Protecting Your Anointing

The importance of protecting the anointing God has invested inside of you...

Judges 13; Judges 14:1-4; Judges 15 (defeated Philistines); Judges 16; Luke 4:14-19

7 Types of Anointings:  Apostolic - Galatians 1:1-19; Prophetic - Acts 21:10-15; Soul Winners - Acts 8:5-4; Teaching Anointing - Acts 8:24-28; Pastoral Anointing - 1 Timothy 3:1-7

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Hi friends, welcome to It's Time to Eat Eat, Matthew 4.4. I'm your host, Winifer, and today we're going to talk about protecting your anointing. Because it's important that we protect our anointing. A lot of people will draw from your anointing if you allow them to protect it. Because some of them have no business walking in the anointing with you or receiving anything, any healing from that. If God has not told you what he wants you to, I cannot stress this enough. I'm like, I am just like frustrated to let people know. I know people are in need, they're hungry, they're thirsty, they want to be healed, they want to receive a blessing. You cannot receive a blessing that is not meant for you. And stop trying to take it because it is very annoying to the person that you definitely know has that anointing on them that you can see and you can feel it. But it cannot be wasted. And those of you who carry it, okay, if God hasn't shown you that this needs to be protected, protect your energy. If He has not shown you that it needs to be protected, by all means, just throw it out there for anybody who wants it. It has nothing to do with me. But for those who are suffering, annoyed, frustrated, what people that are, remember, sheep are ignorant. And we are running all around like ignorant sheep trying to draw from the anointing off of someone who God may have clearly expressed to them the group of people that are going to receive that healing, that blessing, whatever it is that they need to receive to let his light shine inside of them. Okay, so today my reading is gonna come from Judges. Judges chapter 13, verse 1 through 25. This is about Samson. He did have a heavy anointing on him, but Judges chapter 13, verse 1 through 25. It's gonna be very long because there's gonna be quite a bit of scripture reading. And I asked the Holy Spirit to come in and minister to all of our hearts and our minds and our spirits, okay? So that we can receive the correct message. If this does not resonate inside of you, shut it down and keep going. Don't sit up and make yourself hear something that you think is foolish and it is not for you. That means it's not for you to hear that. But if it's something that resonates, that is like, oh my gosh, I am so glad to hear this, God. Receive it and know he heard your prayer and he wants you to receive deliverance from some of the things people try to bind you down with. But before we get started with the scripture reading, because this is on deliverance, this is an anointing that was on Samson, and it was spoken to his mother and then to his father right there before his birth, even before the conception. Okay, but I want to say there are different types of anointing. Apostolic, Galatians chapter 1, verse 1 through 19. Read that for yourself and see if that's something that God has put inside of you. Prophetic. There could be a prophetic anointing. You could have multiple anointings upon you. It's up to the Lord how many or how he wants to distribute. Prophetic is read Acts chapter 21, verse 10. And I think it's verse 10 through 11. I was just so like just writing it down. It just like came upon me. So, and also you could be a soul winner, someone that's able to be used as a vessel where a person was walking in sin, and you're the one that God uses as that gate that opens up, and you're able to draw the people to Christ. Okay, that is Acts chapter 8, verse 5 through 40. And there are other verses also, but these are some that I had to quickly look up and read those and hear what it has to say. And the teaching anointing, that's mine, that's something that God has put inside of me. Acts chapter 8, verse 24 to 28. Because a lot of people are being taught, but some are being taught the wrong thing. You're still, this is something that Bishop told me many years ago. He's like, he told me, he said, Winifer, I was distraught. And he told me, Winifer, you're still trying to have church the way your grandparents had church. He's like, let me tell you, these demons are stronger and more powerful than what they were back then. You gotta look at the generations that have passed. Let God use you and the power that He has invested inside of you to defeat the demons that are of today and prayers that'll defeat those that are yet to come. But those past ones, they're weak compared to the ones that are radiating in the world today. Yes, and God has equipped you with things inside of you that gives you the ability to be the vessel that he uses to defeat these demons that are lurking around today. But he's like, remember, you can't go back to having church the way they used to do it, way back when grandma and granddaddy, when they were having church, this is the new day and age. Look at what's happening in your world and let God teach you. And I'm glad I received that. All right. Also, there is pastoral anointing. Um, first Timothy chapter 3, verse 1 through 7, and anointing to sing. Okay. Exodus chapter 15, verse 20 to 21. A lot of people can sing, sing, sing, sing. They can sing and praise their way through and pull you out of that rut, also. And some of them are powerful singers, and God has invested a lot inside of them. And some of them want to preach, and you weren't called to preach. Your ministry is singing. That good old harmony, those words that come through. I listen to a lot of anointing that comes through different songs that God has invested inside of people. And I want to give you also this. Some of the songs that I hear, they're not all Christian music. Some of them are secular. And they have verses, they have words in them that I need to hear for that moment during that season. Yes. All right, but let's move on here. That was just giving you just a little quick rundown of some of the anointings. There's healing. You know, I want to just share this also before we get started. There are people that can see the anointing on you, and I just cannot stress this enough to make you aware. You cannot draw off of everyone's anointing. Some of you have invoked curses upon your bloodline because you felt like you could quote unquote take it. What is taking it? That's stealing.

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Don't let the enemy trip you up. Don't let him do that to you.

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They're pretty they used to teach when you see those people coming through, pull and draw from don't you do that.

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Don't you do that. Don't you let them demons set up your family like that?

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All right, let's move on here. I declare and decree it in Jesus' name about the deliverance. This is a deliverance through Judges chapter 13, verse 1 through 25. This is speaking on the birth of Samson. All right. It says, the Israelites again suffer offended the Lord, who therefore delivered them into the power of the Philistines for 40 years. And do you hear that? This is just the first verse. They're letting us know the reason that this child is being born. This is the one that they God was going to use, and he did use to deliver the Israelites from the hand of the Philistine. They may be a group of people that God has set you apart from others that you're gonna deliver. He's gonna use it. It's not you, but you're the vessel. When they see you, show up, they're gonna see you as the one that he's going to use to deliver. And a lot of people, man, I've seen people all parked on the side of the road waiting for me to come through. Stop. It's important that you protect your anointing. Let's go through here and see how Samson didn't protect the anointing that God had invested upon him. Okay. Once again, verse 1 says, The Israelites again offended the Lord, who therefore delivered them into the power of the Philistines for 40 years. There was a certain man from Zorah of the clan of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, his wife was barren and had borne no children. An angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, Though you are barren and have not had no children, yet you will conceive and bear a son. Now, then be careful to take no wine or strong drink, and to eat nothing unclean. As for the son, you will conceive and bear, no razor shall touch his head. For this boy is to be consecrated to God from the wound. It is he who will begin the deliverance of Israel from the power of the Philistines. And you notice that's the angel of the Lord speaking, and the angel of the Lord ain't making no mistakes and acting like she might be giving birth to a child that is going to be used to begin the deliverance of the Philistines, I mean the Israelites from the hand of the Philistines. Because some people they can be delusional and they can think they can take an anointing from you and do a better job than what you can do when it's actually God who has already spoken into existence that you, Winifer, or whoever you are, is the vessel that he is gonna use.

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No matter what anybody got to say.

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He had the appearance of an angel of God, terrible indeed. I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name. But he said to me, You will be with child and will bear a son. So take neither wine nor strong drink, and eat nothing unclean. For the boy shall be consecrated to God from the wound until the day of his death. Manoah, they prayed to the Lord. O Lord, Manoah, then excuse me, then prayed to the Lord, O Lord, I beseech you, he said, May the man of God whom you sent therefore to us to teach us what to do for the boy who will be born. God heard the prayer of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field. Since her husband Manoah was not with her, the woman ran in haste and told her husband, The man who came to me the other day has appeared to me. She said to him, So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he reached the man, he said to him, Are you the one who spoke to my wife? Yes, he answered. Then Manoah asked, Now when that which you say comes true, what are we expected to do for the boy? The angel of the Lord answered Manoah, Your wife is to abstain from all the things of which I spoke to her. She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor take wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. Let her observe all that I have commanded her. Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Can we persuade you to stay while we prepare a kid for you? But the angel of the Lord answered Manoah, although you press me, I will not partake of your fruit, but if you will, you may offer a holocaust to the Lord. Not knowing that it was the angel of the Lord, he didn't know they didn't know who it was. Manoah said to them, What is your name that we may honor you when your words come true? The angel of the Lord answered him, Why do you ask my name, which is mysterious? Then Manoah took the kid with a cereal offering and offered it on the rock of the Lord, whose works are mysterious. While Manoah and his wife were looking on, as the flame rose to the sky from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame to the altar. Then Manoah and his wife when Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell prostrate to the ground. You know why? Because they knew who that was. But the angel of the Lord has seen no but the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the angel of the Lord, said to his wife, We will certainly die, for we have seen God. But his wife pointed to him, if the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a Holocaust and serial offering from our hands, nor would he have let us see all this just now, or hear what we have heard. The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The boy grew up and the Lord blessed him. The spirit of the Lord first stirred him in Mahanadon, which is between Zora and Esthal. Now also let's go over to Judges chapter fourteen, verse one through four. Okay? Because Samson, he's grown into a man now. It says Samson went down to Temna and saw there one of the Philistine women. On his return he told his father and mother, There is a Philistine woman I saw in Temnah, whom I wish you to get as a wife for me. His father and mother said to him, Can you find no wife among your kinsfolk or among all our people that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistine? But Samson answered his father, get her for me, for she pleases me. Now his father and mother did not know that this had been brought about by the Lord who was providing an opportunity against the Philistines, for at that time they had dominion over Israel. You know, that's something for him to pick the wife of a Philistine, and he was born to defeat the Philistines. Now, wouldn't that be something? Now the mother and father are like, why would you pick the most evil, vile beings on the planet when you could easily go and pick from one of your kids someone that knew the same faith that had morals that were fabulous, okay? Godly, righteous morals. And you decide you want to go get this individual, you know, someone that's gonna cause all kind of hell and havoc in the family. Well, anyhow, you can finish reading that, the rest of chapter 4 14, so that you can hear the disturbance that goes on with him and how he eventually loses that wife, and she's given to his one of his friends, like the best man at his wedding. And you can imagine the pain that that would have inflicted in Samson's heart from your own dealings with love and life. You imagine loving someone and then they find fault, and you're not someone that and basically they were jealous of him. But go ahead and finish reading chapter 14 because I don't want to reflect on that, because that's not something that the Holy Ghost wants me to talk about at this moment. We're talking about the anointing, but if you could finish reading that, you will learn a wealth of information. So let's move on to Judges chapter 15. Because Judges chapter 15 goes on to tell us how Samson defeats the Philistines, and that is something that really like burned them up. That was upsetting to them. So if you can read that also, and he speaks in riddles and different things, it's fascinating how he's doing that, it's his strength. And see, he they were warned also to not cut his hair as a boy, and he's been his hair's been growing from the time you know those little sprigs begin to sprout out of his head, and he's a full adult male man now, you know, living his life, but no no no razor or anything has taken it its toll where it's cut his hair or anything like that, not even trimming it or edging it up, getting it all me looking good, other than just his long brave locks with it. Now chapter sixteen. I want to read to you.

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Excuse me.

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Read a little bit of this because it tells us where after losing his wife, he falls in love with another woman, and she's a harlot, but he falls in love with her, and this is the beginning beginning of his downfall, where you know, we all desire love, but it's important that he protects the anointing, and the anointing was through his hair. All right. Once Samson went to Gaza, this is chapter 16. Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a harlot and visited her. Informed that Samson had come there. The men of Gaza surrounded him with an ambush at the city gate all night long, and all the night they waited, saying, Tomorrow morning we will kill him. Samson rested there until midnight. Then he rose, seized the doors of the city gate, and the two gateposts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He hoisted them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the ridge opposite her broad. Now he's getting ready to meet Miss Delilah. Okay? It says verse four, after he fell in love with a woman in the weighty sort whose name was Delilah, the lords of the Philistines came to her and said, Beguile him and find the secret of his great strength, and how we may overcome and bind him so as to keep him helpless. We will each give you eleven hundred shekels of silver. These people here paid more for his downfall than what they paid for our Lord. Well, anyhow, needless to say, I don't know. When we fall in love with people, love does make us blind because not, let me see, like one, two, I think even let me just say maybe three times. But ver where he's Delilah is not even hiding the fact that she wants to know what the secret behind his strength is, okay? And he's just eating it up, and then to be bound down and put in those compromising situations, and then to wake up and find that the Philistines are there to kill him. And he still goes right back into that little trap with her and succumbed to his downfall. But let's read here at 16 verse 6. It says, So Delilah said to Samson, Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you may be bound so as to be kept helpless. Can you she wasn't pretending? And then he goes on to say all kinds of stuff and tells her stuff. And she doesn't even hide the fact here. Look at verse 8 says, So the Lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings and gave her everything she needed. And then after doing that, after lying in wait in the chamber, they were sneaking and waiting for all that to be done. She calls out, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And guess what? He began to wake up and snap out of it and just break loose, break free. As well, you know, all right, the secrets to his strength still remained unknown. That means he was protecting it at that moment. But remember, he's fallen in love with Delilah. Delilah once again says to Samson, you have mocked me and told me lies. She probably was raising Cain then. Now tell me how you may be bound. If they bind me tight with new ropes, he's given her another reason with which no work has been done, he answered her. So she did the same thing. And once again, the men were laying in wait, waiting. She might not have done it the very same day that he told her, but at some time, not far off from the time when he would tell her different things that could be done to bind him, then the same old thing. So she would say, So Delilah took new ropes, bound him down and everything, and then let him know Samson, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. And guess what he does? He breaks the loose again. And you know, when he breaks the loose, he probably letting them have it. He's not playing with him. Now there does come a time. She's like, Delilah said to Samson, up to now you have mocked me and told me lies. Okay. So she's upset. So while he slept, once again he tells her about fastening. Listen here. She's like, No, you have told me lies. Up to now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you may be bound. He said to her, if you weave my seven locks of hair into the web and fasten them to the pen, I shall be as weak as any other man.

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And guess what? She did it.

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And he still wasn't like red flags didn't go up to let him know this woman is up to no good. You know? Love is blind. Gotta be careful. Protect the anointing. All right. Then she said, the Philistines are upon you, Samson, awaken from his sleep, and he pulled out both of the weaver's bed of the well. Then guess what? She got upset. Verse 15 says, Then she said to him, How can you say that you love me when you do not confide in me? Three times already you have mocked me and not told me the secret of your great strength. What I would have been saying, you want me to tell you the secret? Three times have I not told you the seek the secret, but three times you have had me bound down, and you have literally had the Philistines come upon me. Why do I need to tell you the secret to my strength? Because the reason behind it is he should have gotten it by them three times. He should have known she was up to no good. She wanted to destroy him. Never once does it say that she loves him. It says that he, how can you love me? Okay. All right. So verse 16, he goes on. She's like, she imported him continually and vexed him with her complaints till he was deathly weary of them. That means she just kept on just tearing on. She was fussing and carrying on and like till finally he's like, okay. So verse 17 goes on. So he took her completely into his confidence and told her. He let his guard down. No razor has touched my head, for I have been consecrated to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I shall be as weak as any other man. Protect God's anointing. Don't let anyone preach and teach and prophesy and whatever they do.

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Convince you of giving them access to God's strength that He has invested inside of you.

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Because without a shadow of a doubt, that anointing is meant to help deliver someone out of bondage. Now, verse 18 says, When Delilah saw that he had taken her completely into his confidence, she summoned the Lords of the Philistines, said, Come up this time, for he has opened his heart to me. So the Lords of the Philistines came and brought up the money with them. She had him sleep on her lap and called for a man who shaved off his seven locks of hair. Then she began to mistreat him, for his strength had left him. When she said the Philistines are upon you, Samson, and he woke up from his sleep, he thought he could make good his escape, as he had done time and time again, for he did not realize that the Lord had left him. But the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they brought him down to Gaza and found and bound him with bronze fetters, and he was put to grinding in the prison. But the hair on his head began to grow as soon as it was shaved off. Remember, that was in his his anointing and in the hair on his head. And they didn't realize they needed to keep cutting that hair. They couldn't just cut his hair, and that would be it. That was it. They had to keep cutting the hair, but they didn't. And this is where they're gonna be defeated. He's gonna get just a little help from someone there. I think one of the guards. Just hold on a minute here. Um, let's get to this part where you'll see it's important that you protect the anointing. And don't let people just think they can just walk around recklessly in that with you. Because it says, verse 23 says, the Lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their God Dagon and to make Mary. They say, Our God has delivered into our power Samson, our enemy. And some people will think that their God has delivered you where they can harm you. If you fall under this spell, like he had with Delilah, that he might have. All right. Verse 25 said, When their spirits were high, they said, Call Samson that he may amuse us. So they called Samson from the prison, and he played the buffoon before them. When the people saw him, they praised their God, for they said, Our God has delivered into our power our enemy, the avenger of our land, the one who has multiplied our slave. Okay. They were making fun of him because he couldn't see his eyes around, no telling how his appearance was, you know. But what they failed to realize is the very thing that they cut off of his head, the power, it had grown back.

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And even though he couldn't see, he's getting ready to pray and ask God for deliverance on this.

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Yes, he is. God can see everything that our enemies do to us, and sometimes we can do things that cause us to have pain and misery by being disobedient and telling different things that God may have told us that, you know, I'm gonna put a latch on your mouth. Keep your lips closed. I ain't talking about, don't tell them your favorite recipe unless you don't want it another one. I'm talking about God. If he says don't share that anointing with someone, if he told you to protect it, then how you protect it is do what he says do it from. Don't let people tell you how they want it done because it's not theirs. It is not. I mean, literally, come and just force themselves on me, thinking they can take the anointing. I have been so frustrated, I'm like, here.

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I've screamed and yelled and carried on with God. And he didn't say anything, he was quiet. He's watching me, and he's letting me know you mean to tell me you don't trust me. He didn't give them permission to touch me. No, he did.

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And I shouldn't get to the point where I'm frustrated and annoyed, but some situations and is I'm like it's it can be very challenging, especially when you see his creation running rampant like that, and some of these people, the majority of them, when they see I've seen whole churches come through. I'm like, and then I speak to them, like don't you ask them? Who told you that you can take that from me? Who told you that you can walk in that with me?

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Who told you you can draw that out of me? That's what I ask.

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You don't know the prayers that I have prayed against those who have tried to afflict me because of something God invested inside of me. I say to some people that can see and hear me in the spirit. I've had people try to send an evil eye, and they did. Try to do witchcraft, they tried. I'm not just talking about people in the world, talking about both people in the world and people in churches. And they still cannot see that he has me protected. They think I'm doing something to protect myself, and it's God they're fighting against. It is man, if you only knew how many times, how many, I'm like, I want to just give up. I'm so sick of these dummies. I'm serious, I say that kind of stuff. And he reminds me that's how sheep are. Because you may have a dark skin tone, light skin tone, but you may, when they see me, look like I'm from the African descent, like the slavery, whatever. They think because you are black. This is me personally speaking, and speaking for every black person or every white person, they think that you are serving their God, they think that you worship and praise God the same way that they do. There are black people in every denomination, everyone is not just because you see them black, they don't all belong to the Baptist Church, they don't all belong to the Church of God in Christ. Some of them belong to the Catholic Church, some of them belong to Buddhism, some of them belong to all kind of different whatever they desire to learn about their God. Okay, you better stop trying to walk in someone else's anointing, you better try to stop messing with people that you don't know anything about, especially the God that they serve.

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I'm serious.

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Just because someone has dark skin, light skin, white skin, whatever kind of skin they're in, don't you automatically assume that they are receiving the same teachings that you have received. That's your belief. But one thing, when I open my Bible, it does tell me that we were born with a free will.

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Okay. The will, it's God's will, but it's not man's will.

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The anointing that he has invested inside of you, this is what I ask, because don't dim it, because I've dimmed it before. Ask God to let it shine. When you walk through, let them see that bad. Because that's him. And when they see that anointing on you, you better believe that individual done been through something, and you think. You're gonna bring your raggedy behind up in there and snatch it and take it. And you ain't walked through nothing with them. You're just gonna come and take it. He wants this to stop. He and I meant what I said. He wanted to stop. You don't have the right to do that, especially when you in God's favor and they think they can take that from you. Man, he's getting ready to beat down on your minds. Remember, talked about jealousy and strife and everything. Miriam and Aaron. All right. Numbers chapter 12, it'll tell you you may not be able to hear God or see him, but there are some that do. I have seen people in the spirit that have a special gift that God has invested inside of them where they can help break people free from hindrances and obstacles, and even guide them and show them the right path and set them free from things that are not of God's will. There are people that can do that. Okay. You see how we learn about judges here and judges talking about Samson and all of them? There are people like Samuel and Eli and all of them. They could see, they used to call them seers. Okay, they could definitely see things in the spirit. And when you saw those people come through, you didn't see people running around trying to jump into their anointing. They gathered around to hear what the person had to say to them. When you you don't know who you come in contact with, you don't some people don't think that people can see things, and they think you're crazy, dumb, and stupid.

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You the crazy, dumb, stupid one for thinking that you could have drawn from something that God didn't give you permission to take. Look how they put uh this man's eyes out. Do you know why?

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Because he did what God asked him not to do. But in the very end, when we wrap this up here a little bit, you're gonna see that more people died on that very same day. That Samson died than the whole time that he lived, the ones that he killed. And what made it so horrific is they saw him as suffering. He wasn't suffering. This is something he had to go through, okay. Seriously, he wanted to be loved, or he wanted to love someone, okay, and through him wanting to be loved and him confessing what was inside of his heart towards a woman that clearly never told him that she loved him. That at least I haven't read it in my Bible, she used his affections towards her as a way to tear him down, and her greed, her wanting money. And there are people that you may know, they may use you your affection, you love them. I have. So you don't say, okay, there's a woman or a man that's somewhere in this city. God has an anointing one, and spirits that spoke to you and telling you stuff. Not even the angel of God telling you what you can do. Let me tell you, in some of these faiths, they will lay with you, have sex with you in the spirit, thinking they can use the anointing that God has invested inside of you to get whatever it is they desire in this world, even if it's to bring their ministry up so high till it'll be well known a hundred or thousand years from now.

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And they don't realize you're doing a terrible thing to yourself as well as mankind. I'm serious, and it's something that they do.

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I was I used to have this Bible study with a group of people. I it wasn't mine, they invited me to have a Bible study with them, and I think the name of it was Blacks in the Bible. So we went to that, and it lasted over weeks. It was just it would happen every week, weekly, but it was this book that we were studying from. It's been a while, so God is just bringing it to me. And during the Bible study, I began to get to know, you know, the different ones. This is when I realized I wasn't the only one that could see in the spirit like that, and it was okay to talk and whatnot. Some of them, God will allow them to see different things that are around you, and He'll use them where they'll pray that stuff away for you or strengthen you so you can go on through it. Okay. Seriously, it's invested inside of you. But anyhow, I wanted to be a part of that ministry. It was warm, it was welcoming. One perfect, I felt like I was a good feel for me. It was a good spot for me. Anyhow, and it's their feelings. Anyhow, as I began to go on through and get situated with the ministry and adapt to, you know, whatever it is, like the faith and whatnot, the denomination, getting to know it. It comes to find out it wasn't really a place that I needed to be. Now, there was one particular time where they were preaching, and he the it was a bishop, he was able to pick up on what my calling was, and it was to be in like the children's ministry, teaching the children. And I had a dream. I laid down that night after church, uh, maybe during that week sometime, and what happened is they came. It was God. He showed me where they were gonna give me the kids. They put them all out to me. I didn't have to tell them, but they were able to see it. He put them out, he put them in front of me. He like, they it was this table, and he pushed the kids to me so I could teach them, you know, about the Lord. But I didn't know what the next step was. When he did that, I was just like, I was excited in my spirit. And when I woke up, I could just like feel it, like I really wanted to. So there was another, she was a minister. I'm not gonna say her name because I do not have the right to say her name. I haven't seen her in years, but she was very kind and I have much respect for them. Because when I say they can they will have sex with you in the spirit, she came to me, and that was that Thursday, she came to me, and she I didn't know what was getting ready to happen. And so what she did is she showed, she said, he's coming to you, but she didn't, I didn't know what she was talking about. I'm like, he's coming to me, and that's where you should ask God what's happening there. And so he said, He's coming to you, and it's gonna be okay. So they were gonna give me the kids, the children to teach. But this was something that they had to do where they I would be a part of their ministry, and I would be the children's pastor. And it's not funny, but I I I was like still a babe in Christ and I didn't understand. So I'm like, okay, I'm thinking he's coming to me. But then God is like, he wanted to ground my spirit because my spirit was all over the place. It was just and it didn't even look like a mosquito whenever he allowed me to see it, okay. And my I was married at the time, but we were married just like on the paper. Our sexual intimacy was not what it could be. And the bishop was able to pick up on that, excuse me, he was able to pick up on it, okay. What he was getting ready to do was to control my desire because there were other preachers, they were assistant preachers, but they were assistant preachers to the grown-ups, okay? And I was in the children, they were gonna let me lead the children, and then there will be people under me. And his wife agreed to it, okay. But I was the only one that was not on the same page with them, and God didn't let me know what they were getting ready to do, okay, or try to do. So I'm like, okay. But what he did is he showed they showed me this is how God showed me, he needed to like silence that, and he was going to do it, but it wouldn't have been in a manner that would because another one did it, but he didn't do it right. No, but what he was going to do is to silence it, to calm it down, because it was affecting the assistant pastors, the men. And there was one wife of one of the assistant pastors, he was Hispanic, and you should have heard her. I heard her in the spirit. Be careful because people can't hear you. And I'm so glad I wasn't in the adult portion because there was one lady, she was a friend of mine, and sometimes when we bump into each other, we'll be in the store just talking for like hours, like catching up on what went on during our life. But this one, I could hear what the woman had to say, and I had never seen her. But that very same week, her husband was the one they had where he was going to be preaching to us. And I could hear her in the spirit talking about uh she really liked being his wife. She loved being his wife, but she did not like being the wife of a preacher because her idea of it was these women just want to sleep with our husbands. This was a younger one who was married to a preacher, a younger preacher. Whereas the bishop's wife, she understood these women do not want to sleep with your husband. This woman here, she was really a woman of God, the bishop's wife, okay? And she understood the women were not, he might have wanted to, and that was her sinful thinking, but that's not what it was. If they didn't have husbands, or if they were in uh marriage, but you know, they were preaching against no divorce, no divorce, no divorce, but they were not, it wasn't just because they their husbands wasn't having sex with them, or they weren't having sex with the husband during this time, HIV and all that stuff, and I ain't talking against it to make people feel bad because uh what they got prep out there now to help them out with that and whatnot, but people didn't want them your husband, you're going to bring that to you. All right, you're gonna run around like that. You already have access to me, but you're gonna run around out there and you're gonna be with this one and that one. Go ahead on and be with her, okay? And the men didn't want to divorce the women because it was cheaper to keep her, okay. Anyhow, in order to keep harmony in the ministry, these men had to silence them sexual desires. I'm assuming that's what that was. So they would have sex with them to keep them quiet down there. And this is what happened here was trying to, but when I realized what was getting ready to take place, I'm like, absolutely not. And his wife, she intervened and she was talking to me in the spirit, and she said, Winnifer, he has to do that with you. She was the older woman, he has to do that with you so that you can take over the children's ministry. And I told her, I don't want it. Not if he has to touch me like that. Because I I don't want him doing that. I want to be like that with my husband only. I don't want him to do that because I didn't see the God side of it. I saw it as you have an adulterous relationship with the head of the church. Like, no. And she didn't say anything else, and she got him out of there. And you know what they said? They apologized to me. They said they were sorry. And but they said it in the spirit. But when I saw her, because she used to go pick her grandkids from church, uh not church, from school. They went to the same school as my children. My children were the two younger ones, they were still in. I think the third, and I think he was in the fourth grade. No, she was in the second, and he was in the fourth, fourth grade. And the I used to have to go pick them up after school, and I was there standing up waiting. And his wife, the bishop's wife, she saw me when I got my kids, and I was coming up the hill to get them to get in the car, and she saw me, and she was embarrassed because she turned her head like to the side and she held her head down because that was the first time she had ever been convicted on something like that. It didn't happen, but they had never had anyone to say, you're not gonna let me be the children's minister by having sex with me in the spirit. And I said no. And that was it. It cut ties. Like no, and they did say they were sorry. Now, there was another instance here, maybe about four or five years ago. I don't know what the meaning of this was. This man's son did a soul tie with me, and I was just so dumb and ignorant. I had prayed for me a husband, okay? And I wanted my husband to be a man of God. When I say that, I mean for him to love God, to already have the fear of God inside of him. All right, I never once said how I the age I wanted him to be. I just assumed that God will give me a husband that was in my age group. Okay. And this man that I saw, my spirit, I could was trying to let him know that I was older, but he didn't realize I was an older woman because at the time my hair was black. And I began to change it. I began to, because the gray hairs weren't coming in fast enough, I began to use like silver highlights, not the stuff that would make it white to make it. I began to put a lot of it in and praying to God for the great hair to come, and then maybe it came too, because I did not want the younger man. I always desired the older man or the man that was in my age group. Okay, and that was all to it, but it was a younger man that had attached himself to me, and God allowed me to hear it. But man, I was delusional. And so he told his father that he wanted me, and his father said that he was gonna get me for him. You know, he had the nerve to say she belonged in here anyhow. Okay, and next thing I know is I saw this um, it was this purple thread, and it uh it was tie, it tied him and I together. Me in the sun, it tied us together. Be careful because people will do soul ties with you, they'll tie your spirit to theirs, they will do that, and man, that was like the beginning of a ride directly into hell on earth, yes, it does for them to do a soul tie, yeah. Needless to say, that soul tie has been undone, and that'll be another episode of my podcast. But be careful because when you begin to grow, you are like dumb, ignorant at some point, and you don't have anyone that you can really depend on to help you, especially if the people that you're depending on or used to accustom to be around, they might be jealous of you. And I'm so tired of talking about jealousy. I really am. Just be careful, stay prayed up. And when I say prayed up, pray over yourself, pray over your children, pray over your circumstances. Don't just stand around. People say just wait, wait, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord, but you also pray to him, reach out to him, and let him know what your version of what's going on with you. So he can break those soul ties with you. Yeah. This man, he was a young man, he tied himself to me because he was listening to my prayers. Okay. They can listen to you. You can be thinking these people are going to pray. They're men and women of God. They're not like you all. Mm-mm. Everybody is, child my goodness. Everyone does not think of and serve the same God. You might think that they're going to pray and ask God to send you a husband to you. They'll pray and ask you to send one that'll beat you, one that'll hurt you, one that'll be running around on you. Mm-mm. Now, if I ever get in a position where God has me to stand in agreement with someone and they're looking for their spouse, I'm gonna not let anybody pray over them except me. And I mean that. Because ain't nobody gonna be holding them down in the spirit, waiting for their husband to come because you'll never get him. No. Because the one that's holding you down, he's having sex with you in the spirit. Because I remember the father, he's like, You don't feel like you want to have sex, do you? This is a man that is living. And I'm like, no. And this is what I told him ain't nobody gonna touch my body and don't make me scream and holler. This is my private body. And I didn't ask God just for a sexual relationship. No, I did not. I asked him for a husband that had a strong back, and I meant that he can go to work and do whatever kind of work God desired for him to do. He didn't have to be rich, but I do want him to have peace. The kind of peace that I desire. And we could be a little bit opposite of each other, but not to the extreme. And who doesn't desire a sexual relationship? But do you want to be in a sexual relationship with somebody that can give you something that'll kill you? And you don't want to give them anything either that's gonna take their life. You want to be equally yoked. People want to be equally yoked in their Bible study. You want to be equally yoked in your sexual life, also. That's what's happening with a lot of these relationships where these men and women are committing adulterous relationships and then they grow apart. You want to be equally yoked on all aspects. And oh, we don't talk about sex in the church. Why not? You're preaching on everything except for a good sex life. And shh, don't tell your friend how good it is to be in the bed with your man. Other than that, they're gonna be over there waiting, trying to see how it is, to see if you're telling the truth or not. But when you're praying and asking God for a husband, wife, whoever, ask them to be equally yoked in all things. Whether you know it or not, your sexual health is very important. It allows you to be in a whole like a whole state.

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You need your mental state, your mental health. You need to have a sound mind. You want to make sure your blood pressure is okay.

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You don't want to be walking around with them sexual desires. Hmm. You want to be sound, you want to be at peace. Well, needless to say, I don't have a husband. And I'm not looking for one either, you know? And I let this man know, you're not gonna be laying around with me like that, your son either. And because they got upset, because I said no, they tried to do different things to me to cause harm, which you can believe it or not. Guess what? When they came in on me, and I know same people don't do this. Listen, I have a store that I go because I don't have a husband, and I don't want a wife. I don't like ladies like that, and I don't kick nobody, but I had a vibrator, which you don't talk about in churches, but this is my podcast, and I wanted me a nice little dude, okay? I'm not reaching out for your husband to touch me. You ain't got to worry about him catching no disease from me, and I damn sure don't have to worry about him bringing nothing inside of me, and then acting like he didn't bring that to me, but he got it out of me. My body stays clean. And during the time when I really needed my vibrator and my dildos, seriously, when I was going through menopause, that was my most highest sexual peak ever in my lifetime. I'm serious, and this man came in here on me, and the prayer that I asked God, yeah. You see how Delilah mistreated Samson, the Bible even spoke of it. Right there in verse 19 of chapter 16, it says, She had him sleep, she had him sleep on her lap and call for a man who shaved off his seven locks of hair. Then she began to mistreat him, for his strength had left him. This man was not my husband. He was a younger man, and this man was fighting me. I'm like hitting me. I literally had two black eyes behind this man, and as dark as my skin is, I had bruises on my thighs. And I'm gonna tell you, I used to fight him back. Now I don't have to worry about that. I asked God to shatter every soul tie that anyone tries to tie any of my listeners to release, release those binds and don't allow anyone else to do that to anyone that's listening to Matthew 4.4. It's time to eat, the podcast where Winifer Harris is the speaker. And every enemy that comes up against stopping their union that God has ordained for them to have their husband, their wife, whoever it is that God has blessed them to come into their lives so that they can have a fruitful, meaningful relationship.

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I declare and decree it in Jesus' name.

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Don't let people just do whatever they want to do to you because you want to worship and praise God. Don't worry about where they say I'm going because they don't have a heaven or a hell to put me in. No, they don't. Why you run around talking about me? Some of them need to really check out who you marrying to. If they have been married over two times, I say no. Yeah. I really would. Now let's move on from there. But just remember, Judges chapter 6, chapter 16, verse 19 said, This is what Dalila did. She had him sleep in her lap and called for a man who shaved off his seven locks of leg. Then she began to mistreat him, for his strength had left him. Yeah. Yep. Don't ever think that Winifer wants your husband. Okay? If your husband don't want you, that's between you and him. I don't want your children. I don't want your wives. None of that. And don't touch my body because I've already said a prayer that's between God and I. And he answered it. Okay. Now, verse 23 through 24 lets us know how they were praising and worshiping their God because of what had occurred with Samson. So let's just read that one more time. Verse 23 says, This is still chapter 16. The Lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their God Dacon, and to make Mary, they say, Our God has delivered into our power Samson, our enemy. When their spirits were high, they said, Call Samson that he may amuse us, want to make fun of it. And people do that. So they called Samson from the prison, and he played the buffoon before them. When the people saw him, they praised their God, for they said, Our God has delivered into our power our enemy, the avenger of our land, the one who has multiplied our slain. All right. Then they stationed him between the columns. Sensen said to the attendant who was holding his hand, put me where I may touch the columns that support the temple and may rest against them. Let me tell you something. He knew exactly what he was doing. Didn't you hear what he said? They said he played the buffoon. He had good sense. You understand me? Alright, so they did that. The temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and from the roof about 3,000 men and women looked on, and Samson provided amusement. Samson cried out to the Lord and said, O Lord God, remember me. Strengthen me, O God, this last time that for my two eyes I may avenge myself once and for all in the Philist on the Philistines. Samson grasped the two middle columns on which the temple rested and braced himself against them, one at his right hand and the other at his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He pushed hard, and the temple fell upon the Lord's and all the people who were in it. Those he killed at his death were more than those who he had killed during his lifetime. Yeah. So be careful. Enemies, God is not asleep, and don't give your anointing away to any of them. Don't do that. Just because they said it don't mean it's so. They don't know everything. No, they don't. And once again, I ask God, every individual that is within my hearing voice and that listens to this podcast, yes, I be myself. Okay? Don't let people just say and tell you anything that they want to say to you. No, not at all. Let me see. Luke chapter 4. Verse 14 to 19. Luke chapter 4, verse 14 and 19. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. Verse 16 goes on to say, He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written. You know, God is amazing. You know what I'm saying? Verse 20 goes on to say, rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendants and sat down, and the eyes all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing. And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.

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They also said, Isn't this the son of Joseph?

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He said to them, Surely you will quote me this proverb, physicians cure yourself, and say, Do hear in your native place the things that we heard were done in Kaperna. And he said, Amen. I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three days and a half years. Three and a half, excuse me, when the sky was closed for let me go back again. Verse 25 says, Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zephyr in the land of Saddam. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elijah the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, but only naming the Seren the Syrum. I'm gonna tell you again, God's anointing that He puts inside of you, invests inside of you. I don't care who running all around trying to take it, trying to be blessed, trying to just do whatever they want done with the anointing they see God has invested inside of you. Protect it, protect it, do not bless them like that if God has not told you. Do you hear what he said in the scripture? All those people that needed blessings and healings, there were certain ones that God has intended to be blessed. And everyone is not supposed to be walking their behinds around in the anointing that God has invested inside of you, and all those who continue to push their way through. God, I wouldn't want to be 'em. I declared to create in Jesus' name. Verse 28 says, When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. And I've seen it right here in this very community. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went away. Don't do it. Don't do what they want you to do. He has already shown you the people he intends to bless. Those are the ones he's going to bless. Don't let them push their babies on you. Even if they're incubating inside the belly in the womb. Don't let them have their children lined up on the steps sitting down. Don't let them sit on the porch running around. Good morning, whatever it is, good afternoon. Don't let them on the sidewalk and whatever they want to try to do. Even if they come through trying to sprinkle and do their witchcraft, let them do it.

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In the end, they're gonna for they're gonna regret ever doing it. That's not a blessing they were supposed to receive. It's not, it is not a blessing they were supposed to receive.

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I declare and I decree in Jesus' mighty name, bless those who take the time to listen to God's word.

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And especially those that stop by to hear what Winifra has to say.

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Because the Holy Ghost is alive and well inside of me, around me, with me, in the front, the back, underneath, above, is protecting me and my babies and my grandbabies and those who I come in contact with, and he has surely shown me who he wants to be touched with his healing touch. And he'll let you know. It's not your anointing, like per se, it's yours, yours. He put it inside of you. But it's just so frustrating just to be human and to look and see the great need that man desires, and to see the ignorance where they think they can just take that from you and carry you through all kind of trauma, and then when it comes back to them, you don't even recognize that's your mess. Return to sender in Jesus' name. All right, have a blessed day. Remember the anointing that God has invested inside of you, protect it. Protect it. You see, when Samson realized that the Lord had left him, but he really felt that God was gone. There are times when you may have a moment where you don't believe God even has time for you anymore, because you will feel that you have done things that are so horrific to him. The devil beating you down, making you feel some type of way, trying to let you know you didn't go and pray for this one, you didn't let that one, oh, we need this, we need that. You didn't let that one convince you to waste the anointing on them when he said no. And if you were to have meeting set up for the next week, a tech meeting, or even just to go over to different sites where you would hold some type of meeting, they wouldn't even show up to receive their healing. But they'll come stand around you and watch you and try to reach over. Hi, how are you? And oh, let me get that for you. Stop doing it because you're doing something bad to yourself, it's not yours, and the ones who are supposed to receive it, the ones who tried to take it, they see that person be blessed. Yours could have been right around. The corner and it wouldn't have been from me, and it might have, and it might have been just from the lady when I walked up. She was right behind me. I've had it when they when I turn around, you breathing and sucking up my air.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:14

Like, go sit down. Troubling you all night long. Well, you should have been going on somewhere. I listened to them.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:31

This is oh gosh, I had so much pain in my body. Do you know if I pray for your pain and God has not ordained it and said I can I should pray for you, lay hands on you, and touch you? The devil uses it. Well, it will come inside of me. Hell no, I ain't letting you do that to me. Because I have done it before. You feel hard and in your heart, you feel bad. Your sympathy, the empathy, I'm not going through that. He said, Winifer, you're not to pray for that one like that. No, you're not. You can't pray for everyone. Not when you have his healing invested inside of you. Because when you pray for some and you can feel sorry for them, even if they're, man, please, that can jump off of them onto you. And I'm not here to convince you. It ain't happening to me no more. I declare and decree it in Jesus' name. All right, y'all stay blessed. God bless us all. In the mighty name of Jesus. God, I ask. Amen.