Spirit Stream #74 - Complete in Him

In this Spirit Stream, Nick Griemsmann teaches that Jesus fulfilled everything — the law and the prophets. Discover how believers are complete in Him, sealed by the Holy Spirit, and transformed from glory to glory. Learn to stop identifying with sin, self-righteousness, and old programming, and start walking in the truth that you died with Christ and now live in the realm of the Spirit. Nick shares personal stories of overcoming schizophrenia, cult mindsets, fear, and ego, plus practical encouragement on surrendering emotions, taking thoughts captive, and trusting God through every level of growth.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Welcome & Opening Prayer
3:00 - Different Levels of Walking with God
8:00 - Training at Every Level
12:00 - Surrendering Ego, Pride & Wrong Beliefs 16:00 - Comparing Yourself with Others
20:00 - Levels of Surrender & Getting Stuck 24:00 - Hearing God’s Voice vs. Familiar Spirits 28:00 - Intimacy with the Holy Spirit
32:00 - It Is Finished: Complete in Christ
36:00 - Crucified, Buried & Resurrected with Him 40:00 - Fear, Torment & Controlling Out of Fear 44:00 - Personal Testimony
48:00 - Identity in Christ
52:00 - Losing Salvation? If Saved, Always Saved 56:00 - The Gift of Righteousness
1:00:00 - Renewing the Mind
1:04:00 - Taking Thoughts Captive
1:08:00 - Healing, Sickness & God’s Bigger Plan 1:12:00 - Continue to Trust
1:16:00 - Closing Prayer

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Hey everybody, Nick Grimsman here. I got little Timmy with me today, my little dog. You can see him on screen here if you're watching it. Or if you're just listening, you might be able to hear him sniff the microphone because he seems to like the microphone. This is Spirit Stream 74, guys. We're at Holy Ghost Television. I have no clue where this uh new little network is going, but this is what I started with. Uh live streams, and I'm on Spirit Stream number 74. Yeah, as I just said. 74. Our phone number is on the back or the bottom of the screen. Our prayer line, 1888 know him. Okay. So please give that to somebody uh that needs Jesus. I know a lot of people, they uh not a lot of people, but I've heard from some people that they put it on cards or pieces of paper that they give people. Write it down, maybe leave it for the waiter or waitress uh on the receipt, you know, when you leave them a good tip, right? Put 188 know him on there. Ask them if they need prayer, give them the prayer line. We'd be happy to pray for them. Uh speaking of prayer, hi, good to see you. Uh uh hope on YouTube. Nick and Friends. Hi, Nick and Friends. Hello, hello, hello. This is my little puppy, little Timmy here. He's just chilling. Look at his little paws. I gave him a bath today. Yeah, gotta give you a bath because you get he goes to the dog park. Sorry, I shouldn't say that because he gets excited, but and he plays with his friends there. He's just a cute little puppy. He's a cute little puppy. Really, uh, really love him a lot. Daniel, good to see you. Praise God. I'm glad that you're on Facebook. And you commented. Good to see you. All right, so let's start with prayer here, and then we will we will begin. Uh, I don't know what the Lord has for today. Uh, like I said, Spirit Stream 74, I don't really um uh write down notes or anything for these broadcasts. I just sit and chat with you and we'll see where the Lord goes, you know. Um, because I uh I try to bypass my carnal mind sometimes, so I don't write down everything. Uh, because I feel like the carnal mind gets in the way a lot. So you want to just speak from your heart. So, Lord, we just thank you today, uh, for today. I thank you that we don't have to worry about tomorrow. You told us, Lord, uh, not to worry about tomorrow, but just worry about today, for today uh is evil enough, pretty much. That's what you said, Lord. Uh and I thank you that you're gonna speak through me because I have the Holy Spirit in my heart. I believe I have the Holy Spirit in my heart, and you're gonna speak through me uh to your people to help them and to encourage them. I thank you so much for this broadcast. I thank you for the anointing of the Spirit of God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. We just wait on you, Holy Spirit. We wait on you. We thank you so much for our health. We thank you for prospering us. We thank you for our deliverance. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for our healing. Hallelujah. All right, so uh Amen. Thank you, thank you, Jesus. Praise God. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. So, you guys, so uh oh man, it's like uh this long hello, good to see you, Lily, on YouTube. Uh praise God. So uh uh sent she uh hope sent flowers on 30 jewels on YouTube. Thank you so much. I have no clue what that is, but it's it's cool. I can see it on the screen. I think everybody can see it. Thank you. All right, so guys, uh so think about this for a second. Uh everything, like, okay, so let's go from my my the start of my walk with the Lord. Okay, so I learned a lot of things, just like you did. So you learned a lot of things from a lot of people. You learned a lot of things from traditions, you learned a lot of things uh from your pastors, from your teachers, from your friends, you and from Christians, right? You learned a lot of things. And some of it was good and some of it was bad. Just because you uh, you know, you learned some bad with the good doesn't throw it all out, right? You don't want to throw it all out. Like that person that helped you learn things, say your pastor or your mentor or your friend, you know, they helped you learn things and you find later that, oh, some of that was off a little bit. You give that person grace because there was probably a lot of good stuff that they helped you with, right? So just like me, I teach you things, and some things might be off a little bit because I'm not perfect. Just like when you teach somebody something, you might uh be off a little bit, but don't let that stop you from uh trying to help somebody get closer to the Lord, right? So you just take the revelation you have now and you do your best to help people. I used to worry a lot about um about doctrine and like uh, oh, am I telling, am I, am I, um, am I leading people astray and things like that? And and the Lord really had to get that out of me because I I had to realize that I was focusing on Jesus. I was trying to bring people to Jesus of Nazareth. And so I didn't have to be perfect in everything I say or every little doctrine I had to to be a follower of Jesus, right? To try to help people. So if you are like that, if you were dealing with kind of like a, you know, like an OCD about that or a fear that maybe you uh you're off a little bit or you're trying to figure out exactly everything perfectly, let that go and allow the Holy Spirit to use you where you're at. And in the revelation uh that you currently have and the level that you're at, remember there's different levels uh of walking with the Lord. Okay. There's different levels. You know, you're gonna um you're gonna experience the foot soldiers, right? You're gonna you're gonna have to do uh, you know, you're gonna have to um be in warfare with foot soldiers. And then it goes on to the horsemen, right? And then it goes on to the archers or the tanks or however you look at warfare, right? And so you have uh you have to get trained uh at different levels before you can do greater things. For example, if you are praying for uh uh, let's say a bunch of finances to come in so that you can uh start a ministry or you could go on a missions trip or whatever, you want to allow the Lord uh to work on your character and prepare you, right? Prepare you for uh what he has for you. So don't get frustrated in the little, right? I used to get frustrated in the little. I used to always get frustrated and feel like uh the the Lord was upset with me or I wasn't um I wasn't in the will of the Lord because I did I wasn't doing what was in my heart at the uh at the extent or the bigness that I felt that God called me to. And that has a lot to do with uh, you know, ego as well. So if you are somebody like myself, I used to deal with a lot of rejection when I was younger. Um and you know, and then I uh, you know, had like this kind of like this uh prideful, arrogant attitude personality that I had. Um, God had to melt that stuff away. And so you'll go through things to melt part of your ego away or part of the pride away. And so don't be surprised when you go through a trial and you're like, whoa, what happened there? I don't understand. Because once you come through it, you'll find, wow, okay, the Lord was exposing that I was dealing with ego, that I was dealing with pride, that I was dealing with uh a wrong belief system, whatever it is. So everything works together for your good. Um, so whatever you are having your heart to do, just because it's not exactly what you think or your lacking area, you just continue forward. And I learned that with Holy Ghost television, right? I learned that with starting this. I thought I was gonna start uh uh uh a huge television network when I got the uh idea for it. I was like, oh, I'm gonna start off. I'm gonna get a studio, I'm gonna have this huge television network, I'm gonna um, you know, have all this stuff. I have this huge vision, guys. I have like huge visions for things, right? And so when I sit on this live stream in my little studio apartment here, it's real easy to go negative and go, well, this isn't a television studio. This isn't uh broadcast all over the world on all the TVs yet, right? Well, kinda, I mean, because you got apps and stuff, but you know what I mean? And so I can't compare myself to others or think I failed because it's not the exact size or the exact blessing I thought it was going to be right now. Okay. So whatever it is in your life, whatever you're you're you're believing God for, whatever's in your heart, just know that God is training you at certain levels, okay? So it's like a level system. You know, you don't just all of a sudden become a pastor of a of a big church and have all these people looking towards you, uh, toward you for answers and to teach them and everything. You have to be taught at the Bible study. Maybe you just do a children's Bible study or teen Bible study right now, or you're doing the men's group or something. But your heart is to have a church or have a ministry uh that's bigger than just doing a Bible study. Be trained in where you're at. So um a lot of people don't realize that they're being trained. And so that all the negative stuff, right? Are you guys still with me? How's my connection? All the negative stuff, it goes uh, you you you you filter it as God's mad at you, uh, you're not doing enough, uh, you're not uh, you know, you failed, you've sinned too much, uh, you you made a mistake, you're you're on the wrong road. And so what you do? You start something small and then it fails because you gave up. So if the Lord's put something in your heart, just do it until he gives you something else. So Holy Ghost television, what I'm doing right now. Next year, it might be something totally different. Okay. I could have, you know, be called to go start a church in Peru or somewhere, you know. I have no clue. It's an adventure with the Lord. So do everything under the Lord and remember that small things and uh little tests here and there and things you go through that you feel like you failed, and all that stuff is all working for your good to train you. There's different levels. And these levels you have to remember that they're levels of surrender as well. Like, for example, if I didn't surrender that piece of my ego, I would still be carrying it into ministry and I would still, and I would maybe get stunt somewhere. I wouldn't be able to have an open door to do this or do that or travel or do this type of ministry or understand this, or I would just be stuck in one area. So some people get stuck in one area, you're just stuck, and you're just going around the mountain because you fail to surrender a part of you. Okay. And how do we do that? By God's grace. You know the areas of your soul and your emotions and your mind that you hold on to. And you'll know because you have to remember that everybody who believes in God through Jesus of Nazareth, everybody that's born again has the Spirit of God living inside of them. And first John, he told us that we have need of no man to teach us the anointing, the Holy Spirit anointing that you have received at salvation will teach you all things. Okay. So you have the anointing, and he will teach you all things. And he will show you things to come. He will give you truth, he will talk to you concerning your future. Okay. Just because God's not yip-yapping at you every day and telling you, you know, you have to turn right here, eat this at this time, this and that. And it's and it's not yip-yapping all the time. Okay, God's not yip-yapping at people all the time, okay? He's not telling you every little thing in your life. That's most likely 90%, 95% not God, okay? I used to hear voices. I know all about this stuff, guys. I used to hear voices in my head, and I used to think God was telling me to do this. Go right here at the stop sign. Uh, eat this food. Uh, it's time for you to brush your teeth. It's, you know, you need the it's time for a shower. Go to the gym now. Like I felt like God was like telling me every little thing in my life. Okay, it's called a familiar spirit, guys. God's not yip-yapping at you. All right. All right, he's not a yip-yapper. Okay. All right. So then, then, so you have to you have to uh learn that um that God is training you to hear his voice properly, right? Hey Amber, good to see you. Uh on YouTube. You just missed little Timmy. Now he's in his little bed. He doesn't want to be on screen anymore. So if you watch this afterwards and you rewind it, you'll see little Timmy. I gave him a bath today, so he's he's nice and clean. He was at the dog park yesterday playing with dogs, his friends. Okay, so anyway, I don't even know where I'm at now. Uh I just feel the presence of the Lord. I was praying earlier. God's so good, guys. Um, and part of this is you have to decide your relationship with the Lord, where you want to be. Do you want to be really close to the Lord, or do you just want to be a nominal Christian? I'm not interested in nominal Christianity. I'm not interested in ministering to people that aren't surrendered to the Lord. I'm looking for people who really have a heart for the Lord and want to know the Holy Spirit. That's why it's called Holy Ghost Television. That's why the Father's Friends and Ministry, the Holy Spirit. I'm trying to encourage you to grow closer and closer to the Lord. And I want you uh to be jealous of my relationship with the Lord so that you will seek the Lord more than I have. Okay. I want you to seek the Lord more than I have. I want you to develop your relationship more than I have. That's my goal for you. My goal is for you to be as close as you possibly can to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's my goal. Not to get money from you, not to get you to watch all my videos and learn everything. But if you can just take one thing from my video is get extremely close to the Holy Spirit, as close as you possibly can to God, because He is eternal life. Knowing the Father is eternal life. I kind of got off here, guys, but I'm just gonna keep going with this. Knowing the Father is eternal life. Okay. And, you know, I pray for people in the prayer line. We have it at the uh bottom of the screen, like I said earlier, 188 know him. I pray for people on there, and they are a lot of people are dealing with a lot of hard things, but in reality, if they were fully surrendered to the Lord, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. And it sounds kind of harsh, but if you are fully surrendered to the Lord, a lot of things that go on in your family, and a lot of things with your job and all this stuff, it won't be a big deal. Why? Because you know the Lord intimately and you know that bad stuff of your job is gonna work out for your good. All the weird stuff happening in your family is gonna work out for the good. The diagnosis is gonna work out for your good. See? So there's different levels. Now I'm back to this. See, there's different levels to walking with the Lord. When you're at a certain level, you will um, you know, let's say a lower level, let's call it, you are uh, like Paul said, in your diapers, and you are uh, you know, um, maybe not he didn't say in your diapers, but you're still in the flesh. You just you you uh still need the milk of the word. You still don't understand that you're forgiven forever. Guys, when I got on here, I felt like the Lord uh wanted to remind me that it is finished. If you could get this, okay, if you could get, I'm kind of like blasting everywhere today, kind of like a shotgun blast, you know, with all the pellets everywhere. I I don't know what's happening. I just feel really good. I'll just keep talking. Okay, so if you think about you are uh you you think differently than God thinks. So you just have to you have to get that part first. You think differently than God Almighty. Okay. So you think something negative happens, all you see is negative. But God sees the end result of things and he uses all things for your good. So just like Jesus said, don't worry about for tomorrow uh for tomorrow. Don't worry about tomorrow. That's really hard if your rent is due tomorrow, right? In the natural. It's that's really hard if you have to go to surgery tomorrow, you know, that you could maybe pass away in. That's really hard, you know. But Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow. So how do you do that? Surrender, surrender and trusting. And it's the soul area, it's those levels, see. So you'll go through levels where you need to surrender part, like let's say rent, and you don't surrender it. So you're always you're always fearful, and you're always trying to get money everywhere, and you're trying to get people to you know, do this and that. So you can get money to pay rent because you're so afraid about tomorrow. And so what happens? It keeps happening to you. Well, why don't I have any money? Why aren't I prospering? I'm doing everything I tithe, I give, I do all this stuff. What's going on? Why can't I pay rent every month? Because you're failing the test. There's different levels. And so it might not be rent, it could manifest some other way. It could manifest in a lack of some other thing, right? And so you're sitting there wondering, oh, I don't understand. Why don't I have a spouse yet? I really want a spouse. I don't understand. Well, you haven't, let's say you haven't prepared yourself. You're not there yet in the level, right? And it's depending on your calling on God, too. Some people are called to get married early and have children and raise a family early. Some people are called later on to get married, some people are called to be single. Some people are called to have a long period of singleness and then be married. Where are you at? I don't know. Do you know? You might not know. So, what can you do? Surrender to the Lord and not worry about tomorrow. Not worry about things. Worry and fear. Cause torment, right? He that fears is tormented. Okay. If you're dealing with fear, you're tormented. That's what first John says. He that fears, fears punishment. There, fear has torment. And fear, if you if you really think about principalities, fear is like the number one thing behind almost everything. You get a diagnosis of the doctor, fearful. Your your kids going through something bad, fearful. Your your spouse's uh you know acting weird, fearful, right? Hi Martin, good to see you on Facebook. Thanks for joining today, right? So things are fearful. And what did Jesus say? Do not fear, do not worry about tomorrow. But what is the world and everything we try to tell you? Be fearful. What are you gonna do about tomorrow? What's gonna happen if the economy goes? What's gonna happen if there's war? What's gonna happen if there's uh a plague? What fear? See, everything's fear-based. And then what you try to do is control everything. So you try to control things, so people are different levels, and so if you're at the baby Christian level, which a lot of people are still at baby Christian level, right? They they try to control because they're fearful. You control your children because you're fearful out of love for them. So God has to reprogram you to love your children without having satanic fear about their safety, about their health, about their environment, whatever. So He's gonna teach you how to trust at that level, and then you'll overcome there, and then you'll go to another level. So they always say, you know, new level, new devil, right? New level, new devil. There's some people go higher up in the levels. Right? The apostles, they had to go higher up in the levels. Why? Because they're entrusted with a lot. If you're entrusted with a lot, you're gonna go through a lot. If God's spoken to you and you you know that you have a big call in your life, you're gonna go through a lot. Sorry. Sorry. Hey, I've been there. I used to have schizophrenia. I used to be on the street. I used to hear voices telling me to just cut my wrists, do stupid things. You know, I used to have uh hallucinations and delusions and fearful things. I thought I blasphemed the Holy Spirit for over a year. I had fear in my body, like so scary. I thought the CIA was outside of my house. You know, like the landscapers would come by the come by the uh condo or apartment or wherever I was living with my mom at the time years ago. The landscapers would be outside, and I thought it was the CIA agents looking at me through the windows. Okay. And I was a Christian, I was scared. But I overcame all that stuff. Why? Because God loves me and He knew I was going to overcome it. He gives you the ability to overcome through Christ in you. So you can relax if you're going through something. I wish I knew this back then. I didn't know this back then. I was fearful and I was looking for deliverance. I just need somebody to cast demons out of me. I need somebody to do something for me. So, you know, a ministry is good. Ministering people is good. And we all need ministry at times. But people can't do everything for you. You can only get so far with somebody ministering to you. There has to come a time where you encounter the Lord for yourself. There has to come a time where you actually start resisting the devil, submitting to God and resisting the devil. And going back to what uh I felt like the Lord uh spoke to me in the beginning of all this was in the beginning of the broadcast. I'm kind of like going on tangents here. How's everybody doing? Okay. Is that if you could understand that Jesus fulfilled everything in him in the life, death, burial, and resurrection, everything was fulfilled. And if you understand that that is it, that that's where eternal life is, that that's where freedom from fear is, that's where deliverance and healing and salvation is, everything in the gospel. If you realize that when Jesus said it is finished, it is complete, then you can rest, you can finally rest when you realize that you were crucified with him, you were buried with him in baptism, and you are resurrected to newness of life. And now you are one with him spiritually. And when he appears, you're gonna be like him. You're gonna see him for who he truly is. We're gonna see ourselves for who we truly are. If you would just see that Jesus is the fulfillment of everything, from the prophets to the law of Moses, to everything, Jesus is the fulfillment, then you can get off of yourself. See, that's the problem. You are in the way, you still think you're alive. And I say this all the time on the broadcasts, but it's like you have to hear it. That you died. You are dead. I am dead with Christ. I died to the rudiments of this world, I died to the strength of sin, which is the law. I died to sin. I died to it. See, you died to sin, but you struggle with sin because you still think you're alive. See? So there's different levels. So you're gonna get some of this and you're gonna grow and you're gonna be freer and you go, wow. Wow, the Bible is true. I I'm no longer a slave of sin. I'm a slave of righteousness. I can choose to put down the drinking. Oh, I can with God's grace. I'm free. I can I can stop overeating. Wow, God's changing me. But you have to get to the place of surrender to that, surrender to the truth, surrender at the cross, and realize that you're no good in yourself. You need to stop believing you're good in yourself. Stop believing you can earn blessings. My gosh. In yourself, of course, there's blessings, absolutely, but they all come by faith. The things we do, it manifests our faith, right? So you could do good works. You can't do good works to earn heaven, you can't do good works to earn things. But if you do things out of God's love and his faith and faith, right? And love for people, then you'll be blessed in the doing. You're you're doing it naturally. And so believe it or not, your blessings will overtake you. Why? Because God is the blessing, and he all he wants to do is bless you more and more. Why? Because you're a great person, you do good works. No, Jesus lives in your body, and Jesus is the blesser and the blessing. So you can't help not to be blessed if you know the Lord and you surrender those pieces of your soul. And if you go into some of the teachings that I do, I try to help people understand that your soul is the thing that's being transformed. Your mind is being renewed by the word of God, and your emotions are being transformed to think and feel like God. Okay. To be mature in the faith and not be swayed back and forth by a bunch of doctrines, by a bunch of things, by the slate of man. They're trying to teach you rules and regulations to get you what? Focusing on yourself instead of focusing on love and faith. Faith, guys, is the only way to please God. And if you have faith, then your works start to follow. So if you have a bunch of bad works now, it's because you believe wrong. That's all. You just believe wrong. You've identified with sin. You've identified with self-righteousness. How do you get rid of self-righteousness? First, accept that every single person in the earth is self-righteous in some way. It's built into the fallen nature. So you were trained to be self-righteous. For example, you could look at somebody and go, I can't believe they lied like that. But you just you just lied over here, maybe uh a little bit, but over here you you just can't believe they did something so horrible. But you did it too. See? So start catching that stuff when you judge somebody. Start looking yourself, be like, wait a second, I think I did that last week. And you'll find, wow, I'm I'm self-righteous. Or one that I do a lot is uh I uh I'll I'll I'll place a judgment or something, and then I'll go, um, or no, no, no, I'll I'll say, like, well, um, Lord bless me in this area, let's say finances or whatever, right? Lord, um, I I give, or something like that. Well, why haven't you blessed me yet? I give, or uh I I'm uh not as weird as that Christian. Why are they blessed financially or whatever, or blessed this way? And then I'm basically judging that person in a wrong way. I'm thinking I'm like more righteous than another Christian, but in reality, all the Christians are righteous because we have the blood of Jesus. So God is able to bless you however he wants. So instead of saying this is what I want, I want to own a Mexican restaurant. That's what I want. That's what you're gonna give me, and you're praying, you're praying, you're praying, and a Mexican restaurant doesn't ever show up. And then God buys you an ice cream truck, and then you find out that you actually wanted to do ice cream instead of Mexican food. Well, where'd the Mexican restaurant come from? Oh, probably a programming. Maybe your family owned a restaurant, maybe you went to a restaurant one time and thought it was really cool or whatever, but it was you felt like it was in your heart. But God knows the deep things inside of you that are really going to satisfy you, right? An example of this is I always had uh growing up, I had girl dogs. I always had girl dogs. Um, and I didn't like boy dogs because boy dogs seem to always, you know, they urinate in houses and you know, everywhere, right? With their leg, they lift up their leg. So I was always looking for a girl dog. I was like, well, I'll get a girl dog because they don't urinate everywhere. And that was my main thing. I don't want a boy dog, I want a girl dog. So I was looking for girl dogs. Guess what God gets me? A boy dog. And then I worried, oh, he's gonna pee in the house, so now I got a boy dog. Guess what? Never pees in the house, ever. Perfect little dog he gave me. I would have never got little Timmy, my dog, because he was a boy. I wanted a girl dog, so it didn't pee in the house. He doesn't pee in the house, never did. I think maybe one time when he first got here, like when he was all scared and everything. Other than that, never did. Okay. So in my mind and my heart, I justified having a girl dog, but God knows more than my own brain and my own heart, see? So, in the same way, you think you want something and you won't let go of it, right? So then it becomes an idol, and then it's connected to other stuff, an ego, uh, a need to fit in, a need to whatever it is, pride, whatever it is, it's it's connected to stuff. So this is different levels. Most people, they're still struggling with sinful behaviors. They're still dealing with getting offended. If you still get offended, I mean, literally, if you still get offended, like where you're just offended, that that's like the first thing you can just let go of. Let go of offense. Just you can literally just look at it and be like, wait a second, that's an old programming. That's something somebody of the world does to control others, usually, right? You feel rejection, then you get offended, and then you control through it. Okay, you feel rejection, then you go into rebellion, which can be offended, or it's a form of control. So if you still, if you still deal with this type of uh personality stuff, that's just low-level things. But some people have stronger ones, right? So you could get offended and it's really built big inside of you. It's something you grew up with, right? So maybe it's not a low-level thing to you, it's a big thing because you've dealt with it your whole life and it's just personality, right? But like, you know, you know, you meet these people who are they're they're offended at their pastor, they're mad at their church friends because of this. Uh, and then you hear, oh, they're gossiping, there's a church split all. That is low-level baby Christian stuff, guys. That's low-level baby Christian things to be gossiping in your church about people, or people uh just uh, you know, acting like they're unsaved. They're that's baby Christian stuff, or maybe they're unsaved. Arguing with people, yelling at people, screaming and arguing and controlling and also. That's all low-level things. So mature yourself out of the diapers and realize you died with Christ, you're resurrected newness of life, you're filled with the love of God, you're able to let go of gossip. You're able to let go of unforgiveness towards your spouse. Why? Because forgiveness lives in you. First, you have to realize that it's not you. You're not offended, you're not angry, you're not lustful. That's not who you are. You don't have a food addiction. That's not who you are. You're not an addict. That's not who you are. Can I get amen? Anybody amen? Or are you just, or I'm I'm just not doing well, or you're not there. I don't know. Anyway, right? So it's like low-level things you see, people. I'm not saying be sinlessly perfect, right? Because we're not sinlessly perfect till we get our new bodies, because we always deal with this transformation, because it's we're we're transforming from glory to glory. We're moving forward, right? So last year you got offended all the time. This year you're not gonna get offended all the time. Amen. Thank you, Martine. Right? So this year you're not gonna be offended as much. Last year you were dealing with this type of addiction this year. Maybe it's less or it's gone. Maybe you're dealing with food. This year it's better than it was last year, right? Hopefully, next year will be better. You won't go backwards. With God's grace, we're moving forward, right? What happens if you go backwards? Give yourself grace, keep moving forward. You know, and one thing I learned is uh what I like to do is I like to, thank you, Hamber. Amen. Good stuff, she says. One thing I like to do is if I make a mistake, right? Do something stupid, say something stupid, because I'm just like you guys, right? Just growing. I'll instead of condemning myself, because I used to be, I used to really condemn myself for things. I used to really condemn myself really bad. And I was like hyper focused on condemnation. And anybody who's come who came out of a cult, like I was in a cult, right? Or they they learned um uh uh self-righteousness or workspace salvation. You came out of like a a real uh mini cult or whatever, right? Very controlling church or something, or doctrines or religion. You'll condemn yourself for little stuff. You'd be hyper-focused on the little tiny things. Because that's what the Pharisees did, remember? The Pharisees were always hyper-focused. Oh, you didn't wash your hands before you ate. And then over here they're they're lusting after the the other guy's wife or something, and they're focused on, oh my gosh, you you didn't wash your hands correctly, see? So they're hyper-focused on small things. And I learned God had to teach me that he's not hyper-focused. Okay, God's not hyper-focused on you. Relax. He's not hyper-focused. He's not sitting there waiting for you to mess up. Oh no, did I say something wrong? Oh no, this or that. No, God's grace covers you. He wants you to just learn from your mistakes. You said something dumb at work. Okay, learn from your mistake. Don't do it tomorrow. Turn from it, repent, change your mind. Oh, I ate too many. Well, what was the other spirit was talking about? Oreo cookies or something. Ate too many Oreo cookies, let's say. Okay, well, am I gonna beat myself up over, think God's mad at me, think I'm going to hell? Or I'm I'm in bondage to Oreo cookies. No, I'm gonna just get up and go, all right, well, next time I have an opportunity to eat Oreo cookies, I'll have three of them instead of half a bag. See? And you just keep moving forward. But when you have a mentality of uh self-righteousness and this works-based salvation, you are hype sometimes you get hyper-focused on little things, right? You'll hyper focus on um uh, you know, something, and then you're you you yell at your spouse, or you you nitpick your spouse, and you're like, you don't even notice that, but you're hyper-focused on something else, right? Amber says, God's not staying there with a clipboard. Yeah. Because it comes down to, like I felt like the Lord told me in the beginning, was you have to realize that Jesus fulfilled everything. He was sin for us, he became sin. So God's looking at you through the lens of Jesus Christ and his blood and as a son or daughter. So you have to get that. Like for those of us who didn't grow up with, let's say, like perfect parents, which everybody didn't grow up with perfect parents, but we have to learn that we have a we have a perfect father. That's like when people say a born-again Christian can lose their salvation. Okay. Uh, okay, so let's just break this down for a second. So you're telling me that the best father in the entire creation, in the entire galaxy, uh, says in his word that the Holy Spirit never leaves, never forsakes a believer. Okay, and that we're sealed until the day of redemption. Okay. You're telling me that all of a sudden, and he gives us the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. You're telling me that all of a sudden, God's like, you're done. Uh you've lost your salvation because you weren't good enough. You're telling me the greatest father in the entire world, in the entire creation, is gonna forsake their children. Okay. Think about that. So you you're in rebellion and you're this horrible, horrible person, and then your loving father is just gonna say, Yep, yeah, you rebelled too much. Toodles. That makes no sense to me. Especially when it says that he'll never leave you. Okay. What does happen, does the Bible say? You get chastened because a loving father is gonna chasten his children. Amen. So if you a loving father is gonna chasten and discipline his children whom he loves. That's what the Bible says in Hebrews, with the same place where it says he'll never leave us. And that by one sacrifice we have been perfected forever. So, one sacrifice, you have been perfected forever. When do you not be perfect? Spiritually, think about it. See? When are you not perfect? And you have to realize that when somebody says, Oh, somebody can lose their salvation, like you just lose your salvation. God's just like, okay, I've had enough of you. What you're doing there is you're putting salvation on the person. Okay. And what happens is you become self-righteous, and then you become what? You become hyper-focused on your behavior and on the behaviors of others. And when you're hyper-focused on your behavior, you become a Pharisee. And you become a judgmental Pharisee, self-righteous. Because you're saying you're earning your salvation. What happened to the scripture says that no one, no man can take me out of make me out of your hand or out of the Father's hand. Nobody can. That includes you. Okay. Somebody that's truly born again, truly born again, has a heart for God. Okay. If they're truly born again, they have a new heart. They have Jesus living in their body. What does he just disappear? See? And so that that type of doctrine is really dangerous. Okay. I don't say once saved, always saved. I say if saved, always saved.

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If you're saved, you're always saved. The question there is if the person is saved in the first place. Okay. If you're saved, you're always saved. Paul said to check yourself to make sure you're in the faith. And he that doesn't have the Holy Spirit doesn't belong to Christ. Okay. So you have to realize that you are saved by grace through faith and not by behavior. Works is behavior. You you kept the law, you didn't steal, you did this, you did that, or you didn't do this, or you didn't do that. That's behavior. You're not saved by behavior. You're saved by grace through faith. It is what? A gift of God. Okay? A gift of God. A gift of God. So that what? No man can boast. So before God, no man in all of existence can boast that they got there by their behavior. See? And then once you're in Christ, the Holy Spirit transforms you to be like who? Jesus, because Jesus lives in your body. So when you meet people that are just uh they say they're Christian and they just don't even act like it or have a heart for Jesus. That's the ifs, guys. That's the ifs. It says that the demons believe there's God. The demons even believe. So there's a ton of fake Christians out there, first of all. You have to realize that. Saying they're Christian, they go to church and they're living horrible lives. You're like, I don't understand. They have no heart for Jesus. They don't go to a prayer meeting. They don't have no transformation whatsoever. Either A, they're like a really baby Christian, they don't know nothing, or maybe they're not really saved and they need the gospel and you need to love them into the kingdom. So you, I mean, I meet people like this all the time I don't even know why I'm going here, guys. I meet people like this all the time. They're like, oh yeah, my friend, uh, my friend, you know, they're they're in church, but you know, they they do this and that and this and that, and they don't really do anything. Like, I, I, you know, I want to pray and do this and read the Bible. And they're not really interested. They just, I said, and I'm like, and well, they're like, oh, how what do I do? You know, they're they're Christians. And I said, I don't know. You know, what you want to do is probably talk to them about if they have the Holy Spirit in their body. Like if you have a Christian friend that is living a life of uh sexual morality or drunkenness or all this stuff, maybe talk with them about if they have the Holy Spirit living in their body. And talk with them about that in love, right? We want to talk with people about that. And we want to help people get out of their diapers. So they could be in their diapers and just have an identity issue or a stronghold, and that's what their sin that manifests that people see, right? Other people have sin that manifests that nobody sees. Right? Uh harboring unforgiveness, judging people, uh, saying negative things behind people's backs. I mean, there's other sins people manifest, right? Doesn't mean they're not saved, but it's the heart of the individual, see? You can tell somebody say, I can tell somebody who's, I mean, if I meet somebody, I can pretty much, I mean, not all the time, but mostly I can always tell, I can meet somebody in public and know if they're born again or not. Because they have a different nature. So when you're born again, you have a different nature. How do you know you're born again? The Bible says that we have the spirit that cries out, Abba Father. You cry out to God in your heart. You know God loves you because He, you know, because He's put His Spirit in you. And if you feel like you're not there, if let's say you just turn this on, you feel like you're not there yet, then get on your knees and pray and ask God for the Holy Spirit. Ask him to save you. And with a sincere heart, humble yourself. And the Bible says everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord and believes with their whole heart that God raised him from the dead, they shall be saved. They what? Will be complete in Christ. They'll have the Holy Spirit enter them and they'll have the Holy Spirit. It's not, it's not like rocket science, right? It's very simple. But what we do is we allow a bunch of people to justify uh living like babies in the church, and nobody says, Hey, do you have the Holy Spirit in your body? So if somebody has the Holy Spirit in their body, they're gonna manifest some sort of love, some sort of joy, some sort of peace. You know, they're gonna start manifesting these things as they believe correctly and grow, right? You could believe wrong and be a baby Christian and not have any of that. Because you're not accessing it because you don't understand, right? You're just under somebody put you under the law somewhere and you're just self-righteous because they told you. You know, I used to think uh because I I uh decided not to sin again that I got saved. I thought, well, you know, I I repented. I said, I'm not gonna sin anymore. That's why I got saved. No, I got saved because the Holy Spirit drew me to repentance, changing my mind from unbelief to belief, which in turn I felt the goodness of God. And when you feel the goodness of God, it leads you to repentance, to mind change, to heart transformation, to letting go of sinful behaviors. So you need to be saved, and then he starts transforming you by his goodness, and then the sinful stuff starts falling off of you. But if you if you think, oh, you know, I stopped smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, and then I got baptized, now I'm saved. Well, what happens if the alcohol comes back? You're unsaved? See, that's the problem with that, is that you were resting on the fact that you're not drinking anymore to be saved. Or you didn't, you know, you you didn't lie anymore to be saved. See, you did works to be saved. Behavior. You were looking, you had a behavior change, so you think you're saved. See? Your behavior changes as what you behold the glory of God. When you have your heart changed by the Spirit, that's when behavior changes. And you don't have to convince people to change. Like I don't have to sit here and and uh bash people with the Bible and the law to get you to change. I don't have to do that. I just have to preach the gospel. I just have to tell you the truth from God's word that you're a new person. You have died with Christ. You have died with Christ. Say it with me. I have died with Christ. My life is now hidden in Christ in God. Now I am a new creation. This personality that wants to yell at my spouse, that is no longer me. That is not part of who I truly am. This personality wants to be depressed and fearful. That is not who I truly am. I am a I have the lion of the tribe of Judah living in my body. I have the lion of the tribe of Judah living inside of my body. I have access to the throne of God, to the Holy of Holies, through the flesh of Jesus. The veil was torn, his flesh, so that I personally can have communion in the Holy of Holies with God the Father. So you have the Holy of Holies living in your body. Now, with this revelation, with knowledge, this knowledge, do you see how it would, it's hard for somebody to go and just live in sexual morality, or to live in going to do drugs and getting drunk all the time, or to live in stealing or hurting people. See? So instead of don't do this, don't do that, why don't you point people to who they are? They are forgiven, they are washed, they are clean, they are set apart, and they have the lion of the tribe of Judah living inside their body. And nothing is impossible to those who believe in the lion of the tribe of Judah, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. And Jesus is Lord over your life and over your family, in that he is faithful to his word, always, always faithful to his word. Job was sitting there with boils on his on his body, huge boils, in pain, screaming. It said his bones felt like they were on fire. Okay. So imagine your bones on fire. Some of you might be like that. You might be dealing with sickness or disease where your bones feel like you're on fire. Well, remember Job. He was in a similar situation. I bet he talked to God about healing him, right? He wanted God to heal him instantly. It wasn't always instant. So God knows the pain you're in and he has a plan for you. But what we do is we think like a human, right? From this world. The bones are burning, God's mad at me. My bones are this, God hates me. I didn't get healed when my pastor prayed for me. God doesn't like me. God left me. You know, all these negative thoughts and feelings and emotions, which are coming from your old nature attached to your soul, the programming. Remember, it's like a programming, right? So we were programmed to think a certain way. You're programmed to think a certain way. So you deal with depression, you're programmed depression. You, you know, you're you're you deal with sickness all the time, you're programmed. You're just programmed this way. You overeat all the time, you're programmed that way. Like I've shared before. I've dealt with that, I deal with it. Okay, I like food. And I was programmed to overeat. It's not an excuse, but that's something I deal with. So I acknowledge it, right? And if you acknowledge something, then you can deal with it, right? So if you hide your sin, if you hide the issues you have from people, from you know, from your trusted friends or whatever, or from God, how do you deal with it? Just, you know, if you deal with unforgiveness, tell the Lord, this is what I'm dealing with. Where did I get programmed with this? Let's unprogram me, let's transform me, let's do this. And it might stick around for a while. Maybe God's teaching you something. You know, maybe he has to deal with your ego. You know, years ago I went through something, and when I got out of it, I was like, wow, Lord, I didn't realize how much ego I still had left. You know, it's funny you talk with people and they're like, well, I'm not living in sin. I'm not living in sin. There's nothing wrong with me. I don't know why God hasn't healed me yet. I'm not living in sin. They're always trying to figure out if they're living in sin. Guys, if if you really want to just unpack it all, you unbelief is sin. Everything that's not of faith is sin. So if you think it's based on all that, then you're you're gonna be trying to be sinless your whole life. Instead, agree with the truth. I'm healed. In myself, I can't heal myself. In myself, I can't be sinless. In myself, I can't be good enough to earn a healing. I can't be good enough to be healed. I can't forgive everybody from every single generation, all the way back to Adam and Eve. I don't even know who those people are in my family. I, you know, I always wonder about this generational stuff. Everybody's like, generational stuff, this generational stuff that curse from the grandfather. Also, guys, what if you're an orphan? What if you're an orphan? Okay, and you're dealing with a demon or a stronghold, you're dealing with a disease in your family. Let's say it's a family thing. Generationally, they can, you know, they found out or whatever. Let's just say, and it comes from your, you're, you know, it comes from your family, but you're an orphan. You have no clue who your parents are, you have no clue who your grandparents are. You don't know if your granddaddy was part of the Masons or whatever these people say. You don't know that. It you need to be, people need to be, the gospel's simple. You are free. Who the son is set free is free indeed. Okay. So start believing that you're free indeed. Instead of my grandpappy was a second degree mason and this was a witch, and my, my, this, and this, and this, and that, the witchcraft over here and the witch. Why don't you just start believing the truth that you died? And that Christ now lives in your body. He gives life to your mortal flesh, and that you have been delivered from all principalities in darkness, and you have been translated to the kingdom of light. And Jesus Christ became the curse for you. And therefore, you are blessed. You are a joint heir with Jesus Christ, an heir to God. You have eternal life. You are delivered, you are healed, you are healthy, you are joyful, you are prosperous, because Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, lives in your body. Amen. Start believing that God actually dwells in man. He dwells in you. This is all you're going to get here at Holy Ghost Television. I'm trying to get people out of their diapers. Get you up to stop listening to all the doctrines being tossed to and fro by false teachers who are just trying to get money from you or control you or grow their church or whatever. Start believing the truth of the gospel. If you confess Jesus as Lord and believe with all your heart that God raised from the dead, you shall be saved. And in him you are complete. You are not lacking. Stop thinking you're lacking because your emotions see something in the world. You lost your job. Your emotions go, oh my gosh, your job is your provider. You are gonna be starving on the street. Okay, well, even if I starved on the street, I still have the line of the tribe of Judah inside my body, and he is faithful to me. There's wars, there's rumors of wars, there's disease out there, there's fearful things, there's crime, there's this, there's that. But we have the line of the tribe of Judah living in our body. And no weapon formed against us can ever prosper. And we can speak the word and we can believe that God is going to do his will in our life. God's will be done, not our own will. And when you surrender your family to the Lord, when you finally just get to that place of Lord, here's the emotions about my spouse, my kids, my grandkids, here's the emotions about my future, about how I'm gonna pay bills next year. Here's all the emotions. Take them, have them. And Lord, I want you to replace those emotions with faith, with love, with joy, with peace. And when you do that, you'll start to see things change. You'll be like, wow, that happened in my family, it wasn't a big deal. Or wow, that happened with my finances, it wasn't a big deal. God works all things out for my good. Wow, his word is actually true. You can actually start to believe that God's word is actually 100% true and that God never lies to you. He never lies to you. Your healing might look differently than what you expected it to be. It's happened to me many times. Your healing might take longer than expected. Your healing might be instant, or somebody else's healing might be instant. Yours might not be. He might want you to overcome mental health issues instead of just going your pastor and everything just leaves and you're perfect again. Another thing, too, is a lot of people just want to be healed and prosper so that they can do their own life. You know, because you have your dreams. You have you, you know, ego. I want to, I want to, I want to do my own thing. So I want God to heal me and then I'm gonna go do my own thing. Oh, really? Okay. What about submit to God, resist the devil, he will flee from you, right? You're supposed to submit to God in all things. So everything was complete in Christ. Everything. Everything. So if you are starting to nitpick yourself, if you're starting to judge people, if you're starting to gossip, or if you're nitpicking your spouse, or you're yelling at your kids, you know, out of frustration or something, just go back to Christ in my body. These things that are manifesting are not part of who I am. That's that old programming. And I thank you, Lord, that I can submit these thoughts and these emotions to you. I can bring them to the obedience of Christ. And as I realize that they're not part of me, they get weaker and weaker. Because once you realize they're not part of you and you're not giving strength to them, they start going away. It's kind of like it's like backwards. It's it's wild. So think of it. Uh the law says, do not covet, right? Do not lie, do not covet, all these things, right? And in Romans 7, it Paul's talking about when he read do not covet for righteousness, right? So the law of Moses is uh that's the way of righteousness, right? And it reveals your sin. But when you see it, do not covet, so you try not to covet to earn salvation, it strengthens it. So you actually start coveting more. So a lot of people that deal with ungodly images on the computer, they are trying to uh they don't feel righteous. And so they they, if I don't do this behavior, then I'm righteous. See? That's the same thing as the law, pretty much. So they they don't do the behavior for two months and they feel righteous, and then they fall and they do the behavior, and then they don't feel righteous, and then it starts it starts empowering it more and more, and then you go around the mountain with looking at ungodly images. How do I know this? It was me. I used to do stuff like that. I used to deal with all sorts of lustful addictions and stuff. Okay, I'm not proud of any of it. It's disgusting. But I can talk about it from a place of understanding it. It was an identity, and then it told me I was not righteous and God wasn't with me anymore, or God's mad at me. And then I tried to stop it to be righteous. And so I was stuck in Romans 7. I wasn't in Romans 8 yet. There is therefore now no condemnation in Christ Jesus. So once I started learning I was righteous and I started believing I was righteous, not because I'm a great guy, or I could stop doing something, or I do stuff, good stuff, but because it's a gift, once I started learning it's all a gift, then the power of the law, which was leading me into more sin, because when you try to be self-righteous, the law, the law condemns you and it leads you to more sin in hopes that you'll snap out of it and find grace in Christ. See, the law is to lead somebody to Christ, to show them sin, to make them sinful. Right? So a lot of people struggle because they're self-righteous. Oh my gosh, little Timmy's so cute. He fell asleep on his bone. He's got this big bone. I got him. He fell asleep on it, his head's on it. So cute. Right? So if you're struggling with something like that, start believing you're righteous. That's where I, in the beginning, I felt like the Lord told me it's all in him. One sacrifice forever, and you are now perfect. Not in your mind, in your emotions, in your spirit. You are perfect. You are blameless and holy. He is able to keep you until the day of Christ Jesus. Because he is faithful. Stop thinking you're faithful. See, I went to church today. I'm faithful. I missed church. I'm not faithful anymore. You ever been there? I've been there. Oh, I fasted three days. I was supposed to go four. I'm not faithful to God. God's not going to bless me now because I told him I was going to do four days. But now I'm on three. I am I failed. God's not going to bless me now. Instead of realizing that God is good, God is good. And whatever you're going through, remind yourself that God is good. God is good all the time. God is good to me. God is good to my family. This is a horrible situation. It's okay, right? Hey, you're dealing with a horrible situation. You're in the hospital. You got this blood test. You went through this loss. You went through depression. You have weird people in your family, your work, your church, wherever. It's okay to have facts, right? It's okay to say, well, this is going on. This is horrible, Lord. I don't like this. But you're still good. See, it's about faith. See, faith is the only way to please God. I used to think pleasing God was uh if I prayed a lot, if I read a lot of the Bible. That's I was pleasing God. I was doing if I go to church every Sunday on the dot, if I volunteer at church, if I tithe, if I'm nice to people, right? Those are all things, those are byproducts of faith, right? But like I thought those things were pleasing God. But I was doing them out of fear that I wasn't pleasing God if I didn't do them. See, there's a problem there. Those things are good, right? But it's the mindset behind it. Like, do you go to church out of fear if you don't go to church and God's mad at you and you're not gonna be blessed? See? Are you doing stuff out of faith? Are you reading the Bible out of faith? Are you doing it because somebody told you you have to read the Bible every day or you're gonna burn in hell? I used to think that. So judge your motives, right? God can help you judge your motives. The word of God can help you judge your motives. What's your motive here? You give money to your to the to the local food bank. Are are you doing that because you want God to bless you? Or are you doing it because you actually care about the community? Right? I think my dog might bark here because my neighbor walked by. No? Okay. Right? So are you doing things out of like do you volunteer at church because you just feel like somebody told you you had to? Or do you really do it because you love the people you minister to at church? Do you go to your church and treat people well because you don't want them to gossip about you? Do you wear your church face, or do you just go to church because you care about people and you want to honor God and, you know, and help out? So, motive, the word of God can help you with your motive. You can read the word, you can spend time in the spirit, and he can show you your motives. Guys, a lot of times I've done things and I realized I was doing it in a bad motive, tied to my ego, tied to pride of life, tied to manipulating people, whatever. And like, I just try to be transparent. Like, guys, I'm I, you know, I'm not gonna be one of these preachers that's wearing a suit and tie and telling you I'm perfect and I, you know, and I'm better than everybody else. And I ride around limousines and all this stuff. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. I really, really want you to get close to the Lord. I really care about people, and I want you to get close to the Lord because there's a lot of hurting people, and somebody out there needs you to help them someday. Somebody out there needs you to speak a word of encouragement because you might be going some through something really bad right now, and you're gonna get through this with in general. Jesus, amen, right? And then one day you're you you might meet somebody that really needs that testimony, right? Because my testimony is great, right? But your testimony can reach different people. So I'm trying to pour into you on Holy Ghost Television, Spirit Stream 74, by the way, to be able to produce more disciples and more fruit and more uh more uh uh more souls eventually, right? Because you you might be able to minister to somebody 10 years from now after you overcome whatever it is that I'm I'll never meet, right? You might be the next Billy Graham and I'm ministering to you right now. But it really comes down to surrender, surrendering the emotional areas of your soul and how you think. God does not, if you take anything from this, God does not think like you. Stop thinking God thinks like you. He doesn't see things like you, he doesn't think like you at all. So if you're in an impossible situation and it looks bad, and maybe you pray and it didn't happen, or maybe it's delayed, or it did, you know, whatever, it just looks bad. Just surrender that whole emotion of God doesn't understand. God's not with me. Where is God? I feel discouraged. All these emotions. Just take them captive and say, Lord, these are the emotions I'm dealing with. They're real, I'm dealing with them, but I choose your truth over them. See, submit to God and resist. Just disagree with the negative, the devil, right? Trying to get you into where? Unbelief, because faith is the only thing that pleases God. And so then you can write down what you're believing God for. Lord, I'm believing for healing. And I'm believing for healing, Lord. And anything that comes against that, you need to take that thought or emotion captive. You're dealing, I, you know, a lot of people watch some ministry stuff because I have a behavioral health background and in my recovery story and everything. So if you're dealing with mental health stuff, you write it down. Lord, I want to, I want to recover from bipolar, I want to be healed of schizophrenia. I want to walk free from this. You write that down. And any thought or any emotion that comes against that belief system, that belief that you're gonna receive from God your healing, your promise, needs to be destroyed and dismantled. So you write down, I want to be free from schizophrenia. You write that down, Lord, I want to receive healing from schizophrenia. I want to, I want to walk free from schizophrenia. And then immediately or next day or whatever, the the thoughts come to you, oh, you're just a loser. You're rejected, nobody loves you. Uh, you're never gonna be healed, you're always gonna be schizophrenic. You need to know that's not true. I'm not receiving this anymore. In the name of Jesus, leave. I'm not listening to voices, I'm not listening to negative thoughts, I'm not gonna be negative in my emotions. I'm gonna encourage myself like David did. David encouraged himself, King David, in the Lord. Speak to your soul. Depression, get out of there. I'm not living in depression anymore. I'm not living in unbelief anymore. I'm not living in discouragement. I'm not living in these voices. This is a bunch of baloney. In the name of Jesus, I take authority over these things. I command you to flee from me. He that's in me is greater than he that's in the world. I'm not a sick person. I'm a healthy person. I might be dealing with sickness right now, but overall, I'm a healthy person. That trumps what you're trying to tell me through a diagnosis. I got the Holy Ghost, I got the lion of the tribe of Judah. And you just keep going, guys. And you just keep going. And let's say you didn't receive healing this week, next week. Okay, keep going. Go get prayer at your church every Sunday. Go to the prayer meeting on Wednesday, get prayer. Keep telling the Lord, Lord, I'm gonna keep going prayer meetings until you heal me. I'm gonna keep praying about this. I'm gonna keep trusting you until you heal me, until you touch my body. It's the way it works, Lord, because I trust you. And for some reason, Lord, if I just keep going to church and getting prayer and it just never manifests, and I'm just in pain the rest of my life, glory to God. Because it is finished, Lord. I died with you. My life is hidden in Christ. I am a new creation. It's not my will be done, it's your will be done. And see, it's not that God's not going to heal you or not come through for you. It's that God has a bigger plan than you ever dream. So you need to learn how to surrender and realize that God sees the ending from the beginning. The ending of a thing is better than the beginning of a thing. So the ending of your life is supposed to be better than the beginning of the life, of your life. But most of us look back. I do the same thing. Oh, oh, the 80s were fun, 90s were great. I like, I like, you know, when I was young and, you know, all this stuff. I'm getting older, Lord. But guess what? God said that an ending of a thing is better than the beginning of a thing. So I'm believing that the ending of my life, when I get older, is gonna be better than when I was younger. I'm gonna believe that. And I'm gonna believe that God can renew my youth like the eagles, and that he can give me strength, that my body's gonna work perfectly all the days of my life. And if I have to go through things which I have physically, God will get me through it. He will be faithful to me. And one thing King David, I'll end with this. One thing King David said. King David said that he uh I forgot where he's at, but you can look it up on Google, I'm sure. Uh I guess I can look it up real quick. I'm not gonna do that right now, but basically, the basics of it is that he looked back on his life and God delivered him from all, from everything. So at the end of his life, God delivered him from everything. Just like Apostle Paul said that God will deliver him from every evil act, every evil person, every persecution. God delivered him. Even though he was shipwrecked, he was beaten, he was stoned, he was whipped, he was persecuted everywhere. God always delivered him. But sometimes he had to what be laid out uh Damascus in the in the basket, right? He had to go, he had to run away because the mayor or whatever was looking for him in Damascus, right? Or the commander, whoever, right? The king or whatever. Sometimes he had to go to jail for a season. I mean, if there's any any time to start questioning things, is when you're in jail, persecuted, in chains, awaiting trial to be beheaded. All right, but Paul kept the faith, he just kept going. You start doubting, or you can let go of it and say, you know what, God's will be done. If I get beheaded, I get beheaded. It's see, it's it's that knowing that God is good. How is how is beheading something good? How's that work? How does Peter supposedly, you know, they say that uh their church history is that Peter's wife was crucified before him? And then Peter said he wasn't worthy to be crucified like the Lord, so he wanted to be crucified upside down. I mean, if that really happened, which they say it did, I mean that, I mean, how is that good? Like, how is going through that good for Peter? Somehow God is greater than all this, so get out of your own skull. I'm speaking to myself, right? Get out of your own skull and start imagining God being way bigger than how you think, and start trusting in his word. Start trusting in the word of God, that when you pray as a righteous person, because you are righteous, because Jesus is righteous for you, you wear his righteousness, when you pray, God hears you and will answer according to his will. Amen. Lord, thank you so much that when we pray in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, when we pray in the name of Jesus, when we come to you, you hear us because we are righteous. We are righteous, just like Abraham was, by faith, through grace, through faith, uh, by grace through faith, because Lord, that's the way you do things. That's how you've chosen uh this life for us, this uh path of salvation, everything, by grace through faith. It's a gift. Thank you for gifting us, Lord, your son Jesus Christ, Father. And we ask that anyone out there that does not know you, that they would call on the name of Jesus today, that they would sincerely put their faith, hope, and trust in the in the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, in the broken body of Christ, in the Messiah. And that they would make that confession that Jesus is Lord and that they would believe with all their heart that God raised him from the dead. Lord, we thank you for the resurrection. We thank you that one day we will all resurrect together. We thank you, Lord, for judgment day where we will not uh we will not uh face the lake of fire, but we will see you as you see us. And Lord, we thank you that we will receive rewards somehow for our service, for our uh for our perseverance, our overcoming, all that stuff. We will receive rewards. Thank you, Lord. Encourage all of us today to continue to persevere in faith and to stand on your word and to really believe that you're faithful and you're good. Lord, thank you for your goodness on Holy Ghost television, on these spirit streams. Thank you for the anointing on them. Thank you for healing people's emotions, helping them see differently. And I pray for those dealing with like uh really bad situations, Lord, where they feel it's like impossible to get out of. I thank you that you make a way where it seems impossible. I thank you for that, Lord. You're so faithful. In Jesus' name, bless everybody. Amen. Amen. I was looking here again. I got to look at that screen. Amen. Thank you guys. Thank you for joining me today. Thank you for your support of the ministry. Appreciate it. Bye. 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. 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