WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.080 (MUSIC) 00:04.080 --> 00:08.640 I TOLD HER, I SAID, COME UP WITH A SKIT IN RECORD TIME. DID THEY 00:08.640 --> 00:15.060 NOT DO IT? BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT IS WHY THEY SET UP FOR OUR 00:15.060 --> 00:18.329 PANEL, WE'LL GET OUR PANELISTS OUT HERE IN A MINUTE. I WAS JUST 00:18.329 --> 00:24.120 SITTING THERE THINKING, LORD OF ALL THE STUFF WE GET SO STRESSED 00:24.120 --> 00:29.429 OUT ABOUT AND GOD'S LIKE, "THERE WAS NO POINT. I JUST HAD THE 00:29.429 --> 00:33.920 PLAN ALL THE TIME." AND WHILE GOD MAY NOT HAND YOU A MAN IN A 00:33.920 --> 00:38.909 FLOWER JACKET AND A MANSION ALL IN ONE DAY, I'M LIKE, "OH MAN, 00:38.909 --> 00:44.429 THAT HOUSE, WOW." AND THE POOL AND EVERYTHING. BUT ISN'T GOD 00:44.429 --> 00:47.789 FAITHFUL? THAT'S WHAT THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS CONFERENCE IS 00:47.789 --> 00:52.289 ABOUT, IS JUST KNOWING THAT GOD IS, IF HE SAID HE'LL DO 00:52.289 --> 00:56.759 SOMETHING, HE WILL DO IT. HE IS A FAITHFUL GOD. AND SO I JUST 00:56.759 --> 00:59.520 WANT YOU TO BE ENCOURAGED BY THAT. PASTOR CHRISTY, I'M GOING 00:59.520 --> 01:05.219 TO WELCOME PASTOR CHRISTY, NICOLE, KAREN, ALL TO THE 01:05.219 --> 01:11.730 PLATFORM, OUR PANEL. GIVE THEM ALL A GREAT BIG HAND. YES, GIVE 01:11.730 --> 01:20.849 THEM A STAND AND AN APPRECIATION. THANK YOU GUYS FOR 01:20.849 --> 01:25.409 BEING PART OF ALL THIS. PRAISE THE LORD. PRAISE THE LORD. WELL, 01:25.409 --> 01:27.569 WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF PULL UP A CHAIR 01:27.569 --> 01:31.319 AND SOME DISCUSSION ALONG THE THEME OF THE CONFERENCE. AND IF 01:31.319 --> 01:36.689 YOU'RE JUST JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON, THE WHOLE THEME OF 01:36.689 --> 01:40.557 THIS IS CALLED, "WON'T HE DO IT?" IN OTHER WORDS, AFFIRMING 01:40.557 --> 01:44.730 OUR TRUST IN GOD THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WE BECOME ANXIOUS 01:44.730 --> 01:48.510 ABOUT, FEARFUL ABOUT, AND I GOT TO TURN A LITTLE BIT SO I CATCH 01:48.510 --> 01:51.870 ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEHIND ME, FEARFUL ABOUT, THINGS THAT 01:51.870 --> 01:57.870 WE JUST ALLOW THE ENEMY TO TALK TO US AND EVEN IF IT'S A REAL 01:57.870 --> 02:00.599 SITUATION, YOU KNOW, WE GO THROUGH REAL THINGS, DON'T WE 02:00.599 --> 02:05.069 LADIES? WE GO THROUGH HARDSHIP, SOMETIMES IN OUR LIVES WE GO TO 02:05.069 --> 02:11.159 WHAT WE THINK IS GOING TO HELL AND BACK AND BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL 02:11.159 --> 02:14.610 TO BRING US OUT OF THOSE THINGS AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO JUST 02:14.610 --> 02:18.629 DRILL DOWN IN OUR HEARTS THIS WEEKEND IS THAT WE CAN SEE THAT 02:18.629 --> 02:21.990 GOD BRINGS US ON THE OTHER SIDE. YOU KNOW HANK AND I SO MANY 02:21.990 --> 02:27.330 TIMES IN 30 YEARS OF PASTORING THIS CHURCH HOW MANY TIMES WE 02:27.330 --> 02:30.389 THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T MAKE IT ANOTHER DAY WE THOUGHT THE WORLD 02:30.389 --> 02:35.789 WAS FALLING APART AND IT JUST WOULD NEVER WE WOULD NEVER GET 02:35.789 --> 02:40.500 TO THE OTHER SIDE AND YET GOD WAS FAITHFUL AND NOW WE'RE HERE 02:40.500 --> 02:44.219 AND WE'RE STILL HERE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND SO IF HE'LL DO IT 02:44.219 --> 02:47.219 NOT AND SO WHAT I WANT TO PREFACE BY SAYING ALL OF US THAT 02:47.219 --> 02:52.139 ARE UP UP HERE WE DON'T LIVE IN A FAIRY TALE WORLD PEOPLE 02:52.139 --> 02:55.949 SOMETIMES THINGS THAT MINISTERS, SINGERS, PEOPLE ON THE PLATFORM 02:55.949 --> 02:59.610 LIVE IN THIS WORLD OF EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT YOU KNOW YOU SEE IT 02:59.610 --> 03:05.069 AS AT OUR BEST WITH OUR FALSE EYELASHES AND IN FACT I DOOR 03:05.069 --> 03:07.710 DASHED THESE THEY WERE SO BIG THEY WERE HITTING MY GLASSES I 03:07.710 --> 03:11.610 DON'T KNOW EXACTLY I SAID TO MATT LAST NIGHT I SAID MY LASHES 03:11.610 --> 03:16.718 ARE SO BIG I HOPE I CAN PREACH BUT THE POINT BEING YOU KNOW YOU 03:16.718 --> 03:23.370 SEE ALL OF THAT BUT IN BEHIND THE SCENES JUST LIKE YOU WE GO 03:23.370 --> 03:27.719 THROUGH AS YOU PREACHED ON TODAY REAL LOSSES YOU'VE USED COINED 03:27.719 --> 03:33.090 THE PHRASE SO MANY YEARS I'VE KNOWN YOU NIGHT SEASON WE'VE ALL 03:33.090 --> 03:37.469 GONE THROUGH DIFFICULTY THAT WE'VE HAD TO FACE AND AND I'LL 03:37.469 --> 03:41.310 SAY IT LIKE THIS AND A LOT OF AND ALL OF US HERE WHO HAVE A 03:41.310 --> 03:46.439 PUBLIC MINISTRY HAVE HAD TO FACE IT BEFORE THE WORLD AND SO I SO 03:46.439 --> 03:49.409 THIS IS A VULNERABLE MOMENT I'M NOT THAT WE'RE GONNA SHARE ALL 03:49.409 --> 03:52.020 OF OUR STORIES BUT THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT THIS MORNING THOUGH 03:52.020 --> 03:58.949 THAT WAS VERY ENCOURAGING AND WE VALUE THAT AND WE TAKE THAT BUT 03:58.949 --> 04:02.969 WE DO GO THROUGH REAL THINGS SO I WANTED TO JUST PUT TOGETHER A 04:02.969 --> 04:06.930 LITTLE BIT OF DISCUSSION FOR ALL THE PANELS JUST TO BRING YOU TO 04:06.930 --> 04:11.520 A PLACE OF FAITH THAT WHETHER YOU'VE GONE THROUGH A THING OR 04:11.520 --> 04:14.340 YOU PROBABLY LET ME JUST SAY, AND I'M NOT PROPHESYING IT, BUT 04:14.340 --> 04:19.290 I'M JUST SAYING YOU PROBABLY WILL. JESUS SAID IN THIS WORLD, 04:19.290 --> 04:24.990 YOU WILL HAVE TRIBULATIONS. BUT THEN THE END OF THAT IS BE OF 04:24.990 --> 04:29.279 GOOD CHEER, I'VE OVERCOME THE WORLD. SO I WANNA JUST TALK 04:29.279 --> 04:34.470 LADIES A LITTLE BIT JUST ALONG OUR QUESTIONS AND ANY OF YOU CAN 04:34.470 --> 04:38.699 JUST JUMP IN AT ANY MOMENT THAT YOU WANT TO. BUT LET'S IDENTIFY 04:38.699 --> 04:43.079 FIRST OF ALL SOME OF THE THINGS, AND WE SAW IT WITH LADY T UP 04:43.079 --> 04:47.339 HERE A FEW MOMENTS AGO AND HER SITUATION, AND IT WAS A HUMOROUS 04:47.339 --> 04:52.589 SIDE TO IT. BUT WHAT ARE THINGS THAT SOMETIMES WE ALLOW TO CAUSE 04:52.589 --> 05:01.709 US FEAR, ANXIETY, STRESS, THAT MAYBE WE DIDN'T NEED TO BE SO 05:01.709 --> 05:06.300 STRESSED OUT ABOUT? YOU KNOW, WE ALLOWED THESE THINGS TO COME IN 05:06.300 --> 05:10.829 AND WE DIDN'T DEAL WITH IT. WHAT ARE SOME COMMON CAUSES THAT WE 05:10.829 --> 05:16.079 COULD IDENTIFY THAT TRY TO CREEP IN THAT THE ENEMY BRINGS IN OUR 05:16.079 --> 05:18.990 LIVES? LET'S JUST TALK TO THAT SO THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IT AND 05:18.990 --> 05:22.379 GO, NO, THAT'S A PLAN OF THE ENEMY. WHAT ARE SOME COMMON 05:22.379 --> 05:26.826 THINGS THAT CAUSE US THESE KINDS OF ANXIETIES AND STRESSES? WELL, 05:26.826 --> 05:32.499 THERE IS A STATISTIC THAT SAYS THAT 95% OF THE THINGS THAT WE 05:32.499 --> 05:39.387 WORRY ABOUT NEVER HAPPEN. THE OTHER 5% THAT DO HAPPEN, WE HAVE 05:39.389 --> 05:46.829 NO CONTROL OVER. AND I THINK THE KEY WORD HERE IS CONTROL. A LOT 05:46.829 --> 05:55.139 OF TIMES WE FEAR WHEN WE CAN'T CONTROL A SITUATION. BUT THE 05:55.139 --> 06:00.480 SECRET IS WE NEVER WERE IN CONTROL. WE'RE NOT IN CONTROL. 06:00.480 --> 06:04.500 GOD IS IN CONTROL. AND HE'S A GOOD GOD. EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT 06:04.500 --> 06:08.160 GIFT COMETH FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHT. AND HE'S WORKING ALL 06:08.160 --> 06:12.540 THINGS FOR OUR GOOD, BUT THE ENEMY WANTS TO GET IN AND SAY, 06:12.540 --> 06:16.800 "IF I CAN'T CONTROL IT, IF I CAN'T MAKE IT HAPPEN, THEN IT'S 06:16.800 --> 06:20.910 NOT GONNA WORK OUT FOR MY GOOD." AND THAT'S A LIE OF THE ENEMY. 06:20.910 --> 06:26.009 SO I THINK FEAR OF THE FUTURE. I'M 65 YEARS OLD, MY CHILDREN 06:26.009 --> 06:31.500 ARE GROWN, BUT I USED TO BE VERY WORRIED ABOUT IF SOMETHING 06:31.500 --> 06:39.810 HAPPENED TO ME, WHO WOULD TAKE CARE OF MY KIDS? ANYBODY? AND I 06:39.810 --> 06:45.151 THINK THAT WE FEAR THE UNKNOWN. AND I CAN TELL YOU THE THINGS 06:45.151 --> 06:50.339 THAT I LOST SLEEP OVER WHEN MY KIDS WERE SMALL AND THE THINGS, 06:50.339 --> 06:55.259 EVEN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, I WOULD LIE AWAKE AND WORRY, AND 06:55.259 --> 06:58.139 THEY NEVER HAPPENED. THE THINGS THAT I WORRIED ABOUT NEVER 06:58.139 --> 07:05.257 HAPPENED. SO I THINK CONTROL, THE FEAR OF LOSING CONTROL. I 07:05.257 --> 07:11.264 THINK ONE THING TOO IS THAT WE FEAR FAILURE. YEAH. SO SOMETIMES 07:11.264 --> 07:15.435 WE'RE AFRAID TO FOLLOW WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO, WHAT GOD 07:15.435 --> 07:19.740 HAS CALLED US TO BE BECAUSE WE EITHER GET CAUGHT UP IN 07:19.740 --> 07:24.060 COMPARING OURSELVES TO SOMEBODY ELSE, WHETHER WE MEASURE UP TO 07:24.060 --> 07:27.930 SOMEBODY ELSE, RATHER THAN HAVING THE MEASURING STICK THAT 07:27.930 --> 07:31.800 GOD HIMSELF HAS FOR US, WE MEASURE OURSELVES BY SOME OTHER 07:31.800 --> 07:35.730 HUMAN THAT HAS A DIFFERENT CALL AND THEN WE FEAR FAILING. SO 07:35.730 --> 07:39.089 SOMETIMES WE JUST DON'T LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP BECAUSE WE'RE 07:39.089 --> 07:41.490 AFRAID THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IF WE GET OUT THERE AND WE DON'T 07:41.490 --> 07:45.870 KNOW HOW IT'S GOING TO END, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, OR WHAT 07:45.870 --> 07:49.680 IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG? SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE SOMETIMES TRY TO 07:49.680 --> 07:54.180 PROTECT OURSELVES IN OUR SAFE ZONES SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE 07:54.180 --> 07:59.040 DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH FAILURE. WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE 07:59.040 --> 08:03.870 STRESS OF SOMETHING NOT BEING SUCCESSFUL. YOU KNOW, I THINK 08:03.870 --> 08:09.389 ALSO, I THINK WE CAN FALL INTO ANXIETY WHEN WE FEEL LIKE GOD 08:09.389 --> 08:14.459 SHOULD PLAY ACCORDING TO OUR SCRIPT AND OUR TIMETABLE. LIKE, 08:14.459 --> 08:17.009 I'VE PRAYED FOR THIS, AND SO GOD, YOU SHOULD COME THROUGH 08:17.009 --> 08:21.779 THIS WAY AT THIS TIME IN, YOU KNOW, THIS MANNER. AND WHEN 08:21.779 --> 08:26.220 THOSE TIMETABLES EXPIRE AND HE HASN'T DONE WHAT WE WANTED HIM 08:26.220 --> 08:30.269 TO DO WHEN WE WANTED HIM TO DO IT, THEN I THINK SOMETIMES WE 08:30.269 --> 08:34.019 CAN BE TEMPTED TO EITHER DOUBT HIM AND SAY, "WELL, I GUESS 08:34.019 --> 08:38.548 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT," OR "I'M GOING TO DO IT MY WAY," YOU 08:38.548 --> 08:43.080 KNOW, OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. BUT GOD HAS NO OBLIGATION TO MY 08:43.080 --> 08:48.960 TIMETABLE. HE'S OBLIGATED TO HIS WORD. AND SO, I HAVE TO MAKE ALL 08:48.960 --> 08:53.190 DO THAT. WHEN WE'RE TRUSTING GOD, IT'S NOT, "I'M TRUSTING GOD 08:53.190 --> 08:57.870 TO DO IT MY WAY. I'M TRUSTING GOD JUST FOR WHAT I WANT, BUT 08:57.870 --> 09:04.259 I'M TRUSTING GOD." PERIOD. AND THEN I ALLOW HIM TO DO THINGS AT 09:04.259 --> 09:07.679 HIS PACE, IN HIS TIME, AND IN HIS WAY, JUST LIKE WE SAW IN THE 09:07.679 --> 09:12.330 SCRIPT. HE WENT ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL SHE EVER COULD ASK, THINK, 09:12.330 --> 09:14.610 OR IMAGINE, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS JUST A SCRIPT, BUT WE SEE, YOU 09:14.610 --> 09:17.669 KNOW, IT WAS NOT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS THE WAY WE THINK. AND SO 09:17.669 --> 09:20.639 WHEN IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OUR WAY, LET'S MAKE SURE, AND I HAVE TO 09:20.639 --> 09:24.600 CHALLENGE MYSELF OFTEN TO NOT TO THROW IN THE TOWEL, NOT TO 09:24.600 --> 09:28.889 ACCUSE GOD FALSELY, NOT TO THINK THAT MAYBE HE'S NOT GOING TO DO 09:28.889 --> 09:33.480 IT, BUT TO STILL TRUST HIM EVEN WHEN HE HASN'T DONE IT MY WAY. 09:33.480 --> 09:39.240 SO, YEAH. KAREN, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT? I DON'T 09:39.240 --> 09:43.917 KNOW IF I DO, IT'S ALL SO GOOD. I'M JUST AMENITY EVERYBODY. 09:43.917 --> 09:47.340 AND I LOVE WHAT THEY ALL SAID. CANDY, REALLY, THE 09:47.340 --> 09:53.927 PART ABOUT CONTROL, WHOA. SO I'M CONVICTED BY THAT RIGHT NOW. AND 09:53.927 --> 09:58.500 IT'S ALL BASED IN FEAR, YOU KNOW, THIS THING OF FEAR, WHICH 09:58.500 --> 10:06.179 I HATE AND GOD HATES. THE FEAR THAT REALLY IS, IT'S LEADS US 10:06.179 --> 10:09.000 INTO THE PLACE OF WORRY, WHICH IS ACTUALLY A GRIEVOUS SIN. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.720 WORRY IS ACTUALLY A GRIEVOUS SIN AGAINST GOD BECAUSE IT'S ROOTED 10:12.720 --> 10:17.283 IN FEAR AND UNBELIEF. AND THE REASON UNBELIEF IS, WE THINK OF 10:17.283 --> 10:20.953 UNBELIEF AS LIKE, OH, YOU KNOW, MY MAMA WAS FEARFUL AND I'M 10:20.953 --> 10:26.284 FEARFUL. BUT ACTUALLY IT'S REALLY, REALLY BAD. WITH GOD, I 10:26.284 --> 10:30.836 THINK IT'S IN SOME OF THE WORST CATEGORIES BECAUSE UNBELIEF IS 10:30.836 --> 10:34.946 REALLY QUESTIONING THE CHARACTER OF GOD AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE 10:34.946 --> 10:39.282 WILL ACTUALLY KEEP HIS WORD. SO FOR GOD, UNBELIEF IS LIKE A 10:39.282 --> 10:43.255 REALLY BIG DEAL. IT QUESTIONS HIS CHARACTER, THE VERY ESSENCE 10:43.255 --> 10:46.346 OF WHO HE IS. IT'S KIND OF LOOKING AT GOD SAYING, I DON'T 10:46.346 --> 10:50.336 KNOW IF I CAN TRUST YOU. YOU KNOW, IF MY CHILD LOOKED AT ME 10:50.336 --> 10:54.145 AND SAID, "MOM, I CAN'T TRUST YOU." THAT WOULD BE LIKE A 10:54.145 --> 11:00.505 DAGGER. LIKE, "YOU CAN'T TRUST ME." WHOA, THAT HURTS. AND YET 11:00.505 --> 11:03.625 WITH GOD, WE'RE KIND OF LIKE THAT. I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF I 11:03.625 --> 11:07.946 CAN TRUST YOU. WHOA, AS TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU'LL KEEP YOUR 11:07.946 --> 11:11.816 WORD. AND THEN THAT'S WHAT LEADS US INTO WORRY. AND THAT'S WHY 11:11.816 --> 11:15.296 WORRY IS REALLY A BIG DEAL TO GOD. AND WE'VE GOT TO GET RID OF 11:15.296 --> 11:18.010 IT. BRENDA, WHATEVER IT TAKES. I LOVED THAT YOU SAID ABOUT 11:18.010 --> 11:23.456 UNBELIEF AND I WANTED TO TOUCH A LITTLE ON THAT LAST NIGHT. THAT 11:23.456 --> 11:27.446 THE LORD BEGAN TO TAKE ME ON A JOURNEY ON THAT TOPIC. THAT 11:27.446 --> 11:35.666 UNBELIEF, WE THINK OF WORRY AS AN INNOCENT, JUST A FEAR. IT'S A 11:35.666 --> 11:38.936 TYPICAL HUMAN RESPONSE, RIGHT? LIKE, YOU KNOW, HUMANS SHOULD 11:38.936 --> 11:42.446 FEEL THAT. BUT YET, IF YOU LOOK IN THE BIBLE, ANYTIME ANYONE 11:42.446 --> 11:46.255 WOULDN'T DEAL WITH THAT WORRY, OR THAT ANXIETY, OR THAT 11:46.255 --> 11:49.946 FEARFULNESS. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING. IT TYPICALLY TRIES 11:49.946 --> 11:53.966 TO HIT YOU AT NIGHT. WE TALKED ABOUT LAYING AWAKE AT NIGHT, AND 11:53.966 --> 11:56.804 THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE... THREE IN THE MORNING MEANS THREE. WHAT IS 11:56.804 --> 12:00.505 IT WITH THREE? IT IS. IT'S A NIGHT... BUT LOOK AT... THAT'S 12:00.505 --> 12:06.416 IN THE WORD. THE BIBLE CALLS IT A NIGHT TERROR. AND IT'S WRITTEN 12:06.416 --> 12:09.745 IN PSALM 91. "I WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF THE TERROR THAT COMES 12:09.745 --> 12:14.365 AT NIGHT." YOU SING ABOUT IT. IT TYPICALLY... SO WE HAVE TO, 12:14.365 --> 12:17.546 FIRST OF ALL, NOT BE IGNORANT OF THE DEVIL'S DEVICES. WORRY 12:17.546 --> 12:21.235 UNCHECKED, TO YOUR POINT. WE SEE IT THROUGH THE CHILDREN OF 12:21.235 --> 12:24.115 ISRAEL. THE BIBLE SAID THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF 12:24.115 --> 12:27.475 UNBELIEF. NOW, IT STARTED OUT AS INNOCENT, WHAT WE THINK IS 12:27.475 --> 12:31.826 INNOCENT FEAR, TO YOUR POINT. BUT THAT GRIEVOUS SIN, GOD 12:31.826 --> 12:35.785 FINALLY SAID TO ISRAEL, HE SAID, "YOU HAVE GRIEVED ME THESE TEN 12:35.785 --> 12:40.255 TIMES." HE KEPT COUNT OF THEIR FEAR THAT THEY WOULDN'T DEAL 12:40.255 --> 12:43.975 WITH. AND IT EVENTUALLY TURNED IN, AND WHAT DID THE BIBLE CALL 12:43.975 --> 12:47.155 ISRAEL? IT CALLED THEM STIFF-NECKED. IT SAID THEY 12:47.155 --> 12:51.446 BECAME, IT WAS A STIFF NECK, THEY REFUSED TO BELIEVE. SO, 12:51.446 --> 12:55.615 LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS FEAR, THESE WORRIES, 'CAUSE LIKE ALL 12:55.615 --> 12:59.365 OF US, I'VE HAD NIGHTS, YOU LAY AWAKE, THINK ABOUT YOUR 12:59.365 --> 13:03.086 CHILDREN, YOUR FAMILY, PEOPLE YOU CAN'T CONTROL PEOPLE'S 13:03.086 --> 13:07.255 ACTIONS OR YOU CAN'T, YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL HELPLESS TO DEAL WITH 13:07.255 --> 13:10.405 THAT PERSON THAT HAS SOME CONDITION IN THEIR BODY THAT YOU 13:10.405 --> 13:14.395 KNOW OR LOVE OR SOME ISSUE THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, THE ENEMY IS JUST 13:14.395 --> 13:17.275 TRIES TO IMPALE YOU. COME ON, LET'S BE REAL. THERE'S BEEN 13:17.275 --> 13:20.546 TIMES YOU SAT THERE AND THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, MY STOMACH IS IN 13:20.546 --> 13:25.735 KNOTS. I REMEMBER YEARS AGO, OUR FATHER, HE WAS JUST 55. HE'S IN 13:25.735 --> 13:29.035 HEAVEN NOW, BUT HE LIVED TO BE A FULL AGE. BUT AT THAT TIME HE 13:29.035 --> 13:33.865 WAS ONLY 55 AND WE HAD GOTTEN THE CALL, CHRISTY AND I. OUR SON 13:33.865 --> 13:36.566 JOHN WAS JUST A LITTLE BABY. I WAS STILL NURSING HIM AT THE 13:36.566 --> 13:40.916 TIME. LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH WAS I THINK TWO YEARS OLD AND WE GOT 13:40.916 --> 13:44.336 THIS CALL THAT HE WAS IN A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION. HIS 13:44.336 --> 13:50.035 BOWEL HAD LITERALLY EXPLODED AND THERE WAS DIVERTICULITIS AND 13:50.035 --> 13:53.725 EVERYTHING WENT WRONG. ALL HIS ORGANS WERE INFECTED. WE GOT THE 13:53.725 --> 13:59.635 CALL THAT HE MAY MAKE IT OR NOT. AND SO WE JUST DID WHAT WE KNOW 13:59.635 --> 14:03.326 TO DO. WE WENT TO THE PRAYER BATTLE. HANK HAD STAYED, PASTOR 14:03.326 --> 14:06.535 HANK HAD STAYED BACK HERE WITH THE BOYS. WE TOOK OFF. WE WENT 14:06.535 --> 14:11.005 TO DES MOINES AT THAT TIME. HE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL. AND I AND 14:11.005 --> 14:13.916 THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO IDENTIFY. I REMEMBER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 14:13.916 --> 14:20.995 NIGHT, JUST FEAR LIKE MY STOMACH, I COULD NOT TURN OFF 14:20.995 --> 14:24.745 THE BUTTERFLIES. ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE? I COULD NOT TURN OFF 14:24.745 --> 14:29.395 MY HEAD. I JUST KEPT LAYING THERE. AND I REMEMBER QUOTING 14:29.395 --> 14:33.475 THE WORD OF GOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, QUOTING IT. IF I 14:33.475 --> 14:38.515 STOPPED QUOTING, ALL OF THAT WOULD FLOOD BACK. AND I JUST 14:38.515 --> 14:41.905 REMEMBER LAYING THERE, I WENT BACK TO BROTHER HAGIN, I JUST 14:41.905 --> 14:45.385 SAID, "GOD, YOU SAID WHATSOEVER THINGS I DESIRE WHEN I PRAY, 14:45.385 --> 14:49.076 "BELIEVE I RECEIVE IT AND I'LL HAVE IT. "GOD, WHATSOEVER MY DAD 14:49.076 --> 14:54.235 WILL NOT." AND YOU KNOW, I COMBATED THAT AT NIGHT TERROR. 14:54.235 --> 14:58.135 LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE THINGS WE CAN DO TO COMBAT THE NIGHT 14:58.135 --> 15:00.899 TERROR, THE THINGS THAT HIT US IN THE MIDDLE OF 15:00.899 --> 15:03.690 THE NIGHT. BE NOT DISMAYED, THAT'S OUR THEME 15:03.690 --> 15:08.336 SCRIPTURE, FOR I AM THY GOD. BE NOT DISMAYED, DON'T 15:08.336 --> 15:11.546 BE IN THIS NERVOUS PANIC. LADIES, WHAT ARE SOME THINGS WE 15:11.546 --> 15:17.755 CAN DO TO COMBAT THE SPIRIT, IT'S DEMONIC, THE SPIRIT OF FEAR 15:17.755 --> 15:20.546 THAT TRIES TO COME AGAINST OUR LIVES. ANY OF YOU CAN SAY. SO, I 15:20.546 --> 15:22.735 MEAN, ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD SAY IS FIRST OF ALL, EPHESIANS 15:22.735 --> 15:25.255 CHAPTER 6 SAYS THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE UP THE SHIELD OF FAITH 15:25.255 --> 15:33.145 WHERE WE QUENCH. SO QUENCHING MEANS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STOPPING. 15:33.145 --> 15:35.395 I MEAN, YES, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE DARTS, THAT THE 15:35.395 --> 15:39.297 FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED AREN'T COMING AGAINST US. BUT WHEN 15:39.297 --> 15:43.076 WE'RE TAKING UP THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WE'RE USING THAT TO 15:43.076 --> 15:48.956 QUENCH THE FEAR, QUENCH THE ONSLAUGHT. BUT YOU KNOW, I TRULY 15:48.956 --> 15:53.456 BELIEVE THAT OUR FAITH IS BUILT OUT OF UNDERSTANDING THE 15:53.456 --> 15:58.375 CHARACTER OF GOD AND WHO HE IS. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WORSHIP 15:58.375 --> 16:02.635 IS ALL ABOUT. WHEN WE LACK IN WORSHIP, WE LACK IN FAITH. WHEN 16:02.635 --> 16:06.985 WE LACK IN THE WORD, WE LACK IN FAITH. BECAUSE THE WORD DEPICTS 16:06.985 --> 16:10.196 THE CHARACTER OF GOD. WHEN WE COME INTO A PLACE OF WORSHIP, 16:10.196 --> 16:14.155 PSALM SAYS, "OH, MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME. "LET US EXALT HIS 16:14.155 --> 16:16.855 NAME TOGETHER." THAT WHAT MAGNIFICATION MEANS, WE'RE 16:16.855 --> 16:21.086 MAKING GOD BIGGER THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS HAPPENING. WHEN 16:21.086 --> 16:23.966 WE'RE MAKING GOD BIGGER THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S HAPPENING, 16:23.966 --> 16:28.196 THEN WE'RE SAYING THAT EVERYTHING ELSE HAS TO BOW UNDER 16:28.196 --> 16:32.096 THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE THAT SITS UPON THE THRONE, THE GOD 16:32.096 --> 16:35.725 THAT REIGNS. WE'RE SAYING EVERYTHING HAS TO BOW TO THAT 16:35.725 --> 16:39.505 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU QUOTED IT TODAY, "I KNOW IN WHOM 16:39.505 --> 16:44.365 I HAVE BELIEVED, THAT HE IS ABLE TO DELIVER ME." SO THAT IS ONE 16:44.365 --> 16:48.115 OF THE WAYS I THINK WHEN WE ARE IN FEAR, IT'S GETTING IN THE 16:48.115 --> 16:52.634 WORD, IT'S CHOOSING A PLACE OF WORSHIP. I REMEMBER, I'LL TELL A 16:52.634 --> 16:57.326 REALLY QUICK STORY. WHEN I WAS YOUNG, MY PARENTS WERE MOVING 16:57.326 --> 17:02.275 AWAY AND YOU GUYS WERE MOVING TO A DIFFERENT CITY AND I DIDN'T 17:02.275 --> 17:05.964 KNOW WHERE I WAS SUPPOSED TO GO. AND I WAS LIKE, "WELL, GOD, DO I 17:05.964 --> 17:10.674 GO HERE? DO I GO THERE? WHAT DO I DO?" OUR LIFE WAS BEING TORN 17:10.674 --> 17:13.615 APART. AND I HEARD THE LORD SAY, YOU KNOW, JUST GET IN THERE AND 17:13.615 --> 17:18.414 WORSHIP. AND I REMEMBER LAYING ON THE FLOOR IN MY BEDROOM AND I 17:18.414 --> 17:24.145 WAS TRYING TO WORSHIP. I WAS TRYING. AND IT WAS THE FIRST 17:24.145 --> 17:26.905 TIME I EVER SAW A VISION AND I SAW THESE FEET AND THEY WERE 17:26.905 --> 17:29.306 DANCING. AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, GOD, I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS, 17:29.306 --> 17:32.965 BUT I CAN'T DANCE RIGHT NOW. LIKE YOU'D SEE I'M SAD. LIKE I'M 17:32.965 --> 17:39.115 SAD. I'M HAVING A MOMENT. AND I REALIZED THAT THEY WERE THE FEET 17:39.115 --> 17:44.726 OF JESUS. AND HE WAS SAYING, "LISTEN, IN YOUR WEAKNESS, I AM 17:44.726 --> 17:50.125 STRONG. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE TO WORSHIP HIM, EVEN WHEN WE DON'T 17:50.125 --> 17:54.776 FEEL LIKE IT, BECAUSE THAT WILL TURN ON YOUR FAITH IGNITION." 17:54.776 --> 17:59.635 YEAH, THAT'S GOOD, THAT'S GOOD, LADIES. AMEN, YES. POWERFUL. I 17:59.635 --> 18:01.435 WAS QUOTING THAT SCRIPTURE EARLIER TODAY, "WHEN WE ARE 18:01.435 --> 18:05.006 WEAK, HE IS STRONG." AND EVERY TIME BEFORE I COME OUT ON STAGE, 18:05.006 --> 18:07.076 I'M ALWAYS SAYING TO THE LORD, I SAID, "OKAY, LORD, THAT'S YOUR 18:07.076 --> 18:10.286 PROMISE." AND SO I BRING TO YOU MY WEAKNESSES. I BRING THEM TO 18:10.286 --> 18:13.976 YOU. AND SIR, I EXPECT FOR YOU TO SHOW UP AND BRING YOUR 18:13.976 --> 18:18.586 STRENGTH. AND SO, YEAH, SO, AND WHERE WAS I GONNA GO? I WAS 18:18.586 --> 18:20.933 GONNA GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. SO HOLD UP, HOLD UP, HOLD UP. I'M 59, 18:20.933 --> 18:27.746 GIVE ME A MINUTE. GIVE ME A MINUTE. I SAID, I'M 59. NO, I 18:27.746 --> 18:31.855 SAID, GIVE ME, YES. I'M CATCHING UP WITH ALL Y'ALL, OKAY? I'M 18:31.855 --> 18:35.949 GROWN, OKAY? OH, YOU'RE VERY KIND. I FOUND OUT NICOLE AND I 18:35.949 --> 18:39.118 ARE THE SAME AGE. I KNOW, AND I'M A LITTLE BIT OLDER. YOU ARE 18:39.118 --> 18:40.787 A FEW MONTHS OLDER. SO I'M BIG SISTER, YOU'RE LITTLE SIS, 18:40.787 --> 18:44.246 YOU'RE LITTLE SIS. SHE'S MY BIG SISTER THEN. YEAH, BUT WHAT I 18:44.246 --> 18:47.395 WAS GONNA SAY IS THAT REALLY, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU 18:47.395 --> 18:51.955 MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SING WHAT YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL LIKE, OKAY, IT'S 18:51.955 --> 18:59.306 HARD FOR ME TO UTTER THE WORDS OF TRUTH. WE LIVE IN A AGE WHERE 18:59.306 --> 19:02.846 WE CAN HAVE OTHER PEOPLE SING FOR US TO TURN ON THAT IGNITION, 19:02.846 --> 19:06.625 LIKE SHE'S SAYING, CHANGE THE DIAL, GET YOUR LITTLE PHONE OUT 19:06.625 --> 19:10.195 OR BEGIN TO SING, BEGIN TO HUM WHAT YOU DO KNOW. YOU KNOW, 19:10.195 --> 19:14.576 SOMETIMES IT MAY NOT BE, YOU KNOW, THE SANDY PATTY BALLAD OR 19:14.576 --> 19:16.405 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU 19:16.405 --> 19:21.145 KNOW, IT MIGHT BE THE LITTLE WHISPER OF REMEMBERING. YOU ARE 19:21.145 --> 19:28.496 MY HIDING PLACE. YOU ALWAYS FILL MY HEART WITH SONGS OF 19:28.496 --> 19:36.056 DELIVERANCE. WHENEVER I AM AFRAID, I WILL TRUST IN YOU. AND 19:36.056 --> 19:41.935 SOMETIMES YOU MAY HAVE TO CRY IT OUT. I WILL TRUST IN YOU UNTIL 19:41.935 --> 19:53.026 YOU GET STRONGER. LET THE WEAK SAY I AM STRONG IN THE STRENGTH 19:53.026 --> 19:57.836 OF THE LORD. AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, HIS WORD IS GOING TO SPRING 19:57.836 --> 20:08.281 UP. YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE. HIS WORD NEVER EXPIRES. YOU ALWAYS 20:08.281 --> 20:21.760 FILL MY HEART WITH SONGS OF DELIVERANCE. WHENEVER I AM 20:21.760 --> 20:32.980 AFRAID, I WILL TRUST IN YOU. CHANGE THE CHANNEL. GIVE US SOME 20:32.980 --> 20:35.441 POINTERS ON OVERCOMING THIS EXPERIENCE. I FORGOT THE 20:35.441 --> 20:42.075 QUESTION AFTER I GOT LOST IN HER SONG. THAT WAS SO GOOD. SO GOOD. 20:42.075 --> 20:46.211 NO, I LOVE THAT. IT IS CHANGING YOUR PERSPECTIVE. IT'S 20:46.211 --> 20:49.661 EVERYTHING. THAT IS THE KEY TO IT FOR ME TOO. EVEN LAST WEEK, I 20:49.661 --> 20:52.300 JUST FELT THE LORD TELLING ME THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRE. 20:52.300 --> 20:56.770 IT'S JUST, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT THE 20:56.770 --> 21:00.461 MESS, AND I WAS LOOKING AT THE IMPOSSIBILITY, AND I WAS LETTING 21:00.461 --> 21:04.780 THE PAIN JUST OVERWHELM. AND I WAS JUST SITTING THERE STARING, 21:04.780 --> 21:10.000 LOOKING AT IT, AND JUST THINKING THERE'S NO ANSWERS. AND THE PAIN 21:10.000 --> 21:14.500 WAS JUST ALL CONSUMING. IT WAS LIKE HE JUST SAID TO ME, "KAREN, 21:14.500 --> 21:18.851 WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" AND THEN I BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT 21:18.851 --> 21:25.211 WHERE HE IS. ISN'T IT EPHESIANS THAT SAYS HE'S SEATED FAR ABOVE 21:25.211 --> 21:28.931 ALL POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES, EVEN SAYS IN EVERY NAME THAT IS 21:28.931 --> 21:32.230 NAMED. AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, AND I'M SEATED WITH CHRIST 21:32.230 --> 21:35.050 IN THE HEAVENLY PLACE, BUT I'VE GOT TO CHANGE THAT PERSPECTIVE 21:35.050 --> 21:38.171 AND REMEMBER WHERE I'M SITTING WITH CHRIST AND GET TO THINKING 21:38.171 --> 21:42.801 ABOUT IT. IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID, NICOLE? IT'S JUST, OH, I'VE GOT 21:42.801 --> 21:47.530 DIFFERENTLY. SO I DID LAST WEEK, I BEGAN TO SING. YOU REIGN ABOVE 21:47.530 --> 21:52.601 IT ALL. YOU REIGN ABOVE IT ALL. HERE'S MY MESS ALL DOWN HERE 21:52.601 --> 21:55.721 THAT I'VE BEEN STARING AT FOR HOURS, BUT YOU REIGN ABOVE IT 21:55.721 --> 22:00.730 ALL. YOU REIGN ABOVE IT ALL. YOU'RE OVER THE UNIVERSE AND 22:00.730 --> 22:04.871 OVER EVERY HEART. COME ON. HE'S ABOVE IT ALL. HE'S ABOVE IT ALL. 22:04.871 --> 22:07.810 AND WHEN I LOOK AT HIM, THIS LOOKS TINY. THIS LOOKS LIKE 22:07.810 --> 22:11.800 NOTHING. THIS LOOKS LIKE CHAFF IN THE WIND. AT THE GLORIOUS 22:11.800 --> 22:17.170 GOD. IT'S THE SHIFT OF PERSPECTIVE TO SEE HIM INSTEAD 22:17.170 --> 22:21.641 OF THAT. AMEN. WELL, I WANT THESE TWO TO GO HOME WITH ME AND 22:21.641 --> 22:27.607 SING TO ME WHEN I HAVE BAD DAYS. OH, GOODNESS. EVERYBODY ON THIS 22:27.607 --> 22:33.760 PLATFORM CAN SING BUT ME. OH MY GOODNESS. BEAUTIFUL VOICE. SO I 22:33.760 --> 22:38.201 SAID THIS TO YOU LAST YEAR WHEN I WAS HERE ABOUT SCRIPTURAL 22:38.201 --> 22:41.951 MEMORIZATION. THAT HAS BEEN A GAME CHANGER FOR ME AND IF I 22:41.951 --> 22:46.931 COULD RECOMMEND A BOOK TO YOU, IT'S A MINDSET FREE BY BROTHER 22:46.931 --> 22:50.171 JIMMY EVANS AND IT'S ONE OF THE MOST PROFOUND, IT'S JUST A 22:50.171 --> 22:55.240 LITTLE SHORT READ AND IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THOUGHT 22:55.240 --> 22:59.681 PROCESSES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. IT'S SO 22:59.681 --> 23:04.540 WONDERFUL. AND SO, AND IT IS ABOUT SCRIPTURAL MEMORIZATION 23:04.540 --> 23:11.080 AND SO I STARTED LEARNING LIKE OUR SISTER NICOLE TO MEMORIZE 23:11.080 --> 23:15.461 CHAPTERS OF THE BIBLE AND YOU KNOW, EVEN THE LORD'S PRAYER. 23:15.461 --> 23:20.861 JESUS SAID THIS, HE SAID, "MY WORDS ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE 23:20.861 --> 23:29.770 LIFE." AND SO MANY NIGHTS, MOST, MOST EVERY NIGHT I LIE IN BED AT 23:29.770 --> 23:33.941 BEDTIME BECAUSE THE ENEMY COMES AT, AT, WHEN YOU'RE THE 23:33.941 --> 23:37.840 TIREDEST. HE DOESN'T PLAY FAIR WHEN YOU'RE THE MOST VULNERABLE, 23:37.840 --> 23:42.040 WHEN YOU'RE THE WEAKEST, YOU'VE HAD A LONG DAY. AND SO I LIE IN 23:42.040 --> 23:48.790 BED AND I'LL QUOTE PSALM 1 OR PSALM 23 OR PSALM 100 OR PSALM 23:48.790 --> 23:55.451 27 OR JUST QUOTE AND, AND IMMEDIATELY THE FEARS WILL GO 23:55.451 --> 23:59.681 AWAY AND I'LL GO TO SLEEP. SO IT'S A WONDERFUL TOOL BECAUSE IT 23:59.681 --> 24:02.590 IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD. IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE. YOU'RE NOT 24:02.590 --> 24:07.510 MEMORIZING SHAKESPEARE. YOU'RE MEMORIZING THE SPIRIT OF GOD 24:07.510 --> 24:11.320 THAT WORKS INSIDE YOU. BUT I DID. I FOUND SOMETHING RECENTLY 24:11.320 --> 24:13.990 THAT HAS BEEN LIFE-CHANGING TO ME, AND IF I COULD JUST SHARE IT 24:13.990 --> 24:19.151 WITH YOU VERY QUICKLY. I JUST FINISHED A BOOK, READING A BOOK 24:19.151 --> 24:22.540 BY A DOCTOR. IT'S NOT A DOCTOR, I DON'T THINK, BUT HE'S GONE ON 24:22.540 --> 24:27.881 TO BE WITH THE LORD, DALLAS WILLARD, AND "A LIFE WITHOUT 24:27.881 --> 24:33.641 LACK," AND HE'S EXPOUNDING ON THE 23RD PSALM, WHICH I LOVE. 24:33.641 --> 24:39.701 BUT IN THIS BOOK, HE SAYS, HE STUDIED OTHER RELIGIONS AND 24:39.701 --> 24:48.760 OTHER, THE ISLAM, THEY PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY. AND THEY START 24:48.760 --> 24:52.000 PRAYING AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND THE LAST TIME THEY 24:52.000 --> 24:56.351 PRAY IS AT NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. AND SO FOR ME, THAT WAS A 24:56.351 --> 25:03.611 MIC DROP MOMENT BECAUSE I REALIZED THAT THE BIBLE SAYS, 25:03.611 --> 25:06.401 ADMIT YOUR FAULTS ONE TO ANOTHER. SO I FELT REALLY GOOD 25:06.401 --> 25:09.040 ABOUT MYSELF, ABOUT HAVING MY MORNING DEVOTION, MY MORNING 25:09.040 --> 25:13.570 PRAYER TIME, AND THEN GO ON ABOUT MY BUSINESS ALL DAY LONG. 25:13.570 --> 25:19.540 AND SO, BROTHER DALLAS WILLARD WAS TALKING ABOUT TRAINING YOUR 25:19.540 --> 25:26.830 HEART TO GO TO THE THRONE OF GOD MANY TIMES A DAY. AND SO, WHAT 25:26.830 --> 25:32.411 HAPPENS, AND I'M NOT A PSYCHOLOGIST OR A PSYCHIATRIST, 25:32.411 --> 25:37.090 BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS WE GET IN RUTS IN OUR THINKING, AND IT'S 25:37.090 --> 25:42.730 CALLED NEURO PATHWAYS. IT'S THE HIGHWAY THAT YOUR THOUGHTS GO 25:42.730 --> 25:49.030 DOWN. AND SO YOU GET USED TO THINKING IN CERTAIN WAYS, AND I 25:49.030 --> 25:56.080 DID. AND SO WHEN YOU TRAIN YOUR MIND TO GO TO GOD SEVERAL TIMES 25:56.080 --> 26:03.191 A DAY, IT CHANGES YOUR NEURO PATHWAYS. AND SO WHEN I WAS A 26:03.191 --> 26:06.101 LITTLE GIRL, I WAS RAISED IN LOUISIANA, AND THE PLACE WHERE 26:06.101 --> 26:12.371 WE BAPTIZED AT THE BAYOU WAS A DIRT ROAD. AND WE WENT DOWN THIS 26:12.371 --> 26:17.260 DIRT ROAD AND THERE WERE BIG RUTS IN THE DIRT ROAD. PEOPLE 26:17.260 --> 26:21.101 HAD DRIVEN ON IT WHEN IT WAS MUDDY AND WHATNOT. AND SO YOU 26:21.101 --> 26:26.651 HAD TO GET IN THE RUT TO GET TO THE BAYOU. AND SO THEN YOU 26:26.651 --> 26:29.980 REALLY HAD A PROBLEM IF YOU WEREN'T IN THE RUT. AND SO 26:29.980 --> 26:33.371 THAT'S THE WAY WE GET IN OUR THINKING. WE GET IN RUTS AND 26:33.371 --> 26:39.461 FEAR AND ANXIETY. AND SO WHEN YOU BEGIN TO TURN YOUR HEART TO 26:39.461 --> 26:45.161 GOD SEVERAL TIMES A DAY, AND I GOTTA TELL YOU AT FIRST, IT WAS, 26:45.161 --> 26:49.090 PAUL SAID, "EXERCISE YOURSELF UNTO GODLINESS." EXERCISE IS 26:49.090 --> 26:54.941 HARD. AND SO IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET IN THE HABIT, DRIVING MY 26:54.941 --> 27:00.580 CAR, EATING LUNCH, MOPPING THE FLOOR, GROOMING THE DOG. TURN MY 27:00.580 --> 27:07.330 HEART TO GOD, REALLY TURN MY HEART TO GOD. BUT HERE'S THE 27:07.330 --> 27:18.550 KEY, ISAIAH SAID THIS, HE WILL KEEP IN PERFECT PEACE, HIM WHOSE 27:18.550 --> 27:28.631 MIND IS STAYED ON HIM. WATCH THIS. I FOUND OUT THAT MY 27:28.631 --> 27:34.391 PATHWAYS WERE CHANGING. I WAS CARVING OUT NEW ROADS. AND THAT 27:34.391 --> 27:41.020 IF I TURNED MY HEART TO HIM, HE IS OBLIGATED TO KEEP, TO FIGHT 27:41.020 --> 27:45.461 FOR MY SANITY, TO FIGHT FOR MY PEACE, TO FIGHT. HE WILL KEEP. 27:45.461 --> 27:48.550 LOOK UP THE WORD KEEP WHEN YOU GET HOME. LOOK UP THE WORD 27:48.550 --> 27:55.810 BECAUSE IT IS A FIGHTING WORD. HE'S FIGHTING ALL THE DEMONIC 27:55.810 --> 27:59.471 FORCES THAT WANT TO COME AGAINST YOU WITH ANXIETY AND FEAR AND 27:59.471 --> 28:03.040 COMPARISON AND ALL THOSE THINGS. GOD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU. JUST 28:03.040 --> 28:07.030 TURN YOUR HEART TOWARDS HIM. YES. YES. YES. YOU KNOW ONE 28:07.030 --> 28:10.750 THING, GIVE THAT A CLAP. ONE THING I'M HEARING AND THIS IS A 28:10.750 --> 28:15.191 COMMON THREAD IS, WELL I'LL GIVE A LITTLE EXAMPLE. OUR SON MATT, 28:15.191 --> 28:18.881 HE EVERY YEAR MAKES US FILL OUT THE BASKETBALL BRACKET. IF 28:18.881 --> 28:23.830 YOU'VE BEEN HIT UP BY HIM, I APOLOGIZE. ANYWAY, SO, BUT I DO 28:23.830 --> 28:26.442 IT EVERY YEAR. IT IS FUN AS A FAMILY, BUT THEN WHEN THE TEAMS 28:26.442 --> 28:30.371 THAT I DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, THAT I WANT TO WIN DON'T WIN, I 28:30.371 --> 28:36.048 HAVE ANGER ISSUES, BUT ANYHOW. SO, YOU KNOW, BUT I HAD TO 28:36.048 --> 28:40.000 REMEMBER, JUST THIS YEAR WE WERE WATCHING OUR TEAMS GET 28:40.000 --> 28:43.990 ELIMINATED AND I REMEMBERED, HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER LARRY BIRD 28:43.990 --> 28:47.711 BACK IN THE DAY, PLAYED BASKETBALL? AND IT JUST REMINDED 28:47.711 --> 28:50.171 ME, AND THERE'S A SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE WITH THIS, IT REMINDED 28:50.171 --> 28:55.451 ME THAT HE WOULD GO INTO THE GYM, HE WOULD SAY, I DON'T KNOW, 28:55.451 --> 28:58.901 FOR HOURS BEYOND ANY OTHER PLAYER AND JUST SHOOT FREE 28:58.901 --> 29:02.980 THROWS, JUST PRACTICE THEM. AND I REMEMBERED WHEN ONE OF OUR 29:02.980 --> 29:06.101 TEAMS, I THINK IT MIGHT'VE BEEN NEBRASKA, BUT THEY WERE LOSING. 29:06.101 --> 29:10.000 I'M LIKE, "STOP MISSING YOUR FREE THROWS." YOU KNOW, I'D BE 29:10.000 --> 29:13.480 SO MAD. THEY'D MISS, I THINK THIS SHOULD BE ELEMENTARY, 29:13.480 --> 29:18.851 RIGHT? AND WHAT I'M HEARING HERE, THERE'S NO LIKE BIG 29:18.851 --> 29:26.050 EXPLOSIVE ANSWER, BUT TO MAKE OUR FREE THROWS. EVERY SINGLE 29:26.050 --> 29:34.060 TIME. IT'S ROUTINE THINGS THAT WE DO TO COMBAT, YOU MENTIONED 29:34.060 --> 29:38.201 SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION, KNOWING THE WORD. IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE 29:38.201 --> 29:40.810 WORD, YOU'LL HAVE NOTHING, THERE'LL BE NO BREAD IN YOUR 29:40.810 --> 29:45.010 SOUL TO FIGHT WITH. YOU HAVE NO WEAPON. THERE'S WORSHIP WAS 29:45.010 --> 29:48.760 MENTIONED. WE TALKED ABOUT OUR EYES BEING ON. THESE ARE 29:48.760 --> 29:54.490 STANDARD FREE THROWS THAT EVERY CHRISTIAN MUST PRACTICE AGAIN 29:54.490 --> 29:59.590 AND AGAIN EVERY DAY SO THAT WE ARE ARMED FOR THE DAY OF BATTLE. 29:59.590 --> 30:03.790 AND WHEN THE NIGHT TERROR COMES, WE'RE ALREADY FULL. WE ALREADY 30:03.790 --> 30:08.141 CAN MAKE THE FREE THROW. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES AS 30:08.141 --> 30:12.490 CHRISTIANS WE'RE LOOKING FOR THAT BIG ANOINTING MOMENT. WE'RE 30:12.490 --> 30:16.540 GONNA GET IN BROTHER SO-AND-SO SERVICE AND WE'RE GONNA FALL OUT 30:16.540 --> 30:20.171 AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING. AND I'M NOT SAYING GOD CAN'T DO 30:20.171 --> 30:24.161 THOSE THINGS. HE DOES USE THAT. HE DOES USE A CONFERENCE LIKE 30:24.161 --> 30:29.921 THIS. BUT THEY'RE ONLY MOMENTS EVERY DAY MAKING THOSE FREE 30:29.921 --> 30:33.760 THROWS OF PUTTING THAT WORD IN. YOU KNOW, DECLARING IT. IT'S ONE 30:33.760 --> 30:37.987 OF THE REASONS I ACTUALLY WROTE THE DECREE BOOKS IS BECAUSE I 30:37.987 --> 30:41.737 WANTED PEOPLE IN THEIR DARKEST NIGHT TERROR, NIGHT SEASON 30:41.737 --> 30:45.217 MOMENTS TO BE ABLE TO TALK RIGHT. BECAUSE THE HARDEST THING 30:45.217 --> 30:50.076 TO DO, AND WORDS IS ANOTHER ONE, OF THOSE SIMPLE FREE THROWS, IS 30:50.076 --> 30:53.076 TO BE ABLE TO TALK RIGHT AND DECLARE RIGHT AND SPEAK RIGHT 30:53.076 --> 30:57.576 WHEN YOUR MOUTH DOES NOT WANT TO. OKAY, YOU KNOW, YOU'D THINK 30:57.576 --> 31:00.817 IT WOULD JUST BE THE EASIEST THING TO TALK FAITH WHEN THERE'S 31:00.817 --> 31:04.777 ALL THIS JUNK GOING ON IN OUR LIVES SOMETIMES. BUT IT'S 31:04.777 --> 31:09.876 SIMPLE, OUR MOUTH CAN DO IT. BUT WHAT PREVENTS US SOMETIMES, YOU 31:09.876 --> 31:15.727 KNOW, OF SPEAKING HEALING WHEN THERE'S A SICKNESS. SPEAKING 31:15.727 --> 31:20.376 LIKE LADY T WHEN THE FINANCES ARE LOW TO SPEAK FAITH. I DON'T 31:20.376 --> 31:24.727 KNOW. WE LOVE, WE'RE ADDICTED SOMETIMES TO SPEAKING THE WRONG 31:24.727 --> 31:28.116 THINGS. YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. BECAUSE WE'VE NOT PRACTICED OUR 31:28.116 --> 31:33.426 FREE THROWS. SO I'M HEARING FROM US TODAY THAT THIS IS A PRACTICE 31:33.426 --> 31:39.426 LIFE OF OVERCOMING THESE FEARS. NOT JUST A BIG AHA MOMENT, BUT 31:39.426 --> 31:44.737 IT'S BECAUSE WE KEEP DOING IT. ONE OF THE THINGS AS YOU'RE 31:44.737 --> 31:48.067 SAYING THAT, IT COMES TO MY MIND. WE'RE ENTERING PLANTING 31:48.067 --> 31:51.336 SEASON HERE IN NEBRASKA, RIGHT? WHERE FARMERS ARE GETTING READY 31:51.336 --> 31:53.467 TO PUT SEED IN THE GROUND. WE'RE GETTING READY TO PLANT OUR 31:53.467 --> 31:57.426 FLOWERS, DO ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DO. HOWEVER, THE SEED, LIKE 31:57.426 --> 32:03.277 THE CONFERENCE HERE IS THE SEED. YES. WHAT WE DO WITH THE SEED 32:03.277 --> 32:07.057 THOUGH, IF WE DON'T DO WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, IF 32:07.057 --> 32:11.317 WE DON'T ADD THE WATER, THE FERTILIZER, AND TEND TO THE 32:11.317 --> 32:14.317 PLANTS THAT ARE BEING PLANTED, GUESS WHAT, THEY'RE NOT GONNA 32:14.317 --> 32:18.096 SPRING UP, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BEAR FRUIT. AND SO IT IS THE 32:18.096 --> 32:23.886 CONTINUAL THING, AND IT IS US CHOOSING TO KEEP OUR EYES ON THE 32:23.886 --> 32:27.817 LORD. WHEN I WROTE THE SONG, GOD OF MIRACLES, MANY OF YOU GUYS 32:27.817 --> 32:30.936 KNOW THAT SONG. WE SING, WE'RE BELIEVING FOR MIGHTY THINGS, 32:30.936 --> 32:34.057 WE'RE BELIEVING FOR MIRACLES, BUT THE BRIDGE OF THAT SONG 32:34.057 --> 32:39.666 SAYS, "HOW MIGHTY, HOW MARVELOUS YOU ARE, MIRACULOUS, HOW GREAT." 32:39.666 --> 32:44.196 BECAUSE AGAIN, WE CAN SAY WE'RE BELIEVING, BUT IF WE DON'T KNOW 32:44.196 --> 32:48.817 THE GOD THAT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH, IF WE DON'T KNOW THE 32:48.817 --> 32:52.416 CHARACTER OF WHO GOD IS, WE CAN SAY WE'RE BELIEVING ALL DAY 32:52.416 --> 32:55.836 LONG. NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN UNTIL WE SEE THE GOD THAT SITS 32:55.836 --> 33:00.186 UPON THE THRONE, AND WE KNOW THAT HE HEARS WHEN WE CALL. 33:00.186 --> 33:04.537 AMEN. NICOLE, YOU HAD SOMETHING. YES, AND AMEN. YOU KNOW, I WANNA 33:04.537 --> 33:07.386 SAY THIS TOO, IS THAT FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT'S REALLY BEEN 33:07.386 --> 33:12.727 HEAVY ON MY HEART TO MAKE SURE THAT I PUT INTO SONG THE WORDS 33:12.727 --> 33:17.406 OF THE WORD, TO PUT THE PSALMS. AND SO THAT'S MY LOVE. AND SO I 33:17.406 --> 33:20.826 WANNA THANK YOU TOO, LAST YEAR, FOR LAST YEAR WHEN YOU GAVE THE 33:20.826 --> 33:24.336 WORD TO ME AND I JUST BROKE A SISTER DOWN WITH AN UGLY CRY. 33:24.336 --> 33:28.507 BUT ANYWAY, BUT NO, BUT PART OF THE WORD THAT THE LORD USED YOU 33:28.507 --> 33:31.326 TO GIVE TO ME WAS ABOUT SONGWRITING AND PRETTY MUCH 33:31.326 --> 33:34.987 STIRRING BACK UP THAT GIFT THAT HAD KIND OF BEEN PUT TO THE SIDE 33:34.987 --> 33:38.826 A LITTLE BIT. AND SO OVER THE PAST YEAR, I FOUND MYSELF 33:38.826 --> 33:44.017 WORKING ON SONGS AND WRITING MORE SONGS WHEN EVEN AT THE TIME 33:44.017 --> 33:47.287 YOU GAVE THE WORD, I DIDN'T SEE IT AS, NOT THAT I DIDN'T SEE IT 33:47.287 --> 33:50.436 AS A POSSIBILITY, IT WASN'T SOMETHING IN THE FOREFRONT OF MY 33:50.436 --> 33:53.436 MIND. AND SO THAT WAS A PART OF THE WORD. I BELIEVE THE LORD 33:53.436 --> 33:56.646 USED THAT TO DROP IT AS A SEED TO BEGIN TO GROW AGAIN IN ME. 33:56.646 --> 34:00.727 BUT MY POINT ALSO IS THAT I LOVE IT BECAUSE I MEAN, WE SING SONGS 34:00.727 --> 34:02.946 ALL THE TIME. YOU KNOW, YOU GO THROUGH A STORE, YOU FIND 34:02.946 --> 34:05.047 YOURSELF SINGING SOMETHING AND SOMETIMES YOU FIND YOURSELF 34:05.047 --> 34:08.496 SINGING NONSENSE BECAUSE THE MELODY WAS SO CATCHY AND YOU'RE 34:08.496 --> 34:11.586 LIKE, "OH, WHAT AM I SINGING?" AND I THOUGHT, "HOW MUCH BETTER 34:11.586 --> 34:14.827 IS IT THEN IF BEFORE I KNOW IT, I'M WAKING UP AND I'M SINGING 34:14.827 --> 34:17.257 THE WORD OR IT'S SINGING TO ME OR I'M WALKING THROUGH THE STORE 34:17.257 --> 34:21.666 AND SO I WANT TO PUT IT TO MUSIC AND TO MELODY THAT'S CATCHY 34:21.666 --> 34:26.527 ENOUGH THAT IT'S KID TESTED MOTHER APPROVED. YOU KNOW WHAT 34:26.527 --> 34:29.797 I'M SAYING? SO THAT'S MY AIM AND THAT'S MY GOAL AND SO THE SONGS 34:29.797 --> 34:33.427 WE'VE BEEN SINGING TODAY AND LAST NIGHT A LOT OF THESE SONGS 34:33.427 --> 34:35.706 ARE STRAIGHT FROM THE WORD. YOU KNOW YOU ALL KNOW I'VE DONE 34:35.706 --> 34:41.414 PSALM 91 THE WHOLE CHAPTER. YOU GOT FIVE SONGS AND YOU SING IT, 34:41.414 --> 34:44.467 YOU SING THE WHOLE CHAPTER. AND IF YOU MEMORIZE THE SONGS, 34:44.467 --> 34:48.306 YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE CHAPTER AND THE SAME WITH PSALM 139 THAT 34:48.306 --> 34:52.536 WE'RE WORKING TO PUT OUT. BUT I'M JUST SAYING, SO MY HEART IS 34:52.536 --> 34:55.387 FOR US TO USE IT BECAUSE IF WE DON'T HAVE THE WORD, LIKE YOU 34:55.387 --> 34:59.625 WERE SAYING, CHRISTY, WE'RE JUST SAYING, "THUS SAITH ME," OR YOU 34:59.625 --> 35:02.047 JUST MAKING UP WORDS TO TELL THE DEVIL TO GET BEHIND YOU. AND 35:02.047 --> 35:05.436 HE'S NOT OBLIGATED TO YOUR WORDS. HE'S NOT. HE'S OBLIGATED 35:05.436 --> 35:09.367 TO THE WORD. SO IF WE DON'T KNOW THE WORD, WE DON'T HAVE THE 35:09.367 --> 35:13.297 POWER TO FIGHT AND TO WIN. SO WE NEED THE WORD. SO GOOD. WISHING 35:13.297 --> 35:17.947 IS NOT FAITH. NO. IT'S NOT. I LIKE THAT. NO, IT ISN'T. IT'S 35:17.947 --> 35:21.907 NOT. AND INSULTS ALONE WON'T MAKE THE DEVIL LEAVE. I CAN 35:21.907 --> 35:25.746 INSULT HIM ALL DAY LONG, BUT IF I'M NOT USING THE WORD OF GOD, 35:25.746 --> 35:28.686 IT IS WRITTEN, EVEN AS CHRIST SAID, IT IS WRITTEN, THERE'S NO 35:28.686 --> 35:32.317 AUTHORITY IN MAKING HIM LEAVE. SO I NEED THE WORD AND I NEED TO 35:32.317 --> 35:34.956 KNOW THE WORD IN ORDER TO USE THE WORD IN ORDER TO WIELD THE 35:34.956 --> 35:38.916 SWORD THAT HE GAVE US. SO THAT'S MY TWO CENTS. ALL RIGHT. OH, I 35:38.916 --> 35:45.817 LOVE THAT. SO JUST LET'S TALK ABOUT, LADIES, HOW DO WE DEAL 35:45.817 --> 35:52.056 WITH THIS? THIS THING CALLED OUR THOUGHTS THAT LIKE TO JUST COME. 35:52.056 --> 35:56.106 SOMETIMES IT'S LIKE A FIRE HOSE. THESE THOUGHTS JUST KEEP COMING 35:56.106 --> 35:59.916 AND COMING AND COMING. AND I THINK SOMETIMES, I DON'T KNOW, I 35:59.916 --> 36:04.297 FEEL LIKE WOMEN TEND TO BE EVEN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE. MAYBE IT'S 36:04.297 --> 36:06.487 'CAUSE WE'RE MORE EMOTIONAL, I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT SAYING THE 36:06.487 --> 36:10.297 GUYS AREN'T, BUT TO DEAL WITH THESE THOUGHTS THAT WON'T SEEM 36:10.297 --> 36:13.806 TO TURN OFF. HOW MANY OF YOU EVER BEEN THERE? WHERE IT JUST, 36:13.806 --> 36:16.626 YOU SEEM LIKE IT'S NOT GONNA SHUT DOWN. AND I THINK THAT'S 36:16.626 --> 36:20.797 WHY THE DEVIL USES THE NIGHT TERROR, THAT 3 A.M. TIME. IN 36:20.797 --> 36:24.666 FACT, I HEARD SOMEBODY SAY THERE'S A, IT'S KIND OF THAT 36:24.666 --> 36:28.086 HOUR THAT THE DEMONIC IS MOST ACTIVE, AND IT'S USUALLY THAT 36:28.086 --> 36:33.876 BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR. THAT'S WHEN THE OCCULT IS THE MOST 36:33.876 --> 36:38.197 ACTIVE, IS THAT 2 A.M. TO 4 A.M. THEY CALL IT THE WITCHING HOUR. 36:38.197 --> 36:43.717 THE WITCHING HOUR. IT'S A REAL THING, AND SO THAT'S THE DEMONIC 36:43.717 --> 36:49.927 TIME, AND SO WHAT CAN WE DO TO COMBAT THESE THINGS THAT LIKE TO 36:49.927 --> 36:52.987 HIT US, EVEN ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT, BUT ANY TIME OF THE DAY, 36:52.987 --> 36:56.016 YOU KNOW, AND I WILL SAY, NOT THAT I WANNA JUST CAMP ON THE 36:56.016 --> 37:01.567 NIGHT HOUR, THAT WITCHING HOUR, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT. MY MOTHER 37:01.567 --> 37:05.496 USED TO SAY YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, YOU'D BE STRESSED OUT, GO TO 37:05.496 --> 37:08.766 BED, WORKED UP AT NIGHT, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL HAVE EVER 37:08.766 --> 37:10.686 HAD THIS HAPPEN. YOU'LL THINK, "WELL, THIS COULD HAPPEN, "AND 37:10.686 --> 37:13.117 THAT COULD HAPPEN." I DON'T KNOW. YOUR MIND RACES ON LIKE 37:13.117 --> 37:16.206 EIGHT DIFFERENT THINGS THAT COULD GO WRONG, TO YOUR POINT, 37:16.206 --> 37:19.086 AND MOST OF THEM DON'T EVER HAPPEN. BUT THEN YOU GET UP IN 37:19.086 --> 37:21.996 THE MORNING AND GO, "OH NO, THAT WASN'T EVEN A PROBLEM." IT'S 37:21.996 --> 37:25.927 JUST DEMONIC. BUT WHAT DO WE DO TO DEAL WITH OUR HEAD? LET'S 37:25.927 --> 37:33.067 TALK ABOUT THAT. TALK ABOUT THAT. GO AHEAD, KAREN. GOD GAVE 37:33.067 --> 37:37.387 US SOMETHING THAT IS A PRECIOUS GIFT. IT IS THE GIFT OF CHOICE. 37:37.387 --> 37:44.376 SO WE CHOOSE WHAT WE THINK ABOUT. THAT IS UP TO US. WE 37:44.376 --> 37:47.467 CHOOSE WHEN WE PICK UP THAT PHONE AND STAY ON PINTEREST FOR 37:47.467 --> 37:51.186 HOURS. WE CHOOSE WHEN WE'RE ON FACEBOOK FOR HOURS. THAT'S OUR 37:51.186 --> 37:54.637 CHOICE. WE CAN CHOOSE TO STAY THERE. AND I LEARNED SOMETHING 37:54.637 --> 37:57.847 IN MY LIFE, I'M SURE YOU HAVE TOO, THAT WHAT YOU MEDITATE ON 37:57.847 --> 38:00.637 IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE. BECAUSE I KEPT HEARING THE LORD TELLING ME 38:00.637 --> 38:02.887 ABOUT, "BELIEVE THE WORD, KAREN, BELIEVE THE WORD." AND THEN I 38:02.887 --> 38:05.916 WAS LIKE, "WELL, LORD, EVIDENTLY I'M NOT BECAUSE YOU KEEP TELLING 38:05.916 --> 38:08.376 ME TO DO IT. SO EVIDENTLY I'M NOT DOING IT BECAUSE YOU KEEP 38:08.376 --> 38:10.777 SAYING, 'BELIEVE, KAREN.'" SO I SAID TO THE LORD, "HOW DO I 38:10.777 --> 38:13.597 BELIEVE?" AND HE SAID, "WHAT YOU MEDITATE ON IS WHAT YOU 38:13.597 --> 38:16.867 BELIEVE." SO WHAT YOU MEDITATE ON IS YOUR CHOICE. IT'S MY 38:16.867 --> 38:20.048 CHOICE, IT'S YOUR CHOICE. WE CHOOSE WHAT WE MEDITATE ON. SO 38:20.048 --> 38:24.157 IF WE MEDITATE ON FACEBOOK, THEN WE'RE GOING TO BELIEVE ALL THAT 38:24.157 --> 38:27.217 GARBAGE-Y JUNK OF FACEBOOK. IT'S NOT GOING TO FEED OUR SPIRIT. 38:27.217 --> 38:30.277 IT'S NOT GOING TO STRENGTHEN OUR SPIRIT ONE IOTA. WE'RE NOT 38:30.277 --> 38:35.257 GOING TO BE CHANGED. WE'RE GOING TO BE DRAINED AND MIND NUMB. 38:35.257 --> 38:40.476 YES. AND SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE TARGET, TO THE ARROWS OF THE 38:40.476 --> 38:44.706 ENEMY. WHEN OUR MIND GETS NUMB, WE ARE JUST SUSCEPTIBLE TO 38:44.706 --> 38:47.527 ANYTHING HE WANTS TO THROW AT US. RIGHT? AND THAT IS ONE OF 38:47.527 --> 38:50.197 THE THINGS THE ENEMY IS DOING TO OUR GENERATION RIGHT NOW, IS TO 38:50.197 --> 38:55.597 KEEP US SO DISTRACTED THAT WE ARE UTTERLY SPIRITUALLY NUMB. WE 38:55.597 --> 38:58.777 CAN'T HEAR THINGS, FEEL THINGS. WE CAN'T EVEN PRAY ANYMORE 38:58.777 --> 39:02.617 BECAUSE WE'RE SO JUST DEAD OF SPIRIT. SO WE'VE GOT TO CHOOSE. 39:02.617 --> 39:05.106 I'M GOING TO TURN OFF FACEBOOK. I'M GOING TO TURN OFF THIS 39:05.106 --> 39:07.746 PINTEREST. I'M GOING TO TURN OFF INSTAGRAM AND I'M GOING TO GET 39:07.746 --> 39:11.467 IN THE WORD. THAT'S MY DECISION. I'M GOING TO DO IT. AND I'M 39:11.467 --> 39:15.487 GOING TO MAKE MY MIND THINK ABOUT THIS WORD. IT'S MY CHOICE 39:15.487 --> 39:18.757 AND THIS IS WHAT I CHOOSE TO DO. AND JUST PUT IT IN YOUR FACE AND 39:18.757 --> 39:22.447 THEN STAY THERE AND THINK ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU BELIEVE THAT MORE 39:22.447 --> 39:26.947 THAN WHAT YOU SEE. YOU BELIEVE THAT MORE THAN WHAT YOU BELIEVE, 39:26.947 --> 39:29.737 WHATEVER THE DEVIL'S TRYING TO TELL YOU. SO IT'S THE CHOICE I 39:29.737 --> 39:32.706 MAKE, I'M GONNA DO IT. SAY IT IN JESUS' NAME, I'M GONNA DO IT. 39:32.706 --> 39:36.487 AMEN, I'M GONNA DO IT. MY CHOICE, MY CHOICE. SO KAREN, CAN 39:36.487 --> 39:41.077 I PIGGYBACK ON THAT? BECAUSE IN FACT, GOD HAS HAD ME ON THIS 39:41.077 --> 39:47.436 JOURNEY ABOUT HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS A HUGE, IT'S BECOME A HUGE 39:47.436 --> 39:51.847 DISTRACTION FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND IT IS BECOMING A LOT OF 39:51.847 --> 39:57.126 PEOPLE'S GOSPEL. AND SOME OF IT IS JUST ROOTED IN IDOLATRY, YOU 39:57.126 --> 40:03.217 KNOW, PREACHERS, I MEAN, SELFISM. IT'S ROOTED IN GOSSIP. 40:03.217 --> 40:08.407 IT'S ROOTED IN LIES AND HALF PERSPECTIVES. AND IT'S ROOTED 40:08.407 --> 40:12.427 AND IT'S, AND HONESTLY, IT'S TURNED THE BODY OF CHRIST INTO A 40:12.427 --> 40:16.146 FIGHTING MACHINE RATHER THAN PEOPLE THAT KNOW HOW TO WALK IN 40:16.146 --> 40:20.646 LOVE AND SELF-CONTROL. SO, IN FACT, I DID A WHOLE, NOW ALL OF 40:20.646 --> 40:23.376 YOU THAT WATCH LORD OF HOSTS ON FACEBOOK, YOU CAN WATCH US HERE, 40:23.376 --> 40:28.056 BUT GO TO OVTV. BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY, HANK AND I ARE ON A 40:28.056 --> 40:32.737 LITTLE BIT OF A CAMPAIGN TO KEEP FACEBOOK, OR NOT JUST FACEBOOK, 40:32.737 --> 40:36.967 ALL SOCIAL MEDIA, BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE SO MANY OF THESE PLATFORMS 40:36.967 --> 40:42.036 TO KEEP IT HOLY, BUT IT CANNOT BECOME OUR LIFE. AND I'LL BE 40:42.036 --> 40:46.237 HONEST WITH YOU, AND I JUST WANT TO ATTEST TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, 40:46.237 --> 40:51.336 I MADE A DECISION TO BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA LESS. NOT OPENING 40:51.336 --> 40:55.817 THE APPS, NOT LOOKING, NOT POSTING, AND I LIKE TO, I'M ALL 40:55.817 --> 41:01.007 FOR POSTING FUN THINGS. I LOVE TO COOK AND POST PICTURES AND DO 41:01.007 --> 41:04.456 FUN THINGS LIKE THAT. WE LOVE TO POST THE BIBLE, RIGHT? BUT WE'RE 41:04.456 --> 41:09.137 ALL SUSCEPTIBLE TO WHAT THOSE PLATFORMS SUGGEST TO YOU. 41:09.137 --> 41:11.896 THERE'S PLENTY OF THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED TO ME I WISH 41:11.896 --> 41:16.396 I DIDN'T SEE. AND THERE'S PLENTY OF THINGS, AND THE OTHER DEMONIC 41:16.396 --> 41:21.797 PART OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE SCROLL. YOU KNOW, IT'S A 41:21.797 --> 41:27.797 DANGEROUS PLACE TO BE. AND SO, I MADE A DECISION JUST AS LAST 41:27.797 --> 41:31.876 YEAR THAT I WOULD SPEND A LOT LESS TIME OPENING ANY SOCIAL 41:31.876 --> 41:36.556 PLATFORM. AND THERE ARE, I MAKE SURE OF IT, THAT THERE ARE DAYS, 41:36.556 --> 41:39.257 AND YOU KNOW, ALL OF US WHO ARE IN THE PUBLIC MINISTRY KNOW YOU 41:39.257 --> 41:44.836 DON'T LIKE TO READ EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU ANYWAY. AND, BUT THE 41:44.836 --> 41:52.456 FACT IS, MY PEACE LEVEL WENT HIGHER. AND JUST READING ABOUT 41:52.456 --> 41:56.806 OURSELVES. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. I'M JUST, OUR BRAINS ARE 41:56.806 --> 42:01.637 NOT MADE TO READ EVERY BAD STORY, EVERY INFIGHTING IN THE 42:01.637 --> 42:05.086 BODY OF CHRIST. COME ON, THAT STUFF'S GOING TO END. EVERY 42:05.086 --> 42:10.786 LITTLE TRAGIC THING, EVERY ACCIDENT, FIRE ISSUE, FALLEN 42:10.786 --> 42:17.327 PREACHER, COME ON SOMEBODY. AND I CHOSE, I DECISION THAT I 42:17.327 --> 42:20.686 NEEDED NOT TO BE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON LIKE 42:20.686 --> 42:25.097 THAT. AND YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND OUT? MY PEACE, MY COMFORT, MY 42:25.097 --> 42:30.317 TRUST IN GOD, JUST IN THAT DECISION ALONE. FIRST OF ALL, IT 42:30.317 --> 42:34.547 WASN'T A DISTRACTION, BUT JUST ELIMINATING THAT ONE 42:34.547 --> 42:40.157 INTERFERENCE ALLOWED ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHUT MY MIND OFF 42:40.157 --> 42:44.356 FROM EVERYTHING GOING ON, THAT CIRCUS THAT'S OUT THERE. I 42:44.356 --> 42:48.646 BELIEVE THE DEVIL HAS USED, I MEAN, LOOK WHAT IT'S DOING TO 42:48.646 --> 42:52.246 THE YOUNG GENERATION RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE CONFUSED, THEY'RE GENDER 42:52.246 --> 42:55.577 CONFUSED, THEY DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE, THEIR IDENTITY IS 42:55.577 --> 42:59.027 UPSIDE DOWN, THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO, THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW, 42:59.027 --> 43:04.907 BECAUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, THE NAME OF THEIR GOD. I DO BELIEVE 43:04.907 --> 43:09.527 YOU'RE ONTO A THING, THAT SOCIAL MEDIA HAS KEPT OUR MIND LIKE 43:09.527 --> 43:13.277 THIS. IT'S LIKE THIS LOTTO MACHINE THING THAT'S JUST, AND 43:13.277 --> 43:19.097 WE CAN'T... AND THE DEVIL WILL TARGET YOU WITH STORIES. THAT HE 43:19.097 --> 43:23.086 KNOWS YOU LIKE. WELL, THAT HE KNOWS WILL PUT YOU IN FEAR. OH 43:23.086 --> 43:26.117 YEAH, YEAH. BECAUSE I PROMISE YOU NOT, CAN I TELL ON MYSELF? 43:26.117 --> 43:29.927 OF COURSE. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS CONFESS YOUR FAULTS. I'VE 43:29.927 --> 43:34.306 GOT A DAUGHTER THAT'S GETTING READY TO DRIVE. AND I'M GONNA BE 43:34.306 --> 43:39.317 REAL. I'VE HAD SOME ANXIOUS MOMENTS. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE 43:39.317 --> 43:45.197 SENDING YOUR PRECIOUS BABY, IT'S OUT TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE. AND 43:45.197 --> 43:48.407 YOU KNOW, AND ON TOP OF THAT, PASTOR BRENDA AND I WENT THROUGH 43:48.407 --> 43:50.806 A CAR WRECK, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEN EVERYBODY OUT THERE, I'M 43:50.806 --> 43:53.117 LIKE, NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE. I CAN'T, I DON'T WANNA SEND MY 43:53.117 --> 43:56.206 BABY OUT 'CAUSE ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE DRIVING, THEY DRIVE CRAZY. 43:56.206 --> 43:59.927 AND THEN I PROMISE YOU, THE MINUTE I STARTED TO ENTERTAIN 43:59.927 --> 44:06.317 THAT EVERYTHING ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA BEGAN TO BE THE SEX 44:06.317 --> 44:10.983 TRAFFICKING TARGETING AND ALL OF THE THINGS AND THOSE WERE COMING 44:10.983 --> 44:12.947 TO MY FEET. IT'S NOT THAT I ASKED FOR THEM TO BE THERE. I 44:12.947 --> 44:15.706 DIDN'T ASK FOR THEM, I DIDN'T EVEN LOOK THEM UP. THEY STARTED 44:15.706 --> 44:19.487 COMING INTO MY FEET BECAUSE IT WAS A TARGET FROM THE DEVIL. AND 44:19.487 --> 44:23.476 THAT'S WHERE WE DO, I AGREE, WE HAVE TO TURN SOME OF THOSE 44:23.476 --> 44:27.257 THINGS OFF BECAUSE THE DEVIL WILL USE THAT MEDIUM TO KEEP US 44:27.257 --> 44:30.677 OUT OF FAITH, TO KEEP US IN FEAR, SO THAT THAT'S ALL THAT WE 44:30.677 --> 44:36.059 SEE. I REMEMBER WHEN PASTOR, WITH THE 2020 PROPHECIES, AND IT 44:36.059 --> 44:39.286 DID NOT LOOK LIKE HIS WORD WAS GONNA COME TO PASS, AND 44:39.286 --> 44:42.527 EVERYTHING WAS TO THE CONTRARY, AND I MEAN, SOCIAL MEDIA WAS 44:42.527 --> 44:45.527 BLOWING UP, AND I MEAN, THEY WERE CENSORING SOCIAL MEDIA. YOU 44:45.527 --> 44:48.467 COULDN'T EVEN SAY, "LET THE EARTH BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY 44:48.467 --> 44:51.617 OF GOD," AND YOUR FACEBOOK WOULD TARGET YOUR POST AND PULL IT 44:51.617 --> 44:55.547 DOWN, AND I MEAN, IT WAS NASTY STUFF. AND I REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, 44:55.547 --> 44:58.396 ALL THE NEWS OUTLETS, NOBODY WAS IN AGREEMENT WITH THE WORD OF 44:58.396 --> 45:03.047 THE LORD. AND I FINALLY, I WAS LIKE, I TURNED OFF THE NEWS FOR 45:03.047 --> 45:06.833 A WHOLE YEAR. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I WENT BACK AND I WAS LIKE, NO, 45:06.833 --> 45:09.197 GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT? I KNOW THE CHARACTER OF THE PROPHET THAT 45:09.197 --> 45:12.827 YOU PUT IN THIS HOUSE. I'VE SEEN THE TRACK RECORD. SO WHILE IT 45:12.827 --> 45:15.947 DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS, I TURNED ALL OF THAT OFF. I KEPT LOOKING 45:15.947 --> 45:18.166 AT THE LORD. AND SUDDENLY WE JUST KNEW THAT WE JUST KNEW IT 45:18.166 --> 45:21.527 DIDN'T MATTER WHAT ANYBODY SAID. IT DIDN'T MATTER IF THEY SAID 45:21.527 --> 45:24.496 ALL THE PROPHETS MISSED IT. WE FOUND OUT, CANDY, THEY DIDN'T 45:24.496 --> 45:29.204 MISS IT. YOUR HUSBAND DIDN'T MISS IT. THEY WERE RIGHT ON. 45:29.204 --> 45:32.266 IT'S JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, SOMETIMES TO THE POINT THAT YOU 45:32.266 --> 45:34.336 SAID, HE DIDN'T DO IT IN THE TIMELINE, WE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS 45:34.336 --> 45:36.617 GOING TO DO IT. BUT BOY, HE SURE EXPOSED SOME THINGS ALONG THE 45:36.617 --> 45:41.086 WAY, DIDN'T HE? WELL, BUT YEAH, AND I AGREE. AND I JUST THANK 45:41.086 --> 45:45.286 YOU FOR BRINGING UP THE INTERNET, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE 45:45.286 --> 45:51.106 IT HAS BEEN A PRIMARY TOOL TO JUST SATURATE OUR BRAINS WITH 45:51.106 --> 45:55.786 THE WRONG, AND IT'S KEEPING US, IT'S BECOME MORE OF A 45:55.786 --> 46:01.697 DISTRACTION THAN A HELP. AND SO I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE ANYBODY 46:01.697 --> 46:05.146 HERE, NOW IF YOU'RE COMING SPECIFICALLY TO TURN ON THE 46:05.146 --> 46:09.077 STREAM HERE, MANY OF YOU ARE E-MEMBERS THAT ARE OUT THERE, 46:09.077 --> 46:15.976 AND E-MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE THING. BUT MY KEY IS, IS I 46:15.976 --> 46:20.507 HAVE BECOME WHERE I'M JUST, I'M NOT, I DON'T OPEN INSTAGRAM. I 46:20.507 --> 46:23.927 MEAN, IT'S NO SURPRISE. OUR TEAM POSTS TO MY PAGE. I DON'T EVEN 46:23.927 --> 46:28.456 DO IT. I JUST DON'T. AND HOLLY DOES A GREAT JOB. ALL OF HER 46:28.456 --> 46:32.956 TEAM, THEY'RE SO GOOD. AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO SAY THAT. I AM. 46:32.956 --> 46:35.567 I'M NOT. IF IT'S A COOKING PICTURE. IF IT'S A COOKING 46:35.567 --> 46:38.777 PICTURE, WELL, HOLLY STILL HAD TO HELP ME PUT IT OUT. BUT MY 46:38.777 --> 46:43.907 POINT IS, IS I WAS ABLE TO GET MY OWN THOUGHTS IN ORDER AND MY 46:43.907 --> 46:47.992 PEACE BACK BY JUST TURNING OFF THE INTERNET. AND CAN I 46:47.992 --> 46:51.257 ENCOURAGE ONE MORE THING, AND I WANT THESE LADIES TO TALK. DON'T 46:51.257 --> 46:56.146 JUST LET YOUR BIBLE BE ON A DEVICE. GET A GOOD OLD FASHIONED 46:56.146 --> 47:01.217 BOOK BACK OUT. OPEN A BOOK, PUT YOUR PHONE IN THE OTHER ROOM. 47:01.217 --> 47:04.036 AND YOU KNOW, MY KIDS GO CRAZY. THEY'RE LIKE, MOM, I CAN'T GET 47:04.036 --> 47:07.396 AHOLD OF YOU. I'M LIKE, I KNOW, I LEFT MY PHONE SOMEWHERE ELSE. 47:07.396 --> 47:11.266 PURPOSEFULLY, I JUST SOMETIMES NEED THAT. AND SO I THINK THAT 47:11.266 --> 47:15.137 WAS SO, YES, I THINK THAT WAS SO GOOD THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT OUT 47:15.137 --> 47:20.327 BECAUSE IT IS A KEY ISSUE WHY WE CAN'T CONTROL WHAT WE THINK. 47:20.327 --> 47:24.050 IT'S HUGE. ANYBODY ELSE? IT IS. I WOULD LOVE TO PIGGYBACK ON 47:24.050 --> 47:27.827 THAT TOO, BECAUSE I BELIEVE, UM, WELL, I'LL TELL YOU THIS. I WAS 47:27.827 --> 47:31.186 READING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IT WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW THE 47:31.186 --> 47:34.547 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THINK IT WAS WHEN THE ASSYRIANS CAME AND TOOK 47:34.547 --> 47:38.416 OVER AND IN SAMARIA AND THEY WORSHIP GOD, BUT THEY STILL 47:38.416 --> 47:42.106 SERVED IDOLS. AND WHEN I READ THAT IT WAS LIKE INSTANTLY I 47:42.106 --> 47:47.536 THOUGHT ABOUT OUR PHONES AND HOW MANY TIMES DO WE GO TO THAT 47:47.536 --> 47:51.586 PHONE FOR THE ANSWER? HOW MANY TIMES DO WE FORGET TO GO TO THE 47:51.586 --> 47:53.266 LORD AND WE'RE LIKE, WELL, LET ME JUST SCROLL AND FIND IT 47:53.266 --> 47:57.527 MYSELF HOW MANY TIMES DO WE EAT FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE 47:57.527 --> 48:01.606 OF GOOD AND EVIL? YOU BETTER BREATHE. HOW MANY TIMES? AND 48:01.606 --> 48:05.177 I'VE BEEN GUILTY MYSELF. SO I'M NOT JUST TALKING TO YOU. AND SO 48:05.177 --> 48:10.277 THE LORD HAS BEEN CHALLENGING ME AND IMPRESSING ON ME, EVEN LIKE, 48:10.277 --> 48:14.027 YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND NOW THE TREE OF 48:14.027 --> 48:18.231 THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL IS SAYING, EAT ME FIRST. CHECK 48:18.231 --> 48:23.657 ME FIRST, COME HERE FIRST. AND SO THE LORD HAS BEEN LIKE, NO, 48:23.657 --> 48:28.996 SEEK ME FIRST. AT NIGHT BEFORE I GO TO BED, FOR ME, THIS IS WHAT 48:28.996 --> 48:32.806 HE'S BEEN CHALLENGING ME TO DO. I PUT MY PHONE IN AIRPLANE MODE, 48:32.806 --> 48:35.626 PUSH IT A LITTLE BIT AWAY FROM ME. AND IN THE MORNING, THE ONLY 48:35.626 --> 48:39.677 THING I'M LOOKING AT IT FOR IS TO, WHAT TIME IS IT? AND NOW I'M 48:39.677 --> 48:43.306 NOT CHECKING ANYTHING YET UNTIL I TALK WITH MY FATHER, TILL I'VE 48:43.306 --> 48:46.786 SPENT TIME WITH HIM, TILL I SEEK HIM FIRST. HIS KINGDOM, HIS 48:46.786 --> 48:50.567 RIGHT WAY OF DOING THINGS, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND THEN AT THE 48:50.567 --> 48:53.777 APPROPRIATE TIME, THEN NOW I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A LITTLE MORE 48:53.777 --> 48:58.936 DISCIPLINE IN MY FLESH TO LOOK AT IT WITHOUT IT BEING THE 48:58.936 --> 49:01.972 UNHOLY DISTRACTION FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. BECAUSE IT CAN BE. I 49:01.972 --> 49:04.757 MEAN, ALL OF US, WE KNOW, YOU CAN START LOOKING AT IT AND IT'S 49:04.757 --> 49:09.166 SOMETHING GOOD. THAT FRUIT IS GOOD, BUT IT'S SPIKED WITH SOME 49:09.166 --> 49:12.976 EVIL, BUT YOU DON'T TASTE THE EVIL YET. AND BEFORE YOU KNOW 49:12.976 --> 49:17.777 IT, 15 MINUTES HAS TURNED INTO 30. 30 HAS TURNED INTO AN HOUR. 49:17.777 --> 49:21.137 AN HOUR HAS TURNED INTO TWO. TWO HAS TURNED INTO THREE. AND 49:21.137 --> 49:23.387 BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU'VE WASTED ALL THE TIME THAT GOD 49:23.387 --> 49:27.166 COULD HAVE BEEN USING US TO DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE KINGDOM. 49:27.166 --> 49:31.471 AND SO FOR ME, I JUST FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL LEST IT 49:31.471 --> 49:34.336 BECOMES OUR NEW IDOL. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? LIKE, WE DON'T 49:34.336 --> 49:39.586 HAVE... AND I THINK IF WE WERE TO SHOW OUR DEVICES TO THE MEN 49:39.586 --> 49:44.507 AND WOMEN OF OLD BACK IN THE BIBLE, WOULD THEY NOT SAY IT WAS 49:44.507 --> 49:46.344 SORCERY? I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT IS. I'M JUST SAYING, BUT WOULD 49:46.344 --> 49:49.007 THEY NOT THINK OF IT IN THAT WAY? ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO. NO, 49:49.007 --> 49:52.306 WOULD THEY NOT THINK OF IT? AND I LIKE IT. I THINK, BUT MY POINT 49:52.306 --> 49:55.757 IS, MY POINT, I THINK WE ARE CALLED TO USE IT WITHOUT IT 49:55.757 --> 50:00.137 USING US. WHEN IT USES US, IT'S IMPROPER. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M 50:00.137 --> 50:03.706 SAYING? BUT WHEN WE USE IT FOR THE RIGHT WAY AND IN THE RIGHT, 50:03.706 --> 50:07.666 WITH THE RIGHT DISCIPLINE, THEN WE CAN USE IT AS A TOOL. 50:07.666 --> 50:11.806 OTHERWISE IT'S USING US AND WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T WORSHIP GOD AND 50:11.806 --> 50:14.956 SERVE IDOLS. WE JUST CAN'T DO BOTH. WE CAN'T DO THAT. KAREN'S 50:14.956 --> 50:17.349 GOT HER MIC IN HER HAND. WELL, I JUST COULDN'T HELP IT WHEN SHE 50:17.349 --> 50:20.806 SAID THAT TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL THING. I MEAN, 50:20.806 --> 50:23.416 MAYBE THERE'S A REASON THAT APPLE'S ON THE BACK OF THAT 50:23.416 --> 50:29.447 PHONE WITH A BITE ON IT. I MEAN, I'M JUST WONDERING. I'M JUST, I 50:29.447 --> 50:34.456 JUST WONDER. DON'T YOU WONDER? COME ON. I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU 50:34.456 --> 50:38.657 KNOW, IT'S WEIRD BECAUSE THERE'S NO OTHER GENERATION EVER SINCE 50:38.657 --> 50:42.197 ADAM THAT'S DEALT WITH THIS IDOL, THAT'S DEALT WITH THIS 50:42.197 --> 50:44.927 THING THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. NO OTHER GENERATION HAS BEEN 50:44.927 --> 50:48.047 DEALING WITH THIS BUT US. AND IT'S JUST BEEN THE LAST FEW 50:48.047 --> 50:51.106 YEARS. AND IT'S WEIRD THAT THIS AI VOICE IS GETTING 50:51.106 --> 50:54.257 LOUDER AND LOUDER. AND JESUS SAID IN JOHN 10, "MY SHEEP KNOW 50:54.257 --> 50:57.914 MY VOICE AND A STRANGER'S VOICE THEY WON'T FOLLOW." BUT HE SAYS, 50:57.914 --> 51:00.246 "BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THE STRANGER'S VOICE." BUT WE'VE 51:00.246 --> 51:03.376 BECOME SO FAMILIAR WITH THE STRANGER'S VOICE THAT IT'S THE 51:03.376 --> 51:07.603 FATHER'S VOICE THAT'S STRANGE AND THE STRANGER'S VOICE THAT'S 51:07.603 --> 51:11.025 COMMON. AND IT'S WEIRD. I WAS THINKING THE OTHER DAY ABOUT AI, 51:11.025 --> 51:14.893 AND I DON'T KNOW, I AM NO EXPERT ON THIS, BUT DON'T YOU FIND IT 51:14.893 --> 51:19.422 FASCINATING THAT THAT VOICE OF AI IS GETTING LOUDER AND LOUDER 51:19.422 --> 51:22.813 AND WE ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE DEPENDENT ON THAT VOICE. 51:22.813 --> 51:26.413 AND IT'S REALLY JUST THE CULMINATION OF ALL THE KNOWLEDGE 51:26.413 --> 51:33.492 OF MEN. IF YOU WERE TO COMBINE ALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN THAT'S 51:33.492 --> 51:38.112 EVER AND THEY ARE PUTTING IT INTO THAT DEVICE AND THAT THING 51:38.112 --> 51:42.402 SPITS OUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN, WHICH IS BASICALLY BACK TO THE 51:42.402 --> 51:44.983 TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. AND I DO THINK IT IS A 51:44.983 --> 51:50.052 SOURCE OF OUR FEAR. IT'S FEEDING FEAR. IT'S FEEDING ANXIETY. SO 51:50.052 --> 51:52.663 OUR CHILDREN ARE GRIPPED WITH ANXIETY. OUR CHILDREN ARE 51:52.663 --> 51:56.284 GRIPPED WITH SUICIDE AND CONFUSION. AND SO ARE WE 51:56.284 --> 51:59.452 BECAUSE WE'RE FEASTING ON THIS MESS. ANYWAY, JUST A 51:59.452 --> 52:03.789 THOUGHT. YOU GOT IT GOING NOW. WE'RE IN A SNOWBALL 52:03.789 --> 52:09.295 EFFECT BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS IT FEEDING THIS CONFUSION, 52:09.295 --> 52:16.362 THESE DEVICES, THEY'RE ALSO IMPACTING JUST THE 52:16.362 --> 52:23.172 GENERAL WAY THAT WE VIEW GOD. WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, I SEE MEMES 52:23.172 --> 52:30.043 SOMETIMES, AND THEY SOUND GOOD. THEY PAINT A PICTURE OF GOD. 52:30.043 --> 52:32.893 IT'S LIKE YOU SAID, WE SING CAN SING NONSENSE 'CAUSE THE TUNE IS 52:32.893 --> 52:36.612 CATCHY. WE DO THE SAME THING ON OUR PHONES. AND THERE'S SOME OF 52:36.612 --> 52:40.632 THEM ARE NOT BIBLICAL. THEY'RE NOT BIBLICAL. NOW I DON'T MEAN 52:40.632 --> 52:44.833 TO, YOU KNOW, IN LORD OF HOSTS WE'RE PRETTY SEMI-BOLD HERE, BUT 52:44.833 --> 52:50.532 I WILL TELL YOU, THIS JESUS, HE GETS US MOVEMENT THAT'S OUT, 52:50.532 --> 52:56.773 THAT IS MAKING JESUS OUT TO BE JUST THIS SOCIAL PHILANTHROPIST, 52:56.773 --> 53:03.103 THAT EVERYTHING THAT HUMANITY DOES, JESUS JUST ADAPTS TO IT. 53:03.103 --> 53:06.523 YEAH, YEAH. THAT IS NOT THE GOD OF THE BIBLE. THAT'S RIGHT. 53:06.523 --> 53:10.603 JESUS' VERY FIRST SERMON, THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU'LL SEE ON 53:10.603 --> 53:16.242 SOCIAL. JESUS' VERY FIRST SERMON IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW WAS, 53:16.242 --> 53:20.172 "REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND." IN OTHER 53:20.172 --> 53:26.052 WORDS, TURN FROM WHERE YOU ARE. AND I THINK SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE 53:26.052 --> 53:30.282 INTERNET IS TEACHING US THE VERY OPPOSITE. THAT GOD'S GOT TO 53:30.282 --> 53:37.032 SOMEHOW ADAPT TO US. WE ARE IN A VICTIM, VICTIM CULTURE NOW. 53:37.032 --> 53:40.753 WE'RE IN A CULTURE THAT WANTS EVERYTHING ON ITS TERMS. AND 53:40.753 --> 53:44.112 THIS IS WHAT OUR PHONES ARE SATURATED WITH? IT IS. IT IS AN 53:44.112 --> 53:48.583 ANTI-BIBLICAL, ANTI-CHRIST. IT IS. NOW, I UNDERSTAND. YOU'VE 53:48.583 --> 53:51.913 GOT TO USE YOUR PHONE FOR YOUR ALARM CLOCK AND YOUR CALENDAR. I 53:51.913 --> 53:55.543 UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT THE OTHER AREA THAT I'M HIGHLY CONCERNED 53:55.543 --> 53:59.472 ABOUT THAT SOCIAL IS DOING, IT IS DESTROYING IN SOME MEASURES 53:59.472 --> 54:03.373 THE BODY OF CHRIST. YES. PASTOR AND I HAVE TALKED ON THIS MANY, 54:03.373 --> 54:09.163 MANY TIMES ABOUT THE DUMPSTER FIRE OF ARGUING, INFIGHTING IN 54:09.163 --> 54:14.713 THE CHURCH. THAT IS, I MEAN, PEOPLE, LET'S JUST SAY IT. CAN 54:14.713 --> 54:17.592 I, CAN WE, WE'RE JUST BEING HONEST HERE. GO AHEAD. PEOPLE 54:17.592 --> 54:23.952 SAY THINGS IN COMMENT SECTIONS, YOU WOULD OUT A LETTER AND A 54:23.952 --> 54:29.023 PIECE OF PAPER AND FOLD IT UP AND GO BUY A 20, WHAT ARE STAMPS 54:29.023 --> 54:33.012 NOW, 30, 40 CENTS, THAT YOU WOULD GO, SEE WE DON'T EVEN 54:33.012 --> 54:38.742 KNOW, THAT YOU WOULD GO FOLD UP AND PUT IN AN ENVELOPE AND SEND 54:38.742 --> 54:43.362 TO A PREACHER AND HIS MINISTRY. NOW WE CAN JUST HURL OUT ANY 54:43.362 --> 54:47.112 COMMENT, TAKE UP ANY STORY, AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, HALF 54:47.112 --> 54:54.043 THE STORIES ABOUT THE MINISTERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE HALF-TRUTHS. 54:54.043 --> 54:58.722 THESE WATCHDOGS, OKAY, I'M GOING TO GET GOING NOW. YOU START IT. 54:58.722 --> 55:06.103 THESE WATCHDOG GROUPS OUT THERE THAT ARE OUT THERE TO JUST HONE 55:06.103 --> 55:10.693 IN ON SOMEONE'S MISFORTUNE, SOMEONE'S CHALLENGE, SOMEONE'S 55:10.693 --> 55:15.163 DIFFICULTY, AND TRY TO DESTROY THEIR NAME IN THE NAME OF QUOTE 55:15.163 --> 55:20.503 "PHARISAICAL RIGHTEOUSNESS" IS BEING FUELED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND 55:20.503 --> 55:24.990 SOMEWHERE THE BODY OF CHRIST HAS TO STAND UP AND SAY NO JESUS 55:24.990 --> 55:32.293 SAID LOVE ONE ANOTHER, DEFEND ONE ANOTHER. GOD, GOD, YOU THINK 55:32.293 --> 55:37.572 ABOUT DAVID WOULD NOT EVEN PUBLISH THE DEATH OF SAUL. HE 55:37.572 --> 55:42.853 SAID LEST THE PHILISTINES REJOICE, LEST THEY REJOICE. 55:42.853 --> 55:47.472 SOCIAL MEDIA IS ALSO DESTROYING US, THE CHURCH. WHILE WORLDLY 55:47.472 --> 55:50.262 PEOPLE, PASTOR HANK SAID THERE WAS AN ISSUE AND YOU'VE HEARD 55:50.262 --> 55:54.222 HIM PREACH ABOUT IT, THOSE OF YOU THAT GO HERE. YEARS AGO HE 55:54.222 --> 55:58.653 PREACHED ABOUT SOME BIG ISSUE THAT WAS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST 55:58.653 --> 56:02.682 AND EVERYBODY HAD WANTED HIM TO COMMENT. AND HE SAID I WENT TO 56:02.682 --> 56:09.222 THE LORD. AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD SO IT SEEMED FOR ME TO 56:09.222 --> 56:12.612 COMMENT, BUT I WENT TO GOD AND I SAID, "LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME 56:12.612 --> 56:16.932 TO SAY?" AND THE LORD SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOU TO SAY ANYTHING. 56:16.932 --> 56:20.293 I DIDN'T ASK YOU TO BE THE SPIRITUAL AMBULANCE TO EVERY 56:20.293 --> 56:26.623 TOPIC THAT COMES UP." AND HE SAID, "OKAY." AND SO PEOPLE 56:26.623 --> 56:31.302 PRESSED US. THEY WROTE TO THE MINISTRY. THEY CALLED. THEY 56:31.302 --> 56:33.913 SAID, "WHAT DOES PASTOR HANK SAY?" THEY PUT IT IN THE 56:33.913 --> 56:37.452 COMMENTS AND HE SAID, "THE LORD SAID, 'DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. I 56:37.452 --> 56:43.603 DON'T WANT YOU TO.'" AND AS IT TURNED OUT, HE SAID, "BECAUSE 56:43.603 --> 56:47.592 THE LORD SAID, 'IF YOU DO, IT'LL ONLY CREATE MORE DIVISION IN THE 56:47.592 --> 56:50.293 BODY OF CHRIST.'" BECAUSE WHAT'S HAPPENED NOW, THIS IS WHAT 56:50.293 --> 56:54.822 SOCIAL IS DONE, FOLKS. THIS IS WHY I BELIEVE, AND IT MAY SEEM 56:54.822 --> 56:58.842 LIKE WE'RE GOING ON A LITTLE BIT OF A RABBIT TRAIL, BUT I BELIEVE 56:58.842 --> 57:04.483 THIS IS A ROOT CAUSE. YOU OPENED SOMETHING, KAREN. AND SO HE 57:04.483 --> 57:09.882 SAID, "IT'S ONLY GOING TO WORSEN THE DUMPSTER FIRE, AND IT'S ONLY 57:09.882 --> 57:13.242 GOING TO MAKE IT MORE." BECAUSE HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENED NOW IN 57:13.242 --> 57:17.563 THE CHURCH. NOW IT'S, AND THERE'S AN OLD BAD PHRASE TO SAY 57:17.563 --> 57:21.253 IT, "YOU'RE DARNED IF YOU DO, AND YOU'RE DARNED IF YOU DON'T." 57:21.253 --> 57:26.172 NO MATTER WHAT WE SAY ANYMORE, AS BELIEVERS, AS PREACHERS, COME 57:26.172 --> 57:30.672 ON, YOU AS CHRISTIANS, YOU CAN PUT ANYTHING IN THE COMMENTS, 57:30.672 --> 57:35.503 ANYTHING. YOU COULD TRY TO QUOTE GOD, MAKE YOUR HEART HURT, AND 57:35.503 --> 57:38.862 SOMEBODY'S GOING TO COME AROUND WITH ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE AND 57:38.862 --> 57:43.032 SHOOT IT DOWN AND HIT IT, AND THEN LET'S JUST FORGET, LET'S 57:43.032 --> 57:47.983 NOT FORGET TO MENTION ALL OF THE TROLLS AND THE BOTS THAT ARE OUT 57:47.983 --> 57:53.952 THERE. SO, FOLKS, THERE IS SOMETHING, I GHOST. THERE IS A 57:53.952 --> 57:58.032 CAMPAIGN THAT GOD WANTS TO HAPPEN THAT WE NEED TO DO 57:58.032 --> 58:01.603 SOMETHING BETTER WHEN IT COMES TO THE HANDLING OF THE INTERNET. 58:01.603 --> 58:06.432 YOU MENTIONED IDOLATRY, SOCIAL FOLKS THAT'S FILLED WITH 58:06.432 --> 58:11.652 HALF-TRUTHS, AND THIS NEEDS TO BE A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE IN 58:11.652 --> 58:16.213 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IF WE WANT TO GET OUR PEACE BACK AND, TO YOUR 58:16.213 --> 58:21.264 POINT, OVERCOME FEAR AND ANXIETY. YOU MENTIONED AI, AND 58:21.264 --> 58:24.612 LET ME TELL YOU, I BELIEVE AI IS REALLY STRAIGHT FROM THE PIT OF 58:24.612 --> 58:27.313 HELL. AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY I THINK, I MEAN, IT CAN BE A TOOL 58:27.313 --> 58:32.413 IN SOME THINGS, I'M NOT SAYING, BUT REALITY IS, ANYMORE, PEOPLE 58:32.413 --> 58:36.072 AREN'T GETTING BEFORE THE LORD TO STIR UP THEIR OWN WELL OF 58:36.072 --> 58:39.342 ANOINTING. THEY'RE GOING TO AI TO HELP THEM FIGURE OUT HOW TO 58:39.342 --> 58:42.463 BE CREATIVE HERE. THEY'RE USING IT FOR SONGWRITING. THEY'RE 58:42.463 --> 58:46.452 USING IT FOR THEIR OWN WORDS. THEY'RE NOT LETTING THOSE THINGS 58:46.452 --> 58:48.702 FLOW OUT OF THE WELL OF ANOINTING THAT WE'VE DONE 58:48.702 --> 58:52.512 BECAUSE WE WANT IT RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T WANT TO SPEND TIME PRAYING 58:52.512 --> 58:56.353 IN THE HOLY GHOST, WAITING ON GOD, HEARING FROM THE VOICE OF 58:56.353 --> 58:59.652 GOD. NO, WE WANT TO GO TYPE IT INTO CHAT GPT AND IT'S GOING TO 58:59.652 --> 59:02.233 GIVE US A LIST OF ALL OF THE THINGS. AND SEE, THOSE KIND OF 59:02.233 --> 59:04.782 THINGS DON'T BUILD YOUR FAITH EITHER. IF WE DON'T LEARN TO TAP 59:04.782 --> 59:07.152 INTO THE ANOINTING THAT'S ON THE INSIDE OF US, WE WILL NOT BE 59:07.152 --> 59:12.583 PEOPLE OF FAITH. IF WE LET THE WORLD OR AI THAT HAS NO EMOTION, 59:12.583 --> 59:18.373 NO SOUL, IT DOESN'T HAVE AN ANOINTING ON IT. SO IF WE'RE 59:18.373 --> 59:21.793 ADDICTED TO AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHERE ARE WE 59:21.793 --> 59:26.112 PULLING ON THE ANOINTING OF GOD TO KEEP US STRONG IN THE POWER 59:26.112 --> 59:30.612 OF HIS MIGHT? SO THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. THERE'S 59:30.612 --> 59:36.253 THESE THINGS, AND THEY CAN BE TOOLS, BUT OUR RELIANCE CANNOT 59:36.253 --> 59:39.762 BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. IT CANNOT BE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. IT 59:39.762 --> 59:43.963 CAN'T BE ON CHAT GPT. LISTEN, IF YOU CAN'T SPEAK WITHOUT CHAT 59:43.963 --> 59:48.373 GPT, THEN I THINK WE SHOULD GO BACK AND TALK TO MOSES. MOSES 59:48.373 --> 59:51.913 WAS LIKE, "GOD, I STUTTER. I CAN'T STAND BEFORE THE PEOPLE." 59:51.913 --> 59:56.322 WE WANT, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING TOO, WE'RE 59:56.322 --> 01:00:01.813 LETTING SOCIAL MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BECOME 01:00:01.813 --> 01:00:05.893 OUR PERSONA. IT'S BECOMING HOW WE SHOULD DRESS, HOW WE SHOULD 01:00:05.893 --> 01:00:10.182 BE, HOW WE SHOULD ACT. YOU KNOW, AND THIS WHOLE THING THAT WE'VE 01:00:10.182 --> 01:00:13.902 BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN FEAR, I'M REMINDED OF THE RON CANOLE SONG, 01:00:13.902 --> 01:00:17.413 "WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE? WE SHALL BELIEVE THE REPORT OF 01:00:17.413 --> 01:00:20.443 THE LORD." YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR THE REPORT OF THE LORD BY 01:00:20.443 --> 01:00:24.492 RELYING ON THIS DEVICE ALL OF THE TIME. AND AI, IT CAN SOUND 01:00:24.492 --> 01:00:30.373 ANOINTED. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT WAS THE RIGHT ANSWER. JUST 01:00:30.373 --> 01:00:34.603 BECAUSE IT SOUNDED GOOD IN YOUR EARS. MY GOODNESS, LADIES. 01:00:34.603 --> 01:00:38.862 CANDY, WHAT SAY YOU? WELL, I MEAN, YOU GUYS ARE BLOWING MY 01:00:38.862 --> 01:00:43.003 MIND. I THINK THIS IS AMAZING. KAREN STARTED IT. KAREN, IT'S 01:00:43.003 --> 01:00:50.472 YOUR FAULT. SHE JUST POKED THE BEAR, I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW. 01:00:50.472 --> 01:00:54.463 WELL, I WANNA GO BACK TO WHAT YOU GUYS WERE SAYING EARLIER 01:00:54.463 --> 01:01:02.083 BECAUSE IN 2026, JOB SAID THIS, HE SAID, "I HAVE MADE A COVENANT 01:01:02.083 --> 01:01:09.402 WITH MY EYES." AND SO IN 2026, THE THING THAT THE LORD SPOKE TO 01:01:09.402 --> 01:01:14.623 ME WAS TO MAKE A COVENANT WITH MY EYES THAT I WOULD NOT SCROLL 01:01:14.623 --> 01:01:19.947 MY PHONE, I WOULD NOT USE SOCIAL MEDIA UNTIL I HAD READ GOD'S 01:01:19.947 --> 01:01:24.418 WORD. AND SO FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, I GO GET MY COFFEE AND 01:01:24.418 --> 01:01:28.708 SIT WITH MY CHIHUAHUAS AND WE READ OUR BIBLE TOGETHER AND WE 01:01:28.708 --> 01:01:37.467 PRAY. SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, BUT I HAVE FOUND THAT MY MIND IS A LOT 01:01:37.467 --> 01:01:44.458 QUIETER THROUGH THE DAY. AND, YOU KNOW, YES, IT'S IMPORTANT TO 01:01:44.458 --> 01:01:47.757 TAKE EVERY THOUGHT INTO CAPTIVITY, THINK ON THESE 01:01:47.757 --> 01:01:52.557 THINGS, WHATEVER IS GOOD. AND IT'S WONDERFUL TO DO THAT. BUT 01:01:52.557 --> 01:01:56.967 WHAT IS IT MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO SAY ABOUT AN OUNCE OF 01:01:56.967 --> 01:02:04.527 PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN A POUND OF CURE. AND SO THE SMALL 01:02:04.527 --> 01:02:12.688 THINGS OF MEDITATING AND BEING STILL BEFORE GOD, I FIND THAT 01:02:12.688 --> 01:02:17.007 WHEN I STARTED MY DAY, AND I DID IT FOR YEARS, I STARTED MY DAY 01:02:17.007 --> 01:02:22.077 SCROLLING MY PHONE, AND I FOUND THAT MY MIND SCROLLED ALL DAY 01:02:22.077 --> 01:02:28.978 LONG. AND SO JUST FLIPPING ALL DAY LONG, BUT I FOUND THAT I 01:02:28.978 --> 01:02:33.807 COULD BRING EVERY THOUGHT INTO CAPTIVITY, AND THAT I COULD 01:02:33.807 --> 01:02:39.807 THINK ON THESE THINGS, BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY BEEN STILL BEFORE 01:02:39.807 --> 01:02:45.807 GOD. MY MIND WAS IN A STILLER PLACE. WHAT IS IT PSALM 1 SAID? 01:02:45.807 --> 01:02:47.907 "BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT WALKETH NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE 01:02:47.907 --> 01:02:50.577 UNGODLY, OR STANDETH IN THE WAY OF SINNERS, NOR SITTETH IN THE 01:02:50.577 --> 01:02:56.128 SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL." BUT HIS DELIGHT IS IN THE LAW OF THE 01:02:56.128 --> 01:03:04.467 LORD. AND IN HIS LAW DOES HE MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT. AND HE 01:03:04.467 --> 01:03:10.317 SHALL BE LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY RIVERS OF WATER THAT BRINGETH 01:03:10.317 --> 01:03:17.157 FORTH HIS FRUIT IN HIS SEASON. AND SO WE AS BELIEVERS, NOT TO 01:03:17.157 --> 01:03:23.847 QUOTE MORE SCRIPTURE, BUT HEBREWS 10, PAUL WRITES THIS AND 01:03:23.847 --> 01:03:30.987 HE SAID, WE THINK PAUL, SAID, "I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, 01:03:30.987 --> 01:03:38.427 BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING 01:03:38.427 --> 01:03:47.068 SACRIFICE." AND SOMETIMES IT IS A SACRIFICE TO PUT GOD FIRST, TO 01:03:47.068 --> 01:03:51.297 TITHE YOUR MOURNING. AND SOME OF YOU GET UP SO EARLY TO GO TO 01:03:51.297 --> 01:03:55.197 WORK OR YOU HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES. BUT, AND SO 01:03:55.197 --> 01:04:00.717 MAYBE IT'S NOT THE FIRST THING, BUT WHEN WE PUT GOD FIRST AND 01:04:00.717 --> 01:04:07.527 MEDITATE ON HIS WORD, THEN WHEN TEMPTATIONS OF FEAR AND ANXIETY 01:04:07.527 --> 01:04:14.487 AND ALL THOSE THINGS COME, THEN IT'S MUCH EASIER TO LIVE IN 01:04:14.487 --> 01:04:20.788 PEACE AND TO BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY 01:04:20.788 --> 01:04:24.777 SUBMITTED OUR MINDS TO GOD. SO... CAN I THROW ONE OTHER 01:04:24.777 --> 01:04:28.557 THING OUT WHILE WE'RE ON THIS THING ABOUT THE INTERNET? WHAT 01:04:28.557 --> 01:04:33.807 COMES ALSO TO MY SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF DECEPTION. I THINK WE 01:04:33.807 --> 01:04:39.327 STARTED ON IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT JESUS IN MATTHEW 24, HE TAUGHT 01:04:39.327 --> 01:04:43.228 ON THE END TIMES. AND A LOT OF TIMES WE FOCUS ON THE WARS, THE 01:04:43.228 --> 01:04:47.547 RUMORS OF WARS AND THOSE THINGS. BUT THREE TIMES IN THAT CHAPTER, 01:04:47.547 --> 01:04:52.467 HE EMPHASIZED THE PHRASE, "SEE THAT NO MAN DECEIVES YOU." THAT 01:04:52.467 --> 01:04:54.925 WAS THE KEY. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 01:04:54.925 --> 01:04:59.577 WOULD EARMARK THE LAST DAYS WOULD BE DECEPTION. AND IT'S 01:04:59.577 --> 01:05:04.257 EASY TO SEE NOW THAT WE HAVE THESE THINGS, THAT THERE ARE 01:05:04.257 --> 01:05:11.398 DECEIVERS EN MASSE ONLINE. YOU KNOW, THE NEWS MEDIA USED TO BE, 01:05:11.398 --> 01:05:14.458 YOU KNOW, IT WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY USED TO SAY SMITH 01:05:14.458 --> 01:05:18.088 WIGGLESWORTH WOULDN'T ALLOW A NEWSPAPER IN HIS HOUSE BECAUSE 01:05:18.088 --> 01:05:22.978 HE WOULD SAY THE HEADLINES ARE GOING TO MISLEAD YOU. AND HE 01:05:22.978 --> 01:05:28.168 WOULDN'T ALLOW. AND SO THAT WAS THEN WHEN THEY ONLY HAD THE 01:05:28.168 --> 01:05:32.307 LOCAL PAPER. AND NOW I THOUGHT OF THAT AND I THOUGHT, WELL, 01:05:32.307 --> 01:05:38.007 LORD, OUR THUMB IS DOING THIS ALL DAY AND WE'RE GETTING ALL 01:05:38.007 --> 01:05:40.708 THESE STORIES. I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU, CAN I GIVE YOU A GOOD 01:05:40.708 --> 01:05:44.728 EXAMPLE? HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE WHEN PASTOR HANK A FEW 01:05:44.728 --> 01:05:48.268 WEEKS AGO, AND I'M NOT SAYING THIS FOR OUR OWN SELF-PITY, BUT 01:05:48.268 --> 01:05:51.628 I'M JUST SHOWING YOU AN EXAMPLE OF HOW DECEPTIVE THE INTERNET 01:05:51.628 --> 01:05:55.108 IS. AND HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE WHEN PASTOR HANK SAYS, I 01:05:55.108 --> 01:05:58.588 NEED HELP WITH THE TRAVEL FUND SO I CAN GO TO SOME OF THESE 01:05:58.588 --> 01:06:01.887 FLASH POINTS AND AVOID THE AIRPORTS BECAUSE I CAN'T GET 01:06:01.887 --> 01:06:06.358 THERE AND GET BACK ON SUNDAY TO PASS FOR YOU. I'M TELLING YOU, 01:06:06.358 --> 01:06:10.257 THE LIBERAL MEDIA HAD A HEYDAY WITH THAT. AND THERE WAS A QUOTE 01:06:10.257 --> 01:06:16.677 UNQUOTE CHRISTIAN OUTLET, WHO SAID, PASTOR ASKED HIS 01:06:16.677 --> 01:06:18.958 CONGREGATION TO BUY HIM AN AIRPLANE. 01:06:18.958 --> 01:06:22.318 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:06:22.318 --> 01:06:25.617 WELL, THAT IS NOT EVEN REMOTELY WHAT IT WAS. NOW, THEY NEVER 01:06:25.617 --> 01:06:29.565 SAID THAT IN THE ARTICLE. AND IT HIT ME, THEY NEVER SAID IT IN 01:06:29.565 --> 01:06:32.938 THE ARTICLE, THEY JUST SAID IT IN THE HEADLINE. AND HERE'S WHAT 01:06:32.938 --> 01:06:37.858 HIT ME. MOST OF THESE HEADLINES, AND I'M JUST USING THAT ONE AS 01:06:37.858 --> 01:06:41.128 AN EXAMPLE, WE DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY. YOU KNOW, THEY CAN 01:06:41.128 --> 01:06:46.677 BLOW IT OUT THEIR EAR FOR ALL I CARE. I'M LIKE, I DON'T CARE, 01:06:46.677 --> 01:06:49.527 YOU JUST SENT PASTOR HANK TO THREE FLASHPOINT TRIPS, I'M FINE 01:06:49.527 --> 01:06:55.288 WITH THAT. SO HE COULD BE A PROPHET TO THE NATION THAT'S IN 01:06:55.288 --> 01:07:04.047 FEAR. BUT IT DID HIT ME, HOW MANY OF THESE CLICKBAITS ARE 01:07:04.047 --> 01:07:10.438 THERE? THEY HAVE THEM WITH OUR HEALTH? AND HAVE YOU EVER JUST 01:07:10.438 --> 01:07:14.818 PAUSED TO GO PAST THE HEADLINE AND ACTUALLY READ THE ARTICLE? 01:07:14.818 --> 01:07:18.777 AND IT'S DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE HEADLINE SAYS. TOTALLY 01:07:18.777 --> 01:07:22.677 DIFFERENT. IT'S THIS CLICKBAIT. IT'S A DECEPTION. BECAUSE 01:07:22.677 --> 01:07:26.398 THEY'RE BANKING ON THE FACT YOU'LL NEVER READ THE FACTS. 01:07:26.398 --> 01:07:28.768 THEY'RE BANKING ON THE FACT YOU'LL JUST LOOK AT THE HEADLINE 01:07:28.768 --> 01:07:33.688 AND FORM A BELIEF AND MOVE ON. TAKE HEED, JESUS SAID, THAT NO 01:07:33.688 --> 01:07:38.757 MAN DECEIVES YOU. I ALSO THINK WHAT'S KEY NOW IS IN OUR MINDS 01:07:38.757 --> 01:07:44.458 TAKING CONTROL OF ANXIETIES AND FEARS AND TRUSTING GOD IS 01:07:44.458 --> 01:07:48.387 WARDING OFF THE SPIRIT OF DECEPTION. AND THIS IS A 01:07:48.387 --> 01:07:50.847 DECEIVED CULTURE. I THINK THAT'S WHY... YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY, 01:07:50.847 --> 01:07:57.148 JESUS KNEW BEFORE. THAT IN THE LAST DAYS, PERILOUS TIMES WILL 01:07:57.148 --> 01:08:02.338 COME. AND THIS CULTURE'S LACED WITH DECEPTION. I JUST WANNA ADD 01:08:02.338 --> 01:08:06.802 ONE QUICK LITTLE THING, AND I'LL GET IT RIGHT BACK TO YOU. BUT 01:08:06.802 --> 01:08:08.938 THIS IS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. THIS HAS COME UP IN MY 01:08:08.938 --> 01:08:15.657 SPIRIT, AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS. THAT THERE ARE BILLIONS OF 01:08:15.657 --> 01:08:22.108 DOLLARS SPENT ON PSYCHIATRISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS TO LEARN HOW 01:08:22.108 --> 01:08:29.398 TO WORK YOU. ALL RIGHT, AND SO, WATCH THIS. SOCIAL MEDIA WILL 01:08:29.398 --> 01:08:35.457 PLAY ALL THESE WARM PUPPY VIDEOS AND MAMA CATS NURSING BABY LAMBS 01:08:35.457 --> 01:08:39.837 AND ALL, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, TO GET YOU ALL WARM AND 01:08:39.837 --> 01:08:45.087 FUZZY. I LOVE THOSE PUPPY VIDEOS. BUT AFTER THREE OR FOUR 01:08:45.087 --> 01:08:49.917 OF THEM, THEN WILL COME THE ADVERTISEMENT OF THE THING YOU 01:08:49.917 --> 01:08:53.488 LIKE TO CLICK ON. BLOOMINGDALE'S, NORDSTROM, 01:08:53.488 --> 01:08:59.007 SEPHORA, ZARA, WHATEVER IT IS. AND YOUR GUARD IS DOWN. YOU'RE 01:08:59.007 --> 01:09:07.257 ALL WARM AND FUZZY, AND YOU'RE MORE APT TO BUY THEIR ARTICLES. 01:09:07.257 --> 01:09:10.497 YOU'RE GONNA SPEND MONEY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE BUYING SOMETHING 01:09:10.497 --> 01:09:13.319 YOU DON'T NEED TO IMPRESS PEOPLE THAT YOU DON'T LIKE. 01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:16.155 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:09:16.155 --> 01:09:17.188 DID I SAY THAT? 01:09:17.188 --> 01:09:28.677 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:09:28.677 --> 01:09:37.018 I AM, I AM, I AM SO SORRY. MY FILTER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT 01:09:37.018 --> 01:09:40.345 HAPPENED. YOU JUST READ EVERYBODY, THAT PSYCHOLOGY. 01:09:40.345 --> 01:09:45.268 SORRY. JUST TAPPED EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM. SORRY, BUT IT'S TRUE. 01:09:45.268 --> 01:09:49.557 SO JUST BEWARE, BE CAREFUL, OKAY? ON THE WARM AND FUZZY 01:09:49.557 --> 01:09:55.028 VIDEOS, HERE'S GONNA COME THE THING TO GET YOUR MONEY, OKAY? 01:09:55.028 --> 01:10:02.578 ALL RIGHT, SO HERE'S WHAT I WANNA DO. GUYS, LET'S TAKE ABOUT 01:10:02.578 --> 01:10:06.837 60 SECONDS EACH OF YOU, WOULD YOU? AND JUST PRAY FOR THE 01:10:06.837 --> 01:10:10.167 LADIES HERE. ARE WE STREAMING, ARE WE STREAMING? GIVE ME A 01:10:10.167 --> 01:10:13.408 THUMBS UP, I DON'T KNOW, ARE WE STREAMING? YES, PRAY FOR THE 01:10:13.408 --> 01:10:17.967 PEOPLE HERE AND ONLINE, JUST IN WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, TAKE 60 01:10:17.967 --> 01:10:20.908 SECONDS EACH OF YOU, WE'LL START WITH KAREN OR CANDY AND WE'LL 01:10:20.908 --> 01:10:26.007 WORK AROUND. FATHER, YOU'RE EVERYTHING TO US. YOU ARE OUR 01:10:26.007 --> 01:10:31.828 LIFE, OUR STRENGTH. LORD, WE ARE ASKING YOU AND I AM ASKING YOU 01:10:31.828 --> 01:10:36.358 FOR EACH ONE OF THESE WOMEN IN THIS ROOM AND ONLINE THAT YOU 01:10:36.358 --> 01:10:42.717 WOULD HELP US. OH, SPIRIT OF GOD, HELP HER. HELP US TO FOCUS. 01:10:42.717 --> 01:10:47.427 HELP US TO HEAR YOUR VOICE. FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE 01:10:47.427 --> 01:10:51.778 GIVING US THE STRENGTH TO NOT WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING, BUT TO 01:10:51.778 --> 01:10:56.637 PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING AND TO TRUST YOU FULLY WITH ALL OF OUR 01:10:56.637 --> 01:10:59.307 HEARTS. LORD, ANOINT THESE WOMEN, ANOINT THEIR MIND TO 01:10:59.307 --> 01:11:03.057 RECEIVE, ANOINT THEIR HEARTS TO BE CHANGED. IN JESUS NAME WE 01:11:03.057 --> 01:11:08.037 WANT TO FOLLOW YOU. AMEN. CANDY. SO, FATHER, IN THE NAME OF 01:11:08.037 --> 01:11:14.368 JESUS, LORD, I ASK YOU TO BE A SHIELD. THOU ART A SHIELD ABOUT 01:11:14.368 --> 01:11:19.108 US, OUR GLORY AND THE LIFTER OF OUR HEAD. AND SO, LORD, I ASK 01:11:19.108 --> 01:11:23.158 YOU TO BE A SHIELD ABOUT ALL THESE LADIES THAT ARE IN THE 01:11:23.158 --> 01:11:26.113 ROOM AND THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING ONLINE AND ALL OF THOSE EVEN 01:11:26.113 --> 01:11:31.038 THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH US AND WITH LORD OF HOSTS. FATHER, THAT 01:11:31.038 --> 01:11:34.729 WE WOULD NOT BE DECEIVED IN THE LAST DAYS. LORD, YOU SAID THAT 01:11:34.729 --> 01:11:39.050 EVEN THE VERY ELECT, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE. SO GOD, I PRAY TODAY 01:11:39.050 --> 01:11:42.679 THAT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE THAT WE WOULD BE DECEIVED. BUT LORD, 01:11:42.679 --> 01:11:45.442 THAT YOU WOULD GIVE US DISCERNMENT. LORD, THAT YOU 01:11:45.442 --> 01:11:50.689 WOULD ENLIGHTEN THE EYES OF OUR UNDERSTANDING, OH GOD, THAT WE 01:11:50.689 --> 01:11:54.948 WOULD KNOW AND SEE. AND LORD, THAT NOT ONLY WOULD WE KNOW AND 01:11:54.948 --> 01:11:59.510 SEE, BUT LORD, THAT WE WOULD BE A LIGHT IN A DARK GENERATION, 01:11:59.510 --> 01:12:04.550 THAT WE, GOD, WOULD BE A LIGHT, A CITY WHO IS SET ON A HILL THAT 01:12:04.550 --> 01:12:08.448 CANNOT BE HID. USE US FOR YOUR GLORY IN THIS TIME AND IN THIS 01:12:08.448 --> 01:12:12.948 SEASON. I WANNA THANK YOU THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US THIS 01:12:12.948 --> 01:12:16.519 REVELATION, THAT YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO US TODAY, THAT YOU GUIDED 01:12:16.519 --> 01:12:20.448 THIS CONVERSATION SO THAT WE WOULD BE WISER AND KNOW, AND 01:12:20.448 --> 01:12:24.679 GOD, WE JUST THANK YOU FOR IT IN JESUS' NAME. IN JESUS' NAME, 01:12:24.679 --> 01:12:28.010 NICOLE. LORD, I THANK YOU THAT EVEN AS MY SISTERS HAVE PRAYED, 01:12:28.010 --> 01:12:30.979 LORD, I PRAY THAT EVEN MY SISTERS WHO ARE LISTENING, LORD, 01:12:30.979 --> 01:12:35.269 THAT YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO GIVE THEM STRATEGY, LORD, TO KNOW HOW 01:12:35.269 --> 01:12:37.639 TO ORDER THEIR DAY AND TO DO THOSE THINGS THAT THEY ARE 01:12:37.639 --> 01:12:41.118 HEARING YOU TO TELL THEM TO DO, LORD. AND I PRAY THAT AS THEY 01:12:41.118 --> 01:12:44.538 TAKE THEIR STAND, LORD, THAT THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO STAND IN 01:12:44.538 --> 01:12:48.649 TRUTH, THE BELT OF TRUTH AROUND THEIR WAIST, LORD. I PRAY THAT 01:12:48.649 --> 01:12:52.069 THEY WOULD STAND IN SHOES OF PEACE. I PRAY THAT THEY WOULD 01:12:52.069 --> 01:12:54.948 STAND IN YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, LORD, THAT THEY WOULD STAND IN 01:12:54.948 --> 01:12:59.238 YOUR SALVATION. THEY WOULD STAND IN FAITH, LORD. I PRAY THAT THEY 01:12:59.238 --> 01:13:01.819 WOULD ALSO STAND IN YOUR WORD, LORD, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE 01:13:01.819 --> 01:13:04.908 WOMEN OF PRAYER. SO LORD, I PRAY THAT THEY WOULD BE BLESSED AND 01:13:04.908 --> 01:13:08.359 THAT THEY WOULD DO THOSE THINGS THAT YOU SHOW THEM TO DO AND 01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:10.550 THAT THEY WOULD STAND IN THE POSITION THAT YOU'VE CALLED THEM 01:13:10.550 --> 01:13:14.359 TO STAND IN AND THAT YOU WOULD BLESS THEM IN JESUS'S NAME. 01:13:14.359 --> 01:13:17.689 PASTOR CHRISTY, BRING IT HOME. AMEN. NOW, FATHER, WE THANK YOU 01:13:17.689 --> 01:13:20.929 THAT YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER, 01:13:20.929 --> 01:13:23.689 LOVE AND A SOUND MIND. AND FATHER, WE DON'T SERVE A SMALL 01:13:23.689 --> 01:13:28.969 GOD. WE SERVE THE GREAT GOD JEHOVAH. SO FATHER, TODAY OF WHO 01:13:28.969 --> 01:13:33.288 YOU ARE. AND RIGHT NOW I SPEAK TO EVERY DEMON OF FEAR, EVERY 01:13:33.288 --> 01:13:36.918 DEMON OF DECEPTION, EVERY DEMON OF DEPRESSION THAT HAS BEEN 01:13:36.918 --> 01:13:41.779 BINDING ANYONE'S MINDS RIGHT NOW. ANY SPIRIT OF FEAR THAT HAS 01:13:41.779 --> 01:13:44.569 ATTACKED ANYONE IN THE NIGHT SEASON, IN THE DAY SEASON, AT 01:13:44.569 --> 01:13:49.189 ANY HOUR, WE BREAK YOUR POWER IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. WE SAY 01:13:49.189 --> 01:13:53.208 THAT THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS UPON US, THAT THE ANGELS OF THE 01:13:53.208 --> 01:13:56.599 LORD ENCAMP AROUND ABOUT US AND WE WILL NOT DASH OUR FOOT 01:13:56.599 --> 01:13:59.899 AGAINST THE STONE. WE WILL LIVE STRONG IN THIS EARTH. WE WILL 01:13:59.899 --> 01:14:03.408 LIVE MIGHTY IN THIS EARTH. WE WILL FULFILL THE CALL OF GOD 01:14:03.408 --> 01:14:06.469 THAT IS UPON OUR LIFE. WE WILL NOT GO TO THE RIGHT, WE WILL NOT 01:14:06.469 --> 01:14:10.283 GO TO THE LEFT, BUT WE CHOOSE TO SEE THE GOD WHO IS SEATED UPON 01:14:10.283 --> 01:14:14.269 THE THRONE. LORD, WE LIFT OUR EYES TO THE HILLS WHERE OUR HELP 01:14:14.269 --> 01:14:18.590 COMES FROM AND WE SERVE THE LORD GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, OUR 01:14:18.590 --> 01:14:23.269 CREATOR, OUR MIGHTY ONE, OUR HOLY ONE. YOU, OH GOD, DESERVE 01:14:23.269 --> 01:14:27.260 THE GLORY. YOU, OH GOD, DESERVE THE HONOR. AND YOU WILL NOT BE 01:14:27.260 --> 01:14:31.368 MOVED. AND SO, FATHER, WE WILL NOT BE MOVED, BECAUSE WE WILL 01:14:31.368 --> 01:14:35.328 HIDE OURSELVES IN YOUR SHELTER, IN YOUR SECRET PLACE, AND IN 01:14:35.328 --> 01:14:39.078 YOUR REFUGE. AND WE STAND UPON THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION, AND 01:14:39.078 --> 01:14:43.069 WE SAY, "GREAT IS OUR GOD AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED." AND IN 01:14:43.069 --> 01:14:48.822 THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, WE SHALL LIVE STRONG. HALLELUJAH. 01:14:48.822 --> 01:14:51.824 COME ON, I THINK YOU OUGHT TO STAND TO YOUR FEET. COME ON, 01:14:51.824 --> 01:14:56.829 GIVE GOD A GREAT BIG PRAISE. COME ON, TELL HIM ONE MORE TIME, 01:14:56.829 --> 01:15:03.559 WON'T HE DO IT? WON'T HE DO IT? WOO, GIVE THESE LADIES A HAND. 01:15:03.559 --> 01:15:09.168 GOD BLESS YOU, BLESS YOU, BLESS YOU. THIS WAS SO GOOD. WELL, 01:15:09.168 --> 01:15:12.229 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK AND THE AFTERNOON SERVICE 01:15:12.229 --> 01:15:17.359 STARTS IN 15 MINUTES. SO GO OUT, GO POTTY, COME BACK.