Defeated

Are you giving the devil to much say in your life? Are you caught in his web of deception? Are you struggling to free yourself?

Are you using your armor as discussed in Ephesians 6? Do you want to be free of disease? Sickness? Torment? Addiction?

Listen to this episode with Tammy Toney-Butler, Evangelist, and get equipped, emboldened, and awakened to your kingdom purpose? 

Know whose you are and your identity in Christ. 

Believe it. Receive it. Become it.

#spiritualwarfare  #breakingfree #deliverance 

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Welcome to the Reflective Hour podcast.

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And this episode is called Defeated,

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Defeated.

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So look at that image, defeated.

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He's got his sword and he's using it.

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And he's cutting away all of the deception

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of the enemy and the darkness that has

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kept him entrapped,

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that has kept him trapped.

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that has kept him in prison he is

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using his sword and cutting away the lies

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and the deceptive web of the enemy and

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before i bring myself on i just want

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you to look at that image i want

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you to let that image speak to you

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i already hear the lord just wants that

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image to speak to you oh holy spirit

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oh holy spirit just come come have your

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way in this time that we have together

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May they hear you and not me,

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see you and not me.

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Oh, may they see you.

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May they see you.

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May they have spiritual ears to hear and

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eyes to see and be forever enlightened and

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changed.

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And be forever enlightened and changed.

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I'm Tammy Toney-Butler.

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evangelists and your hosts of reflective

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hour.

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But again,

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we all know who's leading this show and

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that's Christ by way of the Holy spirit,

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the spirit of truth, the spirit of,

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of God that lives inside of us,

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that changes us layer by layer and gives

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us the strength and the ability to

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withstand the attack of the enemy,

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to fortify our walls and,

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and cut ourselves away to freedom from the

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deceptive web that the enemy wants to use

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to entrap us.

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How many of you have felt trapped?

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How many of you felt deceived?

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How many of you have been confused,

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lacking clarity this season?

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where does your help come from remember we

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don't wrestle against flesh but against

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evil powers principalities in high places

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this is a spiritual war and our weapons

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cannot be carnal they can't be man's

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weapons it's a spiritual battle you've got

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to fight with your spiritual weapons

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prayer

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Spirit-led prayer to where you are

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literally listening to the Spirit,

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attentive, still,

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in a position to receive,

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a position of humility,

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and a position

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to pray forth God's will into a situation

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or about a situation with the Holy Spirit

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making intercession for us and us using

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our tools

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And remember,

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we have the authority as kingdom

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ambassadors,

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as sons and daughters of the king.

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Those of us that believe on the Lord

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Jesus Christ and his spirit dwells within

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us.

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We have the authority.

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We have the keys to the kingdom.

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The devil is under our feet.

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But we have to use our weapons.

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And we have to fight this invisible enemy

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with our weapons.

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And what weapons do we have?

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We have the word of God.

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the sword of the spirit.

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Right?

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What does it say in Ephesians?

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Ephesians six?

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Well, let's look at it.

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Let's go to Ephesians six.

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And we start in a seat in Ephesians

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six.

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And we start with ten.

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And it's titled the warfare of spirit

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filled believers.

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Finally, my brethren,

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be strong in the Lord and the power

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of his might.

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Put on the whole armor of a God

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that you may be able to stand against

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the wiles of the devil.

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For we wrestle not against flesh and

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blood, but against principalities,

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against powers,

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against the rulers of darkness of this

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world,

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against spiritual wickedness in high

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places.

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Now remember, we're in this world,

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but not of this world.

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We have access to heaven's authority

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Spiritual power backing us.

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The power from the Holy Spirit.

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That's why Jesus rose again.

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He died and he rose again.

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And he left us.

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So that we would have the keys to

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the kingdom.

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We can bind.

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We can loose.

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And we can proclaim our outcomes.

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We don't have to partner up.

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with a deceptive web of the enemy.

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We don't have to stay trapped.

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We can cut our way to freedom one

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layer at a time.

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When we let the Holy Spirit guide us

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by prayer and an obedient posture of

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surrender and say, not my will,

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but yours be done, O God,

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and focus on kingdom things,

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kingdom building, kingdom reality,

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the will of God.

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And we will be guided.

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And the Holy Spirit will help us and

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get out of us anything that's in us

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that's prohibiting our walk with the Lord.

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That's keeping us from our kingdom purpose

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being fulfilled.

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For we were born with a purpose.

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You have a purpose.

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And the enemy wants to kill, steal,

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destroy,

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and distract and keep you

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from stepping into the fullness of what

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God has for you this season.

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If he can keep you distracted with the

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cares of life or with the deceptive web,

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maybe he's trying to sow seeds of

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bitterness in you, offense, hate, anger.

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Maybe he's trying to get you distracted

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through various opportunities that keep

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coming to you.

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Are you praying before you're saying yes

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to those speaking engagements,

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to those requests?

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And are you only going where God wants

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you to go?

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Are you resting when He says rest?

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Are you being still before the Lord and

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being truly led in this hour?

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Because there comes a moment when you stop

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striving, you start believing,

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you start receiving and you start becoming

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who God purposed you to be.

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And in that moment,

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you realize you're not doing any of it

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that God is.

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And you truly just give it all to

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him and realize you can't do it.

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It all has to be him because it's

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his kingdom assignment.

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And we don't know the end from the

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beginning.

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We don't know all he has for us.

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We might run.

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I mean,

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You know, his ways are so much higher.

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And so, you know,

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in our infinite little wisdom,

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our own little worldly wisdom,

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we can't comprehend the things of the

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kingdom of God.

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And so we have no choice but just

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to surrender and give it all to God.

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And it's so freeing.

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It's so freeing.

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And the devil just loses his grip when

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you don't give him any place.

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When you realize that

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He's beneath you.

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He's your footstool.

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Jesus conquered him by the blood shed on

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Calvary.

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Yes, he's an accuser of the brethren,

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but there's no case in the courtroom of

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heaven.

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It's been dismissed because the blood of

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Jesus was the final argument,

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the final say.

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You were acquitted.

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You were let go.

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You were pardoned.

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You're done.

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You're free,

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but you just have to believe it and

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receive it and become it.

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And you have to stop being distracted and

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getting caught up in that web of

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deception.

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That web of deception.

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You know how you're walking?

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Like I was walking through the barn this

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morning and I could not even see that

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spider web.

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I couldn't see one,

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but I started feeling it all over me.

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I was like, oh my gosh,

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let me get this off of me.

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How did I walk into this web?

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I couldn't even see it.

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But that's what the devil wants to do.

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He wants to ensnare you, to trap you,

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to get you caught up with the cares

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of this world.

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Instead of saying, oh,

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I see what you're trying to do here.

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I'm going to turn this over to God.

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who's omnipresent, omniscient, everywhere,

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in control, has full control,

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has control over everything, is sovereign.

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And I'm going to let my God,

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the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

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the God of our precious Lord Jesus,

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I'm going to let my God, that God,

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the powerful God that spoke the world into

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existence,

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I'm going to let him speak to this

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mountain.

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And I'm going to remember Mark eleven,

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twenty two to twenty five.

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And I'm going to recite that scripture out

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loud and I'm going to let my God

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handle that problem.

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And I'm going to know in Psalm ninety

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one,

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I won't even dash my foot against a

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stone because I know who my God is.

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And I'm going to use my weapon,

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my sword to defeat the enemy.

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And I'm going to say it is written.

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Get thee behind me, Satan.

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It is written.

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And whatever storm you're facing,

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you invite God into that situation and

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say, Holy Spirit,

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I don't see a way out of this.

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But I know, I know, I know,

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I know that God is with me and

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I know he's going to help me.

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And I know he'll never leave me and

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he'll never forsake me.

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So during this trial,

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what am I supposed to learn?

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Am I supposed to maybe,

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maybe realize my authority as a believer

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and step out in faith and speak to

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this situation and command that illness to

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leave and command the body to come in

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alignment with God's word and command my

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body to walk in total restoration and

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divine health all the days of my life

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because that's what it says I have access

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to.

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Am I going to believe the word of

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God?

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Am I going to use my sword against

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the enemy that's already been defeated?

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We already have the victory.

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But the devil wants to get us caught

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up in stinking thinking and get us to

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believe his lies.

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And we give too much place to the

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devil.

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We only need to recite scripture.

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We don't even have to get upset with

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the devil, you know, meaning, you know,

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devil, I bind you, you know,

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just like use harsh words.

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We just get devil, I bind you.

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You know, I bind you.

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The word of God says I have the

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power and authority to bind and loose.

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So by the power of the Lord Jesus

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Christ, by his blood shed on Calvary,

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under his name,

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the name that is above every other name,

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I speak to this mountain and I cast

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it into the sea.

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I speak.

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to the chronic pain and I rebuke it.

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Spirit of infirmary, I won't have it.

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And I plead the blood of Jesus over

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the root and I loose myself from sickness.

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I loose myself from addiction.

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I loose myself by the power of the

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Lord Jesus Christ.

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from chronic fatigue.

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I have the strength of Isaiah forty thirty

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one.

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That's what my portion is.

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Healing is my portion and I believe it

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and I receive it and I walk in

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it and I refuse to let the devil

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entrap me

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with his lies let's go on and let's

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read this finally my brethren be strong in

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the lord and the power of his might

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put on the whole armor of god that

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you may be able to stand against the

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wiles of the devil for we wrestle not

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against flesh and blood but against

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principalities powers against the rulers

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of the darkness of this world and against

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spiritual wickedness in high places

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wherefore take unto you the whole armor of

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god that you may be able to withstand

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in the evil day and having done all

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to stand stand

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therefore having your loins skirt about

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with truth having on the breastplate of

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righteousness

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And your feet shall be the preparation of

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the gospel of peace.

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Above all, taking the shield of faith,

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wherewith you shall be able to quench all

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the fiery darts of the wicked and take

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the helmet of salvation and the sword of

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the spirit, which is the word of God.

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Praying always with all prayer and

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supplication in the spirit and watching

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thereunto with all perseverance and

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supplication for all saints."

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for all saints and when we look at

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the the commentary it says as the sword

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is a weapon so is prayer in fact

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prayer is given the most prominent place

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the most space in paul's description of a

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fully armed christian soldier

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The importance of prayer is seen in verse

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eighteen with the repeated emphasis on all

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all prayer and supplication with all

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perseverance for all the saints to pray in

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the spirit means to pray with the guidance

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and assistance of the Holy Spirit while

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continuing to stand firm.

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A believer is also to pray and to

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stay alert.

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Look at that part though,

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a fully armed Christian soldier.

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Did you realize that you're a fully armed

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Christian soldier,

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that we're in a war and that you

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were formed with a purpose and you have

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a part to play in the kingdom of

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God and advancing it on earth as it

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is in heaven?

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Are you stepping into your role as an

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ambassador for the kingdom of God?

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Are you speaking reality?

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the reality of the light over individual's

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lives?

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Or are you speaking darkness, curses?

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Are you guarding your tongue?

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Are you watching what you say?

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Is out of your heart flowing rivers of

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living water?

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Is it?

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What if the devil got you over into

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the cares of the world?

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and you were actually operating with a

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spirit of error or spirit of deception,

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and you didn't even really realize it.

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But you're sowing offensive seeds,

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slander maybe, gossiping,

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and calling it discernment.

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We have to truly analyze ourselves,

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do a spiritual inventory this season,

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and truly be led by the Spirit of

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God.

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We have to step out in our authority.

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And we have to bind and we have

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to loose.

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We have to forbid or we have to

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allow because we have the authority.

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Christ gave us, his church,

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the keys to the kingdom.

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And you can hold in your hand the

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keys to the kingdom because we're the

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body.

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Christ is the head.

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The head doesn't have arms and feet,

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according to old saying of Kenneth Hagin.

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So

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We have the arms, the body.

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We've got to use them.

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We've got to use the keys to the

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kingdom.

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And we've got to use our sword.

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We've got to speak.

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It is finished.

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It is written.

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Well, God's word says this.

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Back in Genesis, the world,

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let's go there.

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Let's go there.

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I hear you, Holy Spirit.

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Let's go there.

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Back in Genesis,

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let's look at Genesis one.

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It was Genesis.

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I think it's Genesis one, three,

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but let me just,

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let me just look at it and make

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sure.

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In the beginning,

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God created the heaven and the earth and

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the earth was actually to the earth was

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without form and void and darkness was

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upon the face of the deep and the

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spirit of God moved upon the face of

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the waters.

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The spirit of God moved and brought order

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where there was disorder and

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And what is disease?

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Disease, it is a disorder.

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It is not of God.

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It is not God's will that you are

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sick.

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It is not God's will.

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It is not God's will that you are

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sick.

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Sin may be coming out of God's will,

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out of his protection,

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participating in sinful acts,

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disobedient acts can open us up to demonic

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portals which can open us open up doors

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to satan coming in and having a legal

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right to bring about certain afflictions

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but when you repent

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When you turn away, when you say, no,

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no, no,

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I'm not going to do that anymore.

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I missed it.

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I messed up, but I repent.

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Jesus, forgive me.

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I forgive and forgive yourself knowing

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he's forgiven you.

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Because how many times in the Bible does

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it say forgive?

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Keep forgiving and forgiving and

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forgiving.

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We're under grace.

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We're under mercy.

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We're not under the condemnation of the

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law.

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But the Holy Spirit,

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the holy in that word,

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the spirit guides us to be holy.

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So we should be moving towards

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representatives of Christ to where we are

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mirror images of Christ in a dark world.

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People shouldn't look at us and see the

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world in us.

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They should look at us and see something

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entirely different.

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And so if you resemble the world and

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your actions,

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then are you truly being led by the

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spirit of God?

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Have you been awakened to the fire,

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to the fire of the Holy Spirit,

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the power of the Holy Spirit that's within

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you?

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Or is that light dimmed because you've

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partnered up with sin and you're going

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into places that you know you shouldn't be

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going and that you know you're partnering

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up with things that you know are not

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of God.

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They are not of God.

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And they are of the world.

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And remember, we're to come.

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We're in the world,

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but not of the world.

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We're to come out of the world and

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the world's kingdom.

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And we are to be spirit led under

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the lordship of our Lord and Savior,

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Jesus Christ.

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Under our king.

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Under our king,

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recognizing God is sovereign.

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Abba Father is sovereign.

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So who are we following?

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What are we doing?

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But when we're aligned with God's will for

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our lives,

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we're spirit-led individuals with the Holy

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Spirit inside of us.

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We keep that repentant heart and we keep

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moving towards the mark,

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towards the prize,

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fighting the good fight of faith.

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Then sickness is not our portion.

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It's not our portion.

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And we can rebuke Satan.

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We can resist him and he'll flee.

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We can bind him.

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We can bind the spirit of infirmary.

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And right now I decree and declare that

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you have been loosed.

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by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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by the Holy Spirit power,

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by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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by His name,

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by His blood shed on Calvary,

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you have been loosed from a spirit of

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infirmary and addiction,

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and you've been set free.

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And He who the Son sets free is

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free indeed.

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We bind that spirit of torment

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We bind those suicidal thoughts,

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that spirit of depression,

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and we release peace and joy.

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That's our portion.

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And we speak life where there's death and

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light where there's been darkness.

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And today is your day that you step

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into his marvelous light.

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fully embracing the kingdom of God and

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surrendering and letting Jesus truly be

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Lord and Savior of your life.

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As you're surrendered and submitted to his

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will and not your own.

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He sees you.

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He loves you.

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He's forgiven you.

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Now you just need to forgive yourself and

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ask his Holy Spirit to help you

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Help you.

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Help you with this Christian walk.

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Help you every day.

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Get along with him every day and start

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your morning with Jesus and say,

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Holy Spirit,

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what's Father's will for my life today?

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Help me.

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Help me to know God's will.

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Help me to know who God wants me

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to speak to on my job.

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Or when a divine appointment comes,

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help me to see it.

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Help me to be that light in the

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dark world.

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Help me, God.

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Help me, God.

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And that's what he has for you today

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on this episode of the Reflective Hour

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podcast.

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And I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, your host.

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And remember, we already have the victory.

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Satan is under our feet.

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He has been defeated.

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He has no power over us as believers

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in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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But you can defeat yourself with your

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words and with your actions.

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So I'm inviting you today to step out

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as a victorious soldier for Christ and

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walk fully into all he has for you

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this season.

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Empowered.

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and emboldened with the truth.

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God bless you.

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God keep you.

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May his light shine upon you this season.

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As you go, sin no more.

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Forgive others as Christ forgave you and

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walk in freedom.

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Glory be to Jesus.

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Glory be to Jesus.

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Glory be to Jesus.