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Prayer & No Condemnation | Nancy Dufresne | Prayer Conference 2022 | World Harvest Church | Murrieta, CA
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message because the prayer conference, the purpose is different than campmeeting or Holy Ghost meetings. And so we want to stay on course with the purpose for this meeting. And in teaching on prayer, there are different aspects we could touch on. We can touch on the act of prayer in our teaching. We could touch on results or the effects of praying. But I'm going to start tonight teaching on that which affects prayer, the things of our life that affects our prayer life. Because our prayer life is not anything apart from the rest of our life. It's all interconnected. I mean, the way we treat one another affects the prayer life. Right? Our faith life affects the prayer life. Why? Because without faith, we can't conduct business with God. And these things are divinely linked together. And so to isolate prayer is not ever wrong in the sense of. For teaching purposes, but it's not wrong also to bring about or bring out the other things that are divinely linked to our prayer life. Your love walk, right? All of these things are gonna affect our fellowship with God and our results that we get. You know, the Word even talks about when it's taught. And I don't have the scripture out in front of me right now, but when it talks about a husb walking in grace together, growing in grace together, and then it talks about lest his prayers be hindered, the prayers of the husband be hindered. So how he conducts himself within his marriage will affect the prayer life. Amen. And then you think about it. Our prayer life affects our health because pray one for another that you may be what healed. So the prayer life is linked divinely to other aspects and arenas of our life. And so it's right to teach on all these different things that make up the prayer life. And we need to hear from all these different directions because it's going to help us bear more fruit in prayer. And that's what we're after, bearing fruit, because that's what brings honor and glory to God. Amen. I pared it down to 17 pages tonight. It started out as 39, so just know I was knocking stuff off really quick. I may not get to all 17, so don't worry about it. It depends on how much you delay me. Is that right? And so anyway, there's. What I mean to say is this. There's much that can be said. There's much that can be said. One of the greatest things. Well, let's look at this Phrase of something that the Word reveals. The Word calls Satan the accuser of the brethren. What? When. When the Word shows that name for him, gives that name and calls out him linked with that name. The Word is revealing something to us. It's revealing one of the enemy's main strategies against us is accusations as the accuser of the brethren. And it's important that we recognize the accuser at work, that we recognize when that is the strategy he's endeavoring to work against us. Because he's doing that is strategic. So one of the greatest hindrances to our prayer life is this thing of condemnation. It comes. Condemnation comes from the accuser of the brethren. That he takes you and accuses you with you. He doesn't want that done to him because he can't pass that one. But he tries to hold us mindful of the old man, tries to hold us in the natural arena by pointing to the natural faults, failures, weaknesses. And he endeavors to hold us in that mindset, always looking at who we are in the flesh. Weaknesses of the flesh, faults of the flesh. Why? Because then you never step into the flow that is of the Spirit. Because people get so absorbed or mindful with what they're not in the flesh. But the old man has passed away. Old man was crucified with Christ. Yes, we still have flesh. I'm not acting like that. But the accuser of the brethren is flipping your vision and your view to focus on the natural side and accuse you with it. And he will not accuse you with something that doesn't pertain to you. Every bit that he accuses you with will pertain to you or you wouldn't swallow it. And that's the skill of the accuser. Well, we have to have the mindset and the skill of the redeemed from the accuser. We have to have the mindset and the skill. You're talking about the old man. Devil, I'm in Christ. My life is hid with God in Christ. That we have to see ourselves in him and function at that place so that we don't get tripped up by the accusation of the accuser. Because I don't care how long you've walked with God, the accuser of the brethren is still against you. And he will pull that card of accusation no matter how long you have prayed in the Holy Ghost or no matter, he's always bringing you back up, but not in a pretty way, in a fault finding way, in a condemning way, in an accusational way, holding before you all your weaknesses, reminding you. And he will bombard the mind, reminding you of all of your faults, failures, weaknesses. When he does that, we have to become skillful at flipping that mirror. We have a different mirror we look in, but we flip it on him and say, no one has failed God like you have failed God. No one has been in the presence of God as you were and did not value it. Flip that. If he wants to play the accusational game, we got some accusations. And this is. I'm going to show you how this is pertinent to our prayer life. Because condemnation is basically sin consciousness. Conscious of your sin and your faults, your failures, your Mrs. So he seeks to continually remind us of that flesh arena. The devil opposes us with our prayer life because he's the one who suffers from it the most. When we are skillful in taking our place of who we are in Christ, the works of darkness suffer blow after blow after blow after blow. That's why he's endeavoring to with his strategy of accusation. He's got to draw us away from our mindfulness of in Christ to in flesh. Amen. Because the devil knows that those he can work condemnation on by taking something of their life, taking something of their past, something pertinent to them. I'm talking about something that they. The Word says this, that there are many voices in the world and none of them without signification. Meaning those voices are going to come at you with something significant. Significant to you. That's one way of looking at that. And the enemy knows that when someone lives under a sense of condemnation, they will not boldly exercise their authority over him. They will not. Because condemnation robs us of boldness. Why? Because it will hinder faith. Amen. So he wants to back us down from our authority because he knows Jesus made us his master. He doesn't want you to know it, or he doesn't want you to experience that, or he wants to come against you in such a way that you think it works for everyone else, but not you. If he can dupe people into laying down their authority over him, he can work against them without restraint. Our authority holds him back. Holds him back. Amen. Our authority. Listen, it's all encompassing. We have authority over the world. What do you mean, the world? The flow that's in this world that so many get drawn up into. Not our flow. Not our flow. Not our flow. I don't care what's popular in society. Not my flow. I don't care what's. I don't care what's broadcast on media. Not my flow. I mean, you Turn on the television and they. It's, I don't guess, I don't understand this. They will show a medication and they'll give a name and you don't even know what it's for. They ask your doctor if you need it, such and such. I go, oh my gosh. Evidently that works. That advertising strategy works because they don't even tell you what it's for. Am I not right? I go, I don't even know what they're advertising for, but I know this. Not my flow. Not my flow. Not my flow. We have authority over the flow that carries the world and that wide broad road of destruction. Not our flow, not our flow. That's why you want to make sure who you hang out with. What flow are they in? So our authority is all encompassing. It's over the flow of the world. It's over the devil himself. Because Jesus spoiled principalities and powers, made a show of them, openly translated us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son. We have total authority over the devil operating in our lives and in our domain. Our domain. And then we have authority over the flesh. We have authority over our flesh. Why? Because our flesh wants to do something different than our spirit. And we have to keep our flesh in check. And we have authority to do that. And it's in the spirit, by the spirit, not just by self help. Motivational phrase. I'm just going to motivate myself, brother. When demons show up, you better have something different. Different than a motivational phrase. You better have divine words. Know who you are in Christ. Don't get hyped up with motivational. Positive think. Listen, positive thinking is right as long as it comes from the word. But if it comes from personal fleshly cheerleading, it's not going to work. Praise the Lord. So to be skillful in prayer, we have to occupy our authority. God has given us authority on the earth because he has a plan for the earth and he needs us in our seat of authority, occupying it so that that plan can come to pass through his body. Whether or not we're operating in our authority is going to determine whether God's plan comes to pass. There you go. It's not about whether God's going to do it or not. It's are we going to be occupying our authority, our seat of authority, and using it. So now you know why the devil wants to condemn and push you down and turn you against yourself. Why? Because his future hinges on the exercise of your authority. He's going to. He's going he's going to go the way of the Word, but it doesn't need to be delayed. And it is delayed when people do not know their authority. Revivals are delayed when people don't know their authority. Amen. So you can understand then why the devil wants to get us to draw back and he tries to get us absorbed and pushed down by looking at what we're not in the natural. You have to know this. Demons war against God's plan. Demons war against God's plan. They try to hinder and stop God's plan on the earth, but also in your life. The demons are after that plan because in that, in God's plan is your complete and total victory. And he's got to draw you away. And one of these strategies is this thing of condemnation and sacrifice, sin consciousness. Turn with me to First Corinthians, chapter 2 and verse 6. First Corinthians. We could now see. I had to take off about three pages around this verse. So I'm just selling you. I pared it down to this verse and I'm going to try not to go to any other verses. No, I'm teasing. I'm just saying there's so much that could be said. First Corinthians, chapter 2 and verse 6. The King James says, howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect. Or he's talking about mature, yet not the wisdom of this world. Nor listen to this, of the princes of this world. He's talking about demon powers. He's not talking about people. So the princes of this world. Look at this. That come to naught or come to nothing. Listen to the Moffat translation. It says, the dethroned powers who rule the world dethroned. Well, who dethroned them? Jesus dethroned them. Every encounter with the enemy, we have to remind him, you are dethroned. Dethroned. You lost your seat. I got mine. They are dethroned, but why then are they still ruling? Because people don't know it. Ignorance allows them to work unchallenged. The young says this. Look at this. Rulers of this age talking about demon spirits of those. Listen to this phrase, becoming useless. Becoming useless. In other words, when you know the truth that they are dethroned, they become useless in their efforts against you. Any effort they throw against you is useless. Because knowledge. Knowledge forbids walking in. Your authority forbids anything they try. It's useless. Useless. Devil. You're useless opposition. You're useless things that try to hinder. You're useless because what you do won't work. It's useless, it's broken. The amplified says this. The leaders and rulers of this world, listen to the phrasing, the wording, who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away. Look at this. You say, well, I thought they were brought to nothing. Why does it say are being brought to nothing? That's being done through the church, walking in their authority. Jesus defeated them and they are being brought to nothing. In this earth, in our life, through us, walking in our authority. No wonder the devil's got to do all this other gymnastics, mental gymnastics against your life to keep you occupied with something that he can manage, your flesh, the natural arena. When we get this revelation, when opposition shows up, we laugh. That's the appropriate response to someone who knows that's useless. That is being brought to nothing in my life. It will show up, but it will be brought to nothing. Not because God is going to do something about it, but because we're going to exercise our authority over it. Amen. You're authorized to say nothing. Get out of here. Says they were brought to nothing. Nothing. You can leave. What does it say that the prophet said? And there again, I don't have this one written down. Cut. That. When we see the devil narrowly as he is, we will say, is this the one that deceived the natural nations? Nothing. We have to see him as the word shows him instead of as we feel him, And not as he sounds. Because he boasts of what he does, not what he is not empowered with. I love something. Brother Copeland said, Satan goes. He steals, kills and destroys. And he says anything he ever gets, he said, steal it off somebody. Nothing is his because he was left nothing. Don't let him have any of yours. And anything he got of yours, get it back. Get it back. Get it back. How? With your authority. Take your health back. Take the prosperity that he's robbed from you. Get it back. All these things that he's stolen, the peace. With every encounter with him, we have to approach him mindful. This has to be foremost in our minds. You're already defeated, you're already stripped, you're already brought to nothing. And I'm bringing you to nothing. In my life and in this situation, we do not have to hold out against the devil. He's got to hold out against us. But we have been on this, holding on to hold out against him. When Christians don't know this, they just open the door when he shows up and think that they have to enter in to the struggle that he offers. Amen. The new English Bible of this phrase that says that the King James says the princes of this world that come to naught. The new English Bible said they are declining to their end. When the word says they are declining to their end, you know what that means? They're not getting stronger. They are not getting stronger in this. They are declining and they'll decline all the way to their end. That's what it means, declining to the end. All the way until the end of this age. They are declining all the way, way down. Demons don't want you to know this. That's why they have to be so loud and make so much noise around your life to make them. To make you think they are. They are winning in a way. They're not. They aren't getting stronger. You turn on the news and you'll get if you don't think right. I don't watch it because I don't believe them. I just don't believe them. And plus, that's not my report. Now. Dad Hagin said this so many times to us by the spirit. It's going to get darker in the world. Why? That's their flow. And that flow is declining to the end. Darker in the world, but brighter in the church. Brighter in the church. Brighter in the church. Brighter in the church. So quit being impressed by how things are changing in the negative direction because they're brighter in the church. Demons are doomed. They're doomed. That's what the word says, the amplified. And we read it. They are doomed to pass away. When we think of this phrase they're doomed to pass away, we think of a criminal that has been convicted maybe, and I'm talking about the death penalty put on that criminal. He's alive, but he's doomed. He is doomed. He's doomed to pass away. And it doesn't matter how long he's on death row. He's doomed to pass away. That paints a picture for us that when we see the devil at work, we quit being impressed because he is a dead. He is doomed. His assignment is dead. Everything about him is doomed. And we do not want to look back and say what we let the doomed one tell us. Don't take counsel from someone who is so. Their failure is so great. They have failed on every front. And then he accuses us. How dare us even think that our ear. That he's worthy of our ear. He is not worthy. He is not worthy of listening to, of repeating his words, of feeling the sensations he causes. When God speaks to us. When God is moving upon you, there are. There's an influence that comes with his words. It's called the anointing. And you can sense that when he speaks, you can sense his presence. Why? It helps you to receive what he says, the influence of that anointing. When the devil speaks, he also sends an influence because he is an imitator of God, yet he imitates in the negative direction. So when the devil speaks words of fear, you can feel the influence of fear. When he speaks words of accusation and condemnation, you can sense the influence, condemnation. It can become tangible. And I don't care what's tangible. I don't care what's tangible. We have to remember what's true in the face of what's tangible. Just because you can feel something doesn't make it true. And we have to answer, what's this book called? Answer it. I heard somebody put something out like that. What do we answer with those influences that we sense with his accusations and condemnation, we answer it with what? You are doomed. You are declining to your end, all the way to the end. You are in the downward spiral. You're declining. There is no increases in your future. Everything is in the downward failing direction. We have to answer these things with these truths. Amen. Listen. There is such a great necessity for miracles in this hour. A necessity for the last day revival. It's a necessity for the world to see God is still moving. It's a necessity. But because it's a necessity, so is faith, so is walking in our authority. So it's a necessity that we not yield to anything that hinders our faith, hinders the exercise of our authority. Amen. I tell you because it's going to take bold, it takes boldness to move with God in these things. And one of the things that hinders faith, one of the things that hinders the prayer life is condemnation. Because when people are under a sense of condemnation, a sense of sin consciousness, they will not be bold before God. They will not. They will not. That's why Satan is revealed as the accuser of the brethren. That the Word is letting you know by one of his titles. This is his strategy against you and your authority. Amen. Condemnation doesn't just destroy someone's self image of how they see, see themselves, but it also destroys our ability to receive from God. Because there are so many. How many times have you heard someone say, I don't have a problem giving to somebody, but I have a problem receiving. You've never heard that out of my mouth. That has not ever come out of my mouth. I do not have a Problem with receiving. Why? I like things. I like things. I like things. And my thought is, if they can have it, so can I. That is totally my approach. If they can have a nice house, I can have a nice house. If they can have a bigger house than they need, I can have a bigger house than I need. Why should the sinner enjoy their time on the earth more than us? Something's wrong. Something's wrong. I love what I heard one preacher say. He said that he always had a fear of flying. And he got on the plane and he was just sitting there, just he had to go. And he was just sitting there holding himself together so he wouldn't go all the different ways. And he's just sitting there and he says, I looked over and he said he was in first class, but there were a bunch of guys sitting over there across the aisle just drinking it up, you know, guzzling it, telling dirty jokes, laughing. And he said, what's wrong with this picture? I belong to God. They belong to the devil. They're enjoying themselves. I'm tormented with fear. What's the matter with this picture? And he said, from that day forward, I'm done. Done with that fear mess. No sinner has a better time. And the best time for them is to get born again. Amen. Know this, that one of the strategies of the accuser of the brethren is at a time of promotion, at a time of increase, at a time of advancement, there will be a dog pile on your head of condemnation. Why? Because the accuser of the brethren is trying to abort your advancement and he tries to turn you in upon yourself. Because you need faith to get to the next place God is offering. You need faith. Not only that, you need miracles to walk in the next thing that God, that place of advancement, that place of increase. And so the devil will throw all this condemnation thing at you to keep you from being bold in your faith, bold in your receiving. And you'll just linger back in what you've always flowed in. And if you're not willing to take that on and run that off, look that thing in the face and say, I'm done. I'm done dealing with the same old problems, the same old needs. I'm done. I'm advancing out of this. Hallelujah. Because you lay hold of these things in the spirit, you lay hold of them in prayer. And if you've got this sense of condemnation that rides like a free monkey on your back, and you're the free ride giving that thing on your head, and you just walk through life beat down and looking down upon yourself. And you're like this. Well, the devil has loved the free ride. It's wrong thinking it's wrong thinking condemnation is wrong thinking it's sin. Mindfulness. You're mindful of sins, mistakes, faults, failures. Praise the Lord. So just know that when there is an onslaught of accusations, the accuser, the brethren, pointing to everything, you're not. Just know he's trying to hide something, he's trying to abort. What's the increase that's coming? The advancement, the promotion. And he's got to get you feeling like, I can't go there. And he does that through accusations pointing to your flesh. Pointing to your flesh. The devil has never once pointed to a faith victory, has he? Has he? No, it's all the faults in the flesh. Romans, chapter 8, verse 1. Romans, chapter 8, verse one. See, this is what's going to affect your effectiveness in prayer. Romans, chapter 8, verse 1. Let me tell you what. Every one of us got something worth forgetting. Everyone, well, theirs is worse or no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's no measurement. That's wrong thinking. To start measuring your sin as better than someone else's. That's wrong thinking. Sin is sin. The word says, you guilty of one, you guilty of all. Right, So that means we can't remember while I'm preaching. Oh, damn. You better snap that head back. Romans, chapter 8, verse 1. There is therefore now. Now look at this. Now no. Now, no. Now, no condemnation. What is that? That's the deadline. That's the deadline on condemnation for God's people. It ends now. Now. Now. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are what in Christ Jesus? Are you born again? Are you in Christ? Ah, there you are. There's your get out of jail for free card right there. No more condemnation. Jail. Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. What does condemnation seek to do? Draw you back to the mindfulness of the flesh will not remind you. Condemnation will never remind you of your victories with God. Your prayers answered, never will come up in the flow of condemnation. All that's talked about and brought up is your flesh. Amen. Since God, this is what God says. Now, now, no condemnation. Now, if you're not going to agree with him, you're going to be subject to condemnation. If you're not going to agree with him, if you're not going to agree with the Word, then you're going to be troubled unnecessarily. You're going to struggle. So we have to say now, Well, I got to go work it out. No, you don't. Now it ends. Well, you know what? It's just. I've just got to talk it out. No, no, don't talk it out. That's probably how it got in. No, no, because really when you talk it out, you're letting it in because what you talk about goes in. You do not take the psychiatry of the world and call it the same avenue of the word. I'm not against psychiatry. I'm just saying it don't work for me. I already got something that works. But if you listen too much and you read too many wrong books and you listen to people who don't know what we're talking about, they might know what they're talking about, but we're not talking about what they're talking about. The renewed mind pushes the delete button on what others that don't know what we're talking about say. You don't gotta talk it out. You don't gotta go converse with somebody that wronged you so that you can give them the opportunity to make that right. No, no, no, not at all. If you want condemnation to end in your life now, you can't hold it over someone else's. Can't. Can't. All condemnation done now, now. And I'm not winning in my marriage by using it. And that has nothing to do with Pastor Amy. That just has to do with life. He was standing up on life that he has seen in life. Right. But you don't know what you did to me. You don't know how you hurt me. You just don't make me feel good about myself. If you're going to marry someone so you can feel good about yourself, you're sabotaging your marriage because who we are in him. Who we are in him. That way if someone does value me, it's on bonus because I'm already valued. Already valued. All self image problems are answered in Christ. All self image problems are answered in Christ. Do not ever let it be said or thought of in your brain. Do not ever let it roll around anywhere like a marble in there. Do not ever let it come to you that I've got to stop doing what I'm doing so I can go find myself. I just gotta go find my. It's called Acts. Romans, 1st Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, There you found yourself. There you found yourself. I can save you lots of travel, money, lots of therapy talk. Save you lots of wrong relationships. Look Open your Bible and find yourself. There you go. Whoo. There you are. Gotcha. Found you. Found me. We once were lost, but now we are found. We're not lost out looking for ourselves. Young people don't ever buy that. That's people who don't know and trying to sound deep the world, bless their heart, they try, but they think things are so deep. And I don't mean. I'm just saying don't get impressed with verbiage. That sound philosophical. You know how deep Paul was. I know man in Christ. That's how deep he was talking about himself. I know a man in Christ. Found him, found Paul, found Nancy, found Pastor Amy. We're still looking for Pastor Mitch, but not. You deserve that and more, brother. The thing is, we have to be skillful at recognizing condemnation instead of it just being. Oh, I'm just evaluating. Listen. The word never tells you to examine you. It tells you examine yourself to see whether you're in the faith. But you start mentally examining you and you're going to end up in conduct consciousness because you're going to remember your flesh. You get into that mental arena and all you're going to go to after that's the flesh. Amen. Really. The safety against condemnation is a renewed mind. Renewing your mind to who you are in Christ. Renewing your mind to the devil's decline. Yeah. Amen. Amen. In the renewing of your mind. Renew your mind with his downfall. Renew your mind with his future. Don't forget that. Because you're going to need to answer him with his own end. Amen. Being conscious of who we are in Christ is the renewed mind. How many times did dad Hagin tell us, get hold of the in him scriptures in whom, by whom? All of these. And feed on them. Feed on them. We have them on our website. You can download them for free. You can go there and we have LinkedIn listed all of those. But probably, I don't know, there may be other places. Just get hold of that. When you on the inside, you struggle with you. The problem is we've got to get the focus off of you. And the Word turns you toward him, who you are in him, not who you are in the flesh in Him. And meditating on those scriptures in Him. Scriptures build in you. You have to not just read them, but meditate them. Get them in your mouth, think about them. Build them in your spirit. Build that in your spirit. Then when you spend it, it will seem real to you. It will disarm. It will disarm any troubled Home you were raised in, it will undo all of that. Because I know this. Not everyone was raised in a sound, wholesome home. I understand that. But God does not leave you with that as your future. There is in Christ that gives us all a level playing ground. Everything is the same for every believer in Christ. One's not more loved, one's not more valued, one's not more appreciated. It's all, we're all the same in Christ. Get out of who you were in the household of Smith or Jones, but get in the who you are in Christ. This is what will transform your life. It will transform the way you treat one another in your marriage. It will transform everything. Because the way you see you determines where you go. The way you see you. What's it say in Proverbs? As a man thinks in his heart, on the inside, the way he really thinks about himself in here, he might not ever say it out here, but the word way he thinks inwardly, that's the way he is. So if something needs to come up out here, something has to come up in here. The way of thinking, the way of seeing yourself. And people try to use all these outward things to come up when the elevator is inside, the lift is inside, seeing, building in yourself who you are in him, that you're not worth something apart from him just because of something you've earned out here. Paul said everything, everything that was really a recognition or of value to the world. He says, I count it as done refuse. I refuse all my, my success, successes of my natural man. All those successes are as refuse. So, so many people spend their whole life trying to out here, feel something better when in here is getting neglected in him. In him. In him. Well, Pastor Nancy, you don't know how somebody treated me. I just know in him you're treated royally, you're treated beautifully. We've got to get our attention off of the wrong realm, the wrong arena. Amen. You know, this condemnation robs you of miracles. You're going to need miracles. But when people live under that sense of condemnation that no value, no self worth, they will not be bold to take a miracle. They won't think themselves worthy of it. They won't. If you, if you struggle with somebody giving you something, work on it, baby, work on it. Work on it. Because that is not a healthy faith hand. Prosperity is in two directions in the giving and the receiving. And people don't mind saying, you know, I don't have a problem giving, but I have a problem receiving. Don't say that. That's the same. That's part of the problem. I give and I receive. Amen. When Moses sent the spies, two men came back with God's word in their mouth. You know, God didn't send them and say, hey, you better look, you better check out those giants. I mean they are big old guys. He did not even bring it up. Why? He just talked about the land he gave them and how it's flowing with milk and honey and it's blessed and all that belongs to them. Why? Because the other stuff, it didn't matter. It was a non issue. Giants are non issue. They're non issue. Opposition is a non issue. Why? They're dethroneding and declining all the way to the end. So two came back saying we are well able. Not because they're talking about their natural abilities. These are slaves. These were slaves. They weren't military men. He didn't come back talking about military ability. They said we're well able. Not because they're taught, they couldn't even been looking at them to say that. But the 10 said, we saw our. There's giants. There's giants. Oh my gosh, there's giants. Well, most, I mean Joshua and Caleb saw the same ones. They said yeah, there are, but. And the others just came back talking about the giants and said we in our own sight, Grasshoppers. Really? That's the best you can come up with for yourself, grasshopper? I mean you, you're living under a cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night, walking across seas and the best you can come up with is I'm a grasshopper? They assigned that to themselves. When they saw the opposition, they decided those are giants. We're grasshoppers. We see ourselves as grasshoppers. And then they went on and so we were in their sight. How do you know? Did you talk to the giant and ask the giant, how do you see me? Am I a grasshopper? Am I a kangaroo? Am I a rat? What am I? It's like who told them that they self assigned something and then they said that's how everybody sees me. This is the problem with a bad self image. You self assign something, then accuse others of seeing you the same way and then start going after other people because they don't treat you and you self assigned it. Some of you haven't smiled yet, but that's okay because came in here in Christ. Anything that puts you down, anything that diminishes you, anything that makes you feel less than you better take your authority and deal with that. Deal with it. Deal with it. It is the accuser of the brethren. And God forbid that we ever join and become a double agent belonging to one kingdom, working for another, belonging to God's kingdom, but working with the devil at seeing ourselves in a bad self image and talking about it. Well, I'm not this and I'm not that. You see yourself in Christ. I loved one testimony and I'm not going to tell the whole, all the details of it because you could maybe guess who it was, but this person had had a bad injury when they were young and because it left them with some, they didn't walk normal and things like that. And they said I was aware and I mean it tore up their face. I mean stitches. Now when they got older, you know, all of that, you couldn't even see a sign of it, but as a young person. And they said, well, if this is what I got to deal with, they said I better work on my insides. And they became a world leader. Well, in this nation, they became a leader in this nation, in their profession because they saw it's not about out here, it's about in here. You cannot use your outside to dismiss you from who you are in Christ. You cannot use your past, you cannot use the family you were raised in, the social standing, the color of your skin, the color of your hair, the way you look. Can't, cannot, won't work. Won't work. Because in Christ levels, everything, everything is the same. We're in him and we all look better in him. So when condemnation comes, no, God's never dealing with you along the lines of condemnation. Your own spirit will convict you of things. But conviction shows you what to change, shows you what to do, and it lifts you out of that place. But condemnation, condemnation takes all hope out to where you feel as though you're pushed down. You don't see yourself any better. You don't see things changing. You don't see things getting better. Because condemnation takes the hope out of people. Why? Because you look at your flesh and you're going to sink. We look at him, we rise. Amen. Now the word condemned means this. To be pronounced, to be wrong, pronounced guilty, pronounced worthless, sentenced to punishment or destruction. None of that describes anyone in Christ. None of it. You are not in line for destruction. You are not worthless. You are not called wrong in front of a face. Why? Because the blood is greater than the accusations of the enemy. For us to fall under condemnation and live under a cloud of that, we have to forget the blood. We have to devalue the power of the blood to live under a sense of condemnation. Amen. Praise the Lord. Now I'll just read it to you for time's sake. And listen. If people don't deal with that self turning on self. Turning on self. Because that's what condemnation is. Its strategy is to get you to turn in on yourself. You'll end up depressed. Much of depression is because of this. The devil has taken thoughts about people and just held it on their head. They took it and he just held it there and they just took it and ran it around. I'm not this oh, if anybody's going to break something, it's going to be me. If anybody's going to fall, it's going to be me. If anybody's going to drip it, it's going to be me. You know, I'm just not there. You better stop. It's sabotaging your faith and it will sabotage where God can take you. Using yourself as a. How to say it? Using yourself, making light of yourself. Don't do. Does it sabotages your faith. I'll read this to you. First John, chapter three, verses 21 and 22. It says, Beloved, if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence toward God and listen to and whatsoever we ask. Now he's talking about prayer. He immediately goes in to talking about prayer. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Now there is a difference. He's talking about condemnation. If our hearts condemn us not, that's when we know we're not doing something. Something right. You know it when you're. When God's dealing with you about something because he's always dealing with all of us about something because none of us are all that. None of us have arrived. So he's always dealing with us about something because he's working to bring us into the fullness of the stature of Christ. So when we act like he's not dealing with us, we disregard it or we just disobey what he's doing, there is going to be a standing back in his presence. We will not be as bold because we know. We know, we know, we know. Even if we've never told anybody, we know if we're. If our heart is not. Mm. One of the things that Paul said, he says, I have kept a good conscience. Meaning this. I don't knowingly do wrong and stay wrong. I get it made right. Notice it affects your prayer life. This is what John said. Amen. Our identity is shrouded with Christ. We need to shroud the mind within Christ thoughts. Seeing ourselves. This needs to become part of our regular diet spiritually. Amen. Amen. Reminding ourselves who we are keeps the door closed to condemnation. Because I guarantee you, condemnation's coming. It's coming. Why? The accuser of the brethren is not going to leave you alone. Amen. Praise the Lord. Now go with me to Mark, chapter 11. I made this statement. When people do not see themselves and settle down on who they are in Christ, rest back on that. Quit striving to make it. You've made it. You're in him now. Let his success become the flow of your life. And do it from a place, place of rest and enjoyment, not inactivity. But you're resting and reclining on who you are in him. Amen. And the more you lean on him, the further you get away from failing. As I said, when people do not, when they opened the door to condemnation, they had to forget the blood. They had to. My husband was talking about on one occasion that he was holding a meeting. And there were many, many healings and miracles in that service. He went back to the hotel room. I wasn't with him on the road at this meeting. And he told us later, he says, I went back to the room. And he says, I tell you what, I was just bombarded on my mind. You shouldn't have said this. You shouldn't have said it that way. You said this wrong. You shouldn't have ministered that way. You shouldn't have done this. Because, see, when demons show up, you better know the answer. Because these things are demons. And they come especially at strategic times. They don't just randomly, but at strategic times. When advancement, when victories are won, when the anointing gets its way. He's trying to back you off that anointing. You think about it. Jesus. Jesus in his hometown of Nazareth. He stood up and preached. Luke chapter 4. And he stood up in verse 18, said, the Spirit of the Lord's upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. And then he goes on and lists the job description of that anointing on him. And they try to push him off a cliff. It's called the accuser of the brethren. People cooperating with Jesus. Demons trying to push him off the cliff. Why don't preach that again? He preached that one sermon and the whole city came after him to throw him off a cliff. Think of it. Jesus told Brother Hagin, that was the first sermon I preached in every city. I Went, why? Because he said I had to tell them what I was anointed with so they would have faith to receive of that anointing. Who would preach that one time, get end up at the cliff, say, I'm going to preach that the next sea day I go to. Because you know, that's what's going to happen with all the religious demons who hate that anointing. That's what's coming. And he kept doing it. When accusation and condemnation comes, something is on the right path. Either you have just done something right, or you're coming into more of what's right. Because condemnation works to try to back you down in your advancement. So Ed in that hotel room had that anointing destroying yokes. Demons don't like anointings that destroy yokes. Why? Because they work a person's whole life to get them yoked up. They'll work in the grandparents, the parents, and pass it on down to you. They'll work for generations to get people in a certain bondage. And it's not a generational curse, it's a dam. He just repeats strategy at work. Don't think you're under curse. If you're born again, you're not under curse. Don't, don't, don't, don't even go there. Don't even go there. But the devil will work in families to fortify. Why? Because he knows if he can get the parent thinking wrong, the parent can train the child the wrong way. And then the child passes it on to the grandchildren and they just keep going. And then they come into contact with the anointing for a moment and it destroys generations and decades of the devil's laboring and working. No wonder he hates the anointing. So when my husband is out there flowing under that anointing, he's got to get him back down, get you back in a corner. And he tries to do it through condemnation of, you shouldn't have said this. You shouldn't have done this. You shouldn't have said. There's so much the devil shouldn't have said. He should not have said, I will exalt my throne. Oh, you shouldn't have said that. Yeah, you should not have said that. And as long as we're on this earth, the strategy is going to try to be used. But the more you renew your mind, the quicker you recognize it and the tighter you keep the door closed to that. Recognize it, recognize it. Do not become a double agent. Start working for him against your own life. And so Ed was you Know it becomes tangible. Because like I said, when the enemy suggests something, you can feel the influence. There's an influence with that to try to get you to believe it. You can feel. Feel those accusations. And so Ed said, he got up the next morning and it was still just bothering him. And he says, I was. I was just looking in the mirror, getting ready. And he says, I was shaving. He said, I'm just crying. He said, tears are running down my face, and I'm just shaving. Tears just run down my face. And he said, that's right. I'm just. I shouldn't have said this. I shouldn't have said that. Should have done that, and I shouldn't have done. Done this. And he said, God, I shouldn't even be in the ministry, you know, I just shouldn't. I just see. And you say, ah, that's so stupid. Tell you what, you don't play with demons, because when demons get on somebody, they don't think right? Because you could say, how could that man ever think himself of that way? See, that's what I'm talking about. Demons are warring against the plan of God for your life. And you can't tell people, just snap out.
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Come on, snap out of it. You better renew your mind out of it. Renew your mind out of it. And so all of a sudden, Ed is standing there and looking in the mirror and saying, yeah, I've just made. I just shouldn't. I just made a mess of last night. And he said all of a sudden he had a vision and he saw a bust of himself, like a marble bust that you might see in a museum or something. And he said, all of a sudden I saw a hammer come and hit that on the top. And he said, cracks just went all throughout that. And he said, I know that's me. God said to him, that's you and all your flaws, all your faults, all your failures. And he said, I know. I tell you, I just, you know, I just shouldn't be in the ministry. And he said, all of a sudden he looked again, and there was blood oozing out. And he said, my blood covers it all. And the blood oozed out and filled in every single crack, every single flaw of that. We have the blood. The devil's got a decline to the end. Mark 11. Are you there with me? Verse 23. We know this passage. Verse 23. For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain. Now what's he talking about? He's talking about your faith shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea. And shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe those things which he saith shall come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he saith. Verse 24. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever you desire, when you what? Pray. When you pray, believe that you receive them and ye shall have them. Verse 25. And when you stand praying, what? Forgive. Forgive. If you have ought against any. Sometimes the ought you have is not against there, but here against yourself. That's what condemnation and sin consciousness does, is you turn it on yourself. And the reason it is able to trouble you is because you haven't forgiven yourself for what you already repented of. That is so good. Because the devil is going to take something pertinent to you that you did and accuse you with it. But once you have repented. Once you have repented, well, go with me over to First John 1:9. First John 1:9. It is for the believer. First John 1:9. If we confess our sins. Listen, it's conditional on us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just. To what? To push you down, to teach you a lesson? Hold you over the fire a little bit, just so you sweat? No, no. If we confess our sin, he is faithful and just. To what? Forgive and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If you miss it, practice stopping right there and repenting. Do not make. Don't wait till. If I could say this. You feel strong, armed to repent. That somebody. A situation. Well, okay, I'll call myself wrong. A weak man will not repent. A strong man will. And people think that. Because if I show myself, if I repent, I'm showing myself weak. No, you're showing yourself strong because a weak man won't take responsibility. When you've gone through a marriage for years and you've never repented, get some strength in you. Because if you will repent, he. He is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse, why not get cleansed? Instead of holding your ground of your side and wrecking your home and wrecking your marriage because you're. Because of what? Weakness. That won't repent. Amen. So when we miss it really quick, repent really quick. Because then you've not left the door open to the enemy. Amen. Because when we sin, we lose our sense of righteousness. We lose that. But he cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Now we're righteous again. Amen. But Pastor Nancy, it's been years so what? So what? What you gonna do? Dismiss yourself from being cleansed? Because it's been years? Well, Pastor Nancy, I've just done it wrong for so many years. Quit, quit, quit doing that. Quit talking about that. Repent and go on. Because now you're wasting more time talking about how many years you've wasted. Stop. That doesn't sound very nice, does it? Not very ladylike. But anyway, to fail to forgive yourself is to doubt that God forgave you. You have to. Did God forgive you or not? You mean that he can forgive you, but you can't forgive you? Listen, if he. He knows you better than you and if he can still forgive us. Amen. Condemnation feeds on people who do not forgive themselves. It thrives on that. No, I forgive myself. Why? By faith. By faith. God cleansed me by the blood of Jesus. My Father forgave me. I'm cleansed of that. And I refuse to lay in bed and let that past recall drag that stuff back up because it's going to make you ineffective to help anybody else because you're so absorbed with you. Self condemnation makes you so self centered. It does because it just holds you and your faults in front of you. Praise the Lord. So since we're forgiven, how long should we feel bad? How long? How long should we feel bad? Now see, I'm not talking about the wrong attitude. That is flippant towards sin. And well, you got to forgive me. You know, people will do things. Well, you know what? You got to forgive me. That flippant attitude is not even repentant because repentant means change. I change. I change. I quit doing what I was doing, doing. And you're not flippant about the price it cost Jesus for you to be clean. You're not flippant about that. But once you genuinely repent from your heart, you repent. It doesn't matter what you feel. From then on out, you are to stand up and say, I forget it. We have to practice that. You have to practice that. Paul said, listen, if there was anyone who could have been troubled and held back by his past, it would have been Paul. He was helping persecute and murder Christians. If there was anybody who could relive seeing the face of Stephen as he died, if there's anybody who could have relived standing as an accuser of other Christians and see their torments and see what they were going through, all this could have been relived. All of it could have been replayed like on a video for him. But he said this One thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind you. Don't forget it till you're forgiven. Some people forget it and they haven't repented. Repent, then forget it. Amen. And he says this one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind and what reaching for to what's ahead. Condemnation cripples hands of faith. It keeps them in the past. If you will quit talking about the past, of what somebody did or didn't do, how it was hard, and I'm not making light of it. But if you. You will quit talking about it. You quit bringing it to the present. You'll leave it under the blood where it belongs, forgiven and forgotten. Your past is worthy of one thing. Forgetting. Amen. Praise the Lord. And all of this is a choice that you make. I forgive myself. I forgive myself. Paul, in forgiving himself, he. He did not dismiss himself from what he had done in the sense of he would tell, I used to be a persecutor of the Church. He wasn't flippant about that. And he didn't say that in a way of condemnation. He was showing this is what God can do for someone who had missed it as far as I have missed it. And God uses me. Amen. Praise the Lord. I said, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Then we'll close with this. Isaiah, chapter 43. Isaiah, chapter 43, verse 25. Isaiah 43, verse 25. God is speaking. And he says, I, even I am he that blots out thy transgression for mine own sake. Now you understand, this is old covenant. He doesn't just blot it out. It is annihilated. It's as though it were never there. Do you know what the blood does for you? It puts you as though you never missed. Puts you back in the place as though you never missed it. How bold would you be to move forward with God if you had never missed it? Well, that's what the blood does for us. It makes it as though we never missed it. And so Isaiah 43, verse 25, I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgression. Look at this. He doesn't even say he's doing it for your sake. He says, for mine own sake. Why does he say he does this for his own sake? Number one, he wants to bless you. And if he remembers it, it's going to hinder the blessings flowing. Amen. Number two, he wants to use you. He wants to use you. I said he wants to use you. And so he totally dismisses you cleanses you from the Mrs. So that he can keep blessing you and so he can keep using you. Amen. You're not dismissed from being used when you're right toward him, when you repent. I mean, you're clean. He wants to use you. I even I am he that blotteth out the thy transgression for mine own sake. Look at this. And will not remember thy sins. Will not. It's a choice of his will. It's a choice of his will. I have chosen in my will is set. I will not remember. Now look at this. Let us plead together. Well, now he's talking about prayer. Now he's talking about prayer. Declare thou that thou mayest be justified. So if he won't remember, why should you? And how long should you feel bad? A week? A month? There is now no condom now. Now the end of. The end of living under a cloud of something of the past. Amen. Hallelujah. This is not just for good preaching. This is for living. This is for good living. And I'm telling you, the more you become skillful and hold to these truths and become skillful with who you are in Christ, you stop being pushed around by everything that tries to hold you back and point to your failure. Amen. Well, stand with me to your feet. Father, we thank you so much for your word. If it weren't for your word, Father, we would not know these things. Thank you for your word. We glorify you. We magnify you. Jesus, it costs you everything so that we could be righteous. Not because we've done everything right, but because you did everything right. We thank you, Father, that you have already. You have already given us the remedy for everything. Every fault, failure, weakness, sin. And I tell you what, can I say this to you? We are authorized to quit looking at us. And I don't know about you, but that's a reaction. Relief. That's a relief. To quit looking this direction for success. I mean this direction. To quit looking inward at me or you at self. To find, to feel good about ourselves. We're dismissed from that. He is the best place to. To look. And who we are in him is what we're to be occupied with talking about, meditating on and moving with him based on that. Amen. Praise the Lord. All these outward things may not be perfect, but that's okay because the outward is not the source of any of the blessing. Amen. And if you're going to forgive yourself, you got to forgive others of what they've done. You can't recall it replay it. No replay button on the blood. Amen. Father, we thank you, Jesus, thank you for that blood. We give you glory and honor. We give you glory and honor. That blood, that blood that is on the mercy seat allows us to occupy our seat, our seat of authority. We thank you for it. We thank you for it, Father. We lift up your plan in this hour. We lift up your plan in this hour. We believe you for miracles, signs, wonders. You said by the prophet's mouth that all five fold ministry offices operating at full potential power. You said all nine manifestations of the spirit, gifts of the spirit, operating at full potential power. We believe that we attach our faith to it and we receive it into the earth as the body of Christ. We receive that. We receive that. We receive the manifestation of that. We believe you for miracles. And we pray that you would grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word by stretching forth thine hand to heal that signs and wonders may be done in the name of thy holy child, Jesus. We believe you for the fullness of your flow. Father, you said ask of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain, so the Lord shall send bright clouds, lightnings. We believe you for that. We ask you for the rain, for this nation, for this earth. Jesus, as we pray, as you prayed, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We pray for your will to be done on this earth. We pray for your will to be done in this nation. We pray for your will to be done in our states, in our cities and in our communities. And we thank you, Father. We thank you that we can come boldly to the throne of grace and lay hold and obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need. How this earth has the time of need. Our nation has the time of need. We thank you that we are invited boldly and we come boldly to take our place in your presence. Clean by your blood, with hands of faith that receives miracles for this place, for this nation, for this earth, for this city, for this era. We thank you for it. Just lift up your voice and let's just begin to pray. Pray in the spirit. We thank you, Father, Mosto coriat. And all glory and all honor and all power. And all glory and all power. All honor to you, Jesus. All glory and power and honor to you, Jesus. We glorify you. We glorify you. We magnify you. We glorify. We magnify. We magnify you. Oh, we praise you that you may be glorified. That you may be glorified. We worship you, Jesus. Now let me say this. When you go to pray, one of the favorite strategies of the enemy, especially when you take time to go pray in the spirit because the mind is bypassed right, Those words are not coming out of your mind. They're not going through your mind. They're coming. Your tongue is hooked up with your spirit. So because the mind is not involved in that process, the devil loves to distract you and try to interrupt your attention to do replays of the mind reminding you of this, accusing you of that. You must learn to turn your attention, put your mind in neutral, answer those things, for one thing, speak to them. That's a lie. That's not me. That's not me. That's forgiven. That's forgotten. Dead issue. But then you turn toward your spirit. Focus on what's happening in your spirit. Focus on your spirit. See yourself before him. But don't just let your mind, don't leave it available. Turn it toward your spirit. What's going on down here? What's going on down here? Because if you'll do that, if you'll turn it toward your spirit, what your spirit knows will float up and enlighten your mind if you need to know something. But that is one of the primary strategies that the devil uses against the prayer life of the believers while they're praying in other tongues. Especially the spirit filled, the spirit filled. He hates the spirit filled prayers because you've just employed the mind of God and you've got God on the the line. You're using his understanding, not your understanding. So while you're praying, the devil would love to draw you back into that mental arena because he doesn't mind you speaking words. If I dad Hagin used to talk about this and he didn't elaborate on it a lot. Maybe the seagulls heard more. Something he said, you can pray in other tongues. It not even be the Holy Ghost. Your spirit has just learned to say something things. What's that mean? You're not hooked in. You're not hooked in. Your attention and your focus is on something out here and it's not even benefiting. So this is part of our practice. It's part of the practice of the renewed mind, of what do you do with your mind. So when you're praying in the spirit, focus on your spirit. Envision yourself before Jesus and focused on, focused on what's going on here, here. Amen. Praise the Lord. Are you helped tonight, Jesus? Thank you. We glorify you. We magnify you. Let's sing something. Yeah.
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Hallelujah. We worship you, Jesus. We glorify you. What an honor to be a co laborer with God in prayer. Right. And to best. If I could say this, to best be available to him is to not be available to the wrong thing. No condemnation. Not available to it anymore. Amen. Not available to it anymore. Hallelujah. Renewing our minds, finding out who we are and holding to and speaking and answering wrong thoughts with who we are are and building that in us. Amen. Well, you don't want to miss in the morning. Pastor Noel Ramos will be here and Ruby, Ruby Rosa Rodelas Ramos will be here with him. And you don't want to miss it. 10am and again tomorrow night, 7pm Also Thursday, the same turn to somebody before you're dismissed and say it is so good to belong to him and you can be dismissed. God bless you. 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.