Good morning, good morning. We're going to be chatting on some things, but before we get to that point,
during the last song I was very aware, the Lord said there's four people that almost feel like
manifesting. If you don't know what that is, it's almost like I'm going to lose it right here right
now. There's four people that this is going on with. And so I asked the Lord, should we deal
with it right now? Because sometimes we just go there. But I think what we're going to do is
bind up the works of what's happening because it's a distraction inside the person or whatever
swirling on them to get them to not hear the word. And in the end, if you need prayer,
we'll take care of business. Okay? So Father, we come before you in the name of Jesus and we bind
up the operation of these things that are on and in and around people that are causing their
brain to fire so fast, they almost can't listen. And it's causing things to be raced up to a point
of panic. And I speak to you, Silencia, quiet, quiet, quiet within the soul, be bound so you
cannot operate in the mighty name of Jesus. Because after all, the Word of God is about to be
preached. So the demonic realm and even the power of sin has to shut its pie hole.
Just saying. Okay, let's turn our Bibles to Philippians 2. And I didn't even get the chance
to share this with our media because everything changed. Everything else is going to preach
on change. So it's like surprise. And so, but we're going to go here, Philippians 2. And then
if you have, I don't know if Pastor had it on his iPad or if it's online, that harvest,
it starts with harvest. It's a circle and it talks about sifting. It's like four words.
If you can look and see if you can find that and put that up, that would be great. If not,
we can wrap our head around it, right? So there's been a lot of talk about sifting.
Hasn't there? Everyone's so excited about this, right? We're just like, I love sifting. It's
we end up seeing the production that happens after the sifting, and we know where we've been sifted
before and what it produced. We're like, well, let's get it, right? You know, sometimes even facing
pain to get through something, the more you retaliate like, I don't want to go through that.
I don't want to feel that. I don't want to, the more it gets hyped up, it's like, just get
it done. Get it done. Amen. And so we're not begging to be sifted. We just know that it will happen.
Oh, thank you. Yes, the children can be released. So we're not begging for that,
but here is something that Pastor brought forward, and he's going to do with this a
little bit at a time, but we have to understand this this morning. There's something about
even what Pastor Igor just prayed, put a demand on the Spirit, put a demand and put a banner
over us that we just agreed with God on something. See, God is love, and he establishes, he is
structure. He's the yes and the amen. He started it. He'll finish it. I mean, all of that.
And we agreed to how he operates, and so it put a structure for us to come up to the
higher thought regarding that. Right? Because we think lower thoughts, because, you know,
if we're just above the earthly thoughts, we think we've arrived. You know, like, I would never think
like that. No, but you'd think like this, and that's still not God. Right? So there's something about
coming up to the higher thought is almost mind-blowing. It's just like, I don't even
know how to wrap my head around how God thinks. It's so deep. That's why you can read one
part of the Scripture and go, yep, I know what it says, and then he'll bring it back around to you,
and you'll read it again. You're like, I did not see that before. Three years later,
oh, it blows your face off. Same Scripture. And that's revelatory power. That's
revelation knowledge. That's what this is. So we're going to go ahead and start just with
reading Philippians 2, and then I'm reading from the Amplified, because it starts out in my Bible,
it has a heading that says, be like Christ. So that's what went through me, and I was like,
what you trying to say, God? All right, be like Christ. And those are those kind of statements
like, I know we're supposed to be like Christ, I know. It's kind of like when you remind
your kids of something, you know, you remember you have to, and they're like, I know.
Well, if you really knew, you'd actually do that thing each time, right? That's why we remind you,
shut the lights up. I know. Okay, well, be like Christ can do that same thing. The Word can do
that same thing where it gets repetitive, and especially in our immature areas, we're like,
I know, I'm doing it. And so we're going to visit this, because last time I was here,
the Lord spoke to me very clearly, and he's been dealing with me on making sure as a measurement,
we're actually doing the basics. Because we have some pretty supernatural things going on. I mean,
people getting healed and just dreams and visions and stuff that a lot of people don't even operate
in that, right? But if we get caught in that, and that's our main, then we forget
the foundation and there's no basics. And it gets crazy, right? I'm not saying we're doing that.
I'm just saying we have to remember, are we measuring ourselves against the basics? And the
basics of or basic thing of Christianity is loving one another. You're like, I cast four demons out
last night, and I was like, but you can't love your neighbor. You don't have the basics.
So there's no foundation. And this thing that you're doing is going to come back and bite
you eventually because you're not standing on anything solid, right? It's kind of mom talk right
there. But there it is, right? So here we're going to just start by reading and let the word reveal
itself. Therefore, if there is any encouragement and comfort in Christ, as there certainly is an
abundance, if there's any consolation of love, if there's any fellowship that we share in the
spirit, there's anything going on here, there is any great depth of affection and compassion,
make my joy complete by being of the same mind. So Pastor Igor prayed something just a little
bit ago. Lord had already told me to deal with this and highlighted that spot to be of the same
mind, right? Having the same love toward one another, knit together in the spirit,
intent on one purpose and living a life that reflects your faith and spreads the gospel.
Well, that's meat right there. Like you had chewed that for a little bit. We don't have time to chew
it this morning, so you might want to put it in a Ziploc, take it home and really chew on it.
And so love toward one another, knit together in spirit, intent on one purpose and living a
life that reflects your faith and spreads the gospel. So it's going to produce spreading the
gospel. The good news regarding salvation through faith in Christ. Do nothing from selfishness.
Oh, that's pretty basic. But to stay in that basic thing means we have to be able to see
ourselves. On my best day, I might still be selfish. I don't know. I can't see it till he
reveals it to me. I have to do something pretty obvious, so I was like, oh, I probably shouldn't
have said that just by the reaction of everybody. Maybe that's something I shouldn't have done.
But just to see it within my heart, many times we're not able to do that.
Do nothing by selfishness or empty conceit through factional motives or strife. Because we know
where there's strife, there dwelleth every evil and wicked thing. I can't stand strife for that
reason. It's like an invitation card. Come to our party. That's what it is. You know, it's like
somebody gets offended and nobody wants to deal with it or whatever. Strife. And then it sends
out all these invitations to spirits and things. It's like, here dwelleth every evil
and wicked thing. Come on over. We're going to have a party. Nope. I don't like to party
with that. But with an attitude of humility, so saying, don't be selfish, but come with
humility, being neither arrogant or self-righteous, regard others as more important than yourselves.
We just did that in that prayer. He had no way to know what I was going to speak on.
Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but for the interests of others.
That's pretty basic. Just do that one.
That'll challenge your soul. That'll challenge your flesh just to be like,
okay, so I got to include some other people here, and then I'm taking care of. Okay.
Have this same attitude now. He's dealing with the attitudes in yourself, which was in
Christ Jesus. Look to him as your example in selfless humility. Who, although he existed
in the form and unchanging essence of God, as one with him possessing the fullness of all the
divine attributes, the entire nature of the deity was in him. He did not regard
equality with God, a thing to be grasped or asserted, as he did not already possess it,
or was afraid of losing it, but emptied himself. See, he's our example, and the word says,
you know, who are we to think we're greater than our master? Like, well, he did that,
so we don't have to do that. And it's like, he emptied himself. And then it says,
without renouncing or diminishing his deity, he didn't pick on himself. He didn't say, well,
no, I'm not God anymore or whatever. But he did empty his self to be able to be here
and operate as a human. Right? We're already here, and we're operating as humans,
but we still have to empty ourself, amen, and get out of the way and let God work through us.
So without renouncing or diminishing his deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward
expression of divine equality and his rightful dignity by assuming the form of a bond servant,
and being made in the likeness of men, he became completely human, but without sin,
being fully God and fully man. And so we're kind of on the opposite thing,
like we're fully human. And now we get born again, and we're back in touch with the Creator,
and we're brand new inside. And now here we've crossed over into becoming like him, right?
Because it's the life of God in us. It's not our own thing. After he was found in terms of
his outward appearance as a man for a divinely appointed time, he humbled himself. And it's
like constant, right? And this is God. Still further by becoming obedient to the Father,
to the point of death, even death on the cross. For this reason also, because he obeyed and so
completely humbled himself, God has highly exalted him and bestowed him the name which is above
every name. That's what gave him the right to be the name above every name, right? So that at
the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow in submission of those who are in heaven and on
earth and under the earth. And every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ's
Lord is the sovereign God to the glory of God the Father. So then, see we're still going on here.
So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed my instructions with enthusiasm, not
only in my presence, but now much more in my absence. Continue to work out your own salvation.
So there's a work part of salvation where we keep growing. It's like, I gotta continue to grow.
That is cultivate to bring to full effect, actively pursue spiritual maturity.
So now we can just stop there and be like, these are all basics, aren't they?
He's laying out, like, here's how you live the Christian life. Here's how Jesus did it.
This is what we need to do. And it's not really what we want to hear. Because it's so wonderful to
talk about the power things. It's so wonderful to be able to come and share and be like, man,
that person had this happened. And, you know, they puke green and cast the demon out of them.
It was so high, you know. And it's like, woo. But to be able to live life like we can
tie our own shoes, we have to be able to comply to these things. Okay. But now,
much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation, cultivate it, bring to full effect.
We're not done cooking yet. Actively pursue spiritual maturity with awe-inspired fear
and trembling. That's how big a deal this is. This is no little thing, this basic thing.
Using serious caution and critical self-evaluation
to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ. Now, sometimes
people will skip a whole chapter in the Bible like this, because they're like,
I just believe in grace. And I don't see where we should have to. I think looking at our sin
is just having sin consciousness. See, I hear this stuff all the time. And yet their life
isn't working for them, but they're like, you know, it's just so negative. You're always
bringing up negative. Now, why is God putting all this to me? I can't even live this life.
And now all this demand is, he's not that kind of God. He's the God of grace. Well, his grace
is for you so that you can do this. Because we've already proven we can't. But his grace
is here for us so that we can do this, right? So, that we might offend God or discredit
the name of Christ. We do not want to do opposite of this because it actually discredits the name of
Christ. For it is not your strength, but it is God who effectively at work in you, both to will
and to work that is strengthening, energizing, and creating you the longing and the ability to
fulfill your purpose. If you don't have a longing and ability to fulfill your purpose,
then we have to allow God to do that in you, right? I have to allow God to do that in me.
And it's for his good pleasure. Amen. Do everything without murmuring. Oh, come on.
Right? Without murmuring. And questioning is how, you know, the Scripture talks about it in the
Amplified. We're questioning the providence of God, how he operates or whatever.
You know, murmuring can start out with just come on when something doesn't work right.
And then whatever follows that, sometimes, you know, turn smoky in the air because we're
saying other things we shouldn't say. But God is saying, you know, he's giving us instructions
here, do everything nice. So there's nothing we get out of without murmuring question.
Okay, so we need help with this stuff, don't we? Because this is the basics.
So that you may prove yourself to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated
children of God without blemish in the midst of a morally crooked and spiritually perverted
generation. Wow, does that not describe what's happening right now? So he's telling us how to
operate because all around us is just perversion. It's just decrepit. It's blah, blah. That's
just a real word. Among whom you are seen as bright lights, becoming shining out clearly in
the world of this darkness, he wants this done so the world can see what Christ is like.
He wants this done, these basics, so that we can win people. So here, the evangelist part of me
over the year has gotten irritated because, and don't think I'm irritated with you if you've
said this, but the evangelist part of me will blame it on that, gets irritated with this
phrase. I'm just waiting for a door or window to open, and if that happens, I'll share Jesus.
The door never opens neither does the window. We don't even know where it is.
And we're waiting and hoping and praying. Seventeen years later, we're still waiting for the door
to open. So sometimes we'll do that. Sometimes we'll say, I'm just going to try to do these
basic things and really live the life. And when I really live the life, just tons of people will
come to Christ through that. And I'm always like, where are they? He ever has a question like,
where's the tons of people coming to Christ because you lived it so well?
See, it has to be that he's empowering us with his grace. So what they see is grace,
what they taste is grace, what they have is grace given to them. What they know is you're
under grace, but you're in motion of heading toward working out all this with fear and trembling.
The kind of fear where you have an awe and respect of God. That's why I'm headed that way.
And we're real people. Real people have real success, but real people reach real people.
The church does not want to reproduce, you know, plastic reproducing plastic individuals.
And then we have a plastic church that's very fake. Then we just take the mask off when we
leave and do our own thing. We don't want to do that. And yet this is so important right now,
because it goes along with what we just prayed. So it's kind of a, I probably should have preached
this first, and then you prayed that prayer. But there's something about, you know, it's
naming things like murmuring and all that. And you can get exhausted. You can be like,
ah, there's a lot for me to handle. That's what maturing feels like.
That's why when you turn a certain age, maybe it's 16, you get more requirements or whatever.
First, we're so excited to get older. You know, 16, 18, whatever. Like, I'm almost that age,
and I'm almost an adult, or I'm almost whatever. And we're excited about that,
but then we don't realize the filtering process it takes for us to be able to handle that.
And then it starts getting painful, and then we're like, I don't like this.
Well, it's the same thing in any form of maturing. We're going to feel something,
but we have these measurements in the physical that says when you're 18, you're an adult,
which is not true. Well, then when you're 21, what makes you an adult? Well, you can drink.
Well, it's not true. We've talked about even the brain, the foundational pathways in the brain,
are not an adult until between 26 and 30 years old. Jesus was gone into the ministry at what age?
Because he was no longer considered a kid, right? And so the maturing process for us,
and these measurements are all whacked out here in this world, you know? And so we're always
looking where we can hang our hat and go, there, I've arrived. Well, the measurements are off.
The measurements should be with love. That's where we hang our hat. Like,
that was God through me. I don't even have the capability of doing that.
He just gave me such a love for that person.
And now I know I'm going to do these other steps to just protect them and see now you're
maturing. It's not an age, it's a heart. It's a heart that's willing to serve and
willing to change, right? All right, we're going after and then I'm going to come back and we'll
apply this even more. Verse 16, holding out and offering to everyone the word of life.
There's an M of our church just wanted to point that out.
In order to be able to hold out the word of life, these are the things we should be
operating so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to rejoice greatly because
I did not run my race in vain nor label without results. So this is Paul talking
and we look up to him and we're like, amazing man of God. And I'm glad he did that.
And he's saying, actually we all need to do this. And I'm still at work in progress.
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of
your faith for preaching the message of salvation until I rejoice and share my joy with you
all, stick with the story. You too rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
Then he says, but I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I may also
be encouraged by learning news about you. For I have no one else like him who is kindred,
a spirit who will be genuinely concerned for your spiritual welfare. What did we just
grab arms over loving each other in such a way that we become kindred spirits
like we are one. Once again, you had no way to know that, but the spirit where I have no
one else like him. It's so, it's so sad. Here's Paul. This is Paul, right? Made all
this difference for Jesus. But he's like, I only got this one guy. That's sad.
A kindred spirit who will be genuinely concerned for your spiritual welfare.
There's only one guy I know that's actually going to continue this and care for you.
Oh man, that's a big statement. The others who deserted me after my arrest all seek to advance
their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. So there's a key thing here that we're also,
we know if we're kindred spirit and we're one, we're not seeking our own interests.
These are measurements. If you don't know, well, maybe I am seeking my own interests. I don't
know, whatever. Well, okay, the measurements are laid out for the others who deserted me.
There is that feeling. And this is the temptation, even going into the new building,
going after a new project, going after your new job, whatever it is that's ahead of you
that's supposed to be an advancement, it will challenge you to desert the project
or the people around you to leave you in the process. But you got to keep going,
right? So know that that same temptation will be here. This is straight up talk, right?
We can handle this, can't we? We're mature enough to handle this. Okay, so
for I have no one else like him, which shows an immaturity,
you know, but they're starting the gospel and they're doing this, so there isn't a longevity
of a bunch of disciples and people coming up. But it's like, wow, for the others who deserted
me after my arrest, like, you got arrested, I'm out. It's getting hard for so-and-so, I'm out.
That person ended up becoming manic, I'm out. This person has a need greater when I'm out.
No kindred spirit stays in the process with people. You're not the answer, but you stay.
You have the stay power, right? For the others who deserted me after my arrest, all seek to advance
their own interests. So if you're with somebody and it seems like you're powerful together and
all of a sudden they go off the rails, you're like, I'm out. You're messing with my advancement.
I got to get rid of you. You're messing with where I'm trying to go. It can be as simple as
everything's fine. You're following the gospel and something gets preached and you've been
hot pursuing a mate and you're after this guy, right? And he's amazing. And then you see all
these different flaws, but that's okay. You'll change him, right? He slows me so much. He'll
listen to my every word. Okay, so that's what's going on. And somebody says to you, hey, red flag,
you might want to watch some things here. You want to check this out or whatever.
I have some interests that I'm trying to advance in and I'm going to disregard
any warnings that you see. I'm out. Now, somebody can try to destroy a good relationship
by talking too much in it. And all you need is a boundary for that. Still love you,
but no, right? But if you're talking yourself into something you already know, has some red flags,
but somehow you're going to overlook it, amen? You're not going to want to hear truth. So then
it's kind of like I'm out. You can leave the church, you can leave the Bible study,
you can leave a friendship, you can leave a mentor, you can leave whatever, right?
Because it's like, ah, I'm trying to advance in this. Leave me alone. I have my own personal
thing. Just leave me alone. So we have to be careful when we're not into doing those things.
So then he goes on and talks about Timothy was tested and he has a proven character and
we're going to introduce him into all of this. So now let's go to what we've been talking about
a little bit here is that circle. So do we have the... did he leave it there? Yes, I like it.
Good job, hubby. All right, so we get just to jump over and I'm going to tie these things together
because I didn't have a chance to really work this through. Okay, so you look at harvest.
Harvest is representative of anything that is going to be satisfying for advancement. You're
like harvest. Yes. Right? And so whenever you get something new or he tells you,
this is where you're going and it can get almost grandiose in your mind. You're like,
we got to go harvest now. Well, you didn't plant seed.
I know, but he told us we're going to have the harvest. So he's supernatural God. He's just
get that over to us and then we'll just have harvest because that's what I'm all about is
harvest and I don't like the rest of the cycle. The rest of the cycle has to do with growth.
Growth. And so we look at some of the things we're about to harvest. We planted poor seed and
we're about to harvest some poor stuff. That's when you pray. Sometimes if you're new to church,
you'll hear us sing and we'll say, bring your fire, stuff like that. People leave and they're like,
what are they talking about? They're inviting fire, rain, wind. What is happening? Maybe that
was the storm last night. You know, it's like, it gets confusing to people. So I'm going to
explain fire, the purpose of fire is purifying. And on the farm, if we had a field where
weeds just took over, you burned it down. Before you planted, just burn the whole thing down.
So sometimes there's been stuff that was planted and we don't want to harvest that.
So you pray for God to bring the fire. He wipes it out, painful, but clearing. And once it's over,
you're like, oh, see how nice that looks? All right, let's work this thing up and plant
some seed. Different seed that was there before. We got to make sure we have different seed.
Well, if we only know of the seed we already planted and we have no idea of the seed of God,
or what he's going to give us, then we can feel lost. But here's what Scripture says. He says,
he gives seed to the sower. So if we ask him for the right seed, he's going to give that seed.
So that's his word being planted into us and bringing about a harvest. And then we have this,
the seed shut up in our barns. And it's like, we go to that seed and we're like,
this is what I'm going to plant. This is precious. This is truth. And sometimes we just have a little
handful. Sometimes we've been working this farm for a while, and he's taught us some things,
and we've got a barn full. But you start out with one seed and get it in the ground
and make it produce, right? So, but we're all after harvest and that's really great.
But that next cycle that it shows is the maturing cycle. So he gives you the dream of your
heart. He says, and here it is. Here's your destiny. Go after this. And you're like, yes.
And then he says, mature. I'm like, I know, but you told us we're going to get, can't we just,
because I know once I have harvest, it'll be so much easier for me to mature.
I'll have more time that I can spend with you. And we have all this like thing that we write
out that really maturing is on the way to the promise. It'll mature. You serve on the way
to your promise. You're faithful on the way to the promise. You look up to the heavens
on the way to the promise. Your eyes are fixed on him on the way to the promise.
There's a lot that goes on there. I mean, it's kind of scary. The thousands of acres,
my brother-in-law Rudy had owned in North Dakota. And when you think of when you just,
if you were just to hand that to a new farmer and be like, go farm that. And they had to go
to the bank and get the money for the seed just to buy the seed.
Oh, that'd be scary. We're talking thousands of acres. And now you're going to go
trust that it's this little thing you have in your hand and somehow this is going to bring
money to you. And then you go out and you spend more money making sure your equipment
is good. And you spend more money for the gas. And you spend more money and you're like
giving out. And you're giving out. And you're like, what's the deal? Where's the harvest?
And then you have to trust that when that goes in the ground, praying the sun and the right amount
of rain. And you have to trust that it's actually going to come up. And the scripture says, when
we plan a seed, it grows. We go to sleep that night, it grows. We don't even know how.
Like we walk it, we put it in the ground, cover it over, and we walk in the house.
See, there's a trust that just says, oh, that'll come up. That's happening.
But that's great when you're watching a tomato plant. Like you did when you were in kindergarten
and you grew a flower for your mom at school. And then every week you would look and you'd
water it and everything before you brought it home. It's like, look, it came up. That's one
seed. But if you're a farmer at that size, we're talking a lot of seed and a lot of trust.
And almost could feel like an all or nothing at that point. The bigger the vision,
the more seed is needed. Right? The more care-taking is there. It's a whole lot easier to grow that
little flower, that little tomato plant than it is a whole field, let alone thousands of acres.
So there's a trust in it that takes place. And that's going to have us mature. And
in that process, that's where we lose a whole bunch of people.
I lost myself in areas of harvest, you know, where I lost years on something,
because I was working on this and I don't work on that. Because I was having success over here
and it felt so good and so I don't want to see that. Ever do that? And yet he was calling me
to seed something new so it would produce. To watch over it with prayer so it would produce.
It takes maturing to have that happen. Now maturing is the natural growth and development.
That's really what it means. It's supposed you're just going to naturally move into this
and do it, right? That's what Webster says. But the Bible indicates it don't come natural.
Or we just all be doing what we need to be doing. There is some declarations that have
to happen. There's some push. There's some putting down your flesh. There's some dying
to self. There's like we are going that direction stuff, you know, where you hold yourself accountable
to truth stuff. Amen? And so there's a little bit of difference. Well then as you choose to mature
and it doesn't happen overall. It isn't like God says you're going to mature in every area
right now. And then when I sift you, it's going to be every area all at once.
He loves us. He knows that would be rough. So we end up being sifted in this area
and then we get some establishment. We're planting new seed. We're watching over that
right when we think we're all that in a bag of chips. All of a sudden he's like
end this. And you're like, okay, right? You're expanding your farm. Okay? So here we are and
we're looking at this cycle. I believe we're in every area. This church is in every area of
this cycle. Some of us are really harvesting right now and it feels so good. It's been
long waited. You're like, it's harvest time. Get the harvesters out. And it's fun doing that. I'd sit on
the harvester with my husband sometimes when he'd just go out and visit. We'd go help harvester.
And it's fun. You're watching all this. Get sorted out and it's getting there.
And then, you know, it isn't that we're being sifted in every area all at the same time.
But the church is being sifted now to the things he's already spoken to us.
This is why the vision booklet was laid out. I thought we were just reminding
ourselves. I thought wrong. Because really it says you either missed it on the front end
or you're missing it now. See, whenever you have a prophecy, that's what it does. You have
to call it on the front end. I missed it. This is an even of God. Or I'm missing it now.
Why doesn't this have movement? See, that's how you hold yourself accountable to it.
And so many times what we'll do is we'll back up enough from this process. We're like,
I'm not going to let this happen. Well, you back up too far. The kingdom of darkness will start sifting
you. But you're going to get sifted. Amen? So here we are in this process. We know we're
going through all of these different things, but there's things aspecific right now that he
told us in the vision booklet. He told us that open heavens. And he's telling us through the word
that's been preached up to this point. And he's telling us by the prayer we just prayed.
Otherwise, we would look at the prayer that Pastor Igor prayed, wasn't that sweet? He's such
a nice guy. And he's once all to love each other. And it's so wonderful. I really like him.
You might not like him if you connect the fact of what you're going through in the maturing process
just got ramped up because you agreed to something. Then you'd be like, stop praying those prayers.
I don't care how nice you are. No, but he's doing it under the direction of the Holy Spirit.
So it wasn't a nice idea. It was a God idea. It was God said, now introduce this now.
Because he knows in the sifting process how fast to crank off the sifting.
He loves us. He's not going to harm us, even though we think it is.
Like I talked about this morning in prayer, sometimes we can get to be whiny babies a
little bit. We're like, it hurts. It hurts so bad. And it's really not as much going on
as we think it is, but it's our interpretation of the pain. Amen? So the sifting, when we look
at harvest, the word harvest is the season for gathering. Are we in the season for gathering
right now? Yes, to a certain degree, we are. On where he's taking us, we have to harvest off
what we planted before. What if we didn't handle that planting very well and now he's
requiring us to go over here? We're going to need some forgiveness. We're going to need
him to give fast-growing seeds to the sower. There's all kinds of different things he can do
supernaturally, but we have to know that there's going to be a process, for instance, to get us
over to that new building. So now is our opportunity to seed a different kind of seed,
a higher level growth seed, a higher yield seed. Amen? Don't get edgy like I'm trying to force
you to give. I'm just talking about how the farm works. You can farm or not. It's up to you.
That's how the farm works. So there's going to be certain things that yield more than others.
So in the sifting process, I don't have one of those flower, you know those my grandma had,
the flower cranker, you put the flower in, it's just bugs and everything. He still used the flower
to sow, right? We sifted those bugs. I don't remember that, you know, and to do that.
So I had this. This is what I put my tomatoes in, if I'm blanching them, you know, as they
say. And there's a crushing that goes on inside of here, because you're trying to get the juice
out, but you're trying to get the outside off, just like what happens when you plant a seed,
like we showed in the one picture, the outside shell has to come off. Well sifting is very much
like that. Wherever a heart is hard, we are in unbelief toward the things of God.
Wherever that shell is, it's saying, stay in there. I don't want you to come out, right?
It's a housing that's saying, I don't want you to advance, right? I'll hold you,
but don't try to advance. Just stay the seed. And it wants to keep the form. That's why it's hard
enough, but it's going to take the life inside of it to break through that thing that wants to
keep the form. And that's painful. I just keep naming things that can be painful.
So, but they're measurements that we lay our life next to and go, possibly that could be
what I'm going through right now. And sometimes we have to look at things differently,
that not everything's a demon. Some things you're going through can feel so demonic,
but it's the outer shell. And you're like, oh, right? And some things, it can be that
the demons attracted that, but you can't blame everything on a demon. Sorry,
doesn't work that way. If you do, you won't mature because it's always someone else's fault.
Am I not right? It's always someone else's fault. So he starts this, he gives you a picture,
you head toward the maturing, it starts to get painful. And then on top of right when you
think you're stretched to the things like hop on in here. Right? And that's what it feels like.
I like the scraping sound kind of gives you that feeling what it feels like when you're
being sifted. It's like, oh, you know, you're in there and you know, it's just like
squishing the oil out of something, the insides out of something.
That's what this does. And the word sifting actually means to sort out what is valuable or useful
to separate. So here's the crazy part. He just told us we all need to come together and be unified.
God said that. Banner over us is love. We're being called to this, stay unified,
stay in the faith, stay of one mind, all these different things that I just read.
Don't murmur, don't talk about, stay in it to win it, right? And yet he's separating our insides.
So that's why I feel so funky because you're like, I'm it, okay.
So I'm being separated while I'm trying to be unified.
That's what's happening to you right now. And you just thought you were cray-cray.
You're not. You're going through what you're going through. And you can try to run from
it too late once, you know, you can't not know the words already happening. And
you could go to a different church right now and would follow you. You would hear that in your
sleep. You're like, hello. It calls your name. And it's like, almost done separating. Are you with me?
Right? And then the part where you've been planted, you chose to die to yourself and
you're, you're laying there in the ground. It's also the inside of the word is starting
to push through that cell shell. And it's just like, that's how it feels.
And then that's when we'll right away, like the kingdom of darkness is coming against me.
You know, the movie backgrounds, shriek, shriek, shriek. Is it? How much of it is?
Or are you just being asked to mature? Now, I don't say to throw a spiritual warfare
in the garbage. No, don't do that. But it's really interesting if I reposition myself,
all of that has to listen. So if I'm postured wrong, the wrong attitude, whatever, I can do
the whole bind you and cast you and all that kind of stuff. It ain't leaving. It's not going anywhere.
As soon as I change how I view it, even the word demon, the end of that word is mon,
which means of the mind how you think. See, so if I said you had a spirit of poverty,
then I, you know, we're going to cast that out, the spirit of poverty. Well, okay, we'll get the
force off of you once you confess your sin, right? Because when you ask forgiveness,
there's a great sending away. So already God's doing deliverance. He sends it away.
And so then what's left is our ways of thinking. We've gone over this before. I'm just reminding you,
because when we go through this process, we have to know a big area between our ears is so
going to be tipped upside down. And it's going to some mornings, some nights when we're trying
to sleep and we're trying to acclimate to the change. It sounds like this, and you can't
sleep because you can feel yourself morphing from an old thought to a new thought and
trying to believe that as truth and stick to it. That's part of what matures us.
See, I speak sometimes in really religious places, you know, because it's just kind
of dead in there. And so when I'll ask questions, I'll say, how many believe that God can heal?
And then the people a lot of times will be this, a couple. It's kind of kind of, you know,
you never know. He's sovereign. You never know what he's going to do. And so that's kind
from that. Well, how many of you believe that he would heal you right now? Because now faith
is the substance of things hoped for. We want to do this right now. Oh, no, whoa, hey.
Right? It keeps us, that type of immaturity spiritually keeps us in a place where we
hear but we never do. You've heard me share the story when I was leading youth in Colorado,
I was talking about evangelism. They're getting hyped. They're like, this is so good.
Yeah. And I would tell this person this one. I'm like, well, let's go do it right now.
They're like, you're so fun. I'm like, get your coats on.
They were in shock. Well, we left the building. It was like, okay. And we ended up going across
the street and lead somebody to Christ. And we came back. I said, didn't that feel good
to actually do it? So what puts the church asleep is talk about it, talk about it,
talk about it. We should be doing it or practicing doing it.
And when you practice, you don't always get it right. But we have to give grace to be able to
practice. So part of heading toward this harvest is there's some things we've got to get up and do,
which is going to require maturity of us. And then in the middle of that maturing,
I kind of want to annoy you with it. So, you know, when you have those certain thoughts,
you're like, oh, shut up. I just hear that thing in my head.
So, but you know, stuff just comes out the bottom and you're like, I can tell that's tomato,
but it's not what it used to be. And we're about to make it into something different.
Right? But the stuff that's left in here, we'll throw that in the garbage,
or I give it to my chickens.
Right? We don't have chickens here that we can give parts of our heart to, but I'm just saying,
as you're being squished like that, you're going to come out being recognizable that,
oh, yeah, that's tomato or that's whatever, but it's changed.
You can make some pretty cool pasta with that. You can make some salsa, getting hungry,
salsa and eat that with chips. I mean, it can produce something totally different
than what its original form was. So, you look at a seed, that outside shell, you're like, it's a
seed. I don't know. And when it starts popping out of the ground, like I said, it's almost like,
what's crazy is the seed's head is down like this and most of the time then it comes up
and then it pops through the soil. Right? Isn't it interesting when a baby's forming in the womb?
That's that stage where they go through. They look like aliens. The head's totally down
and part of they're maturing. Is there able to move their head around? Isn't that interesting?
Seed. They're seed. And so he's asking us to recognize this is this process and we're in
it right now. So that when we battle, we battle correctly. Ever wear yourself out battling on
something? Like you can take this, like say you're being sifted and God wants you to
change and you're like, I'd bind that in the name of Jesus. I will not refuse that. I declare.
And we're going off and in half the night we lose sleep and everything else. When really he's
like, stop, I actually asked you to go over here. Yeah, but I don't want to do that.
And I don't want to acknowledge that that's you talking to me. Because that would actually
require me to change. Then I'm going to look totally different. I'm uncomfortable with looking
totally different. Being used totally different than I was when I was in my original form.
Better to be sifted than never be used at all. Tomato just sitting there is going to rot.
And when I teach recovery, I got this little fake chicken that I bring, little tiny chick,
like it just popped out of the egg. I always tell people this is a simple fact. If you don't
So start pecking out. It's a visual. It's a visual where it's like you can sit and go
in hurts and I don't know how to get out of this show. Start pecking out. Start moving something.
You got to get out of this thing in order to live. And it's the same thing that happens with
a seed. It's the same thing when we're in motion to try to get somewhere we've never
been before with information that we don't yet have. So then he's like, once I change you
into a different form, then I can use you to do the thing that I intended. Now we're
headed for harvest, right? So that's that preparing. So you get sifted. And here it is.
And I was like, well, let me prepare this into something that's suitable to get the harvest done.
That's that process, right? So preparation is the action or process of making something ready
for some occasion or test or duty. Go back to the vision booklet. How many assignments are in there?
This is not a quiet church that just sits still because we're in constant preparation
to fulfill the prophecies that have been spoken. Otherwise, they're just floating words.
Pastor Igor had brought something up, oh, probably a month or so ago when
we were looking at the words that were spoken. Let's say you had a prophecy or something like that
in At Open Heavens. Have you touched that? Have you moved on that? Have you allowed God's sift
to you about that? Have you said, yes, mature me so I can do that? Or did we just get excited
in the moment and might have wrote it in our Bible and then walked away with those are great
meetings? Power of God showed up. Yes, but what did you do with it? See, conference junkies will do
that. They'll go over here and they're like, I saw Pastor Igor. Power was on him. I went over here
and I saw Pastor Jim. Yeah, woo, you know, and we'll just keep moving and we're gathering
information, but there's no preparation for actually doing it. So when you come back to
the basics, that means you're reining everything back. You're not stopping operating in the
spirit and doing, you know, maybe I'll call them the power gifts and things like that.
But you're reining it back and holding yourself accountable. Am I actually doing the basics?
Because to do the basics is what's going to mature you. It's not whether or not you
can lay hands on somebody and they get healed. Because the Word of God has its own inherent
power. I have been in my worst state when we lived in Colorado and I, somebody was in
congestive heart failure and they said, oh, there's water. They don't want to remove the water
anymore. They just want to die. Then I talked to them about living and they didn't know that was
possible or whatever. The whole time I'm like, I am so tired. I gotta get out of here.
Is it okay if I be honest? I have flesh feelings too, right? But my spirit overrides
whatever I can hear in the background of my flesh talking trash. So I just spoke the
Word over them. They were healed. So you walk out and you realize, I had nothing to do with me.
That was the power of God through His Word that actually did it. And I was kind of a poor vessel
to use at that moment. Because we're not always excited about it. We're just faithful. It was
the right thing to do. And so I didn't have anything to say, but the Word had everything
to say and it produced. It was the seed they needed and went in there fast acting,
poof, healed. They were out mowing their lawn two days after that. No water around the heart,
no procedures. Isn't that cool? All right, so sift means to sort out what is valuable or useful.
So we think when we're in an original state, when we're like, just leave it, it's gonna be good.
I mean, look at me. I'm a tomato or whatever it is. I'm just awesome.
Right? And you're like, yeah, he's like, but that's cool. I brought you to that point,
but I can't use you in that state. There's only a few people that you can minister to that'll just
take a bite out of a tomato and that's how they used it and it's gone now. Right? Let's do something
when we can feed the many, shall we? Huh? Let's do something that we can produce even more
and feed and feed and get that. What it said in Philippians is it, it said that we can feed,
get the word of life out to everybody. All right? So preparation is the action or process of making
something ready for some occasion, some tests or duties. So we've got all kinds of occasions
that are coming and we know they're coming. And so we don't just wait and go, yeah,
there's something coming. Anyway, go back to our stuff. Oh yeah, today was that thing.
There better be some preparation. There's a children's event that's coming or whatever
and we can go announcement. There's children's event. We go, uh-huh. We never asked if we were
supposed to be involved. We never checked in to see if God wants to use you in that area.
Well, what? Well, I'm doing my own thing. You should always check. God, are you asking
me to do something here? I want to be used by you. Remember, you took me through
and now I'm in a different form and I'm just sitting here ready to feed the flock of 5,000.
Yeah? The church overall, the body of Christ gets excited about just reaching that one in
your lifetime. Like, I led someone to Christ. It was beautiful. I remember it was 1982. I had on
my black shirt. We have a whole testimony around it and it's beautiful, but it's not good farming.
See, this is the evangelist speaking right now. It's not good farming. It's not how you farm.
And to get the bigger things, you can't wait on every other farmer to come in and work your
fields. You know, like, I thought you were going to work the back 40. He never helps out.
It's your field. You better get up and get out there.
There's some things that are required of us that we have to do and that can make us uncomfortable.
That's part of the maturing and the sifting. I would rather be so thoroughly sifted.
Hurts like crazy even. Just get it, God. No, you missed a piece. Take it back around,
go the other way. Sometimes you have to do that with these. You take it back around and
squish it out the other way and then scrape it. I'd rather be so thoroughly sifted because
my heart is for the many. I want to be that vessel that's not just for the one. Now, I look for the
one. When I'm out evangelizing, I'll tell people, they'll say, how do you evangelize? I look for
the one. Knowing that if I take care of the one, the many will follow. Amen? Somebody said
to me, it wasn't it hard at Red Lake when there were two people sitting there in that whole big church
and you preached to them? You drove all that way? Yeah, because I'm taking care of the one
because the many will follow, right? And when I'm taking care of the one, that sifts me,
that matures me, that puts me in a little bit of pain where I have to push through.
It's a weird idea that you just, you know, let's say that one day you just want to
have a church this size. And God called you to the ministry, so you're like, tomorrow I'm going to
have the church this size. You never grew into that. And the churches who don't grow into it and all
of a sudden it appears, I'm like, I wouldn't go there. I'm just going to be honest with you.
How did the thing move ahead in any structure that has any form of maturity and learning how
to love each other? It can look pretty though. Man, it looks pretty. It's like walking through
a mall and you're just like, that's so awesome. But what's really there is totally different.
I preached at a place and one of the elders said to me,
well, I think this place is ready for this and that and the other thing. Well, I had already
counseled a bunch of the people there. And I'm like, that's an illusion.
People show up, they dress pretty, you know, they're there, they might give
them the offering, whatever. That's an illusion. If they haven't gone through this,
I will not go to war with them. I'm not going to be on their team to go take the hill.
See, part of what's going on here might hurt and it might be something intense and you're
like, ever since I went to Word of Life, there's just been so much change and so many attacks.
It must be because and we'll come up with all kinds of reasons that many times not even
God. It's just, he's sifting your heart because we're open to it here and we believe in it. So,
it's going to happen to you. It's going to happen to you. Sometimes people come through
those doors and they're so uncomfortable, they leave and never come back and they don't even
know why and we can blame it on this or that. But there's some in that place that you can
feel the requirement to come up to mature. Love will mature you. Won't it?
Yes. So here again, I'm just going to go over the highlights of what we read here this morning.
Verse two, we're supposed to have the same mind and love toward one another,
knit together in spirit, intent on one purpose and living a life that reflects your faith
and spreads the gospel. Well, that's enough right there of a project to work on, isn't it?
I'm going to need God for that. Then do nothing from selfishness. Verse three,
make sure your attitude is an attitude of humility and be neither arrogant or self-righteous.
These are basics of Christianity. This is the basics of love because the banner over us
is love. And if we stay to that higher thought, it will mature us, sift us and we'll keep going.
If you play and you're in and you're out, that's yo-yo Christianity and that's really
sufferable. That'd be like going to the doctor and you know you need a shot
and they poke the needle in. Oh no, we're going to wait till next time and pull it out. And the
next time they poke you a little bit. Wow, we're not going to give you the whole thing. And they
just keep poking you. Just stick it in there and release the thing and we go. Right? That's
what yo-yo Christianity can feel like. It's like, painful, you're in, you're out. Okay,
do nothing from selfishness. Do not merely, verse four, look out for your own personal interests.
Well, hoody duty. That's a new one for this world system. It's all about you do you boo and all
that stuff. You know it's all about us. But also for the interests of others. Have this same
attitude in yourselves that you're going to be an example of selfless humility. And then
he talks about how Jesus emptied himself. That's that dying process that says I'm actually
going to set aside what my plans were or whatever. I'm going to submit to the Father. That's what Jesus
did. That's how he emptied himself. That altar time, that quiet time, that time you're driving
in the car and God's like, I need that from you, is painful. It's a wrestling. Quicker you give it
over and just hand that to him and don't take it back. It's one of those things you're
like, off me. Good. Take me to the next step, God. But you wrestle with it. You're wrestling
with the command of God. You ain't that strong. I was raised in a wrestling family and a boxing
family. You're not that strong if you posture yourself like you got it and you don't have it.
Don't wrestle with that. Call it what it is and be like, okay, God, here you go. You
up the outward expression of divine equality. Okay. Then we went down verse eight. He humbled
himself again, so further becoming obedient to the Father. Verse 10, every knee shall bow. I find
it interesting. We pull that because Christians are famous for this. We're like, that's a verse
that's really powerful. We'll just pull that out. Yes, but what was it talking about? Why was
it there? He's telling us all these things, how we should posture ourselves. And then he
announces so that at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. Why do you think that's there?
In submission to the heaven and on earth and under the earth. That's when we're going through this
process. That's when we're going through the preparation time. That's when we're maturing
and all of a sudden you have to announce to yourself and to the entities around.
All knees will bow. I am going that way. That's not only scripture to declare that in the end,
that everybody's going to bow to Jesus, whether you're like it or not. He's the ultimate authority,
but you're announcing in the middle of all these basics of Christianity, you're announcing,
hey, this is going to bow because every knee's got to bow. So, ergoncy shut your pie hole and bow
your knee now. See, that's when you get rough with yourself and the spirit realm.
But this weird seeker sensitive user-friendly that came in in the 90s would say, no, that's being
way too aggressive. That can actually offend people when you talk like that. There's no need
that a loving God, and then they always put it on God, yet that's his word. But he's a loving God.
He would never let you in that situation. His grace is, come here, I love you so much.
Actually, he's the God like, you ready? You want to go? Let's go.
Quicker we get this done, the more the people are going to get reached and my son can return.
We're getting ready for a wedding feast, so get in the hopper.
Amen? I'm giving you kind of a crude farmer thing, but there it is, right? I was raised on a farm.
Every knee's going to bow, and every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus
Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. This is how it's going to go down. Try to
work on these areas and hold yourself to love, but in the end, every knee will bow. So we might as
well bow our knee right now. Wow. And yet, back then, there's nothing new under the sun. Here he is,
he gets arrested, he's been burned, he has all these different things going on, Paul does, right?
And he's got the one guy that's going to show up and speak into the church since I'm in prison
right now, or I'm doing this right now. I got one guy. We can't be that here. Not when you're kindred
spirit, not when you pray to prayer like he prayed, not when you become one. If you don't like something,
bring it up, we'll resolve that. That's part of this. Part of preparation is like,
stuff's going to come to a head, it's ugly. Let's talk about it, shall we? It's been there
the whole time anyway. Back it up. Scrape it out. Amen.
Bichurying is natural growth and development. Harvest is the season of gathering. Preparation
is the action or process of making something ready. God is making us ready. Amen.
So to fight the process is going to cause more problems. I'm talking about between you and
him than it would if we just yield. Just yield. See, that's death to self. You know, there are
people online, there are people, I've talked to other church and stuff about death to self. It's
crazy, people will come up. I don't believe God does that where you have to like die to yourself.
One night, it was right there because my response, and I didn't say it, but my
response was like, when was the last time you read the word? Sometimes I do say stuff
like that because it needs that little blunt moment, right? Because that's deception.
And it's holding that person in a deceived thing which means it paralyzes them from moving ahead.
They're not on the go, go you into all the world. They're not on the go to make a difference.
They're paralyzed by some thought and they're just starting to be loved.
Guess what? I was here to be loved and you still got to get up and do something.
Try announcing that to your parents when you're 12. They're like, make sure you
clean your room, you do this. No, I'm just here to be loved. That's why I'm here.
Your grace comes on me right now.
You're getting out of that bed and you're going to clean your room.
And that's my love towards you, right? And don't look at the word sifting as
it gets in here because I'm going to punish you. Fear brings with it the thought of punishment.
Righteousness, when you're called to righteousness, it's just you're very aware of the stuff that
needs to fall off. And if you're wanting to hold on to it, that's when it gets painful.
If you're wanting to let go of it, it's like, ugh. But then you were sifted and you changed form.
And you have to grow into that new form and start liking the feel of it. You're like,
wow, I'm kind of saucy. I just got made from a tomato into something else.
And it could be useful for many different purposes. You see it?
So I should do this about 20 times. So you're like, shut it off. So that when you leave,
you're like, okay, I heard you. So basics of Christianity are all over in the Scripture.
But man did Paul lay it out here, didn't he? And it's something that has to be spiritually achieved.
Now, I want to go back and address the thing I talked about. There might be more than four people.
And maybe this isn't your moment where you want to do this thing right now,
which you can talk to me after service. But I find when God points something out,
you might as well, right, and get some stuff going. Here's what's happening.
And I'll just take a little bit to show you one side of the battle that a lot of people don't look at.
We have synaptic nerves and do this really fast. And they fire and they get too hot
if they don't have enough of good chemicals around them like serotonin.
You produce 86% of serotonin in your stomach lining. So wouldn't it be just like evil
to put stuff in our food that interrupts that communication and now you don't have enough serotonin?
We are in the age that that has happened. So we're running on empty in a lot of areas
that are physiological. But we just think it's demons. We're like, oh, it's a demon.
Okay, well, demons like that kind of thing because they see it's like, you know, if
you're out hunting and you're lying, you're looking for the weak. So they see it's already
weakened and they'll want to move in on something like that. But what it requires not a demon cast
out at that point, it requires healing. If you've ever had where you're like this and you're shaking
inside like you're laying in bed, you're like, I don't know. It's like, it's like there's a
vibration inside of me. You don't have enough serotonin. Your brain is not protected. You
burnt up through stress. What you needed to protect your brain. Well, that's so demonic. No,
that's what happened in the physical. You need healing. So what'll happen is you'll feel these
things and no one else is feeling these things. You really are convinced no one else is feeling
the shaking or the racing thoughts or the I'm crazy or any of that stuff. Or I just feel like
dying today. Nobody around me is feeling that I must be the crazy one. You may have, besides the
demonic, something very physiological that needs to be healed. The communication from the brain in
your stomach because you have a brain there is not communicating well with your brain.
See, if we don't know that, we can hyper-spiritualize things, you know, in the 1500s they used
to take a big drill, those grinder drills stick it on a person's head and let the demons out,
right? They drill a hole in and I don't know, you didn't survive that one.
Because they don't understand what's going on. But now we can go to in the physical and talk
so much about that and that's probably what's happening and get all wound up about that.
What we need to get into is God healing us. And in that healing, if you need to be delivered,
he'll take care of that. But give yourself some grace. If you've been through chemo, if you have been
through heavy stress where cortisol just ripped at your body, you know, cortisol actually causes
brain damage. If you've gone through a long period of time where cortisol has just got at you,
there'll be parts of your memory that just don't work well. So demonic I took authority over,
is it? Now the base, if you dig it all the way down, started with sin, so there's something very
demonic about that. But to fix it, we need to change how we view our life and do some self-care
and change some things up. Amen? If you're here today and have, like, that you suffer with
the shaking, you suffer with that like, ah, and it gets you so ramped up that it feels like
you're crossing over into the demonic, I want to pray for you. Would you be brave enough to do that
this morning? No condemnation? If you're like, I don't do groups of people that makes me more
shaky? Well, then talk to us after. We have a group of people who will pray. But I feel like I have
to address this because there's lies around it. If you haven't slept for days, you got some
stuff going on that needs healing. And don't always think, demon, I must have done something so wrong,
did you? If that's where you're at, yes Felicia, if that's if that's where you're at and you want
prayer right now, corporately, let's do it. Let's do it right now. We've got a few minutes,
we can do this. It's all part of change. Just come on up to the front. If not,
then we'll do something different. That's like fragmented thoughts and taking on different
personalities because of fear isn't always demonic. But if you do it long enough, you will attract demons.
It comes out of rejection and it's something that says, I want to be loved and it projects the
passion toward a character rather than the passion toward God. You just need healing.
Hallelujah. There's a couple other people and I think this is a moment and I'll just
wait for a little bit. I hate the stigma that goes with the word mental illness
because if your kidney wasn't functioning right, you would freak out mentally.
It was like an elderly person when they get a bladder infection. They freak out. It's like
they're all over the charts. It looks like they're going crazy. They have a bladder infection.
Okay. We don't condemn that. We're like, oh, they have a bladder infection. Let's pray.
But when the brain isn't functioning right because it doesn't have what it needs,
now suddenly that's a to-do and there's shame attached to it. That's garbage. That's garbage.
Thank you. It takes bravery. It takes bravery.
The biggest part of what happens to people when they experience these things
is most of the time you experience it alone and you don't want to talk to anybody about it.
And then that makes you feel more isolated, which makes you feel more rejected,
which makes you feel like a weirdo. I don't think anybody's a weirdo.
It's just something you're experiencing. You stubbed your toe and the nail fell off.
I wouldn't think you're weird because that happened. You screamed a little bit and
held it or whatever and contorted. I'm not going to think you're weird.
That's a reaction to what's actually going on. Hallelujah. And I really want to say this,
too, that in loving and being united and reaching out to people, we cannot do that
to our children or other people's children. I just wish they'd have them where they could behave.
We're feeling them full of excitement. No toxins. Their brain is, you know,
on all kinds of food dyes. Well, they should just get it together.
There's more going on besides other things. God is the God of wisdom,
and he always pans out to see, he's like, let me show you the whole picture, the all of it.
Do you realize I had someone come and bring their six-year-old child to me
and said, I need you to cast a demon out of them because they are just violent and full of the devil.
And so I noticed, first thing I noticed is a rash on the kid's arm,
and I'm looking and I started asking questions, whatever. I said, well, I'll pray over them
in two weeks. Return that two weeks. I'm going to ask you to do some kind of crazy.
I want you to take them off all milk products.
So they did. This was by the spirit and what little I know about natural health.
They were allergic to milk and needed healing. As soon as that started leaving their body,
all behaviors changed. Now, we could have been in the name of, you know,
as soon as a little head back and, you know, doing the whole thing and leaving this thing
where they leave and they're like, I'm a freak. I'm the demon kid in the family.
No, you have a milk allergy. We shouldn't do it to adults and we shouldn't do it to kids.
God is the God of wisdom. So if you're learning how to operate in healing gifts, especially,
you're going to see big picture. And man, you're going to stretch that to like,
what are you saying? God, word of knowledge, word of wisdom. Amen. Praise you. Praise you.
Hallelujah. I'm not going to take a long time that I think, but we're just going to go down the
line of prayer. Jesus. Thank you. Sometimes the vibration inside of us, molecular, is moving so
fast that we're afraid to get prayer because we're afraid we'll scream out and then everyone will
think we have demons. That's how bottled up you have stuff. When that happens, you bottled
it way too long. That's how that works.