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It's In The Word: Deliverance [PART 1] | Luke 8:1-3 | Pastor Walter Bowers Jr.

• Pastor Walter Bowers Jr. • Season 6 • Episode 18

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We highlight the power of the word of God and deliverance from demonic influence in our "It's in the Word" sermon series as we journey toward Pentecost Sunday. Our focus today is on understanding how spiritual forces impact our lives and breaking free through divine authority.

• The Bible teaches us that Jesus is the Word made flesh, meaning wherever we go, He goes with us
• Demonic influence is real—affecting relationships, schools, businesses, and government
• Demons enter our lives through doors we open through words, habits, and unresolved issues
• Seven common symptoms of demonic influence include persistent emotional problems, mental disturbances, speech issues, and physical infirmities
• Deliverance requires honesty, humility, repentance, renunciation, forgiveness, prayer, and spiritual warfare
• We must redirect our battles away from people and toward spiritual forces
• True freedom comes when you position your spiritual weapons against the enemy, not against family or colleagues
• Deliverance often begins at the altar through genuine worship and surrender

This is your exodus moment. Whatever has held you captive—whether depression, addiction, fear, or generational patterns—can be broken today through the powerful name of Jesus.


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Hallelujah, Come on. Let's give God some glory for being the source of our strength. Let's give God some glory for being the strength of our life. Let's lift our hands to Him and worship and praise unto Him. Spirit of the living God, we thank you for your presence in this house on today. Spirit of the living God, we thank you for your presence in this house on today.

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Lord, we thank you for the move that continues to happen in this place. And yet here we are again, god, we're open and available to whatever you want to say and however you want to say it. Speak, holy Ghost, like only you can Transform, like only you can transform, like only you can heal, save and set free, like only you can deliver.

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Oh Lord, like only you can. And when it's all said and done, god, we'll be careful to give your name the glory. We'll be careful to give your name the honor. We give your name all the praise for us. In the undisputed name of Jesus, we pray. Let the people of God say amen, amen and amen To God. Be the glory To God. Be the glory To God, be the glory, amen. Family.

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We have been in a sermon series on our journey towards Pentecost Sunday. The name of the series is simply it's in the Word, and we're highlighting dynamic, powerful biblical truths that are found in the word of God. First week, we highlighted the fact that we just literally highlighted the word of God. We highlighted the power of the word in and of God. First week, we highlighted the fact that we just literally highlighted the word of God. We highlighted the power of the word in and of itself. That's why we encourage you all to make sure you got your paper Bible. If you don't have one and we even had a few that we have to give out we may have some left, because I just want you to embrace that your answer is in the word, that everything that you need is in the word. John 1, verse 14, reminds us that Jesus is the word of God made flesh. So if I take the word with me and the word is within my heart, everywhere I am, jesus is with me, and that ought to be some good news for somebody. In the second week, we reminded you all that it's in the word prophesy. We reminded you of the power that your deliverance is found sometimes in your mouth. We took the spookiness off of the prophetic and reminded you that who should prophesy? Everybody Right, because the spirit has been poured on all of us and the answer to your own problem is your ability to receive a download from heaven and to be able to speak a word into any situation. As a matter of fact, this is a good moment for a pop quiz. Y'all ready for a pop quiz? Here it is.

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I want you to to prophesy something in regards to the mothers that are in this room. Whether it's your mother or not that are in this room, whether it's your mother or not, remember the prophetic is a word from God, whether he speaks to us directly or we find it in the word and we decree it and declare it into someone else's life. So certainly we got to have a word for all of the mothers in the room from God. Y'all, y'all try that. Matter of fact. I'm going to tell some other right now that your ladder shall be a greater. I want to prophesy to some woman right now that god is not done with you yet. Why am I the only prophet in the room? I said, who should prophesy everybody?

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Now, y'all, open your mouth right now and start speaking to all of the more women in the room, not just those that are about have a child biologically, but for those that god is birthing businesses through that. God that is birthing futures to y''all. Open your mouth. Open your mouth then, speak, speak, speak, because it comes from our mouth. It comes from our mouth God is giving you. We're y'all encouraging them now.

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Now, as you speak, a word into the life of every woman in the room. Open your mouth. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost as you're opening your mouth and you're speaking to every woman in the room. Now is there a prophetic utterance for your family. Now you just start speaking to your bloodline, you start speaking to your cousins, you start speaking to those that have fallen away from the faith. You start speaking saying they shall come back into the arms of the lord, that they shall be what god has called them to be, that they shall overcome. Y'all speaking, y'all speaking it. You should speak it. You should just speak it now. Check this out after you speak to the mothers and the women, after you spoken to your families. Here's this check this out After you speak to the mothers and the women, after you've spoken to your families.

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Here's this last prophetic. This one is for you. I need you to speak a word over your own life. God, give them a word and let it come out of their mouth. God give them a word for every individual. Can you do that? Can you speak over your own life? That I'm going to come out of this, that I'm going to overcome? Come your own mouth, that's it. I need to hear your mouth. Open your mouth, open your mouth.

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This is not a concert. This is not a spectator sport. Open your mouth. Come on, open your mouth. Are we hearing y'all in the back? Open your mouth, open your mouth. That's all you got for you.

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Come on, I'm going to come back here with this microphone because we got to go forward, but y'all got to open your mouth. I want to help somebody Open your own mouth about your own self, how you came to church and don't have a word for your own self. I ain't even ask you to talk to the preacher. I'm talking about talking about you. You want to talk about your future. You got to talk about your relationships. You got to talk about your children. You got to talk about your finances. You got to talk about your vision and your dreams. Now let's try this one more time. You got to open your mouth for yourself. Start declaring some things. God give them something to deposit. Maybe you're not speaking because God hasn't given you anything, but if you open your mouth, I promise it'll come out. If you open your mouth, the Holy Ghost will bring it out that you're going to win in the end. It's going to come out that you're going to see victory. Open your mouth. Open your mouth, hallelujah.

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Oh, I hear y'all, I hear you, I hear you, I hear you. I see the man in this station. Because of your obedience there, it is right there. Open your mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you God, thank you God.

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The Word of the Lord today is found in Luke, the eighth chapter, verse one through three. It is our custom here to read the word aloud together because it helps us to remember and recall during the week. But God is saying unto us. Somebody say, Lord, strike again. Yeah, Lord, the way the Lord has been moving. I just pray that you strike a strike again. Luke 1.

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Luke 8, verse 1 through 3 let's read that together ready set read.

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Soon afterward, jesus began a tour of the nearby towns and villages, preaching and announcing the good news about the kingdom of God. He took his 12 disciples with him, along with some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases. Among them were Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons, joanna, the wife of Shuzo, herod's business manager, susanna, and many others who were contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and his disciples. I would just like to use as a subject today. It's in the word deliverance. Say it like you mean it say deliver me. Say it like you mean to say deliver me. Yeah. Say one more time, deliver me for me, yeah, you may be, seated

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in the presence of our Lord. Let me apologize early. For those that may have been maybe looking for a traditional Mother's Day word. I have some good news. It's not traditional, but it's for every mother in the room. Let me apologize to every man in the room who said well, since it's Mother's Day, I can hide today. I want to let you know that this word is also for you.

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The word that God has given me that we needed to focus on today is simply deliverance. Like we did with the word prophetic, we have to take the spooky off of deliverance. Um, there's a book that I was studying, along with the word of God and several books actually, but one of the books that that kind of caught my attention was an old book from the 70s called Pigs in the Parlor, and in this old book from the 70s it gives us a simple definition of what deliverance is. Deliverance is the process of expelling demons or demonic influence. Demons or demonic influence? Demonic influence is real, whether we choose to recognize it or not. For those that are spiritual, you see demonic influence over everything these days. You see demonic influence trying to have its way over churches. You see demonic influence trying to have its way over families. You see demonic influence having its way over schools. Isn't it quite demonic that we live in a world that is routine now for somebody to walk up in a school and try to kill babies. What could be more demonic than that? We see demonic influence over businesses, where people don't even treat you right anymore. And we see demonic influence over government, local and national we. We see demonic fluence everywhere, demonic influence, family here. Let me tell you, less like this it is. It is tricky because of y'all and y'all high education, you that to A&T and you that are Aggie Prize you know what I'm talking about. You, eagles in the room. You wherever you went, south Carolina State, you Bulldogs wherever you went in our education. You UNC, charlotte. Wish you all a little bit of love too.

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What has happened in our world today is that, because we are more educated than our grand folks and great-grand folks, what they used to call demonic we'll pass off as just the mere mental health issue, and I'm not coming against mental health concerns. As a matter of fact, I'm one that believes in the couch and the cross. But the problem of our church is is that we put the couch and the cross on the same level, and the reality is is a good counselor will do all that they can, and they will realize that in some of us there's some things going on that they can't touch, so they got to take you to a higher power. A good counselor will so tell you that, baby, I've done all I can do for you. There's a higher power that can touch what medicine has no power, and it's that place there that that demonic influence is real.

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There was a saying that was attributed to a Frenchman back in the day, and and it was in a movie that says this that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that he didn't exist. Oh, the devil has been running his trick, so much so that the church doesn't talk about demonic influence like it used to. Everything is not of demonic influence, but I'm here to tell you there's a whole lot of stuff that is, if you think about what the Bible teaches about demons being fallen angels, those individuals that decided to ride with Satan instead of riding with God and were kicked out of heaven, and they are eternal beings and they got to live somewhere. You know what they decide to show up in your house. You know what they decide to show up in your house. You know what they try to show up in your mind. You know what they try to show up in your business. They show up everywhere and we are crazy enough to not even to deal with the fact that demonic influence is real.

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Demonic influence is in the earth to keep you bound, and the reality of it is is that sometimes the demons get a lot of help right, because the demons said I will bind you, I will use anything that I can to keep you bound, because, at the end of the day, nobody wants to see you free. Think about it If you are in an unhealthy relationship, the person that you are with they don't want to see you free, because the moment you come to yourself and realize that love don't live here anymore, that's the moment that you're going to go and find somewhere else to live. So they don't want to see you free. They want to keep you thinking that your source is them and they want to keep you thinking that you can't make it without them. They don't want to see you free. But I come against that right now, in the name of Jesus, and lose some people that are connected to some bad people and some bad stuff. Somebody that'll say I'm free in Jesus name.

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No, no, nobody wants to see you free. Your job doesn't even want to see you free, because they realize that if you ever uh work to get free, you you might not show up on um Monday morning. If you ever wanted to get free and start to operate in the vision that God called you, if you ever want to get free and start to operate in the vision that God called you, if you ever wanted to be free and God does bless you financially so you can make the move that you were bound to make they don't want to see you free. That's why they call a raise 2% and when you get the raise, they take you to another tax bracket and you lost money on what they call was supposed to be your come up. Nobody wants to see you free. They want to keep you bound. I got some bad news. No disrespect to all of the physicians in the room, but the reality is that the pharmaceutical company don't want to see you free. Think about it If you get free, they go out of business.

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Pharmaceuticals. Now listen, I'm not telling you not to take your medicine because you got to do those things that the doctor tells you to do. So don't take me out of context, but I'm dealing with the raw and the real. Most of our medicine is given to deal with the symptom but not to deal with the problem. Nobody wants to see you free. They want you to keep showing up so that you can get your symptom treated, but they don't ever want to see you heal, set free and delivered.

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When I was looking at pharmaceutical, it literally comes from the word pharma. Pharmacon in the Greek literally comes from the Greek word that means drug, poison or spell. Throughout history the word pharmakia is translated as witchcraft, sorcery, mind-altering substance. And then we are crazy enough that when we are going through this body of believers, we say our source is the pharmacist, so I can get some drugs, so I can feel better. I want to talk to somebody in the room and say again, I'm not coming against the things that are good for you, but I'm just trying to be real and say nobody wants to see you free because people are profiting off of your bondage. And how much longer are you going to allow people in the world, whether it's relational, whether it's your job or whether it's a pharmacy? How long are you going to allow people to profit off of your bondage?

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Many women of God, the Lord has brought us here today because the Lord is saying this that in chosen city church today and whoever may hear this word that there are some families that must experience deliverance together. The word says that family corporation produces an expedited delivery. I'm going to try that again. Family corporation produces an expedited delivery. In my family that means if me and Tiffany pray. That's powerful, but good God, almighty. It was end of grade testing for the boys and we pray every morning, me and the boys and Tiff's on another schedule, but this week we was intentional to make sure that we prayed together, because there is a powerful power when the whole family touches and agrees in Jesus' name. As a matter of fact, there's a family.

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You were brought here today. This is prophetic. You were brought here today not because it was Mother's Day. You were brought here today because God wants to deliver your entire family. Man of God, I'm trying to tell you that if you pray today, god will deliver your entire family. Woman of God, if you pray today, god is about to deliver your entire family. As a matter of fact, I need about 10 families right there that can praise God right early in the service. That he's talking to me. That's for my family. Chris, give him a little bump right there. He's talking to me. That's for my family. He's talking to my family right now. That this is for my family.

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This is for my house, because if we do it together, it's about to expedite our pursuit. If we do it together, it's about to expedite our delivery.

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If we do it together, it's about to expedite our prayers to Nathan In Jesus' name, but the Lord is not done. The Lord is not done. He says there are a couple of you in here. You're excited about what's happening in other people's family, but you are the only one from your family that is trying to connect to God in this season. And the Lord says this to you prophetically your, your, your faithfulness is about to be rewarded. He said to tell you in the scripture to look at the time where the Roman centurion showed up to Jesus while his soldier was sick, and his petition to Jesus, on the behalf of someone who was not even there, produced a manifestation of a miracle. And I want to talk to somebody and say that your faithfulness, the fact that you've been praying for your young adult child, your faithfulness, the fact that you've been praying for your young adult child, your faithfulness, the fact that you've been praying for your husband, your faithfulness, the fact that you've been praying for your wife it's about to manifest a miracle, because Jesus always rewards faithfulness and I need somebody that's been standing in the gap for your family. You've been standing in the gap for those that don't have faith. I want you to praise God because he says I'm about to deliver them because of your faithfulness. Deliverance has power because deliverance comes through the authority of the word of God. Deliverance comes through the prophetic, when God gives us a download and we can decree and declare. And deliverance comes when we avoid flesh to flesh battles. Deliverance will come when you stop fighting your kinfolk. Deliverance will come when you stop fighting your church folk. Deliverance will come when you stop fighting against your employer and your employees, because the Bible teaches us that that is not really your enemy.

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Many times that you are dealing with somebody and it's going left, it's demonic influence, and I'm certainly not calling that person a demon, but I'm here to tell everybody in the room that a demon can come in anybody at any time. It's so subtle, it's so sneaky, you don't have a pitch for it and wearing red it's. It's a spiritual influence that you don't even recognize. That's why I'm glad y'all pray for me, because a demon could get in me and I get up here because out of my um feelings in church and say something that is not of God, under the influence of somebody other than the Holy Spirit, and I could impact a lot of people in a negative way. That's why you ought to pray for your pastor, because your pastor is a human and a demon can get in anybody. That's why you ought to pray for your spouse. Then you know that last time your spouse talked to you sideways, that was your spouse. That was demonic influence.

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I'm not calling I'm not calling pookie a demon, but I am saying that a demon can get in anybody at any given time. That's why the bible tells us to stop fighting against one another, because Ephesians 6, verse 12, says for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. And the reality is is right now, somebody's demon is getting uncomfortable. Your demon said this sermon ain't for you. You can tip out right about now, and on normal days we let you tip out, but I'm gonna say, oh, that one just left. I'm gonna call you out today. Now, if you're going to the bathroom, you're going to the bathroom, I'm going to nurse the baby. Don't feel bad. I'll be sitting in a tight saying I don't want to pass to the thing. I'm a demon.

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But seriously, demonic influence is so real the moment you. It's time to get free. Oh, gotta go. Look, look, this is my. I got something else to do because the demon is trying to get you bound. Every time you do something to better yourself, that demon is going to whisper in your ear to distract you. Matter of fact, I got to come against every distraction in the room in jesus name. If you on duty today, sit your tail down because you can't be a distraction today because somebody demon's about to get big mad. Somebody demon realized that an eviction notice is about to get served. Good god, almighty, and and. And since somebody's demon don't want to get evicted, they want to cause a distraction. Do you want to be the reason that somebody don't miss out on their deliverance because you couldn't pray in the spirit for just a few minutes? Sit your tail down and be still and see what the lord is about to do. Men and women of god, demonic influence is real, but it's something that is misunderstood in the body, because sometimes it's so spooky to us we think if I'm in the mall and somebody bump into me, the demon that's on them gonna jump on me. No, no, that's not in the Bible.

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Demonic influence, according to the word, comes as a result of an invitation. In other words, the only way that a demon can get in or demonic influence is somehow someone invited the demon in. When we look at our text, we look at the life of Mary. Mary was influenced. It was impacted by seven demons and the Bible does not tell us exactly where the influence happened, but the Bible is clear that as a result of invitation. Bible is clear that, as a result of invitation, demonic fluence can come in. As a matter of fact, when Jesus started his healing journey, many times it was believed and understood by Jewish believers, that Jewish people, that it was a result of sin, that people had an infirmity in their body. There was an individual that was blind and they asked Jesus, who sinned that this child would be born blind. What they were saying was who invited the demon into the family? That, as a result, the child was impacted.

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Demonic influence is always the result of invitation and Bible does not tell us where the invitation came in, but we know that there was an invitation. I'm in my and Bible does not tell us where the invitation came in, but we know that there was an invitation. We know that the invitation comes because somewhere along the path you open the door. Can I talk about the fact of how doors are open. Doors are open when we are disobedient and fall into temptation. We know that Judas was able to betray Jesus because his temptation for the bag, good God, almighty, his temptation for money, his hustle mode Some of y'all hustle mode are inviting demons in.

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Watch this. I'm not against the hustler, because I'm a hustler myself. I get it out the mud. But what I'm telling you is when your hustle comes before God, when your hustle takes the priority over everything in your life, what you've done is that you have invited demonic influence in, and the danger of demonic influence is that many times what we are doing, men and women of God, is that not only are we dividing them into our life, we're dividing, we're inviting them into the lives of our children.

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Mark 7, verse 24 through 30, talks about a daughter of a woman, a child who was under demonic influence and the disciples couldn't even help the baby to get free. End of it. A sad commentary that these days, that the church sometimes act as if we don't have the power and the authority to help people to get free. Jesus spoke through the disciples, as he speaks to us, that it is our mandate, it is our responsibility. Can I say it real talk? Can I say it for real? It is our responsibility. Can I say it real talk? I say it for real.

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We do mission efforts as a, as a, as part of what we do to minister to the whole man. If we are able to help somebody going through an eviction process, that's part of ministering to the whole man, but that's not our primary objective. If we are able to pay a, a light bill, that's part of ministering to the whole man, but that's not our primary objective. If we offer financial classes so that you can be debt free, that's a beautiful. That's part of what we do. But I'm here to tell you coca-cola can give out more supplies than we ever could. Bank of could do more about finances and teach more about finances than we ever could. United Ray could give and serve people under the table better than we ever could. But there is something that's in the church that the bank don't have and United Way don't have, and Coca-Cola can't write a check for God Almighty. There's a reason that the CEO of these corporations usually find themselves in the church because they understand their power only goes so far.

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The power and the responsibility of the church is to help people to get healed, saved, set free and delivered and we have abdicated our responsibility to everybody else. And the Lord is saying that we got to get back to helping people to be delivered from the strongholds of this life. And he talked about the fact that it is by invitation that we have been inviting demonic in even into our children's lives. The author tells a story about how, as an adult, as a pastor, he almost had a nervous breakdown and he went and started taking barbiturates to help him to calm his nerves. But it wouldn't help him with his nerves and it got so bad that he wrote his resignation letter because he said I can no longer pastor because the church was dealing with something heavy. He was dealing with something heavy in his spirit and he said because of my nerves I can't do this. I got to quit. And now some of you right now you, because of your nerves, you want to quit. And the doctor couldn't help him.

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But he had an encounter with a man of God and the man of God saw what was happening. He saw demonic influence. He asked him a question. He said tell me about your childhood. He heard one thing, one story in his childhood that gave him the answer to that man's problem. He said that that pastor, when he was a child, the people used to say you are just like your mother. They used to say your mother is nervous and you nervous. Y'all know what I'm talking about Because some of y'all, when y'all got mad at your son for not cleaning up the room, you said you just like your daddy. And what happened was is that? We don't mean that in a negative light, but what happened was it opened a door For a spirit of nervousness to hit him at a child. Y'all walking with me we don't see demons as being so smooth and sneaky as they are. It was that little door was open when that pastor was a child. That almost cost him his livelihood because of an influence that was in him and the medicine couldn't fix it. Only God could do it. I wish I had a witness say only God can do it. From a place of transparency.

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My wife and I was talking and I said I was convicted about something I said Now. My wife is strong in the Lord. She has some amazing spiritual gifts. She certainly has the gifts of help. She has the gifts of educating children. She certainly has the gift, many spiritual gifts, that she hadn't even tapped into.

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But just like the other dude, when my boys do something, sometimes I'd be like, see, you didn't get that from me, you get that from your mama. And to help somebody today we had a little situation on Thursday night I was meeting with the amazing worship and arts ministry. Little situation on Thursday night I was meeting with the amazing Worship and Arts Ministry and she called me and I was in the meeting and I didn't answer the phone. Then she hit me with that 911. I said, oh Lord, somebody eye poked out or something broke. What's going on? So I picked up the phone and you know, y'all see little quiet Tiffany over there, put the camera on and embarrass her real good, embarrass her real good. Quiet little Tiffany over there was like get here now.

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There's water gushing from upstairs. Where are you?

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Because one of my sons, for reasons unknown to me, decided to flush the toilet, not once, not twice, not three times. He was just enjoying himself and, before you know it, water was gushing from upstairs and the kitchen is below that particular bathroom and water starting to come through the light fixture all down on the kitchen floor. I said, tiff, calm down, calm down. I can't even. Where are you? Why are you not here?

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down, calm down. I can't even where are you why?

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are you not here? You was going to be there for me and I'm like, calm down, calm down, I'm calling, I'm calling the. You know, serve pro, serve pro, come, they do their thing. She calmed down the next day. I said hey, so how was the boys when all this was going on? Well, you know, josh was trying to get back to the video game. So, yeah, that's about right.

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He was like you know, it's whatever, the tortfeasor, the one that was responsible, I think he was just fascinated with his own destruction. Y'all pray for him twice. Y'all just pray. But the third one, I said how was it? He said, oh, he was really upset, he was crying, he was saying that he thought we would lose our house, he thought we'd never have anywhere to live. He thought that because the water was touching the electricity such a smart little fellow that a fire was going to happen. And he was really upset. And you know what I said See boy, you just like your mama. And you know what I said see boy, you just like your mama. Now, check this out.

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I didn't mean it in a negative way, because my wife has amazing attributes for those that know what y'all know, but I what I learned in my study because we journeying and learning together is, if I ever say he's like his mother, I need to talk about he's like his mother as relates to her spiritual gifts and not her weakness, because I don't think I've ever heard her say that they are like me when it comes to my weakness, except for you know, they want to talk a lot like me, so that's fair, but uh, but what I'm saying is. What I'm saying is that when you point out a weakness and say your child is just like such and such a so-and-so, you know what you've done. You've opened a door, and so what we got to do is ask ourselves how many doors have we opened into the lives of our children? Watch this Spouses for those that are married. When he got on your nerves and when she got on your nerves, you say you're acting just like your mama. You know what you did. You finna get what you just decreed and declared that mother-in-law that you was like. I pray that she'd get congratulations. Your mouth just did it.

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So I want to ask you a question right now in the spirit realm what doors have you opened because of what came out of your mouth? And we got to deal with the fact that we're going to be honest every last one of us and open some doors. What doors did you open? The reason why your business is not doing what it's supposed to do? Because you started to utter some stuff in the midst of your frustration. You had the nerve to call your own business raggedy, you had the nerve to call your own clients trifling and all you have done is open a door and you're trying to realize why you hadn't experienced no deliverance. It's because of what has come out of your own mouth.

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I want to help somebody today, but I want to encourage you to let you know this that I found encouragement in Revelations 3, verse 7 and 8, where it talks about our God. It talks about Jesus. It talks about he has the ability to to open doors that no man can shut, and we get excited because that means if God is opening a door to new possibilities, nobody can shut it. But now, in this season of my life, I get more excited that he shuts doors Glory to God that no man can open. And for those that believe that God is about to deliver you and deliver your family, will you start saying right now, saying shut it? Right now Say shut it, shut it in Jesus name. Say shut it in Jesus name. Say shut it in Jesus name. Say shut it, shut it in Jesus' name. Say shut it in Jesus' name. Say shut it in Jesus' name.

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Say shut it, shut it, shut it, shut it, shut it, shut it, shut it, shut it in Jesus' name.

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The reality of the situation is we got to shut some doors to some stuff and, to be honest with you, as you shut some doors to some stuff, you got to be careful about what you engage in. Listen, I'm not just trying to be all extra churchy and all that kind of stuff, but I didn't got to this season of my life, man, I just can't watch everything. Maybe your Holy Ghost is stronger than my Holy Ghost, but I can't watch everything. I just can't. That was when we were younger. You know me and my somebody I used to date I ain't gonna say no name when we were, we were younger, we used to enjoy, you know, just like everybody else, those little scary movies and stuff. But one day, man, that stuff didn't sit with me like it used to and she thought I was just being extra churchy And'm like man, I ain't. I'm still the same dude. I'm still like to have a good time. You know I like to kick it how you know, whatever man. But man, some of this stuff just don't sit well with me anymore. It does. You know what I'm talking about for some of you all, what God has taken you and how God is trying to talk to you, you just can't partake of everything anymore. Amen, somebody, you, you, you can't listen to everything anymore. Amen, somebody, you can't listen to everything anymore. You know what I'm talking about. You can't Listen. Y'all know. I'm a hip hop head, especially the 90s, and one of my favorite songs Master P took it. He took it from an R&B song but he put that New Orleans on it, that 504 on it, and he used to be like I always feel like somebody's watching me. And I used to have a 1990 Craftsman New Yorker. I had that CD I'm riding down the road talking about I always feel like somebody's watching me. But then one day I'm like hold up, now, is this really what I want to be declaring in the atmosphere that everywhere I go, somebody's watching me? Now, what am I losing into my own life by some of the songs that I sing? Can I talk to somebody in the room? Enjoy your life, but you got to be careful about some of these doors that y'all are opening. Ah, here's the reality.

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Some of us use the excuse of ancestry because our ancestors are partooking some rituals and things that they did. We say, well, if my ancestor burned that sage and if my ancestor smoked that stuff, then surely if they did it could. If my ancestor burned that sage and if my ancestor smoked that stuff, then surely if they did, it could be good enough for me. But is it possible that if your ancestors could talk to you today, they would want you to stand on their shoulders and say, baby, we did the best we could with what we we had, and and and. Everything that we practiced wasn't necessarily um good. Now we uh, some of y'all and it from chitlins and you don't eat chitlins, no more. Now, no shade to those that's going to have some chitlins today, get your chitlin on.

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But what I'm saying is how is it that you understand that some things from the past are good and some things from the past are bad? But now we are in this generation of people that, in a goal of connecting to their ancestry, what they are doing is opening doors and opening portals, bringing stuff into their houses and stuff into their lives, trying to find hope and trying to find help. But what you are doing in some of your practices is that you are in inviting the demonic in the spaces, in places that he should not be. Somebody say shut the door. I'm trying to help somebody right now. I'm trying to help you because I understand what the enemy has been um doing and men and women of God. I need you to understand that because demonic influence is real and it comes by way of invitation. The thing about it is that we have to shut the door. You know why? Because demons don't stop until they have completely overtaken you. Oh, you know, they don't stop. They, they, they, they don't stop until they have completely overtaken you. They don't stop. They don't stop until they have completely overtaken you. They don't stop until they have your mind, your body and your soul. They don't stop until you've lost your marriage. They don't stop until you've lost your children. They don't stop until you've lost your career. They don't stop until you've lost your life.

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The Bible says thatary had seven demons and it's interesting that god went out of his way to tell us the number of demons that mary had, because some of the church people in the room will tell you that in the bible, whenever we see the number seven, seven is the number of what completion seven being the number of completions suggest that the demonic stronghold on Mary had overtaken every aspect of her life and the Bible doesn't tell us a lot about her past life, but I believe that Mary wasn't always that way. I believe it started as a small thing, as she was a child, and then it went into her young adulthood and then, before she knew it, she was a grown woman that had seven demons. And that's what I want to say to some of you all. You weren't always angry, yeah. You weren't always frustrated. You weren't always depressed. You weren't always a shell of who you used to be.

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But over time, when you look at yourself today in comparison to how you used to be, if you are to look in the mirror, you would be honest and say some things have changed, because the influence of the demonic is to eat and destroy your fruit. What do you mean, pastor Walt? The goal of the demonic is to destroy your fruit. Do you know what your fruit is? The fruit of the Spirit is love. That's why you can't love like you used to love. The fruit of the Spirit is joy. That why you can't love like you used to love. The fruit of the spirit is joy. That's why your joy has dissipated that. The fruit of the spirit is peace. That's why you don't have a good night's rest. The fruit of the spirit is patience or long-suffering. That's why you're impatient and that's why you're always frustrated. You're not a bad person, but I'm here to tell you that the demonic influence has been attacking everything that is in you.

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The Bible doesn't tell us what seven demons Mary had, but the book that I was studying the books, plural that I was studying saying that there are seven common symptoms of demonic influence. Somebody say shut the door. Shut the door, listen, check this out. Yeah, now, now this is that point in time where I need you to do something real careful for me. I'm going to list these seven symptoms of demonic influence. And you can't look at your spouse. Yeah, you can't do it. You can't look at your children, because when I was studying and praying this week I ain't going to lie I started thinking about some church people that I knew and I'm going to be honest with you, church people that I knew and I'm gonna be honest with you. And the Holy Spirit said but when you're gonna deal with your own demons, I said do it, do it in order. So now I'm talking to the man or woman of God in the mirror right now. So I'm talking to the person in the mirror when I list out these seven things. If you can't focus on yourself, then you know that you got some going on within you that needs some prayer, because if deliverance is going to come in your house, it's going to start with you.

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One of the seven symptoms of demonic influence, the first one being emotional problems Disturbance in our emotions, which are not on occasion or seasonal, but are persistent. Not talking about the fact that in your human experience you have some stuff. I'm talking about some stuff that never goes away. It keeps coming back. Some of the common disturbances in our emotional space are hatred, resentment, anger, fear, rejection, feeling unwanted, self-pity, pity, being jealous, being depressed, excessive worry, feeling like you're not good enough because you are dealing with insecurities. These are problems that produce themselves because of demonic influence and I repeat, I'm not saying that a counselor can't help. Uh, to a certain degree, I'm all about it. We have some amazing counselors here, but I'm here to tell you as a man of God, for some of us the demonic influence is so heavy and it's so powerful. It's beyond what the counselor can reach.

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But then there are also mental problems. There are disturbances in our mind that torment us y'all, and I want to come against somebody that's been tormented in your mind. Right now you mask it good, but I feel it in the Holy Ghost. Your demon wants you to leave. But we're about to get rid of that demon if you hold on just a few more minutes. But the reason you have been dealing with mental torment is because there is demonic influence and nobody was bold enough to tell you that's what it was. You thought it was this. You thought it was that you took this medication. You talked to this person, but it is not you. You are not what you have become. It's the fact that something has impacted you. But God has a plan, men and women of God.

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Mental problems that produce themselves in the form of procrastination. There are some of you in the room that you are working hard, but there is something that you procrastinate to do. Every time you're supposed to do it, you can't do it because there's a spirit upon you that wants you to procrastinate. The spirit wants you to operate in indecision. What do you mean? That spirit will have you going in circles all of your days. That spirit will keep you in indecision because that spirit understands that if you ever make the right choice, that spirit understands that if you ever do what God has called you to do, without fear. You will be what God has called you to be. And he says I got to keep you in a space of indecision. I got to keep you saying stuff like I'll think about it. I got to keep you saying stuff like I'm going to get to it.

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And day after day comes, year after year comes. The book is never written. Year after year comes, the vision never comes to pass. Year after year comes and you never do what you were supposed to do two decades ago. And you don't realize. It's not because you're lazy, it's because you're dealing with a spirit, and this spirit will make you compromise. This spirit will make you compromise. It'll make you do some stuff that you wouldn't otherwise do. It'll make you give up on what you're supposed to be to settle for less. This spirit causes confusion and loss of memory.

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And then the third one is speech problems. When I was talking about this one, I was trying to go deeper, and many resources, biblically and otherwise, suggest that when you are dealing with a particular demonic influence, it impacts your speech. What do you mean? Outbursts or uncontrolled use of the tongue. That means that people that just lie for no reason. That's demonic. Y'all ever met somebody? Just lie for no reason. I mean for no reason. I know some people like that right now that lie for just no reason. Man, I mean you, just you didn't even have to open your mouth, you just had to lie. You showed up to lie. It's demonic. Cursing, excessive cursing. I'm not suggesting that one time where you got cut off in traffic, but I'm saying every time you open your mouth and you're speaking like that, it is demonic. Constant criticism, you got something negative to say about everything and everybody. It's demonic because that's not how God operates Mockery of things that you don't understand and gossip, ooh wee, that got me afraid because I said most of the time that I run across gossipy people.

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I'm sometimes at church and that may suggest that in the church there are people that are dealing with demonic influence and they don't know it. They're dealing with demonic influence and they have a title. They're dealing with demonic influence and they don't realize that until they deal with the demon, they can't get to the place that God will have them to be. Number four sex problems. I think most of the children are upstairs, but some may be downstairs, but the reality is that ungodly sexual fantasies and lust and perversions and things of this nature are the result of demonic influence. The reality of it is that many of us can testify that either we were a victim to some family member touching us in an inappropriate way or we know somebody that was a victim of a family member touching them in an inappropriate way. Somebody say that's demonic, there is no excuse for it, there is no acceptance of it. It is demonic and it continues to go forth because nobody will call it out. Everybody want to sweep the demon under the rug. The demon ain't got to hide because we hide the demons.

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Addictions we know that addictions can be alcohol and drugs, but we can also be addicted to caffeine and food. If there's something that you just got to have, what it's doing is replacing the filling work of the Holy Ghost in your life, and now you're operating under the addiction. And then physical infirmaries. Many times in the Bible, when people were filled with demonic influence, jesus had to not only deal with their spirit, he had to deal with their flesh. You remember the man with the withered hand? The demon had been in there so long because the demon had been trying to impact the work of his hand. And so when Jesus got rid of the demon, he also had to heal his hand. You remember some of the people that were blind. The demon had been in there so long that he had been attacking their vision. And that's what the devil is doing right now he's attacking the vision that you have for your life, he's attacking the vision that you have for your family, he's attacking the vision that you have for your, your church, and that's why it causes sight issues. And so, when Jesus came along, not only did he have to deal with the spiritual problem, he had to deal with the natural problem.

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As a matter of fact, I have to do this because I believe I'm surrounded by some prayer warriors and I've been honest in Jesus' name. And my sweet, dear mother, she's at home, she was here, but every time I see her, we've gone to the doctor. She doesn't move like she used to move. We've gone to the doctor um, she doesn't move like she she used to move. She doesn't um speak like she used to. Uh, speak my she. And and I know that God is not done with her yet and and we've been to the doctor and the doctor said well, try a little of this and a little of that, but it's still not getting any any better.

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And, as a man of God, as I'm going to be transparent and if I'm going to decree and declare healing for my mother, do I have to deal with the reality that it's possible that the demonic has shown up in my house? Well, what do you gonna do? Because you know I'm not sweeping no more demons under the rug, because I want my mama to get all that God got for her. I want my mama to stand. I see my mama doing a 3k. I want my mama to get it all back in Jesus name. And that's the problem. Shame and fear has y'all afraid to deal with the demons that may be in your own bloodline. But I need some people in the room. That's unashamed today. I need some people that say I'm going to take the mask off, I ain't covering it up, because if I'm going to defeat this demon, I got to expose this demon.

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I need some people in the room that say I want to expose the demon today.

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And I'm not saying every matter of sickness is demonic.

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I'm not saying that Y'all are intelligent enough Y'all can think Y'all are thinking church.

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So you're not saying I'm not saying that every sickness is demonic, but I'm saying that we've given over our authority too much to the doctor, we've given over our authority too much to medicine and I think the first place sometimes we need to go is to the altar.

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I do. As a matter of fact, I had asked Sister Z. I said that we got to, we got to prayately for her, her father who was, who was diagnosed with, uh, prostate cancer. And I'm not saying that that is demonic, but but just in case, good God, almighty, just in, just in case the the enemy is trying to attack that family again because they've already lost so much they, just in case that the enemy is trying to pull them back down when they've come so far, just in case, after she has a testimony that that would bring most of you to your knees and she's finally up, just in case it's demonic, I need some prayer warriors in the room that said the devil is a liar take your hand off, sister g's father, somebody in the room that say, just in case it's demonic, we're going to cast it out in Jesus' name.

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Yeah, yeah, because the reality of the situation is that the only way to deal with the demonic is that the demonic got to be cast out. In America we used to have a saying we don't negotiate with terrorists. And some of y'all have been negotiating with terrorists in the spirit you try to compromise. At the end of the day, is you is or is you ain't. Second, corinthians 10, verse 5 through 7, says this about the power that's in you to cast out any demonic influence. It says this casting down imaginations. That means the thoughts that we have that are not of God. As a matter of fact, I cast down the thought of suicide right now, in Jesus' name. I cast down the thought of depression right now. In Jesus' name. I cast down the thought of financial ruin right now. In Jesus' name, I cast down the thought of self-hurt. In Jesus name, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity. Good God, almighty. Yeah, yeah. See, that's why your demon is trembling right now, because you're about to place the demon under arrest. You're about to say I'm not going to think this way anymore. I'm not going to live in brokenness anymore. I'm not going to think this way anymore. I'm not going to live in brokenness anymore. I'm not going to walk with a broken heart anymore.

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I need some people in the room that say I'm about to take my authority back. I'm about to take the demonic captive. I come against the bad thoughts. I come against everything that God hadn't declared for my life. This is your time now to open your own mouth and place some stuff under arrest. Did you hear what I said? You got to lock some stuff up in your own life. I feel this in the Holy Ghost.

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There are some of y'all in the room that need to lock up bad spending habits. It's not that you don't know how to budget, but there's a demonic influence in you that forces you to spend money when you shouldn't spend money. There's a demonic influence in you that makes you eat unhealthy stuff when you shouldn't eat unhealthy stuff, and we got to come against it in the name of Jesus. There's a demonic influence that keeps you going back to bad relationship after bad relationship. It's a reason that you've had 10 relationships in the last 10 years. You are not a hoe. I'm going to say it like I feel it. You are not a hoe, but the reality of the situation is is that when something demonic has a hold of you, you are operating ways that are not like you, but woman of God.

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You've got to place that spirit under arrest. Man of God, and the same goes like you, but woman of God. You got to place that spirit under arrest. Man of God, and the same goes for you. You got to stop your hoeing ways. Man of God. That junk ain't cool. No more Families on all sides of town. But we arrest that spirit in Jesus' name. I wish I had some people in here that ain't come to play church that said we're going to lock it up in jesus name. We don't plan compromise. We're gonna lock some stuff up right now. Give god some glory in this place. Give god some glory in this place. Give god some glory in this place. Give god some glory.

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The Lord said place it under arrest. And after you place it under arrest, that means to arrest it. Elder David Pierce. I got to identify it, I got to be able to see what it is and he's been hiding long enough. So right now the Holy Spirit is showing you what it is and he's been hiding long enough. So right now the holy spirit is showing you what it is and now that you see it, you can place it under arrest. And when you place it under arrest, now we gotta cast it out. To cast out means to expel by force, by any means necessary, somebody. We gotta cast some stuff out right now.

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Somebody say I'm casting it out right now, by force, by any means necessary Somebody. We got to cast some stuff out right now. Somebody say I'm casting it out right now. Yeah, you got to cast that cocaine out. You got to cast that weed out. You got to cast it out in Jesus' name. I want you to ask the people say I'm going to cast it out right now, in Jesus' name. I ain't playing church, no more. I'm casting it out because the ability to cast out is not in my name.

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The ability to cast out is not in Elder Jamal's name. The ability to cast out is in the name of Jesus. How do you know? Because demons still tremble at the name of Jesus. Good God, almighty. Everything is subject to the name of Jesus. Every knee shall bow, every tongue must confess. That means that my demon has to bow when I call on the name of Jesus, and I need about 100 of y'all in here. That's unashamed to say. I've been depressed long enough. I've been stressed long enough. I'm binding it up right now Because the scripture declares whatever we bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven.

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I need y'all to bind up some stuff and not cast it out. In Jesus' name, say it's gone in Jesus' name. Say it's gone in Jesus' name, say it in your preacher voice, say it with authority. Put your hand on your own head. It's gone in Jesus name. It's gone in Jesus name. Put your hand on your own heart. It's gone in Jesus name, in Jesus name. Put your hand on your belly. It's gone y'all. I feel the Holy Ghost. It's gone, y? Y'all In Jesus' name.

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I'm loose now. I'm free now. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, jesus In the name, in the name of the Father, in the name, in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Ghost, because who the Son sets free is free. Indeed, good, god, almighty. Go back to where you was, chris. I like that. In the name of the Father, in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Ghost, I want you to have some free people in the house that want to declare your freedom, that want to declare your victory, that want to declare your liberation. I'm free now. Praise the Lord. I'm free now. Praise the Lord. I'm free, no longer bound, no more chains holding me. My soul is rested. I desire rest in this house. My soul is rested. I desire liberty in this house. I desire liberty in this house. Is that the blessing? Praise the Lord, praise God, I'm free. I'm free.

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Say it for yourself. Say I'm free, I'm free, you got to get this one for yourself.

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You got to get this one for yourself. You got to say I for yourself. You got to get this one for yourself. You got to say I'm free. I'm free, many women of God.

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We won't finish all of this today because we are in a fight. So the last thing that I give you for today Is after there you cast it out, there are Seven brief steps that you got to walk with To make sure that you stay free From where God has delivered you from, because the raw and real straight, no chaser, the enemy, is big mad because he didn't want you to get free and he said, okay, you got free today, but I'll catch you on Tuesday. So I want to give you some things, because I can't let you walk out of here and upset the enemy and not bust his head to the white me. I give you these little things that we out of the way here. It is seven steps towards deliverance and, as I told you, I've been reading a few various books in the word of God, and and I made reference to one of the books and, and, and here it was some things that I pulled from the book.

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First thing is that we got to be honest about our demons. The truth of the matter is, everybody in the room is not a victim. Some of us are the person that did the crime and we got to be honest with that. But while I'm being honest with God, I got to deal with being humble. I got to be humble enough to realize that I can't fix this by myself. And that's why God brought you here not because it's Mother's Day. He brought you here because he says you need to be humble enough to realize you can't fix this by yourself. And then the third thing is that it requires repentance.

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Many times when we hear the word repentance, we say turn around. And the reason that some of us are not being delivered is because we keep turning around. You say what do you mean, pastor Walt? When I'm trying to get delivered from whatever the stronghold is and I turn around, what happens is I keep on turning, but after a while I end back up in the same old spot that I was in. So repentance is not to turn around.

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Repentance is actually to turn away, and I want to declare that you are turning away from some stuff. Right now. God is just taking the taste out of your veins. Right now you don't feel that same spiritual connection to that evil anymore. Right now You're about to walk a new path. Your steps are being ordered right now. Because you turned away. I wish I had somebody that could receive that by faith that the Lord has just delivered you and disconnected you from a trauma bond. He's just delivered you and disconnected you from something that was about to kill you this year. The Lord said that if you didn't come today, you would not have seen 2026.

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And that's why he brought you here, because your life is on the line Honesty, humility, repentance.

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Renunciation Means that I say that I'm no longer going to be associated with anything that comes against what God has for my life, and when you renounce some things, you may lose some people, but I'm here to remind you that if it's not God, I don't want it in this season of my life. Number five is forgiveness. It's easy to talk about the fact that we need to accept forgiveness, but I want to talk about the fact of how your inability to forgive someone else is spiritual and is demonic. Here's the reality. What happened to you is real and I can't minimize it. As a matter of fact, if you told your testimony, every last one of us in this room will be ready to ride with you, because we said we can't believe that that happened to our sister or our brother, but the reality of it is in the Holy Ghost. Here it is. Check this out.

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The enemy used some people to offend and hurt you solely so that he could use the weapon of unforgiveness against you. He sent that situation because he knew that was going to be the one that you would lose everything that you knew in that moment, and the reason that you're not operating in the freedom and the liberty is that you have yet to forgive the person that hurt you the most. We know that forgiveness don't mean that we got to hang out no more. We know that forgiveness don't mean that we got to be buddies no more. But forgiveness means I loose you and I release you from the punishment that you probably deserve, and I want to tell somebody that your breakthrough is based on your ability to forgive. Today, you're gonna forgive them, and what's crazy is some of them so demonic they're gonna laugh at you for forgiving them. That's how crazy they are. It won't. It won't, for some of you got to be prepared that it won't be a kumbaya moment because the enemy has got their mind so bad that they're going to think that they was in the right the whole time anyway. So you can't base your forgiveness of somebody else on how they respond to your forgiveness. But you are doing this because you want to be free. You are doing this because you want to be saved. You want to do this because you want to get your life back.

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And the last two steps towards forgiveness, towards deliverance, if we are going to be delivered from demonic influence, number six says that we have to pray. Pray to God. Number six is prayer. Number seven is warfare.

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If I'm going to experience deliverance after I cast something out, I got to be honest, I got to be humble. I got to repent, I got to renounce, I got to forgive, I got to pray towards God, and then I got to go into warfare. I got to be humble, I got to repent, I got to renounce, I got to forgive, I got to pray towards God, and then I got to go into warfare. When I pray towards God, that is me saying it's me. It's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. God, if you don't give me the ability, I can't forgive the person that hurt me the most. Amen, god. If you don't give me the ability, I'm going to go back to the substance and the drugs. God, if you don't give me the ability, I will abuse my spouse again. It's me. It's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.

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Do I got any people in the room that say I know that I need to be delivered and I'm willing to be honest and talk to God and say it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer to be delivered, and I'm willing to be honest and talk to God and say it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. God, I need prayer and God, I need power. I need some people in the room that want deliverance to come into your life and deliverance to come into your family and deliverance to come into your business. I need y'all to start talking to God right about now and say God, I need your power, because a deliverance prayer is a prayer for power. Somebody say, god, I need your power. Somebody say, god, I need your power. Oh, you got to say it like you mean it? Chosen City God, I need your power.

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I thought we was a church that believed the word of God and God said I want to deliver you. But you got to open your mouth and I need some people in the room to say God, I need your power. Yeah, I'm trying to hear some people in the back back here to say God, I need your power. I need some first time guests to say God, I need your power. So I ain't come to play. I'm trying to get set free, I'm trying to set my house in order. I'm I'm trying to do what you call me to do and I realize I can't do it by myself. God, I need your power. They ignored me when I went to the bank.

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God, I need your power my child got to go and see a judge next month. God, I need your power.

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I got to go see a doctor about an unusual circumstance.

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God, I need your power, I need some people in the room to say, God, I need your power. I tell you I need his power. But what God need to do in the life of my family, I need his power. I need your power. I tell you I need his power. But what God need to do in the life of my family, I need his power. I need his power. Hey, hey, hey, I need his power. Somebody say I need his power. Now check this out Deliverance when we pray watch this y'all.

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When we pray, it's to God, but when we warfare, that's toward the enemy. Are y'all walking with me? If I'm going to have deliverance in my life, I got to pray towards God, but I have to warfare towards the enemy. I'm going to say it one more time I got to pray to God for power and I got to take that power and point it towards the enemy. All right, they've been helping me out right here. Watch this, watch this, watch this. All right, I need all of my military folk, especially my infantry people. I need y'all to stand up right now because y'all help me close this thing up, because this means war. Somebody say this means war. If I am going to have deliverance today, I have to go into spiritual warfare. So all of my army, all my infantry folks out there, make some noise. All of my Marines, my infantry folks combat arms people. Man, watch this, watch this.

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It blessed me so good when God showed me this when I was in the military. I was in field artillery. Watch this, I was field artillery. Right, they gave me what was called a hold on one second, chris. They gave me what was called a claymore mine. Now, if you've never been in the military you've never seen a claymore mine. Now, if you've never been in the military, you've never seen a claymore mine. It looks like a brick or like a square, but it's kind of angled. It looks like this, it looks like this and it's curved, yes, curved. It's like a brick with a curve and like an arc in it. And they would give us these claymore mines.

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Because if you ever found yourself in a as it's an old military language a foxhole. If you ever found yourself in a as it's an old military language a foxhole. If you ever found yourself in a fixed position and you ever found yourself being surrounded by the enemy and you was about to be overran before you went into battle, you went and saw the supply officer and they gave you a claymore mine and Dickie Coleman said two or three of them and they were dummy-proof weapons said dummy proof on the outside of the claymore of mine. It simply says this this side towards the enemy, it's dummy proof. That meant that if I, on my worst day, if I took it out the box and I looked at it and it said this side toward the enemy, I would say you know what? I need to turn this thing around because I'm supposed to face it towards the enemy, and what would happen is is that if I'm surrounded and I got stuff coming at me and if I have my Claymore mind pointed in the right direction, when the enemy runs upon you in your foxhole, when the enemy runs upon you in your trench, when your enemy runs upon you in your stronghold, when you're surrounded by everything, all you got to do is press the button and the ordinance on the inside of the Claymore mine will be released and destroy everything that's around you.

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Good God Almighty, and the more Claymore mines that you have, the more effective you are against the enemy. Well, let me bring you down to help you see this in the spirit realm. When we pray to God, it's like going to the supply officer and saying I need some power for the war that I'm about to fight, good God Almighty, and if you are real spiritual, you pray until he gives you not one claim on mine, but he gives you enough spiritual weapons to surround you, because you are being attacked on every side. I need some people in the room that don't mind being honest and say they're being attacked on every side, and one claim on mine from heaven won't do it. I need some people in the room that don't mind being honest and saying I'm being attacked on every side, and one claymore mind from heaven won't do it. And so God gives you these spiritual weapons. He gives you the ability to pray, he gives you the ability to prophesy, he gives you the word of God, he gives you the Holy Ghost. They operate like claymore minds. Because he understands that demonic influence is trying to take your life. He understands that demonic influence is trying to take your future. He understands that demonic influence is trying to steal your mental health. He understands that demonic influence is trying to steal your mental health. He understands that demonic influence wants to cripple you. He understands that demonic influence wants you to have arthritis so you can't serve like you used to serve. So he understands what's against you. So he's given you everything that you need for the battle that's ahead of you.

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And now I need to talk to some people. The next thing that you got to do is that you got to point the weapon toward the enemy. Here is the reality. Some of you are losing battles because you keep fighting the wrong fight. You keep fighting with your husband, you keep fighting with your children, you keep fighting with your spouse, but you keep fighting the wrong fight, because the Bible declares that our fight is not against flesh and blood, but we are fighting spiritual wickedness in dark places. I need to talk to 75 of y'all in the room and tell you to turn your claymore mind around and point it toward the enemy. Don't point it toward the person anymore. You got to point it towards the enemy. I need some people to turn the claymore mine. Did you hear what I said? Your marriage will shift if you turn the claymore mine. The relationship on the job will shift if you turn the claymore mine.

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I need some people to say the alternative pastor, and now I got it faced towards the enemy and check this out. When you're in the foxhole, they you something. It's like a little button you can press to release the ordinance that's in the natural. But good God, almighty God, is saying that I need the people at the 10 o'clock service to get ready. Now it's time to release some ordinance because your claim on mine is now facing toward the enemy. You've been fighting demons long enough and now, when I press the button, everything that God has given me is released to defeat the demonic that has had a strong hold on my mind. Did you hear what I said when I pressed this button in the spirit, all the spiritual authority that God gave me? It goes against the traps of the enemy, it goes against the snares of the enemy. Well, pastor Walt, I heard the question. How do I press the button to release the ordinance? How do I press the button to blow up the enemy? How do I press the button to blow up depression?

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How do I press the button to?

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come against suicide? How do I press the button to come against homelessness? How do I press the button to come against government corruption? How do I press the button to come against a panic attack? Well, the answer, family, is that if you want to push the button, it is found in your praise and it is found in your posture.

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Good God, Almighty because if I praise, that's going to release everything that God has empowered me with.

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I wish I had some praisers in the room that understand.

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The more I praise, the more the power's released, the more I praise, the more that God shows up, because the Bible declares that God inhabits the praises of his people.

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And that's why the enemy don't want you to praise.

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That's why he don't want you to worship. Because if you understand, the enemy understands. I said the enemy understands.

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I said, the enemy understands.

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That if you ever want to praise God for real in the midst of your circumstances, it's going to invite Jesus in. Now I need some praisers that want to come against the demonic. I need some praisers that want to come against your attack. I need some praisers that want to come against some stuff. I need us to praise, but not only do we praise, we praise and we praise. We praise and we praise. We praise and we praise. We praise and we preach. We praise and we preach. We praise and we preach. We praise and we preach, we praise and we preach. I need about a hundred more praises Because we coming against the enemy.

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I said we praise y'all.

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And we preach. I praise y'all and I preach. I praise y'all and I preach. I praise y'all and I praise y'all. I praise y'all and I praise y'all. I praise y'all and I praise y'all. I praise y'all and I praise y'all. I praise y'all and I praise y'all. I praise y'all and I praise y'all. I praise y'all and I praise y'all. When the money in, I praise y'all and I praise y'all and I'm proud. When the money in, I praise y'all and I'm proud. Bad diagnosis I praise y'all and I'm proud.

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I need some people in the room that want to be delivered today To praise and to praise and to praise. It's hard for some of y'all to praise because you've been going through so much. But if you want to slay this demon today, the Lord said praise me While you're pressed. Praise me with tears in your fresh. Praise me with tears in your eyes. Praise me before we turn around. Praise me with a pending doctor's appointment. Praise me with judicial matters over his arm and let everything that has blood praise you. When judicial matters over is all and not everything, not half of it. Praise ye the Lord Chosen city. Let's send up a praise they got to make the demons run.

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Let's send up a praise. They got to make the demons come out. Let's send up a praise right there Chosen City Right there, chosen City Right there, not everything, everything, everything, everything.

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Let's have a praise, let everybody that's still got breath in your lungs you're still here Come to a neighbor right now To a neighbor. You're still here. I know it got rough, but tell them again you're still here. Good God, almighty and Jesus is still here.

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Why don't you pray?

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while you're fresh. Pray while you're fresh, pray while you're fresh. Wow, wow. Right now, in Jesus name, say leave this house. In Jesus name, you're not welcome here. In Jesus name, come out right now. In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, hey, hey, in Jesus' name, pray and press, pray and press. Sometimes through the storm and sometimes through the rain, I feel life Pressing my way. Hey, thank you.

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Now check this out. Bring it out just a little bit. We're about to go home. Bring it down just a little bit. We're about to go home. The first praise were for those that God has already delivered and for those that have a testimony about your deliverance. But this next worship moment is for those that are about to receive deliverance. Yeah, make that beautiful shift right now. That first one was for those that are about to receive deliverance. Yeah, make that beautiful shift right now. That first one was for those that got victory, because we needed to celebrate your victory. But this next worship song simply says deliver me. It says deliver me. So there's somebody in the room that's.

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Remember, I told you the steps of deliverance. You got to be honest and this altar is wide open. As they minister this song, I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost as they minister this song and you come to this altar in faith. Here's the faith step.

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You got to have faith enough to come up here and you got to have faith enough to believe that when you leave, you won't be the same. There's some people in the room. You need deliverance, you know you do. And the first person that move you're going to always manifest the next one. Glory to god. Glory to god. Glory to god. Make room at the altar. Make room at the altar. Make room at the altar. This worship is about to deliver you. You ain't got nothing to be ashamed of. Ain't nothing to be ashamed of. I need some people in the room that's between you and God. Now the deliverance is about to hit. Yeah, lay at the altar, woman of God. Make sure we get her covered. God bless, come here.

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This ain't play church, I feel it. You just got to have faith enough. You got to have faith enough to believe that when you leave, you deliver. Oh, I thank you for your faith. Can I talk to somebody in the back? I feel this in the spirit. You want to come, but you're nervous. I want to free you from that. That's only the demon that's trying to keep you from the altar. Your breakthrough thank you, man of god your breakthrough, your breakthrough is at the altar and only your demon would have you not come. Get what you need. So defeat your demon by coming to this altar and getting what you need. And if we need to push back some chairs, matter of fact, if some of the clergy can push back chairs. Push some chairs back so we got more than enough room. Yeah, there's about to be a shift in this house. There's about to be a shift in this house.

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If you got faith enough to come up here, I declare as a man of God, in Jesus' name, whether I get a chance to touch you or not, because there's so many people that I'm just one human, but the Holy Ghost is here. The Holy Ghost is here. Whatever you feel on the inside, let it out, being released may feel certain ways to some people, but don't be afraid of what's going on. That's just your enemy putting up a last fight. He's trying to keep you where you was, but you about to be delivered. In the name of Jesus, brandy, I need you to sing this song like you never would sing it before, because this ain't a song. This is a breakthrough. It's a sermon in this song, it's a victory in this song, hallelujah and y'all back up. Y'all did it so good, y'all. Let's get some people free. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, push the chairs back. Somebody need to lay out. Somebody need to lay out.

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Lord, deliver me, because all I seem to do is hurt me, hurt me. Lord, deliver me, cause all I say to do is Hurt me, hurt me, oh, deliver me. Oh Lord, deliver me, cause all I seem to do is hurt me, hurt me, oh no, deliver me, cause all I seem to do is Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it's me, oh Lord, yes, deliver me, deliver me, oh yeah, come on and shed light, oh Lord, oh, father in heaven, I will be thy neighbor. Deliver me, deliver, deliver me, deliver me, deliver me, yeah, deliver me, deliver me. God, it's me, oh God, deliver me, deliver me, god, deliver me from myself, deliver me from the wrong thinking, deliver me from the wrong habit, deliver me, deliver me from the wrong thinking, deliver me from the wrong habits, deliver me, deliver me, deliver me. Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, deliver me, deliver me, yeah, deliver me. Yeah, deliver me, deliver me. Yeah, oh Lord, oh Lord, lord, I need you right now to deliver me. Oh Lord, oh Lord, deliver me, deliver me, deliver me right now.

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This is my exodus, this is my exodus, this is my exodus. Say this is my exodus, this is my exodus. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, yeah, thank you Lord. Say this is, this is my, this is my exodus. Yes, it is. This is my exodus, this is my exodus, this is my exodus, this is my exodus. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord, Thank you for delivering me. Thank you, lord me, thank you Lord for delivering me. Thank you Lord.

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Listen, as we are ministering, I feel in the Holy Ghost. Listen, there may be some that you're in a fight right now and I want to touch and agree, because some demons don't come out easy. Some demons don't come out easy and if I need to touch, you say, pastor, I'm fighting with everything I got, but I'm going to fight for my life, me and one of the elders. We're going to get to you because it's coming out today In Jesus' name. It's coming out today In Jesus' name. It's coming out today In Jesus' name. There's too much faith in here, there's too much Holy Ghost in here. There's too much faith at this altar right now. It's coming out today In Jesus name. It's Jesus name, it's about to shift for you in Jesus name. Come here now, listen, here it is. I need you to come to me because there's so many people at the altar we bout to wrap up, but I believe it's about three of you that said man, I'm trying, but I can't be ashamed. Today I need another touch. Come here, come here, come here, come here. Woman of God, come here. One of the women elders stand with me with this amazing woman of God. Lord, come here.

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One of the women elders, stand with me with this amazing woman of God. Lord, whatever it is, she was faithful enough to come see you at this altar. She was faithful enough to say God, I need another touch. God, when on public display, you never fail. So, in the name of Jesus, whatever it is, god, she's, loose from it. In the name of Jesus, whatever's inside that is not of you, it has to come out. We command it to be so. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, loose her right now. In the name of Jesus, let go of her fruit right now. In Jesus' name. Let go of her fruit right now, in Jesus name. Let go of her spirit right now in Jesus name.

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Thank you, thank you. Thank you, lord, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. Thank you, lord, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, you are cast free. In Jesus' name, you are cast free. You are cast free. You are cast free. You are cast free. You are cast free. You are cast free. You are cast free. You are cast free. You to free me, you are cast out right now. In the name of Jesus, I need you to free me. In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, luthor, I need you to free me. Hey, this is mine. Fill her with the Holy Ghost, oh, lord, oh.

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Lord fill her right now, god, kick the enemy out and fill. Kick the enemy out and fill. Kick the enemy out and fill. Hallelujah, hallelujah, right now. Jesus In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, yeah.

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Yeah, listen, we're going to go home in an unusual way today, meaning here's the reality. I'm going to do the official benediction, but the worship and arts ministry, they're going to keep flowing in the spirit, because sometimes it's such a fight that some people you can't rush this moment.

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I believe I think that's many of you will be delivered today.

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But I also understand that some of y'all gonna have to fight a little while longer. But the Lord is saying I'm with you in the fight. It's fixed in your, it's fixed in your favor. It's fixed in your favor and you're going to win today. Many of you, but those that are still fighting, hold on. It's about to change for you.

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Listen, if the Holy Spirit spoke to you about partnering with this church, or you've never been baptized, if you're going to win in spiritual warfare, you've got have a church home and you got to be connected to God. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that because y'all are so smart and spirit-filled, but if that's you, all you got to do is go right to that door and they're going to be waiting on you and they will escort you. You just go right through this door Because the Holy Spirit is so powerful in here. I don't have to say a whole lot. So I welcome you right now, by faith, to the family. I welcome all of you. I see a major move of people joining the church today, so I welcome you to the family. But if y'all don't mind, I'm going to focus on the ones that still need a little bit of deliverance. So, for those that are joining the church, welcome. We need your spiritual gifts and you are spiritually mature enough to know what you got to do. We're going to meet you.

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I'm going to say this benediction and we're going to keep warring for a little while longer. And when I say the benediction, the rest of you can leave. Somebody is being delivered right now. Somebody lay hands. What is that woman there right now? Whoever that is, I want to tell you she's wailing. She's wailing. Yeah, she's wailing. It's trying to shift. It's trying to shift. It's trying to shift. I'm going to pray and then y'all can do whatever you need to do. Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you for your sons and daughters that worship with us today. God, we forgive a benediction, but we know that you're not done, so I pray for traveling verses, for those that are leave and for those that have to stay at the altar. God, I, we have an expectation that you're going to deliver. We have an expectation that you're going to transform. Release your angels around them right now, because the enemy is mad. Release your angels to protect them right now.

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Father, god, in Jesus name now may the grace of God and the strength of me and the Holy Spirit rest in the room and abide now and henceforth and forevermore.

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Let the people of God say amen, amen, amen, y'all. It's warfare time. May God bless you. May God keep you again. New partners, y'all can go through that, though others y'all are dismissed. But if the Holy Spirit saves Terry for a little while longer, if

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