1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,000 We are not wrestling with people. 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,480 We are wrestling with demonic forces. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,520 Now, I had been raised to be kind of a good heathen. 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,480 I had the astrology pillow. I had a. 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,320 Ouija. Board My family believed in 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,600 talking to the dead. The spirit realm controls every 7 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,000 other realm. We are seeing demonic warfare 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,680 escalate at an unprecedented rate right now. 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:33,640 We are seeing so many people not just under attack, but attacking 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,240 one another. And when we see this climate of 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:42,160 upheaval and chaos and attack, we need to remember there is 12 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:46,680 something darker in the shadows. We are not wrestling with 13 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,880 people. We are wrestling with the 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,760 serpent. Welcome to the Fight for Female 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,520 podcast. I'm Lisa Bevere, and I believe 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,320 that female is something worth fighting for. 17 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,360 I don't know if you are noticing, but women are under 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,200 attack. We've got culture sexualizing 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,360 what it means to be a woman, and we have the church silencing the 20 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,200 voice of its daughters. And the very first thing I want 21 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,120 to say on the very onslaught is we are not wrestling with 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,680 people. We are wrestling with demonic 23 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,320 forces. And I know they're like, wait a 24 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:26,640 minute, I don't want to hear that. 25 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,400 I am wrestling with demonic forces. 26 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,440 Well, you are. Not long ago, I had this 27 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,160 incredible privilege to be part of a mentoring group. 28 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,560 I was the one older woman there and we were sitting at 29 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,640 breakfast. And breakfast is not my best 30 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,880 time in the morning. I usually require a lot of 31 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,760 caffeine to wake up. But we were sitting at this 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:52,320 table, and it wasn't long before I became aware that these young 33 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,320 girls sitting at this this table were under attack, that the 34 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:01,080 enemy had strategically marked out each and every one of them. 35 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:05,320 One of the young women shared that she had lost three babies 36 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,280 in the last year. Another one talked about the 37 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,520 discouragement. Another one talked about the 38 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,920 attack on her marriage. Another one talked about the 39 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,200 incredible onslaught against their finances. 40 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:22,040 And as I listened, I realized that they think the wrestling 41 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,200 issues that are flesh and blood issues, that are people issues, 42 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,440 that are government issues, but they're not wrestling flesh and 43 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,600 blood issues. They are wrestling with demonic 44 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,600 forces. I love that the Bible makes this 45 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,120 really clear. In Ephesians chapter 6, verse 46 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,600 10, it says finally, finally be strong in the Lord and in the 47 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,000 strength of His might. Put on your whole armor of God 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,120 that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the 49 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,960 devil. For we do not wrestle against 50 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,440 flesh and blood. So that means if it's flesh and 51 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,200 blood, that is not what you were wrestling with, but against the 52 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:05,560 rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over 53 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:10,360 this present darkness, against spiritual forces of evil in the 54 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,120 heavenly places. Now, this came home for me 55 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,080 pretty hard when I first became a Christian. 56 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,400 Now, I had been raised to be kind of a good heathen. 57 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,520 I had the astrology pillow. I had a Ouija board. 58 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,120 My family believed in talking to the dead. 59 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,240 There was all sorts of crazy stuff going on. 60 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:37,240 But once I became a Christian, I realized that there was another 61 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,280 force. There was light and there was 62 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,240 dark, and I needed to confront some areas of my life where I 63 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,600 had partnered with darkness. Just to kind of give you an 64 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,000 idea, John and I had gotten engaged. 65 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,320 So we're going way back now because we've been married 42 66 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,240 years. We had gotten engaged and I had 67 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:59,360 come home to my parents house and the oppression in my parents 68 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,760 home was so overwhelming that there was so many nights that I 69 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,120 literally felt like something physically was laying on top of 70 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,680 me in my bed at night and trying to choke me. 71 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,800 And I would hear in my head, you can't say the name of Jesus. 72 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,880 Well, I'm going to tell you something really interesting. 73 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:23,080 The enemy is a liar, so he kind of gives himself away. 74 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,440 So as soon as I said Jesus, all of the heaviness just fled. 75 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,680 And then I kept thinking, but it's a constant battle, it's 76 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,560 depressing, it's oppressive. And so I called a man who was a 77 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,360 spiritual father to me and I said I am living in my parents 78 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,280 home. But I am finding myself feeling 79 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:48,160 so depleted and depressed and almost ready to even call off my 80 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,800 marriage. And he said, you know what, you 81 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,240 need to go through your parents household and you need to deal 82 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,320 with some of those things that are in that household. 83 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,800 My background was very, very broken, and for some reason I 84 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,800 thought it was important to watch horror films with my 85 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,320 mother and watch scary movies with my dad. 86 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,920 I thought that if I could sit through something scary, it 87 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,880 proved that I was brave. Even though I spent a lot of 88 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,800 time as a little girl hiding behind my dad's back, I wanted 89 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,840 him to think, oh, she's brave. She can watch aliens, she can 90 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:27,560 watch ghosts, she can watch vampires, she can watch sea 91 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:33,600 monsters, and she endures it. Well, it began to create this 92 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,920 fear in me. And the crazy thing is that even 93 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,920 though I was scared, I kept returning to those things. 94 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:43,440 And so, you know, we watch horror films. 95 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,240 My mom would sometimes even get me up on a school night to have 96 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,880 me keep her company while she watched a horror film. 97 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,560 And, and looking back, I, I don't even know why we would do 98 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,400 that. So my room was a collection of 99 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,000 different things. I had a cross above my bed in 100 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,280 case a vampire came in, But I also had an astrology pillow 101 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:05,720 that all my friends could sign when they came over for a 102 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,080 sleepover. And the Ouija board. 103 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,320 The Ouija board was something that you know, you use those at 104 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,120 summer parties, you use those at sleepovers. 105 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,840 You have a question that you need answering, you go to the 106 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,600 Ouija board. And the really scary thing is 107 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,920 the Ouija board worked. It worked, but again, it works 108 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:32,080 by a lesser power. There is divination and 109 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:38,440 divination is real, but divination is an imitation of 110 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:42,120 the divine. We are to be children that are 111 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,240 of divine nature, not divination nature. 112 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,040 So that whole brokenness and kind of the fascination with 113 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,400 astrology, sun signs, all those different things. 114 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:59,240 Again, I was born in 1960. That would explain a lot of why 115 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,120 my parents were going down that lane. 116 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:07,240 But it wasn't until I became a Christian in 1981 that I 117 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,920 realized. That it was a destructive force 118 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,680 and that God actually had something constructive. 119 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,440 Another thing. This is kind of an interesting 120 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,920 tip. But I was born on June 6th, 121 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,560 1960, and for a while there everybody thought that's when 122 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:27,400 the Antichrist was going to be born. 6666 days, six months, 6 123 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,440 decade. So for a while I would actually 124 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,160 get presents from different witch and witch's covens. 125 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,080 They would put them on our front porch to celebrate my birthday 126 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,120 on June the 6th. So I was a little scared there 127 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,840 for a while that perhaps I might be the Antichrist. 128 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,320 I remember being very thrilled when I got born again and I had 129 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,280 such a sense of the Holy Spirit said your parents have actually 130 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,240 given permission for this oppression to enter their 131 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,840 household, but you have authority to draw a bloodline. 132 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,720 And and that may sound like a crazy thing, but what I did is I 133 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,800 literally walked into my bedroom and I said in the name of Jesus, 134 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:16,160 this space is a sacred space. This is my room. 135 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:21,440 And I am a daughter of God. I am a child of the most high 136 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,920 and I have the authority to claim the blood of Jesus. 137 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,560 And so I draw a bloodline over the threshold of this room that 138 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,600 no evil comes. It will not disrupt my dreams 139 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,559 anymore. It will not oppress my sleep. 140 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,360 It will not even torn met me with an eating disorder because 141 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,120 I was wrestling to walk into freedom from that in that 142 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,600 moment. And from that moment forward, I 143 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,200 slept like a baby. God began to speak to me in my 144 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,200 sleep and it was just this beautiful shifting of the 145 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,480 atmosphere. And you, maybe you're you're 146 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,560 listening to me and you share a house with somebody else. 147 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:02,600 Maybe you're listening to me and you're in the very same 148 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,320 situation. Maybe you're listening to me and 149 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,600 you say, but I believe in my husband doesn't believe I'm in a 150 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,080 situation where I have limited authority. 151 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,920 Well, take the authority that you have because you have to 152 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:20,880 understand that everywhere that Jesus went, he had the highest 153 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,040 ranking authority. That's why Jesus could eat with 154 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:28,320 sinners because he had more influence on them than they had 155 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,160 on him. Same thing with the demonic 156 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,240 realm. You have more authority in the 157 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,440 spirit than they have. So you can claim the the blood 158 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,040 of Jesus and draw a bloodline. You can ask for the angels of 159 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:46,120 God to watch over you, but if you do nothing, nothing is going 160 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,040 to change. So I remember he said wait till 161 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,920 everybody's gone. And I walked through the 162 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,880 different rooms and I was sensitive to the Holy Spirit. 163 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,040 I remember feeling such hopelessness in my parents 164 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,360 bedroom. They were on the verge of their 165 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,640 second divorce. I remember feeling such anger in 166 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,280 my brother's bedroom. I remember actually even feeling 167 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:14,080 something connected to the scales in our bathrooms. 168 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,360 I'm like there is just this darkness and oppression in every 169 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,840 corner of our house. But he had told me you can draw 170 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,960 a bloodline around your room and even though your parents have 171 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,680 said it's OK for the strife and stuff to come in, you can draw a 172 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:32,800 bloodline. So I went, I went through all of 173 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,120 upstairs, then I went through downstairs and I was in the 174 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,560 kitchen and I remember all of the sudden from my brother's 175 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:47,280 door to his bedroom started opening and slamming shut, 176 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:52,520 Opening and slamming shut. I ran out of the house as fast 177 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,720 as I could in terror. And I thought, Oh my gosh, what 178 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,400 just happened? I'm in a horror film. 179 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:05,840 And then I realized it was a demonic spirit making a very big 180 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,280 noise and I walked back into the house, actually began to run up 181 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,840 the stairs, and I saw the door in motion. 182 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,560 And I was like, in the name of Jesus. 183 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:22,240 Do you know that the enemy does not want you to know your 184 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,880 authority as a believer in Jesus Christ? 185 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,600 He will always say to you, you're not good enough to say 186 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,160 that You're not good enough to do that. 187 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,240 What you did last night disqualifies you from using your 188 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,160 authority in the name of Jesus. And I'm just going to tell you 189 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:42,920 right now, he is lying to you at the name of Jesus, not at your 190 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:48,200 name, not at your goodness, not at your spiritual obedience, but 191 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:53,360 at the name of Jesus. Every other knee must bow. 192 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,920 And I love that Jesus didn't just, you know, like say here, 193 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,360 I'm, I'm going to lend you my name. 194 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,200 He gave us his name. He gave us his name and he gave 195 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,200 us everything that that name represents. 196 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,840 So why am I saying all this? Because too many people are 197 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,360 fighting spiritual battles in their understanding instead of 198 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,320 in the spirit. Too many people are fighting 199 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:23,080 spiritual battles on their cell phones instead of handling 200 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:27,000 things in the spirit. You have authority. 201 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,920 I don't. I don't know if people really 202 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,880 understand the authority that we have as believers, the authority 203 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,320 we have as women. I have so many women tell me, 204 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,320 well, my husband isn't taking his place of spiritual 205 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,960 authority, so my house is just being run over by the enemy. 206 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,880 Listen, the Bible does not say that you have authority when 207 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,280 your husband takes his authority. 208 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:56,160 The Bible says that you have authority and I learned this 209 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:57,880 first hand. I remember when John first 210 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,120 started traveling and speaking, he would be pulling out of the 211 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,760 driveway and before he even arrived at the airport, one of 212 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,040 my boys would have, you know, split open his chin or the air 213 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,600 conditioner would break or we would have a flea infestation or 214 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,440 something else would happen. And I would get so mad at John. 215 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:16,960 I would say, why aren't you praying more? 216 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,240 How come you are not praying for us? 217 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,840 If you prayed for the people in the ministry the way you pray 218 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,160 for your family, you wouldn't have a ministry. 219 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:25,680 I don't think you're praying enough. 220 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,200 And John would say to me, Lisa, am I being obedient? 221 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,760 Am I being obedient to what God has asked me to do? 222 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,320 And I hated it when he asked me that. 223 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:35,640 I said, yes, you're being obedient. 224 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,280 He said, then there is provision and obedience. 225 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,760 And he said, when I leave, you need to walk in your authority. 226 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:50,440 Listen, my Bible says that Jesus stripped the enemy of his 227 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:54,160 authority in the spirit of all the weaponry he trusted. 228 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,280 And you think, well, he doesn't seem very stripped. 229 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,440 Well, I'm going to tell you he picks up what we lay down. 230 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,000 If you do not walk in your spiritual authority, the enemy 231 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,880 will be more than happy to take that authority from you and use 232 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,880 it against you. I remember when I was a brand 233 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,520 new Christian, I used to get so excited thinking one day, one 234 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:21,520 day I might be a hero. But somehow in the midst we all 235 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,280 forgot. Being a hero has nothing to do 236 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,440 with people liking your posts on social media. 237 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,280 Being a hero is about standing in the truth of God's Word, 238 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:37,720 standing in the love of God, declaring hope when a generation 239 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,640 feels hopeless. And now I'm going to go Sicilian 240 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:45,880 on you for a moment because see, I'm half Sicilian, which is a 241 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,320 good thing because I think it would be hard for me to be all 242 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,080 Sicilian. But I'm half Sicilian. 243 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:56,480 And being half Sicilian, I see attacks as affirmation from the 244 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,120 enemy that I am a threat. You know, it's always 245 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,160 interesting to me. The way the enemy attacks me is 246 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,680 very different than the way he attacks my husband. 247 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,720 The enemy always attacked me by attacking my children, attacking 248 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,640 my home, attacking the places that were mattering to me the 249 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,600 most. So when my children got hurt, 250 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,000 when my home was compromised, when I felt like I had a home 251 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:27,080 invasion, I felt unsafe. I feel like women get attacked 252 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,840 by the enemy in the area of their dominion. 253 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,440 I believe that women are the overseers of the children of the 254 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,320 household. John and I are big believers 255 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,600 that John is the one who says, hey, this is how I want to see 256 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,600 this house honor God and that I am the out working of the 257 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,560 practical application of all that. 258 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,920 And so I was like, why? Why is this not working for me? 259 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,600 This, this one isn't taking care of everything. 260 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:59,560 But the truth is delegated authority is powerful. 261 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,360 And I had the delegated authority over the children when 262 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,560 my husband was gone. I actually kind of have that 263 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,840 even when he was home, but I had to walk in my authority. 264 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,560 And I think the things that women value are very different 265 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,720 than the things men value. So I want to speak to every 266 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:23,360 woman out there who feels feels that she is under an attack. 267 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,280 She feels like her household feels oppressed who she feels 268 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,560 like her identity is under attack. 269 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,440 She feels marginalized by the church. 270 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,320 She feels threatened by her age or she doesn't feel sexually 271 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,560 attractive or whatever it is. I'm going to tell your identity 272 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,920 is daughter of the most High God and that identity of daughter of 273 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,960 the most High God carries an authority with it that if you 274 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:54,280 don't use it's the same thing as having money in your pocket that 275 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,640 you never spent. It is up to you to take your 276 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:03,200 authority in the spirit. So I gathered these beautiful 277 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,200 young girls after breakfast all sitting around the table. 278 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,000 There had been all these other options of different things to 279 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,960 talk about. You can talk about how do you 280 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,160 actually, you know, scale your business or start a podcast or 281 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,000 write a book or actually increase your media presence. 282 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:27,240 And after sitting and listening to these beautiful young girls, 283 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:32,440 these girls have loved God. I said, what about something on 284 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,040 spiritual warfare? And he said, sure, if you want 285 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,240 to do that. And so many of them leaned in. 286 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,720 So many of them asked questions, they said, I, I feel like I'm 287 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,440 waking up at different times of the night and I, and I don't 288 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:52,640 know what to do with that. I so many of us saying I I know 289 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,680 that God wants to talk to me, but. 290 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,720 I'm not sure. I'm hearing him. 291 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:02,520 And so I began to talk to them about if you weigh those things 292 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:07,440 in the spirit, if you wake up at an unusual time in the middle of 293 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,480 the night and you're not breastfeeding a baby, then 294 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:16,160 maybe, just maybe, the Holy Spirit is calling you to enter 295 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:21,360 in to a something more moment. I remember I had just had my 296 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:25,680 second baby and I found myself strangely awake in the middle of 297 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,080 the night. He was still sleeping in a crib 298 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:29,840 in our room. And I looked over and I was 299 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,760 like, wait, he's still asleep? Why am I awake? 300 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,960 Because every mother knows you actually are halfway up the 301 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,680 stairs sometimes before you realize you're even walking. 302 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,080 But I was over and I was like, he's awake. 303 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,360 There's something, there's something going on. 304 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,120 There's a reason that God is calling me to get up. 305 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,400 And I'm going to be honest with you. 306 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,280 There's sometimes I'm like, you may have a reason, God, but I'm 307 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,600 just going to go back to sleep. And that's not good. 308 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:00,160 But I have done that. But the times that I have paused 309 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:05,120 and the times that I have listened to that I remember in 310 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:11,680 particular getting up, walking out into our living room didn't 311 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,240 turn on me the lights and just was circling and praying. 312 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,600 I remember we were in such a rough season of discouragement, 313 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,200 of confusion, of a lack of clarity. 314 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:29,840 I said, God, I don't know what it is that we are wrestling with 315 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,520 right now, but I know it is dark. 316 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,720 I know it is after our lives. I know it is fighting us with 317 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:43,480 one of the enemy's most crucial attacks, discouragement. 318 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:50,200 And I know right now there are so many people wrestling with 319 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,280 discouragement. Will my life ever matter? 320 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,240 Will I ever get an education? Will I ever get a house? 321 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,200 Will I ever get a job? Well, those are all natural 322 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:05,080 things that get attached to a very deeper sense of unbelief 323 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,600 that you believe. God is good for other people, 324 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,000 but you get discouraged when you think that He has a plan and a 325 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,240 hope and a future for you. And so we want to wrestle with 326 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:23,360 discouragement in our head. But discouragement is an attack 327 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,120 against you spiritually. And so you don't want to fight 328 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:30,280 spiritual things with head things. 329 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:32,680 You need to fight spirit to spirit. 330 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,840 I don't care if it's an eating disorder. 331 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,560 I don't care if it's a marriage issue. 332 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,400 I don't care if it is a financial issue. 333 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,880 You can fight those things in the spirit because the spirit 334 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,680 realm controls every other realm. 335 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:54,440 We are seeing demonic warfare escalate at an unprecedented 336 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:58,400 rate right now. We are seeing so many people not 337 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,240 just under attack, but attacking one another. 338 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,800 And when we see this climate of upheaval and chaos and attack, 339 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,400 we need to remember there is something darker in the shadows. 340 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,720 We are not wrestling with people, we are wrestling with 341 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,160 the serpent. And it is interesting to me that 342 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:25,600 right now we are in the year of the dragon, and Dragons 343 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:31,720 represent destruction and chaos. So stop looking at the 344 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,760 government to be your source. Stop looking at people to be 345 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,040 your answer and go to God. Because when the enemy has a 346 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,760 scheme, God already always has a plan. 347 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,920 And I'm speaking as somebody who has walked with God for more 348 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:56,560 than 40 years, and I have seen his pattern of faithfulness over 349 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,440 and over and over played out in my life. 350 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,920 I'm in a season of my life where I am a older woman. 351 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,640 My husband doesn't like me to say that, but that is just a 352 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,280 fact. I am an older woman. 353 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:17,720 I am 64 this year and I can look back over the 4143 years of 354 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:23,400 walking with Jesus and I see his pattern of faithfulness, but I 355 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,240 didn't see it in the moment. Read the Word of God. 356 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,920 Read the word of God and let it light up this path before you. 357 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,680 You are not the problem. Your husband is not the problem. 358 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,560 Your children are not the problem. 359 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,520 Your friends are not the problem. 360 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,200 The money isn't the problem. There is a serpent in the 361 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,920 shadows that does not want to see you become everything that 362 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,240 God created you to be, and you need to fight to be the female 363 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,280 that God wants to see you to flourish and become. 364 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,600 I find it incredibly discouraging that people that 365 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:06,640 dabble in the New age or in witchcraft or the occult, they 366 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:11,000 are the ones that actually have more of an awareness of the 367 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,520 spiritual realm than the believers in Jesus Christ. 368 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:19,120 I have kind of a funny story. Not long ago, I I watched this 369 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:24,800 beautiful woman on Instagram. She was just so well spoken and 370 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,120 she was Sicilian. And I thought, that's it. 371 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,240 I'm going to start following her. 372 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,840 So I start following her and it wasn't long before I find out 373 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,600 that if I'd like to, I could book a tarot card reading with 374 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:36,720 her. And I was like, wait, wait, 375 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:42,720 wait, what just happened here? She had this connection with the 376 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,880 spirit realm from the realm of a familiar spirit. 377 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,360 We have a connection with the spirit realm from the Holy 378 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:56,680 Spirit and witchcraft and any kind of practices of new age. 379 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,120 It's very interesting, and a lot of people don't understand this, 380 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:02,360 but they draw their power from the earth. 381 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,920 And yet God said to his children that we could be innocent of 382 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,160 what is evil and excellent of what is good. 383 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,760 He gives us his word. Witchcraft has to involve all 384 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,480 these spells and aromatherapy. I actually like essential oils, 385 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,720 but I'm talking about they have to pit all these pieces 386 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,040 together. And if they don't have all of 387 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,200 their pieces in place, that curse comes back on them. 388 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,120 And God's like, hey, listen, I don't want you guys to mess with 389 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:35,000 that. I want you to be innocent and I 390 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,000 want you to be effective, so I'm going to give you my word. 391 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,240 And when you speak my. Word, I'm going to watch over my 392 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,360 word to perform it. Crazy but true. 393 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,320 I was in South Africa and it was getting ready to to minister 394 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,200 that night. And I don't remember what my 395 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:58,040 topic was, but right before, right before my time period, I 396 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,680 heard the Holy Spirit say, when you get up tonight, read this 397 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,200 specific passage out of Numbers 23. 398 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,440 And I thought that has nothing to do, nothing to do with my 399 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,840 message, but I thought, OK, I'm, I'm just so I pulled it onto my 400 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,640 iPad. It was a beautiful conference, 401 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:22,720 probably the most well advanced. I I've been in so many different 402 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,760 venues, but I don't think I've ever been in one that was as 403 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,280 pristine and technologically advanced as that venue. 404 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,440 They had opened up with praise and worship, then there was an 405 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,120 item, then there was the first speaker, then there was a break, 406 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,360 then there was another item. Then there was praise and 407 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,880 worship. Then they introduced me and all 408 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,160 of the power in the building went out. 409 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,520 But the scripture that God had given me was there is no 410 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:55,120 witchcraft against Jacob. There is no divination against 411 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,640 Israel. And I remember in that moment I 412 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,680 said I can yell in the dark and I just yelled out the scripture 413 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,720 and all of the lights went on and the guy that was hosting me 414 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,200 said that two witches ran out of the building. 415 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:16,440 You have no idea the power that has been made available to us 416 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:22,880 because we are so busy reading fragments of the Word instead of 417 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,880 declaring the word of God and all of its might and all of its 418 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,120 strength and all of its power. And when we actually speak the 419 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:34,560 Word of God, we actually call that celestial power, that 420 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:38,120 spiritual realm that is the higher realm into play. 421 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,600 And so too many Christians, they're just, they're casual. 422 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,560 They're casual with what is powerful, and they're careless 423 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,280 with the demonic realm. We have no idea how much is 424 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:55,160 getting let in to our homes because of things that we laugh 425 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,680 at, entertained by, or are even in agreement with. 426 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,840 Maybe five years ago that was OK. 427 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:07,480 This is not the time for us to dabble in the new age or 428 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,040 manifesting things in our own strength and ability. 429 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:16,520 We are actually I love that God said for this purpose was the 430 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,640 son of God manifest that he would destroy the works of the 431 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:26,160 evil 1 so we don't practice the works of evil to set people free 432 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,280 in our own strength. We are going to navigate this 433 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:35,160 world by the power of God. And again, so many people don't 434 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,240 realize that Luciferian mindset is all about self. 435 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:44,120 It's not even about Satan. It is all about self. 436 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,560 And so I think God is shaking everything that can be shaken so 437 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,120 that we get sick of ourselves and begin to cry out to God. 438 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:56,040 There's so many people that they are in the New age or maybe 439 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,280 they're playing around with tarot cards or the Ouija board 440 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,160 or whatever it is. They think, Oh no, but I, I'm 441 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,160 confused. And you hear from the enemy just 442 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,280 like what I heard. You can't say that you can't 443 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:08,760 escape it. You can't do that. 444 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,760 But the truth is, that's a lie. You have been drawn to the 445 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,880 supernatural. That is why, that is why you 446 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,800 even went to tarot cards, because you you know that there 447 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,600 is another force, that there is a greater force. 448 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,520 That is why you've gone to Ouija boards. 449 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,360 That's why you've gone to palm readers or whatever. 450 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:34,120 You are actually hungry for a connection with your creator, 451 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,200 and the enemy has said, oh, no, no, your creator's too busy, or 452 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,960 he's too angry or he's too distant, or he's not involved 453 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,960 anymore or doesn't want to be involved with you, even if he is 454 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,240 involved with other people. And all of those things are 455 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,200 lies. I have to believe that you're 456 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,720 hearing this because you know that you were created for 457 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,960 something more. And so many people do not 458 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:09,040 understand that it as as simple as renouncing, confessing. 459 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:14,240 And I really am a big proponent going to a local church and 460 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:19,560 getting water baptized. But the moment you turn away 461 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,200 from darkness, there is no force in hell. 462 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,320 No matter how much they say they can stop you, they cannot stop 463 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,080 you. I would also encourage you 464 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,680 because anybody that's been involved in the supernatural, in 465 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,400 the realm of witchcraft or the occult, you've had people in 466 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,480 your world that have told you that there is something more. 467 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:45,280 And I understand the longing. We all love magic because we 468 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,920 were created for the supernatural. 469 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,600 But I love how CS Lewis talks about the White Witch had a 470 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,800 level of magic, but there was a deeper magic. 471 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:02,760 You were made for God's deeper Holy Spirit connection that is 472 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,240 pure light. Pure truth has nothing to do 473 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,120 with your abilities or inabilities and everything to do 474 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,280 with Jesus's sacrifice and life for you. 475 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,000 So if you are finding yourself trapped, if you have a friend 476 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:24,360 you can reach out to, great. If not, all you have to do is 477 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,760 pray. You can simply pray. 478 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:33,720 Jesus, I am so sorry for turning to the ways of darkness. 479 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:38,800 Jesus, forgive me for partnering with evil. 480 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,400 I didn't even know it was evil. Forgive me for exalting self 481 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,800 above God, forgive me of my sins. 482 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,680 Jesus, I turn from darkness and I embrace you as the Lord of my 483 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,080 life. I embrace your ways and I turn 484 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:59,160 away from my ways. I thank you that I'm being born 485 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,080 again out of a Kingdom of darkness into a Kingdom of 486 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,960 light. And then I'm going to challenge 487 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,000 you to get in a local church and maybe some of these things 488 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,360 maybe. You have a similar. 489 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:16,000 Past that I did, I actually had to go through and systematically 490 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,480 break some of the alignments that I had made with darkness. 491 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,040 And we believe in the power of those confessions and 492 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,280 renouncing. Yeah. 493 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,640 We believe that you can be the beginning of 1000 generations. 494 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,240 I don't care how many generations have walked in 495 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,800 darkness. We believe that you can be the 496 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,640 beginning of 1000 generations who love God and keep his 497 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,720 commandments. You know, I love the story of 498 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,640 King Josiah. King Josiah, he was a very young 499 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,800 boy when he became king. They, they took him, they made 500 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,480 him king. But the temple was in ruins. 501 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,400 The, the, the word of God had been displaced. 502 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,240 The ordinances of God had been neglected for so long. 503 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,840 And what happened was when he found, Oh my gosh, we have not 504 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,800 done anything that God wants us to do. 505 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,080 He said, all right, from this moment forward, God, will you 506 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,080 forgive us from all the things we didn't know how to do. 507 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,120 And then you know what he did? King Josiah, He went through the 508 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,400 entire temple. He cleared it out. 509 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,800 And then he pulled down all of the high things and desecrated 510 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,360 all of the altars that were from the, you know, the idolatries 511 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,840 that Israel's had had partnered with. 512 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:40,160 And I love that he was zealous for God and he had this 513 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,360 revelation that it wasn't just about his choice, but it was 514 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,120 about the choice he was making for future generations. 515 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,000 And so I would really challenge you to to read about Josiah 516 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,640 because I love Josiah because Josiah, this is what this is. 517 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,080 When you read The Kings, there's such richness, if you'll 518 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:03,040 actually just deep dive into it, it said that Josiah had a heart 519 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,800 like his father David, but David was not the father of Josiah. 520 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,960 Josiah actually had a very wicked and corrupt father. 521 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:17,080 But anytime you turn to the heart of God, he gives you a 522 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,040 divine legacy. And so I love that it said he 523 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,240 was, he was like his father David. 524 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:27,400 Even though David was not his natural father, David became his 525 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,920 spiritual father. And so for me, I'm always like, 526 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,480 hey, we got some crazy in my background, but I am believing 527 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,200 that I now have a new legacy, that I have a legacy of 528 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,760 godliness now, not the legacy of the ungodly. 529 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,000 So today I'm actually joined by my daughter-in-law, Christian, 530 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,120 and we are going to. Discuss actually how. 531 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,600 Some millennials and Gen. Z's and Gen. 532 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,920 Alpha, how they're interacting with some of these spiritual 533 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,960 questions and demonic realm. Thank you Christian for joining 534 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,680 me. I'm happy to represent. 535 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,040 I think you're hitting the nails spot on with this is actually a 536 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,240 spiritual world and what we battle is spiritual. 537 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,600 I've seen millennials really not fully understand the power 538 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,040 that's for them. We think the powers in the tarot 539 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,080 cards and like very new age things. 540 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,320 We have people that are like, my crystal is going to give me all 541 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,639 the answers. I'm going to manifest all the 542 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:23,480 things I need in life. Why do you think, How have we 543 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:28,679 gotten that far? You know, I do think that every 544 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:30,679 generation kind of has this wrestling. 545 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,000 They have a wrestling like, oh, well, I'm not my parents. 546 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,679 I'm not my parents. Like I, I remember John and I 547 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:40,080 used to say we're not religious. We have a relationship with 548 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,920 Jesus Christ. And now your generation is like, 549 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,920 we're not religious, we're spiritual. 550 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:50,360 And so I do think there's that wrestling, but I also am seeing 551 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:55,159 way more of the new age come in with this spirit because it's 552 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:58,080 like anything spiritual is spiritual and everything 553 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,440 spiritual is good, which isn't necessary. 554 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,440 It's not necessarily true. And you know, I, I feel kind of 555 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,360 ignorant. I didn't even understand how 556 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,920 what a big deal manifesting was. What's serious. 557 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,800 It's it's like. Huge. 558 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,520 And it's like OK, now manifest. Like what? 559 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,200 Like I remember we referred to manifesting like a demon 560 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,680 manifested. Or we're like, what just 561 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,560 happened here? And so everything has shifted. 562 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,640 And I do think that it's interesting for me. 563 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,960 I feel like the millennials are hungry, spiritual, but also I 564 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:41,000 feel like they're dull. Like they're so dulled by the 565 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:46,440 constant influx of everything that they've lost some 566 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,200 sensitivity. Does does that make sense? 567 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,840 Like, you know, John are watching a show recently and we 568 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,120 thought, wow, it was an older show. 569 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,240 We thought we have all lost our vocabulary. 570 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,760 Like we have all dumbed everything down. 571 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:06,080 And I think sometimes there's this dumbing down that dulls the 572 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,160 sensitivity and the discernment of a generation. 573 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,400 And that is a big concern for me with with millennials. 574 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,160 And I do think sometimes like John, my first generation, we 575 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,160 are so over say we made everything wrong because we are 576 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,560 just afraid like that could be wrong, that could be evil. 577 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:22,800 We're first generation Christians. 578 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,360 That might be an evil thing. Don't let our kids do that. 579 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:26,720 The. Pokémon Cards. 580 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:29,000 The Pokémon cards, we've apologized for that so many 581 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,160 times. Somebody told John that if you 582 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,120 burn a Pokémon card, a demon will scream and I was gone 583 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:39,600 somewhere and I gathered our boys in the garage and burnt the 584 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,280 Pokémon cards and none of them screamed. 585 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,240 Well I think the boys are screaming now because they were 586 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,280 actually worth money. So I've heard that it's just 587 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,800 they got it mixed up. I want to ask you though, as a 588 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,960 mom, what do you think is at risk for this generation when 589 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,800 they aren't dull to the spiritual? 590 00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:00,000 Yeah, I think. That my concern is that they're, 591 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:07,640 they're so familiar with sound bites, but they're not familiar 592 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,800 with sound doctrine. And so people have all these 593 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,680 catch phrases, but they don't have the word of God that 594 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,320 rightly divides. So we live in a time period 595 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,400 where I think your generation sometimes has a sense that 596 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,840 something doesn't feel right, but it sounds OK. 597 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,640 So then they, they push beyond it. 598 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,120 Like I'm even watching as I, I watch social media, even the 599 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,000 arguments that people are making, they don't make sense. 600 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,440 I'm like you're that that's not making sense. 601 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,440 You're repeating what somebody else has thought out for you. 602 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,000 And I think Christianity can actually make that same mistake. 603 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,280 You're repeating what you heard your pastor say instead of. 604 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,560 Getting in the. Word of God for yourself and or 605 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,720 your your favorite influencer or your favorite content creator. 606 00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:55,200 I don't there's all these. Different words for it now. 607 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,400 But but you're not actually getting into the Word of God, 608 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,520 reading it and allowing the Holy Spirit to minister to you where 609 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,160 the Word of God becomes alive, I think. 610 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,760 I think that is a big concern for me, that there is a lack of 611 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:14,960 discernment because this generation is is spiritual and 612 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,240 they're not rightly. Dividing. 613 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,400 Right. It's like Gen. 614 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,400 Z millennials. We're not faithless, but we're 615 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,480 putting our faith and the wrong things. 616 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,160 And I really, this was a wake up for me One time is you and John 617 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,880 were talking about how in the beginning of your ministry you 618 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,600 would travel and you just see people set free and you see 619 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,080 people manifest demons. You'd see all this spiritual 620 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,640 power. But the lest spiritually awake 621 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,560 we've become. I think we've seen that less and 622 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,280 less. So how do we get back to seeing 623 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,520 revival hit and seeing people set free? 624 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,560 I mean, I'm reading the Bible and the gospels and it's like 625 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,440 they're healed, they're healed, they're set free. 626 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,320 A demon came out, like 7 came out of Mary Magdalene. 627 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,120 How do we get back to seeing that? 628 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,720 Because I know some people that do say when they do come to 629 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:01,320 faith, they're like, I didn't even know God could heal me. 630 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,120 All this I know. Well, I again, I think that if 631 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,920 we, we actually acknowledge that, hey, I've gotten 632 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,800 complacent. You know we live in the United 633 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,400 States of America, where? You don't need a plan BI mean 634 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,800 you don't need you know you've got you don't need God because 635 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,440 you could just do it yourself. And when we go to other nations, 636 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,000 you still see the power of God way more evident because they 637 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,520 don't have a Plan B. They are just like if, if God 638 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,600 doesn't come through for them, there's nothing. 639 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,960 And so when we live in a country that has this kind of 640 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,720 overwhelming constant information and yet no 641 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:44,720 transformation, constant connections and yet no lasting 642 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:48,800 commitments, you have to fast. I remember, you know, there was 643 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,720 again, I've been around for a while, there was this passing, 644 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:54,640 Hopefully it was passing. It may still be happening 645 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,200 somewhere trend that you would you would have to go to a 646 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,680 service and people need to laugh. 647 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:01,560 I'm not talking about someone who's funny. 648 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,800 I'm just thinking like in the middle of a service, people 649 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,560 would just start laughing. And I remember being so tired. 650 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,240 I'm a young mother and I thought, OK, maybe that's what I 651 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:13,000 need to do. Maybe for me to get free I need 652 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,760 to go to a meeting? Do a laugh, laugh, have my skirt 653 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,400 over my head. I don't know what I need to do, 654 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,120 but I'm going to do whatever I can to get free. 655 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,360 And I go to this meeting and nothing happens. 656 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,920 And the next morning I'm so mad at God. 657 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,920 I'm like, I went to this meeting and I went expecting for you to 658 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,200 touch me. And I remember he said to me, 659 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:39,600 the Holy Spirit said, manna and manifestations will always leave 660 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,640 you hungry for something more. He said Lisa if. 661 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,960 You want to have a hunger, a spiritual hunger in a land of 662 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,920 abundance. You need to. 663 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,080 Fast. And I think there's so many 664 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:58,280 people unwilling to fast, but fasting does give you authority 665 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,600 in the Spirit, not so much because it changes God, but it 666 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,760 changes you. And I remember I was nursing a 667 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,920 baby during that time. I thought if I fast, I'll lose 668 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,000 all my breast milk. And he was like, you need to 669 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,880 fast the things that distract you. 670 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,480 You need to fast the things that hold you back from me. 671 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,040 And so I put aside a certain phone calls, you know, I, we 672 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,320 didn't have, we didn't have cell phones back then, But I put 673 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,880 aside magazines. I put aside things that were 674 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:30,720 distractions, things that I went to to ease my discomfort. 675 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,400 And I leaned into the discomfort and I read the word of God and I 676 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:41,480 began to contend with God and say, I want to give you more of 677 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,880 me. If we want more authority in the 678 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:49,360 Spirit, we need to create more capacity for God's Spirit to 679 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,280 inhabit our lives, which means we have to deal with the things 680 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,480 that we're now filling ourselves with because we fill ourselves 681 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,840 with so much that God gets the leftovers. 682 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,880 And I think too many people don't realize how much they are 683 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:08,240 satiating their their discomfort with entertainment or talking to 684 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,080 other people. And again, I'm not talking about 685 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,920 don't talk to people. I'm just saying instead of 686 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,440 praying or reading your Bible, you pick up your phone and talk 687 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,840 to somebody. And there is a place for that. 688 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,320 But I think we're afraid of prayer and fasting. 689 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,680 And if we want to be a generation, I see God constantly 690 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:30,400 resetting people. When the people come together 691 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,200 and they pray and they fast and they don't attack the 692 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,720 government, they actually own their own sins. 693 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:41,600 There's something about when we humble ourselves before God. 694 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,360 Seek. His face pray and turn from our 695 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,560 own wicked ways. And seems like the church always 696 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,480 gets caught up in trying to turn the world from its wicked ways 697 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,320 instead of turning from their own wicked ways. 698 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,800 And I'm like, right now God is shaking the church. 699 00:42:58,320 --> 00:42:59,720 And I do think millennials and Gen. 700 00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:02,560 Z's like, what the heck, What are you guys doing? 701 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,720 I remember that's how we felt. John and I would look at our 702 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:07,240 leaders and say, what have you done? 703 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:08,880 We're going to. We don't want to be. 704 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,400 Associated with these. Leaders so we're going to say 705 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,120 we're just relationship driven, not religious. 706 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,680 And I think that's why they're like, we're not, you know, 707 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:20,040 we're, we're just spiritual because they don't want to judge 708 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,120 certain people and they also don't want to be associated with 709 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,000 certain people. What you're saying is hitting 710 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:29,280 and making so much sense too, because I think about how much 711 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,200 we're not actually hungering for God, at least as the people in 712 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,360 generation, we're just like, I just want to be full. 713 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,520 So it's like as soon as that tank tips in, instead of seeing 714 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,960 what you're saying of God saying this is an invitation to draw 715 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,720 closer, it's like, but I don't want to feel this discomfort. 716 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,760 So put something on it. Put something on it. 717 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,400 You mentioned earlier depression and mental health. 718 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,560 I'm curious how much of that is because we're hurting because 719 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,640 we're actually over full. Like you can probably tell me 720 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,040 better than I could guess at the proverb of when it says a man 721 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,840 that is over full even honey doesn't taste good anymore. 722 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,760 To the full soul, loathe the honeycomb. 723 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,960 Yeah, no, it's true. And I do feel like right now we 724 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,120 are obsessed with our own selves. 725 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,240 Like, we spend so much time rehearsing our pain, looking at 726 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:18,240 our past, studying, you know, the path that got us to this 727 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:20,480 place. Well, when you look back, you go 728 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:26,040 back and when you study where you've been, you only know what 729 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,920 you know when you got to the place you are right now. 730 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,800 So it's, it's not going to really move you forward. 731 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:35,280 And, and I, I do feel that God is so clear where he says my 732 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,720 ways are not your ways and my thoughts are not your thoughts. 733 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,360 And right now we just have thoughts about ourselves. 734 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,560 And God says, as high as the heavens are above the earth, so 735 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,040 are my ways and my thoughts above yours. 736 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,360 He says, so think my thoughts. And I was like, OK, So what are 737 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,040 your thoughts? He said my word is my thoughts 738 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,880 and I can either meditate on what how I feel I've been 739 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,520 mistreated or misjudged or past trauma. 740 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,600 And I'm not I'm not belittle like those things, but I'm 741 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,720 afraid that too many people are magnifying those things. 742 00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:11,600 They're focused on how their husband disappoints them, how 743 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,560 their children aren't doing this, how how they went through 744 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,040 trauma and how trauma marked them Well. 745 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,160 We cannot control what was done to us, but we actually can 746 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,520 control how we choose to respond to those things. 747 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:27,600 And I do not want to raise another generation that is so 748 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,160 self focused that they spend all their life trying to figure out 749 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,360 why they're messed up. And they're still messed up once 750 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,360 they know why, because knowing why doesn't. 751 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,520 Set you free. Knowing Jesus, knowing the 752 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,440 truth, is what sets you free. And I'm not saying that we don't 753 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,600 have tools, because I think tools are good, but we need to 754 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,280 have an encounter with truth and then tools to break the pattern, 755 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,560 right? Well, I know you're saying all 756 00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,320 this speaking to millennials because you do believe that 757 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:54,440 there. Is. 758 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,320 You do believe that there is a spiritual power within them. 759 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,800 And I want to, and I want to highlight that note because you 760 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,480 always tell your voice and they tell me because they believe it 761 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,440 so truly that you said that this generation is made for. 762 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,360 Well, you say it. Tell them. 763 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,520 Tell them what you. Said. 764 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,560 You know it all happened. Alec could come home from a 765 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,480 youth group and I always wanted to have deep, meaningful 766 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,120 conversations with my boys after school and, and they were like, 767 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,920 no, no, I mean, they already were like, no, we they. 768 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:29,920 Probably were like I have to eat, I'm starving. 769 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,280 Yeah, we have to eat. And also just days can be 770 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,360 overwhelming and it takes some time to process what you've gone 771 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,040 through. And then at dinner I was like, 772 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,240 let's talk about our highs and lows. 773 00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:39,440 They're like, we're not doing this for you. 774 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,040 But at night time when I wanted to go to bed, when I had 775 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,400 nothing, they're like now, now is the moment for us to have a 776 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,920 deep and meaningful conversation about the purposes of life. 777 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,360 And I remember there had been a Blizzard and I was concerned. 778 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,280 I stayed up for Alec to come back from youth and the people 779 00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,120 dropped him off and he had this thing where he'd written out his 780 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,920 name Alec. And that had like something by 781 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,320 the A, something by the L, had the eagle by the E. 782 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,160 That's all I remember. And then something by the C And 783 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,840 he's like, this is me. And I'm like, that's awesome. 784 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,400 And he's then a sudden, he just like rolled it back up and he 785 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,640 said, mom, what do you think I'm called to do? 786 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,360 And I thought you're called to go to bed. 787 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:18,680 That is what you're called to do. 788 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,280 You're called to go to bed right now. 789 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:21,560 That's what the Holy Spirit is saying. 790 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:28,680 But I, I had such a sense that God said, don't paint a world 791 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,240 too small for him to move in. And I said, you know what I 792 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,000 like? I believe that you're called to 793 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,480 see up close what other generations have only seen in a 794 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,440 distance. I believe you're going to speak 795 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,560 out loud what your father and I have only dared to whisper. 796 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,400 I believe you're going to lay hold of with your hands what we 797 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,160 have only touched in prayer. So I believe that your 798 00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,680 generation that was created for signs and wonders and miracles 799 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,120 and not for death and destruction. 800 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,720 And it was like while I was talking to Alec, it was like 801 00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:08,400 those things entered him, those promises of God that hope sent. 802 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:14,000 And and when I watch that happen with my son, I realized as an 803 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,560 older woman that that was my mandate to speak over a 804 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,920 generation of millennials and Gen. 805 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,440 Z's and Gen. Alpha that everybody is saying 806 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,760 disparaging things and not God's mandate. 807 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,880 And so, you know, we can't do those things in our own 808 00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,520 strength. So if we paint a world bigger, 809 00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,520 then our children can navigate in their own strength, they'll 810 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:43,080 make that divine connection with God and, and you know, surrender 811 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:48,960 their lives to Jesus and walk into the wonder of everything 812 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:53,280 that his death provided for us to walk in, whether it's signs, 813 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:57,560 wonders, miracles and salvation. And and I feel like we have 814 00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:03,640 limited the power of the gospel to what we have seen and known. 815 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,440 And God is like until you prophecy the unseen and the 816 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:07,960 unknown, you're not going to see more. 817 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:13,360 Can you paint a picture for the woman listening for me? 818 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:15,320 Speak to me. What am I called? 819 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:16,760 It's C, It's all printer. Yeah. 820 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,440 Can you paint a picture for the woman listening to this that 821 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,760 says I'm in? I want to be more spiritual. 822 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,320 I want to intercede for my kids. I want to speak highly of my 823 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:25,480 husband. Yeah. 824 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,120 Can you encourage her right now? Yes, absolutely. 825 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,640 Well, first and foremost. I don't want you to think this 826 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,400 is works. Because I remember like, yes, 827 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,880 I'm going to pray an hour a day. Yes, I'm going to read my Bible 828 00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,840 an hour a day. And then I failed very early on. 829 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,600 And then I thought God was mad at me. 830 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:44,280 God was like, you promised to get up and pray for an hour and 831 00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,320 you did not do it. Now half of China was going to 832 00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,320 help because of your irresponsibility. 833 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,520 And, and I just remember spending so much of my prayer 834 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,200 time apologizing to God for the prayer times I didn't have in my 835 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,200 past. First of all, I want you to know 836 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,000 that you have not heard this by accident and God wants to speak 837 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,440 to you more than you want to hear from Him. 838 00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:09,160 So I'm just going to ask you to ask the Holy Spirit to invade 839 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,680 your life, to wake you up in the night that when you read the 840 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:17,480 Word of God, that you would see things that it wouldn't be dry, 841 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,120 just rote religion, but the Word of God would come alive. 842 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,560 And it wouldn't just be alive. It would begin to resonate and 843 00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,240 speak. And when you find yourself in 844 00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:31,680 situations, the Word of God would speak to you in those 845 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:35,440 situations. I just want you to know you were 846 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:39,160 made for this time. You are made for this time that 847 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:44,600 is dark because in dark times light gets punctuated. 848 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:49,040 I believe that God has His hand on your life and all you have to 849 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:53,000 do is do what Abraham did. God, I give you permission to 850 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,320 make something and someone out of nothing and no one. 851 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,840 He is the one when we surrender our all, He takes it all. 852 00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,880 So I'm so excited because we are watching and waiting for you to 853 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:11,640 actually make that exchange with God and walk according to the 854 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,920 Holy Spirit and to not wrestle with your husband, wrestle with 855 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,520 your children, wrestle with people on social media, but 856 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:22,000 wrestle in the Spirit speaking the Word of God. 857 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,320 I hope that the Word of God becomes a language you are more 858 00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,080 fluent in than even English.