𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐁𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟏 – 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

𝐑𝐄𝐕. 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐊𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐃𝐒𝐂, 𝐃𝐒𝐂, 𝐃𝐃

❗️It's our Month of Progression. 

> Luke 10:18–19

🔴 While addressing this some time ago, I drew your attention to Ezekiel 2:6. Jesus was talking to an assembly of people who were familiar with the words of the prophets. So, when He used the words of the prophets, they knew what He was talking about. He called people scorpions. He was talking about people who had become so wicked and evil in their ways.

🔴 When Jesus said, "I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions," these are agents of the devil, the wicked. Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, and the works of your father you will do." He classes them all together along with their father, the devil. Serpents are demons. Scorpions are evil people. Luke 10:19 refers to the wicked, their father the devil, and all his ability—everything he can do.

🔴 Jesus said, "I give you authority." The word power is used twice in that scripture. The first one is Exousia—Authority. The second one is Dunamis—Ability.

> "Behold, I give you AUTHORITY to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the ABILITY/WORKINGS of the enemy... and nothing shall by any means hurt you."

🔴 Oh! If God's people would believe this! It should not be difficult to accept. We must know who we truly are, what we have, and what we can do. If Jesus says, "Nothing shall by any means hurt you," it doesn't matter how they try; it means He has deprived them of the ability to harm you.

The AMPC says, 

> "Nothing shall in any way harm you." 

🔴 To talk like that, Jesus had to have all power. If He didn't have the power to say that, then we are sunk. Truth is, He had the power to say that.

❗️John 16:33 (KJV, AMPC)

🔴 Great peace in Christ! Learn to live in Him. If you live in Christ, you will always be at peace and at rest, and nothing will move you. "I have overcome the world and its system." Be of good cheer. Take courage. Be confident, certain, and undaunted. He has deprived the world of power to harm you and conquered it for you.

🔴 Live in His Name. Use His Name. He has conquered the world. We are masters over the world. It doesn't matter how we feel or not. It's plain truth.

1 John 5:4 (AMPC)

> "Whatever is born of God is victorious over the world." 

🔴 Our faith here isn't the faith that we express. It is our way in Christ. That is Christianity. This life that He has given us in Christ Jesus. This Gospel that we have believed in. It is the Christian faith that is the victory that overcomes the world.

🔴 Years ago, He said, "This is my beloved Son; hear ye Him." All creation is still hearing Him today. All creation heard when He told us to go in His Name. We are joint heirs with Christ, and we live above the world. We live above fears and doubts, for we are children of the Most High. Therefore, we speak as sons of God and pray as sons of God.

He said,

> "And thou shalt decree a thing also, and it shall be established unto thee."

🔴 Wherever you are today, I want you to use what God has given you. Pray as one who inherits all things in Christ. Pray as one who has been given the victory. Tell the devil and the demons of darkness that you have power over them. You have power over all demons of darkness. Proclaim it with your mouth.

(Prayers)

Luke 10:18

🔴 Jesus is talking to His disciples. I want you to look at the spirituality of Jesus and how He wants us to understand the spirituality of life. Those are not the words you hear from a politician or the intelligentsia of life. You have to be a fool to think Jesus didn't know what He was saying. If you don't believe in Jesus, you don't have this power over the enemy. We have amazing power.

🔴 Understand that life is spiritual. No matter how intelligent you might be, don't foolishly interpret life on the basis of what you can see or what the mendacious news media tells you. When are you going to understand that they've been lying to you?

🔴 Don't look at life from the outside. Life is spiritual. You may not be interested in the spiritual, but that just means you are a fool. If you don't believe in the spiritual, you don't believe in God. Jesus said, "God is a Spirit."

🔴 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Since the Bible tells us God is a Spirit, and the very first book, Genesis, says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," it means He pre-existed the beginning. And there you are saying, "There is no God."

🔴 The spiritual pre-existed the physical. The wisest thing you can do for yourself is to start learning about the spiritual, and there is no better way than through the Word of God—learning what God's Word says. He is the embodiment of all wisdom and knowledge. Don't forget it.

🔴 With His wisdom, we can tell when the world is foolish. For example, a few nations passed some foolish laws which they call "anti-hate speech laws," and some are considering doing the same.

❓️What is hate speech, by the way?

🔴 All those things—those bills and laws crafted as so-called laws against hate speech—are Satanic. They all have to do with robbing you of the right to express yourself, especially your faith.

🔴 And then there are the anti-conversion laws. Very foolish and devilish. They are forbidding a man the right to choose his faith.

🔴 There are certain things you can't negotiate. We can discuss the matter of hate speech from sunup to sundown, and we will only get each other angry. So let's use the power of God to deal with it. The argument will not go anywhere.

🔴 If there is a law against hate speech and laws against conversion in your country, I want us to pray. Today and tomorrow we will neutralize them.

🔴 In the Name of the Lord Jesus, everywhere that such laws have been promulgated, we neutralize them, and they are abrogated in the Name of Jesus.

❗Life is spiritual.

🔴 We have to choose a side according to the Scripture—God's Word. We take sides with God through the Scriptures. We can't negotiate it. There is no need for foolish argument.