"Broken Heart" | Communicating With God | Pastor Bobby Chandler

how many of you were here last sunday make some noise in the building man i had a good time with you guys last sunday we started a brand new series titled communicating with god communicating in god with god and what this is going to be about is going to be growing in how we speak to the lord okay how to hear god's voice how to know when he's trying to give you a warning in life how to know when he's trying to direct you towards a path and we're going to talk about a lot of deep things throughout this series it's going to be really good we've been talking about prayer we're going to continue his prayer today as well but we're also going to talk about visions we're going to talk about dreams and we're going to talk about the power of the holy spirit and how through god by listening to the father our lives can be completely changed and i believe a lot of you right now you've been asking pastor how do i hear from god because i really need an answer i really need to know how this situation is going to turn out how i'm going to be listen i know what it's like sometimes to have life attack you over and over again and you're on the verge of losing your faith but i'm going to encourage you this morning do not give up hope for the source of all hope comes from god everything good in your life right now even though it may feel like life is attacking you is still from a loving father and he's guiding you along the way you just need to grow in hearing his voice and i believe that he will make it very clear to you last week we talked about strongholds over cities and countries and and so what does that mean ephesians chapter 6 tells us that this is not a physical war all right a lot of times when you get angry at somebody you want to punch them in the face you want to talk bad about them you want to kind of do the physical thing but you can't fight a spiritual battle in a physical way it will not work i don't care how big or strong you are it's not going to work and so god has given us spiritual weapons all right to stand our ground and to believe hey there's hope in this and it's going to be okay but last week we talked about strongholds over cities over regions over countries and we talked about daniel chapter 10 one of my favorite passages it's so interesting to me because daniel is fasting and he's praying for 21 days and he's saying lord will you just answer my prayer will you just give me the answer that i desire and then the archangel gabriel showed out of nowhere and he says you know what i want to tell you on the first day that you prayed god heard your prayer but what you don't know what's happening around you is that there is a spiritual warfare taking place okay there is a spirit spiritual warfare taking place right now and what the enemy wants to do he wants to take his demonic army and he wants control over regions cities and even countries because the enemy satan always wants to control he always wants control whether it's over the country or over your life or over your heart he wants to force you to do what he wants because he wants you to rebel against god and so this is a spiritual battle that we see out of daniel chapter 10 as he prays against the enemy right but here's good news for you today no matter how big or bad the army of hell may look all right the power of hell will never be able to overcome the power of prayer let me say that again the power of hell will never be able to overcome the power of prayer every time you pray the will of god angels go out to fight and god's will will be done and here's the good news god's love will always be shown through every situation every hard time every good time god's love will be shown let me prove it to you romans chapter 8 verse 38 new living translation says i am convinced that nothing could ever separate us from the love of god neither death nor life nor angels or demons some of you need to hear this today neither the fears for today or the worries about tomorrow it doesn't matter what you're going through it doesn't matter what life looks like right now the love of god will always show through but i love this how it ends not even the powers of hell can separate us from god's love god has already conquered the enemy and you need to believe that because it's hard we come into this room on sundays and we're like yes god is good but during the week when you have one attack right that one person says something against you it's like man i don't know if i could do this anymore i don't know if i could keep going and i'm telling you right now it is a spiritual warfare over your life and god may use you to save the same person you don't even like because that's a testimony to his love why because his love will always shine no matter the situation no matter what it looks like but last week we talked about strongholds over cities and today i want to talk about strongholds over your heart all right and the title of today's message is this broken heart broken heart now why would i name the sermon broken heart it's because the easiest way for the enemy to attack your heart is when it's broken the easiest way for the enemy he's looking at your life he's looking at what you're going through he's looking at the areas that you're struggling in and we are in our most vulnerable state when we feel like our heart is broken and that is the moment satan wants to jump on in have you ever noticed that before you're going through something and all of a sudden things start popping up people start coming back into your life temptations that you thought you got rid of a long time ago start coming back why because the enemy sees that you are vulnerable he knows that you're hurting right now and the truth is that we we have grown up in a culture where we desire love so much we actually worship the idea of fairy tale love we do we worship it in the culture that we're in and we're desiring this love and then when we receive love sometimes it's hard to understand why we go through difficult situations or why we have problems i thought a fairytale love meant that everything was going to be perfect right after the wedding but there's a reason that disney movies stop at the wedding right never know what happened next prince charming done messed up on the toothbrush or something he's probably getting yelled at you never know so there's problems the enemy is going to attack us especially when our heart feels broken but something was interesting to me i saw this article and it stated this about about love okay it said that studies have shown that babies who are deprived from comfort and love during the first six months of their life can grow up to be psychologically damaged and i believe that some of us have experienced that in some type a way or another maybe you grew up in a family where you never heard the words i love you maybe you grew up and you never heard the words i'm proud of you and so a lot of times what that does and you may be struggling with this today it brings in insecurities in your mind you have these insecurities and you're constantly trying to prove to people that you're somebody you're trying to prove to people that you're worth being loved because maybe you grew up in a way where the only reason you ever heard i love you was because you proved it whether through sports or academics or anything else and he didn't receive that and what i noticed as a pastor people come up to me and they're like i want to get closer to the father but i don't know how and i realize that they're taking these same insecurities that they had with their earthly family and they're bringing it into the kingdom of heaven and they're looking at god like you may not be everything i think you are because i've been failed before or i've been hurt before or i've had a broken heart before within my family and these are real struggles the article also stated this for a lot of people a significant key factor to their happiness depends on how they feel loved or cared for that's true think about how we battle with this right now when you have good days and bad days and you have a really bad day why because a lot of times you feel attacked you don't feel hurt you feel like you're not worth something you feel like you're not valued of who you are you have to prove all these things and the enemy sees that because we live in a fallen world everybody in this room is going to make a mistake we're all going to say something dumb we're going to do something we regret and i'm telling you right now we live in a fallen world and because of that because we deal with human beings real people we also know what it's like to have a heartache let me ask you a question how many of you have been tormented with a broken heart i think all of us could raise our hand if you've had any life experience you know what that's like it could be in a relationship it could be in a marriage it could be with your friends it could even be because of a death and we're trying to find something to bring peace but we don't really know how but here is a truth let me let me flip this okay because in the world it tells you that everything else will give you love but on a biblical perspective the only real love that you need that will ever satisfy is the love of god okay so what i'm telling you today is this is actually really neat it's that god designed you he designed you and me to want to give love and receive love because god wants a relationship with you meaning he could have created you as a mindless robot he could have just created you to do whatever he said to do but instead he has given you free will the choice to choose to love god to even go through pain because every painful situation as an opportunity to see god come through and it's your testimony you know we're not proud of some of the mistakes that we've made in our life but many of us would say i'd never change it because of what god did and it's at those moments if god has changed your life it's because you have fell in love with him and you've witnessed that david talks about this david talks about he says you know what there is nothing in this world that can satisfy like the love of god there's nothing you can chase it all you want you can put a big uh bucket list together do whatever it is that you got to do but in the end you're still not going to be happy you're not gonna be content psalm chapter 63 verse two and three david said i have seen you in your sanctuary god i've gazed upon your power and your glory and your unfailing love is better than life itself how i praise your name now notice he describes it as unfailing love god always comes through he never fails you and so for anybody in this room right now if you've been dealing with insecurities or you didn't grow up with the words i love you and it's hard for you to trust people here it is right here god will not fail you like other people have okay and he's going to give you a purpose to keep moving a calling but again we live in a fallen world satan has really twisted the concept of love we have chased many things and because of that we all know that heartache is not easy like i said it was cute when you were six and you were passing and blocking notes in class it may not be so cute at 36 blocking that creepy guy on facebook that keeps messaging you about chilling in his parents basement it's not a good idea all right i don't care how bad of a day you're having do not go all right we'll pray and lay hands over you today if we need to but here's the truth some of you are hurting from a broken heart right now because you never thought you would be where you are today maybe you never thought at this age you'd still be single maybe you never thought that you would have to go through a divorce maybe you never thought that you would have to witness a tragedy in your life and be widowed god what do i do with that maybe you never thought at this point in my life i'd feel so alone i thought i'd feel more accomplished i thought i'd have more for myself and what i notice is a lot of us we start to re-evaluate our life and it's at those moments we kind of have a crisis and we look up and say god where you at what are you doing this was not part of the plan this is not what i thought you had for me and that is the moment that the enemy sees your broken heart and he tries to deceive you to put a stronghold within your own heart that is the moment and so i want to reveal the true dangers that when your heart is broken a stronghold can easily be taken place so what is a stronghold last week we talked a little bit about it but it's actually found the word itself is found around 50 times out of the bible and the stronghold the definition of it is a fortress with a difficult access okay a fortress a strong fortress with difficult access to get to there's no way you're getting through it okay it's guarded there's nothing you can do about it a lot of times we think and and here's what the enemy does he likes to secretly place it upon our heart or our mind and bury it deep within so that you don't even know it's there and it keeps causing these insecurities in your life and and i notice this too because a lot of us have open wounds in our heart you've been through something painful maybe it's a heartache but that wound was never healed see a lot of people come to christ and they get saved but they don't keep communicating with god to see that wound heal and what happens is that wound is still left open and so that's where the stronghold takes place all of a sudden now i'm moving past this but i'm resentful i'm trying to move past this i forgive but i'm angry with everybody else around me or i'm dealing with this bitterness in my life and it's just hard to get out of that's what a stronghold is once it's in there it is very difficult to get out okay and and i noticed this too a lot of people when you have a stronghold you notice people don't like to talk about it well that's too painful i don't want to go there i don't want to remind myself of that situation i don't want to address that why because you're burying it deep with end and because of that it will actually never get healed and it's a stronghold and the enemy knows that we are weak in certain areas and he will place that in us but paul talks about this he says listen don't be scared the world may not know the secret but god has revealed to you the truth and the truth is this that the holy spirit of god lives inside of us and through the power of prayer by the authority that is in the name of jesus we can break strongholds that god himself can pick it out of you because he knows exactly where this where satan has placed it upon your heart and god knows how to take it out but it doesn't mean that the process is going to be easy and i think that's where a lot of people are confused because a lot of us pray god i want healing but please make it easy i don't want to cry i don't like crying people never see me cry god is going to lead you somewhere where you're going to cry because that's how you're going to heal you're going to have to address it and see it second corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 tells us this that we get to use god's mighty weapons not worldly weapons they won't work but god's mighty weapons to do what to knock down the strongholds that the enemy has placed upon us all the strongholds of human reasoning and it will be able to destroy all false arguments so let me let me simplify what this passage is saying it's that satan wants to put lies in your head and he wants you to be in agreement with them okay he wants to put lies in your head he wants you to believe his lies and the way that he does this because a lot of us i feel like as christians growing up in the church a lot of us have said i'll never do that that would never be me but when you go through a heartache and a hard time you know what satan tries to do he pretends to be your best friend and a lot of us don't expect that he pretends to be your best friend and i'm telling you right now that the world will never be your friend why because we live in a fallen world you can't put your hope in this world because all of us no matter how good you are we all fail every one of us we fell but he will pretend to be your best friend and the bible tells us this clearly that satan will even pretend to be an angel of light second corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 i'm going to read the new king james version of this but it says for satan himself can transform into an angel of light now reading this and not knowing the power of god i can seem kind of scary like you're telling me satan can really fool me like that he can transform into an angel of light then how am i supposed to know the truth how am i supposed to know pastor that i'm hearing from god that i'm going the right direction if satan is going to constantly attack me but here's what i want to reveal to you today so when this phrase when it says forsaken himself transforms into an angel light in the greek the word transform actually means masquerades okay so what the scripture is telling us is that satan will masquerade he will wear a mask and to pretend that he is a good angel pretend that he is your friend pretend listen that he can bring comfort into your life i feel like that is the biggest temptation we face when our heart is broken the world is constantly telling you if you go this route that will give you the comfort you need if you do this like everybody else then we can help numb the pain right if you just do this just live your life just have fun right you've been through a lot you deserve it what does that mean a lot of worldly comfort coming into your life why would satan disguise himself why would he masquerade as he's a comforter coming in because why because he always copies god and he twists it again satan has no new tricks everything that he does to attack you he gets from god and he tries to twist it who is god to us well the spirit of god is labeled as the comforter do you know that the spirit of god the holy spirit is labeled as the comforter one of my favorite passages out of the bible is when jesus is talking to his disciples at a john chapter 16 and he's telling his disciples it is better that i go to be at the right hand of the father because if i do not the helper will not come to you now the term helper can also mean the comforter the advocate the holy spirit will not come to you unless i fulfill this right now and that's what we experience people all the time come in this room be like i don't know why i'm crying welcome to church but i don't know why i don't know why you know and many of us we want to put up walls we don't want to pray we don't want to let people know what we're going through we don't want to think about it because when we think about it those walls start to break and i believe when you come into this room and you're reminded of your purpose and who you are and christ the walls are broken and you feel a peace that is hard to understand right away because it doesn't mean your situation's better but you just know that god is with you this is the holy spirit this is the comforter this is what jesus was talking about out of john chapter 16 verse 7. amplified version he says but i tell you the truth it is to your advantage that i go away for if i do not go away the helper the comforter the advocate will not come to you now listen to this this is powerful that in times of need god will comfort us why second corinthians chapter 1 verse 3 all praise go to god okay so all praise goes to god the father of our lord jesus christ why because god is our merciful god why he is the source of comfort he is the source of all comfort god is the only source of peace and comfort in your life no matter what you're dealing with and the world will always scream at you no it's money if you just have more money you would have more peace and comfort right if you just had a little bit of fame you'd be better people knew your name right if you did what you wanted to do then you would have comfort and we could take this many different ways sometimes it's chasing up the world it could be chasing after people it could even be chasing after food comfort food one of these things in our life consuming everything else but it's even for myself sometimes it's hard i'm like why do we run and chase everything else but you lord why is it because many of us don't see that satan is pretending to be your best friend and he's guiding you down very dangerous path why because he will masquerade as an angel of light he will put on that mask and he will pretend that he is the comforter so what i want to do with all this information how i want to apply this in your life today i want to look at how satan will attack but how the power of prayer will fight back okay how satan will attack but how the power of prayer will fight back and so just like we talked about point number one is this i want to go more into this more in detail but satan is a fake comforter point number one i need you to understand this satan is a fake comforter since the beginning of time right out of the book of genesis satan has always offered false security because that's what he does he will always tell you that if you do this it will make you feel better and there shouldn't be any consequences right and we've all fallen for that trap and that's exactly what happened with adam and eve genesis chapter 3 verse 4 and 5. he said to them you won't die forget what god said right you won't die but god knows that your eyes will be open and you will be like him as soon as you eat it you can be just like god you're not gonna die there's not gonna be any consequences what it is it's a false security it's a false hope of comfort and then what happens when we fall for the trap everything else around us is damaged and we feel damaged and we all hit a fall but god is still there to lift us up and so what i want you to do if you have your bibles today i know i've shown you a lot of scripture but the majority of the rest of the sermon will be out of first kings chapter 22 okay this is a good one first kings chapter 22 and i want to study this and i want to talk about king ahab now we have talked about king ahab before he was not a godly king he was the king of northern israel he was rebelling against god and he had tons of his own prophets okay in fact the bible tells us that he had 400 prophets pretty much these men all 400 were yes men everything that he wanted they would say yes too they constantly agreed with him so beware sometimes if there's somebody in your life that you think is for you but is saying yes to everything all right i know it's not easy to hear from good friends so for somebody to doubt or to think a different way but here's a real reality check in this because what's about to take place is that king ahab is about to go to war against iran and this is modern-day syria and he's trying to figure out okay can i win this battle or not are we going to be able to win this battle and so he brings it was suggested to him why don't you bring your prophets okay why don't you bring your boys so all 400 of them come and he asked them the question will i be able to see victory in this battle or will we be defeated in first kings chapter 22 verse 6 they all replied all of them yes go right ahead the lord will give you victory don't worry it's also very dangerous on who is giving you guidance in life because there's a lot of people that believe they're hearing from god but they're actually hearing from satan all right and i'm gonna show you today that this was actually a lying spirit god knew all along what was going on there was something spiritual happening here there's a spiritual warfare taking place but there are a lot of people that will come into your life and try to give you guidance and instructions and and you need to be careful on who you're going to all right and so you may be asking well how do i know like how do i know then that somebody's actually giving me godly wisdom instead of something that just benefits them and i always say the bible tells us look at their fruit look at the fruit because there's a lot of people that will come to you and be like you just need to pray about it and then go cuss somebody out right after you know what i mean we've seen that and so look at their fruit examine if what they say from the lord actually takes place then believe it and understand that these are mature people with godly wisdom that can direct you but be careful because there's a lot of people satan wants influence in your life and he's going to use a lot of people to do that and and here's what's so great about communicating with god you will know the voice of the father you'll recognize it you will be able to straight up look at somebody and be like that's not from the lord what you just said i can pray for you right here but that's not from god because i know the voice of the father but they're telling him all 400 of them why don't you go ahead you will have victory in this everything will be okay so king ahab is probably walking around like yeah i'm the man i got this i'm not scared of anybody but also okay so israel is united in this with with judah okay and he's he's not united with the king jehoshaphat and so jehoshaphat is the king of southern judah and what i love about jehoshaphat is that he didn't feel right about it all right he noticed right away because he knows who his prophets serve what gods they serve and it's kind of funny to me this whole story is funny to me because the ocean comes up to king ahab and goes hey uh ahab um i know your boys all 400 of them agreed but do you have like one prophet from god just one of them now imagine his face he's probably like what do you what are you saying you got 400 right here he's like no no something doesn't something doesn't feel right in my gut right do you just have like one prophet of the lord verse 7 is there not also a prophet of the lord here should we ask him the same question i think that'd be a good idea and the way king ahab replies reminds me of me and a lot of us what we do in these situations i see king ahab his body language be like yeah there's one but i don't like talking to him right his name is micaiah and every time i go to mackay i'm like hey man is this going to be good and he never preaches good for me he never talks good about me he's always going against me and he never says what i want to hear so i don't like him i mean he seriously says that he says i hate him i hate everything that he says because he always speaks from the lord he speaks the truth and i don't want to hear the truth you see how dangerous that is though and see that's how the enemy wants to attack you when your heart is broken and you feel vulnerable because it's just the flesh we don't want to hear the truth a lot of times we don't want to hear the hard stuff we don't want to heal right away we just want to do whatever we want to do and hear the things that we need to hear sometimes it's even hard to evaluate ourself well maybe we did and and god is trying to make that clear sometimes but i'm telling you right here he did not want to talk to micaiah but he gave in he says all right since we're in this together i'm going to send a messenger to micaiah and we'll see what he says but i told you so okay i'm telling you he's not going to speak good and so if you continue the rest of the story you see this that a messenger comes to micaiah and influences him he doesn't just ask he tries to persuade him he's he's literally telling hey micaiah the king has requested you to speak from the lord but i'm going to tell you everybody else has been in agreement so why don't you get on his good side okay why don't you just agree with what everybody else is saying and that should be fine because we know that you don't really like him anyway so if something happens something happens you know look at this first king chapter 22 verse 13. sorry i have a little fun with this sometimes it says look he says to them all the prophets are promising victory for the king sure that you agree with them and promise success now what would you do we we read these stories and we we say to ourselves you know what i'd stand up i wouldn't be scared but think about yourself in your workplace not just your job at risk but your life your future and this messenger is telling him hey i don't know what you hear from the lord but i want you to agree with everybody else what are you going to do and i love how makaya replies back and he says in verse 14. as surely as the lord lives i will say only what the lord tells me to say meaning no matter the risk what backlash i may receive but opposition stands before me i serve one king i serve god and i will always speak his word let me tell you something powerful god may not always tell you what you want to hear but god will always tell you what you need to hear that's a hard one or like should i clap for that one he may not always tell you what you want to hear but he will tell you what you need to hear because that's how you experience his love and to be honest with you that's true healing and a lot of people run away from healing because it's difficult in the beginning and they don't see that on the other side that god is about to work a miracle but at the same time that's when satan puts on that mask and he pretends to be your best friend i have a little illustration and this tricia can bring up i'm going to use the gloves for this series this is kind of fun um but here's what i see for us might be a little loud excuse me bear with me here's what i see a lot of us because we just don't know or we're growing we don't realize how satan attacks so just like i said a lot of us get ready for the physical fight and we think that when we're doing right and we're on the right track that when satan shows up before us we're just ready to hit him like i know everything that you're gonna bring i know that you're gonna hit me i know that you're gonna attack me and like in your head you hear like the final countdown like and you're in the word and you're coming to church and everything seems good you're ready to fight you're waiting for the first punch but guess what he puts his arm around you what you doing i was i got the gloves on and where are your gloves you know it's like and he puts his arm around you and he says hey i understand i understand what you've been through and a lot of people have been talking about you so here's here's my advice do your own thing forget them you don't need them you don't need to show them love they never showed you love every time you bent over backwards for them they always did what they wanted to do they didn't care about your life or who you are you're not going to get any glory out of this so why don't you do your own thing you don't have to forgive them and what i see is a lot of times he puts his arm around you tight he says you know what you don't even have to go to church you don't need to listen to that pastor he don't know what he's talking about everybody in ministry is perfect right they never been through troubles they won't understand and i've seen people ready for the fight but because they're not growing and communicating with the lord and knowing the voice of the father they don't know the difference and by the time it's over somehow their gloves are completely off especially with the marriage in relationships it's very easy to get into an argument and walk away and satan says i can't believe she said that i can't believe she said that i thought she loved you you can never let this go don't ever give in to that again or he's not there for you he's not giving you the life that he said you would why don't you do your own thing just give up on it all and before you know it he sounds like your friend and he's bringing this false security in your life and this false comfort but what he's really trying to do is defeat every little bit of faith and hope that you have because the wound is open you don't want to talk about it so he has the legal right to put the stronghold right in and here's where it gets dangerous because i feel like we've all been there when we hear this and we're like no no and also we come in an agreement with it you're right you're right i'm just gonna do my own thing and as soon as you come in an agreement with the enemy the gloves are off and that stronghold has been put in your heart he's clever he does a lot of things that we would not expect we don't see the fight like that but that's what paul talks about it's a spiritual warfare don't give up hope because you'll see it you'll see what he tries to do see satan will always appeal to your flesh but god will appeal to your soul satan will always try to give you what your flesh desires but god will appeal to what actually brings peace on the inside and it's miraculous every time situations you never thought could be better will be better but this is what we fight and so i'm asking you today in your heart is there bitterness is there anger it's a resentment that you've allowed because the wound has not been healed it's a fight if we get back to the story in first kings chapter 22 verse 17. it's kind of funny because right before this micaiah said you know he's going to speak of the lord and he actually goes to king ahab and he pretty much says what everybody else says but i see it as sarcastic he's probably like yeah why don't you go ahead and fight you'll win it you know go ahead and king ahab notices the difference and he looks at him and says you know what tell me the truth i know you speak from god go ahead tell me what you got to say he goes all right you really want to hear it first kings 22 verse 17 i saw all of israel scattered upon the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd and the lord said they have no master in other words you will lose you will not win this battle now something crazy happens because now makai is going to reveal to him what he heard from god that you can only receive through prayer and through a vision and he says look i saw the lying spirit i saw it your 400 prophets are not hearing from god they're hearing from a lion spirit first kings 22 20-23 this is a vision that he had of the kingdom of heaven and the presence of god and that's what it says he says and the lord said who can entice ahab to go to battle right all right who can entice him to go and be killed because that's exactly what's going to happen see i need you to understand though ahab has already rejected god he's rejected god he's rejected his grace he's rejected his word and because of that he will have to face judgment and in this passage it says there were many suggestions and finally a spirit approached the lord and said i can do it and this is a demonic spirit and god says how will you do this the lord asks god already knows okay but the spirit replied i will go out and inspire all of ahab's prophets to speak lies all your boys will hear from the enemy and in verse 23 makai says so you see the lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all your prophets for the lord has pronounced your doom now reading this may seem strange this one's kind of a hard one you may say and i don't really understand again ahab has already rejected god but this is actually a picture of grace how okay ahab has rejected god he doesn't want to hear the word of the lord so god allowed the enemy to be a lying spirit upon his prophets but still before king ahab made that decision micaiah revealed it all think about it he didn't have to he revealed to him right there all your prophets are lying you will be destroyed this is not good for you this is a last chance to repent this is actually still the grace of god but still ahab says you know what i knew he would say this you know beat him take him out of my sight and he still did his own thing why because he did not want to hear the truth because there was a stronghold over his heart and he didn't want to allow god to come in and he was best buddies with the enemy and it led him to death i'm telling you today when you listen to the voice of the enemy and you can't tell the difference he is leading you not only to physical death but spiritual death where you feel dead on the inside no more hope no more faith but here is the good news jesus already knew the schemes of the enemy and he's always already proclaimed how to set you free in luke chapter 4 verse 18 amplified version jesus said god has sent me to announce a release god has sent me to pardon god has sent me to forgive all the captives all of you who feel like you're in bondage to sin all of you who feel like you're in a stronghold from the enemy as you've been listening to the enemy's voice or you've been hurt are you gone through something he says this you have been oppressed right meaning you've been bruised it could also mean you've been crushed by a tragedy meaning jesus is saying i know your heart's been broken so i've come for you and i'm the only thing that can really give you peace and until you see that you'll always desire everything else and it will never satisfy like i can i come for you and i will break because only jesus has the power to break the stronghold within your life he says today i proclaim the favorable year of the lord what is that the year of salvation salvation has come to all that will accept the grace of god's love that's good it's good news how's the long point here's my last point strongholds have legal ground until the wound is healed strongholds have legal ground until the wound is healed again micaiah had a chance or ahab had a chance to repent and he didn't and makaya told him that this is going to be revealed you're going to go into your doom and he was killed and i realized this because a lot of us are like you know what god why would you allow me to go through something like this why would you allow a tragedy why would you allow a broken heart yes we live in a fallen world but i don't get it i'm your servant and it's hard but i realized this in my whole life that a broken heart is one of the most vulnerable places to be for an attack by the enemy but yet at the same time a broken heart is one of the most vulnerable places to be to see god's love and to witness this alive in a way that you never have before i'm telling you there is a lying comforter but there's also a real comforter who hears your prayers and hears your cries and the spirit of god has more authority to heal than the gates of hell have the authority to torment and that's the beauty about the gospel he's come to set you free he's come to bring you salvation but it doesn't just stop there he wants you to continue to grow with him to love him and to receive his love to focus on some wounds that are hard to deal with and to hear but to realize that when you focus on that and you apply god's word to it you start to see that healer and peace and then you're able to move on he came to save us but i'm telling you the enemy will always have legal ground why because like i said before you can cast the spirit out in the name of jesus demons have to flee but they'll try to come back and if that door's still open they'll come right back in they think they have legal ground over your heart over your life don't allow it you don't have to be able to discern the voice of the father i know what his word says i know when god is speaking to me and my father tells me to forgive even when it's hard my father tells me not to give up hope even when everything seems hopeless my father says he will hold my hand even when others are cruel and because of that i will always have joy in the gates of hell won't be able to take it that is proclaimed over your life over who you are we will always keep hurting when we keep rejecting difficult words from god that have the power to heal i want to end with this story a few years back there was a girl that entered into authentic ministry and she wasn't yet saved she was she was on the fence she was just starting her walk with god and she was beginning to know him and loving him at the same time she had a lot of issues that she wasn't opening up about and and part of that we saw her in tears is that she was actually going through demonic attacks her family life was hard her home life was difficult it was really hard for her to see the love of god and everything that she had around her and as we began to talk about what she was facing we realized that there were deeper wounds and it took her some time to open up because it was painful but when she opened up she admitted that when she was young she was raped by a family member and there was never any justice and she also felt like she wasn't believed and because of that insecurities came into her heart and anger and resentment and she carried it with her almost all of her life to this point [Music] and she started facing these attacks and she just didn't understand but the moment that she was able to actually talk about it i saw her anger start to slowly turn into peace from god i saw what was a wall start to turn into tears of god's goodness see she was able to address something that was really hard that she didn't want to look at but it gave god a chance to heal and i'm telling you today she's married with children and those demonic attacks stopped a long time ago because that is the power of our god hey guys this is pastor bobby chandler and again i just want to say thank you so much for watching this message today or tonight i really hope it made an impact in your life and i want to say thank you so much for your faithful giving because of your giving into this church we're able to make an impact not only in the community of hickory but around the world and again if you need to reach out to us in any way just reach out to our email or connect with us online with all of our social media platforms i hope you have a good one thanks for watching

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Published: Mon Jan 18 2021