generation today they have to have a time to read the word of god and many of them the way they used to go to church and they were when they was little and they think if they went to children all their lives they don't need to read the word of god because they were already but so many times they have to go to a certain situation which they have to be willing to to go through life and if they don't have the word of god the word of god is the only power which they can and that's why it is necessary many times to use the word of god but in order to use the word of god who you are and know the word of god our ministry for the last i can say the last ten years since we  passed there yes and there are many people like you watching this program and they they have a family like you you have two children and you have a husband which he go to work almost all day and he come and late in the that i grew up in a christian church i grew up in a pentecostal home all my life and very conservative very conservative i went to a private christian school i had you know christian friends i was around and everything was christian you could say from the outside but going to church and i know there are so many out there like me i know i i'm not the first i'm not the last that  kept you know kept going through the motions of being a christian and you know you do everything right you go to church on sundays you have a bible lesson at school some people don't even get to go to a christian school like i did but they're you know you you go on through life and you think well you know christian is kind of it's kind of dead you know there's nothing really to it except for you have a list of rules that the pastor says that you need to follow and you know  i had never heard somebody tell me in church before and this is sad and this is not the way it should be but i've never heard of going into the word yourself studying it for yourself so you can have power over the things over the prince of palate he's over the the the prince of the air over that stuff that bombards your mind every single day because you know if you think about it the battle is always going to be in the mind it's never it's never going to be in your foot it's never going to be in your hand your brain controls your whole body so of course your brain is the center of your of your whole being and that's where the word of god must be stored and if the word of god is not stored in there then the enemy knows how to store other junk in there and i noticed through my personal experience i'm thirty now and i could say that for more more than half of my life i spent you know just just barely getting by just really barely you know i knew certain scriptures but it's there's a there's a difference in memorizing a scripture because you have to and there's a difference in knowing it deep down in your heart and at that right moment the holy spirit brings that scripture to you in such a powerful way right when you need it the most are right when the right when the enemy throws those fiery darts towards you and tells you you know well you haven't seen anything happen you i haven't seen anything  natural you do you know you've been praying to your god and nothing's come up and this is something that i believe the specially the youth the young people teenagers i know how it works because it's hat it happened to me i know how sneaky it comes into where you're actually one day you remain powerless you really those thoughts of filled your head so much that there's there's there's nothing you can do or say because you don't you haven't been feeding yourself from the work and so what god has been teaching me lately especially lately and i know that through you know through you and mom and through through this ministry i've seen how how powerful when the when the apostle paul that says that i morning god is a two edged sword and it's more power it's discerns the thoughts and it goes down to the marrow and to the to the joints i mean just just knowing just knowing that verse alone and knowing i have power over satan and nothing else nothing in this world nothing in this world has that much power i looked up just out of curiosity i looked up different ways that in this world i'm talking to secular different ways that your thoughts so if weren't so the word of god says in isaiah fifty four seventeen i have to go to the amplifier for this just for your fifty four seventeen just completely office of the against you in judgment you shall now you shall show to be in the wrong this peace righteousness security and triumph over opposition is the heritage of the servants of the lord those in whom the ideal servant of the lord is to reproduce this is their righteousness or the vindication which they obtain for me this is that which i impart to them says the lord so why is it that the world says don't talk back to your thoughts don't take authority over them when this is saying that there is no weapon that's formed against you that shall prosper and every tongue that rises up that's obviously the enemy's tongue that rises up above the knowledge of the word of god doesn't it say that in the you're speak nest inside of our head and know well one day it'll pass james four seven says this so be subject to god resist the devil stand firm against him and he will flee from you how are we supposed to stand firm and know he will how are we supposed to just sit there and know that also that our thoughts will pass when the word of god clearly says come close to god he will come close to you so be subject to god resist the devil and he will flee from me there is no other way that the devil will flee from you unless you resist him but how do we resist him only through the word of god and only through the knowledge of the word of god so if we don't have this there is absolutely no way that that you will not be start to be stuck in that rut and then you know that's why i think so many young christian people are now i'm talking to the christian people that are out there they fall into depression they fall into all sorts of they go into sex into drugs into alcohol they look to secular friends they look secular music i'm telling you that there is no power on the face of the earth like the word of god there is nothing that can replace that and i know from my own experience when you when there are other things that replace that throughout the week throughout the day when you go months without refreshing yourself you become like a dry well there's no more it's like for me the word of god has become like water if i don't drink water during the day they said that a human being can survive more than three days without drinking water is so much more of the word of god it becomes a part of you and there's no way for anything to substitute that i noticed with my own self when i'm not in the word when i have so many you know i have two little ones i have two kids under four years old and constantly there's always something coming up i'm chasing after one the other one needs to sleep then the other one needs to eat and i notice if a day or two goes by my thought my thoughts are not the same and i go to philippians four eight and this verse struck me the other day when i wasn't even thinking about it whatever is true whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable whatever is just whatever is pure whatever is lovely and lovable whatever is kind and winsome and gracious if there is any virtue an excellence if there is anything worthy of praise think and way and take account of these things fix your minds on them and if you do for was six and seven is the not the worry or interest for anything exactly your wants known to god and god's peace shall be yours that tranquil state of soul assured of itself through christ and fearing nothing so fearing nothing from god and being content with it early lot of whatever sort that is that peace which transcends all understanding shall guard your shall have you shall have a mount guard over your hearts and your minds in christ jesus so actually that piece of god is supposed to guard our thoughts and our minds and of course that's the first place where the devil comes through first in our minds still you try to write and then to try to hurt you in your heart that's where you're hurting your heart not in your mind when he spoke about the h which is put inside of us through the through the knowledge and also to the spoken word absolute right while that's the only way that the word of god has powers when it spoken wanting to know what you know i know people you know i know people who have read the bible fifty sixty seventy times but unfortunately it is just a book if it's not used that means the word of god is not only head knowledge you know it but also has to be a revelation to you read in isaiah fifty four seventeen and were points is actually the power of the words wreaking against the when they are in the situation like the pressure no pressure fear worry gout in and believe things which they they go through to life right now or were necessity of things which is lack of food lack of finances of job lock of certain things in their lives how the they do how they pray how they can pray well the first thing to do is to bring every thought under submission to the obedience of jesus christ and that is found  the true knowledge of god and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of christ the messiah the anointed one so this is telling us not only to refute arguments and theories and reasonings because the devil will always come with arguments reasons and theories but it also says we lead every thought and purpose away captive we send it away captive that's that below the voice with a loud voice absolutely  you have to bring every thought under submission to the obedience of jesus christ sending it captive because if it doesn't line up with the word of god it should be in your head the second thing i do is i just start to pray the way that the holy spirit leads us another thing that i was going to say is are scholars who study it day after day after day hours upon hours but it hasn't become life the word the bible says that the word of god is alive is that correct yes is a lie living so in order for it to in order for me to keep the word of god alive i have to speak it i actually have to put it into practice when some speaking over the situation or over the situation i bring the situation to the promise of the word of god i bring the problem to the promise of problem to the promise yes i don't have enough money this week to get groceries i don't have enough money this week my electricity may be shut off i bring that to the promise of the word of god that says that my god will supply all of my needs according to his riches and glory all of my need my needs and if you have to stay in that verse for twenty four hours or for twelve hours or for the meditating on that word and not allowing satan to come to you and say well nothing's happened yet nothing's happened yet it doesn't matter the word of god is the truth and my god will supply all my needs and you know there are so many promises i just recently as i as you pray some are baptized with the holy spirit some are not the holy spirit brings back into remembrance those verses those precious verses that some i haven't read or i haven't looked at since i was a teenager and all of a sudden the lord brought to my mind let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you all lord my rock my salvation my refuge you know those are the precious words that the holy spirit brings back because the word of god is is the truth and he says that the truth will set you free so when we know the truth it will make us free so inside so no matter what the situation looks like on the outside it may look like the bible says that we don't look to the things which are which are seen but to the things which are unseen because the things that are on scene are arse are not carnal they're spiritual i believe it says that in so in second print the ends of the four starting with verse eighteen and i like how the amplified puts verse eighteen since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen for the things that are seen that are visible are temp oral brief and fleeting very brief but the things that are invisible are de everlasting so that verse alone there is power in that verse telling satan i'm not going to look at the things that are seen i'm going to look at the things that are on scene because those are eternal i'm going to look at god my father and even though i can't see him i can feel him and i know he's working and sometimes you know sometimes god allows certain things to happen to us for certain season to test us and to stretch us i once heard that a rubber band has no use if it's not stretched you can't use a rubber band for anything if you don't stretch it out yes and that's the same with us unless we're stretch unless we're more than unless we've gone through something we we end unless god becomes so real to us so like like data standing next to me here become so real to us just like the next breath that we take there is no way that that after after we receive the blessing and after we receive from abundance there is no way that we will become as connected with him after that because that's why god allows certain seasons in our life so he can see our determination how in love are we with christ how much do we desire him are we desire in him just are we are we looking just at his hands or reste telling him i just want i want i want are we telling him i want more of you i desire more of you it says seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all the other things will be added  you all the other things there's no way to seek the other things first and have it turn the other way around there's no way for that to seek first the kingdom of god and seeking the kingdom of god is only found in the word of god in the promises that are in this word and i encourage you if you have been struggling in this area einar stand i struggled for a long time i struggled even after i got married i struggled even you know for years after that but somehow there was a connection made one day where i decided i'm going to take this book i'm going to take this word at face value and if it really is the power of the true power of the word of god and i knew it was deep down but i needed to experience it for myself if that you if you want to experience god for yourself that power you need to start getting into the word and i know at first there are so many people that struggle at first because they don't understand much and i know always every time i would talk you and mom i would call you and say i don't understand it i just i i read it and it's like it's just you know letters on a page and always you would encourage me you know mom was still on the phone with me or you it just keep reading it in the right time the holy spirit brings it back and it's so true and i know at first when you open it sometimes you don't even know where to begin i know you got you tell people to start in the gospel of john is that right in the beginning was the word the word was with god that is a very important book to start with because it it really does go from the beginning and you know it teaches a lot of the teachings of christ when he was here on earth and then it goes into a lot of other things that i remember you know i didn't even know where to start i would just flip through and read a little from here in a little from here and another good thing is to reef proverbs every day there are thirty one days thirty or thirty one days in a month there are thirty one proverbs and so there's a proverb for every single day of the week every single day of the week and so that was encouraging nice that's how i started that's you know a for to read a proverb is not you know it's not long it's short and that's you know little by little that's how i started and then i began to to go this way and that way and then the holy spirit takes you and sometimes it's not the quantity it's not how much you read it's not reading books and books and books and reading the entire new testament in one sitting it's about the quality of that verse even if it's one or two or three verses i see five verses max so you can get deep within you and really feel it inside of you and i know that there i know that i know how many distractions are out there i know how the devil comes i know how you're busy with this you're working with that but if you make that time for god you'll see so many revelations even in that small period of time and then you'll notice that that time that window becomes larger and larger as you hunger more for the word of god because you realize how much power there is in it and how how you can defeat the vote with the wiles of the devil through the  i've come to that conclusion there's a quote i read on line it was this is a secular quote but it goes back to that to what psychologists are telling our young people today who do i get on my knees and i admit to powerlessness i admit powerlessness to my wonderful brain chemistry i stop all my efforts to free myself from my obsessions hold and i allow the voices in the thoughts to be as loud as they want and stay as long as they want because i know they will eventually go away when i read that i said to myself what kind of a message are young people reading today what the secular school in the secular schools and the what what psychologists and psychiatrists are offering to this generation that's dealing with school shootings and kids you know acting out and killing their parents and they're telling them just submit to the powerlessness that's in you the word of god does not teach that the word of god does not teach that that really hit me hard i actually began to cry and i thought what if we come to how how much seed tonight is twisted the word of god and has made it to where we are just supposed to accept those thoughts but clearly admitting to powerlessness we see from luke ten nineteen i went to this passage right away behold i give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you nothing it didn't say i'll give you power over some of it or leave you powerless it's that i will give you power over all the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you yes why is it that we are seeing so many young people deceived today and told i i need to be powerless i to to let my thoughts just i need to stop all my efforts and free myself from ever doing anything because some day they'll pass they'll never pass the word of god says that everything else will pass away but my word will never pass away and his word w never return void fifty five yes that's a powerful verse but the only way to really truly no the word of god is by getting into it that's the only way and the first step is by bringing those thoughts specifically under captivity to the obedience of jesus christ and from there the holy spirit will guide you the holy spirit will show you he'll take you to more passages more passages the word of god is is is living water it's a stream of water it's constantly being renewed it's constantly being refresh you'll notice that when you when you wake up in the morning you'll have a desire even just to put your hands on your head and pray and annoy yourself if you if if if that's where god leads you and say lord today every thought that goes into my mind will be my mind is the mind of christ my mind there nothing evil will come near my due welling nothing evil will come near my dwelling and keep keep keep practicing and keep saying those words over your life over the life of your children over your finances over a year your house over your everything that you all over your cars you know people think that in this life god is just going to do everything for us yes he's he gave us the power to do it yes he overcame satan but he gave us the power to do that's why it says i give you the power i give you the keys to the kingdom is that correct so we but we must know how to use it in order for us to know how to use it we have to know the word of god that's the conclusion that i've come to and i know that there are there will be a lot of testimonies of young people getting in the word and realizing and about this but what i want to talk to you today leg and they are saying make a time for the word of god it will be your time one you will wish to have a time but it would be too late and i'm know they don't have the word of god and that's why did they cannot compare any tingles and their mind with something higher than what is in the human being and surrender and that's why they believe only the only thing what is been hi to you to bring it to your mind and bring it to your to your imagination and bring it to your eyes to see and even if you read once or twice i remember years ago i had been interrogated when i was a i was being terribly for eight hours some time and i was speaking the word of that was so much bonus that people over there they see they got penetrated by the word of god and they said let's finish this meeting because we are going to become born again to meet the sickness of the lord and then he prayed i now put your hands whatever you have the problem and believe god that god the lord jesus can touch you right now and the privacy of your home i commend in jesus name right now in the name of jesus to touch each and every person in the name of jesus every pain to leave them every sickness to leave them every depression or pressure loneliness fear  and i believe it i feel the presence of god and i know the lord touch people's right now and choose this 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