Are we ready to get into the word?
Shop! All right. Well, that's what we're gonna do this morning. I just want to mention that
Pasartania nailed it in prayer
Because I know she doesn't know what I'm speaking on this morning
She doesn't you know, we don't converse about that and I love when that happens when the praise band just happens to pick warfare songs
Right out of the gates, right? I never talked to him about anything
You know everything just starts to connect and what she was talking about this morning connects right
Into this in the fact that we're going into learning how to humble ourselves
How to go low
Right the Lord told pastor and I though that the subject has to be dealt with now
This is a subject you could speak on for months
Going every different way and I'm gonna machine gun you with it this morning. Can you handle that?
I got one morning just like
You know and so so just open up and and take it in okay, and and that is the subject
We're doing two different things here
Devonation or sooth saying and then we're gonna talk about Leviathan spirit
Now I want to say out of the gates
Some people don't believe in that type of stuff or some people will will say you know
They get the picture of this demon and everything's about the demon and and that's not what we're talking about this morning
We're talking about characteristics of the way of thinking of the demonic realm
And the reason we have to nail this is to posture ourself, right?
Before Pastor Igor Ilan comes and talks about humbleness and going low.
Or we won't be able to receive what he's going to say.
So I'm just saying that, you might go, huh, no, I could...
We need to clear some atmosphere stuff.
Is that another way of saying it? Amen?
And so let's just go through the Leviathan spirit
and let's just talk about that a little bit.
I'm just going to give you characteristics,
because I don't have time to just go through everything.
Remember I said I was going to machine gun you.
But we're going to bring it all together in the end.
So number one characteristic is sewing division,
strife, and twisting words.
Now, the series that was preached before
was everything from fear to offense to all those things.
Because when you're afraid, you get offended easier.
Did you know that?
Because you have to protect the area that you were wounded in.
And I'm afraid it's going to happen to me again.
So I heard you say a certain thing and now I'm offended easily.
Right?
So interesting that God brought us through those series.
And now I'm talking about the way of thinking
of the Leviathan that's described in the Bible.
And I'll take you to where one of the places is described.
So sewing division, strife, and twisting words.
They call the Leviathan like a water dragon.
So it's a type, but this is a way of thinking.
So the type of the water dragon is a description
like an alligator or a dragon that would lay in the water.
The water represents the anointing.
And so people who carry this really like to get close
to the anointing.
You would think that they want to be far away from the anointing.
But they'll find places where they're like,
oh, and they'll sit in the water just like an alligator does.
You know, alligator or crocs even.
They'll sit in there and you've got half an eye
sticking above the water and there's lurking in there.
Listening and doing all that.
But they're waiting for a time to sew division
to sew strife because where there's strife
there dwelleth every evil and wicked thing.
And twist words.
You ever have an argument with your husband or your wife?
No, no one answers that question.
What? Me? That's just not...
Well, you ever have one where it's like you start out
talking about a certain thing and after a while
you don't know what you're arguing about?
Anybody have that?
Come on, let's get some honesty up in this house.
And so, but there's something that gets involved
with that when it goes past just reasoning
and trying to figure something out.
I want you to win and you want me to win.
Let's just both win and figure out that middle ground.
It twists words.
All of a sudden you'll hear them say something
they didn't say or they said it in a way
you thought they said something else and it just
keeps compounding then you're wounded more.
And then you're like, well, you just said that to me
and these I never said that. Yes, you did.
I just heard none.
You're arguing about whether or not a person said it
and that can go on for half an hour
and it's fine.
Well, fine.
And then people just separate.
That's what this thing does.
It gets into relationships.
It gets into the church.
It gets in.
And it sows division, strife and twisting words.
And it comes out of spiritual pride.
Now Job 41, 15.
You can turn your Bibles there.
We can watch on screen.
They could bring up Job is 41.
15.
And I'm in the wrong place in my Bible.
So let me go there.
All right.
15 is describing,
or 41 itself starts out in the amplified.
It starts talking about the leviathan.
It actually names it in the amplified, right?
The water dragon.
The way of thinking is another part of it.
Now are there demons like this?
Probably, but I don't care about that.
I care more about the way of thinking
because Jesus rendered the demonic realm.
He rendered them powerless
unless you think like them.
That's what gives them the power to do something.
So it's more important to change our thinking
and our belief systems
than it is to track demons and be a demon hunter.
Amen?
There's some stuff going on out there.
I believe there's a wave of deliverance.
Yes, that happens in every revival,
before revivals and all that.
I've been in it.
I've had deliverance.
I know all that.
And I'm not saying any of it's not true.
But the majority of your Christian life
is living out of the basic foundations
that he set out through salvation.
The majority isn't demon hunting.
So I thought I'd say that before we move on.
And so this, without going into all of this,
it's crazy how it describes this water dragon,
this Leviathan.
If you start in the first verse,
it will start...
Well, let's just go there.
It'll start talking about it.
I don't even want to read all of it
because I feel like halfway given a glory.
But where'd it go here?
Forty.
Oh, Jesus, you're good.
You're so good.
Even when my pages stick together.
I chose to use this mic because I got big hair today.
And so the other one doesn't work.
It's a big hair day.
You can't just...
I've tried...
Vern's tried to help me.
He's pulling my hair.
And it's all sticking out one side.
So I got to use this mic.
So then the Lord said to Job,
Will the fault finder contend with the Almighty?
And he goes on...
Oh, that's 40.
And he goes on and he talks about leading up to this.
He talks about a stirring of strife.
He talks about how this is happening.
And then he goes into 41,
chapter 41.
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Can you put a rope made of his rushes
into his nose or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
It's going to go on and talk about,
can you just go after him like this?
Can you just go Leviathan?
I get after you.
I mean, can you do the heat?
You can't.
It says you don't handle that way of thinking
just by like, I bind you.
You have to change how your approach is
between you and God.
Because Leviathan's dealt with
by the Lord rebuking him.
I find that interesting when I looked
all kinds of different things up
regarding the Lord rebuking
and things like that.
Tithing just happened to talk about tithing
before this.
And how the Lord will rebuke different things.
I can say, I'm a tither.
And so then I can stand there knowing
the Lord's going to rebuke that.
Because what is tithing?
The holy.
What is tithing?
But something where we're honoring him,
where we are giving him what's already his,
where we're being obedient.
And it takes the bended knee to do that.
You actually have to humble yourself to do that.
So it puts you in a humble spot.
Well, when it goes on, it describes Leviathan,
verse five.
Will you play with him as with a bird?
Sometimes we put up with the way of thinking of this.
We put up with how he messes with us,
with the twisting of words and all that.
We put up with it way too long.
Or will you bind him and put him on a leash
for your maidens?
Will traitors bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among merchants?
Can you fill his skin with harpoons?
It's like, what is it?
He goes through his whole thing of saying,
what is this you're going to do with him?
What you're going to do when it's operating in your house?
And so we get offended by the fact that things start going wrong,
that there's arguments, we're offended with each other.
This is what opens the door.
And this way of thinking comes in and it says,
I'm going to win.
I'm the better.
I'm the one who's the most.
Right?
By golly, I will be heard.
And it causes this change in the atmosphere
that says now suddenly you're ruling and God's not.
If you ask the person though, what's going on right now,
they never say, no, I'm in charge.
God, we give, God is the one.
But what's going on in the inside of a person
who's suffering with this way of thinking,
which we all have in certain areas,
is I'm going to win.
It's that uprising.
So what Pastor Tonya talked about this morning in prayer
is it's not about us.
Right?
So that was, you'll have to go back and listen to that.
It's set it up just real perfect for this.
He goes on and talks about the way this thing operates.
And then verse 15 says,
his strong scales are his pride,
bound together as with a tight seal.
And then you can read the rest of that chapter,
but go down to verse 34.
And he looks on everything that is high without terror.
Has no use for authority,
doesn't care about rules or whatever.
I ain't scared of you.
That's how it looks at you.
That's how the demonic part of it looks at you.
He is monarch over all the sons of pride.
So another version says he rules.
He's king over all the sons of pride.
So what is opposite of humble?
Pride.
Pride comeeth before a fall.
The reason to that I'm bringing this up
is the Lord really wants to make it clear this morning.
The difference between sifting and subjecting yourself to this.
Sometimes we will get this going in our home
and then you come in and you hear about sifting
or there's a great change or whatever.
It must be what's happening to me.
No, you might need to repent.
But we don't like to think down that.
We like to think in an avenue that can't be me.
When that thing is in the household, it's never us, right?
When it's in the church, it's never us.
And it's about me winning is how it sets itself up.
So he is the king.
It says he is the monarch over all the sons of pride.
And then this is the feeling behind it.
And now Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast?
Yet who dares resist me, the beast creator.
Everything under the heaven is mine.
Therefore, who can have a claim against God?
So there's so many different angles I could go on that.
But we're going to stay on this one track of the fact that he's over the pride.
That's the demonic realm to begin with.
They can't operate unless there's some separation from God.
Pride separates us from God, doesn't it?
Right? He'll work with us.
But true pride will just keep tightening up and tightening up
until you're finally like, I'm God here.
Don't tell me what to do.
And then you're in trouble, right?
So he looks on everything that is high without terror.
So when it gets on a person, they have no fear of authority.
They don't care what systems are set up.
They don't care about anything.
They know.
I'm afraid of none of this.
That's what happens when it gets on a person.
Amen?
And so then,
and then it'll give you the feeling almost like Jezebel
gives you the feeling like you should run.
Like you should not disturb this.
We do not to confront this.
We do not want to call a person on something.
I don't want to have to deal with my own heart on this.
I'm scared of me.
It'll come down to that.
You'll be scared.
If there's something going on in your heart,
that's like, I can't touch that.
I spoke in the bear.
And if you route that up in me,
like I have so many people over the years
tell me they've got a lot of trauma
or different things like that.
And this is the way they say it when we go to deal with it.
They say, you don't want to open that can of demons.
And I'm like, yes, actually I do.
I want to come to counseling.
If we're not going to look, what's in there?
I'm like, what is that in there?
Right?
And so we got to take a little peek-a-roo
and see what's in there.
So you ever go to counseling
or just go get advice
and you're like, that's it.
I'm going to go talk to somebody.
And then you hold the majority of it here
because you don't want the other person to know that
and just give them little tidbits.
And they're supposed to be so discerning
that they're like, the Lord has said,
you know, all this stuff.
And because you're in a spot where you're like,
I want to deal with it,
but I don't really want to deal with it.
You know what I love about people
who have entered recovery
from drugs, alcohol, anything of addiction or whatever?
They get brutally honest.
I love it.
They'll just walk in and be like,
I used last night, screwed up.
I don't know what to do.
What do we do?
People aren't used to that kind of thing.
They'll be like, oh, I'm just being bothered
by something right now.
You got this whole storm going on the inside of you.
And then you're leaning in to see if they'll give you
some kind of, you know, big piece of bread
on the issue.
And I didn't get any help there.
We didn't actually disclose anything.
Confess your sins one to another
and you'll be healed.
That's a foundational principle.
Do I go say everything to everybody?
No.
I don't just announce it like,
I'm gonna announce my sin this morning.
No, I don't do that.
But I confess up to God
and I'll go to my husband
or I'll say out loud in front of some people
that I know can hold me accountable.
Hey, I'm still jacked up in this area.
Can you pray for me?
But you call a spade a spade.
What this thing does, though,
is it makes you afraid of yourself
and afraid of losing position
and afraid of someone's gonna know
and afraid you're not gonna be loved
and then it's one of those things
is like, well, are we gonna mess with that?
You don't wanna poke the bear.
Just leave it alone.
Kind of like sitting at a restaurant
and watching a couple that's been married
for 50 years and she don't talk much
because she knows she says something
that's gonna aggravate him
and he don't talk much because it's gonna be...
because they've learned to, like,
we just ain't dealing with it.
But they went out to eat.
Right?
Oh, I do spend time with you.
You went out to eat and nobody said nothing
because you've lost the ability to communicate.
Nobody's willing to humble themselves.
And that's an open door to this thing.
So sewing division,
strife, twisting words,
spiritual pride is huge, huge,
and it targets relationships.
Ooh.
This way of thinking is already there.
The demonic realm tracks to your way of thinking,
and it lights it up.
See, we like to think like victims,
like, I was just walking along
and Leviathan just bit me in the back
and I was like, oh, I'm under attack.
No, no, no.
It's the same thing with the devil.
He's not omnipresent.
We've gone over that before.
Him and Santa Claus are not omnipresent.
So let's just settle that right now.
He can't be everywhere at the same time.
And so, you know, people are under attack all the time.
He's not all over that like white on rice,
but they will attract to your belief system
and what's going on already at currently in you,
especially if it's generational.
They already know, like, yeah,
we got that to go to the next generation.
I'll see what we do with that.
See how they handle it.
And if nobody steps up and says,
that's the end of this, we're not doing this again.
I'm not passing this on to my kids.
We're not going there.
It'll pass on and it just keeps snowballing.
But there's a feeling of like,
oh, I got to confront a situation.
I got to call a spade a spade.
I got to say, I don't like this.
I have to have a boundary.
We'll just wait a little more.
We'll just wait a little more time.
Let's just give it time.
Time heals all things.
Does it say that in the word?
We'll almost say it like it is scripture.
Time will just heal all things.
Time can destroy all things too.
It's the heart that comes up
and gets something done
or doesn't.
And it all comes by choices.
So it targets relationships,
creates chaos and communication,
works alongside of the spirit of offense.
So we got to get offense going.
The way of thinking of offense is like,
I've been hurt
and I'm done being hurt.
So stay out of my space.
And then that's when we become plastic, don't we?
That's when you put on the plastic thing
of like, hi, oh my gosh, I love you.
Stay out of here.
Because if you get close to that,
inside of that,
is where we end up getting hurt
and so we already know that.
And so we're easily offended.
We're looking and we'll just scan people.
She'll probably hurt me.
I saw how he looked at me.
And then we make judgments
according to our fear.
And we're afraid of being offended.
So then we don't trust.
And trust is such a big part of faith.
Unbelief is built in fear
and pulling back.
I can't believe that I'm not going to participate in that.
Let's build a fort around me.
Right?
And then we just keep adding bricks to that.
You know, getting workers in there
because we're going to, you know, protect ourselves.
And you'll get hurt anyway.
Because you're looking to be hurt.
You're looking so hard for hurt, you're going to get hurt.
Yeah.
Sometimes people say the cruelest things to me,
but I many times don't even know they're cruel.
Because I'm not looking to get hurt.
I'm just like, wow, that was kind of a silly thing for you to say.
Wonder what's going on inside of you.
So there's a difference.
That's why people, you know, will say,
I don't know if I can tell you this.
I don't shock and awe easy.
I'm not perfect.
But you could tell me some pretty ranked stuff
and I'm just going to be like, OK, so what are we going to do?
It comes to that.
But if I was looking to be offended,
everything would be the inward breath.
Right?
And it's not God.
That's the fear breath.
And you take that in.
And then this causes problems.
So the fifth one says,
intimidate through words and actions
and create the feelings of the problem
being too big to solve.
Anybody ever suffer that at the workplace
in every meeting, whatever, it's just like,
I don't know what we're going to do.
And we get hung up on the,
I don't know what we're going to do
and it just hangs there.
Because we keep announcing
that we don't know what we're going to do.
Last night I gave an example.
Some of you were there.
I gave an example because I saw this online
of an escalator.
And two people were on the escalator.
A man and a woman as they're going up the escalator
and they're in this big mall.
All of a sudden it shuts off
and they start screaming around the escalator.
Anybody come?
Are we going to get off this?
I don't know what to do.
Why aren't people helping us?
And they go absolute victim mode
when all they have to do is like,
walk off the escalator.
But they don't know that
because they're captivated
while they're there in the victim's way of thinking.
If you're easily offended,
you'll have the victim's way of thinking.
And when you feel like a victim,
everything else is a bully.
And so then you won't be able to hear.
If you can't hear what I'm saying
because everything that I say,
even when I'm trying to help,
you get offended by...
Now, Pastor Igor gets up.
Let's say you're going through all that.
And he gets up and is like,
we're going to humble ourselves.
Let's learn what that is.
Another message.
And we're always having to do stuff.
It'll do that in your flesh.
Because how do you protect yourself
against something
if you're easily offended
that actually is something that will help you
that you have to make a choice to do?
And it's requiring trust.
That's where plastic Christianity comes in.
You put on the mask.
Plastic people have plastic success.
Real people have real success.
And so, here we are.
It creates this chaos in communication,
works alongside the spirits of offense,
intimidates through words and actions,
and creates the feeling of the problem.
Being way too big. This is so big.
I'm never going to be able to talk to them about it.
I don't think I'll ever be able to share.
You know what? Because we're so afraid
that wound is so fresh in us
that if you go to solve it
and they say something else,
you'll think you're going to die.
You've already cried so hard about this,
been so mad about it,
that it's like, I don't talk about it.
Well, now we're open to this next phase
of how the demonic works.
This thing that actually
runs the sons of pride.
Because when we feel so much shame,
the only the opposite of that proverb says
that first comes pride,
then you fall off of that and you hit shame
and you face plant.
This is my version.
And so, when you face plant,
then you have to, the harder you face plant,
the more you're going to have to lift yourself up
to get out of that feeling of shame.
So we do all kinds of things in the natural
to try to protect ourselves and lift ourselves up
or brag about ourselves or say different things,
try to get the last word in.
All of that is us lifting ourselves up.
And when we do that,
now we're back in pride,
which is going to face plant you eventually.
Who in the world wants to go through that yo-yo?
I face planted too many times in my life.
I already have a broken nose.
I don't want to do it again.
So, just saying.
An enemy that is,
then we goes on and says,
attacks the mind, causes fear.
The fleeing spirit thinks the worst of others.
I have to think the worst of others
if I'm underneath this,
if I have a fence, if I have fear,
if I have pride.
See, all these things start to mix together.
I have to think the worst of others
because otherwise how will I protect myself?
If I find out you told me stuff
and now that wasn't really true,
see, I didn't protect myself.
So, I should have thought
that you were a jerk to begin with.
Then I would be okay right now.
If I would have just allowed myself
to just put that out there,
and then when you do that,
what you're doing is,
I don't trust you, I don't trust you,
I don't like you, I don't, whatever.
Then someone, you're waiting for someone
so amazing to come along
and present themselves in a way
that you're like, now that I can trust.
Who is that person?
After a while, really, who is that person?
Everyone can break trust.
I'm capable of saying some pretty stupid things.
But I'm hoping that we're all growing together
in a way that if I do say a stupid thing,
you're not automatically offended.
So, what ends up happening
is we go through this
and we're looking for things to go wrong
more than we're looking for things to go good.
And there's a responsibility.
Now, remember the word responsibility
means you're going to respond with your ability
and when you go to respond,
if there's not much ability there,
then you know what you need to work on.
Like if you're in a situation
and you need a boundary and you're like reaching for it
and there's nothing there,
well, how can you respond with that low level of ability?
You're going to have to figure out
what a correct boundary is.
And then you take that on
and then you can respond with that ability.
It's your responsibility.
When we look at things like a victim
or we're looking into it in a way
that is everybody else's fault
or I'm just going to get hurt again,
then we do turn around
and not want to be responsible for anything.
Right? Which makes us more afraid.
Which makes us feel more like a victim
and it will capsulize you
till we become fake Christians.
But I believe that there's not
a whole lot of fake Christians here.
I think we've been working on this project for a bit.
So, but it takes a check.
It takes this to come on.
Because if you go to enter
something that's opposite
of pride in everything the Leviathan
was just described as
the only way you can conquer it
is you have to do the opposite of how it operates.
The only way you can do the opposite
of how it operates is humble yourself.
It actually describes it in such a way
like what you're going to do.
Put a fish hook in its nose.
What you're going to do.
Because the truth of this,
we don't have what it takes to do anything against it.
The only way that you conquer this way of thinking
is humbling yourself before the Lord.
And then if there's lifting up, he's going to do that.
That's his promise to us.
Humble yourself on the side of the Lord
and I will lift you up.
So then we go into humble
and I don't want to preach on that this morning,
but I do know a lot of people are asking questions
and have over the years what does humble look like.
I find it interesting that we use the phrase
look like because, you know,
I've said this before, is it like when you pray
or you're like, and that's humble?
Are you kneeling and that's humble?
Like we're trying to figure out how it looks like
when it comes from the heart.
You could just be standing here
not saying anything at all
and you're humbled before the Lord.
Because it's something of the heart.
It's not an action you take,
but it will produce actions.
But sometimes we'll start with trying to do actions
and hope that our heart changes.
And okay, you know,
make that effort or whatever.
But if we are looking to run
from this way of thinking,
we're afraid of the strife in our home.
We're afraid that we heard something
and somebody said something
and now I can't trust this person
or whatever,
we're going to have that runner feeling.
At TBO I always say we got a runner
because sometimes people literally get up
and just leave the service.
They do.
Because it gets hot.
I don't say that over the mic always,
but I do say it when I'm talking to people.
We had a runner tonight or whatever.
Because there's something where this way of thinking
attacks the mind, causes fear.
It causes that feeling like you have to flee
and it thinks the worst of others.
Likes to work in secret? No.
Do you know,
have you noticed that I'm kind of like
bringing into the light person?
Part of that is I'm an evangelist.
You can't evangelize by staying in the dark
and then offering crumbs to somebody
and they're going to come to Christ.
No. You bring things into the light.
But all of us need to know
how to bring things into the light
and what hates the light, but darkness.
So where you already know,
that's something that needs to happen.
Gossip, etc.
It's as you know, things like that
are never done like you pick up the mic.
Hey, I'm going to talk about so and so right now.
No. It's always like, come here, you know.
Hey, did you hear?
Is that true? Blah, blah, blah.
And the reason it's done
is because we're once again putting those
feelers out there
of how we don't want to get hurt
or be left behind
or be not important
or be whatever the conversation's about.
And we're protecting ourselves.
It's not a humble action, is it?
So if we know there's some of these things that are going on,
I think there's some of these things going on,
because human nature,
we don't want to be attracting that demonic thing, though.
So the only way it can attract to us
is in our own heart, in our own thinking.
That's why people will tell me,
it's like I'm wearing a sign on my forehead
that says come abuse me
or hit me in the face or something like that.
Okay, so then let's all get alongside of that person
because we're not going to let anybody hurt you.
That doesn't work that way.
The only thing that you can change is you.
You're the one who takes the sign off your forehead.
You're the one who makes a different announcement.
You're the one who has better boundaries.
You're the one who steps it up.
But the fear that's there
many times keeps us paralyzed
and that's still the way of Leviathan.
It is that like, oh, this thing is so big.
How are you going to catch it?
What are you going to do with it?
And it sets itself up
with the feeling like you should flee.
Many times this is why people leave churches incorrectly.
Now you can leave a church, you know?
This isn't like Pastor and I are like,
we have you, you know?
Lock the doors.
You can leave a church.
He's got a little booklet
on how to properly leave the church
because sometimes you leave in a huff, you know?
That's not a proper way to leave.
You leave with something unresolved?
Shouldn't have done that.
You know, there needs to be something
but there is a fear that if we go to deal with it
that thing's going to hurt us more.
And so if you get like a
Leviathan way of thinking
and I'm just using that
not to focus on a demon
but to focus on the characteristics
of how this thing operates
and you get it in leadership
people get hurt.
How many of you have been through that
and you know what I'm talking about?
You're like, I had to run from that place.
I had to get out.
Well, if you had to get out
that's one thing, but I think
I think I still would go confront something.
For my own sake, I'd say, you know, I'm leaving
and I need you to know this
and this is why.
Because it isn't just like we've chosen
to do things here.
This is the authority structure
and all those things.
We need to learn how to humble ourselves
and come under that.
But it's like a gaining of power.
It's like a thing where I'm going to use you.
It's like a syrupy, kind of sick, sloppy,
a copy that starts coming off the leadership
and it tries to get on you
and you're like, get off me.
Or get on the people
and they'll try to bring it this way.
And it's all about hierarchy
and who's going to be important
and you're like, no, no, no, stop that.
If you're a person who knows
how to confront that in a very loving way.
Ooh, this thing, if it's there,
it'll twist everything you say.
Been there many times.
Just was there last night with somebody.
They couldn't even hear
what I was saying.
I said very little.
Because they were busy machine gunning
to protect themselves.
And then when they were all done,
it's like, you all done?
Okay.
I need you to hear me.
And then it was totally
a misunderstanding.
Totally, but it was a spirit.
I wasn't offended because I knew it was a spirit.
I felt this thing before.
And it's there to kill, steal, and destroy.
It's there to remove you
from something you're supposed to be a part of.
Okay?
So it likes to work and secret,
likes to gossip.
And it can affect an entire region.
So what's really sad is our government
is covered in it.
It's covered in it.
There's deceit.
There's all.
And so that's leadership.
Just like a congregation.
That's leadership bringing it down on us.
And we're like, what?
Where you going?
Go.
We'll move to Tennessee.
We're going to...
You can make those moves,
but there's going to be some of that there too.
So it really is to combat it.
It's not to fear it.
It's not to make it into something so big.
It's to humble ourselves before the Lord
and let him rebuke it.
And I like that, like I said,
Pastor spoke on tithing
because it's powerful.
I've been in the spot where like,
I ain't going to say much at all,
but the Lord's rebuking you.
I was just going to stand here with a smile.
I don't even have to get involved.
I don't need to be offended.
I don't even need to say anything.
And the Lord will rebuke that situation
and take care of it.
Hallelujah.
But if we're in disobedience
and we're like, no,
I don't think we should have to do that.
There's certain things in the Bible.
We just ripped the page out.
That's not going to be my Bible.
And we started throwing things out.
Well, now you're going to set yourself up
because it takes pride to do that.
It takes pride to do that.
And so an enemy that is exposed
is an enemy that is defeated
or gets defeated.
The biggest thing,
if something's going on in your household
that shouldn't be,
is for someone in authority,
especially to say,
the Lord showed me this
and this is what's going on
and this is enough.
We're not doing this here.
That's the thing we fear.
Well, does it kill you? No.
But you hate the feeling of it.
But something needs to be exposed.
Somebody has to bring it into the light
and you got to do that in love
and you have to do that humble.
And then you're waiting for
things to bring about a change
as you speak truth into it.
But you can't speak truth
like you know it all.
You have to speak truth
like I got to humble myself too.
We're all responsible to bend the knee.
Same thing in a church.
Same thing in your workplace.
Wherever it is
that this thing might be ruling.
So I'm bringing it up
because we have to be aware of it.
And it will talk completely opposite
in your flesh
to what Pastor Igor is going to preach.
Your flesh will talk completely opposite.
And so, when you look at these characteristics
this is just some of them.
You know you've participated in it
which we all have
and you know it's happened to you.
Right?
Can I get an amen on that?
Are we just going to stay stone face?
I mean, it happens.
That's what's real.
But when it continues
and there's no one
bending the knee before God
and just saying,
God, I can't drive this thing out.
I refuse to flee from it
but I'm not going to enter
into the pride realm
where it has right to rule me.
It's king.
One version says kings.
It's a king of the sons of pride.
I'm a daughter of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have no other ruler.
I will bow the knee.
Yeah, but we need to.
I will bow the knee.
The Lord will rebuke it.
The reason it feels too big for us
is because we've been trying to...
I had one guy tell me
this happened a lot over the years.
They're like,
I was up all night wrestling with demons.
Like, all night.
I'm like, what'd you do?
Like, what didn't that look like?
I'm just asking questions
because they're like,
and I bound this
and then he showed me that
and I bound that.
Okay, maybe you're being led by the Spirit
but that should not continue to go on.
There should be victory.
According to the word.
So there might be a missing component
where it's like, all this is jacked up.
I don't really know what to do with it.
I ain't all that in a bag of chips.
He's given me authority
but I am gonna bow the knee
and the Lord will rebuke you.
How dare you try to touch me?
My family?
Our finances?
The Lord will rebuke you.
Another reason I'm bringing this up
is because if you think
that this stirring is the sifting
it's not the main characteristics of sifting
because this is what sifting does.
God moves.
Yes, that's what we want him to do.
But when God moves, everything moves.
So the very things that how we are there
will be exposed.
So it isn't God's doing this,
my car broke down
and God's sifting me
and you know, I was sick last night
or God this or God.
No, that stuff is already there.
And when he moves, he brings it into the light.
Amen?
And then you look at it and you go,
oh snap.
And then you better bow the knee.
You better bow the knee because you aren't capable.
He's given us the authority
and when he tells you to say something,
you can say it.
But you're not gonna have anything to say
until you humble yourself.
We can't assume we already have something to say.
Can we?
I have a ton of scriptures memorized
and I know how to pull out the howitzer
and just be like...
and nail stuff.
But God might not have told me
to say any of those things.
You know, you're like a knot bind
and this is... you know, you're going
because you feel there's actually
at the base of it, if you really dig deep
is fear.
I gotta get my weapons out.
I gotta have my weapons.
I gotta... oh shoot, I don't have
the full armor on right now.
Okay, now you're going to pray
like that looks.
But if I'm under the shadow of his wing
and I still don't know everything,
for sure, the Lord's
gonna rebuke whatever's coming out.
I got rebuke by my chicken the other day.
I didn't know she hatched out three eggs.
I didn't know.
So I come in there
and she's just sitting
and all of a sudden has a walk toward her.
I was like, what is she doing?
And then all of a sudden
I went to get the water and did this
and pooh, she had my hand
before I knew what happened.
I'm just glad there's a little gate in between.
I was like, whoa!
She rebuked me.
They were well protected
under the shadow of her wings.
Amen.
She'll peck your eyes out if she has to.
I was like, all right, you go girl,
be a good mom.
But it was that feeling.
But now, you know,
sometimes we come out from the shadow
and we're like, you know what?
That's because we know right there's the hen, right?
You know what?
And we'll start talking stuff.
And he's supposed to be training us to do that.
But I'm always going to be
in the shadow of his wings.
He's always going to be God.
I don't matter how many years I'm saved.
He will always be the one.
That gets all the glory.
All the honor.
All the praise.
I have not arrived.
You have not arrived as a wife.
You have not arrived as a husband or a mom.
I'm just letting you know.
In case you didn't know that.
We got stuff we got to learn.
Right?
And pride says, well, I just need to listen to me.
And I know, maybe there's a different approach.
Maybe there's something you can do differently.
Maybe humble yourself before the Lord
and get the info from him.
And then repeat that thing to them.
Amen.
So this fits every situation.
But then the other thing he wanted me to mention
because we are going to pray.
In a way, maybe that you haven't prayed in a while.
Maybe have.
I don't know.
I'm not your judge.
But this is the page that talks about the soothsayer.
I'm going real fast.
Because I told you I was going to machine gun you
because I think we have a mature group here anyway.
You can handle this, right?
This one to me runs deep inside of me,
especially because I preach at a lot of churches.
Some of them are full gospel.
Some of them are not.
But either way, they're soothsayers in the church.
And they try to find me.
They just are drawn to where I'm at.
And they always have a word.
Or, let me just encourage you in this.
And it's opposite of the word or whatever.
And you're just like, it's very interesting.
So a soothsayer, we go to Acts chapter 16
is a really good example of someone soothsaying
or divining, divination.
There's all kinds of, you can look up that word,
divination, and it goes to everything
from palm reading to whatever.
But the just of it is that you're,
they're being used to predict a future thing.
Which is prophetic.
And it is and can be the truth.
I shouldn't say it that way.
It is and can be a truth.
But when it's the truth coming from a prophet,
that's the mouthpiece of God.
You're being used as a mouthpiece of God.
You have the structure of the word,
the foundation of the word,
and you're speaking on his behalf.
Soothsaying many times is emotionally based.
Now, you can get good at that.
Just like you can get good at cold reading people.
I'm really good at cold reading people.
That's why sometimes I come down the prayer line
and I'll say, this is not a word of knowledge.
I'll tell people right away.
I just saw that.
And it wasn't like, oh, I'm so spiritual right now.
I just saw that.
Tears are coming down the face
and it's like, you look really sad.
No way.
She just can hear from God.
I mean, I'm just saying you can cold read somebody.
Certain things can end up being psychosomatic of the brain.
And you have to be able to discern all that.
And that's running pretty deep.
But I will tell you, this girl that was here
was being used in Devonation or Soothsaying.
Let's go verse 16 of chapter 16.
And they were making money off of her.
So one of the characteristics of a Soothsayer
is personal gain.
Now that doesn't always mean money.
If I was projecting things to become powerful
and create a following,
I can gain the feelings of pride that I need.
I can feed the monster inside of me.
Just by going around saying certain things.
So it's money, it's all of that.
Well, anyways, here verse 16 of Acts chapter 16 says,
It happened that as we were on our way to the place of prayer.
Nice. They're going to the place of prayer.
We were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of Devonation.
That is a demonic spirit claiming to foretell the future
and discover hidden knowledge.
And she brought her owners a good profit by fortune telling.
So they're making some bucks off this chick.
She could see into things.
She could, you know...
I said that word chick.
That's an inside thing.
Anyway, there's something about it
where she was able to see into things.
Like, you know, fortune tellers many times have a technique.
It can be just a technique and they can cold read you.
And then all of a sudden you're like, how did they know that?
Right?
But once they're like, I see somebody in a red shirt.
34. The number 34 is coming to my mind.
And 34 is the...
Yep, that's how old they are.
Gray here and they describe your grandma and you're like,
How did they even know that?
I'd be careful of that.
Because what does that have to do with your future?
What that does is grab your attention though, doesn't it?
You're like, how did they know that?
And so you want more.
It'll make you hunger for more.
Now there are times words of knowledge will disclose things
that you're like, well, there's no way they could have known that.
But it's different than if I'm trying to capture your attention.
I'm trying to do that.
And they'll do it through just name and weird stuff.
Right?
That has nothing to do with your future.
And it's not necessarily the mouthpiece of God.
Right?
So that one, that one you guys are pondering.
This, that is a demonic spirit claiming to foretell the future
and discover hidden knowledge.
And she brought her owners a good profit by fortune telling.
She followed after Paul and us and kept screaming and shouting.
These men are servants of the Most High God.
They are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.
Was she lying?
No, so she was speaking a truth.
But she wasn't speaking on behalf of God and telling the truth.
He is the way, the truth and the life.
But it's so similar.
There's a fine line.
It's just like hanging right there.
And you're like, hmm.
And so you would think like, well, why did they get mad at her?
She's pointing, she's like saying what's going on.
And then see all they would have had to do is posture
themselves differently.
Like, that's right.
We're here.
God sent us.
Whoo.
Even she can see this.
That's who I am.
See pride.
It's poking around.
Usually what it does is it pokes around to see where your fear is
through words over you or where your pride is.
It's like, oh, I found it.
I found the button.
I'm going to push that button.
I'm going to give information.
I'll push that button.
And you're like, oh, someone understands me.
And the next thing you know, you open up to something.
That's demonic.
So she followed after Paul and kept screaming and shouting.
I mean, that would be kind of annoying.
But she's speaking the truth.
So what it does is it sets it up like, well, who's going to tell
her to be quiet?
Because like she's saying the truth.
No, she's saying a truth at an inappropriate time for the
wrong reason.
And it's not the truth.
She's interrupting the prophets of God.
She's interrupting the apostles walking through.
She continued doing this for several days.
Then Paul being greatly annoyed and worn out.
Oh, yeah.
Turn and said to the spirit inside of her.
This is the spirit inside of her.
I command you in the name of Jesus Christ as his representative
to come out of her.
And it came out at that very moment.
That ticked off the owners.
See, whenever there's a back side of things, you know,
wrong intent or whatever.
Paul is so mean.
I don't think we should go anywhere near his church.
I don't see where we should have.
He's just a mean guy.
I mean, she was just trying to help.
See, it'll get on the people just like Leviathan.
And the next thing you know, you're gathered around
something that wasn't even God.
And it'll suck you away.
Yeah?
So I want to address something about being a
conference junkie.
Like, if I could be 10 people, I'd be so many meetings
all over the place because I just love checking stuff out.
But if I feel like I have to go get my next high
in a conference.
I'm not humbling myself before the Lord.
I know it's such a mess in our marriage.
I really don't know what to do or whatever.
And then I'm like, I know.
I'll go hear the great speaker so-and-so.
And then hopefully I'll get a word.
And they'll prophesy over me.
I like leaving people in a spot when they call me
for counseling sometimes.
And they'll be like, I just need to really meet now.
I can't for two days.
I've been telling you the truth here right now.
Most of it is because my calendar's full.
But the other part of it is like, you need to calm down
and figure you out.
I'm not your God.
Then when you come in, it's crazy how many of them
are like, you know, it's silly that I called you.
And God told me this and this is what happened.
And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah.
And they have this whole thing that God disclosed to them
because they couldn't grab me for the information.
The body of Christ is being trained
in some of these conference junky kind of things
where it's just like, we're going just for the word.
We're going to, you know,
Calvin Woods has really accurate prophecies, right?
But he only does it when God tells him to do it.
And he says it's really crazy when people are craving that.
Like he's their God.
He's got to give them nothing. He just walks on by.
And then they get mad like, oh, I went to that
and he didn't even say anything.
He said everything over everyone over there,
but I was the one that didn't...
He might not have something for you,
or he purposely, God was saying, no.
It's important we understand this,
not just because we're going into talking about humble,
and that can jack with your flesh,
or your flesh, anything that's in there.
It's like, let me poke the bear.
What you got? What you got?
It's going to do that, just so you know.
Because when you do anything,
that's the foundational principle of how God operates.
You're poking the bear inside of you.
And you say, I don't want to.
And when you get angry, or you get that all riling up
in the inside of you, nobody can do anything right
around you, stupid job, and dumb car,
and all the stuff starts coming up.
What's going on inside of you?
No, it's not me.
I wouldn't even be feeling this way if it wasn't for...
See, that's how it works.
And I'm going to go talk to them about it.
And I know I probably shouldn't be talking to them about this,
but I'm going to say, because that really bothers me.
I saw that, and then you start spreading gossip and everything.
Because the anger inside of you
really does want something to stop,
but it doesn't allow...
You're hearing the message,
I want something to stop.
That's what anger says.
But you're going down the wrong trail to look for it.
The trail goes like this.
Right in the heart.
Just look at the principle of
repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.
You hear me say this over and over.
His rulership, his ways of things,
doing things, his domain is like right here.
And when you get born again, it's like right here.
But we don't tap its resources.
Just got a kingdom inside of us,
and we're just like, I don't know how I'm going to fix this.
This is so dumb.
And I got to go deal with the neighbor lady.
And I'm going to tell her a thing or two or whatever.
And it's like, you haven't even talked to the king.
You haven't even gone to the kingdom.
Why is it our first response is not
to hit our knees at the altar?
Why isn't it like, oh Jesus,
like Pastor Igor was saying, I have to have you.
I'm desperate for you.
Because I already know I don't have the answer,
because if I did, I would be at peace right now.
I already know I can't do it, because if I could,
it'd be done already.
You see that?
Are you okay?
That happens when things get machine gun.
He's a hawk.
I'm really just saying foundational things.
I'm not trying to come up with something.
Sometimes demonology can do this,
or you talk about spirits that can do this.
It's like only a few people know the hierarchy of the demonic realm.
And then you're just like, yeah, we need to go to those people
because they understand how, okay, stop.
It falls under the category of working of miracles,
but so does healing.
So does a lot of other things, right?
They're supernatural.
But sometimes we lift it up, it's fear.
We lift it up, so fear goes to pride.
Just like, yeah, I was part of casting that demon out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we'll switch over into that, like, what are you doing?
Why do you think men in the Bible got in trouble?
Everything's around humbling ourselves before him.
The confusion many times comes that if we're humbled,
then how do we operate an authority?
If we give up our identity, then how do we...
What? How are we doing that?
So you try to picture yourself and you can't figure out what face to put on.
I don't think that God gives a mighty warrior, for instance,
so that when they humble theirself, they lose all of that.
Suddenly they can't lift anything up.
You are who he made you to be, right?
You can come in with a hundred pounds shield, plant that,
and then bend your knee and talk to the Lord.
It isn't like you lose what he's created you to be.
But sometimes that gets confusing because when we go to humble ourself,
we're like, am I just like denying who I am?
Am I gifting? Or like, what am I doing?
No, you're submitting it to him.
I ain't doing nothing, saying nothing, going anywhere
till I've heard from my king.
And if my feelings are off...
I'm going to sit here for a little bit longer,
get some instruction from him,
because they're not going to tell me what to do.
Too much opens us up to sooth saying and things like that,
because we're in a spot where we're looking.
How many people, the word thronged is what they use.
We don't use that word now.
They're just thronged around Jesus.
Why? Because he was doing miracles,
casting out demons and things that's working miracles.
How many people were exposed to that?
Okay, that was wonderful.
Where were they in the end?
You get 5,000 people following him,
just a few are standing around afterwards.
It's like, that's where the word says,
few there are who will find it.
Narrow is the way.
All these scriptures have to dovetail together.
Even with Pastor Igor, and maybe you know this,
but maybe don't, so I'm going to inform you,
just in case, right?
When you're doing, where you're honoring Pastor,
you know, like you honored me in the prayer
before I came up here, and you honor Pastor,
and he was like, that makes me a little uncomfortable.
Were you here for that?
When you say you're a little uncomfortable?
Right? Because he's practiced trying to stay low.
And so then, and then there's teaching,
and things where you're not supposed to be honored
in the background.
He knows that those aren't true,
but there's an uncomfortability.
You're like, wow.
So, he's not looking for personal gain.
But it is a spiritual thing,
just like tithing or giving.
You shouldn't be tithing where you're like,
stretching your check out and letting everybody see the numbers
and then throwing it in there.
Like, yep, I'm honoring God. No, you're not.
You just honored yourself, right?
But there's something spiritual about honor,
if you're honoring him,
as you're doing everything as unto the Lord.
I'm blunt enough to say things,
so, you know, like, you ever go to a party
or something like that?
We ought to go to that, too.
Supposed to honor them.
I wanted to go fishing, but I don't know.
You know, it's like that feeling.
Well, then when you come there, are you really honoring them?
So, it's not as unto the Lord.
Well, they're not the Lord. It's Jeffrey.
You know?
They're not the Lord. It's just Jeff.
I mean, come on.
And so, there's a feeling to it where it's like,
no, I'm going to take this time and honor Jeff.
That's what I'm going to do.
I know I'd rather be fishing.
And it switches inside of you
because you've humbled yourself before the Lord
to get that switch.
You have to.
God, what would you have me do?
Well, you need to go honor Jeff.
Then that's what I'll do.
I still really wanted to go fishing.
You know, or whatever it was.
But if you just go, slap a gift down,
like, hey, yeah, what time?
How long? Maybe I can still get...
You're not honoring Jeff.
And we've all done it
to some degree.
Everything's on a spectrum.
Maybe it wasn't way over here,
but it was in there.
And so it's purposeful.
So think about what is released
when Pastor Igor honored Dave and Vicki,
Pastor Dave and Vicki.
I had them stand up.
We're like, yeah, they get the clap
because they're in pastor, blah, blah, blah.
Now, you're missing out on the blessing.
Because if you turn and you honor them,
the whole atmosphere around us changes
because we just humbled ourself
to lift them up.
Now, Scripture says give honor where honors do some people.
It's just like, I'm still, give me a sec.
I'm still looking for something to honor them.
Well, what I got, what I got, you know?
So there's something there,
but you'll find something
and you can honor them.
And it's very spiritual.
And for them, it opens up
something within their heart.
The closed spirit suddenly opens up
and it's like, oh, wow, thank you.
So a place that doesn't understand honor
also doesn't understand humbleness
also doesn't know how to defeat the Leviathan
and is open to soothsayers.
So I connected all those together.
It's a lot to take in,
but we do have internet so you can go
and listen to it again, right?
I'm just trying to get us to a point.
You know, I'm not doing the whole teaching
cross-referencing over the thing and all that
because I got this moment.
But what I am doing is trying to point out
where we stop and think, whoa, whoa, whoa,
what have I been exposed to?
What have I allowed to happen in my life?
Who am I fleeing from
instead of addressing the issue?
Sometimes it can be your children.
You're like, well, they're going to throw a big fit.
Welcome to parenthood.
Well, I can't really, I can't go address that.
And the only thing you can see to address it
is either bite their head off or do nothing at all.
So the problem is you can't respond
with your ability because you don't have any.
So the thing you do is you make them wait
and you go to God, humble yourself and get some ability.
This is what you told me to do, slow everything down.
I'm going to talk to this child or whatever.
I mean, we had 12 children for a long time
and a lot of them were through a lot of abuse.
So you got jiggy up in our house sometimes
and we would tap out.
You know, sometimes the pastor would look at me
and he could see I had that look like, I need to tap out.
And so we would just walk by each other too.
Then he would go in and talk.
Because I knew if I stayed in it,
something wrong inside of me was going to be at least on them.
Then there's going to be more of something wrong.
Now, could I have done this better? Absolutely.
Talk about the jacked up things that happened.
I'm just being real.
They happened in your home too, by the way.
Or you'll still have opportunity for them to happen.
Yeah?
And I remember laying in bed and I'd be like,
this was not a good mom day.
That's what I call them, good mom day, bad mom day.
I would be laying there.
And I remember taking the route where I was going to solve it.
So I read all these books, you know, good mom books.
And I'm not asking God.
I think I'm asking God by going and getting knowledge
because he said to go get knowledge.
Well, the first priority of getting knowledge is actually from him.
But I was like, no, I'm doing this.
And then I would write out things I need to work on.
I need to work on this and make sure that I do that and everything.
And I burdened myself down trying to hold myself to all these rules.
And I never talked to God.
And my worst mom days were days where I hadn't talked to God about it.
I talked about the church, all kinds of stuff.
But how am I going to do?
What am I going to say?
Because, you know, when you have a lot of kids,
you always got at least one that just grinds you.
You're just like, I'm trying to love you.
Really, I am.
Give me my blessings.
Somehow they just get under your skin and you're like,
and maybe they're just like you.
I don't know. Maybe that's part of it.
But I'm just trying to be honest about how these things work.
And I could come here today and teach on Leviathan,
like, you know, like I've heard some teaching.
The Queen Mother Empress of the North came down,
and this is Blaine connected into,
and that name of that demon was this.
And then we tracked it.
I mean, it gets... demon hunters are like that.
They go, wait, you're just like, calm down, soldier.
Maybe just deal with your heart
and let God blow through you with the Holy Spirit.
And yeah, if you're wrestling with something the moment,
we will pray with you, help take authority over.
But you still got to do that other thing.
The idea of an arms is so different.
Did your thinking change? No.
Oh, you're going to come back around then.
So that's what makes this conference junky.
It's like, I'm still thinking about that.
I got to go here to get this, here to get that.
And if you ever hear yourself talking like this,
I'm just giving a warning out.
Where you talk more about a speaker, a person,
well, go to pastor, he knows.
He, oh pastor, ooh.
Or go to so and so over here.
They know you already skipped the fact
that you humbled yourself before the Lord.
You skipped over that.
You went to a man.
Are those people in place?
Yes, I'm in place. I can give you what I have.
I can't take you where I haven't gone,
but I've gone some places. I'll give you that.
But if I don't point you to Jesus,
I will start operating in witchcraft and so will you.
That's how intense this is.
It's more important that we live the foundational Christian life
than to get sucked out here into this.
And did you know they knew my age?
And what happened when I was in 10th grade?
Yay.
I don't, when somebody has a word over me
and they got all that stuff,
I'm waiting for them to get some meat.
Get some meat. I don't really care.
Now in the past years ago, I was like, whoa.
I was more impressed with them than I was Jesus.
I like John the Baptist.
He's a forerunner and he's saying, he's coming.
He's greater.
I can't even stand in his... I mean, he is God.
Right?
Yeah, he's the one baptizing people
and doing different things.
You know, shouldn't he get some credit?
No, he was just doing what God asked him to do.
Pointing to the one that is greater than him.
Now, it tells us to 1 Corinthians 13,
all of different parts where it talks about spiritual gifts,
tells us to crave gifts, hunger for gifts, different versions said,
long after the gifts, yes.
I want all the gifts of the spirit,
but I don't want anything that's not going to point directly to him.
If I can't show you Jesus through the gifts,
I'm not operating in something that's of God.
I might be telling you a truth,
but is it the truth that you need?
There are people that I went to a meeting where
this guy was, whatever came off of him was just extra loving.
So if you're wounded, especially as a woman,
if you're wounded, you're like,
that's why I need my husband to be like him.
You know, all stuff starts going through you.
And I was just standing there in the meeting,
but what was exuding off of him is like,
here's what true love is, right?
And the people were just caught up in that.
He's just so loving.
He's just so...
Well, then when he started dumping the words,
you're already open to everything he has to say.
And some of it was a truth,
but it wasn't the truth for their life.
So if there's no praise and worship,
honoring God and putting the attention there,
because honor sets the atmosphere
for the humbleness of the heart,
we can't, you know, a lot of churches have music,
but it doesn't mean people are bringing honor to God,
making way to eat the praise and worship.
They're just standing singing songs, right?
So in order to have that protection,
it's like, no, I purposely,
I choose to make weighting my worship.
This is not about me.
This is about him.
So you already started the service the right way.
Then when you move in, it doesn't matter who's speaking,
whatever, what can I learn in this teaching
from his word, who is Jesus,
that I can bring him glory with.
All glory be to you, Lord.
God, show me.
Why when the Holy Spirit came
and they amplified it says,
he came like a mighty rushing wind
and defused them throughout their souls.
Throughout their souls.
So your mind, will and emotion went,
and they started speaking in tongues.
Why did he choose that avenue?
When the power of God came,
what changed in them is they clearly knew this is,
this is what Jesus promised.
He told us where to be, when to be there,
how they had to wait,
they had to get some things settled.
There was all those different things,
and they sought him,
and when he showed up,
it clearly was everything Jesus said.
And then we know that it was truth
because they turned around
and established churches all over.
They became obedient.
When we just get words and we're not obedient,
either you missed it on the front end
or you're missing it now.
Either that person didn't truly give you a word
and you have to call it like that.
I should not have opened myself up to that.
I already know what God told me to do.
See, it'll switch.
Something's wrong.
And so if there's pride,
I don't want Leviathan in this place at all.
Well, wouldn't that be nice if we just say,
go on, get on out of here, right?
And we do that, and then there was suffering.
The problem is pride is not in the atmosphere
as much as it is in our hearts.
So do you see we're about to, as a church,
when we learn about humbleness,
go into a form of deliverance.
And I'm not saying someone's going to puke
or your head's going to turn around,
and that's going to be how it's all going to be lined up at the front.
But the altar should be used more.
Your chair should be, you know, you know, old time people,
I remember watching different shows when I first,
or different shows, different services,
where people knew how to repent when I first got saved.
I didn't understand it because we never did.
They turned and they'd face their chair,
and they'd pray.
And they'd cry and they'd weep.
Well, that's uncouth. We don't do that.
And then this should be short. Get in, get out.
I mean, that's why people think we're crazy,
because we ain't that fast.
And some people actually do come to the front.
You can do it in your private time, sure.
But there is a place in the corporate anointing
that it's like, I got to go bend the knee.
I have got to humble myself before God.
I have to humble myself and hear from Him.
And I'm not moving until I do.
He's going to tell me how to do the next right-hard thing.
A lot of times we're listening and we're hoping
He's going to throw us a rose and we're like,
That's it. Wonderful.
A lot of times it's the thing you already know to do
that you haven't done. That's the thing He already told you.
Right?
So how many of you don't want to be under sooth saying,
but still have the prophetic?
Right? How many of you want that?
Then you better study it out.
You better humble yourself before the Lord.
You better learn how to discern when someone has a word over you.
Maybe I shared this. Maybe I didn't.
We were up at Red Lake and this elderly gentleman came
and he asked me if he could blow the shofar.
I said, sure.
And then he proceeded to tell me
when we're in the prayer line, he said,
I won't be here next time.
I said, you won't be here next time?
He said, no, I'll be gone by tomorrow.
Where are you going?
He said, well, they prophesied over me that I'm going to die.
I was just like...
That's how I said to him, dude, that is not the word.
That's how I said to him, dude, that's not the word.
And so then when I showed up the next Sunday
and he was there, I stopped everything pointing out,
you are still here.
Because I prayed over him and we said we reversed that.
Nobody has the right to know
when your breath is going to leave this earth but God.
You're part of that choice?
But it's God who gave your breath and it's God who will take it.
And it's not on your timing.
They're timing.
So that was Seuth saying.
He didn't know because certain words were accurate
and certain words were not.
If your hunger is more for that thing
that trips your trigger to convince you,
you're looking for signs.
If I need to have the sign that says,
you know, this happened to you in 8th grade
and on the 4th of November, blah, blah, blah,
and you had on a green shirt, it's like, okay, maybe.
Maybe God shared a word of knowledge like that.
But I better know in my spirit, this is God
and he's telling me about what I had on, when and whatever
for a purpose.
But if you're trying to bait me into something
because now I'm setting you up,
a person usually doesn't know they're doing that
when they're under that because that's how they were trained.
Because it's happening all over the place.
You know, it's one of those things where it's there
and everybody's intimidated.
What was one of the things it said about Leviathan?
It'll cause you to want to flee.
I was going to tell the guy to stop saying that to me.
I just felt like running.
Did you say something? No.
Do you know there's times,
and now I hardly have anybody have words over me.
And I probably because the demonic realm knows
because there's lots of times it'll be like, stop.
No.
I'm good.
I was like, you can pray for me from there, but stop.
Do you know you have the right to do that here?
Yeah?
I didn't come up here for this.
Sometimes you came up for something specific.
You have the right to say no.
You also have the right to say, please don't touch me.
That's so un-Christian.
Christians are supposed to just be so loving
that you open yourself up to anything.
No, love has boundaries.
If you love yourself, then you'll love your neighbor.
You'll respect their boundaries because you have some for you.
Ain't that amazing?
And you have a right to do that.
Amen?
So he's going to be leading us into
breaking this off of us
without even really concentrating on it.
We're concentrating on humbling ourselves.
And you'll be surprised what you get delivered of.
Because what you're going to do with Leviathan
put a hook in his nose?
What are you going to do?
Ride on his back?
What are you going to do?
Because if you were going to do something, you'd have done it already.
But you humble yourself and it is a weapon of war.
It's a weapon of war.
So the other thing that I said was
when words come forward, it's personal gain.
Guess what we're looking for sometimes?
We set ourselves up when we turn into a conference junkie
or a person worshiper.
We're like, I got to go there because I have to move ahead.
So maybe they'll have something for me that'll move me ahead.
I'm pretty sure God already does.
He's the light unto your feet, the lamp, to your path.
Oh, yeah.
That doesn't mean that if you go somewhere
and you're just like, I feel like God asked me to go there
and you're worshiping and somebody happens to have a word for you.
Here's the thing with words.
Words should already confirm what you already know.
They shouldn't always be the surprise.
I had no idea.
They should confirm what, yep, that's what God told me too.
Or if you hear it and it's ahead of time,
you put it on the shelf that I have my brain.
I have one of those. You put it up there and you're like,
I will check you out later, but I'm waiting on God.
And then when I get something from God,
I'm like, that actually does mix with that.
Bring her down, plug it in.
Amen.
Don't settle for my car broke down
and I ran into this, I did this, blah, blah, blah.
This is all attacking me as sifting.
God's big heart sifting is whether or not
you're going to choose pride or humbleness.
All these things are things that beg the question,
what are you going to do with that?
And in this world, there's already trouble,
so it isn't like God has to cause it and it's out of his nature.
So don't posture yourself like it's coming from him.
I'm speaking to you as an apostle in the church.
That's different than a pastor. That's different.
Then let me teach every little...
It's an apostleing moment that says,
let's map this thing out and establish it.
Let's make sure we don't get tripped up.
Let's make sure that we are not living in fear
and we're walking in faith and faith is just always sure.
I'm going to answer a question someone asked me regarding this.
They said, why is it always the prayer line?
This is a tough question. Are you guys ready for this?
We'll humble ourselves right now
before God help us to be ready for this.
Just why is the prayer line many times the same people over and over
and the same people are giving words over and over?
Well, some of that is because we fish from our own bathtub.
That's how we sometimes we call that evangelism or revival.
And it's like, actually the same people are here every Sunday.
True revival, true.
There's going to be new people in the house or whatever.
You're not going to know them, you know, your ministry.
And don't take this as an all or nothing.
Like I'm shutting something down.
But I'm saying it bugs people.
They're like, I ain't getting in the prayer line because it's always this
and it's always that same way of reaction or whatever.
Eventually healing needs to take place.
And eventually the people coming,
we need to train how to turn and do self deliverance
and begin to prophesy and begin to speak into their own life
and to humble themselves before the Lord.
Now sometimes people are always in the front.
Why?
Because they are the ones who will be the first.
Like, I got to get there.
I got to humble myself. Let's go.
Right?
And we're the debaters.
We're like, I don't know if I should go up there.
I did pray this morning.
Right?
You know, we raise ourself above it and our reasoning.
But sometimes I've seen this.
I saw this in another church not long ago
where everybody in church knew a person
was suffering mental illness.
They were trying to cast demons out of that person
in every way.
They could.
Now I talk to the person and they're like,
this is almost every Sunday.
Something's wrong.
Something is wrong.
You either need to be delivered,
get some teaching, do something,
but something's wrong from the behalf
of the people that are praying also.
We need to humble ourselves before the Lord.
He's going to lift up every situation.
Let's stand.
Go back to what he already told you to do
that you haven't done.
Ask him, God, what have you already told me
to do that I haven't done?
That's a good way to start humbling.
Otherwise you'll do the rote thing,
like, you know, you're kneeled.
You're like, okay, so I'm doing it.
No, you have to dress something in the heart.
Go back to the thing he's already told you to do
that you haven't done yet.
God, forgive us.
Hallelujah.
God, forgive us.
There's some things he's asked us to get rid of
and we still haven't done it yet.
And so, but we're looking for the new thing
and the new word and the new...
Okay, that's witchcraft.
Do the thing he already told you to do.
But it takes humbleness of heart to do that.
That's how deep this is going to run.
And we're going to have to humble ourselves at home
before we ever get here and learn about humbleness.
We better start into it.
Not assuming that we've arrived. Amen?
So, how many of you know that you had
soothsaying words over you
or after just a little bit of description,
you're like, yeah, that probably wasn't God.
I'd submit it to that and that probably wasn't God.
Raise your hand. I'm not bringing you up front.
Just, you know, suddenly more hands go up when I said that.
Because your picture of me going, the name of you, you know,
I'm not doing that.
We're just going to pray.
I think there's a whole lot more that has happened.
It's happened here at Word of Life.
I've watched it happen.
We have to give permission for people to move and grow
That's true.
But I've watched people come in
and try to have personal gain.
Gain of power as they're praying for people.
And you're like, chill out.
Right?
Or gain the person's just so open
because anything you're telling me.
You can tell them to jump right now.
As long as I gain, I need to gain for this.
No, no, no. I actually need the truth.
And the truth usually hurts.
It's usually something he already told us to do
that we haven't done yet.
Amen?
Father, we come before you
in the mighty name of Jesus.
And I thank you that you're going to do this.
You're going to, you're chipping away at it.
And that truth was swen out.
It probably made some people mad, sad, or glad.
Or all of the above.
And I'm okay with that because you're okay with that.
But we're just praying right now, Lord,
that as this
takes place
that the deliverance that will happen
will almost be like in secret.
We'll see our own personal growth.
We'll see the victories
before anyone else does.
We'll be like, I come getting free of this.
This is awesome.
Because we spent time in the secret place.
We spent time with you. We humbled ourselves.
Well, say right out loud, Lord God, I was wrong on that.
I humbled myself right now.
Admit it. I'll call it spade to spade.
That was wrong.
And we won't fear the thing
that's trying to keep the chaos
in our life.
We'll start addressing it by you.
Thank you, Lord,
that you're removing any of the
one person better than the other.
Feelings that have landed in this
atmosphere at times. Get out.
And we thank you
that you rebuke the devourer.
You're the one as we humble
yourself. You get rid of the
fleeing feeling. You get rid of the chaos.
You get rid of those things
that are blocking us from loving
ourselves and others.
It's true deliverance.
Jesus,
we welcome
you.
Thank you by the Spirit.
You convict, you convey, you convince
us.
We want the whole meal deal.
We want it all.
As we bow the knee,
anything that needs
to be changed, we're open to.
Thank you, Lord.
Sanctify us as a church.
Sanctify TBO. Sanctify
the churches in the north
that are being ministered to.
Sanctify, Lord God.
Do this in us.
Do it in our leadership. Do it
in my heart, my husband's heart.
Any area, Lord God.
We inspire sons and
daughters of you. We are not
under the king of
pride.
So once again a reminder,
when you want deliverance from
anything too, it's still in that
principle that says, submit
yourself therefore to God.
Submit means to come
under the mission of God.
If you're over here casting demons
and you don't even know what his mission is for you,
you might want to back up the train
and start submitting.
I'm going to come under your mission, whatever it is
God. That's what gives you the right
to resist.
I'm coming under your mission, your ways of doing things.
This whole thing, my department
at church, whatever zone that I'm in,
I am not going to just sit here
and try to elevate myself
so I can feel loved. I am
already loved by you.
So lift off of us. We are under
your mission
in all things.
In all things
you are Lord.
You are Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
You all okay?
Yeah. This is going to take some
reminders, but I think as pastor
Igor delivers what God has already told
him when he was humbling himself.
It's going to be meaty though.
It's going to have to chew for a little bit.
Take a little bit
of digestion time.
But it's going to change
the entire face of this church.
We actually can't go over
to that new building
until there's a change that happens here.
Or we're prideful thinking
we're all that. We got it. We just
cross over and expand.
Really? This is not a business
first.
This is us under God
and he is the king.