Spirit Stream #68 - Renouncing the Lies

In this Spirit Stream, Nick Griemsmann teaches on the simplicity of the Gospel, identity in Christ, faith over emotions, patience through trials, and renouncing lies and strongholds. Discover powerful truths about dying with Christ and living as a new creation, the fight of faith against big emotions that can lead to unbelief, surrender and patience to receive double for your trouble, hearing God while rejecting old programming, and eternal security that is offered through the blood of Jesus.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Welcome & prayer
5:00 - Gospel simplicity & narrow road
15:00 - Identity: you died with Christ
25:00 - Faith vs emotions
35:00 - Patience & surrender
45:00 - Story of Job & double for your trouble
55:00 - Hearing God & renouncing strongholds
1:05:00 - Closing prayer

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Hello. Hopefully everything's uh uh running well. Trying to uh get everything situated with this new setup here. And I keep looking at the computer. But the camera's right there. I gotta keep looking at the camera. This is Nick Grimsman, by the way, spirit stream number 68. Can you believe it? 68 spirit streams. They're averaging uh a little over an hour, most of them. Uh so we're looking at what, over 68 uh hours of live teaching to help you in your walk with Jesus of Nazareth. That's why I'm here. That's why we start Holy Ghost Television to help you in your walk with Jesus of Nazareth. Praise God. Let's start off with prayer and then we will uh we will go on from there. Please give me a comment and let me know that uh you are getting a good stream and everything is uh-okay. Lord, thank you so much for tonight. Thank you for Holy Ghost Television, Spirit Stream number sixty eight. Lord, I thank you that your peace is here, your presence is here. Thank you when the name of Jesus Christ is lifted high, then you will draw all men to you, that you will uh lead men to salvation and women to salvation, people to salvation. I thank you, Lord, that the gospel is very simple and easy so that even a child can understand God's love for humanity through Jesus Christ. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for being here. Thank you, thank you, Lord God. Amen. Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. All right. I see some uh viewers there uh out there. If you could leave me a comment, let me know you can hear me. Everything is good. Um so this past weekend I was in Seattle uh for some ministry. I also got to uh visit uh uh my dad up there, so that was good. Um, it's always good to see him. I don't get to see him that much. Uh Welders for Jesus on YouTube. Thank you for the uh the hands. I appreciate that. I guess that means you can hear me and that you're watching the stream. That's wonderful. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. What are we talking about today? Lord, I thank you for the simplicity of the gospel. You know, a lot of times we struggle so much uh and we don't realize that God is getting us through that tight season where we're like we have to like almost go through a cave, you know, like the narrow road gets to a spot where there's like two mountains or two rocks. You have to go through like a cave enter, uh entering a cave. Like you go through and and eventually you get to the other side. The problem is we get to the cave or we see the cave and we freak out. And a lot of that is in our emotions. I talk about this a lot, like our mind, our emotions, our soul. Um, that's what I have learned through walking with the Lord. I've learned that our soul is where we get attacked at in our mind and our emotions leading to our will. So the enemy can't take our spirit because uh no man can take you out of my father's hand, right? So you are secure in Christ, but the enemy, what he wants to do is he wants to get you discouraged, get you in unbelief, and then try to take you out of the race. So there's a race, right? Apostle Paul talked about how there's a race we're running, right? So we are running a race uh of um uh of rewards, however that works. You're gonna get a reward for your faith, you're gonna get a reward for the things that uh you know you have opportunities to do in your life uh for the Lord or how you got through different things, or however these all these rewards work. I don't really know. But so the enemy doesn't want you to earn rewards, he can't take away your salvation, but he wants to slow you down and confuse you and get you off track so that you maybe lack in rewards when you get to heaven or you get to judgment day, or you don't get any. You know, he just gets you to rebel or gets you to believe a bunch of lies. And then let's say you end up in jail or you end up in uh diseased or whatever because you made a lot of bad choices because you're listening to your soul. If you look back on your life or you look at your life, a lot of the things that you do uh or have done in the past, a lot of mistakes you've made, or because of things you did in your uh that started in your mind. You had an idea about something, sin was conceived in your soul, in your mind, and went to your emotions, and it conceived to bring forth sin, like the book of James talks about. So your mind and your emotions were used against you to lead you to walk in the flesh. So you get saved, right? We get saved, we get born again. A lot of us uh we have our heart transformation, we have our heart circumcised by the Holy Spirit, and then the enemy comes in, and if he can't get you to believe you're not saved, he'll try to get you to believe you blasphemed or get you to believe you lost your salvation or get you on a sinless perfectionism doctrine, or get you in some weird cult or like a mini cult or whatever, you know, get you into some sort of self-righteousness because the ultimate goal, remember, is to get you into unbelief so you can't receive the promises of God, right? Can't receive healing, can't receive deliverance, can't receive prosperity, can't receive the things that you're believing God for because you're living in unbelief. So I minister to people all the time. And what I see uh mostly is that people have an identity issue. People deal with identity issue. You never a lot of people, I'm not saying you never do, but a lot of people don't get taught that when they got saved, they died. Okay. You died. You got to stop thinking like the world. You got to stop thinking like your old self. You died with Christ. You're buried with him at baptism. Now you're risen to newness of life, right? You were crucified with Christ. That's the core thing that you got to get that you died with Christ. It's no longer you that live, it's Christ that lives in you. But a piece of you, a part of you, wants to keep living. So it's like you're resurrecting your old self all the time. So the enemy uses your mind, your emotions to get you into this place of uh of unbelief, uh, of to sinful behaviors and all this stuff leads you into condemnation and guilt. So you eventually end up in uh uh walking in the flesh all the time. And then you wonder why God doesn't bless you. Why don't I get any, why don't I see any prayers answered? Why don't I see this? Because you're living in the flesh. And in the realm of the flesh, there's self-righteousness, and then when you become self-righteous, then you're under the law, you put yourself under the law, and then what happens to you? All the stuff from the law, the curses and everything start manifesting in your life. So, how do you get out of this, right? Let's say you're dealing with schizophrenia, you're dealing with depression, bipolar, you're dealing with a bad diagnosis of some sort. How do you get out from underneath this thing? Faith. And, you know, I say faith, and you think, oh, well, I've heard that, faith. It's literally believing God over your emotions. Think about it. You look at your situation, and your emotions and your mind and your, and your, you know, the way you feel are telling you that God's not good, that I can't believe I'm in this situation, that you get frustrated, you get discouraged, you feel condemned, you feel like God doesn't love you. All those feelings and emotions, uh, they try to pull you out of faith. So this is a fight of faith. So remember that this whole thing is a fight of faith. So write that down if you're taking notes. Faith is what overcomes. You need something from the Lord, you need deliverance from schizophrenia, from uh witchcraft, from bipolar, from whatever you're dealing with, financial issues, relationship problems, whatever it is. You need deliverance. It's by faith, by believing that first God is real and that he is able to deliver you. And remember that not everything is in your timing. You are impatient. I am an impatient person in myself, right? The whole world's impatient. We want everything now. We want to go to the fast food restaurant and get the food immediately. We want to go here now. We want to travel fast. We want everything now, okay? Push of a button on your phone now. Everything's now, right? Every video, now. I want it now, now, now. That's how the world system is. Impatience. So God in his mercy is trying to teach you patience. Okay? So think about that. He's trying to teach you patience in a world of impatience. In the flesh, you're impatient. If you find yourself saying, I'm impatient, I'm just an impatient person. I'm just an impatient person, but guess what? You're believing you're still alive. See? You died to impatience. You died to all the stuff of your flesh. Now you you have to be deprogrammed from what you learned living in the flesh and living in sin and living in the world system. And so God has to take you through things to teach you patience. And so instead of looking at your situation, your life situation as lame, horrible, frustrating, I hate it, it's tormenting. Ask the Lord what he's teaching you. Ask the Lord to show you all the things you're learning from this horrible situation. Okay. Because he's forming, remember, a diamond has to have pressure to be formed. Heat and pressure, right? So he's trying to uh form a diamond in you, heat and pressure. And you know, you can pray for a miracle every day, you can go to every prayer service, you can fast, you can cry, you can do all these things. And some things stick around. Some things may stick around for a while, not to say you're not going to get it, but some things will stick around to what? Challenge your faith, grow your faith, teach you patience, endurance. I know I know a lot of you, you know, you want like instant things all the time. I've been in ministry for many years. There's nothing wrong with wanting instant things. But when you walk with the Lord, not everything's instant all the time. I recently prayed for over a year for something, and I just got the answer to my prayer. I'm not gonna tell you what it was. But I prayed for a whole year, I was believing the Lord for something. And I knew he was gonna give it to me because it was from my heart and it was one, it was his will. So when you pray something from your sincere heart, say that with me, sincere heart, and you know it's God's will, then he's gonna answer you. The answer might be different than what you expected, but he will answer you somehow. You might be praying for healing. Lord, I need healing in my feet. I need healing in my legs, my arms, I need healing. Lord, I need healing. I need healing. You're praying, you're crying for healing. God might take you down a uh uh a healing journey that looks way different than maybe my healing journey. He might take you to a journey to learn how not to overeat or how to eat different types of foods. Maybe you never learned when you were young. I didn't learn how to eat when I was young. I learned fast food. I ate Cheez Its and drank Coca-Cola every day when I was a youngster. You know, that's what I chose to eat. My mom was at work, I'd eat the bad food. So God has to what? Teach me how to eat correctly, teach me how to be a man. Some of us didn't learn healthy eating, didn't learn how to take care of our bodies. And so you're praying for healing, you're going to all these places for healing. God wants to deal sometimes with the root, right? The problem, the issue. So the issue might be rooted in that you don't eat well or that you uh deal with laziness. Maybe he's trying to get that out of you. There might be different things that God's working on you, and that's why you went down to the altar, and maybe you didn't get an instant answer. You didn't instantly get out of the wheelchair, you didn't instantly get healed of diabetes. You know, that's not to say God's not your healer and he doesn't answer your prayers. If it's a heartfelt prayer and you uh you sincerely prayed it with faith, right? Believing God has heard you and He's gonna answer you in His timing and His way. So what I learned is like you let go, you guys there, is this uh good connection tonight? I don't see a lot of comments. I guess uh people are sleeping or something. Okay, so I what I learned is like when you let go, right? You want to let go of control of your life because your life doesn't belong to you. And a lot of people don't get this far, guys. A lot of people stumble when it comes to surrendering to God, right? So God's working on you, and then you you uh you stop because it's too much surrender. And you stay at one level and you're still saved, and you can still serve God, and you can still get answered prayers and things, but there's deepness to where God wants to take you. And it's up to us to just agree with his truth and let go in our emotions of the world. Hey, Rachel, good to see you on Facebook, right? So it's up to us to say, you know what, Lord, I'm gonna let go of this piece of me that holds on to a desire for a new car. I'm just gonna let that go. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm not gonna hold on to like an idol anymore. I'm gonna let it go. If you want me to take the bus for the rest of my life, it's okay. I belong to you and you're gonna take care of me no matter what. So the surrendering process is layer, multiple, multiple layers. And like I said in the beginning, you go to like this, sometimes you get to this narrow place in this uh this narrow road, this little narrow, like a like a um like a uh like a narrow area, like a cliff you have to go through, right? Like a cliff that's like both sides of the rocks. And it's really like a tunnel. And it can be scary because you get to this place and it's so narrow, you're like, oh my gosh, Lord, this is life. Some of you are in a place where it's like you, you're like, this is life, Lord, and you feel like you're just depressed. You're like, this is life. I'm just grinding at work every day. I'm grinding at work every day. I'm paying my bills, I'm doing this, right? I'm doing that. Okay. And it's like you're just this is grinding. It's every day, the same thing, the same thing. And I've been there. I've been there where it seems like the same thing over and over. You go to work, you you do this, you do that, and you wonder, is this all? Is this all? Lord, is this all? But you forget that everything is training in righteousness. So God is training you in righteousness. And what I'm trying to do is get you to repent. I'm trying to get you to change your mind and see differently. See from the spirit instead of how you feel from a place of your soul, your mind and your emotions. Though remember, those are connected to your will. See if you can start believing wrong and you can stay in that negative mindset in those negative emotions and hold on to those idols of people and things and money and greed and success and favor and all, you hold on to these idols in your soul, your emotions, and you constantly think about them and you you strive for them and everything, and they're right there. If you can hold on to those, then you can stay in unbelief. You won't move past that area and you'll just stay there. And there's tons of people that stay in certain levels of Christianity and never go further because lack of surrender. They are not willing to surrender. They get frustrated and they give up. Doesn't mean they lose their salvation or anything like that. Just means that's where they're at as Christians. That's where they stay until God works in them to finally wake up or they agree with the truth or they get out of the snare of the devil or whatever it is. So if you feel like you are one of those people that have been working hard, you feel like a slow you're slaving away at work, you're paying bills, you're like, Lord, when does the promise come? Well, in the Bible it says that, you know, if you are do not be wary and well doing. Okay, I think it's in Hebrews. Do not be wary. So don't start, don't be wary and well doing, for you will reap at the right time, right? If you keep going. So you're gonna reap eventually. Some flowers are small and they take a long time to reap, right? Or they grow, some grow quickly. You might have a lot of seeds that you planted 10 years ago that are still underneath the the ground. And then, hi Lily, good to see you on YouTube, right? So you might have you might have all these uh seeds planted 10 years ago, and they're just being watered, and they're they're really great fruit. But you you look out and all you see is dirt, and you're like, oh my gosh, these are taking forever. Uh God's not real, or God doesn't love me, or he didn't see my prayers for that, he didn't see my sewing, he didn't see all this stuff. And then what do you do? You go into unbelief. Why? Because you you you saw into the world, you didn't see the miracle, you didn't see the fruit, and then you allowed it to go into your emotions and take you into unbelief. So if you just, I mean, literally, if you just dissect yourself, like like split yourself in half, part of you is faith, that's the spirit, love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, self-control. You have a spirit of faith, you have the Holy Spirit in your body, and then in your soul that's being transformed by the word of God, the word of truth, by the spirit in you, by the word of God, right? By God's word. Okay. Then you have your soul that wants to pull you into doubt and unbelief. So your flesh is like unbelief, your spirit is belief in a way. So you can literally just divide yourself from it and you can walk in whichever realm you want to walk in by belief. By belief. Literally. You can look at your bank account and you can see a fact that you don't have any money in there. And you can now choose are you gonna go into unbelief and discouragement, discouragement, unbelief, or are you gonna have faith and say, you know what, that is a fact. You don't you don't want to deny facts, right? So you get a blood test at the doctor, and let's say it's it's not that great. You don't want to deny and be like, oh, that didn't really happen. Like that blood's not real, right? That's like delusional. But you can see a fact, and then you can combat it with believing the truth. So the blood work, okay, that's a fact. It's in the world, it's in my my blood right now, or whatever, right? But the truth is I'm healed by the wounds of Jesus. I'm gonna remain in faith, I'm gonna have a good attitude, believe God's good, even if I got to go through more blood work or my finances are bad. See, it's right there in your mind, your emotions. It's right there, it's literally right there. And if you can catch it, it's like discerning of spirits in a way. If you think of discerning a spirits, you you discern those things. You start discerning, oh, I'm in unbelief. And then you what do you do? You submit to God in that area and you resist the devil. Resist the devil. Disagree with the devil. Start disagreeing with the devil. Pretty soon it gets easier and easier, and you won't get discouraged all the time. You'd be like, wow, I walk in faith. That's how I know I can pray and know that God's gonna answer my prayer, even if it takes a year. Because I've learned a lot of patience. I've been in those tunnels with the Lord where it seems like I'm walking around a corner in the narrow road and all of a sudden it gets really, really tight. It's like a tunnel I got to get through. Because I've been through those and I know that God's faithful through those hard times. All the all the things that have caused me to uh, you know, to learn patience, to get out of impatience, to learn patience, all the troubles and afflictions I've been through. I've been to the place where I've learned, oh, there's I can have a good attitude even in a bad fact or a bad situation because of my past experiences with the Lord. I know it's gonna work out for my good. So it comes with maturity, it becomes, you know, growing up, growing with the Lord and all that stuff and growing in faith because you grow in faith. You learn how to access more, you learn how to walk in love, you learn how to love people, forgive people. Like I can forgive people. Like I used to not be able to forgive people easily. I can just forgive them and just let it go. Because I realized that people are basically just a bunch of personalities. Put together and they operate in different personalities according to how they feel. So if they feel rejected, they might, they might lash out in anger, or they feel offended, they might punch you or kick you or whatever, right? They might yell at you because the way they feel emotionally. And people in the world system, they live in the realm of the flesh. So they live in their mind and their emotions their whole life. Okay. Their whole, hi Lori, good to see you. Their whole life, they live in their emotions, just like you and me before we were saved. All we did, all we knew was the realm of the flesh. So you get saved, and all you know is the realm of the flesh. Then you get saved, and the Holy Spirit comes in you, and he lives inside of you now, and you are circumcised in heart. You have a new heart. You have a new spirit, a new heart. But the enemy wants to tell you, oh, you have a you have a dark heart. Don't trust your heart. Your heart is evil. That's your emotions. So you can still deal with anger and rage and lust and all that stuff in your emotions. But your heart is new. You have a new heart. You have new emotions now. You have to learn your new emotions. Love, joy, peace, kindness, uh, gentleness, goodness, uh, self-control, all these things are your new emotions that you're supposed to live in. But your old emotions, discouragement, self-hatred, rejection, rebellion, that's all your old life. That's old programming. That's what people, the world live in. And of course, there's joy and peace and stuff in people as well, but not like in the spirit, right? They can access it sometimes, but it's according to how they feel, right? We have it all the time. So I have joy 24-7, no matter what the facts of life are. The facts of life could be a nuclear bomb goes off tomorrow. I could still have joy, peace, and love, and kindness and gentleness and goodness and self-control because I got the Holy Ghost and I'm seated with Christ Jesus high in the heavenly realms. The same way you are in Christ, you are seated with Christ, Christ. You are seated in Him. So you have joy and peace and kindness and gentleness and goodness and self-control all the time. But your feelings and your emotions and your mind always are trying to get you to think like the world system. And they try to get you to focus on what people wear, what they're doing, what their job is, how much money they have, what their followers on Facebook are, all this stuff. They're trying the devil's trying to pull you back into being part of the world system. When Apostle Paul encouraged us not to be what? Uh conformed to this age or this world by our ignorance, right? Don't be ignorant. Don't be conformed to this age. You don't want to take your Christianity and conform it, okay, into Western Christianity or into uh worldly Christianity. You don't want to conform Christianity, be conformed. You want to be transformed, you want to look different than the world system. You want to be a son of God, you want to shine, right? You want to be a daughter of God, you want to shine. You want to shine for Jesus. Amen. You want to shine. But if you just conform yourself to this age in this world, you'll just be somebody that just fits in, but never really does fit in. Because inside you'll know that you're different. Right? I've tried to do that. I've tried to be somebody that conforms my Christianity to the world system. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. You can do it, but like I talked about before, there's rewards. There's eternal rewards. Guys, life is really short and eternal rewards are forever. So, like Apostle Paul said, run your race good, right? You want to run your race well. You want to run the race with the Lord. You want to fulfill what he has for you. And remember, he's trying to teach you patience in suffering. So if you're suffering, right? If you're suffering, allow the Lord to work patience in you. He knows you're suffering. Just like when I used to deal with schizophrenia, God knew I was dealing with schizophrenia. God knew the pain I was going through every night. He knew that the voices were attacking me, but he also knew me 20 years from then, which is today or whatever. Because he's he knows the ending from the beginning. So he already knew that I was going to be on this uh Spirit Stream 68 talking to you and encouraging you when I was sitting in a mental hospital 20 years ago or whatever. He already knew that was going to happen. So, like when you go through things, try to believe that God is good. Like Job had his children killed, and all his business and livestock and house, everything was gone. He's wealthy. His children were gone. Satan killed his children. Read Job. If you want to be encouraged, read Job. He had boils all over his body. But what did the Bible say? God was compassionate, right? And what did he do? Double forced trouble. So he blessed Job twice as much as he was blessed before. Okay. So if you are somebody that's going through hell, right? You're, you know, people go through hell, which I hey, I know I've been in ministry long enough. I know people go through hell. I've been through hell, right? So if you're going through hell, read the book of Job and try to encourage yourself that the Lord is uh He's very pitiful and uh pitiful to people and compassionate. And he wants to give you double for your trouble. So instead of complaining and getting fearful, why don't you just declare with the Lord, Lord, I declare I'm gonna get double for the trouble. The money they stole, double for my trouble. I forgive them, Lord, with your help. Oh, that disease, double for the trouble, Lord. Years of torment, double for the trouble, Lord. Confusion, years of confusion and all this stuff, double for my trouble. And and really hold on to the truth that God is with you. You know, when uh what I what I really what I really learned, honestly, through all these years was that a lot of people don't really know the Lord, like really like feel his love a lot or really know him. They they've been saved, they've been touched by him, but then they get into like self-righteousness or they get into like a denominational thing where they just become, you know, nominal Christians and just don't ever go further with the Lord. And then they struggle and then they get tormented, and then they don't really, they don't really have that close, close connection with the Lord. So they panic a lot. You know, I get prayer requests, people panicking, you know. I lost my job, they panic. You know, I, you know, I got diagnosed as they panic. Everybody's panicking instead of trusting. Trusting. So think about it. If you, if you're a father and you have you have a son or daughter, a young son, son or son or daughter, and they're going through something, you're right there with them, right? You're a good father, right? So God's a good God. So he's right there with you. And so I know everything I go through. God already knew I was gonna go through, like schizophrenia, like I talked about earlier, financial issues, health issues. He already had a plan. I prayed for many years for healing for something. And I always wondered why I didn't get healed of it, Lord. I had to go through uh surgery or something. Why did I why did I have to go through that? And I felt like the Lord told me, well, afterwards, I'll tell you. So I went through it, and it was really hard for me. I fought with my mind about it. I I don't I don't have faith. That's what I thought. Why would I have to go to the doctor for this? You're my healer. Well, God had to get a lot of negative thoughts I had about doctors and doing all that stuff, doctors and medication, all that, all the thoughts about that he had to get, he had to deal with. And so he knows how to put you in a situation or allow for a situation to get stuff dealt with. So if you have been in a situation and it's been prolonged, maybe just humble yourself and and ask God sincerely, Lord, what are you trying to get me to get here? What what do you want me to learn here? And the Bible says if you ask God for wisdom, he will give you wisdom. So if you lack wisdom, you can ask him, but ask him in faith, sincerely. And he can reveal to you what he's teaching you. And it could be as simple as patience, it could be as simple as not relying on yourself so much, it could be as simple as relaxing in him, you know, relaxing, taking a break. Maybe you work too much. Hey, Jameson, good to see you on uh YouTube, right? Thanks, guys, for sharing the broadcast. I appreciate it. Right? So he could be just teaching you how to not work so hard. Maybe you all you do, all you've known your whole life is to work 80 hours a week and your family suffers because they don't see you ever. And then you go through a layoff or you go through hours, you get your hours cut. And you're like, I can't work so much. Well, what's wrong? Lord, what did I do wrong? I'm a horrible person. I got to support my all this stuff. You start freaking out. And then you you sincerely ask the Lord, Lord, why did I lose those hours? Is there something you're trying to show me? Because I've been asking for more hours, I'm not getting it. I feel like I hit a wall. And the Lord might tell you, I want to spend more time with you. Or I want you to spend more time throwing the baseball with your son. Or I, you know, I want you to uh be home more with your wife or whatever, or your spouse, right? So there's all sorts of reasons why certain things happen in our lives. And if you look at it instead of all negative, like, oh my gosh, the world has ended, I'm dealing with a sickness. Why don't you look at it in the realm of faith? Fact, going through sickness and disease is horrific and horrible. Okay. But it is in the world system and it's something that people deal with. And so if that's you, then change your mind and humble yourself and realize that you died with Christ, and your life and your health is in his hands. The Holy Spirit lives in a believer's body, and the Bible says he gives life to our flesh. So the Holy Spirit gives life to your flesh. So here you are praying for two years for healing, fasting, crying to God, which you know, we've all been there. Maybe you've done all that, maybe you hit a wall. Maybe it's time for you to start just believing the truth that God loves you in the mess you're in. He's with you while you go to the doctor. He's here for you when you don't feel like he is. In your torment, God is there. In your despair, God is there. And start cultivating that like that closeness and believe that God's close to you. You know what another thing I learned about the Lord is that he'll interact with you however you want him to interact. So if you have a belief that God is uh uh speaks old English, you might hear him speak old English. If you believe, if you want, you know, if you think God is uh kind of hard, then he might deal with you harshly, like hard. You might hear him hardly, you know, hard kind of. Or if you believe he's soft-spoken and kind, you'll hear him like that. It's very interesting. He will show up sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes I've noticed, uh, differently for for each person, according to how the person can uh uh expects him to interact with him. Isn't that interesting? So, like you expect him to be a certain way. Maybe you expect him to uh be uh like a like a brother to you. So you hear him and and you experience him like a brother. I expect God to be like my my loving father, right? And I have asked him to manifest himself in different facets of his personality to me. A brother, a friend, right? A father. I've asked him to reveal different facets of his emotions or of his personalities. Because he, I mean, he's he's God, he can manifest however he wants to you. I knew a lady years ago, she said that uh when she first got saved, she used to, she was uh, she used to speak like I think she said like a bonic or something. She said God would speak to her in a bonnox because that's how she understood, that's the language she spoke. So God interacts with us differently according to how we're gonna hear him and how yeah, we, you know, we we believe in stuff. So how do you want God to interact with you? You know, maybe you just you're waiting. Oh, God, you know, say something. I don't know what you're gonna say, and you're like afraid. And so you hear God just like say one thing instead of like, Lord, I'd like you to talk with me more than one word, or I'd like you to have a conversation with me sometime. Be conversational with me, Lord. Lord, help me hear you in a way that I can understand you. Because a lot of times you're you're hearing you want to hear a voice, right? So a lot of people, uh, oh, I hear God in my head. Oh, I hear God. Nah, stop. Okay? It's a good way to start listening to familiar spirits. What I would do is I would figure out how God speaks to you. He could be several ways. He could speak to you through uh, you know, situations, visions, like uh just an imprint on your heart. He could speak to you through a voice in your heart. Uh, you know, he could speak to you through his word. There's a lot of different dreams, however, but figure out how God speaks to you. You know, how do you really hear God? When do you hear God? You know? I hear God when I'm quiet and not trying to hear him. That's a lot of times I hear him when I'm quiet and I'm not trying to hear him. For example, in the shower or driving down the road with no music on, I'll just all of a sudden hear the Lord. It's very interesting. So kind of try to figure out how you hear the Lord. Ask him. And he's sometimes doesn't answer you instantly, okay? And he doesn't yip yap all day. He's not a yip-yapper like me. I don't see, you know, he's not sitting there yip-yapping at you all day. And, you know, eat this food, do this, tie your shoe now. Speed up. He's not doing that to you, okay? He's God Almighty. He doesn't need to yip yap. If he needs to get something to you, he can get to it, get to you. So talk with him how, and if you are lacking in hearing from him, sincerely ask him to speak to you however he wants to speak to you. A lot of times you ask for signs. You ask, people ask for all sorts of stuff, signs, or have somebody say this to me, or do this, or I'm gonna open the Bible anytime, and it's just whatever it says right on that on that page, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take as your word. Just sincerely ask him to speak to you when he wants to speak to you and at the perfect time, and he will reveal his truth to you and he will speak to you. Sincere. Just be sincere with God and he'll speak to you. It doesn't mean you're gonna say, God, what should I eat for dinner? And then immediately he's like hamburgers and fries, right? You might say, Lord, I desire for you to tell me what would be a really good meal for dinner. And you might not hear from him for six months. You might have forgot you said that prayer. And it was a sincere prayer. And you went, you you ate pizza and you're like, ah, well, guess the Lord doesn't answer that. I guess the Lord's not that intimate. And then six months from now, I'm so funny. I crack myself up. I'm like talking to the screen right now. I'm like, hey guys, can't see you, but I'm talking to you. I'm like, six months from now, all of a sudden, you could have some sort of vision of what you're supposed to eat. You never even thought of it before, like beef stroganoff with, you know, whatever, hot sauce in it, something, whatever. And at that moment, you know it's the Lord, and then you then at the same time you remembered you prayed that funny prayer six months ago. And you're like, wow, God answered my prayer. It wasn't instant. He's not in your timetable. And believe it or not, like, believe it or not, though, if you really want to go deep, is that it's all instant because God's outside of time. We're the ones on like this timetable thing. So it is instant. That's kind of a cool revelation, Lord. Like, it is instant if you think of outside of time. But it's like you in inside the time you have to wait. It's very interesting. Anyway, why does it happen like that? I don't know. But you can pray a prayer and God can and will answer it according to his will and purposes for your life. So sincere prayer about dinner, he can answer. And he could he can give you a really great idea. But it might not be for that dinner, that night, or next week. Does that make sense? So when you pray, I always do ASAP prayers, right? As soon as possible. Lord, I want to be healed ASAP, please. Right? Let's do an ASAP right now, Lord, as soon as possible. And miracles happen, absolutely. People get instantly healed of things, people recover from things. And a lot of people that watch these broadcasts and stuff, they're looking for healing, deliverance, they're looking for answers, they're looking for all sorts of stuff, right? Because I mean, they're people. Everybody's like that, right? So when you pray, believe past how you feel about the situation. And remember, submit to God and resist the devil and he flees from you. So submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Submit to the truth that you died with him and your life is now hid with him. Submit to the truth that you're born you're born from above, you're born again, and God lives inside of your body. He's giving life to your mortal flesh. And submit to the truth that you're no longer your own. You belong to him, you're the temple of the Holy Ghost. You know, it's a lot easier not to fall into sinful behaviors when you start believing you're the temple of the Holy Ghost. Just start believing it past how you feel. See, that's where the enemy's getting you. He's giving you a thought, and then he does the feeling, and then you go, oh, that's the truth, how I feel. That's how people get into weird relationships. That's how people get into uh struggling with identity stuff and having desires for things that are ungodly. Is they're they're going by how they feel emotionally, and then it pulls their flesh. If you can get this, then you could start believing the truth that you have love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, self-control, all these good things inside of you through Christ, and that those are the emotions that are the true emotions of a born-again believer, of someone that has the Holy Spirit. And in Romans uh eight, it says, if someone does not have the Holy Spirit, they do not belong to Christ. Okay? So check yourself if you're in the faith. And it says that if you have the Holy Spirit, your heart, your heart cries out, Abba Father. So our hearts bear witness with the Spirit that we are children of God. So your heart tells you if you're a child of God, if you have a circumcised heart. Your heart does, not your emotions, right? Not your emotions. Because your emotions could tell you that God hates you, you're rejected. All this programming. It's your internal heart. Has it been circumcised? Do you love God because He first loved you, right? It's in there, right? If it's in there, then you're a child of God. You've been born again. Now you need to grow out of your diapers and you need to start taking your thoughts captive and saying, you know what? This thought process of depression sucks. I don't like it. It's a programming. I I've believed I was depressed since I got diagnosed 20 years ago. But today I divorce depression. I choose, I choose with my own will that I am no longer depressed, even though I may feel like it or manifest it. And so then what you do is you do the best you can with faith. You start exercising if you need to, go for a walk, ask the Lord to give you strength to get out of bed, ask the Lord to give you strength to take a shower. Ask the Lord to give you strength to eat better. Ask the Lord to help you with your doctors and whatever else you got to do with your family, with cleaning, whatever it is. You ask the Lord for strength. For when you are weak, God is strong, right? When we are weak, God is strong. In our weakness, there's our strength. So it's okay to be weak in a situation. It's okay to struggle with depression. It's okay to struggle with uh some sort of behavior you don't like that you know is wrong. In your weakness, then he is strong. So it's okay to confess, Lord, this is a weakness I have. I have a hard time getting out of bed right now. I'm dealing with depression. But I believe that the Holy Spirit lives in me and he is changing me. And one day I'll be able to get out of bed. Bed. One day I'll be able to take a shower on time or whatever. Right. When I dealt with schizophrenia, I didn't want to get take a shower. I was afraid of taking a shower. I don't know why. I had fear and torment. I love taking showers. And then I got hit with schizophrenia, and then I didn't want to take showers. So it was like a total different personality. Torment. And then eventually I snapped out of it. God got me out of it. Now I take showers. Thank God, right? Praise God. I take showers. I like taking showers, right? But I want to encourage you that you don't always have to be in the same runaround, the same mountain all the time. Same mountain. It's going to happen the same thing next year. I used to deal with a sore throat every year. Every single year, the seasons change here in Arizona. I get this horrible sore throat. One time I had to take uh like this uh stuff from the doctor that was like a sore throat medication, but you have to gargle it. I don't know if you ever I don't wish this on anybody. It was horrible. I had like cuts in my throat because I had such a bad um uh sore throat. It was like cuts in there, and I had to gargle with this stuff and I could barely breathe at night when I was trying to sleep and everything. I had to gargle this stuff and oh, it was horrible. Like I cry, it was horrible. But every year I'd have a sore throat, got worse and worse every single year. And every year, around the same time, I would always I would believe that I was gonna get a sore throat and I'd prepare for it. And I'd tell people, yeah, I get a sore throat every year. The seasons change from like fall to winter in Arizona. I'd say that out of my mouth. And one year, after all this stuff, every year, like almost my whole life. One year, I felt like the Lord told me, Why do you keep saying you're gonna get sick every year? You keep getting sick. Why do you believe that? Well, it's been like that every year, Lord.

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Well, just believe differently. So, what did I do? I renounced believing I was gonna get sick every year. I haven't been sick since. It's been years. I don't even know how long. I don't even know how long it's been. Sore throat and all that stuff. Years, don't even know. Since I renounced it, I renounced believing that. I renounced that sore throat, that yearly sore throat. Okay. I renounced it. Okay. And so renouncing is basically disagreeing, rejecting, right? Breaking that agreement and throwing it from you. So what do you need to renounce? What is the belief system that you are tied to? What do you need to renounce? Do you have a belief that God doesn't hear your prayers? That needs to be renounced completely. Like, completely. That emotion, that discouragement, renounce it completely. I renounce discouragement. I sever the tie to this discouragement. I renounce it. And I thank you, God, for showing me how to resist it when it tries to get upon me. Or do you have a stronghold of rejection and it's like this giant, uh, this giant tree living inside of you? It's like this feeling of rejection and discouragement just comes upon you. Somebody says something, your spouse says something, somebody at work says something, and you just feel this rejection. You just want to, you want to be offended and hurt and cry and yell and scream and rebel. And do you have this rejection? You need to renounce it. Just sincerely renounce it to the Lord. I sincerely renounce rejection, this stronghold of rejection, and I ask that you would deal with it and help me overcome it. I renounce it. I do not want to agree with it anymore. And I ask now that you'd sever it from my brain, from my emotions and my soul. I need it renounced. I need it gone in the name of Jesus. And start believing that you are free from rejection because Jesus was rejected for you. And when you feel that thing try to get you, you feel those emotions come in. Those are the weapons of the enemy coming from, let's say, a stronghold that's built of rejection. So you you see it for what it is. Oh, that's that rejection. I renounced that. I broke agreement with that. I'm not listening anymore. I cast that thing out of me in Jesus' name. And pretty soon you'll be able to catch it quicker. You'll be like, oh, there it is. There's a rejection. For example, I went through rejection uh uh briefly, uh uh not too far, uh not too far back, you know, not too long ago. Pretty big rejection in public, not big public, but you know, in a public setting. And I laughed it off. I just knew it was rejection coming at me, and I did not make that initial agreement with it. Because how can two walk together unless they agree, the Bible says, right? So, how can two walk together unless they agree? So the enemy's arrow comes in, rejection. They're you're gonna somebody's gonna do something to you to reject you. There it comes. Now I see it for what it is, and I feel it. It's trying to come in, and I say, I renounce it. I've renounced that. Like this is all quick, like within you know, split second, it's coming in. I already know that's rejection, not not gonna happen. Pretty soon you just get so good, you just kind of everything just bounces off you. Like you, you, you're a foot soldier, right? You're fighting, right? Pretty soon, you're you're you're a captain, and then you're you know, whatever. You're you're you're higher up in the army, you're riding a horse or whatever it is, because you learn to fight the foot soldiers. Now you can just defeat the foot soldiers, you just walk right through. You your armor's strong. You can just walk right through these foot soldiers. Now you're on the horse riding through. Now you gotta fight the horse soldiers or whatever, right? Horsemen, the knights. Pretty soon, the you know, this, you gotta fight this, you gotta fight. But it you grow and grow and grow spiritually to where pretty soon it's just like, oh, that's rejection. Who cares? Oh, that's discouragement. Boo-hoo. You just keep going and you're like, oh, this is easy. This is easy. Wow, this isn't as hard as I thought. But when you're first a foot soldier, you're like in like hard knocks, right? You're in like the training of all trainings, and you're tormented a lot of times. You get tormented in the being a foot soldier because you're you're new, you're like, I don't understand this stuff. You could be listening to me and be like, what is he talking about? Emotions. Those are my emotions. People say that to me all the time. Well, God gave us emotions. Of course, he gave us emotions. But let me ask you this: when Adam and Eve were in the garden before the fall, did they have any fear or any rejection, any ungodly lusts? Did they have any rage or anger or murder in them? Did they have any of these negative things that you go through? No, those are from the fallen nature. So you have to learn to peel off that old programming and walk in the light. Put on Christ, who is holiness, who is joy. So Christ is joy. You want to know God, you'll know joy. If you meet God, you'll meet joy. If you meet God, you'll meet love. If you meet God, you'll meet, you know, self-control, peace, all these things. And that same God lives inside of you through the Holy Spirit. And so cultivate that and believe the truth. One, if you're saved, you're always saved. If you're truly saved and you have a circumcised heart and you have the Holy Spirit in you, you are always saved. That does not change. Number one, you have to get that from the Lord. You could hear this from me over and over, but you need that revelation that if someone is saved, they are always saved forever. The question isn't if somebody can lose their salvation. The question is, has the person ever truly had a heart circumcised decision, right? Has their heart been circumcised? Has their heart been transformed? And there's parables of sower. You know, people are, they they go to church, they get baptized, they do all these great works, and then they fall away. And you're like, what happened to that person? They left the church, or a celebrity can be like that. Oh, they got baptized, they're a Christian, yay. And then all of a sudden you're like, they're promoting all this evil stuff. What happened? There's there's uh there's seeds, right? There's the sower, and there's different levels. And some of these seeds get choked out before they had the circumcised heart, before it was it was birthed in them. So, yeah, they could have been professing Christians and being baptized in water and pray for people and do ministry and be a worship leader and all this stuff, and then all of a sudden, totally turn their back and become antichrist. Because Apostle John said they came out from us, right? They were not part of us. They were never part of us, but they came out from us. So it's if saved, always saved. That's my thing. Okay. So if somebody's struggling, one of your friends is living in a lifestyle of sinful behaviors and they have no conscience about it, and they go to church all the time, just talk with them about the gospel, about a transformed heart, and sincerely ask them, do you have the Holy Spirit in your body? How can you practice this types of uh things that are hurting others if you have the Holy Spirit in you? And sincerely talk to them like a friend, right? And they might need some reproof. And they're either gonna say, Wow, you're right. I need to, you know, get with the Lord, or they'll say, Ah, you know, I believe differently, and you know, my church says this, and we all sin and blah blah blah blah, and they make excuses and all that stuff. Instead of being sincere, that is somebody probably put boundaries up. And they might not be a Christian. They might not be. I don't know, right? But a real born-again Christian, a real saved person, realizes they're a sinner, right? They realize that Jesus died for their sins. That in him we have redemption through his blood, the redemption, the forgiveness of sins. That's that is basic gospel, right? That we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So you have sinned, I have sinned, we have all sinned and fallen short of the perfection, the glory of God, which is perfection. One sin, you're done, right? Law of Moses, one sin, you're done. Everybody has sinned, everybody has broken the law of God, everybody is guilty before God, and we all need the Messiah. Amen. And so for someone to be saved, they first have to understand that Jesus died for their sins and rose from the dead, right? So your sins are forgiven in Christ. That's a basic gospel. You know what I'm saying? Your sins are forgiven. You're sealed for eternity through the Holy Spirit. Amen. It's good news. And then now you're born again. You died with Christ, you were crucified with him, you're you were now buried with him in baptism and risen to newness of life. That's why you get baptized in water. You get baptized in water so that you can make an outward show of your faith in Christ as well as understand that you're being baptized with Christ. You're being buried with him, you're crucial so that you would understand this and hold on to it. Right? So you want to hold on to that that you died with Christ, you're buried with him in baptism, you're risen in newness of life. So start, you know, believing that I have a new life. I'm a new person in Christ. Even if you're coming out of uh living a uh a sinful lifestyle, you've been screwing up, you've been doing bad things. Now you're, you know, you're uh changing your mind, you're trying to do things right, and it doesn't seem like you know, you've been saved for a while. You're like, oh, I've been struggling so long and a newness of life, what's that? Just start believing it. Lord, thank you for newness of life. I want that newness of life feeling. I want to start walking in that newness. Even if you've been saved for 20 years, believe. Lord, I want newness of life. I want to feel like life is new for me. And your blood is able to do that for me. Your blood is perfect. Your blood, your blood is holy. Your blood cleanses my conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Your blood forgives me completely. And if you have any conscience and consciousness of your sins, any past sins or anything like that, you need to confess that stuff, right? And let it go. If you have talked to the Lord about something you did yesterday or something you're you're you're dealing with today, let it go and hold on to his grace and trust that he forgives you. A lot of times when we have like a self-righteous mindset from the world system, we are very sin conscious. We're very focused on what we're doing, what we're not doing, uh, what other people do. We're very sin conscious because we're self-righteous. We have this self-righteous mindset. That's why people judge others, they treat people bad, they, you know, they, they, they're just um hard on people, uh, condemning things like that because they're self-focused. Once you you take the self and you put it on Jesus and you start looking at Jesus, you stop looking at self. And so you when you stop looking at self and you start beholding the glory of the Lord, you will start changing and the things that you struggled with and the things that you you you would focus on in your flesh and in your life will start fade away, fading away. For example, if you struggle with, let's say, smoking, let's say you you feel addicted to smoking and you feel like it's a bondage, think about it. If you focus on the bondage or the appearance of a bondage or the physical addiction or the behavior, you are being uh you are focusing on the realm of the flesh. And in actual in actuality, you're trying to fight it. And so you're being self-righteous, you're trying to overcome in yourself. Instead of partnering with the Holy Spirit and allowing him to change you by his grace and his power in your weakness, so that you may become strong and let go of the addiction. But what happens is we take an identity in the bondage or what appears to be bondage, you're not in bondage as a Christian, but what appears to be a struggle, and you agree with it, and it becomes a personality. So smoking is now a personality inside of you that you've agreed with. Same thing with ungodly images, let's say pornography on the computer. You take identity in it and you think it's you. See, the problem is you think it's you doing the action. But Apostle Paul said, it's if I'm sinning, it's not me sinning, it's sin that dwells in me. So in your unregenerated soul, there's a piece in there of from trauma, from, you know, you could have uh, you know, your whole life you could have got your fake love from watching images on the computer. So now you, you know, 25 years later, you get saved and you still think you have this programming that that's how you get love and you struggle with this addiction or this thing. So you have to first realize that it's not you that actually likes or desires those types of images or behaviors. That's actually not you in Christ because you died, remember? You you have the mind of Christ now. You desire the things Christ desires. Amen. Give me an amen in the comments if you're still there. And then I'm gonna wrap this up because I've been going a while. So you have these desires come at you or they're in your flesh, so they they feel like they're you, but they're not really you. It's like if you like, um, let's say you like to eat steak, right? Um, that's your true self. Then chicken is your, I don't know if this would make sense, is your uh past self or whatever, right? Your flesh. So you but you believe you like chicken too, but you actually only like steak. It's the same thing. You think you like ungodly images. You you think you're obsessed with this or it's a bondage. But in reality, your true self actually just likes steak. Your true self only likes, I must be hungry. Sorry, your true self likes purity, likes holiness, likes righteousness, likes love and peace and joy, and doesn't want to hurt people and doesn't want to look at images like that. That's why you have this battle inside you, right? Amen. Thank you for that, Jameson, right? So you have this battle living inside of you. And that's what Paul talks about in Romans 7. Who's gonna deliver him from this? I think God through Christ Jesus, my Lord. Therefore, now there's no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. Thank you, elders for Jesus. Appreciate that, right? So there's therefore no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. So you're dealing with uh so-called bondage or this feeling that you desire something that's ungodly. There's no condemnation for you. That's your answer. Not fasting more or crying to God more or feeling condemned all the time. It's actually no condemnation in Christ. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. God loves me if I'm making bad choices or not. I don't want to make bad choices because I know it's wrong and it leads to death eventually. It leads to decay of life. Sinful behaviors just lead to decay of life for you and others. Sin destroys businesses, families, lives, health. Right? Sin destroys. Why partake of it, right? So think differently. Start thinking differently. Instead of thinking you like it because that is an old mindset, old programming, just divide yourself from it and go, okay, it's a fact that part of my insides, this programming or soul or however we look at it, unregenerated area, has a tendency to like this thing. Okay. Well, I renounce it in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. I renounce that behavior, I renounce those feelings, I renounce that mindset. And Lord, I ask that you replace that with your holiness and your love and your joy. And there is no condemnation for me dealing with this. There is absolutely none. I am in Christ Jesus, I am safe for eternity, I am safe in my Father's arms, and I am delivered from all principality and power, not because I'm a good person, not because I can fight hard, not because I pray all the time, but because of Jesus Christ the Lord. That's why I'm free. Amen. You're free because of Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen. Because Jesus of Nazareth hung on a cross for you. That's why you're free. You're delivered from demons because Jesus died on the cross for you. Because he was bruised for you, he was beaten for you. That's why you're forgiven, because of his blood, because of the beating, because he hung on a cross for you. That's why you are free, not because you pray hard or you fast or you beg God, because of Jesus' faithfulness to us through the cross. Amen. And not only that he died for us, but he rose from the dead, now that he makes intercession for us forever. So Jesus is actually at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for you, the person that is too weak to overcome all this stuff in yourself. He makes intercession for you. So he says, you know, however he prays, Lord, you know, uh, God, this is what's going on with Nick, and and I and I intercede for him, and he's gonna overcome because I see the ending from the beginning and uh all this stuff. Amen. Amen, Lily, right? Thanks for joining. All right. So you have, you know, you have to realize who's on your side. God's on your side. And he's not uh he's not counting all your sins against you, he's working with you to help you repent. To help you what? Change your mind, believe correctly. So God is trying to help you repent. The goodness of God leads men to repentance. So it's God's goodness that led me to change my heart, change my mind, change my belief system. Okay, so God is leading you to change your belief system. So your belief system and the way you feel and the way you think and all the trauma you've been through is from the world and from your flesh, that realm. Now allow the Holy Spirit to come in, live through you, and rewire your brain and to change how you feel emotionally all the time. You don't have to have big emotions all the time. Somebody says something, you get offended, you can't forgive somebody, you get greedy, you get angry, you got lustful issues, you're seductive, you're controlling. Those aren't you. Allow the Lord through what? Repentance, changing your mind, help you overcome. And surrendering and being honest with the Lord is how it starts. So tonight or today or wherever you're watching or listening, I want you to really think about honest surrendering to Jesus of Nazareth. Just honest, being humble and honest with God. And some of you feel his presence and just reach out to him today. And I'll and we're gonna pray. And just, Lord, I just surrender to you. It's a simple prayer. Lord Jesus, I confess you as my Lord. Jesus, you are my Lord. You are my savior. I believe you died on the cross, you shed your blood for me for my sins. You died on the cross for me, you rose from the dead for me, and you are my Lord, and you are my savior for me. Forever. And I thank you for the Holy Spirit of promise. And Lord, I want to surrender. Like, help me get to the point of surrendering those pieces of me that I think are me. Help me just let go and realize that I died with Christ. And my life is hidden in you. And you defeated the devil. And you defeated all the principalities and powers. You defeated all these demons that I deal with. You defeated them all. Why am I paying attention to them anymore? Lord, I renounce these devils. I just renounce these ungodly emotions, these ungodly behaviors. And I choose to believe the truth that I'm a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all have become new. Help me see my true self in you, which is love and joy and peace and kindness, humility, gentleness, goodness, self-control. I have self-control, Lord. Thank you. Thank you that there's no condemnation in you, Heavenly Father. And Lord, I just agree with these people today. Lord, whoever's watching us, I pray that the Holy Spirit would minister to their hearts and that they would be drawn to a deeper surrender to the to the to the Holy Spirit, to the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. I pray that they would surrender, Lord, that they would just be pulled by your Spirit into repentance, that they would see their need for Jesus of Nazareth to help them, that they would cling to you like a child clings to her uh their father's leg when they're walking, you know, like a child grabs the leg of the father. I pray that everybody out there starts clinging to Jesus of Nazareth. Lord, we we need to cling to you every second, every moment of our lives. Lord, our breath is in your hand. Our breath belongs to you. Our breath comes from you and is yours. Lord, our hearts beat because you allow it. We honor the King of glory. We honor Jesus of Nazareth for what He's done for us. He has done everything. He has done everything for us already. And Lord, I ask that you help us walk in faith and to reject unbelief. And I thank you that you have done everything for us, and we just have to believe and receive by grace through faith. Thank you that you have written our names in the Lamb's Book of Life, and no one can take that name out of there. No one can take us out of the Father's hand. I thank you that we are secure through the precious blood of Jesus. I thank you that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. I thank you that we never have to be afraid of what the news says. We never have to be afraid of what the world tries to tell us. We never have to be afraid of the economy or wars or rumors of wars or plagues or famines. We don't ever have to be afraid because God Almighty hears our prayers and he is with us forever. In Jesus' name. Amen. Praise God. Oh, I'm looking at the wrong screen. I was looking over there. I don't know what's happening. Guys, thank you so much for joining me. It's uh Spirit Stream number 68. Nick Grimsman, thank you for your support of the ministry. Thank you for those that support us monthly. You can always join us at thefathersfriends.org. Appreciate you. Love ya. 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