Charis Daily Live Bible Study: Learning to Reign in Life - Barry Bennett - September 6, 2021

[Music] [Music] hello and good morning we want to welcome you to karis daily live bible study i believe that you are having a most excellent monday for those of you who are watching live with us so this is an interactive bible study you guys we want you to interact with us so how can you do that in whatever forum you are watching we want you to go down to the chat section and type in your questions as they come to your heart so we'll get teaching until about 10 to 15 minutes towards the end we will go to questions and answers so we want to answer the questions that you have and i forgot to introduce myself my name is julianne harris and i work for distance education department of kara's bible college so in order for you to interact with us we want you to watch it live so you know you can go to google and there's a time zone converter there and you can convert the time to wherever you're watching from so let me go over the schedule and this is all in mountain time so on mondays and 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our speaker today who is barry bennett uh welcome barry thank you so i'm trying to make this a little more fun so you guys know more about our instructors some of you guys who are bible school students or have taken free courses and stuff like that you may have heard um bury teach or on live bible study or conferences stuff like that however he was my favorite instructor in bible school he still continues to be he is a tremendous man of the word and so a little bit about barry's background is he was radically saved and then he ended up through time being a missionary to chile for 12 years and then god supernaturally brought him to andrew wommack ministries and karis bible college and now he's been with us for 14 years and he is a favorite i know the majority of my friends like barry that sounded really weird anyways barry bring us the word all right thank you good morning and welcome to all of you that are watching uh i would encourage you uh to come to those conferences the summer family bible conference and the healing is here i'm going to be speaking at both of those and really looking forward to it have a lot of good things to share i hope but those are great conferences and i tell you what one word from god can change your life amen instantly there can be a revelation that can just uh take over your life and uh it could be from any one of the many great speakers that we'll we'll be having at those conferences so uh pray about coming i think you would be i know you'd be blessed amen amen i want to give a word this morning that's going to be probably more of a bible school kind of setting here i'm going to give a lot of scripture i would encourage you to take some notes today i'm going to be giving you some really powerful scriptures i'm not going to read them all but i'm i'll put this in a context that you'll understand here in a minute uh but get a pen get some paper and take some notes that that would be good i think uh as a teacher i appreciate it when students take notes i don't know if julianne you ever took notes i took so many notes i was an awesome student okay i'll take your word for it i still am so i want to give a word that encourages you but i also want to give you a word this morning that challenges you uh it's not always about just encouragement and i like to be an encourager but sometimes we need to be challenged i need to be challenged i need to be challenged many times daily weekly in order to stay in a place of victory i want to want to live a life of victory and so i want to talk to you first of all i want to go to romans 5 17 and the title of this is learning to reign in life learning to reign in life and romans 5 17 says for if by one man's offense and we're talking about adam here death reigned through one so the whole human race was impacted by adam's sin much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness and boy we could talk for hours right there about grace and righteousness but there's a gift to be received those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through one jesus christ reign in life what does that mean to reign in life now i've been in ministry for quite a while in different facets different forms and today i i have a teaching ministry at the school of course and then i have other kinds of outreach and people write me quite a bit and either through personal contact or through through written emails and what have you i've come to understand that a lot of people aren't reigning in life a lot of christians are not reigning in life they're being reigned over by life and they are missing out on the blessings and a lot of it comes from and julian and i were just talking a minute ago a lot of it comes from the sovereignty teaching that has infiltrated the church and has just crippled and paralyzed much of the church that god is in control and everything happens for a reason and whatever will be will be that that teaching is just of the pit it's it's not from god and it's it's paralyzed the church in a lot of ways and so christians aren't reigning in life the other reason that a lot of christians are are passive or paralyzed if you will is due to guilt and i may teach on that some other time guilt and feelings of unworthiness that they have no right to expect anything or to act in a proactive way concerning their life they're just going to let life happen and whatever happens happens and so what that then breeds is a sense of the fact that god is only a grief counselor in other words after the tragedy you go to god and get comfort right oh man what a what a pitiful way to live and it's not that god can't comfort you after a tragedy that's not my point but why let the tragedy happen sometimes we can be proactive many times we can be proactive and we can avoid tragedies we can avoid things that are coming our direction amen and we can see them ahead of time my ipad is beeping here i don't know why must be happy it is happy so anyway galatians 4 1 galatians 4 1 says the heir as long as he is a child differs nothing from a servant though he be lord of all powerful scripture the air it says and speaking of us as heirs of christ heirs of of grace heirs of righteousness heirs of we could go on and on a long list of what we have received in christ and who christ is in us and it says the heir as long as he is a child differs nothing from a servant now this is using the word servant in a negative connotation as opposed to an heir i know we're all servants of christ but that's not what's being discussed here it says differs nothing from a servant though he be lord of all and so as long as you're a child in the faith though you be destined to reign in life your purpose to reign in life if you don't grow though you be lord of all so to speak you're going to be nothing more than just a servant or a child you're going to miss out on what god had for you so this is when we're learning to reign in life we have to realize that we're starting from a place of childhood if you'd go to first peter 2 2 1 peter 2 2 it says as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby so all of us when we got born again we became babes and then as you as i look back on my and i've been in the lord now 48 years i look back on when i got born again and those that got born again in the same time frame with me that i that i knew or knew of a lot of them are no longer in the race they've disappeared i don't know where they are they didn't continue on they didn't grow and i i think i have because i have been a sincere seeker i've been a word person i've wanted to know the lord i've wanted to grow in the things of god i wanted to learn how to reign in life i've had some life reign over me as time has gone on and i am learned still learning how to be proactive and to reign in life and and not allow certain circumstances to come against me all right so even if you're a brand new believer you're destined to reign you're destined to have authority you you are purposed to have authority your purpose to have uh power your purpose to be a winner to be an overcomer in life but because you're a babe if you don't grow if you don't seek the word then you're going to be as it says in this particular verse a servant or a child and though you be lord of all you're not going to experience any of that and this is what i see in the body of christ today many times is that so many christians are are passive for the reasons i've mentioned that they think passivity is is faith and passivity passivity is not faith uh and then also the feelings of guilt and unworthiness and whatever they have going on in their lives where they just don't feel like they can do any you know they're not special enough to to reign in life andrew is special maybe i'm special juliana's special but they're not special and that that couldn't be further from the truth all of us have been born again with the incorruptible seed of god's word and his nature now lives within us and his purpose for you is to reign to have dominion over your sphere of influence over your life that's what god has called us to uh and so it's but it's up to us to be proactive and to stand up and to begin to take take hold of these things praise god all right so i want to go through some verses i think i have 15 here i'm not going to look them all up with you i'm going to look up several though we're going to look up verses about reigning in life and if you would jot these down and then look them up go to your computer copy and paste whatever you can do to get these all on one one sheet of paper i think it would bless you if you meditate on them in the context that i'm giving them today so the first one i've already given you number one is we are expected to reign in life romans 5 17 so just jot down romans 5 17 we won't look that up again but let's go on let's go to mark 11 23-24 very well-known scriptures we are expected to pray believing and receive what we ask for we're expected to speak to the mountain a lot of people say well life never goes my way nothing ever goes my way and my response to that is have you told it to go your way right and a lot of us are just we don't we don't speak to anything except negativity out of our mouth and oh poor me we are to speak to things and command them to go our way and you say well that sounds very pretentious but no it's the word of god it says in mark 11 23-24 for assuredly i say to you that whoever says to this mountain well i'm a whoever and you're whoever whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things that he says will be done he will have whatever he says therefore i say to you whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them and you will have them you believe before you will have you believe you will have and then you will have and so there is a a proactivity here if i can i'm i'm using that word way too much but we take the reins of life and we begin to speak to our lives when people say nothing ever goes my way i bet you they don't tell things to go their way i can almost count on it you have to speak to your circumstances i you know you get up in the morning you begin like i get in the shower and i begin that's where i begin i start speaking to my day i rejoice i praise i give thanks i talk to my body i to line up with the word of god i speak over the circumstances of the day that i'm aware of i expect favor i expect blessings i expect good things to overtake me i'm always in that that realm of expectation now sometimes things come against me we'll talk about that in a minute but at least i'm in a good place to start that i'm expecting the blessings of god i'm not expecting bad things to happen so that when bad things happen i'm allergic to them i don't want them i immediately have a an attack mode about negative things happening okay so i'm not again i'm not going to look up all these but please write them down number three we are expected to put on the whole armor of god and stand amen and so that's ephesians 6 13-18 ephesians 6 13-18 if whatever will be will be then what is the shield of faith for right okay that we might put out all the fiery darts of the enemy not some of them all of them that's reigning in life and so it's up to us to to take the shield of faith and the other the breastplate of righteousness and and the other uh things that are mentioned there those aren't i mean those are revelations that we need on each of those subjects that we need to understand those subjects but obviously the shield of faith has a purpose and in this case faith can be aggressive offensive or face faith can be defensive in this case faith is defensive to extinguish all the fiery darts of the enemy but that's up to us if i don't pick up my shield of faith and i'm get filled with the arrows of the enemy whose fault is that you i can't say why did god let that happen god didn't let that happen i let that happen and so it's up to me again i told you i want to encourage you but i want to challenge you amen it's up to you to pick up the shield of faith well where does faith come from that might be someone's first question well faith comes by hearing god and so all of this is going to go back to you having fellowship with the father through the word and let him speak to you so that you know how to lift up the shield of faith or you know how to walk in faith amen amen next one number four we have been given the name above all names now i taught on the name a couple of weeks ago i think yes philippians 2 9-11 we have the name of jesus and and many times if if you understand what that name means then you're in a negative situation you can just say in the name of jesus no i don't receive this in the name of jesus i speak to this situation or i speak to my body in the name of jesus now it's not just a mantra that we tack on the end of something you need to understand what it means but once that's inside of you you have that but if you don't use it what if peter and john going to the temple to pray saw the lame man lying sitting there on the side of the road asking for for money and they flip him a nickel and keep going that was entirely possible but peter says look i don't have any nickels right now but what i have i give you in the name of jesus and he spoke that name he was being proactive that was an expression of proactive faith praise god there's proactive faith there's reactive faith and there's inactive faith i teach this in school come to school learn these things amen okay so we've been given the name above all names number five we can be endued with power by the holy spirit luke 24 49 luke 24 49 and acts 1 8 if you want to add that on luke 24 49 and acts 1 8 the power of the holy spirit that we might be witnesses we need the power you need the power of the holy spirit i need the power of the holy spirit and i speak in i pray in the spirit daily and i expect to be continually filled with the holy spirit it's not just a one-time thing and then you run dry it's a daily thing where we can be filled with the power of the spirit and that why is that that we might be passive or that we might be witnesses right amen that we might be an expression of the will of god to other people and we might help other people so you can be filled with the power of the holy spirit amen let's look up the next one we number six we have been given exceeding precious promises exceeding precious promises ii peter 1 3 and 4. ii peter 1 3 and 4 says as his divine power has given to us all things not just some things all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him so there's knowledge is important who called us by glory and virtue by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these you might want to underline in your bible that through these you might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust if god is just calling you to be passive then what is this verse talking about god wants you to be able to escape the corruption that's in the world through lust escape all of the the garbage that's going on in this world all of the things that want to tear you down steal kill and destroy your life god has given you he has equipped you with promises exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be a partaker of his nature and that by these you might escape the corruption that is in the world and so who's whose fault is it if the corruption of the world that the enemy comes and steals kills and destroys whose fault is it that that happens it's not god's fault and we have no right to sit back and say i wonder why god let that happen we have promises but the promises have to be in our hearts and in our mouths that we speak we declare we speak to the mountain as we just mentioned a moment ago we become proactive in reigning in life i i'm an heir i am supposed to be ruling over my sphere of influence in life i'm not going to be a babe and let the enemy take everything i have uh this is this is up to excuse me up to us to take these steps okay uh next one number seven we are partakers of a better covenant we are partakers of a better covenant a lot of people are still stuck in old testament law thinking where they have to perform and hopefully they've earned enough points to make god happy but we are partakers of a better covenant it says in hebrews 8 6 jot down hebrews 8 6 says but now he has obtained a more excellent ministry speaking of jesus inasmuch as he also is mediator of a better covenant which was established on better promises now we know from ephesians uh or ii corinthians 1 20 that all the promises of god are yes and amen so even the the lesser promises that we find in the old covenant are still valid for us anything that's a promise reveals the heart of god for you regardless of the context there's a concept in the promise that anything that's a blessing anything that reveals what the love of god anything that reveals his purposes even if it's just for israel or for one person it doesn't matter it's still a revelation of god's heart for his children amen and we're his children yes amen so we have a better covenant established on better promises praise god so i take them all i take the ones that aren't better and the ones that are better and i believe they're all for me amen amen and so i began to quote those and declare those and and look them up and underline them in my bible and and and that's what i live by i live by the promises of god amen okay we'll go on number eight amen we have the keys of the kingdom keys of the kingdom matthew 16 19. okay so the way i interpret this i teach a course in second year uh called laws of the kingdom and there are spiritual laws that are at work whether you're aware of them or not just like the law of gravity is a physical law that's going to work whether you like it or not if if 10 people just five christians and five unbelievers decide to get on the roof and jump off all 10 of them are going to hit the ground yes because there's a lot work there that you're not going to supersede unless god's given you a specific word amen to walk on water or something like that but the law of gravity is always at work there are spiritual laws that are always at work in our lives and many of us some some people in the world are more in tune with spiritual law than christians are because christians have become so passive and just let life happen yeah if you know the keys if you know the spiritual laws the spiritual keys of the kingdom you can begin to cooperate with those and start seeing the benefit of those that god gave them for us that we might prosper that we might be blessed and so we need to learn these spiritual keys spiritual spiritual laws okay next one number nine we have the authority to bind and loose that's a big subject and i'm not going to get into it too much but the idea here is authority we have authority amen on this earth and binding and loosing has different context when it's used in scripture here uh it can be referring to demonic powers that can be referring to church discipline there's different contexts that we can apply it to but the idea is it's our authority god is going to respect what we do with his word as long as it's in within the nature of his word he's given us the heart to believe he's given us the voice to speak he's given us discernment so we can know good from evil and we can enforce good and get rid of evil those are up to us now you may be sitting on your couch right now or wherever you are and thinking well that may work for you but it doesn't work for me but but i would suggest that it would work for you if you would believe it if you would get excited if you would get turned on if you would get up and and start taking your bible with you when you pray and reading these promises and declaring them and just get rewired amen in the spirit just just be transformed allow that transformation to take place if you're born again the incorruptible seed of all of these verses is inside of you yes it's there but we we too often just say i don't feel like it well there you're letting your feelings reign over you rather than you reigning over your feelings right yes okay so let's go on what was the scripture reference for numbers i'm sorry matthew 16 19. thank you that was eight keys of the kingdom they're both matthew 16 19. oh and authority okay two for the price of one okay okay number ten okay we have the authority of the word of god this is acts 14 3 and many others i i you can find your own okay it says i actually have to read my bible well i would i would like that yeah okay acts 14 3 says therefore they stayed there a long time speaking boldly in the lord who was bearing witness to the word of his grace granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands i like that one there are many others that i like as well but bearing witness to the word of his grace they were preaching the word there's authority in the word when you interject the word into an environment things change yes uh i've been in situations where just my very presence because people knew who i was when i walked into a situation i i won't go into details but it was one where i probably wouldn't be comfortable and when my very presence made everybody else uncomfortable because they knew i'm a man of the word and so when we preach the word when we speak the word you change the environment you can change the environment of your home of your of your house life your home life if you would speak the word at first just do it when no one else is there just speak the word pray declare the promises of god and you can change the environment and then as situations arise you're prepared you know some promises you know how to respond in love you know how to be patient you know how to be have kindness and gentleness and forgiveness and you can change the environment of your home of your marriage of how your kids are being uh how they're growing up you we have this is what it means to reign in life folks amen is that we begin to see our role as an enforcer of god's grace an enforcer of god's will an enforcer of god's love and we begin to love we begin to forgive we begin to demonstrate that which is going on inside of us and we pray believing and we receive and we speak to the mountains and we have the shield of faith up when ugly words are spoken i'm not going to let that offend me i refuse amen and i'm going to pray for people that offend me i'm going to pray for those that persecute me it just changes your whole way of approaching life it's much more effective than just giving up and and not doing anything okay number 11 we are seated with him in heavenly places we are seated with him in heavenly places this is ephesians 2 6 and i'm not going to look it up but we we need to and i have a teaching i don't know if i've done it here i don't think so but the difference between praying up hoping and praying down believing we need to learn to pray from up there amen and rather than under the circumstances put yourself above the circumstances and begin to enforce god's will praying from a place of authority we are seated with him in heavenly places so there's a lot there i don't have time to develop all of that number 12 no weapon formed against us should prosper isaiah 54 17 is one of my favorite scriptures isaiah 54 17 says no weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn so every word the enemy speaks into my life every doubt i condemn it no i don't receive it this is the heritage of the servants of the lord and their righteousness is from me praise god my righteousness i don't earn it yes i don't work it up it's a gift that's the gift of righteousness in romans 5 17. he said my right your righteousness is from me and no weapon formed against you shall prosper well it doesn't say no weapon shall be formed against you it says no weapon formed against you shall prosper i had a weapon formed against me in this past year it didn't prosper it tried got close but it didn't prosper because i had the shield of faith because i had a foundation of the promises of god because god quickened the word to me so that weapon did not prosper it doesn't say they won't be formed and i have a lot of friends that they have weapons that are being formed against them and whether or not those weapons prosper is up to them amen it's up to the foundation you have in your life this incorruptible seed of god's word are you being proactive uh and taking authority and speaking to these things with the promises of god okay i gotta hurry up here because we're already out of time for my part number 13 by his stripes we were healed by his stripes we were healed so healing is an accomplished fact isaiah 53 5 1st peter 2 24 isaiah 53 5 first peter 2 24. so we won't do a whole thing on healing right now but come to the healing is here conference yes you're going to get blessed you're going to get blessed healing is an accomplished fact but we have to enforce it yes it's not just going to happen is we we enforce our healing number 14 we can tread upon the works of the enemy i'm going to read this one luke 10 19. we can tread upon the works of the enemy luke 10 19 says behold i give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions those are symbolic of demonic powers and real ones i've done both well i've done the scorpions okay and over and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you we have this authority to trample on the powers of the enemy and it says that nothing shall by any means hurt you but who does the trampoline god or us amen we do we do the trampling amen okay real quick one more number 15 we can resist the devil and he will flee praise god if you can resist the devil you can resist anything else he throws at you james 4 7 james 4 7 says therefore submit to god resist the devil and he will flee from you and jesus demonstrated this in the wilderness for 40 days when the enemy came against him three different times and he said it is written it is written it is written and folks jesus was quoting from deuteronomy if jesus can beat the devil out of deuteronomy uh you can beat him out of out of the new testament if you know what's written but do you know what's written are you being proactive are you learning to reign in life don't let life overwhelm you you overwhelm it you take the word of god you speak to the mountain you use the principles of the keys of the kingdom you take charge and you're gonna have a different life he came that you might have abundant life but he's put the ball in your court so to speak uh it's up to us to take the word of god and put it to work in our lives amen i could go on for a long long time here but we're going to take some questions yes praise god that was so good uh so ruthie on chat says what's the best way to get head knowledge of hearing who you are to having heart revelation of knowing who you are she says i know god isn't a liar and that i'm included in his promises but sometimes doubt comes up what's the best way to overcome okay what i've discovered uh in my life this is a great question yeah is that i have a lot of mental knowledge i i know a lot of scripture i know a lot of stuff yeah okay but i've got to take that and i've got to pray over it and i've got to turn other things off i can't be constantly distracted and expect to hear from god but i pray in the spirit i pray when i'm doing things throughout the day i'm always thinking about the lord i'm always thinking about the promises of god i'm thinking about challenges that i'm facing or whatever and i find that the more i spend time in the word the more i spend time in prayer that at the most unexpected times i'll get the quickening or i'll get the revelation i could be mowing the yard or i could be driving the car or i could be doing some mundane thing and the light will turn on because i have been setting a foundation of prayer and expectation of thinking about these verses so that's a quick answer but get my book hearing god it's available from awm or it's available on kindle from amazon but uh paperback from awm and uh it talks about all these different kinds of revelation yes and that is it hearing from god or hearing god's voice hearing it's just called hearing god hearing god that's what it is right okay okay um next question we have is grace um she was right there i think they there she is um and and two people asked kind of a similar question so grace and anupama on youtube uh said what are examples of the keys of the kingdom and then uh the other one was asking how do you cooperate with him i know you have a whole teaching on it but i have eight teachings on it yeah eight hours of teaching the iceberg yes just an example law of genesis things are going to develop according to the seed that gave them life to begin with and we can take that into marriage how did how did a relationship begin the seed of the relationship is going to determine the direction that it goes amen uh if it's no praise god for grace and for forgiveness and some seeds that we've used in life have been not good and so we can reseed our relationships or any other thing that we're doing everything is going to reproduce according to its nature that's just the way god did creation and so the nature of something that you begin in your life is going to continue along those lines and if it's a good thing something god has sown in you then it's going to continue in that way if it's a negative thing that you've done in the flesh then you you may need to dig that up and reseed the law of genesis the law of perseverance the law of sowing and reaping the law of giving and receiving i do seven or eight laws the royal law of love and so you find these in scripture you meditate on them and you let god teach you what what this means and how you can make it practical for your life praise god and you know you come to kara's bible college yes and then you'll get it so um samaya on youtube says do we have the ability to operate in the fullness of our power and authority without having to go through trials and tribulations i don't i don't think we're going to ever i mean jesus said in this world you will have tribulation so i think we're going to have to stick with that what jesus said uh we're we live in a fallen world and so the reason we have been equipped with everything that i have shared with you and much more is so that we can reign in life that we can be more than overcomers that we can escape the corruption that is in the world through lust but that doesn't mean that corruption is going to disappear or that we're not going to be challenged we're going to be challenged but how we uh face those challenges is is up to where we are in our spiritual i may be a spiritual giant one day or for a season and i'm just moving and grooving in the things of god and then if i get passive i can get overwhelmed with things just like anyone else and then i've got to to get back into the into the place where i have the victory and it doesn't take too long because i'm i'm well programmed now i'm pretty wired for victory but some people aren't they haven't spent any time in the word they don't seek these things out and so when the trials of life come they get overwhelmed and it it's not always a pretty picture i'm ben amen uh next question checking the time here so eddie on youtube says how do i align my thoughts with my words i find myself speaking the truth i've come to know biblically but my thoughts are constantly negative and focus on my failure believing that's who i am well uh i think in second corinthians 10 we were to take every thought captive or second corinthians 4 or 10 i forget right now look it up look it up take every thought captive to the obedience of christ and then philippians 4 8 it tells you think on these things and it tells you what to think on whatever is good and lovely and pure and of good report whatever is true think on these things you and i taught on this a month or so ago you have sovereign control of your mind you're the one that chooses what to think about so you can either think about your fears and your worries and your insecurities and your challenges and you can meditate on those and they will get bigger or you can meditate on the word of god the promises of god the better promises of the better covenant you get to choose what you give your mind over to no one else can do that now the enemy can throw thoughts at you but that's the shield of faith you you can put out those fiery darts and say no and you one way to do it is to begin to pray the more you pray and pray out loud if possible you're taking control of your mind uh so it's it's just up to us to to put out the the negative thoughts and fill our minds in our hearts with good thoughts the promises of god amen praise god um so rumah on youtube says is binding people in prayer the right practice what is the best way to pray against oppression well we can't overwhelm someone's free will but we can create an environment in which they are more free to make the right choice they have to make their own choices some people have already chosen what they want and it's it's not good but we can pray for people that god would send laborers across their path that they would relate to they may not relate to you there are people that i know that don't relate to me they've been listening to me for years and they're just i'm not getting through but someone else god could send a labor across their path that is more of their generation or their culture or whatever and they can relate to that so i pray for that that god will send laborers i pray for the work of the holy spirit to touch their hearts in some way that to where it's not making them make a choice but it's giving them the opportunity to make a choice to see things differently uh one story i love is that of the prodigal son who took his father's wealth and went off and squandered it finds himself finally at the end of his money in a in a pig pig pen uh wanting to eat pig food and it says and he when he came to himself there it is right there that's the key moment when he came to himself pray that the people that you know that you're concerned about would wake up would come to themselves i've talked to many over the years that have had this wake up moment where they thought what have i done what have i done with my life and they wake up and they begin to seek the things of god so just keep praying for these people that you're concerned about amen praise god so a couple more questions so has on chat says as we believers declare the promises and have authority in the word should we take coven 19 vaccination okay i can't tell you what to do you've got to be led of god i know that there are very fine christians who have had the vaccination and there are others that are very much against it and you have to walk in your own faith and god gives us the latitude to to have faith for whatever it is that we do uh i don't know what god has spoken to your heart amen and i can't tell you what to do i'm not going to tell you about vaccines or any other kind of medical assistance there are times when i have used medical assistance and there are times when the lord told me not to use medical assistance i've got to follow the lord you've got to follow the lord amen that's really good and along that same line elizabeth on youtube says is taking medications after you have prayed and spoken to the disease an act of being passive or of doubt depends on what god has told you again perfect see we can't put these things into formulas that fit for everybody we're in a fellowship we're in a relationship with god you've got to be hearing from god my sheep know my voice amen amen even jesus says in john 5 19 i can only do what i hear and what i see from my father jesus was limited to that fellowship that relationship with the father i am too you are too and so don't look for formulas or don't look for pat answers for all of these questions be led of the spirit have faith faith comes by hearing god and like i say there are times when god has spoken to me a definite no about medical assistance and i was healed miraculously and there are times when the lord gave me peace to seek medical assistance and i was healed that way uh you've got to follow god amen praise god so you know i know a lot of you guys are probably thinking well i don't know that i have time to be proactive or getting into the word um and trust me you do have time and it has to be a proactive thing uh so barry could you just pray for the people to um get a deeper revelation of amen all of us need this amen father we thank you for your word we thank you lord for the opportunity to to be in your presence to have you living in us to have this intimate fellowship and father we expect to hear you we expect that all these verses and many more would come alive within that they wouldn't just be verses that we we know mentally but that they would be promises that we know spiritually that we know they are true father that we would expect to hear from you on a daily basis i just i pray everyone watching right now would have a new level of expectation yes lord that they would understand this is a relationship this is a fellowship with the god of the universe amen and that we would be able to have his promises quicken to our hearts that we would stand up that we would be more than overcomers that we would learn to reign in life that we would not be passive that we would not be victims but that we would be victors and father i pray that the what i've shared today would resonate in many hearts and some people i can see them out there right now saying okay i'm done with being a victim i'm done with being passive starting right now i'm going to take the word of god even if i hardly know anything i'm going to start to grow i'm going to seek i'm going to pursue i'm going to study i'm going to do whatever it needs to do to take control of my life and see the blessings of god father we thank you that we can come to you in that way and we thank you for your answers we thank you for your love we give you praise and glory in jesus name amen amen amen thank you so much barry that was amazing and you guys just like on friday this is the meat of the word and this is what you get this is just a tip of the iceberg of what you would get at karis bible college i know some of you guys watching have a have this inward desire to go deeper karis bible college is the way to go my life was radically transformed through karis bible college and it was through these truths and through the power of the word of god and actually setting under it and letting it take root in my heart so you guys you it maybe you're thinking i can't move out to colorado well that's okay because we could have an extension location near you or we do have all forms of distance education for kara's bible college so i would encourage you right now go to karisbiblecollege.org or discoverkaris.com yes so that is it for today we're a little overtime but man i know you're as blessed as i was don't forget we have live bible study tomorrow evening at 6 pm andrew will be teaching we also have truth and liberty this evening at 6 00 pm so make sure and tune into that and barry you have a wonderful day you too thank you i will and we'll see you all next time bye i really believe that god brought you here for a purpose don't run away from god saying i have more for you i have a purpose and a destiny you have not yet even begun to imagine god's got more healing for you he's got more revelation for you he reveals himself to you through the word this is the only thing that's important what does god say about you do you know who you are in christ do you know what you had [Music] you

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