I want to discuss with you about a message which the Lord has put in my heart. On Wednesday, I saw a video from Inside Edition called Cop Flips Pregnant Mom’s Car For Not Pulling Over Fast Enough, which details that she had her flashers on when she saw the trooper pulling her over. According to NBC News, she was going 84MPH (14MPH over the speed limit). According to the same article, there was a 52% increase in drivers ignoring the signals to pull over, and they started utilizing the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) Maneuver decades ago.
Inside Edition reports she was worried for her baby. According to NBC News, she suffered “severe injuries,” but according to Inside Edition, her baby which was born in February 2021, was fine. This trooper named Rodney Dunn according to one interviewee for Inside Edition (I didn’t catch a name) used “unequivocally deadly force,” and the lawsuit said Dunn’s decision was “negligent.”
My heart went out to the Mom and I wanted to “react,” so to speak, to this situation. I then began to pray because I didn’t have anything to say or know where to start, plus I just want the Spirit’s thoughts to be present in every situation.
Then Saturday night, I read an article from CBN News about the leak of the Supreme Court draft to overturn Roe v. Wade. This article was brought to us by the Associated Press. Conservative Justice Clarance Thomas comments mainly on the breach of trust which occurred on May 2 of this year when the Supreme Court draft was leaked to Politico. Later, he discusses the protests and mentions “fighting tit with tat,” and that conservatives didn’t protest at the homes of liberal Supreme Court justices when things didn’t go their way (we will discuss some principles mentioned later. Please read the above article to get his full thoughts). Let’s begin:
How Do I Present Myself Before God?
Joshua 24:1, NKJV says, “Then Joshua gathered all of the tribes of Israel to Shekem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges; and they presented themselves before God.” I want you to not read this unless you are at a place where there are no distractions. This is because of the holiness of the moment and the need to learn to be present at all times, even in your family times. The Lord wants to use this blog, video (I’m going to be reading and commenting on this) and podcast to speak prophetically into the nation.
We find the answer to the question of how we present ourselves before God in Romans 12:1-2, TPT:
Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? To surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. Stop immitating the ideals and oppinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.”
I want to tell you my experience concerning worshipping the Lord in spirit and truth (John 4:24). Two weeks ago at the time I wrote this sermon’s outline, I started breaking curses with Pastor Mickey. Before that, it was hard for me to stop rebelling against my Lord. We’ll discuss this part later. During the course of me breaking these curses, it got easier and easier for the Lord to break down those barriers between us and for me to worship Him. I most days get up and let the Spirit dictate what songs I am to sing to Him in worship. When I worship, I find the lyrics to the songs (most songs have the lyrics on Spotify, which is the platform I use). I have also been making a Songbook folder on my BrailleNote (read my blog Being Legally Blind to know more about this device and Braille, which is how I write). I encourage you to find lyrics and either make a songbook or make it where you can sing along with them in using the plattform YouTube.
Our next verse is found in James 4:1-10, TPT:
What is the cause of your conflicts and quarrels with each other? Doesn’t the battle begin inside of you as you fight to have your own way and fulfill your own desires? You jealously want what others have so you begin to see yourself as better than others. You scheme with envy and harm others to selfishly obtain what you crave—that’s why you quarrel and fight. And all the time you don’t obtain what you want because you won’t ask God for it! And if you ask, you won’t receive it for you’re asking with corrupt motives, seeking only to fulfill your own selfish desires. You have become spiritual adulterers who are having an affair, an ungodly relationship with the world. Don’t you know that flirting with the world’s values places you at odds with God? Whoever chooses to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy! Does the Scripture mean nothing to you that says, “The Spirit that breathed into our hearts is a jealous Lover who intensely desires to have more and more of us?” But he continues to pour out more and more grace upon us. For it says, “God resists you when you are proud but continually pours out grace when you are humble.” So then, surrender to God. Stand up to the devil and resist him and he will flee in agony. Move your heart closer and closer to God, and he will come even closer to you. But make sure you cleanse your life, you sinners, and keep your heart pure and stop doubting. Feel the pain of your sin, be sorrowful and weep! Let your joking around be turned into mourning and your joy into deep humiliation. Be willing to be made low before the Lord and he will exalt you.
As I was reading the article concerning Clarance Thomas’ thoughts on the protests, the Lord gave me the following Scripture, found in Ephesians 4:31, TPT:
Lay aside bitter words, temper tantrums, revenge, profanity, and insults.
Again, we read in James 4 that the reason people quarrel and fight is because they are seeking to fulfill their own desires. The protesters outside of the conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes are proudfully seeking their own will. If you are a Christian and you are a part of these protests, you must repent before the Lord as you read this blog or listen to the sermon.
Before we were Christians, we were all idolaters.
Joshua 24:2, NKJV says the following:
And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ×Yr fathers, including Terrah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times, and they served other gods.
Witchcraft has been reinvented in this day and age, although the demons worshipped are still the same demons. Everet Roeth even did a teaching at HungryGeneration called What Does Sorcery Look Like Now? Everyone before we’ve became Christians has worshipped some other god, even if you were an Atheist, that god being yourself.
Atheists, you may object and say that you don’t believe that you created the world. Keep this in mind: Because you dictate your own morals, that makes you a god in your own eyes.
Exodus 20:1-6, NKJV says the following:
And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image— any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
This is only a part of the moral code that we Christians follow. Your moral code as an Atheist is, “We cease to exist; therefore, let’s live our best life now because we only have one life.” This is the jist of it. Sure, everyone instinctively knows that certain things are evil and certain things are good, and that’s because God placed that in our conscience. Why have morals when there is no such thing as heaven and Hell?
Talking now to Christians, many of us even say that we are serving the Lord and we love the Lord. In our actions, though, we keep rebelling against His voice and let our own wants trump the instructions the Holy Spirit gave us to do. For instance, before I started breaking those curses two weeks ago, it was hard for me to read the Word without getting board. The Lord now if He asks me to do similar things which I did back then has me read different books (or just one) and then go back to the reading He asked me to do. This way, it isn’t boring to me.
Let’s look at 1 Corinthians 6:9-20, TPT:
Surely you must know that people who practice evil cannot possess God’s kingdom realm! Stop being deceived! People who continue to engage in sexual immorality, adultery, sexual perversion, homosexality, fraud, greed, drunkenness, verbal abuse, or extortion—these will not inherit God’s kingdom realm. It’s true that some of you lived in those lifestyles, but now you have been purified from sin, made holy, and given a perfect standing before God—all because of the power of the name of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and through our union with the Spirit of our God. It’s true that our freedom allows us to do anything, but that doesn’t mean that everything we do is good for us. I’m free to do as I choose, but I choose to never be enslaved to anything. Some have said, “I eat to live and I live to eat!” But God will do away with it all. The body was not created for illicit sex, but to serve and worship our Lord Jesus who can fill the body with himself. Now the God who raised up our Lord from the grave will awaken and raise us up through his mighty power! Don’t you know that your bodies belong to Christ as his body parts? Should one presume to take the members of Christ’s body and make them into members of a harlot? Absolutely not! Aren’t you aware of the fact that when anyone sleeps with a prostitute he becomes a part of her, and she becomes a part of him? For it has been declared: The two become one single body. But the one who joins himself to the Lord is mingled into one spirit with him. This is why you must keep running away from sexual immorality. For every other sin a person commits is external to the body, but immorality involves sinning against your own body. Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who lives in you? You don’t belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit lives inside your sanctuary. You were God’s expensive purchase, paid for with the tears of blood, so by all means, then, use your body to bring glory to God!”
Anyone trying to fill the void God placed within us with something other than God will never fill it. New Agers try and fill it with the counterfeit version of the Spirit’s power, not realizing that Christ’s Spirit can truly “awaken” their spirits.
To give some background, Corinth was the capital of sexual immorality, so to speak. As we see in the Word of God, God condemns one-night-stands. I want to give you a practical reason for not having sex outside of marriage and/or why you and spouse should get deliverance before you get married: When you are fornicating, you can receive both sexually transmitted diseases, and what Bob Larson calls, “Spiritually Transmitted Diseases,” meaning that you can get someone else’s demons. When you get married without receiving deliverance, you may not receive the sexually transmitted diseases, such as Aids and HIV, but you will receive the spiritually transmitted diseases. You get each other’s demons.
Whatever it is that God has freed you from, you must stay away—if necessary—from your own family. . . You must stay away from any and all persons who were integral in your bondage. As I write this, the Lord reminded me of Luke Matthew 10:37-38, TPT:
“Whoever loves father or mother or son or daughter more than me is not fit to be my disciple. And whoever comes to me must follow in my steps and be willing to share my cross and experience it as his own, or he cannot be considered to be my disciple.
My firm belief is that when a person first professes their faith in Christ, they should get deliverance. The first step after you’ve received Jesus is the breaking of generational curses (for more on generational curses, check out Bob Larson’s YouTube channel. For the sake of time and space, I cannot go into this teaching here).
The breaking of generational curses, as I have already noted, helped me and will help you in your freedom. Doing this is an integral part of it. We read previously that “whoever joins himself to the Lord is mingled into one spirit with him.” (1 Corinthians 6:17, TPT). Well, Pastor Mickey and I enrolled in the International School of Exorcism® and Advanced Academy of Deliverance. During this time as I wrote out the study guide and listened to the lecture concerning “soul bonds,” as Dr. Larson calls them and how they are formed, I thought about these steps in relation to our relationship with the Lord and got excited, praying that I might form a soul bond with Him. He has graciously answered my prayers!
The Process of Deliverance
Joshua 24:3-5, NKJV reads:
“Then I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, led him throughout all the land of Caanan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac. To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. Also, I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to what I did among them. Afterward I brought you out.
The first step of deliverance is Salvation: when you say the Sinner’s Prayer or some type of confession of faith. The second part is ministry where you get curse breaking, inner healing, and possibly even exorcism, which is the expelling of demons. Another part of the warfare is a crucifixion of the flesh. Read Genesis through Deuteronomy, which goes more extensively into the topics discussed in Joshua 24:1-15.
The Wilderness Seasons
Our next Scripture is found in Joshua 24:6-7, NKJV:
×Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the Sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. So they cried out to the Lord; and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
Let’s now look at Mark 9:1-10, TPT:
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth. There are some standing here now who won’t experience death until they see God’s kingdom realm manifest with power!” After six days, Jesus took Peter and the two brothers, Jacob and John, and hiked up a high mountain to be alone. His clothing sparkled and became glistening white—whiter than any bleach in the world could make them. Then suddenly, right in front of them, Moses and Elijah appeared, and they spoke with Jesus. Peter blurted out, “Good teacher, this is so amazing to see the three of you together! Why don’t we stay here and set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah?” (For all of the disciples were in total fear, and Peter didn’t have a clue what to say.) Just then, a radiant cloud began to spread over them, enveloping them all. And God’s voice suddenly spoke from the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, and you need to always listen to him.” Then suddenly, as they looked around, they saw only Jesus with them, for Moses and Elijah had faded away. As they all hiked down the mountain together, Jesus ordered them, “Don’t tell anyone of what you just witnessed. Wait until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.” So they kept it to themselves, puzzled over what Jesus meant about rising from the dead.”
Again and again, the Word records that they asked questions of Jesus or were puzzled over what was just said. The next passage of Scripture records a test for the disciples: What is their trust level? Are they doubters? Do they have a relationship with the Lord enough to cast out not just the demons they have previously but this one that is in the little boy?
When I was in rebellion against the Lord, when pride flooded my soul, I was able to do some mighty exploits in His name. Later on when I began to have headaches or experience pain in the Gallstone days which I testified to previously, I complained. I was just like the children of Israel and the disciples. “Master, do You not care that we are about to die?” the Bible records the disciples asking in many accounts of the Lord calming the storm with His Word! Just as it was in the disciples’ lives, so is it with us. God tests our love for and faith in Him. Mark 9:14-29, TPT:
Now when they came down the mountain to the other nine disciples, they noticed a large crowd of people gathered around them, with the religious scholars arguing with them. The crowd was astonished to see Jesus himself walking toward them, so they immediately ran to welcome him. “What are you arguing about with the religious scholars?” he asked them. A man spoke up out of the crowd. “Teacher,” he said, “I have a son possessed with a demon that makes him mute. I brought him here to you, Jesus. Whenever the demon takes control of him, it knocks him down, and he foams at the mouth and gnashes his teeth, and his body becomes stiff as a board. I brought him to your disciples, hoping they could deliver him, but they were not able to do it.” Jesus said to the crowd, “Why are you such a faithless people? How much longer shall I remain with you and put up with your unbelief? Now, bring the boy to me. So they brought him to Jesus. As soon as the demon saw him, it threw the boy into convulsions. He fell to the ground, rolling around and foaming at the mouth. Jesus turned to the father and asked, “How long has your son been tormented like this?” “Since childhood,” he replied. “It tries over and over to kill him by throwing him into fire or into the water. But please, if you’re able to do something, anything, have compassion on us and help us!” Jesus said to him, “What do you mean ×if”‘? If you are able to believe, all things are possible to the believer.” When he heard this, the boy’s father cried out with tears, saying, “I do believe, Lord; help my little faith!” Now when Jesus saw that the crowd was quickly growing larger, he commanded the demon, saying, “Deaf and mute spirit, I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!” The demon shrieked and threw the boy into terrible seizures and finally came out of him! As the boy lay there, looking like a corpse, everyone thought he was dead. But Jesus stooped down, gently took his hand, and raised him up to his feet, and he stood there completely set free! Afterward, when Jesus arrived at the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why couldn’t we cast out the demon?” He answered them, “This type of powerful demon can only be cast out by fasting and prayer.”
As I was writing this, the Lord reminded me of the following Scripture in Psalms 23:4, TPT:
Even when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness, fear will never conquer me, for you already have! Your authority is my strength and my peace. The comfort of your love takes away my fear. I’ll never be lonely, for you are near.
Perhaps the disciples had moments of faith to cast out certain demons, but then something happened and they for whatever reason yielded to unbelief. I actually have had to pray the words of the father before, “I believe; Lord, help my little faith!” as is recorded in The Passion Translation.
Let me say this: It is still hard sometimes to have faith in God’s goodness when you are in pain and all you can think about is that. I may need to listen to Lord, Forgive Me For Making You Cry every now and then to get a refresher, but on March 5, 2022, I watched this sermon and had just gotten through suffering with headaches, complaining.
This day has forever changed my life.
The Promised Land
Joshua 24:8, NKJV says the following:
×And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the other side of the Jordan, and they fought with you. But I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
You may not always have to deal with demonization in your own life, but you will always have to fight the flesh and be on guard against what the devil could use as an open door to your life to either bring those same demons or even other demons back into your life. Just like Israel, even when we enter the Promised Land, we will have wars we will have to fight. The ultimate Promised Land, though, is Heaven where all wars cease. The Promised Land I’m referring to is intimacy with the Lord. . . Him being our “special posession,” as is worded in the Old Testament.
God’s Warning
Joshua 24:9-15, NKJV says the following:
×Then Baalak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose to make war against Israel, and sent and called Baalam the son of Beor to curse you. But I would not listen to Baalam; therefore he continued to bless you. So I delivered you out of his hand. Then you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you—all the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Caananites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I delivered them into your hand. I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow. I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.”‘ “Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away all the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
The hornets that the Lord sent to drive out the nations before Israel are the equivalent of the casting out of demons. Jesus cleaned the Temple in His day and the casting out of demons is the equivalent in our day of this event.
Revelation 3:14-22, TPT records the Lord’s warning against lukewarmness:
Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Laodacea, for these are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation: I know all that you do, and I know that you are neither frozen in apathy nor fervent with passion. How I wish you were either one or the other! But because you are neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, I am about to spit you from my mouth. For you claim, “I’m rich and getting richer—I don’t need a thing.” Yet you are clueless that you’re miserable, poor, blind, barren and naked! So I counsel you to purchase gold perfected by fire, so that you can be truly rich. Purchase a white garment to cover and clothe your shameful Adam-nakedness. Purchase eye salve to be placed over your eyes so that you can truly see. All those I dearly love I unmask and train. So repent and be eager to pursue what is right. Behold, I’m standing at the door, knocking! If your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, I will come into you and feast with you, and you will feast with me. And to the one who conquers I will give the privilige of sitting with me on my throne, just as I conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. The one whose heart is open let him listen carefully to what the Spirit is saying now to the churches.
I am no better than you. I was once lukewarm but have opened the door to my Lord to have relationship with me. My goal is to have a dynamic relationship with the Lord. I want to stick closer to Him than a close relative. Before we move on to our next point, I want to spur you on by saying, “Come on! You can do it!” Again: I am no better than you and I’m sure we all have this same goal, which is why I tell my testimony so you will know how to apply what I’m teaching.
I forgot to mention this previously, but Bob Larson mentions “self-actualization,” which is prevalent in today’s culture and Alan Strudwick in his book, Spiritual Evolution: The Untold Story of One Man’s Quest for Truth, Alan mentions that when he was a New Age leader, the way they brought the New Age into the Western world was through “personal and profaessional developement seminars.” One of these practices, of course, is “mindfulness meditation.”
What does the Bible say about Meditation?
Deuteronomy 12:1-5, NKJV says, “These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess all the days that you live on the earth. You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wodden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things. But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.”
The Lord wants me to at this time pinpoint mindfulness Meditation, which I briefly mentioned previously.
According to Everet Roeth, mindfulness meditation is “connecting with the breath, slowing down your thoughts, and observing your thinking,” in the video called, The Truth About Meditation – Biblical vs. New Age. He continues, “A lot of the time, this meditation when done in an extreme way can actually lead to the opposite of what people desire because this meditation comes from the eastern spiritual practice. . . This form of meditation—of emptying your mind, of observing your thoughts in a detached manner, of focusing on the breath in an extreme attentioned focused way. . . this comes from Daoism, Hinduism, Yoga, Chi Gong. . . It comes from Buddhism. These are the spiritual disciplines of the Eastern Religions.” Today, I want to give you Scriptures that show clearly what the Bible says is meditation. As we read previously, we are to not be conformed to the world and we are to not worship our Lord in the same way as the world worships their gods.
Joshua 1:8, NKJV says, This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” As I’ve been writing the outline to this message and even afterward, I have been “meditating” on the Scriptures that the Lord gave me. In other words, I read, wrote, preached a lot of times—basically I in different ways thought about these Scriptures and studied them, asking the Lord what He wanted to say to you. This is true meditation. It isn’t emptying your mind, but filling it with God. On this topic, instead of just reading Philippians 4:8, the Lord asked me to expound on Philippians 4:6-8, TPT:
Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will guard your heart and mind through Jesus Christ. Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always.” Isaiah 26:3, NKJV, another Scripture the Lord choose, says,
“You will keep him in perfect peace
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
Proverbs 3:5-8, TPT says, “Trust in the Lord completely, and do not rely on your own oppinions. With all your heart rely on him to guide you, and he will lead you in every decision you make. Become intimate with him in whatever you do, and he will lead you wherever you go. Don’t think for a moment that you know it all, for wisdom comes when you adore him with undivided devotion and avoid everything that’s wrong. Then you will find the healing refreshment your body and spirit long for.”
The Lord also gave me this Scripture in Psalms to further define meditation. It’s Psalms 1:1-3, TPT:
What delight comes to the one who follows God’s ways! He won’t walk in step with the wicked, nor share the sinner’s way, nor be found sitting in the scorner’s seat. His passion is to remain true to the Word of “I Am,” meditating day and night on the true revelation of light. He will be standing firm like a flourishing tree planted by God’s design, deeply rooted by the brooks of bliss, bearing fruit in every season of life. He is never dry, never fainting, ever blessed, ever prosperous.
The Lord wants you to know: If you are seeking a relief from stress, don’t resort to anything less than His Spirit. He will fill the void; for the Word says in Matthew 11:28-30, TPT, “Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Then come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oassis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me. For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.”
In other words, if you apply what we’ve been discussing—in getting up in the mornings and beginning your day with the Holy Spirit and being intimate with Him, you will find that the void will be filled with Him. For those that will be listening to the podcast and video I will be releasing soon, I will be doing a curse breaking prayer at the end. I will end this blog by posting the link, which will have the original and modified versions:
God bless!
Kingdom Advance 