Satan's Access To The Mind

Someone shout Hallelujah. Someone shout Hallelujah. Someone shout Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah.

Father, we give you thanks and praise. We give you glory and honor. Oh Lord God, we thank you for this time of powerful prayer. Thank you, oh Lord God, that heaven has broken forth into this world to bring to pass what we have prayed. I thank you, oh Lord God, that hearts are built up, minds are renewed, burdens are lifted, sickness and disease is destroyed. Thank you, Father God, for answering our prayer. Thank you for giving us the name that is above all names to break the hold of the devil over our lives as well as the lives of mankind. I thank you, oh Lord God. We bless and praise you.

Now lift your hands one more time and just speak to your weak. Begin to ask the Lord what you want Him to do for you. The Lord blesses because you ask, not because of always rights and wrongs. Begin to open up your mouth and thank Him for a phenomenal week next week. Thank Him for blessing you next week. Thank Him for protecting you next week. Command the things you want to see next week. Ask Him for the answers that you need next week. Ask Him to open up doors and close others that are against you in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you, oh Lord God. Speak to your weak. Command those things that be written in heaven concerning you, blessings and increase and multiplication and protection and safety. Let the force fields of heaven be around every address represented here and online this morning in the mighty name of Jesus.

Father, we thank you for the things that we have asked for will surely come to pass. The things that we have confessed will be manifested. Oh Lord God, I thank you, Father, for this day, another day in which we have created, count it an honor and a privilege to be in this place, oh Lord God, for many around the world must do this in secret, and we can still do it openly. So help us, oh Father God, to give strength unto them. Thank you, oh Father God. They are watching us and receiving encouragement and hope. Help us to be good standards and stewards and lights of the kingdom of God. Fill us with the knowledge of Your will concerning what You want us to hear and understand. For this, oh Lord God, we give you thanks in Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Good morning, Lion Heart Church. Give someone a high five or a hug. Tell them you're glad to see them this morning. And you may be seated.

[Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Thank you, Father. [Music] Hallelujah. Who's that? Who? Bow. I got you. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glad to see you all out on this morning. We are, uh, as a result of the things that are going on in the world, we are, um, quickly moving over to, uh, transition. We, the two major things that needed to be in place, which was more to do with our systems, is now in place and rolling. Our goal was to be up and running 100% by January the 1st. Looks like we'll be done sooner, much, much sooner than that. But either way, that was the goal to be able to, uh, do things differently. There's nothing wrong with the current model of church services around the world. Um, it's just that, um, one of the things that the body of Christ has a bad habit of doing is the same thing over and over again. She just never changes. In the world, they evolve, they change. There are many corporations that are out of business today because they did not change with the times. You never change the word. So this ideology out there that somehow we now have to water down the Bible. Holiness is no longer what is in order. And now the grace message allows you to be a fool. No, you got to go to another place for that. The word stays the same, but the way in which you display it, the way in which you met it out will always be different. You have to use cutting-edge methods, etc., or you have to know when to change and adjust. So, you know, one of the powerful things about stopping a thing is if you stop it completely, and you, and the, the traditional religious mindset that you can have in ministry and business allows you to kind of just stop everything and say, "Okay, now let me analyze what we're doing." And so, that's a powerful thing. Of course, when I stop a thing, it messes with my head because the devil doesn't want me to stop because he knows it's another good start. And so, let me read the scripture. I'm just going to give you some encouragement this morning. Um, Luke 19:45, Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out the people selling animals for sacrifices. He said to them, "The scriptures declare, 'My temple will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves." And so, remember that when it comes, how many you know this is God's house? And since it's God's house, He likes things to be done a particular way, just like you do at your house. He likes things to be arranged a particular way, just like you do at your house. He likes things to be clean a particular way. I didn't add, "just like at your house." So, since I'm on that, stop letting your kids eat in here. This is not a restaurant. You know, we, at the end of the service, and we got crumbs all over the place on the carpet and all that type of stuff. And so, that doesn't desecrate the house of God. It is His holiness here. And God is very pure. He's very clean. Your kids can eat their Fritos outside. Fruit juice, all of that. Okay. All of that. So, we're going to turn this into a, you know, even, you know, see, you know, it's crazy. See, if I do this, people are offended. But you want to know who, uh, you know, what Dave Chappelle does at his comedy shows? When you go to a Dave Chappelle show, they take your cell phones at the door. You are not allowed to go to a Dave Chappelle show and have a cell phone in the audience for several reasons. One, he won't show undivided attention. Number two, he doesn't want some of the crazy stuff that he says end up being a lawsuit because you recorded it. But you know what's deep? People give up those cell phones to laugh. They won't give up their cell phones for God. So, so it is a, I saw a wonderful social media video and the person that, I think the, the heading said, "If your Bible was your cell phone." It was cool. So when the person woke up out of bed that morning, instead of turning over to their cell phone, they turned over to their Bible and read the scripture. Then the next scene was them brushing their teeth. And instead of brushing their teeth and, and looking at social media, they were brushing their teeth and they were reading the Bible. They were, the next scene was them walking down the street and, you know, how people run into telephone poles and fall in holes and bump into you. They were walking down the street instead of a cell phone, he was walking down the street reading his Bible. And then people say, "It doesn't take all of that." And those are the ones that always ask him for prayer all the time. Okay. So, you know, turning the temple, or the Bible says in the book of Acts that they went to the temple at the hour of prayer. The hour of prayer. Jesus said, "My house is supposed to be called what?" The house of prayer. Okay? He didn't even say the house of the word. He said house of prayer. He didn't say house of praise and worship. He said house of prayer. He didn't say house of tithes and offerings. He said house of prayer. So, like I always say, if you go to Burger King, it says Burger King, which means y'all supposed to be the king of burgers, which means when I go in here, that's wonderful that y'all have milkshakes and y'all have fries and y'all have chicken sandwiches and y'all got all of this type of stuff. Wonderful. But how many know based on the label, y'all better have some hamburgers in the house? More than anything else, you should have hamburgers. Pizza Hut. So, it's the hut for pizzas. So, how many of you know that's wonderful that y'all have garlic bread and y'all have salads and y'all have spaghetti and y'all have ravioli and y'all have lasagna? But because of the label, we should expect y'all to sell pizza. I went to a Pizza Hut and they ran out of pizza. So anyway, so you get my point. So if Jesus said it's called the house of prayer, that's wonderful that you have programs, you have this and that, but it just seems like maybe the house is supposed to be bathed in prayer. So probably I haven't even talked to the president of worship and praise him about this. So probably at this location, haven't made up the decision by Sunday. It's so funny because I stop everything and then I wait. You know the little snow globe machine? You have to wait until you stop shaking it, but you still have to wait for things to settle down so you can see clearly. And so now I'm starting to see clearly. And so I have to be able to see clearly, Lord, because I'm seeing my prayer and I encourage you to incorporate this in your prayer time. I incorporate in my prayer time when I'm praying. I'll pray in English and I'll pray in tongues and then I'll say, "Holy Spirit, show me the way because You are the only one who knows the way. Holy Spirit, show me the way because You are the only one who knows the way." And so, I'm not interested in doing what works. I'm interested in doing what works at 100%. And so, I can do a whole bunch of different stuff that they say. But now, this is my opinion, and you know, I mean, know your opinion could be wrong. My opinion, and when I say my opinion, I'm 90% sure of my opinion. We have three to seven years left. And people don't like to hear that. I was telling my staff this morning, it's very interesting to see the behavior, the mentality, and the speech and the answer from Christians when you talk about the end of days. It's, it's just very, they're doing the very thing the scripture says they would do. They will become loveless, callous. Ah, whatever, y'all. I've been saying that for a long time. And Jesus said, "That's why I'm gonna catch you like a thief." And then Jesus said something very powerful. He said, "Had you been paying attention, I would have not showed up unaware, but because you scoffed at it and said, 'Oh, they've been talking about the Lord coming back for years.'" The problem is, He is coming back. So, which generation is going to believe it? Okay. So, that was a whole lot to get to one point. So, I'm probably going to adjust and, um, at the Saturday location, we will have three weekends where we do what we did. How many know it was, it's powerful to come into the temple and and pray and get all of that stuff off you and get your mind right and you know what I'm saying? Boom. We do that in prayer. And then once a month, at the beginning of the month, we'll do a great big old praise and worship production. So, they'll do like, at the first of every month, they'll do two to three songs. We'll have dancers, we'll have flags, we'll have all different types of stuff. And it will set the theme for the month. Y'all looking at me like I just said, never mind. So, one of the things that is very interesting is the Holy Spirit is after results. He's not after emotions. He's after results. He's not after experiences. If you can have a good experience while you're doing His results, no problem. But the Holy Spirit will never do things based on you having a good experience. In a war, you don't do things based on experiences. You do things based on winning. And right now, the church is based on having an experience and not based on following the commands of the General that's in charge. And so, I have to teach different. I have to do things different. I have an international audience. And there are people that are hanging on our very word. And it's a great honor and a great privilege. So, I saw a, so keep in mind. So, we're going to keep on doing that, praying, and, and, and the services will be geared towards prayer. Now that we have burst through the heavens, is there anyone here who needs healing? Is there anyone here who needs some type of touch from the Lord, deliverance? I may use "touch from the Lord" because sometimes people in such darkness, they don't know what they need. They just, they, they might come to church and I just want to feel better. And the Holy Spirit will give you a touch to make you feel better. Jesus did that. You know what I'm saying? And so, um, so, so, so just remember that it's called the house of prayer. And because you are God's house, guess what you are? I'm not going to share the full testimony, but see, it is what you won't do that's causing you to be down. Somebody called me about a testimony this week that needed, they needed to be delivered from something that was an addiction. And the person decided to do a two-week fast, praying in tongues, five hours a day. Most pastors won't do that. And this person was very, very serious. They said, "I must be delivered of this." They did a no-food fast for two weeks. And then, um, prayed in tongues for five hours a day. Person said, "Sometimes I couldn't get it all done in five hours. So I do two here, two here, one here." He said, "But I timed it. I got to get these five hours in." He was serious. At the end of that two weeks, he said something from above came behind him and hugged him. And when it did, he said a demonic spirit affliction was broken. And the next time I smelt it, I almost threw up because that which my body loved it and not rejected. See, that's the type of, see, people are not faithful like that today. They just, they're not faithful to the things of God. They, they're faithful to their business. They're faithful to their job. They're faithful to social media. They're faithful to going to the club. All those type of things, you know, but like the lady that I ran into on the street, because this, this goes into what I'm teaching today. How Satan tricks you. When he tricks you, you don't know you're being tricked. How many recognize you're being tricked by Satan? You're like, and then you're like, "How did he trick me so long? How I've been blind for so long to my righteousness, wretchedness, and my foolishness?" But I'm gonna show you, and the Holy Spirit brought this to my attention. Okay? And, and, and so she, she's not here, but if she's listening, you know, she understands. Already brought it to her attention. You know, we're talking, and, and the Lord set up a divine scenario for her to run into two preachers at the same time. And so, and it was, all was me being led by my wife to go get something to eat across the street. She had wanted a particular soup. So, I went over there. It's amazing. You know, not every time you go to the restaurant is because you were hungry. Not every time you go to the store and buy something is because you needed to buy something. That's right. Okay. And so I went over there and ran into her, and I watched this. She's been here several times. She's like joined here when we first started, and she has a calling, but she keeps going to the wayside. She said, "Yeah, you know, you know, I work." I was talking to her. She said, "Yeah, I, she has to sit at a computer for eight hours a day, in front of that computer for eight hours a day." I said, "That's a lot." Okay, watch that. Everybody say, "Eight hours a day." So then it switched, and I said, "Well, you live two minutes away from the church. Should be in the house." "It's just hard for me to sit, you know, for longer than 15, 20 minutes." That's the trick. See, you're actually, Satan convinced you that you can't do what you're already doing. The same way, how many know Peter was a fisherman and he could swim? But when he left the kingdom realm and started looking at circumstances, he forgot how to do what he knew how to do. And Satan is a master at giving you excuses when it comes to the light and pushing you into the darkness. Now, she can sit for eight hours a day on a computer. Oh, but Satan has convinced her. That's how he works. He's a master. And when he convinces you of this type of stuff, he does it in such a way where you never know it's him. Master. Okay. So, I'm going to encourage you to do something because I ran across a, see, let me tell you something. I'm preaching to y'all when I'm preaching to myself because time is short and I'm trying to get myself together with a V. If you're from the street, I'm trying to get myself together. I'm like, Lord, if You're coming next week, at least I'm going to heaven. But let it be three, seven years so I can build up some rewards and get all of the areas of my life tight. Because of a sign that I ran past yesterday when I was bringing my family home from an event, and the sign said, "Eternity is a long time to think about what you should have done." Man, that's, uh, that sign hit me like somebody punched me in the stomach. Eternity is a long time for you to think about what you should have done. So I want to encourage you today because I just want to encourage you. Satan is doing a masterful job of pulling people away from the things of God. And the people who are sticking with it, he is then attacking them full force. I'm going to encourage you now. It's not my lesson, but it's just a short point that I'm going to make. I'm going to encourage you all. You got to fight for your ability to read the word. You do. You have to fight. It is the most important thing. Okay? And I'm just going to read a couple of scriptures before I get to my point. Today's message is actually entitled, "Satan's Access to Your Mind." Um, but I just need to bring this up. Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth. You shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then you shall make your way prosperous and you will have good success." Hey, let me say this too. I'm have to, um, I'll have to start speaking a little bit slower. Um, I won't always be able to speak fast because, you know, we have a huge international audience and there's a, uh, um, the accent. Like when I go to Nigeria, there are certain speakers that get in the pulpit and I literally cannot understand 90% of what they're saying. It's only one minister that's way, and others I can. Bishop Udipo, I can pretty much understand 90, 95% of what he's saying. The slower he speaks, I can kind of catch it. Sometimes he speaks fast too when he gets excited, you know. So keep in mind, it's not me falling asleep. It's just that I have to slow down because the person that is from India or Pakistan or whoever else, um, may have a hard time understanding me. That's why I have to move away from like some of the jokes that we use in America, some of the slang we use. They don't get that. You know, we're laughing. They're like, "We don't get it." Like when I said, "together," they're like, "Is that a word that we don't know?" They're in the dictionary right now. Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth. You shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do all that is written therein, for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." Prosperity and success in all areas flows out of your time in the word. That is the reason why Satan tries to keep you out of it because he knows when you start saturating yourself in the word and you start staying in it daily for real, he knows that it's going to have an effect on your entire being. It makes stuff. Let me tell you something. To the degree that you are in the word, you become a prosperity magnet. Being in the word increases your magnetism to draw the right things into your life. You understand what I'm saying? And that's very, very important. And let me, let me say something to show you how crazy it is. I timed it. You know, you can easily, depending on how long the chapters are, you can easily do 8 to 12 chapters a day within an hour. Think about that. You, for most of us, we are up, up to 20 hours a day. And sometimes you have to really get to the end of your day and say, "Now, what did I accomplish that's worth anything?" 20 hours a day. Sometimes we don't get any sleep, do we? Y'all don't want to admit it, but I know y'all are up. That's why I text y'all. I text y'all. Text me at 10:30, 11:00 at night. My phone is off at 10:00, so y'all don't see it till the next morning because I'm getting sleep. Never mind. Okay. But, um, um, yeah, it, I timed it. So you can easily, I'm probably should say more like 10 to 12 chapters. If you get through 10, if you get through 12 chapters a day, you'll get through the entire Bible in three months. Now, I'm, now, this is not to make anybody feel bad. This is to expose Satan working in your life. You have to ask yourself a question. You've been saved for five years and you haven't gotten through the Bible once. And it's not because, not nec, it's not because you hate God or anything else. It's that, is that there are things in your life that are manipulating your time and manipulating your mindset to make sure that that which is the most important and produces the most change, you forget about. And that, that will produce hardly any change, you do the most. I want you to think about that. That person could have been addicted to the day that they die. Just two weeks of being serious with a fast and a prayer brought a visitor from heaven to squeeze a demon out of them. Man, you'll never forget anything like that. You understand what I'm saying? You know saying you just jump up, nearly William, stop eating. Got to plan this. I know when I do a fast, this has to be a plan. You know, first of all, I'm gonna probably have to start going to the wilderness to fast because I just think about fasting. Little Caesar's pizza pops up in my mind. And Deuteronomy 6:5-9, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength." That's a lot. That's a lot of energy that you're supposed to put towards God. You must commit yourself wholeheartedly to these commands that I'm giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you're getting up. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." That's how important the word is to your well-being. Where God says you need to have it in front of your face at all times. 2 Timothy 2:15, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, not men." Study to show yourself approved unto God, not your pastor. Study to show yourself approved unto God, not your grandmother who thinks she's so close to Jesus that she has a visitation every single morning. All of these individuals, they don't mean anything. "Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." You cannot rightly divide it if you don't rightly study it. Psalm 19:7-11, "The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul." The soul is the mind, will, and the emotions. And there's a certain amount of deadness in your mind, in your will, in your emotions. When you spend time in the word, it brings to life those dead areas of your soul. This is the reason why people who start spending time in the word, they're blown away at how sensitive they become to their surroundings. They're blown away how they just start knowing things. They're blown away how answers just start coming. I mean, it blows them away that when they start getting in the word. Hold on, read this. "The commands," oh no, I'm way ahead of myself. "The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple." All of us are simple-minded in certain areas. Being in the word takes away the simple mindset and replaces it with a wisdom and a depth mindset. "The commands of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart." One of the reasons why you're suffering with depression and unhappiness so much is because you don't have the stuff in you that gives joy. "The commandments of the Lord are right, and they bring joy to the heart." This is not a little casual scripture reading. It is amazing how you feel when you start soaking yourself. Let me tell you something. Doing 12 chapters in the word at one time without a break, it does something to you. You can feel it. "The commands of the Lord are clear, giving insight for living." Insight means the ability to see within. Okay? I see this business deal. Spending time in the word gives you the ability to see within the business deal. You understand what I'm saying? I see the path. Spending time in the world allows you to see the end of the path before you start the path. See, this is the reason why Satan wants to keep you out of the word. Because the word means power. The word means giving having an advantage over his trickery, his deceptions, his manipulations, his hocus pocus, his all of the things that he is doing. Um, the people, I don't think people have been told this, but the ultimate witch is Satan. And he's always using witchcraft on the saints. Witchcraft has a lot to do with the manipulation of the mind for you to think certain things to be strong. I mean, all of those things. He's a master at the manipulation of the mind to get you to disengage from the very thing you actually want. Oo man. "Reverence for the Lord is pure, lasting forever. The laws of the Lord are true. Each one is fair." They are. Now, watch this. Because of you, because of what you don't know about the word, this scripture right here is foreign to you. "The word is more desirable than gold and money, even the finest gold. And it's sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the comb. They are a warning to your servant and a great reward for those who obey them, not a great reward for those who read them." Luke 10:38, "As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. Her sister Mary sat at the Lord's feet listening to what He taught. But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, 'Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.' But the Lord said to her, 'My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details, but there is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary discovered it and it will not be taken away from her.'" That's a strong word. He said there's only one thing you need to be concerned about, that's only making any difference that's worth anything, and that is the words that have come out of our Father's mouth. So Satan understands the scripture. So if He knows that's the one and the most important thing in life and eternity, it is the one thing that can determine all things, then if I was Satan, I would focus all of my attention on keeping you out the word. I tell people, you'll never have a pro. I shouldn't say that. The issue won't be living holy. The issue will be staying in the book that keeps you holy. Bible says the love of God controls you. But if you're not putting the law of God in you, there's nothing to control you. Okay? So based on that, Revelation 18:2 says, "He gave a mighty shout, 'Babylon is fallen! That great city is fallen!'" This is actually the end of the United States. It was called Mystery Babylon because the prophet, when he saw the Lord, he was way back in time, 2,000 years ago, and he said, "The Lord is showing me a country that does not exist." He said, "Now, the only reason why I can call it Babylon or in another place it calls it Mystery Babylon." He said, "This place is just like Babylon, but it's not Babylon. It's just like it." When you go and study Babylon, Babylon was a place where all nations came. It was a multicultural country. Babylon had the strongest military up until today. It had the strong, everything about Babylon fits the United States. And there are other things I'm going to teach on that very soon, okay? But that's not the point here. He said, "Babylon is fallen. That great city is fallen. She has become a home for demons." This next phrase, "She is a hideout for every foul spirit." The key is "hideout." And then on top of that, He says, "She is a hideout for every foul spirit, but she is also a hideout for every foul vulture and every foul and dreadful animal." This is one of many scriptures that are giving you a small, shadowy display of the demonic kingdom that is made up of beings, vultures, and nasty animals, snakes, bats, spiders. One person was caught down the hill and they said they saw spiders the size of a car. I'm not going to a place like that. I don't like a spider in my house. I, uh, I was cutting my grass and it was one of the most beautiful spiders I've ever seen. This thing was big, too. And, uh, and it was sitting there on its web, and underneath it, it had a nest. That's exactly what I said. Uh-uh. No. No, no, you're not getting ready to hatch a whole bunch of Lucifers. And I didn't have any Raid. I didn't have any bug spray. So why we got D? Y'all know what WD-40 is? That's that stuff you spray when your doors are creaking. You, it's oil, man. I baptized that thing. I drowned that thing, man. And, and no, it's not going to happen. I don't like bugs. Bible says that in hell, it says worms do not die. It's a very, let me tell you something. The people that the Lord allowed to go there, He pulled back their physical pain to feel it because, um, if you experience that place for 10 seconds at its fullest weight, just for 10 seconds, when you come back into your body, your mind will snap, and they'll put you in a hospital. That's how horrific that place is. And the people that were down there, they said, I mean, that scripture where it says that for certain individuals, it says, "Your bed is made out of worms and your sheet is made out of maggots." I don't need no scripture to tell me to live holy. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and the power of the Holy Spirit, and all of the angels, Mary the mother of Jesus, Paul, the 12 disciples, and the patriarchs, all them. Not going to no place where your bed is made out of worms and maggots. No. And He said they cannot die. This is, so these are some type of spiritual. Where let's get back to some positivity. I just really feel bad for this generation. I really do. But here He said, "It's become a hideout for every foul spirit." Foul. A hideout for every foul vulture. Must be a lot of vultures. Can you imagine? Could you imagine the Lord shows you the thing that's causing you to live in sin, and you see the most disgusting vulture sitting right there at the edge of your bed? See, you have to read the scripture for what God said and not what the church wants you to. They, the church likes to water down the effect of things. Water it down. We don't want people feeling queasy. We don't want people going home because of what we said. Let them go home because of what you said. So the key is how they hide. Um, I'm, I'm going to stop here because next month I want to move over into something else unless the Holy Spirit arrests me because I, I am going to come back to this and really do a good expose on the nastiness of the demonic and how if, if God let you, if God let you trace your sin to the animal that's enforcing you to do it, you'd stop sinning immediately. If you could see the creature that's causing you to do the nasty thing that you do. If you could see the creature, if you just saw the creatures behind pornography alone, you'd turn the channel. If you just saw one kiss on a television show. If you just saw one, as those are some of the most foul and nasty creatures are behind sexual perversion and pornography. Very foul. Very foul. Many of them are animals, to be totally honest with you. If you pay attention to a lot of people in porn, if you can see the before and after, their face contorts over a period. Okay. So, anyway, 2 Corinthians 11:3, "But now I'm afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's clever lies, clever, your thoughts may be corrupted, and you may lose your singlehearted devotion and pure love for Christ." I only have one passage that I'm going to read to show you how Satan corrupts your thoughts. When your thoughts become corrupted, your heart starts to become corrupted. When your thoughts become corrupted, guess what falls in line? Your feelings. You understand what I'm saying? Ephesians 2:2, "It wasn't that long ago that you lived in the religion, customs, and values of this world, obeying the dark ruler." It's amazing how the Bible talks about Satan, the dark ruler of the earthly realm, who fills the atmosphere with his authority and works diligently in the hearts of those who are disobedient to the truth. He works diligently in the hearts of those who are disobedient to the truth. In order for Satan to get to your heart, he must first go through your mind. Remember that he can get to your heart, but he has to first go through your mind. And what's dangerous about the mind, as we go over into this last scripture here. What's dangerous about the mind is that I'm going to show you how if, if there, how many know, let me see how many honest Christians I got here. I don't go to one of them okie-doke fake churches where people lie. I go to a church where everybody recognizes they got issues. Temptation is real. Sin is real. Sometimes you struggle and you win. You fight the good fight of faith, and every once in a while, you fall down and you get back up again. I go to one of those churches. But how many of you know depression seems to come out of nowhere? How many of you know fear comes out of nowhere sometimes? Y'all ready for this one? How many of you know that many of times lust seems to kick in and you're not watching nothing lustful? Raise your hands if y'all telling about, "I'm telling the truth." I'm going just look at Terry. I know Terry's going to tell the truth. I mean, not that Terry is doing anything. I'm just saying, how many know I'm keeping it real? It just kicks in. You're like, "Why do I feel freaky-deaky all of a sudden?" You know what I'm saying? I know y'all don't like that word, but it's the truth. You're like, "I ain't been doing nothing. I..." You're like, "What is going on?" These things seemingly come out of nowhere. But how? But, but let me, let me help you kind of understand because remember, it's the enemy prompting you, but it's so subtle because he needs to hide. He needs to hide. Now watch this. How many of you know that if you hear a particular song, it'll make you feel a particular way? How many of you know that if you see a dog on the street, depending, you might have a feeling of fear? You know, I mean, you, you understand what I'm saying? So things that you hear and things that you see, it has a feeling attached to it. Well, the problem is, is what if it's, what if someone is, is putting false vision in front of your eyes and whispering things in your ears, but they seek to stay hidden. I need to make sure you never know it's me. I need to make sure that you think it's you so that you think that you're unworthy and that you really can't do this thing and that God is mad at you. And so they stay hidden, but the feeling kicks in. And that's why the Bible calls them spirits of lust. Spirit. That's why God said, "I didn't give you the spirit of fear." Okay? You understand what I'm saying? And so, so that's what the Bible, we call it depression. The Bible calls it, um, thank you, the spirit of heaviness. It's a spirit that, its one job is to make sure that when you wake up, you wake up heavy. Yeah. You're heavy because this fool is standing on your shoulders. But he needs to stand on your shoulders, and you never know he's standing on your shoulders. You just wake up depressed and don't even know why. You, you ever woke up depressed and you're trying to figure out, now, let me see, what do I need to be depressed about? I can't figure out why I'm depressed. You ever done that? It's like, what is going on? And it'll come out of nowhere. That's why I always tell people. Okay, that doesn't happen to every spouse, but many of times spouses can't understand why did I leave the home happy? Now that I'm way home, now that I am on the way home, why am I getting upset with my spouse? The feeling of getting angry at your spouse because there's somebody sitting in the seat next to you, staying hidden. And if you don't get a handle on that, there are many things that you will do, many things that you will say, and many actions that you will take. And it wasn't even you. It was from the individual that's foul that wants to stay hidden. I need to put certain things in your head so that it's in your heart. Then you open up your mouth because I don't have any power over you. You have power over me. If I had real power, I could just bring the curse to your address. But I don't have any power. All I can do is make suggestions in your mind and get you to use your power to bring the curse to your house. So if the things are not working out financially, I'm going to fill your head full of, "We ain't going to never get out of this mess. We're never going to see this situation turn around. We're never, never, never, never." So I got to get you to use your power on yourself. The last thing I need you to do is create a vision board. Write down everything that needs to take care of and how much money you would like to make a week and call those things that be not as though they were. Like the scripture says, "If a man shall believe that what he says will come to pass, he'll have whatever, good or bad, right or wrong, he'll have whatever he says." "All things whatsoever you desire, believing in prayer, you shall receive." I got to keep you out of that mode. Hallelujah. Worst thing in the world is to stand before the Lord and say, "Yeah, you ordered the truck. The Amazon truck was coming to your address, and while it was headed there, how many know you can cancel an order? You can order something from UPS and you can cancel that order. And many of us have ordered things in a moment of exuberance and excitement in a church service, and by Monday, you didn't cancel the order, and you didn't even cancel it because it was your idea to cancel it. It was that invisible, foul, unseen individual that wants you to stay in poverty that convinced you to cancel that order with your mouth." Hallelujah. Don't cancel the order. I never forget when the Lord showed me that. You know, when you, especially driving at night time, you see all of those 18-wheeler trucks, I mean, just lined up. I mean, every 18-wheeler truck you see is somebody's order. I want you to think about that. And then we got the little small trucks, too. But every time you see an 18-wheeler truck, that's something that somebody ordered. Now, what does it look like in the spirit? And but Satan is out there with the 18-wheeler trucks trying to make them have a flat tire, trying to cause accidents that hold up your stuff. See, you saw that in Daniel chapter 10. He ordered something, took 21 days to get there, but it was only supposed to take one. Y'all got that? All right, this is just one passage that shows you how Satan works. It's a powerful passage. This was my favorite passage of scripture when I went to a Baptist church in Detroit. The pastor would kind of preach the same sermon at the end. I don't know why as a child I was infatuated with this passage of scripture. It's probably because I just realized that I had what they call those, uh, pictorial or picture Bibles. So as certain sections, they would show a picture. So in that particular section of the Bible that I had, they had a picture of Jesus in the wilderness praying and Satan standing there with a pitchfork, and that just mesmerized me. And so I would read that scripture. Years would pass before the Holy Spirit would show me that it did not happen like the picture looked. So let's look at this now. As we're looking at this, okay, put your name here. Verse one, "Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness where He was tempted by the devil for 40 days. Jesus ate nothing at that time and became very hungry." So the first thing we see is is that Satan did not attack Him for 40 days because He was living in sin. Satan attacked Him for 40 days because He was doing the right thing. Second thing is is that Satan attacked Him for the entire 40 days. So the three temptations that we're going to read are the three temptations that happened at the end of the 40. It never tells us what happened for all 40 days. Number three, Jesus is perfect. He's seeking God and He's fasting about His purpose. And yet Satan did not stop the first day, second day, 10th day, 11th day. He kept on going for 40 days straight. So that way you can stop crying because what you've been praying about for five days hasn't turned around yet. It will break. You must learn how to stay in the race so that you break him before he breaks you. "Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit." So that's another thing that you want to look at. He was full before He was even allowed to be tested. There are some, see, let me, how many, how many of you know that before promotion comes a test? How many of you know that in order for you to be promoted from third grade to fourth grade, you had to pass a certain amount of tests? And in order for you to pass those tests, you had to be full of the information. So there are many promotions that we have, and you are not allowed to take the test to pass it for the promotion because you're not full of the Spirit in the first place. And if we let

You take the test, you're going to fail it. Then you're going to be more depressed than you are right now and say that you're unworthy. And I can't do that when actually you won't study.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from Jordan. He was led by the spirit into the wilderness. So this lets you know that sometimes the Holy Spirit will lead you into a wilderness place. The wilderness place is the place when you may not be working right now, even though you're looking for a job. The wilderness place is the finances are not really turning around the way you wanted them to. The wilderness place might be we're newly married and we have children, and now this is not going the way that we thought it would go. The wilderness place is, you know what, I'm battling something in my body right now and I didn't expect it to come. That's right. The wilderness place is I started a business, for some reason it's not growing quite yet. Yeah. Sometimes that's the spirit who will lead you into the wilderness to be tested by the devil so that you know how he works. So that when they promote you, you won't lose the promotion.

Then the devil said to him, we're going to read it all the way through. Then we're going to come back to verse three. The devil said to him, "If you are the son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread." Jesus told him, "No, the scriptures say people do not live by bread alone."

Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world at a moment of time. "I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them," the devil said, "because they are mine to give to anyone I please. I will give it all to you if you worship me." Jesus replied, "The scriptures say you must worship the Lord your God and serve only him."

Then the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem to the highest point of the temple and said, "If you are the son of God, jump off. For the scriptures say, 'He will order his angels to protect and guard you. They will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot against a stone.'" Jesus responded, "The scriptures also say, 'You must not test the Lord your God.'"

When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came. Then Jesus returned to Galilee filled with the Holy Spirit's power. Now in verse one, it says he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Verse 13, it says he was filled with his power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region. He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.

Y'all read that? So in my little picture Bible, it had a picture of Jesus praying, Satan standing above Jesus talking to him. So for years, till I actually got saved, I used to think that Satan was praying and that Satan appeared to Jesus. Okay, that is entirely untrue. That is impossible. What the scripture, I don't mean this in a bad way. The scripture has a habit of talking to you as though it's one scenario, but it might actually be two or three scenarios. Scripture has a habit of telling you a story, but it's actually telling you a story of what's happening in the realm you can see and the realm you can't see. It does that constantly, but it doesn't warn you. Uh, by the way, the verse you're getting ready to go into, we're talking about two realms. It doesn't do that. I wish it would.

Okay, so let's go back and read this. This all happened. How many of you know that when you are particularly praying and praying in tongues, just your mind goes all over the place? You get ready to start praying, all of a sudden now this is a good time to locate my auntie that I haven't seen in 30 years. This is a good time for me to check my DNA and see which tribe I'm connected to. This is a good time for me to check my emails. You know, it might be a good time for me to clean the house today. And and and how many you know that?

Okay, watch this. How many of you be honest, how many of you, while you're reading the Bible, you got to constantly battle these thoughts of just checking social media for a moment? You know that deodorant commercial? Raise your hand if you sure. How you know? I mean, it's just you reading the Bible. Why do I get a thought about checking Facebook? What do I need to check Facebook for? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For what? See, these are the thoughts that come and and you think it's you. But the person that told you that wants to remain unseen cuz he's foul. And if you saw the foul creature, you would not go for the rope-a-dope anymore. You understand what I'm saying? Oh, I know. I'm teaching this morning. I'm hitting the M rubber man road. Is.

So let's start and let's break it down. Verse one, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the spirit in the wilderness, tempted by the devil for 40. Can you imagine how many temptations ran through Jesus' mind for an entire 40 days? The three you read are crazy. And all that time he was fasting and ate nothing. So it's not for. So the first thing you see is Satan is very strategic. He hadn't eaten for 40 days. That's why Satan waited until the end of the 40 days to hit him with food because he figured he would be the most hungry. Satan is very strategic. He waits until you get weak. Watch this is them talking behind the scenes. Y'all see how many days he has gone without reading the word? See his spirit getting weaker and weaker. Weaker. Okay. So now, now that he's weak, create these few scenarios so that he won't get in the word. And then at the end of three days, hit him with this at 10 p.m. I'm telling you, you got to really, really consider when God repeatedly through the Bible says there are beings that watch you and are trying to trip you up day in day out. Satan has filled the air full of his authority that's letting you know how many creatures exist. And they're looking to steal, kill, and destroy. Satan walks about like a lion, seeing whom he may. It didn't say who he may trick, whom he may devour. They're not interested in tricking you. They're interested in devouring you where you have nothing left. This is the agenda of the individual that is assigned to you from hell. And if you don't think you have a person that is assigned to you like that, this is the Holy Ghost. I got to come on the floor for this Holy Ghost moment. Jesus, right here. Get a drink of water in case I go into a TD Jakes mode. I said this before and I'm gonna say this again. Now, I want you to think about something. How many of you know, just follow me, we're not talking about equal opportunity and all that type of stuff. Yeah, we know all that. If I'm the CEO of the company and she is my secretary, how do we think if we walk into a room and we say, "Okay, we're getting ready to start this business meeting. This is my secretary." Who do they think the most important person is? Me. Why? Because the person that is the assist, the person that is more important. Would you all agree? In skilled trades, like say if you're an electrician or a plumber, you're the one that's the master. You are the electrician. You are the plumber. And so I used to work in that field. So you have something called a helper. The helper is not as good as the plumber. The helper is not as important as the electrician. He assists that individual. Y'all understand what I'm saying? So, we live in a world where we understand that the assistant and the helper is not the one that's important. It's the individual that's being helped that's important. So, you have to ask yourself a question. What is it when God assigns you a helper called the Holy Ghost? Hallelujah. I want you to think about it. I want you to think about who you are. Who are you? Where the hol. You would think that the scripture would say we're supposed to help the Holy Ghost. It did not say that he is here to help you. So the question is, who are you really? If he is supposed to help, who are you really if God is here to help you? Yes. You understand what I'm saying?

Now, you get a hint when you give your life to Christ. The Bible says you are now G. I'm going just say it like the scripture said it. It says that we are sons of God. But Jesus said, "You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High." Amen. Then it says, that's not good enough. It says you also became a king. That's why I'm the King of Kings. You then became a lord. That's why I'm the Lord of Lords. You became a priest. That's why I'm the High Priest. You are an ambassador. An ambassador is somebody who is from another country representing the one that he's from. And ambassadors don't live off of the finances of the country they're in. They live off the finances of the country that they're from. And the one that's a killer is you are more than a conqueror. You're not a conqueror. A conqueror killed everybody. A conqueror destroyed everybody. A conqueror won the battle. But you're more than that. Yes. Then on top of that, he said, "You are the salt of the earth." People don't like this, but the scripture says, "You are the light of the world." And then Paul had the nerve to say this, "Yet it does not appear what we're going to be when we get to heaven." All of that. Yes, you are made. See, this lets you know that you are you already like the one on the throne. Hallelujah. You already like Jesus. If you already weren't like Jesus, they wouldn't assign you the same God that Jesus had. How many of y'all believe Jesus was important? He was important. He was so important, he required somebody like the Holy Ghost to be his assistant. Then when you give your life to Christ, apparently you got elevated to that same level of importance. That's why you need the same stuff that. Are y'all following me? Problem is, Satan knows this. They know this. You don't know how important you are, but they know how important you are. So that's why they need to make sure that they keep you down. Think about that. The Holy Ghost knows how important they are. Jesus knows how important they are. The Father knows how important they are. And the angels are their slaves. You so unimportant that every single last one of you, regards to your level of regards to your level of maturity. Every single last one of you, when you gave your life to Christ, got an assistant called the Holy Ghost who knows everything, can duplicate himself 10 million times over without sweating. Then on top of that, you were given a bodyguard called an angel. And in Hebrews, it says that angel is here to serve you. So the question is, who are you? And if heaven values you that much, surely hell values you that much. The problem is, we don't know what they're sucking from us. You understand what I'm saying? So that's the game. That's why the most stupid saying, "I'm just a sinner saved by grace." No, you got to make a decision. Which one are you? You're either a sinner or you're saved. Before you accepted Jesus Christ, because you did nice things, did that make you a Christian? Because you gave many money to the poor, did that make you a Christian? Because you came to church, did that make you a Christian? Before you gave your life to Christ, just because you didn't cuss and get high, did that make you a Christian? What made you a Christian? When you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you became something else. Well, guess what that you need to re, just you need to realize this. If doing a bunch of good stuff didn't make you a Christian when you become one, if you did something bad, it didn't make you a sinner. You were a son of God that did something wrong. That's why the Bible says a righteous man falls seven times and gets back up. It did not say a sinner man. It said a righteous man falls. But they must convince you in your mind that as soon as you mess up, that you ain't nothing. That's how the game goes. And if you're convinced, I know the English is bad. If you're convinced that you ain't nothing, then maybe you won't get back up again. You'll stay down for a while because you believe that God, you know, I I like the GPS. A GPS. I've done this example before. I'm preaching to somebody. Tell them, "Take me to the Cheesecake Factory restaurant. Calculate." I'm assuming it's about 20, 25 minutes from here. Okay. Now, I asked it for its directions. It says all you got to do is follow the rules. If I make a wrong turn, does the GPS turn off? And you hear, you hear the voice say, "I'm going to recalculate in about 10 minutes after you figure out." Doesn't do that. Immediate recalculate. Recalculate. Recalculate. You messed up. Wonderful. Recalculate. Now, what's very interesting about many GPS is that let's say that you, this is very, very fictitious, but let's say that you disobey this thing so much, you drive all the way to California. How many you know that's that's that's way out of order. Way out of order. You're way outside the will of Cheesecake and all that type of stuff. You're way out of order. Way out of order. And if you do that, the GPS will turn off on you. What it'll say is, "Oh, it's obvious that you don't want to listen because I've told you to recalculate about seven times. So, I'll just go silent on you and let you drive your own way." You get all the way to California. 4-day journey. And once you get all the way to California, it does not matter how stupid your decision was. It does not matter the size of your stupid decision, the longevity of your dumb decision. All that matters to the GPS is, "Are you ready to get on the right road?" And if you hit that button that went silent, it will not say, "Oh, no. You're not hitting this button right now. We're not interested in getting you back on track. You got to wait for a little while. A matter of fact, you need to sit here on the side of the road and let everybody pass you by so that you can feel bad about your dumb, ignorant decision of taking a 20-minute drive and turn it into an excursion around America. No, you're going to sit here and feel salty because I want you to feel bad. After all, you should have listened to me in the first place." How many know the GPS doesn't do that? What it say? Recalculate. And as long as you can be all the way in California and if you say recalculate, the only thing they will do is get you back to the mark. His name is the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. But Satan's job is to get you to drive California. And then when you realize how stupid it was for you to get to drive California, you realize that the Golden State Bridge is not golden. It's made out of the same material as all of the other bridges. Golden State Bridge is in California, isn't it? Okay. I want to make sure I get my information accurate. You drive all the way there. It is when you get to that false destination that Satan steps up. Why in the world is God going to put you back on track after how long you've been out of order? Yet, the thief on the cross ran his life into the sewer up until the last second. And Jesus said, "This day you will be with me in paradise." The holy two C's, the Holy Spirit uses conviction. Stop acting a fool. Stop driving the wrong way so he can get you to the destination that you want to get to. Conviction. You're living in sin. Stop. I'm gonna make you feel bad about you living in sin because you're better than that. You're not a sinner. I did that to one of my daughters one time. Uh, she did something wrong when she was really, really young. Something crazy. And I, I just had to test it to see what, uh, what she would say. She was crying. I said, "You're a good girl. You're a bad girl." She said, "I'm a bad girl." This how I did it. Wrong. I wanted that to be forceful. Wrong. You are a good girl. You just did something wrong. Most of us have been taught that we were bad people because of what we did. If he was so bad, then why did God treat you good while you were bad? Bible says all of our righteousness is as filthy rags. You think God is impressed because I live holy? The Bible says that's what you're supposed to do. It says you haven't even done anything. It says that's your reasonable service. You understand what I'm saying? It's a master of who your mind will listen to. Oh, Satan uses condemnation. Condemnation is, oh, because of how long you've been doing it, it don't matter if you stop it or not, God is not interested in using you. You're damaged goods now. When you pay attention to mean, you pay attention to the greatest men. Let me tell you something. The one of the greatest men in the Old Testament was Moses. One of the greatest men outside of Jesus in the New Testament was Paul. Both of them had stuttering problems. You would think that the individual God would use as a mouthpiece to the nations is someone who has a PhD in speaking. Well, no. Get me the two guys to stutter because I'm not impressed with where you're left, man. Come on. God qualifies you for everything. Satan disqualifies you from anything because of all of the stuff that you did. Okay, y'all got that? That was a little side trail to help you understand the importance of who you are. See, if you don't understand who you are, you won't understand why God is bless. If you don't understand who you are, you will never understand why both individuals from heaven and hell are fighting over you. Who in the world are we in the future where both heaven and hell are fighting all your soul? And Paul said, I don't. How many know just one of those titles? Just give me king. If I had to pick one of those titles, well, maybe I should be a god. I don't know. Okay, but give, let's set that one aside. He said both of them. But I have to pick one. Give me king all day. I love kings. I love kings. I'm sure there's going to be a ceremony in heaven. King O, King O, King O. It's a movie I watched called The King. And at the end, and the movie ends by saying King Henry, King Henry. The whole, whole crowd is just King Henry. I love kings because, well, we serve one. He is a king. And, um, but y'all, just one of those titles, king alone. I want you to think about a king. His words always come to pass. His words are always brought to pass. There's a difference. If the king says it, everybody else that exists brings it to pass. That's why the Bible says, "If a man shall believe what he says will come to pass, who have whatever he says?" King. How many know you ever seen a broke king? Now, the whole community might be poor, but the king is still rich. You know what I'm saying? I've seen that attitude. None. You know how many know all kings have swords? All kings have armies. I wonder what yours is going to look like for eternity. See, when Jesus said, "You're going to rule and reign with me." Why? First of all, who am I? That I'm going to be ruling over what? There's nothing in heaven that needs to be ruled over. So, what are you talking about? I'm going to rule and reign with Christ. Over who? Is it possible that there are future wars to be fought in eternity? You understand what I'm saying? See, so Satan knows this about you. There's one thing all of you must remember. When Satan is attacking you, when he's influencing you, when he's trying to get you, he sees you as no different than the one who sits on the throne. Think about it. How many know Jesus is sitting on the throne? Yes. But see, the problem though is is that Jesus gave us his name. See, and in case you didn't know this, that they don't recognize you by your name. They recognize you by the name that was given you that you are. See, back in the day when a woman married a man, she could use his credit card. Some of y'all might remember that. Today is too much craziness going on. You got to have your own now. But but but if she was married to him, she didn't have to have her own credit card. She could use him because she was allowed to use his name since she was one with him. But I'm, I'm, I'm just trying to hone this in to help you understand who you are. When the King of all Kings, the one that c I read a scripture the other day where Jesus said, "These dummies don't even realize I came into the very world I created." That dude gave you his name, that guy, and gave you the name to use it as though you are him. When you use the name of Jesus, the devils don't say this is oath using the name of Jesus. They say this is Jesus because they understand that in the spiritual realm, you don't. I gave you my name. Jesus said, "Can I now right now call thousands of angels?" So, so I'm going to give you the angels and then I had to have the Holy Spirit in planet Earth. So, I have to give you the same way. So, you're walking around with the same stuff that Jesus had in every single area. His name, his angels, his word, his power, and his robotic servants called angels. So, the job of the devil is to make sure that you never find that out. Make them low. Keep them out of the word because if they stay in the word too long, they gonna start feeling a particular way. More. I don't even know what that means. What is a more than a conqueror? What if we kill the whole army and then we resurrect them from the dead and then kill them again? Let's finish this. The devil said unto him, "If you are the son of God, you think it's a coincidence that right now on planet Earth, what we have is an identity crisis. Are you sure you a man? You sure you a boy? You sure you a girl? You sure you male or female? Are you sure you human?" I'm just sorry. I'm very respectful. But if you come to me with that binary square root foolishness, I mean, I'm going to talk about you right in front of your face. Just some stuff ain't even the devil. Some stuff is just people that are just stupid. Just stupid. Talking about men can have a baby and all that type of stuff. No. No. Not only can men not have a baby, men don't want to have a baby because the women don't want to have a baby. They wanted a baby, but they didn't want to have a baby. They like Jesus in the wilderness. Father, if there is another way. Anyway, if you're the son of God. So, let me, let me go back so we can understand this as we read it. Jesus is praying in the wilderness, correct? I'm going speed it up and then read it. Jesus is praying in the wilderness. Now if this happened where Satan appeared to him and start talking, that means Jesus is praying in the wilderness seeking his father in the wilderness. Satan appears, starts talking to Jesus, and Jesus stops praying to his heavenly father and gives Lucifer his attention. And Lucifer says, "Follow me, Jesus. Watch this. Leave your place in the wilderness. Stop praying. I need you to follow me all the way to the top of this mountain. Let's climb this mountain together so I can show you all of the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time." First of all, Jesus told us not to listen to Satan. So why is he going to stop praying and walk out the wilderness and then climb a mountain with Satan that would have taken all day? Then Satan showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. How can you do that? You can't. Explain to you in a second. Then it says that they climbed. Then Satan took him to Jerusalem. Which means that Jesus has stopped praying altogether. He has climbed down the mountain. They have walked all the way into the city. They have climbed. How did y'all climb? On top of the building, which is a synagogue. Y'all have climbed on top of the building. Jesus is standing on the roof with Satan. And Satan says, "Jump." After all, the scripture says, remember I told you, if he can't get you with evil, he tries to get you with good. Did not happen that way. Jesus was still in the same spot. How many of you know this? Goes back to my original statement that we went on a side journey with. You're praying, your mind goes all over the place. Bible says when you're praying in tongues, in particular, it says your mind is unfruitful. You can find this on YouTube. They hooked up bio equipment to a person. It was a lady. They said, "Pray in English." She prayed in English. A needle kept moving. They said, "Pray in tongues." Went dead. Blew them away. They said, "Pray in English." Pray in tongues without knowing the word. They said this praying in tongues phenomenon bypasses the mind 100%. Zero. When you're praying in tongues, no brain activity. So guess what? Since there's no brain activity when you're praying in tongues, your brain decides just coming up with stuff. Humpty Dumpty sat at the wall. He had a great fall. I was praying on my knees one time. I started singing a Rick James song. Freaks come out at night. I'm dead serious. You're like, "What is wrong with you?" I'm praying, but my mind was idle while I'm praying and I'm dead serious. I didn't even know I was singing the song until I heard myself singing. The freaks come out at night. Freaks come out. Freaks come out at night. That little part there that's kind of cool. Anyway, I need to be quoting Rick James. Is that by Rick James? That's Houdini. See, I don't even know. See, that proves it's Lucifer. I don't even know who the song is by. They're trying to tell me Super Freak is by Rick James. Okay, wonderful. We don't Super Freaky now. We don't need to get over to that. The point that I'm making is I'm praying and they're planting thoughts all over the place. Takes about 45 minutes to an hour of praying in tongues for your mind to shut down. Then you're on cruise control. You never get there if you only pray five minutes. Okay? And so the same thing with the word. So, so Jesus is praying and all of a sudden he's bombarded with these negative thoughts. Man, you haven't eaten in 40 days. Why don't you improperly use the power of God and use magic to turn a stone into bread? That thought entered his head. That's why he had to speak out what he spoke out. Jesus said no. In verse four, the scripture says people do not live by bread alone. So he got Satan on that. Satan switched. He didn't stop. He switched.

Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. That's impossible. How many of you know that you can close your eyes right now and envision yourself being on a roller coaster? You can envision yourself standing on top of a plane as it flies through the sky. You can envision yourself flying through outer space. You can envision yourself having a fight with Bruce Lee and winning. We know that's a pipe dream. You can envision yourself in doing all type of stuff. You can envision yourself in the war in Israel. You can envision you. Your mind has no limit to what it can envision. Satan uses that against you. You can't show somebody that in a flash while Jesus is praying, he sees all the kingdoms of the world at a moment of time, but he hears a voice. "I'll give you this if you worship me." That's verse seven. Oh, by the way, look at verse six. "I'll give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them." The devil said, "Because they are mine to give to anyone I who I please." I mean, you know, Adam is the one that gave Satan control of the world. So, guess what? Let me tell you something. This is a deeper moment because we're almost done. It's a deeper moment. It is when he got Adam and Eve to worship him, he gained access to the planet. Now, follow me. It is when he offered Jesus the same opportunity that he was trying to get access to heaven. That was a very dangerous moment right there. If Jesus had have failed for that, there would have been no hope for anybody. Period. That was a very. Let me tell you something. G. Y'all have no idea how much Jesus had to be trusted with his assignment because he messed it up. He messed it up for everybody. And at that moment, if Jesus had bowed down to him and worshiped him to get something he already had, he would have failed for it. See, it's a trick. See, if somebody offers you something that you already have and you know that you, they, you know that they know you already have it, it'll make you question, well, do I really have it? You know what I'm saying? And so, so that's what he, this is the trickery. And so say Jesus is going through this in his mind and Satan is offering him this. This happens a lot in the music industry, by the way, a lot. I'll give you this. And boom. And, uh, had he done that, Satan would have had access back to heaven. Jesus' spot. I want y'all to think about that for a moment. This stuff is not religious. I want you to think about that. Jesus falls for that and legally Satan is allowed to sit on Jesus' throne at the right hand of the Father. That's messed up. I said messed up. Terry said, "That's jacked up." He said, "I can give it to whoever I want to. I'll give it all to you if you worship me." Jesus replied, "Let me tell you something. Satan will never offer you anything unless it's gained for him. Anything Satan offers you is gain for him and lost for you and God." Jesus replied, "The scriptures say, see, you got to know the word. You must worship the Lord your God and serve him only."

So the devil didn't stop. He switched. Then the devil took him to Jerusalem. Now these are the last three. We don't know what happened for the whole 40. Took him to Jerusalem to the highest point of the temple and said, "If questioning identity again, if you're the son of God, jump. For the scriptures say he will order his angels, they are your servants, to protect and guard you. They will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone." Jesus responded, "The scriptures also say, 'You must not test the Lord your God.'" How would you test him? He may not save me over doing something stupid. Now, if I fall out of the airplane, that's another thing. I'm not supposed to jump out of the airplane to prove a point to my congregation. Told you about these guys overseas in Africa. He had two cases. Told the congregation, "Y'all follow me out here to the sea." After all, Jesus gave us power to walk on water. We know that, but you may not have the faith to do that. You know, just be doing stuff as a show. Jesus was doing this to teach them how power operated. So, he took his whole congregation out there, had them row that boat all the way out there. He got on that water. Yeah. And that alligator had a nice meal that day. He said, "Grace and everything. Father, I want to thank you for this illustrious pastoral cuisine. I'm getting ready to feast on today." And everybody offended. Why would God let something like happen? Why would he do that to the man of God? First of all, he didn't do that to the man of God. He did it to himself. Second, the reason why God allowed it, it was a warning. Don't none of y'all come out here and try to walk on the water amidst all these alligators and these sharks. Just pray. I don't need y'all walking on water. So, Satan was trying to get Jesus to do the same thing. Hey, cuz Satan knew that God does this type of stuff. He saves you all. And and Jesus said, "Yeah, but I'm not supposed to be tempting him like that. He will do it, but there's no reason for me to climb on top of this temple and stop praying and walk all." Watch this. You're asking me to stop praying in the wilderness and walk all the way into the city, climb a building to the very top, and jump to prove a point? That's what you're asking me to do? Nah, I'm good. Jesus responded, "You should not test the Lord your God."

When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came. That's very key. You might be done with the devil, but he will never be done with you. You will be fighting him until your last breath. Jesus returned to Galilee filled with the Holy Spirit's power. Bible says that he became famous. That is in there because Jesus, Bible says that Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. Y'all got that? So there's nothing else I can tell you to do besides you have to realize that. You have to remember that. You need to question yourself the next time you're angry. When the Bible says anger gives a foothold to the devil. So maybe he planted the seed for you to be angry. So it gives him more room to move into your life. It's the highest level. The game is so high level, you don't know it's there. The warfare is so extreme, you let go of it because you would never believe it's that extreme. You would never believe that there's a parking lot full of them waiting for you to get in your car. You wouldn't believe that in a million years. The scripture makes it more than clear. The scripture makes it more clear than how I make it. And the moment you leave out these walls, guess what the first agenda is for us all? To make us forget what I just taught. They need first of all work on making sure that they kind of blinded from that so we can pick our game back up. And it is only those that master that game. I'm very much not moved by what I hear in my head and how I feel. I pretty much ignore how I feel and what's in my mind at all times. Okay? I mean, I do because can you imagine the type of stuff that runs through my mind? She's. She said, "No one wants to." And you got to remember, I mean, I mean, think about this. It's, it's I can say the same thing as Oudo. It's been a long time since the devil has seen a ministry like this. So, he's looking for a way to kill it. Okay? And so, having a church with the level of word that we preach, the way that we do it, the Lord has exposed us to the masses. And then I'm connected to one of the most powerful ministries in planet Earth. So that connection, see, Satan knows more than I do about that connection. And so at first, when we went over there, I was good. Then I started going over there. I was like, "Oh, this is great." And so we notice the last three or four times. It's a struggle. It's a struggle. When I go to Nigeria, I have to ignore how I feel because I don't want to be bothered. That don't make me. It's not even me. It's like I don't want to go. I don't want to be bothered. I don't want to go over there. Why am I going over there? All these things that I deal with and I just ignore that and I go over there and it ends up being a better time than when I went over there previously. It is insane because it's there's because it's more the the connection to Nigerian church is more than what we know right now. There's something that has to do with the future and and they're trying to figure out a way to pervert it to get it to stop. It's these. You have to be very, very careful about thoughts. You had to be careful about thoughts on on watch this on Friday night and you question if you should go to church on Saturday morning. You actually think that's coming from you? No. Because how many know you question it, then you come and you leave full. You don't question whether or not you should go to a restaurant that you got a taste for. Right. That girl that I ran into was an excellent example of she can sit all day, eight hours on the job. She said, "No." And she con, she really was convinced. I just, I don't know what it is. She said, "I can't sit longer than 15, 20 minutes at a church." I don't know what it is. I know what it is. You never find out what it is until you break past that and just be faithful. It is only your faithfulness that will show you what was working on you to be unfaithful.

Let's just read these two. Matthew 5:28, I say anyone, oh, this is just a small word. "Anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. So if your eye, even your good eye, causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It's better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go to hell. And if your hand, even your strong hand, causes you to sin. Never mind. Cut it off, throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Okay.

And then the last scripture, 2 Corinthians 10:5, "casting down imaginations." The imagination is a very powerful thing. You know why? The imagination is the birthing place of all manifestation. In the Old Testament, remember what God said? "We must stop what they are doing because once they accomplish it, nothing that they come up with in their imagination will be withheld from them." That is a strong statement if a guru made that. How much stronger is it with God if he made that? So to key, the key to what shows up in your life is the imagination. Satan's access to the mind. The imagination. Let me tell you something. You can go on a whole vacation in your mind. You can start a relationship with an entirely another individual in your mind. We do it. You see it with the kids. How many know when you see these kids playing with the cars, vroom? You just see them playing with cars. These kids on a racetrack. You know what I'm saying? I mean, you hear the girls singing in the shower. You just hear them squeaking in the shower. Uh-uh. That girl is on stage in front of millions of people in her mind. You see your kids in there in the shower burning up all of the hot water trying to pretend like they're Bruce Lee. Hia. They really are in a fight with Bruce Lee. The imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It's extremely powerful. And God and Satan know it's more powerful than we will ever know. And both of them after your imagination. God is like, "Stay in the word. It will force your imagination to be like mine and prosperity will show up because I'm always attracted to prosperity." Yes. But Satan is like, "Getting in their mind and manipulated. Make them watch things they should not watch. Make them listen to things they should not listen to. Start with their parents, their relatives, their teachers, their school, their pastors, their administrators. Make sure they have all of the wrong information. So that why that that that by the time they are an adult is stuck and they will live life based on autopilot and don't even know that they're the ones that switch it on." It's crazy, isn't it? "Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing it into captivity, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." The only way you can know that there is a voice speaking in your head is if you know what the word says. Anything that runs through your mind that is against what Jesus stands for, it came from one of them.

This story just popped in my mind. It was a lady, sorry, a lady got in a bad accident. She was rushed to the hospital and I believe it was her brother got the call. He was running to the hospital, running to the hospital. He was rushing and so he was praying. He was speaking the word. And he said as he as he did that, he said it was a whisper, but it was someone screaming in his ear. Know you know when the enemy whis. Let me backtrack. How many of you know that if I say Santa Claus at the speed of lightning, you did not see S A N T A, you saw a man in a red suit. Okay. If I say, um, who is the current president? If I say President Biden, you don't see the words president P R E S. Guy. You, you, you in a flash, his face pops up. Well, that's how words work. Words and whispers produce images. And that's what's so dangerous is you'll be sitting there, watch this, and you get an image. You see yourself watching pornography. But the suggestion was given by another individual who wants to corrupt you. That individual is trying to get in you. And in order to get in you, it needs you to watch what it created. That is one area. I'm going just say this. That is one area, thank God, that that has just has never been an issue for me. I don't know why, but it's just never been an issue for me. But it's very, very interesting is that generally I noticed here lately, typically will not happen throughout the entire day. I'll be sitting on the couch. Freaks really do come out at night, by the way. There's some truth to that because I, I, I don't have an issue with it. It never crosses my mind. Doesn't even ever cross my mind as a temptation. Okay. When I go down the aisle at the grocery store, see all the ladies in the bikinis, I'm not even. It doesn't. It just doesn't bother me. Okay. So, but here lately, usually around 10:30, 11:30 at night, these thoughts start creeping into my head. And see, there are some things Satan knows he can't get you with, but he's gonna try anyway. We might look up today. You know what I'm saying? Today might be the day. And see, it is, you know, and and this is what I do. Watch my eyes. I'll be reading something. I'll be looking something. And then a voice will come up and I'll do just like this because they, they, they have to do it in such a way. And they're like, "We, we got to be very careful not to cross the line with this guy. We got to make sure that it's so subtle is him. If we go just too much, they probably by now say, 'If his eyes look up, we went too far.'" Because I, I'll just be doing something. I'll just be doing something. And if I'm looking up, I'll do like this. If I'm looking down, I'll do like this. Because it's subtle. It's, it's the atmosphere just changed slick. It's, it didn't change to where like in the name of Jesus. Yeah. Bam. Let's pull out the holy oil. Bam. No, just all of a sudden it just. And the other day it happened to me at the bed. I was just laying in the bed and I can't remember what the thing told me. I was just laying in the bed and I just, I felt something standing there and I, I felt it's, it's so like my wife says, it's strong enough to get your attention for a moment, but it's soft enough to ignore just just tad bit enough to just kind of, you don't look over, you just kind of. And all of a sudden these thoughts start coming to.

My head, and if you, the Bible said you have to pass on these imaginations, 'cause they didn't come from you. It is an individual who he takes something black and sets it on the shelf of your mind to see if you will take it. And when that thing enters your mind, the Bible says throw it down. When you throw it down, he's going to put the same thing back up there, and you got to throw it down again. He's going to put it back up here.

Now, once he sees that you're confident and you are consistent with throwing it down, then what he does is we got to switch to something else. Let's put this up here now. See if he'll do that. And then you put it down. And then he puts it back up there. You put it down. Jesus dealing with this for 40 days straight. And he puts it back up there. Okay. You put it down, he puts up the other thing you took down. Mar said all day. 'Cause what did it say about Jesus? They just waited until the next opportunity because they put multiple things on the mind of Jesus for 40 days straight, and he set everything down. They said, "It's obvious that this boy ain't going to take nothing we putting in his mind, so we might as well just stop and wait for a better opportunity."

So, like one lady said, "What's the level you get on when Satan stops attacking you?" I said, "Your funeral. It's never going to stop till the day you die. It's not going to stop till the day you die. It's not going to stop." See? And so this is it is this lesson right here. Satan's access to the mind. And guess what? When you leave, start your work week, work week back up Monday. The first rule, make them forget that. And they are masters at making us. They are masters at taking what's in us and making it disappear. You will listen to a message like this and guess what? Go the entire next week without reading the Bible again. Not on purpose. Didn't even cross your mind. And it's a creature. And the biggest judgment against us all. There's something wrong. You all Bible says it is the the the word of God is not a book. It's it's it's it is the only way to explain the Bible. It is God. He took himself and he literally took himself and compressed it into words. And as you read the word consistently day in day out, those words get in you and then they explode and make you like the one on the throne. There's no way to explain the feeling that comes from being in the word.

And and and granted, you know, look, don't give me the excuse about you're too busy. If you're too busy to be in the word, it's too you're too busy. And today you all you don't want to you don't want to you don't want to have a carnal lifestyle all the way to the end. 'Cause I bet you when that time clock runs to zero, then you want then you want to read the Bible. No. It's it's I mean, Jesus said half your diet is spiritual and half of it is physical. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the mouth of my Father. Half your diet is spiritual. Spiritual. And we all got to stay on top of this. I am amazed, y'all. I'm just being honest with you with myself. I'm I'm done. So, I'm just throwing a couple of things out here. I am absolutely amazed at how I have time to be in the word. I have time. I mean, trust me, pastor is not just coming up here preaching, "Yeah, I have no idea what I did within a week." Okay? But I have time because I can make time. You know what I'm saying? I don't do anything that I don't want to do and I don't feel like talking to people that day. I won't. There have been times I went a whole week and didn't even check my email. Didn't care. If your house going to have to burn down today, I'm sorry. Just just No, you're going to have to pray. Find another pastor to pray. If I shut down, I just simply shut down. That's how I keep myself sane. If it's my off day and I feel like working the entire day, that's exactly what I'm going to do. If I get home and and it's 10 p.m. and I don't want to go to bed, I feel like doing whatever. I I so I have plenty of time to do what I want to do because I don't have to go to a typical 9 to 5. As a pastor, I don't have 9 to 5 hours. I know a lot of people they do that. I just I'm not saying that they wrong. I'm just saying I don't agree with that. I don't agree with having I'm a pastor. I go to work at 9:00 a.m. and I get off work at 5:00 p.m. I think that's dumb. That's not how Jesus and the disciples did anything. I got to be available for people, which means I might not call anybody at 12, but I might hit you up at 11:30 p.m. Bishop, he hit you up at 2 o'clock, 3:00 in the morning 'cause they don't never sleep ever. It's like, how are y'all surviving? We go to a conference, you having church services from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and then they having private meetings up until 2:00 a.m. and then getting back up at 5:00 a.m. 7 days a week. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Americans can't handle that. The Africans got us beat on that. They got us beat.

But I'm amazed how I have to fight for that. And it's amazing to me how I don't have to fight in order to work out. I mean, it's amazing. I'll start I'll start reading and it's like some force comes into the room to try to just get me to. It's the weirdest thing in the world. So, don't get me wrong, your fight is not just you. We're all fighting. Now, there are a few of us. Now, there are some people, thank God, this is not an issue for them. They can read the Bible all day long. They getting through the Bible once every one month. Some of us like, "No, I'm getting through a chapter a month." I'm I'm Now, we all have to do better. Don't get me wrong, because it's not an excuse, but you got to fight. It's the most important thing. Jesus told Martha, he said, "You're worried about many different things." He said, "Mary has chosen the one and only thing that counts." He said, "And the last thing I'm getting ready to do is take that from her 'cause you need help doing something that can wait." So trust me, I'm not preaching y'all. I'm preaching to us all. 'Cause I'm just amazed. I'm And I'm I'm sorry. I should stop beating the dead horse, as they say. But I'm just amazed how I'm trying to get in the word and I got to force it. I just have to shut down and not care what happens because it's just it just everything is getting my attention. Everything gets my attention. It is so easy for me to just get up and turn on the television and watch what's on the news. I can do that so easily. But when it comes to that word, it's just a fight to think about doing it. It's a fight to think about. Oh Lord.

And we talking about in the morning if you don't go to a 9 to 5, now we talking about you have to get up and go to work and then come home after slaving all day and your your your your spirit is just like, you know what? I walk in the door, I'm going to pray. I'm going to get my 10 chapters in before I do anything. And the moment you walk through your door, your body says, "You must be crazy. Go ahead and heat up that leftover pizza. Sit down on the television and watch Family Feud that you recorded last night and check social media while you do it." And you do all of that and you eat and then you go into a food coma and you ain't read nothing and then you feel bad. And it's not God making you feel bad. It's the creature making you feel bad. He wants to keep you in an atmosphere of toxicity, an atmosphere of frustration, an atmosphere of "I can't do this," an atmosphere of "Oh my God, God is mad at me." Oh my. Keep you in that atmosphere. Keep you, keep you, keep you. And it's it can be the hardest thing in the world, but you got to fight. Do you be like this one individual somebody told me about? He this person was reading his Bible in front of this person. He told her, "You need to be reading the word." "I don't like to read." She doesn't like to read, so she doesn't read the Bible. She doesn't like to read. See, see, that's See, you're like, "Oh, she just doesn't like to read." No, there's a spirit that convinced her of that. Yes. 'Cause if you don't really like to read, see, see, I get facetious with stuff. Do you read the stop sign when you get to the internet section? Do you read the menu when you go to the restaurant? Just people crack me up. Okay. And see and and but they haven't been taught that thing will sneak into your life and have you convinced that you are you. Yes.

And as I close, they are not if you are a first-time visitor, they are not after me more than they're after you because I'm some pastor. They are after us all equally the same. Like the Holy Ghost told me years ago, son, Satan is against you increasing by 10 cent the same way he's against you increasing by a million. They are against you increasing. Period. Because Jesus said, "I came to give you life and life more abundantly." Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And when you read that scripture, you're like, "That's Satan. It ain't got nothing to do with me." Got everything to do from birth. So is a creature. Y'all got me. And so I just want to give a word shout out. Give a shout out particularly to all of the men to be sensitive because there are certain things that are after women and there are certain things that are after men. The way when you see the society, like I always say, that demon I cast it out. Cast out. So what's your agenda? I already knew the answer. What's your agenda for the last days? Just like this. The children. It's something about them corrupting our children that empowers these fools. It's like alcohol for them. It's a high. When you look at a society where now for 6,000 years this was a man and this was a woman. Now it's not. When you look at a society where now people are getting fired from their job because they accidentally called a person "ma'am." Sorry, that guy wasn't fired, but others have been fired. His college professor. They had this man in line for a wonderful job and they needed him. He did a Zoom call with two ladies. "Good morning, ladies." They didn't harm him for that reason. They said, "You're insensitive." He's like, "I'm insensitive. Y'all are ladies." Yeah, but you're not in. Okay, whatever. See, let me tell you something. If you want to call yourself a square root number, be my guest. I'm not against that. Just don't ask me to participate in this lunacy. Okay? If you wake up and you feel like a squirrel, then go ahead and get you some peanuts. But but but but where do I jump off the train with this participation where now I got to be extra sensitive? I don't know whether to call you a woman, a man, a number, a binary code, an alphabet letter. I don't know what to call you. See, with people like that, just wave. Where's it coming from? And what's so crazy is everybody knows it's crazy and nobody says it's crazy. And it's in politics. It's in business. It's in commercials. It's in movies. It's entertainment, education, church. A lot of churches. They doing special. They they there's a group, a large group of the church now that's like, always remember this, you all. Love does not mean acceptance. Love does not mean acceptance. Love means I'm going to tell you the truth and not judge you until you come to your senses. But right now, what's being taught is everybody is allowed to do and be whatever they want to do and be, and there are no consequences for that. And the scripture is just so plain, you know.

And like I said, there's an organization here, right here in Georgia, where it's the pastor and the first gentleman. And I went and looked it up. I looked it up online and everything. And to look at it, you would have actually thought this was a like a Church of God in Christ. They ordaining people and laying hands on people and prophesying. And what did Jesus say? He said, "There's going to be a large group." They'll say, "Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we cast demons in your name? Didn't we do wonderful works in your name?" As my pastor says, possible to be a ministry and God does not know because God said, Jesus says, you did all that. Oh, I didn't know that 'cause I don't even know who you are. And then the last sentence, "Depart from me, ye that live in sin on purpose, actively." I'm not talking about you falling into something, you struggle with something. You that practice sin, I don't know who you are. I understand that your raggedy pastor told you you could get into this place being that way, but your raggedy pastor doesn't have a heaven or a hell to put you in. This book is who says who gets in. And you got the leaders now perverting this and perverting it and perverting it and then saying that I'm out of touch. Yeah, we'll find that out when we stand before the throne. That says nothing impure will enter in. You and all you can do is warn people. So let me tell you something. I'm going to give you this last warning. You have entered into the season in planet Earth where now God will start scaring people in. You're going to see things over the next few days, weeks, and months. You're going to see things happen. When you study what the scripture says about the end days, it uses words like this: terror, men's hearts failing them because of fear. Watching the things coming up on planet Earth, rage, nations, turmoil. Y'all remember 9/11 and everybody came to the church? That's and watch that. That's God's love. But see, what happens is that people love is love. No, it's not the same way that a a piece of meat ain't a piece of meat. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it's just love is not love. You got to define love by the one who defined it. What is God's definition of love? And true love is to preach the truth in such a way. I'm going to tell you the truth. I didn't say that you done, but I'm going to tell you the truth. And I got to tell you the truth.

And there was a girl, a girl confronted me out at the Sunday location, razor. And this is years ago. She asked me right in front of everybody. She lifted her hand. I not only didn't answer do this stuff like that. She lifted her hand. I said, "Yes." And uh she said, "Uh, well, don't you just think that love is love and God allows anybody to be who they want to be with?" I looked right in front of her. No. I gave her explanation. She didn't come back. That was love. You know what was hatred is for me to lie to the girl 'cause I'm fawning for church members. And maybe if a preacher told her the truth somewhere down the line, the Holy Spirit will bring that to her her remembrance when it's time for her to get right. 'Cause how many know when you lived in sin, you made excuses, too. But if you don't tell these people where this stuff is coming from, Hallelujah. So guard your mind as the scripture says, both heaven and hell are after it. So let's go ahead and stand. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

I know another young lady. She just began to spend hours in the word. Hours in the word, hours in the word. She was in a lesbian lifestyle. Hours in the word. She said at certain intervals when she was in the word, she said that unclean spirits would come out of her while she's reading the word. Bible says the word makes you free. And um she talked about all of these strange substances that would come out of her and all of those things. Okay? So, but hallelujah. All we can do is keep telling them and keep praying. Hallelujah. So, I'm encouraging. Let me tell you this. I'm definitely bring your people to the church and all of those things, but but like I told this one lady, not interested in ministering to your friend. She wants a quick fix. I don't do quick fixes. If I do a quick fix, it'll be worse for her in the scripture. She says it'll be worse for her in the future. Okay? Right now, people don't need to get back to church. They need to get back to God 'cause you may get back to church and God is not there. Lift your hands. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you. We bless and honor your holy and majestic name. Oh Lord, create in us clean hearts, oh Lord, that we might not sin against thee. Give us wisdom and revelation, oh Lord God, concerning what is hunting us down, chasing us and our children to destroy us, and to kill us, to maim us, to molest us. Oh Lord God, we thank you. Hallelujah. I pray for every single person under the sound of my voice that you will reveal to them, oh Lord God, the things that the enemy is using to trip them up, hang them up, mess them up, slow them up. Thank you, Father God, for exposing what is around us. Thank you, Lord God. Thank you, Lord God.

Now, as I said that, I know you're praying, but I heard the Holy Spirit say in a small still voice, "I will do it to the degree that they spend time with me." You will blow your mind if you just get consistent with being in the word, being in the word, being in the word, and then the Holy Spirit will bring something to your attention where Satan is lurking. You mean to tell me that little thing? That's what happened to me. I was in the word and in the word and it was the Holy Spirit that showed me this thing is because an enemy is against you. Hallelujah. There's no answer that's withheld from you. Father, we thank you. We bless and honor you, oh Lord God. Praises be unto thee. Just lift your hands and give God thanks and praise. Ask him to clear your mind out. Ask him to clear your heart out. Ask him to cleanse you. Ask him to help you renew your mind and get your mind right and whole. Thank you, oh Lord God. Ask him to show you the things you need to disengage from to clear your mind out and purge it in the name of Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Praise your holy name, oh Lord God. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Blessed be your holy name. Thank you Jesus. Oh, hallelujah. Thank you, oh Lord God. Praise your holy name. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

For you all that may be here online, I'm going to lead you in a prayer in a moment. If you're not saved, if you've never accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, if you're not sure you're saved, all you have to do is repeat this prayer after me. In the Bible, it says, "Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Bible says, "If you will receive what Jesus did for you on the cross, he will forgive you, cleanse you from all of your sins, and he will make you a new person, give you a fresh start, and write your name in the book of life that is in heaven." We're all going to repeat this prayer together. And if you're here or you're online and you're watching, just take a moment and just repeat this prayer after me. And the Holy Spirit will move on the inside of you and change you, cleanse you from all unrighteousness and make you new and fresh and holy and righteous. Repeat this after me. Say, "Father, I receive the forgiveness of Jesus Christ based on him shedding his blood and dying on the cross for me. I receive forgiveness of sin and wickedness and mistakes. And I accept the blood of Jesus Christ over my life. Thank you for forgiving me, forgiving me and cleansing me. Thank you. Thank you for making me new. For making me whole. For making me righteous and making me holy. Thank you for writing my name in the book of life. I'm a member of heaven. I'm born again. And I will live forever in Jesus' name. Amen." Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, oh Lord.

Now, if you prayed that prayer for the first time, the Bible says, "As newborn babies desire the sincere milk of the what?" Word. Jump in. I don't know where to start. Start someplace. Just start reading it. Start in Genesis or start in Matthew. But make sure you reach out to us if you prayed that prayer for the first time. It's amazing how people online uh many of times pray that prayer and they reach out to us. Let us know so we can get you down for our spiritual growth class so that you can grow very fast. So, hallelujah. Hallelujah. How many know that uh the Holy Spirit shared this with you to help you understand about the importance of guarding what's in your mind. How you assist Satan is by what you watch and what you listen to. Out the trash. You got to be very, very selective what you listening to. Don't be listening to tumbling about the bumping and the grinding and and and and sleeping with somebody and cocaine and smoking weed and drug. Yeah. That stuff is getting on the inside of you, getting and it's breaking you down for a greater problem. Then you wonder why all of a sudden you get hit with something and you can't stop. You understand what I'm saying?

And right now, you all have you noticed the trend? It used to be back in the day that men kidnapped a child. You saw that every once in a while. I'm absolutely amazed at the number of women that now abuse children. It's unbelievable. That I don't know if they're trying to keep it quiet or what, but I'm just like, why is there so many women that are going to jail for the abuse of children? I mean, from keeping them in cages to all type of perversion to it's just unbelievable. And it's seemingly nobody wants to tell the world the truth about the other world where this is coming from. You find out when you casting all of these demons out of an individual. I think I told you, cast a demon just and she was the last one I laid hands on and uh thing dropped on the ground all in front of me and everything. So I said, "What is your name?" He gave me his name in some tongue. Who knows what language it was. The other girl that was with me, Christina said, "Y'all crack me. I'm getting mad. Say it in English." I can't remember what he said. Um, oh, say it in English. First word. Um, she'd been an alcoholic since 12. Well, thank you for revealing to me that you and sure enough, the girl had been drinking alcohol since 12. What' he say? Yeah. Yeah. When he said she'd been drinking since 12, I said, "What that got to do with what I just told you to do?" And I think I said, "I don't care. She'd been drinking from birth." She It's always these throw-offs. But think about that. You'll dis you'll you'll look at that girl at the age of 20-something. So raggedy girl stuck on alcohol. Yeah. But it was something that entered her at 12 that made her come out of character. And when I say, and the uncle that girl's whole life south, she told me Sunday, "I can only use my Wi-Fi, you know, when I come to church." So we just paid for a phone for phone service. And by the way, I'm going to close this. You know, we didn't do the whole Christmas thing where we sent gifts overseas and everything this year. There's a particular family we're going to focus on. One family want us to all work together. We're going to do extreme home makeover up in this piece. It's a group of kids that Jerry brings to church at the other location. It's 10 of them total, but she only squeezes seven into the car. And I never seen a whole group of kids that look exactly the same way in their eyes. I mean, the the exact same way. Completely motionless, almost a little bit fearful. Like, who are these people? Are y'all going to do something? And um from a little small girl to the one that's on punishment, clean their house and you know, do the walls and pull up the carpet. And so we're going to we're going to systematically begin to do things for them, but then we're going to, you know, make it a nice Christmas for them. You know what I'm saying? You know, and maybe that might mean we might pay for her to not have to work that week of Christmas. She can just be home with her kids and they can enjoy. And so I saw I saw myself doing that for this family because it's 10 of them. I also saw myself meeting with all of the kids on Sunday mornings in the back and doing my own little Bible study with them. You know, I'm trying to sew into them that your life was run amok. Jesus is here to turn that around. You know what I'm saying? And there are times we do it for a large group and there are times we just do it for one. The point is to just do it. You know what I'm saying? We are the most privileged people on planet Earth. Most privileged people. So, you know, we're just going to work together. I'll keep you abreast, but we're going to do we're going to be working it, but then we're going to give them a nice Christmas. And, you know, I don't know if I need to get the boys some video games or not. That may not be the wisest thing to do. You know what I'm saying? But, we'll figure out something and we're going to do it. You know, it might be something where, like I said, we'll see. I just I wish you could see the kids. That's a That's not a good look. It's the same deadness in all of their eyes. They just look there and they just kind of stand motionless and they're not like wild-eyed or just like curious. I mean, it's just like a like zombies, little zombies. And Satan is taking a hold. We can't save everybody. We can sure save as many as we can. Amen.

All right, that is enough for today. If you're a first-time visitor, make sure you come introduce yourself to me at the end of service. I don't have any announcements for right now, but get ready. Get ready. We're getting ready to enter into the holiday holiday season. Halloween is October the 31st. So if he sees Dracula, just give him a smack on me and then we'll be all set. So God bless you all. Father, bless them as they go throughout the day. Protect them from all hurt, harm, and danger. Until we meet again, we thank you for this day in Jesus' name. Amen.