Spirit Stream #54 - Escaping Corruption | 2Peter

In this encouraging Spirit Stream, Nick Griemsmann brings a deep teaching from the Book of 2Peter, focusing on how God has given us everything we need for life and godliness through His divine nature and precious promises.

Discover powerful truths about:
• Partaking in the divine nature and escaping the corruption in the world through lust
• Renewing God's life inside you daily through the Holy Spirit
• Adding to your faith: virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love
• Emotional and spiritual healing through faith and renewing the mind
• Walking in the Spirit instead of striving in the flesh or performing for blessings
• The anointing that teaches and encourages you in your true identity as a child of God

Nick shares practical encouragement on trusting God's provision, overcoming deep emotional wounds, and living in the freedom of God's amazing grace.
This stream is full of fresh revelation, hope, and Holy Ghost power to help you walk victoriously in your daily life.

🙏 Watch until the end for anointed prayer and encouragement!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Welcome & Holy Ghost Atmosphere
10:00 - 2Peter Overview: Divine Nature & Precious Promises
25:00 - Escaping Worldly Corruption Through Faith
40:00 - Adding to Your Faith (Virtue to Love)
55:00 - Renewing God's Life Inside You & Emotional Healing
1:10:00 - Walking in the Spirit & Grace
1:25:00 - Closing Prayer for Renewal & Holy Ghost Filling

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 1:06

Hi everybody, Nick Grimsman here from The Father's Friends. This is uh Holy Ghost Television, Spirit Stream, uh number fifty four. Fifty-four. Little Timmy here. Here's little Timmy. You guys see him? He uh I have a story for you. I went to Texas a couple weeks ago, about two weeks ago, for a trip, ministry trip, and little Timmy here at a like uh you know, like a road stop or whatever, truck stop or uh pit stop. I think he licked or ate some sort of old uh old dead bird or mouse or something. And uh a couple days uh in I got back home, right? So I I got back home. Takes two or three days to manifest, I guess. Got back home and at like 5 30 in the morning he started uh he started whimpering and crying. And um I was really scared. It was like 5 30 in the morning, and he couldn't breathe, and he was whimpering, looking up at me. So I took him to the ER, little pet ER that that's here in Phoenix, and and little Timmy. Uh they thought uh it was rat poison at first that he ate some rat poison or something. Sorry, he wants to get down, so I'm gonna let him down. There he is, he's doing well. Okay, so uh anyway. So he ate some uh uh ate something. They thought he ate rat poison, and then I went back to the um uh vet a couple days later. They gave him fluids and all that stuff, and then they tested him for all sorts of stuff. You know, they do all the tests, and they found out that they he ate some sort of bacteria or something, and then got him on the right medication. So he's fine now. He's uh basically got a couple more days left of the medication. He's eating again. Uh before it was uh not the uh not the best with him trying to go to the bathroom. It was uh, you know, he had a lot of blood and stuff. And I was really scared. I thought I was gonna lose a little Timmy, so I'm glad uh the Lord brought him through. But you know what's amazing is that I was like, Lord, what why is he going through this? I don't understand. You know how you do that? You go through something, you're like, he's so small, he's like my little baby. And the Lord taught me so many things. I I uh uh the the one thing that he he really worked on me or he has been working on with me. I'm just being transparent, guys, because I think this is how Christians are supposed to be. I think we're just supposed to be transparent and we're supposed to be uh just real, right? Just be real people, not phony and and try to put on some religious front, but but real. So with me, uh, when I go through something or my family's going through something, or in this case, little Timmy's going through something, I kind of want it to go quickly. I just want, you know, the medication to go through quickly. I want to get out of this affliction or tribulation as fast as possible. And the Lord showed me uh that he uses things like this to help me get rid of impatience. You know, in your human nature, you can be impatience. No, impatient. I don't know, impatient, and God has to get that out of you. You realize that God is trying to mold you into being more like Jesus, which is the fruit of the Spirit, correct? Love, uh, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, patience, all these things are yours in Christ, but God has to get you to a place where you start actually walking in it. So through this long week and a half, I've really had to be patient in watching little Timmy get better, patient with going to the vet over and over again, patient with seeing my little my little dog with the, you know, he had to go get fluids and they gave him a shot and everything. And it was really, it was, it hurt my heart, but it's because I really love little Timmy. You know, I don't have any kids of my own or anything right now, and so you know, little Timmy's like my little gift from God, I believe. So it was really great uh that he's better now. It's great that I went he went through this. I feel bad for him, but I'm glad he went through it because God used it for the good. Now, little Timmy and I I feel like I'm closer to him now. I feel like we've kind of been through uh, you know, the uh the ringer as uh so to say. So I feel like we kind of went through the battle together and he's he's pulling out, so he's good. And so I'm really thankful to the Lord. Another thing too is that you know, there comes a point where you have to let things go from your emotions. And so, you know, I was driving to the ER, I was holding him in my hands, my lap, and he was just looking up at me and he just looked like he was dying. And I remember just saying, Um, you know, if you you know, if you pass away, I'll see you on the other side, right? And it, you know, it helped me emotionally let go of that uh of not trusting God really, just trusting God, even if little Timmy passed away, that everything will still work out for the good, right? And so I want to encourage you with that that no matter what uh goes on in your life, the Lord is with you always, and he never leaves you or forsakes you, and he knows exactly what you need when you need it, and he knows how to get you through things. Um, you know, a lot of things that we go through take a long time to get at to the other end. For example, let's say you deal with financial issues, or you deal with some sort of disease that seems like it doesn't go away, or uh a life issue that just is really hard, or you have like a controlling um, you know, somebody close to you in your life, it's very controlling. It seems like it takes forever for them to change or for you to overcome in that situation. And you have to realize that God uses everything to mold you, and and a lot of times when you are being molded, like silver is molded or gold, you have to go through the fire and the heat. And nobody wants to go through the fire and the heat, right? Who wants to really go through it? But that's the Christian walk. Let's just be real. You're gonna go through times in your Christian walk that are afflictions, that are tribulations, that are persecutions, or you feel like people don't love you, or you feel like or somebody betrays you, or you get rejected. You're gonna go through these. So it's better to go through them in faith than in fear and in uh offense and anger and unbelief and doubt. Okay, so guys, this is our little new setup here. I'm trying to do a little uh get a little bit better setup um on the on the streams so that uh I can um I can clip some of them, put them on social media so you get little clips, you can see the videos, like the reels. I'm just trying different stuff, guys. We're growing, remember? This is Spirit Stream 54. Um, up at the top, you see I put a little free app, uh, little QR code. If you're watching this on your big screen or something, you can always QR clip that with your phone or whatever. But that's at our website, thefathersfriends.org. And uh, so our website's right there. I'll put it on the screen, thefathersfriends.org. Thank you for sharing the broadcasts. I know that uh you know you watch stuff and you you uh you know, you watch and keep it yourself. Sometimes I shouldn't say I know you do, but you know, like sometimes I watch stuff and it's good and I don't share it. I probably should. Maybe you share too much stuff, sometimes I do that too with my friends and family. Uh but yeah, if you get blessed by the broadcast, please share. Uh, if you if you're on social media, follow, subscribe, do all the good stuff, right? Um, I'm currently I'm gonna check it out real quick. I'm gonna uh currently I'm streaming on the Father's Friends app website, holy ghost.tv, and then let me check to see if it worked through here. See if I'm on. It didn't work for some reason. Oh, maybe it did. It's just not showing there. Maybe I gotta go to the other thing. How do I do this? Uh no, I don't know how to do this. Give me one second, guys. I'm sorry. Praise God. Uh no, that's not it. Yeah, it doesn't show me on here. Maybe I'm not. Probably not. All right, so uh anyway. Um I'm trying to live stream in a couple different places. I was uh for some reason removed from TikTok, and I'm trying to get back on TikTok. It says that I got I'm allowed again. Holy Ghost Television's allowed on TikTok again, so we'll see if I can get back there. Um as well as Facebook. Uh I was off of there for a while. Holy Ghost Television was allowed on there. So we're we're trying to get on all the places we can get on, okay? Eventually, what we'd like to do is just have a Holy Ghost uh TV app where you can just download it right on your Roku, right on your television, right on your iPad, whatever. But that's all uh it comes uh later, right? That all takes finances, it takes open doors, it takes all stuff like apps and things, like a real good app, like a media app is tens of thousands of dollars. And so that's just things we just uh that's our vision, we pray for, and we just believe the Lord for. So um if you'd uh if you want to give, donate, you can do that at fathersfriends.org. We are going to win a lot of souls for Jesus. Amen. Amen. So I got holyghost.tv for my birthday when I was 30, I would say 38. I'm not sure what year it was, 36, five, six, seven, eight years ago. I don't know. But I felt like I was driving. It was my birthday. The Lord, I feel like the Lord sometimes gives me like birthday gifts, right? I was driving and I felt like the Lord told me to go online and purchase holyghost.tv. And so I did that, and now we have it, and that's uh uh that's where we're at. So then um I also have um holyghostv uh.com. Yeah, holyghostv.com. And then we applied for the trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, so we have the trademark for Holy Ghost Television. So we are Holy Ghost Television. And we also have a phone number. If you need prayer, you can call 1888 know him. It's right on the screen right here. Super easy to remember. A lot of people put it on their uh their little cards. You know, if you if you care about people, right? You want to share the gospel, maybe you run into people at restaurants, grocery stores, homeless people, whatever. Um, you know, give them the phone number at least. You know, let's say you you plant a seed, you write a scripture on a receipt or something, tell the person you're praying for them, or whatever, right? You maybe write the 1888 know him number on there. And people call and get saved, people call and get uh touched by the Holy Spirit. I can see the comments. I see Amber has one. Uh YouTube, hey Nick. Hi, little Timmy. Hope you're feeling better. Yeah, little Timmy is feeling better. Thank you so much. Appreciate, appreciate you appreciations, right? Appreciations. Uh so I'm just hanging out. I'm seeing what the Lord has. I'm just yip-yapping until I feel like the Lord is uh gonna move us forward in Spirit Stream 54. Okay, this is 54. Uh, real quick, our website, thefathersfriends.org. You can go there, get all your stuff. We now have basically four full days of at this point right now at Spirit Stream 54, we have four full days of streams or preaching and teaching like this on our on Holy Ghost TV. So we have four full days. So that breaks down to literally like if you went to church like every Sunday for like an hour and a half sermon, a full hour and a half sermon for a whole year, that's what this breaks down to right now. What we have on for free for everybody to watch, to be encouraged. I talk mainly about identity. Um, so we're gonna pray and we're gonna see what the Lord has. And I just uh love you guys, and I'm and I really want to help people. That's the whole point of the Father's Friends Ministry is to lead you into the knowledge of Jesus Christ and to the risen Savior to be saved, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and to have that intimate relationship with the Father. So, Lord, we thank you that we are friends of God through the blood of Jesus of Nazareth. We thank you that there's a room at the cross. There's a room for us at the cross. There's a room. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. You are wonderful. I pray, Lord, the power of the Holy Ghost go through the airwaves. I pray, Lord, that people that watch this would be uh filled with your spirit as they watch it. I pray that they would be encouraged uh to know you and to know who they are in you, to know the fullness of what you have for them, their destiny, Lord, whatever that may be, Lord. Thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Guys, so what's your number one enemy? Do you know what your number one enemy is as a Christian? Like literally uh one of the number one enemies. Okay, there's fear, there's things like that, but a huge enemy that you have, that we all have, is condemnation. And at our website, thefathersfriends.org, we have 30 days, we currently have 30 days to believing right. We also have a book, uh, a devotional I wrote, that's like uh 30 days to believing right for you to help you see that you are free in Christ from condemnation, from guilt, from ungodly behaviors. You don't have to live in those anymore. We get told that we're just sinners saved by grace and we're always going to struggle with our flesh. We've got to crucify our flesh all the time. And oh, Christianity is so hard. But in reality, you have to renew your mind on the truth. You have to be transformed by the renewing of your mind through the word of God, and condemnation tries to pull you away from who you are in Christ. Because if you can never uh feel free, if you can never feel forgiven, then you're always gonna struggle with depression, discouragement, anxiety, you're always gonna struggle with sinful behaviors and all that stuff because the enemy uses condemnation to pull you down, to pull you down, to get you to focus on your behavior. And we're not saved by our behavior. We're saved by grace through faith. It's a gift of God. So you're gifted salvation, your behavior is a manifestation of how you believe. If you believe you're forgiven, he that forgives, has been forgiven much, loves much. So if you believe you're forgiven, you're gonna feel more of God's love. You're gonna be able to forgive people easier, you're gonna be able to forgive your spouse, you're gonna be able to forgive your coworkers, you're gonna be able to forgive yourself when you embrace that you're forgiven. And sometimes it's hard for us, uh, people that have lived in condemnation and guilt our whole lives, or maybe our parents are really hard on us, or we lived in a uh, we came from a cult, like I was in a cult, all sorts of false doctrines, all these things. You know, it's hard for us sometimes to uh to receive forgiveness. We're forgiven, but it's hard for us in our mind, our heart to really believe that we're forgiven. So if you're struggling today, if you know somebody's struggling, send this video to them, send this live stream right to them, and let them know that there's hope in Christ at the cross. There's room for us at the cross, no matter what you're doing, done, will do, no matter what, it's at the cross where you can be forgiven, okay? Sin, imagine sin consciousness, okay? So back in the day they would offer sacrifices, right? So the high priest, the priest would come and they would do the the lamb and uh the all all the different sacrifices they had, right? They had the sin offering, and every year, Hebrew book of Hebrews talks about this, every year they would come and that they would they would uh they would offer these these sacrifices that couldn't take away the uh the sin. They were they were a foreshadow of Christ coming to take away the sins of the world, take away, like take them out of the way. So, for example, you uh back then, if you were uh sinning, which everybody was at some level, right? They weren't like like you, like you might not be doing something really bad, but there's something inside you or something that you know that you screw up, you do something. So you always have this consciousness of sin, and and the the sacrifices back then couldn't take away the memory of your sin. So you would you could still remember the sin from 10 years ago because it was still on your conscience. It wasn't cleansing your conscience, it was only a type and a shadow of Christ the Messiah coming. And then his blood cleanses the conscience of a human being. I was in Manila, uh Philippines, a couple year and a half ago, two years ago, I don't even know now, time flies, right? When you're having fun. So I I got invited out there to speak at the convention center. So I was at this book fair, I spoke at this convention center, and these individuals uh came and asked uh asked about my book, asked about my testimony. They thought it was very interesting. And it turned out that one of them was the uh was uh uh uh Islamic scholar from the Manila Institute of Islam, and then his friend that was with him was the uh ambassador to, I think either the ambassador from Iran uh to the Philippines or like uh somebody uh in the ambassador's office. I think it was the ambassador of uh Iran to Manila. And so here I was, they asked me some questions about my book. They uh the the teacher asked if I would come and uh debate religion with him and some other people at the institute. I didn't feel led to when I was in the Philippines, and I just let them know kindly that I'm not really somebody that debates. Uh I'm more of a heart person. And then I uh I told them a little bit more my testimony and I talked about how I once was gonna become Muslim years ago. I wrote about in my book. Uh, but uh, you know, I was growing up my beard, I was gonna go to the local mosque and all that stuff. I love Muslim people. And what happened was was that I uh um I was talking to them about how I was gonna become Muslim, all these things, and then I told them that the blood of Jesus is the only thing that can cleanse a human's soul and memory of sin. The blood can cleanse your conscience from sin so that you no longer have sin consciousness, so you're not conscious of your old sins in Christ. Does that make sense? But the blood of bulls and goats and all those things couldn't do that. So Jesus did that for us. And so if you're memory, if you've had a bad past and you you struggle with uh you know memories of things you did when you were 20 years old or 30 years old, or you know, you did something last week and it's like on your head, it's on your mind, your soul, that's when you need to get in God's presence and you need to truly believe that Jesus' blood can cleanse you of sins, uh, of consciousness of sin, of being aware of your past sins. Okay? Being aware uh uh and and feeling those past sins or the guilt and the condemnation from your past sins. And then pretty soon what happens is God starts just cleansing you from it. If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I write these things to you so you do not sin. But if any person sins, we have an advocate, so we have an atonement for our sins with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propetition for our sins and not only ours, but for the whole world, okay? And so you can come to him and you he can cleanse you of that guilt and that uh the memories, the soul issues, the traumas, everything from your sin. He can do that. Okay? And then I'm gonna look up something real quick, and then I will get uh uh. Here we go. Because I want to show you in scripture. I know I talk about this um this scripture sometimes. I want to go over to uh how do I share this? I go here, I go here, and I go boom here. All right, so now we are on the uh Bible. Uh we are on the Bible hub, which I like. We're gonna go here. I talk about the scripture a lot because it's really important for you to get this. This is 2 Peter. We're gonna ver we're gonna start in 2 Peter verse 1, okay? So Peter is talking to who? He's talking to the church. Peter was the apostle to the circumcision. Okay. So he mainly focused on the Jewish people who identify as Jewish. Okay. He still uh he still ministered to Gentiles and things because they mix in the churches, especially when the persecution came and stuff. They had to flee and things. And it says they didn't flee, Peter, and then they stayed in Jerusalem. Anyway, anyway, so this is if you think of it from the apostle Peter, who is the apostle to the circumcision, but these words are for all of us. So this is to the church. So let's just go New Living Translation. See, there's all these different translations here. I fixed this last uh broadcast. I couldn't I couldn't figure out how to get the verse so you can see it well, but I fixed it finally, I think. I hope you can see it. Give me a comment if you can see it correctly. Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through what? Through the righteousness of God and Savior Jesus Christ, have what? Have received a faith as precious as ours. This letter is from Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ. So when he says slave and servant and things like that, he is letting you know that he is all in with Jesus. He is all in. Remember the Old Testament? If you had a good master, the servant could uh go and pierce their ear, I believe. And then that uh because they loved the master. So sometimes when you were a poor person or you were in this, you know, you you were a servant for some reason, uh, you uh in in Israel, you could actually, if you had a good master that you cared about and they treated you well, you would just uh you would do this ceremony or whatever it was with the earring or however, and then you would be their slave for life or servant for life. But they willingly did it. They could have been free, but they willingly did it. So Peter was a willing servant, a willing slave of the Lord. He was all in because his master is kind and loving and treats him right. Amen. Okay, so that's what that's the term here is you know, is a servant, a slave, uh, and an apostle, so a messenger of God of Jesus Christ. To those who have obtained, see, so I'm writing to you who share the same precious faith we have. So he's writing to us who what? Share the same precious faith. So you have this faith. If something's telling you you don't have faith, it's lying to you. You have the faith. So stop blurting out of your mouth, I don't have enough faith. Blah, I don't have enough faith. Blah, blah, this, blah that. You know what I mean? You have faith because it says right there, you were gifted it. This faith was given to you. So this faith was what? You you earned it? Did you earn this faith because you're such a great person? You're just so righteous in yourself that you earned faith. No, you were given faith. Isn't that wonderful? See, it's all a gift. If you get the amazing gift of God, that is Jesus Christ, you will see all this beauty in the gospel, in the Bible. But if you read it from a place of self-righteousness and you trying to earn everything, you're gonna get tired, spiritually tired. You're always gonna be trying to attain things that you can never get because you're trying to get it the wrong way. You have to attain it by faith that Jesus did everything for you, and it's your job to now believe the truth and allow the Holy Spirit to transform you by his truth and by his spirit that lives inside of you. And as you believe the truth, the Holy Spirit starts changing you into the image of God's Son, okay? Which is love, peace, patience, kindness, all those things. This faith was given to you because of the justice and fairness of Jesus Christ, our God and Savior. All right, let's go to King James, people like that. Simon Peter, a servant apostle Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained, like precious faith with us through what? The righteousness of God and Jesus. So it's God's righteousness that you have faith. It's God's righteousness that you're gifted with eternal life. It's not your righteousness. When you try to be righteous in yourself, you're gonna feel condemnation, you're gonna feel guilt, you're always gonna struggle with fleshly desires because you've put yourself under the law. You're in Galatians. Apostle Paul's telling them, what are you guys doing? Who bewitched you? Why are you not believing the truth? Why do you desire to be in bondage again? Okay, God doesn't want you to be in bondage to self-righteousness, he wants you to accept the righteousness of God that's found in Jesus Christ. All right, all right, then he goes, Grace and peace be yours in abundance. Okay, there you go. That's what he wants for you. This is God's word to you. Grace and peace. Grace and peace for you. King James, be multiplied unto you. Through what? Through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. So grace and peace be ours in abundance through what? Through the gospel, through understanding God's word, what Jesus accomplished for us. Jesus is the Messiah. He completed everything for you because you were too weak. You were too weak to obtain eternal life. You were too weak to be good enough to please a holy God. Jesus had to come for us. And he saved us by grace, by his grace, by his love, by his righteousness, by his good works. Once you get this, you can now relax and enjoy the presence of the Spirit. Enjoy what God has done for you in Christ. Glorify Jesus. Glyus. When you put everything on Jesus, when you look at Jesus as your everything, when you're sold out like Peter, when you just give it all the Lord and you're like, here I am, Lord, His peace enters your heart. His peace starts transforming your mind. So then you don't have to be afraid when things happen, like with my little dog. You know, little Timmy. That was scary, you know. But I knew God was with me. I knew that even if my dog, little Timmy, if he passed away, God would still work it out for my good. You have to have that attitude with every situation because the Bible promises give thanks in all situations. For this is the will, right? Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Give thanks in all circumstances. So are you visiting your friend in the hospital? Are you dealing with uh financial stuff? Are you dealing with pain in your body? Give thanks in all circumstances. See, you got to switch it. The devil wants you to feel condemned and always feel guilty. Oh, you're not praying enough, that's why you're sick. You're not giving enough, that's why you don't have money. Oh, you're just you don't have enough power, you don't have enough faith. See, he's he's lying to you. See, it's lies versus truth. Submit to God, resist the devil, and he flees from you. So you submit your life to God, you become a servant, or what Peter said, a slave of God. Become a servant of God, a disciple of Jesus. See, I minister to a lot of people who aren't disciples of Jesus. There are people that just want stuff from God because they they went to this uh seminar or conference or church to just promise all this great stuff to you. You're gonna be a millionaire. God wants you to have five learjets, you're gonna have eight yachts, you know, all this fleshly stuff that when you become a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, you don't care about anything of the world. You just want to love God and love your neighbor. And when you're there, then you're at peace. But when you're always trying to get a bunch of stuff, a bunch of blessings, you're always gonna feel like you're not good enough. You're always gonna compare yourself to somebody else, you're always gonna not be able to obtain what you really feel like is, you know, gonna make you happy. And then if you attain it, you move on to the next thing because the only thing that really satisfies a human heart is the Holy Spirit. Amen. And what God brings into your life, like my little dog, little Timmy. I just use an example. I care about him a lot, but I didn't go out and get a dog, I wanted a dog like three years ago, and I felt like the Lord told me no. I went out and still tried to get a dog, nothing worked. I I wouldn't have shelters, not even call me back, like a shelter. Like, yeah, I wanted to check out this dog, and they wouldn't even call me back, wouldn't you mail me back? So I'm like, okay, Lord doesn't want me to have a dog. Okay, Lord, I accept your will for my life. I'm not having a dog. That's what I said. I accept it. And then what happened? I felt like the Lord told me to sell everything again and go travel. So I had to go do ministry for eight months travel, okay? The whole world. Okay. Second time I've been around the whole world. Lord had me sell everything and go around the world, okay? All right. So, anyway, so what was I saying? I don't even know, Lord. I'm like way off now. Okay, so anyway, so then I I go and I'm gone for eight months. I get back and I had this vision. I felt like I had a vision when I was praying, and it was of this little dog, but it looked like a husky dog, like the face was all uh had the hair all over it and everything. I'm like, what kind of dog is this? This is a weird dog, right? Weird dog. And then I uh ended up uh I ended up going, oh I guess the Lord wants me to get a dog now. I'm not traveling anymore for a while. Let's get a dog. Okay. So can you see this picture? I I put it on my Facebook, I think. I think it's still there. Can you see that? That's what he looked like when I got him. Can you see that? Uh you can't really stare. It's kind of you kind of see it. The lights reflected. Anyway, yeah, you can't see it. Anyway, anyway, you can see it on my uh my uh social media, I think. Okay. Anyway, so I I I I I saw the dog. I knew right when I saw little Timmy, I knew that was a dog from my vision, but I thought it was like a husky because his hair was all messed up. But I knew it was him, and I looked at him in the in the cage, and he had looked he was really skinny because he was running the streets, his nails were really long. He was brown, and you know he was white and beautiful, like a multi-poo. I didn't even know that. I just knew that was my dog, and I looked at him in the cage and he saw me, and I said, Your name's little Timmy. And it just came from my heart. And the Lord blessed me with little Timmy, and I really care about him. But I if I went out and tried to get my own dog, you know, and do everything in myself, I might have had a dog, but it wouldn't be little Timmy, who's who doesn't go to the restroom in the house, that doesn't bark all the time, that just loves to be with me all the time, loves his little pouch I put him in and carry him around, loves his backpack I put him in, travels with me. I mean, so like God had a perfect so you go out and do stuff and get stuff. You can attain that nice car, you can attain the nice house by working hard. You can do that. But you want God's best because God knows what fits your life perfectly. So, what I'm trying to say is go all in with the Lord and become a disciple. Go all in with the Lord and become a disciple. He might tell you, no, you can't start a business this year. And it might really hurt you. You might be, well, I was supposed to be a business person. I got that prophetic word. I was supposed to be a business person, I was supposed to make all this money for the kingdom and help ministries and churches. And Lord, I want to start that business. And maybe it fell through, or maybe he told you no, and you really feel like he doesn't want you to. That doesn't mean he's not gonna bring that around three years from now. It doesn't mean, you know, he might put in your heart right now singleness. You're supposed to be single right now, and you're like, oh, I'll never get married then. So you accept it. Okay, Lord, I'm single. I'm just gonna be single. And then what happens? Maybe a couple years from now, when you're ready or whatever, Lord's like, okay, now you're gonna go meet your spouse. There's your spouse. And it's like a surprise. So you have to remember that God's ways aren't our ways. He's gonna do things different in your life. Then the world tells you, go work really hard, make a million dollars, you'll be happy. I tell you, go all in with the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't care about money, don't care about anything other than loving God and loving your neighbor, and everything is gonna be better for you than anybody in the world, any worldly person. You're not gonna care about that stuff, it's not gonna be in you anymore. Your ego is gonna be dealt with. And then you can really help people. You can be useful for the master, for good works, right? You can be useful to God. You want to be useful to God, right? You want to be you, I want to be useful to God. I want God to transform me. Every day I get up, Lord, thank you. I want to be transformed. Lord, show me how to overcome this situation. And there's things in my life that I don't talk about, guys, that have hung around for a long time. And I'm like, Lord, you got to deal with this part of me. Please deal with this part, please deal with this mindset, please deal with this situation, please deal with this, blah, blah, blah, blah. Personality stuff I deal with. You know, when you are counseling people, helping people, talking on the internet, family, all this stuff, you have to have good character, right? So God has to build my character, change me so my character is different. I don't want to be the same person I am today, 10 years from now, right? You're not gonna be sinless, you're gonna sin less. You're gonna sin less, okay? So if you try to concentrate on being a sinless person 24-7, because that's righteousness, that's my righteousness, I'm gonna rest on. Then what happens is all your sin is gonna flare up because God wants you to surrender and become a disciple and go all in with Him. Just go all in, open your heart and just give it all to the Lord. All these emotions. What I'm finding with walking with the Lord is that like everything's attached to emotions in your soul. Like every everything you everything, if you think about it, everything's attached to your emotions, your soul, your mind, your emotions. And if you can deal, if you can deal with this stuff with the word of God, you break down these strongholds and overcome that those emotional triggers and emotional stuff that you had when you were young or you were traumatized or whatever. If you can get the truth, that will deliver you from this stuff, and you will start overcoming more and you will see breakthrough in your life. Especially if you're dealing with something sickness, disease, it's been dragging for a long time. You're like, Lord, I've been to all the prayer meetings and conferences. What's going on? I don't understand. Maybe check your emotions about it. You know, you go for prayer, and then what are the emotions that hit you if you don't get touched by God? Or if you know, you you you go for prayer and and two weeks later you're still not healed? What is the what is the thought process that you deal with? You know, what is the thought process? Do you do you go into unbelief? Do you think God's not good? Do you think God left you? Are you afraid about spending more money on doctors? Are you, you know, are you you trying to rely on healthy eating for your healing? Are you this or that? Or are you just all in with the Lord, guys? Are you all in with the Lord? That's my question. You need to be all in with the Holy Ghost. It doesn't mean that you're not gonna have a fun life. I've been to 50 countries. I've got to see Antarctica, okay? I've got to see all sorts of wild stuff. I never dreamed I would even go to another country, really. I never thought I'd go overseas. I was afraid to fly. God had to deliver me from uh fear of flying. You know? So all sorts of things that God took me through to get me to a place where I can start having an abundant life. And you and the other night I really feel like the Lord uh pressed upon my heart is that my purpose, think about this. My purpose or our purpose is his presence. Think about that. That's trademarked, I trademark it right now. Can I copyright it? My purpose in life, my purpose, my true purpose is his presence. And that's what Peter said by saying he's a uh he's a slave, he's a he's sold out, he's a disciple, he's a servant of God. Amen. And so be that disciple. Rest in God's goodness for you. Okay, let's keep going. Through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. If you're watching this, you can always leave me a comment and say hi. And because I don't have a lot of comments, I have one, thank you. I don't really care. You know, I don't care if I have one comment or 20 comments. I just I'd like to know somebody's getting something from here. All right. Uh if not, you can comment later watching a replay. Uh let's keep going. Okay, so I gotta go over here. Okay, so let's keep going. Uh by his divine power, God has given us everything. Okay, everything we need for a godly life. Everything we need is is in us by God's divine power through what? Our knowledge of Jesus, our knowledge of him. His divine power has granted us all things that pertain to life and godliness. So when you sit there and say, Oh, my addiction is too strong. Oh, I can never stop looking on godly images on the computer. Oh, I can't stop overeating. Oh, I'm this. Oh, I'm just gonna deal with unforgiveness because my mom was unforgiving. Guess what you're doing? You're believing a lie. Look at 2 Peter 1.3. See, 2 Peter 1.3 destroys those lies. Okay, let's go. King James, New King James, how about that? As his divine power, so it's his power gives us all things that pertain to life, having real life and godliness through the knowledge of Christ, through the knowledge of God, through the knowledge of him who called us, so you and me, by glory and virtue. That's awesome. Or glory and excellence. Okay, 2 Peter 1, 4. Okay, then he goes on, and because of his glory and excellence, he, meaning God has given us great and precious promises. Okay, through these he has given us very great and precious promises. So there's these great and precious promises: healing, deliverance, uh, prosperity, divine health, long life, being happy, happy as a people's God as a Lord. All these things, these promises, eternal life, having fellowship with God. He'll never leave us nor forsake us. He's our deliverer, he's our healer. We're sons of God, we're righteous by faith. We're heirs with Abraham, we're joint heirs with Christ, we're heirs to God through Christ. You know, we have all these promises, and it is through these, through these promises, we are able what? To share his divine nature. So we are able to have the Holy Spirit. Share with God. We're sharers of the divine power of God. You have Christ in you as a saved Christian. You're no longer this messed up individual. You have Christ in your body. If you're mentally ill, you're dealing with mental illness, start believing Christ lives in your body and be transformed and renewing of your mind and start believing that God is able to get you through the mental illness. He's able to help you resist the voices. He's able to give you wisdom of how to overcome bipolar. He's able to touch your brain and rewire it so you're not depressed anymore. God is more than able through his word and through his spirit to help you. Amen. This isn't rocket science. It's right in the Bible. These are the promises that enable us to share in the divine nature. And what? Escape. Escape what? The world's corruption. Okay? Having escaped the corruption in the world caused by what? Man's evil desires, human desires. Because of sinful desires. Okay, so there's corruption in the world, there's bad stuff in media, government, society, all this stuff, wars, rumors, all this stuff because of what? People's sinful desires, human desires, human fallen flesh. Okay? And we're able to escape all this stuff through the Holy Ghost in us. For this reason. So he says, okay, for this very reason. In view of this, make every effort. So you're supposed to make an effort here as a disciple of Christ. Make every effort. Okay? So you're supposed to do what? You're supposed to make some effort here. I could preach to you all day, but if you're not making some effort to do some stuff like read the Bible and pray, how do you develop a relationship with the Lord? You're just going to listen to me the rest of your life? You're just going to listen to your pastor? You're going to listen to the guy on TV? No. You are going to make every effort to what? I like this one right here. To respond to God's promises. Make every effort to add your faith goodness. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Let's go to the Greek. Let's read what it says for this very reason. Make every effort. So make haste. Be diligent. Be enthusiastic. Enthusiasm. All that stuff. Make speed to add. So you're adding. Fully supply, contribute to your faith. So you already have faith. Okay? To your faith. You already have faith because you've been gifted faith. Do I sound like I'm like lecturing you? I hope not. I really want you to understand that you have faith. You have faith because God loves you and God chose you before the foundation of the world. That you should what? Be holy, bear much fruit, walk in love. Virtue. So you're gonna what? Add your faith? Virtue, which is goodness, a generous Like virtue, uprightness. And then it actually says manliness right here, which is pretty interesting, right? Excellence. So think of it as like excellence, being gracious and act graciously, virtuous, walk uprightly. So you add your faith, uprightness. So be upright in your conversation. Be upright when you go to work. Be upright with your family. Be virtuous. Be gracious. Have the fruit of the spirit. And to virtue. So you're adding to what? Now you're going to add wisdom, knowledge, doctrine. You're going to add knowledge, wisdom. Okay? You're going to add knowledge and wisdom to what? Your virtuous living, your uprightness, your behavior. Okay. You guys can act right in the Holy Ghost. You can act right. You can love your spouse. You can love your children. You have patience. You can be patient with the people at work. You can. You have to stop believing you can't. You might have a stronghold of impatience that God's working with. He worked with me. He's still working with me on that. So you can deal with impatience. Everybody has different situations. You can deal with getting offended. You could deal with rejection, but that's not who you are. You need to break that with the truth. You are an upright, righteous man or woman of God. That's who you are, despite your behavior. You have to start believing correctly what God did for you at the cross. Jesus is the Messiah. He fulfilled everything for you. Now we're transforming from glory to glory. Amen. 2 Peter 1:5. For this very reason, make out oh wait. Didn't I just do that? Yeah. Yeah. And to knowledge, self-control, and self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness. So uh and knowledge with self-control. So you're supposed to what? Exercise self-control. Fruit of the spirit is self-control. So there is a fruit of the spirit that lives inside your body and it manifests self-control. And so if you are saying I don't have self-control, you're believing a lie. Maybe you manifest the inability to have self-control. That's a stronghold. You have to understand your mind and your emotions are causing you to manifest not having self-control. And then the devil condemns you, right? You feel condemned, and then you feel guilty because you don't have self-control. But in reality, you do have self-control in Christ. You have to start believing correctly. You have to start submitting to God and resisting those lies and exercising your fruit that you have. Love. Exercise it. Love people. You can do it through your heart, through who lives inside of you. Okay? And if you're struggling with this, you're like, well, I don't know if I have the fruit of the spirit, then you need to get on your knees, right? Or wherever you pray, and you need to pray, and you need to ask the Lord to fill you with his spirit. I'll pray for you right now. Father, I pray for anybody watching this that just, you know, they're they're dealing with doubt or they're thinking, wow, I've been living in the flesh for so long, I didn't even realize this. Lord, I pray that you fill them with the Holy Spirit. As they call on the name of Jesus of Nazareth, that you would fill them with the Holy Ghost and power. That they would be filled. Lord, I release your power to them, Lord. Let them be filled with your spirit. Let them be filled in their heart. Let them know that they have the fruit of the Spirit living in there. Thank you, Lord. Let those who don't know you call on your name today and be saved. If you confess Jesus as Lord and believe with all your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. Lord, let them receive from you today. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for your grace. Amen. Jesus' name. Okay, I'm getting drunk in the Holy Ghost. Okay, here we go. I call it drunk in the Holy Ghost. Some people get offended by that. Happy in the Holy Ghost. How about that? It's better. Okay. Happy in the Holy Ghost. Knowledge and self-control and self-control with patient endurance. So you're supposed to have patient endurance or steadfastness, okay? Patient endurance. You're going through a bad time. Okay, well, I've been through bad times as well. You're supposed to be what? Patiently enduring. So instead of looking at a situation as I got to get out of the situation, which is natural, which I understand, we all understand that. Instead of just getting all flustered and anxious, Lord, I'm going to patiently endure this affliction. I don't like it. It's okay not to like it. You take medications, okay. You don't like, maybe you don't like taking medications or going to the doctor, Lord. When you take the medications, pray, Lord, I don't like taking medications. I can't wait until I receive my healing, until I walk this out, Lord. Can't wait to see what I learned from all this affliction that I've been through. Thank you for your forgiveness, Lord. Thank you that there's no condemnation for me in Christ. See, they're just flip your mind, change your mind, believe the truth, encourage yourself in the goodness of God, steadfastness with godliness, okay? So you're building on these things. You're building, uh, you know, you go from you go from uh uh for this reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. You go from virtue, godliness, uh, to uh self self-uh uh control to knowledge or to self-conf-control, perseverance, and perseverance, godliness, okay? So the end goal here is what for you to be a godly person from the heart. Okay, you can pretend to be godly. You can wear a suit and tie and not go to movies in the movie theater and not eat pork and and not use swear words on it. You can pretend to be godly, okay? You can in yourself, you can try to be a godly person. There's a lot of godly people that aren't even Christian, okay? Then they they pretend to be godly or they try their best to be godly, but they're not godly because they don't have the Holy Ghost in them. True godliness has to come from what? Your heart.

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Amen. Love. And the more that you uh have encounters with the Lord and the more you understand his word and what Jesus did for you to the cross, that you're righteous by faith, and that you're a godly person, and you start identifying with godliness, then it manifests more. So just change your mind today. Start identifying with godliness. You're a godly person in Christ, despite your current behavior or how you feel about yourself. That's why it's important for you to understand you're forgiven so that that sin consciousness can leave you. So you stop thinking about your past sins, you realize you're forgiven and move on. Okay? And godliness, and then what? And to godliness, brotherly affection or mutual affection. So being affectionate or brotherly kindness, being being kind to your brethren, to the brethren, being kind. So if you're in church and you see people who aren't kind to the brethren, who don't love the brethren, who gossip and all that stuff, those people are one, not saved, or two, they're baby Christians. I don't care how long they've been saved in the church. If they're doing that stuff and they don't like people and all that stuff, they are baby Christians. They're living in the flesh. Okay? Because right there it says we're supposed to be building on godliness to brotherly affection and brotherly affection with love for everyone. Did you read that? Love. And then in the English Standard Version, it says brotherly affection with love. Oh, right. The other one, uh, new NLT says love for everyone. I like reading different translations, guys. I like to see the gist of it, and then I like to go into the Greek and kind of see the original, okay, and see some of that stuff, kind of a Bible study type thing. So I like to do, guys. So I so I because I was in a cult and I and I've learned from different teachers and things like that, and I just started realizing that, you know, a lot of people, you know, they they take their own translations also. I don't, I need to get the gist of it. I need to get the gist of the word of God. I need to kind of see what who the audience is, what they're writing about, who's the writer, you know, all these things, and then read the different translations, what people are saying, and then read the original Greek or Hebrew, and then kind of see what the what the what uh the context is and everything. So this is basically become a disciple, right? And then add to your faith that was gifted to you all these good things, and then eventually love. And so the goal is what? Love your neighbor as yourself. Then it goes on, and this is what I was trying to talk about earlier. Very important for you to get this, guys. For if you possess these qualities, so if you possess what being mature Christian, basically, you're a sold out, you've been working on these things, the Lord is working in you. If you possess these qualities in increasing measure, okay, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in what? In your knowledge of Jesus, of knowing Jesus. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, so if you're increasing in godliness, if you're increasing in love for the brethren, if you're increasing, if you're transforming, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in what knowing the Lord, in understanding Jesus. Okay, you will neither be barren nor unfruitful. Okay, do you feel like you're barren and unfruitful? Well, you have to first believe you're righteous by faith and start believing the truth that you have faith and that you are a godly person and that you do have a spirit of self-control, you have a spirit of love, and you can, through Christ in you, love your neighbor. You can, through Christ in you, stop gossiping because it hurts others. You can, in Christ in you, stop making judgments about people. Okay, you can do that. I'm talking about ungodly judgments, right? Not godly judgments. You can make judgments, right? If somebody's hurting my neighbor, I can judge that that person needs to repent, right? Okay. Okay, then it says, this is very important, 2 Peter 1 9, and this is what happens, is that people start uh they start losing, um they they get blinded, they they forget. That's why it's so important for you to hear the gospel and for you to understand what Jesus did for you. He completed everything for you. It is complete, it is finished, and God's righteousness is in Christ. And everybody that's in Christ is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, everything becomes new. So you're like a baby that's born. Okay? You're a baby that's born, and then you get put in diapers, and then if you get taught wrong as a baby, you remain a baby, right? Uh uh, you know, you get taught wrong as a kid, let's say, right? Um, you might always be like a 15-year-old kid, and you're like a 50-year-old man, right? You never really grow up because you never really learned how to be a man or whatever, right? Didn't have the uh, you know, the ability to or whatever, right? And so you didn't have those people around you helping all that stuff. So you're a baby, so there's a lot of Christians that are babies, and they never grow up because they what? They forget what. But for those who fail to develop in this way, they didn't develop what? Love. They didn't develop the fruit of the spirit that lives inside of them, are short-sighted or blind. But whoever does not have these or them is nearsighted and blind. Okay, so King James, but he that lacks these things, so the qualities of love, pretty much, right? Godliness, love, self-control, they lack these things is blind and cannot see afar off. Why? They have forgotten that he was purged, they were purged from their old sins, have forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. So what happens is that people that live in the flesh are sin conscious. They are living in condemnation and guilt, and they are trying to perfect themselves. They might be Christian, right? They're Christian, a lot of them are Christian, and they're trying to perfect themselves by their behavior. And so they're like, well, if I give a lot of money, then I'm gonna have a lot of money in return. I was one of those people, guys. I fell for all that stuff. If I pray really hard, then I'm gonna have a spouse this year. That doesn't, you know, that didn't happen, right? Or if I pray for healing and I and I and I'm and I don't eat any uh I don't know, celery for two weeks, I'm gonna be healed. You know, all these behavior things, and they're focusing on all their behavior instead of faith. And in faith is what's pleasing to God. And when you have faith and you believe you have faith and you believe what God's word says about it is finished, then you receive everything that's promised you through the Holy Spirit, through the Word of God. Okay, but when we are self-focused or we are self-righteous, and we get learn taught religion and good works without Christ in us, we just learn to be a good person and feed the homeless. What happens is we become uh we forget um or we get self-righteous and then we get um we get focused on our behavior and then we forget what Christ did for us, and then condemnation comes and torments us, uh, mental health issues, emotional issues, church splits. We talk about immaturity. You know what I mean? Talk about immaturity, right? Everybody starts gossiping, and then this person's gonna go start a church and they're gonna hurt the pastor because the pastor, you know, whatever. You know what I mean? Like they don't forgive each other, they do church splits. That's classic baby behavior, guys. We're talking baby behavior, all this stuff on social media about this person did this, this. This is baby, baby stuff, guys. This is a bunch of babies or toddlers fighting, right? Contention, that's not even part of the Holy Ghost, guys. Having contention with other Christians, that's not even part of the fruit of the spirit. That's a work of the flesh. Divisions, contentions, jealousies, heresies, fits of anger, being angry. That's flesh having all this lustful stuff. That's flesh struggling all the time. That's flesh. If you're struggling all the time, it just means you're believing wrong. Full surrender. Submit to God, resist the devil. Believe that your chains are gone, that your emotions are being transformed, that you're not some traumatized person from a cult. That's why I used to believe. I'm just this mentally ill kid from a cult. I'm never gonna be back. No, I'm a son of God. Jesus purchased me with his own blood. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I have the mind of Christ living inside of me and transforming my carnal mind to believe the truth that sets me free. I am free from curses of the law. I am free from demons. I am free from principalities. I am free from disease. I am free from sickness. I'm free from debt. I'm free from lack. I am free from death. Jesus abolished death. I'm free from curses. I am blessed. I'm highly favored. I'm holy. I'm righteous. I'm pure. My sins are all under the blood. My conscience is clean. I'm delivered. I'm healthy. I have a long life. Why? Because of my behavior. I'm a great guy? No. See, you gotta get this. It's not about my behavior. It's about Christ's perfect behavior for me. And through that, I triumph. I'm a righteous man. That's who I am. And that's who you are if you're a Christian. You're a righteous person. So start acting like it. Believe you're a righteous person, despite what your emotions and your flesh try to tell you. Your flesh has been crucified, believe it or not. You died already. I try to tell Christians this all the time. You're dead. Your life is now hidden in Christ Jesus and God. You died. Christ now lives in your body. It's Christ, no longer you that live, but Christ that lives in your body. So you need to become a disciple, full surrender, and start believing the truth. You got the power of God living in your body. Nothing is impossible to you if you believe in Jesus of Nazareth. Okay? Just because you didn't get it instantly, just because God didn't come through for you, you think two years ago? You know, I got stories where I believed God for over almost a decade for things. Almost a decade, and it didn't come through. But through it, God showed me something amazing. God gave me one of my biggest breakthroughs with a prayer that I felt wasn't answered. So you have to change your mind. Start believing the truth. Okay? The truth is what sets you free. God is good all the time. God is good all the time. He's always going to be good to you. He's not going to stop being good to you. Well, why do you chasten? Why do bad things happen? Because God is God. God is a father. He cares about you. He's going to allow chastening to come in to get you on the narrow road. He wants you what? Like Peter. He wants you sold out. He wants you filled with the Spirit. He wants you happy in his presence. He wants you saved, delivered, healed. He wants you in the fullness of what his plan is for your life. God wants you in the fullness of what he has for your life. And this could take time, a lot of time for some of us. It's taking a lot of time for me.

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This is a lifelong process. You're either all in or you're not in. That's how I look at it. You could be a Christian, sit on the sidelines, and just do church and watch videos. I'm a Christian. I'm just going to watch videos the rest of my life. Okay. Well, you're actually supposed to love God, love your neighbor, and you're supposed to be zealous for good works. You can't go out and do a bunch of good works in yourself because then you'll get burned out and then you'll quit ministry, like a lot of people have done. You need to first know God. And so where I would start with is in your prayer closet. I'd start in your prayer closet and I would seek the Lord until he touched you by his Holy Ghost. You continue to seek the Lord until the Holy Spirit touches your heart, till you know you got touched by the Holy Spirit. That's what I would do. If I was going to tell anybody anything, that's what I would say. Go in your prayer closet wherever you pray, if it's in your car, if it's in your room, if it's in your closet, in your bathroom, you sit there and you continue to pray. I mean, you don't sit there for you know 10 days straight, but be diligent in seeking the Lord. Make every effort, you know, make every effort to walk in the spirit. And to walk in the spirit is not as hard as you think it is. It's love, peace, and joy. But you focus on love, walk in love. If you walk in love, then your flesh isn't gonna flare up as much. But when you walk in self-righteousness, trying to behave perfectly for everybody and be this religious Christian and try to help everybody, you're just gonna sin a bunch. Okay? That's all you're gonna do. So if you want to get out of all the junk, focus on loving God and loving your neighbor and loving yourself. And realizing you're forgiven and there's no condemnation for you, zero. And you die with Christ, you're buried with him in baptism, you've been risen in newness of life. So live in newness of life. I died with Christ. I'm a new person. Christ lives in my body, so you honor your body. So you know, you deal, people deal with sexual morality, they deal with this stuff. Start believing Christ lives in your body. It's a lot harder to go out and do sexual immorality, uh do sexual immoral things when you believe Christ lives in your body. People still fail and all that stuff. I understand that. But the more you understand Christ lives in your body, the less you'll want to go out and do stuff. The more you understand you're supposed to live a godly life, the less you'll want to go get drunk or do a bunch of drugs or whatever it is. You're not saved because you quit drinking. You're not saved because you quit drugs. You're saved because Jesus is perfect for you, and then believe that he lives in your body and he's transforming you so that you don't have to do those old behaviors anymore. And it's all attached to emotions anyway. And once you start realizing your emotions can be manipulated by stuff and people, then you can start guarding them. And in you can go, whoa, hold on a second. That's a stronghold. That's a belief system from my uncle that I got when I was 12 or something, you know? And then you could start overcoming stuff and breaking these strongholds and believing the truth and holding on to the promises of God. Amen. Amen. Well, I hope somebody got something. Praise God. I'm gonna pray and then we're gonna we're gonna end the broadcast. If you have any comments or questions, you can do that. Thank you for your uh support of the ministry. You can give at the website, thefathersfriends.org. If you're blessed by the broadcast, please share it, let people know that we're moving forward, guys. We're gonna win a lot of souls for Jesus. We're we don't care about the world system. Uh we just move forward. We we we know that the world is gonna fall apart, probably, right? And that you know, no matter what happens with AI or money or or the economy or food supply, nothing. God is with us, and God is going to continue to move the kingdom of God forward. Christ in us, the hope of glory. Amen. So, Father, I just thank you for this broadcast. Thank you, Lord, for Holy Ghost television. I pray. Lord, that the right people watch this and that they get touched by your spirit and that they become born again. They become disciples, they become all in servants of God. I pray for those that are trying, they're struggling with them, their emotions, their uh their mind, they're struggling with their family, they're struggling with their flesh, all this stuff. Lord, I pray that you'd help them concentrate on what Jesus Christ did for them. And that, God, you call them righteous, not by their behavior, but because Jesus lives in them. And the blood of Jesus cleanses their conscience from dead works to serve the living God. And the blood of Jesus cleanses them from their past sins and it covers them for their future sins. And everything is under the blood, Lord. I thank you that we're baptized unto your uh unto your burial, Lord, and death, and we are risen to newness of life. I pray for newness of life for us, Lord. I pray for the blessings of Abraham to flow through the people watching this and for your people all over the world. Lord, we pray for the persecuted church, Lord, all over the world. We pray you strengthen them. We pray, Lord, for protection for them. We pray for revivals to break out all over the world. Lord, we pray for what's going on in the Middle East. We pray that the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth hits the Middle East like fire. That fire of the gospel would come, Lord, that Jesus would be lifted up in Israel, that Jesus Christ would be lifted up in the Middle East, that Jesus Christ would be lifted up in North Korea and Russia, all over the world, Lord. I pray Jesus Christ would be lifted up in America. We pray for our leaders, Lord. We pray for our leaders. We don't curse our leaders, we bless them. We ask, Lord, that every single leader, Republican, Democrat, independent, whatever, Lord, we pray that your wisdom would come to them. We pray that your righteousness would come to them. We pray that faith would come to them. We pray for their salvation, Lord. And we pray that this nation, Lord, turns to you wholeheartedly. And Lord, that we are, we become just this bigger light than we ever believe that we could be. A light that just shines throughout the whole world, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The good news that God sent his only son, Jesus of Nazareth, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. I thank you, Lord, for eternal life. Thank you for the gift of eternal life. A gift. Praise God. In Jesus' name. Amen. I can pray all day. Guys, thank you so much. Love you. We want to help you grow as close as you can to the Lord Jesus, as well as grow in your identity as a son or daughter of the Most High God. We have books and resources at our website as well. You can go to our online store, you can get my book, Defeating Mental Illness. I have it in uh uh English, Spanish, Hmong language, Ukrainian, and French, okay, currently. And then we also have Becoming God's Friend, which is my autobiography. I have it in English and Spanish for you, as well as an ebook and audiobook, and 30 Days to Believing Right, which is a devotional, which will help, uh, I believe will help you with your identity in Christ Jesus and believe correctly about who you are. Okay, because God really loves you, He cares about you. Uh, so check out our website, thefathersfriends.org. If you feel led to become a monthly partner, you can do that at the website. Or if you just like to give a generous one time offering, you can do that too. We're a nonprofit and we care about people. We're trying to expand the ministry, help people, help more people, grow closer to the Lord.