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Resisting Gets You Into Receiving, Part 2 | Morgan Dufresne | Paducah, Kentucky | JTH Crusades 2025 | Tuesday AM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Well, we'll continue. I think this morning, in the direction I had a particular sermon that I had been, a direction I had been meditating on, that I felt like was right for these, for my part. And then the Holy Ghost decided he was gonna readjust some things in that praise. Turn with me, if you would, to Acts, go to Acts 18. In fact, I was thinking there in Acts 17 and Verse 28. And for in him we live and move and have our being, and a great sermon and wonderful things on all of that. And I was like, oh, good. You know, just. Just typing things down, writing things up. And then as we call him at home, the reverend got up yesterday, and if you missed it, that's okay. You got to go back and watch. Like I said, you got to watch him. You can't just listen. You got to watch. And as he was ministering, he made a statement, and he said, there's a sliver. Remember, there's a sliver of time from when you resist, you have to that resisting time. From when you. You believe and when you expect to the time it manifests, there's the resisting time. And what you do in that sliver of time determines the amount of time. And so that stood out to me. And I want us to just look at what do we do in that time. Sliver of time. Let's call it a sliver. How about that? But I was reading actually in 17, and then I like to just kind of keep going. I'll go before and after, because that's what I was going to preach on. But as I was going reading before and reading after, I got so tickled at a particular passage. I mean, I just laughed to myself. And I went in and told Steve, like, you know, what happened in Acts chapter 18. And it just tickled me. And then this morning when I got up, I go, oh, that's so funny. I think that will fit in the sermon this morning. So look with me, if you would. Acts, chapter 18, verse 12. And it says, and when the King James or the amplified classic reads, and when Gallio was pro council of Achai, most of Greece, the Jews unitedly made an attack upon Paul and brought him before the judges, see, declaring, this fellow is advising and inducing and inciting people to worship God in violation of the law of Roman Moses. But when Paul was about to open his mouth to reply, Gallio said to the Jews, if it were a Matter of some misdemeanor or villainy. Oh, Jews, I should have cause to bear with you and listen. But since it's merely. You can hear, he's perturbed. He's. He's annoyed. He's annoyed, he's frustrated. Why did you bring me in here for this? But since it is merely a question of doctrine about words and names in your own law, see to it yourselves. I decline to be a judge of such matters, and I have no intention of trying to trying such cases. And he drove them away from the judgment seat. Then the Greeks all seized Sosthenes, however you say his name, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him right in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this. And I laughed about that. It was like a cartoon. They were so done with this man. I beat him. Let's just beat him right here. How many times you think he had drugged this leader of the synagogue, had drug everybody in there for some foolish argument, trying to refute. And he said, I'm done with this. They all said, we're done. We're done. And in fact, we're not even waiting to take this outside. How about right here? The Greeks had had enough. I love that. And I just picture, you know, how in the cartoon they just start piling, and you see the dust start, you know, flying. They had had enough of this man dragging them into court to argue over what the word had been spoken, over who Jesus was, over what salvation was, over what had been purchased. All the revelation that they were beginning to preach. They were done with it. And they said, we're not doing anything else, but we're going to beat the fool out of this man. And clearly the leader of the Greeks was giving permission because it said, he sat there, so he was done, too. And I just laughed, and I thought about that all day yesterday. They just beat the fool. It's a serious situation, right? There's persecution in the church. And they said, we have had enough. We're taking matters into our own hands. And they began to beat this man. And I dare say I'm not advocating violence, but you know what? You've been pushed around enough. And he was wasting everybody's time. He was wasting everybody's time. They couldn't make advancements because they kept being drugged back before the court over something that had no. There was no need for discussion. And even the leader of the Romans said, we don't even see that this is valid. We don't even see this is worth showing up for anymore. So he enjoyed himself a good beating. You know, in our family, when things get serious, that's when we start laughing. So you say, well, how can you laugh? A man got beat. Because that's what we do when it gets too serious or too awkward. Right. I mean, I remember the night before or night my father in law went home to be with Lord. Yeah, I mean it was serious, but we sat up, the three of us, and told stories and laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed and talked about we didn't have to go on a cruise anymore. And there was we. The things we did, I mean, and we just laughed, laughed and had such a wonderful time. Why the joy of the Lord is your strength. And it just got too serious that day. We had had to have a meeting with the staff and Pastor Nancy's, you know, giving out direction and we got. And then we realized we got a service to plan and she just forget it. We're gonna sit here and we're just gonna have ourselves a good time. But in meditating on this, I realized that this is exactly what they did with this man. This is exactly what our mind does every single day. It draws you into that place of reasoning and question. And let's debate this, let's discuss this. How's it gonna happen? Prove. And it wants to hold you captive with the turning over again and again and again. And you gotta take your mind and sometimes just beat it. That's right. Come on. If you don't know how to beat your mind with the word of God, you're missing out. You not dragging me in here again to discuss where's the money going to come from? How's it going to happen? Let's bring your mind. It wants to bring your mind before the court. That's right. That's right. Of what you deserve and what you're worth and how you, how you've earned it and how you can make it happen. And how if you'll just go to the doctor one more time. And what makes you think you have a right to lay hold of healing and you have to take your mind and before the devil and everybody else beat your mind and say, that is not my thought, that is not my direction. In fact, I'm tired of showing up here. I'm tired of circling back to this place again. Because now you're keeping me from making progress in what God has given me. Amen. They were trying to make progress for the kingdom of God. And that's all the devil wants to do, is to hold you up in your mind, spinning around in your mind, and it keeps us from making progress. He wants us to stay in that sliver of space between believing and releasing our faith and receiving the manifestation. So how does he do that? He'll let you lay hold. He'll let you confess for a time, and he'll wait until you're tired. He'll wait until you've slacked off a little bit. He'll wait and then he starts bringing those reasonings up. You know what? Let's go back before the court again and see. Are you really qualified to expect the things that you're expecting? Do you really. Are you really worth. We've been talking about that a lot this week. Pastor Nancy's been hitting on that. That because he loved us, not our performance. But what were the Jews wanting to do? Everything was about performance. Everything was about what they. They sacrificed and how they wore their clothes and how they walked in into the temple and how they did this, what was leaving and what they had to let go of was their performance. And they were angry that a group of people had fallen, found out they didn't have to perform perfect to receive perfect. So that's what your mind. You'll loop back around. Hi. You know what? I'm going to get it the next time tomorrow when I get up. I'm going to get it better tomorrow. And, you know, I'll better qualify with my faith. I'll better qualify to receive my healing that I've been believing for. You know what? I just didn't confess enough today. Who does that sound like? It sounds like the Jews. Well, you didn't do enough, and you didn't worship and you didn't sacrifice enough, and you didn't wear enough, and you didn't do this enough, and you didn't do that enough, didn't bend over, didn't kneel enough, didn't do all the things. And you got to take your mind and say, oh, no, I'm tired of that. I am tired of looping back around to myself, my performance, looking at who I'm not, who I should have been, where, how far I should have gone. And they were done. The Greeks were done. You have to be done. And that progress means more to you. Progressing in the things of God means more to you and means more, you realize, means more to God then coming and bringing yourself back to some kind of judgment. I'm not saying we don't examine ourselves. I'm not saying that. But you know, when the spirit of God is dealing, the spirit of God bears witness with your own spirit. So if he's not bearing witness for something to you make, for you to make adjustments, don't take yourself before judgment. Here we are again. Like Stephen said yesterday, I'm once again asking for your financial support. Bernie Sanders. I'm once again back here with the same symptoms and not enough. In the resisting is the receiving. When are we going to start resisting our own mind and our own carnal thinking and say, I cannot afford to not come up higher in my thinking. Cannot afford that anymore. Amen. Every time you resist wrong thoughts, you enlarge your capacity to receive. Every time you resist wrong thoughts and you won't give them any moment throughout your day. Every time you resist wrong thoughts, you have enlarged your capacity to receive. Why? Because wrong thoughts fill in the space between believing and receiving. You know, releasing your expectation and manifestation. So every time I become skillful at kicking out wrong thoughts in that sliver of time, I have just enlarged my. My capacity and my spirit man, because one's gonna fill you up. It's either your mind or your spirit, And they're always competing. Which is filling my day is my spirit man. Filling my day is what's coming out of me. Filling my day is what he said to me. Filling my day. Or is my own thoughts and reasonings and figuring this out filling up my day and my time. So every time you become quick to kick out a thought, you just enlarge your capacity to receive from God that day. Why? Because you didn't fill yourself up. What you think on, whether you realize it or not, drops down into your spirit man, and affects your believing. The devil doesn't just want thoughts to stay in your head. He wants them to be believed by your heart. That's why the constant, he constantly brings the same thought over and over again, over and over again. Defeat, doubt, self doubt, questioning. When's it going to happen? When's it going to change for me? When is this going to be different? Why did everybody else seem to receive their healing, but mine still hasn't manifested? The longer you keep thinking about how long it's going to take for you, that just keeps extending that time because you're now filling yourself up. There's no power in the carnal natural mind. Power comes from the word of God. It's life. Giving the word of God is life. That's why you can even go and you may not understand it. My, my goodness. You can go read Revelation. You go, something, something's different. I may not have understood what, anything. What this is saying, and I can't interpret it. And the Holy Ghost didn't reveal all these, you know, end time events. But the word of God is so alive that you can just read two pages from something that your mind may not fully understand. And you go, something happened. Something happened. Same way you can feed on for 20 minutes a thought that's so discouraging or questioning. Or again, looping you back to your past. Or how about this? Even to the present. It doesn't even have to loop you back to what happened. It just loops you back to where you're at right now. You just want to think about where I'm at right now. Where I'm at right now. God is the beginning in the end. He's interested in you, looking at the expected end that he has for you. What is that? Victory. Increase. This is what happens oftentimes when we continue to think about our needs. We're just looping back in that time. Okay, my God supplies my needs. Why are you saying, my God supplies all my needs? Is it because you're looking at the need? Because you look at. You keep paying attention to, oh, my God supplies all my needs. Are we answering it because we're thinking about it, or are we declaring that because we're resting? It's already done. You can hear it in your own voice. My God chose by all my needs. Why? Because we're trying to get the supply out of God's hands to meet our need. Because we keep thinking about our need. There's a difference in my God, child. Is he, is he is supplying. So today I'm done with my need and I'm moving on to the next thing that he's got for me. That's when God dealt with me with that passage in Psalms. The Lord is increasing you more and more. You and your children, get off the need and get on the increase. Get off the need and get on the increase. Get off the need and get on the increase. Because in that increase, every need is already taken care of. Why? Stop looping back in that time, in that space that Stephen was talking about. What do we do in that? Go to James. You know your own mind. Before we go there, write these two things down. Your own mind, on its own, your mind can give you two things. You want to know what it can give you? Just so we know exactly what your mind, your carnal mind has to offer you two things. It can only give you what you have experienced in the past. That's it. Your mind can give you what you've experienced. In the past, or number two, it loves to give you what you should be fearful of for the future. That's it. When you go to your mind, I'm talking about an unrenewed. We're talking about an unrenewed mind, not a renewed mind. Unrenewed mind. It will give you two things. What you've experienced in the past, it'll draw it up. And then number two, a fear of what's coming in the future. So when you're faced with a need and you immediately turn to your mind, it'll either go back to what you went through, what you experienced, and try to repeat, yeah, it's gonna happen again. This is the way it works for you. It works differently for other people because there's more skillful in faith. They live in a different part of the country than you. They just have more, you know, they've had more given to them, more offered to them. They have a better job, they have a better, you know, opportunity to feed on, you know, healing or go be in a ministry line more often, or what you're going to be, you should be what it wants you to be afraid of the future, the unknown. So your mind only knows how to give you two things, the known of the past and the unknowns of the future. It's the only thing it can draw from, only thing it wants to draw up. What I don't. What I did know and what I have experienced and what I have yet to experience that I might need to be concerned about. So I got a plan, right? So either we try to avoid because of the past or we try to plan out of fear for the future. What do we do? We're looping back around. What do you do? You pull that thought out and you start beating that thing with the word of God. You say, I am tired of coming looping back to this judgment seat of my past and what I don't know about my future. I'm tired of coming back to this place. And so I'm gonna pull that thought out. And today you're getting a beat. You're getting a beat that's right before the devil and everybody. You're getting beaten in the word of God because like the Greeks, I've had enough. I've had enough. Say, I've had enough. James, chapter four. James, chapter four and verse seven. If we would really be honest with ourselves, it's because many times we haven't had enough. We're not that fed up with it. We're not that tired of where we're at. And what we've been dealing with and the symptoms. We've managed the symptoms enough to get some relief, but we're really not fed up. James, chapter 4 and verse 7 says, Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Resist. This is what my husband was saying yesterday in the resisting is the receiving. Resist the devil. And it doesn't say that he maybe will flee. He's not staying around for a beating. He's not staying around. He's not staying around to hear about what the word of God says. But as long as you're looping back to what you know and what you went through and what you're afraid of and how you can maybe figure out by your own education and by what you can finagle and how the extra hours you can work and by if I'll just go to this doctor, then I'll know what to put my faith on. We heard that didn't work for Pastor Cody on Sunday. If you weren't here on Sunday. He ministered about healing and he talked about the problem he was having with his leg, the situation with his leg and the fifteen hundred dollars after fifteen hundred dollars that they're looking to accumulate and still tell him, come back around. Well, we know something's wrong, but we don't know what it is, why. And he said, I'm done circling back in this time where he knew I need to lay hold of. And so what did he do? He got in the word. He went home, he said, he turned off the TV and he did nothing. What, for two weeks? Two weeks, but beat the devil off his leg. That's exactly what he did. He got in the word of God and the devil didn't want to stick around for that. So when the day came and his family said, we're going to buy a horse and I'm not missing out, he said, I'm going to buy my daughter a horse. So he flung that leg off the couch, left his crutches, stopped planning, stopped looping back to I need to have my brace, I need to have my crutches. Why the devil had been beat for two weeks off of him, that when he got up, resist the devil. And he had fled, he was out of there. He left. You mean to tell me that this Bible is enough for the devil to flee? Absolutely. He doesn't need your loud tongues. He doesn't need you screaming and hollering. Just one word out of these scriptures has enough power in it. Resist the devil and he will Flee. Will flee. Why hasn't he fled? Because you haven't had enough of him. Because I'm not tired enough. I'm not over it. Have you ever heard somebody say, you don't have to say I'm over it, and then they come back the next day and want to talk about it again? Right? Haven't we all been there? You know, I'm over it. I'm over this. So my husband says, I'm done. And what do we do? I'm done. He always goes, I'm done. And then what? What do we want to do? We want to come back the next day. Why? Because we're looping back around to find some relief and some comfort in our thought life. Why? Because the mind, you know, where the mind's connected to the body doesn't want pressure. The mind's connected to the body, so the body's trying to get. I want that pressure off me. I want to feel something. I want to sleep better at night. I want to eat better. I want to. You know what I mean? I don't want to be sitting here. The body does not want to be uncomfortable. So it looks to the mind to settle it. Your mind alone cannot settle your body. It can't settle anything for you. But until you take. Once you take that word, once you say, I'm done with myself in myself, I'm gonna take the word of God. We were birthed from the word of God. Amen. We were born. Why? Jesus was the word made flesh. I was born from my Savior's sacrifice. I need to go back to where I'm born from. Amen. So when you don't accept wrong thinking about sickness and lack. Now listen, I'm going to say this so it doesn't, because it can sound confusing. When you don't accept wrong thinking about sickness and lack, you won't accept sickness and lack. When you won't accept wrong thinking about sickness and lack, you won't accept sickness and lack. Why do we have sickness and lack and difficulties? Oftentimes it's because we've accepted and we're living with and looping with wrong thinking regarding sickness and lack and all the issues that we have going on. And we're not done with the wrong thinking. We're done with the circumstance, but we're not done with the wrong thinking. There's a difference, and that's what I want to look at and I just felt led to point out this morning from his teaching, there's a difference in being done on with a situation. Because you've been dealing with it for so long or a circumstance. And then there's being done with the wrong thinking about it. Am I just done with the. Where I've been and where I'm. I'm looping back, or am I actually really done with the way I think about it? Victory is in the thinking, not in the manifesting. Your victory is in the way you think about it. And when you think right, you're totally free of it, totally free of that. It cannot torment you anymore. So are we done with the situation or are we really done with the way we think? Are we tired of getting up and thinking the same exact way about that circumstance? And we realize I'm stuck in the sliver of time I release my faith. Cause I'm done. I'm done with having lack. I'm done with not having enough. So I heard that my God, he supplies. And I heard that he wants me to increase. And I heard if he I sow that I have favor and every favor and earthly blessing. And that somebody is gonna come up and he's gonna. And put money in my hands and men are gonna give unto my bosom good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. And I heard that. And I am so done not having that. But what happens when we get up the next day? Are we willing to get our minds out like the Greeks did and beat our mind with the word of God and say, and not only am I done with the situation, I'm done coming back to the same thought about it over and over and over again. Amen. You will always believe what you choose to think on. You will always believe what you choose to think on. That's what you believe. If you got up this morning and whatever your thoughts were this morning, the first thing, like my first thought is, how about I go down and get some coffee from, you know, downstairs? I believe in it so much. I don't put my makeup on. I don't. I throw my hair up, at least in a clip. Throw my hair up. And then I put on some slip on shoes and I shuffle my way down there and. Because I believe in that coffee so much. Listen, I don't even care who's down there. I don't. Because I believe in the manifestation of what I'm gonna receive when I go down and get my cup of coffee. That's how much I believe, Right? But see, do what I'm gonna lay hold, elevator rides, stairs, whatever. You know, if the elevator's down, you're still going to find Going to the very end. You're gonna get on those stairs and you're gonna walk yourself down. And in fact, I believed in it so much, I went down twice today. But what do you think about when you first get up in the morning? And are you tired of being drug back to judging what God hadn't done for me, what I haven't done for him, how I haven't said enough and I haven't believed enough. And I. Believing is simply knowing that he's already done enough. And it's mine right now, whether I see it or not, whether my mind can understand it or not. So you can know what you think on is what you're believing. That really puts into perspective for us our meditation time in the Word and our revelation in the Word. Amen. Go to Second Corinthians, chapter 10. Second Corinthians, chapter 10, verse 3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Verse 5 in the amplified classic reads, inasmuch we refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God. And we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ. What is the obedience of Christ? I was meditating on this one day. The obedience of Christ is the Word of God. That's the obedience of Christ, His Word. Does that thought obey the Word? Does this thought that I'm meditating, is it obeying the Word or not? And if it's not obeying the Word, if it's not in obedience to the word of God, then I have to take that thought and bring it under. I've got. Take it captive. That's what they did to, you know, Mr. SOS. They brought him captive because they were so tired of their time being taken captive over and over again. Being taken captive back before the judge and thank God for the new man in charge because he sat back and let it happen. Why? Because wrong thoughts take up a lot of time. We end up wasting a lot of time with a lot of wrong thoughts. I've been there. It is a daily practice, a daily discipline. Amen. When I went down this morning to get the coffee, to get my coffee, I saw Ms. Reeva. I saw your gals down there and saw the most beautiful. Beautiful. Is her name Ginger? Jenny. Jenny. Most beautiful golden retriever. Jenny. Okay. And Jenny, as soon as I came down and you know, Jenny, golden retrievers they so sweet, so affectionate, right? I wish I had a picture of her. Maybe you've seen her in the hotel. And Jenny comes up and she's rubbing, you know, immediately. And she just wants to be touched and loved. And she was pulling, you know, you could see her pulling on the leash and then somebody else shoved. And she's got to go, you know, greet them and touch them and, you know, rub on them. Don't you love those kind of dogs? And they just love life. They're just so happy and people make them so happy and you want to be around them and they make you happy. Coffee and dogs. So I get my dog up. When I go get my coffee, I do. I'll get up, I go get my coffee, sit down, pull out my Bible, and I got my dog right next to me. Those are the two things that I believe in every three things every morning. Bible, dogs and coffee, okay? And so this dog she's leading, you can see her pulling on that leash because why? In her brain it says, I have to be touched, right? That dog's brain is wired for human affection. And this is what happens with our own brain, our own mind. We want to touch an answer, we want to touch, touch a solution. We've got to. And our brain starts pulling us and touching. I've got to touch something the body wants to touch. How are we going to get the money? Where is it going to come from? The physical senses want to know right now. It's always wanting to touch something in the natural to settle it and to make it happy. That's what the mind wants to. To do. It's looking. So what are you going to? Which direction are you going to let it go? Who you going to? What are you going to let your mind touch on? But there are times that your mind doesn't need to be a golden retriever, right? Your mind needs to be a rottweiler. Your mind needs to be on guard and have an answer. Every time. Every time we have one dog, every time someone shows up to the gate, he just starts barking. We had another dog that was with him and then we put her into retirement. But my goodness, every time somebody showed up to the gate, they just start barking, just barking. Which is what we've got them for, right? That's what we have them for. And we don't let strangers, obviously, in the house, in the property. I believe if somebody came over, there would definitely be an altercation. But usually it's one. Once they come out and they see that we are receiving of that person one did try to get and you had to pop him in the nose. But he realized real quick, oh, okay, okay, okay. Josh had to pop him in the nose. He goes, oh, okay. He's very subservient. But he had to be put in his place. And you realize these dogs, they're barking, they're alarming, they're alerting, they're on guard, versus just accepting like the poodles. Just accept. Everybody, welcome to our home. Let me show you. Can you get us a treat? Can you. You know, what can you offer us today? And there's times that your minds need to be ready to touch that word. I cannot do anything else until my mind touches the word of God. I've just got to touch that revelation one more time. I just got to get. Get my mind set and I can't move it. I don't want to go anywhere. Those poodles, they follow you around that house. You can't go anywhere without both of them. I don't care if they just laid down and fell asleep. Once they hear you walk out of that room, they get up and they follow you out of that room. Then they follow you to the next room. They can't leave your side. They've got to be touching. They've got to be with you. That's how we have to be with the Word of God. I cannot put any, any space, any distance. The way you cut down that time before releasing your faith and manifestation is don't put any distance between you and the Word. The closer you. The quicker you close the space in your mind from the Word of God, the quicker you close that space from releasing your faith and manifestation, holding fast to the Word of God. Amen. But then sometimes your mind needs to be like that aggressive dog and say, I do not take you. You are not coming in here for the last time. If today's the last time or tomorrow's the last time, I'm letting you know this is the last time. Well, what if it comes back? Then you tell it again. This is the last time I'm dealing with you. This is what the Word of God says. And you don't put any space between you and. And what God has spoken about your situation. This is how we cut down that time. Instead of looping back and making that time drag on in between the time we release our faith to, the time it manifests is we cut down our space in the Word of God. How closely are we staying with God's word and revelation? Amen. We can't Be touching every thought. We cannot touch every thought. We cannot welcome every thought. Obedience training, they say for. They say for dogs, obedience training is for the owner and the dog. Right? Right. You say, you know, you got to train. They want to train that dog not to put. Pull on that leash. You're not in charge. I'm in charge. But who has to initiate that? The owner. Because that dog will revert back as soon as that trainer leaves. That dog will revert back. If they know, they're smart. They know. If I can get by with a little tug here and there, I can get by with a lot of tugs pulling on. Come in this direction. Come think, you know, just get up and why don't you go look at those books one more time? Why don't you just go. You know what? Just make that one last appointment because, you know, you might just. If you. If you'll just stay on that meds, those. That medication, what's that going to do? That's not going to hurt you. Just stay on those medications. Your mama did didn't hurt. Her daddy did. No big deal. It's natural. That's what I mean. After all, didn't God put all that stuff on the earth for the medicine? I don't want to be a slave to anything. I don't want to be a slave. I don't want to have to be bound right to anything. So what is it trying to do? Your thoughts are trying to just tug you and pull you in the direction of settling and looping back in that space and never receiving, never laying hold. Amen. So what do you have to do? Remember, it was for the trainer and the dog. You got to train yourself to reel that mind back in. Tug that leash back and say, no, you don't. We're not touching that thought today. That may feel good to my flesh. That may. May settle some things for me right now. But that's going to get me into trouble because I'm going to end up touching the wrong thing. Amen. So what time is it? It's 11. If I am now, I'm going to shorten you. There's two keys, and I'll give you these. And I don't know if we'll go this direction on Thursday or not, but there's two things that the spirit of God. We've been talking about renewing the mind this morning. We've been talking about in the direction of renewing the mind. But there's two key components to resisting what my husband said yesterday, to resisting the devil. Two Key components. Number one is revelation. That's what we've been talking about this morning, getting revelation on your situation. Once you have Revelation, you renew your mind with that revelation. Amen. But you can't do the second without the first. And the second thing is. So two key components to resisting is revelation, which is renewing the mind. And two is rejoicing. Revelation and rejoicing. Many times we'll get into service and we want to switch to rejoicing without any revelation. Revelation comes first. Revelation is first. Why? I'm not rejoicing. Trying to get. Many times people want to rejoice. Why? Because they get a feeling in that rejoicing environment. And then, like my husband says, three days later, that feeling isn't there anymore. Why? Because we're word and spirit. We had an experience in the Spirit. But if we don't have enough Word, we're going to need to go hunt for that feeling again, that rejoicing feeling. Right. So we have to have both. Why? Because in the rejoicing, power flows. In the rejoicing, power flows. What happened when Pastor Nancy got up on her back porch and just did a little dance? She had been believing, she had been speaking, and then she felt prompted to get up. Why? Because the revelation was already there. So when she rejoiced, power flowed. And there was no topper to put the lid on that revelation. And it was just like that, that situation. Why? She cut down the time right. Of her releasing her faith and the manifestation. How'd she do that? She had gotten revelation, gotten in the Word, her mind was renewed. She was thinking, right. And then prompted by the Spirit of God, because we're Word and Spirit. She rejoiced and the power flowed. And that thing turned. That situation turned. Amen. So those are the two key components. We spent time on the first one this morning, Revelation, which is renewing the mind, taking. And not just memorizing Scripture, not just memorizing what the Word of God says, not just doing the good old memory verse. I need to do my daily devotional. I need more than a daily devotional. I mean, daily devotionals are good. I'm not against them. I need more than that. I need revelation. And sometimes that means going back to the same scripture every single day. Sometimes daily devotionals, they move too fast for me. I'm sorry. Maybe I'm slow. I didn't get it the first time, you know? But I loop back. Because in order to not loop back to my need and my circumstance, I'm gonna loop back to that same scripture over because there's enough power in that scripture. There's enough revelation in that scripture. I didn't read any new scriptures this morning. I didn't read any new. I didn't pull anything out of some obscure place in the Bible. All the same scriptures we've read. Why? But in those, there's life, there's power, there's understanding. We're destroyed for lack of knowledge. So my thing is in order that my finances and my body and my family aren't destroyed. I'm getting knowledge and I'm going to beat my mind with that knowledge until it is so subservient to the Word of God and is never moved again. It's not even interested in touching and cuddling up to anything else. Amen or you help this morning. Amen. So we've got some understanding and some answers of what to do when he said in the Resisting is the receiving. Exactly. Resisting is renewing the mind with revelation and and then we have grounds and a platform for rejoicing. Amen. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. 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