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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.
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Father God, we thank you that you are faithful to complete the work that you have begun in us.
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We pray that your will be done, O God, this day in and through us,
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even through our bodies as it's being done and declared in heaven.
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That you would secure us in your love, your health, your peace, your direction.
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Father God, we thank you that you sent Jesus, And Jesus,
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we thank you that you came to die for us in our place, to provide for us the
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way of life, the way of salvation, to deliver us from the sentences of death
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and the grip of the terrible one.
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And I thank you, Lord. You've also given us power and you want us to be well
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and you want us to know that we are loved and you want us to know that you love
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us and that we belong to you.
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So I pray that you give eyes and ears to the hearts of the people today to see
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and to understand what it is you have done and how that affects us,
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Lord, and brings us into the place where we can live an abundant life. I thank you.
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We bind the powers of darkness who have so hoodwinked and deceived and drawn
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away the people of God into the swamp, into the snake pit, Lord God,
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where they are stuck and overwhelmed.
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We pray that you deliver us from evil and from the evil one this day and that
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we bind the powers of darkness that would blind and snatch and keep us from
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understanding the true components of this spiritual war.
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And we ask you now for divine protection as well, Father God, as you promised us.
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That no weapon formed against us will prosper, that no word said,
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no deed done, no action taken will be able to be used by the enemy to bring
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forth shame, trouble, or reproach.
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So guide us now in our conversation, Father God. In Jesus' name, amen.
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There's a great confusion that rests over the people of God regarding the matter,
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in the matters of health and healing, divine healing. There's a lot of controversy.
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There's a lot of confusion and a lot of misery because people don't know what's
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going on. Is this God's will that I'm suffering like this?
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Does God really want me to walk in good health? Is this a punishment for sin?
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Am I being chastened by the Lord?
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Is this sickness, again, a result of sin, mine or someone else's?
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The man who was in the infirmity 38 years, Jesus said to him,
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See, you have been made well.
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Now go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.
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So what is it that causes us to become sick?
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Is this the controversy or the conversation that God and Satan are in?
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For example, was Job a sinner? No, Job had integrity.
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So it's not always about sin. What is it? Job had a fiery trial, an affliction.
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A lot of our believers are in great misery. However, their health is suffering
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because they do not know the love of God. They don't know how to begin.
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What is the problem here? Is it me? Is it someone else? Did I do something wrong? Is God mad at me?
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And the man born blind, what was his sin. So we have a man who didn't sin,
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and we had a man who did sin.
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We had, was it his parents? Jesus said, no, it wasn't. It's for his sickness.
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The blind man was for the glory of God.
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Then we see in Deuteronomy 27 and 8, all kinds of, a whole long list of things
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that happen, the infirmities and sicknesses that come upon people who did not
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obey the voice of God, and so those who walked away from him.
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So the disobedience brought sin and sickness.
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So the question becomes are we suffering for righteousness sake or because we've
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sinned or someone else has sinned is it my fault is it my parents fault all
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of these are bringing a great confusion to the people of god in the in the area
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of how to come out from underneath this heavy duty.
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Issue of infirmity and sickness that has fallen upon us that we are buried under
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so today we're going to look at and go a little bit behind the scenes and look
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at the more spiritual elements of what goes on with sickness and with being
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overtaken by the strong man.
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So, Jerry, would you like to read in Luke chapter 11, starting with verse 20, I think it is.
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Yeah, just start with the part where we get into the...
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Luke 11, 20, he said, But if I cast out demons with the finger of God,
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surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.
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When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace.
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But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him,
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he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoils.
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Amen. And he goes on to say, He who is not with me is against me.
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He who does not gather with me scatters. So if we understand correctly,
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who is the strong man, who is the stronger man, and of course,
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Jesus being the strongest man, we can rightly interpret this parable.
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So Jesus tells us about the stronger man who overcomes the strong man.
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The stronger man invades the house to take over the house, the positions,
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the livelihood, the well-being, the health of the strong man who is you.
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So god gave us the lordship of the house and
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so the stronger man comes in to
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take away our our goods and
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our possessions our help our hope our health so
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but it says when the strong man is fully armed
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he guards his own palace his house and his
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goods his gifts his abilities his destiny is daily functioning
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his health are in peace safe and secure but what
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does that mean when the enemy he comes in when you're
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fully armed you're you've got
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your gear on when the stronger man comes what
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does he do to dismantle us to overcome us he takes from us our armor and the
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armor begins in ephesians chapter 6 with our battle gear uh begins with the
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way we protect ourself you know you have the armor and then you have the defensive
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offensive weapons so in ephesians chapter 6 what does it say.
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Beginning with verse 10, it says, Finally, my brethren, what it means is that
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finally there means from now on.
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From now on, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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I'll just read all this, and then we can go back and comment.
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Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
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against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
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against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in
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the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate
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of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
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Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench
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all the fiery darts of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation and the
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sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
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So the armor that we're using to fend off or defend ourselves from this stronger
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man begins with the belt of truth.
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The truth holds together, keeps us from flying apart.
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It links us to God. It brings us to freedom, righteousness, peace, and joy.
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And so many times what the enemy's called is the deceiver.
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So he comes in subtly impersonating us, comes into our house,
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impersonating us to ourselves, speaking to us in the first person pronoun,
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and begins to plant lies.
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Deception in the midst of us, and we become confused.
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So now we don't know what truth is.
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We don't know if God is really good all the time, or if God's mad at me,
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or if God's punishing me, or it's my fault, I'm sick. Or we just get confused.
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Yeah, that confusion. See, there's an undermining.
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This stronger man, the enemy, these demons are always there wanting to get in,
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wanting to get in and destroy, wanting to.
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And the thing is, like you said, Marjorie, he comes in in ways that we never suspect. Yes, exactly.
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Because this is what I want. This is what I need.
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And really, that's what the devil's really doing.
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Yeah, exactly. So the truth is the antidote to the lie.
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The liar comes in, however, to present the truth in the first person pronoun,
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present it as reasonable, present it as what everybody else is doing,
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presenting it as the world's solution.
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He comes in to present the lie. And once you agree with the lie,
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bite the hook, say you're hungry for health and healing.
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So Satan dresses the hook of health and healing.
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He dresses that hook, the lie, with the bait of what you're hungry for.
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So you bite into it. So we give up the truth of the word of God that has bound
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everything and holds everything in place.
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We give that up for the opinions, the trends, the controversies,
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the solutions of the enemy.
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And once you start to take his solutions and you're kind of like becoming compromised,
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is divided, the belt of truth is loosening, and you're not confident and sure
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anymore in who you are, who God is, then these lies begin to take over in our life.
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And that is the overcoming, it overcomes us, overtakes us.
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Then the second part of that is the breastplate of righteousness,
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which is our integrity, our identity, our character.
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And when there are chinks in that armor, you know, little holes of sin have
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been burnt into the righteousness, there's shame, there's compromise,
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there's guilt, there's disobedience, then the fiery darts of the enemy.
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Slip in through those little chinks in the armor, and we feel ashamed,
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we feel guilty, we feel burned, we feel deserving of punishment.
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So the breastplate is being compromised.
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So you take that off, or you set it aside, or you compromise your values,
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or you don't listen to the word of God, then that breastplate doesn't protect
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us from those darts of accusation.
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And once the enemy has begun to accuse us and we accept that accusation,
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then we fall into his hands.
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Because now you see, if I sin, what does Jesus say to do? Confess it,
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confess your faults one to another, pray one for another that you may be healed.
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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
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cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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So confessing our sins is a way to be healed.
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So what you're doing is you're coming out of agreement with the lie and you're
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coming back into agreement with God. So that's really what confession and repentance is.
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So when you take away the devil's open door, the agreement you made with the
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lie, you shut that door and you say, no, no,
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I don't want that anymore, I want God, then the enemy's attack against us is
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thwarted and the fiery darts of doubt and fear and guilt and shame don't prevail.
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But if those chinks in the armor are not addressed and closed,
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then we will be subject to the spirit of guilt, accusation, and the judgment that comes from the sin.
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So the armor is very important. So we have a problem, we have pain.
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We have, you know, discouragement, depression. We have fear.
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Physical symptoms of, yeah. All this kind of stuff.
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Spiritual issues, right? We have spiritual issues, negative spiritual issues that come against us.
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And what the enemy says to us is that, well, here's what you need.
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You need this drug. You need to do this. You need to do that. You need to try harder.
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You need to go here and do this.
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You need to, you know. So basically, he gives us false solutions to real problems.
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Exactly. That's called the Hegelian dialect. He sets us up with the pain,
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the fear, the circumstances that he can manipulate. And so what we take as solutions
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bring us into bondage, more and more bondage.
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And it compounds the issues that we're dealing with, compounds them in a negative
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way, rather than bringing solutions and resolve.
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Exactly. that is exactly the devil sets up
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a problem and he brings us a solution to
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the problem which creates a second problem many times people
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are using various remedies medications whatever to address a symptom or an issue
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in their physical body but it but the side effects then cause you a whole nother
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set of problems and so it's always when you do it make a deal with the devil it's never a win-win.
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It's always he wins, you lose, and he's going to trick you. It's a chain reaction
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of destruction. And it goes down, it continues on and on.
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And so, and then, you know, so he wants to, but he can't do anything without getting us to agree.
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So he has to offer us a solution and then we take the solution and it becomes
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the next step in the pit, in the process of being bound. What happens is that we are not aware.
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Most people are not aware that we are accepting.
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The devil's solutions, the demon's solutions to our problems.
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Because they're being presented as reasonable and possibly they could help us and we're desperate.
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And we don't go back to the really the root, root, root, root problem of why
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we're sick or why we have this disease or what's really going on and make our peace with God.
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If we have peace with God and we are not, you know, and our helmet of salvation
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is not falling off our head, you know, a lot of times that's part of the armor too.
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People are not sure they're saved or if I were saved
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then why would all this bad stuff be happening to me so if we're
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not sure of our salvation we're not sure of our identity we're
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not sure of the integrity of God and you know the
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shoes were you know is God faithful to walk us through these difficult places
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you know as we go about our father's business or are we on our own you know
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all of these things that are armor that can protect us that are important And
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Satan is trying to attack so that we don't have confidence in who we are.
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Yeah, he talks about the shield of faith quenches the flaming missiles of the
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enemy. Like fiery darts. Fiery darts, fire arrows, or whatever it is.
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So that shield. We trust the Lord.
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Basically, it is. We trust the Lord no matter what's going on,
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no matter what attacks are coming against us. We continually trust.
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But many people have dropped the shield of faith. they
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have become confused about the goodness of god or they become
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confused about their own righteousness or
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their salvation and they began they begin to slip around on the rocks of fear
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and circumstances and feelings and symptoms and feeling abandoned and lost and
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unloved and and so we drop the shield of faith doubt double-mindedness come
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in and james says if a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways let
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not that man think he's going to receive anything from the Lord.
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So when the symptoms pound away at you and they're taking full center stage
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in your thoughts and in your life,
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you're not focusing on the Lord God. You're focusing on trying to fix the symptoms.
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A lot of what Satan in the world does is offers solutions to medicate the symptoms.
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But then we get the exchange is the deadly,
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deadly side effects, the poisons, the debilitating effects of medications that
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take away your ability to walk and talk and think and eat and know that you're loved.
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Yeah, and then part of the perplexity of this is that some of the most godly
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people suffer with sicknesses, diseases,
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attacks, and some of the most godly people just end up dying horrible deaths,
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and people say, where is God? Where is God?
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Well, this is the whole confusion. This is the confusion because we don't go
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back to the very root and say, what's going on, God? What is the devil's right?
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What right is he claiming to do this to me? He doesn't have any rights in you
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after you're a blood-bought daughter, son of the most high God.
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But Satan wants to continue to claim his rights.
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And if we don't resist him, if we don't know what that right is,
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and if we just continue to plow forward on our own without the truth and the
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revelation of truth, then we're going to be bound and destroyed.
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The other thing is we drop the sword many times, the sword of God's word.
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We don't think it works. It's our offensive weapon.
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And the sword of God is actually, the demons know about the sword.
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It's able to separate even to the dividing of bone and marrow.
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So any kind of physical issues you might have that need to be separated off of you,
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any kind of surgeries that are spiritual or physical that might need to be made
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can be begun with the sword of the word of God separating you from that thing,
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whether it's a disease or a tumor or whatever it is.
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The word of God separates and wants to bring healing and restoration.
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Yeah, in Ephesians chapter 6, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of
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God, the word of God that means the rhema word of God, the spoken word of God.
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It's not just Jesus who is the logos, the word of God. We're not just talking
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about the actual Bible, which is the Word of God, but he's talking about the Word of God spoken.
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The sword of the Spirit is the Word of God, the one that you declare that's
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spoken out and it's in your heart and it's spoken out.
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It addresses the issues.
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It addresses the enemy. It addresses the Lord God Almighty.
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So that's the sword of the Spirit. Well, you know, when Jesus was tempted in
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the wilderness, he said, it is written, it is written, and then he would speak
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the word. He declared it.
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But we, you know, there's death and life in the power of our tongue,
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and I think a lot of times Satan is using our own tongue to lash us and beat
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us and whip us and drive us deeper into the very thing we're trying to overcome through fear.
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It's never going to change. You know, we rehearse the symptoms.
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We focus on the symptoms rather than the Lord, the Savior. And so we just get
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driven deeper, and the stronger man dismantles us, continues to take over our
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house, divide us against ourselves, and destroy our health.
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And then, yeah, and you get advice from a lot of people. And a lot of times,
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advice from people is good.
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It's part of the wisdom of God coming to us through others that say,
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yeah, do this, believe here.
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This would help you. There's wisdom there and advice of others.
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But the thing is, too, that you have to really be discerning because there's
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a lot of opinions out there.
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And opinions can really set you in the wrong direction.
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Well, yeah, and exactly. And so that's another confusion that the stronger man
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uses to dismantle us by dividing us, getting us to disagree with ourselves, with one another.
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We take in, we invite him these solutions to come in and be the remedies and
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be the solutions for the pain or the symptoms.
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And when you invite these things in, whether you're taking a prescription med
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or you're over the counter or illegal drug or you're, whatever you're doing,
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you are permitting whatever you're taking in, you're inviting it in to do what
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you hope and were told it would do.
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You are giving, yielding your will to that thing. And so that gives it permission
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to come in. And so many times in our desperation to be delivered,
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we're actually inviting things into our minds, our lives, our souls,
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our bodies that are not good for us.
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And like with drugs, okay, you have all this pain.
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Take this drug. It'll make you feel better.
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You might feel better for a while, but it does not solve your problems. It's just a band-aid.
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Yeah, and there's a lot of confusion too. For a deeper wound.
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On every level, confusion is our enemy.
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Confusion divides the house. Even in our own spiritual world,
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those believers who want to and love and follow Jesus, there's so much confusion.
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So many slippery slopes that we stand on this doubt, double-mindedness.
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You know, there's systematic theology, there's church doctrine,
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there's all kinds of things that swirl around to spin us out of control or blow us, whip us down.
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The enemy, he mutes, he muddles, he smothers the word of God,
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and he dismantles the power by shifting the focus from who I am into what I'm
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doing. And this is another problem.
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We must address our behavior because our behavior has come through a choice
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and choices come through believing a lie and operating in a sin.
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We must address that, but we must know that the behavior does not define me.
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I don't have to stick with that behavior.
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I can walk. There is a place. Jesus is the way, I can walk in a place of blessing
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and favor and obedience to God, and that is where I want to walk.
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And so even people who walk righteously are going to be, you know, attacked.
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We see this. There's no immunity.
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Especially those who are godly and righteously.
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All those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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And the attacks of the enemy, I would say.
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You know, just because Satan senses those who are most dangerous to him,
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and he will focus on, he will attack them subtly, he will attack them overtly.
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But we know that Jesus Christ is good.
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He wants us well. God, when Jesus came down here to do the will of the Father, he healed everybody.
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He didn't, you know, check their attendance record. He didn't see,
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you know, he just, he wanted them well, and he was doing the will of the Father.
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So we know the Father's will is for us to walk in health and healing and be well.
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That is his desire for you.
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God is good. He wants us to walk in that place of faith and healing.
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And by his word, by his promise, by his power, we can walk in that place.
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However, there are many things that block us from walking in that faith and that power.
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And most of them are fear and sickness
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doubt unbelief i prayed for example i
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prayed and i begged i lit candles i i asked god to help me and he didn't answer
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me and so that and unanswered prayer is becomes an obstacle to the answer and
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so i'm becoming trained up reconditioned to believe it is what it is nothing
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ever changes it's never going to change.
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And I'm, you know, whatever caught in this mess and I can't get out.
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And so we become panicky and trapped. We don't know the love of God.
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We don't know he's there for us. God is for us and wants us to deliver us out of this mess.
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I think of 3 John verse 2, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things
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and be in health just as your soul prospers.
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Too often, I think we say we're looking for healing rather than for health.
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So when health fails, then there's a need for healing.
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But, you know, the old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Right. So we need so many tons of cure these days because we are basically,
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for the most part, even you see in the Church of Jesus Christ,
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among believers, there's so much sickness, so much disease that's there.
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And part of it, you know, there's many, many reasons for that. It's environmental.
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Well, it's a stronger man. He's doing whatever he can to take down the house.
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He's doing whatever he can to take down the people of God.
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And I think one of the problems is we focus on trying to get rid of our symptoms.
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Rather than getting to the root and origin of the problem.
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And so then we get tricked into making the agreement with whatever it is we're
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doing to medicate the symptoms, whether it's a procedure, a drug, whatever it is.
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And we're just dealing with symptoms and the symptoms are not the problem.
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The symptoms are, you know, there to reinforce the lie that you're sick,
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you're never going to get well, and all this stuff is your fault and your problem.
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We have got to, if you are sick, if you are in need of healing,
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the first thing you must do is forgive yourself for believing lies,
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for inviting in the stronger man, for allowing the world or the church or whatever
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doctrine or whatever lie you have believed in
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to take over your life. You need to forgive yourself for believing the lies
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and ask the Lord God to forgive you for believing the lies.
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And then ask the Lord to show you what are those lies.
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Because the lies, most of them have, the devil's told you lies about the goodness
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of God and that God is not there for you. God's punishing you.
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You sin, you're guilty, and then you're punished for that guilt by getting sick.
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So forgiving ourselves and then coming to a real revelation,
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realization that I cannot live my own life without God. I have to have the Lord God. He is my life.
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He's not just a part of my life. He is my life.
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And he wants every part of your life to be in that place of blessing and love
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and confidence in his goodness.
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And this is where the devil is trying to tear us away from God to make us believe God is not good.
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God does not care. And he's the one punishing you when in fact it is the enemy who is punishing us.
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Yeah, Jesus said when he sent the Holy Spirit, when he was going to send the
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Holy Spirit, he told his apostles this, that he's, I'm going to send the Holy
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Spirit and he will show you things to come. He'll glorify me.
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He'll lead you into all truth. He'll call to mind the things that I've said to you.
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So in pretty much every situation, we who are believers in Christ,
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We have the ability of the Holy Spirit within us.
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And if we look to the Holy Spirit, he will say, so Lord, what is this?
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Lead us into the truth. What is this?
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What do you want to show me about this? What's the root of this?
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Right. A lot of times we don't really ask this. We just kind of look at the
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surface stuff like you're saying.
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Right. Because the Holy Spirit will just show us.
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If we will wait upon him, sometimes we need to stop and just read our Bibles or just listen.
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To what the Spirit of God is saying about what's going on.
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Oh, yeah, I haven't forgiven so-and-so. I haven't done this or whatever.
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The question we should ask is, Lord, what is the claim, I said just a minute
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ago, that Satan is making?
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So what is the agreement I have made with whatever sickness,
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illness, symptom, what is the agreement I have made with that thing that has
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allowed the enemy to take me even deeper into this trouble, this illness, this disease?
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So here's the question Lord what is the agreement that I made that Satan is
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using to bring this calamity,
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this misery, this physical illness upon me what is the lie I believe where did I make that agreement,
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that you must go back to that place and then hook where you got hooked before
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you can be free so if it was something, a fear of the lie, fear told you that you know.
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Whatever it was that I'm never going to be good enough, or I'm never going to
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be well, or I give up, or I hate my life, or whatever it is.
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Satan has gotten an agreement somewhere in your life to do what he's doing.
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The stronger man has overtaken you, knocked you down, grabbed your gear,
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stole your weapons, dropped your sword, the shield of faith, can't find it.
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And you're just sitting in your house being beat up and overwhelmed by this
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demonic, stronger man. And so who's going to rescue you from this is the strongest
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man, who is Jesus Christ.
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So coming back to truth, coming back to truth, first of all,
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where did I let go of the truth? Where did I believe the lie?
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Where did my breastplate of righteousness get knocked and hammered into?
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Where did I lose my identity, the integrity of God? Where did I lose my faith
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and peace and confidence in God?
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Going back and asking the Lord to show you, this is the sickness you're in.
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And God wants to use it too.
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Satan wants to use it to destroy you, but God wants to use it to make you. For his glory.
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Yeah, to make you. A lot of it will come, his glory. To refine you,
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to bring you into, yeah, into faith.
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Well, Father, right now we pray for those that are listening right now that
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they have sickness, a disease, depression, fear, whatever it is that's going on.
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Lord, I pray, as we've said, Lord, show them the root of this.
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Show them where they came into the agreement with this.
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Lord, things that in their generations that have affected them.
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But Lord, where did they latch on to this? Where was there an agreement?
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Where was there a thought?
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Where was there a decision to hook up with this? To believe fear.
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And to say it is what it is or whatever. we pray
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that you Spirit of God now you said you lead us
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into all truth and show those that
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are listening right now show them show them
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now and in the days to come reveal to
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them and then there is a solution and that's coming to you it's confessing it's
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forsaking it's repenting it's repenting it's trusting you and then you bring
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the healing you bring the freedom you bring the deliverance to them Father Father,
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we just thank you, Father,
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for your love for each one that's listening,
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for your desire to heal,
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Lord God, your desire to restore health to you.
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And may your love, just the awareness of your love for them,
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come into a new dimension of understanding in each one, Lord.
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Yes, Father, and may the will of God, which is for us to walk in health and healing and hope.
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And to be fruitful and productive in the kingdom of God.
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May the will of God be done in your life. And wherever your will has been bound,
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and wherever the devil has taken over your will, let the will of God prevail.
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Come back into full agreement with the Lord God, and that his will be done in
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your life for you to be healed. For God is for us. He's not against us.
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He said he sent his word and he healed them. He healed them of all their diseases.
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Lord God, yes, we know we fall into sin. And we know that we're tricked into
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doing things, believing things that are not good for us.
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But repentance and confession are the two remedies God gives us to back out of those agreements.
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So, Lord God, I pray that wherever you say, well, you're saying I'm sick because
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I sinned. You're sick because you believe the lie.
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You're sick because you listen to fear. And then fear prompted you to do a sin.
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And then the sin brings in the demonic judgment.
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So, in a way, yes, you are in trouble because you sinned. But the sin is what
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you need to deal with in backing out.
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And sometimes it's not your sin.
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But the lie is still there. The lies maybe I, the devil makes up stuff about us.
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So Father, we just pray that you'd help us to get through to the truth,
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back to the truth of who you are, who we are, and that we will walk in knowing
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that we are loved and it is your love that heals us, Father God.
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We ask that in Jesus' name. And may there be miracles and healings in the people
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today, even those who are listening. May you begin to look at what's going on
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in your own life, in your own health, and ask the Lord serious questions about
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what's going on, what's the truth I need to know.
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I believe, Lord Jesus, for my healing, and we thank you, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Tell us a bit about your book on healing. Well, I have a book called A Case
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for Healing, and it's written to address a lot of these issues.
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And then through the book, we talk about specific maladies and specific issues
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that have specific reasons.
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And so we, like, for example, autism, cancer, you know, rheumatoid arthritis, various things.
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We address the issues and go into specific lies that people are believing that
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cause these events, cause these circumstances to happen.
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So it's a case for healing. You can find it on liferecovery.com or go to Amazon and get your copy.
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I have an emergency. What is your location?
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