Levels Of Spiritual Warfare

You know, it is a uh, it is. How many of you know that if you're going to barbecue, it takes a while for the charcoal to get hot? You have to light that thing, and it's very, very cold. And how many of you know that, uh, you light it and, and just within maybe a few seconds, that thing will burn out on you? You have to pay attention to it. Sometimes we use things called lighter fluid, or, you know, my dad taught me to take a bunch of newspaper and sheets of it and twist it. Twist it and keep it on the fire. You twist it because it's, it's, it takes a longer time for fire to burn through twisted newspaper.

Okay. How many of you know that when you cook, you know, you turn the oven on, but it takes a while for the oven to get hot? In both scenarios, when you're done barbecuing, how many of you know it takes a while for the charcoal to burn out? And how many of you know, ladies, when you're done cooking your Thanksgiving dinner, the oven is still going to be hot for a while.

It's the same thing when it comes to prayer. Many people who have come out of the occult and witchcraft, they said that when you watch these people pray, you know, these people are us. They said when you watch these people pray, they said that the enemy places something in the heavens that looks like an upside-down, sometimes mountain made out of rock. And they said that when the people begin to pray in other tongues, they said it merges and, and it starts a fire. They said it first, it starts as smoke. And this is a secret. I'll just drop this on you. And they said at first, it starts as smoke, and then it turns into fire, and then they said, then it turns into that, you know, that hot, white, blue type of white flame. And they said once it gets to that level, it says it begins to burn through that demonic rock. They said the reason why your struggle in the first hour of prayer is such a struggle because the enemy's job is to come against you before you burn through that rock. That's why it's a secret. Jesus said, "Could you not pray with me for one hour?" You know, and so you see statements in scripture, but you then have to, um, um, you have to practice it in order to see the effects of it.

Hey, and so, um, and so they said that they said you have to be careful of distractions, particularly if you're getting over into an hour or more prayer. They said the most important time is the hour. They said, so you can start that fire and get ready to burn through that rock. You get a phone call 30 minutes in. You don't know the phone call is us. We agitated your auntie to call you at that moment. You understand what I'm saying? And because you thought it was about your auntie. No, we knew it was about you not trying to get through that rock. Cuz once you burn through that rock, they said there's an open heaven between you and heaven. And now an operation can go forward. You understand what I'm saying? And so, and then something that was very, very important. And they said once you burn through that thing, the longer your prayer, the more it widens the gap. And so prayer in the morning, now, of course, you have not sinned if you don't pray in the morning, but it's best to pray in the morning because in the, in the morning, how many of you know that if you do an hour of prayer in the morning, seems like your day is different? Why is that? You burn through that rock, and now angels were able to come in and rearrange and participate in your day. And then when, if you, if you leave it, you pray long enough, you can leave it open and then come back to it because it's still open. And so like with me, I get over into doing, you know, my practice is to get over into doing five hours of tongues in the morning. Well, if I do that in the morning, when I come back in the evening, it's still open. You understand what I'm saying?

So I have to start teaching these deeper things because, uh, darkness obviously is going deep. But no matter how deep they are, they still shallow. You know, I was very, very appalled. I shouldn't say I was appalled. I wasn't appalled. I was just, I was watching this video, and it was a lady. I was appalled by it. I wasn't appalled by witchcraft. Witchcraft is doing their thing. They going to always do their thing. But the problem now is is that they are having the ability to destroy so many people of God and men of God. They now somehow think they have more power than us. No, you were able to destroy those men of God because they weren't living holy. They weren't living right. Um, they may not know certain things in regards to the kingdom of God because they're doing the minimum. So yeah, you're going to have victory over a few men, few women like that. But when it come to us, you going to have a problem on your hand. You might want to build a spaceship and look for other aliens in another dimension on this one. Y'all understand what I'm saying?

But it was appall this young lady. It's right on, I think Instagram, wherever it is. And, uh, it's a lady that makes millions of dollars. It's a full-blown witch. You know what's funny is that people that are in darkness think they got their titles correct. Well, I'm a witch. I'm a voodoo priest. And I'm this. No, that's just what Satan told you. We know what you really are. Okay. But I was appalled because the person that was interviewing her was just, who is also a heathen. Um, she was shocked and appalled that the lady was saying, "I make millions of dollars a year from people who pay me to put roots on people." You saw that, too. Yeah. She said, "Pay me to put roots on people." And she said, "Millions of dollars." And so now she's, and so these people have to pay her, you know, one NBA player paid 100 grand. Okay. So now she's offering her services to regular people for $100, $200. It's so f It's so funny to listen to darkness make a mockery of y'all paying tithes to the kingdom, but then they want your money in order to do stuff for darkness. It's deep.

So, so, uh, she said, "Yeah, you know, we do this." And she said, "Man, she said NBA players, she said politicians." She said, "Oh, please." She said, and because she's sworn to secrecy because of the money they pay, of course, she can't name names. But she did name names of other people that everybody already knows is in that foolishness. And, uh, she said, you know, businessmen, she says lots of people in entertainment, media, singers. And then she said something that I just started laughing. And she said, "It'll blow your mind to know how many pastors' wives come to me, pastor's wives, paying this lady to put roots on people in the congregation or put roots on their pastor because the pastor is sleeping with ladies in the congregation." And, and so, so this then gives, uh, people in darkness this thing where they come up, oh, you can be a Christian and you can be a witch. Uh, no, you can't. You either a bonafide son of God or you are a bonafide son of Satan. So all of the other little titles, pastor, apostle, reverend, deacon, Christian, prayer warrior. Let's flip sides. Witch, wizard, Satan's cousins, Lucifer's auntie. You're all of them titles. No, it's either you a son of Satan or you a son of God. So people that call themselves Christians doing witchcraft in the Bible, that's called strange fire. And the men in the Old Testament when they did that, they died. In the New Testament, because of Christ, you may not die immediately. What happens is your destiny does the things around you die. It'll show up in your children, and you can't trace why you haven't pro. You understand what I'm saying?

And so I was very, very much appalled. And, you know, both of them, of course, will make a mockery of Christianity. And so what has happened is is that, um, in the world of darkness, witchcraft, and the occult, this is what they say. We can destroy most. They're talking about Christians. We can destroy most churches, but they all say the same thing. But they said there's this one select group that's in the body of Christ that's mysterious to us because no matter what we do, we not only can we not attack them, we have to avoid them. See, and so it's very interesting. You know, the Bible is true. It says in the last days, many would depart from the faith. Why am I, and guess what? Many are going to depart from the faith while they still going to church. You don't have to depart from the faith and to leave the church. No, you can be right in the church and depart from the faith. And so there are certain things that I have to be very, very careful of, and I'm going to show you and share with you just for a moment in regards to this because what's going on is, well, let me just read it first. I got to learn how to stay on top of my stuff. Y'all enjoy prayer this morning? We're just getting started. We're going to have the youth up here praying all of that. Job 26:7. I'll drop a few different things on here, you know. So, don't be moved by this. This is all a part of the story. It's all a part of the package. But, but I do have to make sure that I watch myself. There's a reason why sometimes I'm asking y'all, you know, for you all to get hurt early. Move more towards the front. Move more towards the front. There's a reason for that. Okay? Can't always share everything with you. Okay?

But Job 26:7, it says, "God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing." It's crazy, isn't it? You know, at least we got air right here. I want you to think about this. God creates a planet and then he hangs it on nothing. It just sits there because he told it to. That's the power of his word. Okay. But that's very, very, very important because Holy Spirit was just talking to me last night. He'd explained it to me this way. You know, um, scientists believe that outer space is all there is. Because of our vantage point of view, outer space seems very, very big. But based on the scope of what God has created, outer space is very, very small. You know, in order to understand outer space, how many of you know we can go to your home? Whether you're in a home, an apartment, or a townhome, within that home, there are a certain amount of spaces. Yes. So if you take your bedroom space, that is a space in that. And to be totally honest with you, the whole house, your house is one big space. And within that space, you created subspaces. Okay, it's just, you know, you go into a house and it's just one big square or a rectangle, empty space, and then you, you parcel it out on the inside, you know, and you make subspaces. Bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, dining room, basement, upstairs level, all of those things. Man cave, prayer room. Men always want a cave, and women always want an extra room. And within that space, you then hang certain things. You put certain things. If you then move out of that space, you will enter another space, which is what we call planet Earth. And within planet Earth, you know, that is another space. And within planet Earth, God has placed certain things, hung certain things, created certain things. Y'all got me? If you move out of planet Earth, you will then go into what we call outer space. It is not called outer space in heaven. It's what we labeled something that we don't understand. So in outer space, okay, that's a much, but how many you know? See, do you see the, oh Jesus, do you see the size difference between planet Earth's space and your home? And then you see how big of a jump you make when you move from Earth space to outer space? And in that space, there is an end to it. It's just that it's so big scientists can't fly. You know, you know, let me tell you something, y'all. You got to be careful with NASA because what NASA does is is that they fly their little machine in outer space and then they keep telling y'all about how they have the ability to take images of something that's 100 million light years away. If you don't understand that terminology, it means they took a picture of something that if you traveled there, it would take you 100 million years to get there traveling at the speed of light. So unfortunately, much of what you see, much of the renditions that you see in outer space are actually an artist's drawing of what they think it looks like because they saw a little dot. That's unfortunate. They don't tell you that. Okay. But anyway, y'all understand what I mean by outer space. In outer space, okay, that is a space that God created, and he hung planets, solar systems, suns, other things in that space. There is a space outside of outer space that's much bigger than outer space. So there are other spaces, there are other places, and there are other dimensions. Y'all follow me? Within those other dimensions and those other spaces, there are beings, good and bad, that exist there, and they are both in war over this space. You're like, why in the world would all of the other spaces and all of the other dimensions be at war over this space? Planet Earth, is that valuable? No. Planet Earth is a piece of trash. That's why God said, I'm going to eventually burn it up and throw it away. They are at war over the people in this space who are ordained to rule and reign in the other spaces. You understand what I'm saying? And so it's very interesting to see as this war is going over into the final battle. If you don't know that there is a being that is after your destiny. Satan is busy. Wonderful. He's been busy. He's always going to be busy. Now, pretty soon he's going into eternal retirement. But y'all got that. Okay.

So, let's look at a couple of other things that we have to deal with in this planet. Job 1:9-10. These are positive things that exist even within this space, which is another dimension in the spiritual realm. Job 1:9-10. Satan, you need to understand these things in the last days because you must learn how to cooperate with the invisible or you must learn how to manhandle the invisible. Job 1:9, Satan replied to the Lord, "Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God. You have always put a wall of protection." Everyone say, "Force field." You have put a force field around him. And not just him, him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper. And can you imagine that? You can't fail if you wanted to. God is making you prosper. I think I see some people in here. God is getting ready to make you prosper. Prosper in everything he does. Look at Satan jealous. See, this lets you know why. This lets you know the root of why they want don't want Christians to have money. He telling God, "Look how rich he is." God was like, "I know that I'm the one who made him rich, punk." So, you have to read these scriptures and then you have to slow it down for a moment. Okay, wait a minute. Here's a scenario of a man that wasn't a son of God. He was a servant. Job wasn't born again. Job didn't have the name of Jesus. Job didn't have the Bible that you have. Job didn't have the Holy Ghost. Y'all understand what I'm saying? Job couldn't speak in tongues. Job wouldn't operate in the gifts of the spirit. He was just a businessman that lived right. And just because of those two things, God placed a force field around him, around his house, around his family, and around everything that the man owned. So when darkness crawled upon his land to see if they could destroy him, they couldn't do anything with him because he was blocked by a force field, and it was placed around him. So that matter, no matter where Job walked, that force field walked with him. You understand what I'm saying? And so darkness can see that you have a force field around you. It is their job to pull you into things that makes the force field go down. And if you don't plan on living right, you don't plan on living holy, you can't hide. You can't hide. You have no force field. You can either be a part of a culture that's going to live forever, or you can be a part of the main culture that's going to hell on a rocket ship between toughs and tinted windows with nitrous oxide. Anyway, so I understand that. I mean, no, from now on, no devil will get through your force field. Amen. You need to start confessing that over yourself.

2 Kings 6:17, Elijah prayed, "Lord, open his eyes to the realm that is unseeable." The Lord opened the young man's eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elijah was filled with horses and chariots of fire. Very mysterious. Horses and chariots, no men. I don't know why. Okay. So, so when you go read back and read this, this prophet was so, he was so powerful, they sent the whole army after this man, and his servant got upset and got scared when they woke up. He said, "There's an army around us." And Elijah still sitting there drinking his coffee. He said, "Lord, open up the man's boy's eyes. He's, he's young, so he don't know." Um, cuz the young guy couldn't understand why the old guy so calm. Can I tell you a side story right quick? This is for somebody. Let me tell you something. There's a, there's a proverb. I think it's in Africa. If the old don't move out the way, how will the young ever get a chance? But then there's a second side to that. If the young try to move the old out the way, they going to crash early. Any ever heard the story of the two men that were in a contest of cutting down the tree? One was a young man and one was an older man. And so, and they said, "Whoever can cut it down the first, cut it down. Cut down your tree first, you get the reward." So they both got the cutting. And they kept on cutting, young man just swinging away. Wham, wham, wham. Old man just swinging away. Wham, wham, wham. Then the young man noticed that the old man took a break. Went over to the side. So the young man like, "See, he all tired." So he said, "I'm going to get this man." Boom. He kept the man came back, started swinging away. Wham, wham, wham. Then he took another break. Went over to the side. He did it a few times. And so before the boy, the young man got halfway through his tree, the old man's tree came down. He was baffled. He said, "How in the world did you cut down your tree before I cut down mine when I was the one that was swinging the hardest?" He says, "Simple. I took a break to sharpen my axe." I just threw that in there for a second. It just, it just propped in my mind. You'd be surprised somebody online right now that was an answer. Thank you, Jesus. I got to call my daddy and tell him, "I'm so sorry." You'd be surprised, y'all. I share these stories. I just pop in my head. Hey.

And so, uh, what was interesting, he said, "Open his eyes." And as he saw something, I want you to think about the beings that were on the side of the godly man were made out of fire. What does a horse made out of fire look like? Pulling a chariot that's made out of fire, what does that look like? These are the things that exist that are for you. So the enemy knows that you don't know those things exist for you. So he makes it very easy for you to casually operate in sin because he knows that when you are in sin, those force fields come down. When you are in sin, you get in trouble. You try to ask for a command from heaven, and those horses and those chariots and those invisible riders stand still. Ah, we only follow. You remember what the Bible says? It says the angels hearken to the voice of the word. So, so whoever speaks the word, the angels respond as though it is God because it is God. So, those are a couple of positives. You got to read the Bible and see the things that exist that you have to learn how to cooperate. See, people that don't know how to pray or haven't received certain things or heathens, they think we stupid for coming here early in the morning on a Saturday for an hour and a half praying in tongues. It's funny how stupid people think you stupid. I shouldn't have said that, but it is true.

Job 5:6, here are some negative things that exist. "Evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth." So that's one scripture that's letting you know the things that you see going on in planet Earth, it didn't come from this space. It came from another space. Ephesians 6:12, "We are not fighting against." I'm amazed that no matter how many times people read this scripture, they read it and then forget. Now, this is God telling you, "We are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers. Number one, authorities of the unseen world. Number two, against mighty powers in this dark world and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." That word heavenly places means outer space. What we call outer space, the Bible just calls it another heaven. Okay? There are only three heavens the Bible allows us to know about. Says the first heaven is when you go outside and you look at the sky. Says the second heaven is outer space. It says the third heaven is where God sits. Okay? So you see the scripture says you fighting against four classes of beings. Now, here's the problem is you tell people that, and because they don't see them, I just telling you it's a bunch of stuff fighting against you. And, and, and you like, well, I don't see them. And we do. We can see them in your lifestyle, but you don't think see. How many of you know we thank God. I can't stand October to be honest with you because, you know, I mean, there's nothing wrong with October. I mean, it is a month that God created, but I don't like October because, yeah, I got to ride through my neighborhood and be tempted not to take my machine gun and shoot down all of the skeletons. You know what I'm saying? Just, it crossed my mind a couple of times. I'm just letting you know. I was like, "No, I can't go to jail. I'm a pastor and all that." So, you know, and so, but, but people their because people watch TV, their definition of darkness is what they see in the movies, you know, Dracula and Freddy Krueger and, and I see Chucky then has risen again. This fool, you know, and that type of stuff. So people when they read that scripture, that's what they think of. No, the forces that are against you stay hidden. They always stay hidden. They never want you to know that they are there because their job is to simply kill you, destroy you, and steal from you. You understand what I'm saying? There's nothing like a good accountant that drains your $10 million without you knowing it. Why would he want you to know? He's stealing from you. So, the enemy is stealing your soul if he's taking your energy and using it for the dark side. That's a whole separate teaching about how the dark side uses the substances that are in us for the dark side. Fun physical one is blood. Bible says be careful that the light you think you have is not darkness. Y'all got that? And so when you leave this place, you're going like, "Oo, that was a good message. That was powerful." Mhm. Never realizing that they climbed in your back seat. Start planting thoughts in your mind to rearrange certain things. Just get them to do this and get them to do that. And it's very smooth. It's called sleight of hand. Make them look over here so that we can do this over there. It's deep. And if you're not spiritual, let me, let me, let me, let me stop saying that. No, I can say that. If you're not Holy Ghost spiritual, because in the world, everybody is, you know, it's the witch is saying stuff like, you know, "I have to protect my anointing." No, you don't have no anointing. No, you don't have an anointing. No, no, you don't have an anointing. You know, just because you raised a couple of squirrels from the dead and, and put up a couple of incantations on people that don't know God and are already, it's easy to put darkness on darkness. Now, if you really want to try your skills, how about you go get a million witches and put me in a room and y'all surround the room and see if all y'all can come up with something. Then you might impress me. See, they watching me and so they're like, "Who is this arrogant lion sitting up here speaking against us?" And, and so now, and the Holy Spirit had to tell me, he said, he said the witches are too low level for you. He said, you are now battling the occult. My wife tells me all the time, she says, "Such and such person is following you now. Such and such person is following you now." Movie stars, singers. So it's out there now. Who, who, who is this boy? This is how they talk. Who is this boy that's not like the other ones? Who is this one that's sitting up here actually making videos talking about kidnappers gonna die? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We got to do something about this. But whatever. Y'all still with me this morning?

Acts 16:16. One day, no, I'm sorry. Joshua 13:22. I believe both of these on the same graphic. Bingo. "The Israelites had also killed Balam son of Bor, who used magic to tell the future." Acts 16:16. "One day, as we were going down to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit that enabled her to tell the future." So the question is that this is another element of the dark side that exists where I don't know exactly how they do that. I don't know if they can tell it or if they can read it. I don't know if there are blueprints that they read, etc. But you just have two right here of people who through demonic power had the ability to tell the future. So the question is, what is in your life manipulating you because it knows your future? And according to those that belong to God, God said, "I know the thoughts that I have towards you, not of bad, not of evil, not of poverty, and not sickness and disease. He said, but of good and excellence and watch this, to give you an expected end." So the devil is after you now so that you don't get to that end. Cuz if a person can tell the future under demonic power, what can the actual demon do? You understand what I'm saying? And I'm like, man, so I don't know exact. One of the most horrific stories that I heard was a lady that gave her life to Christ, and they had scheduled her baptism. And how many know when you, when you're new, you're newly saved, but you do all of the crazy stuff that new babies do because you don't know what's wrong. So you might give your life to Christ and go right back to the club for a second. People that do that, they said they go back to the club, wait a minute, what changed? I don't feel like I belong here. Cuz you don't standing out like a sore thumb. So she was scheduled for a baptism. And so before the, she, she gave her life to Christ. Before the, she did the baptism, she went and saw a psychic. Some ever heard the story before. She went and saw a psychic. Now, remember, once she gave her life to Christ, she became Satan's enemy. Our job now is to find any type of way to get this girl off. She went and saw a psychic. The psychic was reading her palm. And she said, you know, "Let me ask you a question." She said, "I see danger in your life, and it's associated with water. Whatever you do in this season, you need to stay away from all forms of water except for when you take a shower because I see danger in your future." See how slick that is? And it has to do with water. The girl left the session and she said, "Well, the only thing that is scheduled is my baptism." So, she canceled it. That's how slick Satan is. We drive past it. Some of y'all that live on the side of town, we drive past. What's her name? We call it every psychic Janet. When you're driving, is it Palle Springs Road? Yeah. Every time you see that, just say in the name of Jesus, Psychic Janet is going to get saved. So, standalone property, lights on it. Nice little property, expensive cars in the back cuz she making money telling people their future. Wouldn't it be a trip if she walked in here and we didn't even know who she was and she got saved and then one day I gave the testimony. She's like, "Wait, I have something I have to say. I am the one that you all are praying about."

2 Chronicles 18:21. "The spirit replied, 'I will go out and I will inspire all Ahab's prophets to speak lies. You will succeed, say the Lord. Go ahead and do it.'" So, there's a spirit up on the nation that's causing everybody to lie. Y'all got me? It's definitely in the media. Definitely in the media. They always lying. And then they lie about them lying. They lie. We're not lying. We're telling the truth. Ever since this Israel thing kicked off, one of the generals, he went off on the CNN. He said, "See, this is your problem." He said, "This is why they call y'all fake." He said, "Cuz you're not telling the truth." Oh, that lady got so uncomfortable. She tried to. And they said, "We always stand for the truth." See, now I know you're lying. So, so you see this problem. You're fighting against invisible enemies. We're fighting against things that are lying to us. We're fighting against things that are manipulating us. We're fighting against things that know your future and you don't. So, they're trying to railroad your future. Get them off on a detour because remember what Jesus said? He said, "Outside of me, you don't have a life, but I'm a billionaire." You don't have a life because you're basing your billionaire status on a few decades. I'm basing your life on eternity. That's why the Bible says you can gain the whole world and lose your own soul.

Revelation 22:14, "Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life." How many wash robes do I have in here? You know what that, that term wash robes? It means blessed are those who get themselves together, stop sinning, and start living holy. That's what it literally means. Be part of that says. But outside the city are the dogs, the sorcerers, which is all forms of witchcraft, the sexually immoral, any lifestyle that's outside of a man and a woman getting married, the murderers, the idol worshippers, people who put everything else ahead of God. My favorite, and all those who love to live a lie. There are a lot of people that something lied to them, but they read the word that countered what was in their mind. They would not humble themselves and submit to what is written. They would rather go and see the lie. Always feeds your desire. You understand what I'm saying? Oh man, it's real quiet in here. But that's all right. Y'all thinking this morning.

Psalm 74:22. "Arise, oh God, and defend your cause. Remember how these fools insult you all day long. Don't overlook what your enemy has said or their growing uproar." Everyone say, "Growing." So there is an uproar against God from the invisible and the physical. And that uproar that is against God is increasing daily. So I want you to think about what God hears against him today will be stronger tomorrow. What he heard against him this weekend will be stronger against him next weekend. And it's constantly increasing until Revelation says it'll max out and the cup of sin is full. And then they don't know that God is storing the uproar up in bowls. And when it gets full, he's going to say, "My turn." How many know you supposed to be in heaven looking at this from your binoculars? I'm not joking. You're like, "Jesus, I had no idea y'all were violent like this." Lord, I want to thank you and give you praise and glory that I am up here watching this because I didn't know that you could throw a boulder and knock down half a city. Jesus, y'all are crazy. I had no idea because you weren't reading the Bible correctly. First time Jesus came, he was a lion. The second, a lamb. Second time he comes, he's a lion. I never will forget one person said, you know, "Jesus is just so full of love, you know, that that when it come to the terrors, he would just break bread with him." That's not the Bible I read. How many y'all know the book of Revelation said that when Jesus comes back with his army, it says a sword comes out of his mouth and it kills a billion people and it said it's so much bloodshed it rises all the way up to the man. That is not. They forget that that dude is a king. The first time he came as a savior and a lamb. First time he came, what did he tell disciples? "I did not come to judge the world." That is that what he said? He was nice. The f. Now, now watch this. The first time he was still crazy. That's his definition of nice. The second time he's coming back as a lion king. And the last time I checked, lions don't break bread with people. Y'all see these crazy guys overseas got a pet lion walking around the jungle on the leash. I'm like, "Okay, keep on playing. Keep on playing." That lion has realized going one day, realize, you know what? I have been tricked. I have been bamboozled. I have been run a muck. A sheet has been put up. I have been deceived. Today is my day to get born again. Cuz I am not a pet. Sitting around walking around with a pet lion. You better get you a real cat. That's what you better get. People play too much.

Daniel 10:12. "He said, 'Don't be afraid, Daniel.'" Now, the rest of this second half here is going to just be me reading. I want to show you something because a lot of pe is there anyone in the room that when you gave your life to Christ, you thought your problems were over? Like I have entered into his glorious kingdom and all will be well with my soul and my finances and my marriage and my children and my business and my career is going to be cloud nine and roses and holy Holy Ghost music from here on in and it's going to be wonderful. By the time you got to the car, you had a flat tire. It was on. It's on. So, it's very important for you to understand. How many you know pressure creates strength? Nobody goes to the gym and lifts lifts one pound. Go back home and read a fairy tale or something. You know, you're not doing nothing. It's the, the, it's the pressure. Okay. And so there's something important for you to realize. The pattern of darkness is that as you overcome it, it will constantly be strengthening itself against you. That is what's going on with this ministry. Okay? Is that the darkness is trying to strengthen itself against us. So let me give you a couple examples of that. Now you just read here this one. Let's look at Daniel chapter 10. He said, "Don't be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I've come to give you an answer. But for 21 days, the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia." This is one of the scriptures that give you a glimpse into the war that is constantly ongoing without a break. This man had one question and a war started. An angel was sent from heaven to give him an answer, and he was blockaded by a spirit prince. It was a prince over an army. This was the army that was over Persia to lock it down. That's why certain nations have certain issues because there is a principality over each nation. Y'all following me? This was the prince of Persia, and that army stepped forward and says, "We are not letting you get through to give an answer to that son of God." So the angel had to wrestle with an army. Wrestle with an army for 21 days. And finally God had enough. He said, "Hey Mark, Michael, go down there and help your boy." He, they, they himming him up. Help him get through. He got through. But then listen to what he said in the next passage. He said in verse 20, "Do you know why I have come? Soon I must return to fight against the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia. But after that, the spirit prince of the kingdom of Greece will come." Everyone say, "Reinforcements." Reinforcements. So that one army couldn't lock that guy down. A Michael came through and locked the army down so he could get through. And then he said, "Now that I've given you the message, I have to go and return." And because that entire army couldn't stop two of us. So they have called for a second army from another area to come and fight against the two of us. I gave you a message. Now we got to fight two armies to get somebody else theirs. Now, if that much of a fight went over an answer, how much of a fight is going over your soul since you don't think you're that important? You understand what I'm saying?

Now, let's look at an Old Testament version of this because this right here, the Lord just expressly made this clear to me. We're going to read about the children of Israel, but this is where Lionheart Church is right now. And this is where you are. As you keep on climbing, you're going to deal with bigger and better. But it doesn't matter how good they are, they are going to all fall. This is when Jericho was given his assignment to start taking over. Joshua 6:20. "When the people heard the sound of the ram's horn, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the town and captured it. They completely destroyed everything in it with their swords: men, women, young, old, cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys." So they won that war against Jericho. Everybody say that's a victory. Okay. So then they had to fight another group. Joshua 8:1-2. "The Lord said to Joshua, 'Don't do not be afraid or discouraged. Take all your fighting men and attack Ai. For I have given you the king of Ai, his people, his town, and his land. You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. By this time, this time you may keep all of the plunder and the livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the town.'" Remember, tithing is not a money principle. It's a kingdom principle. God always has something he wants you to leave alone. Okay? I'll teach on that later. Okay? Joshua 8:24-26. "When the Israelite army finished chasing and killing all the men of Ai in the open fields, they went back and finished off everyone inside. So the entire population of Ai, including women and men, was wiped out that day, 12,000 in all. For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely destroyed." Some of y'all like, God was violent. He is violent. There's something that you have to understand. The Bible talks about how sin corrupts the land. There were things going on in the Old Testament that were so crazy. God said, "I can either spare these people and let it spread around the entire world, or I can destroy this group so that this plague does not keep on going." That's what that was about. You understand me? So, that was one city, Jericho. That was another city, Ai. Okay. Now, Joshua chapter nine. "Now all the kings west of the Jordan River heard about what happened. These were the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites who lived in the hill country in the western foothills and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far north as the Lebanon mountains. These kings combined their armies to fight as one against Joshua and the Israelites." See the increase. Okay, that group they killed them, and they killed them. So what we need to do is we need to band together, and it's going to be five of us now. So this is what the church will be dealing with.

Now in the midst of this, you are also dealing with deception. People who are trying to deceive you. That's something I'll have to be very, very, very careful of because because people, you know, you know what's, see, let me tell you what we do here. What we do here is is that when you are deceiving us, we act like you're not. You can see, let me tell you something. Dark light can see darkness the same way that darkness can see light. And so what we do is is that we let people pretend like we're ignorant so we can see what they're going to do real, real fast. I don't got so many crazy stories, y'all. I never forget this one lady that came here. She was sitting right there, and this is before we had praise and worship and all of this. We used to come down front and pray in the circle. Church first started. We used to pray in the circle. She came and she walked in the door. She came in late. And so I, uh, she sat right there. And so I begged her, you know, it's just a few of us. Just come join the circle. And so she joined the circle. She prayed and, um, and she didn't look that well, like she wasn't dressed. Oh, it's another story. She wasn't dressed that well. She didn't look, you know, anointed my head with oil. She didn't look like that that morning. I'll just put it that way. And I never forget this cuz she seemed innocent. Now, the Lord had given me a dream about a small puppy couple of days prior. And in the dream, in the dream, we were all fellowshipping in the house, and I looked out the window, and I saw a small little puppy in the lawn, and I felt sorry for it. So what I did was I went and got the puppy and I brought it in the house and put it in the midst of us. And the moment I did that, the puppy changed its nature. It immediately changed its nature and it started running around the house just yapping. You know, little terrier dogs, they always making the noise. No, not the terriers. Those are nice. The Chihuahua dogs. Little Taco Bell dogs. That's what I call them. They're the worst. I don't like those little Chihuahua dogs, but if you got one, bless you. Hallelujah. We'll anoint his head with oil, too. Anyway, it was a little, it was a little dog. It looked like a little, whatever. And just going around. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Just biting at people. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. The dream ended that way. But I was getting frustrated with the dog. Okay. Few days later, we have a service. See? And remember, group of us inside the house fellowshipping. Someone comes in from the outside, sits right here, and I felt sorry for him. So I had her join the circle. It was cool. And so, then after we prayed, as everyone was going to their seat, I made my way over to speak to her and ran into a wall. I mean, that thing was nasty. I mean, it alarmed me so much. It, it, it frightened me for a moment. And so, me and my Mr. nice self, I'm like, "Okay, well, maybe she's been done wrong with."

Pastors, and the Lord is telling me not to get too close to her because, you know, whatever." Yeah. Okay. So, fine. Have a service.

Next day, Sunday location, same thing we used to do there. We used to come down front, pray in the circle. I'm doing a couple of responsibilities and I hear somebody going in in prayer. Remember the little dog? This the very next day. Now, the very next day. Now, when she came on Saturday, she hadn't anointed her head with oil. She was looking a little ashy, a little homely, a little broken down. "I got to move away from him. He always get me in trouble." The next day, dressed to the nines. To the nines. And she going in. I was like, "Who is that praying up all that dust back there?" They said, "I don't know, something new girl." I said, "How y'all let her take over the prayer circle?" She is going in. And then I begin to realize, "Oh, I think this is a manifestation of the dream." And it was, uh, she began to try to prophesy over people, you know.

Um, it's so funny. You know how many of you know that these two seats over here are not my seat and my wife's seat? That's just a seat we always take. So people honor us and say, "Okay, that's the seat for the pastor and the first lady." There have been times when a first-time visitor was sitting there and I didn't make a move as long as I felt peace. Okay, I don't like doing that. Okay, so it started getting weird because, because I think the first time my wife was not there. I don't know. Second time she came in, she went to go seat, sit in the seat that my wife normally sits in. And my wife was sitting there. She looking at my wife like, "Why you in my seat?" I was like, "Oh, Father, we need your juice from upstairs, 'cause this is not going to end well. This is going to end on a fistfight." And, and yeah.

And then she would, she prophesied over me one Sunday, um, and said that I was going to be, hold on a second. Let me get this. Trying to get the story if it was yours first. It doesn't matter. So, she prophesied over me at the end of the service. Had me stand up and everything. Not had me stand up. Was standing there and she was like, "You going, the Lord thus sayeth the Lord Aboshand. You getting ready to be bigger than T.D. Jakes and more powerful than Wanita Pinham and oh, you going to be much more, you know, existential than C.F. Loala." And, and she just going in. And I, I think she thought I was supposed to be like, "Oh, hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus." I'm like, and first of all, I haven't compared myself to them. I already know that this ministry is going to be a juggernaut. But she was bringing up all of those names. See, people will do this. They'll rub your back, try to make you feel good to get close to you. That doesn't work here. She didn't know that, though. Just helping you understand how deception works.

And so I remember at the end of the service, that's when I had my dad's old van. You didn't come to church that Sunday 'cause I was driving home on the freeway and it was bothering me so much. I asked the Lord this question. This is how the word will always save you. I said, "Lord, what's up with this girl and all this stuff that she doing?" I never forget what the Holy Spirit said. He said, "Why would I send one of my servants to prophesy over you by comparing you to some of my other servants when in the word I said, 'Don't compare yourselves to one another'?" That's why I'm not impressed by gifting, even though we're extremely gifted. Verse, I mean, we have powerful gifts here. Scary. Sometimes women do stuff, it makes me squeamish, but the demon comes out. Y'all understand what I'm saying? Man, the women do stuff and they'll be holding on to each other's bellies and going down on the ground. That's all that. Never mind. No problem with that. But if you're caught up in that first, instead of the word, you will be deceived by darkness.

So, the final straw was when I'm not even supposed to be sharing this, but it's still good. Remember the Sunday you and I were standing there and she walked up? She gave me and my wife a word together. "Holy Spirit has shown me that I'm supposed to be on your board." And they always got to add the tongues in to make it more spiritual. You know what I'm saying? And I'm supposed to be on your staff and, and I'm supposed to be traveling with you and your wife and, and, and we were like, we didn't even know we were going anywhere. Want to hear something deep? I'm one of them low-level fleshly pastors who are impressed with that. And next thing you know, she on the plane with us to Nigeria. The devil is always working. She got hand up with one of the single guys. She hammed that boy up. We ain't seen that boy since. He was on fire. He was planning on being an usher. He hooked up with that girl. And I'll never forget the mama told me and said that, you know, this girl over here, she said she go to your church, but they over here doing it in my laundry room. I was like, "Hey, hey, I don't need to know." We ain't seen that boy since. She might have had the boy kidnapped.

But I never will forget something that happened. So, we were playing along and I actually told her we were playing along. The last day she was down here, she had brought some guy with her and I never forget, he was getting ready to get up and try to grab the microphone on his first day. I, I watched her. Don't do that here. They just look like friendly lines. Don't do that. And it had gotten so bad my wife sent Nicole down front. She said, "Go disarm that girl without her even knowing it." Nicole just come and stood next to the girl, started doing certain things in the spirit. Totally disarmed that girl's power completely, as my wife just said. And then I told the girl, I said, "Now, moving forward," I said, "You can come here right down front." I said, "But there were certain things on you that we had to disarm." I told her that. I said, "And you know it, don't you?" She said, "Mhm." We disarmed that girl. That girl from look went from looking like she was dressed in the nines. The last time she, we saw her after that, the girl looked like she had been homeless for five, five years. See, deception tries to get you by what it looks like. Sin definitely looks good. Sin definitely sounds good. When you disarm it, you then see it for what it is: vomit.

So, let's look at how this happened with this group. 'Cause how many of you know that they were kicking Satan in the teeth? They hit Ai, bam. Hit Jericho, bam. Then these five kings against came against them. Boom. Right in the midst of the fight. Watch this. "But when the people of Gibeah heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, they resorted to deception to save themselves. They sent ambassadors to Joshua, loading their donkeys with weathered, weathered saddlebags and old, patched wine skins. They put on worn-out, patched sandals and raggedy clothes. And the bread they took with them was dry and moldy. When they arrived at the camp of Israel at Gilgal, they, they lying to ask you to make a peace treaty with us." The Israel, reply, "The Israelites replied to these Hivites, 'How do we know you don't live nearby?'" "Oh, they sense something was fishy. For if we do, we cannot make a treaty with you, 'cause God told us to kill you." They replied, "We are your servants." "That's not what I asked you." "But who are you?" Joshua demanded. "And where do you come from?" They answered, "Your servants have come from a very distant country. We have heard of the might of the Lord your God and all that he did in Egypt. We have also heard what he did to the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan." So our elders and all our people instructed us, 'Take supplies for the long journey. Go meet with the people of Israel and tell them, we are your servants. Please make a treaty with us. This bread was hot from the ovens when we left our homes. But now, as you can see, it's dry and moldy. These wine skins were new when we filled them, but now they are old and split open. And our clothing, people can go through some great lengths to try to deceive you. Our clothing and sandals are worn out from our very long journey.'" So, the Israelites examined their food, but they did not consult the Lord. Then Joshua made a peace treaty with them, guaranteed their safety, and the leaders of the community ratified their agreement with a binding oath. Three days after making the treaty, they learned that these people, people actually live nearby. The Israelites set out at once to investigate and reach their towns in three days. The name of these towns were Gibeah, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim. But the Israelites did not attack the towns, for the Israelite leaders had made a vow to them in the name of the Lord. The people of Israel grumbled against their leaders because of the treaty. But the leaders replied, "Since we have sworn an oath in the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel, we cannot touch that which we were supposed to destroy." It's crazy, ain't it? We can't touch them 'cause they tricked us.

So, in the midst of this that we are doing, there will be great trickery trying to come against us. Okay? Now, let me say something. There are some people that come in the door innocent. Years later, they change. Then there are some people that come in the door with problems and then later it disappears because one of the things they see is a hospital. You're supposed to go to the church with your problems, to get it right. So don't come to me and say, "I see darkness on them." Wonderful. So do I. Like I always tell you, just because I don't say anything doesn't mean I don't see anything. People are going to come in church with darkness. They're supposed to come with their darkness so that they can get saved and they can get right. And we've seen that many a times. But there will be nefarious ones.

See, one of the things that is, is amazing to me. How many of y'all watch that video that I talked about last weekend? One of the things that is amazing to me about those in darkness is that they know there is a group of us that they can't do nothing with. And instead of switching sides to become more powerful, in their pride, they set out a quest to kill what can't be killed. And that is amazing to me. It matters not how powerful this church becomes. It matters not what we do. It matters not how clean and how holy we are. It does not matter. Darkness does not care. They will look for a way. I cast a demon out one time about two or three years ago and he told me, and I quote, "Satan knows that he cannot destroy you." He knows that. He said, "But we have been assigned to look for every crack." And they found a few. The cracks came later. You know what I'm saying? They found a few. So, they were able to get in and do some stuff and then we, you know, kicked him in the teeth and then sealed the cracks. Yeah.

Y'all remember how many of y'all saw the Matrix movie? Y'all remember part two when when he had to go see the Oracle at the basketball court? See, this is what this looks like in the spirit. Do you remember that when he was done with the meeting, Mr. Smith showed up? Mr. Smith first tried to corrupt him by himself by putting his hand in his chest and it didn't work. So when that didn't work, what did he call for? Reinforcements. And you remember that as Neo was fighting them, he was fighting them successfully. And what did Mr. Smith keep on saying? "More. More." And every time he said more, more of those guys would come to try to defeat this one guy. And Neo was still beating these guys, still manipulating them. He got very crafty. He was very powerful. It's a school thing. And, and then every time they realized they couldn't get him with these 100 guys. What would Mr. Smith say? "More, more." And they started coming from everywhere. And it just kept on increasing, increasing, increasing where it looked very strange for one man to lock all of them down. More, more. Then it got to a point where it was so many he just snatched himself out of the situation. Y'all got me? So that's what the devil is saying about us.

Joshua 10:12. "On the day the Lord gave Israel, I'm sorry. On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites. Joshua, now this is this group that remember those five kings he fought. Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all of the people of Israel. He said, 'Let the sun stand still over Gibeon and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.' So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated his enemies. Is this event not recorded in the book of Jasher? The sun stayed still in the middle of the sky and had not set on a normal day. There has never been a day like this one before where the Lord answered such a prayer. Surely the Lord fought for Israel that day. Then Joshua and the Israelite army returned to their camp at Gilgal." Y'all got that? So he defeated them.

Joshua 10:42. "Joshua conquered all these kings and their land in a single campaign. For the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for his people." Everyone say, "More." More. I couldn't believe that at this point the Holy Spirit brought me to the scripture. He said, "This is where Lion Heart Church is." When this king heard how Rizzel had ran through kings at the same time, this is what he did. "King Jabin of Hazor heard what had happened, he sent messages to the following kings: King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Achshaph, all the kings of the northern hill country, the kings in the Jordan Valley south of Galilee, the kings in the Galilean foothills, the kings of Dor on the west. This dude calling everybody. The kings of Canaan both east and west. The kings of the Jebusites. Each group has its own king. The kings of the Amorites, the kings of the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites, in the towns on the slopes of Mount Hermon and the land of Mizpah. All these kings came out to fight. Their combined armies formed a vast horde, and with all their horses and chariots, they covered the landscape like the sand on the seashore. The kings joined forces and established their camp around the waters of Merom to fight against Israel." And then the Lord said to Joshua, the same thing he sent to us. "Don't be afraid of them. By this time tomorrow, this group is bigger, but you're going to beat them faster 'cause it's never the size of the army. Ah, Jesus. It's the relationship of the man with God. By this time tomorrow, I will hand all of them over to you as dead men. Then you must hamstring their horses and burn their chariots." Y'all following me?

And, and most Christians right now are just getting scared because they're looking at how everybody. See, let me tell you something. Natural Israel goes first. Spiritual Israel goes second. So the mayhem that you see, it wasn't just that they were attacked like that. It's just that when they decided to strike back, strike back and take care of this once and for all, it seems like all type of anti-semitism rolled up around the world. I, there is something wrong with you. There is something wrong with you when you don't like the color of my skin. You attack me and you kidnap my children. You're going to kidnap the Israeli children and hold them hostage. And when we put up pictures around the world to pray for the children that are held hostage, you're going to rip the pictures down and set them on fire and say they deserve to die. We haven't moved out of America yet. This is what's going on college campuses in America. This is what's going on in New York as I'm preaching at this moment. It's unreal. So guess what? That's what's getting ready to turn on the body of Christ. We don't, we don't care what it looks like. We don't care about the logic of it. We don't care about the rights of it. The Bible makes it very, very clear that in the last days, the people of God will begin to suffer persecution. And, and right now, right now, those that, now Satan knows he can't destroy the true church. How many true church folk do I have in here? Sons of God, daughters of the Most High King. He knows he can't destroy them, but he's still going to try. Still going to try. Very arrogant individual. Very arrogant individual.

I asked the Lord a stupid question because of a vision that I saw. I said, "Where is this coming from?" You know, this, this weight. See the Sunday location? You know, last week we like ran out of space almost. Okay. I mean, we got to move to a fourth parking lot now. I'm going to two services at the Sunday location. But then this one, it would begin to feel funny like it was being suppressed. All of that. So I asked the Lord a question and I'm just about done. And, and I said, "Where is this coming from?" How many of you know sometimes you got to be reminded who you are? Have your kid on the football field, he over in the corner crying 'cause he missed a touchdown. Boy, get your behind up. Remember what she told the queen mother told Chad Booswick and Black Panther, "Show them who you are." The Lord had to remind me. I started this ministry under his direction. He had to remind me that I preach the word and not popular opinion. He had to remind me we have early morning prayer every morning, five days a week, and sometimes we extend it to six hours a day. He had to remind me we have a prophetic ministry that believes in dreams and visions. He had to remind me that we are a ministry that operates in healing and deliverance and casts out demons out of people. He had to remind me that we are a ministry that has stolen many souls from Satan, including women that he considered his wives. He had to remind me that he ordained us to be engrafted into our mother church's chapel with Bishop David Oyedepo. That is the biggest threat to hell as we speak. He had to remind me that the lesser is blessed by the greater and Satan can see the unbreakable grace flowing from that church into this one. He had to remind me about the dream where he told us that our church could bring revival to America. He had to remind me that he was the one who opened up the door for us to grow by 1 million people on social media in 5 months. He had to remind me that because of our obedience, people are coming back to God in droves and getting filled with the Holy Ghost because of our free classes on Zoom. He had to remind me that Satan and his army is watching us and has put the occult world on notice that we must be destroyed. He had to remind me that we are the sons of God and Satan hates it. That we are the kings and Satan knows it. He had to remind us that we are lords, priests, ambassadors, that we are more than conquerors. He had to remind us that we are warriors and knights of the highest order and that we are one with Jesus. He had to remind me that angelic warriors are assisting us and that we are so important that the Holy Ghost IS HERE TO ASSIST US AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. He had to remind me and he had to remind me that it did not matter how powerful Moses was. This one dude who could not speak well and did not want to carry out his assignment ran up against the most powerful nation in the world with a stick and freed 2 million some plus people out of slavery. And it didn't matter that EVERY FIRSTBORN CHILD IN EGYPT DIED. When Moses left, Satan still came after his behind. He had to remind me when Jesus was in the world, they tried to throw him off a cliff on the first day of his ministry. First day. He had to remind me he was fighting against the scribes, the Pharisees, his family members, Satan. He's fighting against everybody. You heard around me about Paul. This is what killed me. He had to remind me about himself. Who are you to think that you have overcome darkness when my right-hand man in heaven called Lucifer turned against me and took one out of three angels with me with him. And when I kicked him out of heaven, he returned to try to kill me again. Who are you to think that Satan is going to stop coming after you when he's still coming after the one on the throne? Who are you talking about?

Why is this happening? You know, because see, when your results get too good, if you're not careful, you can get a little, and that's true. But, but, but, but you forgot that you were climbing a ladder. And as the old folks say, every new level has a new what? So you forgot that. You see what you did was you destroyed all of the devils on level one. Ah, and then you destroyed all of the devils on level two, Jericho. Then you destroyed all of the levels on devils on level three. That was the five kings. Then you destroyed all. And so you keep on going. So now you have a track record looking at what you destroyed, but you forgot that what you destroyed is going to call for reinforcements. And you get to a point in the spirit where they must call everyone. It's a strong thing when the Lord says, "Oh, you done with witches." The occult. You understand what I'm saying? I cast out a demon one time. He told me, I didn't even ask him for his opinion, but he told me anyway. He said, "You want to know the problem that we have with you?" It's so funny when you deal with these creatures of darkness, they point at you like you're the one that left God. He said, "You know the problem we have with you?" I said, "Well, I thought I was going to be there for a whole half an hour." They said, "The problem we have with you is that you listen to this carefully. You keep teaching the people the truth about us, revealing our secrets against them so that they can dominate us." It's exactly what he told me. Divine was sitting right there when he told me that.

See, so, so I hate to say this because you're never supposed to care. You got many good people that are in the kingdom of God. But how many know right now is very little weight, especially in America? Very little weight. We preaching popcorn messages and we trying to beg people to come and we worried about five people left. What about the 10 who stayed? When I read the Bible, you ever noticed God never used a crowd to do anything? You ever noticed that? We got more than pretty much anybody he used, you know? I mean, you got armies and they fought the stuff. I mean, how is it that Samson can kill 1500 men all by himself with a bone? Not much. Let me tell you something. If you got an AK-47 and you kill 1,200 men by yourself, you're doing something. You know what I'm saying? You are Rambo in car. You know what I'm saying? I mean, Rambo could, you never, man, let me just stop. You kill 1500 people by yourself. What does it look like when a man grabs a bone and fights an army all by himself with swords? And you go back and read it. It was 3,000 men. When the other group saw that 1,200 died, they said, "Maybe we should come back another day." See, so there is this thing I believe where it's either ignorance or it's fear where the body of Christ as a whole is very ignorant about things and very afraid about everything there. See? If you don't believe in all of the stuff Jesus believes in, if you don't believe in speaking in tongues, if you don't believe in casting out demons, if you don't believe in dreams and visions, if you don't believe in the gifts of the spirit, if you don't believe in signs and wonders, if you don't believe in laying on of hands, if you don't believe in walking on water, if you believe the signs and miracles passed out with the disciples, I'm speaking to all the denominational churches right now. If you don't believe in any of the power, then why in the world would you be bold enough to face darkness with a water gun? So, they're scared. They don't want to address it. They don't want to talk about it. They don't want to deal with it because they set down all of the weapons and they know they're naked. They're just too prideful to go find out and talk to somebody that can help them.

So now what this, what has happened is is that they were supposed to be, let me tell you something. There were supposed to be reinforcements. The same way that they reinforced themselves against us is the same way that we're supposed to reinforce ourselves against them. One of the reasons why the Lord connect us to overseas. One of the reasons because the weight that we would have to carry would require that in the unseen realm, which is more real than this, they would, when they attack us, they attack them. It's amazing how this works. You know, there have been people that have come from occultic places or come from places where they were being abused. And ladies, uh, don't never take this the wrong way, but some of these, some of these women pastors and prophets. Yeah, they crazy. Is one lady, they had her own TV and she bring people. She's very busty. Hope I said that correctly. I already saw heads getting like, "Holy Ghost, help him right now." And she brings people to the altar and instead of just laying hands on them properly, she boom. Brothers going to the line so they can get a touch. It's the kind of stupid stuff. I shouldn't have said that. But it's, but it's, it's just this type of stupid stuff that's going on. Maybe I should go back up here because I, I seem to get more out of order when I go downstairs. Y'all understand what I'm saying? Shouldn't have said that because it made me lose my place.

So, this is what's going on is that it's a lot of darkness and it's just coming in. There are ways to stop that. That's why we started the early morning prayer from 8 to whenever's time service starts, 9:30. There's a way to stop it, but you can't stop it by any physical means. You have, when you hear me pray, I call down fire. I call down light. I call down the powers of heaven. I call down angels from above. It's always very important. Don't just call angels. Say, "Angels from above, Jesus' servants." I call them. I call all of those things. And then they begin to work. Whatever comes against you can be destroyed if you know it's there. If you don't know it's there, you won't respond to it and you'll just let it go. And then you wonder why your life comes to a screeching halt. It's because there's the same way that there was an invisible barrier placed around Job's property to prevent someone from coming in, is the same way that darkness can place an invisible force field around you to prevent you from moving out. And, and unfortunately right now what's going on is a lot of the body of Christ is hemmed in and don't even know it. Watch this. Hemmed in and they don't even believe in the power that would break them out. It's this vicious cycle. It's just this vicious cycle. Vicious cycle. Vicious cycle. And so now what you're seeing is a few ministries that are popping up and we got to bring it. You understand what I'm saying? So that's where we are. It was a simple lesson. That's why we prayed this morning. Prayed this morning. We're going to, it's going to get crazier. It's going to get more insane. But it's very important for you to cover yourself in these last days.

Let me say something. I'm getting ready to close with these two scriptures. I'm just going to read them. Let me just read them so I can close. And let me say something. You know, I, a lot of times I will say, I, it's only because I'm the leader, but, but they attacking us. See, the greatest way to try to, let me say something. A couple of people have said this to me recently, and it's okay. You're 100% right. They said, "Oh, this proves why we need to be praying for you, to keep you covered." Yep, you absolutely should keep me covered. But guess whose responsibility it is first to keep me covered? Me. Jesus didn't have a ministerial team praying for him every day. You understand what I'm saying? Oh, you should pray for me. Trust me, I need all the prayer I can get. Okay. But, but the first barrier, the first thing that stops anything is, does the man of God live right? Does he live holy? Does he have, does he live clean? Okay. If you go into on my phone, will you find anything there that Jesus does not approve of? See, that's a very scary man, according to darkness. I LIVE THIS 150%. I LIVE THIS. So the first person that's responsible for covering me is me, not you. Now, we need to cover each other. Jesus didn't have a ministerial team praying for him. He didn't have a group interceding and praying in tongues. They didn't have, know what they were doing. Jesus was a wrecking machine all by himself because of his clean life. That's why he could say, "Oh, Satan is coming, but he won't find anything in me. I KNOW YOU THINK YOU'RE KILLING ME, but I'm giving my life because if I don't, I'll never be able to raise up twins." Right before he died. Y'all do realize I can call about 12,000 angels. You do realize that, right? He's arrogant. Good arrogant. "No man takes my life. I'm just giving it up." Laying on the cross. "What'd you say? Please remember me." Okay. Um, "This day you will be with me in paradise." It is done. Oh, Jesus was the ultimate rock and roll star. I'm trying to tell you. No. He says, "Satan is coming. When he shows up, you'll find nothing in me. And from now on, when Satan shows up to your front door, he's going to find nothing in you." [Applause] Now, some stuff is just not a person's business. I don't have anything to hide. And Satan knows that. And I'm very careful with that because like my wife said, you're, you're what you think is a secret is out in the open in the unseen realm. The thing that you think is a secret that you're keeping from everybody about your secret lifestyle, you're walking around in the spiritual realm with a sign. "I'm a man, but I'm with another man. I'm with a woman. I'm with a dog." I'm, you know what I'm saying? Can't believe I just said that. You understand what I'm saying? You are literally broadcasting yourself in the unseen realm. You can't keep nothing a secret. Oh, it's a secret from the people who can't see, but it's not a secret from the ones who can see everything. But when I go into that realm, it says holiness. It says righteousness. It says invincibility. It says, "You can fool with him if you want to. You might die. He'll resurrect you from the dead and then kill your behind again." It says force fields. It says son of God. It says king. It says lord. It says ambassador. It says more than a conqueror. It says, "This is Jesus' twin." It says, "This boy is connected to God's other son, Bishop Oyedepo." It says, "What are you going to do with him?" It says, "You can try if you want to." That's what my piece of paper says in that realm. So all the witches having talk shows reading pastors, read this. Go into your spirit with your special soup and your birds and your pigeons and your cats and your bats and see what my piece of paper says. Since you think preachers are weak. No, you're weak. You're just dealing with weak preachers. I've been telling Satan to destroy me for 10 years now. Is it 10 or 12? It doesn't matter. It's 12. I'm still waiting. It's casting a demon out of a person in my house. Well, they were a visitor there. I'm just saying. And a demon told me, "We're watching you." You know what I told him? Just like that commercial. Wonderful. I'll make sure I keep the light on so you can see clear. Not impressed with the fact that you're watching me. It's obvious you're just watching. You ain't doing nothing. And you're just watching. Watch on. Watch on. Watch on. We got to get Mr. Ricky off the front row. He keep pulling me into this. Can't believe some of the stuff that I do. The greatest honor in the kingdom of God is that Satan is attacking you. It means you're doing something. And for you all that pray at home instead of just at church, oh, you one of the biggest threats. Biggest threats. Biggest threats. As wonderful as all of the other things are, I never heard about a demon that was afraid of tithes and offerings. I never heard of a demon that was afraid of praise and worship. I never heard of a demon that was afraid of prophecy. What we do hear is that they are afraid of holiness, character, and they are afraid of prayer. So I leave you with that today. If a small church in Uganda with 20 people start praying and the whole occult world had a meeting to destroy that church. I want you to think about that for a moment. Think about that for a moment. This is a poor church in Uganda. 20 people decide to just pray for three hours a day and people in the occult fly in from around the world to have a meeting about this poor church in Uganda and $800,000 is set aside to destroy that church within 21 days. What in the world type of meetings have been made about your address? And what in the world type of meetings? See, that scared y'all. Most of y'all won't hear, but people were very alarmed when I cast out that devil out of that person that called me oath. They're like, "Does he know your name?" Uh, because they know all the names of the ones that's kicking their masters behind. If a meeting like that, if the occult world had a meeting like that over that small church, what in the world meetings have been made over this one? Watch this. How many churches are destroyed right now because of meetings? See, when that, when that demon told me, he said, "We're watching." He was, oh, man. That thing was violent. He was very angry. He had just tried to kill the girl and before he left, he said, "We were watching you." Wonderful. See, but that says you something that they're always watching you. And see, let me tell you something. A person that is watching you all day can easily get you because we do what we do unconsciously. We full step or half step unconsciously what we do. We just, just go about your normal everyday habits and your normal everyday. And how many of you know days have gone by and then you realize you hadn't read the Bible. But the first day you stopped reading it, they knew. That's why the Bible says you got to be sober. You got to be vigilant. You got to be, you know what I'm saying? Because all of us are valuable. All of. Let me tell you something. I'm trying to close. I just got to keep saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over again. Your value is not based on your title. It is not based on your money or your accomplishments or your degrees or how much money you have. It is definitely not based on your race or your gender. Your value is based on one thing. When you gave your life to Christ, your value is now equal to the one who sits on the throne. Title means nothing to these fools. That should tell you something 'cause they didn't destroyed most pastors. They didn't destroy most pastors. But then you got prayer warriors. I call them lone wolves. They standing in the wilderness. Man, I never will forget a vision that the Lord showed me about this one person. They were praying for the church all by themselves in the midnight hour. And they, and what they showed me was the person was walking in the wilderness and the chain was around the church building and the person was pulling the church all by themselves in the middle of the night while you snoring, dreaming, getting up eating a lonely sandwich. They pulling. You understand what I'm saying? I wish the church would come together. They're not afraid of us. They're afraid of the Muslims, but they're not afraid of us. That's going to change. Okay. So, oh, I don't know what happened. I was showing, I was showing the devils my pictures in the wilderness and my message me all tattered up, upside down. He said, "Mug shot. Last two. Study this book of instruction. And how often meditate on it day and night as you'll be assured to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do."

Last scripture, Ephesians 6:16. "In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as a helmet. Take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Pray in the spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere." Hey, we just got to keep saying it, y'all. We just got to keep saying it. We just got to keep saying it. You are failing if you don't read your Bible on a regular basis and spend time in prayer. This kingdom is not designed for you to go to church on Sunday, tinker through a few Instagram and social media posts, and get a little quick 30, 50 second. That's nice. And then you come back next Sunday to get a good word for you to do your own thing throughout the week. We're failing. I put, we, we're failing because we won't practice those first two things. Be consistent in your lifestyle with the word and with the prayer. I'm amazed. I'm not amazed, but I am amazed because people, someone texted me this week and they said, you know, oh, they texted me. They said, "Man, I've been saved all these years and never got through the Bible." You become a Muslim, you got to memorize it in a year by studying it eight hours a day. That's why they know their book so well. We got the true book. We put it in the backseat of our car. Show everybody that we go to church on Sunday. It's in your dining room open. It's dusty and everything 'cause you ain't never turned the page. At least turn the page when you have visitors. You know what I'm saying? You have it on Psalms. Next Thanksgiving, at least turn it to Proverbs or something. You know what I mean? And this is Satan working amongst us to convince us, hey, you're really, really good. And here's the crazy part. You really are good. It's not about good. It's about righteousness, and it's about holiness, and it's about obeying the command of your Father. He would not tell you to stay in the word like that if it wasn't doing something. He wouldn't tell you to stay in prayer like that if it wasn't accomp. That's a strong statement for someone to say, "Pray at all times and on every occasion." That came from heaven. Your prayers have such an effect on planet Earth that they want you to do it at all times. Now, you can't always do it at all times, but they wish that you could.

So, this was the light version of what we're getting ready to move into. And I must teach things on another level. A good teacher takes things that are deep and simplifies it. If I don't, then things will be swallowed up. Lord told my spiritual dad, he said, "Put everything you learned for 40 years," he said, "put them in 10 books so that it's not lost." He said, "Because there's a danger of things being lost." Say this last thing. Part of the calling upon this ministry is to make sure that things are not lost. The Lord didn't give me a platform and all of this stuff. I don't know. It's, I don't know what it is. 1.3, 1.4 million people. That's a lot of people in a short period of time. He didn't even give me that platform because he want to make me Big Willie. You know what I'm saying? Shouldn't have said Big Willie. Excuse the person that's named Willie. But we got to stop using. I got to come up with fictitious names. But you can't do that nowadays. Your fictitious name is somebody's real name. How about Tuesday? I know. I went to school with a girl named Tuesday. You know what is that? Uh, Lam, Langelo or Langelo. Yeah. Twins. 'Cause they like, what was it? They like, yeah. 'Cause the mother like Jell-O. So Langelo and Arangelo 'cause she like lemon Jell-O and orange. So you going to name your kids after Jell-O now? This is what you're telling me. See, I shouldn't even went down that path, should I? Stop naming your babies these crazy names anyway. Okay. So, you got to fight for that. And let me tell you something. It's not as simple as you like. I don't have time. You do have time. You have to make time. There have been times when I said, "Okay, it's obvious that something is trying to." Any of you ever felt like you just, you, you feel like there's a creature there just constantly rearranging your day and you, you can't just seem to get on top of the thing that you're. And sometimes you got to cancel everything. Mama, we don't have any food. You're fasting today. We ran out of soap. Jump in the shower and jump back out 'cause I'm not doing nothing today. 'Cause something is after me. Something is trying to control me. Something is trying to manipulate me. Something is trying to get me. I GOT TO SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING. Sorry, husband. Ain't going to be no getting it on tonight. I got something I got to accomplish. Had a husband call me one time. He was so sad. He said, "Man, that's between you and your wife. People crack me up asking me to pray for these situations. Man, I can't call your wife and says, 'Thus sayeth the Lord, you supposed to go and get busy with your husband.'" She like, "Who are you? You were asking us to pray for goldfish with boils on their head and I'm not praying for Mick." Never mind. It's hilarious what we have to deal with.

So, but I watched. Can I just say one more? There's this, uh, is it National Geographic or the History Channel? National Geographic, I think. Yeah. Yeah, it's National, National, National Geographic. They put on some very good programs. So, they have a new program called 911. So, when I saw that, I said, "Oh, let me watch this." And it's newer footage because, you know, they can show more graphic things. And I watched that thing. It was like four or five episodes. And I just, I was, it was very difficult for me to not be teary-eyed because I saw the panic in the eyes of arrogant people because they thought the world had come to an end. And it was just very, very interesting. Nobody was arrogant. Nobody was prideful. All of that went out the window when they thought that they were getting ready to die. And that's what's coming into the world right now because there's a. Can I say one more? I'm embarrassed to say this, but every once in a while I got to do this. Couple of nights ago, I got ready to go to sleep. My wife had went to bed earlier and I said, "You know what? Let me just do a little bit of reading and, um, and I can't remember." Oh, it was, I think I was going to look at a YouTube video. So, I looked at one YouTube.

video. How many know that's dangerous? Yeah, that was at 10 p.m. I turned it off at 2:30 in the morning. All that period of time I was watching shorts and they were the same shorts. It was people operating in rebellion against authority. And I could not believe how many, how many videos I've watched of young people trying to kill the police. Young people who the officer just asks for your license, 10 minutes later he has to arrest you because you won't give him your license. And the way in which these people act, and I, and I begin, I begin to just get really, really, I just, I was almost fascinated by the rebellion that's in this planet now.

There's a dangerous scripture. You remember Joshua that we just read about and how the people that were under his leadership, they were bringing it. Something is very scary. It says that when those people died out, it says the next generation, it says this. It says the next generation that came up knew nothing about the past. They knew nothing about how their forefathers were in slavery and were brought out. They knew nothing about how God had done wondrous works. It says all of that. And because they knew nothing about it, they turned fully to the dark side to the point where they start killing their own children on altars. And that's this generation.

They know nothing about the sacrifices that were made by the past from all nationalities. Okay? When it comes to African-American kids, they know nothing about slavery. They know nothing about separate water fountains. They know nothing about there was a time that they didn't have a chance to vote or a right to vote. They know nothing about those type of struggles. There's some people that are from different nationalities and those children, they know nothing about their child, their their parents' struggle when they had to move from Argentina or from Russia or Ukraine. You know what I'm saying? They know nothing about that. They were born in a time of rebellion and technology and this generation is almost lost. And if, if you don't come at them with that type of sword, you're going to lose them. But if you can come with them type of sword, the Lord will save up a few and they'll go crazy on the devil. They'll go crazy. And you, you got to give them everything overnight so they can go crazy on the devil.

This thing is literally about to wrap up. And I think about eternity every single day. And no one really knows what it's like to leave this realm and go to another one where one raindrop would blow you away for a million years. You have no idea what that realm is like. The Bible says that about that realm, it says when God shows his face, it says our solar system tries to run away. What does a man's face look like? Well, what you created tries to run. You know what I'm saying? Bible talks about in Revelation. And it says one angel came down and it said, it, the one angel lit up planet Earth. How bright is it where an angel comes from that place and planet Earth lights up like the daytime? And this God that sent his son to save us has a plan for us for eternity to rule and reign with him in dimensions that we don't even know exist. There's a reason why in comics right now everything is about multiverses. There's a reason for that. There's a reason. Y'all got me. So, how many plan walking in victory?

The devil knows the future about you. He knows the blessings that God has for you. He knows the spouse that he has for you. They can, I don't know how they can do it. There's something about the future they can. I don't know if they can tell it or I know they can't tell everything, but they have the ability to read the future based or I don't know how they can do it, but what I do know is that there's a battle over your soul. It's a battle over the soul of this nation, a battle over the soul of this world. Sometimes you all, you got to just sit there and just like this thing is really going. The evil in this planet is so high that the lower forms of evil are not even reported and talked about. My wife mentioned it to me yesterday. She said, "Oh, have you noticed the string of just small children that are killing their parents?" She says that and the next moment I see one about what is this uh six-year-old boy that uh killed his sister by shooting her. And there's so much other crazy stuff to report. They don't have time to report on the small stuff. Can you imagine what the kidnappers are getting away with? 'Cause nobody even reports on them. My wife brought up how many women, how many women teachers are, the women are molesting the students and they're getting younger. It's just unbelievable. Just Satan is and nobody believes in Satan and he's just like, "Wonderful. I need you to believe that I don't exist so I can take over all of y'all and destroy all of y'all."

This new turn now where all of the women, I want to leave their professions and turn to OnlyFans. OnlyFans is like a social media site where people subscribe to you and what you do is you just show them naked pictures all day long. Now, not everybody on on OnlyFans is doing that, but the majority of them are. Just in the last month, I read about three or four teachers that left their teaching positions. You're going to leave teaching little ones how to be a success in society and you'd rather show men that are wicked your body all day. The love of money. Leroy Thompson said the lack of money too. Some of y'all know who Leroy Thompson is. He was crazy. Hey, so we're going to start that. You know, Sunday is going and then Saturday, boom. You know, we're going to start hashing this out. We're going to start hashing this out. But I'm telling you, be very careful to what's in your head. And be very careful to what's on your mind. And be very careful to the people that might try to sneak into your life. I don't care that you do have a biscuit club at the school. Be careful who's giving the biscuits out. Don't take no chances, y'all. When you get clean, you can't take chances, ladies. The whiter the blouse, the more careful you are to not get it dirty. That's the only thing we don't like about all white parties. Am I going to sit down on a piece of food? Is something gonna, you know what I'm saying? So, so the more, the more, the more it's the more it's the color white, the more you got to be careful not to get it dirty. You, you understand what I'm saying? And you got to be careful. It's not a, "Oh, I'm doing the right thing." Mhm. They watching you to trip you.

'Cause let me tell you something. I was appalled when I watched that video. I was appalled at the level of blindness that I had begun to operate in. I was appalled just in my own personal life. I was appalled at how I had taken things for granted. I, I was appalled at how I had disengaged a little bit, you know, and that's what darkness wants you to do. You're successful on level five. You've beat everybody, but you forgot there was another level. Rick Joiner, Jesus told Rick Joiner, he showed them an army that had just won a battle with darkness. And they were rejoicing. And Rick Joiner, in the vision, were rejoicing. Jesus said, "Stop rejoicing. Pay attention." Rick Joiner looked over there in the shadows. He said, "What's that?" He said, "That's the enemy that gets you right after you won a battle and you're rejoicing." And in that vision, you remember that vision? And that enemy snuck up behind them while they're rejoicing and rained down arrows because remember what rejoice while you fight. Remember what disciples said, "Lord," they were rejoicing. The devils, I mean, we are whooping their behinds. Jesus says, "Stop rejoicing. That ain't nothing to be happy about. Get back to fighting." He said, "Be happy that your name is written in the book."

All right, let's go ahead and stand. Thank you, oh Lord. Hallelujah. Let's lift our hands. Give God thanks. Hallelujah. Praise your holy name, oh God. Thank you, Jesus. Blessed be your holy name, oh Lord. Thank you, oh Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Just lift your hands. Begin to ask God to open up your eyes to any levels of darkness that may be in your life. Thank you, oh Lord. Hallelujah. Not yet. Thank you, Lord. Open up your. Ask the Lord to open up your eyes. Thank you, oh Lord. Ask him to open up your eyes and show you the areas in your life where the enemy is trying to come in. Thank you, Jesus. Holy Spirit, show us the way because you are the only one who knows the way. Thank you, oh Lord God. Just pray in the spirit just for a moment. Just build yourself up. Thank you, oh Lord God. Blessed be your holy name, oh God. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, oh Lord God. We thank you for giving us weapons of warfare. Thank you, Father, for keeping us safe. Thank you, oh Lord God, for creating revival in this place. Thank you for giving us the powers of heaven to push back the hands of the enemy. [Music] Thank you, oh Lord God, that as we begin to move, oh Lord God, more into healing and deliverance, thank you that the portals of heaven will be open and what Jesus paid for will be poured out. Thank you, oh Lord God, in the mighty name of Jesus, I break the power of deception over every mind listening to me at this moment. In the name of Jesus, I break the power of deception over every mind. In the name of Jesus, release light right now, oh Lord God, to break the power of deception over every mind. Silence the voice of every devil and blind the eyes of every creature in the mighty name of Jesus, and let the light and revelation of heaven shine in. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, oh Lord God. Now lift your hands and thank God that deception is broken over your mind. Ask the Lord to give your eyes light. Enlighten their eyes, oh Lord God, that they might see correctly. Show them what is working against them, oh Lord God, and show them what is working for them. Thank you, oh Lord. [Music] Tongues said, "Thank you, Jesus. Raise up a group, oh Lord God, in these last days and let us link up with the other groups that you are raising up because the light shines the greatest in darkness. Help us to stay pure. Help us to stay holy. Help us to stay righteous. I thank you, oh Lord God, that you will use us to make a mockery of all things wicked and evil, dark and perverted. Hallelujah. Thank you, oh Lord. Come down. Here you go. Thank you, Jesus. You. What's up to you? Are you pregnant? Sweat. Thank you, oh Lord. Blessed be your name. Good morning. [Music]

I need to share with you very quickly that you have to shore up your breaches. The Lord showed me four breaches that will allow the enemy access to you. The first breach is a root of bitterness. Second breach is unforgiveness. Third breach is offense and the fourth breach is idolatry. You have to shore up these breaches. Shoring up a breach means that you have to repair the cracks. And so there are things that will come that that will try to create breaches in your spiritual armor. Excuse me. And so you have to seek God because sometimes these are things that we cannot see ourselves. And even when you try to self-reflect, you still can't see it. And so I encourage you, and this is the Lord actually encouraging you, that you have to make sure that the cry of your heart is genuine. Because if you do not want the truth, you will not get the truth. When you don't want the truth, you open yourself up to deception. And so the voices that you hear, it can easily trick you. You will think it's the voice of the Holy Spirit, and it is not. It's the voice of a demonic entity mimicking the voice of God because you refuse the truth. And so I want you to make this the cry of your heart. "How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults. Keep your servant from deliberate sins. Don't let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, oh Lord, my rock and my redeemer." Make the Lord your rock and your redeemer. Ask him to reveal to you any additional breaches, but those are the ones that he showed me. And during this time, the enemy is going to try to bring people that poke at your vulnerabilities that hit at wounds that are not completely healed. So ask the Lord to help you to heal your heart so that you can shore up the breaches so the enemy cannot use you against yourself because we are daughters and sons of the most high God and so they cannot attack us but they can use breaches to legally get at us. Amen. Hallelujah. The Bible says to be careful about any root of bitterness that will defile you. It says people that are offended. It said it's harder to win a war against a walled city than to win back a brother that's offended. And the Bible says about forgiveness, if you don't forgive, it says Jesus said, "My Father will release the tormentors against you." That's some really, really strong stuff.

Hey, so moving forward, you know, I'm, let me encourage you with something. Now granted, people that just find out about us on social media, you know, they'll get on the tail end of certain things sometimes, but if you invite people here, it's very important for you to get them here on time because with these four minutes in this season of us praying, you pray that way for an hour and a half, y'all think you can feel the anointing begin to come into the room. Okay? And and and then the like the Bible says, "The power of the Lord was present to heal them." So, you know, we're going to pray till 9:30 and then at 9:30, you know, we may worship for a moment and then just open it up for people that want hands laid upon them, people that need deliverance, you know. So, as a result of that, my sermons will be shorter and stronger, just bam, bam, because we got to begin to use this as a thing and a place to be able to do what Jesus and them did, you know? I mean, Jesus, how many know Jesus, they were just about the kingdom business. But you, you pray for an hour and a half and you blockade and you push back or you do this an hour and a half, it gets deeper. I'm about to let you. Trust me. Come, come for a second. I'm just using an example. See, so what will happen is is that we'll be in the church service and then someone will come up and you'll lay hands on them. This is going to seem weird and they will instantly get healed. And the reason why they were against instantly healed because you actually, it's a recreation of what you did in the spirit for an hour and a half. You understand what I'm saying? So, so in that space called the spiritual realm, it controls the physical. That space controls this space. Do y'all remember? That's good, Bishop. Do y'all remember when Jesus raised up Lazarus from the dead? Do y'all remember what he said? He said, "Lord, we already handled this in private. The only reason I'm even saying something is because these people weren't there when we worked it out." Y'all remember that? And he didn't pray. He said, "Lazarus, come forth." Because the power to bring you back, I had already covered that in the prayer time. You understand what I'm saying? So in that space you create the blueprint and then when you move to this space, that blueprint is put in this space. But if there's no time in that space, there is no blueprint created for this space. So when you don't spend time in that space, it ends up becoming church services instead of deliverance centers. Y'all got me? That's the power of praying. Hour and a half for a service coupled with what we do through the week. So when you bring a first-time visitor, if you need a touch from Jesus, you need to be on time, you know. So we've had people at our other location in particular, they got there at the end of the service and walk straight to the altar. That's power. So all right, lift your hands. Just bow your head just for a moment. Thank you, oh Lord God. There's anyone here, you're not saved, you're not born again, you want to give your life to Christ, as I mention these things, just step out in the aisle, walk down here, I just want to say a prayer of power and blessing over you, send you out with a private counselor that'll minister to you. But if you want prayer on any one of those things, salvation, you want to rededicate your life to Christ, you want to make sure that you are saved, you'd like to receive the heavenly gift of praying in other tongues, any one of those things, just step out, walk down for a moment, pray over you, send you out with someone. Everyone else, bother hell, just close eyes, just begin to pray. If there's anyone here, just be bold. I don't make you turn around to the congregation and put a microphone in your mouth like those places. I don't know why they do that. It's embarrassing. We just have you come down front, pray over you, and then we'll send you out. Thank you, oh Lord God. Just be in the worship of the Lord. Give him thanks for all that you've experienced and heard on today in Jesus mighty name. Thank you, Lord God. And I'll leave this open just for a moment. There's anyone that desires prayer on that particular issue.