Faith Celebrates! | Nancy Dufresne | Collinsville, Oklahoma | JTH Crusades 2025 | Sunday PM

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Faith Celebrates!" | Nancy Dufresne | Collinsville, Oklahoma | JTH Crusades 2025 | Sunday PM

Podcast: Dufresne Ministries Podcast
Host/Speaker: Pastor Nancy Dufresne
Date: October 14, 2025
Location: Collinsville, Oklahoma – JTH Crusades
Main Theme: The Power of Faith Expressed Through Celebration

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Episode Overview

In this dynamic and uplifting message, Pastor Nancy Dufresne teaches on the vital importance of faith expressed through celebration. Drawing from both scripture and personal stories, she powerfully expounds on why believers must not entertain worry, but instead choose celebration as the gateway to manifestation, victory, and living in the fullness of God’s promises. The night is punctuated with memorable stories, practical examples, spontaneous singing, and clear encouragement to make celebration a spiritual habit.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Sin of Worry: Recognizing & Repenting (00:23–16:56)

• Nancy opens with Jesus’ command: "Take no thought for your life" (Mat. 6:25), emphasizing that worrying is not just unhealthy, but is actually disobedience—“the sin of worry.”
• Quote: “Is worry a sin? Absolutely. Because Jesus said, 'Take no thought for your life.' And if He says, don't do it, and we do it...that arrives us at disobedience, which is a sin.” (02:15)
• Worry, she explains, is rooted in both fear and doubt, and keeps the door open to the devil’s harassment.
• We are authorized and commanded not to dwell on anything that troubles us.
• Story: Nancy shares an analogy from her childhood about getting knots out of a necklace—“If you’ll put it in my [her mother’s] hand and leave it there, I can finish it. But if you’re going to take it back, I can’t finish it.” (10:57)
• Application: Casting all your care on God is the only way He can truly "fix it and finish it."

2. Faith as a Door Opener: Manifesting God's Power (16:56–21:44)

• Worry is likened to a closed door that blocks the power of God, using the example of Amazon packages: you can’t take what’s yours if you won’t open the door.
• Quote: “Worry is a closed door between your need and God’s power.” (16:56)
• Affirmation: The congregation is led to declare, “I’m done worrying. It is beneath me, and I choose to not worry ever again... He’s working on it right now.” (17:58)
• Key reminder: Even after casting your care, you must keep your confidence and refuse to take it back by worrying.

3. Celebration as a Spiritual Practice (21:44–57:13)

• Scripture Focus: Luke 4:18 and 2 Corinthians 2:14 (especially Coneybeare translation) as the foundation—Jesus came to "preach deliverance," not just lay hands; the announcement itself contains delivery.
• The anointing destroys yokes instantly; the devil fears the anointing and works over generations to yoke people, but one moment under anointed preaching breaks all that work.
• Preaching and hearing the Word take primacy over rituals or prayer lines for breaking bondage—“They need to hear something from God.” (38:15)
• Celebration: The proper faith response, at all times and circumstances, is to celebrate the victory Jesus has already won.
• Quote: “But thanks be to God who leads me on from place to place... to celebrate His victory over the enemies of Christ. Not try to get free… to celebrate His victory.” (39:52)
• Example: Smith Wigglesworth leaped out of bed and danced for ten minutes daily. “He chooses his flow—celebration flow.” (44:34)
• Joy, rejoicing, dancing, and singing aren’t optional—they are foundational for living in victory.

4. Practical Celebration & Application (57:13–73:47)

• Celebration must be active, not passive—“A silent Christian is a failing Christian.” (42:24)
• Testimony: Dad Goodwin would dance in his office when finances looked low—celebration “brings the money in.”
• Quote: “There is no other route into triumph except celebrating.” (54:12)
• Celebration is not about personality—it's about obedience and stepping into faith.
• The congregation is prompted to dance, sing "I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy" (20:14), and to physically celebrate together.

5. Celebration as a Daily Habit—Homework (73:47–91:17)

• Immediate action is urged: Don’t just celebrate at church—keep celebrating in the car, at home, before bed, and when you wake up.
• Quote: "Because if you don't act on it, the devil comes immediately to steal...The only way to keep a revelation from being stolen is you immediately use it." (71:54)
• Celebration stirs up revelation, brings answers, and keeps you in victory.
• Emphasis is placed on doing “all to stand” (Eph. 6:13)—renewing your mind, meditating on the Word, confession, AND CELEBRATION.
• Practical: “Nothing changes in our life till we change what we’re doing.” (73:48)
• Before healing prayer, Nancy requires all seeking healing to "celebrate your way up here." (75:23)

6. Final Exhortations: Spiritual Focus & Authority (77:33–91:48)

• Spiritual exercise: In the presence of mockery and attack, we are to “make the devil suffer”—celebrating our victories in the enemy’s presence (Psalm 23).
• Christians should not be distracted by political or social commotion—our authority is higher, and we work from “the right hand of the throne.”
• Final key: Symptoms, opposition, and lack are mere distractions—celebration keeps us focused on the finished work of Christ and maintains our position in victory.
• Quote: “How many of you know you can’t worry your way into your answer, but you can certainly celebrate your way into your manifestation.” (92:02)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Worry is the foul offspring of its father, fear, and its mother, doubt.” (13:42)
• "You can’t pray your way into it...the only way is celebration...you have to celebrate your way into that change—that’s an act of faith."' (52:32)
• “Faith is a celebration. If you’re not in celebration, you’re not in faith.” (55:54)
• “Celebration is the only way to get in [to your victory].” (52:18)
• “A silent Christian is a failing Christian.” (42:24; attributed to Leanne)
• “Taste and see—when you start tasting the right flow, it’s going to look like a bit of celebration leaking out.” (48:54)
• “We don’t get distracted from your place. Every Christian occupies a higher seat than the president.” (83:35)
• “Symptoms are nothing but distraction, trying to distract you from your healing, trying to distract you from the wholeness that’s already yours.” (89:00)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:23–02:15 | Sin of Worry—Recognizing and calling it out
• 10:57–12:36 | Childhood necklace story—analogy for “leaving cares with God”
• 16:56 | Worry as “closed door” illustration
• 17:58 | Congregation declaration “I’m done worrying...”
• 21:44 | Transition to Luke 4:18 and the job description of the anointing
• 35:35 | Deliverance comes through preaching/announcing, not just laying on of hands
• 39:52 | Coneybear translation: “leads me on...to celebrate His victory...”
• 44:34 | Smith Wigglesworth’s 10-minute dance—choosing celebration daily
• 54:12 | No triumph except through celebration
• 71:54 | Immediate application—using the Word keeps the devil from stealing it
• 75:23 | Healing line: “celebrate your way up here”
• 83:35 | Spiritual authority higher than political authority—don’t be distracted
• 89:00 | Symptoms/lack as distraction—keep celebrating victory
• 91:57 | Closing: "You can't worry your way into your answer, but you can certainly celebrate your way into your manifestation."

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Action Steps & Practical Takeaways

• Refuse to worry—call it what it is and leave all cares with God.
• Make daily celebration a spiritual discipline, not just a reaction to good news.
• When facing problems (financial, health, relationships), celebrate the victory before seeing the result.
• Reframe opposition and symptoms as distractions—don’t let them steal your celebration or focus.
• Use audible, visible, and physical expressions of joy—dance, sing, rejoice daily.
• Act immediately on revelation to keep it from being stolen.

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Tone & Style Notes

• Highly energetic, lighthearted, but authoritative.
• Practical, story-filled, and frequently humorous.
• Interactive—frequent invitations to participate, affirmations, and declarations.
• Theological points made simply and accessibly.

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Final Word:
Celebration is more than praise; it’s the evidence and action of true faith. Refuse to worry, press into God’s promises through celebration, and make joy your daily habit. That’s living the overcoming faith life!

Transcript

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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by Today's message. Well, Ms. Reba is right on with giving that encouragement, that testimony, because.

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We're going to preach a certain direction, but right when I sat down, God said, I want you to precede it with a little bit going this other direction. She started putting her toe in it. So we're just going to go that way. Hallelujah. Jesus made this statement. He said, take no thought for your life. You know, you might be in here tonight and you think, I've lost hope or hopeless. Well, thank God for the Word. We gonna go to Word and get all the hope we need. Amen. And so we're gonna help some that might have think, well, I'm in this place, we're going to help dip you in the hope, stock you up with it. But Jesus made this statement. He said, take no thought for your life. Wow. What's that mean? Don't worry about any aspect, any arena, any facet, any person, anything of your life. Take no thought. Dad Hagin taught us, because really he's saying, don't worry about anything. Don't worry about anything. Now, you would think that people would be so glad that they can go for the rest of their life and be free from that. Let me say it, what it is that sin of worry. Is worry a sin? Absolutely. Because Jesus said, take no thought for your life. And if he says, don't do it, and we do it, that's to go against what he said, which arrives us at disobedience, obedience, which is a sin. So he said, take no thought for your life. And then he said, for what you put on, what you eat, what you drink. What is he talking about? The daily things of life. If he doesn't want us worrying all the way to the least of what we do every day, which is, what am I going to put on today? What am I going to wear? What am I going to eat, what am I going to going to drink? Because there's so much bigger decisions that face us. And if he doesn't want us to even take thought for everything down to what we would put on, he doesn't want us touching anything that is of weightier importance than that. And dad Hagin taught us, how do you know if you're worrying if you're thinking about it? So I'm authorized to never think again about anything that would. That would trouble my life. Think of that. I'm authorized. I'm not only Authorized. I'm commanded to don't even think about anything that would trouble my life, my health, my children, my finances, my future, my latter years. Then he made this statement. He said, don't even touch into tomorrow. Can I tell you this? Worry is dealing with the past or the future, and we're authorized to not touch either direction. And people don't even realize. Can I say that really the biggest thing is to recognize the sin of worry. Because. Because it's become so much a flow of people's lives. They don't even recognize that they're so preoccupied with something that's harassing their mind and troubling their mind, and they're rebuking the devil. But as long as they leave the door open to thinking and directions of worry, you can rebuke the devil all day long, but the door is wide open to him. And then we have this. The amplified translation said, casting all your. Casting all your care on him. Why know this? You'll never get away from your mind. Wouldn't it be great if we'd say, you know, my mind's a little bit.

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Mm.

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It's just acting up today. I think I'll leave it right here on this cabinet while I go out the door. I'll pick it up later, I'll come back, I'll pick it up later. I'm just gonna leave it right here, and I'm gonna go out and live my life today. I'm gonna come back and I'll deal with it later. You can't do that. Don't. Well, you can. You turn it over to something else. So since we never can get away from our mind, we might as well have a mind we can live with instead of one we can't live with. And if we can't live with it, God offers us a mind we can live with because he gives us the mind of Christ. When we find out who we are in Christ, when we find out what he's provided, and when we find out, you don't even have to know many scriptures. You can just be born again this morning, not even know many scriptures. But I tell you this. If the thought doesn't make you peaceful and joyful, you're authorized to reject it, to resist it. And so when it says in the word, casting all your care on him, look at this. The next phrase is wonderful, for he cares. So notice this. It's. Your situation is either in your hands or his, but it's not in both. You understand that if it's in your hands, it's not in his hands. How do you know if it's in your hands? If you're thinking about it, if you're worried that's a sign you're holding onto it. And if you're holding onto it, it's because you think it's up to you to fix it. But I'm just here to let you know you don't ever have to fix any again. But you just have to follow the one who leads you in the fix. You don't have to fix that marriage. You don't have to fix that relationship, that situation, that financial thing. All you have to do is listen to the helper. The helper to help. To help.

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Amen.

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So even if this is for one person in here, and for what? Because she stepped into it. Even if it's just for, that's okay. It's enough. And one of the best illustrations.

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That.

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Depicts this casting all your care on him, for he cares for you. When I was 8 years old, out to Oklahoma I was raised. My dad was a cotton and wheat farmer. I was telling some today, I said, I had no idea that there were trees and hills in oklahoma. I was 17 the first time I came to Tulsa. And I go, oh, my gosh, there's hills and trees in Oklahoma. I didn't know that. Cause we lived in the plains where mesquite bushes, you know, in flat farmland. And the only trees that were there were planted on purpose. And so nothing big came to Altus much, you know, no beaches. And we didn't go anywhere because Daddy, as a farmer, he wasn't going to leave his land. And we seldom went places. And so one day the neighbor came to mother and said, carolyn, there's a carnival in town and we're going to go. And we'd be glad to have Nancy go with us if you'd let her. And mother said, yes, she can go. Because my parents didn't take us to things like that. They were working. They weren't ogres, they just were working. And there were four kids. And so they were working. And so mother said, yes, I'll give her some money. So Mother gave me a quarter. A quarter. I said the other day, I'm so grateful there was no such thing as Internet. I'm so grateful there was no such thing as. What would you call it? Makeup tutorials. Because as a kid I had no money. And I'd have been constantly mad to see what others were getting and I couldn't have. So I'm so grateful I didn't see Any of that in that age. But she gave me a quarter, and I was not interested in the rides. I'm not interested in the rides. And in case you ever notice, go to the carnival and look, and there's always a bucket of leftover bolts by the ride. I'm just saying, I've seen them. You know, they put that together week after week after week, and sometimes it just doesn't matter. You have to wonder. And so I wasn't interested in the rides, but I was interested in one thing I saw there. It was called the jewelry booth. Yeah. Praise the Lord God. God is good forever. And so I walked up and I had the quarter, and I said to the man, what will this get me? He said, honey, that will get you a necklace with a charm on it. I go, it's sold. That was just like heaven to me. I didn't have any jewelry. That was just big deal. And so, you know, it was the best stuff because it was sitting right there for everyone to see on the spool. And he just pulled us. Pulled the length of it off, and, you know, and he put a clasp on it, and then he put a charm on it. And so I wore that thing for weeks. You could not get that off? Well, I really couldn't get it off easily. The links were so tiny and so fine. And, you know, when you're eight, it's like, who creates these clasps? They don't work for humans. And so I lived in that thing. And after weeks, it was knotted so badly. So I took it off one day, and I was working get the knots out. And the way you get all knots out is you jerk on them. That's exact. And I'm just sitting there pulling on it, and of course it's not coming out. Mother walks in while I'm doing that, and she says, what are you doing? And I said, I'm getting the knots out. She says, no, you're not. You're putting them in. And she said, if you'll hand it to me, I'll get them out. Well, I really didn't want to hand it to her because I wanted to do it, but I did. I handed it to her, and she pulled out a straight pin. And little by little, she started working each knot out. And I saw that what she did worked. And there were probably about 8 or 9 knots. And she got down to that last one. And I see that one almost undone, and I take it back real quick because I want to finish it. So I take it back, and my way of finishing it was, I'm going to take this knot out and I'm going to start jerking on it. So I jerked on it and put the knot back. And she stood there in absolute disgust and she held out her hand and she said, if you'll put it in my hand and leave it there, I can finish it. But if you're going to take it back, I can't finish it. Casting all your care on him so he can finish it, so he can fix it. Fix it and finish it. Fix it and finish it. But if we're going to take it back, no matter how bad we need him to finish it, he can't finish it when we're holding it. How do you know if you're holding it? If you're worrying about it, that's a sign you're holding onto it. And I'm so grateful to know for the rest of my life I never have to worry again. Amen. And we all know the testimony of dad Hagin, or most of us would know. I was born again at 20 minutes to late in the south bedroom of 405 North College street the city of McKinney, Texas. Right. I could swear that was me. Because that testimony, if he didn't tell that in a crusade, it was like, what's wrong with you? Why didn't you tell that? Because our answer is in listening. And you remember that his healing, dad Hagin, being raised up off of his deathbed when he was 16 and a half, did not begin with healing. It began with God dealing with the sin of worry in his life. He did not even talk to him about healing. He talked to him about the sin of worry. Why? Because if God would have healed him, the sin of worry would have robbed it from him. And I want you to know that's what God started dealing with me about for you tonight when I sat down is, we've got to deal with that sin of worry, repent of it, close the door to it, so that what we receive this week is not robbed from us, stolen from us through this disobedience of worry. And we have to become skillful at recognizing worry because worry is the foul offspring of its father, fear, and its mother, doubt. Worry is the offspring of fear and doubt. And to doubt God is to doubt is to forget God. To fear is to forget God, to worry is to forget God. And so we're authorized to not worry, but to cast that care over in his hands and say, father, this week, everything that I have been concerned, why, Pastor Nancy, I'm not worried. I'm just concerned. Yeah, that's what I said. Worry. Giving it an educated name does not make it legitimate. And I can't tell you what kind of peace I live in because I refuse to touch worry. Am I tempted? Yes. But I'm getting more and more skillful at recognizing it before it even lands. Amen. Worry free. Worry free. Why is that? Because worry closes the door to the power of God. And don't you forget it. God never withholds power. But worry is the closed door between your need and God's power. I don't know about you, but I love hearing we finally got it a little bit hooked up up at the home in Texas to where when somebody comes to my door, I get a ding on my phone because I got a package. Baby, I got a package. I got a package. And this girl needs a package every day. Thank you. Renewed minds think alike. Why? Because God loads us daily with benefits. I'm helping the cause of God. And that Amazon delivery guy is my unpaid employee, delivering God's blessings to my doorstep every day. But even though I pay for it, even though it's got my name on it and it's sitting on my property, if I don't open that door, I can't get it. I cannot partake of what I paid for, what I purchased.

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Purchased.

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And worry is a closed door between your need and God's power. So we will not let anything of what God has for us this week be stolen because of the closed door of worry. Amen. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. So how about we all say this? I'm done worrying. It is beneath me, and I choose to not worry ever again. So instead of worrying, I cast it in his hands. And since it's in his hands, he's working on it right now. Right now. Right now. Right now. He's working on it. And I'll not touch it until he hands me back my answer. My situation fully fixed. That's the only thing I'll touch. Now, I say this. Even though you cast your care on him, you don't cast away your confidence. What's that mean? When the temptation to think about that problem, that need comes back up, you say, no, God's working on that right now. So every day, say, God's working on that. God's working on that. God's working on that. And when symptoms try to remind you, say, no, God's already worked on that. He's already worked on that. And the body catch up with that. And the finances will catch up with that. And all the family situations will catch up with that. And the devil wants to show you how tangled your situation is. It only looks tangled on this side. Not on God's side. Not on God's side. Everything is so simple on God's side, in his view. And it only takes one little. One little, if I could say this, one little action on God's part to unravel the whole thing. Being more complicated on your side does not warrant your involvement through worry. Amen. So don't allow the devil to rob you of the power that God intends for you to partake of this week through that sin of worry. Amen. I purpose I'm not worrying again. Because he's working on it. He's working on it. And when your spouse or family or somebody around you said, what you gonna do about that? Say, oh, I don't have to. The Father's working on that right now. He's working on that right now. He's working on that right now. And when it's completed, he'll hand it back to me to enjoy the manifestation of his care. Amen. So that means we can smile. We lifted. The load's gone. The load's gone.

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Amen. Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. How about we do something a little. Little up?

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Yes.

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Something a little up?

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Yes.

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Whatever that.

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Up. Whatever that is.

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Yeah.

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Up.

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Up. I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy.

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Down in my heart where down in my heart down in my heart I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart down in my heart.

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To say I got the peace I.

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Got the peace that passes understanding in my heart where down in my heart, down in my heart I got the.

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Peace of passes understanding down in my.

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Heart down in my heart I got the joy I got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart down in my heart down in my heart I got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart down in my heart to say and it's the devil.

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Doesn'T like it, he can sit on.

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Attack Sit on attack Sit on attack I got the joy, I got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart down in my heart down in my heart I got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart down in my heart to stay.

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Turn to somebody before your seat and say, it's so good to live carefree and you can be seated. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You can be seated. Turn with me, if you would, to Luke, chapter four. I have this one, this one phrase that just kept coming to me. And so we're going to to address it. And you've gotten too many sermons out of me. Too many. Not too m a n y, but two m I n I. Not too many, but two smaller mini m I n I sermons. So let's do the final and then we won't keep you till midnight, I promise. Let's go to Luke chapter four. You know the passage, Luke chapter four. Praise the Lord. Luke chapter four and verse 18. There's one particular phrase that I want to focus on in this for a short time tonight. Luke chapter 4, verse 18. Jesus, of course, is in his hometown. He's preaching. He makes this start in verse 18. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me. Now Jesus goes on, and we'll look at it in a minute. He lists the job description of the anointing that's upon him. But the devil so fears the anointing. Know this. The devil is a tormented being. He is a fearful being. That's why you can sense fear when he comes in the room. That's his, it's not yours. Leave it with him. Just like if God, the anointing, the manifested presence of God comes in a room, you can sense him. And you are blessed by what you sense. But that's him. And it spills over onto you. Well, when the devil is trying to manifest, you also sense him. And it feels like fear and like doubt and all these things. But know this, just because you can sense it, it doesn't make it yours. It's still his. Leave it with him. But he wants to dupe you into thinking because you feel it, it's yours. No, you're only feeling what he is tormented with. And he chose it. So we leave it with him. Amen. So the devil is so afraid of the anointing, he fears the anointing. Why? Because it only takes one encounter of a need with the anointing for that need to be annihilated, that need to be met, that freedom to come. Because the anointing destroys yokes, the yoke shall be destroyed. Destroyed because of the anointing. I mean, we can see that certain countries have taken decades and generations to try to build up weaponry and artillery to use in wrong manner. And some other country goes in and in one missile attack, bam. And their whole that took generations for them to put something in place, gone in a moment. How much more powerful the anointing to what the Devil tries to yoke people up with, tries to torment them, tries to bind them up in their minds in Their bodies and their relationships. And one moment of encounter with the anointing. Because the devil, listen, he's not all knowing. He's not omnipresent. And he has to work hard to try to keep any kind of fruitless pace with God, with the blessing of God.

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God.

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I mean, it takes everything of him and of his kingdom, because why? There's more with us than with them. And so the devil will work for decades and sometimes generations to yoke people up with things. And if he can yoke someone up, then with that, and then he can get them thinking in those terms and through the way they think, they pass that thinking on. And it's not a generational curse. It's just lack of knowledge. Because no believer is under a curse. You're not under a curse. But the devil works in patterns. And people think because it's a pattern, it's an ongoing curse. No, you're redeemed from the curse. But the devil will try to work yoking people up with things, and he has to labor at it. And then they come to a service at a glorious church and they hear Pastor Chip coach through that pastoral anointing, right? And why man, a wild man. And people walk out going, ah, I'm a champion. And the devil hates that. Because everything he has worked on, one moment of encounter with an anointed sermon, an anointed word, undoes it in a moment. He fears the anointing. That's why he will let you sit under a good sermon as long as it's not anointed, or under music as long as it's not anointed, he'll let you have a duplicate that's missing one ingredient. That's why God said to me years ago, before I even started pastoring, I started in 1991. I pastored for 25 years before my kids started helping me. But before I even knew I'd pastor, God said something to me. He said, don't listen to any music void of the anointing, because you will ruin your spiritual ear to discern the anointing. Because if you listen to music that just because it mentions the name of Jesus doesn't mean it carries the anointing. And people think, well, it's a Christian song, but if it's void of the anointing, it misses the target. And the devil would love for you to just sing Christian songs. Void of the anointing. He would love for you to listen, read Christian books. Void of anointing. What does that mean? It came through the mind of man, the soulish. He doesn't mind something landing in your soul, so long as it doesn't hit the real root in the spirit of man. And so the devil fears the anointing. And Jesus gets up in his hometown, says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me. My goodness, there's that word. And he announces the job description of the anointing that's upon him. And the devil is so fearful of that announcement because God says something before he does something. So Jesus said about the anointing because the anointing's fixing to come into play in the manifestation and start doing a work. So the devil stirs up people and makes people do crazy things. Now listen. What Jesus announced to this congregation that day was that he has anointed me to, number one, preach the gospel to the poor. Now everybody there with financial problems should have been, praise God, I'm done with this poverty. I'm done with this lack. Wouldn't you think they would rejoice at that? Notice this. Preach the gospel to the poor. It didn't say give money to the poor. Why? Because poverty is not a money issue. It's a thinking issue. And the word he preaches is going to fix the issue that's causing. That's allowing them to live limited by lack. So you don't help people long term by giving them money. You can help them short term by giving them money, but then you've got to help them long term by giving them the word because the money's gone shortly. But the revelation is what they live on. So he said, he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He sent me to heal the brokenhearted. Brokenhearted people should have been so grateful to hear that that day. To preach deliverance to the captive. What's that mean? Anybody held in bondage by addictions and habits and things that dog them and plague them and recovering of sight to the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised. They should have been glad to hear that. But when they heard that, the devil made them think stupid, so stupid that they lunge on this man. They thrust him to the edge of the city to push him off a cliff. As a community, I mean, you're crazy. Only the devil can make you that stupid, right? That you're going to push your help off the cliff.

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Hello?

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It doesn't even make sense.

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Sense?

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If it weren't true, if he couldn't do that, why even mess with it? Just go home and eat dinner. The King James says, but Jesus walked through the midst of them. One translation said, he disappeared and showed up in another city. They couldn't touch him. Basically, why did the devil get the people so stirred up to act that way? For one reason. Not just to rob from them, but so Jesus would never go to another city and preach that, that he's trying to intimidate him. Don't announce that because he fears the anointing. So Jesus even told dad Hagin in a vision on one occasion when he appeared to him. He said, this was the first sermon I preached in every city I went because he said I had to announce what the anointing was on me for so they would have faith to put a demand on that anointing. So notice this. Jesus preaches it in his hometown. It gets him pushed to the edge of a cliff. And he says, great, I know what I'm preaching in the next town. And he preached that everywhere he went when the devil was trying to beginning to shut up about that, through intimidating him by making him think. This is how this message was received. Let's go do it again. Right. So Jesus said to dad Hagin, this was the first sermon I preached in every city. He announced, the anointing is here to deal with anything in your life that needs to be made free. Now, this is, I want us to see a phrase. Let's read this passage again. Luke 4:18. Jesus said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. So what do the poor need? They need to hear the word. Why? To change their thinking, to rewrite their thoughts. To be like God's thoughts the next. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted. What's this mean? They're not going to leave this place the same. They're going to walk out healed because of the anointing. Then he look at this. To preach deliverance to the cattle, captives. What's captives? Anything bound, hindered, held back. To preach bad habits, addictions, tormenting thoughts that hold captive. He said to preach deliverance to the captives. Notice he didn't say to lay hands on the captives. He didn't say to pray for the captives. Now, don't misunderstand, understand me. He's not saying it's wrong to lay hands on people that are captive. He's not saying that it's wrong to pray for people because this prayer plays a role in some respect. But notice what people who are held captive need.

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What do they need?

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They need preaching. To preach Deliverance. Not pray for deliverance. Preach deliverance. What is preaching? It's proclaiming, it's announcing. So he's saying, I'm here and I'm anointed to announce to you that you are delivered from captivity. You don't have to get delivered. This announcement delivers you. So when people are bound by something that is wrecking their life, they don't need to get pastor to pray for them. They need to get to church and say, pastor, preach to me. Preach to me. Teach me what Jesus already paid for to free me from. I need to hear something. Amen. So they need to hear preaching of the good news of their deliverance. Why? Because they're believing what the devil has been preaching to them. And Jesus came to announce a different message. So we're not trying to get God to do something for them. We're trying to get them to hear something. Amen. They need to hear something from God. Hallelujah. And notice this, there is a place to pray for prayer, and it's a great and a large place, but it's no substitute for announcing. I'm going to announce to you you're free from that tonight. I'm going to announce to you, to you that has no power, no authority over you. But you have to accept that announcement without feeling anything. And if you'll accept it, you'll feel something and you'll see that thing drop away from you when you accept it in here, in your inner being. Amen. And so it does matter that it's not just get in healing lines or ministry lines, but I've got to hear preaching. I've got to have it proclaim to me what has no authority over me anymore. What does proclaiming the gospel do for us? It gives us God's way of thinking, and it's wrong thinking that the devil's counting on to work his plan. They don't need to get something from God. They need to hear something from God. And that's what Jesus said. I'm a no anointed so that you can hear something, that you can hear that you're already delivered. Because he was on the scene and the anointing was on the scene. Amen. Now let's go over to 2nd Corinthians, chapter 2. 2 Corinthians, chapter 2 and verse 14. This is the King James translation that I'm going to read first. So if you can pull up the King James version for the screen. Second Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 14. Now, see, somebody can come in here, come into this church, any Sunday, any midweek service, come into any service this week, and they can have any kind of thing that is holding them back, tormenting them, troubling them. And we can get up and read to you. Second Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 14. And it says this. Now thanks be unto God. Now, I like this word now because faith always puts it. Now, faith is not believing God can do something. People that don't know God don't walk with God. They believe God can do things. Faith believes God does it for me. Now that's the difference. Faith believes God does it for me now. So here it says in this verse, now thanks be unto God.

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Why?

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Why are we thanking God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ? Look at Always Always. Now I want to read if you can put up the Coney Bear translation, the Coney Bear translation of this verse. It says, but thanks be to God who leads me on from place to place in the train of his triumph to celebrate his victory over the enemies of Christ. This is demons, not people. So notice this. I love how the Coney Bear translates says, but thanks be to God who leads me on. So notice this. Everywhere you go, God's going to lead you into something. When you get to a place, he's going to lead you what to do in that place. What is he leading us to do when we come into any place of life to celebrate his victory over the enemies of Christ? Not try to get free, not try to get a healing, not try to get the pastor to pray for me, not try to get a word, not try to get a prophecy. But he leads in every place I'm at. He's always leading me, whether it's a place of unpaid bill, whether it's a place of symptoms in my body, whether it's a place of strife in the marriage. He's always leading me to do one thing and that place, and that is to celebrate his victory over this place. And if I don't celebrate, all the praying that somebody could do for me is not going to be effective because it's celebrating his victory. Why? Because what he did defeats that place.

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Amen.

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And I celebrate because I believe he already dealt with this. I'm not trying to get him to deal with this. I'm not trying to get him to put me in a place of victory. He always causes me to try it because he's already done it. Now, the way I become a partaker of what he has already won for me is one thing celebrating.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you, Lord. You Understand that? Yeah, I love something Ms. Leanne says. She says a silent Christian is a failing Christian because if we're silent, we're not celebrating. Celebrating makes no sense to the soul of man when they're hurting, when they have overwhelming pressure financially trying to get come against them. But we celebrate not because of what we feel or see, but because of what we know. Because of what we know. We're celebrating because we know what he did that he over. He conquered it all. He took our place in defeat. So there's nothing big enough to defeat us. So here it says that if we're going to follow his lead, we're going to be celebrating. Now what's this mean? We are to celebrate our way through life every day. Our life is to be one continual celebration. And I don't know about you, but I like party. I like party. My daughter in law is a party. My grandkids are a party. And they do not like going to bed if they think there's a party still going on in the house because they might miss the party. You are to be the party in this world. Celebrating, celebrating, celebrating. You go. I don't know what to do in this situation. Yes you do. He's leading you to celebrate. He's already told you Amen. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. That is nothing but the sound of celebrating the victory.

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Amen.

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When you get up in the morning and something's trying to weigh on you, you better get out in front of that thing and out talk it out, celebrate it. I love the question. To me it was such a smart question that Dr. Sumrall as a young man in his early 20s, asked Smith Wigglesworth. Smith Wigglesworth, there were over 20 documented cases of people being raised from the dead under his ministry. He had a miracle minist. He had a healing ministry. He was a man who walked with God. And Dr. Sumrall asked him a great question. He said, brother Wigglesworth, how do you get up in the morning? I think that's a great question. He said, I jump out of bed and I dance for 10 minutes. What is it he chooses? His flow. He chooses. And what flow is he choosing? Celebration flow. Celebration flow. Celebration flow. If you will choose a celebration flow every day you are already partaking of your victory. No matter what shows up in the day, I'm already in the victory flow. I'm already in the triumph flow. He always causes me to triumph. And I'm showing that I'm in that flow through how I celebrate. And the more I Celebrate the further I go in the flow of my triumph. And if I just celebrate for 30 seconds, but it is to become our spiritual habit. Amen. So in the face of our defeated foe, it's wrong to fear because you can't fear and celebrate at the same time. If we will celebrate before, we give fear chance. But what gives fear a chance? Not celebrating. Not choosing our. If we don't choose our flow, we will easily step into the wrong flow. Yes. Yes. Amen. So know this. When we know what Christ has done for us, we celebrate. And if we're not celebrating, it's because we don't know what we should know. Amen. If we aren't celebrating, we are not following his lead because it says he leads me on from place to place to celebrate. So you can say I'm praying. I pray hours a day in the Holy Ghost. That's good. That's right. But if you're not celebrating in that day, you're still out of the flow of the Holy Ghost. Because there's no such thing as a life following God, following the Holy Ghost, void of celebration. Amen. Now, if we're celebrating, it's going to show up. We'll do more than hold the chair down. If we're celebrating, it has a certain look, it has a certain sound. There's rejoicing there. There's dancing, just like you do over mama's food. Okay? I gotta tell you, last night, several of us went to the Pioneer Woman. The restaurant. Yes. I ordered the God food. I ordered French toast. If you have. If you have not, God bless your heart. It is coated in Captain Crunch and corn flakes and deep fried. And I took one bite and goes, oh, my God. I was melting in the seat. One bite, one bite, one bite. One bite. I celebrated that bite. I sell it. Everybody, they. She took a picture of me looking like I. With that bite in my mouth. It was glorious. It was glorious. I celebrated that. And still talking about made it to the sermon tonight, Reid Drummond. Call me, call me, call me. It was glorious. Over a bite. Taste and see. And when you start tasting the right flow, it's going to look like a bit of a celebration leaking out. It's going to. Oh, the words are going to. And the volume. I mean, I didn't go, oh, that's so good.

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I go, oh, my gosh.

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I'm serious. I melted down in the booth. I just flung myself back and I just had no idea how Captain Crunch could taste. And I'm trying to do a carb free lifestyle But I had to celebrate. I had to. And you should have seen our table. I had three. They put three plates of food in me. I ordered so much because I said I did not come to Pioneer Woman to diet. I'm not ordering a salad. Don't offer me a salad. It's gotta be fried. It's gotta be deep fried. Not light fry, shallow fried, deep fry. Don't worry, I'm not doing it every day. But I'm just telling you, everything about me changed with that one bite. I mean, and not only that, then everybody at the table, we all started taking. And they pushed Summer, pushed her plate aside, she's done eating hers because she's now on the French toast. Nothing else was worthy at the table. Nothing. It was all good, but nothing was worthy of this. So we took on. I mean, it forced its way out of my mouth. I can't say, but celebration just forced its way out of my mouth because it tasted so good. And freedom tastes so good and healing tastes so good and provision tastes so good that with one bite, I just sound different. My body starts acting weird. I'm just saying. Pioneer Woman gave me a fresh revelation. Singing, rejoicing, dancing are all expressions of celebration. And if we go through life like this, we have robbed from ourselves the highest flow because there's enough sad people. And I'm redeemed and you're redeemed from sad and from sad flow and from a dejected look and a pushed down look and a poor me look and a poor self image. I'm redeemed from all of that. I'm redeemed from all of that. I'm redeemed from.

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From all of that.

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I'm redeemed from all of that. And you're redeemed from all of that. And that alcoholic thing, you're redeemed from that. I mean, you're just redeemed from that and that. Pornography addiction, you're just redeemed from that and any other mental harassment, that worry that sinner, you're redeemed from that. And how, how do you step into that flow that you're redeemed into? Celebrate. That's the only way to get it. That's the only way to get in it.

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That is the only way. Hallelujah.

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You cannot partake of it any other way. No other way. You can't pray your way into it. You can't confess your way into it. All those, those are components of faith. You have to take on a very definite action to shake your flesh out of the way of your victory. Because your flesh will get in between you and the manifestation of your freedom. Your flesh will rob from you. I know we were raised in our denominational church that robbed from us every service. Amen. Now, you can be seated. Now, dad Goodwin. You've heard dad Hagin talk about dad Goodwin. Dad Goodwin said this. When it looks like the money was getting a little bit low, he said I would go in my office, shut the door and start dancing. What's he doing? He celebrated the money in. That's what he's doing. You can celebrate the money in. And if you won't celebrate, it won't come. Because God is leading us to always try through the action of faith called celebration. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hallelujah.

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There is no other route into triumph except celebrating. Because the triumph is yours, but the celebration is the stepping in and partaking. Well, Pastor Nancy, I'm just not expressive. Oh. Oh. This is not. This is not about your personality. This is not a personality characteristic. This is not a personality trait. Pastor Nancy, I don't dance well. Do you celebrate? Do you try triumph to triumph? There's one way to partake of that, and you have to celebrate it. You don't celebrate that. You're capable of getting past this. You celebrate that he's already. Already put you past it. You celebrate yourself into that. Amen. And I tell you what, how much better you are to live with celebrating than complaining. Celebrating makes you desirable. Like people want to be with you because there are certain people. I mean, you can't travel with me if you're no fun. You can't, because faith is fun. And if you're not fun, you're not in faith. I didn't say that. You don't have issues that you're standing in faith on. I'm just saying that even though there are things you're believing God for, you're still fun. Because you know that we. Faith, faith. Faith is what is going to lay hold of the answer for that. And faith celebrates. And if you're not in celebration, you're not in faith. I don't care how much you're confessing. If you don't know how to celebrate, you're not yet in faith. Because faith is a celebration.

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Faith is a celebration. Faith is a celebration. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Now, Paul and Silas being whipped, chained up to a wall in prison. They couldn't get up and dance, but singing was their only their voice of celebration. Notice I found this out. That really answers don't primarily manifest when meditating, when confessing, but when responding in praise. Praise is when manifestation. Yet all the others are components to help you celebrate. You have to meditate, get the word in. You have to confess it. But if you leave out the celebration, you're outside the manifestation because all you're meditating and all you're confessing is to lead you to a lifestyle of celebrating.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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And I want you to know you can celebrate celebration symptoms off of you. And you can celebrate that bill paid.

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Yeah.

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And you can celebrate that home and family restored.

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Yeah. You can.

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Yeah. Why? Because it is the ultimate act that I'm not waiting to see something change before I celebrate who he is. Now can I tell you why people don't celebrate? They are the one. In their view, celebration forces you to focus and put your intention on the greater one to get your focus off of you, off of your problem. Because as long as you're thinking of you and your problem, you will not celebrate. So you force your soul, you force your flesh by celebrating and not robbing from you your manifestation. Hallelujah. If we're not celebrating, we're seeing us and we're seeing the need. But when you celebrate, it shows. And my focus is on him, the greater one.

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Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Pray. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

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Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Now you know why Jesus said to preach deliverance, to proclaim, to announce. Announce you're already free. All you have to do is celebrate that freedom. And then you will become a partaker of that which you possessed all along.

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Hallelujah.

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Now you have. We need to learn this here in corporate faith so that when you're in your kitchen, you celebrate by yourself.

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And.

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Let your kids think you're crazy and show them. Show them how to get from crisis to absolute victory. Amen. And no one can celebrate in your behalf. I never turn to summer and say, can you eat that French toast in my behalf? No. Girl, get your fork off my plate. I'm doing my own eating. I'm doing my own celebrating. Hallelujah. What is it you need changed. You have to celebrate your way into that change. And that's an action of faith. Because God takes complete pleasure when you see nothing of this realm change. But you believe that he always causes us to triumph. And it puts you to celebrating without seeing any manifestation. And then when you celebrate, that opens the door for the manifestation. Hallelujah. How long do I have to celebrate when we get to. For the rest of our life. For the rest of our life. It's a celebrating life.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. Praise God. And celebration. You know, Stephen and Morgan, they used to live in. In a track home. Grant is in that now. But they would have. What? Siesta? No fiesta?

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What?

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Parties. Parties. And they would come and they'd knock on the door, neighbors they didn't even know, and they'd say, come to our party across the street. Just come. You're so welcome. Well, I said, yeah. The reason they're inviting you is because they're going to keep you up all night, and they don't want you mad at the noise, going all night. So they just say, come over so you won't complain about the noise. That's exactly what they do. And I want you to know that. Celebration. We don't want to keep you out of your healing by us celebrating. So come on in and celebrate with us. Faith celebrates before it sees so that it can see. Did you hear me? Faith celebrates before it sees so that it can see.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. David. Y' all do something. Y' all do something. Whatever you want to do. Or Reba or whoever. She's the one that started all this. Turn the piano and go.

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Now I'm going to tell you Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. Now.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now I'm going to give you homework. When you get in the car. When you leave this building, you get in the car. You better keep it going. When you get home, you're getting ready for bed, taking off your makeup, ladies.

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Whatever.

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Let me tell you why. Because if you don't act on it, the devil comes immediately to steal. He comes immediately to steal. Why does the devil come immediately to steal? Why? Because he knows if you get a taste of how the word works, you'll keep working it. And he wants to steal it before you have a chance to work it. But if you'll. Nobody can steal something from you that you're using it. It's only when you lay it down, not using it, that the thief can go unnoticed and take it from you. The only way to keep a revelation for it being stolen is you immediately use it. Use it. So when you get in the car, you don't just leave the using in the building. You get in the car and you learn to do it in the car with no Tony, no David. Because it's a choice of your will. It's not a feeling of the soul, it's a choice of your will. And then you go home and you rejoice. And if you wake up in the middle of the night, get up out of bed, do a little bit. Do a little bit. Do a little bit. Just a little bit. Amen. And when you get up in the morning, do a little bit Do a little bit. I love what Pastor Chip said. It's called being on the offense. Don't wait till something derails. Get out in front of it before it tries to derail. And you set the flow. Amen. So that's your homework. And how long do I do it?

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Every day.

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Every day. All throughout the day. All throughout the day. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, I don't know about that. I've never done that. Well, I'm just saying nothing changes. Nothing changes in our life till we change what we're doing.

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Amen.

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And thank God, having done all all to stand, we can't just do the parts we like. We have to do all. We have to renew our minds. We have to meditate on the word. We confess the word. We watch our words, but then we also rejoice. We celebrate. Because you can't leave out anything and say, I'm doing all to stand. And you can't pick the favorite parts. Well, I like listening to tapes. Yeah, but that's not doing all. I like reading books.

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That's good.

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But that's only part. That's not all. And included in the all is celebration. And it's a critical part of the all. Amen. Because when you're celebrating what you did not know was a missing component in your victory, God will speak to you and say, do this change that. Make this. Make this difference over here. And while you're celebrating, your answers will start floating up. Why? Because you stirred it up through celebrating. Amen. Hallelujah. On Thursday night, we will lay hands on anyone and everyone who comes that they say they want hands laid on them for healing on these other previous nights. We'll do it for those who say you can't be healed Thursday night. So if tonight is the only night that you can be here and you say, I came to have hands laid on me, we want to do that for you before you leave. But there's a stipulation to come up here tonight. You got to celebrate your way up here.

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Amen. You got it. Come up.

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You better come up with a celebration in your feet. Amen. So right now, if you say, this is the only night I can can come, and I want hands laid on me for healing, come on up, but celebrate your way up.

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It's Sam.

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Hallelujah. I, months ago, I had had a mini vision, which is a quick glimpse of a vision. And I was seeing someone that was suffering, suffering physically with something. And around them, I saw demons laughing in hilarity. And the demons, they enjoy Your suffering. They mock you in suffering and they stand back and they were laughing and they were in. That's where they derive. Their enjoyment is from people's suffering. So we celebrate and make them suffer. They're not. They're not deriving enjoyment from anything working against my life. But I will celebrate right in their face. Why? Because Psalm 23, verse 5, Thou prepares a table before me right in the presence of my enemies. So I'm going to make. Since the enemies are present, I'm going to make them watch me eat my victory. You're going. I'm going to give you something to watch since you're present. Our job is not to get rid of this. They're in the earth. They're going to be here. But we give them something to watch instead of them mocking us at what they're watching of our lives. Amen. Congregation, reach your hands out toward these. Father, we thank you tonight. We've heard what your word has said. We believe your word, we rejoice at your word, and we say that that.

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Word.

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Is working in us. And Father, we thank you that you didn't just provide healing, but wholeness from the top of our head to the soles of our feet. So we've come tonight to receive of the wholeness. And we thank you that when hands. Say this with me, when hands are laid on me, the healing anointing of God will go into my body. It will drive out pain and symptoms, sickness and disease, and I shall be whole in Jesus name. Be free in Jesus name. Be whole in his name. We thank you, Father. Behold, there it goes.

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Love.

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Behold, in his name. There it goes in you.

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Love.

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Behold, in his name. Behold, in his name. Behold, in his name, be whole in his name. Hallelujah. Pastor Billy Joe, come here. We thank you, Father. Just stand right there. Stand right here. Father, I thank you all the previous years. Father, we know one step leads to another. One phase leads to another phase. One season leads to another season. One room of the Spirit leads to a further room of the Spirit. And Father, all through these previous decades of ministry have been intentional steps directed by the Spirit of God to lead him to the hour that you've been preparing and training him him for Now, Father, we look to you for a further unfolding of all this season holds. Because when you see it, when you see it in your spirit, when you see it, then you move into. And we thank you for that greater healing anointing in Jesus name. We thank you, Father. Just know this. The devil creates so much chaos to try to get you distracted. And I'm going to say this to the body of Christ at large, not just people in the room. Body of Christ at large. All of this social upheaval, political upheaval, is nothing but a distraction to try to dupe you to be occupied with a lower flow. We are not to be social activists, political activists. We're to be right hand of the throne activists. We take a our higher place and we don't get distracted by the lower. And we affect the social and political from that higher place. And we don't get down into the nitty gritty of the distractions of the only level the world knows to operate in. We know another place to operate in and from. Amen. And I'm just, just saying this. Let me just say, let me just.

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Say.

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A fivefold office is so much higher than a political office. Do not desire. Don't try to abandon a higher office to give attention to a lower flow.

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So good. Good. So good.

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I don't pray for God to raise up preachers for the political arena. I pray for God to raise up men anointed for the political arena. But don't pull them out of the five fold office to do that. I'm just saying because we need those called the fivefold in their office. They won't help anything coming down. Abandoning a higher flow to get into a lower flow. But there are people who are born to be a Daniel, people who are born to be a Joseph that God uses in very strategic ways. But it's not by abandoning a higher office to come down to a lower office. But my husband would occupy and dad Hagin would occupy that prophet's office and speak to the political arena, the social arena from that higher place. And we don't want to fill our church churches with the lower message because it's the word that changes things. It's the word that changes. It's the word that changes. You just keep preaching the word and watch the word do the work. Just know this, that people would like, like and the devil would love for us to get distracted. Distracted from the end time harvest by creating all this commotion down in this. It's just commotion. It's just commotion. It's just commotion. So don't get distracted from your place. And I'm not talking about preachers, I'm saying Christians can. I tell you, every Christian occupies a higher seat than the president. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercession, giving and thanks be made for all men for kings. He's specifying kings and all their authority. We're talking about rulers of nations. Pray for them. If you did not have the ability, if your authority didn't reach that office why would he tell you to pray for that office? Your authority reaches the highest office in the land because you are seated in a higher stand seat. And then it goes on for kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty. All godliness and godliness. Godlikeness not political likeness, not social likeness, God likeness. Amen. Who will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth to and then it says for God our Savior. Notice God our Savior not government our Savior. He puts in there God our Savior. Because so many people when they're praying they get their eyes on the political and start thinking government's the Savior. God is the Savior. God is the Savior. And we pray from the knowledge God is the Savior. Government can't save government. Amen. So church just stayed preoccupied with the highest thing which is what? End time, harvest what we're to do in the Great Commission. Because the devil would love to steal our father's harvest from him but he cannot. Amen. Praise the Lord. So you have your greatest effect by staying in your place, raised and seated with Christ far above all principality power, might and dominion and then trust God to fill the mouths of those. I'm talking about in the spirit realm yes the political realm is fine but the spirit realm my husband talked about from that prophet's office that when Reagan there was assassination attempt on him. My husband saw that before it happened and he saw an angel put his hand over the heart of Reagan protecting that organ. Dr. Sumrall made the pointed out the statement. He said every assassinated president was always United States president was always elected in a year ending with zero. He saw that pattern. Reagan was elected I believe believe in 1980 that was and then he was in line for assassination because of that pattern the devil would work. And Dr. Sumrall said when Reagan was protected by the hand of God it broke that curse. So what am I saying? We deal with it from a. My husband saw that and dealt with that and possibly others. Possibly others. But what I'm saying is our authority is so far reaching don't get occupied with all the stuff down in this natural arena and get distracted from the higher place, the higher thing because if you just look at the natural it looks like. It looks like wrong things are gaining. But how many times did dad Hagin say It's going to get darker in the world, but brighter in the church. Amen. Everything's bright. I said everything is bright. Everything is bright.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. Let's not get distracted. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Can I tell you this symptoms are nothing but distraction. Trying to distract you from your healing, trying to distract you from the wholeness that's already yours. Lack is nothing but a commotion to try and to dupe you into thinking that you are in lack. Amen. That's how the devil works. By chaos, creating commotion, all this mess. And he does it. He does it nationally, he does it statewide, but he also does it personally, tries to kick up dirt. So just see past it. Think about it. That Elijah, Elisha, rather, he was reverting, revealing the enemy army's battle plan. Whatever. Whatever the enemy army, the leader would say in his bedchamber. Elisha would hear it in the spirit and reveal it. And so they said. He said, who on our. Who in our team is the mole, so to speak. And one spoke up and says, none of us. There's just a prophet and Israel. There's a prophet in Israel that he hears what you say in your bedchamber. So that enemy king said, go get him. And they sent an entire army to get one man who knew his place. And the servant walked out and saw all this army surrounding the city to get one man who was occupying his place in God and he feared. And so Elisha prayed, said, oh, God, open his eyes. And he saw the hills full of angelic hosts. Why? Because they are our great escape. How shall we escape without this great salvation of angels that help us? Amen. So what's this mean? Don't get duped by things that surround symptoms, opposition, all these things. It's all to dupe you, to hold you face fixed on the lower flow. And as we celebrate, we remind ourselves, this is a one deal, this is a victorious deal already. Amen.

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Hallelujah.

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So what's your homework? What you gonna do when you leave this building? Where's the first place you're gonna do it? In the car? Where's the next place you're gonna do it? Wherever you're gonna go to sleep tonight. Amen. Because we're going to implement this spiritual habit of celebrating. Amen. It's second nature to us. It's our flow. To not celebrate doesn't fit us. The celebration fits us.

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Amen. Hallelujah.

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Let's just raise up our hands and shout one last time, father, we thank you. We glorify you. We magnify you.

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Hallelujah.

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How many of you know you can't worry your way into your answer, but you can certainly celebrate your way into your manifestation. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at 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.