God Is Spirit—So Are We (Part 2)1
The Image of Yahweh, the Inner Person, and the Renewing of the Mind
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What if the most significant part of spiritual transformation is not what changes around us, but what Yahweh patiently uncovers and renews within us? Beginning with Yeshua’s words to the Samaritan woman, this teaching explores God's image, the inner person, inherited wounds, false beliefs, and the life that becomes possible when the Spirit brings hidden places into the light.
This full-length narrative adaptation follows the complete English subtitle recording, including opening worship and intercession, the sermon, the closing prayer, additional reflections, and the extensive conversation afterward. It smooths spoken and automatic-caption phrasing without presenting uncertain reconstructions as verbatim speech. The complete, unedited SRT cue record appears in a collapsible appendix below; interpretations and personal claims remain attributed to the people speaking rather than independently endorsed.
A work God has always intended to do within us
The message opens in mid-thought, with a conviction that becomes the foundation for everything that follows: Yahweh never intended His precepts to be carried out merely by human striving. His desire, even from the beginning, was to accomplish His work through us. The point is not that His instructions have simply been removed or done away with. Rather, He wants to bring His word, His Torah, to life within His people. The familiar declaration, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,” becomes an invitation to read the Torah differently: not as a contest of human strength, but as the place where the Lord Himself teaches and transforms us.
The speaker warns that even an earnest attempt to do what is right can be driven by our own motives. We try to fix things, strive harder, and act as though our effort will accomplish what God wants to accomplish in us. Yet He is calling us to allow His Spirit to do the inner work. Instead of simply insisting that we already know what the text means, we can approach it as the disciples approached Yeshua: “What does this mean?” We can ask for wisdom, understanding, and a heart willing to be circumcised by the truth.
The opening exhortation turns directly into a prayer: “Lord, explain to me. Give me understanding. Help me seek Your wisdom. Let it circumcise my heart today.” The longing is not merely to learn information from another person, but to recognize Yahweh as our teacher and to let the word He speaks actually govern the heart. The prayer ends with “Amen,” preparing the way for worship.
Worship, clean hands, and the King of Glory
A long interval of worship follows. Some singing in the subtitle record is badly distorted by automatic transcription, so the lyrics cannot all be reconstructed with confidence. What is clear is the repeated cry for God's will to be done: an appeal that the soul awaken to His will, His plans, and His desires, so that He will be pleased. The language turns to the question of who may ascend the mountain of Adonai and stand in His holy place.
The worshipers draw on the language of Psalm 24: clean hands, pure hearts, freedom from vanity and deceit, blessing and righteousness from the God who saves, and the people who seek His face. Gates and everlasting doors are summoned to rise so the glorious King may enter. The question returns: Who is this King of Glory? The answer celebrates Adonai as strong and mighty, mighty in battle. The moment becomes both an act of praise and an appeal: “Give us clean hands, O Lord; give us pure hearts.”
Another fragment praises God's faithfulness as being like a mighty mountain. Even where the captioning of the sung words is uncertain, the movement of the gathering is unmistakable: from the desire for personal holiness, to the welcome of the King of Glory, to confidence in His power and faithfulness. These themes will return later when the congregation prays, and again when the sermon asks what it really means to express the character of the God we worship.
A call to intercede for Haiti
Before the main teaching begins, a speaker interrupts the ordinary flow of worship to share what the congregation has reportedly heard that morning. The announcement concerns an alleged effort involving El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, soldiers, and a mission to confront gangs and rescue people in Haiti. The speaker describes the gangs in spiritual terms and speaks of witchcraft, oppression, and the desire for deliverance. These are claims made in the gathering; the subtitle recording does not establish that the reported military operation actually occurred. The faithful way to preserve this part of the message is as an urgent call to prayer, not as an independently verified news account.
The congregation is encouraged to stand with people in danger and to pray that any soldiers involved will be protected, that victims will be rescued, and that those living under violence will be free. The speaker views the situation through the biblical pattern of threatened peoples and the God who acts for them. Human strength is not the final hope. The prayer is that the Lord Himself will go before those involved, defeat wickedness, and receive the glory.
The call is intense and emphatic. There is a repeated insistence that the people should not remain spectators: they should stand, intercede, and ask God to preserve lives. In the original conversation, the language is also martial, including calls for the enemy's defeat and statements about Satanic forces. The spiritual interpretation belongs to the participants; what can be stated without qualification is that they gathered to pray for protection, rescue, freedom, and God's intervention in a crisis they believed was unfolding.
The shofar, the prayers, and David before Goliath
One participant is asked to sound the shofar as a sign of the gathering's unity in prayer. The prayers address the Father in the name of Yeshua and appeal for the people of Haiti to be delivered from gangs and oppression. They ask that soldiers not be harmed, that the land be cleansed of violence and evil, and that the Lord make His name known. The prayers speak of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador; of corruption, political evil, spilled blood, fear, spiritual powers, and the Lord's banner over the land. The language is devotional, and certain parts are difficult to decipher exactly from the subtitles.
“Father, we thank You. We praise You for what You are doing. Let the sound of Your Spirit go to the nations. Deliver the people who are being held under violence and let them know You are God. Protect those who go to help them. Let those who come back from this struggle return safely. Cleanse what has been made unclean; bring an end to oppression, to witchcraft, to evil, and to the spilling of blood. Be our banner, Lord. Let Your name be exalted.” This is a close narrative rendering of the requests voiced in several overlapping prayers rather than a claim to be a verbatim continuous prayer.
The congregation returns to the King-of-Glory language of Psalm 24. The earth is the Lord's and everything in it; nothing is too hard for Him; Adonai is strong and mighty in battle. They pray for courage, for warriors not to be overcome by fear, and for discernment, drawing an analogy with Gideon's army. A speaker imagines God's purpose becoming visible not merely through governments or political structures, but through the work of His Spirit in His people. A passing comment about the name El Salvador, “the Savior,” is treated by the speaker as a meaningful irony in the moment.
The final biblical illustration in this prayer sequence comes from 1 Samuel 17. David confronts Goliath, who appears with sword and spear, but David comes in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel's armies. The participant applies that image to what they regard as spiritual darkness in Haiti. As the caption fragments move in and out of worship, the clear principle is this: deliverance ultimately belongs to Yahweh, not to a sword or spear. The group wishes to see Him honored rather than to glorify human force. Other remarks about Haiti's political history and named public figures are difficult to verify from the recording and remain attributed claims, not established facts.
Worship must become a relationship, not merely a gathering
After a few practical comments about cameras, sound, and the time needed to find a Bible passage, the preacher thanks the congregation for its worship. What made the singing beautiful, he explains, was not simply the music. When people express the lyrics from their hearts, the words enter the mind, the heart, and the spirit. Worship becomes a place of intimacy, as though it is the worshiper and God alone, bringing Him glory. It is a movement beyond performance into relationship.
The preacher recalls the previous week's message, “God Is Spirit, So Are We,” which arose from Yeshua's conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well. He had known that story as a biblical narrative, but the Lord had been pressing him to hear it at a deeper level. The woman repeatedly approached Yeshua's words through the framework of her immediate questions and religious expectations, while Yeshua was revealing something deeper about the Father. The preacher sees a contemporary parallel: people can answer religious questions and follow the words of a conversation without allowing those words to become revelation in the heart.
He remembers hearing the testimony of a woman with a beautiful singing voice. She visited a church, joined the singing, and within several weeks was invited to serve in the choir. She joined the fellowship, followed the expectations of church life, and considered herself a Christian because she belonged to that community. Yet after some three years she came to recognize a painful difference between serving a religious gathering and knowing God personally. According to the account he heard, she described an encounter with God, deliverance from demonic oppression, and finally an understanding of her own identity, character, and purpose. The preacher does not offer the testimony as a general rule about everyone who serves in church. He uses it to warn that ministry activity and the experience of spiritual rebirth are not interchangeable.
That is why he resists rushing. He expects the teaching to unfold over several installments, perhaps four, because the subject cannot be reduced to an uplifting sermon. He wants his listeners to examine what has actually taken root in them, rather than hearing another familiar phrase and moving on. The aim is to know who God is and who we have become in relation to Him.
The foundation from the previous message
Before moving farther, the preacher revisits the foundational points from the preceding teaching. First is John 4:24: Yahweh is Spirit. His nature cannot be reduced to what the eye can see, or to a physical representation. To understand spiritual truth we must learn to look beyond appearance. Second is Genesis 1:26–27 and 2:7: humanity was formed in Yahweh's image and likeness; Adam was made from dust and received the breath of life. The preacher says he will return later to the meaning of that breath and to the distinction he sees between human beings who bear the created image and those in whom new spiritual life has begun.
Third comes the inner person: our thoughts, motives, intentions, desires, decisions, attitudes, emotions, and behavior. Character is expressed through what we think, say, feel, choose, and do. The essential question is not whether we have these human capacities, but what governs them. Fourth, the Spirit of God works within believers to transform them; they need not remain under the domination of fleshly desires. To be led by the Spirit is to submit one's thinking, choices, and conduct to Yahweh.
Fifth is adoption, which the preacher connects to Romans 8:15–16. God's Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are His children. The goal is not to become God but to live in fellowship with Him and reflect His character. Sixth is humanity's fall and its need for restoration, connected to Romans 12:2. Sin disrupted our relationship with Yahweh and distorted how His character was expressed in life. Through Yeshua, reconciliation and renewal are possible, but the new inner person needs nurturing, just as a newborn child needs instruction and care.
The final points concern the danger of becoming comfortable with religion, and the need to see through the eyes of the Spirit. Familiarity with Scripture and religious performance are not sufficient evidence of inward transformation. The preacher recalls Yeshua's teaching that people are known by their fruit: what has happened in us becomes visible in how we live. Maturity increasingly reflects righteousness, love, holiness, and truth.
A slide the preacher has prepared shows stages or areas of restoration, supported by biblical passages. He stresses that it is not merely a diagram of the human brain or a scientific exercise; it is a tool for identifying areas in which hearts and minds need to be reshaped by God's word. A restored character takes purpose, desire, and sustained motivation. That motivation, he insists, must come from revelation of the word, not merely from intellectual ambition or an impressive spiritual presentation.
A prayer for the Spirit to uncover what is hidden
The preacher pauses for prayer before the main continuation of the teaching. He hopes that what is about to be spoken will enlighten understanding, encourage the congregation, and give deeper wisdom. The word of God does not always flatter us; it chisels away at things we do not like and even at things whose presence we had never recognized. Under its light we may have to say, “Lord, I did not know this was in me.”
The prayer begins in humility: “Heavenly Father, we humble our hearts on this day You have given us. We live in the world but are not of it. Even when the systems of this world strive against Your purposes, You have not abandoned what You have prepared.” The preacher prays for the Holy Spirit to make visible the image and likeness God gave humanity, and for a deeper understanding of what sin disrupted and what the Son has brought back to life.
He asks for the veil over the heart to be removed, for steps of victory, and for the inner person to be nurtured by the Spirit. “Let Your word take deep root in our hearts and our minds. Let Your Spirit bear witness within us. Open our eyes to see beyond what outward appearances can show.” The prayer confronts, in the language of the gathering, lies and strongholds attributed to the enemy. It asks that hidden bondage be broken, hearts healed, and God's purposes revealed, so that the people around these believers may see the life of God expressed through them. The congregation answers with “Amen” and praise.
God is Spirit: the Samaritan woman and the visible substitute
“God is Spirit, so are we.” The preacher repeats the title slowly because he knows it can easily be misunderstood. His purpose is to awaken the congregation to what Yeshua reveals about the Father. God is not an object that must be held, touched, and examined to give us confidence. The preacher recalls Israel in the wilderness. After Moses went up the mountain and the people could no longer see him, they demanded a tangible substitute and made a calf. They wanted something visible to lead them and to reassure them that they were secure.
That impulse, he suggests, remains with us. When we cannot see or touch something, we may be tempted to build something that makes us feel secure. But if we misunderstand the One we worship, we will also misunderstand the kind of character He intends to form in us. Yahweh has not denied His people the privilege of knowing Him; He has given them the privilege of coming to understand and express His character.
The preacher asks for John 4:24 to be read aloud again. The Samaritan woman could be studied from many angles—her relationships, her religious background, her social circumstances, her questions about worship. But the preacher chooses to concentrate on what Yeshua said to her. The woman's life and questions matter, yet it is Yeshua's revelation of the Father that provides the foundation. A participant reads the statement that God is Spirit and that those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. The preacher calls this a profound disclosure, asking his listeners to hear it anew rather than moving past a well-known verse.
Worship in spirit and truth is more than a religious act
The preacher asks what it means when Yeshua says we must worship in spirit and truth. Our immediate answer may be to describe a prayer meeting, a song, or a church service. Yet he asks his hearers to recognize that worship also unfolds in the ordinary conversations they have with brothers and sisters, and still more deeply in the intimacy and character of a life with God. “In spirit and truth” is not simply a command to feel spiritual during a designated moment. It challenges us to know the Father whose name we speak.
He compares this to his relationship with his wife. Before marriage, he needed time with her. He had to listen, come to understand her character and habits, learn what she desired, and recognize what would please her. The same relational principle, he says, matters when we claim to worship Yahweh. We cannot reduce knowing Him to knowing facts about Him. We must allow His word to form our understanding of His character, His desires, and the life that pleases Him.
This sends the teaching back to the beginning. If we do not understand what Yahweh intended by making humanity in His image and likeness, it will be difficult to grasp why He seeks worshipers who approach Him in spirit and truth. The preacher argues that the original spiritual relationship was broken and must be restored. He is not saying that the outward features of human beings ceased to exist; he is trying to explore what happened to their fellowship with God and their expression of His character.
Image, likeness, and dominion: what were we made to express?
Genesis 1:26–27 is read aloud. Humanity is made in God's image and likeness and entrusted with dominion over the creatures of the sea, sky, and land. The preacher emphasizes that dominion must not be mistaken for mere physical control or a license to manipulate others. True dominion involves wisdom and an understanding of truth: knowing how to act in line with the purposes of the One who created us.
He turns to Hebrew terminology, explaining tselem (image or representation) and demuth (likeness or resemblance), with references to Strong's numbers H6754 and H1823 as he presents them. The point of the word study is not to settle every scholarly question about the image of God. His own argument is that because “God is Spirit,” we must look beyond a merely visible likeness to the spiritual and relational dimensions of God's image. When the text says humanity was created to resemble and represent Him, what did He intend human life to express?
The preacher describes humanity as created to reflect God's character, but says the fall disrupted that expression. In his account, Adam and Eve's disobedience did not mean they physically vanished. Rather, their intimacy with God, responsiveness to His word, and expression of His character were progressively damaged as they walked apart from Him and followed fleshly desires. That is the theological interpretation offered in this message; the preacher invites listeners to follow its implications rather than treating the account merely as an ancient story.
He repeats a key sentence to make sure it is heard: the question is not merely what humanity looked like when it was created, but what Yahweh intended humanity to represent and express. The relevance comes immediately. “If we were created to reflect the character of Yahweh, then we must ask ourselves: what has been shaping the character we express today?” The rest of the teaching will circle that question—through the memories of childhood, family patterns, emotions, fear, shame, deception, and the renewing work of the Spirit.
The newborn inner person must be nurtured
The preacher says life experience can shape how we see ourselves, how we relate to others, how we understand our value, and how we respond to the world. A painful event may be over, yet its influence can continue through the beliefs and reactions it leaves behind. Without discernment, he says, wounds, fear, and circumstances can become opportunities for the enemy to distort how God's image is expressed in our character.
At this point he returns to what Christians mean by being “born again.” He compares the newborn inner person to an actual infant. A baby cannot dress itself, feed itself, make mature decisions, or understand everything it sees. It must be nurtured and instructed. In the preacher's teaching, the same is true when someone comes to faith through Yeshua: a new spiritual life has awakened, but that life still needs the word of God to shape and train it.
He distinguishes the human body and the breath of life from the inward renewal he believes comes through an encounter with Christ. He draws on Nicodemus, who knew religious teaching but struggled to understand Yeshua's words about new birth. The preacher's warning is pointed: religious literacy can coexist with spiritual immaturity. We need more than the ability to discuss the law; we need to become people whose choices, attitudes, and relationships reflect the character of the One we have encountered.
The preacher's childhood: the patterns we absorb without noticing
The message becomes deeply personal. The preacher explains that his father struggled with alcoholism and that his childhood home carried many problems, pains, and unresolved wounds. As a child he saw what adults did long before he understood why they did it. He saw drinking at parties and gatherings, people celebrating together, and behaviors that were treated as normal. There was not always a parent or another adult explaining which actions were harmful or what they would do to a family.
Children learn from the atmosphere around them. If something happens repeatedly and is never challenged, a child may absorb it as simply the way life works. In the preacher's experience, patterns shaped by his father's drinking and by conflicts within the family followed him into adulthood. He says these inherited reactions later caused trouble in his own marriage. He identifies the experience spiritually as generational bondage from which God needed to bring deliverance, while also describing its very concrete means: imitation, unexamined habits, pain, and a lack of instruction.
He gives a small, searching example. Someone may speak sharply to a spouse or treat a son harshly without recognizing that the reaction comes from a wound carried for years. The behavior feels familiar, almost automatic, because it has become part of an old pattern. “Where did that come from?” is therefore a spiritual question and a practical question. The preacher wants his listeners to be willing to trace their responses back to what shaped them and to ask whether those responses belong to the character of Christ.
He returns to Genesis 2:7: the Lord formed humanity from the dust and breathed into the man the breath of life, so the man became a living being. The speaker uses the Hebrew term nephesh for the living soul or living being. As living beings we remember, feel, think, decide, make relationships, and interpret our experiences. That capacity is part of what makes the wounds of a life so lasting: an event affects not just what we remember, but sometimes how we understand ourselves.
Words that become beliefs; betrayal that becomes expectation
Consider a child who repeatedly hears, “You are worthless,” “You are incapable,” or “You are unwanted.” At first those may be words spoken by another person. Over time, the child may begin to believe them. The child grows up, yet still seeks approval, fears rejection, doubts personal worth, or feels compelled to prove that love must be earned. The preacher dwells on this transformation from hearing words to living under their power. The real danger is not only a bad memory, but an identity shaped around a lie.
He offers another example: betrayal by someone who was supposed to be safe. When a parent, spouse, close friend, or authority figure violates trust, the effects can travel into future relationships. A person may struggle to trust those who are trustworthy, to feel safe in intimacy, or to distinguish a new situation from an old danger. The preacher refers to betrayal trauma theory and an academic researcher whose name is garbled in the subtitles; the recording appears to be referring to work associated with Jennifer Freyd at the University of Oregon. This scholarly reference is reported as the speaker's illustration, rather than presented as a verified quotation from a study.
His essential point is that the mind may not merely remember the betrayal; it may begin to expect betrayal. This expectation affects how ordinary interactions are interpreted. The preacher sees the enemy's work in the exploitation of such pain and connects it to the biblical description of the thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. That does not mean every psychological effect of trauma can be attributed to a single spiritual cause. The preacher himself later qualifies that not every wound and struggle comes directly from the enemy. Here he is stressing that pain should not be allowed to become the final authority over a person's identity.
He connects the subject with the biblical call to teach children the Torah while they are young. A child needs more than outward rules; a child needs an understanding of God's character to grow into. He also evokes Job, who knew about God and performed religious duties but came to describe knowing Him differently through suffering and encounter. Spiritual growth, the preacher says, means moving from simply repeating what we have heard to recognizing God's truth personally, from one degree of maturity to another.
The wound is not the same as the identity
Years of criticism, rejection, emotional pain, or fear can form habits of insecurity and self-protection. The preacher insists, however, that these habits are not the original image and likeness in which the person was created. They are wounds and patterns that need to be brought into the light of God's truth. Some wounds begin in another person's action; the beliefs that develop around those wounds can continue long after the original event has passed. Those are two different things, and the distinction matters.
He gives examples of the language in which false identity takes root: “I am unworthy.” “I cannot trust anyone.” “I will never be enough.” Each sentence can influence choices, confidence, relationships, and a sense of purpose. The speaker worries especially about what happens when believers continue to carry these beliefs unquestioned, even while affirming the truth of God's word. The enemy's objective, he argues, is not merely to cause a painful moment, but to distort how the image of God is expressed through the life of a child of God.
The remedy he begins to unfold is not denial of the pain. The wound must be recognized. But its interpretation must also be examined. Through Yeshua, and through the Torah shaping the mind, people can learn to recognize both the wound and the false message attached to it. The preacher believes that this is how they begin to exercise the responsibility and authority God intended humanity to have: living not by automatic fear or inherited shame, but by the truth that renews their understanding.
Training for the battle: fear, survival, and daily Scripture
Many believers have experienced a familiar moment: they read a passage they have read before, and suddenly something becomes clear. The text seems to open another layer of understanding. The preacher sees this as the Spirit awakening the inner person. The new understanding is not simply an interesting insight; it equips the believer for something ahead—patience that will be needed, faith that will be tested, a pattern that must be changed, or a moment requiring courage.
Fear is a vivid illustration. The preacher describes a drowning person who panics and grabs so desperately at a rescuer that both may be pulled underwater. What was meant to save becomes endangered by the uncontrolled reaction of fear. The image is deliberately physical, but he uses it to explain something spiritual: fear can overpower discernment, narrow our choices, and threaten a person's future. He recalls the scriptural assurance that God has not given His people a spirit of fear.
This is why the word must be encountered consistently. The preacher does not want his hearers to check off five or ten minutes and assume their hearts have been trained. He wants them to listen, to ask what the Spirit is saying, and to remain with the truth until it changes how they respond. He compares the disciple to a soldier being prepared for battle. No soldier is simply handed a weapon and sent into danger without learning how to use it, how to protect himself, and even how to survive if his ordinary equipment fails.
Similarly, the Christian life involves preparation. The preacher recalls the apostolic teaching that the struggle is not against flesh and blood. A person needs discernment, maturity, and practiced attention to the truth, not merely the excitement of belonging to an army. His call is not to fight other people, but to recognize how fear, deception, and old habits shape the heart and to be equipped to resist them.
From a painful experience to a deeply rooted belief
The preacher reduces the process to a memorable progression: a wound can influence a belief; a belief can shape inner understanding; and inner understanding can influence the character we express. He repeats the thought because it is the practical hinge of the entire message. Someone who repeatedly heard from parents that they would never amount to anything might no longer consciously remember every incident. Yet they may keep abandoning jobs, opportunities, or responsibilities because they already assume success belongs to somebody else. The old message is still choosing for them.
A person can be blessed with an opportunity and still hear an inward accusation: “You cannot do that.” “That is not for you.” “You will fail.” Shame, self-doubt, and an expectation of rejection keep the person from seeing what might have been possible. The preacher calls for the congregation to recognize these patterns before they become permanent interpretations of life. He is not promising that faith eliminates every difficulty, but asking whether decisions are being made through the truth of God or through wounds that have never been brought into the light.
He makes an explicit qualification: not every wound, suffering, or human struggle should be attributed directly to the enemy. Nevertheless, he believes Scripture describes an actual spiritual battle and an adversary who works through deception and temptation. He points to John 10:10 to describe the enemy's destructive intention, then repeats the idea that evil seeks to corrupt character and hinder the expression of God's image. The focus is not simply the wound itself, but how the wound can be exploited to establish a destructive view of self and of others.
For this reason, Romans 12:2—the renewing of the mind—becomes central. The word and the transforming work of the Spirit can bring what has been distorted back toward God's purpose. The preacher reads or has someone read 2 Corinthians 11:3, where Paul fears that minds may be led astray by deception from sincere devotion to Christ. He emphasizes minds: the struggle concerns what people believe, how they interpret what they see, and what they accept as true.
He describes the inner person as the meeting place of mind, will, and emotion, where God's Spirit brings His word to remembrance and makes it understood. That work produces an awareness of Yahweh, a renewed reverence for Him, and a desire to fulfill His purposes. In the preacher's account, the Spirit does not simply offer an unrelated message; He brings into focus the truth believers have been receiving and learning. That is why reading the Torah and allowing it to become part of the heart are essential to growth.
The mind's patterns and the reactions we inherit
As the allotted time runs short, the preacher brings up another slide. The recording suggests that the slide depicts the brain and categories connected with thought, emotion, memory, and behavior, along with biblical passages about renewal. The image itself is not contained in the SRT, so its exact appearance cannot be reproduced. The preacher's explanation, however, is clear: both his study of human experience and his reading of Scripture have drawn his attention to the patterns stored in the mind.
He returns to Adam before the breath of life and reflects on the faculties of a living soul: thought, feeling, memory, emotional response, and choice. He remarks that God Himself displays character and even a sense of humor. The point is that the inner life is not a small, detachable part of discipleship. Memories of abuse or mistreatment may remain deeply influential even when no physical scar is visible. We may carry memories in ways that shape how we view others and react in moments of pressure.
He contrasts worldly attempts to reshape the human mind with the profound transformation he believes the Spirit brings. Some claims about rehabilitation and psychological treatment in this portion are broad and should be understood as the preacher's viewpoint, not as settled scientific conclusions. His spiritual claim is that techniques alone cannot replace reconciliation with God and the renewal of one's deepest desires. The familiar promise that knowing the truth will make us free is therefore not, for him, simply an intellectual slogan. Freedom means deliverance from patterns of fear, enslavement, and shame that have taken possession of our reactions.
An incident of anger may expose an inherited pattern. He has sometimes looked back on his own reaction and thought, “That was my father.” He learned by watching, and later he found himself teaching to the next generation what he had absorbed as a child. He describes this as the movement from being a student in childhood to being a teacher in adulthood—often without even knowing what we are passing on. The word of God, he insists, is needed to expose what has remained hidden and to nurture the new inner person until the mind of Christ is expressed more clearly.
The preacher does not want to rush into all the possible wounds and remedies in a single morning. He wants every person to sit before God and ask Him to reveal something they may not yet be able to see. His repeated counsel is to read, listen, pray, reflect, and allow the Spirit to work patiently and deeply, not only at the level of outward religious habits.
“Search my heart”: David, Absalom, and what a family passes on
The preacher brings up King David's prayer that God would search his heart. Why would a man described as being after God's heart still need to be searched? Because there were things in his life and in his family that he did not fully see. The preacher points to David's children and to the story of Absalom. He recalls the terrible wrong done to Absalom's sister, the anger and pain that followed, and the destructive consequences within that household. His question is not merely what happened in the royal family, but what remained unaddressed and was passed forward.
He asks the congregation to read Scripture as people who may face similar responsibilities. What would I do as a father? What would I do as a mother? If I had authority like a king, would I also care well for my children? Religious achievements and a public calling do not cancel the responsibility to notice wounds in a family. The same God who calls us to serve Him calls us to listen when the people entrusted to us are hurting.
The preacher refuses to define believers by their broken past. “You are not just any common person,” he tells them. They are newborn children being shaped for Yahweh's pleasure and purpose. He recalls Paul's description of running the race and fighting the good fight. In this teaching, the daily battle includes the renewing of the mind: choosing not to allow old patterns, fear, or ignorance to rule what we believe. When illness strikes someone we love, when anxiety grows, or when we are tempted to despair, the old inner struggles can make it difficult to cling to the promises of God. He attributes some of these struggles to a lack of knowledge and urges the congregation to keep learning.
He also urges conversation. Sit down with a brother or sister, with a spouse, with a friend, and speak about what the Lord has shown you. He describes how discussing Scripture with his wife has opened additional layers of understanding. She may see something he did not see, and together they begin to recognize a fuller picture. This is not merely solitary intellectual work; members of the body of Christ help one another hear, discern, and grow.
His closing question brings the sermon into sharp focus: If we were created in Yahweh's image and likeness, what happens when fear, wounds, and deception shape our thinking? How does the renewing of our mind enable us to walk in His truth? It is a question each listener must answer in lived experience, not only in a notebook. He ends this part of the message rather than rushing into the next installment.
Shadows disappear when the light falls on them
Before the closing prayer, the preacher explains why he has approached the morning as a teaching rather than an exciting sermon with a quick emotional conclusion. It is easy to hear a powerful message and leave saying, “What a great word.” It is harder to let the truth uncover what has been concealed in our own lives. During study, fasting, prayer, and quietness, he says, God has shown him things he did not know were still there.
His own life could fill a book. He speaks again of childhood pain, patterns he once thought normal, and behaviors that affected his sons and family. He does not pretend that every consequence disappeared overnight. Rather, he thanks Yahweh for grace that removes layer after layer. Sometimes a reflection, a memory, or an old response reveals another place where the heart needs healing. The reason the church needs one another is that “iron sharpens iron”: believers can help each other recognize the truth and be shaped by it.
He chooses a visual image from the room: shadows. A shadow can look like something substantial, but when the light shines directly upon the object and changes the conditions, the shadow changes or disappears. In the same way, he describes old wounds and inherited patterns as “shadows” from the past. They cannot be properly understood while they remain in darkness. The light of God's word must expose them. The response should not be public humiliation, but a desire for freedom: “Lord, show me what is in my heart. I don't want to hide it out of shame. I want the image of You to be expressed in my life.”
The preacher invites everyone to stand and pray openly. They need not manufacture a dramatic experience. They can simply ask Yahweh to show them what has not yet come to light, and to lead them into the truth rather than into self-condemnation. The challenge is to become free to love and serve, not to become obsessed with the wounds themselves.
Closing prayer: let the light of Your truth reach the hidden places
The closing prayer is personal and communal. The preacher praises the Father and asks Him to search the secret regions of the heart. He prays that God will expose what is hidden day after day, because things left untouched have harmed not only the person carrying them but also the people around them. “You deserve more than the worship of my lips,” he prays in substance. “You deserve my life as a living sacrifice.”
“Father, every one of us has come through challenges, wounds, pain, and lies. Yet You are greater. Your Son died on the cross; Your love and Your purpose are greater than what has held us captive. Let the light of truth shine in the hearts of my brothers and sisters. Expose every lie that tells them they are unworthy. Let Your word bring freedom. Let Your life be expressed in them.” The captions include a forceful prayer against Satan, deception, and thoughts that exalt themselves against God's purposes. The preacher calls upon Yeshua's name to break spiritual strongholds and for the people to leave with greater joy and freedom.
He does not close by declaring that everyone is now completely healed. Rather, he blesses the congregation to continue growing, learning, and sharing the love being shown to them. The group responds with “Amen.” He adds that there is more to uncover and that the series will continue. The message has concluded, but the conversation has not; the real-life experiences people share immediately afterward carry the sermon from instruction into testimony.
Additional reflections: pain, stress, sickness, and old responses
While the gathering is still together, the preacher reflects on other situations in which trauma can have long-reaching effects. He mentions sexual violence and the fear that a survivor might carry into later relationships and even into questions about having children. He speaks of psychological and bodily responses to stress and suggests that hidden pain may help explain why people react so strongly to certain circumstances. These sensitive examples are raised to illustrate his concern for healing; they should not be taken as a diagnosis of any survivor or as proof of a single physical mechanism.
He recalls an article he and his wife read about a pastor who had a very large stone removed from his intestine. As the preacher recounts it, a doctor connected the problem to resentment, bitterness, and stress. The medical causation claimed in that story cannot be established from the SRT and is preserved here as an anecdote, not medical advice or a verified explanation for such a condition. What the preacher is trying to communicate is that accumulated distress can be deeply consequential and that believers should take hidden suffering seriously.
He then describes a striking difference in himself: in one area he may speak courageously to someone else and strengthen their faith, while in another area he feels weak. His own difficulty tolerating pain made him question why he could encourage others but struggle to believe when the pain was his. During prayer and reflection, he came to connect some of those reactions with childhood suffering. That awareness did not mean he could claim complete healing. He says explicitly that he is still seeking it. He wants to continue learning, praying, and allowing the word to address his fear.
There is also the memory of bitterness toward his father. He recounts looking in a mirror and being shown something of his father's image in his own face and reactions. That experience brought a recognition of a wound he had not understood. His practical conclusion returns to the earlier prayer: ask Yahweh, “Show me my heart. Show me what is holding me back.” He believes God can reveal things over time and that the discovery itself can be a stage in the process, not the end of the process.
The choices we make: family stewardship and a car purchase
The preacher again returns to David as a husband and father. Being called by God, even being recognized as a man after God's heart, did not remove David's responsibilities at home. The preacher asks what it would mean to obey more fully: to consider one's children, to address harm, and to allow God's word to govern decisions before those decisions produce avoidable pain.
He offers an ordinary example from his own marriage. When his wife needed a car, he thought he knew what the sensible choice was. He wanted to go to New Hampshire and pursue a particular option. His wife was persuaded that the Lord was leading in another direction and held to that conviction. The result, as the preacher tells it, challenged his assumptions. He says God “embarrassed” him—not to crush him with shame, but to reveal that his confident way of thinking was not the final authority.
There is nothing inherently wrong with making plans, he explains later, but planning must be surrendered to God. People can choose what seems normal, familiar, or efficient and then discover that they had not really listened. The preacher is grateful for such correction because it teaches humility and maturity. The observation opens the door to the longer discussion that follows: sometimes what prevents transformation is not only an old habit, but guilt or shame at the thought of having that habit exposed.
The Conversation That Followed
The congregation continues the teaching through stories of marriage, childhood, shame, trust, vulnerability, Scripture, family patterns, and a difficult evening involving a child and an important work meeting. Where names or voices are unclear, this narrative identifies them by their roles rather than guessing.
The conversation that followed: when revelation feels like condemnation
A woman begins by observing that one of the greatest obstacles to change is the sense of guilt and shame. When God reveals an old wound—whether through our own thoughts, prayer, or the words of another person—we may assume He is showing it to punish or condemn us. She argues for the opposite interpretation: He is bringing the problem to light so we can be released from it and move forward.
She tells the gathering that she recently shared something with Amanda that she had not yet found time to tell even her husband. As she reflected on the teaching, she had asked the Lord why, in earlier years, she felt compelled to pretend that her husband was wonderful while she was actually living through his alcoholism, mistreatment, and abuse. She makes clear that she is describing a past season, not trying to diminish him in the present.
The shame had shaped how she behaved with colleagues and acquaintances. Her husband might drink, act harmfully, and then send flowers to her workplace the following day. Coworkers saw the flowers and envied what they assumed was a caring marriage: “I wish I had a husband like that.” She would affirm their misunderstanding, saying he was wonderful, even though the public picture was hiding real pain. The speaker wanted to know why she had learned to do that—why concealing harm had felt so normal.
A childhood memory of sheets, debt, and the command to lie
As she sat in the backyard thinking about that question, the woman says the Holy Spirit brought a vivid image or vision to her mind. She saw herself as a small child with her brother and sister, while her mother was hanging newly washed sheets outside. The family had no washing machine; the sheets were washed by hand and hung to dry. She recalls being perhaps five years old, with her siblings also still young. The exact ages and names are not fully clear in the subtitle record, and her telling moves between what she saw and what she later understood.
Her mother had bought the sheets from a man who sold them on credit, but had not yet been able to pay what she owed. When she realized the seller was coming to collect, she told her son to say she was not at home. The child repeated the instruction too literally: in substance, “My mother says she isn't here.” The man realized that he was being deceived, became angry, went toward the backyard, and confronted the mother. The scene turned frightening and chaotic for the children. Her mother was upset and ashamed; the younger children cried, and no one explained afterward what had actually happened.
What the little girl carried away was not the adult context of poverty, unpaid bills, and desperation. She heard a parent instruct a child to tell an untruth, and she learned that hiding and lying might be necessary ways to protect oneself and one's family. Years later, in her own troubled marriage, that lesson resurfaced: when something humiliating happened, she hid it. She pretended everything was fine and told neither her relatives nor her coworkers what was going on.
She describes crying when the childhood scene became clear to her. It was a moment of repentance and relief, but also of compassion for her mother. As an adult she could finally understand that her mother was desperate, that her father also had problems with alcohol, and that the family lacked the resources and emotional space to explain such a frightening moment to young children. Her mother did not intend to teach a lifelong habit of secrecy, but an unexplained childhood experience had become a rule by which the daughter lived.
The testimony gives vivid personal form to the preacher's central progression: an event becomes an interpretation; an interpretation becomes an inner belief; an inner belief becomes a pattern of character. The woman says she had never recognized that connection before. She had carried shame and protected the appearance of a happy marriage without knowing why exposure felt so dangerous. What the Lord showed her, she believes, was not a reason for condemnation but a path toward healing.
The women's gathering where secrecy finally broke
She then recalls an earlier turning point, after she returned to the Lord and joined a women's ministry at a church where she was still new. The group was led by a woman whom she remembers as the mother of a person named in the subtitles. The women were sharing stories of difficulty, hardship, and deeply personal pain. The visitor was astonished by their openness. She could hardly imagine speaking of the same things in front of women she barely knew.
When the leader invited her to share, she initially said she had nothing to say. The conversation continued around the circle, and woman after woman spoke honestly. Their willingness to be vulnerable challenged her assumptions about what would happen if painful realities came out into the open. Near the end, the leader returned gently to her, without pressure, and said the opportunity was still there. This time she began speaking.
Once she started, she found that years of concealed experience came pouring out—what had happened with her husband, what had happened with her children, what she had endured, and what she had never dared tell her relatives. She expected judgment or embarrassment. Instead the women listened with compassion. They gathered around her, embraced her, prayed for her, and shared some of their own experiences so she would know she was not alone.
For her, that day represented freedom from the bondage of hiding. She had feared that speaking would turn her into an object of condemnation, much as her mother had once been publicly humiliated in the backyard. Instead she found care and prayer. She says the experience was among the most important days of her life and that she had lived with that secrecy for roughly twenty years. The memory of the women's circle helps her understand the childhood vision: the Lord had been teaching her, over time, that what was hidden could be brought into the light in a safe and healing way.
She encourages husbands and wives to speak with one another, not to keep every pain locked away, and to invite God to show them what is still concealed. She acknowledges that being a Christian does not mean every old wound is already visible or healed. In her account, growth happens in stages: first knowing the Lord, then allowing His word to reveal things that could not yet be faced. She does not present disclosure as an indiscriminate obligation to tell everyone every painful detail. Her testimony is about moving from destructive secrecy into truthful relationship and discernment.
Safe vulnerability, family loyalty, and the need to speak truth
The preacher responds that the woman's testimony shows how God's word reaches the hidden pockets of the heart. A truth that becomes real in a place of shame can free a person in a way that is difficult to describe. The result is not only relief, but an opening of the life to greater courage, clarity, and obedience. He and his wife can recognize similar processes of healing in their marriage and in the burdens they have carried.
Another participant adds a related observation: when parents experience trauma and cannot manage what is happening, a child may become the emotional parent of the parent. The child grows up taking responsibility for protecting adults, holding the family together, and never saying openly what happened. Speaking truth can then feel like betrayal. The participant objects to this hidden burden: trying to protect someone else's pain may mean neglecting one's own and pretending a family was stable when it was not. People can be respectful toward those who hurt them while still acknowledging their own experience.
This makes the earlier testimony more nuanced. The problem was not simply that the woman had failed to “confess” soon enough. She had learned that disclosure was unsafe. The respondent says that if someone has always been the parent of their parents, they may never have learned what safe vulnerability looks like. A person needs a trustworthy place in which to speak, perhaps with a spouse, pastor, mature friend, or supportive group, and to be met not with exploitation but with compassion.
The woman agrees. She would have liked to tell her mother what she came to understand about the childhood incident, but her mother was no longer alive when this became clear. She reflects on how easy it is for a wife to think that being a “suitable helper” means taking over, controlling, or protecting her husband from every uncomfortable truth. That, too, can be a misunderstanding of marriage shaped by old family patterns. Love is not the same as controlling someone or concealing everything that might make them uncomfortable.
Another participant explains that vulnerability must be learned in a safe relationship. The women's group was healing precisely because there was safety to speak. The conversation recalls James's instruction to confess and to pray for one another. They distinguish between throwing intimate details into an unsafe setting and bringing them to someone trustworthy who can listen and pray. The woman says she was able to speak freely there because she did not feel exposed to further harm. The participants urge discernment about where and with whom disclosure occurs.
She speaks again of marriage as a place where husband and wife are meant to grow together. She and her husband began their relationship when they were young, sharing struggles, disagreements, and hopes. Even in the season affected by alcohol, they were trying, imperfectly, to help one another. They are different personalities, but she now sees those differences as potentially complementary rather than as reasons for domination. She emphasizes that the goal is to grow together in the mind of Christ, with truth rather than pretense forming the relationship.
Words spoken over marriage and family
The conversation shifts naturally from confession to the words a couple speaks over their future. The woman recalls wedding vows, public declarations, and scriptural phrases that can become enduring reminders of what a marriage is meant to be. She remembers a couple singing a song that placed Jesus at the center of their lives. The words impressed her because they were spoken in front of witnesses as a declaration about the foundation of their relationship.
She then remembers her own wedding invitation. It carried language from the Song of Songs about waters not being able to quench love and rivers not being able to overwhelm it. She had, in effect, placed a biblical promise in front of those who witnessed the marriage. Over the years, she and her husband went through seasons so difficult that others might have wondered how the relationship survived. Looking back, she sees that early declaration as a spiritual reminder of their commitment and of God's faithfulness during hardship.
The language of “prophetic” declaration reflects her understanding of those vows and biblical words. She does not ask others to go back in time and repeat their wedding ceremony. She encourages families to speak God's word intentionally over marriage, children, and daily life even now. Words can form expectations; the question is whether the words we keep repeating are expressions of fear and bitterness or expressions of what we believe God is calling our family to become.
From the Samaritan woman's shame to her testimony
Another voice brings the conversation back to John 4, tying the personal testimony directly to the sermon. The Samaritan woman had reasons to avoid people, yet after her encounter with Yeshua she went toward the very community from which she may have felt alienated. Her painful past was not the final message she carried. She directed attention to Yeshua. Instead of becoming a spectacle whose history was the center of attention, she became a witness through whom others became interested in Him.
The participant tells the woman who just shared that her own testimony carries a similar possibility. When painful secrets are spoken in the right way and before the right people, the center of the story can shift from the failure of the past to what God has done. Her past is not erased, but it no longer needs to define her. The woman's reply makes the connection concrete: after she and her husband joined that church, despite being relatively new, they were invited to lead a marriage group of around twenty couples, including church leaders. The couple's survival through near-separation and crisis had become a testimony that could serve other marriages.
The preacher agrees and returns to the theme of calling. We do not ultimately call ourselves into the life of God; He calls and chooses. The question is whether we recognize His purpose in everyday decisions. We make many plans, and not every plan is bad. But even reasonable, attractive plans need to be surrendered to Yahweh's direction. The objective is not a spectacular religious appearance, but a daily walk in which His character becomes more visible.
A father's bitterness, a child's ambition, and a difficult business dinner
Near the end of the gathering, a different participant shares a testimony prompted by the closing prayer. An image came to his mind of his father referring to his mother bitterly as “that woman.” His parents divorced when he was very young. He remembers his father's bitterness and the tendency to blame his mother for setbacks and unhappiness. He also remembers both parents investing heavily in career achievement and often placing work ahead of family life.
The participant describes how those experiences affected him. He absorbed the belief that professional success was extremely important, and he became hardworking and ambitious. More subtly, when work went badly, he was tempted to see his own family as an obstacle to progress—the very pattern he had seen in his parents' relationship. In the light of the morning's teaching, he recognizes how that interpretation could be inherited and reinforced even when he does not consciously endorse his father's words.
He recounts an especially frustrating evening that had occurred on a Thursday. He was meeting someone he hoped might become a technical leader for a software product he was trying to bring to life. To him it felt like a particularly important meeting, perhaps one of the only promising opportunities available for that role. But the ordinary family logistics surrounding the dinner began going wrong. A child, Leo, became sick and vomited in the car twice. They were also picking someone up, and the evening involved several family members along with the potential collaborator.
At the restaurant his wife could not find her phone. They used phone-finding technology and searched around the restaurant, but the device seemed to be nearby without being visible. People went back to the car and continued looking. A significant part of the beginning of the dinner was lost to the search, and meaningful business conversation could happen only toward the end. Eventually they found that the phone had been in the car all along. He felt that the strange combination of problems was highly unusual, especially in the context of a consequential meeting.
The old pattern might have interpreted the night as proof that his family kept ruining his opportunities. He says that he wondered whether the situation reflected something outside God's will or some kind of spiritual opposition. Yet something important had changed in his response. Instead of getting angry at his wife or his children, he felt surprisingly calm. Through ongoing devotion and study, he had been learning to govern his reaction. He was able to say, in effect, “If this is not God's will, let it fail. I don't need to force it.” He let the evening unfold without turning the family into the enemy.
Only during the prayer at the gathering did he connect the incident with the childhood memory of his father and mother. He understood how a stronghold might have formed around a lie: “Your family will drag you down at the most important moment of your life.” The circumstances provided an opportunity to repeat that accusation, but he realized he did not have to accept it. He credits the wisdom he had received from the word of God with helping him refuse anger and interruption of peace. The lesson is deeply practical: a transformed mind is not only what we say about forgiveness in a service; it is what we do when a child is sick, a phone is lost, and a precious opportunity seems to be slipping away.
The final response: discernment, testing, and the heart of the church
The preacher thanks the participant for sharing a lived example of the teaching. He makes an important qualification: not every difficult circumstance is necessarily a direct attack from the enemy. Sometimes our own desires, assumptions, or lack of knowledge contribute to the struggle. At other times a temptation seems to be placed directly in our path. He recalls how Yeshua was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where He faced temptation. The existence of a difficult situation does not by itself tell us everything about its meaning.
The preacher wants believers to develop discernment rather than reacting mechanically. They need to examine what happens inside their hearts, how they respond, and what beliefs may be activated. He believes God can allow testing in order for His love, patience, and power to become known in areas of life where people have not previously trusted Him. People are being formed individually, yet the gathered church is also being taught corporately through one another's stories.
The final words return to the basic burden of the day. The life of the church is not finally about the external features of religious gathering. It is about what is happening in the heart. To worship the Father in spirit and truth is to let His word reach hidden places, confront untrue beliefs, heal relationships, train choices, and form the character that a person carries into the world. “God is Spirit, so are we” is therefore not a decorative phrase: throughout this message and the testimonies that follow, it becomes a call to learn what it means to live before Yahweh from the inside out.
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1 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:18,000 His precepts but what's beautiful about it is that he always planned on doing it himself through 2 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:31,000 us even from the beginning it was always his intention and it was always his desire to do it 3 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 it's not that things are removed or things are done away with is that I always wanted to do it in you 4 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:51,000 So when you read the scripture not by might or not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord, 5 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,000 you quickly realize the Torah is not by power not by might, but by the Spirit, and the Lord always desired to do it Himself through us. 6 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:19,000 For he has been faithful in doing it right for where we try to strive and do and fix, we sometimes test the Lord 7 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:42,000 because we do then in our own motives when we think we are doing right 8 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,000 , and so the Lord says, let me work in you let me do the work in you let me explain to you what it all means 9 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:03,000 so as he exercises his word his Torah inside of you today say, Lord, explain to me 10 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:14,000 what does this mean like the discipled asked the Lord Yeshua What does it mean? This says this, but what does it mean? 11 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Give me understanding help me seek your wisdom, and Lord, let it circumcise my heart today so that Father no man needs to teach me but you are my teacher. Amen. 12 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 I hear voice in light away is dark and flow light of my way all the world 13 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 you love your soul away my soul and sing for the world your well be done, Joe will be done with my soul love my soul be done your 14 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 will be done waking my soul to your will and to your plans to your desire, O God, so that when you see Me you are well pleased 15 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:23,000 lacking nothing, Father who may go up to the mountain of Adanai. 16 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Who can stand in His holy place? Those with clean hands and pure hearts who do not make vanities the purpose of their lives or swear oaths just to deceive, they will 17 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Receive a blessing from Adanai and justice from God who saves them, such is the character of those who seek Him Abiakov of Jacob who seeks your face. 18 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Lift up your heads you gates lift them up everlasting doors so that the glorious King can enter. Who is He is glorious King? 19 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:26,000 I deny strong and mighty mighty in battle lift up your heads, you gates lift them up everlasting doors so that the glorious King can enter 20 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:42,000 who is this king of glory. Who is He this glorious Kings who hope he is the glorious King 21 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Who may ascend to your mountain O God give us clean hands, O Lord give us pure hearts 22 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Reaches to the headline. 23 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Your faithfulness. 24 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:42,000 It's like a mighty mountain hallelujah. 25 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Do trust as low most might be your shareluh. 26 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Nagoli 27 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:05,000 You worship you. 28 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:49,000 ad o se congregation something very, very important 29 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:02,000 and this morning we heard the news about the president of El Salvador. going 30 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:10,000 with a mighty army to Haiti to be able to rescue means that we've been taken by again that is satanic 31 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:24,000 they declare it they declare war and all the army that's going with the president Najib 32 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Bukele all Christians praying interceding to God to help them go there rescue, destroy that army of gangs members which is completely satanic 33 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:43,000 they have made witchcraft you know and they have made everything possible 34 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,000 so when the army comes they will be defeated but the army of the Lord is so powerful 35 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:54,000 their life we are going there and we are going to rescue and we're gonna bring back in the name of Jehovah they said and then they are going 36 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:02,000 they are right now flying with the help of United States 37 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 and I think that we should be part of that and we should be part of praying 38 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:16,000 that when they were there people will be the leader people will be rescued people will be saved right because God is like a mighty mountain 39 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:24,000 and who can say to the Lord no we are here and empower you know what the Lord will 40 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:31,000 say when the kings you know were threatened by the other nation and the Lord just because they threaten the nation because they threaten God 41 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:39,000 right among God they go say don't worry I'm going to go there and I'm going to defeat them 42 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:47,000 that's what we have to pray today so I want to ask you to stand up 43 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,000 and you pray for each one of those soldiers that are going there that they will not be harmed 44 00:17:52,000 --> 00:18:00,000 in the name of Jesus they will go accomplish it us by the rukoverch and come back and defeat the army of Satan 45 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:08,000 because if this happen the glory will be for the mighty God Jehovah that's what we stand for 46 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Alex while we prayed I want you to play the chafar play the chafar the voice of the Lord right 47 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:27,000 that we are united with them in the name of Yeshua let's all 48 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,000 prayer we thank you Lord we praise you Father God for what you are doing right now Lord and we pray it so far 49 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:39,000 understanding Lord that this is the sound of your Spirit going to the nation defeating the spirit and wickedness in that city 50 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:48,000 so the people in Haiti can be the liver Lord and they know that you are God hallelujah 51 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:59,000 and not being taken by the gang Lord in the place Lord Jesus I pray in the name of Yeshua Lord 52 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:06,000 that none of those soldiers will be defeated but they will come back by God defeating the nation by the God of evilness that rule 53 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:14,000 in there, there are mountains in there that need to be gown that need to be late 54 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:24,000 labeled Lord so I pray in the name of Jesus that you 55 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Father God defeace the power of Satan and allow us, Lord to overcome in the name of Jesus cleanse the laying Lord 56 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:34,000 you will knock down all the evil that has been sent up Lord you will knock down the voodoo you will knock down 57 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:41,000 the witchcraft who will cleanse that whole island Lord you will cleanse Haiti you will cleanse unto the me or you will clear that land of God 58 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:49,000 for your glory for Lord you will not mock us and so you will send your soldiers 59 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:59,000 a natural war you are sending your angels and you are using Salvador Lord God to save Lord God el Salvador and the people del Salvador 60 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:07,000 and so I thank you that as you send the army tactics of the enemy that they know as the army of the Lord that they call Lord God 61 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:16,000 with you as their banner Jehovah will be the banner that stands over the land over Haiti and over the Dominican Republic, Lord God 62 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:24,000 , and so I thank you for your cleansing being done 63 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,000 in that land for the extraction of the evil and the blood that has been spilled and the evil political work that has been done 64 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:36,000 there who are doing a vindication, you are doing a cleansing 65 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 and Lord you are using Father God a country that goes by your namesake of the Savior in order to save Lord God 66 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:49,000 those that are crying out for you down the dominions you cut the principalities that you cut down the evil spiritual demonic 67 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:56,000 that are been established, Lord God in positions of power there you have cut it out all of 68 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:02,000 it will bow down to the name of the King of Kings that will now rule over that land and hostua Hamashiach. 69 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Just like you defeated the Assyrian Army board in one swoop 70 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:23,000 lord overnight lord thank you, Lord intercessor will rise up over the world, Lord, to take out his army Lord, 71 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:31,000 and that you will get the glory that you will get the glory because the earth is yours 72 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:44,000 we thank you, Lord, that the earth is yours and everything in it, God, the world and all those who live there. 73 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Lord, you set its foundations on the seas and establish it on its rivers, Lord, you are king of the 74 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:03,000 universe is anything too hard for you get the glory for this Lord may your saints declare your glory, God 75 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:18,000 or I deny Jehovah, strong and mighty in battle 76 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,000 , Lord, we lift our heads up so that the glorious King can enter in we lift our heads up so that we can see the glorious change 77 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:33,000 that you may enter in this place that you may enter in this situation that you may enter into this 78 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:49,000 army lord that you would fill down with your stuff like their power by your spirit so Lord we ask that 79 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:58,000 you give them a countenance Lord of lifting that they will not be weak Lord that you would sift out the warriors like Gideon's armies who are afraid we send those who are mighty and bad 80 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:16,000 We're in these are the days of Elijah. These are the days these are 81 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:34,000 where your army political towers, not by governmental spirit roaming and governing the earth through your people, God. And we thank you 82 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:42,000 glory through the mouth of President Lord of your people, Lord, as we're singing to lift up our eyes to see the King of Glory in this nation. 83 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Ironic if you translate the name of the country as Saba. He's the savior 84 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:33,000 you know God using it's just you know it has a sense of humor, right? 85 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 It's like he's using this small little country in South America 86 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:44,000 that has by way of both politics and central America by way of both politics and by way of the heart of the people 87 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:52,000 they've given their hearts to the Lord country and God has said, okay, now watch what I'm going to do with you 88 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:00,000 and obviously the first thing that came to mind was Samuel 89 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 chapter seventeen he says then David said to the Philistine right The Philistine army and lieth representing the spiritual darkness 90 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:11,000 if anybody knows anything about eighty it's the center of voodoo witchcraft 91 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:26,000 and actually that over many years as a result of the Clinton they did a lot of atrocities there with the children there's a lot of 92 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:38,000 and so you see that wow that's just immediately was left and set to the Philistine with a sword with a spear and with a but 93 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:52,000 I come to you in the name of Yahoo the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defined this day I will strike 94 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:09,000 you and take your head that's a spiritual head, the head of the causes of the air and the wild beasts of the earth in this race 95 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:26,000 know that Yahoo does not save with sword and spear, the battle is and he will give you into our 96 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000 My glory is King. 97 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:02,000 I will find my strain in the shadow of your wings. 98 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Yes, yes, Lord 99 00:27:54,000 --> 00:28:02,000 I'm not going to it's going to take three or four series on this whole message. Oh 100 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:46,000 That we come to a point that we don't have to deal with all this little gadget stuff. 101 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:54,000 We'll have a little cameras and overrun on his own like the other side meanwhile we're gonna have to just work some technical things ourselves 102 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000 Oh 103 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Oh praise God. 104 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:37,000 My Bible takes a little time 105 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:49,000 God is awesome you know the worship it was so beautiful 106 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 because when you really expressing with your heart 107 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000 the lyrics of the songs it really gets deep into your spirit 108 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000 it gets into your heart it gets into your mind 109 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:18,000 and it puts you to think like moving in a dimension or in a in a realm of the spirit is like you and God are there by yourself 110 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:27,000 and it's it's bringing him glory and honor and you feel express 111 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,000 and so strong and it was so beautiful for that amount that was beautiful 112 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,000 beloved last week I shared with you well the Lord has been pressing in my heart and not only just pressing in my heart 113 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:48,000 he's been revealing things at a personal level and I know he's also revealing things to each and every one of you 114 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:03,000 last week I shared with you about the title God's Spirit 115 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:12,000 so are we that we go back and take a look at the conversation 116 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:19,000 that Jesus had women and the will that opened my eyes to see beyond just a conversation it opened my eyes not for my perspective of reading the letter 117 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:27,000 but more about understanding beloved more about 118 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:38,000 It's not only just by reading the letter and understanding the story of it 119 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000 , but beloved it was more about a deeper revelation 120 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:56,000 in which the Messiah, our Lord and Savior, was communicating the Father to the Samaritan woman in the way he was communicating it 121 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:03,000 , he was bringing it to a level from a point perspective that she could not understand exactly the words that was coming out of the mouth of Jesus 122 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:11,000 because she was constantly going in a different direction, constantly going in a different direction 123 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:21,000 beloved that happens a lot with religious people you could talk to them, but the language you're speaking to them is not for them 124 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:31,000 to understand they could be able to engage based on what they think it is. 125 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:40,000 But beloved, in reality is that it's not really getting deep as a revelation 126 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:47,000 to their heart and will come a time that God will awaken them. There's no doubt 127 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:53,000 and that happens with so many Christians that I was listening to a testimony of a person that has a vocal, she sings beautiful 128 00:33:53,000 --> 00:34:01,000 and she went into a church that she was invited, and she she sang while everybody was singing and heard her sing 129 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 , and three weeks later they're invited to be part of the choir 130 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:13,000 , and she supposedly just followed him to the normal instruction the invitation went there 131 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:21,000 and she calls herself a Christian because she fellowship 132 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:29,000 and she gathered with the people you see and the thing is this beloved the thing is that three years 133 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:36,000 later she realized and understood so clear that she was not serving God she was serving a community of a gathering 134 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:44,000 she did not have a relationship she did not had an encounter that birthing of the new life 135 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:56,000 and her and she was explaining all this and she said she also explains the fact that she was delivered by demons that she was possessed with 136 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:05,000 and she went on and explained it but the way she was explained she said now I do understand who am I what is my character why 137 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:18,000 am I here and for what purpose and that was a powerful testimony 138 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 beloved and that happens a lot it happens a lot with a lot of Christians call Christians love it 139 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:29,000 and I want to just stop here because I want to go into the message and because this message goes I think into four parts series 140 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:37,000 I don't want to go too quick with a message because we will miss something we will miss something 141 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:47,000 and last week I'm going to just point out the points that was related to the other message 142 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:55,000 so that it will give us a refreshing and an understanding of where the Lord is leading us from the first message 143 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:02,000 my key point is God is His Spirit so are we and we came from John four verse twenty four Yahweh is Spirit 144 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:10,000 His nature cannot be reduced to a physical world 145 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000 what our nature, a natural I see does not reveal the fullness of who 146 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000 he is, we must look beyond outward appearance to understand spiritual truth. Number two created in his image 147 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:28,000 and likeness that came from Genesis one twenty six through twenty seven in Genesis two seven humanity was created 148 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:36,000 in the image of en like of Yahweh atoms' body was formed from the dust and Yahweh's breathed into him the breath of life 149 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:46,000 that we're going to understand deeper what is the breath of life because everybody has the breath of life 150 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:59,000 everybody was created at the image of God but there is a difference of how we exercise, develop that in our new birthing versus those that are dead 151 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:10,000 in that communication with God continue bearing God's image involves understanding his character, purpose and relationship with humanity 152 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:21,000 number three was the inner man, our character the inner man 153 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:33,000 involves our outward thoughts our inward thoughts, intentions, desires, and choices and attitudes 154 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:41,000 our character is expressed through how we think, feel, speak, choose and act. 155 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,000 The question is not simply what faculties we possess, but what governs them 156 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:57,000 and those character they express the Spirit of God dwelling within us. 157 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:03,000 That's number four the Spirit of God works within believers to transform their lives 158 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:11,000 we are not required to live under the control of our fleshy 159 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000 desires being led by the Spirit means submitting our thinking, decisions, and conduct to Yahweh. 160 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:23,000 Number five was from the bondage to the adoption 161 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,000 we find that in Romans eight fifteen sixteen through the spirit of adoption 162 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:35,000 we enter in a relationship with Yahweh's Father God's Spirit bears witness with our human spirit that we are His children. 163 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:43,000 The purpose is not to become God, but to live in fellowship with Him and reflect His character. 164 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:57,000 Number six is the full and the need for restoration 165 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000 Romans twelve two sin damage humanities relationship with Yahweh and distorted the expression of his character 166 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:09,000 in our life our thoughts, desire, emotions, and decisions needs to be brought under 167 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:25,000 his truth through Yeshua we are reconciled to Yahweh and we knew our inward man you see our inward man is a newborn child that needs to be trained 168 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Jesus was trained when he became human in every step of the law beloved and continued the danger of becoming comfortable with religion 169 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:50,000 religion activity does not automatically mean inward transformation. 170 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:59,000 We can know scripture without following it to govern our character true transformation must become visible in our daily life 171 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:07,000 that's why Jesus said buy their fruits you shall know them beloved 172 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:21,000 seeing through the eyes of the Spirit look beyond outward appearance and religious performance allow Yahweh's truth to examine our motive, attitude and decisions. 173 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Spiritual maturity is demonstrated through a life increasingly reflecting His righteousness, love, holiness, and truth. 174 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:47,000 and as we move forward I showed you slide and I will be sharing that slide with you, I'll be giving you a copy of the slide beloved 175 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:56,000 because it took me a while to develop that slide, but the restoration of the slide is not knowing the aspect of the brain. 176 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:07,000 The level of restoration is using the actual passages that are in that same format that is there 177 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:16,000 that will help you to identify the areas of our life that we face in this journey 178 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,000 , and I'm going to just briefly take you through some of those steps, beloved, because we have to root our understanding deep on this 179 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:28,000 so that our characters start to reflect the character of Yahweh 180 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000 because it's it takes it takes purpose it takes desire it takes a motivation 181 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000 that does not come from here. It's a motivation that comes and inspired by the Word of God knowing truth, beloved, and that's what's going to take place. 182 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:53,000 I'm going to leave this piece here and move ahead to the message so I could be able to capture the most of it 183 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:02,000 God is Spirit so are we we will continue beloved from there 184 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,000 but I want to pray that the continuation of this message continued to open your understanding 185 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:12,000 that the continue of this message will be able to enlighten you, encourage you, but also will give you wisdom deeper from the Word of God 186 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:19,000 because the Word of God itself it's what's going to make us beloved. 187 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:26,000 The Word of God itself is going to chisel things that sometimes we don't like that we don't even know where they came from beloved 188 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:34,000 and it's going to put a light upon our live that we say, Lord, I did not know this. So let's pray, beloved, if you could stand with me for a moment. 189 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:43,000 It's it's kind of warm in here I don't I don't want my brothers to fall asleep 190 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Praise God. Okay, God is awesome. 191 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:58,000 Let's pray, beloved Heavenly Father, we humble our hearts in this precious day 192 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:11,000 that you have given us a day that you created within your perfect divine will, Father Lord, that we only live in this world 193 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:19,000 we're not of it, but we live in this world. The Babylon system 194 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,000 Lord is always striving to Father overcome Father your plans and purpose Father trying to destroy the creation that you 195 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:35,000 Father hath already prepared before the foundation of the world into our lives 196 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:41,000 , but we are learning how to discover it as His Spirit, Father reveals it to us, Father God 197 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:48,000 , we are here today to understand what the Spirit is revealing as the image 198 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:53,000 in likeness, Father, that you have given us You have given us this, Lord, 199 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,000 that the enemy has brought disruption, confusion and also brought death into humanity 200 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:03,000 where you have brought life again through your Son. Father, there is no 201 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,000 way that we could be able to capture and understand your heart of the Spirit is not with us 202 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:15,000 , Father God, you have given each and every one of us the Holy Spirit that leads us and guide us to all truth. 203 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:21,000 Father, I pray God that you will remove the veil 204 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,000 that is holding a heart that we could be able to take steps. Father, steps of victory, steps that we could display the glory of God in your image 205 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:32,000 and it replace we stand, Father Father, I pray in the name of Your precious son Yeshua, Father your Son our Lord Christ Jesus Father 206 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:46,000 that let this word take deep settlement in our hearts in our mind 207 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:53,000 but in a man that you have given us Father we need our inner men to be nurtured by the Spirit 208 00:44:53,000 --> 00:45:00,000 we need our inner men Father to reveal to be revealed Father the purpose and the plan that you have for each and every one of us 209 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,000 Father let your precious and perfect will God Father through your Holy Spirit Father deepen sigh 210 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:18,000 and so the seed of life where we be able to see that truth 211 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:22,000 father not with our intellect nor our mind but without our spirit 212 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,000 because it will bear witness to our spirit and Father I will be revealed Father to our Spirit 213 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:33,000 and we will be able to see beyond what our eyes could see Father in the name of your precious Son 214 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:41,000 and I come against the lies of wicked evil spirits that has been hindering our hearts and mind that has put a veil in our hearts 215 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:49,000 but in the name of Jesus I rebuke every work of the enemy I cast down every stronghold and every evil thought 216 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:57,000 that elevates itself far against your purpose 217 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000 and plan against this body following the name of Joshua in the name of Yeshua 218 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:10,000 Father let your purpose in ways be reviewed Father let our hearts be healed let our eyes see the glory of God 219 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:18,000 and let others be able to see and witness that you still underthrone and that you are God 220 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:27,000 and we serve you with all our hearts in the name of Yeshua. Amen, amen. Praise God praise God the love you give us peace city 221 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:35,000 Beloved, the continuation of this message is God's Spirit so are we God's Spirit 222 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:52,000 so are we and this is something that we have to really deeply understand 223 00:46:55,000 --> 00:47:03,000 when I say God is Spirit so are we and we're bringing the awareness through the word of God 224 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:09,000 that God has being exposed to Jesus as the Father 225 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:14,000 He is not explaining a specific person He is not explaining a specific image He's not explaining something that is literally tangible 226 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:22,000 to be able to hold in touch and feel the same way that the Israelites in the desert after Moses disappear into the mountains 227 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:35,000 and God was not heard through them by them through them. 228 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,000 What happens is beloved, they decided to make a tangible God and calf in order to lead them 229 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:51,000 and sometimes we have to feel and touch and have things so that we could feel confident beloved, so that we could feel that 230 00:47:52,000 --> 00:48:00,000 I am secure to build strengthen us, to develop in us like a boldness to be able to do things, beloved, and that is a deception or confusion 231 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:07,000 because we have not understood the image and that God we serve in our life. 232 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:15,000 He gave us that privilege to be able to understand his character. He gave us that privilege to be able to express his character. 233 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:24,000 I love it. And as I mentioned, this is the continuation, and I'm going to read this again 234 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:30,000 because it's important that we read these passages it's the same biblical passages, but I want you to dive deeper with this 235 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:37,000 someone please read John four twenty four. This is part of the conversation that Jesus was having with this Samaritan woman 236 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:45,000 , and we know the story, beloved we could we could make a lot of different messages out of the Samaritan woman 237 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:55,000 we could say talk about adultery, a woman that it was completely out of order 238 00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:00,000 we could talk about the religion that she understood and had through what she had been raised with so we could talk about so many different things 239 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:08,000 but one thing that called my attention is what Jesus told her not what she told Jesus it's what Jesus told her 240 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:23,000 because what really matters is what Jesus says not what the lady or the Samaritan woman said, even though that is a testimony 241 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:32,000 and experience in a life in which he's encountering it was being exposed, beloved is being revealed 242 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:43,000 and we have been blessed to be able to see through the scripture that revelation 243 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:52,000 so that we could be able to position ourselves in the same place that the Word of Jesus, a positioner to uncover truth, beloved to uncover truth 244 00:49:52,000 --> 00:50:00,000 I want to read this answer if you could read it for us 245 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,000 John four twenty four God is Spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth 246 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:18,000 I want you to understand that Jesus is making a very profound statement, a very profound which 247 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:30,000 one the one from where he comes from you see I want you to understand that Jesus is revealing his Father our God I want you to understand He's saying these words and God said 248 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:39,000 Sorry read that again God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him spirit and truth you see the thing is this 249 00:50:53,000 --> 00:51:01,000 beloved he's calling us to worship the Father in a specific way and also with a specific approach, specific way in a specific approach 250 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:19,000 and you say okay God is Spirit and he seeks such worshippers 251 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:27,000 I'm sorry again God is Spirit and those who worship him must worship him 252 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:34,000 and spirit in truth. The statement is very profound beloved 253 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:40,000 because he's telling me, David you ought to worship God in Spirit 254 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,000 , and the first thing we think is that reality is that we think that God is just being worshipped in a place of prayer. 255 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:53,000 That is only an act of worship. God is being worshipped in a conversation with our fellow brothers and sisters that is an act of worship. 256 00:51:53,000 --> 00:52:01,000 No, when he talks about spirit and truth, he's talking about the deeper places of our intimacy and character 257 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:15,000 with God that we have understanding from the Word who is God, who really is God is like right 258 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:21,000 now before I join my wife into marriage I needed to know my wife I needed to understand my wife I needed to spend at least a time of fellowship 259 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:29,000 with her to understand her character, her habits, her desire the things in which I could be able to please her I love it 260 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:43,000 and that's given to us by the Word of God to know Him, and that's the key is to know Him and we all know him 261 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:52,000 but the thing is that we haven't gotten to the place of understanding that specific revelation beloved 262 00:52:53,000 --> 00:53:01,000 you see and I'm going to go back to the image and likeness because this is where the foundation starts from the image and likeness 263 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:14,000 what did Yahweh intend it for us there because if not we will not understand that God is seeking to worshipers that 264 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:25,000 we'll worship him in Spirit and truth and we need to understand where does that image does come from 265 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:33,000 and how that image was separated. That's why every humanity beloved was made at the image 266 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:41,000 and likeness of God, but what happened was that this connection of God's character and personality and intimacy was broken off 267 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:49,000 and we're going to move forward someone reads Genesis one verse twenty seven twenty six and twenty seven 268 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:06,000 I can't read it from twenty six right in twenty six and twenty seven twenty six goes ten twenty seven yeah 269 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:21,000 God said let us make man in our image according to our likeness 270 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:26,000 let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle over all the earth 271 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:34,000 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 272 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:42,000 So God created man in His own image. In the image of God He created him male and female He created them beloved 273 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:50,000 what God is talking about here He's talking about a specific characteristic of dominion of having over things beloved over things 274 00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:03,000 God says to himself okay into His fullness He said, let's make men to our image and likeness, beloved, I want you 275 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:11,000 and then he goes down into the second chapter to explain about the creation of animals 276 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:22,000 and then he gives them what David he said dominion beloved, you think dominion is a physical thing 277 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:30,000 that you have control of and you manipulate and be able to dominate the know 278 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:38,000 the minion, beloved comes with wisdom dominion comes through the understanding of truth of the Word of God will move forward. 279 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:47,000 The word image te Salam comes from the Hebrew word sixty seven fifty four sixty seven fifty four image or representation image or representation 280 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:59,000 when you read this, you think it say okay he's talking about image and representation the image does God has an image? 281 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:10,000 No, He doesn't God doesn't have an image and this is what we need to understand God is what 282 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:23,000 and that is the only thing that God is He is Spirit beloved 283 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:30,000 in the image of that spirit is to understand the characteristic of who God is by His character 284 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:38,000 move forward, beloved or continue likeness Demouth Strong H eighteen twenty three likeness 285 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:51,000 or resemblance you see likeness it says resemblance it explains it very clearly at the bottom am I right age twenty twenty three aged eighteen twenty three 286 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000 Okay, the go down. 287 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:11,000 L likeness, similitude in the likeness of and likeness similitude beloved I want you to understand this similitude 288 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:28,000 so this does not match when you're talking about a specific image it does not match 289 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:33,000 because God doesn't have an image God's Spirit now God is talking about the spiritual characteristics and his personality beloved 290 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:41,000 and we'll move forward and they'll show you these words establish the foundation of our study humanity was created in God's image 291 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:52,000 and likeness. The question we must consider is not merely what humanity looks like 292 00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:05,000 when it was created, but what God intended humanity to represent and express, to represent and express when man's sin 293 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:14,000 that characteristics and image likeness die, beloved how did it 294 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,000 die strange did he die quick when Adam sin did God disconnected from Adam and Eve immediately 295 00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:29,000 no it died gradually beloved why because there were disconnected they entered into disobedience 296 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:37,000 and what happens the image and likeness and that characteristics of God started to fade away die why 297 00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:45,000 there was no desires from the flesh to continue seeking God because flesh the sin took over flesh beloved 298 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:52,000 and this is what the Bible speaks very clear do not give the desire to the flesh and I will continue moving forward 299 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:59,000 because it's going to come around at the end we're going to reveal the word is going to review some things to you 300 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:07,000 the question we must consider is not merely what humanity looks like 301 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:16,000 when it was created but what God intended humanity to represent and express 302 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:22,000 because God is Spirit as Yeshua declares in John four twenty four 303 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:27,000 we consider the spiritual and relational dimensions of his image including the way his character is reflected through our life 304 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:34,000 that's very important to understand beloved it. 305 00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:40,000 I'll read this again because God is Spirit as Yeshua declares in John four twenty four 306 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:48,000 we must consider the spiritual and relational dimensions of his image, including the way his character reflects through our life 307 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:57,000 I want I want us to bring this into our life, beloved. This is where it comes into our life. 308 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:09,000 If we were created to reflect the character of Yahweh, then 309 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:14,000 we must ask ourselves what has been shaping the character we express today what has been shaping the character that we has been expressing today 310 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:22,000 as we go through life, our experience and circumstances can shape how 311 01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:38,000 we see ourselves, how we relate to others, how we understand our worth, and how we respond to the world around us 312 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:46,000 is one way that this is one way the enemy works when we lack spiritual discernment 313 01:00:52,000 --> 01:01:00,000 he can use our wounds paying for experience, fear and circumstances to influence our thinking and shape our character 314 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:08,000 in the way that do not reflect the image of Jaguar beloved the moment that we gave our life to Christ 315 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:17,000 , they call it what born again and they call it babes. Oh you're a babe you're a baby in Christ it's true 316 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:25,000 you see and the babe takes time to be fed and 317 01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,000 educated and he cannot make decisions on his own and he have to be dressed by his parents and he needs to be nurtured and he needs 318 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:35,000 that's what is a babe belove it the moment that we come into the presence of God by the sacrifice of Christ we take that position 319 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:51,000 our inner men have become awakened alive again we have a spirit but we have inn 320 01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:01,000 the Spirit is of God the Bible speaks that spirit is when we die it will go to who it will go to God 321 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:09,000 but we have the inim, the innman which is being shaped and formed to the image of Christ 322 01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:19,000 beloved that is alive the world has the figure, the image where they were created but it died 323 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:26,000 they only have the figure of Adam now which is just the body itself 324 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:32,000 until they come into an encounter with Christ Jesus beloved the life that Jesus bring is being born 325 01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:37,000 again Nicodemus had that problem Nicodemous was a religious person Nicodemus was confused 326 01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:42,000 because he could not discern and understand wait I know the law why 327 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:48,000 I don't know this and it happens with a lot of Christians it happens with a lot of Christians 328 01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:56,000 why because the thing is this it's knowing the character the characteristics and the image of God's image which is us living 329 01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:05,000 it through the newborn the new birth beloved and I'll continue moving forward this is one way the enemy works 330 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:14,000 when the lack of spiritual discernment he can use our wounds 331 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:20,000 that we have in the past paying for experience 332 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,000 , fear and circumstances to influence our thinking and shape our character in the ways that do not reflect the image of Yahweh 333 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:33,000 our life experience can shape how we how we see ourselves influence what we believe and form the patterns of characters that develop within us. 334 01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:45,000 The issue is not merely what happens to us, but how those experience have influenced our identity and shape the person 335 01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:58,000 we have become beloved I'm going to tell you something 336 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:08,000 I could speak because of experience my father was an alcoholic my father had major issues, major problem what happened I saw I witnessed I experienced 337 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:16,000 I absorbed beloved pains, wounds, issues, challenges no one told me what was right and what was wrong, but life did 338 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:27,000 as it went on why because of the lack of knowledge within family, lack of knowledge of what is good and what is evil beloved 339 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:37,000 and what happens we end up passing on that wicked lies of the enemy that he wounds our hearts he wounds our soul. Why? 340 01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:44,000 Because no one gave to spend the time to tell me, okay, don't drink that is wrong. 341 01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:52,000 Everybody was happy everyone enjoyed. They had parties they came together 342 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:57,000 that was the outcome what they saw so I thought it was right 343 01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:02,000 and the enemy was hindering more and more as the mistakes and error because of the nature of the alcohol and how much evilness came out of this 344 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:10,000 beloved so I saw as a child that this was normal 345 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:18,000 so I gave into that pattern and I brought that wicked lies with an image in my life being used by the enemy to bring hindrance into my own marriage. 346 01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:26,000 I love it for those of you that know my life how was it 347 01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:31,000 because of the testimony how God had to transform and change but bring deliverance 348 01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:36,000 because it was a generational spirit that it was hindering 349 01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:44,000 me from my family and this is we have to definitely go deeper to this to know these things 350 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:52,000 and we have to understand that we have an adversary that knows men more than what we know 351 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:59,000 ourself and continue our life experience can shape how 352 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:04,000 we see ourselves influence what we believe and form the patterns of character that develop within us 353 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:12,000 the issue is not merely what happened to us but how 354 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:19,000 those experience have influenced our identity 355 01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:20,000 and shape the person we become how wounds in life experience shape our inner understandable of it how wounds really shape our life 356 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:28,000 in a way that sometime I could express something or treat my son in a way or treat somebody or my wife in a way not knowing 357 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:36,000 that is a reflection of a specific wound that the enemy is using me not knowing 358 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:46,000 because that's an old pattern an old habit of familiar habit that's been there 359 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:53,000 and it has never been addressed with truth beloved Genesis seven two verse seven and the Lord got formed men 360 01:06:53,000 --> 01:07:01,000 I'll go this back again of the dust of the ground and breathe into his nostril the breath of life and the man became a living soul 361 01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:13,000 and this is where everything chart beloved every man has a living soul 362 01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:24,000 but the character and the image of God himself have died the men that is not serving God 363 01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:32,000 they don't think the way as a Christian person thinks righteously they totally think by the streams 364 01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:40,000 and the desires of this world beloved the Hebrew word Nephesh which is age fifteen refers to the soul life 365 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:50,000 or living being. Genesis describes how Yahweh formed the man from the das breathing to him the breath of life and man became a living soul. 366 01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:05,000 As a living being we think we remember we experience emotions we make decisions we develop 367 01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:17,000 relationship and interpret the world around us beloved our life experience can leave lasting impression on our inner understanding. 368 01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:25,000 Think about a child, and this is I want you to understand. Think about a child who repeatedly hears that 369 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:39,000 they are worthless, incapable or unwanted. Think about a child that has been spoken all their life over time, beloved, over time 370 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:50,000 those words may become more than something the child remembers they may become belief about who the child is 371 01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:05,000 it has developed a character inform a personality in this child and he believes it. Why? 372 01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:14,000 Because of the child's mind the child may grow up the child may grow into an adult 373 01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:23,000 who struggles to recognize the own value consistently seeking approval fear, rejection, or believe 374 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:31,000 they must prove themselves to be loved. Belove it and I'm going to show you some scientifically evidence 375 01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:44,000 beloved that including science says this is truth. Look at this, beloved now consider someone who experienced betrayal 376 01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:55,000 that experience may shape their understanding of trust causing them to approach future relationships through the expectations of being hurt, beloved 377 01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:07,000 and I and I and I did my homework study and this whole entire there's a lot beloved there is a lot information 378 01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:14,000 I think I left it there. 379 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:22,000 Look at this break brief betrayal trauma theory researcher Dr. James Jennifer J Ferry University of Oregon betrayal trauma 380 01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:39,000 theory examines how harm caused by someone a person depends on 381 01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:47,000 or trust can affect the psychological functioning 382 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:53,000 when betrayal comes from a parent, spouse, close friend, or an authority figure, the injury can be especially profound 383 01:10:53,000 --> 01:11:01,000 because of the person who was expected to provide safety become the source of harm. 384 01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:14,000 The individual may subsequently be a struggle with trusting people who appear to be trustworthy, feeling safe 385 01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:22,000 in close relationship, recognizing the difference between past dangers and present circumstances 386 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:34,000 , reconciling what someone claimed to be without the person actually did 387 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:42,000 the center principle the central principle the person may not simply remember the betrayal the betrayal can influence how 388 01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:51,000 they interpret future interactions and that happens in airy wounds and hurt in our life beloved 389 01:11:54,000 --> 01:12:02,000 because that's what the enemy comes to what kill, steal, and destroy because if he hurts your soul the lover as a child 390 01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:12,000 it's going to be difficult to keep that child with the understanding of the image of Christ through the word, beloved, that's why the Bible said raise the child what 391 01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:20,000 Beloved, why? Because it's important that the child will be educated with the Torah of God so that the image of God himself is shaped in form. 392 01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:34,000 The image of God, beloved, it stays with them until they have an encounter with Christ Jesus, 393 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:43,000 and when they have an encounter with Christ Jesus beloved. That word becomes a life in them 394 01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:49,000 it gives them the clarity and the understanding to see not through the understanding, but to see in the place of relationship 395 01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:57,000 just like Joe Job was a religious person he was doing so many things the way he knew and the way he was taught but beloved in the place of experience 396 01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:08,000 he started to see God through the Spirit through His deep understanding and his relationship 397 01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:18,000 and that's what happens with us we are growing into that maturity we're growing and growing from glory to glory 398 01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:25,000 how because of the image of God is being developed continuously in our inner men moving forward beloved look at this 399 01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:33,000 Another person may be endure years of criticism, rejections, or emotional hurts, 400 01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:53,000 and through those experience develop patterns of insecurity, fear, or a consistent need for self protection 401 01:13:53,000 --> 01:14:01,000 these patterns may reflect the wounds and impact the enemy reflect the wounds and the impact of the enemy 402 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:10,000 has sought to produce through the through their life journey. 403 01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:19,000 That's why the enemy calls and continues to feed reflecting their character, shaping their identity, and reflecting how they respond to others in the presence 404 01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:29,000 , but these wounds do not define the original image and likeness of God in which they were created 405 01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:44,000 they are the effects of painful experience that God desired to bring into the light of His word heal and transform through the renewing of our mind 406 01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:53,000 , beloved. The wound they have come through another person's action 407 01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:07,000 , but the false belief that develops around the wound can continue influencing identity long after the original experience has passed. 408 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:16,000 We must recognize that distinction eleven the enemies objective is to distort the expression of God's image in Christians 409 01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:28,000 , not in the ungodly not in the ungali the ungali they will just continue to enjoy the life of sin 410 01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:39,000 but the godly person, the image of God and his character and his awareness of who 411 01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:46,000 he is in us is to develop that inner man, the character of God in us 412 01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:51,000 you see we'll move forward on this, and Yahweh created a humanity in his image 413 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:59,000 and like this then we must discern and understand the spiritual significant of anything that hinders the expression of his character in our life. 414 01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:08,000 The enemy uses painful experience to plant lies, create fear and shame and make people believe things about themselves that goals against God's truth 415 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:23,000 . Consider what happens when a person begins to believe I am unworthy 416 01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:36,000 that belief can become part of the way the person understands their identity 417 01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:44,000 when someone begins to believe I cannot trust anyone that believe can become part of the character they express in relationship when someone begins to believe 418 01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:52,000 I will never be enough that belief can influence the choice, their confidence, and their sense of purpose 419 01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:04,000 that's what the enemy uses to hinder the journey 420 01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:08,000 and the purpose in which God calls us when we get to understand who we are in Christ 421 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:15,000 and we allow the Torah to continue to shape our mind and renew our mind, beloved, we start to exercise 422 01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:23,000 the authority, the power that God was intended from the beginning that He gave to Adam, and he said very clear right there and gave him dominion 423 01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:30,000 we start to express that how many times you have studied the Bible and you read a biblical passage 424 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:35,000 and all of a sudden it opens your understanding but the joy that you receive because that understanding you receive that moment is wow 425 01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:43,000 this is a revelation because one thing after the other it starts to unfold 426 01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:49,000 and what happens is that God is what he's doing he's awakening the awareness of your inner man 427 01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:57,000 so that you could be able to grow to another level because what you're expecting down the row is going to be needed 428 01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:05,000 you need to grow if it is in faith or if it is in patience or is in a place that your character needs to be shaped 429 01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:14,000 and mold that the enemy has hindered you fear belove it you know that fear completely destroys 430 01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:20,000 anybody's future including a person that is drowning that does not know how to swim fear brings anybody around from that person 431 01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:28,000 at the same time into the deeps of the water I've seen this a lot 432 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:33,000 a person goes to save another person and the fear is taking over this person 433 01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:38,000 and both of them went down because of the fear grab on to the person and that person grab onto the other person and they never let go 434 01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:46,000 and they both went down fear is one of the biggest weapons that God explains very clear to us 435 01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:56,000 I did not give you a spirit of fear is a spirit beloved is a spirit that 436 01:18:56,000 --> 01:19:02,000 he's always seeking ways hard to bring destruction, how to be able to manipulate and control the wounds that we carry from our past 437 01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:10,000 belove I want you to understand this because this is very important because if I get to understand wait a minute 438 01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:19,000 I'mI'm developing the character and the image of God in my life I need to continue to feed my heart, my life 439 01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:25,000 with the Torah daily consistently not five minutes not ten minutes 440 01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:30,000 it's trying to hear what the Spirit of God is saying 441 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:33,000 so that your eyes of your understanding will be open 442 01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,000 and the enlightenment of that word comes to you and the excitement of you moving forward 443 01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:43,000 that it gives you the momentum, the authority, the power to overcome the battles that you're going to face. 444 01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:54,000 Beloved, no soldier that is recruited will go immediately to battle no every soldier that is recruited goes through a rigid training 445 01:19:54,000 --> 01:20:02,000 and show them how to use a weapon, how to protect themselves and if the weapon and everything did not was not enough 446 01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:11,000 because he got lost in the place, how to survive, and that's what we will call. And the apostle talks about this 447 01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:20,000 our warfare is not against flesh and blood is against spiritual demons in high places. 448 01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:28,000 And how do we deal with these things moving forward below? The problem is not simply that these thoughts appear in our mind. 449 01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:36,000 The deeper issue is that the false belief can become established 450 01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:53,000 patterns through which a person understands and express themselves 451 01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:58,000 what begins as a wound can influence a belief, and that is very clear what begins as a wound can influence as a belief 452 01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:06,000 my parents said I never mount for anything but maybe you don't remember that 453 01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:17,000 but your actions do you always give up from a job you always give up from some opportunity 454 01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:24,000 that comes your way that God wants you to be blessed in that alone 455 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:28,000 that womb will make you make you an unbelief of it 456 01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:31,000 you don't believe in it's hard for you to understand it's hard to comprehend because your mind has been blocked by a wound 457 01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:39,000 and the enemy uses that and he speaks to you all you know you can't do that oh no no see you won't be able to reach that 458 01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:46,000 it makes you feel unworthy it makes you feel shame makes you feel that that was not for you 459 01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:51,000 that's for somebody else but you see other people be able to accomplish 460 01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:57,000 it is because back there you know that you go accomplish but you never see yourself there beloved it's very, very clear 461 01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:05,000 what begins as a wound can't influence a belief what becomes a belief can shape our inner understanding and what shapes our inner understanding can influence the character we express 462 01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:18,000 We must recognize that not every wound suffering or human struggle can be attributed directly to listen to this directly to the enemy. 463 01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:38,000 Scripture, however, warns us that Ibu is real deception is active 464 01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:53,000 and there is a spiritual battle surrounding the minds and the heart of humanity. That is real 465 01:22:53,000 --> 01:23:01,000 in John ten Jesus declares that the thief comes to what steal kill and destroy 466 01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:08,000 this reveals the destructive nature of the enemy 467 01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:14,000 and his opposition to the life and purpose of God through deception, temptation, and the influence of evil, the enemy seeks 468 01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:22,000 to distort our understanding corrupt godly character and hinder the expression of God's image and humanity. I read this again because this is what is it's all about 469 01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:34,000 This reviews the destructive nature of the enemy 470 01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:46,000 and his opposition to the life and purpose of God through deception, temptation, and the influence of evil, the enemy seeks 471 01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:54,000 to distort our understanding, corrupt godly character, and hinder the expression of God's image and humanity, beloved. 472 01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:05,000 The focus is not simply on the wound, but on how he will seeks to use the wounds, beloved an affliction of life 473 01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:18,000 to distort the character of God intended for our life so that we could be able to express the image of God. 474 01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:28,000 That is why the renewal of the mind in Romans twelve two is so important through the trust of God's word and the transforming work of the Spirit 475 01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:39,000 what has been distorted can be brought into alignment with God's purpose, and His image can be reflected more clearly in our character in life. 476 01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:53,000 Second Corinthians, beloved eleven three Paul expresses concern that the mind may be led astray from sincere devotion to Christ someone could read this. 477 01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:07,000 Second Corinthians eleven three. 478 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:11,000 But I fear lease somehow. 479 01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:19,000 as the serpent received he by his crop news so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in a price 480 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:36,000 so you're what he's not talking about the life he's talking about your mind he's talking about your mind why 481 01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:42,000 because remember it's your mind that carries the fullness understanding and the witness in the way that God reveals God doesn't reveal 482 01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:50,000 through your hand wake up hand I'm calling you no 483 01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:56,000 God reveals within your inner man where your mind your will and your emotion is bound together 484 01:25:56,000 --> 01:26:01,000 and God reveals to your Spirit through His Spirit and reveals the word He doesn't speak another language He speaks the word the Torah 485 01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:09,000 He tells you what you have fed your Spirit in that place that you have gained maturity 486 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:17,000 he speaks to you as an a mature way my son and the word comes to you as an awareness 487 01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:25,000 and it brings fear to the Lord beloved it brings you the desire and the and the passion to fulfill His purpose belove it 488 01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:35,000 the focus is not simply on the wound, but on how evil seeks to use the wound and afflictions of life to distort the character of God intended for our hours 489 01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:46,000 to reflect that is why the renewal of the mind in twelve two is so important 490 01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:56,000 through the truth of God's word and the transforming of the work of the Spirit 491 01:26:56,000 --> 01:27:04,000 what has been distorted can be brought into alignment with God's purpose and His image can be reflected more clearly in our character and life. 492 01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:12,000 Love it love it's I'm going to read this last passage in them because there's more 493 01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:23,000 why does the word of God speaks about renewing and what is the renewing 494 01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:31,000 but there's more to this because I wanted to bring you to the place to understand what is the image enlightens of God 495 01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:39,000 you could put that up for a moment because I won't be able to continue I know I want to be sensitive to time 496 01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:47,000 Love it in this picture. 497 01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:07,000 In this picture belove it okay you see kind of an image of a brain of a person 498 01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:16,000 scientifically and biblically it speaks very profound 499 01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:21,000 God speaks about the mind the apostle speaks about the mind belove it 500 01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:29,000 when you get to understand this is where the image of God is manifested 501 01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:36,000 beloved it's Adam hathis before he became a living soul 502 01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:43,000 or a living being he had no emotions because he was not alive he had no feeling because he was not alive he had no of these characteristic 503 01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:51,000 and you know that God has every one of these characteristics God has a sense of humor beloved 504 01:28:55,000 --> 01:29:03,000 in the Bible when you read it you'll see as well but I want to tell you beloved 505 01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:05,000 when I wrote this down I also put the passages in the bottom about renewal what 506 01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:12,000 you need to go through and every one of those passages you can close that a little bit every one of those passages 507 01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:18,000 it was going to help you to develop a pattern of renewing continuously and develop some habit to follow consistent. 508 01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:26,000 The Bible speaks about this very clear, beloved 509 01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:30,000 , but the thing is that when you understand every one of these things 510 01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:36,000 , that's where the enemy hinders us through our emotions you can see our emotions 511 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:43,000 the way we think, the way we see things distort things the way that we keep in memory 512 01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:49,000 when he speaks to us through somebody that abused us or hindered us in any way that stays there, beloved that stays there. 513 01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:56,000 It doesn't stay in your physical it stays in your inner man and that is what the apostle say in Romans you say don't be conformed to the pattern why 514 01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:04,000 because this mind has patterns that has been developed from the world and that's why 515 01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:16,000 we have to renew our mind and scientifically speaks about renewing as well 516 01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:20,000 the mind you see and they they just use scientifically terms in order to kind of renew a person's way of thinking mass murder 517 01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:28,000 they lock them up and they give them so many different programs because they try to renew their mind they will never 518 01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:37,000 rehap because of the problem is in the soul beloved is bound to their flesh 519 01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:43,000 their desires is given to the world unless the spirit of God becomes to live and break that chain and bring them to reality 520 01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:51,000 who they really are beloved we know who we are we have a mind of Christ not this 521 01:30:54,000 --> 01:31:01,000 it's what is manifested within that truth that we receive you see what it's going to set 522 01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:07,000 you free is not am I you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free free of what free of your boundary 523 01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:15,000 that the emotions have taken you to a place of fear or have taken you to a place of slavery have taken you to a place why 524 01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:23,000 because that's what the enemy has cost in our life beloved sometimes we react in a way that we don't even think we never 525 01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:30,000 think where there's a come from my reactions of anger not knowing the number of times 526 01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:35,000 I sit back and I say wow that was my father and it gives me an understanding very clear how his reactions and everything why did that learn that pattern 527 01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:43,000 We love it. I come from the same lineage, the same education, the same place 528 01:31:53,000 --> 01:32:01,000 now when I was born I become a student when I grow up I become a teacher why 529 01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,000 because we pass that information down without knowing the true meaning and the answers that was never told to us. beloved, and that's why 530 01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:12,000 we have to renew our mind by the word there's nothing else is going to renew our mind it's only the word will uncover the hiddenness that is deep in our soul 531 01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:22,000 because God is working beloved in each and every one of us 532 01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:27,000 because now that we have a newborn spirit, he's developing and nurturing that newborn spirit through His word beloved 533 01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:35,000 we're going to go into more deeper into some of these 534 01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:39,000 because there's some wounds that it needs to be uncovered and that is only uncovered by the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God 535 01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:47,000 that's why it'sI don't want to rush through this because I want each and every one of us to sit down and ask God there is some things that I can't see 536 01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:56,000 King David ask God search my heart why he said search my heart because there was things in his life 537 01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:09,000 that he did not know beloved, why did he pass down to his sons 538 01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:15,000 and King David was a man after God's heart beloved after God's heart 539 01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:21,000 but why Absalom became the opposite why the wounds of Absalom about his sister getting raped and things like that cost it 540 01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:28,000 a hindrance in his life and no answer things happen in life from a childhood 541 01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:33,000 and sometimes we reflect them we don't know where they're coming from the only person that knows them that hinders 542 01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:41,000 our life is the enemy we need to know ourselves how the schemes of the enemy operates beloved we have the mind of Christ beloved through the newborn spirit 543 01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:49,000 but the only way that we could be able to nurture it is through the word of God. I'm going to close here because it goes directly to another into another path but I want you to listen 544 01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:07,000 You're not any common person you're not you're not just like the world is no you're not 545 01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:25,000 you're a newborn child that God has shaped and formed for his pleasure not for hours for his pleasure and his desire 546 01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:33,000 through us is to form the child that he called us to be, and that only happens through the Torah beloved happens through the word. 547 01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:41,000 There's nothing else then when the Word of God is shaping in us the image of Christ, the mind of Christ 548 01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:49,000 that He has given us through the Word of God beloved, you will reach the level just like the apostle said, I have run the race I have fought to fight 549 01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:58,000 he's saying it was fighting you have to fight the good fight of faith why and the only thing you fight is the renewing of your mind why 550 01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:08,000 because that's the battle zone where the enemy constantly attacks us he could attacks us physically one of our kids or loved ones with a sickness 551 01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:17,000 but the word of God gave us promise and said very clear that by his tribes we were heal 552 01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:27,000 how difficult is for us to grab onto that how difficult is it because of the mind because of the need of renewing 553 01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:35,000 the mind what makes us fail is the lack of knowledge lack of knowledge my people perish because of lack of knowledge beloved 554 01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:42,000 and it's so real so true and the more I keep on digging through so many of this 555 01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:46,000 I get I sit down beloved sit with a friend of brother or sister your wife your husband 556 01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:52,000 and dialogue what God gave you in that moment I guarantee you it's going to take you into a deeper, more understanding why 557 01:35:52,000 --> 01:36:00,000 because when I sit down with my wife and start I got this wow it all of a suddenly 558 01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:02,000 it opens more the understanding because she brings an awareness because the Lord speaks to her 559 01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:10,000 and I say I didn't see it that way and what happens 560 01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:18,000 God is shaping and putting the puzzles of His image in our hearts more deeper, beloved to understand it's so profound, so beautiful beloved but one thing is this and as I close it with this 561 01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:33,000 The central question of all this beloved the most important question of all this if we were created in the image 562 01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:47,000 and likeness of Yahweh what happens when our thinking becomes shape by fear wound and deception 563 01:36:52,000 --> 01:37:00,000 and how does the renewing of our mind help us walk in its truth 564 01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:08,000 and the only way that you will answer that is by your own experience it's your own experience is going to reveal more and more beloved in your life I'll leave it here 565 01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:13,000 Let's pray. 566 01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:21,000 The love of this was more as a teaching that is needed 567 01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:36,000 preaching we could preach so much and be very nice and joyful and oh wow that's a great word 568 01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:41,000 beloved is about it's about learning the truth that the enemy has covered our life 569 01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:48,000 you know how many things sometimes in my life as 570 01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:49,000 I'm studying reading the Bible or either fasting and praying and in that place of quietness in that place of seeking in that place of seeking beloved 571 01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:57,000 it's what you're going to find and God starts to uncover things beloved I have uncover by the Spirit that He start to reveal things in my life 572 01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:09,000 that I was never aware if you get to know my life childhood beloved I could write a bestseller storybook I'm telling you I could write a book 573 01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:21,000 but thanks to the grace and love of God beloved he has brought every layer off of it 574 01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:29,000 and I can see and I know wow where does it come from why Lord I don't want to pass this down to my family thanks God 575 01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:37,000 and my sons are grown up and even though beloved I have shared some wicked ways of my life of wounds 576 01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:47,000 and thinking that it was normal thinking that it was normal but God's grace and His love for His beloved 577 01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:55,000 it's it's greater than that that's why that's why we're here as the body of Christ 578 01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:01,000 so that iron sharpens iron and I let the word of God dwell in us and shape us to the way he wants us 579 01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:09,000 Amen so let's stand up and pray I know this little heat has given us a little bit of sleepliness it's it's kind of yeah 580 01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:22,000 It's God is awesome, beloved the more the more I keep on digging into this the more I keep on seeing 581 01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:41,000 I call it shadows, reflections shadows I love it and how shadow disappear by the light shadow 582 01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:49,000 I'm telling you you can see this shadow mine of the war right now here why 583 01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:53,000 because it's a reflection but as soon as the light comes down on me that shadows no longer there why 584 01:39:53,000 --> 01:40:01,000 because it's not a reflection now my shadows of reflection is from thy past 585 01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:09,000 and there's a lot of those things that God wants to review through 586 01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:14,000 his light love it nothing is uncover unless light shines upon it and that's what God wants to do 587 01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:21,000 amen so let's pray be free open ask the Lord there is things in my life and I want them to come to light 588 01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:29,000 it's not about me being in shame in front of my loved brothers no it's that I want to be free 589 01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:38,000 I want to be open and I want to express your grace, your love, the image of you, Father in my life into the world in so many different ways 590 01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:46,000 I want to express my the God that call me into the kingdom for a purpose 591 01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:56,000 Father we praise you and give you glory we humble our heart God you know the deepest secret areas of our life 592 01:40:56,000 --> 01:41:04,000 and you are working in our life constantly God constantly 593 01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:09,000 I pray God that you will expose my heart my mind my life daily God no matter where and how but daily 594 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:16,000 so that I will no longer be bound to the hiddenness 595 01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:22,000 and the wounds and the lives that the enemy has caused in my life that has caused affliction to my loved ones and friends and people that I live around 596 01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:30,000 I give you praise God you deserve more than worship you deserve more than my praise of my lips you deserve my living sacrifice to give you honor 597 01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:41,000 and glorified you Father Father God I pray for each and every one of us 598 01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:47,000 God we know God that each and every one of us have come through a journey of challenges 599 01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:52,000 and wounds and pains and lies and deception that the enemy has caused in our life 600 01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:57,000 , but God you are greater, your son who died in the cross already sealed everything 601 01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:02,000 so that we partake of that glory of yours, Father God, I pray for my beloved brothers and sisters I pray that the light of truth will enlighten their hearts 602 01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:10,000 and they will be able to see God that you have uncovered Father you have uncovered the things that the enemy had Father hindering 603 01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:23,000 them holding them tighting them Father to a place of unworthy which is alive the enemy Father we ask you, Father that you're precious 604 01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:34,000 word that is the light in the life that you have given us let that light shine deep 605 01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:41,000 in our heart father in the name of Jesus I come 606 01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:45,000 against the work of the enemy and every deception that the enemy has caused and brought to bondage in the deepest place of our hearts 607 01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:53,000 in the name of Jesus I rebuke every work of Satan and every lie I cast down every thought, every imagination 608 01:42:54,000 --> 01:43:02,000 that elevates itself against the life of my brothers and sisters that you have called them to be who 609 01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:11,000 they are called to be by your grace and your love and your purpose 610 01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:14,000 God in the name of your Son Jesus we declare the word of truth we declare Father that word that brings freedom we declare the life of Christ in them 611 01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:22,000 Father because your words say so is not what I say but what your words say Father bless 612 01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:32,000 each and every one of us that when we walk from here we walk with a joy 613 01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:40,000 and the freedom that we be able to grow into a higher place to be able to share that love that you're showing us more and more 614 01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:46,000 in the name of Jesus Amen praise God God is awesome beloved God is awesome 615 01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:54,000 And we will continue. There's 616 01:43:54,000 --> 01:44:02,000 We will continue there's other and more stuff that we have to uncover beloved you know I was thinking about all this 617 01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:17,000 and studying I was studying about when a woman is raped oh my goodness 618 01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:28,000 you have no idea how the enemy has afflicted a pain, a deep fear 619 01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:36,000 including when she's planned to have kids fear have taken over and fear has caused a change 620 01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:47,000 in the body. I was reading an article about this pastor my wife and I that they remove a huge stone bigger than what is it 621 01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:55,000 football how big was it's a baseball like a baseball like a baseball from his intestine 622 01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:59,000 he didn't feel it he didn't understand but it was the bitterness and the resentment and the problems 623 01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:05,000 the doctor tells him very clearly he said you know where this come from this come from all the resentments 624 01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:12,000 and the bitterness that you've been holding those enzymes and things have accumulated into that place 625 01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:20,000 belove and stress is real the enemy uses that to hinder the life of a Christian He uses that as a weapon he uses sickness as a weapon he uses 626 01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:28,000 but the only way we receive this is because we have not renewed our mind of who 627 01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:35,000 we really are in Christ when we get to know you know we are so strong 628 01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:39,000 and faith in one area but in another area sometimes we so I find myself that way sometime I'm strong 629 01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:47,000 in this and I can speak life into another person and when it comes to my pain what's happening 630 01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:54,000 the pain defeats me why because I could not tolerate pain and God show me why beloved I could not tolerate tolerate pain 631 01:45:54,000 --> 01:46:02,000 if I tell you the story what God revealed to me why I was always fighting against that 632 01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:10,000 it was hard for me to receive the faith in that pain 633 01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:15,000 beloved because through that pain it brought me back a psychologically to the pain I was experiencing when I was a child, beloved 634 01:46:15,000 --> 01:46:23,000 in how God brought to me and brought me an awareness and I said, wow, am I heal? 635 01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:29,000 No, but I'm striving for healing. Why? Because now I know 636 01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:32,000 and when you know you need to strive and continue to seek why through the Word of God because it's the healing of the Word of God beloved 637 01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:40,000 nothing else you're not going to be healed tomorrow God could do that there's no doubt 638 01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:51,000 but God allows you to endure and be stronger and stronger because then you will be able to overcome greater pains in other times 639 01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:57,000 it was very profound why I had bitterness against my father 640 01:46:57,000 --> 01:47:05,000 and God had revealed himself in an image through the my image in the in the mirror 641 01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:10,000 and see my father there and break out and show me where was the problem with me beloved 642 01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:16,000 that's real it's real and it happens to us that's why 643 01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:21,000 we have to ask God show me my heart show me where those things that is holding me back to be at the fullness to please 644 01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:29,000 you in every in every step of the way mentioned King David was God's after God's heart 645 01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:38,000 , but the problem is that he was lacking of some things and that was denurturing and the education of his sons and daughters 646 01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:44,000 you know there's a lot to all this beloved the Bible explains a lot of these things but you don't see them 647 01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:51,000 because we've seen it as a story we need to put ourselves in that position 648 01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:55,000 if I was king would I do that would I do that if I was king would I take care of my sons and my daughter and my family 649 01:47:55,000 --> 01:48:03,000 at the same time if God has calling me and help me after God's heart then I got to do this right to fulfill the fullness 650 01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:11,000 and the purpose of God that's why decisions making when we make decision on our own expect outcome 651 01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:17,000 but not the way that God is going to give it to you because those are our decision 652 01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:23,000 but when God is leading us and God is pressing in our heart 653 01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:26,000 because we're allowing God to continue to lead us, I guarantee that the outcome is going to be the outcome of God, and I'm going to tell you it happens 654 01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:34,000 and I've experienced it as well my wife's car I try to convince on one thing 655 01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:38,000 and God was telling us something and I try to convince it because I thought it was normal 656 01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:44,000 it was common. No, no, no, let's go. We're going to New Hampshire get a car no God was telling she had faith. 657 01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:52,000 I'm standing here and I'm holding on him and what happened beloved it came to pass 658 01:48:53,000 --> 01:49:00,000 God embarrass me my way of thinking okay and that happens it is okay does it shame me no I want to be embarrassed 659 01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:08,000 show me beloved and that's where we grow into the maturity of him in our life amen I'll leave it there 660 01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:18,000 I don't want to go too things that mostly prevent us from the changes that the Lord wants to do in us 661 01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:28,000 and it's this sense of guilt and a change those who think guilt and chain 662 01:49:30,000 --> 01:49:37,000 we think that the Lord by revealing to us through somebody else or through our own mind 663 01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:43,000 and heart something that is being hinderous in the past and is preventing us from reaching the goal. 664 01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:51,000 We think that God is doing it to punish us, but no all the contrary is to release us from that 665 01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:56,000 so then we can move forward, right? And I was telling Amanda this is the the only one that I've heard this for the first time 666 01:49:56,000 --> 01:50:04,000 not even my husband I haven't have even the moment or time to tell this to my husband Amanda came to my house 667 01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:13,000 and we were talking and I was like Amanda something to me that I never thought 668 01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:24,000 I was coming from that experience when I was a child and I was asking the Lord why 669 01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:31,000 I was pretending so much in one time alive that my husband was the best husband alive when he was not he was in alcohol 670 01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:39,000 he was abusing he was mistreating me doing every kind of things right and not to put him down 671 01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:48,000 I mean that was his past life but I was why I was so ashamed of that 672 01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:54,000 that anybody who asked me oh biggest friend my husband was drunk and do something wrong 673 01:50:54,000 --> 01:51:01,000 the next day he would send me flowers to my workplace 674 01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:06,000 and then all my coworkers will say oh your husband I wish you have a hospital like that that send me flowers 675 01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:14,000 and then I was like yes he's wonderful yes oh he's lovely he's like that he he trigged me like this lying right always he hiding 676 01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:25,000 what was the reality and I was at the table that was recently while we were discussing all these you know messages 677 01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:33,000 and I was on the backside thinking I said Lord why 678 01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:36,000 I was like that so even hiding a line or whatever 679 01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:43,000 and the Holy Spirit immediately respond to me and said I want to show you something 680 01:51:43,000 --> 01:51:51,000 and I went into a trans I went in a vision sitting there at the backyard on the table 681 01:51:54,000 --> 01:52:01,000 and I saw myself I saw my sister I saw my brother and I saw my mom hanging some cheats 682 01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:08,000 that she has already watched before there was no like we didn't have watching 683 01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:15,000 machine nothing we we you know do it a hand and they hang it in the court 684 01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:19,000 and I'm looking I'm sitting my table and looking darvation I'm sorry I didn't mention it 685 01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:25,000 to you and I see myself you know like looking at my mom hanging the thing my brother Miguel and my sister 686 01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:33,000 Ima we are little we I was there I was probably 687 01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:40,000 by the age of Abigail probably five years old my sister was three years old A Miguel was three years old did not me like probably eight years old 688 01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:48,000 and all of a sudden my mom sense that the man that sell that salted her 689 01:52:54,000 --> 01:53:02,000 those sheets were coming to get paid for those cheats that she had not finished paying 690 01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:11,000 and I and I'm looking right and I she she sent to she said to me go and tell the mom that I am not here 691 01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:20,000 and Miguel was to tell the man my mom said that that she's not here 692 01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:26,000 imagine the guy was so so full of anger she worn around through the backyard to where we were 693 01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:33,000 and he said oh you said that you were not here and you said your son to lie to me 694 01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:40,000 so this is what I'm going to do these cheats and everything was wet and I was like ah no what you're doing 695 01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:48,000 they were like a chaos at that moment and I remember I see myself looking at my mom all out of you know 696 01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:57,000 completely been out of chape Miguel Sky and my sister crying and and the guy left 697 01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:06,000 and my mom was like never ever explain it to us what happened at that moment we just perceive it the way that I want to perceive it 698 01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:14,000 I said bendito my mom Miguel perceive it the one way my older sister I don't know but that thing situation hide never say truth 699 01:54:22,000 --> 01:54:30,000 because my mom said my brother tell that I am not here 700 01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:37,000 and that was a lie. I said oh that's you know that's okay to lie, you know to hurry yourself 701 01:54:37,000 --> 01:54:45,000 I grew up so I didn't know that in my experience as a grown up I mean living with my husband why 702 01:54:47,000 --> 01:54:53,000 I was always pretending you know with my coworkers my mom my dad my family non zero of no 703 01:54:53,000 --> 01:54:59,000 one knew what I was going through no one I'm telling you it was inside me hearing inside me 704 01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:07,000 but I learned that the Holy Spirit said that's where that coming from that's where you learn that you perceive that being hiding the line 705 01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:15,000 it was okay I begin to cry when all of a sudden get out of the vision I begin to cry and oh Lord forgive me and the Lord was said to me no 706 01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:27,000 you perceive it the way it's a child but your mom never explained to you why 707 01:55:32,000 --> 01:55:37,000 you know she did that because she didn't have the money to pay she could not pay my dad 708 01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:44,000 also involving alcohol you know my mom was desperate 709 01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:47,000 and she was ashamed she couldn't explain to me and to my brother and sister why that happened 710 01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:53,000 because she was crying crying of shame you understand but I never understood that 711 01:55:53,000 --> 01:56:00,000 and that's what you know sometimes those experiences that we go when we are a child 712 01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:07,000 and are not explained to us correctly wound ourselves and then we go in life we didn't I didn't never know why 713 01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:14,000 it was like I mean never say to anybody that I was having trouble not even to my mom 714 01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:22,000 but one day I have mentioned this to you or one day I was in this group when I became came back to the Lord I was in this group 715 01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:30,000 all the women were there in the women ministry and Renes mom was leading the group and all the women were telling all their experiences in life 716 01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:41,000 review and when King Tumi I said like Delia, did you have anything to say I was new in that group of women? 717 01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:50,000 I didn't know any of these women, Berlina recently because I just came to that church recently 718 01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:58,000 and she said the lady you can you can say whatever it is I said nothing 719 01:56:58,000 --> 01:57:05,000 and she passed okay next and everybody was like one by one by one telling all the things 720 01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:10,000 and I am sitting in here listening to all these women that went through so much struggle 721 01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:18,000 and shameful thing that I would believe that I would never say something like that 722 01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:23,000 they were open they were saying all that I was like oh my god 723 01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:27,000 these women are so not afraid not shame open and then came back to me and said well Delia we finished 724 01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:34,000 but still you have the opportunity in no pressure and I said I just I just want to open open myself 725 01:57:34,000 --> 01:57:42,000 and say something and I begin to talk about for the first time in my life 726 01:57:43,000 --> 01:57:48,000 everything that I went through with my husband with my kids with everything 727 01:57:48,000 --> 01:57:54,000 he was like something open up and I began to just I couldn't even stop 728 01:57:54,000 --> 01:58:00,000 and they were all like we circumpassion towards me that I never thought I was going to happen 729 01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:07,000 I thought that they were going to then be like my mom was come them by this man so I was like that day 730 01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:15,000 I was completely completely free from that boundation of hiding myself and the shame 731 01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:22,000 and not saying whatever it is that you know it's bothering me or I'm going through and this is what happened 732 01:58:22,000 --> 01:58:30,000 sometimes we go through life hiding ourself for whatever reason because of shame and because of guilt the sense of guilt and shame 733 01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:38,000 and I'm saying this openly right now I just mention it to Amanda even 734 01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:45,000 my husband I didn't have the opportunity to give him to tell him this experience recently 735 01:58:45,000 --> 01:58:52,000 it was like two weeks ago or something like that and I was like wow how many father Christian thing 736 01:58:52,000 --> 01:59:00,000 that open up themselves is a token of shame and guilt and combination 737 01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:07,000 and what God wants to do is free us free us healed us from that wound that is being there all along 738 01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:15,000 and we don't know as you said behave this way or we respond this way what we take this way instead of the right way 739 01:59:15,000 --> 01:59:23,000 and it's all because of our experiences so I'm saying this 740 01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:28,000 and I just encourage you to talk to your husband you know talk to your wives don't be hidden 741 01:59:28,000 --> 01:59:35,000 because when there is something hidden in us the enemy take advantage and take opportunity 742 01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:43,000 right and I'm telling you that day I was so free that I never I mean in how many years in twenty years 743 01:59:43,000 --> 01:59:48,000 I never thought that I could say open my mouth and say that because it was like a deception a deception 744 01:59:48,000 --> 01:59:54,000 how many people if I would have say it would have come that day 745 01:59:54,000 --> 02:00:02,000 all the women came to me and halk me and prayed for me, oh, Delia, I went through this and this and this and telling me a story to come for me 746 02:00:02,000 --> 02:00:10,000 it was the best day of my entire life, so are you saying that so to bless all of you 747 02:00:12,000 --> 02:00:17,000 and don't be afraid to go to God say God show me reveal to me and I was Christian 748 02:00:17,000 --> 02:00:24,000 because sometimes I said no I'm Christian I'm by the grace of God you know I'm free the Lord blood of Jesus made me think no yes it does 749 02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:32,000 but there are things that are hidden in us the Lord knows and he said okay later don't worry 750 02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:41,000 I will deliver you that's not what's important now what is important that you know me know me and grow in me 751 02:00:41,000 --> 02:00:48,000 and later on I will be a weapon that's why it's important that the word washes us constantly santifizes us the word of God santifies us 752 02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:56,000 and the thing is it's the woman that the word it's reviewed as a truth 753 02:01:01,000 --> 02:01:06,000 in the hidden pockets of our heart in areas that we're struggling in our inner man 754 02:01:06,000 --> 02:01:10,000 beloved that becomes it becomes like she said it's a freedom that you cannot express it there's no words to express it 755 02:01:10,000 --> 02:01:17,000 because you know that you no longer bound and it's like no one 756 02:01:17,000 --> 02:01:21,000 they they don't have you through a leech it doesn't have you to a leech well I can tell you stories 757 02:01:21,000 --> 02:01:29,000 that's what I said things that God had to reveal to me and including my wife in the conversation to the point that freedom what happens 758 02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:38,000 it opens a door for me to be more bold and be able to walk and do the things that I'm supposed to be doing 759 02:01:39,000 --> 02:01:47,000 When we go through family trauma and our parents are not able to handle the situation because of their trauma 760 02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:08,000 sometimes we become the parent for our parents, and because of that we don't want to say anything 761 02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:18,000 because we feel like we're hurting and exposing the people we're trying to protect absolutely among that 762 02:02:18,000 --> 02:02:26,000 but when we do that we are killing ourselves in the name of holding something together that was never together 763 02:02:30,000 --> 02:02:38,000 and so I just feel very strongly to say this because we become since we were little some of us have been the parent of our parents 764 02:02:40,000 --> 02:02:48,000 and then we we just never openly acknowledge because we just we think it's bad 765 02:02:50,000 --> 02:02:57,000 we think we are still wronging the people that hurt us does that make sense 766 02:02:57,000 --> 02:03:05,000 and so we're still trying to be very Christian and very protective and we're never 767 02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:13,000 actually saying what we went through and that is still very dangerous to not acknowledge our own pain and try to fight for somebody else's pain 768 02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:21,000 that they have to also deal with and there has to be a separation of you taking care of yourself in the way that God wants you to completely no 769 02:03:25,000 --> 02:03:33,000 it's absolutely a hundred percent and you know what I sometime I'm thinking Lord you rebuild that to me before my mom dies 770 02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:42,000 so I can go with her and tell her and share with her you know what I mean 771 02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:47,000 but the Lord didn't allow her for what reason or another but it's still this is that the sense of protecting you know especially why 772 02:03:47,000 --> 02:03:55,000 if I was telling Rachel earlier that sometimes we our wife take that 773 02:03:56,000 --> 02:04:01,000 you have to be like the the suitable helper so we take it so seriously that we want to protect our husband and ordaine them 774 02:04:01,000 --> 02:04:09,000 what to do you know dominate them whatever and that is not what the Lord said 775 02:04:11,000 --> 02:04:15,000 you understand so sometimes this thing is shape based on our experience with our parents 776 02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:20,000 you know what we saw and the ground interpretation of the word of God as the enemy yes because God wants us to be vulnerable 777 02:04:20,000 --> 02:04:28,000 but if we grew up being the parent we never learned as safe vulnerability and so God wants us to learn a safe vulnerability 778 02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:37,000 with him and that's what you felt in that group you felt 779 02:04:38,000 --> 02:04:42,000 it was safe to be vulnerable and so the healing starts when we feel safe to be vulnerable 780 02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:47,000 that somebody we're talking with is like God himself whether it's a pastor whether it's your husband 781 02:04:47,000 --> 02:04:55,000 and that's very important that you find that safe place to be vulnerable but you need to express it if you don't express it 782 02:04:56,000 --> 02:05:02,000 the enemy will still continue manipulating your mind because James says to confess and to have someone pray and you will be healed 783 02:05:02,000 --> 02:05:10,000 and this is the most powerful thing because until I started confessing things I did not see healing in my healing 784 02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:22,000 because it's the wound is still bleeding until that wound is completely healed 785 02:05:22,000 --> 02:05:26,000 then you're gonna be you're gonna be free you're going to feel free 786 02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:32,000 actually it's something that they I'm telling you the way that I felt that I never felt something like that before 787 02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:40,000 because he was years years of holding so when I went into that emotion and that feeling of wow is it was just that just opening up 788 02:05:44,000 --> 02:05:50,000 but he was as you said was a right environment 789 02:05:50,000 --> 02:05:54,000 you know what I mean because it's not that I'm going to go to anybody until this and this 790 02:05:54,000 --> 02:06:00,000 and that because I don't know if that can hurt or wound 791 02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:02,000 the person you have to be mindful that the Lord will guide you to the right person, the right environment. 792 02:06:02,000 --> 02:06:10,000 But when he's about husband and wife oh that's the environment you only say of healing 793 02:06:11,000 --> 02:06:15,000 because as you said is I don't sharpening iron you understand that's what God put us in a different with different 794 02:06:15,000 --> 02:06:23,000 you know my husband is different from me I'm different from him but whatever 795 02:06:25,000 --> 02:06:32,000 the difference are are complimentary to to create one mind you know on the Christ 796 02:06:32,000 --> 02:06:38,000 so therefore our husband we since we met right 797 02:06:38,000 --> 02:06:41,000 we were like so young like nineteen you know and we were like dating right at the dating we were like talking about our problems our issues right 798 02:06:41,000 --> 02:06:49,000 and we were growing or whatever and this is always being it's men 799 02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:54,000 and even when he was in the life of alcoholic whatever 800 02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:58,000 we always trying to help each other and and whatever and but whatever 801 02:06:58,000 --> 02:07:03,000 you confess when you are married whatever you confess when you are at that moment of wearing when you are at the ceremony 802 02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:11,000 you know what I was thinking this is gonna bless you when I was there in that classroom 803 02:07:12,000 --> 02:07:20,000 and I said we said something the Holy Spirit bring me to why 804 02:07:23,000 --> 02:07:28,000 it's important that we declare prophetically you know our children's life, our life 805 02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:35,000 as a marriage couple Renee and say we're married they both together 806 02:07:35,000 --> 02:07:41,000 seen a prophetic son and they said Jesus at the center of my life Jesus at the center of it all and all 807 02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:47,000 the people were witnessing that they were declaring that Jesus was going to be the center of the life 808 02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:55,000 and I was thinking about and writing and they say, Lord, did I do something like that? 809 02:07:57,000 --> 02:08:05,000 And they said, yes you did reminded me that when my invitation for wedding I put the verse from Son a Son 810 02:08:09,000 --> 02:08:15,000 that the waters will not will quench our love the rivers will not overwhelming, and that was my test 811 02:08:15,000 --> 02:08:23,000 and we will never separate each other. So that was my statement that I gave to all the witness in my wedding 812 02:08:23,000 --> 02:08:31,000 so because of that statement prophetic we went through hard we went through 813 02:08:31,000 --> 02:08:39,000 I mean if we know you said how come you survive but we survive 814 02:08:39,000 --> 02:08:45,000 because of the word of prophetic word and declaration that we united our life so you sick you know for that 815 02:08:45,000 --> 02:08:52,000 and if you haven't done it you are still you know in that moment to do it 816 02:08:52,000 --> 02:08:57,000 because a prophetic thing is going to sustain you is going to hold you hold your marriage hold your kids hold your family hold your life in Christ is whatever 817 02:08:57,000 --> 02:09:05,000 we say prophetically through the Word of God you remember when it both think the Son it was beautiful you remember yes anyway 818 02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:31,000 I just want to say with data you shared reminds me of John chapter four the Samaritan woman 819 02:09:33,000 --> 02:09:38,000 you know when Jesus talked to her and she went to the city where she was trying to hide from 820 02:09:38,000 --> 02:09:44,000 and she went to the crowd where she was trying to hide from and her past the shame became the testimony 821 02:09:44,000 --> 02:09:50,000 and you guess what those people they didn't say yeah tell me more about your past five husbands exactly 822 02:09:50,000 --> 02:09:57,000 but they were actually interested in Jesus so I want to say this type of like a testimony 823 02:09:57,000 --> 02:10:05,000 or opening was like that like people really had no interest about like the failure of your past 824 02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:13,000 but that would actually lead them to the interest of Jesus imagine after that that experience 825 02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:20,000 my husband and I that were new in that church 826 02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:23,000 they ask us to lead all the marriage couple of to do a group for the marriage 827 02:10:23,000 --> 02:10:28,000 because they were all disconnected like and we were leading twenty couples leaders from the church 828 02:10:28,000 --> 02:10:35,000 and we will knew in that church and they will open that door because they were like fascinated that through our life 829 02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:43,000 we now stayed together and overcome you know when we were like about to be the head or divorce 830 02:10:54,000 --> 02:11:02,000 or whatever he was exactly that David yes yes amentious relationship 831 02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:12,000 we didn't call ourselves God called us he chose us the thing is that I look at this 832 02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:16,000 and I say God want me to be more aware of your purpose show me what I need to do in my daily life that it will please 833 02:11:16,000 --> 02:11:24,000 you because our flies are always a plan a lot of things in our daily life 834 02:11:24,000 --> 02:11:27,000 but it doesn't mean that everything that we plan it's it's going to please 835 02:11:27,000 --> 02:11:35,000 God it could please us and there's there's nothing wrong to plan 836 02:11:38,000 --> 02:11:44,000 but that our plans are be placed in the order of God lead us die 837 02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:52,000 us directness it is so good so beautiful with more to come yeah I just want one more 838 02:11:54,000 --> 02:11:59,000 testimony very quick when today you are praying for us does the image come to my mind 839 02:11:59,000 --> 02:12:07,000 that is my father talking to me like that woman which referring to my mother is doing this to you and that woman is that that's basically that's an image I 840 02:12:08,000 --> 02:12:16,000 grabbed as a child when I was very young they were divorced 841 02:12:23,000 --> 02:12:28,000 meanwhile by the my father has bitterness towards my mother 842 02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:34,000 and he blames a lot of like his failure or let's say unhappiness on my mom 843 02:12:34,000 --> 02:12:41,000 so and both my father and mother they they pursue in their career success 844 02:12:41,000 --> 02:12:48,000 a lot and and so they they they put their work first before their family 845 02:12:48,000 --> 02:12:52,000 so that's actually what actually I absorb intentionally during my childhood so it's like work is very important 846 02:12:52,000 --> 02:13:00,000 so there's a very long period of time I'm with a work hard i desire the success 847 02:13:05,000 --> 02:13:11,000 and also w what I acquired is i if something doesn't go well with the work 848 02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:19,000 oh i kind of put on my family as the obstacle of my career success 849 02:13:20,000 --> 02:13:23,000 and what a very interesting happen is this thursday i go go met attack lead of the software I tried to build which is the almost like 850 02:13:23,000 --> 02:13:31,000 only candidate I know can I was willing to help me to bring this product to life and everything goes wrong 851 02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:49,000 after we want to pick up the lady Jiang which Lea and and and everything goes wrong 852 02:13:51,000 --> 02:13:56,000 Leo get a sick he vomited in in the car twice 853 02:13:56,000 --> 02:13:59,000 and we bring bring everybody and my family and my wife and the potential tax leader to the restaurant and my wife cannot find her 854 02:13:59,000 --> 02:14:07,000 phone about ten minutes the first ten minutes we tried to like settle the environment and talk and she couldn't find her phone 855 02:14:07,000 --> 02:14:15,000 and we are we have those like technology finding finding my iPhone everything doesn't work 856 02:14:16,000 --> 02:14:20,000 it shows the phone is in the in the restaurant and we're up 857 02:14:20,000 --> 02:14:24,000 and we don't we work around first ten minutes or about fifteen minutes 858 02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:30,000 we go back to the car should go back to the car and come back we try to have a conversation set to the environment and talk about the business 859 02:14:30,000 --> 02:14:38,000 and but and we are end up spending first to ten minutes of of that 860 02:14:43,000 --> 02:14:48,000 just finding trying to find that phone and it turns out that the phone is just in the car but we just couldn't find it 861 02:14:48,000 --> 02:14:56,000 and this I mean i i mean i mean i mean then that thing come to my heart that's not normal right 862 02:14:56,000 --> 02:15:04,000 because it's never happened in past like six years of of the marriage and that it's like all happened that moment 863 02:15:07,000 --> 02:15:15,000 then i'm asking lord what happened is this something not on your heart or is that something enemy tried to use to against me 864 02:15:19,000 --> 02:15:27,000 and but i didn't get get angry meanwhile cause the all the the devotional things I've been through i i learn that i should control it 865 02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:39,000 and and up i feel nothing i feel okay and let it be if it's if it's not God's will if it have to fail let it fail 866 02:15:40,000 --> 02:15:48,000 and and so i just let it go where not talking too much about the business 867 02:15:49,000 --> 02:15:56,000 we're talking about at the last ten minutes of the the dinner but it went through it went through 868 02:15:56,000 --> 02:16:03,000 but i never but today i put two things together i see how enemy tried 869 02:16:03,000 --> 02:16:08,000 to say i mean i i could with the pattern in in the inner men that the enemy actually tried to build the stronghold of cause 870 02:16:08,000 --> 02:16:16,000 they okay now that's exactly what happened repeatedly in your family in the curses right cause cause your family always drive you down 871 02:16:18,000 --> 02:16:26,000 you down at the most important moment of life I didn't have that 872 02:16:29,000 --> 02:16:36,000 I don't need to have that because of the wisdom because of all of the word of God 873 02:16:36,000 --> 02:16:44,000 and I when you pray I just saw that's what actually animals completely to use try 874 02:16:45,000 --> 02:16:53,000 to bring anger into my life bring anger into my family and and bring like this disruption 875 02:16:56,000 --> 02:17:03,000 so I think this is very very important so to learn the word of God 876 02:17:03,000 --> 02:17:09,000 and and to break those stronghold stronghold in our life and and yeah so this is very it's awesome 877 02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:17,000 Ali Say thank you for sharing that is a that is a life experience 878 02:17:18,000 --> 02:17:22,000 that God uses all these things to show us greatness when it's upward 879 02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:28,000 and behind the situation sometimes we be our own desires that's what I'm saying not 880 02:17:28,000 --> 02:17:35,000 everything is the enemy but sometimes the enemy stumbling stones in our path so that we could stumble over them 881 02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:43,000 the same thing the Holy Spirit took Jesus to the desert for what purpose to be codes 882 02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:50,000 and we are going to be tempted in so many different ways 883 02:17:50,000 --> 02:17:52,000 there's also a struggle because of the lack of knowledge the lack of knowledge makes us also to make mistakes 884 02:17:52,000 --> 02:17:58,000 that open doors to several other things those are things that we also have to have discernment to understand these things 885 02:17:58,000 --> 02:18:06,000 God allows them to happen why because he wants us to see His greatness He wants to see 886 02:18:07,000 --> 02:18:13,000 He wants to show us our Father of how he manifests himself how much he loves us that he's in any areas of our life 887 02:18:13,000 --> 02:18:19,000 for sometime we kind of put some constraint you know we protect sometimes 888 02:18:19,000 --> 02:18:25,000 what's in us is that we don't know what exactly there is until we rule out so there's so many beautiful things 889 02:18:25,000 --> 02:18:33,000 I'm telling you God is dealing with each and every one of us 890 02:18:35,000 --> 02:18:40,000 individually but also corporate in the messages that the Lord is bringing the cross 891 02:18:40,000 --> 02:18:45,000 it's more about this it's more about this it's not about just the external aspect of a church but it's more about it in the heart this is good this is so awesome awesome
References
- God Is Spirit—So Are We (Part 2)
Family Life Church · Saturday sermon · October 24, 2026
John 4:24; Genesis 1:26–27; 2:7.
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