I just want to read this. I'm not even sure all the reason why, but I'm speaking it into the
atmosphere. John 16 verse 13 in the Amplified says, But when he, the Spirit of truth, the truth
giving spirit comes, he will guide you into all the truth, the whole and the full truth,
for he will not speak his own message on his own authority, but he will tell you whatever he hears
from the Father. He will give the message that has been given to him and he will announce and
declare to you the things that are to come and that will happen in the future.
That's the power of the Holy Spirit. That's the one who's going to speak truth and he's not
going to speak anything opposite of what he's already heard that came down from the Father,
lights, right, and Jesus and the authority of the Word. It's always the Word and the Spirit that
works together, but the truth giving spirit, now I know why he told me to read this, it's
going through me right now. The truth giving spirit, when we remind ourselves that he's
absolute truth, so there's no lie in him, for him to bring that up right here right now,
somebody's sitting in something that has lied to you and you're believing it as truth.
Whether you're watching online or you're here, whether it's about your finances or your body
or your mind or whatever, we can't just have somebody tell you the opposite, oh no no don't
believe that whatever and make that go away. It takes the truth giving spirit to lead you
into all truth, the whole truth, and he gives that truth to us for he's not going to speak
on his own message on his own authority, but he will tell whatever he hears from the father,
he will give the message that has been given to him, then he's going to announce that to you.
But if we don't have that expectation, we will only live in the knowledge that we have,
thinking it's the truth and the kind of like we cap it off like we've arrived on that subject.
Not we can do about this, we've arrived, you know we're kind of stuck, but it is what it is.
It is what it is, is one of those word statements that really says
there's nothing we can do. It's not, it's not a real cool statement.
You know you're assessing something, you go, it is what it is. Well what is it?
Well we're not going to talk about what it is, we're just saying it is what it is as a way
of disconnect from what it is. But to speak into it means we have to bring truth into it,
which means we need to know the truth and where do you get the truth from.
You cannot dispel a lie without absolute truth. Absolute truth is the only thing that can tear
apart a lie. And so this is why the father of lies, that's his biggest weapon, is lying.
He lies to you to believe it. He coerces you to believe it. He shows you things to go,
well I guess it is what it is. And then you accept it and it's a lie from the pit of hell.
I've been talking about the different places I've been preaching. Friday I was
unshackled and preached this and the Lord just told me just stay on this because we're breaking
yolks today in prayer. And this is a hard one to just pop out there and then we get to it
and it's like a roller coaster feeling like here you go, here you go, here you go. But
if you're believing a lie, expect the spirit of truth to get on you. If you don't think you're in
any lie, it's been crazy. I'll take stuff to the Lord and I'll be like, no, I think I have the
truth on this. And then all of a sudden you're like, oh, because he'll reveal the truth of
where there's mixture. You know, you can be like if you go after healing and you have mixture,
it's like strange fire is mixed with your fire. It's like something sort of smells
like incense but not really. You know, there's some kind of mixture in it and he wants our
faith to become pure so that we're so sure on everything. To be full of faith will cause you
to be faithful on the thing and you'll be faithful to whatever it is that you believe
and you'll be faithful if it's a half lie, a full lie. You'll be faithful to that too.
So then when we believe something and it's operating in us and we've seen it happen to
our grandma and our parents and it's just how it is here. That's another one. It's just how it is
in this world. We're accepting something that has lie attached to it and we're concerned about
bringing the truth to it because it can cause a war. Like just leave it alone. I've learned
how to live with this. Just leave it alone. And I'm okay. We'll just work on these other
projects over here. But when you bring truth to something, the lie always sticks its head up
and confronts. Light comes after darkness. Darkness hates the light. So I want to read
something in 2 Corinthians. This is what I've been going around, breaching my face off on.
And it's because the Lord has me on breaking alliances and this is where it comes from.
So 2 Corinthians, you know, if you go through 2 Corinthians talking to the Corinthian church and
it's a lot of those first chapters in 2 Corinthians is like, hey, here's what we've been doing. The
apostles are like, here's what we've been doing. We've been out there. We've had this happen to
us. This has gone on. I've been accused of just being, you know, this certain way or lying
and all this and they're labeling it. They're labeling what's happened. So even in 2 Corinthians
chapter 5, they talk about it in verse 4, but we commend ourselves in every way as
true servants of God through great endurance and tribulation and suffering and hardships and
privations and sore straits and calamities and beatings and prismants, riots, labors,
sleepless. It goes on and names everything that they are going through and then says,
but we're coming speaking the word of truth in verse 7. And by doing that, things come against us.
All of this conversation is building up to what we'll be talking about here in a little bit.
A mid-honor and dishonor, verse 8, in defaming an evil report, in praise and good report,
we are branded as deceivers and posters and yet vindicated as truthful and honest.
This is all going on with them. We're treated as unknown and ignored by the world and yet we
are well known and recognized by God and His people as dying and yet here we are alive as
chastened by suffering and yet not killed as grieved and mourning, yet we are always rejoicing
as poor ourselves yet bestowing riches on many as having nothing and yet in reality
possessing all things. Our mouth is open to you. So here now he goes through this whole thing he's
saying kind of trying to draw the picture and then confronts the church and says,
our mouth is open to you Corinthians. We are hiding nothing, keeping nothing back in our
heart as expanded wide for you. There is no lack of room for you in our hearts,
but you lack room in your own affections for us. So he went through everything that
they're going through. This is the war that's going on. They get to the church as an apostle
and they're going to speak into the church and basically tells them, you got to open your
heart up to where this thing is going because they're bringing the message of the good news
to establish these churches all across the land. Then it first says in verse 14,
do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Now this scripture many times is just used
for dating or marriages. Yeah, I remember, don't be unequally yoked, but you don't hear it being
preached on other things, but in the conversation that he's just laid out and where you will read
here now, it's about all kinds of stuff. It's not just about marriage. Do not be unequally
yoked with unbelievers. Do not make miss mated. This is what it means. Do not make
miss mated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your
faith. Do not align with somebody in your conversation, in your agreements, and you're
hanging out in your just being with people, business, whatever it is in a church or whatever,
that's opposite of your faith. Don't yoke yourself up and come into alliance with that.
For what partnership have right living and right standing with God,
with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
What harmony can be there between Christ and Belial, which means the devil? Or what has a believer
in common with an unbeliever? What agreement can there be between a temple of God and idols?
He's nailing all different angles for this. For we are the temple of the living God,
even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them, and we'll walk in and with and
among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. So come out from among,
it means unbelievers, and separate. Sever is what the meaning there, yourselves from them,
says the Lord, and touch not any unclean thing. Then I will receive you kindly, then I will
receive you kindly, and treat you with favor, which is grace. Ooh, I love it. And I will be
a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, God Almighty.
So God said this, I didn't say this, says the Lord, God Almighty. And I had had, what brought
this up is I had a question come in of like, how do I stay away from unbelievers and get people
saved? You know, that seems to be a contradictory scripture, because we're supposed to sever
ourselves from all this stuff. You know, and I remember when I first got saved, the phrase was
stay away from the appearance of evil. You know, it's like, well, don't go anywhere.
Stay in your, pretty much it's evil, right? Know what you got going on in your house,
there's some stuff. And so how are you going to stay away from even the appearance of evil?
And so it's one of those scriptures you have to, you have to have wisdom. So you're not
approaching it like a child, you know, you're approaching it like, what does that really
say? What is the common sense of it? Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers that this will
go over the meaning again. Do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different
yoke with them. So a yoke, we've been looking for a yoke for a long time. We've seen a couple
of little ones, you know, where my pastor and I are like, man, this is such a whole series,
I can come out of this. They're either broken when we go to, you know, thrift stores or
whatever where you see our antique stores. But a yoke goes over one animal, connects in
the middle and goes over the other animal. And the point is to get them to pull together.
And so when we're yoked with God, we're to pull together with him. It's very painful for an
animal if one tries to move forward and the other one ain't going on both sides. It's not
going to work out well, right? And so if we are not a person who can come under that
authority and have been yoked that way, then it's going to make the whole thing uncomfortable.
We're not getting anywhere, right? At the same time, to be paranoid of people who don't believe
the same as you, you aren't going to get anybody saved. I can hang out with people that
are in the witchcraft and all kinds of stuff. I mean, they're people. They're people.
But I'm not making an alliance with them. I don't look at it like I'm here to follow you.
We used to tell our children when it came to people, lead, follow, or get out of the way,
right? You got to figure out which part you're going to do. Is this a person you're going to
lead or a person you're going to follow? So for more porous, if we feel insecure,
if we have all those different things that come out of trauma or insecurities or whatever,
then we're more of a sponge to when we sit next to somebody and we're talking to somebody
to feel like we have to kind of, to be like, to come over and have an alliance with them.
Alliance and ally are very similar. See, who are your allies? Who are your people
that are there? Who are the people you can count on of like mind, of like faith, right?
And so, but if we're yoking with people or things or jobs or whatever it is,
it could be business. You yoke up with somebody and they're like,
I could help you with your business. And, you know, they're really gifted,
really talented, really whatever. And I'm sure they could help you with your business.
But what's coming off of them, you don't want to make alliance with.
And we've gotten ourselves into spots in certain areas where with the word of love,
you know, we have to love all people. We have grace for everyone. We'll just be allies with
everyone. No, no. We should be filtering even when someone presents something to us,
whether or not that's a person God is saying, that's an ally. Make an alliance with them,
come into agreement with them. This is why at Word of Life and TBO, you,
we got covenant partners and then churches do membership. We don't do membership because
you can join a gym and never show up. People do it all the time. Or you can be a member here,
here, here. There are people who are members in like five, six different places. It's craziness.
But when you come into an alliance, into a covenant, into an agreement,
you're saying, everything here is not perfect, but I could tell you what, I'm all about the vision.
And whatever it's not perfect, I'm going to work through because I'm all about the vision.
And I will be an ally to the church, and that will be an ally to me. I come in covenant.
That's why you have to come here for six months. You don't know for axe murderers or what's
going on. I mean, we've had people come in. I just love this church. It's my favorite.
I've never been at, uh-huh, uh-huh. First time visitor.
I could. I'm glad you're happy about it. Come here some more. Because the third Sunday,
you might not like us so much. We don't know. And you should know. That's called good boundaries
for yourself. You should know that. And so we're helping people have boundaries for themselves
because we don't want to make an alliance. When you make an alliance with something
that's not of God, it's out of your own desperateness.
You know, like I always say, like a cat scratching on the screen in the middle
of winter trying to get in the house. It's desperateness. Like, ah, you know, making all
kinds of... the fear that comes out is like, I don't care who, what, where. I'm going to
make an alliance with this. Because I have to be taken care of. And so you're making your
own way when Adonai makes a way where there seems to be no way. And we have to be patient
enough and not, you know, get in, be in an ally with somebody that or something come into agreement
with it while we're in agreement with God. That's like dual faith being in two places
at the same time. And yet here we are, he says, don't do this. Now, they're talking
to the Corinthian church on top of it. This church is not even open really to receiving
what they have to say because they took two chapters worth to be like, okay, here's what's
happening. Here's the deal. You guys need to do this. And we're doing this, but you're not doing
this, right? So he's confronting them and then says, don't be unequally yoked.
Don't make an alliance. Mismated doesn't match alliance with them or come under a difference,
a different yoke with them inconsistent with your faith. For what partnership does this have,
right? Evil and good. They don't, they don't partner. We have, we had one guy get mad at us and
cuss us out one time. He's got to wait for it to pass, you know, like, and blank and blank,
and you're like, mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. And then my husband out of wisdom and just calmly said,
you see, when you're talking like that, I can't receive anything you say.
Right. Why? Because they just showed they're an alliance with something opposite of our faith.
It wasn't a problem of, oh, they're baby Christian, they're still going to grow. No,
it was an older Christian knew exactly what they were doing. It's like,
sorry, I can't buy an ally to that. We're not going to join. We're not going to be in that.
Sometimes we stay in things. You know, it can be silly things I brought up last night.
One person was like, I just feel bad. I signed up for these vitamins and they keep sending them.
And I just don't know if I should call back and, and they're asking me and I'm like,
are you in for the vitamins or are you not? Well, no, not anymore. I'm not seeing it make
a difference. Well, then don't stay in alliance with them. Call somebody and get off this
list. That's how porous we are to getting ourselves into things. And then we're upset
because this is dragging on us. That thing over there is dragging on us to make things less
is more. You got to figure out who you're with and who's with you. First, you establish that
by your relationship with God. You're in an alliance to God. You're in yoke with God. And
so anything that's opposite of that, I can talk to you. We can have conversation. I go out to eat
with you, but I'm not going to come into alliance with you. Sometimes we'll have business people
that'll come and they're like, you know, I can help you. And I love that because there are people
who are here right now that came in and they could help us in a certain area.
But we're not desperate. We don't posture ourselves as desperate. So we're not like,
oh my goodness, you could help me. Why don't you come on in and we'll meet and I don't know you.
I don't care if you're the most gifted at whatever. I'm not coming into an alliance with you,
bringing you into something in the church when I don't even know you.
And then it makes me question, why are you comfortable enough to make an alliance with
me and you don't know me? Something's wrong here.
Something's wrong here. That's no different than people with high codependency.
Codependency comes out of the desperateness. I'm going to be alone. I can't handle abandonment.
I need somebody. I need something. You know, it's a real deal and the fight is real.
But if you're postured like that, you go home with any guy or any girl
and you'll be so in love and not even know their favorite color or their last name.
They understand me. You don't understand Pastor Mary. They understand me.
I knew right away. It was like right away.
Okay. An alliance is a strong thing. It's a strong agreement. It has hang time.
And so you have to know what you're getting yourself into and there has to be covenant around
it before you're going to put a yoke here. You know, I need to know I'm not just the one pulling
this and you just wanted an alliance with me because sometimes people see numbers.
We're not a huge church, but you know, like if you're a business person and you come in,
this looks nice. It's like, oh, there's lots of people I could sell stuff to or whatever.
I'm just being honest about this. And so if you come and present that to me and you
want to get in alliance with me, I'm just cleaning the air up here. People don't get too
serious. And it's an apostle talking. And so if you want to get into an alliance with me and
first of all, I don't know your product. And secondly, you don't know me and I don't know you.
I could be getting myself into something that, oh, I hooked up here and I'm the one pulling.
Ever get yourself in that spot? You're like, where is the other...
This whole yoke is just ripping at my neck. Well, I'm trying to pull and this person
who had all these big promises, not even there, not even there. We have to be discerning who we're
already in alliances with, right? And what needs to be severed and who we should come to and become
in alliance with. And I brought up this last night and at another place. And one lady said
to me because it was relational. She was in a relationship that was like, how did I get myself
into this? And so she texted me a lovely text and she meant it a good way. She said,
thank you for gut punching me today. I needed to hear that. So if you get gut punched here,
it's for the sake of deliverance. Because sometimes you need permission to let go of
something. And it doesn't, you know, the word sever, I just picture sword comes out and like,
let's sever this. You know, I mean, it has like a really graphic kind of feel to it. So there
isn't like a sort of let go, I kind of let go there. It's like, boom, let go. We just severed
that. We just got rid of that. So then what happens is we picture a relationship, you know,
whether it be with a church, whether it be with a Bible study, whether it doesn't matter what it is,
if it's grinding in your gut, and it's not you just being, you know, offended about something and
don't know how to deal with it. It's just like something's wrong. Question your alliance, go talk
to the people, see what you can do, figure out what the true belief system is behind,
all of that kind of stuff. And then if it is opposite of your faith, if they're going in a
direction, and that's why your neck is feeling funny, because the yoke you got yourself into
is pulling too hard on the one side. You need to sever that. So we picture the word sever so
graphic, then we picture going to that person and telling them, that's it, I'm severing this.
You don't have to do that. Right? But many times we have, it hasn't been role model to us,
the type of boundaries or the verbal judo we need to be able to sever something.
Just kindly going to a person and saying, you know what? I signed up for this. I don't think I
thought it through. See, it's about you. You're severing this. You're not severing them.
That's how you damage them, right? You're not cutting them up so you can let go.
It's you saying, I'm just going to own this right now. I got myself into this,
whether you're selling something for somebody or whatever. I need to back out. Right now,
to be a part of this, this is just an example of the difference of communication
than it would be to sever it. And so we don't ever sever stuff because we're afraid we're going
to get yelled at. We're even a product you call on the phone. My husband has no problem
calling and be like, and they're going on and, you know, and he'll just say, I want to speak
to a manager because I don't think you're hearing me right now. I'm letting go of this.
I'm not participating. You know, blah, blah, blah. We don't want any more of this or whatever it is.
And if they freak out, that's on them. If you go to sever something and that person loses it,
you do whatever you can to love them, but you're not responsible for their emotional state,
especially if you said it in love. You're responsible for you to let go and say,
no, thank you for that yoke. Okay. I hope everything works out good for you. Thank you
very much. And you move on. That's called deliverance. Some of us are in
places where we've made an alliance and we keep trying to ignore it because we know we have to
like sever it, but it's like, ah, you might need to make a severing with a credit card.
And there's no person you can't see any person there. But you're like, okay,
I'm not going to, I'm not going to use it. Not going to use it, right? Just having this case,
you know, there's a safety. We're just going to have it for safety. And that's not a bad business
move unless it's your reliance. You're like, but I really have to have this stuff. I really
want this stuff. And you've made an alliance with it in a way where it starts sucking the
life out of you. Now it's more important to you than God taking care of you, right?
There's nothing wrong with a credit card. It's the attitude of the heart. If you've made an alliance
almost like, if someone took that from me, I couldn't live. We're in America. I'm pretty sure
you do. All right. The word live has different meanings to it. You might have to go without
some stuff. You might not have sudden gratification in certain areas.
Break the alliance if you have to. Cancel the card if you have to. A weight will come off of you.
My subconscious doesn't even have to contemplate that now. I'm good. I just moved along.
That's what happens when we're unevenly yoked in different alliances. It's drawing on you.
It's drawing on your person because you're trying to be yoked where God told you to go.
And these other yokes are on you, and you're like pulling this way and that way.
And it's really difficult to then say, stop and move over here and just be about the one thing.
About the one thing. Hallelujah. I believe God's going to show us where we've made alliances.
You may still have... Let's say you left a church that was just
cray-cray. It might be you in your view of the church, but what if it was cray-cray?
And you're like, well, I've been gone from that church for a year. Yes, but did the alliance
with that church get broken off of you? Or are you still yoked in your subconscious?
Is it somehow still messing with your head? And you feel somehow responsible. You can't
even look at the people that come from there. If you're in the grocery store, there's something
that's an alliance feeling. And so you can sever that spiritually by just speaking out loud.
No, I'm actually done. The Lord moved me on. I am severed from that spiritually.
It has no effect on me because if you were abused, especially,
you'll think it's having an effect on you. Every time something goes wrong,
you're like, that's probably still the curse of the last church that,
you know, blah, blah, blah, the demon of whatever.
And it'll follow you because you never severed it in your own heart.
Severing is a finality. You cut something, it's really hard. Cut a big rope. It's like,
put it back together. You're like, I know we severed it. Let's stand.
Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord God. We're so thankful.
You're so good. You said, Lord, I love to remind him of what he said.
You said, come out from among this, the unbelievers, and separate, sever yourselves
from them, says the Lord, and touch not any unclean thing, then I will receive you kindly
and treat you with favor. When grace and favor, they're the same thing. Start moving.
Oh, look out. Progress starts to happen. And I will be the father to you, and you shall be my
sons and daughters, which is a covenant statement. It isn't a nice thing to say.
It's like, no, we're an alliance now. This is how this will work. This is why,
as we're moving along in Christianity, when we're going low, and we think that we've
just really parted with all kinds of things already, there can't surely be anything left.
You find out, I'm still in an alliance with something. I'm still in alliance with that music.
I've come into an agreement with that music when I sing it. It does something inside of me.
Cut it off. Hallelujah.
Let's start praying in the spirit. I'm going to have the band come.
The Lord has brought it up because he's going to break and sever some things here today,
and he's giving you assignments that when you go home, you'll figure it out,
and you yourself will sever it.
Lord, whatever we're in agreement with, whatever we're in agreement with,
that we do not belong in agreement with, that's pulling on us, that causes us not to have
excuses to do certain things, but to make excuses, causes us to make excuses in certain areas.
We sever that right now in the name of Jesus spiritually, causes us to see it in the physical
realm, what it is we're supposed to do. There's some of us who may have gotten yourself into a
relationship that you need to very lovingly sever and walk away from. You are loose free
to do that. You have permission to do that. Do it in love and do it on behalf of an alliance.
I am not going to be yoked to all these different things. I am going to be in one yok,
one yok, and his burden is light.