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A Peaceful Mind | Nancy Dufresne | Ladies Conference 2024 | Thursday PM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. I like what Ms. Reba said when she said, let's not take his presence for granted. You know, the earth has not always been the place the Holy Spirit was on the day of Pentecost. The earth changed because he showed up his entrance. But let's not take for granted. I love when she said, say thank you that he's here. Another thing that I appreciate what God's done in these meetings, not just these, but what he's been doing in the conferences we have here. And the miracle crusades on the road is something my husband prophesied about for years. He would make this statement, streams of ministries coming and flowing together because you get bank breaking flows. It's not just one flow and it's many coming together. So thank you for coming, Ms. Reba and Destiny and Ms. Joy and Regina and Cindy and David and Tony and all of these that have come and brought such a supply. And I don't know, I think I found a new best friend this week. Ms. Leanne. Come up here. Would you come up here? I'm just. I haven't seen Leanne since Dad Hagin was here in 2003 because she was on the worship team, the Rhema Singers and Band, when he was here. And I think, think that's the last time I've seen you. So thank you for coming. And you know what? I just want you.
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Okay. All right. I say let's worship a little more.
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Oh, we worship you. Oh, Lord of glory. Lord of glory. Oh, we worship you. Oh, we love you. We love you. We love you, Lord. Oh, we love you. Yes, we love you. Lord of glory. Great God Jehovah. Oh, we worship you. We worship you. Yeah, we worship. Yes, we worship you. God of glory. God, we love you. We worship you. Oh, we love you, Lord, we love you. You reveal yourself to us. Out of our spirits we sing Songs of glory Songs of glory. Oh, doors, doors open wide in your glory in you we abide oh, just begin to sing in the spirit Sing a new song.
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Higher plan to see a higher way to go a higher way to live a higher way in the spirit. Oh, that's how we must begin in.
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The spirit from beginning to the end in the spirit.
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Oh, my.
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Oh, he needs to be your best friend. I Walking in the white Walking in the light Walking in the light Walking in the light. Seeing in the spirit Seeing God's way.
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As a spirit I do see.
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In.
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The Spirit I'm so free. In the Spirit I abide. In Him I live and move.
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In Him I abide, O glory. I see through the door, through the day of supply, I see a supply, a supply of the spirit that's waiting on us to take hold of a deeper, deeper supply where revelation flows and understanding is. And we begin to understand the time clock. Where we as spirits learn the way of God listening to our hearts by.
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The Holy Ghost within.
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What's he speaking? What's he saying? In him we are to live.
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Oh, is there anything else, God, that.
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You want me to do?
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Doors of utterance are open wide for this woman of God to walk. Rivers of living water flow. Rivers of the living water flow. Stir it up. Stir it up.
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Because we're coming to the time now where we as the body must understand.
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Spiritual truths.
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Over in the realm of glory, understanding, just as dad taught us to. Yeah, yeah. Because many of them are already on the other side. When I was a student, I graduated in 1986. Yeah, I look like 20. I know. But Jeanne Wilkerson was still alive. Phil Halverson and Fern Halverson. And it was amazing the things that we'd see on campus. And Buddy and Mom Pat was there, and just the move of the spirit and the flow of the spirit. But, you know, they're still working on the other side, Right? And I know there are many times in prayer that I've sensed them. How many of you have done that before and thought, am I getting flaky? Am I getting weird? You know, because there are times that I've gotten so far over in prayer that I thought, God, am I getting weird? And I'd back off and I'd stop and thank God for the saints I would get. Patsy would tell me, you keep going. Others would say, you keep going. I'd be like, yeah, but I'm seeing too much over there, and it's frightening me. I'm froot looping. I don't want to be a fruit.
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Loop.
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But I'll never forget. I can't believe I'm going to share this. And you stop me if you want me to. I was praying there on campus with the prayer groups and with the prayer leaders. God had told me to make some adjustments and changes to the prayer program. And, you know, we have 500 people praying in the prayer program, and we don't want to make any mistakes, you know, And I'm praying, God, is this what you really want us to do? And I remember this one particular time as we were in the auditorium praying. Candice, Mom's daughter, Otis daughter, was one of our prayer leaders and one of my. My best friend. And she was sitting out in the auditorium, and I began to pray. And we all were just going, you know what it's like being with prayers? I mean, it's like the roof comes off the. And so we're praying in the spirit, just about the plans of God. And then all of a sudden, as I was praying there, I can't believe I'm sharing this, because I don't know if I've ever shared this openly in front of a congregation before, but as I was praying there at Rhema, I heard brother Hagin.
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Yeah, sure.
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And I turned around and I thought, dear God in heaven. And I was like, okay, close your eyes, Nan. Get back over your fruit Loop, you know?
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Yeah.
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And then I was where. Aware of Buddy. And then. I don't know how much I want to say, but. But I. I heard. I heard them say some things to me, and I thought, God, I don't want to get weird because, see, we've made the things of the spirit way too hard. We're not seeking to talk to dead people. You don't want to make stuff up. You want to be balanced. That's why we have wonderful teachers, preachers of the. To help us. She helps me so much, and she doesn't even know it. And it helps me because I'm an inspirational preacher. And so. But these times of prayer, sometimes you get so far over, and then you don't want to share it because you don't want people to think you're weird. And so as we were praying, I mean, I heard Buddy say something. Go over and stand in front of Candace and tell her this. And I thought, I'm not gonna do that. I will not do that. And then I said, father, can I do it my way? Can I just go over and stand in front of her and pray in the spirit and she get it. Because I don't want people thinking I'm talking to dead people. They're very much alive, and many are working so much on what's going on on this side. You can correct my doctor in a second. And so I. I stood over in front of Candace and I said, candace, I've got something. Mom, have I ever told you this? Okay. And I said. I said, candace, I've got something for you. She goes, okay. And I said, but it's in the spirit, so you're gonna have to get it. And so I just. Well, her husband if you know Alan, her husband, he's conservative in a way, don't you think? And as I begin to speak, he jumped up like a wild man and ran around the room. I was like, whoa. And Candace began to weep. And then I just shouted, oh, hallelujah, everybody. Let's lift our hands and worship God. And on the inside, I'm going, what in the world did I just do? And so I told everybody because it was right before the church service. And I told everybody. I said, guys, we better get over to church or pastor's gonna get us. Let's get over there. Service is ready to start. And I walked by Candice and I said, come to my office now. And she came back. I go, oh, my goodness.
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Did you get that?
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What did you hear me say? She said, dad was here, wasn't he? I go, yeah. What'd he say? She told me word for word what he said. And she said, I'm doing it. And we just sat in the office for a while and cried. And then I'm freaking out going, I don't want to hear people talking to me. I remember I shared this with somebody that you all know, a woman of God. And I shared it with her, and I said, am I freaking? Am I froot looping here? And she said, oh, they're working on the other side, Leanne. Now, I wouldn't form a doctrine about that. Expect it to happen every time I prayed. You got to be balanced, right? Be in the Word as much as you are in prayer. But there's something about that realm that we are supposed to be operating in way far more than we are. Yeah, I love what Jesus said in John 14:17. The spirit of truth the world doesn't see or know, but you know him, he said, because he's going to live and dwell on the inside of you. He's talking about the Holy Spirit.
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Spirit.
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Guys, we know him, you know, the Spirit of God. We believe what the Bible says. I love what you taught the other night. It so stirred me when you were teaching on us as a spirit and prayer, just all that you said. You know how you can listen to someone and get five sermons out of what somebody's saying, and if not more. And.
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But.
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But my heart was stirred because as dad used to go around and pray, preach John 11 all the time, you know, like, we know God's had me do John, chapter 14, verse 17, that we know the spirit of God. When I got in the group of the Raymond Singers and Band, I remember I walked up to Philip Slaughter And I told him, you know, the guy that led most of the singing? And I told him. I said, philip, if you get up there and you never know what to do, you just look at me, I'll have it. He looked at me. He goes, girl, you're cocky. I said, I know it, but I know the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, I do. He started laughing. He's one of my buddies. And he said. He goes, leanne, you're crazy. I said, well, if I am, I'm thankful. I know the spirit of God. I wished I had never told him that, Because he called on me all the time, and sometimes he knew what to do, but he would pull on me just because. But I got ahold of John, chapter 14, verse 17. When it says the spirit of truth, the world doesn't see, the world doesn't know, but you know him. When I was a student, I loved Brother Hagin so much. And I would sit on the edge of my seat. I was 18. I'd be like, I'm gonna do that.
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Mm.
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I'm gonna do that. Yeah. And he was, I'm gonna do that. And I was so shy and backward and quiet. I was like, oh, dear God. But as I begin to walk in the Lord, and I begin to realize that there's so much about him we don't know. But I realized we've got to use our faith in the realm of the Spirit, in our prayer life as we do healing for our body, for our finances, in every arena of life, our prayer life. We're supposed to be way further in the church than we are. So what do we need to do? Use our faith. And so you come up against a brick wall in prayer, act like you're on the other side of it. Pray from the other side. I was sitting in my office, and there was a bunch of things I'd been praying about for the campus. And I was getting frustrated. I was like, God. And then I heard him say, why don't you act like you're on the other side? I go, how do I act like I'm on the other side when I'm praying in the spirit? He goes, why don't you change your dialect? Why don't you change your dialect and act like you're already over there? And so I thought, well, what's it gonna hurt? I'm in here by myself, and if I get off, nobody's gonna know but me. And so I just begin to pray, you know? Not just. I was like, oh, because how do you act when you know you've got the victory, right? And so I started going. And you know what happened? I was on the other side. I had such clarity and such understanding, and I prayed through. I ran down the hallway at the prayer and healing center because that's when I worked with Jim Hockaday. And I knocked on his door. He goes, come in. I go, you're not going to believe what I just did. He goes, what'd you do? I told him what I did. He said, oh, sit down right now. Let's pray. We jumped over so far. It's amazing what happens when you use your faith. I like taking charge of who we are as spirit beings. We have a legal right to operate in that realm. Pray from that place. Go and do exploitation in God. And I'm talking too much, so I'm gonna hush because I came to receive.
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Hallelujah. You can. You can be seated. Don't unhook. But I. In high school. Well, really in junior high started. And in high school, all my friends were older than me. And I always felt like I'm not friends necessarily with anyone in my own class. How come? God, it seems like I was born out of my generation, you know, and they were always older. And then, of course, I married a man 20 years older. And then the people that God put in my life, you know, and I got to sit as a student of them, and I thought, I wish I had gotten to be around some of these more. But because of the age gap, I caught on to them as they were exiting more in exiting years. And I was just entering. But God has really. I've been so appreciative because God's been bringing people for my age. If I could say this, to where I'm not just talking about ones in heaven. I love talking about ones in heaven because like she said, they're alive. But we still need help here. So, Leanne, thank you. You're part of that. You're part of that. You talk about Jeannie Wilkerson and Phil Halvers. Oh, my goodness. And Rachel Tifa Tiller and these precious saints, but they were so much older. I didn't get to spend a lot of time with them before they left. But God's raising up for this era. Amen. And I need you. I need you. I need you. And the rameses are that to me. And we need. We need these people who have their. If I could say this, we caught our roots, our foundation and our vocabulary from dad Hagin's flow. That was the spirit flow. He got it from the spirit and so I'm so grateful that God has pulled around us. I mean, look at Cindy and Regina and all these. And all these different ones that dad hagin was our diet. Not because we magnify him, but we recognize where God fed us from. You have to know where God connects you so that you eat out of the right household. And I don't dis. I don't. If I could say this, undervalue others. I just know my. I just know my flow, my fit, where I'm watered. And we've gotten to have Sister Pat here. Are you kidding me? Amen. And I'm just. Just so thrilled that there's more. And we know it. And we're not willing to just keep saying there's more. We're willing to use our faith to go into more. In him, think of this verse. In him, we live and move and have our being. Think of this. In him, we live. He offers us the way he lives his life that we're not just drawing on for life. It's that divine life, eternal life, Zoe, Life in us. That he's saying the same life, the same life that sustains his existence. That's how we live. In Him. We live and move that we're not just having our own movements, but our movements are dictated and directed by Him. In him, we live and move and have our being. When someone looks at you and they kind of recognize the qualities about you, just as an individual and as a person, we're not limited to that. We can draw on his being, his qualities that we're not just limited to our own human qualities. Amen. That his success is our success. Yeah. That his way of loving people becomes our way of loving people. His way of generosity becomes our way of generosity. Why? Because his being starts being taken into our. It's there, but we draw on it. We draw on it and we say we're not limited to our being, but we have his being in Him. We live and move and have our being. The way we be in this earth, the way we be. Hallelujah. You got anything else? You good? Okay. All right. Thank you, singers. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. For the last couple of days, whenever there's. I sense a prayer burden for someone, and I can always. I've learned because I used to sense it and thought. Because if you're not careful, when you sense someone else's need, it seems like it's yours. Because you move into the compassion of God and you move into the way he's touched with the feet of our Infirmities. And so the way he feels about it, you start picking up those same feelings. So it can feel like what God is allowing you to participate with, to offer help, bring a flow of help. It can feel like what you're feeling is yours and you're not. You're feeling theirs, their need. Why? It feels so personal. You can feel it completely. Why? So that you can give your all to it and not just. It's not a token interest. It feels like you. So you handle it like it was your need. You use your faith in it like it's your need. Does that make sense? You know when it says. When the word talks about is any. And does any Mary, let him what? Sing song. Let him sing. Right. Is anyone going through a test or trial? Let him pray. If we were merry about something, if something happened that was so big to you and it happened, and you were elated about that and rejoiced about that, you wouldn't carry this and then go up and say, I'm Mary, Would you sing for me? See how you chuckle at that? And he's saying, in the same respect, when you're going through a need, why would you walk up and say, I'm going through a need. Would you pray for me? It's scriptural to pray for one another, but we don't turn our responsibility and our rollover to someone else. We don't ask someone to pray so that we're dismissed. We're not dismissed. But I don't want to turn my need totally over to someone else because they're not going to feel about that the way I feel. And they might just give a token prayer. Right? Right. I remember Doc and Jerry Horton. Jerry would tell off some of the fun. Well, both of them would tell funny stories. Funny, funny, funny stories. They were close friends of dad Hagin's and Mom Hagin's. And she talks about how one night she woke up in the middle of the night and she felt so ill. And she woke up Doc. And says, doc, I feel sick. Pray for me. And he just, you know, with his eyes still closed, he just put his hand over and said, oh, God, heal her. She said, doc, get up. In other words, you need to feel about this the way I feel about this. And that's why when we're praying for someone, we don't pray token prayers because he allows us to feel as they feel. So we're all in. We're all in. And so I said all that. I'm just wandering here. So I said all that. To say this, it has happened now over the last couple of days to where I can sense the fear and the torment of those with mental issues. And if you're not careful when you sense that, you'll think it's you. It's not you, it's your sensing what another is sensing. And you're brought into the compassion of Jesus to pick that up so that you treat it as though it was you. That no more than you would permit it with you, you don't permit it with them. God wants you to have that same interest in someone else's well being. And so you can feel that. And I've learned years ago when that first started happening because I had, I wasn't taught, I was just on my own in a prayer and I didn't understand some of the things. And of course the devil will be there to help you misapply, misunderstand, misdefine and make you think something's wrong with you when you're really perceiving the need of another.
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And so I have been perceiving that for the last several days. And so we're going to deal with that mental issues. Mental why? Because. Because God has us to deal with that. Because there is a famine in the body of Christ of those who know how to deal with the mental arena based on the word. Based on the word. Based on the word. You take that word and you deal with the mental arena. You don't take the mental arena and deal with the mental arena. That's right. That's right. Amen. Amen. Because if you're going to take the soulish arena, the mind, the will and the emotions to deal with the mental arena, what you're going to do is you're never going to hit the problem. That's right. You're going to try to emotionally deal with things. That's the problem. Your emotions God gave you, but not to lead you, not to govern you, not to dominate you. Your emotions are simply to color your life. That's it. They are not to lead your life, control your life, control your family through emotion. They're not equipped to lead. Emotions don't have the stuff to take the lead. Your spirit has the stuff to take the lead. And so many people, because they need help so badly in the mental arena, they're grasping at anything. And that's a danger because many times what's offered them is the mental to deal with the mental. And we have the victory realm, the faith realm, the spirit realm to deal with every other realm and every other arena of life from the spirit. So as Ms. Leanne was talking about, we're spiritual people. Go further there and you'll quit going further in the troubling of mental things and the troubling of physical things and material things. You deal with it in that realm. I dealt with Ed's homegoing four years before he left from that realm. I didn't recognize the details of who it applied to, but once he left, it was already dealt with. It was already done. I'm talking about the effect of it on this realm and the effect of it on this family. We got in front of it. Why God makes you the head and not the tail. What's that mean? You're in front of situations, not behind them. To be behind is to be out of the spirit. Yes, yes. Because the flow in the place of the spirit is put you in front, in front, in front. The spirit will show you things to come to come. Put you in front of everything. And if you're not in front of it, you're in the wrong flow. As a pastor, I pastored for 25 years before Morgan stepped in and helped and my family stepped in and helped. We've never had a church split. Why? Because I was in front. The Holy Ghost would. I pastored by spirit. The spirit of God would direct me, preach on this, teach on this. And then it uprooted, exposed, and put a blockade in front of anything that would try to rise up. And we just. Pastoring was a complete joy in every way. A complete joy. Why? Because we were not a problem riddled church. Why? Because the word won't leave you like it found you. But you have to do this by the spirit. If we're worn out, we're out of the flow of the spirit. That's right. If we're struggling, I'm talking about even in your business and things regarding your family, you know, maybe something's going on with your family and it's weighing on you. You're out of the flow. There's a higher place to deal with that from. Get in front and see if we don't. If we're not told this, we think that this realm is the only way to deal with this realm.
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Realm.
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And it's not. And it's not. Hallelujah. Let me, let me. I'll just change direction here a little bit every time.
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I want.
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Let's go to, let's go to Matthew chapter 11 before we go any further. Matthew, chapter 11. Matthew, chapter 11 and verse 28. Matthew 11:28. I'm going to read it on the amplified classic translation. So if you have a device that allows you to pull that up, you may want to flip to that. Matthew 11:28. Jesus is speaking and he says, come to me. Come to me. You know how comforting those words are. When something tries to derail, those words are still there. Come to me. Come to me. Don't come to that, because there's so many things to come to in life. Come to me. And we have to remind ourselves, right? Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden and overburdened. Look at this and I will cause you to rest. I will cause you, empower you to rest. Right. I will ease and relieve and refresh. Look at this. Your souls. What's he talking about? Your mind. See, this is a. He's going to address when people are troubled. The first thing he's going to do is going to address that mental arena. Because that's the arena if you live in. It will wear you out. The mental arena, given the lead in your life, will wear you out. Because that is Satan's arena. Why he has access to it. When you're following the Holy Spirit, the safest way to be led by the Spirit is the inward witness. The spirit of God bearing witness. Witness with your spirit. There are other things that. There are other things that may happen in the leadings of God. Sometimes he will speak to you through prophecy. He may speak. You may have a dream, you may have a vision. You may see something. You may see angels. Jesus could appear. There are visions, dreams, all these different things, but every one of those, the devil can replicate every one of them. There's one leading he can't replicate, and that's the inward witness. He cannot replicate it. He cannot, because he's not in there. If you're born again, he's not in there. He's not in your spirit. He cannot replicate that. That's why you always. That leading trumps every other leading. Do you know that before, just for example, before this meeting, I've never had this before in recent memory. Let me put it that way. Before scheduling this meeting, I kept having a precious minister's name come to me. Because I always look to the Holy Ghost, who do you want me to look? I don't go on autopilot. I endeavor not to go on autopilot. And I said, who do you want? And I just kind of hold my spiritual. As dad Hagin said, put up your spiritual antenna. And I just listened. And I kept having this name come to me. Precious minister Precious minister. Love them. But on the inside I would go, that's not right. And hear. And I would hear the name spoken to me. It was promised. It wasn't just a thought. It wasn't just something that I floated. It was an obvious point in time. That name kept coming several times, several times. But I'd check here. And I go on the inside of me. I don't want to schedule that. Not because of anything against them, but that's not the fit. And then after probably that went on for a month. Just every periodically that would happen at the end of a month. Then the spirit of God spoke and said, pat Harrison, I go, got it. Now I know why the devil wanted to offer me good. So I'd miss best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone good. Precious may even have them. But it's. And it's. They're not the problem. I'm telling you the strategies and advices. That's why you go by here. This truth trumps everything. Every leading. It is the safest way to be led. You want to know why? Because it is the only promised leading we have. We have no scripture that promises us that we will have a vision, we will have a dream. Now God in the last time, he talks about your old mental dream. Dreams, your own mental health, visions, he's talking about in general. But you have promise that that's going to happen to you. But you do have the word. In Romans 8:14, the sons of God are led by the spirit of God. Then verse 16 tells you how that's going to happen. The spirit of God bears witness. Bears witness. Bears witness. Bears witness. So we have to become sensitive to the safest way and the only scriptural way we were promised of being led. And that's the inward witness. Do not be duped by the dramatic. Waiting for a dramatic leading. That doesn't make us more spiritual. People think that if I have a real dramatic story to tell or hear something, I appear more spiritual. No, the inward way, the inward witness. The inward witness. And people miss sometimes that because it's not dramatic, it has to be on purpose turned toward the Holy Spirit within. Amen. So develop that keenness to know hear. Because this is where your safe hearing is going to always be. The highest flow, not the most dramatic or spectacular. And many times people know inwardly what to do, but they're waiting for an additional leading before they do it. God did not promise you an additional leading. He promised you you will be led by that. The spirit of God bearing witness. And many have it's cost them Their lives because they knew something, but they waited. They wanted God to confirm it. An additional way, the inward witness is enough every time we have to become skillful toward that, toward that leading. Amen. I don't know how I got off on that, but the Devil works to hold you in the mental arena so he can pull you away from this. The Devil cannot replicate this leading of the inward witness. He cannot do it. He cannot do it. He cannot do it. So I don't care how something is ding donging, banging on your head. If you do not have the inward witness, you do not yield to that which is prominent toward the mind. Amen. So Jesus said, those who are burdened and troubled, he said, you come to me and he says, I'm going to deal with your soul. That's the first thing he says, I'm going to deal with your soul. Because you know something, our hearts can be right and our heads wrong. And the devil on that technicality of wrong thinking, able to work against us even though we have a right heart. So he says, I will cause you to rest. I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls. Your soul is not refreshed whenever you can't determine what's speaking to you. That's right. Yeah, it's draining. Verse 29. Take my yoke upon you. Learn of me. In other words, learn to how. Learn how I do it. Learn my way. How do we learn his way? Through the Word. Through the Word. Learn of me. For I am gentle, meek and humble, lowly in heart, and you will find rest, relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet for your souls. What's he talking about, the mind again? It's all about the mind. Mind. When there's nothing more tiring than being led by your mind, there's nothing more draining than the mind given its wrong place, given the lead position. Verse 30. For my yoke is wholesome, useful, good, not harsh, hard, sharp or pressing, but comfortable within. He's not talking about your flesh, he's talking about within, gracious and pleasant, and my burden is light and easy to be borne. Notice this. When he says coming into a ease, he starts dealing with the mind. Why? Because the mind makes it hard. If we are, if we're under a sense of hardness, we know the mental arena is what we're leaning on. We're going to that mental arena. We're leaning on it, we're looking to it. But things become easy when we understand that cooperating with Jesus is not hard. It's not hard. Amen Spiritual things are not hard. It's the mental arena that turns them hard. Hard to process, hard to grasp, hard to articulate. Amen. The easy flow isn't something we have to work up. It's a flow we are already connected to. The easy flow is in us. The Holy Spirit is in the easy. He is the easy flow. We're connected. Connected to that. So if it's hard and there's a push and there's a weightiness to it, heaviness the wrong way. Now, I'm not talking about the weightiness of the anointing. I'm talking about the burdensome type flow. Then we're acknowledging the wrong flow. We're already connected to the easy flow. If it's not easy, get out of it. Get out of it. Turn away from that. Amen. Hallelujah. When we renew our minds with the Word, then our lives are transformed. Is that not right? Listen, if we do not take the Word, which is, what is it? It's taking the thoughts of God. Taking the thoughts of God. And when we recognize that our thoughts are different than the way he's thinking, we say, okay, I'm done with mine. I lay that down and I pick up the way he thinks. And that now becomes the way I choose to think. You're going to have to lay down cultural things. You're going to have to listen. I'm not talking about racial things. Every home has its own culture. Every home, not just a nation or people, there are cultural things within that. But every home has its own culture. Right. And when you recognize, well, that's the way I was raised. We bring everything to the Word. We bring everything to the light of the Word. And we do not hold to what we were raised with unless we find it in the Word.
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That's very good.
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We lay our culture under the Word. We don't lay our culture above the Word. Yes.
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Amen.
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And so if you're not careful, you can be born again and your life be completely unchanged. Completely unchanged. Our lives can look like the unsaved neighbor if we're not careful. But having the life of God, having the inheritance of Christ is our own. And not enjoying it, not experiencing. Why? Because of the mind. The greatest. The greatest employment you have in this earth is to renew your mind. It's your lifetime profession. Your lifetime profession. We never arrive that our. Because dad Hagin used to say this. The mind doesn't stay renewed any more than the hair stays combed. Most of us would not permit others to see our hair first thing in the morning, if we won't permit people to see our hair first thing in the morning, why would we let them see our unrenewed mind first thing in the morning? Right. We put it in place. We put it in place. We have to every day. Today we put that mind in place. We put it in place because God gave us our mind not for the enemy's torment place. I am not a victim in the mental arena of what the enemy wants to threaten and suggest. He is not. I am not his playground. Wrong thoughts come yes. And I say no, you don't. No, you don't. Many people, they want you to minister to them. And it's an honor to minister to people. It's our joy to. It's scriptural to lay hands and minister to people. But you cannot cast out an unrenewed mind. It's the mental the of arena. And there is a famine of skill in the body of Christ toward that arena. Why? Because people are letting that arena. They're trying to conduct spiritual living from that arena. And it's not possible. It's not possible. So go with me real quick. 3 John, verse 1. We know this verse because people like it for their prosperity. We should. We should. People like it for their health. We should. 3 John, chapter one, verse two. He writes, Beloved, I wish above all things, above all things. Above all things. Above all things, that thou mayest prosper and be in health. Look at this. Even as thy soul prospers. What's this mean? To fix a prosperity problem? To fix a health problem. You're going to have to fix your mind. What's that mean? If fixing your mind affects your finances and your health, it'll affect everything. When people are troubled, it's an invitation to fix the way you're thinking now. You know something's going to have to be fixed up here. In the way I'm thinking, I have told God I know I'm thinking wrong. I'm just not quite sure how to fix that. If I'm troubled, it's my fault. The devil doesn't have permission to trouble me and it be his fault. It's my fault. If I'm troubled. I'm thinking wrong. Why? Because the devil can only work through wrong thinking. He cannot work through right thinking. But God cannot work through wrong thinking. Why? Because there's no wrong in him. He cannot move with wrong. There's nothing wrong in him. He can only move with what's right and clean and pure and holy. So for us to change situations, we're Trying to change things out here when it needs to change up here. Amen. And the devil knows that. That's why he tries to get this scrambled. Praise the Lord. And people are trying to fix others. Fix others? How? You treat me so that I can be happy. Quit treating me this way so I can be happy. No, no. Because I'm not anointed to fix you. I'm anointed to fix me. I'm not anointed to fix you. And if my joy waits on you to fix you or waits on me trying to fix you, we're both going to be very disappointed. My peace. Peace is between me and Jesus. Nobody else. Nobody else. Since nobody else gave it to me, nobody else can take it from me. Amen. Well, you don't understand what pressure I'm under. No, no, no. Pressure didn't give you peace. So pressure is not authorized to take your peace. That's right. That's right. You have peace based on him. Him. It's between you and him. And I. I said it this morning with Sister Pat after she was done preaching. I love her. The whole sermon didn't have this to it, but underlying it, and I liked it. Yeah, yeah. This finger in your face. Because faith will not turn you weak. That's right. The word will. Truth will never turn you weak. Never turn you weak. And of course, we have a culture today that caters to that and says that. And this. Well, if that's your truth. No. No such thing as you don't. You didn't author an. So there's no such thing as your truth.
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Preach it.
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No such thing. Don't believe the government on that. You know, and people. Well, me, me. No, no, no, no. We're redeemed. From me. We are redeemed from me. Me, me, me. I'm redeemed. That's one of my greatest flows of the inheritance packages. It's not me. Not me anymore. And him.
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We live.
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Not in me. We live. Mama. It ain't about me in the household. Never, never, never. People will say it funny. If Mama ain't happy, Ain't nobody happy. That's not funny. That's not funny. Because you. You're joking about. You have to please me if you want this house happy. That's nothing. That's an unrenewed mind, baby. That is an unrenewed mind. And an unrenewed mind only ends up tormenting our own lives. Well, praise the Lord. I wanted. I was intending to go different directions with this, but people need to understand His Word is given so that we can live the best life and we cannot. Of the mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. That's three, if I could say this levels. Three levels. God's good will, God's perfect. I mean God's acceptable or permissive will or God's perfect, which is way up there and the others are not as high as that one. If I could say it this way. The goodwill of God. It's good to get born again. Good. That is so, so good. So, so good. But many people just get born again and they never do anything else toward their spiritual lives, toward their mental lives, toward their physical life. They just are born again. They live a nominal Christian life. What's good? They're born again. But in that. In that they're inserting their own will. They're really living based on the way they lived before they were born again, the way they operated before they born again, the way they conducted their man before they were born again. They're still conducting it that way. Why? Because they have not taken the Word and let it rewrite their thinking. Right, right now when it says, be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. That you may prove that word prove means discern. That you may discern. What's the good will of God that you may discern if this is the permissive will of God. God or is this the perfect will of God? It's only the renewed mind that can discern the highest flow for your life. The unrenewed mind cannot discern the perfect will of God for their life. The more we renew our mind, the more we see the perfect, his perfect will of God, his perfect plan for our life more clearly. Amen. Dad Hagin would make this statement. I took the first 80 episodes of Jesus. The heat are not taught on the mind. God told me to start with the mind because there's a famine of teaching on it. Because of the famine of teaching on it. What is going to come is going to come through the psychological. It's going to come through the mental arena. Why? Because people want help so desperately, but they're not skilled in the spirit. How the Word deals with this, not how man deals with it, how the Word deals with this. And so they're trying to get relief to people. They mean well, but it's still the wrong avenue. And so for the first 80 episodes, I taught on that. And I know this, know this. Dad Hagin used to say this to Us. So often the past is gone and should be forgotten. Should be forgotten. Every time we talk about the past, refer to the past, remember the past, have actions based on the past. Take a thought approach based on the past. We activate it to today when it needs to be left under the blood. Under the blood. Do not update the past by thinking about it, talking about it, rehearsing it. I don't sing about the past. I sing about who I am in him, what my inheritance not of. I don't. Our past is not worth singing about. It's not worth preaching about. It's not worth testifying about. It's what we've been brought into. Into. Why? Because he's bringing me into his perfect highest flow. Yeah. Yeah. People will say, you've got to talk it out to get it out. When you talk about it, you're not getting it out. You're letting it in. Because what you talk about goes in. What you talk about keeps going in. Keeps going in. Keeps going in. That's why we pour the word in. Because the word deals with that. The word. That's the old man. That's the old. And I've forgiven. I have forgiven and I have forgotten. I have forgiven and I have forgotten. By choice, not by feeling. By choice, not by feeling. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Renewing the mind. We. If we do not renew the mind, we cannot go further in the flow of the spirit. These are coupled together so we have right thinking. Listen. There were times I was spending hours a day, years, decades ago, spending hours a day praying in the spirit. And because I was getting into some things. Because the further you go in the spirit, you'll sense the Holy Spirit more, you'll sense the glory of God more, but you'll also sense devils more because you're making yourself sensitive to that realm. And there's more things in that realm. And I was perceiving things of that realm. And I could not rightly divide how to. Because, listen, the devil is not always apparently different. The devil knows how the Holy Spirit sounds. He knows and he tries to mimic as closely him. And dad Hagin used to warn us about a spirit of false prophecy because it can sound very much like the Holy Ghost, but just off one word, one slight thing, but you better catch it. And so I was getting into some things in the spirit by praying in the spirit but not having enough skill in the thought life. Toward the thought life. And one day God spoke to me and said, back out. Back out. Why? Because you're only safe going in there. With the knowledge of the Word, you have to know something. And some people who have had, if I could say this, ongoing mental issues to where they're medicated. And I mean, they need to be medicated. I'm just saying, for their own safety, many times what they'll start doing is praying a lot in the spirit. And I say quit that. You better put the Word in you put the Word in you put the Word in you. Because the devil wants to get them praying, praying, praying so they'll get out in something that they don't know how to discern, judge. And he will torment and trouble them further because they won't understand why I'm doing a spiritual act. Yes, but the devil's involved. And just because you're doing a spiritual act doesn't mean God authored what you're sensing, what you're hearing, what you're picking up. I don't know why I'm off on that. You heard, Leigh Ann said it because dad Hagin used to say it. Don't pray more than you feed on the Word. Keep the balance. Because we do have further, we must go in the flow of the Spirit, but we must go with the accompaniment of the Holy Ghost. And he only works with the Word. We have to know the Word so that we can go further in the Spirit. We have to renew our minds so that we're not bombarded living. It's wrong for believers to be living, tormented. Why is that? Lack of skill. Lack of skill. It's not the devil. It's lack of skill. But dad Hagin would teach us. He would make these statements. Anyone who is in bondage to anything is not in bondage to the devil. They are in bondage to an unrenewed mind. You need to get that one. Anyone who's in bondage is not in bondage to the Devil. Why? Jesus spoiled principalities. Defeated them. He is defeated. What are they in bondage to? They don't know. Their ignorance is holding them and they're acting like a victim. Talking like a victim. Talking the past, talking hurt instead of talking. You are now defeated. You are never going to do me that way again because I know something. Christians have definitely no business being depressed. It's lack of skill. You have to have some grit on the inside. When you feel the wrong thing and you say, no, you don't. No, you don't. You better get up and get mean and ugly. That's right. That's right. You have to. That's what the spirit of faith will put you in. That Flow. Amen. So many Christians live out of that mental arena. Why unrenewed mind? Unrenewed. Not the devil. Unrenewed mind. Depressed. Why unrenewed mind? They don't think like God. They. We have to pay attention to your thought life. Pay attention. Pay attention. When the devil says you will never be better. I'm talking about physical problems, mental problems, financial problems. We've all heard that phrase. It will never. You'll never be better. You'll never be better. What's he talking about? The future. You know what that is? Worry. Yes, it is worry. Worry is dealing with the power and the future. Anytime you've touched the past in your thought life, in your speech, in your conversation, anytime you touch the future, you just touch worry. That's right. I'm not talking about God talking to you about your future. I'm talking about, will it ever be better? I'll never get a job. You're talking about the future. And from a place of worry. Because worry is deep with what has not arrived yet. Pay attention to your thought life. Pay attention. That's why so many people are tormented. They don't recognize. They don't recognize that thought is wrong. That thought is wrong. That thought is wrong. That thought is wrong. I'm so grateful God lets us teach this. I'm so glad. Yes, grateful. I'm so glad that through seasons of opposition. And my husband later, after I got through those seasons, he'd say, I'd ask God to God, let me lay my hands on her. Let me pray for her. Get that thing off of her. And he said, nope, nope. She's got to learn. I had no idea. I wasn't just learning it for me. I was learning it from. For over half a billion people, we teach every day. When we learn it, others are helped. When we stay the victim of an unrenewed mind, others are affected by that. We raise our children in that wrong flow. We deal with our marriage in that wrong flow. Calling your husband six times a day. Where you at? Stop that. Stop that. Well, I'm just checking on. No, you're worrying. You're worrying and worry and doubt. They get together and they produce the offspring of worry. Excuse me. Fear and doubt get together and produce an offspring called worry. Anytime you're worried, fear's in that. Doubt's in that. We cannot permit anyone it. Peace is only peace. Peace is our inheritance. Now know this. God said, he's not given us what the spirit of fear, but a power, love, and a sound mind included in that power is authority. Authority over authority over power. Love. Because perfect love casteth out all fear and a sound mind. Mind. What's fear after your mind? It's after your mind. The devil wants to do your thinking for you. He'll do it if you let him. He wants to do your thinking for you. God's not given us spirit of fear. So if you feel fear, you sense fear. We kind of. If I could say this, we probably. We need to always go to scriptural terminology. Get away from natural terminology. When we say I feel him, we would better sometimes say I sense him. I sense him. Yeah, because it keeps us in this tangible feel thing. If I don't feel him, then maybe he didn't hear me. No, no, I sense him. I sense. Every day. I sense him. Every day. I sense him. Every day. I sense him. Why? Because he's in there. I can't help but sense him. And we can become more sensitive to him. But Psalm, chapter 23, verse 5 tells us this. Thou preparest a table before me.
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Where?
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In the presence of mine enemies. He's not talking about people. You don't like talking about demons, evil spirits. Why in this earth? They're present. They're present in the life of the believer regarding that thought, that they're present. Our thought should be so what?
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So what?
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So what? That they're present. So what? Instead of the what? What? I heard that. What? It's not going to get better. What? No, it's so what? Because demons are perfect present. So what? So what? We're not of their kingdom. We've been translated. Translated. Translated. So what? I'm out of that one. Out of that one. So what? And just because we can feel that they're. Because you can feel your skin sometimes the hair on your head. Because you feel. Yeah, so what? So what? People think because they feel it. It's their feeling. You're sensing what they feel. I said it. I don't know, in a previous service. The devil is a tormented being. He is a tormented being. And every one of his cohorts are tormented beings. So when they are present, because present, you will sense their torment. And you can sense fear. Come into the room. That's their fear. Why? Because God's not given me. It's not mine. It's not mine. It's theirs. I'm going to leave it with them. They chose it. They wanted it. I leave it with them. That's a renewed mind. Well, I feel fear.
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I don't care.
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You feel it because it's in the Room. How many of you on the first night, Tuesday night, felt heat in the room? It was here. But I never walked up to somebody and said, boy, you feel hot. Why'd you bring that with you? No, nobody brought it with them. We just felt what was already here. Why? Because we have over 100 degree weather. For those of you who don't know, it's been over 100 degrees. God bless you. We wanted to welcome you California style in October. Over 100 degree weather we've had. Yes, you're welcome. But you didn't walk in and go, oh, I must have a fever. I'm hot. No, it's not your heat. You recognize the heat belonged to the room. What was in the. When the devil walks in and you can feel fear in the room, it's not yours. Just because you felt it, the renewed mind knows that's not mine. That's not mine. That's not mine. Even symptoms that the body can feel, that's not mine. The body is mine, but those symptoms are not mine. And I don't care how long those symptoms are in the room, they're not mine. It's not mine. You gotta tell it, that's not mine. That's not my thought. If I took everything I felt in a room, I'd be rich. Beyond. I walk into many churches and you can feel the air conditioning. I feel it. It must be mine. Unload that air conditioning unit off the ceiling, put it in my car. I felt it. It's mine. Isn't that ridiculous? Just because you feel it doesn't make it yours. What's ours is based on what God said is ours. Not based on what the box felt. Not based on what the mind heard. Praise the Lord. Not mine. Can I tell you this? You are authorized to live as though you have no enemy. You are authorized to live as though you have no enemy. Why? Because. Because he is already defeated. We are not fighting the Devil.
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Amen.
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The only way we deal with him is the Word. That's why Jesus said in the. It is written. He brought the Word. The Word. The Word is the. You're no match for the devil. But the Word is. That's why you tell the. You speak the Word. The Word is the match for him. You are authorized. Get this in you, to live as though you have no enemy. What's that mean? You are authorized to live as though you have no sickness. You are authorized to live as though you have no fear. You are authorized to live as though you have no. No torment, no depression, no lack. Now, if you really believed that you had no fear, that was yours. That was yours. If you really believed that no sickness was yours, that no lack was yours, what would your mind be filled with? What thoughts would you have then? You better have them now. That's the thought life that God authored for us. No fear, thoughts, no sickness, thoughts, no pain. What's it say over in Romans, chapter four about Abraham? He considered not, he thought not. He thought not. He considered not his own body. Your own body is not you. Your own body is not you. One of my favorite stories that dad Hagin would tell years ago, as a young minister, he was walking through his den in a home. He was at home. He wasn't on the road at this time. And I don't know what the. He did not specify what the devil threatened him with, but he had been threatening a certain thought. And as he was walking through the den, the devil said to him, you're in fear now. I got you. I've got you. You're in fear. And he said, look at your hands, they're shaking. And Dad's hanging, said, I looked down and my hands were physically shaking from the threats that he heard, suggested. And he said his hands were physically shaking. And he said, devil, my hands, my body may be shaking, but my spirit is the real me, not my body, and my spirit is not shaking. Renewed mind, renewed mind, renewed mind, renewed mind. I've had people come to me on the road and other places and say, pastor Nancy, I had a dream. And in the dream, the devil said this, and the devil said that, and I said, and what's your. What's your point? Would you pray for me? Why? Why? Yeah, that's right. Basically what you're saying is, I want you to pray that the devil would leave me alone. If you will renew your mind, nothing, nothing he says or does reaches you, reaches you. Could you think right, you think right. The lifelong occupation of every believer is to renew your mind. And if you don't show up for work, if you don't show up for work, it's going to show up in your life. When you don't show up for work, what happens? Your job's on the line, your future's on the line, your finances are on the line. When we don't show up for the work of renewing our mind, our life's on the line. It's our lifelong employment. Renew that mind. Think right, think right, think right. Because a ministry line is only, remember this, it's only temporary help. Temporary. God is giving you the opportunity to buy more time so that you can renew your not. So when someone lays hands on you and your body changes and goes back, you can't go back to eating the same way, living the same way, treating your body the same way, because that is only temporary help. God is giving you space to correct what got you in that situation. If somebody lays hands on a depressed person and that is broken off of them by the anointing, that's temporary help. Temporary help. God's giving you time to renew your mind. It's not so you can go back to just living mindless toward these spiritual responsibilities, but spiritual privileges of renewing our mind. Oh, my gosh. It's a glorious work. It's a thrilling work that I can know what a right thought is. When I was in St. Petersburg, Russia, I was there with my husband, probably about 15 other ministers. Pastor Debbie, were you there on that trip when Pastor Reich was with us? And so, no, you weren't on that one. Jay was. I know he was there. I didn't remember if you were. And it was my night to preach, and I preached on the sin of worry. People think worry's just an option. It's a sand. It's a sin. Why? Because Jesus said, take no thought. And if we do what he said not to do, that's a sin. Take no thought. And so I preached on the sin of worry. And as we were walking out, before we ended the service, the whole place, There were about 900 people in the building, and the whole place went completely quiet. And my husband always taught me, in a service like that, in that holiness, that reverence comes in, he says, because Jesus walks in and a place goes completely still. And that's what happened that night. We got up afterwards and we walked out to go back downstairs. We had to walk down several flights of stairs to get to the hospitality room. And Pastor Ike, who was with us, and he came in and he was weeping profusely. And. And he said. He came to me and he said when we were walking down the steps, he said Jesus was at the landing. And he said he was standing there and tears were coming down his face. And he said, this is the reason most of my people never enjoy what I provided for them. That he was weeping shows his longing. His longing that people not suffering and people not struggle. Worry is the number one thing that causes people to not enjoy what's provided for them. What's worry? Touching the past, touching the future, and touching the what ifs of life. Be skillful in your thought. Life be skillful Pay attention to your thought life. Amen. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. He's ordained peace for us. But we won't just enjoy it unless we do the word. Address that thought life, change, take the word and change the way we think. It's our privilege to know how. How to think right is a privilege. Yeah. Hallelujah. One pastor got entrenched on an occasion in depression. Listen, depression. The opportunity will come to everyone. Why, you'll get tempted with it, but we don't have to go. We don't have to enter it. We don't have to enter. It'll come, but you don't have to enter it. And this pastor had entered it. And he stayed there for a while, good long time. One day he's sitting in his bedroom, curtains drawn, had been that way for a while. And he's sitting, I don't know, on a chair on the side of his bed, just sitting in a dark room all by himself. And Jesus walks in, walks in, sits down by him, puts his hand on his knee, doesn't say anything, just laughs, just starts laughing. And the man just looks at him because the man's oppressed. And Jesus just laughing, not saying anything, not saying anything. And the man thought, well, if Jesus is laughing, I guess I better do what he's doing. So he starts laughing, putting on with him, how precious. They sat there and laughed together. Then Jesus got up and walked out and the depression was gone. He was demonstrating a sermon. Jesus demonstrated a sermon to him. This is what Leanne was talking about. When she's talking about in prayer. She didn't feel like she was on the other side. Act like you're on on the other. Act like you're on the other side of that depression. Act like it put on the garment of praise. Put it on. Put it on. If you don't put it on, you'll end up wearing the wrong thing. You'll end up wearing the wrong thing. You choose what you put on. You choose what you put on. You choose what you put on. I remember going through a season. Mental opposition. I'm sitting at 4:30 in the morning, staring out a window out of the living room, just staring. It's dark outside. I'm just staring. 4:30 in the morning, that's supernatural hour for this girl. It was Ed's hour, but it was not my hour. So, you know, I'm just staring straight ahead out the window. Ed comes down and I sit. He said, what you doing? I said, just staring. And I said, just put your hand on me. And pray. And he did. And he walked off after that. And God spoke to me, and I love this. What Sister Pat said, many people have a misunderstanding of the Holy Spirit's dealings with them. God spoke to me and said, if you're going to believe in that very stern tone, it's like, are you kidding? I'm getting beat on here mentally. And he said, if you're going to believe everything the devil tells you, he will steal from you everything I've ever blessed you with. And I thought, okay, that's a rebuke. Okay, that's a rebuke. That's. I perceive that don't have to be very perceptive. That's a rebuke. And I go, I don't understand why I'm being rebuked. I'm being attacked, and I'm being rebuked for being attacked. That's what I thought. Wrong thinking. I was not being attacked. I was being gullible. I was being stupid. I was being dominated by something that was defeated. Wrong thinking, wrong thinking. Wrong thinking. Wrong. Thoughts come to everyone. So what? So what? Just because they come does not mean you dress them up and call them yours. Amen. People think that. People think in the world. They think they have no responsibility toward their thought life. They think they have no ability to do anything about their thought life. We're redeemed from that. He's given me a sound mind. Amen. So we're going to minister to a few of you who need help, and it is temporary help, buying you time to further renew your mind once you leave the building. Did you get that? It's not so you can go home and resume life as though. As though everything's been good. Now I don't have. No. We go back and we employ what we had not been employed. You praise the Lord. Stand, if you would, with me tonight. Well, it's just a little bit different tonight, but thank God for the Word. Are you helped? Are you helped? Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Just raise up your hands and worship the Lord. Father, we worship you. We worship you. We glorify you. We magnify you. Hallelujah. I love something that Sister leann was leading us in. And you know what she's leading us in? Singing in the Spirit. How many congregations have let that slip? Really? We had. Would you come up and do that for us? You just. Or whatever else God tells you. There's my mic right there. If you grab that for her.
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Just.
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Come up and just do that or anything else that God leads you to do Hallelujah Hallelujah.
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That'S a good key.
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Oh, let's just lift our hands and worship him oh, we love you Lord, we love you oh, we love you, Lord, we love you. Oh, let's just worship him we worship him Worship you We worship you we worship you oh, yes. Let's sing in the spirit, a new song.
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Praise.
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We worship you we worship you. Monday. Yes.
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I want to give you a little bit of instruction. You know, we have to be taught. Before there were four kids in our family. When Mother would take the four of us somewhere before we went, she'd tell us what she expected of us. She'd tell us how to respond. She'd say, we're going over to Mary's house today. When we walk in, I'm going to introduce you and you're going to speak to her. You're not going to stand behind my legs and act like you can't talk. Parents, you need to learn that don't facilitate when they're. They meet someone, they stand there and go quiet. You better stop that. That's part of teaching proper response. And she said, you're going to look at them, you're going to shake your hand, their hand, and you're going to ask them how they're doing that. She taught us how to respond in a service. We had to be taught how to respond. Teaching it's appropriate to do. We were talking about this last night around the table in a service that dad Hagin gave a call. I don't know what he had called for a ministry line. I don't know specifically what it was for. And he said, if that's your need in, you want to be ministered, to step out in the aisle. So a few people trickled up, you know, and then after the ministry is going on, then more and more people get up. That's not appropriate. Can I tell you why he made this statement? From then on, he would say, at different times, he would say, stand up. And he said, if you don't stand up quick, you don't have much faith attached to that. If it takes you a few minutes before you stand up, that's not the proper response. When the Holy Ghost is offering help to you, to just sit there and say, well, should I or shouldn't I, then stay, but don't do that. It's a bad habit of the flesh, what you're doing. You're consulting your flesh to see if it's comfortable to respond to that. That's not proper response. I'M not saying this to scold. We have to teach you this. We have to teach you. So when an altar call, a ministry line is offered, you jump quick, move quick. Because either you have faith to move with that or you don't. So I'm going to offer. Everyone, go ahead and sit down. Everyone, sit down. Now, every single one of us have to deal with a thought life. Every single one of us. Every single one. So I'm not talking about this as a daily thing, but if someone is entrenched and this may have already been addressed through the meeting for you, that's wonderful. But if someone says, pastor Nancy, I realize I need a jump start. I need, need. I need an additional supply to help me get back to ground zero so that I can employ the word as I ought. So if that's you, I'm going to ask you right now, go ahead and stand up. If that's you, just stand up. Thank you. Thank you. Now, all right, nobody else move. Nobody else stand up. You're done. Now, those of you who are standing, come out in the aisles. These two aisles. Nobody else stand up. Nobody else get in the line. I'm not being unkind. We have to be taught how to respond, because faith responds. Faith response. Hallelujah. Because last night, people just kept coming and coming, and that wears out the minister. They should have gotten up so she could have seen. We would have handled the line differently. If we would have seen how many would be coming, we would have set it up a little bit different. And I'm not scolding you. This is part of us learning to flow with the spirit in a service. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. So I say this to all of you who are going to be ministered to tonight. This is temporary health. It's giving you more time so that you can further build that word in you, further take on practicing right thinking. All right? Because don't you think it would be. Be unfair to me, Say you're done. That's all. That's it. That's it. And then a month later, these thoughts start, come back and start trying to trouble you. You go, what's. What's up? Well, Pastor Nancy's telling you what's up. Amen. The devil is always going to try to steal from you what you've received. Always. And it's not because your faith isn't working. It's not because the word doesn't work. It's because that's his strategy. And I'm letting you know. Just Jesus, let us know that. He said, once an evil spirit is cast out, he comes back, says, I'll go back to my house. And he brings others more wicked than himself with him. What's he do? He calls in for troops, others to come with him. But that doesn't have to be our ending. We go. No, I recognize that. No, you're not coming back. No, I'm not putting up with that. You have to answer anything that tries to return. Amen. Feed on the word. Get that word in you. Start paying attention to your thought life. The reason we get into troubled thoughts mentally is because many times we didn't know what the right thought was. We didn't know what the right thought was. That's why we have to keep feeding on the word to know what the right thought is. But then some know the right thought and don't take their place of standing against it. But we have to hold fast to right thinking. Hold fast to right thinking. Amen. Now, congregation, would you reach your hands out toward these people? Doesn't it matter to us that they receive? Hallelujah. Okay. There's someone who's been suicidal. Thoughts of suicide have come to you. Don't accept that as I suicidal. No, you're not. Those thoughts have come. But that's not you. That's not you. That's those thoughts. Who is that? Raise your hand of those in this line. Those in the line. Anybody that. That would say, okay, come up here. You go ahead and come up here now, love. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Just bring her right here. Bring her right here. Just put her right here. I'm going to tell you something, love. Those are not your thoughts. They're not yours. He's wanting you to take what he thinks. You don't live your life based on what your enemy thinks.
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Right?
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Amen. We are learning, aren't we? Aren't you grateful that we're learning? Yes. This is easy. Your part is easy. It's safe. If it doesn't lead you to peace, any thought that doesn't lead you to peace or joy, reject it. Okay. You don't even have to know. Well, I'm not sure what. Dr. No. If it's not peace or joy, say I resist that. I don't always have to know a whole doctrine of sermon behind that. If it's not peace and joy, it's not my thought. Okay? Talk to it. Will you do that? And you say, God's not given me the spirit of fear. And I won't take. I won't take the enemy's. That's his fear. It's his. Okay. Amen. Amen. Because God. God intended you never be troubled again. Never troubled again. Okay? Okay. You don't ever have to go back to another day of will. My life ever be better. It changes. Okay? Amen. Hallelujah. Just step up. Just step. Satan, you be free in Jesus name. That lying spirit you leave. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. Now, I'm going to give her a minute. I'll come back to y' all just for space sake. Okay? Congregation, reach your hands out. Be free in Jesus name. I say that anointing go into these cloths. We thank you, Father. Freedom. In Jesus name. Peace. In Jesus name. Satan, you take your hand off that situation. Off her mind. In Jesus name. In Jesus name Peace. In Jesus name. Peace free In Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free. And there it goes, love. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus, Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Just move them down a little bit. If you. Right here. Move her down right here. Come up here, love. She can stay there. She's good. She's good. Hallelujah. Be free. There it goes, love. In Jesus name. There goes that anointing in. Be free in Jesus name. How many of you know the yoke is destroyed because of what? The anointing. Yeah. How many of you know the anointing on the Word will keep you free? The anointing on the Word will keep you free. This tangible anointing, that anointing goes, destroys. But it's the Word. The Word's always anointed. Hallelujah. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name, love. In Jesus name. Can I say this for those of you I minister to? Don't get up and check your mind and say, did it work? That's what people do. They say, devil, I resist you. Then they check, did it work? You say, how do you know? Because I've done it. I don't do it anymore. Amen. And you don't go, devil. I resist you. I resist you. You got to flee now, devil. I said, you. You got a fleet. No, you. No, no. Devil, you take your hands off that you take your hands off my mind. You take your hands off that situation and there you go. There you go. Amen. And we don't check to see if our mind gave us permission to be free. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be free. There it goes. There goes that anointing in your love. Be free in Jesus name. Name. We thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Be free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Ah. And we thank you, Father, for joyful accelerated restoration. As though. As though. As though that all never happened. As though that's what the blood does. That's what the blood does. It makes it as though we never missed makes it as though we never missed it. And it will be as though it's simply removed. That it has no association with your life. No association with your life. And you couldn't even call, conjure up a troubling thought about it. And if someone were to even bring it up, it would seem to you as though that didn't even seem like that happened to me. It didn't even seem like that was a part of my life. Didn't even seem like any remnant of it. No. Because divine accelerated restoration. Restoration. Can I tell you this? Plan B is always better than plan always. It only gets better when God restores. It's better than original, always. I'm telling you, for those of you who have lost homes, lost businesses, I guarantee you restoration is always better than the original. It's always better than the original. What was the original form of being able to come in God's presence? Kill and animals. But then came the better plan, the more perfect plan, and it was Jesus. Why? Because what comes second is always better than the original. Amen. Amen. Be free. There it goes, love. Free. Free. Oh, there it goes, love. Stop her a second. Is this cloth for someone else? Yes. Yeah. Father, we thank you for that anointing going in this cloth. And when it's laid upon their body, they'll be. They live free, they walk free, whole In Jesus name. Father, we thank you that when this cloth is laid upon that one. Freedom in Jesus name. In Jesus name. Be free. Be free. Be free. Be free. Free in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Be free. There you go. There it goes. Love be. Now just take that in. Be free In Jesus name. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. Now aren't we glad that God moved this way tonight? Aren't we glad? Thank God. Divine help. He gives us an accelerated exit out of that test and trial, Right? Amen. Hallelujah. Now let's recognize what God saying is into those situations. Amen. Let's say. No, no, no, no, no. No more. No more. Not no more. Hallelujah. Let's everyone stand. Let's worship the Lord. Father, we worship you. We glorify you. We glorify.
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Glo.
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Just sit. Sit right here. We thank you, Father. Which one is it? Oh, oh, oh. Restore.
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Ah.
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We thank you, Father. Yeah. Let's bring this over. Sister Pat, you lay hands on with us on these prayer clothes.
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What.
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What are these for? These are ones that when people call in, they call our prayer lines and stuff. Oh.
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Work in their bodies, in their minds, in their situations. In the holy name of Jesus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let it flow.
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Maya.
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Flowing, flowing, flowing.
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Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Yeah. Give me the microphone. Give me a microphone. You got something, Ms. Pat? Yeah, grab a microphone for me. Yeah, whatever. Yeah.
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I see you interpret.
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And many have thought, Father, haven't you heard how desperately I've cried? I said, oh, oh, please help me. Oh, please help me. It's not the desperation of cry it's your faith saying, I take it, I'm free, I receive it and it's a new day for me. It's a new day. It's a new day. Hallelujah. And it's.
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And it's. And it sounded like.
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And now your words are, it shall be as God says. It shall be as God says. It shall be as God says. I say it shall be as God says. Because when you say it now God can do as he says. Hallelujah. Yeah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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And many have wrongly thought, if I could just get back to where I was. That's never the plan of God to get you back to where you were. But to take you further, to go on. To go on. Don't settle for anything less than more than advancement increase More than what I ever walked in before. A further place in God. A further place in the spirit and miss. Many have cheated themselves by settling for if I could just get back to where I was. That's never God's best. Praise the Lord.
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Never.
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Praise the Lord. Never, never, Never his best.
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He doesn't work. That would be the past.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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And he doesn't work in the past.
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Good. Good.
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Because he is an ever present. Yeah. He said I am.
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Yeah.
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If I am, then he is.
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Yeah. Yes.
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And if he is, then I am.
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Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
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Because he says, I Am the God of all creation. He's what he's saying.
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Yes.
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I am the God of all creation. And I created this creation to be as I am on the earth. And I provided everything for them they needed to be so. And then sin came. But I had a plan. That's what God is saying. But I had a plan. A plan that would free my creation. And I gave the best that I had. My son. Therefore, he is the one that you live in habitually. And living in him habitually, you receive all that I have already provided.
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But.
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You have to live habitually in him. He is the Word, And he is with me.
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Yeah.
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And I have given you that page. That is my word for you to see. And I have given you the Holy Spirit for you to understand and receive.
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Hmm.
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And as you understand and receive, then I expect you to use your faith and operate in it. Huh? Because it's by faith that you receive.
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Yes. And? Huh.
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And it's not your place.
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To get.
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In the thought realm of how's it gonna happen? What's it supposed to be? What's it supposed to look like? That's for me.
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Yes.
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God's says that's for me. So you do what my word says.
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Ha ha.
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It's been said many times this week, study my word, Study my word, meditate my word. And pray in the Holy Ghost.
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Yes.
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Pray in tongues.
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Yes.
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And there your answer will always, I'm not just God, but I am your father. I am your father and I have provided well for you, but it up to you to receive. Yes, Mama.
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Praise. The.
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Kashtikari. Sa.
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Do you not understand that praying in tongues is my communication or your communication with me aside from the mind.
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But.
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By your spirit, who is the real you? That is you. Your spirit man is you.
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Yes.
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And I designed you to communicate with.
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Me.
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By my spirit so that there is the perfection of what's really in your heart being said. As a result, I can communicate with you and have you understand that it's happening. I have already provided. And because you are speaking by my spirit, that perfect way from your heart is happening in your life. That's why praying in tongues is so important in your life. It's not emphasized enough the importance of praying in tongues. It's a spiritual thing. Don't you see? It spills over into the natural because that is where you in the natural.
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Perform.
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So it's going to spill over from your spirit into the natural for others to see. And in that seeing, they begin to understand that it is from me and that I am God and I do what I say.
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Ah.
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My mind. You are a living example of me. I said, you are a living example of me. So renew your mind and live up to how I. I have designed you.
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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Yes, yes. We thank you, Father. We praise you. We praise you. Hallelujah. Cecile, come here, love. Stand right in front of Sister Pat. I want her. Sister Pat, would you just put your hands on her? Just get up real close so she don't have to stand up. We thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. Now, you heard what she said by the Spirit about the importance of praying in the Holy Spirit. If you're here tonight and you say, pastor Nancy, I've not been filled with the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, come up here. Come up here. We want to minister to you because this is. Listen. Jesus is the gift that God gave the world, but the Holy Spirit is the gift that God gave the church. Amen. So if you are born again, but you're not filled with the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, come up real quickly. Is there anybody in here that. That would describe you? Nobody. Everybody's. We have one. Come on. Whoever that is, is and needs to move up, please. Come on up. Hallelujah. Come up here, Holly. Anybody else to join her? Anybody else? Remember what I talked about earlier? Move quickly, please. That's the proper response in. In a. In a. In a setting like this. Thank you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The both of you. Just you two. Okay. Anybody else want to join these two real quickly? Come on up. Yeah, come on. Come on up. Come on up. Come on up. Anybody else, come up real quickly. And can I say this? In a setting like this, you want to lift your hands and worship God, because that's the appropriate response in this place. Amen. Hallelujah. The word says, lifting up holy hands. Lifting up holy hands. So we want to do that when we worship God in this flow. Hallelujah. Anybody else, come on up. If you're not filled with the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, hallelujah. The infilling of the Spirit is evidenced through speaking in other tongues. But it's him you're receiving, the fullness of him that you're receiving. Anybody else, before we go ahead and minister to these. Hallelujah. Anybody. Anybody else want to join us? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Everyone up here, are you born again? Every one of you, are you born again? Love. Yes. I am Catholic. Yeah. Okay. Okay. What about. Yes, yes, yes. We got it. We got another one that joined us. Hi, love. Okay, I want everyone up here, say this. This say father. I call you my father because I received Jesus as my savior. And it's Jesus price that he paid so that I could become a child of God. So I receive all that God has for me. I receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit. And when I receive that fullness, the evidence of that is that I speak in other tongues. And when hands are laid on me, the Holy Spirit will fill me and I will receive the Holy Spirit. Not a wrong spirit. So I'm safe in yielding to the Holy Ghost. Now, I'm going to lay hands on you, and you're going to speak in other tongues. But the words won't come to your mind. Don't check your mind. Just you speak out what comes up from your spirit. Be filled. Oh, there you go, love. Be filled. Be filled. Be filled with the Holy Ghost. Be filled with the Holy Ghost. Be filled with the Holy Ghost. Filled with the Holy Ghost. Now just start speaking that out. They're not words. Words that will come to your mind. You don't check your mind. Just hook your tongue. Just mash that. Your tongue will want to say something. Just speak that out. Yeah, you speak that out. You're. That's it. Hallelujah. You. You're doing that, love. Yes. Yeah. You're filled with. Speak that out. Just keep speaking. Just keep speaking. Yeah. Yes, that's it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Just keep speaking. Now, let me tell you this. Receiving the Holy Spirit, he's a gift to your life. You don't have to wait to be in this setting to partake of that gift. See this ring right here? This gift couple gifted that to me. I don't have to call them and say, can I put it on? It's mine. Anytime I want, I put it on. The Holy Spirit is your gift to you. You don't have to ask God for anything else. All you have to do is say, I put on and mashta kariada on the way home. You can speak in tongues as you're laying in bed, speak in other tongues when you wake up in the middle of the night. Speak in other tongues when you get up in the morning. What is that? That? It's a divine God. Talk between your spirit and him. Amen. Hallelujah. Every day. Every day. As long as you want, as much as you want. Amen. And want. And want. Hallelujah. Thank you, love. Do we have. Okay, come here. This. Grab her, grab her, grab her, grab her. We have. We have. What we have is we have some booklets that, that are gonna teach you about who you just received, okay? And so if you'll go with them and they'll get that information to you, give them a great big God bless you as they go tonight. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How many of you say their life will never be the same? Never be the same. Never be the same. You remember what happened when you got filled with the Holy Ghost? An insatiable hunger for the word is what came. Insatiable hunger for the word. Amen. Hallelujah. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.