(182) Make Fearlessness Your Position

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring, we equip for

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that outpouring, so that we will engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We are going to do a Bible study, Philip and I, about something that is so important for

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There's turmoil everywhere, and some places have more turmoil than others, but there's

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Anywhere you are, anywhere we are, there's a potential of things happening that can bring

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trauma or trouble or stress.

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But we want to talk about making fearlessness your position.

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So today we're talking about making fearlessness your position.

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Why do you want to make fearlessness your position?

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What's so important about it?

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Because we're not supposed to live in fear.

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That's right.

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What's the first scripture that comes to you when you think about not being in fear?

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God has not given you a spirit of fear and a power.

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And of love.

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Love and of a sound mind.

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Amen.

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And that's 2 Timothy 1, 7.

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And that's the one that just always comes to mind first for most of us.

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The way that we got started on this was Philip and I were reading in Philippians, and we

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were reading it together.

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And I saw a scripture that I hadn't ever really processed before, and it's verse 28.

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We were reading in the King James because we're familiar with it.

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That's what we normally read ourselves.

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And it says, in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token

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of perdition, but to you of salvation and that of God.

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And it just lit up to me that when we have no fear, when we're not terrified by our adversaries

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who are trying to terrify us, they're trying to put us into fear, whatever kind of adversaries

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they are, whether they're human or spiritual or circumstances, when we're not terrified

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by them, when we do not allow fear, it is giving them fear because they realize this

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is doomsday for them.

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The whole devilish outfit out there, all of the demonic darkness, all those fallen angels,

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all Satan and all of his minions, they know that their time is short and they're running

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out of time.

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The whole time thing is it's the countdown to their destruction.

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And when they can't terrify us anymore, when we stand with courage, when we stand with

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fearlessness, when that is our position that we stand in, it is causing them to fear.

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I want to just bring a couple other translations of this.

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The New Living Translation says, don't be intimidated in any way by your enemies.

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This will be a sign to them that they are going to be destroyed, but that you are going

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to be saved even by God himself.

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The ESV, the English Standard Version says, and not frightened in anything by your opponents.

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This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation and that from God.

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And then the Amplified Classic, let me turn to it.

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I have it open to something else right now.

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Philippians 1.28 says, and do not for a moment be frightened or intimidated in anything by

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your opponents and adversaries.

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For such constancy and fearlessness will be a clear sign, proof and seal to them of their

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impending destruction, but a sure token and evidence of your deliverance and salvation

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and that from God.

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You know, that reminds me of the story that Michael van Vleimen has told us and we've

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heard him tell it a couple of times, I think.

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I don't remember if he said it on the first podcast that we did with him or if it was

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a story we heard him tell when he was here the first time.

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But he tells the story of how he was sitting on the edge of his bed, getting ready to go

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to bed, but you know, just praying for his family.

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And he's an amazing prayer warrior.

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Amazing.

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So he's sitting on the edge of his bed praying for his family and he sees across the room

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in the corner is this mean, defiant, ugly demon with horns sticking out of his head.

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And he's, I don't know if it's just the way I've imagined it or if he described it this

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way, but I imagine him with his arms crossed and just absolutely defiant.

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And Michael looks at him, he says, what are you doing here?

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How did you get in here?

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You're not allowed to be in here.

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And he starts rebuking the thing and he rebukes and he rebukes and rebukes and he pleads the

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blood and he says all the things that he knows to say.

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And this goes on for like 20 minutes, I think.

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It was a serious amount of time and he's rebuking, rebuking.

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And the thing is just staring at him with this insolent, defiant look on his face as

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if to say, there's nothing that you can do to make me leave.

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Like I have authority here.

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I can do this.

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And finally it left.

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So Michael was really troubled.

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Yeah, troubled is the word.

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He said, Lord, I thought I had authority over that thing.

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How come did it take so long?

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And the Lord said to him, you do have authority.

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And he said, the thing is you have to remember that these characters are liars and they are

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able to put on a face that is not showing what's going on inside them.

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And what was really happening was that inside the thing, he was terrorized that he was going

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to have to leave.

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But if he could just hold on a little longer, if he could just hold on a little longer,

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maybe Michael would quit and he could stay.

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You know?

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And that's their MO.

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That's how they operate.

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Their modus operandi, their mode of operation.

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That's how they operate.

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They're deceivers, they're liars.

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They don't know how to tell the truth.

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But inside they really are full of craven fear because they know their time is short.

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Destruction is around the corner for them.

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They are forever losers.

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And when we stand up in our authority with fearlessness.

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Yeah.

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So you have to have the authority.

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And you do.

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And you have it.

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But you can't pretend to have something you don't have.

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You know, that reminded me in Acts chapter 19.

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This is Paul.

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This was in Ephesus.

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And I tell you, there's a lot of demonic stuff.

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Oh, man.

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Yeah.

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We've been there.

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It's just bad.

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And God gave him all kinds of amazing miracles.

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Those that, that, handkerchiefs for things that he prayed for.

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The people would be delivered of all that.

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There was seven sons.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Seven sons of Sceva.

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Right.

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Now Sceva was the chief of the priests.

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So these are his kids.

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And so they're going to cast out in the name of Jesus these evil spirits out of this person.

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You know, and the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus, I know.

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And Paul, I know.

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But who are you?

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Right.

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You know, and the man whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overcame them and prevailed

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against them.

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So they fled out of the house just naked and wounded.

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You know, because this man was full of demonic spirits.

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Right.

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But this, this is people that had no authority.

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Right.

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And that's what the real world is out there.

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Take the veil away in the spirit life.

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There are those that just see in the spirit all the time and they see demons all the time

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and they see angels and things like that.

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And I'm praying to get there.

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I don't want to see demons, though, you know, but you need to.

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Yes.

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You know, I think there's some say you actually you see demons first.

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Right.

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Some of them, you know.

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But when you have the blood of Jesus living you, you have the spirit of God in you.

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You have that authority over them.

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Right.

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Even if they look intimidating.

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Right.

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And I remember, I remember that our daughter wanted us to watch the Lord of the Rings and

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I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

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Maybe I was being religious, but I felt in my spirit that I was to go ahead and watch

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it.

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And at the same time to that to that place where they're inside the mountain and they hear this

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down the corridor, you know, and they see this red glow and they and and everybody gets

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all scared and says, it's a Balrog run for your life.

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Well, I got up to leave at that point and I heard the Holy Spirit say, sit down and

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watch it.

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You're going to see worse things before it's over.

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Oh.

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And I remember, it was Bruce Allen, I believe it was that said all of all this demonic stuff

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that you're seeing in the movies and movies and you like your little E.T.s, these cute

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little what's the guy with the big ears?

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They make all the creepy thing, all that stuff.

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And those are actually models of real demons.

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Yeah.

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It's trying to get everybody ready.

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Getting everybody ready.

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And Bruce says, when and when these things appear, men's hearts are going to fail them

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for fear because they have no power over them.

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And that's why it's important for us to get our power from our relationship with our father.

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That's where our authority comes.

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That's where our authority comes in our walking with him into the maturity of trusting in

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him, knowing he's absolutely trustworthy.

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It doesn't matter what has happened in the past and it doesn't matter what's going to

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happen next.

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Because you never know where you run into something.

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Right.

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I'm not telling a story on our daughter.

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There's an antique place in our city.

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And I remember going in it before and it was you could just feel spirits and stuff in it,

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you know, was attached to things that were in there.

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And I took our daughter in there.

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I don't remember how old she was.

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And she says, Dad, this place is creepy.

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I says, yeah, it's full of spooks.

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Let's go.

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But it was good for her to experience that, to feel that.

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Because when you feel creepiness or something like that, you know, there's something or

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you feel the hair on the back of your head coming up.

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There's something there.

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Right.

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You know, and that's when you have to raise up instantly in your authority.

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Because I felt that before.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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You just, you just got to do it.

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Yeah.

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And that's part of its discernment.

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One of the things that I was, that I learned when I was studying this to get ready for

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this podcast was that, that there's something happens when fear physically, when fear comes

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on you, there's something happens in your chemical makeup.

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Okay.

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That it causes like this, the stress hormone cortisol kicks in and it kicks in adrenaline.

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You know, adrenaline is the fight and flight thing.

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Yeah.

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Either, either it's going to give you what you need to fight or what you need to flee.

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And what I learned from this was that the blood flow kind of doesn't go to your brain.

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It goes to your limbs so that you can fight or run.

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Whichever, whichever thing that the situation calls for, you can either run or you can fight.

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Oh, that's amazing.

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But your reasoning begins to go down.

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Okay.

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So we can't just reason our way out of this.

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So that's why it's so important that we have a relationship with the Holy Spirit.

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Like in the book of Luke, it says in Luke 12 verse 11, it says, when they bring you

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before the synagogues and the magistrates and the authorities, do not be anxious beforehand

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how you shall reply in defense or what you are to say, for the Holy Spirit will teach

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you in that very hour and moment what you ought to say.

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And then Jesus said again in Luke in chapter 21, it says, they will lay hands, lay their

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hands on you and persecute you, turning you over to the synagogues and prisons and you

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will be led away before kings and governors for my name's sake.

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This will be a time, an opportunity for you to bear testimony.

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In other words, don't get afraid.

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Resolve and settle it in your minds not to meditate and prepare beforehand how you are

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to make your defense and how you will answer, for I myself will give you a mouth and such

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utterance and wisdom that all of your foes combined will be unable to stand against or

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refute.

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And then it says in verse 19, by your steadfastness and patient endurance, you shall win the true

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life of your souls.

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Beautiful.

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It is.

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It's really beautiful.

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But it comes from when your reasoning isn't there, your spirit still is.

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You can depend on that.

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There's a part of your spirit that's your intuition.

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And when your intuition is connected to the Holy Spirit, you're going to have something

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that others don't have in a moment of crisis.

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And that's one of the things that the Lord is trying to help us get ready for whatever

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kind of crisis is coming down the pike.

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Now at the moment when we're recording this, Israel is at war.

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They were unprepared for it.

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And the whole of the nation is suffering trauma.

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Because everybody knows somebody who was kidnapped or murdered or whatever, all of these horrible

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heinous things that were done by Hamas.

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But there's something that is from inside our spirit that will overcome trauma.

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It will overcome these horrific things that happen.

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I wrote in my book, Rich Wounds, the testimony of a woman that was raped.

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And she was not a young woman.

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She was, I think she was in her 80s already when this happened.

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At least late 70s, I'm not sure.

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But here's what she says.

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I was robbed and raped by two men in the early morning hours of June 1st, 1991.

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She's gone to be with the Lord now.

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As soon as the men left, I picked up my Bible and started reading out loud the first five

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Psalms.

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I read five per day.

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The next thing I recall was all this love being poured into my heart like a whooshing

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sound.

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I was lifted up into heavenly places.

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Then out of my spirit came the song, my glory and the lifter of my head.

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I sang the song over and over for many days.

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The same afternoon of the incident, the Lord said for me to pray for the two men.

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I had no anger, resentment toward them.

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I told the Lord, first I'll forgive them.

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And then I prayed.

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I have no idea how I prayed, probably in tongues.

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Days later, the Lord said, this is how I want you to pray for these two men.

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As Jesus said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.

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And as Stephen prayed, Father, lay not this sin to their charge.

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Every day I prayed for these two men after first meditating on 1st Corinthians 13, 4

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to 8A from the Amplified, especially verse five that says, I'll take no account of the

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evil done to me, not to have suffered wrong.

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From the beginning, the Lord said, as I would read his word, the word Jesus would heal me.

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It was very hard to come back home and be by myself after spending some weeks with family

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members from the first day I kept prophesying that I would have to go through this twice.

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I had to return to my family to get some sleep.

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During this time, I meditated on fear scriptures, man and gods, and on peace and healing.

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I was also praying for the police and special investigators for my case that God would give

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them success.

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This was done in love.

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I praise God for the gift of tongues to help me pray during the night hours against the

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fear and terror.

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In September, now remember this happened in June.

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In September, the Lord spoke to me through the book of Jonah.

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I was no longer to pray that the police would capture these men.

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That night was the first night I slept in over three months.

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That's real forgiveness.

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I continued to pray for the two men and their salvation.

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On Sunday, October 6th, the Lord said I was no longer to call them my enemies, but my

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brothers.

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The burden was lifted.

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I believe with all my heart that these two men are now saved.

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And isn't that what this is all about, to get people saved?

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Glory to God.

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I can't believe it only took four months to get the victory.

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To God be the glory, the lifter of my head.

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It's powerful testimony.

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It is.

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And the Lord led her to praise the Lord for allowing her to go through this for His eternal

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purposes.

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This is how you get over PTSD.

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See, she had a trauma.

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That was a serious trauma.

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It affected her for four months, but it didn't continue for years.

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Some people, like Vietnam vets and World War II vets, they would continually, their whole

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life.

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Right.

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Having nightmares and so on.

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But the difference is the Holy Spirit.

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And I believe we need to press in.

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If you, listener, if you have PTSD, there is hope for you.

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You do not have to live with this the rest of your life.

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The Holy Spirit will deliver you.

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Now, a lot of times we learned from our chaplain course that we had some years ago that many

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of the people who go through some kind of a trauma in the military and they come out

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with PTSD, a lot of them were traumatized as children.

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If they're already suffering from PTSD from childhood, they're far more likely to have

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PTSD from something going on in war.

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Yeah, it really triggered it because of the severity of it.

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Sure.

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It just increases it.

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And that's the way fear operates, you see.

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That's the way trauma operates.

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It's all about trying to get us to lose our courage, to lose heart, to become unable to

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operate and unable to resist.

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You know, David, in many of his Psalms would start out, Oh Lord, I've been forsaken of

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all these, many, many of his Psalms.

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But by the end of the Psalms, he's rejoicing and he's praising God.

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I thought that's a real key.

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That's why he was so successful.

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Exactly.

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Because he had battles.

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He certainly did.

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He had mutiny.

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Oh yeah.

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He had betrayal.

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And yet he just praised God.

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Right.

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And I love the story of when they came back to Ziklag and found it burned down and their

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wives and children had been carried away.

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And they're ready to stone him.

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And his own buddies that he's gone to war with are ready to kill him.

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He encouraged himself in the Lord.

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Now that word courage is a beautiful word.

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And I don't think we even realize it so much when we just think about it in English, but

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it really means heart as the seed of emotions.

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I'm reading from the Atomology Online app that I have.

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So it also means spirit, temperament, state or frame of mind.

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From old French courage, heart, innermost feelings, temper.

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And it goes back to Latin and so on.

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It means valor, quality of mind which enables one to meet danger and trouble without fear.

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That's what courage is.

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But my point is it starts at the heart.

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When your heart, I'm not necessarily talking about your physical heart, but I think your

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physical heart is affected by your emotional heart.

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And if we are filling our hearts with the word of God, our hearts are going to help

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us to overcome just because there's word there.

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There's the power of the word.

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So this idea of courage, David encouraged himself in the Lord.

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So he was getting his heart right before the Lord.

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He was getting strength of heart from the Lord.

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And that is all about our relationship.

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That is what keeps us walking towards him, keeps our eyes on him.

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And that's what gives us courage.

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It gives us that fearlessness that makes our adversaries really scared.

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Hallelujah.

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You know, the fear thing for most people boils down to the fear of death.

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And Hebrews 2.15, I just always go back to that all the time when we're talking about

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fear, because it's the fear of death that keeps people in bondage.

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And the way it reads in the Amplified Classic is, I'll start with verse 14.

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Since, therefore, these his children share in flesh and blood in the physical nature

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of human beings, he himself, talking about Jesus, he himself in a similar manner, part

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took of the same nature, that by going through death, he might bring to naught and make of

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no effect him who had the power of death, that is the devil, and also that he might

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deliver and completely set free all those who through the haunting fear of death were

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held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives.

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How many people have not served God, have not done something that God said to do because

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of the fear of death?

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They didn't want to take the risk to obey God.

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They could see that they could lose their life.

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Yeah, but you have a saying, you know, you're safer in the will of God in a war zone than

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you are going down the highway by your house out of the will of God.

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True.

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Or even in your own bed out of the will of God.

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Yeah.

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A tree can fall on the top of your house and that'd be the end of it.

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But obeying God is always the safest place to be because even if you do lay your life

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down, it's still a win-win situation.

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You know, I'm reminded of the five missionaries in Ecuador back in the mid-50s that laid down

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their life for the local people that they were trying to reach.

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I think they're called the Wodani people.

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In those days, they called them the Alcas, but they found out that that's really a slam

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kind of a name for them.

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But Jim Elliott was one of those.

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And there's a quote from him that has always stayed with me from the first time that I

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heard it.

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And he said this, he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he

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cannot lose.

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Why don't you say that again for everybody?

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I think it's good to repeat it.

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

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And of course, that goes with Mark 8.35.

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It says, for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because

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of me and the gospel will save it.

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So Jim Elliott and the others, Nate Saint and the others, they gave their lives, but

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they got their lives.

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The eternal rewards for a martyr are out of this world.

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And that whole tribe ended up, the son went back.

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Yeah.

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One of the wives went with her children.

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And the man who actually killed his father became a father to him when he got born again.

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He took responsibility for the young man.

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He got saved.

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He got saved.

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And the story is told, the end of the spear, that we'll put a link to where you can get

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the book.

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I think there's a movie about it as well.

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But the point is that you can't lose when you obey God.

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Even if you lose your life, you're not losing it.

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You're gaining it.

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You give what you cannot keep to gain what you cannot lose.

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You can't lose eternal life when you're obeying God.

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Yeah, that's very good.

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It's beautiful.

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It's just so wonderful.

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And I just want to really, really hammer it home how our fearlessness, a position of fearlessness

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is not only going to make the devil scared, but it's going to encourage others.

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Fearlessness is contagious.

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And when we stand up with the power of God in a crisis situation, it is going to make

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a difference in that situation.

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I think a good example of that was 9-11.

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The two planes flew into the towers and the people that was on the plane that had turned

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around it was coming back and they start getting calls on their cell phone.

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What happened?

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And I don't remember the fellow's name.

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They wrote a book about him.

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What did he say?

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Let's go.

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Let's roll.

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That was it.

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Let's roll.

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That's the name of the book.

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And they took courage because they knew that they were probably going to die, but at least

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they wouldn't die crashing into a building, taking a whole lot of other people too.

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Exactly.

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They could have all sat there.

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That's what would happen.

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You remember the days there was a lot of hijackings?

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That was before security got what it was and more sophisticated.

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And we heard of hijackings that was frequent.

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It would happen.

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And do people do anything?

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No.

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They sat there in fear.

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Exactly.

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Like one person, two persons.

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But if you had people rise up, and I think that book encouraged a lot of people.

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Right.

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We can do this.

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That's right.

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We're not going to sit.

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Why sit here until you die?

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Right.

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Right.

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Do something.

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Exactly.

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That's just what they did.

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They all died anyway, but they died not under control of the situation.

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Well, they did.

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They died because of that, but they did something.

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Yeah.

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And they stopped the terrorists from accomplishing their goal.

489
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And that's the point here, that when we stand up, we can stop terror.

490
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:24,980
If we don't let terror have a place in our hearts, we can stand up with courage.

491
00:30:24,980 --> 00:30:27,080
We can stand up with peace.

492
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,440
We can stand up and command shalom into a situation.

493
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,260
A soft answer will turn away wrath.

494
00:30:33,260 --> 00:30:40,400
If you don't let that stress hormone and that adrenaline make you fight or fly, if you will

495
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:49,320
let the Holy Spirit control the situation, it will make a huge, huge difference.

496
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,320
Yeah.

497
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:55,320
I remember when we were talking about Michael Van Vleimen earlier with that demon that was

498
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,720
in his bedroom, Smith Wigglesworth.

499
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:58,720
Oh, yes.

500
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,960
I don't know if he was in bed or...

501
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,960
Yeah, I think he was.

502
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:07,600
He was in bed and all of a sudden the devil or big demon just appears in the room.

503
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,120
And he just looked at him and says, ah, it's you.

504
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,120
It's just you.

505
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:12,120
It's just you.

506
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,520
He rolled back, went back to sleep.

507
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:17,520
We had a time in India.

508
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,360
We were in a hotel room.

509
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:27,200
And then the pictures in the rooms, if you've ever been to India or you go to a Indian restaurant

510
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:32,120
and you'll see pictures on the wall of garden scenes, this or that, and you'll see that

511
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,440
some of the people are blue, they're gods.

512
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,120
That's some kind of a deity of some kind.

513
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,120
Demon.

514
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,080
So we're in our hotel room.

515
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,920
We had a big day.

516
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,200
And I saw that they have one of these in our room.

517
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,160
And I hung the picture upside down.

518
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,160
I just...

519
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,160
Or backwards.

520
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,160
Or backwards.

521
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,160
I thought, nah.

522
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:56,840
And I took it off and I just took it off the wall and I put it in the closet or something.

523
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,440
And I could feel something.

524
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,600
I mean, I made something mad.

525
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:01,600
I remember that.

526
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,760
And Sharon was already asleep, I think, on the way out.

527
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,760
So I just prayed.

528
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,440
I just spoke the blood of Jesus over us and this room, you can't touch us.

529
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,200
And I went to bed and I slept real good.

530
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,480
And I did hang the picture back up when we left the next morning.

531
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,800
You just weren't going to let it influence our stay.

532
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:20,800
That's right.

533
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:21,800
Or our sleep.

534
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:22,800
Yes.

535
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:23,800
And I remember...

536
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:24,960
I don't remember who it was.

537
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,240
I think it might have been Lester Sumrall, but I'm not sure.

538
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:34,520
That there was some missionary anyway that had this demonic entity come into his room

539
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,480
and shake his bed and move the bed over.

540
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,480
Oh, yeah, I remember.

541
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,080
Do you remember who it was?

542
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,040
I don't remember who it was, but he said, you put it back.

543
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,040
Yeah.

544
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,680
First, he commanded the thing to leave.

545
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,840
And then he realized, wait a minute, he moved the bed.

546
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,280
And he commanded the thing to come back and put the bed back where it was.

547
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,280
And it did.

548
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,280
And it did.

549
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,080
There's authority in our relationship with God.

550
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,080
There's authority.

551
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:03,200
As we read the word to get to know the author, as we walk with him, as we talk with him,

552
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,880
we will get this victory.

553
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,640
And it comes from our trust in him.

554
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:15,080
Comes from drilling down into him and letting him just permeate us with his light and his

555
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,080
life and his love.

556
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:26,900
And I just want to close with 2 Corinthians 2 verses 14 to the first part of 16.

557
00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:33,800
And it says, But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph as trophies

558
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:42,260
of Christ's victory, and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge

559
00:33:42,260 --> 00:33:44,800
of God everywhere.

560
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:51,520
For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ, which exhales unto God, discernible alike

561
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:56,280
among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

562
00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:03,240
To the latter, it is an aroma wafted from death to death, a fatal odor, the smell of

563
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,840
doom.

564
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:12,560
To the former, it is an aroma from life to life, a vital fragrance living and fresh.

565
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:19,680
So when we stand up in our victory, the victory that Jesus paid for, we don't even have to

566
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:21,240
do it.

567
00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:22,240
He did it all.

568
00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:23,400
It's been paid for.

569
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,880
It's been paid for.

570
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:32,440
And when we realize that we can trust in that, you know, the idea of letting go of the stress,

571
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,960
letting go of stress comes from trusting.

572
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,880
When you trust, your whole blood pressure can go down.

573
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:47,920
The fear dissipates as you anchor your soul in trust in the Lord and resting in the Lord

574
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:57,480
and just getting into his presence and letting just the delight of his presence transform

575
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,480
you.

576
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:08,240
It will cause all of the stress to just right away down, all the way down.

577
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:15,140
The stress goes down, the peace returns, and the courage comes to your heart that it does

578
00:35:15,140 --> 00:35:19,480
not matter what your circumstances are.

579
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:26,380
Your Lord, your life, your life giver, your King, your lover of your soul is there with

580
00:35:26,380 --> 00:35:27,380
you.

581
00:35:27,380 --> 00:35:32,440
He is there with you right now, no matter what you've just been through, no matter what

582
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,980
your family members have been through.

583
00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:36,560
You may have been through trauma.

584
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,600
You may have been through PTSD.

585
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,720
You may be suffering from something that has happened.

586
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:49,440
Now, we just declare in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, this is your time for freedom.

587
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,700
This is your time for victory through the victory that Jesus paid for.

588
00:35:54,700 --> 00:36:00,640
He paid for it in the horrible beating and abuse that he took.

589
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,640
Every possible thing that's happened to you happened to him.

590
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,960
Just know that he took it for you.

591
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:13,840
And he will deliver you right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

592
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,160
Just reach out to him.

593
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,280
Inhale of his presence.

594
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:23,160
His presence, the air all around you, the oxygen all around you is his love.

595
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:32,800
Just draw his love into yourself and let all the stress go as you just begin to worship

596
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,240
him.

597
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:35,600
Breathe in of his presence.

598
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:36,600
Breathe out worship.

599
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,000
You don't even have to say anything.

600
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,880
Eventually you'll begin to sing.

601
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,300
You'll begin to praise.

602
00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:48,920
You'll begin to give glory as you just, but start with resting in his presence.

603
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,120
Start with trusting in him.

604
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,240
Father, I trust you.

605
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:53,640
Just say, Father, I trust you.

606
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,760
Holy Spirit, I trust you.

607
00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,120
I trust you to deliver me from the snare of the fowler, from the noise and pestilence,

608
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,000
all of those things that attack us.

609
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:10,720
In Psalm 91, we declare the power of Psalm 91 over you right now to come and dwell in

610
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:17,140
the secret place of the most high and abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

611
00:37:17,140 --> 00:37:19,440
He is there for you right now.

612
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,280
He is there for you right now.

613
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,120
He is there for you right now.

614
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,880
Receive him.

615
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,580
Receive him.

616
00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:32,240
Receive what you need from him and just keep coming back.

617
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:34,320
Just keep coming back.

618
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:39,920
Every time that the trauma tries to arise again, just keep coming back to the Lord.

619
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:40,920
Just keep coming back.

620
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,920
Just keep.

621
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,160
And every time you come back, it gets easier.

622
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:50,040
Every time you come back, it gets easier until you're able to stay there in his presence.

623
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:56,800
And those things just begin to fall off or roll off like water off of a duck's back.

624
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:02,720
The oil of the anointing of his presence will cause these things to just roll off of you

625
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:05,080
and heal those wounds.

626
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,920
He's there to heal those wounds.

627
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:13,560
We declare healing over the wounds and we declare the grace of God to forgive the people

628
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,560
that have hurt you, the circumstances that have hurt you, the trauma, the accident, whatever

629
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:25,000
it was, the attack, the brutality that has happened to you, the betrayal that has happened

630
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,360
to you.

631
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,640
All of those things just dissipate in the presence of the Lord.

632
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,760
Just start worshiping him.

633
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,240
Just start worshiping him.

634
00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,600
Lord, we give you praise.

635
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,320
We give you honor.

636
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,080
We give you glory, Lord, as you're bringing healing to each listener.

637
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,720
Lord, thank you, Father.

638
00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:46,200
We thank you.

639
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,720
We thank you for your glory, Lord.

640
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:50,040
Pour your glory on each one.

641
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,040
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

642
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,040
Amen.

643
00:38:53,040 --> 00:39:05,120
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