"Don't Give 'Em the Real Estate in Your Head" S4 Ep16

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Hey.

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Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast

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with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Join us in this space where we take on real issues

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with real insight and real inspiration.

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This podcast is for those not looking for temporary relief

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to change circumstance,

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but revelation to forever change lives.

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Keep it 100.

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Welcome to another episode of Keep It 100.

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This is your boy, Sean.

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Hey everyone, it's Christa here.

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It's Christa, we are, as always,

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we are super amped to bring you this podcast.

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You're our last podcast.

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You guys have gotten us to some numbers

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that were really exciting for us.

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It just encourages us.

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So we're back at it coming at you today.

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And we are just in a season where we're kind of coming right

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out of something big,

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but we want to share with you the recap

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of our Healing and Deliverance Masterclass.

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We just had this in the Bay Area,

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specifically Oakland, California, July 28th and 29th.

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Christa and I, we spoke and ministered there.

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We also brought in great friends of ours,

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Joanne Moody and Jeremy Nelson, and it was amazing.

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Oh, it was so good.

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I love Joanne.

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I love Jeremy.

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Both of them just brought such great, inspiring teachings,

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profound teachings, and then a lot of practicals.

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And I love that because I feel like every single person

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brought practicals where people walked away equipped.

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And that's really what we kept telling people.

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We're like, we're gonna equip you to pray

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for people for healing.

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We're gonna equip you to pray for deliverance.

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And I really feel like people got that personally,

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but then they also walked away on how to pray

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for other people with that.

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There were so many great testimonies to your point

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of people that got free, night one,

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you and I did back-to-back sessions,

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and then we went into what we call the Holy Ghost.

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After party, we basically ministered.

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A lot of people got free, got delivered.

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You went after the stronghold of fear and anxiety,

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and that really resonated.

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A lot of people got free.

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We went after some other things,

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just of the nature of people walking in purity,

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and there were people that got free of that.

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It was awesome and amazing.

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Then we came out the next morning,

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and Joanna gave us back-to-back real practicals

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on how to pray for the sick.

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So many people pray for the sick.

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They don't get the results they want,

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but she gave some great stories, great testimonies,

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and really helped people even get some words of knowledge

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as it relates to healing for the first time.

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Then I came back in the afternoon session

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and took everyone into a deliverance.

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How does deliverance take place?

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It just brought you in a session, practicals.

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And then Jeremy brought us home.

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We're just some powerful stuff

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as it relates to generational curses

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and then the spirit of Python.

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But we're getting so many testimonies.

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We had over several hundred people come in person.

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We had a large number who streamed in online,

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but we're getting a lot of testimonies too, right?

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You know what's really cool?

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I had gone through some teachings

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about how to walk in freedom of past trauma,

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some real processes and practicals

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on how to break off previous sexual encounters

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and sexual partners.

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We'll be touching on that a little bit today.

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And I gave them some practicals on how to do that.

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And a lot of people went home and did that.

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And what I love is people came back with testimonies

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that they literally felt like

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as they were praying those prayers of breaking,

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you know, breaking off things from the past

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and breaking agreement,

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they literally experienced that weight coming off of them.

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Some of them felt like they felt like they're,

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their brain was clear, their head was clear,

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their thoughts were more clear.

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They felt like they looked different

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when they looked in the mirror.

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They felt a lighting and a lifting off of their heart

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and their spirit and their emotions.

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Some say they like cried, they felt real breakthrough.

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Some said they no longer are having those images

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or those fantasies.

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And so what's really exciting is when you really begin

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to see that people walk in freedom.

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Oh my gosh, that gets them excited

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because anytime you experience freedom from Jesus,

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it's what you want to give away.

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And that's what I love.

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It's like, this is the stuff where we're like,

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we know so many people that are walking with, you know,

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barriers in their life.

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And if we can help them walk in freedom,

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this is the stuff we want to give away to people, right?

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In a world that has so much bondage, this is exciting.

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And so I just love seeing the excitement

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and hearing the excitement of this.

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And so, you know, we received messages on social media,

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texts, shout outs on different things.

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And people just saying, oh my gosh,

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I feel really changed by this.

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And that, that's everything.

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If we did it for one, it's worth it, right?

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Honestly.

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And I think a scripture right now,

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and I'm sure you're gonna hit it later,

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that I think about that.

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And I think the reason why people were helped is,

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obviously second Corinthians 10-5 says,

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we take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ.

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And it's battlefield jargon.

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You get the impression that our, you know,

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our mind is this place that there can be a battlefield.

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And certain thoughts could be like soldiers, you know,

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or enemies, I should say, that they were the soldiers,

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but certain thoughts could be like enemies.

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And so it was so cool to hear people talk about that.

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And so we also want to let you guys know,

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here we go, big announcements.

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I'm gonna slow down, imaginary drum roll.

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Right now is this podcast is coming out.

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You can order these sessions online on our website,

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Sean and ChristaSmith.com.

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And each of the sessions are gonna be available for purchase.

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And so even if you missed it, or maybe you made it,

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you wanna be able to go back over it,

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we will have that available to you

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as well as there will be study notes.

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We gave it the conference study notes about 60 pages

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of study notes.

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So so many people were saying,

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hey, we're gonna take this back to our church.

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We're gonna start our deliverance meetings.

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We're gonna take this back to our church.

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Love it.

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We're gonna start praying for the sick

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and in our noontime prayer meeting or whatever.

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So you guys check out right now and you can go get those

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and they will be available for you and you will be blessed.

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Also, we wanna let you guys know,

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we got a couple of things coming up.

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And September 1st and 2nd, we're gonna be on the East Coast.

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Come on, East Coast, Feast Coast.

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Come on.

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We're gonna be on the West Coast

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for the prophetic masterclass.

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Many of you can remember,

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we did one on the West Coast,

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but we're doing now one on the East Coast in Bowie, Maryland,

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just outside of Washington, DC.

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Christa will be speaking.

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I will be speaking as well as we're gonna have

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Julie and Adam's back,

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but we're super excited about taking this to the East Coast.

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You know, we really recognize this is the hour that we're in

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and training and equipping the army of God.

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We have a harvest that's gonna happen, right?

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We have a move of God that's taking place in our nation.

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And there's a harvest that's coming in,

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but we need a people that are ready

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in the areas of healing, deliverance,

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and now in the prophetic.

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And so Sean and I are really committed,

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and I love this,

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because Julian has very much the same heart.

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He's amazing.

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And the three of us are just committed

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to really see a church raised up in this hour,

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really confident in that prophetic gift.

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And I love that because when you get the prophetic culture

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integrated into a church,

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it literally breaks open such an area of freedom,

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of breakthrough,

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but also it releases destiny and purpose over people.

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That is probably one of the biggest things

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that the prophetic does is it releases purpose

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and it releases destiny.

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And with a generation that's so longing to know,

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why am I here on planet earth?

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And they get the word of the Lord over their life.

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It's life changing.

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So if you can, and if your schedule's busy right now,

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I'm gonna be bold and say, clear out your schedule,

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rearrange your plans, friends, you will not be disappointed.

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Get there on September 1st of 2nd,

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and bring your group, bring your group of friends.

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I mean, honestly, we have pastors that are already coming

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that is bringing their core leadership.

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We have people that are bringing small groups.

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We have young adult ministries coming.

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We have people bringing their youth group.

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It is open to all ages, anyone.

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You know, we're really saying, if you feel like you're,

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cause we've had people say, can we bring our kids?

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If you feel like your kids are mature

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and can pay attention or gonna, hey, we welcome them.

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We want everyone in the kingdom of God

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to get equipped in their area prophetic.

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And here's what's cool.

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It's not just for seasoned prophetic people.

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It's for entry level.

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It's for intermediate and it's for seasoned.

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Literally, we have it really organized

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to wherever you're at in your prophetic journey.

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I promise you, you're gonna get something out of it.

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You know, and it's super significant on many ways,

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because right now the world is desperate

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to hear the authentic voice of God.

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And if we as a church, we're gonna be reckoned with,

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and if we're gonna become agents of influence and change

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as a transformative voice of this next generation,

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then we need to be tuned in on what God has to tell us.

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And so do you find yourself struggling here, the voice of God

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and get clarity, but you want it?

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Are you curious about the prophetic?

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Wanna be empowered to flow in a gift?

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Do you desire to have deeper access to the thoughts of God

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and long the impact of the people's lives?

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If you answered yes to any of these questions,

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this is the event you've been waiting for,

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prophetic masterclass, two day intensive.

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There will be activation September 1st and 2nd.

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Again, you can go register right now

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at seanandchristasmith.com.

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We're super excited.

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And then for West Coast people,

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but what do we got for them?

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Okay, in August, because we try to do something

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every single month in the Bay Area,

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because we're really believing for a move of God in the Bay,

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and we begin to see the beginnings of it.

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I mean, I'm literally in awe

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every time we gather of God's presence.

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It's beautiful.

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August 25th, it's a Friday night.

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It's just a few weeks out as Sequoia Community Church.

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It's where we've been having our momentum nights.

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We're gonna have our August momentum night.

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And what's so beautiful is we're having

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a special worship leader, a special guest.

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Yep, Heath King, he is a spiritual son to Eddie James.

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This guy, oh my goodness, he's the real deal, you guys.

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This dude is the truth.

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He will lead us, and we're gonna have

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a worship and flow night.

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maybe a brief alter call for people to come to Jesus,

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we're gonna let him worship.

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It's gonna be a night of worship,

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so we're gonna go deep, cut him loose.

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And then, Christ and I, we're gonna get up

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and just flow, prophetically flow in the spirit.

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We're gonna continually go down the veins

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of seeing people get free, people getting filled,

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people getting healed, people getting imparted to.

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So August 25th, it is free.

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You do not have to register for this, show up.

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We got people that fly in for these nights.

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Because they're that profound, feel free to fly in,

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and then all over NorCal, come on down.

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All our Redding Peeps, y'all come down.

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LA folks, drive up Central California,

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come on in, it is gonna be an amazing time.

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It really is, and for those that need a fresh encounter,

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come, for those that are in a hard place, come.

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For those that need healing and breakthrough, come.

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I tell you what, God is gonna be in the room,

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and I always know that whenever God's in the room,

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anything is possible.

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And so, like Sean said, it's a worship night,

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it's a Holy Ghost night, it's a spirit-led ministry night.

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So friends, come, bring your friends,

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bring people that need a fresh encounter.

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We're just believing it's gonna be a night of just marking,

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and it's gonna be a night of breakthrough.

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So we're excited, but you know what else I'm excited about?

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I'm excited to dive into this podcast.

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Let's do this.

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Let's do it.

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And so what we're doing on this podcast is we understand this

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before you can have freedom as a lifestyle.

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Before you can get freedom in your lifestyle,

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you must first get freedom in your head.

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And so, Christa did her second session on this.

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She's gonna give you a bit of a teaser,

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but a little bit more than that

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because we really wanna help those

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that are part of the Keep It 100 Tribe.

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And so I'm just gonna start,

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I'm kinda gonna talk to her interview style,

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but at the same time, I'm gonna be throwing in some stuff,

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just kinda let you know where we're going.

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So anyway, one of the topics that you hit,

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or actually it was a trio of topics that you hit

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that got a lot of acclaim.

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A lot of people are talking about it.

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A lot of people were impacted by it.

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I mean, I kept hearing, oh man, Christa,

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when she said something in this area, man,

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when she said something like this,

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you talked about three areas

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that really formed the main battlefield for us

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as this generation.

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What are those three things?

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And could you describe them?

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Absolutely.

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And if it's okay, I'll back up just a little bit

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because I want people to understand

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that what I'm gonna talk to you about,

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really it comes down to strongholds.

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And I'm gonna be talking about root systems

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that the enemy creates in our lives

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that create a stronghold.

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And just for a simple definition,

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just so you're tracking, a stronghold is a mindset.

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We have to understand, stronghold is a mindset

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that is contrary to God's word.

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And you find that scriptural reference

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on where I'm creating that definition out of,

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is out of 2nd Corinthians 10, 4, and 5.

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And so we have to understand that strongholds

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actually form in our minds in a few different ways.

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We might talk about that in a little bit,

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but really what I love you're asking me about, Sean,

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is the area of kind of the root system of strongholds

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that we discover in our life, right?

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And one of those areas is a soul tie.

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And that might be new verbiage to people,

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but again, I wanna define what is a soul tie,

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just so our listeners really understand

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what I'm talking about.

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And a soul tie is an attachment of our soul

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to a person or an object, both thoughts and feelings,

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which is your mind and your emotions,

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and the choices of our will.

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And we have to understand we have good soul ties, right?

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You have, those are godly soul ties

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and they're based on God's covenant and those are good.

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Simple ones would be like your spouse, your family,

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your friends, godly leaders that are good and healthy.

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you have godly soul ties in your life.

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Those are awesome.

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But the demonic root systems that we can see

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in the area of soul ties in our lives

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are destructive soul ties.

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And destructive soul ties can look like sexual immorality.

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It can also look like adultery.

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It can look like the worship of false gods.

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It can look like rape.

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It can look like images and pornography.

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And we have to understand that soul ties,

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physical sexual soul ties are not just

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what we've done physically,

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but it's also what we've allowed our eyes to see, right?

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And it's what the images,

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what images we've been exposed to.

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And some people are exposed to things against their will,

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but it can actually still create a stronghold

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because it's images that they've seen.

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So we have to understand that when you break a soul tie,

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you break those connections,

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whether it's in your mind, right?

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When you're having a cleansing of your mind,

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a cleansing of your imagination,

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you're breaking soul ties,

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or it's a soul tie that you've done with your body.

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And some of those have been done by your choice.

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And some of those have been done against your will.

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But we have to understand it still creates a soul tie.

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And a soul tie, if you wanna create kind of a picture,

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and I hope I can do this justice,

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you have to imagine that the average American

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has 10 to 11 sexual partners within their life.

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Think about that.

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So that can be higher for some people,

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that can be a lot lower for some people.

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But what we have to understand

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is a lot of people have had multiple sexual partners.

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They get saved, they're authentic in their salvation,

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they come to Jesus and they are so sincere.

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They meet another godly person,

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they're gonna get married,

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and we're looking at them, Sean, we know this.

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We've, you know, we've walked life with a lot of people.

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You've done student ministry for years,

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high brand schools of ministry.

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We've walked journeys with people

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in their process of what it is to follow Jesus.

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And they find themselves constantly tripping up

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or sabotaging relationships,

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or having images constantly flashing in their mind

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or intrusive thoughts.

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And they're like, this isn't me.

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I don't know where this is coming from,

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or why I feel so much shame,

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or why I feel like I can't walk in purity,

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or why I keep tripping up sexually.

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And often it comes down to,

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we'll have you broken soul ties.

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Because we have to understand that until you clean house,

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you're carrying that baggage with you, right?

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And so a really good illustration of that

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is you just gotta imagine like locked arms, right?

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So just imagine a soul tie.

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Every time you have a sexual interaction with someone

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that is out of covenant,

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I'm talking about an ungodly sexual interaction,

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you're like, if you link arms with them,

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imagine linking arms with 10, 11 people,

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or how many partners maybe you've had in your life.

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And until that is broken,

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that stronghold, that soul tie is broken,

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you're literally carrying that around.

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And so Sean, I'd love to hear your viewpoint

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on kind of the destructiveness of an unbroken soul tie.

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You know, I think it's what you're talking about

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is so like now, that is a now word.

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But how many times maybe listeners

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that you have said or you're aware of people like,

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why do you keep going back to that guy?

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Why do you keep going back to that girl?

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They don't treat you right.

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Or how come you're obsessing over them?

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And it's been nine months since you broke up or whatever.

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These are evidences of soul ties.

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You hear people say, I just can't get over,

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I've seen people literally their lives fall apart.

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And they just from that point on,

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if they can't get back the person

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they've had a soul tie with,

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then it's almost like they're drawn to someone

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that treats them the same way.

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So true.

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Or reinforces what that other person said about them.

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And it doesn't make sense.

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It's not logical.

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And I think it's because it isn't rational,

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it's trans-rational, it is a soul tie.

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And so what I'm seeing,

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there's a lot of people that say, hey,

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I need to get free of these people.

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Like we think of,

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and obviously we're gonna talk about strongholds,

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and that's probably obviously something

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that it's a more of an interaction of the demonic,

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which is not to say soul ties aren't demonic,

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but soul ties more often than not,

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it seems like it draws you to a person

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in the enemy piggybacks that.

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And I thought it was interesting too,

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you said, I know a lot of people that,

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like people they've never met before,

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rather that celebrities or people that obsess

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over folks online or like you said, pornography,

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is that people can be bound to people

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and those people are real to them,

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although all they've ever seen is a digital

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or cinematic visualization of them,

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but the soul tie is real and it gives you that real feel.

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And so you feel like the word says soul tie,

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you feel tied up.

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And so there's such a need for you to get untied

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when you're tied up in that kind of situation.

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It's so true, because we all know the person

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that is attracted to the broken person, right?

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We all know the person that's in a repeated cycle.

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Like growing up, there was always my friend

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that was always attracted to the bad boy

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and he would treat her terrible, he'd treat her awful,

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they'd have a sexual encounter

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and she kept repeating that cycle over and over.

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Well, that is a soul tie in action, right?

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So when you're in a constant cycle

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of destructive self-sabotage behavior

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and you can't get out of it,

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even though you know in your head,

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it's not healthy, it's not right,

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but you're still making that choice,

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it's because there's a soul tie there.

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There's a stronghold in that area of your life

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that needs to be broken.

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And so there might be some of you that are listening today

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and they keep wanting to try,

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but a light bulb's going off, right?

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And you're like, oh my gosh, that's why I'm in this cycle.

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Absolutely.

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I just wanna tell you, with the blood of Jesus,

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that soul tie can be broken.

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That's the cool thing.

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You don't have to live underneath that.

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What Jesus did on the cross is enough

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to break every single soul tie.

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And I want you to know, I've prayed with people

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that have had many, many partners,

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lots of sexual interactions,

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and it's like, I want you to know

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there is no soul tie that cannot be broken

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with the blood of Jesus.

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No matter what you've done in your past,

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no matter how dark it has gone,

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no matter how many sexual partners you've had,

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when you call in the name of Jesus

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and you go through the process of breaking soul ties

523
00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,480
in your life, the blood of Jesus is enough.

524
00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,640
You know, it's so true because even when the Israelites,

525
00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:39,640
cause I always think about,

526
00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,120
are there types of this in the Bible in the Old Testament,

527
00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:44,560
there's absolutely a type to that.

528
00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:49,560
When one of the sons, Ray Tamar, says his soul was knit to her,

529
00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,120
and so he just really, and then he turned on her.

530
00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:53,440
There was times when the Israelites

531
00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:54,960
were going into the Promised Land,

532
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,680
and God says that if you look upon their idols,

533
00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,920
they're gonna become thorns in your sides,

534
00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:02,320
and I think one translation is like pricks in your eyes.

535
00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,760
In other words, it's gonna fasten itself to you visually,

536
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,320
and it's literally gonna vex you.

537
00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,720
And so we just see that over and over again.

538
00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,520
And it's so cool because what you covered,

539
00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,720
and obviously we probably won't be able to get into this

540
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,560
right here in this particular podcast,

541
00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,240
but it's available on the online,

542
00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,640
is you gave specific prayers to break soul ties,

543
00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,280
which I think is super awesome

544
00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,880
because there really is freedom,

545
00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,200
and some of you are still in mourning right now,

546
00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:29,640
and you just need to get over it.

547
00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:30,520
Now, when I say that,

548
00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,880
I'm not saying that in an unsympathetic way.

549
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,520
I'm saying it in a sense of calling you to freedom.

550
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:36,680
You gotta get over that.

551
00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,160
You gotta get on with your destiny.

552
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,800
You gotta get on with, man, the people,

553
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,760
yours are called to help,

554
00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,800
and the activity that God ordained for you in the earth,

555
00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,200
and the good works he's called you to.

556
00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,040
So you can't be stuck in that,

557
00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,120
and God just wants to get you into this next place

558
00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:53,280
where you're not tied to the things that pull you down,

559
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,560
but you have the yoke.

560
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,040
You know, the opposite of a soul tie in the spirit is a yoke,

561
00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,600
and obviously a yoke would put oxen together,

562
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,720
but the Bible says that we're yoked to Jesus.

563
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,160
So we want the yoke, not the soul tie,

564
00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:07,840
the godly yoke that Jesus brings.

565
00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:08,680
I love that.

566
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,680
And for any person that's engaged right now

567
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,440
and wanting to step into marriage,

568
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,520
or you're in a marriage,

569
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,400
and intimacy has been difficult for you,

570
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,120
I just wanna encourage you, go through the process,

571
00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:21,920
really get those prayers and take time.

572
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,000
I kinda explain how to, the entire process.

573
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,520
I explain it, listen to my session, go through the prayers.

574
00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,800
I tell you what, I have had so many powerful testimonies

575
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,520
of people's intimate life within their marriage,

576
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,360
changing, them experiencing really beautiful intimacy,

577
00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:43,400
them experiencing freedom, shame coming off,

578
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,600
images that were incredibly intrusive

579
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,360
from things they were exposed to, even against their will,

580
00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,720
those things leaving, they had them,

581
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,800
they had no recall of those things.

582
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,840
There is freedom that's available through the blood of Jesus,

583
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,000
but we have to go through the process of breaking agreement

584
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,480
with those things that we've allowed into our life.

585
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,040
Even if it gets your will, you've been exposed to it,

586
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,440
maybe that's a more conducive word for you,

587
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,280
you've been exposed to it, we gotta break the stronghold,

588
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,800
we gotta break that access point

589
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:10,960
that has been given in your life,

590
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,720
because when you break access, you then access freedom.

591
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,720
Ooh, so good.

592
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,120
You know, along with solitize, you also hit,

593
00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:19,560
I kinda think there were a trio of things you hit

594
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:20,400
that were really powerful.

595
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,360
Another one of the ones that you spoke of a lot of people

596
00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:25,600
really was giving testimonies,

597
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,560
is you talked about false belief systems.

598
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:29,960
Can you break that down for us?

599
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,240
Absolutely, you know, false belief systems,

600
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:33,640
and I think we have to really understand,

601
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,760
false belief system is not the knowledge you have,

602
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,600
but the false belief system is actually what you believe,

603
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,440
right?

604
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,520
So I think we have to like pull those two apart

605
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,560
for people to really understand what I'm going after,

606
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,320
because you can have the knowledge, like a good,

607
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,280
we all have the knowledge if we go,

608
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,680
okay, what does the Bible say?

609
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,360
The Bible says that Jesus is my deliverer,

610
00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:57,160
he's my healer, you know, that God is faithful,

611
00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,200
he's Jehovah Rafa, he's my provider,

612
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:00,800
he'll never leave me or forsake me.

613
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,160
We know that we have the knowledge of it

614
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,360
with the word of God says it, we might even profess it,

615
00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:08,520
we might sing about it, we might, you know,

616
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,760
say we know, say we believe that's true,

617
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,960
but we have to understand, but if you actually believe,

618
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:16,000
do you believe that?

619
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,520
Because if you don't actually believe

620
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,000
that he's your deliverer, right?

621
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,960
If you don't actually believe he's your healer,

622
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,760
and so anything that is a false belief system

623
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,480
is opposing God's truth.

624
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,320
So that's then considered an ungodly belief system.

625
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,200
So we have godly belief systems and we have ungodly.

626
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,080
So if I just said the previous things ungodly,

627
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,440
that he's your deliverer, he's your healer, he's faithful,

628
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,240
all the things I just said, he's your provider,

629
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,560
he'll never leave you or forsake you.

630
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,920
If you have ungodly belief systems,

631
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,760
then you're believing, well, he doesn't heal me though,

632
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,640
he's not gonna deliver me, he might heal and deliver others,

633
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,000
but that doesn't apply to me,

634
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,600
or he's not gonna come through, he's not gonna provide,

635
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,920
I'm not gonna have enough, he is gonna leave me,

636
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,680
I am gonna be alone, I'm not okay, I'm not safe,

637
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,000
et cetera, et cetera.

638
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,560
So the difference between this is you can have knowledge,

639
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,200
but that doesn't mean you believe in your heart.

640
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,840
So if you actually don't believe in the goodness of God,

641
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,520
in the faithfulness of God,

642
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,320
that God is who he says he is,

643
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,920
you've believed a lie somewhere along the way.

644
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,160
And a stronghold in your life, a root system,

645
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,920
remember we're talking about demonic root systems

646
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,800
in your life, a root system is where you've believed a lie,

647
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,480
and that lie becomes a stronghold, right?

648
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,040
So if it creates a new belief system,

649
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,840
you actually have to tear that down.

650
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,280
You know, I think that's so profound,

651
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,960
what you're saying about false belief systems,

652
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,440
because I believe that you have false beliefs

653
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,080
in terms of that, some of that relates to you,

654
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,320
you see yourself as not worthy,

655
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,560
you see yourself as a servant rather than a child of God,

656
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,880
but I would say that maybe some of the most destructive

657
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,560
is the false belief systems that you're talking about God.

658
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,680
I think it was A.W. Tozier says,

659
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,280
whatever it is that comes to mind when you think about God

660
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,880
is the most important thing about an individual.

661
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,120
And I think of how often sometimes,

662
00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:00,360
you know, even people that preach sermons

663
00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:01,680
can be guilty of this,

664
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,760
of presenting an emotionally distant God,

665
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,480
that you just have to make sure you check all the boxes,

666
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,160
you do the do's, don't do the don'ts,

667
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,760
and it's kind of more about this behavior improvement,

668
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,840
but they lead us away from relationship.

669
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,400
And I was thinking about what Jesus did

670
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,360
when he spoke to the woman at the well in John 4.

671
00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:23,400
He said, true worshipers worship God in spirit and in truth.

672
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,960
So truth is what is true about God.

673
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,560
And we were talking about this earlier in Matthew 25,

674
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:29,720
it's the parable of the talents.

675
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,720
One dude got like five talents

676
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:32,880
and he went and, you know,

677
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,800
used those talents and brought increase

678
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,480
and got dividends paid.

679
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:37,680
And so when the master came back,

680
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,280
he was pleased with him, gave him more.

681
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,160
And there was one dude that was given one talent

682
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,480
and he came back and the guy as an excuse,

683
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,800
he buried his talent.

684
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,240
So here's the parable of the talents,

685
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,320
the master symbolizes father God.

686
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:54,320
The guy says, I knew you were a harsh or hard and exacting master.

687
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,680
So I was afraid I went and hid the talents.

688
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,000
And obviously the master rebuked him,

689
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,040
but I thought that is a classic example in Bible,

690
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,520
of unhealthy view of God.

691
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,400
If you think God is hard, you think God,

692
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,200
if the enemy can get a false belief system

693
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,840
that God wasn't there for you when you lost your mom

694
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,000
or you went through that emotional breakup,

695
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,920
when that disease hit this person, you lost your job,

696
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:18,920
you got an accident.

697
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,160
The enemy can get a false belief system.

698
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,080
Instead of flourishing in the kingdom

699
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,560
like this dude should have did,

700
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,360
the dude had one bag, but I'm like, amen, multiply that bag.

701
00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:30,640
That ought to be a phrase, multiply your bag.

702
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,640
He went and hid it, that a false belief system

703
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,840
can keep you from flourishing in the kingdom.

704
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,160
It can keep you from getting on with your destiny.

705
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,720
It can keep you most importantly of drawing near to God.

706
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,000
Because the number one priority of God

707
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,760
and the number one priority of us is relationship.

708
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,640
And this dude thought God was an unreasonable master.

709
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,520
He was afraid and what was obvious, he didn't trust him.

710
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,120
He didn't think the master was fair.

711
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:58,520
So he wasn't motivated to do anything for the master.

712
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,080
It wasn't a positive relationship.

713
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,600
And this was all based on a false belief.

714
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,320
What are some, even if you're listening right now,

715
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,200
what are some false beliefs?

716
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,000
And I love the way Christ has said, it's not about knowledge.

717
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,920
It's your go-to of what you adhere to, maybe in a crisis,

718
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,800
maybe in a time, in a tough place,

719
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,560
those things you believe about God.

720
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,080
And if you're believing and have an unhealthy view of God,

721
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,440
it can get you to question stuff

722
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,040
that God has already made apparent.

723
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,200
And it really isn't him.

724
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,680
Like the enemy paints a caricature of God

725
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,360
and gets you offended with that caricature.

726
00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:33,160
And an argument is called a straw man's argument

727
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,520
of a person that will make up what you're saying.

728
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,560
You're not really saying it to assassinate

729
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,640
and argue it against it.

730
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,680
It happens all the time in modern debate

731
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,000
is the straw man's argument.

732
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,120
The devil's trying to get a straw man's argument

733
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,160
against Jesus, don't fall for that.

734
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,120
You know, I love what you're talking about

735
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:50,320
because we have to understand

736
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,480
that strongholds develop in our lives.

737
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:53,920
And if we don't deal with them,

738
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,680
it's what you're talking about, it will literally rob us.

739
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,320
And the enemy loves to steal from us, right?

740
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,600
He is the thief, right?

741
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,280
He's always looking to who he can devour.

742
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,920
And he wants to devour your destiny.

743
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,680
He wants to devour your purpose.

744
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,600
And we have to understand when we're talking

745
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,160
about strongholds, I want us to really understand

746
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,480
how scripture tells us how strongholds form in our minds.

747
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,560
And some of you might be wondering,

748
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,440
okay, you guys are talking about soul ties,

749
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:19,920
you're talking about false belief systems.

750
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,280
Sean, Christa, I hear you,

751
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,320
but how does that actually happen in my life?

752
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,600
I kind of want to break this down if that's okay.

753
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,160
The enemy, it begins by the enemy first telling you a lie

754
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,840
and a lie is anything that contradicts God's word, right?

755
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,120
But we have to understand a lie is just a lie

756
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:36,320
until it's believed.

757
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,560
Catch that, a lie is just a lie until it's believed.

758
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,240
And once a lie is believed, then it becomes deception.

759
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,120
And that deception becomes a mindset

760
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,760
through which all of our thoughts are actually processed.

761
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,080
And then that deception, if not dealt with,

762
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,600
then leads to feelings and those feelings lead to actions.

763
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,800
Those actions become habits and those habits become cycles.

764
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,640
And that's what Sean's talking about is that guy,

765
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,000
you know, the parable really showed us a man

766
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,440
who had a cycle of not believing that God was good, right?

767
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,520
That he wouldn't provide.

768
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,800
And so most believers, we can relate to that guy

769
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,760
in the parable, right?

770
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,040
He's relatable to us

771
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,760
because most believers try to address habits, right?

772
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,080
We try to address the symptoms in our life,

773
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,640
but we never address the deception that caused the habits,

774
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,480
right?

775
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,200
We never address actually the root system of the stronghold.

776
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,720
We dress the symptoms that we see in our life.

777
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,320
We dress like, well, I'm afraid of this person.

778
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,800
So I'm going to try to like push through and connect with them

779
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,280
and be open for relationship.

780
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,040
Or I'm going to try to be vulnerable

781
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,920
and actually that people really get to know me,

782
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,200
but you're actually have to go after the root system

783
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,400
of abandonment in your life, right?

784
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,600
Because otherwise you're going to keep hitting those same

785
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,320
old cycles with people in your life

786
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,720
until you actually deal with the root system.

787
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,800
And we have to understand that because people may not address

788
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,080
habits that actually cause the stronghold,

789
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,720
you can fix things for a day, a week, maybe a month.

790
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:55,560
That's good.

791
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,080
But it's not going to be permanently,

792
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,000
you're not going to walk in permanent freedom

793
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,880
until you actually deal with the root system

794
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:02,800
of your stronghold.

795
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,200
That guy that Sean's talking about in the parable

796
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,200
is never going to walk in the fullness of what God has for him

797
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,480
until he deals with the false belief system.

798
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,640
That is so good.

799
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,880
And that really moved us to the third point

800
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:14,800
of what I was going to talk about.

801
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,400
I wanted to ask you about soul ties,

802
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,440
false belief systems and strongholds.

803
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,840
How do strongholds develop in our lives?

804
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:22,920
Can you speak to that?

805
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,800
I know that you had talked a little bit about foot holds.

806
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,080
You know, the Bible says, do not give the devil a foothold.

807
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,640
And you kind of made this point.

808
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,080
Foot holds become strongholds.

809
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,280
And so what are some of, I guess what I'm asking,

810
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:35,960
what are some of the common foot holds

811
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,240
that can become strongholds in our mind?

812
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,640
You know, you can really discover foot holds in your life

813
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,360
and then become a strongholds when you kind of see some cycle.

814
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,640
Some of the common cycles that we can observe in our lives

815
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,360
or maybe in the lives of those that we love

816
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,040
or those that we're ministering to, you know,

817
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,640
generational curses, those are familiar things

818
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,760
in your family line.

819
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,080
They just feel really normal,

820
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,800
but they're actually not sanctified.

821
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:58,800
They're not godly.

822
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,040
They don't line up with the word of God.

823
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,840
That can be in a lot of different ways.

824
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,640
You know, that could be like that anger or that rage

825
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,520
or those different things.

826
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,640
You're like, oh, that's just in my family line,

827
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,680
but you have to understand like that isn't what God has for you.

828
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,680
That could be the depression from your grandma

829
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,480
to your mom, to your auntie, to you,

830
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,960
but that's actually not God's highest for you, right?

831
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,040
That is a foothold that's now become a generational curse,

832
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,240
which is now a stronghold.

833
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,640
Other ways, which I kind of talked about is sexual sin, right?

834
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,040
I won't take too much time on that,

835
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,360
but it's like anything that's been ungodly,

836
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,760
that's been defiling, whether it's in your imagination

837
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,040
or in your physical body.

838
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,960
Again, soul ties, sexual sin, those can become footholds

839
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,760
that ultimately can become a stronghold

840
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,680
if they're not dealt with.

841
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,240
Other ways we can actually see is like willful,

842
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,000
intentional rebellious living.

843
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,600
Hey, say that, say that.

844
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,280
So your casual in your lifestyle,

845
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,480
you're allowing repeated intentional compromise

846
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,240
and that foothold, what starts, what starts as you go

847
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,600
into the club or the party and a little bit of hookup here,

848
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,000
a little bit of drinking here, a little bit of partying there.

849
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,520
In time, you get an appetite for that, right?

850
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,440
Because whatever you feed yourself

851
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:03,640
is what you're gonna crave.

852
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,960
And that's true in the natural

853
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,520
and it's certainly true in the spirit.

854
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,440
And so that little foothold can absolutely

855
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,240
become a stronghold of lust, of self-sabotage,

856
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,600
self-hatred, all those things.

857
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,640
You know, to that point, you know,

858
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,320
one of the things that I talked about too

859
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,640
and you really highlighted it and elaborate on it

860
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,040
is that devil is a legalist.

861
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,600
So he's looking for an opening.

862
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,360
So these footholds you're describing are openings

863
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,680
in which the enemy can take the foothold

864
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,000
and it now becomes a stronghold.

865
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,760
You think of someone has your foot,

866
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,040
like if they have their foot in the door,

867
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,360
they're not in your house yet,

868
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,560
but they got their foot in the door.

869
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:37,680
That's right, there's a crack.

870
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,680
And if you don't push them back and slam that door,

871
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:41,880
then they get in.

872
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,880
And so what you're describing are footholds

873
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,360
and willful sin is a big one.

874
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,720
It's like God told Cain,

875
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,520
sin is crutching at the door,

876
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,040
it's desires for you, but you must master it.

877
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,880
And he said that to a dude right before the first murder

878
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,840
of the Bible, Cain murdered his brother Abel.

879
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,200
So you're right, willful, continual, unrepentant sin

880
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,000
that is a foothold that becomes a stronghold really quick.

881
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,320
Yeah, I mean, I love that picture of the foot in the door

882
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:09,640
because that's really what this is.

883
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,320
And if you don't shut that door,

884
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,160
all of a sudden you're gonna have

885
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,800
this enemy camping in your house.

886
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,200
Other ways we see it is fear.

887
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,440
And that's fear of all sorts, right?

888
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,280
It can start off like fear of darkness as a little kid.

889
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:22,760
But if you don't deal with that fear,

890
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,880
it can trail all the way through your life

891
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:29,200
into your adulthood and it just gets more invasive

892
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,240
of your life, it just takes more and more territory

893
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,960
because nothing about the demonic is satisfied

894
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,480
with its current place of location in your life.

895
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,880
It's not satisfied with the current amount

896
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,000
of real estate you've given.

897
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,960
The enemy always wants more.

898
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,080
It's the spirit, the demonic is always unsatisfied.

899
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,840
And so if you give it some,

900
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,880
oh, it's gonna take everything it can and some.

901
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,160
And so it doesn't stop at the foothold unless you stop it.

902
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,120
Rejection, and this is kind of interesting.

903
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,120
We're talking about footholds.

904
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,600
Rejection can actually begin at the womb level

905
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,760
if a parent has not wanted a child.

906
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,600
And so some people are literally go throughout

907
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,520
their whole life and they never feel like they fit in.

908
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:05,840
They always feel like the misfit.

909
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,640
And they've always kind of known

910
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,200
their parents weren't excited about them,

911
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,080
but they don't understand.

912
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,400
There's actually possibly, I'm not saying this is true

913
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,800
for every person, but consider the concept

914
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,400
that there's a spirit of rejection

915
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,880
that's become a stronghold over your life

916
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,680
because when you weren't wanted at the womb,

917
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,280
the enemy man, he went after that.

918
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,400
As soon as you were born, it's like he heard

919
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,920
the conversation of your parents

920
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,560
or he heard the conversation of your mother

921
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,280
or he heard the conversation of the family

922
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:30,160
that didn't want you.

923
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,520
And that was spoken in the atmosphere over you.

924
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,240
You know, part of that is my story is that

925
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,000
I was born out of wedlock and at least initially

926
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,520
my dad didn't want me later on.

927
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:39,560
He did, praise God.

928
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,000
But that rejection did fall on me.

929
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,360
And it's funny because you were addressing the fact

930
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,800
of that rejection and what it did is it caused

931
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,000
insecurity in my identity.

932
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,560
Now I came up in a different era

933
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,040
and it was never a battle of mine in terms of

934
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,720
like a question over my sexual identity.

935
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,000
But it was in terms of my value as a person.

936
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,240
Could I contribute?

937
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,560
Was I a person that could go to college and do well?

938
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,640
Or could I, you know, make money

939
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,000
and be able to provide for a family?

940
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,680
Could I even have a family and all that kind of stuff?

941
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,200
And I think that rejection is one of those things

942
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:13,040
that you were talking about.

943
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,200
It works a narrative in your head

944
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:16,920
that people aren't rejecting you

945
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,120
but because you rejected yourself

946
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:20,640
because now it's a stronghold

947
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,640
is it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy

948
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,200
and you read into things like, no, they didn't reject you.

949
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,320
They weren't feeling good.

950
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,680
You know, they didn't reject you.

951
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,680
They had to go home and they couldn't come to your

952
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,160
meet you for, you know, the movie, the lunch,

953
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,760
or whatever that was going on.

954
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,760
And you made a great point of how we deduct

955
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,120
and deduce things not because it's the logical conclusion

956
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,760
but because we have a stronghold of rejection on us.

957
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:44,600
It's so true.

958
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,600
I mean, we all know the person that,

959
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,320
and maybe we are that person, right?

960
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,160
Let's take some honest self-inventory

961
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,720
that if you have that stronghold of rejection

962
00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:53,960
and it started out of the womb

963
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,280
and maybe you hear some of Sean's story

964
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,480
and you're like, I relate to that.

965
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,480
That feels like my story.

966
00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,720
I was born out of a lot of luck.

967
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,840
I never felt like I was wanted

968
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,480
or maybe you want to value on a worth level.

969
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,680
And so everything went through that lens, right?

970
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,280
So anytime someone didn't handle you right

971
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,400
or maybe spoke harshly or, you know,

972
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,960
wasn't kind to you or whatever,

973
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,120
it's like all it did was reinforce that message.

974
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,280
And then you found yourself,

975
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,080
even with people with good intentions,

976
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,800
they, you would misinterpret.

977
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,000
They want something from you.

978
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,320
They're trying to take advantage of you.

979
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,640
You can't trust them.

980
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,120
They don't have your best interests in mind.

981
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,840
And you kind of begin to expect the worst

982
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,920
and you can't actually believe

983
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,320
someone really cares about you authentically, right?

984
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,400
And you live in a place of almost like walls up

985
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,840
a little bit of like emotional isolation

986
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,960
because when you're living from that place of rejection,

987
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,160
you can either go two ways.

988
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,720
You can turn into a perfectionist

989
00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:43,920
and try to be so perfect, to be so accepted

990
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,200
or you can often turn and do the opposite

991
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,320
and to really isolate and disconnect and never really

992
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,000
want to be available for intimate relationship, right?

993
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,120
So until those walls are torn down,

994
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,800
it's going to be really hard to have healthy relationships.

995
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,840
So keep, you know, in the conversation continuing

996
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,320
with footholds becoming strongholds in our life,

997
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,000
we also see this in a world that has really a lot of mixture.

998
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,440
I want to talk about occult stuff, you know, occult practices.

999
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,000
If you've done, you know, tarot cards or Ouija boards,

1000
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,320
gone to psychics, gone to mediums,

1001
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,080
dabbled in white magic or black magic

1002
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,200
or even been involved in hypnotism, be hypnotized

1003
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,000
or involved in new age beliefs or in practices,

1004
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
you know, burning sage and chanting

1005
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,440
and all that kind of stuff, transcendental meditation,

1006
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,880
whatever it may be, chakras and all the stuff.

1007
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,080
Crystals. Crystals.

1008
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,520
That is opening up a door to a demonic realm.

1009
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,560
And so you have to understand those are footholds

1010
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,120
that can become strongholds

1011
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:39,920
that need to be broken down in your life.

1012
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,560
Those are not no big deals.

1013
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,880
Those are very big deals that people have to understand.

1014
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,000
There is darkness and there is light

1015
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,440
and you're opening up a door of darkness.

1016
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,480
I remember one time in campus ministry,

1017
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,160
I was minister and deliverst her girl

1018
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:53,560
and that she said, she's a witch,

1019
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,720
but she was in white magic and she says, I use it for good.

1020
00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:58,280
And so she was cool with it

1021
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,800
and somehow she made it out to one of our meetings

1022
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,440
that we are having at the junior college.

1023
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,080
Anyway, she came back to another meeting

1024
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,720
and there was some anointing in the room

1025
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:08,800
and she hit the floor and full blown manifestation

1026
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,320
and she got free of that to all of a sudden realize

1027
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,120
that the spirit guide, small ass counterfeit spirit guide

1028
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,360
had misled her and kind of thought,

1029
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,960
I'm giving you power to do good.

1030
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,600
White witchcraft is okay.

1031
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,560
And it's funny, like it's so popular to do the chakras

1032
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,360
and the crystals and all the chance.

1033
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,400
She was doing all of that in white magic

1034
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,120
and here she was on the ground.

1035
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,560
And so some of the stuff we're talking about,

1036
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,240
we literally have minister deliverance over people

1037
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:37,040
and ran up against them being out of control

1038
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,160
and a demonic attachment on folks.

1039
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,640
So it's not just something we could outline in scripture

1040
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:43,800
which that ought to be enough.

1041
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,600
But by experience, these things we have seen it move

1042
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,840
from a foothold to a stronghold to a demonic attachment

1043
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,000
because that's where the enemy's all,

1044
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,040
like you said, the enemy's never satisfied.

1045
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,600
He's always wanting to take it to the next place.

1046
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,720
And hypnotism, I was reading a thing someplace,

1047
00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:00,360
it's on the rise right now.

1048
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,120
Cause a lot of people are trying to get out of anxiety,

1049
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,080
trying to get back into a place of confidence.

1050
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:06,440
And so they're going to hypnotists,

1051
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,920
trying to deal with stuff that the truth be told.

1052
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,720
The freedom, we're going to go there early,

1053
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:11,880
we're going to go there often.

1054
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,840
The freedom's found in Christ, only truly Jesus.

1055
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:19,600
Because in that realm, the devil is such a seductive liar

1056
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,560
that all they'll do is help you replace bondages.

1057
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,920
Like you'll get you out of bondage

1058
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,360
to put another bondage on you

1059
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,720
that at the end of the day is worse than the original bondage.

1060
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,120
You went to the so-called cure to get rid of.

1061
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,040
And so only in Jesus is there going to be found freedom.

1062
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:33,880
I love that.

1063
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,880
And just a couple more footholds

1064
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,760
that I think could be helpful for our listeners

1065
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,080
is just understanding trauma.

1066
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,000
I mean, we all have experienced sudden death, accident,

1067
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,360
loss or that betrayal of that close one.

1068
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,320
Again, you have to be really careful

1069
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,160
of how you navigate crisis.

1070
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,960
Because that is when you're the most vulnerable.

1071
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,520
I mean, Sean, we know this in our lives, right?

1072
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,400
When you walk through trauma, we have to recognize

1073
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,320
that's when the enemy wants to pounce

1074
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:58,960
is when people are most vulnerable

1075
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,600
in those traumatic situations.

1076
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,600
And you really have to guard

1077
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,320
about what you allow into your heart.

1078
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:05,280
But here's what I love.

1079
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,960
Jesus can handle your questions.

1080
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,200
He can handle your anger.

1081
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,000
He can handle your tears, your frustration,

1082
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,880
you know, your shouts, whatever it may be.

1083
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,520
He can handle all that, but lean into Jesus.

1084
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,000
It's when you pull away from Him

1085
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,480
and you look to other sources to be your anchor point.

1086
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,240
That's when the enemy really like piggybacks

1087
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:25,720
in those areas of trauma where we see footholds

1088
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:27,520
then becoming strongholds of people life.

1089
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,000
And lastly, fornication.

1090
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,240
And that's really defiling sexual acts

1091
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:32,400
outside of the marriage.

1092
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,920
But we have to also remember inside the marriage.

1093
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,880
We have to understand there's still a holiness

1094
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,200
and a sanctification that we've got to walk inside

1095
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:40,040
the marriage bed.

1096
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,200
And so we have to understand

1097
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,360
if someone in a marriage feels defiled,

1098
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,440
you shouldn't be doing that in your marriage, right?

1099
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,760
You should only be doing things

1100
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,520
where both of you feel honored.

1101
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,240
It feels pleasing before the Lord.

1102
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:51,920
You feel clean before the Lord.

1103
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,000
It feels like, you know, honoring before the Lord.

1104
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,800
And then of course, outside the marriage,

1105
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,800
you shouldn't be participating in any defiling sexual behavior.

1106
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,960
And if you are, whether it's inside the marriage

1107
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,120
or outside the marriage, again, that foothold

1108
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,000
can easily become a stronghold.

1109
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,400
And that really ties back to the conversation

1110
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:13,640
about soul ties.

1111
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,480
I was just listening to someone talk about,

1112
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,280
they had this lady that came to our church

1113
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,120
and this pastor, he just noticed her or whatever.

1114
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,480
And then later down the line,

1115
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,080
the woman's coming to his office.

1116
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,120
He says, you know, before she was attractive lady

1117
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,800
and everything, she comes into the office.

1118
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,040
He obviously, because it's a woman,

1119
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,000
he has a secretary and another intercessor.

1120
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,480
So it's not alone with this gal.

1121
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,040
But he says that she ended up meeting this other lady

1122
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,840
and the lady who seemed real nice and the lady, you know,

1123
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,760
she was swaggy, she wore good clothes

1124
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:41,600
and everything else.

1125
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,600
Long story short, begin to seduce this woman.

1126
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,720
The woman left the church,

1127
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:48,880
end up getting in bed with the woman

1128
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,480
and just committing, you know,

1129
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,800
indecent acts, a spirit of fornication, all of that.

1130
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,560
And then as the woman got up

1131
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,040
from one of their initial call,

1132
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,680
yeah, yes, she said, I'm a witch.

1133
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,760
And this woman is in the office and she's been tormented.

1134
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,600
She sees things, walk the walls.

1135
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,640
She's been hearing voices, everything.

1136
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,560
And then praise God that day, that pastor,

1137
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,440
the intercessor, the ladies, all of them,

1138
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,000
they minister deliverance over this woman.

1139
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,360
She got totally free back in church.

1140
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,800
But in the devil, a liar to bring someone to seduce her,

1141
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,200
you know, maybe for some,

1142
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,200
there could be some mother issues or something like that.

1143
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,640
Or maybe you, you know, you see a woman and you think,

1144
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,440
oh man, I admire her, whatever.

1145
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,280
She's a put together woman or whatever.

1146
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,480
And the woman seduced her and it was,

1147
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,320
it was a demonic spirit of witchcraft.

1148
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,960
And I just think, man, a foothold became a stronghold.

1149
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,640
And praise God, this ends in a good way.

1150
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,560
But even the woman said it was so close to death,

1151
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,240
but Jesus intervened and just,

1152
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:49,360
man made such a difference in her life.

1153
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,720
You know, Christa, why don't you give us

1154
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:53,720
kind of before we let any of these people go?

1155
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,840
Cause we've talked about some really heavy duty things

1156
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,760
as it relates to false belief systems,

1157
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,440
as it relates to soul ties and strongholds,

1158
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:03,720
being the parent over it all.

1159
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:06,400
Well, obviously you went in great detail.

1160
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,920
So it's going to be hard to win podcasts to do it,

1161
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,880
but give them something, give us something that we could use

1162
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,680
if we find ourselves stuck in any of these areas.

1163
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,800
You know, there's a really simple prayer model

1164
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,600
that I lead people through when I'm praying at the altars.

1165
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:21,760
And some of you listening today,

1166
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,160
you're like, Christa, you've prayed that with me.

1167
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,000
Absolutely.

1168
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,520
This is available to every single person,

1169
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,600
every believer, whether you want to see yourself get free

1170
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,160
or you want to pray with someone for their freedom.

1171
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,800
You guys, this is the model I use.

1172
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,320
It's super simple and it's all relying on Jesus, right?

1173
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,640
So the first thing you want to do is repent.

1174
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,240
You want to repent for any lie that you've agreed with.

1175
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,720
You want to either forgive anyone that's violated you,

1176
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,080
hurt you, take advantage of you, right?

1177
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,880
So you want to repent or forgive

1178
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,000
and you might be repenting and forgiving, right?

1179
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:51,840
It could be both.

1180
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,080
So you want to repent for agreement with the lie

1181
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,560
and that brings you into right relationship with God, right?

1182
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,120
Anytime you're removing that lie,

1183
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,280
you're now like, okay, God, I'm in right standing with you.

1184
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,640
The next thing you want to do after repenting is renouncing

1185
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,760
and renouncing is where you're breaking all the legal rights

1186
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,520
and you're refusing to partner with or agree with sin

1187
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,880
and you're breaking off any attachments to sin,

1188
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,000
any attachments that the enemies put on you

1189
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,120
and you're canceling Satan's authority.

1190
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:17,640
I love this, one of my favorite parts.

1191
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,240
You're canceling Satan's authority

1192
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:21,320
and you're commanding it to leave in Jesus' name.

1193
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,600
So I love that, right?

1194
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,280
We have to understand repenting is directed toward God

1195
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,560
and renouncing is directed toward the enemy.

1196
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:28,400
So good.

1197
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,480
I love that, right?

1198
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,000
It's like you repent, you're like, God, forgive me.

1199
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,800
An enemy, now that I'm in right relationship with Jesus,

1200
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,280
you have no legal access and you're breaking that, okay?

1201
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,920
And that's really important because with your own mouth

1202
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,800
is that's where I personally experience a lot of freedom

1203
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,120
in my life is because when you declare it with your own mouth,

1204
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,600
there is power because you've just now broken

1205
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,240
in illegal access, you've previously given the enemy,

1206
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:54,000
you're like, nope, you can't harass me anymore.

1207
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,560
I just took that land back, right?

1208
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:56,400
So I love that.

1209
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,160
And then lastly, you wanna replace it.

1210
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,360
So now that you've removed something out of your life,

1211
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,600
you remove the lie, you wanna replace

1212
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,280
where that once was with truth

1213
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,760
and truth is what we find in God's word.

1214
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,360
So you wanna say, okay, God, what do you say about this?

1215
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,200
Right?

1216
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:11,480
And it's that simple, friends.

1217
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,560
The blood of Jesus is enough as you break agreement

1218
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,040
and you call in the name of Jesus,

1219
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:17,520
you are gonna experience freedom.

1220
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,800
Anytime a lie pops up, you just say,

1221
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,320
repent, renounce, replace, repent, renounce, replace, okay?

1222
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:24,920
And then if you are with a friend

1223
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,520
and you hear a lie come out of their mouth,

1224
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:27,800
lead them through that process,

1225
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,680
repent, renounce, replace, friends.

1226
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,320
It is so simple, but you just enforce

1227
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:33,440
the freedom of Jesus Christ.

1228
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,400
What he did on the cross is enough

1229
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,800
to break every single stronghold.

1230
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,600
I keep wanting to try these truths,

1231
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,480
these principles are something that Christ and I

1232
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,400
both have implemented in our lives.

1233
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:44,720
We've ministered over others

1234
00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:46,440
and we've seen people get free.

1235
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:51,440
We trust and believe that these are gonna be useful tools

1236
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,160
and in your tool belt and weapons against the enemy.

1237
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,160
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1238
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,080
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00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,440
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1253
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,440
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00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:34,960
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00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,080
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1260
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