1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,064 Okay, open your Bibles to Ephesians, chapter six. 2 00:00:11,232 --> 00:00:14,420 And tonight we're going to begin in verse 12. 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,376 And Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus for tonight. 4 00:00:18,568 --> 00:00:21,780 We thank you for Pastor Mike and Julie and for their family. 5 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,272 We thank you for the volunteers and the ministers that 6 00:00:25,296 --> 00:00:26,020 are here. 7 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:30,274 We thank you for every single person and Holy Spirit. 8 00:00:30,322 --> 00:00:34,354 People worked hard to get here, so we don't want to waste anybody's 9 00:00:34,402 --> 00:00:34,990 time. 10 00:00:35,530 --> 00:00:37,890 And we ask that tonight you would give us something that would 11 00:00:37,930 --> 00:00:38,194 make a. 12 00:00:38,202 --> 00:00:39,470 Difference in our life. 13 00:00:39,930 --> 00:00:42,402 And we thank you for this in Jesus name. 14 00:00:42,586 --> 00:00:45,602 And everybody said, amen. 15 00:00:45,666 --> 00:00:47,810 All right, open your Bible to Ephesians, chapter six. 16 00:00:47,850 --> 00:00:49,586 We're going to begin in verse 12. 17 00:00:49,738 --> 00:00:53,208 And I'm reading from the King James Version, just because that 18 00:00:53,264 --> 00:00:55,944 still is the version that most people use around the world. 19 00:00:56,112 --> 00:00:59,656 But we're going to begin in verse 12 where the apostle Paul begins 20 00:00:59,688 --> 00:01:00,056 to write. 21 00:01:00,088 --> 00:01:05,016 By divine revelation, and he is seen into the realm of the Spirit. 22 00:01:05,208 --> 00:01:09,100 And he has seen how Satan's kingdom is aligned militarily. 23 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,300 And when you come to Ephesians 6:12, he says, for we wrestle not 24 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:20,640 against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, 25 00:01:21,140 --> 00:01:25,356 against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against 26 00:01:25,508 --> 00:01:28,476 spiritual wickedness in high places. 27 00:01:28,668 --> 00:01:31,708 And you'll notice that one word is repeated again and again 28 00:01:31,764 --> 00:01:33,308 and again in verse 12. 29 00:01:33,444 --> 00:01:34,840 It is the word against. 30 00:01:35,380 --> 00:01:38,092 And normally the word against that would be used here would be 31 00:01:38,116 --> 00:01:38,876 the word anti. 32 00:01:38,908 --> 00:01:41,740 But in this particular case, it is not the Greek word anti. 33 00:01:41,820 --> 00:01:43,600 It is the Greek word pros. 34 00:01:43,950 --> 00:01:47,410 And the word pros describes a very intimate contact. 35 00:01:47,870 --> 00:01:50,210 So you could translate the verse like this. 36 00:01:50,510 --> 00:01:54,182 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but face to face 37 00:01:54,286 --> 00:02:00,886 with principalities, ribcage to ribcage against powers, right 38 00:02:00,958 --> 00:02:05,142 next to the rulers of the darkness of this world, and lastly, 39 00:02:05,206 --> 00:02:08,970 against spiritual wickedness in high places. 40 00:02:09,390 --> 00:02:12,966 And now, by divine revelation, Paul begins to describe how Satan's 41 00:02:12,998 --> 00:02:15,142 kingdom is aligned militarily. 42 00:02:15,206 --> 00:02:19,430 And he begins at the very top by describing principalities. 43 00:02:19,770 --> 00:02:22,530 This word, principalities, is the Greek word arcos. 44 00:02:22,610 --> 00:02:26,642 It describes chief demon spirits which have held their places 45 00:02:26,786 --> 00:02:29,710 of power since ancient, ancient times. 46 00:02:30,170 --> 00:02:33,458 Directly under them is a second category called powers. 47 00:02:33,634 --> 00:02:36,498 The word powers is the Greek word exousias. 48 00:02:36,674 --> 00:02:40,594 It describes those that have received license from the principalities 49 00:02:40,722 --> 00:02:44,030 to do whatever they want to do, wherever they wish to do it. 50 00:02:44,460 --> 00:02:48,292 And then you come to this phrase, rulers of the darkness of 51 00:02:48,316 --> 00:02:52,520 this world and spiritual wickedness in high places. 52 00:02:52,860 --> 00:02:55,636 But many, many years ago, when I was studying the Greek language 53 00:02:55,668 --> 00:02:59,636 in the university, and I came to this phrase, rulers of the darkness 54 00:02:59,668 --> 00:03:00,532 of this world. 55 00:03:00,636 --> 00:03:04,324 It completely perplexed me because in Greek, it is the word 56 00:03:04,372 --> 00:03:05,604 cosmocrateros. 57 00:03:05,652 --> 00:03:09,434 The word cosmos describes something that is ordered. 58 00:03:09,612 --> 00:03:11,550 The word kratos describes power. 59 00:03:11,590 --> 00:03:14,846 But when you compound the two words together, it describes power 60 00:03:14,918 --> 00:03:19,950 that has been harnessed, Power that has been disciplined, and power 61 00:03:19,990 --> 00:03:21,486 that then is dispatched. 62 00:03:21,518 --> 00:03:24,846 And it was actually the old Greek word to describe a boot camp 63 00:03:24,918 --> 00:03:27,570 or a military training center. 64 00:03:27,990 --> 00:03:32,638 And so if you just take the word for what it means, it seems 65 00:03:32,654 --> 00:03:36,764 that Paul in this verse is using militaristic language at the 66 00:03:36,772 --> 00:03:38,076 very top of Satan's domain. 67 00:03:38,108 --> 00:03:39,596 He says there are principalities. 68 00:03:39,708 --> 00:03:42,460 These would be like the generals in Satan's army. 69 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:45,452 Directly under them are exousius, or powers, those that have 70 00:03:45,476 --> 00:03:49,116 received license and authority to do whatever they wish to do, wherever 71 00:03:49,148 --> 00:03:50,076 they want to do it. 72 00:03:50,148 --> 00:03:52,956 And then he comes to this third category, Rulers of the darkness 73 00:03:52,988 --> 00:03:56,684 of this world, which really is the old Greek word for a military 74 00:03:56,732 --> 00:03:59,600 boot camp or a training center. 75 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:03,280 So I went to the leaders of my church Back when I was studying Greek, 76 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:06,236 and I said, can you please tell me what does this mean, rulers 77 00:04:06,268 --> 00:04:07,660 of the darkness of this world? 78 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:12,012 Because the Greek word infers that Satan has a boot camp or he 79 00:04:12,036 --> 00:04:16,332 has a center where he trains demon spirits to do what they do. 80 00:04:16,516 --> 00:04:20,076 But no one could help me with this because no one had ever exegeted 81 00:04:20,108 --> 00:04:22,476 that word the way that I was exegeting it. 82 00:04:22,628 --> 00:04:25,468 So I decided just to put it on the shelf and forget about it until 83 00:04:25,524 --> 00:04:26,680 a later time. 84 00:04:27,220 --> 00:04:29,418 And many, many years passed. 85 00:04:29,604 --> 00:04:31,182 And Denise and I were doing a. 86 00:04:31,206 --> 00:04:35,090 Meeting in western Oklahoma in a small church. 87 00:04:35,430 --> 00:04:39,966 The place was packed, and we had announced that on one particular 88 00:04:40,038 --> 00:04:42,942 night, we were gonna lay hands on the sick and God was going to 89 00:04:42,966 --> 00:04:43,850 touch people. 90 00:04:44,390 --> 00:04:46,222 And as the people came forward, a. 91 00:04:46,246 --> 00:04:48,330 Man and his wife came to the front. 92 00:04:48,710 --> 00:04:50,606 They were standing side by side. 93 00:04:50,678 --> 00:04:52,750 He was a big man, and he. 94 00:04:52,790 --> 00:04:55,530 Had his hands behind his back. 95 00:04:56,340 --> 00:04:57,772 And I said to him, why have. 96 00:04:57,796 --> 00:04:59,120 You come for prayer? 97 00:04:59,780 --> 00:05:03,840 He said, well, I have this issue with my hands. 98 00:05:04,820 --> 00:05:06,972 And he pulled his hands out and. 99 00:05:07,076 --> 00:05:08,892 Put them in front of me. 100 00:05:09,076 --> 00:05:13,612 His hands were so twisted, both of them, that it looked like 101 00:05:13,636 --> 00:05:16,156 the fingers were now growing into the palms of his hands. 102 00:05:16,188 --> 00:05:19,068 And they were beginning to grow out the other side of his hands. 103 00:05:19,164 --> 00:05:21,276 His hands were completely deformed. 104 00:05:21,388 --> 00:05:23,630 And both of his hands were identical. 105 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:25,030 One to the other. 106 00:05:25,490 --> 00:05:26,842 And I said to this man, who. 107 00:05:26,866 --> 00:05:28,746 Was not a Christian, so he didn't. 108 00:05:28,778 --> 00:05:33,226 Know to use Christian language, I said, tell me what happened 109 00:05:33,258 --> 00:05:33,990 to you? 110 00:05:34,370 --> 00:05:36,682 He said, well, I'm going to tell you exactly what I told the 111 00:05:36,706 --> 00:05:37,470 doctor. 112 00:05:37,890 --> 00:05:40,314 He said, one day I felt something. 113 00:05:40,402 --> 00:05:42,030 Come on my hands. 114 00:05:42,690 --> 00:05:46,026 And he said, over a period of time, my hands begin to ache and 115 00:05:46,098 --> 00:05:46,906 they begin to hurt. 116 00:05:46,938 --> 00:05:50,106 And at first they thought that I had a severe case of arthritis, 117 00:05:50,138 --> 00:05:54,074 but then my fingers began to contort, and finally I ended up deformed. 118 00:05:54,122 --> 00:05:56,902 And he said, look where they have performed surgery to try to 119 00:05:56,926 --> 00:05:58,950 stop this deforming process. 120 00:05:59,070 --> 00:06:00,630 But he said, nothing they could do. 121 00:06:00,670 --> 00:06:02,130 Could stop this process. 122 00:06:02,910 --> 00:06:06,970 He said, then finally, when my hands were completely destroyed, 123 00:06:07,470 --> 00:06:09,318 I felt that thing. 124 00:06:09,374 --> 00:06:12,370 Lift off of me and leave me. 125 00:06:13,390 --> 00:06:18,310 Well, standing next to him was his wife, and she had her hands in 126 00:06:18,350 --> 00:06:18,934 her pockets. 127 00:06:18,982 --> 00:06:20,182 And I said to her, why have. 128 00:06:20,206 --> 00:06:21,370 You come for prayer? 129 00:06:21,910 --> 00:06:24,830 She said, well, that's the part of the story he didn't tell 130 00:06:24,870 --> 00:06:25,450 you. 131 00:06:25,750 --> 00:06:29,950 When that thing lifted off of him, she said, I felt it come on 132 00:06:29,990 --> 00:06:30,190 me. 133 00:06:30,230 --> 00:06:34,478 And she pulled her hands out of her pockets, and her hands were 134 00:06:34,534 --> 00:06:37,570 identical to her husband's hands. 135 00:06:38,230 --> 00:06:39,902 And in that moment, it was like. 136 00:06:39,926 --> 00:06:43,166 The Holy Spirit reached into my mind and extracted this Greek 137 00:06:43,198 --> 00:06:46,206 word, cosmokrater us here translated rulers of the darkness 138 00:06:46,238 --> 00:06:47,258 of this world. 139 00:06:47,414 --> 00:06:50,146 And I understood for the first time. 140 00:06:50,298 --> 00:06:53,986 Demon spirits do not do what they do accidentally. 141 00:06:54,098 --> 00:06:55,234 They are trained. 142 00:06:55,362 --> 00:06:56,482 They are trained. 143 00:06:56,626 --> 00:06:59,586 Jesus said, the thief comes to kill, to steal, and to destroy. 144 00:06:59,618 --> 00:07:00,706 And that is their motto. 145 00:07:00,738 --> 00:07:04,194 When they are dispatched, kill, steal and destroy. 146 00:07:04,242 --> 00:07:08,658 And Satan is so serious about his victimization of the human race 147 00:07:08,754 --> 00:07:11,906 that he actually trains spirits to do what they do. 148 00:07:11,978 --> 00:07:15,810 And there are some spirits of affliction, for example, that just 149 00:07:15,850 --> 00:07:16,562 do cancer. 150 00:07:16,626 --> 00:07:17,554 That's all they are. 151 00:07:17,642 --> 00:07:19,222 They are spirits of cancer. 152 00:07:19,346 --> 00:07:22,126 When they are finished afflicting one person with cancer 153 00:07:22,158 --> 00:07:24,078 and the person dies, they dislodge. 154 00:07:24,174 --> 00:07:27,262 They move down the hallway and give the same cancer to somebody 155 00:07:27,326 --> 00:07:28,158 else, because. 156 00:07:28,214 --> 00:07:30,770 That is the weapon that was put into their hands. 157 00:07:32,070 --> 00:07:33,710 There are spirits of addiction. 158 00:07:33,790 --> 00:07:34,702 That's all they do. 159 00:07:34,726 --> 00:07:36,126 They don't do anything but addiction. 160 00:07:36,158 --> 00:07:38,430 And when they're finished destroying one life, they move on 161 00:07:38,470 --> 00:07:40,590 to create addiction in another life. 162 00:07:40,630 --> 00:07:43,570 There are spirits of sexual perversion. 163 00:07:44,630 --> 00:07:47,550 And those spirits are trained to take the thinking of young people 164 00:07:47,590 --> 00:07:48,766 and twist their thinking. 165 00:07:48,878 --> 00:07:51,610 And when they have totally twisted the thinking of that young 166 00:07:51,650 --> 00:07:54,858 person and that person's life has become destroyed, then they. 167 00:07:54,914 --> 00:07:57,150 Move on to do it to somebody else. 168 00:07:57,890 --> 00:08:00,270 These are spirits that have been trained. 169 00:08:00,770 --> 00:08:03,498 And this Greek word, cosmokrater us is the Greek word 170 00:08:03,514 --> 00:08:06,634 which really describes a boot camp or a military training center. 171 00:08:06,682 --> 00:08:08,874 And it can only mean that Satan. 172 00:08:08,922 --> 00:08:12,474 Is so serious about his victimization of. 173 00:08:12,482 --> 00:08:16,698 The human race that he trains spirits to do what they do. 174 00:08:16,754 --> 00:08:20,162 And that leads us to the last category, spiritual wickedness. 175 00:08:20,226 --> 00:08:22,898 In what high places? 176 00:08:23,074 --> 00:08:27,314 Well, the word high places in Greek is a word which actually describes 177 00:08:27,362 --> 00:08:31,810 the lower air or the atmosphere where we live, which means 178 00:08:31,850 --> 00:08:34,898 when demon spirits are trained, they're not dispatched out 179 00:08:34,954 --> 00:08:38,370 into the cosmos, but they're dispatched into our environment. 180 00:08:38,490 --> 00:08:42,242 They come down to where people are with the weapons that have been 181 00:08:42,266 --> 00:08:43,830 placed into their hands. 182 00:08:44,420 --> 00:08:45,692 And that is when they begin to. 183 00:08:45,716 --> 00:08:49,960 Victimize the human race and to understand how evil this is. 184 00:08:50,420 --> 00:08:52,684 The bible says spirits of wickedness. 185 00:08:52,732 --> 00:08:54,332 The Greek word poneros. 186 00:08:54,396 --> 00:08:58,156 It describes that which is malevolent, that which is insidious, 187 00:08:58,268 --> 00:09:00,348 that which is absolutely wicked. 188 00:09:00,444 --> 00:09:05,932 And the reason Satan is so intent on attacking the human race 189 00:09:05,996 --> 00:09:08,988 is because we are made in the image of God. 190 00:09:09,084 --> 00:09:13,292 And every time he sees us, he sees the image of God, and therefore 191 00:09:13,356 --> 00:09:15,666 he's out to destroy and to mar. 192 00:09:15,818 --> 00:09:17,270 The image of God. 193 00:09:18,010 --> 00:09:22,322 But when you look at these verses, you find that Satan is not 194 00:09:22,346 --> 00:09:22,910 just. 195 00:09:23,370 --> 00:09:27,442 By happenstance, victimizing the human race. 196 00:09:27,506 --> 00:09:30,050 This describes a very orderly system. 197 00:09:30,170 --> 00:09:33,730 Principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, spirits 198 00:09:33,810 --> 00:09:37,138 or malevolent spirits of wickedness which have been dispatched 199 00:09:37,234 --> 00:09:39,190 into the lower atmosphere. 200 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:42,396 Well, one day when I was studying. 201 00:09:42,428 --> 00:09:49,360 This, I said to the Lord, lord, we have the blood of Jesus, 202 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:53,532 we have the name of Jesus, we have. 203 00:09:53,556 --> 00:09:56,844 The power of God, we have the promises of scripture. 204 00:09:56,892 --> 00:10:02,480 We have everything that we need to always walk in victory. 205 00:10:03,220 --> 00:10:06,762 So why does it seem that the. 206 00:10:06,786 --> 00:10:09,790 Devil has so many victories? 207 00:10:11,490 --> 00:10:13,850 Why does it seem that he has so many victories? 208 00:10:13,930 --> 00:10:16,666 If we have the blood, we have the name, we have the word of God. 209 00:10:16,698 --> 00:10:17,754 We've got the power of God. 210 00:10:17,802 --> 00:10:18,950 We've got everything. 211 00:10:20,450 --> 00:10:23,434 Then why does it seem the devil has so many victories? 212 00:10:23,562 --> 00:10:28,058 And the holy spirit spoke to me and said, because the devil has 213 00:10:28,114 --> 00:10:32,390 something that the church doesn't have. 214 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:34,836 I said, really? 215 00:10:34,908 --> 00:10:36,000 What is that? 216 00:10:37,020 --> 00:10:42,120 And he said, commitment, organization and discipline. 217 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:48,500 The devil doesn't have more power than us. 218 00:10:48,620 --> 00:10:50,980 He does not have more authority than us. 219 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:54,340 But he is committed, he is organized, he is disciplined, While 220 00:10:54,380 --> 00:10:57,892 the average church member can't even decide if they are going 221 00:10:57,916 --> 00:11:00,402 to get out of bed to go to church every Sunday. 222 00:11:00,596 --> 00:11:02,198 It's a lack of commitment. 223 00:11:02,294 --> 00:11:04,214 No one wants to be submitted to authority. 224 00:11:04,262 --> 00:11:06,886 Nobody wants to take directions from anybody else. 225 00:11:06,998 --> 00:11:10,806 The body of Christ is loaded with power, loaded with authority, 226 00:11:10,918 --> 00:11:13,814 loaded with promises, loaded with the blood of Jesus. 227 00:11:13,942 --> 00:11:17,510 But we lack commitment, organization and discipline. 228 00:11:17,670 --> 00:11:19,650 And that is what the devil has. 229 00:11:21,150 --> 00:11:22,770 That's what the devil has. 230 00:11:23,630 --> 00:11:28,720 And if we will match the commitment, the organization and 231 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:33,552 discipline that the enemy has, my friends, we will put him to flight 232 00:11:33,616 --> 00:11:37,088 every single time because he is no match for us. 233 00:11:37,224 --> 00:11:38,704 The problem is not power. 234 00:11:38,792 --> 00:11:39,888 It's not authority. 235 00:11:39,984 --> 00:11:41,312 It's not the blood of Jesus. 236 00:11:41,376 --> 00:11:42,688 It's not the word of God. 237 00:11:42,784 --> 00:11:48,100 It's just we have a deficit in commitment, organization, and discipline. 238 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,260 God intends for his church to function like an army. 239 00:11:52,820 --> 00:11:55,052 That's how we are supposed to function. 240 00:11:55,196 --> 00:11:59,212 But when you come to this text, in verse 12, it says, for we 241 00:11:59,236 --> 00:12:02,684 wrestle not against what flesh and blood. 242 00:12:02,732 --> 00:12:06,400 And here we find is how the enemy creates a diversion. 243 00:12:06,980 --> 00:12:07,836 A diversion. 244 00:12:07,868 --> 00:12:12,240 He strikes us with affliction, and we begin to fight our flesh. 245 00:12:13,220 --> 00:12:16,364 Well, if you have a medical problem, it's all right to go to 246 00:12:16,372 --> 00:12:16,844 the doctor. 247 00:12:16,892 --> 00:12:19,148 In fact, I would advise you to go to the doctor. 248 00:12:19,244 --> 00:12:22,332 That if all you do is go to the doctor and you don't deal with 249 00:12:22,356 --> 00:12:26,872 the invisible realm that is attacked, your medication might temporarily 250 00:12:26,936 --> 00:12:27,496 help you. 251 00:12:27,568 --> 00:12:30,824 But if you don't deal with the spirit realm, it will come back again 252 00:12:30,912 --> 00:12:32,808 and again and again and again. 253 00:12:32,864 --> 00:12:36,504 You may have a problem in your marriage if you're married. 254 00:12:36,552 --> 00:12:39,112 I don't know if many people here are married, but one day you 255 00:12:39,136 --> 00:12:39,704 will be. 256 00:12:39,792 --> 00:12:43,224 And if you have a problem in your marriage, go for marriage counseling. 257 00:12:43,272 --> 00:12:44,920 Read all the books that you can read. 258 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,992 But in addition to going to counseling, listening to man's advice 259 00:12:48,056 --> 00:12:50,776 and reading books, you've got to go into the realm of the spirit 260 00:12:50,808 --> 00:12:53,048 and deal with the real source of the problem. 261 00:12:53,184 --> 00:12:57,522 But the devil wants to create a diversion so that rather than deal 262 00:12:57,546 --> 00:13:00,550 with the spirit realm, you just fight with your spouse. 263 00:13:01,610 --> 00:13:03,670 You just fight with your spouse. 264 00:13:04,970 --> 00:13:09,270 But sometimes there's something working behind your spouse. 265 00:13:10,410 --> 00:13:12,910 And I'm going to tell you the way that we learned this. 266 00:13:14,250 --> 00:13:17,506 Many, many years ago, Denise and I were getting ready to publish 267 00:13:17,538 --> 00:13:18,510 a new book. 268 00:13:19,770 --> 00:13:21,202 And we knew that book was going. 269 00:13:21,226 --> 00:13:22,990 To have tremendous results. 270 00:13:23,430 --> 00:13:24,810 Tremendous results. 271 00:13:25,350 --> 00:13:29,086 Up until that time, we had no financial problems in our ministry. 272 00:13:29,278 --> 00:13:31,570 Everything was sailing smoothly. 273 00:13:32,070 --> 00:13:34,990 We were doing about 450 meetings a year. 274 00:13:35,110 --> 00:13:36,750 Can you believe that, Pastor Mike? 275 00:13:36,830 --> 00:13:39,022 450 meetings a year. 276 00:13:39,206 --> 00:13:42,462 Well, there's only 365 days in the year, so you can figure out how 277 00:13:42,486 --> 00:13:43,198 we were living. 278 00:13:43,294 --> 00:13:45,822 We were going from meeting to meeting to meeting to meeting. 279 00:13:45,926 --> 00:13:47,198 God was blessing us. 280 00:13:47,254 --> 00:13:51,150 And then we were ready to produce and publish this new book, 281 00:13:51,270 --> 00:13:54,690 which was called Living in the Combat Zone. 282 00:13:56,770 --> 00:14:01,110 And just about the time that we were going to publish that book, 283 00:14:02,530 --> 00:14:04,950 our finances dried up. 284 00:14:05,890 --> 00:14:10,410 And they dried up so fast that there was no logical explanation 285 00:14:10,490 --> 00:14:11,270 for it. 286 00:14:11,810 --> 00:14:14,842 In fact, our ministry was supported by partners it kind of 287 00:14:14,866 --> 00:14:18,138 seemed that all of our partners had a secret meeting somewhere, 288 00:14:18,234 --> 00:14:21,390 and they all decided at the same time they would stop supporting 289 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,824 because the ministry just dried up. 290 00:14:24,992 --> 00:14:28,920 And whereas before we were doing 450 meetings a year, now the 291 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,960 meetings were canceling, one after the next, after the next, after 292 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:32,360 the next. 293 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:37,400 And all of this, just as we were getting ready to publish this 294 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,976 book, which I knew was going to really. 295 00:14:40,048 --> 00:14:41,700 Impact a lot of lives. 296 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,700 And I said to Denise, I don't understand this. 297 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,420 We really have a money problem. 298 00:14:49,610 --> 00:14:53,550 And every day I begin praying about money, money, money. 299 00:14:54,090 --> 00:14:56,722 I would pull out the calculator because this is back in 300 00:14:56,746 --> 00:15:00,130 the days when we still used calculators and it had a roll of 301 00:15:00,170 --> 00:15:00,790 tape. 302 00:15:01,290 --> 00:15:05,842 And I'd get out all the bills and I'd begin to punch in all the 303 00:15:05,866 --> 00:15:06,610 numbers to see. 304 00:15:06,650 --> 00:15:09,586 Somehow I could jiggle and juggle all these bills. 305 00:15:09,618 --> 00:15:10,978 And somehow we're going to make this. 306 00:15:11,034 --> 00:15:12,802 I'm going to be able to work this out. 307 00:15:12,906 --> 00:15:16,978 And I was wrestling with the calculator, wrestling with those 308 00:15:17,034 --> 00:15:19,762 numbers day after day after day. 309 00:15:19,786 --> 00:15:23,550 And it didn' matter how I put the numbers in, the tape always came 310 00:15:23,590 --> 00:15:24,126 out red. 311 00:15:24,198 --> 00:15:25,810 We were in a deficit. 312 00:15:27,110 --> 00:15:33,690 And I found in my prayer life, I was just praying about one thing, 313 00:15:34,390 --> 00:15:35,130 money. 314 00:15:35,750 --> 00:15:38,290 You know, there is something worse than being rich. 315 00:15:38,870 --> 00:15:40,210 That's being poor. 316 00:15:42,470 --> 00:15:46,672 People say, oh, the rich, they just think about their money. 317 00:15:46,766 --> 00:15:49,120 The poor think about money more than the rich. 318 00:15:49,940 --> 00:15:52,220 The rich wonder where to invest it. 319 00:15:52,260 --> 00:15:54,716 The poor are constantly looking for more. 320 00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:57,020 They don't know how they're going to live day by day. 321 00:15:57,060 --> 00:15:58,060 And when you have a lack of. 322 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:02,960 Finances, you become a slave to the lack of finances. 323 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:06,480 And I became a slave to a lack of finances. 324 00:16:07,620 --> 00:16:10,860 And every day I would raise my. 325 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:15,494 Hands and I would pray and I. 326 00:16:15,502 --> 00:16:18,610 Would say, money, money. 327 00:16:20,350 --> 00:16:22,582 In fact, you would have thought that was the name of God, 328 00:16:22,646 --> 00:16:27,410 because when I raised my hands, I said, money, money. 329 00:16:28,270 --> 00:16:29,654 And one day the Spirit of God. 330 00:16:29,702 --> 00:16:35,490 Spoke to me and said, you do not have a money problem. 331 00:16:37,470 --> 00:16:38,850 I said, really? 332 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:39,768 Sure. 333 00:16:39,824 --> 00:16:42,072 Seems to me that I've got a money problem. 334 00:16:42,176 --> 00:16:45,752 If I don't have a money problem, what kind of problem do 335 00:16:45,776 --> 00:16:46,580 I have? 336 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,140 And the Holy Spirit said, you do not have a money problem. 337 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,712 And I said again, almost sarcastically, then please tell me, 338 00:16:58,896 --> 00:17:02,440 if I don't have a money problem, what kind of problem do 339 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:03,220 I have? 340 00:17:04,650 --> 00:17:08,690 And the Holy Spirit said, open your Bible to Mark chapter four and 341 00:17:08,730 --> 00:17:10,670 I'll show you what you're dealing with. 342 00:17:11,210 --> 00:17:13,426 So turn in your Bibles to Mark chapter four. 343 00:17:13,498 --> 00:17:18,350 And I want you to see this and when you come to Mark chapter four, 344 00:17:19,210 --> 00:17:23,190 we find that Jesus and his disciples have gotten into a boat 345 00:17:24,330 --> 00:17:26,510 and they're headed to the other side. 346 00:17:27,690 --> 00:17:31,894 And on the other side of the Sea of Galilee was the country of 347 00:17:31,902 --> 00:17:32,890 the Gadarenes. 348 00:17:34,190 --> 00:17:36,790 And in the country of the Gadarenes, there was a demonized 349 00:17:36,870 --> 00:17:38,934 man who had. 350 00:17:38,942 --> 00:17:40,330 A legion of demons. 351 00:17:41,390 --> 00:17:48,006 A legion is 6826, which means this man was literally infested with 352 00:17:48,078 --> 00:17:50,810 6826 demons. 353 00:17:51,790 --> 00:17:54,582 Now, of course, that makes you wonder, how could one man have the 354 00:17:54,606 --> 00:17:58,010 capacity to hold almost 7,000 demons? 355 00:17:58,820 --> 00:17:59,960 But he did. 356 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:04,220 The good news is, if he had the capacity to hold 7,000 demons, 357 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:07,340 then how big is your capacity to hold the spirit of God? 358 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:09,356 The truth is, you've been spirit touched. 359 00:18:09,388 --> 00:18:12,956 You've never been spirit filled, because your capacity is 360 00:18:13,028 --> 00:18:14,080 enormous. 361 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:15,932 It is enormous. 362 00:18:16,076 --> 00:18:21,660 But this man had almost 7,000 demons, and the man had terrorized 363 00:18:21,740 --> 00:18:22,332 the entire. 364 00:18:22,396 --> 00:18:23,840 Country of the Gadarenes. 365 00:18:24,890 --> 00:18:26,770 Now Jesus gets in his ship and. 366 00:18:26,810 --> 00:18:28,418 He'S headed to the other side, when. 367 00:18:28,474 --> 00:18:32,270 Suddenly, in the middle of the lake, in the middle of the night, 368 00:18:32,890 --> 00:18:33,202 out. 369 00:18:33,226 --> 00:18:37,858 Of nowhere, a storm arose when Jesus. 370 00:18:37,954 --> 00:18:41,042 Was en route to a great breakthrough. 371 00:18:41,106 --> 00:18:43,730 And that's normally when attacks take place. 372 00:18:43,850 --> 00:18:45,394 The devil is very strategic. 373 00:18:45,442 --> 00:18:48,786 He waits until you're right on the edge of a great breakthrough 374 00:18:48,818 --> 00:18:52,498 or something significant, and he strikes you with a surprise attack. 375 00:18:52,634 --> 00:18:55,440 And that's when in Mark, chapter four. 376 00:18:55,740 --> 00:18:57,428 So look, if you would, at verse 35. 377 00:18:57,484 --> 00:19:01,012 And the same day, when the evening was come, he said to his 378 00:19:01,036 --> 00:19:04,080 disciples, let us pass over to the other side. 379 00:19:04,540 --> 00:19:06,980 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even 380 00:19:07,020 --> 00:19:08,292 as he was in the ship. 381 00:19:08,436 --> 00:19:10,516 And there were also with him other little ships. 382 00:19:10,548 --> 00:19:11,636 Look at verse 37. 383 00:19:11,708 --> 00:19:12,980 And there arose. 384 00:19:13,140 --> 00:19:17,360 Everybody say, there arose a great storm of wind. 385 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:21,522 And the waves beat into the ship so that it was now fool. 386 00:19:21,586 --> 00:19:25,110 The two words there arose is the Greek word genomai. 387 00:19:25,450 --> 00:19:29,750 It describes something that takes you off guard or by surprise. 388 00:19:30,330 --> 00:19:33,058 Something that takes you off guard or by surprise. 389 00:19:33,154 --> 00:19:37,442 We see an example of this word genomi in Acts, chapter 10, when 390 00:19:37,466 --> 00:19:40,562 the Bible says that Peter went up on the rooftop to pray while he 391 00:19:40,586 --> 00:19:41,990 was waiting on lunch. 392 00:19:42,650 --> 00:19:45,666 And the Bible says while he was praying, genomi, the same word 393 00:19:45,698 --> 00:19:49,516 that is used here, he slipped into a trance, which means Peter 394 00:19:49,548 --> 00:19:52,924 did not go upstairs to have a trance or to have a vision, but ginomai, 395 00:19:52,972 --> 00:19:56,668 suddenly, in some way that he could have never anticipated, he 396 00:19:56,724 --> 00:19:59,676 could never replicate, it took him completely off guard. 397 00:19:59,708 --> 00:20:05,040 And by surprise, Peter found himself in a different dimension. 398 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:09,484 So when you see this Word genomi, it always carries an element 399 00:20:09,612 --> 00:20:10,732 of surprise. 400 00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:14,732 Now we find that Jesus boat is headed to the other side. 401 00:20:14,756 --> 00:20:18,524 And you have to remember the majority of Jesus disciples formerly 402 00:20:18,572 --> 00:20:20,292 were fishermen. 403 00:20:20,356 --> 00:20:23,188 They had lived on that lake, they had worked that lake, they knew 404 00:20:23,204 --> 00:20:24,340 the weather of that lake. 405 00:20:24,420 --> 00:20:27,860 And if there was a storm brewing on the lake that night, they 406 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:29,684 would have never said, let's take the ship. 407 00:20:29,732 --> 00:20:30,960 To the other side. 408 00:20:31,660 --> 00:20:36,148 And when they began sailing that night, the skies were clear. 409 00:20:36,204 --> 00:20:38,516 It was the perfect night for sailing. 410 00:20:38,708 --> 00:20:41,508 And the Bible says there arose the Greek word genomi. 411 00:20:41,604 --> 00:20:44,340 You could translate it suddenly, out of nowhere. 412 00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:46,836 It was the last thing we would have anticipated. 413 00:20:46,948 --> 00:20:48,644 It took us completely off guard. 414 00:20:48,692 --> 00:20:55,080 And by surprise, there arose a great storm of wind. 415 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:58,476 Well, the word storm and the word wind by itself is sufficient 416 00:20:58,508 --> 00:21:00,044 to tell us this was significant. 417 00:21:00,212 --> 00:21:03,692 But here the Holy Spirit adds the word great as a modifier and 418 00:21:03,716 --> 00:21:07,644 an intensifier to let us know this was not just any old storm, 419 00:21:07,692 --> 00:21:09,356 this was a great storm. 420 00:21:09,468 --> 00:21:12,796 And in fact, the Greek word for great is mega, the same word 421 00:21:12,828 --> 00:21:16,620 we use to say, I have mega bills, I'm mega tired. 422 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:18,272 Mega this, mega that. 423 00:21:18,376 --> 00:21:21,580 This was a mega storm and ghetto my. 424 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,256 It was completely unanticipated. 425 00:21:24,368 --> 00:21:25,504 It took them off guard. 426 00:21:25,552 --> 00:21:29,088 And by surprise, it naturally looked like it was a great night 427 00:21:29,144 --> 00:21:33,728 for sailing when suddenly, out of nowhere, there was. 428 00:21:33,784 --> 00:21:37,184 A great storm of wind. 429 00:21:37,272 --> 00:21:41,260 And notice, it doesn't say rain, it says wind. 430 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,356 And the word wind here describes turbulence, turbulence 431 00:21:46,548 --> 00:21:48,120 in the atmosphere. 432 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:51,380 Well, you can feel the effects of. 433 00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:54,720 Wind, but you can't see wind. 434 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:57,440 You can't see it. 435 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:00,308 Wind is almost like an invisible enemy. 436 00:22:00,404 --> 00:22:03,988 You can feel the effects of the wind, you can feel the effects 437 00:22:04,004 --> 00:22:07,520 of the turbulence, but you can't point your finger at wind. 438 00:22:08,060 --> 00:22:12,302 But when we go further in this verse, we find out the issue really 439 00:22:12,326 --> 00:22:13,166 was not wind. 440 00:22:13,238 --> 00:22:15,970 There really was an invisible force. 441 00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:20,974 There was an invisible force that had created these circumstances 442 00:22:21,102 --> 00:22:24,238 to capsize the boat in the middle of the lake, in the middle 443 00:22:24,254 --> 00:22:27,486 of the night, when they were on the way to the other side. 444 00:22:27,558 --> 00:22:31,550 Because the devil knew if Jesus reached the other side, that 445 00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:32,910 man was going to be set free. 446 00:22:32,950 --> 00:22:37,310 And when that demoniac was set free, the whole region would be set 447 00:22:37,350 --> 00:22:37,930 free. 448 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:40,220 And so when Jesus was in his. 449 00:22:40,260 --> 00:22:42,748 Boat in the ship in the middle. 450 00:22:42,764 --> 00:22:44,684 Of the night, headed to the other side, gonna lie. 451 00:22:44,732 --> 00:22:47,516 Suddenly, out of nowhere, it took them completely off guard. 452 00:22:47,548 --> 00:22:53,260 And by surprise, there arose a great mega storm of turbulence and 453 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:55,480 wind which was assailing them. 454 00:22:55,860 --> 00:23:00,060 And the reason we know this really was an invisible force is 455 00:23:00,100 --> 00:23:04,332 because the verse goes on to Say, and the waves beat into the 456 00:23:04,356 --> 00:23:04,604 ship. 457 00:23:04,652 --> 00:23:07,986 The two words beat into in Greek is the word EPI ballo. 458 00:23:08,018 --> 00:23:11,378 The word epiballo never describes an act of nature. 459 00:23:11,554 --> 00:23:12,270 Never. 460 00:23:12,730 --> 00:23:14,050 The word EPI means over. 461 00:23:14,090 --> 00:23:15,426 The word babo means to throw. 462 00:23:15,458 --> 00:23:18,082 When you put the two words together, it is the very word you 463 00:23:18,106 --> 00:23:21,346 would use to describe somebody that is throwing a ball to somebody 464 00:23:21,378 --> 00:23:21,634 else. 465 00:23:21,682 --> 00:23:25,490 It's not what nature does, it's what a person does or what an 466 00:23:25,530 --> 00:23:26,670 entity does. 467 00:23:28,810 --> 00:23:32,636 And now an invisible force was picking. 468 00:23:32,668 --> 00:23:35,516 Up the waves of the sea and. 469 00:23:35,588 --> 00:23:39,360 Was hurling them over against Jesus ship. 470 00:23:39,860 --> 00:23:43,084 And it was one wave after another wave after another wave. 471 00:23:43,132 --> 00:23:45,900 We know that because the Bible says the waves. 472 00:23:45,980 --> 00:23:47,308 And in Greek it is plural. 473 00:23:47,404 --> 00:23:50,876 It describes one succession of waves after another, after another, 474 00:23:50,948 --> 00:23:51,468 after another. 475 00:23:51,524 --> 00:23:53,372 And these were not even normal waves. 476 00:23:53,516 --> 00:23:56,636 Normally waves would all be moving in one direction. 477 00:23:56,748 --> 00:24:00,844 But now Jesus ship has become the target of the waves and the waves 478 00:24:00,892 --> 00:24:05,202 are hitting the ship from every direction as an invisible force 479 00:24:05,266 --> 00:24:08,642 is picking up the waves of the sea and hurling them against the 480 00:24:08,666 --> 00:24:13,986 ship in an attempt to capsize the ship so that Jesus. 481 00:24:14,018 --> 00:24:16,030 Would never make it to the other side. 482 00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:19,474 Now if you would look at verse. 483 00:24:19,522 --> 00:24:23,794 38 and he, that's Jesus was in. 484 00:24:23,802 --> 00:24:27,910 The hinder part of the ship asleep on a pillow. 485 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,272 The word pillow is even important because it describes a 486 00:24:32,296 --> 00:24:35,984 little corner pillow which fit right in the stern or in. 487 00:24:35,992 --> 00:24:37,232 The bow of the ship. 488 00:24:37,376 --> 00:24:38,736 It was a very small pillow. 489 00:24:38,768 --> 00:24:42,112 And for Jesus to be sleeping on that pillow meant he nearly had 490 00:24:42,136 --> 00:24:44,256 to be laying there in a fetal position. 491 00:24:44,328 --> 00:24:47,940 He was all curled up, sleeping. 492 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,640 Now the waves are shaking the ship. 493 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,312 The disciples are bailing water, binding waves. 494 00:24:53,376 --> 00:24:57,424 Bailing water, binding waves, Fighting waves, Fighting waves, fighting 495 00:24:57,472 --> 00:24:58,100 waves. 496 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,656 And Jesus is sleeping. 497 00:25:01,848 --> 00:25:05,192 I always say that Jesus was so peaceful, he always knew he would 498 00:25:05,216 --> 00:25:06,264 make it to the other side. 499 00:25:06,352 --> 00:25:09,704 He probably was saying, that's nice, devil, just rock the boat a 500 00:25:09,712 --> 00:25:10,632 little bit more. 501 00:25:10,736 --> 00:25:13,832 And it became like the big rocking chair in the middle of the 502 00:25:13,856 --> 00:25:14,296 sea. 503 00:25:14,408 --> 00:25:17,660 Jesus is sleeping deeply on a pillow. 504 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,360 And what are the disciples doing? 505 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,384 They're fighting waves, monster waves. 506 00:25:23,512 --> 00:25:25,368 These are the biggest waves they've ever seen. 507 00:25:25,424 --> 00:25:26,684 And it's so strange. 508 00:25:26,732 --> 00:25:29,452 The waves are coming from every direction, directly at them, 509 00:25:29,476 --> 00:25:30,620 as if they are a target. 510 00:25:30,740 --> 00:25:33,260 They are bailing water, binding waves. 511 00:25:33,340 --> 00:25:37,884 Bailing water, binding waves, Fighting waves, Fighting waves, fighting 512 00:25:37,932 --> 00:25:38,560 waves. 513 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:45,920 And finally somebody said, maybe we need to get Jesus. 514 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:50,600 So verse 30 it says they awake him. 515 00:25:51,390 --> 00:25:53,730 Now that's what the King James version says. 516 00:25:54,190 --> 00:25:57,850 But the word awake in Greek is the same Greek word for resurrection, 517 00:25:58,430 --> 00:26:02,130 which means they didn't lean over and say. 518 00:26:02,510 --> 00:26:08,690 Excuse me, Jesus, Lord, we're sorry, we're waking you up. 519 00:26:09,870 --> 00:26:12,310 They resurrected him off of that couch. 520 00:26:12,390 --> 00:26:15,990 They jerked every bone in his body as they pulled him off of that 521 00:26:16,030 --> 00:26:24,930 couch, simultaneously yelling, yelling, master, carest thou not 522 00:26:25,950 --> 00:26:27,290 that we perish? 523 00:26:28,670 --> 00:26:33,110 And the Greek actually says, is there no care in you toward us 524 00:26:33,230 --> 00:26:35,210 that we are perishing? 525 00:26:36,430 --> 00:26:38,182 It's the most pitiful way that you. 526 00:26:38,206 --> 00:26:39,334 Could pray a prayer. 527 00:26:39,462 --> 00:26:42,134 And when you study the synoptic Gospels, which are Matthew, 528 00:26:42,182 --> 00:26:46,508 Mark and Luke, they all tell the same story, but they add a different 529 00:26:46,564 --> 00:26:47,516 piece of the puzzle. 530 00:26:47,548 --> 00:26:49,200 And this is very interesting. 531 00:26:49,620 --> 00:26:55,760 For example, in one of the synoptics, they say, lord, Lord, 532 00:26:56,420 --> 00:26:58,800 carest thou not that we perish? 533 00:26:59,540 --> 00:27:01,516 The word Lord is the Greek word kurios. 534 00:27:01,548 --> 00:27:05,160 It means, O sovereign one who is in control. 535 00:27:06,580 --> 00:27:10,208 But then when you come to the next synoptic gospel, they change 536 00:27:10,264 --> 00:27:10,912 it. 537 00:27:11,096 --> 00:27:13,872 And rather than call him Lord, they call him Teacher. 538 00:27:13,936 --> 00:27:17,920 Teacher, carest thou not that we perish? 539 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,056 And finally you come to this gospel where they call him Master. 540 00:27:21,088 --> 00:27:24,640 The Greek word epistata, which means, just get on the spot, take 541 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,700 action, and do it right now. 542 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:32,208 But when you look at these three phases, it's usually the same 543 00:27:32,264 --> 00:27:35,340 three phases most of us go through when we're under attack. 544 00:27:37,180 --> 00:27:40,180 When our finances were a mess, these. 545 00:27:40,220 --> 00:27:42,800 Were the same three phases that I went through. 546 00:27:43,660 --> 00:27:46,200 I began by saying, denise, don't fret. 547 00:27:46,540 --> 00:27:47,640 Don't worry. 548 00:27:47,980 --> 00:27:50,596 Jesus is, Lord, everything's going to be fine. 549 00:27:50,708 --> 00:27:52,308 Everything's going to work out. 550 00:27:52,444 --> 00:27:55,668 And then when everything was not fine and everything was not working 551 00:27:55,724 --> 00:27:58,004 out, I moved into phase number two. 552 00:27:58,092 --> 00:27:59,300 I called him Teacher. 553 00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:02,292 He must be trying to teach us something through this thing that 554 00:28:02,316 --> 00:28:03,252 we're going through. 555 00:28:03,356 --> 00:28:05,172 He must be trying to teach us. 556 00:28:05,276 --> 00:28:08,372 And finally, when you got all the teaching you can handle and you 557 00:28:08,396 --> 00:28:10,868 don't want anymore, you finally say, I don't care what you're 558 00:28:10,884 --> 00:28:11,844 trying to teach me. 559 00:28:11,932 --> 00:28:13,600 Get me out of this mess. 560 00:28:15,580 --> 00:28:18,372 And these are the same three things that these disciples went 561 00:28:18,396 --> 00:28:18,628 through. 562 00:28:18,684 --> 00:28:22,948 Finally they said, master Epistada, get on the spot, take action 563 00:28:23,004 --> 00:28:24,880 and do it right now. 564 00:28:28,550 --> 00:28:29,870 And look at verse 39. 565 00:28:29,910 --> 00:28:30,930 And he arose. 566 00:28:32,230 --> 00:28:33,690 And what did he do? 567 00:28:34,950 --> 00:28:41,134 He rebuked what the wind, and said. 568 00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:44,766 Unto the sea, peace, be still. 569 00:28:44,838 --> 00:28:50,610 And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 570 00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:54,158 But notice the verse says, he arose. 571 00:28:54,334 --> 00:28:55,982 So finally, they've gotten his attention. 572 00:28:56,046 --> 00:28:57,710 They've jerked him off of his pillow. 573 00:28:57,790 --> 00:28:59,830 Now Jesus is standing there. 574 00:29:00,610 --> 00:29:03,850 They've been bailing water, binding waves. 575 00:29:03,930 --> 00:29:06,010 Bailing water, binding waves. 576 00:29:06,090 --> 00:29:06,922 Fighting waves. 577 00:29:06,986 --> 00:29:10,350 Fighting waves, Fighting waves, waves, monster waves. 578 00:29:12,530 --> 00:29:14,470 But when Jesus stands Up. 579 00:29:16,370 --> 00:29:21,150 He lifts his voice to the sky and ignores the waves. 580 00:29:22,690 --> 00:29:26,860 And Jesus begins to address the invisible realm. 581 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,380 Jesus was able to discern this was not a natural storm. 582 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,736 There was something working behind the scenes. 583 00:29:35,848 --> 00:29:38,888 And Jesus took authority over the invisible realm. 584 00:29:38,984 --> 00:29:40,820 He rebuked the wind. 585 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,960 Now, you know, Peter was kind of a loudmouth. 586 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,432 So I can almost imagine Peter saying, great, here these waves are 587 00:29:47,456 --> 00:29:49,688 killing us, and he is talking to the air. 588 00:29:49,824 --> 00:29:53,010 But Jesus understood this was not a wave problem. 589 00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:54,902 This was not a wave problem. 590 00:29:55,006 --> 00:29:57,046 This was a problem with the invisible realm. 591 00:29:57,078 --> 00:29:59,010 He rebuked the wind. 592 00:29:59,630 --> 00:30:01,010 And then what? 593 00:30:02,030 --> 00:30:04,086 Said to the sea. 594 00:30:04,278 --> 00:30:05,990 He didn't yell at the sea. 595 00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:08,326 He didn't even raise his voice to the sea. 596 00:30:08,438 --> 00:30:11,130 He simply spoke to the sea. 597 00:30:12,030 --> 00:30:17,078 Once he dealt with the invisible realm and he dealt with 598 00:30:17,134 --> 00:30:19,810 all those forces which were coming against him. 599 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,360 It didn't take much to deal with the natural problem. 600 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:28,048 Once the invisible realm had been dealt with, Jesus simply said 601 00:30:28,104 --> 00:30:29,220 to the sea. 602 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,176 And he said, according to the King James Version, peace, be still. 603 00:30:34,328 --> 00:30:38,180 But the Greek word that is used here really is not even translatable. 604 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,024 A better translation would be, and Jesus. 605 00:30:41,152 --> 00:30:42,580 Said to the sea. 606 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,820 And the wind ceased. 607 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,220 And there was a great calm. 608 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,152 Very often in prayer, we release a. 609 00:31:06,176 --> 00:31:10,180 Lot of energy against the wrong thing. 610 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,060 The wrong thing. 611 00:31:14,490 --> 00:31:15,810 I'll give you an example. 612 00:31:15,890 --> 00:31:19,122 Years ago, I was called in the. 613 00:31:19,146 --> 00:31:20,242 Middle of the night to pray for. 614 00:31:20,266 --> 00:31:22,070 A woman who was dying of cancer. 615 00:31:23,130 --> 00:31:25,190 They said, come and come quickly. 616 00:31:25,530 --> 00:31:26,738 I came to her home. 617 00:31:26,794 --> 00:31:28,670 She had just been released from the hospital. 618 00:31:29,370 --> 00:31:33,346 The doctors had not completely sewed her up because she was so filled 619 00:31:33,378 --> 00:31:35,730 with infection, they were having to open her up every other 620 00:31:35,770 --> 00:31:37,630 day and clean her out. 621 00:31:38,810 --> 00:31:41,346 So she was just barely stitched together, and she was sitting 622 00:31:41,378 --> 00:31:42,226 in her recliner. 623 00:31:42,258 --> 00:31:43,630 When I came into that home. 624 00:31:44,290 --> 00:31:49,050 And at 12 o'clock midnight, when I arrived in the living room, 625 00:31:49,090 --> 00:31:52,310 there were five other pastors that they had already called. 626 00:31:53,490 --> 00:31:54,842 And when I walked into the room. 627 00:31:54,866 --> 00:31:57,110 I said, lord, why did you bring me here? 628 00:31:57,490 --> 00:31:58,954 Why did you bring me here? 629 00:31:59,042 --> 00:32:01,482 These other pastors know how to pray the prayer of faith. 630 00:32:01,546 --> 00:32:04,750 They're gonna pray the same prayer that I would pray. 631 00:32:06,210 --> 00:32:10,992 And the Holy Spirit said, if you will obey me, I will heal this 632 00:32:11,016 --> 00:32:12,180 woman tonight. 633 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,640 Well, I kind of got in the flesh and I thought, okay, these 634 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,780 other pastors, they're praying with no results. 635 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,960 They're gonna see who really has power, because I'm gonna pray 636 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,784 and this woman's gonna be healed. 637 00:32:28,832 --> 00:32:30,096 That's what the Lord has said. 638 00:32:30,168 --> 00:32:31,820 If I will obey him. 639 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,860 So I said, lord, what do you want me to do. 640 00:32:36,450 --> 00:32:39,642 And the Holy Spirit said, I want. 641 00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:41,350 You to walk over to her chair. 642 00:32:42,050 --> 00:32:45,270 She was emaciated because the cancer was eating her body. 643 00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:49,754 I want you to lower your upper. 644 00:32:49,802 --> 00:32:55,070 Torso across her body and begin to pray in tongues. 645 00:32:57,010 --> 00:32:58,790 Well, I didn't want to do that. 646 00:32:59,490 --> 00:33:00,954 First of all, she was tiny. 647 00:33:01,002 --> 00:33:02,586 I was afraid that I would crush her. 648 00:33:02,658 --> 00:33:06,232 Secondly, she was barely stitched up and all that infection 649 00:33:06,296 --> 00:33:07,288 was oozing out. 650 00:33:07,344 --> 00:33:10,456 I could just imagine all that infection getting on my clothes. 651 00:33:10,648 --> 00:33:14,312 And if I laid across her and prayed in tongues, my bottom would 652 00:33:14,336 --> 00:33:16,584 be sticking in the face of those preachers. 653 00:33:16,712 --> 00:33:19,060 And I just did not want to do it. 654 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,888 So I kept trying to buy time. 655 00:33:22,944 --> 00:33:25,560 Maybe if I ignore what the Spirit is telling me, he'll go away. 656 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,528 He'll quit asking me to do this. 657 00:33:27,664 --> 00:33:29,906 And the Holy Spirit kept saying, earth, are you going to obey 658 00:33:29,938 --> 00:33:30,322 me? 659 00:33:30,426 --> 00:33:32,110 Are you going to obey me? 660 00:33:33,130 --> 00:33:36,910 So finally, I walked over to her. 661 00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:45,058 Turned to all those other pastors, and I said, I'd like every 662 00:33:45,114 --> 00:33:45,394 head to. 663 00:33:45,402 --> 00:33:47,510 Be bowed and every eye to be closed. 664 00:33:49,690 --> 00:33:50,990 Nobody looking. 665 00:33:52,650 --> 00:33:54,696 Their heads were bowed and their eyes were closed. 666 00:33:54,778 --> 00:33:56,796 I leaned across her body. 667 00:33:56,948 --> 00:33:59,420 You know, sometimes when the Holy Spirit tells you to do things 668 00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:00,492 you don't understand. 669 00:34:00,676 --> 00:34:02,604 Jesus did things that made no sense. 670 00:34:02,652 --> 00:34:04,960 He spit in mud and put in a man's eyes. 671 00:34:05,380 --> 00:34:06,640 But it worked. 672 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:12,000 And so I laid across her body and I began to pray in tongues, Loudly. 673 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:16,540 Not because loud is more powerful, But I was trying to drown 674 00:34:16,620 --> 00:34:18,332 out what my mind was telling me. 675 00:34:18,356 --> 00:34:22,082 I was so embarrassed that my bottom was sticking in the face of 676 00:34:22,106 --> 00:34:23,058 all these pastors. 677 00:34:23,154 --> 00:34:26,018 And I was hoping that their eyes were closed and their heads 678 00:34:26,034 --> 00:34:27,030 were bowed. 679 00:34:27,610 --> 00:34:31,250 And then all of a sudden, the woman that I was praying for let 680 00:34:31,290 --> 00:34:32,390 out a scream. 681 00:34:33,610 --> 00:34:34,950 She said, oh. 682 00:34:36,730 --> 00:34:38,110 I jumped up. 683 00:34:39,210 --> 00:34:40,990 I said, did I hurt you? 684 00:34:42,010 --> 00:34:43,630 And she screamed again. 685 00:34:44,970 --> 00:34:48,034 And this woman began to cry out about things that happened to 686 00:34:48,042 --> 00:34:48,850 her when. 687 00:34:48,890 --> 00:34:50,110 She was a child. 688 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,740 And when she was a child, her father died. 689 00:34:55,240 --> 00:34:58,864 And as a young child, she perceived her father had rejected 690 00:34:58,912 --> 00:34:59,500 her. 691 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,352 Then her brother and sister got sick. 692 00:35:02,416 --> 00:35:03,648 Both of them died. 693 00:35:03,744 --> 00:35:07,024 She perceived that at a young age, her brother and her sister had 694 00:35:07,112 --> 00:35:07,840 rejected her. 695 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,136 Her mother got remarried. 696 00:35:09,248 --> 00:35:12,048 The new daddy died of sickness again. 697 00:35:12,104 --> 00:35:14,340 She perceived it as another rejection. 698 00:35:15,730 --> 00:35:21,978 And a spirit of rejection, a spirit of rejection had entered into 699 00:35:22,034 --> 00:35:22,298 her. 700 00:35:22,354 --> 00:35:25,914 Now, I had known this woman all of my life, one of the most wonderful, 701 00:35:26,042 --> 00:35:27,978 happiest, fun people. 702 00:35:28,114 --> 00:35:31,370 But she struggled with rejection her entire life. 703 00:35:31,490 --> 00:35:32,922 And there was no reason for her. 704 00:35:32,946 --> 00:35:35,290 To feel that she was rejected, that. 705 00:35:35,330 --> 00:35:39,150 That spirit of rejection had settled into her flesh. 706 00:35:41,020 --> 00:35:47,080 And now her flesh was rejecting her in the form of cancer. 707 00:35:50,620 --> 00:35:53,892 All of those other pastors were praying against cancer, cancer, 708 00:35:53,956 --> 00:35:55,556 cancer, cancer, cancer. 709 00:35:55,668 --> 00:35:57,780 She did not have a cancer problem. 710 00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,052 It was a spirit of rejection. 711 00:36:00,196 --> 00:36:01,800 It was not cancer. 712 00:36:02,220 --> 00:36:04,676 Now, I could have prayed all night. 713 00:36:04,748 --> 00:36:06,792 I could have prayed fervently. 714 00:36:06,916 --> 00:36:10,288 I could have prayed passionately and not hit the target. 715 00:36:10,424 --> 00:36:13,680 If I had prayed against cancer, cancer, cancer, cancer. 716 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,456 It was not a cancer problem. 717 00:36:15,608 --> 00:36:17,580 It was a spiritual problem. 718 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,720 And that night, that spirit of rejection left her. 719 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,880 And when it left her, the cancer left her. 720 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,860 She never had a cancer problem. 721 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,180 She never had a cancer problem. 722 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,904 It was a spirit of rejection. 723 00:36:30,032 --> 00:36:32,672 And that really taught me a lesson that we need to listen to 724 00:36:32,696 --> 00:36:34,176 the Holy Spirit when we pray. 725 00:36:34,288 --> 00:36:37,264 Don't always pray just for what you see with your eyes. 726 00:36:37,392 --> 00:36:40,096 You've got to be listening to the spirit of God because he sees 727 00:36:40,128 --> 00:36:41,472 what you cannot see. 728 00:36:41,576 --> 00:36:43,264 He knows what you do not know. 729 00:36:43,352 --> 00:36:47,232 He knows what is the root of every problem standing in front of 730 00:36:47,256 --> 00:36:47,584 you. 731 00:36:47,672 --> 00:36:50,740 And if you'll listen to him, he will tell you how to pray. 732 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,984 Well, on this particular night, the disciples. 733 00:36:56,032 --> 00:36:57,552 Were wrestling with flesh and blood. 734 00:36:57,616 --> 00:37:00,620 They saw waves, so they thought they had a wave problem. 735 00:37:02,060 --> 00:37:04,196 They were fighting wave after wave after wave. 736 00:37:04,228 --> 00:37:07,684 They were binding waves, bailing water, bailing water, binding 737 00:37:07,732 --> 00:37:10,200 waves, waves, monster waves. 738 00:37:12,540 --> 00:37:14,640 But finally, when Jesus stood up. 739 00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:17,620 He. 740 00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:25,012 Lift his face, looked to the sky and took authority over the invisible 741 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:25,800 realm. 742 00:37:27,190 --> 00:37:31,070 And once the invisible realm had been dealt with, he looked at 743 00:37:31,110 --> 00:37:42,330 the monster waves and simply said, sh, sh. 744 00:37:45,030 --> 00:37:46,690 And the wind ceased. 745 00:37:48,550 --> 00:37:50,530 And there was a great calm. 746 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,128 I love the fact that it says there was a great calm because previously 747 00:37:55,224 --> 00:37:56,808 it had been a great storm. 748 00:37:56,904 --> 00:38:00,680 Which tells me whatever the devil does, Jesus at least will match 749 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:01,064 it. 750 00:38:01,152 --> 00:38:03,704 If it's a great storm, he's going to match it with a great calm. 751 00:38:03,752 --> 00:38:06,968 If it's a great sickness, he's going to match it with a great healing. 752 00:38:07,064 --> 00:38:12,136 If it's a great addiction, he's going to match it with a great 753 00:38:12,288 --> 00:38:13,320 deliverance. 754 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,660 Whatever the devil does, Jesus at least will match it. 755 00:38:18,330 --> 00:38:23,618 And the disciples feared among one another and said, what manner 756 00:38:23,634 --> 00:38:24,370 of man is this? 757 00:38:24,410 --> 00:38:25,430 Look at your verse. 758 00:38:26,090 --> 00:38:29,230 That the wind and the sea notice the order. 759 00:38:30,330 --> 00:38:35,470 The wind and the sea obey him. 760 00:38:36,250 --> 00:38:39,122 And the word obey is a form of the Greek word hupotassa, which is 761 00:38:39,146 --> 00:38:41,790 a military term, which means to fall in line. 762 00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:48,684 Which means when Jesus spoke the invisible realm and the natural 763 00:38:48,732 --> 00:38:51,660 realm heard the voice of authority and friends. 764 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:53,852 I want to tell you that when you deal with the devil, you've got 765 00:38:53,876 --> 00:38:54,732 to speak. 766 00:38:54,876 --> 00:38:59,004 It's not enough to think you can't think against the devil. 767 00:38:59,052 --> 00:39:01,676 Your voice is where your authority is released. 768 00:39:01,788 --> 00:39:04,840 Authority is not released when you think about something. 769 00:39:05,140 --> 00:39:08,578 Authority is released when you open your mouth and you speak. 770 00:39:08,724 --> 00:39:16,038 And when you begin to speak, the devil knows the voice of authority. 771 00:39:16,134 --> 00:39:18,342 And this really means the wind and. 772 00:39:18,366 --> 00:39:20,050 The sea fall in line. 773 00:39:20,670 --> 00:39:22,210 They fall in line. 774 00:39:25,390 --> 00:39:31,910 Well, when I saw this, I came to Denise here. 775 00:39:31,950 --> 00:39:33,926 I'd been working my calculator for weeks. 776 00:39:33,998 --> 00:39:37,250 Maybe even a month, punching in those. 777 00:39:37,290 --> 00:39:40,450 Numbers, wrangling with that calculator, trying to juggle our 778 00:39:40,490 --> 00:39:41,266 bills somehow. 779 00:39:41,298 --> 00:39:42,386 We're going to survive this. 780 00:39:42,458 --> 00:39:44,190 We're going to get through this. 781 00:39:46,570 --> 00:39:48,830 And I saw we really did not have. 782 00:39:49,450 --> 00:39:51,150 It wasn't a money problem. 783 00:39:51,850 --> 00:39:53,762 And I said to Denise, sweetheart, we. 784 00:39:53,786 --> 00:39:55,230 Do not have a money problem. 785 00:39:55,850 --> 00:40:00,110 And she said, then what kind of problem do we have? 786 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:06,180 And I said, denise, it's wind. 787 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,740 We have a wind problem. 788 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,740 And I took her to these scriptures. 789 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,912 Well, we're told in Ephesians 6:12, we wrestle not against flesh 790 00:40:17,976 --> 00:40:18,456 and blood. 791 00:40:18,488 --> 00:40:19,608 What was I fighting with? 792 00:40:19,664 --> 00:40:20,840 Flesh and blood. 793 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,660 That's what I was fighting with. 794 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,992 And again, you need to do everything in the natural that you 795 00:40:26,016 --> 00:40:26,360 can do. 796 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,812 God gave you a brain, whether it's in regard to your finances or 797 00:40:29,836 --> 00:40:31,348 your marriage or your health. 798 00:40:31,404 --> 00:40:34,964 You need to use your mind that if you've done everything naturally 799 00:40:35,012 --> 00:40:38,948 that can be done and the result is not forthcoming, you may 800 00:40:39,004 --> 00:40:41,476 have more than a natural problem. 801 00:40:41,628 --> 00:40:45,800 And that is a moment when you have to do like Jesus. 802 00:40:47,420 --> 00:40:51,640 Denise and I pushed the bills away from the table. 803 00:40:53,430 --> 00:40:59,170 We lifted our voice and we began to speak to the spirit realm. 804 00:41:00,070 --> 00:41:02,370 I didn't yell to the spirit realm. 805 00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:07,838 The spirit realm recognizes the voice of authority. 806 00:41:08,014 --> 00:41:09,726 And I began to speak to that realm. 807 00:41:09,758 --> 00:41:11,150 I told it to cease and to. 808 00:41:11,190 --> 00:41:14,382 Desist, that it would stop this robbing of our finances. 809 00:41:14,446 --> 00:41:18,222 I saw that just like Jesus was en route to a miracle when he was 810 00:41:18,246 --> 00:41:21,314 crossing the sea, we were on the way to a great breakthrough. 811 00:41:21,362 --> 00:41:24,914 Something was about to happen when suddenly, Ginomai, out of nowhere, 812 00:41:24,962 --> 00:41:29,026 taking us completely off guard and by surprise, there arose a great 813 00:41:29,098 --> 00:41:31,470 storm trying to catapult us. 814 00:41:33,530 --> 00:41:35,750 On the way to a great breakthrough. 815 00:41:36,730 --> 00:41:44,950 So Denise and I spoke to the invisible realm, and then we literally 816 00:41:46,650 --> 00:41:53,042 extended our hand toward those finances, those stacks of bills which 817 00:41:53,066 --> 00:41:54,910 had been screaming at me. 818 00:41:56,090 --> 00:42:00,110 And we said, sh. 819 00:42:06,010 --> 00:42:07,794 Now, friends, that may sound foolish to. 820 00:42:07,802 --> 00:42:11,550 You, but sometimes faith does foolish things with great results. 821 00:42:11,890 --> 00:42:15,402 And within a matter of days, it. 822 00:42:15,426 --> 00:42:17,946 Was like the spigot was turned back on. 823 00:42:18,098 --> 00:42:19,722 The finances began to flow. 824 00:42:19,786 --> 00:42:21,850 All of a sudden, the finances began to flow. 825 00:42:21,930 --> 00:42:23,530 The meetings were rescheduled. 826 00:42:23,610 --> 00:42:26,682 We had all the finances we need to do what was required for 827 00:42:26,706 --> 00:42:28,030 the next assignment. 828 00:42:30,930 --> 00:42:33,430 We never had a money problem. 829 00:42:35,090 --> 00:42:36,950 It was a spiritual attack. 830 00:42:38,380 --> 00:42:41,460 And I could have wrangled with my calculator from then until now, 831 00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:42,996 and I would not have been able to fix. 832 00:42:43,028 --> 00:42:46,560 It because it was not a flesh and blood problem. 833 00:42:47,420 --> 00:42:50,920 It was an invisible problem working behind the scenes. 834 00:42:54,300 --> 00:42:55,876 You know, early on in our ministry. 835 00:42:55,908 --> 00:42:58,740 When Denise and I were traveling in our little car with 836 00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:06,122 our little boys, we begin to recognize then when we would get 837 00:43:06,146 --> 00:43:10,110 into strife, our boys would get sick. 838 00:43:11,570 --> 00:43:14,430 Finally, we understood. 839 00:43:15,570 --> 00:43:19,226 When you get into strife, it opens the door for unseen spirits 840 00:43:19,258 --> 00:43:20,058 to begin to work. 841 00:43:20,114 --> 00:43:21,710 Our boys would get sick. 842 00:43:22,050 --> 00:43:25,790 Oh, one night, Denise and I were driving. 843 00:43:26,770 --> 00:43:31,060 I had just stopped at a convenience store to get me a big 844 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:35,428 piping hot cup of coffee and put it on the table in the chair 845 00:43:35,484 --> 00:43:36,484 between me and Denise. 846 00:43:36,532 --> 00:43:38,772 In the little cup holder, Denise was. 847 00:43:38,796 --> 00:43:43,200 Holding Philip, who was just a baby, a young child at the time. 848 00:43:44,860 --> 00:43:46,484 And Philip, when we were in a. 849 00:43:46,492 --> 00:43:53,220 Moment of strife, reached over and put his hand into that cup of 850 00:43:53,260 --> 00:43:53,960 coffee. 851 00:43:56,870 --> 00:43:59,582 He began screaming, but we didn't understand how bad he had 852 00:43:59,606 --> 00:44:00,542 been wounded. 853 00:44:00,686 --> 00:44:02,190 When we finally turned on the light. 854 00:44:02,230 --> 00:44:05,182 Inside the car, the coffee was so. 855 00:44:05,206 --> 00:44:09,470 Hot, it had melted the skin off of his hand, and the skin from. 856 00:44:09,510 --> 00:44:11,650 His hand was laying on his arm. 857 00:44:12,150 --> 00:44:13,582 And that was the day we made. 858 00:44:13,606 --> 00:44:16,462 A decision to have a no strife policy in our home. 859 00:44:16,566 --> 00:44:19,150 Because we understood strife opens a door. 860 00:44:19,230 --> 00:44:23,884 And James, chapter three, says, for every evil work, strife 861 00:44:23,932 --> 00:44:26,972 is a door opener for every evil work. 862 00:44:27,156 --> 00:44:29,680 So we decided that night, we're done with strife. 863 00:44:30,340 --> 00:44:31,800 We're done with it. 864 00:44:32,740 --> 00:44:34,124 And if Denise and I were in. 865 00:44:34,132 --> 00:44:39,960 The car and we had a moment, rather than fight with each other, 866 00:44:40,580 --> 00:44:42,156 Denise, you remember what we did. 867 00:44:42,228 --> 00:44:43,836 We would roll the window down, we'd. 868 00:44:43,868 --> 00:44:45,372 Say, get out of this car. 869 00:44:45,476 --> 00:44:47,900 Strife is not permitted to be in this car. 870 00:44:48,020 --> 00:44:49,052 And do you know what? 871 00:44:49,156 --> 00:44:50,720 The strife would leave. 872 00:44:51,410 --> 00:44:53,322 I wasn't having a problem with Denise. 873 00:44:53,386 --> 00:44:54,010 I loved her. 874 00:44:54,050 --> 00:44:54,922 She loved me. 875 00:44:55,026 --> 00:44:56,842 It was strife which was trying to. 876 00:44:56,866 --> 00:44:57,978 Get into our car. 877 00:44:58,114 --> 00:45:01,626 Think how many people fight with each other when the problem 878 00:45:01,698 --> 00:45:02,890 is really not each other. 879 00:45:02,930 --> 00:45:04,074 They love each other. 880 00:45:04,162 --> 00:45:06,630 But a spirit of strife is at work. 881 00:45:07,330 --> 00:45:09,274 It's an invisible force, and you have. 882 00:45:09,282 --> 00:45:10,842 To take authority over it. 883 00:45:10,946 --> 00:45:12,950 You have to take authority over it. 884 00:45:14,370 --> 00:45:17,338 And when you deal with the unseen realm, it's just like Jesus. 885 00:45:17,434 --> 00:45:19,690 It's easy to deal with the natural realm. 886 00:45:19,770 --> 00:45:22,570 The natural realm falls in line once. 887 00:45:22,610 --> 00:45:24,910 You have dealt with the invisible realm. 888 00:45:28,610 --> 00:45:31,018 So now we come Back to Ephesians 6:12. 889 00:45:31,074 --> 00:45:31,722 Look at it with me. 890 00:45:31,746 --> 00:45:36,790 And this is where we're going to close for we wrestle not. 891 00:45:37,730 --> 00:45:38,666 Huh. 892 00:45:38,858 --> 00:45:40,790 The Greek states it a little different. 893 00:45:41,570 --> 00:45:43,990 The Greek says the wrestle is to us. 894 00:45:45,650 --> 00:45:48,890 And the Greek pulls us into the text, which means at some point 895 00:45:48,930 --> 00:45:52,714 in our life, every one of us are going to be drawn into a conflict. 896 00:45:52,762 --> 00:45:56,374 With unseen spirits that have been marshaled against us. 897 00:45:56,542 --> 00:45:59,670 Like it or not, every one of us, we're going to be pulled into 898 00:45:59,710 --> 00:46:01,222 this conflict at some time. 899 00:46:01,326 --> 00:46:03,206 And Paul is never in the business. 900 00:46:03,278 --> 00:46:05,462 Of scaring us, but he is in. 901 00:46:05,486 --> 00:46:07,350 The business of preparing us. 902 00:46:07,470 --> 00:46:09,450 And that's why he wrote this verse. 903 00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:13,974 For our wrestle is not against flesh and blood. 904 00:46:14,022 --> 00:46:15,318 It's not against this. 905 00:46:15,374 --> 00:46:17,686 It's not against your relatives, it's not against your 906 00:46:17,758 --> 00:46:18,438 finances. 907 00:46:18,534 --> 00:46:21,038 It's not against your medical condition. 908 00:46:21,134 --> 00:46:24,126 Again, do everything you can in the natural to fix everything. 909 00:46:24,278 --> 00:46:28,862 But in addition to that, you've got. 910 00:46:28,886 --> 00:46:30,206 To deal with the invisible realm. 911 00:46:30,238 --> 00:46:34,350 And I'm just thinking about how many people get sick and they 912 00:46:34,390 --> 00:46:37,902 run right to the medical cabinet and never do one thing to 913 00:46:37,926 --> 00:46:38,366 even pray. 914 00:46:38,398 --> 00:46:39,998 They just run right to medicine. 915 00:46:40,094 --> 00:46:41,598 We're going to fix this with an aspirin. 916 00:46:41,614 --> 00:46:43,166 We're going to fix this with Alka Seltzer. 917 00:46:43,198 --> 00:46:47,682 They just run right to the medical cabinet, and that's why they 918 00:46:47,706 --> 00:46:51,026 get a temporary relief do. 919 00:46:51,098 --> 00:46:52,242 Go to the medical cabinet. 920 00:46:52,306 --> 00:46:55,746 Take everything you can do, do everything naturally you can do. 921 00:46:55,818 --> 00:46:58,930 But you've got to match it by speaking to the spirit realm. 922 00:46:59,090 --> 00:47:02,322 You've got to deal with the invisible realm if you want that 923 00:47:02,346 --> 00:47:04,510 thing to permanently go away. 924 00:47:07,130 --> 00:47:09,350 And so here's what we're going to do tonight. 925 00:47:11,060 --> 00:47:13,120 I want you to stand up on your feet. 926 00:47:17,940 --> 00:47:19,680 I want you to close your eyes. 927 00:47:22,020 --> 00:47:25,388 And I want you to visually see whatever it is that's been coming 928 00:47:25,444 --> 00:47:26,440 against you. 929 00:47:27,380 --> 00:47:35,884 Maybe it's your finances, maybe it's strife, lack of peace 930 00:47:35,932 --> 00:47:36,920 in your mind. 931 00:47:38,290 --> 00:47:39,590 Whatever it is. 932 00:47:42,130 --> 00:47:45,642 I want you to see it now. 933 00:47:45,666 --> 00:47:47,430 I want you to see beyond it. 934 00:47:48,930 --> 00:47:52,030 And I want you to say to the spirit realm, you're finished. 935 00:47:52,530 --> 00:47:53,306 Say it out loud. 936 00:47:53,338 --> 00:47:54,506 You're finished. 937 00:47:54,698 --> 00:47:56,990 I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. 938 00:47:57,330 --> 00:47:59,194 I take authority over you in the. 939 00:47:59,202 --> 00:48:01,642 Name of Jesus, and I expect you. 940 00:48:01,666 --> 00:48:02,384 To fall in love. 941 00:48:02,442 --> 00:48:03,040 Line. 942 00:48:05,580 --> 00:48:09,012 Now, with your eyes closed, I want. 943 00:48:09,036 --> 00:48:10,836 You to literally extend your hand toward. 944 00:48:10,868 --> 00:48:13,600 That thing that's been coming against you. 945 00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:18,600 And I want you to say, shh. 946 00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:28,120 Oh, my goodness. 947 00:48:29,780 --> 00:48:33,996 When you move into that dimension, you've moved into a realm 948 00:48:34,028 --> 00:48:38,316 of divine authority where the enemy falls in line and the wind 949 00:48:38,388 --> 00:48:39,120 ceases. 950 00:48:40,260 --> 00:48:44,800 And whatever it is, you're dealing with becomes a great calm. 951 00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:46,800 A great calm. 952 00:48:48,500 --> 00:48:51,164 And, Father, I thank you in the name of Jesus that Denise and 953 00:48:51,172 --> 00:48:51,292 I. 954 00:48:51,316 --> 00:48:54,198 Could be here tonight in Manhattan with. 955 00:48:54,254 --> 00:48:56,690 Hungry, hungry, wonderful people. 956 00:48:57,310 --> 00:49:01,558 I thank you for Pastor Mike and Julie, for the apostolic call 957 00:49:01,614 --> 00:49:03,446 on their life and for the churches that they're. 958 00:49:03,478 --> 00:49:05,250 Giving birth to around the nation. 959 00:49:07,550 --> 00:49:10,486 And, Father, I pray that when every person leaves this room tonight, 960 00:49:10,518 --> 00:49:12,662 they will leave with the discernment to know they've got to 961 00:49:12,686 --> 00:49:14,086 deal with more than what's. 962 00:49:14,118 --> 00:49:15,222 Standing in front of them. 963 00:49:15,246 --> 00:49:18,198 They've got to go beyond, like you. 964 00:49:18,254 --> 00:49:20,810 Did, to deal with the invisible realm. 965 00:49:23,100 --> 00:49:23,956 And Holy Spirit. 966 00:49:23,988 --> 00:49:25,720 You're a wonderful reminder. 967 00:49:26,860 --> 00:49:32,680 So we ask you to remind us of this in the precious name of Jesus.