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Unraveling Deliverance: Weapons of Our Warfare Ep. 4
Ever wondered how to wield the power of spiritual warfare effectively? In this episode, we unpack the profound authority that Christians have through Jesus Christ, diving deep into Mark 16:17-18 to showcase the transformative power in His name. Through a mix of personal anecdotes and scriptural insights, we highlight the potent weapons at your disposal, such as casting out demons, speaking in new tongues, and healing the sick. Discover how you can embrace and utilize your God-given authority to stand firm in the face of spiritual battles.
Preparation and true repentance are pivotal in spiritual warfare, and we explore this theme extensively. We share how simple, daily disciplines like fasting and submitting humbly to God can solidify your spiritual foundation. Emphasizing the significance of the sword of the Spirit, we discuss the balance between offensive and defensive tools in the fight against evil. Through commitment and preparation, you can experience lasting freedom and victory, paving the way for a life rooted in spiritual resilience.
Scripture and prayer are the cornerstones of spiritual warfare, and we delve into their indispensable roles. Learning to wield the truth of Scripture as an offensive weapon and embracing the transformative power of prayer and fasting can significantly bolster your spiritual resilience. Through personal stories, we illustrate how these practices have fortified our spiritual foundations and helped us navigate the complexities of deliverance ministry. As we conclude with a heartfelt prayer for divine guidance, we invite you to share this empowering message and join us on the journey towards spiritual freedom and submission to God.
Weapons of warfare. How do we go on the offense against the enemy? Let's talk about it. Hey, what's up? Family, welcome to Pastor. To Pastor, I'm Pastor Seth. Across from me I've got Pastor Jason Watson.
Speaker 2:Hey, hey, hey everybody.
Speaker 1:Super excited to be with you again today. We hope that our topics of deliverance we're going to continue today has been a blessing.
Speaker 2:Look man, unraveling deliverance has been huge. I know we've gotten some feedback from people who are growing and learning in this self-deliverance, helping deliver others, realizing the things that God has given us and the abilities, and it's awesome, man.
Speaker 1:I think one thing we need to start off by saying that I think we want to keep consistent is we're still learning this process.
Speaker 2:For sure.
Speaker 1:And what you find. The more you dig into things, the more you learn, the more tactics you understand.
Speaker 2:And the more you realize how much you don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ain't that the truth? Yeah, that's like with the word and with Jesus and everything. Yeah, but on the topic of deliverance, man, we've been through quite a bit of deliverances with people, and none of them are always the same.
Speaker 2:No, for sure.
Speaker 1:It's always different and stuff, and so last podcast we stopped on number seven, which was warfare and the weapons that we have, and we felt like it needed to have some dedicated time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. I mean to understand, to really be able to dig into the weapons, because most people think that Christians are. You know, when you talk to Christians, how you doing. I'm just barely getting by.
Speaker 1:I'm holding on. That's sad. You know, when the weather gets bad, the SAD syndrome, oh my goodness yeah.
Speaker 2:So we're wanting to show you guys how to fight back, how to take the fight to the enemy and to deliver Self-deliverance, deliver. Other people realize that you're not made to be a doormat for the enemy. That's right. You've been given the authority over the enemy.
Speaker 1:Yep, and you need to exercise that authority, that's right. You have the authority. Why not use it? You want to use it in your workplace, that's right. You want to use it over your kids? Uh-huh you want you use it against the one who's trying to take it from you.
Speaker 2:For sure, go to the enemy's camp. Hallelujah, take back what he stole from me. Come on down, will I All right? All right, hold on All right, here we go, let's get it, let's reel it in, let's reel it in, let's reel it in.
Speaker 1:Awesome. So that's right and our authority comes from God's word and it comes from our identity and placement with the father. I love that. If you speak victory and believe in Jesus, you will always overcome.
Speaker 2:You will overcome.
Speaker 1:Why don't you read what Mark 16?
Speaker 2:says, let's get them Come on back to Bible.
Speaker 1:We got to get them in the Bible, right, that's right.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about Mark 16, 7 to 18. It's going to kind of be the basis for where we start today, the first weapon of your warfare. So Mark 16, 17 through 18 says and these signs will follow those who believe In my name. They will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents and if they drink anything deadly it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they might not. They will recover Right. So in that scripture, the very first weapon we'll pull out of that thing is the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love it, man. It always starts with Jesus. You know, we've been growing up and I've walked past my grandmother, even my mother, praying, and many times the only thing they would say is Jesus.
Speaker 2:Jesus.
Speaker 1:Jesus, because there's power in that name. Freedom starts with him.
Speaker 1:And when you realize that he's one of the greatest weapons you have because he wants to fight for you. The Bible says that he's an intercessor for you and sometimes we lack that by not calling on the intercessor in those times of need. That goes with us trying to take control and stuff. But I love this because we've been the Indian, we've been through deliverances and things and it seems like any time you bring up the name of Jesus it's somebody who is possessed by the demonic man. They just go foolish because there's a fear.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The Bible says they tremble at that name Right, and so the first weapon is the name of Jesus. In my name, which is Jesus, we will cast out demons.
Speaker 2:It's not in your name.
Speaker 1:That's right. It ain't, jason. It ain't in my name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it ain't in Seth.
Speaker 1:Because what I know is you can scream my name and I may not ever hear you.
Speaker 2:Right, you may scream, my wife calls my name across the house and sometimes I can't hear. But the good thing is you can always. Those who call on the name of jesus will be saved. He will come in, yes, and be that strong tower for you for sure. So the first one is the name of jesus in my name. Cast out demons, speak in new tongues, take up serpents, pick up any deadly thing, drink any deadly thing. By no means it will hurt them. Hands on sick and they will recover. So the first one is found in mark 16, 7 to 18 the name of jesus, that's right and it tells you what will happen in that name, you know.
Speaker 1:It tells you what comes with it. When you say it, you can expect results. And when you come out, you can expect. They said these signs follow those who believe. Now my question for many people who are listening what signs are following you? Come on, is it the signs that Jesus says will happen when you let me lead you and lead the way?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or is it signs of destruction, signs of depression, signs of doubt and fear and worry, all the things that the enemy when it shows proof that you're being led by the enemy instead of the Father Right? And so let's correct our thinking first and open our mouth, and we can declare Jesus over the struggles over the things Jesus on. Look, you're in a singing mood today. I don't know what it is, man, you better worship him while you can. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Worship him while you can. Let's go on to number two.
Speaker 2:The second one is versus the name of Jesus. The second one is the blood of Jesus and your testimony. And look, man, this can be found in Revelations 12, 11. It says that in Revelation they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. They did not love their lives to the death. Like this also kind of covers submission, right, yeah. So the blood of Jesus, man. Look, we have delivered, we've been in deliverance sessions and we just plead the blood. Right, something about the blood. We just plead the blood of Jesus because it's through that blood our atonement for sin has taken us from the depths of sin and from that mud, that miry clay. Look, the blood has provided a way for us to be free. So when you start declaring the name of Jesus and the blood of Jesus, man, those are two things right there by themselves that will liberate people.
Speaker 1:Yep, and I love that it also growing up we would sing these songs that there's a wonder working power.
Speaker 2:Now you talking about me singing. Now here you go. Man, you got me stirred up in my soul, the bloodline Come on somebody.
Speaker 1:And you know, when you understand the magnitude that the blood of Jesus applied. It's got to be applied. You've got to receive it. You've got to submit your life to Christ so that he can apply the blood of Christ on you to cleanse you, to set you free. And then you get a testimony to tell here's the truth. You don't have a testimony without the blood. That's right. You can't have one without the other, because we start our testimony as I once was lost, but now I've been found. I was dying, but now I have life. And from that now we're already confident in something that Jesus already changed my life.
Speaker 2:If he changed my life once, what is attacking me now, he can change and fix that now. Yeah, and he did it for me and he can do it for you. Yeah, that's right. That's the spirit of testimony right there, that is Spirit of prophecy right there.
Speaker 1:Amen, yes, sir, and I believe in what he did for me, he'll do even greater for you. Absolutely, yep, yeah. So you got the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:You got the right, and this one's a tough one. This is gonna be a curse word for a lot, of, a lot of folk. Right, it's gonna be submission.
Speaker 2:That's a tough, I know I said it. I'm sorry, please forgive me, my god, that's a tough word for people, right? Some weapons you can use in your warfare. Like submission to god, all right, uh. James 4 7 says therefore, submit to god, resist the devil and he will what he'll flee, he'll flee, he'll flee from you, right? So submitting to God it starts with the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, right? And so the submission of God, lord, whatever it is you want me to do. Therefore, submit to God. Whatever God leads you to do, resist, and the devil will flee from you. I'm going to just say this and the devil will flee from you.
Speaker 1:I'm going to just say this. I know this is a very basic analogy, but when you think about it it's the same concept. We're both married. We have submitted ourselves to our wives. That's what Scripture says. Not only do we submit to them, but they submit to us as well, and what we do is we resist any attack of the enemy that tries to come into our marriage. Many times it's infidelity, adultery, those things. We resist those opportunities and we flee from them so that we can remain in covenant and we can remain in relationship with our spouse.
Speaker 1:That's right in purity. And through those submissions we are allowing ourselves to block attacks from the enemy. And it's the same thing with this thing, the spiritual thing, with Christ If you submit your life to him, you are resisting the devil, resisting the opportunity to fall short, You're protecting yourself. This is how we fight. We put up a resistance of the enemy and many times we find ourselves struggling because we fail to submit and resist the things the enemy is throwing at us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, look you know at the end of the day and resist the things the enemy is throwing at us. Yeah, man, look you know at the end of the day, first thing, submission right, got to be submissive to God. Lord, I'm at your feet and it's really recognizing that you need God because without him you can do nothing, right, right. And so you're submitting to God. And then you've got resist. Let's be honest, ain't too many people right resisting the devil?
Speaker 1:anymore. No, we're justifying him.
Speaker 2:Right, we were trying to say. I was saying you're trying to preach.
Speaker 1:I could, we could hang out here all day, right here, son.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're not resisting it. You're like oh, should I watch pornography? Okay, oh, my phone turned to it. No, your finger made your phone turn to it. You're not resisting the enemy, you're not resisting anything. It's like oh well, if you twist my arm, no, like you've got to literally like stand eye to eye, toe to toe and be like I'm not going that direction. I refuse to do anything that's going to separate me from God.
Speaker 1:Because we don't ask what I have to do to be saved. What can I do to still?
Speaker 2:be saved. Yeah, that's what people are asking today, absolutely. But the whole, the premise is submit yourself to God, know what God has said. Yes to Right. But there's not many people resisting anymore. But if you will resist, like I wrote this down Right, what you obey today, you won't have to sacrifice tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to my all I have to give up.
Speaker 2:I have to give up. No, you if you. Obedience is better than sacrifice, that's right. If you obey today, you won't have to sacrifice tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:It won't be a sacrifice, I'm just doing it in obedience. That's right. And so, yeah, resist the enemy. Submit to God and resist the enemy. Yeah, absolutely, these are for yourself, like this is for self-deliverance and this is for helping others get delivered. That's right. And so it's twofold If you, if you don't start bad habits today, you won't have to break them tomorrow.
Speaker 1:You don't start smoking today.
Speaker 2:You don't start doing drugs today. You don't start like offering yourself up your flesh up to do. If you're not pleasing the flesh today, you won't have to deny the flesh tomorrow.
Speaker 1:That's right man that's right and that's how we get caught up, because a lot of us, we think that if we, you know, it's that we talked about it, the, the repentance of the heart, the repentance of the mind, true repentance of being set free, is truly submitting these things to God to be set free so you can resist them. And, man, you're right, you're right, don't start bad habits today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and here's the thing If you make a mistake, it's being humble and being honest and coming before God, humbly and Lord, I failed. I'm sorry, like truly Not. I failed today and I'm going back tomorrow. But that I failed today and I'm going back tomorrow. Right, but that I failed. And God, with your power, with your strength, if you'll strengthen me in my weakness. God and help me. I will overcome this. Yeah, I'll be better, but anyway.
Speaker 1:Obeying God today will prepare for tomorrow and helping others get delivered Right. I love what you've got here, Pastor. You said a small nudge to start fasting. A meal a day is better than spending six hours in a deliverance session. It's amazing how people want to be delivered but they don't want to prep for it they just think they're going to show up and things are going to change.
Speaker 1:When they've, they have not prepped their spirit, they're not prepped their soul, their mind, they haven't prayed, they haven't done anything to prove to Christ. I'm willing to do my part in order to be set free to think. Everybody wants Jesus to do everything, with no commitment, no submission or nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it. But he's already provided the way. I mean, I'm excited about the study we're doing tonight and maybe, if we extend this, we'll kind of get into it, but he's already given us the authority and the power over so many things. He's already declared things in heaven and earth. He's already us the authority and the power over so many things. But there are things you like. He's already declared things in heaven and earth. He's already bound and loosened things, and now he's given us the authority to do the same and so. But there are certain things you have to do in order to get free, and if you aren't willing to do it, then you don't want to be free. Let's just be honest about it.
Speaker 1:You've got to submit to God and you've also got to submit to the process. Yeah, if you want deliverance, there is a part that you have to do to prepare. Yeah, to make those things work.
Speaker 2:And it's not just a. It's not just a we'll do this and you'll be delivered. There's also steps for after, too. After, oh yeah, Because if you go into it blind and think, oh, I'm going to be delivered and test it right yeah, I mean you gotta get wisdom there's gotta be a plan, yeah, yeah
Speaker 2:absolutely but anyway, yeah, if you will start like, like just an example, like you talked about, if we'll fast a meal today, we won't have to fast for two or three, you know, for six hours, which we've been there, we've. We've kind of got hit up with this, this principality. I wouldn't even call it. It was a strong, strong demon in this girl. One time we were out there with her for six hours we were like, please, holy Spirit.
Speaker 1:God leave her. Help me, Help me. That's for sure, bro, but yeah.
Speaker 2:So submission to God, man, submit to God, resist the devil. Small yeses today will equal a whole lot. Big victories, big victories. Come on, somebody, Number four, go ahead and hit them with it.
Speaker 1:The sword of the Spirit, which Ephesians 6, 17 talks about it. Many of you know about the armor of God and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Now, out of all the armor and items that are listed in Ephesians 6, I encourage you to go read that and figure out how you can be on the offensive and defensive. But this is the only offensive weapon, the sword of the spirit. The rest is defensive because you need both of them.
Speaker 2:It's protection, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:They protect. You need to have both of those things. But the sword of the spirit is meant for warfare. You just can't cower in a corner and think that you're going to win all your battles. You've got to stand on what you know, be confident in the Father, be confident in what you have. And the problem is a lot of us aren't confident with our offensive weapon is because we spend no time understanding and developing the knowledge that it gives us, and so we don't have anything to say against the enemy.
Speaker 2:That's right, this walk it gives us, and so we don't have anything to say against the enemy. That's right. This, this, this walk with God, man, it is. It is so deep and I don't believe.
Speaker 2:And one thing, man, I love about scripture in itself it doesn't matter if you get a PhD or if you've just opened up for the first time. You are going to get something from the be revealed to you, right. And so as you begin to read and pray, like, god will reveal things to you, like dude, every time I open scripture I get this revelation that teaches me something Like, I get this understanding that I didn't have before and it teaches me how to better prepare myself. It teaches me more about who Jesus is, more about who I'm supposed to be, my identity in Christ, how I'm supposed to carry myself. And we were doing with Crosspoint Christian Academy, we were doing it with the kids this morning. We're like the Word will help you, be prepared, so that you so that even I'm big on self-reflection, I like to reflect and see how I can improve things, but studying the Scripture will prepare you so that you won't even have to reflect.
Speaker 1:You just know how you're supposed to be and the Holy Spirit will remind you the things that you've been taught is what Scripture says in Corinthians, and what I know to be true about Scripture is if you don't have Scripture in your heart and in your mind, it's easy for you to believe the lies of the enemy. For sure, yeah, and so when he tells you you're worthless, you're unloved and you don't have backing with a scripture that says no, no, those are lies where you can say no.
Speaker 1:I was fearfully and wonderfully made. God gave his whole life for me, even while I was a sinner, while I was broken. He loved me enough. And you have all these things that scripture can combat the attacks of the enemy, but we shoot ourselves in the foot to say, because we don't, we have. It's crazy to have access to something that can bring us freedom but still push it to the side because we're just lazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it's like the enemy telling you well, no one loves you and and man, you, you're the, you're the least of these and all this like, but but you got a whole love book right, but scripture says I'm the head and not the tail yeah so you know, if you look in this thing, if you've been around christianity for some time, you've heard this, right, but that's how jesus fought the enemy back.
Speaker 2:uh, whenever he was in the wilderness for 40 days, the enemy would come and he would say but the word of God says make these. He's like you're hungry. Won't you make these? And I'm paraphrasing obviously, won't you make these breads.
Speaker 1:He said it just like that too you hungry, you hungry. Yeah, you know, you hungry right, he's like man shall, so you have to have Scripture in order to fight the enemy and what he's trying to speak to you. Yeah, because even in that same context, in that passage, man he's like I'll give you everything. He didn't realize, jesus, he already owned it all. Yeah, he's trying to offer you things that you already have, but you don't even know it, because you're not even reading Scripture and having the Word yes, sir, but what I also love about the word Pastor Jay is that it says it's a two-edged sword.
Speaker 1:It cuts going in and coming out, which means it can challenge you in the flesh and fix you in the flesh and get you subject to the word, but also it is an attack and warfare meant for the enemy as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Because he can't deny truth. Lies cannot combat against the truth. The truth will always set you free. The truth will always be a standard against the lies of the enemy.
Speaker 2:But you just got to open the book. Open the book, get it in your heart. Open the book. What do they?
Speaker 1:got to do. Come on back to Bible.
Speaker 2:That's exactly what you got to do. Come on tell them that's right.
Speaker 1:Let's jump to number five, because this is the hardest for most people, and that is prayer and fasting oh my goodness To tell somebody to put away their cheeseburger and spend time with the Lord and it's not like a weight loss thing we're trying to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're doing it intentionally.
Speaker 1:You know, the weight we're trying to lose is the weight of the enemy off of our shoulders. Yes, sir, and we're trying to drop that weight, but you've got to do it. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so Scripture you know, we've covered this before the Scripture of the kid who kept having seizures. Right, the demon kept throwing him into the fire. The disciples couldn't cast it out because they weren't strong enough, and then so, afterward, jesus was like these only come out by prayer and fasting. What's interesting about prayer, though, is that not all deliverance ministers agree that prayer is a weapon.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like in my study, what I figured out is that some believe. Well, prayer is a preemptive strike.
Speaker 2:It's something that prepares you versus praying in the middle. But here's the truth. I think most of your prayer personally, my experience I think most of your prayer should be up front If you're heading into a deliverance ministry, if you're heading into a deliverance service or event, or you've scheduled somebody for deliverance or you're becoming delivered yourself. Look, here's the interesting thing about this class it will pull to the surface, it will go ahead and start preparing something on the surface for you to deliver later. But it comes through prayer. The more time you spend in prayer when you start right here man tongue side, come on somebody Anyway let's move on.
Speaker 1:Okay, my bad, my bad. I love what you're saying, Pastor Jake. Prayer strengthens you when you're going to war.
Speaker 2:For sure yeah.
Speaker 1:When you go in there, you're allowing the Holy Spirit to speak and prep you, so you're not what we would say shooting with a shotgun. You're shooting with a rifle. You can go straight to the problem and begin to call those things out. Prayer gives us clarity. Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2:And there are times where, in deliverance, you'll be delivering someone in a demon manifest and you'll ask hey, what nature are you? And you can tell just by looking at them, sometimes, like you're the demon of pride, or you're the spirit of pride, you're the spirit of infirmity or whatever it is. They will kind of tell you without telling you these non-verbal cues. But sometimes you'll ask them hey, tell me, you can't figure it out. Tell me what nature you are of. And and if you expect the demon to give you the true answer every single time, like then you're going to be deceived.
Speaker 2:You're going to be running around in circles, yeah, but I've learned that spending time in prayer before you even get there will eliminate a lot of the conversation you need to have with the enemy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, prayer helps you load the gun that you're going to use as a weapon. Yes, sir To attack the enemy and so you're not going into deliverance and just saying let's go before the Lord and pray, really quick, no, no no, we're going to war. We've already prayed, we've prepped, the Lord has spoke. We're calling you out. We're not going to patty cake around this and let's call out what the Lord's already revealed in our private time of prayer and fasting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there are times during prayer. You know, while we're doing prayer, there are times during deliverance where you'll need to pray and ask God for strategy.
Speaker 2:Like. I'm just not quite sure. You'll need to ask. And here's the thing too In Scripture in the Old Testament, daniel prayed for God to help and he sent an angel to minister with the answer he was looking for. So your prayer will release an answer. So in many ways you need to pray before and there will be times while you're doing deliverance where you'll need to pray. But prayer and fasting, fasting will supercharge your prayer. I mean it will supercharge you spiritually. When you start denying flesh and that's what fasting is denying your flesh in order to gain spiritually when you start praying and fasting intentionally over one specific thing, man, you will be surprised. How long have you ever fasted? I mean, like just straight water.
Speaker 1:About a week.
Speaker 2:About a week, yeah, my body be shutting down.
Speaker 1:My body shuts down in two days, man, my wife be like well, you quit fasting. You can't handle fasting. I'm like you know what, peter, get behind me Satan. Yeah, no man, it's tough man.
Speaker 2:It is rough. I remember one time I had we were going into a week of prayer and so I said I'm going to fast. I even took off from work because I wanted to be able to spend every day, all day, in the Word and prayer and really seek in God's face. Man by day three my body was like getting out of the bed became a struggle.
Speaker 2:I mean literally, but I'm telling you I felt like every time I begin to to have a conversation with god man, it was like like super charged there's a difference you can tell a difference when you're denying flesh in order to gain spiritually, in order to to connect deeply, more deeply with god.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I, I love that you're reading your bible and that you're praying. You're fasting. It's really showing, it's really showing.
Speaker 2:It's really showing. Well, I appreciate it. One day I'm going to study enough to get you saved. It's going to happen, Listen prayer and fasting is strategy. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It helps. You have strategy for the enemy, you don't go in the dark, you don't think in that. Hey, you know what? I'm just going here and I'll pray up and what's going to happen is you're going to probably walk away with your tail tucked in, because it's not cupcakes and rainbows, man, it's war. That's why they call it warfare.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:You go in, you go prepared and prayer and fasting. I don't want to hear from somebody, I want to hear from the Lord.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:And I don't want to hear from myself. And prayer and fasting clears your mind and lets you just like you said, man, there's something completely differently about it and, um, if I know that me sacrificing a meal or two is what's going to lead me to the road of my freedom.
Speaker 2:I'll do it, or even, or you know, fasting should, let's be honest, be a part of the lifestyle of a christian anyway for sure like I mean, there are there are times where and we should, we should really probably push back for a meal or two or a few days, like whatever the case is, because we are genuinely seeking to grow stronger in god we want to hear his voice more and more.
Speaker 2:That's right, um, so anyway. Ephesians 6 18 says praying always, praying always, with prayer and supplication in the spirit, being watchful to the end, with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. Yeah, anyway, ben, look, we want to talk about manifestations. Do you want to save it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's save it, let's save it, let's recap really quick, all right.
Speaker 2:Okay, weapons of our warfare.
Speaker 1:Yeah, weapons of our warfare. It all starts with Jesus.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Declaring his name, knowing that it is in his name that we can cast out demons. It's in his name that we can take up serpents and all those things that scripture tells us in Mark, chapter 16. It starts with him.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And these are the signs that follow those people who actually know whose name to declare and what to say. Secondly, you have the blood of Jesus and your testimony. You can't have either, or it's both, and you have a testimony because of the blood of Jesus, and when you acknowledge that, you realize that my testimony foundation is what Christ did on the cross. I'm being cleansed, I've been set free. The third thing is submission to God. We just said another cuss word again, but it's such a big deal submitting to him that way that you can resist the devil and he will flee. Freedom starts with Jesus and the submission to him Right. And so, fourth, you've got the sword of the spirit. And then last we just talked about it prayer and fasting. These things are so important for you to have spiritual freedom and to go to war against. No more cowering in a corner and saying you know, this is just who I am, this is just what I got to deal with.
Speaker 1:I'll never be free. I'll always be bound. These are steps that get you to freedom. You just got to have the boldness and the drive to actually do these things and be set free.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure, well, brother, if you're good, I'm going to go ahead and bless them and we'll send them on their way, absolutely, and we thank you guys so much for listening to us, for being a part of Pastor to Pastor, If you have any questions or if you need some clarification on anything or if you need deliverance, whatever the case is, reach out to us Free her bro.
Speaker 1:I mean, we will set you free right using all these weapons of warfare, and he's got some heavy hands, y'all. His holy ghost hurt.
Speaker 2:It's heavy. Let's get out of here before we get in trouble, hey, but make sure you like, share, subscribe, all those good things we want to get the word out. That's all it's about it's not about pastor to pastor.
Speaker 2:It's about Jesus. We want to deliver people, set people free, show them the love and goodness of Jesus, Anyway, of Jesus and anyway. So let me bless you with Numbers 6, 24 to 26. Says the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace, Pastor Jay let me pray for them, father.
Speaker 1:We just thank you today, for all those who are listening, those who are struggling or bound, those that are dealing with addictions and things that have happened in childhood, or struggling in their marriages, and things, god, that they just cannot seem to cut loose. Father, I pray that these podcasts and these words that you're giving and the challenges that you're giving us, god, will continue to help us grow and develop. God, I pray that they will start taking steps to freedom. Give them the boldness and the humility to reach out for help, whether it's to us or a local pastor or a local minister or someone who can reach out and help pull them out of the pit, out of the darkness.
Speaker 1:God, we just thank you for these opportunities. We thank you for those who are listening. God, let them step into freedom this day, forward, submitting to you, resisting the devil and walking into freedom. We thank you so much. In Jesus name, we pray Amen. Thank you so much for listening. Share this with someone who you know needs freedom and we look forward to hearing the results of what God can do.
Speaker 2:God bless, you See you next time.
