WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.240 I just want to read this. I'm not even sure all the reason why, but I'm speaking it into the 00:06.240 --> 00:14.320 atmosphere. John 16 verse 13 in the Amplified says, But when he, the Spirit of truth, the truth 00:14.320 --> 00:22.320 giving spirit comes, he will guide you into all the truth, the whole and the full truth, 00:22.560 --> 00:28.360 for he will not speak his own message on his own authority, but he will tell you whatever he hears 00:28.920 --> 00:34.140 from the Father. He will give the message that has been given to him and he will announce and 00:34.140 --> 00:38.000 declare to you the things that are to come and that will happen in the future. 00:40.440 --> 00:46.280 That's the power of the Holy Spirit. That's the one who's going to speak truth and he's not 00:46.280 --> 00:51.320 going to speak anything opposite of what he's already heard that came down from the Father, 00:51.960 --> 00:57.900 lights, right, and Jesus and the authority of the Word. It's always the Word and the Spirit that 00:57.900 --> 01:02.820 works together, but the truth giving spirit, now I know why he told me to read this, it's 01:02.820 --> 01:08.940 going through me right now. The truth giving spirit, when we remind ourselves that he's 01:08.940 --> 01:14.000 absolute truth, so there's no lie in him, for him to bring that up right here right now, 01:14.140 --> 01:20.620 somebody's sitting in something that has lied to you and you're believing it as truth. 01:21.940 --> 01:27.460 Whether you're watching online or you're here, whether it's about your finances or your body 01:27.460 --> 01:34.840 or your mind or whatever, we can't just have somebody tell you the opposite, oh no no don't 01:34.840 --> 01:41.380 believe that whatever and make that go away. It takes the truth giving spirit to lead you 01:41.380 --> 01:48.420 into all truth, the whole truth, and he gives that truth to us for he's not going to speak 01:48.420 --> 01:52.580 on his own message on his own authority, but he will tell whatever he hears from the father, 01:52.740 --> 01:56.980 he will give the message that has been given to him, then he's going to announce that to you. 01:57.740 --> 02:02.620 But if we don't have that expectation, we will only live in the knowledge that we have, 02:02.680 --> 02:06.760 thinking it's the truth and the kind of like we cap it off like we've arrived on that subject. 02:07.640 --> 02:12.940 Not we can do about this, we've arrived, you know we're kind of stuck, but it is what it is. 02:13.360 --> 02:17.080 It is what it is, is one of those word statements that really says 02:17.080 --> 02:21.540 there's nothing we can do. It's not, it's not a real cool statement. 02:22.940 --> 02:27.620 You know you're assessing something, you go, it is what it is. Well what is it? 02:28.860 --> 02:32.720 Well we're not going to talk about what it is, we're just saying it is what it is as a way 02:32.720 --> 02:39.740 of disconnect from what it is. But to speak into it means we have to bring truth into it, 02:39.760 --> 02:42.860 which means we need to know the truth and where do you get the truth from. 02:42.860 --> 02:54.200 You cannot dispel a lie without absolute truth. Absolute truth is the only thing that can tear 02:54.200 --> 03:04.020 apart a lie. And so this is why the father of lies, that's his biggest weapon, is lying. 03:05.380 --> 03:10.740 He lies to you to believe it. He coerces you to believe it. He shows you things to go, 03:10.740 --> 03:16.840 well I guess it is what it is. And then you accept it and it's a lie from the pit of hell. 03:18.440 --> 03:22.640 I've been talking about the different places I've been preaching. Friday I was 03:23.420 --> 03:27.560 unshackled and preached this and the Lord just told me just stay on this because we're breaking 03:29.180 --> 03:35.460 yolks today in prayer. And this is a hard one to just pop out there and then we get to it 03:35.460 --> 03:38.980 and it's like a roller coaster feeling like here you go, here you go, here you go. But 03:38.980 --> 03:45.020 if you're believing a lie, expect the spirit of truth to get on you. If you don't think you're in 03:45.020 --> 03:49.720 any lie, it's been crazy. I'll take stuff to the Lord and I'll be like, no, I think I have the 03:49.720 --> 03:55.300 truth on this. And then all of a sudden you're like, oh, because he'll reveal the truth of 03:55.300 --> 04:01.000 where there's mixture. You know, you can be like if you go after healing and you have mixture, 04:01.160 --> 04:08.000 it's like strange fire is mixed with your fire. It's like something sort of smells 04:08.000 --> 04:12.920 like incense but not really. You know, there's some kind of mixture in it and he wants our 04:12.920 --> 04:18.880 faith to become pure so that we're so sure on everything. To be full of faith will cause you 04:18.880 --> 04:23.580 to be faithful on the thing and you'll be faithful to whatever it is that you believe 04:23.580 --> 04:28.840 and you'll be faithful if it's a half lie, a full lie. You'll be faithful to that too. 04:30.160 --> 04:35.200 So then when we believe something and it's operating in us and we've seen it happen to 04:35.200 --> 04:41.340 our grandma and our parents and it's just how it is here. That's another one. It's just how it is 04:41.340 --> 04:47.720 in this world. We're accepting something that has lie attached to it and we're concerned about 04:47.720 --> 04:54.400 bringing the truth to it because it can cause a war. Like just leave it alone. I've learned 04:54.400 --> 04:59.160 how to live with this. Just leave it alone. And I'm okay. We'll just work on these other 04:59.160 --> 05:05.480 projects over here. But when you bring truth to something, the lie always sticks its head up 05:06.600 --> 05:14.580 and confronts. Light comes after darkness. Darkness hates the light. So I want to read 05:14.580 --> 05:19.640 something in 2 Corinthians. This is what I've been going around, breaching my face off on. 05:19.980 --> 05:25.820 And it's because the Lord has me on breaking alliances and this is where it comes from. 05:25.820 --> 05:30.940 So 2 Corinthians, you know, if you go through 2 Corinthians talking to the Corinthian church and 05:31.800 --> 05:38.800 it's a lot of those first chapters in 2 Corinthians is like, hey, here's what we've been doing. The 05:38.800 --> 05:42.780 apostles are like, here's what we've been doing. We've been out there. We've had this happen to 05:42.780 --> 05:48.300 us. This has gone on. I've been accused of just being, you know, this certain way or lying 05:48.300 --> 05:53.240 and all this and they're labeling it. They're labeling what's happened. So even in 2 Corinthians 05:53.240 --> 06:00.420 chapter 5, they talk about it in verse 4, but we commend ourselves in every way as 06:00.420 --> 06:05.380 true servants of God through great endurance and tribulation and suffering and hardships and 06:05.380 --> 06:12.400 privations and sore straits and calamities and beatings and prismants, riots, labors, 06:12.820 --> 06:19.740 sleepless. It goes on and names everything that they are going through and then says, 06:19.740 --> 06:27.920 but we're coming speaking the word of truth in verse 7. And by doing that, things come against us. 06:28.480 --> 06:34.000 All of this conversation is building up to what we'll be talking about here in a little bit. 06:35.000 --> 06:40.860 A mid-honor and dishonor, verse 8, in defaming an evil report, in praise and good report, 06:41.100 --> 06:47.700 we are branded as deceivers and posters and yet vindicated as truthful and honest. 06:48.260 --> 06:52.840 This is all going on with them. We're treated as unknown and ignored by the world and yet we 06:52.840 --> 06:59.060 are well known and recognized by God and His people as dying and yet here we are alive as 06:59.060 --> 07:05.840 chastened by suffering and yet not killed as grieved and mourning, yet we are always rejoicing 07:05.840 --> 07:11.800 as poor ourselves yet bestowing riches on many as having nothing and yet in reality 07:11.800 --> 07:18.360 possessing all things. Our mouth is open to you. So here now he goes through this whole thing he's 07:18.360 --> 07:22.720 saying kind of trying to draw the picture and then confronts the church and says, 07:22.780 --> 07:27.700 our mouth is open to you Corinthians. We are hiding nothing, keeping nothing back in our 07:27.700 --> 07:33.780 heart as expanded wide for you. There is no lack of room for you in our hearts, 07:33.840 --> 07:39.920 but you lack room in your own affections for us. So he went through everything that 07:39.920 --> 07:44.700 they're going through. This is the war that's going on. They get to the church as an apostle 07:44.700 --> 07:49.760 and they're going to speak into the church and basically tells them, you got to open your 07:49.760 --> 07:54.620 heart up to where this thing is going because they're bringing the message of the good news 07:55.320 --> 08:00.700 to establish these churches all across the land. Then it first says in verse 14, 08:01.160 --> 08:07.620 do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Now this scripture many times is just used 08:07.620 --> 08:16.500 for dating or marriages. Yeah, I remember, don't be unequally yoked, but you don't hear it being 08:16.500 --> 08:22.900 preached on other things, but in the conversation that he's just laid out and where you will read 08:22.900 --> 08:28.540 here now, it's about all kinds of stuff. It's not just about marriage. Do not be unequally 08:28.540 --> 08:33.220 yoked with unbelievers. Do not make miss mated. This is what it means. Do not make 08:33.220 --> 08:42.460 miss mated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your 08:42.460 --> 08:48.940 faith. Do not align with somebody in your conversation, in your agreements, and you're 08:48.940 --> 08:54.820 hanging out in your just being with people, business, whatever it is in a church or whatever, 08:55.160 --> 09:01.420 that's opposite of your faith. Don't yoke yourself up and come into alliance with that. 09:01.420 --> 09:05.300 For what partnership have right living and right standing with God, 09:05.720 --> 09:10.660 with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? 09:12.180 --> 09:17.080 What harmony can be there between Christ and Belial, which means the devil? Or what has a believer 09:17.080 --> 09:23.340 in common with an unbeliever? What agreement can there be between a temple of God and idols? 09:24.040 --> 09:29.380 He's nailing all different angles for this. For we are the temple of the living God, 09:29.380 --> 09:35.660 even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them, and we'll walk in and with and 09:35.660 --> 09:41.160 among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. So come out from among, 09:41.400 --> 09:48.960 it means unbelievers, and separate. Sever is what the meaning there, yourselves from them, 09:49.060 --> 09:56.980 says the Lord, and touch not any unclean thing. Then I will receive you kindly, then I will 09:56.980 --> 10:03.100 receive you kindly, and treat you with favor, which is grace. Ooh, I love it. And I will be 10:03.100 --> 10:07.680 a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, God Almighty. 10:08.100 --> 10:13.520 So God said this, I didn't say this, says the Lord, God Almighty. And I had had, what brought 10:13.520 --> 10:18.160 this up is I had a question come in of like, how do I stay away from unbelievers and get people 10:18.160 --> 10:25.900 saved? You know, that seems to be a contradictory scripture, because we're supposed to sever 10:25.900 --> 10:30.420 ourselves from all this stuff. You know, and I remember when I first got saved, the phrase was 10:30.420 --> 10:35.360 stay away from the appearance of evil. You know, it's like, well, don't go anywhere. 10:36.200 --> 10:39.480 Stay in your, pretty much it's evil, right? Know what you got going on in your house, 10:39.560 --> 10:44.800 there's some stuff. And so how are you going to stay away from even the appearance of evil? 10:45.320 --> 10:49.600 And so it's one of those scriptures you have to, you have to have wisdom. So you're not 10:49.600 --> 10:53.380 approaching it like a child, you know, you're approaching it like, what does that really 10:53.380 --> 11:00.160 say? What is the common sense of it? Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers that this will 11:00.160 --> 11:07.620 go over the meaning again. Do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different 11:07.620 --> 11:12.980 yoke with them. So a yoke, we've been looking for a yoke for a long time. We've seen a couple 11:12.980 --> 11:18.100 of little ones, you know, where my pastor and I are like, man, this is such a whole series, 11:18.240 --> 11:22.000 I can come out of this. They're either broken when we go to, you know, thrift stores or 11:22.000 --> 11:28.120 whatever where you see our antique stores. But a yoke goes over one animal, connects in 11:28.120 --> 11:32.900 the middle and goes over the other animal. And the point is to get them to pull together. 11:34.040 --> 11:39.860 And so when we're yoked with God, we're to pull together with him. It's very painful for an 11:39.860 --> 11:44.960 animal if one tries to move forward and the other one ain't going on both sides. It's not 11:44.960 --> 11:51.020 going to work out well, right? And so if we are not a person who can come under that 11:51.020 --> 11:55.820 authority and have been yoked that way, then it's going to make the whole thing uncomfortable. 11:56.100 --> 12:02.300 We're not getting anywhere, right? At the same time, to be paranoid of people who don't believe 12:02.300 --> 12:07.440 the same as you, you aren't going to get anybody saved. I can hang out with people that 12:07.440 --> 12:13.060 are in the witchcraft and all kinds of stuff. I mean, they're people. They're people. 12:13.420 --> 12:19.520 But I'm not making an alliance with them. I don't look at it like I'm here to follow you. 12:19.520 --> 12:24.160 We used to tell our children when it came to people, lead, follow, or get out of the way, 12:24.960 --> 12:28.680 right? You got to figure out which part you're going to do. Is this a person you're going to 12:28.680 --> 12:34.500 lead or a person you're going to follow? So for more porous, if we feel insecure, 12:34.680 --> 12:38.940 if we have all those different things that come out of trauma or insecurities or whatever, 12:39.260 --> 12:44.980 then we're more of a sponge to when we sit next to somebody and we're talking to somebody 12:44.980 --> 12:50.280 to feel like we have to kind of, to be like, to come over and have an alliance with them. 12:51.020 --> 12:58.080 Alliance and ally are very similar. See, who are your allies? Who are your people 12:58.080 --> 13:05.480 that are there? Who are the people you can count on of like mind, of like faith, right? 13:05.480 --> 13:12.920 And so, but if we're yoking with people or things or jobs or whatever it is, 13:14.000 --> 13:17.360 it could be business. You yoke up with somebody and they're like, 13:17.400 --> 13:21.500 I could help you with your business. And, you know, they're really gifted, 13:21.700 --> 13:26.260 really talented, really whatever. And I'm sure they could help you with your business. 13:26.600 --> 13:30.300 But what's coming off of them, you don't want to make alliance with. 13:32.500 --> 13:39.220 And we've gotten ourselves into spots in certain areas where with the word of love, 13:39.620 --> 13:44.220 you know, we have to love all people. We have grace for everyone. We'll just be allies with 13:44.220 --> 13:51.960 everyone. No, no. We should be filtering even when someone presents something to us, 13:51.960 --> 13:57.600 whether or not that's a person God is saying, that's an ally. Make an alliance with them, 13:57.600 --> 14:01.560 come into agreement with them. This is why at Word of Life and TBO, you, 14:01.700 --> 14:06.820 we got covenant partners and then churches do membership. We don't do membership because 14:06.820 --> 14:14.160 you can join a gym and never show up. People do it all the time. Or you can be a member here, 14:14.380 --> 14:19.360 here, here. There are people who are members in like five, six different places. It's craziness. 14:20.480 --> 14:24.920 But when you come into an alliance, into a covenant, into an agreement, 14:24.920 --> 14:30.220 you're saying, everything here is not perfect, but I could tell you what, I'm all about the vision. 14:31.760 --> 14:36.540 And whatever it's not perfect, I'm going to work through because I'm all about the vision. 14:36.840 --> 14:41.500 And I will be an ally to the church, and that will be an ally to me. I come in covenant. 14:42.220 --> 14:45.380 That's why you have to come here for six months. You don't know for axe murderers or what's 14:45.380 --> 14:50.560 going on. I mean, we've had people come in. I just love this church. It's my favorite. 14:50.560 --> 14:53.660 I've never been at, uh-huh, uh-huh. First time visitor. 14:55.020 --> 15:01.540 I could. I'm glad you're happy about it. Come here some more. Because the third Sunday, 15:01.800 --> 15:06.260 you might not like us so much. We don't know. And you should know. That's called good boundaries 15:06.260 --> 15:10.780 for yourself. You should know that. And so we're helping people have boundaries for themselves 15:12.160 --> 15:15.780 because we don't want to make an alliance. When you make an alliance with something 15:15.780 --> 15:19.300 that's not of God, it's out of your own desperateness. 15:21.480 --> 15:25.520 You know, like I always say, like a cat scratching on the screen in the middle 15:25.520 --> 15:29.780 of winter trying to get in the house. It's desperateness. Like, ah, you know, making all 15:29.780 --> 15:35.260 kinds of... the fear that comes out is like, I don't care who, what, where. I'm going to 15:35.260 --> 15:40.860 make an alliance with this. Because I have to be taken care of. And so you're making your 15:40.860 --> 15:49.380 own way when Adonai makes a way where there seems to be no way. And we have to be patient 15:49.380 --> 15:57.600 enough and not, you know, get in, be in an ally with somebody that or something come into agreement 15:57.600 --> 16:04.320 with it while we're in agreement with God. That's like dual faith being in two places 16:04.320 --> 16:09.340 at the same time. And yet here we are, he says, don't do this. Now, they're talking 16:09.340 --> 16:15.300 to the Corinthian church on top of it. This church is not even open really to receiving 16:15.300 --> 16:20.440 what they have to say because they took two chapters worth to be like, okay, here's what's 16:20.440 --> 16:26.520 happening. Here's the deal. You guys need to do this. And we're doing this, but you're not doing 16:26.520 --> 16:31.860 this, right? So he's confronting them and then says, don't be unequally yoked. 16:33.420 --> 16:40.500 Don't make an alliance. Mismated doesn't match alliance with them or come under a difference, 16:41.520 --> 16:48.420 a different yoke with them inconsistent with your faith. For what partnership does this have, 16:48.660 --> 16:57.720 right? Evil and good. They don't, they don't partner. We have, we had one guy get mad at us and 16:57.720 --> 17:03.480 cuss us out one time. He's got to wait for it to pass, you know, like, and blank and blank, 17:03.680 --> 17:09.980 and you're like, mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. And then my husband out of wisdom and just calmly said, 17:10.400 --> 17:13.540 you see, when you're talking like that, I can't receive anything you say. 17:14.980 --> 17:22.440 Right. Why? Because they just showed they're an alliance with something opposite of our faith. 17:23.680 --> 17:27.380 It wasn't a problem of, oh, they're baby Christian, they're still going to grow. No, 17:27.520 --> 17:30.580 it was an older Christian knew exactly what they were doing. It's like, 17:31.000 --> 17:35.880 sorry, I can't buy an ally to that. We're not going to join. We're not going to be in that. 17:36.700 --> 17:40.680 Sometimes we stay in things. You know, it can be silly things I brought up last night. 17:41.360 --> 17:46.880 One person was like, I just feel bad. I signed up for these vitamins and they keep sending them. 17:47.140 --> 17:51.800 And I just don't know if I should call back and, and they're asking me and I'm like, 17:51.900 --> 17:56.700 are you in for the vitamins or are you not? Well, no, not anymore. I'm not seeing it make 17:56.700 --> 18:02.820 a difference. Well, then don't stay in alliance with them. Call somebody and get off this 18:02.820 --> 18:09.900 list. That's how porous we are to getting ourselves into things. And then we're upset 18:09.900 --> 18:14.280 because this is dragging on us. That thing over there is dragging on us to make things less 18:14.280 --> 18:22.700 is more. You got to figure out who you're with and who's with you. First, you establish that 18:22.700 --> 18:27.800 by your relationship with God. You're in an alliance to God. You're in yoke with God. And 18:27.800 --> 18:33.800 so anything that's opposite of that, I can talk to you. We can have conversation. I go out to eat 18:33.800 --> 18:41.810 with you, but I'm not going to come into alliance with you. Sometimes we'll have business people 18:41.810 --> 18:48.070 that'll come and they're like, you know, I can help you. And I love that because there are people 18:48.070 --> 18:52.350 who are here right now that came in and they could help us in a certain area. 18:53.590 --> 18:57.870 But we're not desperate. We don't posture ourselves as desperate. So we're not like, 18:57.870 --> 19:04.370 oh my goodness, you could help me. Why don't you come on in and we'll meet and I don't know you. 19:05.330 --> 19:10.350 I don't care if you're the most gifted at whatever. I'm not coming into an alliance with you, 19:10.630 --> 19:14.270 bringing you into something in the church when I don't even know you. 19:15.270 --> 19:20.950 And then it makes me question, why are you comfortable enough to make an alliance with 19:20.950 --> 19:25.350 me and you don't know me? Something's wrong here. 19:27.870 --> 19:33.850 Something's wrong here. That's no different than people with high codependency. 19:34.250 --> 19:38.730 Codependency comes out of the desperateness. I'm going to be alone. I can't handle abandonment. 19:38.870 --> 19:43.730 I need somebody. I need something. You know, it's a real deal and the fight is real. 19:44.190 --> 19:48.550 But if you're postured like that, you go home with any guy or any girl 19:49.730 --> 19:53.610 and you'll be so in love and not even know their favorite color or their last name. 19:54.430 --> 19:58.870 They understand me. You don't understand Pastor Mary. They understand me. 19:58.990 --> 20:01.550 I knew right away. It was like right away. 20:04.730 --> 20:12.670 Okay. An alliance is a strong thing. It's a strong agreement. It has hang time. 20:13.150 --> 20:18.250 And so you have to know what you're getting yourself into and there has to be covenant around 20:18.250 --> 20:25.710 it before you're going to put a yoke here. You know, I need to know I'm not just the one pulling 20:25.710 --> 20:29.530 this and you just wanted an alliance with me because sometimes people see numbers. 20:29.750 --> 20:33.010 We're not a huge church, but you know, like if you're a business person and you come in, 20:33.070 --> 20:37.850 this looks nice. It's like, oh, there's lots of people I could sell stuff to or whatever. 20:38.350 --> 20:43.350 I'm just being honest about this. And so if you come and present that to me and you 20:43.350 --> 20:46.730 want to get in alliance with me, I'm just cleaning the air up here. People don't get too 20:46.730 --> 20:53.750 serious. And it's an apostle talking. And so if you want to get into an alliance with me and 20:54.310 --> 20:58.190 first of all, I don't know your product. And secondly, you don't know me and I don't know you. 20:58.870 --> 21:04.970 I could be getting myself into something that, oh, I hooked up here and I'm the one pulling. 21:06.090 --> 21:08.970 Ever get yourself in that spot? You're like, where is the other... 21:09.770 --> 21:15.290 This whole yoke is just ripping at my neck. Well, I'm trying to pull and this person 21:15.290 --> 21:25.190 who had all these big promises, not even there, not even there. We have to be discerning who we're 21:25.190 --> 21:35.650 already in alliances with, right? And what needs to be severed and who we should come to and become 21:35.650 --> 21:42.010 in alliance with. And I brought up this last night and at another place. And one lady said 21:42.010 --> 21:46.850 to me because it was relational. She was in a relationship that was like, how did I get myself 21:46.850 --> 21:52.010 into this? And so she texted me a lovely text and she meant it a good way. She said, 21:52.210 --> 21:59.190 thank you for gut punching me today. I needed to hear that. So if you get gut punched here, 21:59.510 --> 22:05.150 it's for the sake of deliverance. Because sometimes you need permission to let go of 22:05.150 --> 22:11.330 something. And it doesn't, you know, the word sever, I just picture sword comes out and like, 22:11.330 --> 22:16.630 let's sever this. You know, I mean, it has like a really graphic kind of feel to it. So there 22:16.630 --> 22:23.150 isn't like a sort of let go, I kind of let go there. It's like, boom, let go. We just severed 22:23.150 --> 22:30.450 that. We just got rid of that. So then what happens is we picture a relationship, you know, 22:30.450 --> 22:36.030 whether it be with a church, whether it be with a Bible study, whether it doesn't matter what it is, 22:36.050 --> 22:41.530 if it's grinding in your gut, and it's not you just being, you know, offended about something and 22:41.530 --> 22:47.230 don't know how to deal with it. It's just like something's wrong. Question your alliance, go talk 22:47.230 --> 22:51.370 to the people, see what you can do, figure out what the true belief system is behind, 22:51.550 --> 22:57.290 all of that kind of stuff. And then if it is opposite of your faith, if they're going in a 22:57.290 --> 23:01.570 direction, and that's why your neck is feeling funny, because the yoke you got yourself into 23:02.130 --> 23:09.530 is pulling too hard on the one side. You need to sever that. So we picture the word sever so 23:09.530 --> 23:13.790 graphic, then we picture going to that person and telling them, that's it, I'm severing this. 23:14.210 --> 23:19.750 You don't have to do that. Right? But many times we have, it hasn't been role model to us, 23:19.810 --> 23:24.030 the type of boundaries or the verbal judo we need to be able to sever something. 23:25.150 --> 23:30.810 Just kindly going to a person and saying, you know what? I signed up for this. I don't think I 23:30.810 --> 23:35.350 thought it through. See, it's about you. You're severing this. You're not severing them. 23:36.070 --> 23:39.850 That's how you damage them, right? You're not cutting them up so you can let go. 23:40.670 --> 23:45.550 It's you saying, I'm just going to own this right now. I got myself into this, 23:45.750 --> 23:53.590 whether you're selling something for somebody or whatever. I need to back out. Right now, 23:53.590 --> 23:58.310 to be a part of this, this is just an example of the difference of communication 23:58.930 --> 24:04.230 than it would be to sever it. And so we don't ever sever stuff because we're afraid we're going 24:04.230 --> 24:08.890 to get yelled at. We're even a product you call on the phone. My husband has no problem 24:09.570 --> 24:15.350 calling and be like, and they're going on and, you know, and he'll just say, I want to speak 24:15.350 --> 24:21.230 to a manager because I don't think you're hearing me right now. I'm letting go of this. 24:21.230 --> 24:27.150 I'm not participating. You know, blah, blah, blah. We don't want any more of this or whatever it is. 24:27.310 --> 24:32.470 And if they freak out, that's on them. If you go to sever something and that person loses it, 24:32.810 --> 24:39.010 you do whatever you can to love them, but you're not responsible for their emotional state, 24:39.570 --> 24:43.750 especially if you said it in love. You're responsible for you to let go and say, 24:44.050 --> 24:49.470 no, thank you for that yoke. Okay. I hope everything works out good for you. Thank you 24:49.470 --> 24:58.750 very much. And you move on. That's called deliverance. Some of us are in 24:59.950 --> 25:05.350 places where we've made an alliance and we keep trying to ignore it because we know we have to 25:05.350 --> 25:13.610 like sever it, but it's like, ah, you might need to make a severing with a credit card. 25:15.050 --> 25:19.130 And there's no person you can't see any person there. But you're like, okay, 25:19.130 --> 25:23.450 I'm not going to, I'm not going to use it. Not going to use it, right? Just having this case, 25:23.590 --> 25:27.690 you know, there's a safety. We're just going to have it for safety. And that's not a bad business 25:27.690 --> 25:34.570 move unless it's your reliance. You're like, but I really have to have this stuff. I really 25:34.570 --> 25:39.850 want this stuff. And you've made an alliance with it in a way where it starts sucking the 25:39.850 --> 25:47.670 life out of you. Now it's more important to you than God taking care of you, right? 25:47.670 --> 25:52.150 There's nothing wrong with a credit card. It's the attitude of the heart. If you've made an alliance 25:52.150 --> 25:57.590 almost like, if someone took that from me, I couldn't live. We're in America. I'm pretty sure 25:57.590 --> 26:03.870 you do. All right. The word live has different meanings to it. You might have to go without 26:03.870 --> 26:08.990 some stuff. You might not have sudden gratification in certain areas. 26:11.390 --> 26:17.850 Break the alliance if you have to. Cancel the card if you have to. A weight will come off of you. 26:18.650 --> 26:24.870 My subconscious doesn't even have to contemplate that now. I'm good. I just moved along. 26:25.510 --> 26:33.050 That's what happens when we're unevenly yoked in different alliances. It's drawing on you. 26:33.410 --> 26:38.330 It's drawing on your person because you're trying to be yoked where God told you to go. 26:38.330 --> 26:41.910 And these other yokes are on you, and you're like pulling this way and that way. 26:42.030 --> 26:47.830 And it's really difficult to then say, stop and move over here and just be about the one thing. 26:50.050 --> 27:02.190 About the one thing. Hallelujah. I believe God's going to show us where we've made alliances. 27:03.450 --> 27:06.310 You may still have... Let's say you left a church that was just 27:07.090 --> 27:12.030 cray-cray. It might be you in your view of the church, but what if it was cray-cray? 27:13.010 --> 27:18.590 And you're like, well, I've been gone from that church for a year. Yes, but did the alliance 27:19.110 --> 27:25.890 with that church get broken off of you? Or are you still yoked in your subconscious? 27:26.370 --> 27:34.590 Is it somehow still messing with your head? And you feel somehow responsible. You can't 27:34.590 --> 27:38.290 even look at the people that come from there. If you're in the grocery store, there's something 27:38.290 --> 27:43.790 that's an alliance feeling. And so you can sever that spiritually by just speaking out loud. 27:44.230 --> 27:48.190 No, I'm actually done. The Lord moved me on. I am severed from that spiritually. 27:48.670 --> 27:52.110 It has no effect on me because if you were abused, especially, 27:52.570 --> 27:55.630 you'll think it's having an effect on you. Every time something goes wrong, 27:55.690 --> 27:58.750 you're like, that's probably still the curse of the last church that, 27:58.750 --> 28:02.310 you know, blah, blah, blah, the demon of whatever. 28:03.730 --> 28:08.210 And it'll follow you because you never severed it in your own heart. 28:10.050 --> 28:16.110 Severing is a finality. You cut something, it's really hard. Cut a big rope. It's like, 28:16.170 --> 28:20.970 put it back together. You're like, I know we severed it. Let's stand. 28:24.610 --> 28:27.850 Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord God. We're so thankful. 28:29.190 --> 28:33.550 You're so good. You said, Lord, I love to remind him of what he said. 28:34.490 --> 28:40.370 You said, come out from among this, the unbelievers, and separate, sever yourselves 28:40.370 --> 28:45.910 from them, says the Lord, and touch not any unclean thing, then I will receive you kindly 28:45.910 --> 28:50.970 and treat you with favor. When grace and favor, they're the same thing. Start moving. 28:51.370 --> 28:57.950 Oh, look out. Progress starts to happen. And I will be the father to you, and you shall be my 28:57.950 --> 29:01.770 sons and daughters, which is a covenant statement. It isn't a nice thing to say. 29:02.590 --> 29:08.710 It's like, no, we're an alliance now. This is how this will work. This is why, 29:08.770 --> 29:13.590 as we're moving along in Christianity, when we're going low, and we think that we've 29:13.590 --> 29:18.110 just really parted with all kinds of things already, there can't surely be anything left. 29:20.510 --> 29:25.210 You find out, I'm still in an alliance with something. I'm still in alliance with that music. 29:25.470 --> 29:31.390 I've come into an agreement with that music when I sing it. It does something inside of me. 29:31.890 --> 29:36.510 Cut it off. Hallelujah. 29:38.810 --> 29:41.110 Let's start praying in the spirit. I'm going to have the band come. 29:50.570 --> 29:55.330 The Lord has brought it up because he's going to break and sever some things here today, 29:55.670 --> 29:59.190 and he's giving you assignments that when you go home, you'll figure it out, 29:59.390 --> 30:01.330 and you yourself will sever it. 30:10.510 --> 30:14.930 Lord, whatever we're in agreement with, whatever we're in agreement with, 30:15.030 --> 30:21.250 that we do not belong in agreement with, that's pulling on us, that causes us not to have 30:21.250 --> 30:28.310 excuses to do certain things, but to make excuses, causes us to make excuses in certain areas. 30:28.310 --> 30:34.530 We sever that right now in the name of Jesus spiritually, causes us to see it in the physical 30:34.530 --> 30:39.150 realm, what it is we're supposed to do. There's some of us who may have gotten yourself into a 30:39.150 --> 30:46.290 relationship that you need to very lovingly sever and walk away from. You are loose free 30:46.290 --> 30:52.790 to do that. You have permission to do that. Do it in love and do it on behalf of an alliance. 30:53.450 --> 30:59.270 I am not going to be yoked to all these different things. I am going to be in one yok, 31:00.730 --> 31:05.470 one yok, and his burden is light.