towel, folded towel over my face because I was sobbing so heavy. And um and then I left the bathroom and I'm standing in the middle of the hallway and I'm like, I want to turn on all the lights. I want to get everybody up and I want to tell them I saw my dad and my this is what my dad said to me, you know. And then I I was standing there and the Holy Spirit said to me, "This is for you and you alone." And and then he told me something else. When I saw my dad walk come from the backyard, you know, from the side of the house into the backyard, I was in such surprise to see him. Was totally unexpected that. But I do remember hearing a voice saying something. And the Holy Spirit reminded me and said, "He came a long long long way to tell you this." And I just and I back in the bathroom, you know. See? Anyways, then I finally contained myself somewhat. I went back to bed and I thought, "Oh, I'll probably never see him again." So, I tried real hard to go back to sleep and I couldn't. So, then I looked over at the clock. It was 3:00 a.m. And the Lord told me three means the Trinity and Father, Son, Holy Spirit. And uh and and you know, and then all of a sudden, I just felt this release. I felt like uh I was just uh something happened and you know I don't I don't feel I don't feel worthless and I know I'm not dumb and I needed to hear that and I just wanted to share how good the Lord is. Yeah. And oh, and I just want to say one more thing really quick. And then and then Monday night, I came to the service and there was a lot of stuff that Rod was saying, preaching that I was going, "Oh," and I was checking this off and I was checking that off and I was checking this off and it was just like other stuff that that I need to work on. You know, those other two were out of the way. Yeah, it was great. Praise God. like my first mentor in deliverance and stuff, you know, just just breaking me into that type of of of arena, you know, and he's a power he was a powerful man of God. But Ro's going to come up and share something concerning a prophecy. I believe it was black sheep of the family. I can't relate to that at all. Not not at all. Um, you know, when when uh when I was uh Friday night before I I was the Holy Spirit told me to make sure that to make sure that you were here. I He told me she needs this. She needs to hear it. you know, and and it is amazing how much God loves us, that he will go out of his way to prove to us, to show us how much he loves us. We're not rejected. He'll never reject us, you know, and and and it's it's it's really funny because, you know, the same thing happened to me with uh the the gentleman that I'm I'm I'm going to read his prophecy that that he wrote to uh uh the church of uh the body of Christ. Um he came over. I mean, this this guy, Chuck Pierce, is a is a he he prophesies to nations and and he is right on. He nails it right on the head, you know, and uh I I'll we could go late. Um, and when when we were in that when when we were at that conference in San Jose, the the the night before he prophesied over me and then um the next morning we, you know, it was it was the last it was the last uh day of the thing and it was only half day. I saw him come in the the the sanctuary and he belineed straight towards me. He just walked straight towards me and he shook he shook Fred's hand. He's looking at me, shaking Fred's hand, shaking Marcos's hand, and he hugged me, you know, he he's kind of a big guy. He just hugged me like, you know, I just I just melted and he said he said, "God, when I went to bed last night, God put you on my heart and he just wanted to show tell you how much he loves you." And I'm thinking, "Oh, that's really neat," you know, and all a sudden, you know, we're walking out and Freddy, did you hear that? Did you hear what he said? Do you understand that? I said, 'What do you mean? This guy's a he prophesies to nations and he God put you on his heart, you know, and and and when he hugged me, when he hugged me, it was so amazing because, you know, I was born and raised in church, you know, and and and my grandfather, he started, you know, 85 years ago, you know, and and and he was he was uh Marcos's mentor, you know, and and when he hugged me, that was the first time in my entire life that I truly felt the love of God. It was amazing. It was unbelievable. But yeah, I mean, we we need that every once again, you know, especially us black sheep, you know. Um, this is a this is a a prophecy that was uh uh we're on the his uh uh Gloria Zion's uh u email list and and he sent this uh yesterday and uh you know I I read about the first part of what he says and then I get here Linda you read the rest you know but when I started reading this this is what we are going through this was just confirmation after confirmation. This applies to a vision for Wilmington. It applies to Fred Marcos. It applies to everyone in here. And I mean, I start reading it and Linda is standing there. She I'm sitting there go, you know, dripping on the computer, you know, that I I won't do that. I promise. No, I shouldn't do that. I probably will. Um, the title is I am reinlisting my army again. I am breaking the power of passivity from my people. Go up. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. Oh man, the thing is cut off. Okay, I'll I'll add live. It says uh go up against again. The enemy has stopped you and numbed your spirit in the past season. I am anointing you to go up again. I am lifting man. It's cut off. I am lifting I'm lifting something under the piles of of defeats that have caused you to be quiet and passive. Though you have been buried with work and everyday life and and circumstances, I am removing the layers of sod and decay that have held you captive. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. The wind is blowing in the trees. I am sending a sound in the tree treetops. Go up again, child. Come from behind. Catch up and go up again. I have brought you from behind and you shall hear the the the wind in the trees. The breeze will be your sign to go up again. Go up again. Get hold of your of your emotions and go up again. Even your enemy has mounted up again. I am sending a new wind. Catch the wind and go up again. This new wind will become your mantle. I am redefining your enemies. You will go up again. You will shout. This is my assignment now. This is what I am called to do. Though the enemy has advanced and made headway with his adverse wind, I am bringing you I am bringing you up to a new place to equip you. When you go up again, you will face your enemy with with my new wind. And the enemy will not win again. Even if you have fallen because the relationships have blocked of relationships or blocked supply or have been confused over your your purpose and vision. I say you will go up again. Catch the wind and go again. Reach down. Reach down to my power that is within. Catch the wind and go again. Reach down. Reach down. Reach down for new strength. I placed within. reach down, rise up, and go again. Though my people have been anointed before, the next the the next anointing, I am bringing my people in an anointing that will be known as your fear will laugh. This anointing will cause you to proceed to a new place of breakthrough. This anointing will cause your enemy to become alert against you, to rise up, become alert. I am allowing your enemy to surround you because I have a a strategy for you to go up again against the enemy. Hear the wind. Find your path in the midst of the fray and go up again. Victory is sure. Do not fear the quaking for it is a sign that I am getting ready to reach in. Pull up and reach down again. Even though the enemy and and legalism has risen in the land, I am causing a people to reach up, grab my hand, and stand up again. This is a nation that will quake. In the middle of the quaking, I am again breaking a open a seal of heaven that will cause earth to change drastically. Do not fear when the Lord shakes the foundation. Do not fear when it quakes. Do not fear when the Lord shakes the foundation. Do not fear when it quakes. For you were standing on unsure ground with an unstable future. But the shifting of the plates of the earth and the gifts of the earth for this age in this season will create a major shift in administr in administrative systems. The quaking will cause a different sound to arise in the peoples. A revolutionary sound is rising in the land. That sound will be heard and my and call many into place. Different peoples will align. The ethnos groups are aligning in the house of prayer. A new sound is arising in the church and there will be one man worshiping. Heaven is beginning to resound to earth's cry. This cry will get louder and louder until the enemy's voice is silenced for the season in the earth. There are unccurrens undercurrens flowing and there is confusion and workings in the midst of my plan. I say the enemy is working at work to attempt to stop that which I am sending forth in this hour. But I say that in the midst of an undercurrent, I'm creating a people who will stand above the swirl of the enemy's camp. I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will ride on the wings of the wind. Above the swirl of the enemy's camp, I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will execute true justice. I will release mercy and compassion. Brother will rise up again with brother, sister with sister, and we will move out and possess this land. We will ride and possess this land. We will move and possess this land. We will move and possess this land. Generation with generation, old and the young will move as one. Old and the young will move as one. A new alignment is happening in cities. Do not accue Do not allow the accuser to accuse you over the past. Do not allow the accuser to stop you from moving forward. Do not allow the accuser to say, "In the past, you tried that and it didn't work. For I am bringing a new anointing that will create a new method and a new way for you to go. I am seeding the court of heaven and the court of earth will reflect that which is in heaven." This is a new measure of rule coming to my people. I am breaking the generational fear structure that robbed the a generation of boldness. I am removing a fear base. Fear has been passed from generation to generation, but three generations will rise again and catch this new wind to go up again. You will feel as if you have had surgery. For I will remove a root of fear so that that you can go up again. You will begin to say again the word of the Lord has come to me. Decree that the word of the Lord will come. Again the word will come. Not the word that heard that you've heard in the past but a word again. The word will come and you will say that I am hearing a God in heaven who is refreshing and giving me boldness again. The word will come again. The I am birthing the next dimension of revelation. You have endured and pressed through. So I will now come again. I am ready to bring my word. I am becoming zealous again. My zeal has arisen again. My fervor is rising in you again. My seed will prosper again. I am reinlisting my army again. From your past faith demonstrations, you have gained the right to be my in my army. Because of the cares of the world, you have left your post. I am calling you again to reinlist. Old men and old women will dance in the streets and isles of my places of gathering. A new call is coming and my people will prosper again. I'm calling forth again those that have gone forth in the past. I am putting them in my ranks again. I'm calling them in again. I'm fanning their flame again. For this is a day of reinlistment for the wind is blowing again because the wind is blowing again. I am reinlisting my people. I'm putting the staff in my in my people's hand again. The old men and the old women are now receiving the staff again. The old men and the old women will begin to dance in the streets with the young men and women and girls and boys. This will create a new rule of Zion. This will create a new rule and Zion will be established in the earth in a new way. Those who have gone before, stretch out your hands again. For I am putting a new staff in your hands and will cause you to hear my voice in a new way. I am redefining your call. The generation that's risen can dance in the streets and exhibit new faith. Just like Caleb, who was 80 years old when he really started to rule, reach out your hands and take up the staff again. I am redefining your gift and sending you out again. The old and new will become dance partners. The old and young will rejoice together. I am reinlisting my troops and I will give my reinlistment bonuses in the earth for the wind is blowing. I am calling my people again. Rise up and follow me into victory. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Though unity was thwarted in the in the last season and the enemy came in like a flood, I am reinlisting my troops and I will bring forth that I had planned. That which I have spoken will not return void to me. I will stir up my people with a new anointing and a new strength will blend together and my army will rule the streets of their nations. Grab hold of the new staff I am extending. Let your hands be strong. Let your hands be strong. For the words the prophets have spoken, though they've lain dormant and have not blossomed, I say, let your hands be strong. For I will be activating words and accelerating my purposes. This season, my word is coming forth. Don't be don't get left behind. My word is coming again. Rise up again. A righteous man falls seven times and gets up. So shake off your words and rise again. I will build my house again. The old and the young will shout together. It will be a sound that has not been heard in this season. This is a day of rebuilding and completing what has been what had what was begun in one generation. Though the foundation has been shaky and the people have been divided and the world has drawn many away, now I will build my house again. For I am repairing the foundation, and I am lifting up that which is sagged. I am leveling out that which was crooked. And today I start the process. For the wind is blowing again. And even though you have met each other and met me before, now you will meet me in a new way and see each other in a new way in in the way that I see you. Let go. Let go the things of the past. Let go. Let go the things of the past and catch the new wind blowing forth. I am reinlisting. Hear my call and receive your bonus as you come forth. It's all you. All right. Praise God. Uh, I need you to email me that, Rod, please. I'm gonna tell you, first of all, the lesson tonight. Remember, uh, when I was here last week, for those of you who were not here, uh, it was an unfinished lesson, which is, by the way, first page that you have in your notes. It ended, it had about that much left. And, uh, I told Fred, I didn't make no copies because the lesson was never finished. The Lord just didn't give me the end of it. So, as soon as I preached last Friday night, next morning I got the lesson, the second part of the lesson. And guess what? We ended last week with what am I? Paul says, I am what I am. And then I asked a question, what am I? Or what am I? And guess what the Lord showed me? You're a soldier. That's what we're going to be talking about tonight. And he just had that talking about our identity. I mean that prophecy. Let me tell you how how far back that prophecy and I know that uh that time you know uh but let I got to share this with you because it goes with what you were saying. Um um I don't know if it was before her dad passed away or but we went to visit her mom and dad. I heard that might might have been dead already. I don't know if it was 2001 when he passed away was 2002, but her mom lived in a remote part of uh Arkansas in Conway. They retired by a lake and there's a lot of wood. So, we went out there on vacation. We drove and uh we were going to leave that morning about 11. And so, that gave her time to spend, you know, time with her mom and stuff like that. So, I got up early and decided to go to prayer. So, I went and I walked They they have a lot of lakes over there. And so I walk a couple of miles. Then I found a real wooded area all while over there in Arkansas. So I saw a trail. So I get into the trail and I'm walking for a quiet place to pray and I come to a crossroads of trail and I'm standing in the middle and you know everything is are pretty high. I can see that the trail makes a perfect cross where I'm standing at. I looked at the trail that goes that way and then it curves so you can't see no more. So you can see here and then as I look that way the trail goes farther and then it curves and then you can see no more. And then you can see this other trail where they curve and I can see that it makes a perfect cross. This is in the middle of the wood like about 7 8 o'lock in the morning in Arkansas. So I get down on my knees and you know you're in the uh dirt and all of that stuff so I can't really lay down or anything. So I just get down on my knees and I began to pray and I began to pray uh asking the Lord for direction and guidance and all things and all of a sudden you're talking about the rustling of the trees. Here comes and this was weird because you can tell it's not natural when you feel it right. So this wind comes in and and and it blowing right on the top of the trees and and I know man the Holy Spirit is answering me right right now. I got both of my hands up and the wind blows and it blows just on one hand. It's weird. You could feel the breeze blowing but it hitting just one hand. I don't know what my left hand went numb or my head went numb. The only I could only feel the wind on this hand while I was praying. It was a a very strange uh uh experience that I had. So then we got on the road and we left around 11 11:30. I told her what had happened and I'm driving straight through. I was a lot younger back then. I I can't do it now, but I'm driving straight through. So 3:00 in the morning, we left Arkansas maybe 9 or 10 or 11, whatever. But 3:00 in the morning, we're somewhere in Arizona. And I am driving. It's a beautiful night out. I'm I'm and looking at at the stars and everything. As you know, the jets fly from east to west and they leave that vapor trail. And so there's just I'm seeing just as I'm driving and looking out at the night all of these trails going and one jet came across this way and it formed there was just one trail this way and one it forms a perfect cross right in the middle but the the winds up in the atmosphere was so heavy that everything was blowing real fast. So this cross is just sitting there and it's not moving. All the jets go by their trail disappears and I cross the land. I said, "Boy, I've been driving too long. But I need a break. Something is going on in and mine. So I um I finally about after five or 10 minutes of this amen I wake her up because she was just laying there asleep. I said look at honey this thing won't won't go away. And remember I have been praying that morning in what is it for a cross just like what happened on the earth God is just replicating it up in heaven. And and it's weird now. So 25 30 minutes go by. She's already been out 50 minutes. We see all their jets pay for trail. The wind blows it away and this cross is just formed right there perfectly from and it was at an angle like that cross as it was in the sky like that and it was at an angle. So anyway, just as we're wondering you know what what this is or whatever then all of a sudden the cross begins to dissipate begins to break like 25 30 minutes after I seen it. And yes, as we're coming there, we're in the middle of the desert nowhere. We come into this little mountain and the sign says cross mountain road. Cross Mountain Road. In other words, there's a a and and so later uh in 2003, I believe it was, we're going back and I said, "We got to go to that place, Cross Mountain Road." The Lord took us to Las Vegas. We formed a cross in Las Vegas to where we were a La Plaza Hotel. we anointed. That's when I had the experience of the Lord took me. And in that experience where the Lord took me, I to make it up the hill, the Lord put a staff in my hand. That's why all of the things that the prophecy is talking about there, I experience. So, I need you to to email me that. Okay. But, uh, but the thing is, you know, like you were saying in your testimony, God knows us and God is real. And when God will allow us to to, you know, doggy paddle for a while, but when it comes to time, he chose himself up. And and and that's one thing about God that he chose himself up. And there is something I mean, I can tell you from from the 21 years now that I've been serving the Lord that there's something going on now different than it's ever gone before. Something is happening in the spiritual realm. God is getting ready to do something so totally different that we need to open our minds to believe for for things that we could never even think of. Amen. And when the Lord gave me this revelation to to share this this uh four weeks, I want you to know that this is what what has been in my heart. What my heart is that that which is soul and he kept saying that in the prophecy, God is doing away with it. God is changing the way he does business. This is an end time. You know what happened when when you're doing something and it gets contaminated, you throw it away and you get something new. You know, Fred was painting this week. He said, "You take that spackle and you start putting it on the cracks and then all of a sudden your spackle gets all full of debris and stuff like that and then you're making more of a mess and then do anything. You got to get rid of that old contaminated thing. Throw it away and then you come with something brand new, something that has been that has not been used, something that is not contaminated." And that's what God is doing. And guess what? The number one qualification to be part of that army, you got to be a black sheep. Because you see what God is doing, God is dealing with the rejected. If if you look at it, that's who God is going after. God is going after. Did you know that uh you were talking about uh worthlessness? That's a spirit is a spirit of blay. It appears in the King James version of the Bible 17 times by name. And Hannah who was uh uh the mother of Samuel uh was married to Arcana and she was worthless. He had two wife. One was very productive, gave him a lot of kids. Hannah couldn't have no children. You see that represents the old way of doing thing and the new way of doing thing. Every time he came to Jerusalem like they were required, he would give his wife Hannah that was bearing a double portion of everything. But yet she wasn't satisfied. She felt rejected. The other wife tormented her all the time. Said, "You're worthless. You're good for nothing. You can't even give your husband children." And this torment went on. One time she went into the temple and threw herself at the door. Wouldn't eat, wouldn't do nothing. She cried and cried and cried and cried. She was sobbing so much that Eli the high priest said, "Woman, if you're going to get drunk, go get drunk someplace else. Don't come to do it in the house of the Lord." Okay. Jesus, I am not drunk. He said, I am here because my spirit is see that Eli priest who was corrupted. He well at least his uh his songs were corrupted and and he died when when the glory left departed the temple. But that man had to speak something into her life. And when he heard her cry, he says, "Be it unto you according to your faith." It was when she says, "I am not a daughter of Bile." When Samuel Eli the priest came in and said, "You a a woman, worthless woman, what are you doing here crying at the door of the temple?" And she says, "No, I am not a daughter of a lion." When she was saying, "I am not worthless. I may not be reproductive right now. I may be tormented. I may be going through all of the things, but I am not worthless." And the minute she spoke that says I am not worthless. Eli the high priest had to speak because he was in the office. I said next year by this time you going to have a son. And that son was Samuel who was able to introduce Israel to the new that God was doing. He was the man who anointed kings. He was a man the change from the judges to the kingdom of God. And that's what's going on right now. A lot of us may feel like uh Hannah. But when we come to that place where we can cry, I am not worthless. I may have been rejected by religion and I may be rejected by tradition and I may be rejected by all of the norms of men, but I am here to tell you that I am not worthless because I know that God has a plan and purpose for my life. And when we cried out, that cry out, then that's what that voice in your ear makes. That's the Holy Spirit, by the way. The reason why it wouldn't look you, it was just taking the form of your doubt so that you could see it. It was the Holy Spirit speaking to you. And when the Holy Spirit speaks into your ear and he was just putting something in your spirit that you're not worthless. And when that gets placed into your spirit, that is when you conceive. It says that she went home and instantly she conceived. And nine months later, she had a a a young man named Samuel. And that's what's going on right now. By the way, the Holy Spirit is speaking to a lot of people who have been rejected. Anyway, let me go over real quick to what we um we talked about last week. We're talking about dominion. How there were three things that would cause us to turn the dominion over to Satan. The first one was in Psalm 193 where he says, "Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me." So presumptuous sense, that's when we presume that we're called of God or that God has told us to do this or that. That's operating on the uh senses, the realm of the senses. That can cause us to turn dominion over to the enemy. Psalm 119:13 said, "Direct my step by your word, and let no iniquity have no have dominion over me." Iniquity, as I taught two weeks ago, is harlotry is at the root of all iniquity. Harlotry meaning worshiping something other than God. Okay? And and and and the way the Israelites did it is they put Baal. Baal means Lord. As a matter of fact, the Bible calls God because that was their their word at the time, Baal twice. It means Lord. So they were actually mixing their religion to where they were worshiping Nimrod, but yet they call him Jehovah or they called him Lord. And that is what iniquity, the root of all iniquity is worshiping God, thinking you're worshiping God, but in reality you're not worshiping God. You're worshiping something that is demonic. And then the third one that always turns the dominion over. Why? Because if you're giving, worship comes from an old English word. That means worth giving. giving value. When you worship something, you're given a value above yourself. Previous Next Home