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Hey y'all, this is Troy black. So I'm going to share real quick a couple announcements, and I'm jump right into this word that God gave me.
So number one, this week, uh, November 7th through 10th, I'm going to be in Hesperia, California, at the Abide Conference. If you all want to sign up for that and attend the free conference, if you're in the area, it's in Hesperia, California. You can go to profitrobsanchez.com/abide.
Another thing is, I've got another YouTube channel called Tree Life Ministries, where I share just teaching, uh, and and prophecy that's related to encouragement and teaching and preaching, that kind of stuff. There's no current events, there's no world news or anything like that. And so you can, uh, we just posted a new video this week as well on Wednesday, and you can go follow that channel at Tree Life Ministries on YouTube.
Okay, so some people are going to be watching this video and thinking, "Who are you to speak into this prophetic word that I've heard other people say?" You know, and I'll be honest, I, I don't even know who talks about the three days of darkness prophecy, but I know there's this prophetic word that's been talked about. And I've heard, uh, mainly in the comments, I've seen people talking about it, and people that I know personally have have told me about it, and I've had people asking me about it recently.
So I had a person ask me about it, um, on a Facebook comment this last week or earlier this week, and as soon as I read their comment, the power of God came over me. The presence of the Holy Spirit fell on me, and it was this beautiful, just like peaceful, but also like powerful moment in the Lord's presence. And the Holy Spirit began to speak, and he clarified what's going on with this prophetic word for me.
So I wrote down what I heard in that moment. I shared it with that person on Facebook, but I also felt led to share it with you here today. So that's what I'm going to be doing.
And some people are going to be listening and saying, "Well, who are you to think that you can speak into this?" Because maybe you've heard somebody, you know, or trust talk about it. And I, I sense the Lord asking me to, to give sort of a disclaimer here, but also a, um, sort of to, to, to say a few things upfront.
Okay, number one, I am not trying to label somebody else as a false prophet. I'm not trying to label someone else as not hearing from God. But human beings make mistakes. We need to realize that human beings are not perfect. Even people with a prophetic gift, even prophets under the New Covenant, which there are some listed in scripture, uh, in the New Covenant, in the New Testament, and I believe there still are some, some today, but they can make mistakes because they're human. Jesus was the only human who never made a mistake because he was also God, so he was perfect. But humans are not perfect. God speaks perfectly. The Holy Spirit speaks perfectly, and people sometimes misinterpret.
So this is what has happened in the past. Sometimes is, uh, people have gotten really mad and said, "Well, this person never hears from God because they shared this word, it didn't come to pass." But maybe what happened was they got the wrong timeline, right? Maybe they assumed, made a connection, they assumed something that, that what they saw or heard meant something else that it didn't really mean. Um, a lot of times God speaks in images. We see that in Acts chapter 2:17, referencing the Book of Joel. It says, "In the last days, I will pour forth my Spirit," says the Lord, "and your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions." Okay? And it goes on to say, "Your young men and women will prophesy." You know, and I, God says, "I'll pour my Spirit on all people." So he's saying there's no distinction now, there's no favoritism. Anybody can be filled with the Spirit. Anybody can begin to prophesy by the will of the Holy Spirit. It's not our will, we don't make it happen, it's His will, and He makes it happen.
But what can happen is when people are in a place where they are, they have pressure on them to share prophetic words often. And I, I'm speaking from experience because I've been here, because I, because I do share them often. We have to continuously go back to the Holy Spirit and say, "Lord, if you don't have anything for me to say, I'm not going to say anything, and I'm not going to reach, and I'm not going to stress, and I'm not going to strive to get a word from you. Instead, I'm going to rest in what Jesus has done for me, and whatever plan you have for my life, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep doing that." If that means prophetic ministry, great. If that means walking away from prophetic ministry, great.
But sometimes what can happen is pressure can be put on people in prophetic ministry, and they can begin to, whether knowingly or unknowingly, repeat things that they've heard other people say or add on to things they've heard other people say. And what they're really doing in that moment is they are prophesying from the soul, which is not real prophecy, instead of by the will of the Holy Spirit.
So, can people make mistakes? Absolutely. Do we need to repent of it if we publicly prophesy something, say, "God did say," and then it's not true? Yes. Should people always do that? No. But there needs to be more accountability within the body of Christ, in the charismatic movement, in the prophetic movement. There needs to be a lot more accountability.
That is why this minister, you, this beginning of this year, we started, and and listen, y'all, I'm not saying I've got this perfect. I'm not saying, "Oh, look at me, I'm right, else is wrong." That's not what I'm trying to say. I'm a human being too, and my heart is to strive for humility and accountability.
Okay, here we go. Prophetic archive this. So we, we started this archive, and and we put it up on TroyBlackVideos.com. Number one, so that people can see these words are actually accurate, they're actually coming to pass. Uh, God is speaking very consistently and and accurately through this ministry. But that's not the only reason. The other reason was I started to recognize a deep need for accountability. And if I'm posting my prophetic words that the Lord is speaking to me online, but I'm also following up and showing what happens then, and I know I'm going to have to do that, then there's a new level of accountability there, uh, where you can go look at what happened, you know, and and we have the results there, and you can say, "Hmm, I think you got this one right," or, "Um, I don't know about that." You know, like you can make that decision for yourself.
Now, thank the Lord, uh, so far, what we've seen is accuracy. But listen, y'all, if I ever share a word and it's just blatantly not from the Lord, and it's very clear that that's the case, I'm going to publicly apologize for that. And that's not me being, you know, stepping away from boldness. That's not me being intimidated. I'm not intimidated by you, whether you're for me or against me. I'm not intimidated by you. But I have the fear of the Lord. And if I make a mistake as a human being, I'm gonna, I'm gonna call myself out and I'm gonna say, "Lord, humble my heart. I'm gonna humble my heart. Help me to walk in in in holiness and righteousness. Help me to walk in the truth. Help me to not care what people think. Help me to not try to save face and protect my ministry. Help me to protect the truth and what you're saying." So that's my heart.
And this is, this is an appeal right now. And I didn't plan on saying all this, but this is an appeal I sense from the Holy Spirit for all, uh, for all prophetic ministers, anyone who who who prophesies, whether online, in public, or, you know, in their church, wherever, in their house, you know, to their spouse, whatever it is. It's like, if you share prophecy, like this is an appeal to come back to purity, if you need that, but also to not walk away from the fear of the Lord, not walk away from a deep desire to only speak what the Holy Spirit's speaking, and not to twist it, not to, not to distort it.
So if you need some, if you need some recent, uh, you can go to the TroyBlack.com prophecy archive. If you need to, to have some evidence that that I'm actually hearing from the Lord. But also, if you need a recent evidence of that, I just posted this video yesterday or Tuesday at this point. Yeah, Tuesday. No, yesterday. Wednesday. God told me this about Trump's win, in quote, before it happened. Because this is a, this is actually a compilation video of many of the prophetic words about the election season that God gave me over the last couple years. And I actually show on screen the dates that these words are shared, and I, and I give the me quote, I literally quote the things that I said. Um, so y'all can go look at that. Very accurate. The Lord's been speaking very accurately over the last several years.
And, um, so another one, more thing I'll say here is, um, there are times where the Lord has had me call people out. One in particular, I don't do that very often. Um, if y'all know about the, uh, quote-unquote prophetess online called Celestial, the Lord recently asked me to make this video about her. Uh, God told me to reveal this false prophet's name. And in this prophetic word, the Lord literally called her a witch. That's, that was the language he used. And I was very hesitant to share this, but now we've, this is what we've seen. This happened. Uh, Marcus Rogers literally did a livestream about this earlier today. So if y'all haven't seen that, y'all go check it out. His livestream, he goes through, he actually shows the videos. I'm not going to take time to do that. He shows the videos of what she said about, you know, November 5th and the the results and everything. But she literally said that, uh, Kamala was going to win. She said that, you know, her running mate, who I'm hesitant to say his name right now on here because I'm streaming on Facebook, but she said he was gonna die, like, he, like, and that, and then that Kamala was gonna win. All this stuff, you know.
And, um, now she's not repenting of it. She's, she's, she's making, you know, according to what I, what I've heard through other sources, she's making excuses and stuff. And it's very clear and very obvious that God was not speaking to her, and that she was lying, or that she was hearing from another spirit or something. And listen, and it makes sense to me now why God asked me to make this video. And I, I posted this, I believe, eight months ago. It says right there, but eight months ago, the Lord asked me to make this video about her and to expose her ministry. And listen, this is not something I like to do. I don't like exposing people. I don't make exposing videos. But the word of the Lord is going to win out at the end of the day. The, the, the Lord's word is not going to return void. And if somebody is not willing to repent and say, "Hey, I missed this. I, I need to be held accountable," you know, whatever that, whatever that is, listen, they're not walking with the Lord. They're not walking with the Holy Spirit. They're not listening to Him. And we need to be very careful about that.
So this is what those are all the disclaimers. But I do want to say, let's say, let's say I don't even know who's talking about the three days of darkness. But let's say they disagree with what I said here. Let's say they said something completely different. My encouragement to you would be, number one, pray about them and see if the Holy Spirit is saying if maybe, maybe you should listen to them, maybe you shouldn't. Maybe they missed that one, and that's something that He is going to hold them accountable to that they need to repent of. Maybe. Or maybe they were repeating something someone else said without testing the spirits and without going into, "What is the Lord actually saying about this?" And maybe they just said it because they heard someone else that they trusted say it, which is not, not really a good reason to say something.
So pray into it. I'm not trying to say, "Oh, that, that means everyone that's said anything about this is false." That's not what I'm saying. But y'all kind of see where this is going. This is what I heard on November 1st about the three days of darkness prophecy. Okay? I heard the Lord say, "It's not from me." Now, when I heard this, the presence of God fell on me. The power of the Holy Spirit came over me. It was a very clear confirmation. This is the Holy Spirit speaking. The peace of God was so, so evident, so tangible. And the Holy Spirit said, uh, and he called it a rumor. And he said, he said about, he's, he, he said, "I'm, this is how I feel about the three days of darkness rumor." And he said, "It's not from me. It's not from me."
And then I heard the Lord say this. He said, "Think about it. What is the purpose and point of a rumor like that? To cause people to trust more in the truth of the gospel and the voice of the Lord, or to try to create fear in the hearts of believers?" The elect, the Holy Spirit saying, "Think about it. What's the purpose of it? Why would I, why would I tell people that? And what has been the result of that?" So if that's something you've followed, or you've seen some other people follow that and like, prepare for it and, you know, and whatever needs to happen.
I'll say this one thing that I've heard. I have not even heard anyone prophesy this. I will be honest. I don't go listen to prophecies. I don't, I don't, because I don't want to get my wires crossed and I don't want to accidentally repeat something someone else is saying, you know, thinking it's prophecy. I want to just hear from the Lord. That's it. So I, I be, I'm very careful about who I listen to. Even people that are truly prophesying, I'm very careful about listening to them too much because I don't want to be swayed by that, and I don't want to, uh, I don't want to, uh, twist what God is saying to me, if that makes sense. And so, and I don't want to assume what God would say. I want to allow Him to say anything He wants to say. If He wants to speak, if He doesn't, that's fine.
But, but the Lord is saying, "Think, think about it. What's the purpose of it? What has been the result of it in your life, or in the lives of those who have followed this rumor? Has it been the peace of the Lord? Has it been?" He says, "What's the point? To cause people to trust more in the truth of the gospel and the voice of the Lord, or to try to create fear in the hearts of believers?" See, if it comes back to the point is fear, and the result is fear, it's not from the Lord. It's actually from the enemy.
Now, God can say things that can cause us to be afraid for for a minute, you know, just like the angel said to Mary, "Do not be afraid." He said that because she was starting to be afraid of just the experience itself. But when the Lord recognizes that the the experience itself causes us fear, He says, "Do not be afraid." "Let me remind you, this is the presence of God. This is this is a messenger from God. You do not have to fear." And I'm going to get into the theological reasons for that in a few minutes.
But the Lord said this next. He said, "The devil is always trying his hardest to get people to believe in an impending doom in order to get their eyes off of me and my purpose for their lives." What's He saying? He's saying, "Get back to the point. What's the purpose? What's the point? And where should our focus be? Him and His purpose for their lives. Him and His purpose for their lives." And if this thing is causing, if we're having to think about this thing all the time, how do we know if we're afraid of something? We're constantly focused on it, or it constantly interjects into all the areas of our other areas of our life, and it messes with God's purpose for our lives because we're, instead of focusing on Him and and and the purpose He's given us, we're focused on that.
Then He says, "The Lord said this." He said, "But I have spoken a better word, and that word is my Son," talking about Jesus. He said, "Latch hold of the beautiful abundant life you have in Him, and you won't fear three days of darkness or what's coming next. It all, instead, you will be led by the Spirit of Truth and hope, knowing that I am in total control and have a good plan in mind for you." And this is so refreshing. This is so peaceful.
Now, is God saying that nothing bad is ever going to happen? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. But what's the spirit behind the emotion that's being created? What's the spirit behind the thing that's being spread that's causing the emotion? That's what He's saying. Paul talks about peace that surpasses understanding. That means I don't understand why I have so much peace right now, but I know it's the Holy Spirit who's doing it. What's the opposite of that? I don't understand why I'm afraid of this all the time. I'm prepared for it. I'm, I'm stressing over it. I've heard all the words about it, but I don't understand why I'm still afraid of it. Well, it's not the Holy Spirit. That's the difference. Fear and anxiety that surpasses understanding versus peace that surpasses understanding.
You know what that peace looks like? I don't have to know. I don't have to know. Even if this thing is coming, I don't have to worry about it. Why? Psalms 23. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me." What's He saying there? He's not saying, "I, I, I, you know, I'm stressed, I'm nervous because I'm going to have to walk." You know, he's saying, "Hey, hey, even if this happens, even if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death." He, he's not exalting the darkness, he's exalting the light. And he, he's saying, "I'm not gonna be afraid." That's probably how he said it. "I'm not gonna be afraid of that. Why would I be afraid of that? Why would I fear that?" So I'm not going to focus on it. If I get there, God's with me. That's the point. If we get to that that point, God's with me.
So I don't have to prepare for it unless the Holy Spirit specifically tells me to. And some people say, "Yeah, but what about the prophetic voices? They are saying you have to prepare. This, you have to prepare for this." Go back to what the Lord said here. And and and I'm going to get into the word and show you that this is all echoed in the word. This is this is all just this prophecy right now is just an echo of what the scripture already says.
Watch. The devil. The Lord said this to me. He said, "The devil is always trying his hardest to get people to believe in an impending doom in order to get their eyes off of me and my purpose for their lives." Listen, my friend, we need to test the spirits. Yes, even from seasoned prophetic ministers. Because here's what what can happen. Somebody can take on an offense. They can be walking in, you know, uh, victory. They can be walking with the Holy Spirit, and they can be hearing clearly from God. And then they can take on an offense against somebody else, or something that someone did against their ministry, or whatever. And they can have this thing. Or they can, they can take on this bitterness against God, like, "God, well, I should have, I, I should have been more popular by now," or, "Look at them, their ministry surpassed mine," or whatever. And, and, and what can happen is, and I'm, I'm being real right now because these are temptations that I faced at times that through that, that Holy Spirit has to help me walk through and overcome, okay? I'm showing you the behind the scenes.
But, but people with ministries can start to take on an offense, or, or, or envy, or jealousy. You know, and then what can happen is that comes up as a wall between them and the Holy Spirit. And instead of prophesying what the Holy Spirit is saying, they're prophesying out of that place of offense, or, or envy, or jealousy, or bitterness. And stuff starts to get twisted. And here's the crazy thing is, people can still be having real dreams that God gave them. You can still be seeing real visions. But if they don't have the still small voice of the Holy Spirit in the midst of it, they're having a revelation, but they're missing the One who is the revelation, Jesus Christ. And they're not, they're not looking at Him. They're not pointing it back to Him.
This is how we test the spirits. Is somebody preaching the gospel in the midst of the prophecy, or not? Are they preaching impending doom that you can't get away from? And that's what this lady, Celestial, that I shared that video about, and I, I shared this at the beginning, but, you know, I, the Lord asked me to share this video about this lady. That's what she preaches. She talks about sin, yes, she talks about repentance, but in the context of there's no hope for you. She says, "This person is evil, and they're doing this sin, and God's judged them, and they don't have a chance to repent." Now, that's the opposite of the gospel. That's the Antichrist spirit. Jesus said, "I did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the," what? "The bad news that there's no hope for you?" No, the good news that He died for our sins, that we could be forgiven, that there's still hope, that the grace of God is still good for, is still enough for us today. We've got to test the spirits.
And listen, y'all, it breaks my heart. I'm gonna, I'm going to be very careful in what I say, but it breaks my heart to see some, I'm trying to be very careful in how I word this. There, this is, this is what I hear the Lord saying. I'm just going to say what I hear Him saying instead of saying it from my own perspective. I just hear the Lord saying, "There are seasoned ministers who are prophesying accurately, who have a love for the word and a love for purity, but they missed my heart when it comes to sharing the gospel message, and they've overlooked one of the most important aspects of Christianity and what it means to be a light to the world. They've gotten the rest right, but they've missed the one thing that truly changes people's lives, and that is a gospel-centered focus." And that's what's needed again in the prophetic ministry.
I hear the Lord saying, "They're not, they're not pointing people to Jesus anymore. They're pointing people to a Jesus-like life, a Christ-like life, but not a Christ-filled life." Unfortunately, I hear the Lord saying, "This is not happening across the board, but it's happening more plentifully than you could imagine because they've got everything else right, so they pass under the radar. But they're missing the most important thing because they, they've said to themselves, 'It's not important anymore. I've already said that once. I don't need to say it again.'" But I hear the Lord saying, "But I want you to keep preaching this. My people, keep preaching the truth about what Jesus has done for for you. If you know Him, you have a testimony, and you can share it every day. You, you can share it with somebody every day. You can share it with the same person twice, it's not going to hurt. You can preach it to yourself in the morning when you get up. It's going to change everything. Knowing the next prophetic word is not going to change anything."
I hear the Lord saying, "Knowing Jesus is going to change everything. And the truth about my, what my word says about Him, that's the fix this world really needs." This is 1 John. And I have, I have some more to share about this prophecy that God gave me about this three days of darkness prophecy. I'm gonna share that in a few minutes. But I, I felt led to to read some verses. I'm going to try to make this short.
But 1 John 4:15 through 18. How do we, how do we test the spirits? Sorry, 1 John 4:1-4. "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world." Now, there are many false prophets who are just completely not listening to the Lord at all. But there are real prophets. There are real, real Christians who hear from the Holy Spirit, but they have made a mistake. Okay? And we need to distinguish between the two. There's no perfect person except for Jesus.
Verse Two: "By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God." What's the focus here? Do they confess Jesus Christ? Do they point you back to Him being the only hope for your life? Is it all about Him, or have they made it about something else? This is why 1 Corinthians 14 says, "Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment," or let the others weigh in and judge. It's because even, yes, even those that are truly hearing from the Lord, we still need to test the word itself that's being shared. Where's it coming from? Is that the Lord speaking, or was there a strong emotional influence that caused you to say that?
Verse Three: "And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard is coming and now is already in the world." You are from God, little children. So now He's reminding them, "Hey, John's saying, 'Hey, listen, I know y'all, you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you. You are from God. You have believed in Jesus.'" He's saying, "Now correct this one thing. Let's get back on track. We can do this." He's saying, "You are from God." He's saying, "You don't have to now run around in fear like, you know, like a chicken with your head cut off. You don't have to be there. You have the Holy Spirit living inside of you." And I'm gonna show you what He says later. He's trying to build them back up. He's saying, "I know this is hard to hear, but I'm gonna build you back up."
He says, "And you are from God, little children, and have overcome them. Watch, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." Listen, if you know Jesus, if you believed in Him, you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, and greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. So you don't have to fear that next thing.
Listen, my friend, you also don't have to rely on a prophet in order to be walking in the truth. Why? Because you got the same Holy Spirit living inside of you. I had someone come to my church recently and, and, you know, just to see me and my wife, you know, in person. And I believe they're waiting for a word, you know. But also they had some things they wanted to share. And so we stood there and we talked to them. They were very, very nice, very sweet, loving people. You know, it's a very good experience. But the only thing God spoke to me to to share with him was that the, the words He gave me was, "There's nothing that I have that y'all don't already have inside of you." That was what He asked me to share with him. "There's nothing I have to give you that you don't already have living inside of you." The Holy Spirit is with you.
This is 1 John 4:15. "The same chapter: Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God." So how do we walk with Jesus? How do we abide with Him daily? We confess Jesus is the Son of God. We talk about what Jesus has done. We tell our own. We say, "Why are you so downcast, O my soul?" And we say, "Jesus died for you. Jesus died on the cross. You have the victory. You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to be anxious. You don't have to be bitter. You don't have to be depressed anymore. You don't have to be trapped in sin anymore. Jesus died for you, and He loves you."
My phone's not happy about this message. Listen, and the gospel never stops working. That's the truth. That is the truth right there. The gospel of Jesus Christ never stops working. And some of us, we've stopped working the gospel. We've stopped using it. We've stopped going to it. That's why we're looking for something else to fill in that gap. Don't look for anything else.
You want to remain in God, and He in you, meaning you're abiding in Christ, you're accessing the abundant life that He's given you daily. Confess that Jesus is the Son of God. Look to Him. Look at the cross. Look at His resurrection. He's seated at the right hand of the Father. And it says you're seated with Him in heavenly places in Ephesians. You have the victory in Jesus today, and nothing, no one is ever going to change that.
It says, "We have come to know and believe the love which God has for us." Listen, we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. This doesn't mean that we're constantly believing. It doesn't mean we're constantly walking in it. We've got to come back to know, "The Father loves me unconditionally." Yes, unconditionally. People say, "Well, no, there's conditions." No, it says, "For God so loved the world that He sent His Son." Every person in the world, God loved. It says, "God does not desire anyone should perish." God poured out His love while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This is how God showed His love to us. No, God loves you unconditionally. But you don't access that love until you remove the wall, that's the dam that's holding back that love and that grace from pouring into your life. And you remove that through believing in what Jesus has done, taking the free gift of salvation, saying, "I'm not going to live in sin any longer. I'm gonna live with You. I'm gonna repent, and I'm gonna come and believe." That's not a works. That's not a work. Repentance is not a work. Penitence is a work. Repentance and penitence are two different things. Repentance is just a change of heart, change of mind. It goes hand in hand with belief. They work together. I like to look at it like this: repentance is taking your eyes off of one thing, and belief is setting your eyes on Jesus. That's one action. You, you have to look at Him. You got to look away from the other thing, and it begins to fix everything.
But it says, "God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, God remains in him." By this love is perfected with us. Watch what happens when the love of God comes in. The word says the Holy Spirit pours the love of God into our hearts. Watch what happens when His love comes in. "By this love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as He is, we also are in this world."
"There is no fear in love, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind." There's no fear in love. I don't have to be afraid anymore. The only fear that should be in our lives is the fear of the Lord. And that's not a trembling fear. That's not a fear of judgment. Watch, because it says, "There is no fear in love, but perfect, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love." Uh, that's not a fear of punishment. That's a fear of breaking God's heart. It's a fear of hurting Him. It's a fear of losing that sense of nearness to Him. But listen, my friend, the blood of Jesus always gives us access. It gives us confident access. So we don't, even when we lose that sense of nearness, we don't have to stay there. That's what the love of God does. You don't have to stay there anymore.
But there's no fear in love. Perfect love drives out fear. So if this thing that I'm listening to is causing fear, constant anxiety and fear, and I feel like I have to tell other people, here's a, here's a good way you can judge. Do you feel like you have to tell other people about it to relieve some of the stress of it for yourself? That's a spirit of fear. And I'm saying this in love. I'm not trying to judge anyone. I'm not trying to be harsh. But I sense like I have to say this. And the reason you're sharing that with someone else is because that's what the spirit of fear wants you to do. I know that sounds harsh, but that's how fear operates. Don't listen to that spirit anymore. Don't even listen to the echoes of it from someone else. Don't even listen. Don't even let the, the, the, the marks itself, the stamps itself that it left behind, you know, the drag marks on your, on your heart. Don't even, don't even let those have any influence over you.
So, no, I'm not going to listen to that. And I just, I hear the Lord saying, "I need to pray for this right now." So I'm gonna pray. I, I'm gonna pray and I'm gonna pray against the spirit of fear in every person's life, mine included. Because listen, y'all, I'm not perfect to this. And then, I'm not perfect to this. I'm not saying, "Do, do like I've done." I'm saying, "This is what we all need to do." We need a revelation, a fresh revelation of the love of the Father. And if you want that, you just got to look at the cross. Start exalting Jesus. Start meditating on what He's done. Meaning, you focus on it. You read about it. You pray about it. You worship Him. Say, "Jesus, thank You." Every time you start feeling afraid of something, say, "Jesus, I just thank You that You died for me. I thank You that, Father, that You love me so much, You're willing to send Your only begotten Son to die for me." And Your word says, "If You were willing to to to allow Him to die for me, if You're willing to give up Your only Son, of course You're going to do all these other things I need." Of course, you know, it's like, you're going to take care of my needs. That's, that's, that's truth right out of the scripture. "How much more will He not?" I'm bashing that verse, but "how much more freely give us all things," is what it says. We, we need to remind ourselves of that. This is the truth.
So I'm going to pray. Holy Spirit, I just ask for a fresh revelation of the love of the Father in every person's heart, mine included, right now. That You would bring us back into fellowship with You, Father, in every way possible. Any way that we've set up a door, or even if we've allowed something in we didn't realize, Lord, a false belief, or or or an emotion, or fear, whatever it is, I just ask that You would remove it right now in the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit. And Holy Spirit, I just thank You for the fruit of the Spirit in our lives: peace, love, joy. Breathe that side of relief right now in Jesus' name. If you get to relax, you get to rest, as Hebrews chapter 4 says, in the believer's rest. I just speak that rest, the believer's rest, over every person right now. Thank You, Lord, that we get to rest in what Jesus has done. He's finished the work on the cross. We get to rest in that. We get to trust in that. We get to believe that You are with us no matter where we go. Even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we are not going to be afraid. We're not going to fear any evil, because You are with us. Lord, You're right here. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. We get to experience freedom today because of the presence of Jesus Christ, the presence of the Holy Spirit. And Lord, if there is any unrepentant sin in our hearts right now, we just repent of that and we say, "Lord, reveal that to us and show us what that is so we can get free from that." Because we want to walk in freedom. We don't want anything to hold us back. We don't want any sin or incumbrances to hold us back from the full purpose You have for our lives. I just speak freedom in the name of Jesus over every person listening right now. And I just command the spirit of fear here to stop in Jesus' name. You get no more voice. You get no more influence in any of our lives right now in Jesus' name. Thank You, Holy Spirit, because the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the grave lives inside of us. Greater is He who is in us than He who was in the world. Thank You, Lord, that we got to receive the Holy Spirit. We get to be filled fresh with the Holy Spirit now, not because we've done everything perfect, Lord, not because we've gotten right, because we've heard the gospel and we've believed it with faith, Lord. We've taken it with faith. As Galatians three says, Jesus' blood is enough. Man, I'm just reminded of that old song. "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. And what can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus." What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. And what can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. And oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. Oh, no other fount I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. That's what it is. It's a fountain. It's a fountain of life. That's what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit, that it would be, uh, like rivers of living water bubbling up inside of us. That's the question the Lord's asking us today: "What fountain are you drinking from? The fountain of life, or a fountain that steals your peace and takes away the good things that I have for you?"
And I just hear the Lord saying this: "The blessings of God, they're not materialistic things. They're not the things you have on you, that you wear, what you drive, or where you live. They're what you have inside of you. These are things that the devil can never take away if you don't let him." I hear the Lord saying, "I have peace for my children in every situation. I have hope, no matter what news comes along, no matter what they face. And I hear the Lord saying, 'My Spirit is with you to help you, no matter where you go in this life. No matter how rocky it gets, you don't have to be afraid because I'm there with you, and I'm going to help you traverse every terrain. Every hardship gets easier when I'm with you. Let my Spirit lift you up today. Let my Spirit lift up your soul and bring peace where there was turmoil, calm where there was a storm. You don't have to be afraid any longer.'" Thank You, Lord Jesus. Thank You, Holy Spirit.
All right, I'm gonna finish the rest of this, man. The presence of God is just so good. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 says, "Now the Lord, the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit." Are we going from glory to glory today? From faith to faith? That's where the Lord has us.
I heard the Lord say this, and He's talking about this three days of darkness prophecy, that rumor that people have been talking about. And again, I'm not trying to pass judgment on someone. If you heard someone say this, they they may have missed it, or they may have been just sharing something they heard someone else say that they trusted. I don't know, and I'm not trying to come against anybody specifically, okay? I don't even know who's who's been talking about it, but I've just heard people ask about it. But I heard the Lord say, "That's not what I sound like, Troy. My word brings hope. It brings with it life, and life to the full." Then He said, "Everything I absolutely need to warn you of is found in the scriptures." Oof. It highlighted that. It hit me so hard when I heard it. The Lord said, "Everything I absolutely need to warn you of is found in the scriptures."
Now, does that mean He warns us, He never warns us about other things? No, but He's saying, "Everything that was of utmost importance for us to know as what's coming in the future, He put into the scripture." And listen, most of the warnings, there are some warnings in Revelation about certain things, you know, that are more practical. But most of the warnings are spiritual in nature. Things like warning against the Antichrist spirit, things like warning against, uh, the, the types of acts that people are going to be engaged in in the end times, things, things like warning about, um, the devil's schemes and and un unrepentance or unforgiveness in our hearts, or bitterness. The different things that God warned us about, a lot of times they're spiritual in nature.
And as you're restoring this believer, watch yourself so that you don't fall into temptation as well. You know, He warns us about things because He knows, again, what the Lord was saying earlier, He knows that the most important thing is what's happening inside. What's happening in my heart right now? If I'm walking with the Lord, I'm gonna be okay.
Listen, this is, this is what I heard the Lord say next. He said, He said, "Everything I absolutely need to warn you of is found in the scriptures." And He said, "Yes, I can speak to believers and warn them about things to come on a smaller scale. I do get specific with my people. But I don't participate in corrupting their daily walk of peace with me. I don't participate in corrupting their daily walk of peace with me." And that's what this is doing. It has become about the fear and dread of when this event is taking place and how to prepare, instead of about dwelling with me, no matter what.
Then He said, "This has taken the place of peace in your heart I have for you. No longer. Don't let the devil steal from you anymore over this." Now, could there be some future event? Could, could there be something that people really saw in these visions or dreams or whatever it was that, um, that happens where the electricity goes out for three days or something like that? Sure, that could happen. I don't know. I haven't heard about it. I haven't heard from the Lord about it. I'm not saying it couldn't happen. Listen, the Lord's not saying that that couldn't happen. But He's addressing the fear involved. And listen, He's addressing this is something else I believe He's addressing. He's addressing people exalting the power of the enemy over the power of God.
One of, one of the rumors I did hear someone talk about on, uh, online through comments and stuff was that people during these three days of darkness, we're going to have to live in, in the.
house with the lights off or something and use candles only. And then, like, demons are going to be outside, like, trying to tempt us to come outside and talking through the doors or something. And and I'm like, "Do you hear what you're saying right now?" In love, I'm not, I'm not trying to judge. I'm not trying to be harsh. That's exalting the power of the devil over the power of God. And that's from Satan himself, that rumor, all of that, that's from the Devil. He's trying to make you afraid. If there's demons outside my door talking, I'm gonna open the door and I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna cast them out and say, "Get off my property in Jesus' name." I'm not going to stand for that. I'm not going to put my hope in a candle, a certain kind of candle, a certain kind of wax. I love you so much that that's why I'm willing to say this. I don't care if I lose subscribers over this, but that's witchcraft, my friend, when we put our hope in a certain kind of candle or certain kind of wax or something. That is witchcraft. Paul warns us about this in scripture. And I love you so much that I'm willing to tell you this. Listen again, I'm not, if someone has repeated this and you've heard this on a platform you trusted, I'm not coming against someone specifically. That's not what I'm trying to say. But but I'm trying to be obedient with the what the Lord has asked me to say. Watch this. This is, this is, uh, Galatians 3. This is what Paul the Apostle says, okay? He says, Galatians 3:1, "Who has Bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?" He's saying, he's saying, "Don't you remember when Jesus died? Don't you remember what what happened there? What he went through for you? Don't you remember what this whole Christian walk is all about?" And then he says, "This is the only thing I want to find out from you. Did you receive the Spirit by The Works of the law or by hearing with faith?" Listen, nowadays, what does the works of the law look like? Anything we try to add to the picture, we to to try to bring power back into the equation. The power comes from the gospel message, comes from Jesus Christ, comes from being filled with the spirit based on what Jesus did for you. That's where the power comes from, not from doing a certain number of things. When when we start adding a list of things, we say, "Well, you got to be scared of three days of darkness and you got to have this kind of candle prepared." That's witchcraft. And that's bringing law. That's creating a new law and is going back under the law. And the word of God tells us when we try to go back under the law, we're bringing a curse back on ourselves. So the very thing that people are trying to do to keep the curse away is bringing the curse of the law back upon themselves because they weren't willing to get free through Jesus. They had to get free another way. They had to protect themselves another way.
I love you, I love you, I love you. And that's why I'm willing to say this because I love you too much. Listen, my friends, we need to mature as Christians. We need to, we need to quit playing around. We can't bring other things into the equation. Listen, my friends, this is the the the imagery God's giving me right now and it's heavy, but I'm going to say it. Just like in a marriage relationship with your spouse, you are not going to bring other materials in to your marriage relationship to to to to a time of intimacy with your spouse. You're not going to bring that in. And I hear the Lord saying, "That's what's happening in my body right now." And I love you so much that I'm willing to say this. That's what's happening. People are bringing witchcraft in by the thing, the materials that they're putting their trust in, their hope in. You want to bring something in? Go take communion. Do that every day. That's fine. But don't go somewhere else. Don't start saying, "Well, we also need this. We also need, you know, these things under our pillows. We also need these things hanging on the walls. We need to do this on our door frame." No, you don't. Jesus has already finished the work. He was the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world for the sins of the world. And his sacrifice says is once for all time. It says there is no longer any need of another sacrifice. And Paul says, "Who has Bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?" "This is the only thing I want to find out from you. Did you receive the Spirit by The Works of the law or by hearing with faith?" Faith. He said, "Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?" These things are works of the flesh. Well, I'm going to do this thing to add God's power back to my life to protect myself from this thing. Listen, my friend, even stocking up, and I'm not saying it's always wrong to stock up because you can be prepared. I mean, I've got like three, three extra sets of toilet paper in my house right now, not because I'm afraid of situations coming, but but it's because every time a situation comes, people go and buy it all up. And the last time we had none, you know, like I'm like, "We have five kids in the house, we have no toilet paper." You know? So I have it in case people freak out. So it's like I'm prepared in a sense, but I'm not putting my hope in toilet paper, okay? And even stocking up and having like a a room full of food can become a work of the flesh if we're doing it out of fear instead of out of faith. Now, if you pray and you ask the Holy Spirit, "Should I have some extra food prepared for something, you know, like for for emergencies?" He's probably going to say yes, and that's okay. But listen, my friend, if he says no, I want you to walk by faith and you do it anyway, that's disobedience. But we need to make sure we're not doing things in the flesh, but rather by the spirit. It says, "Did you suffer so many things in vain? If indeed it was in vain." So then, "Does he who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you," watch this, "Does he do it by The Works of the law or by hearing with faith?" What's he saying? He's saying the power is in believing in what Jesus has done and getting filled with the spirit based on that. It is not in doing enough, not in making sure I've heard all the prophetic words out there and that I'm prepared and that that I never miss one because then God's going to be mad at me. If you're live listening to prophecy out of fear of missing something, God has a better path for you to walk on today because he doesn't want you to be led by fear. Man, some of us need to fast from prophecy. And I know that sounds sacrilegious or heretical or whatever. It's not because it all comes down to what am I putting my hope in? Even a gift of the spirit can be exalted to a place that wasn't meant to be if it takes the place of Jesus. Putting our hope and trust in Jesus in our heart says, "Just as Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness." Now he points us back to he's saying, "Y'all were trying to add more things back in and trying to create a law for yourselves." He's saying, "But look, he's saying this is the answer. Just as Abraham, if you want to walk in the blessing and not the curse, watch this. Just as Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. Therefore, recognize that it is those who are of Faith who are sons of Abraham. The scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying, 'All the nations will be blessed in you.'" So then, "Those who are of Faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer." If you're walking in faith and your trust is in what Jesus did for you at the cross, listen, my friend, you have a blessed life. You get to be a blessing. And the curse of the law no longer applies to you, but the blessing of Jesus Christ has fallen upon you. And that's good news. That's really good news.
That's all I got. That's all I got to share with y'all. I hope this is okay. I know some of this is heavy. I know some of this is is is not expected. I know it might may sound harsh. That's not my heart. My heart is just to be obedient to the Lord. But also, the Lord wants us to walk in freedom. And when there's little things that we need to be corrected of, listen, there's some things that the Lord had me to say today that are speaking directly to me. And and there are some things I said to you that are correcting that the Lord is using to correct me right now. So I'm not getting this perfect. But Paul says not to think more highly of yourself than you ought. That would be my prayer for myself today. Lord, help me to be humble. And help me to hear this. And if there's some, if there's part of this that applies to me, help me to receive it. If there's part of it that doesn't, help me not to take on a weight of condemnation or shame. That's not, you know, God, God doesn't have those things for us. Help me not to take on something that I'm not supposed to take on. There's no, there's, uh, therefore, there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1. That means God doesn't have condemnation for you. He doesn't have shame. He doesn't guilt us into doing the right thing. He loves us into surrendering to him. And then the Holy Spirit helps us to walk in ways that are pleasing to the Lord. So I'm praying that you receive the love of Christ today. That it becomes very real in your heart. I love you all so much. I'll see you next time.