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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Hallelujah. You'll believe God with me tonight for words, the right direction, because I have a sermon, but I don't know the lay of the land of it. So we'll just navigate through it. And we just thrilled to be here. I don't know about you, but I'm just glad I'm in the room. If you weren't already moved, your mover needs moving. Amen. Because you can sense it in the room, right? Let's just take it all. Let's just take. Take it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When in teaching on prayer, because that's the purpose of these meetings. But really the purpose is. The highest purpose is just to fulfill his plan, right? But prayer is the purpose of this, of these meetings. And we are welcomed by the Holy Ghost in. He is welcome to go anywhere from that. Right? In teaching on prayer, there's different approaches we could make to it. We could teach about the act of praying. We could teach about the fruit of prayer, but we can also teach on things that affect prayer. And that's very broad. And tonight I'm just going to go that direction. The things that. Something that affects prayer. Not trying to touch all those things. One thing in particular, Brother Copeland, you've heard. I don't know if you've heard me say it, but recently this has just been living with me because it became a window into a room for me of something Brother Copeland said. We were in one of his services recently and he was talking about it would have been, I'm assuming In the early 70s, he was still in debt. He was just learning the truths concerning prosperity. And God spoke to him and said, I want you to give Kenneth Hagin Ministries $50,000. That number's big today. But in the 70s, and you're in debt and you don't have that amount, that number could make your mind go on tilt the whirl. You know that ride carnival, right? And you could just. And if you handle that mentally, it looks like God is trying to trouble your life. But I love something of Brother Copeland's skill of answer, and the skill of his answer was this. In Christ, I have it. He knew his bank account didn't have it. He knew his earning level didn't have it. But in Christ, in Christ. So he answered based on in Christ. That's the answer of faith that we answer everything based on in Christ. If symptoms try to attach, I'm Learning to say this because I'm in Christ, I'm whole. Amen. These symptoms cannot draw me out of the wholeness of in Christ. Jesus did not offer. Do you want to feel better? That's right. He didn't offer you a coping mechanism. He walked up to the man at the pool of Bethesda and said, wilt thou be made whole? He offers us wholeness. He purchased wholeness. He did not purchase feeling better. He purchased wholeness. In Christ is wholeness. Now, if we're going to think about outside of Christ, we have to think about symptoms. But in Christ, there's no symptoms. In Christ, there's no lack in Christ. Let me say this. There's no struggle. And if we're struggling, we are living as one outside of Christ. Because struggle doesn't live where Christ is. It's not possible. You never see him struggle in his earthly ministry. People around him struggled. Devil struggled. But he did not struggle. In Christ, all struggle is dismissed. It's gone. So if you're struggling here, you're thinking outside of Christ. Now, faith turns your humanity into divinity. Because to operate in faith, you have to think like God, talk like God and act like he would have us act. That means we just left humanity. We stepped into divinity. Can I tell you what that's you in Christ? That we are offered a life above the human. We're offered a life above the natural. It's called the supernatural. Above it, above it. Anytime we're struggling with any arena, any arena, we're invited to come up in our thoughts. What does it mean to come up in our thoughts? To think as one in Christ? That when Brother Copeland answered the skill of that answer, when it was an overwhelming human request, but a perfectly doable, impossible, divine request. You have to. Let me. Let me find how I stated it in one place because I want these words correct. Let me find it because we're going to talk about several things tonight regarding in him and what that means. Let me state it this way because I wrote it down better than I could remember it. People think they have faith problems when they have identity problems. They have forgotten who they are and they're struggling for faith. When, if you will remember, I am in Christ. Faith is there. The highest order of faith is who you are in Christ. That's what we establish in us. Then faith is there because in Christ is the divine flow for the natural life here on earth, for this human life. I sat down. We were. I was talking, I think, to Ms. Cindy. We were talking in. Were we in Nice Or Switzerland. And I just started saying these things and I hadn't thought about it. We're just talking, and out it came. God's thoughts are faith thoughts. Know that God became an author and he wrote it down. And he said, here's my thoughts. Take them. Because your spirit being is limited without his thoughts. Your spirit can only move with him by taking his thoughts. So he became an author. And his thoughts are called the wisdom of God. Okay? So he offers his thoughts so that your spirit can move with him in his realm. Because any other thoughts can't keep pace with his realm. They cannot even function in his realm. An unrenewed mind means. What's an unrenewed mind? It's a mind that doesn't think like God. A renewed mind takes the thoughts of God and makes it their own. That when you recognize that your thought is different than what God says, that we lay down our thinking and we pick up his thinking. And when we do that, we just stepped into the ability of his realm. Because it's only a renewed mind that can move in his realm. His realm is the faith realm. His realm is the spirit realm. His realm is the love realm. His realm is the miracle realm. It takes faith thoughts to move with that realm. So the highest order of faith is to take on his thoughts about who we are in Christ. If we will establish that every other thing automatically rolls right into place, that's under that truth. Because everything of our life, that truth is the parent of every other truth in our life is who we are in Christ. You don't struggle with healing or when you know who you are in Christ, you don't struggle with walking in love. When you know who you are in Christ, you establish that and every other thing just falls into place. And that's the highest order of faith, is to live as one in Christ. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. God's realm is the faith realm and wisdom is the mind of God. Right? Wisdom is the mind of God. Wisdom is the mind of the spirit realm. You can't operate in ignorance and operate in his realm. Only wisdom can move with that realm. Because that is the mind of the spirit realm, the thoughts of God. Right? When we are operating with the power and the anointing of God's realm, we want to operate in that. There's only one way. His wisdom. His wisdom. That's why it says wisdom is the principal thing. Because we can't move with him in prayer, in faith, in miracles, in anointing. Apart from his thoughts, his wisdom, human Wisdom does not work in the faith realm. It's non functional there. And if we're going to just choose to live based on human thinking, we are dismissed from that realm because that thinking dismissed us, not because God dismissed us, but that thinking dismisses us. So to go into some things further, it's a thinking issue. And what does it call for? Revelation. Where does that come from? The Holy Ghost. And what revelation is it? What Paul said in Ephesians, chapter 1, verse, chapter 1, verse 17. That God would give unto you the Spirit, the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation and the knowledge of him, who you are in him, when you gain the wisdom and the revelation of who you are in Him. Ah, everything is subject to that. And you go out and you just rule and reign. You don't have to try to work up and appear to be anointed. You don't have to go out and appear to be bold. Human wisdom will not work in his realm, won't work, won't work in the miracle realm, the anointing realm, the faith realm, the love realm, the spirit realm, won't do. Amen. And we have the mind of Christ. He has been made unto us. Wisdom. You have to talk wisdom by faith. In the sense of you say I walk in the wisdom of God. And when you say that we. Revelation from the Holy Ghost must come to fill that confession. Any confession that a preacher, excuse me, any revelation that a preacher has, all he can do is tell it to you. He cannot make it yours. No preacher's revelation is yours just because you heard it. Only the Holy Ghost can take or words. All we can do is tell what God has revealed. As preachers, pastors, that's all we can do is put words on what has been made revelation to us. But we can't make it revelation to you. Only the Holy Ghost can make something revelation. What is that? Make it land. And until it lands in you, it's not revelation. Not just landing in the head isn't enough. It has to land here. It's only spendable once it reaches your spirit. If it just lands in the head, it's not spendable. Not spendable. You can try to spend it and you'll come up empty every time. But sometimes you have to just start off. I have just started off here and kept going and kept going until I settled down into here. And that's called meditation. You only move into the spirit realm, into God's thinking, into the wisdom of God, into the revelation of God as you meditate. If we don't meditate. The Holy Spirit knows we're not that interested in Revelation. He will not cast revelation lightly to those who treat it lightly. So we meditate. What's involved in meditation is repetition. I can't tell you the number of times I have played one tape of dad Hagin's over and over. I could repeat the whole thing almost with him. I could tell the story with him. I wasn't jumping from sermon to sermon. I found the one that held the light that I needed. Yeah. Target your need with light. Yeah, Very good. Yeah. And let that go over and over. Repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat. And if there's only a segment of a sermon that deals with the light of your need, then play that segment over and over and over. That is one form of meditation. Because repetition is meditation. Whether it's worry. Because worry is nothing but repetition in the negative direction. Right. Fear works by repetition. No one ever heard the spirit of fear once, and it was gone and left him alone. Right? Right. It was a repeated threat, a repeated suggestion that fear made. Why? Because repetition is meditation. So when we need light on something, we have to keep digging at it. We have to show what's it say. Over. In Proverbs 4:20, my son, attends, attend, attend. Put your attention on. Put your attention on. Put your attention on my words, my words. It becomes a skill. You have to have to have your attention on words. When your body is feeling something because your attention wants to go to feel instead of words. When my husband died, the word talks about the comfort. Scriptures. The comfort of the scriptures. What scriptures? Words. I had to find comfort in words. Not comfort in petting, not comforting somebody going, I feel bad for you. No, that's not my comfort. Because only the outside can be comforted there. Only words can reach the comfort in here can bring the comfort on the inside. And until something gets on the inside, nothing on the outside is different. So the Holy Spirit. Okay, let me go back. Proverbs 4:20. My son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from before thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thy heart. For what? They don't just. They don't give life. They are. Because if something is giving something, it can quit giving. But if it is life, it can't quit being life. His words can never quit being life. They are life unto, not unto everyone. Not unto everyone. Don't you think that his words are life to everyone? They are not. They are life unto those that find them. Find them. You have to be interested. You have to be interested. And that's what I was talking about. When you have to, you have to show God, show the Holy Spirit. I'm interested because that's when revelation comes. When revelation comes, struggle is done. Healing is no more struggle. Finances are no more struggle. People think they need money when they need revelation. Because once revelation is there, that need is met. If you act on it. If you act on it, if you don't, cast it aside. Amen. Yeah. When Jesus was at the multitude to feed the multitude, and he told the disciples, he said he asked them a question. Anytime Jesus or God asks you a question, it's not because they don't know. It's because you don't know. And you're not asking. So he's telling you, ask me this, because you're not. You don't know this, and you don't know that. You don't know this. So I'm going to ask you what you don't know, so you'll ask me what you don't know. That's exactly what he does. He tricks you into being smart. And he asked the disciples, what shall we do to feed them? Yet he already knew, is what the word said, right? He already knew what he was going to do. Was it Andrew or Philip? One of the two. Philip. Thank you. Said, there's a little boy here with five loaves, two fish. He hit the revelation and let it go because it didn't make sense. Then he started thinking, but what is that among so many? He hit the revelation and his mind dismissed it. Your mind can talk you out of your answer if you don't recognize and perceive the revelation. Yeah. So his words are life. Are life unto those that. How much revelation do we have? How much revelation? As much as we'll seek for. As much as we'll seek for. He doesn't determine who has more revelation than the next fellow. It's those who find it, those who find it. And finding is not a casual glance. I did with the Bible school students several years ago at the castle. We did. We did. I don't know. What was it, a scavenger hunt or something? Somebody remind me, Joe, what did we do? Was it a scavenger hunt or something? And I hid money. I hid money. The oldest person in the class found it. You want to know why? The others handled it and dismissed it. And the oldest one just kept digging and just kept digging and kept digging and got it. And then I said, I'm going to give you another Chance. Because y' all performed poorly, so we hid more money. And, I mean, they're running around. God going to pay my apartment bill, you know, and they were walking around like this. They were running around, just running like this. And I said, uh, it ain't there. It's not there. In plain sight. You're going to have to put some effort, some interest. You're going to have to bend your back. Yes, bend down. Look, I didn't just drop it in the pathway. His words are life to those that find them meaning. You've got to show interest enough to inconvenience yourself. Not that you earn it, but you're interested enough to find it. And that's who the Holy Spirit is able to reveal more to. Amen. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. The human mind falls short in his realm. It'll cheat you. Your mind will cheat you out of who you are in Christ. And when God said to Brother Copeland, I want you to sow $50,000 to Kenneth Hagin Ministries, he said, in Christ, I have it. That settles it, all right there. In Christ, I have it. What's he saying? I don't have to make this come to pass. Christ makes it come to pass. That's what he put Christ, who is all in all, he put him to work. When he said, in Christ, I have it, what's that mean? I hand it to him to fulfill in Christ, I have it. And then he said this. In Christ, I can give it. You can give so much more in Christ than outside him. And when Brother Copeland told that story, it's just like everything. Just that room opened up to me. I saw it. That life is to be lived in him. Talk about in him. The plan God has for your life cannot be fulfilled in you. It can only be fulfilled in him. What's that mean? In him saying, he's doing it through me. He's bringing it to pass through me. He's supplying the plan through me. Jesus said this himself, My Father, in me, he does the works. That's exactly how Jesus function. And he said it and he spoke it. The Father in me. He does it. How did he put God to work? By saying that? The Father in me, he does the work. What's that mean? No struggle on me, baby. It's all on Him. And that's the place we get to live. You understand? We get to live with that in Him. He does it. Him. He brings the money. Him. He's dealt with the sickness. Him. He's dealt with the symptoms. And so, because I'm in him. I say by faith. In Him, I'm whole. We don't struggle with that, do we? We can't say we're in him and I'm sick, but in him, we say, I'm whole. I'm whole. Well, these are symptoms. Yeah, but see, those symptoms aren't in Him. I'm in Him. I'm in Him. And when we talk about I'm, we're talking about the Spirit man. That's how you receive anything from God. You talk about what belongs to the Spirit man. You're not talking about the flesh. You're not talking about something natural. You're talking about who you are in him. And Brother Copeland said that within a short amount of time that he would just take change at the end of every day, you know, after he'd break a dollar bill or whatever, and he would just throw that change in a box. And when the box would get full, he'd just mail it in to Brother Hagin. After a period of time of doing that, he did not know how much he had given. So he called their office and they said, you've given far more than $50,000 in change in the 70s. And he said, I know $50,000 did not come through my hands. What was it he did? His coins, and God did the payoff. Why? I'm in Christ. I'm in Christ. I get up and I live as one in Christ. Talk as one in Christ. It's the wisdom of God. I said, it's the wisdom of God. How come it seems like more have more blessings than others? How come it seems like some have more blessings than others? It's based on your revelation of your identity. We receive in proportion to our revelation of who we are in Christ. Why do you think Brother Jesse always says, jesus sure does love Jesse? Because he's working his in Christ position. If you will pay attention to those men who God uses as generals, voices in the body of Christ. They always talk about who they are in Him. They might not say it with those exact terms, but they're saying it from that revelation. When Brother Jesse said, brother Jesus sure does love Jesse. He's talking about in him. That's what he's talking about. So you talk the same thing. Because this is not an earned place. It is a place you were born into at the new birth in Christ. You can't earn this. You can't earn anything of incorporation. But you will only enjoy it to the proportion you know it. Because if you don't understand it, know it, and have Revelation of it. The devil will dupe you with you wearing the flesh when you should be wearing in Christ. Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. God is good. Amen. Praise the Lord. Now I told you I'm jumping all around. Just bear with me with my papers. Bear with me because there's places that I want us to talk about and things. I don't want to leave it out. And you're just going to have to deal with that. When I was listening to someone who a leading minister in the body of Christ when they said they started having God dealt with them to start holding meetings in convention centers. And they did. And they said when they first started it, they would preach to a convention full of people. And as soon as they would close their Bible to walk off, condemnation and guilt would just dogpile on them before they even walked out of the room. Here they've just ministered in a grand place. And this minister turned to these young ministers and said, said whatever you have to do, establish yourself in righteousness. That's the only answer to all of these poor self image. I'm not enough. I've failed so much. If we talk that we have to lay down who we are in Christ to talk that way, we have to to. And it will rob us of who we are. If we're to walk as he walked, we have to talk as he talked. And he said, my Father in me. My Father in me. My Father in me. He does the works. Isaiah 54. Let's go ahead. Isaiah 54, verse 14. This is the amplified class. Toxic. If you're able to pull that device up on your device, pull that up. Isaiah chapter 54, verse 14. You shall establish yourself in righteousness. Doesn't say God's going to do it. He made you righteous. But you have to build in you. Establish that in you. Could we say this, lay the foundation of that in you. Because it's the foundation that every other thing works off of. You shall establish yourself. What's this mean? How bad do you want it? It's yours. You're not earning it. But to establish it in you is your work. And the Holy Ghost will help you in that divine work. You shall establish yourself in righteousness. Jesus made righteousness a gift. Right? We're not righteous because we've done everything right. We haven't. We're righteous because Jesus did everything right. And then credit it to us as though we did it right. Yes. What a deal. Amen. Amen. Right. And the devil never talks to you about your place of righteousness he talks to you about your flesh. He talks to you about the natural realm because he's trying to draw you out of the awareness of who you are in Christ. Because if you deal with him based on who you are in Christ, he's got no foothold in you. The devil's always pointing you back to your faults, failures, weaknesses, where you miss it, how many wrong decisions you've made, how many bad marriages you've had, how many children you think you messed up, all these kinds of things. He's always pointing back to the natural realm because if he can keep you occupied with this realm, you're outside the wisdom of God and you're outside his realm. You're outside the in him realm. Anything that puts you down is the devil. And you better answer it. You better answer it. That's how you establish yourself in righteousness. You answer anything that is not of you in righteousness. And the devil will always use something pertinent to you. He's called the accuser of the brethren. When the Bible calls him the accuser of the brethren, he's also revealing the devil's strategy. Accusation, accusation. He's going to accuse you with your past, accuse you with your faults, accuse you with your failures. But the thing is, he will use something pertinent to you, so it becomes believable to that unrenewed mind. It's pertinent to you. But can I tell you this? You're in Christ. It's none of his business. Even if it is true that you it's none of his business because you're in Christ. This is between you and Christ. And righteousness dealt with that. Blood dealt with that. And if you don't answer that, you will not be established in the righteousness you are made to be. Amen. And you won't live as one. Righteousness, you will live. A poor self image is nothing but an unrenewed mind of who you are in Christ. That's all it is. It's not about the household you were born in. Although the devil wants you to think. It's your parents problem. They want you to think because raised in a house of poverty, that's not the reason you have a poor self image. The reason you have poor self image, because you don't see yourself in Christ. That's the only reason that there's a poor self image. They have not established that it is such an easy fix. And people live their whole life beat down with a poor self image. And as a pastor and as a minister, if you don't fix a poor self image. You will limit every other ministry around you because you won't feel good if somebody seems to excel above you and you'll seek to push them down. Why do you think that I have no problem sharing the pulpit? Pay attention to that. How many people I pull on. Why? Because I'm in him. I don't have success in ministry because I hoard the pulpit. Come on, Pastor. Yes, ma'. Am. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not trying to point to me. I'm saying in Christ you can share everything. You are not territorial. You are not threatened. You don't feel like you've got to ruin your marriage to have a ministry. My husband holds me back. No, no, no. Nobody holds you back. Nobody holds you back. Nobody holds you back in Christ. No one can hold you back. You're thinking toward your husband, toward your wife is holding you back. Yes, In Christ fixes everything about you. Now, it won't fix everything about them because they're the only that can establish themselves in righteousness. You can't. You cannot establish another person in righteousness. You establish yourself and that's it. But you can teach others how you established yourself. And if they're interested, they can have it. And if they're not, you have to go on and live as one in Christ. And no matter how they treat you, you're not allowed to equal them because you're in Christ. I'm in Him. I'm in Him. What's that mean? When he put me in him, it's because he intended to do everything through me. I'm nothing but the glove. He's the hand in it. He's the hand in it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's why we can't take credit, because it's him doing it through us. Fear Him. Jesus said, my Father in me. He does. He does. He does. If you will live your life saying that, thinking that my Father in me, he brings the plan to pass. My Father in me, he pays the bills. My Father in me. He's the one that made me whole. You start talking about it's him in you. It's him through you. Because you're in him. And you can't separate those two. And we try to step outside of that and we become the most miserable people. You think the unsaved are the most miserable? No, it's the Christian who is laying down the true them to live life. They're less than in Him. That's the miserable person because the nature on the inside of them is crying out for expression and the unrenewed mind will not let it happen. And then they're miserable and they think, well, I just need a new marriage. I just need a new job. I just need a new house. No, you need to fix. Establish yourself. I am in him. He is in me to do the work. Can I tell you, I heard Brother David say something. I don't remember if Brother David. You said it in the Bible school or where you said it, but you said it. I'm trying to pull up the words. It's good. Don't worry. I didn't want him sweating bullets over there. He said, there is not enough discipline in my flesh to manage my flesh. Is that you said something like that? Okay. Can I tell you why his statement's correct? Because God never intended you to develop. He never intended you to form discipline to manage your flesh. You know why he put a fruit in you called temperance. What is temperance? It's the discipline of God. It's the control, the restraint of God. God restrains himself every day. He is good to the just and the unjust because he restrains himself. He reigns on the just and the unjust because he restrains himself from that which is possible. The fruits of the Spirit are the ability, the character of God. They're in you. You do not have to get rid of bad habits. You just have to employ the divine. Temperance of God. It's already in there. I do not have to. I feel for these people in the world. They're trying to kick addictions. Those addictions are so mean. It takes divine ability. You cannot develop enough human discipline to manage your life. Right? Amen. Temperance is self control, self restraint. And it's God. He gave you his own faith. He gave you his own love. He gave you his own joy. Jesus said, my peace, I leave with you. All the fruits of the spirit find their source in him. They're his. They're his. That the Spirit said, you need all this characteristics, all this ability of God put in you called the fruit of the spirit. Now pick it. Pick the fruit, right? All you have to do. If you're having an addiction problem, you don't have to run around and tear down a marriage, tear up a home because you're trying to get past that addiction. You say, temperance is on the inside of me. I draw on it. That's God in me. I'm in Christ because I'm in Christ. Everything he is is in me. Temperance is in Me. The ability to say no. The ability to restrain, the ability to not go the wrong way. I've gone so many times. I have his temperance. Thank you, Father. I'm in Christ. That discipline is in Me. And I. And I. And I. Let you work it through me. How sweet it makes life. No struggle. No struggle. No struggle. Wow. Isaiah 54, verse 14. You shall establish yourself in righteousness, rightness, in conformity with God's will and order. Now, what happens to those who establish themselves in righteousness? You shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction. Why? Because you'll be far from fear, from terror, and it shall not come near you. Know this. In Christ repositions you. Far from these demonic flows. You are repositioned. They can't reach the One in Christ. You're repositioned. You're repositioned. You, when it says you shall establish yourself in righteousness, you cannot do that until you establish yourself in I'm in Christ, he's in me. That's the only way you can establish yourself in righteousness. Amen. We know this. Hosea, chapter four, verse six. My people are destroyed. For what lack of knowledge. They have no knowledge of their position. What in Christ positions them for. My people are destroyed. We could also say this. Cut off from the blessings that belong to them because they don't know. The devil's counting on you not knowing that. Your answer is as simple as saying I'm in Christ. As in Christ, there's no I'm whole in Christ. There's no pain in Christ, there's no pain in Him. There's no non working body parts in Him. And I'm living in Him. It's in Him. And these symptoms that try to attach are not in Him. So I'm going to talk about in Him, I'm not going to talk about outside. People are held in sickness because they're mindful and talking about outside of Him. Outside of him you have symptoms. Outside of him you have pain. But in him it's wholeness. Nothing but wholeness. Outside of him are unpaid bills, but in him is complete provision. This is what this when Brother Copeland, thank God for that answer. Thank God. I mean, it just opened up so much to me. In Him, I have it in Him. I have it in Him. I have it. Just settle it in Him. I have it. Anything. I don't have to work it up. I don't have to earn it. It's a positional thing. It's not an earned flow. It's a position. It's a flow of my position. Amen. So to have a great faith, establish yourself in righteousness. Faith is no issue when you know it's him in you doing the work. Yeah. Yeah. Praise the Lord. We got to be with a precious, precious man. Pastor Rick, Renner and Denise on this five week tour. They took about a week and they gave us tours through Moscow and St. Petersburg. And it was. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Rick and Pastor Denise. It was such a joy. They had a precious guy who works with them. He was our interpreter, Maxime. Both of he is. He is quite skilled. He loves the Greek, the Hebrew, just like Pastor Rick. He made this statement sitting on a bus and I wrote it down for you. He quoted the Scripture, Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. He said this in the ancient Greek. The word Christ is not in the verse he said, it's the word O. And he said the word O means the one that I know so well. The One that I know so well. He strengthens me. What's that mean? This is not apart from fellowship, to establish ourselves in righteousness. It's a flow of fellowship. We cheat our fellowship with him when we talk as one outside, outside of Him. How can we fellowship with him in the fullness when we think and speak and conduct as one outside of Him. To talk about this realm is to talk about something outside of Him. But to talk about who he made you to be, what he won for us, what he made ours. Now you're talking as one. In Christ, you can either live your life with the mindfulness I'm in Him, or I'm outside of Him. And you can live as one in him toward one arena and live outside of him in another arena. Where am I doing that? What arena you're struggling with that answers it. So we could read the verse, I can do all things through the One I know so well. And if I'm not able to do all things, it's because I don't know him as I ought. And he invites me to know him so well. And then I made this so the degree of strength, because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. So the degree of strength we received is determined by the degree we know Him. Yeah, by the strength of our fellowship with Him. Now let me help you with words, fellowship, relationship. Have you ever noticed New Testament words is fellowship and. But relationship is. That's a wife, that's a husband. That's a wife, that's a husband for her. I'm a Friend. She's a friend. You know, that's relationship. Fellowship is what happens within the relationship. They're not the same. They're two different things. God is my father. I'm his child. That's not fellowship. That's relationship. If I could say this relationship is the legal side. My parents, they were my parents. I was their daughter. That's legal. That doesn't change. But fellowship can change drastically from day to day within that relationship. And it's a sad marriage when people are in relationship and enjoyment. No fellowship within that relationship. That's why the Bible doesn't focus on relationship. It talks about fellowship because that can change from day to day based on how? Draw nine to me, I'll draw nine to you. That's fellowship. He'll always be your father, you'll always be his child. That won't change. But your fellowship can be completely dead, thriving, hot. The fellowship that you have with God is not determined by him, but by your hunger. Your hunger. Amen. So fellowship is the key. And this is what Brother Maxime was saying. I can do all things through the one I know so well, through the one I know well, through fellowship. And if I don't know him well, I won't do so well, Right? That's good, Pastor, because I won't draw on him as I ought. If I don't know him well, I'll step back into what I do know, this natural realm. And he wants me to stay over in his realm, the faith realm, the wisdom realm, the miracle realm, the anointing realm, the spirit realm. Amen. Praise the Lord. Your consciousness of who you are in God, who you are in Christ, will actually determine what you can handle. Why do you think some people face a tragedy and they fall apart, and others face the same thing and don't and don't based on who they know, what they know of who they are in Christ. And it will determine what God can hand us to work on. How far we can move with him will be determined on how far we operate as one in Him. My mother, she talked about when I have two older brothers and a sister, and when my oldest, no, my second brother, the second oldest mother, had made a platter of scrambled eggs one morning, and he said, mom, I won't carry it. So she gave it to him to carry and it ended up on the floor. You know he meant well, but he did not have the skill. You can mean to do a lot for God, but if you don't have the skill, he can't handle it to you. Establish who you are in him so he can hand you more to move with him in because he doesn't want his projects on the floor. Praise the Lord. I said praise the Lord. I'm looking to see. Should we. Let's do Colossians, chapter 2, verse 6. Are you with me? Colossians, chapter 2, Verse 6. This is the amplified classic. As you have therefore received Christ. Is that you? I have received Christ. As you have therefore received Him. Even Jesus, Lord. So walk and regulate your lives and conduct yourselves in union with and conformity to him who you are in Him. Live that way. Since you have received him, live as one in Him. Right. So it says, regulate your lives. Conduct yourselves in union. What's this talk about fellowship? Fellowship and conformity. What's that mean? Agreement. What he says about you is true. If he says you're that, you're that. No matter what the devil says, no matter what your past says, no matter what your upbringing says, nothing dismisses you from in Him. Except you. Except me. Right. Verse 7. Have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in Him. Fixed and founded in Him. Look at this. Being continually built up in Him. That's your lifelong profession. I'm in him. And I continually build that awareness. I build it through the way I speak. I build it through the way I think. I build it through the way I move. And it ought to fill our songs. Instead of talking about the shame of the past, all you're doing is trying to dress up the old man. He still looks bad. Don't talk about in him who I am in Him. And it's not magnifying me. It's magnifying the one in me who does the works. Amen. Becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith. Notice. Oh. How did you get confirmed and established in the faith? By establishing in Him. So what's this mean? If you don't establish who you are in him and live like one, you'll have faith issues. Amen. Amen. Just as you were taught. What's this mean? Don't lay down what the pastor taught you when you go home from church. Just as you were taught. You were taught. You were taught. Come on. You're taught. Look at this. Abounding and overflowing in it. How do we abound and overflow in this? In Him. Action with thanksgiving. Ah. This is key. Thank you, Jesus. I'm in you. Thank you, Father. You're in me. I can pay what I need to pay. In you. I can give what I need to give in you. I can accomplish what I need to accomplish. And you give him thanks for it. And you end up establishing in you. And then your faith is already there because you've been talking the Word and you've been moving into the wisdom of God through what you said. And now you can access his realm because it takes his wisdom to operate in his realm, his thoughts, Divine thought. Amen. Now look at verse nine. For in him, the whole fullness of deity. In Christ, the whole fullness of deity. The whole. Do you get that? The whole fullness of deity. The Godhead continues to dwell in bodily form, giving complete expression of the divine nature. Complete expression. And you are in Him. Oh, my. So what's that mean? Verse nine is about you, not just about him. Because it tells you. And in verse 10, and you are in him. You're in verse 9, and you are in him, made full. And having come to fullness of life in Christ, you too are filled with the Gospel, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And you reach full spiritual stature. The living Bible. Let me read it. If you don't pull it up. If you have it. If you don't have it, just listen. The Living Bible, verse 6 and 7. That again is Colossians 2, Colossians 2, verse 6 and 7. The Living Bible. And now, just as you trusted Christ to save you, I love this. Trust him too, for each day's problems. And then it tells us how, in the next phrase, live in vital union with Him. What's that mean? Fellowship. Fellowship. Not relationship. Fellowship. Relationship, you're already in. That doesn't change. He will never leave you nor forsake you. That's to establish relationship. That. Speaking of relationship, the legal side, fellowship is what's interchangeable day to day. It can grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow. So live in vital union with Him. Verse 7. Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from Him. Look at that. Why do our roots go down? So we can draw on something other than us. Let them go down into Him. So you draw on him. And don't just draw on you. Because when we draw on us, we tear up everything. Because that's all we're capable of. Wrecking a home, wrecking a business, getting into financial ruin. And then it says, see that you go on growing in the Lord. What's that mean? In who you know to be you know you to be in Him. See that you go on growing in the Lord. Or your understanding, your revelation, your words need to show that growth. Talk it, talk it, talk it. See that you go see. Look, you're the one who has see to this, not God. See that you go on growing in the Lord and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done. Everything you need has already been completed in him. It's in him. Now. Look at verse nine. For in Christ, there is all of God in a human body. So you have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. That's a relationship. Yes. That's not fellowship. That's union. That's a legal term there. Union. He's father, your child. He is the highest ruler in authority over every other power. And that's the one you're joined to. He's boss. He's boss. And something try to boss us. No, you don't. Because I'm joined to someone I'm in someone who is boss. Amen. Then can you go with me to one other passage? You still with me? First Corinthians, chapter two. First Corinthians, Chapter two, verse six. First Corinthians, chapter two, verse six. Amplified Classic Translation. Yet when we are among the full grown. What's that mean? All Christians at different levels of spiritual development. Right. When we're among the full grown. We're not talking about babies. When we're among the full grown, do we want to occupy the class of the full grown? Yes. We want to be in that class. Right. We don't want to be in kindergarten all of our life. We want to be in graduate school, whatever. Yeah, when? Yet when we are among the full grown, the spiritually mature Christians, look at this. Who are ripe in understanding. They understand some things. We do impart a higher knowledge. What's that mean? There's more to know. There's more of the thoughts of God, more of the mind of God. Why? Because there's further places to go and you have to know the wisdom for that place. Every place has its own wisdom. And if you want to go further places, you have to know more. You have to move into more. You have to understand more. You have to have more revelation of some things. Amen. So a higher wisdom than. Look at this. We do impart a higher wisdom. The knowledge of the divine plan previously hidden. What's he talking about In Christ? The wisdom of God is who you are in Christ. That's what Paul was pinning by the Holy Ghost. That is what the New Testament imparts. The wisdom, the revelation, the wisdom of God, which is who we are in Him. Okay. But it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age or of this world, nor of the leaders and rulers of this age. Now here, this phrase, leaders and rulers of this age, he's not talking about political leaders. He's talking about demon spirits. Who are being brought to nothing and are doomed. They are doomed to pass away. But rather, we are setting forth. What we are setting forth is a wisdom of God, once hidden from the human understanding and now revealed to us by God. That wisdom which God devised and decreed before the ages of for our glorification to lift us into the glory of his presence. If you want something deep, baby, Now the wisdom of God is who we are in Christ. And it takes the Holy Spirit to reveal this in here so that it dawns on you inwardly. Because until it dawns on you inwardly, you can't spend it fully. But you just spend what you have. Just spend what you have, Meditate, build. You have to establish yourself. We put on our website in him scriptures, download them for free, print them out, put them on your device, feed on those, and that will fix every problem you thought you had with your parents, with your brothers, with your sisters, with all the problems in a local church. That fixes everything. Because when you see who you are in Christ, you quit being who you are in the flesh. Amen. Amen. I love. I love how Paul states this. Let me read back to you first. Corinthians 2, where we were reading verse 6. Howbeit. This is the King James translation. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect or mature, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of the world that come to naught. The Moffatt translation is talking about these evil spirits that rule in the world. The Moffatt translation says, the dethroned powers who rule. How are they ruling? They're dethroned. Who dethroned them? Jesus. Why are they still ruling the world when they've been dethroned? Because people don't know that Jesus dethroned them. And they're just ruling and reigning and kicking people's lives around. Because of ignorance. The young's translation says, rulers of this world. Excuse me, rulers of this age, of those becoming useless, demon powers are becoming more useless. Why is. How can we say these demon powers are becoming useless when we know the truth? Their efforts against our lives are useless? They attack, and that's useless. Attack. Because I know something. Who are those attacks working on? Those who don't know who they are in Christ or they're not spending that. Who they are In Christ. They're not taking their place. They might have heard it, the pastor might have taught them, but they've laid it down. Pick it back up. If you've laid it down, pick it. We can all pick up some things. We can all pick back up some things. Why does something work on you and it doesn't work on someone else? Based on whether you're making those things useless or not? Yeah. The devil attacked this ministry in 2013 because I firmly believe he saw part of what we're doing today of the Television ministry. It's going into 186 countries. He saw that those efforts were useless. We're still doing it. We're still doing it. We turned that strategy useless. He was not able to use it the way he thought he was going to use it. Why? Because the Word taught us something, and we acted on the Word. Every attack against your life, turn it useless. Even if he's been using it, turn it useless. If those symptoms were working, turn him useless. If he what he's been using, turn it useless. It's up to you. It's not up to you to get him to stop. It's up to you to know something so that what he uses doesn't work. He intended sorrow and grief to rewrite the direction of this ministry. Useless. It didn't work. Symptoms come and you start talking of wanting Christ. I'm already whole in Christ. I'm not trying to get healed. I'm already whole in Christ. I am not trying in Christ. I'm whole, completely whole in Christ. I'm completely whole. And I talk from in Christ position. And then those symptoms become useless. They have to fall off because I'm not using them. I'm not using them in my talk. I'm not using them in my thought life. Listen, if something's not changing, it's because thinking's not changing. If something in your life is not changing, thinking's not changing. Because when thinking changes, things change. And things that the Devil used are useless against your life when you know something. So it says, rulers of this age. The young's translation says, the rulers of this age are those becoming useless. It's our job to make them useless. The Amplified classic says, the rulers, the leaders and rulers of this age who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away. So many think in this last day the Devil's getting stronger. That's not what this says. That's not what it says. It's not what it says. Can I tell you the new. Well, let me say this. Let me read it again. The leaders, the amplified classic. The leaders and rulers of this age who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away. How are they being brought to nothing? They're being brought to nothing. When the church stands up and who they are in Christ and they take authority over their actions, then their actions are becoming brought to nothing. Being brought to nothing, it's going to be through the church, not through them leaving us alone. Amen. Christians who don't know this, they open the door to it and they get troubled by that which they're to really reduce to nothing in their life. When we see example. You've heard me tell about one of my favorite stories, Smith Wigglesworth. When the devil sat on manifested form in his bed, Brother Wigglesworth rolled over in his bed to see him there, said, oh, it's just you rolled back over, did not even speak any. We're not having a prayer meeting. I'm not. Devil, hide behind you. If the devil got you screaming, Screaming, he sits back and laughs. If he got you worked up, that is. He was brought to nothing. That just that simply by him turning his back to him was resistance. It was an act of resistance. The new English Bible says this, that these demon powers are declining. What's that mean? They're losing strength. As the end comes closer, they're declining. They're not growing stronger. They're declining. They're in a frantic mess. I mean, you turn on the news and look at the mess. That's what demons on the decline work. They're on the decline. They're not getting stronger. The ample classic said they're doomed to pass away. That's already been sealed. That's their doom. They will pass away. And until then, they don't grow stronger and pass away. They decline until they are no longer even present. Now, legally, when a criminal man is sentenced to death, he is doomed. Pass away. When they're on death row, they're doomed to pass away. Now, they can change. They can get right with God. They can use their faith. And I've seen things like that change. But I'm just talking on the legal side, right? It doesn't have to stay that way because God's realm changes this realm. But I'm just saying, when we talk about legally doomed to pass away, even though if they say there's a dissonance over their head, well, they call it dead men walking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They haven't. That's what demons are. They're doomed to pass away. Amen. Treat them like that. Think of them as like that. Talk about them as like that. Your actions are useless in my life because they can't win against Christ. And I'm in him. And you cannot work that against him. Our talk has to be filled within him. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Now, you better know this when you go to prayer. You better know this when you go to prayer. Because I was getting into some things in prayer years and years ago, 20, 30 years ago. I was praying long amounts of time in prayer. And the more you pray in the Spirit, the more sensitive you become to God, but also the more sensitive you become to devils. And if you don't know this, you'll start believing those devils that you hear and that you sense in that realm. And God told me back out of that realm. We've had to tell Bible school students, some of y' all need to quit praying in tongues so much because you're getting into a realm you have no knowledge about. You have. That's why dad Hagin taught us, don't pray more than you feed on the Word because you have to grow in skill of the word, skill of your authority, skill, skill of peace in God, because those devils out there are trying to torment your mind. When you get out in that realm, and you better know I'm in Christ, and you better be able to laugh at that instead of be troubled by it. Anything you're troubled by, you're in over your head. Back out. Yeah, that's good. Gain some knowledge, gain some wisdom. Get that mind renewed. The devil, it's not because he got stronger. It's because you don't know enough. You don't know enough of who you are in Christ. And it's a gradual process and you don't get there overnight. So don't pray beyond your knowledge. Well, I want to go further. Now, if you don't have knowledge, go further, you better go there with revelation. Every realm requires revelation. Every further room requires revelation. So what's that mean? Don't love the act of praying more than you love the act of feeding and meditating on the Word. You become unsound, you become unsound. Amen. And some people, some people, that's the favorite thing. The devil loves to work on people who are having mental weakness issues. They pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, trying to get past stuff, and they end up getting into places to where they're more sensitive to the evil spirits that are troubling and they get more troubled. You need more word, not more prayer. Praise the Lord. Are you helped Tonight, it gonna be good this week. Why? Because we're learning. We're learning. And things that were useful to the devil in our life are useless. Now you say, well, it feels like it's still being useful. Call it useless, you call it by faith. Those symptoms are useless. Useless. That lack is useless. That devil's using that strategy. And it's useless against my life because I know too much. Amen. Stand with me. Father, we thank you tonight. Thank you for the word. Thank you for the word. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Give me. Give me. Give me a bible. Give me. Ms. Leanne, find Ephesians, chapter one for me and verse. Let's go to verse 17. Because really, this is the Ephesian prayer that Paul was hinging on. Was that people? You can pray this prayer for yourself. And as you do, the spirit of God will show you things. But there are people who are not studying to know these things. And you need to pray it for them especially. But we need to add our studying with these things. So how about we pray this for the body of Christ? Amen. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you for your word tonight. Thank you for what we're learning. We thank you for the Holy Spirit, the great revealer of the wisdom of God, the mind of God, who we are in Christ. We are in that place, but we take that place, place in daily life. It's not just a feeling, it's a place. And we take it by faith. And every single one of us that have laid down the awareness of who we are, we pick that back up and we go on from here. And Father, I pray. Let's say this, Father, I pray this for every person in the room, for every person that's watching, but for the body of Christ. I pray it for my loved ones. I pray it for my own church family. And I pray that you would give unto us the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of revelation in the knowledge of him, of who we are in him. That the eyes of our understanding, understanding would be enlightened. That we may know what is the hope of his calling, that we may know what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And that we would know what is the exceeding greatness of God's power to us. Would who believe which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead, that resurrection power is the flow of who we are in Christ. May we see these things. May the body see These things and may they walk out who they are. And may we live as rich as we are because we are in Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. Really, this is just. He's praying that you would know who you are, what you have and what you can do because you're in Christ. Really, that's in a nutshell with this is because our faith hinges on this. The use of our authority hinges on this. Our fellowship hinges on this. Amen. This is the wisdom of God. Of who he made us to be when he sent Jesus. Amen. Father, we thank you. We thank you. You want to do something? I want to. Christ. In me. Christ in me. The anointed one. That is anointing. Sing it one more time. Christ in me. Christ in me. And he. One more time. Take another half. Christ in me. Christ in me. They can see the only one of glory. Jesus. They can see the only hope of glory. Christ. The only hope. The plan of God for your life. God never intended you to fulfill. He intended to fulfill it through you. Doesn't that make it a easy? What about this? Let's practice bringing him into every flow of our daily life. How about tonight when you go home and people say I have trouble sleeping. I harassed in my sleep. I'm going to go to sleep in him tonight. I'm going to rest as one in him tonight. Thank you, Jesus. That in him, in you is all the rest of the need. And I go to sleep in that place. Amen. Every. Every place of life. Every place of life. Draw on Him. Because we're drawing on something for everything. We're drawing on our mind, our education, our feelings, our emotions or our flesh. Or we're drawing on the wealth of in Him. Amen. 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.