Ending the Addictions Cycle with Dr. Henry Wright Part 2

and welcome you back to our addictions conference and this afternoon we're going to deal with some biological things I have a member of our team with me Scotty Wu Hoshi and I was traveling and I wasn't about getting ready for this conference and I I got a hold of Scotty and I made him part of our research team although he's been doing some research all along but I asked him some hard questions I said I want you to do some research and I want to go ahead what did I ask you you remember well it was a it sounded like an innocuous enough at request it was like only a few words you just said I'd like you to look into the pharmacology of addictions and that was it I said I want to know how the enemies doing it I want to know how how that drugs interact with humanity to give us a counterfeit of God in our peace I want to know the pathways I'm one of the my biological mechanisms that took it down a few more questions as we moved along and so we've Scotties then something really good research and we've dealt into what science knows about this subject and because we're tracking how an enemy does it if the Bible says we're not to be ignorant of Satan's devices then how do you become non ignorant and what does it meant Satan's devices well we remember the word devices in the word study it means methods mythology's methods so there's pathways to health and there's pathways to disease there's pathways to where the enemy has come to become our can I say this our healer but he doesn't offer healing he offers management now what we have today in science and all due respect to science for the most part is not healing and there could be some results coming out of disease management but basically all we have in science is different forms of disease management to give us some ease in our disease well the word disease has its root in lack of ease so if you have something in your life that is biologically at this ease and it's not dealt with it will eventually become a diagnoseable disease not just this ease but now a defined disease or syndrome and the word syndrome not all of our maladies not all of our problems are organic for a disease to be a true disease or has to be organic problems if it's just a body part that's malfunctioning or it's not Purdue it's not acting right like like the thyroid is not producing a thyroxine or or so you have you know the body's not isn't this is a function that would be a syndrome and a syndrome by the way regardless of what science will tell you is not a true disease like for example just to give you an example diabetes one is a true disease because the immune system is attacking the pancreatic islets and destroying them diabetes 2 which seems to be the biggie right now running around diabetes 2 pre-diabetic is the word you hear all the time you're a pretty diabetic well does it mean I have diabetes no but you're predisposed to it well that's do I have it I don't have it no you don't have it but you need to act like you do I'm serious so you start acting like you do then you protect yourself only for when you do what am I going to have it and well not necessarily but you could so you're gonna act like you have it so that's fatalism and so we get into all of these dysfunctions and malfunctions I want to read something that came from some research a couple of items and then we're gonna spin it over but I wanted to introduce us kind of a Hashi to you as part of our team here and he can pronounce these words and I can't it's amazing sin the words in science they must have nightmares when I come up with these words I mean how do you pronounce them so I'm not an expert in in language I'm just an expert in whatever I think I know you know I think you just you pronounce a word wrong until somebody corrects you basically that's used what happens to most of us right I mean you got you think it's right and then somebody says no that's not the way a lot of that I have not been able to pronounce fingers language correct I'm from northern Maine we washed our car we don't wash our car we wash our car we had ours everything you know I don't wash my car this article is recent it's as a date here or not but it's from CNN so you know my source and then it has well it said a scientific article I'm not sure CNN is an expert in scientific knowledge but it's a new source this is from London an ancient retrovirus and that predates modern humans well you know that's ridiculous but that's their opinion in the words this this retrovirus has been around a long time may explain why people suffer from addiction scientists have said researchers studied drug users in two cities and found they were about up to three times more likely than the general population to have remnants of the hk2 virus within a particular gene in their DNA is this big stuff is track with us by the way our virus is not from God one of the definitions of virus when I look at the word virus in my studies in my time one of the definitions of virus is literally alien genetic life-form alien there are really Hillians no alien genetic life-form what a virus is it is a mutant expression of a gene a virus is a genetic form mutant then in order to replicate itself reaches into the host nucleic Center of a gene extracts the building blocks of genetics takes the building blocks and forms itself a genetic variation then replicates itself out of the host so a virus is a genetic parasite now I just helping you in our definitions so how is it you know sometimes when I I get around disease and I even mentioned the fact the evil spirits may have something to do a disease I get the shackles up of most Christians don't you never dare say that evil spirits have anything to do with disease you know why cuz science denies it but you don't see evil spirits do you do they exist oh yes do they have access to us yes one of the things to help you you're thinking I'm not trying to develop a case here I just want to deal with the apologetics of this subject is one of the one of the scriptures that I want you to apprehend is before Jesus one time in the Bible Jesus gotta believe him now ever laid hands on someone to be healed he first cast out a spirit of infirmity there was an evil spirit of infirmity that was tampering with the biology of a human to produce a disease an order for that disease to be healed the spirit of infirmity that was causing the manipulation of the body parts and in the nucleus the genetics that produced that disorder had he be cast out then Jesus laid hands on them and fixed the damage and they were healed now what do you do with that scripture you ignore it because you don't understand it or you're afraid of evil spirits or you don't understand how they function and it's time that we learn about this subject because in this subject a virus is and I'm going to say this clearly a virus is a particular spirit of infirmity that is caused by an evil spirit that's able to access the human what's that word de novo genome genome see he's gonna help me he knows these words genome and is able to access and to tamper with what God created but needs the humans permission to do so the curse proverbs 46 2 is a bird bound wandering as a sparrow by wanting the sparrow by flying something like that the curse which is what disease is if you think disease is a blessing I need to talk to you later the bible does not teach anywhere the diseases of blessing don't let them tell you in your churches that diseases of less from God to teach you humility that's sadistic that's horrible that's evil how dare you anyway I said it I'm in trouble now hope none so I know when we did the study on breast cancer and brca1 brca2 one of those those are enzymes of the woman's breast tissue that designed to keep the breast tissue healthy unless something invisible causes the enzyme to express itself incorrectly and it opens the door for mitosis or what's mitosis multiple cell multiplication of tissue which is what cancer is now you have a tumor that is formed and something invisible something invisible is able to tamper with physiology that God created so we have to pay attention to this and we have enough information in science enough information in the Bible that we can at least have some be thoughtful in our conclusions so when we look at what scientists are saying and this is in in in England by the way in these two cities they found that generally these people are found to have remnants of the hk2 virus within a particular gene in their d.n.a all right the virus this is kind of funny that the virus dates back at least to death and rules when they call you the earth and Ruhlman what's that highbrows Neanderthals see see how he does it any good I feel like Moses and Aaron hey Aaron you speak for me it's so much fun because he's pronounces these words correct me I'm a layman I'm still learning and people say well how come pastor Wright I know they asked miss the need of this years ago how come pastor Wright there's no he's pronounced words right yo pastor Nita said he may not pronounce the word right but he certainly knows what they mean what's wrong with that long as I get the meaning unless you pronounce the words Aaron well I I think I think you brought up something very important that I've noticed about our our journey together and looking into this topic is that it is important to define things and look up what what definitions are so we can understand concepts definitions are the same as word study we don't take time to do definitions when we were having a little workshop together you were spawning out these words they don't know how to spell in honor and I'd say well you slow down and so I said listen the audience to me works slow I'll calm down Sam stall gonna because I said nobody's gonna get it because you said it no one's gonna get it because we said it I learned years ago that you have to have heard something six times in its entirety just to retain 25% of what you're it the first time so if you think you're gonna get this conference cuz you sit here listen to wherever you are I well you're just beginning your learning curve so we're gonna try to be slowed down we're trying to get a give you cause and effect and meaning that this can be a learning curve not just a bunch of words tumbling off the lips of a human that you don't understand if you don't understand what we've said you haven't heard nothing so we want to make sure that we come to a place that we can understand is that we had this conversation so if I feel that in your high-level intelligence that you bring forth bad that I didn't understand I'm going to stop you because there's about 90 of us out here didn't understand either and I care about those 90 people that didn't get it why I care too well I I know you do and I care too guys we're talking to the choir now because we want to listen like a workshop we want to learn right okay good so this virus goes back quite a long ways I don't know about what they're saying but and it's present now we're not trying to be too technical but I got to read this is present in Ras grf - gene big deal that's what it's called which a researcher listen careful which a researcher called the pleasure gene the pleasure gene because it increases the activity of dopamine in the brain this is going to be really key to understanding the power of addictions today is how the enemy takes what God created for faith and uses your fear to give you pleasure artificially through chemical additives in altered states of consciousness it's a placebo it's a false peace and so and so this is quite interesting and this occurs in about five to ten percent of all people that proportion of the population could therefore that's five to ten percent of the population could be more disposed to addictive behavior the scientists said the team from the universities of Oxford in Athens found the virus in 34 percent of drug users tested in Glasgow Scotland 34 percent of drug users they found this virus they want the virus hk2 virus compared to 9.5 percent of the local population that's quite a that's quite a difference and in fourteen percent of greek patients compared to six percent of that country's population in the nation of Greece retroviruses are viruses that had the capacity to inject their DNA into the genome genome I would pronounce it differently but I'm learning know how you pass that word genome genome everybody genome okay good job of the host it's like it's like it reaches in takes building blocks and replicates itself from a host so this virus is an parasite genetic parasite I had a thought about a way I would describe it yeah I would described as a foreign invader a foreign invader now this is the first this is the third time you see me reading this right this is the third time they have been strongly linked within a harmful effect in humans after the discovery of the human HIV and the human T lymphocyte virus htlv alternate researchers so this has be the third retrovirus after HIV and htlv would be this HK 2 but this HK 2 virus is linked directly to addictions inherited remember the iniquities of the father's now I've had people come to our programs that have adopted children not against adopting children god bless you but there is a disconnect with in people that adopt children I don't mean to be insensitive but I got to tell you what I know you'd be able to handle it say we're able to handle it please be able to handle it that I can I have met Christian loving people that have taken in adopted children gave them the best atmosphere of love even the best care but in time that child would act out personality characteristics of the original family and the Christian parent and this is where I get them in conferences are devastated what have I done wrong you didn't do anything wrong you did not understand iniquity that when you adopted this child you adopted everything the child inherited from their natural parents back several generations what why I do about it teach a child the way he should go begin they have you has some understanding you could even pray for these children but they can be released for the iniquity of the things that were binding them certain children that you adopt are predisposed to do evil the Bible says evil is bound up in the heart of a child so we don't understand inherited issues we avoid them because they scare us we're just it's like mine over matters like out of sight out of mind is a spiritual connection you have to be aware of your natural families and your adopted families that what was in those family trees you gonna have to reckon with in your life and your families and that's the most positive thing I can tell you for therapeutic movement yeah you're not so bushwhacked by things that aren't going right and you go down under it because you can't help anybody when you go down under stuff so must come up on top of it let's look down on it and ask God for His wisdom in defeating it now it depends on the age of the child but don't be dismayed if a child's manifesting their adopted and don't be dismayed if your own sort of start manifesting evil because that's where somewhere in your family tree somewhere I'm barely escaping what was in my family tree if I didn't have the understanding how to go down hundred years ago but thank God for knowledge that I can look down on my own life and do spiritual inventory without guilt without shame without fear and I can face those ochres of my family destruction and defeat them in Christ in Jesus name now that's a therapeutic part of this conversation that's why we have to take ownership of our lives that's what we have to exercise our will and teach our children how to exercise will properly their rebellions of women will to so be here now hk2 is present in all humans but appears in the RAS gr f2 gene in up to one in ten people that means ten one in ten people are predisposed to addictions that genetically that's a high percentage the study suggests that these people could be prone to any sort of addictive behavior to any sort well addictive behavior it doesn't include just drugs legal or illegal it can be gambling it can be you know what Daltrey is an addictive sport because it releases dopamine which brings you to a high and adrenaline rush you ever watch a man see a woman on the street and try to catch your eye and she notices him he gets a fix because he feels important she noticed me she smiled she doesn't know she's fitting into his addiction the need to be loved and there's nothing wrong you males were designed by God to notice females you females were designed by God not to necessarily notice males but to respond to them properly so there's a difference in your creation you things were created to be a responder something that's right innocent is necessary you males were designed to notice a female if you're not noticing a female there's nothing wrong with you say but I'm married are you blind don't tell me a married man doesn't know a good-looking female on the street but you don't have to go the way of King David you can say what a beautiful female God bless her and keep on moving that's what you should do shouldn't you have you pretend you didn't see her you're a liar because you have guilt or may have something in you that desires that that's an addiction to kind of the need to be loved now we're off course are we the study suggests that these people could be prone to any sort of addictive behavior the same gene listen to this the same gene was linked to binge drinking in an earlier study in 2012 binge drinking and the researchers said that studying the really analyzed dark part of the political genome genome genome the dark part of genetics there's there a dark part in genetics every single one of you are carriers of the iniquity of your ancestral line so but I'm born again then it gives you the power to overcome the ancestral darkness you don't have to be a victim of it and ignorant any longer you can understand what's transferring in your family tree and you say I don't want to be our partaker in this than you longer we've had to mark family members and avoid them to remain spiritual because what they'll do they'll want to drag you down to their level of evil in order to have a fellowship I've also learned something else a difference between relatives and family we avoid relatives but we love family what's the difference a relative isn't really interested in a relationship but a family member is are you tracking with me this is theory don't quote me exactly because there's exceptions but you know in your families they're who and one of the most unhappy times of the year is Christmas because families are forced to be together and they don't even like each other most unhappy time because you have to pretend you're in love this is sad but this is into it human as that big word again endogenous endogenous very good hit pretty good very good thank you professor Aaron human endogenous retroviruses now I asked we look at the word endogenous it means internal retroviruses comprise eight percent of the genome genome and have not been linked with human disease until now through genetics he says I believe that a significant part of this unexplained disease diversity will be understood by studying this difficult to understand dark part of genetics this is the part that science is struggling with because science only believes and understands what it can see but they don't see the invisible things that are tampering with what they can see they don't see that dimension now they're beginning to understand through epigenetics that there can be things following in family trees thought that are classic to that individual and their family tree classic meaning familial the word familial means familiar we could use the word familiar spirits not the one of the Witch of Endor but familiar spirits are spirits that are familiar with your family tree they are expert in giving temptation they're expert in giving inspiration they're expert in producing disease and they have been working with your family tree for many generations and because no one has taken time to interfere with them they think they have a right to the generations not for blessings but for damage that's why it says the next is the iniquities of the Father should be visited a third and fourth generation of them that hate me verse six but - then that love me God said to them that love me and keep my Commandments blessings to thousands that were thousands in context as generations we've only been here like five thousand seven hundred and forty years the five thousand seven hundred and forty three years madam that generation is 40 years how many is thousands of forty years forty thousand years we haven't been here for two thousand years of madam we've only been here five thousand seven hundred and forty-three Jewish calendar give or take ten years or so there so we haven't been here that long so we're looking now where our church is called hope of the generations because we believe that if we teach right we have a chance to up overturn the iniquity of the generations and bring blessings into our families and our children through proper application of truth applied we believe that here and we see it happening we see children and families that are being blessed here because we understand the equation of blessings and the lack of blessings how to choose life and not death and our children being taught and hope and in the overcomers Academy we have a school here they're being taught to make good decisions choice decisions act of will choice decisions to produce life not death blessings not curse things this is an applied principle of the gospel not random happenstance of Education if you're it I would like to suggest a observation that I that I had from doing the study as we're looking into the science and I'm reading through all these different scientific studies and listening to lectures that sometimes kind of put me to sleep it gets a little long if you exclude the spirit man if you exclude the influence of evil spirits in your life what I found is there's this micromanagement our physiology where they're trying to search for these micro chemical changes they're trying to manipulate the physiology because they really believe that it has to be carnal or physical fleshly that is causing these abnormalities even in our behaviors so they're not looking for a source beyond the physical so they keep messin with people and the more though it seems like the more than they mess with people and this kind of goes into the next subject in fact it may be I can give a little history lesson to to join this is that what happens is that as we manipulate things more and more and more sometimes it spins further and further out of control like because we're going to start talking about opioids but most what's really sad is a lot of the supposed innovations that that took place in the development of opioids as painkillers and for analgesia to help people feel better I mean it I believe they started using it for instance during the Civil War you know people opium to help people to feel better when they you know they were having all kinds of really awful wounds and such but you know opium started to get a pretty bad name because people are getting highly addicted and so one of the ways that they try to create something that would be pulled out from that and and cultivated as a more refined version that they thought might not have the same consequences would be morphine that didn't work out well that became just another issue that people had now there was another one that they thought you know that was a derivative that of opium where they messed with it chemically and they they figured this particular substance was not going to be at all an issue with substance abuse it wouldn't be addictive at all in fact I believe when it was first marketed it was actually over-the-counter you didn't even have to get prescription for it and that one is heroin and as you can imagine that one really worked out well for us so it was not an addictive at all all right of course I'm being sarcastic but then another one that another example that of a synthetic I believe I believe it's a synthetic it might be a semi synthetic meaning like a mixture there but I I'm pretty sure it's it's synthetic is a substance called fentanyl that that's being abused and that's something where I'm sure when they developed it they assumed that this was going to be an even better version of what existed maybe less dangerous but then the result was that because they're trying to manipulate a chemical to deal with things that sometimes go beyond the physical that some of the consequences are some things that we simply cannot predict our attempts to micromanage our peace or lack of it I'll read this next one which will take is the opioids yes I pronounced that right yes oh good thanks Aaron every 19 minutes in them someone dies from a drug overdose usually from prescription drugs not illegal drugs every 19 minutes somebody dies from an overdose opioids here comes the air comes the ocultism the the painkillers that we're talking about do not remove the source of the pain it's a it's actually a placebo in which it dulls the pathways that produced the pain or releases biochemistry like dopamine to give you a semi relief but does not produce a cure or a relief so opioids are only dulling the pathways that's a no cultic conclusion anything that offers itself as the real thing but as a counterfeit is known as a cultic you know I'm reminded of the scripture and I think I had it here is that the priest and the prophet have erred and they've only healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace peace and there is no peace so we've entered we've entered into a place that even in the people of God the churches the priests and the Prophet Hill have answers and we we offer healing we offer a success we offer just believe we offer Jesus as a placebo off Jesus out there as a drug but we don't bring people back to the basic pathway of the gospel it's always again just relief without change I I've said it for years that the church is missing out on the theme of Reformation it offers on a transformation how many teachings on transformation promises of healing and all the rest said that they'll come and look for the anointed man or someone of this so it's for a few but but we we have always looked for transformation but I have to tell you without Reformation there will be no transformation the bible does not teach transformation first this is seek you first the kingdom of God to His righteousness then all these things should be added unto you so we've accepted a pathway as the solution yes but it hasn't produced a solution and though we offering the priest in the private affairs they've only healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace peace and there is no peace I did a comfortably shouldn't say this one say it anyway always and get in trouble in a conference three years ago and was one two keynote speakers another state and the first people but the first person had been taking the attendees on an Asheville trip to heaven they've been taking them to heaven through out-of-body experiences and so I'm the second speaker and I'm listening to all these conversations one lady had to go to hell to find heaven who are the testimonies and it's time for me to speak and then I said Lord what am I going to saying because all the people that went to heaven came back as sick as they left they left because I asked them anybody to leave to go to heaven with the disease on your body or our syndrome yes when you came back from heaven did you still have the disease or syndrome yeah what you have then what was a fruit of it an experience was that really heaven you want to or was that an occultic counterfeit because if you went to heaven no disease can send the presence of God in heaven no Devils can go there so you said you've been to heaven you had to come back different they came back wouldn't change so I got out I was gonna teach and I said well I heard you up and taking trips welcome home well I didn't know what to say I said god I don't know what to say so I said this our gentleman the past few days been taking a trip walking home well can we get back down down to earth take care business let's talk about your diseases and syndromes where God is in your life today and just like that we were bound Lord so heavenly minded anymore because we returned earth we had the same problems you know that that is that is definitely a part of the theme of even the investigation that I end up doing into addictions is that I mean you brought it up you framed it very well this morning but but but but there's the the one of the greatest challenge for challenges for every human related to addictions is that on the other side of addictions is are usually unpleasant circumstances we have to face we have to deal with the other side of the addiction you end up with yourself and no escape so you go from hit to hit - hi - hi trying to avoid the unpleasantness of your moment only to return to earth and there it becomes the power of false fulfillment because it sets up a faith movement that theory is really fear-based to try to believe that the experience is a solution that's cultic thinking that's deceptive here the Sun sets free is free indeed you don't have to worry about God doing something and then it doesn't work he's nothing of confusion so I'll read this yes opioids first of all they boast a most boost they boost or increase dopamine now dopamine and serotonin are two big words in in the chemistry of moods and personality people that have deficiency in serotonin usually are depressed having their down they have depression and people that have like for example in paranoid schizophrenia one of the dopamine is over secreted so they go into the grandiose sea they go into the overproduction the aforex part of this thing and so also the opioid slow down breathing and they are highly addictive now listen carefully I mentioned this this morning in passing quickly the body creates natural painkillers this scientific research thing everybody calls them opioids the science calls them endorphins and endorphins is a natural painkiller that the body secretes for your benefit so that so that if you hurt yourself the body releases a painkiller to help numb that pain however if you're using the artificial drug or there are the opioid the body shuts down does not produce these natural opioids or endorphins any longer and what God created to help you with pain doesn't work at all as long as the artificial counterfeit is in the body so then you stop trying to break loose of the drug but there's no dolphins that are being secreted by your body to fill in the gap and you had this great withdrawal in this great gap of withdrawal and you're begging for some relief to go back to the drug to get their relief so it's a reward system and to get dopamine to be released and so on the body relies on the opioid drug and goes into the draw if the opioid levels are not there so we're setting up a biochemistry base in the body that must be maintained your body is designed that way and so and what we're gonna this article is is that when you bring in the artificial one what God created no longer works at all yeah well you know shuts down well and what you mentioned about the withdrawal is such a huge thing because there is definitely an element where people who have been abusing opioids are are afraid to even come off of them because of how devastating the withdrawal really is I mean that they feel like they're dying you know in the in retrospect here because we're spiritual people right this audience you're spiritual are you just soul beings with bodies see this come this is our conversation this morning wasn't it yes so so if your spiritual beings then you understand what I read about Jesus that he faced the problem in his mind in his heart I've been crucified the pain the suffering and this was in the garden he hadn't even come to the place of being asked urged and beaten but already the fear was there already when it says Jesus was tempted in all points such as we are it's exactly what it means folks all the emotions and feelings and fears and the junk that you face he faced it as a human being and even in this moment where he knew where he was going the prophets prophesied that he would be beaten and he would and I mean the prophets had already spoken and he knew what the prophets said about him he wasn't ignorant and he said father if it be possible take this cup from me and they were do I have to go through this pain this coming but then he said this nevertheless not my will but your will be done it is God's will that you not be artificially maintained by the enemy as it is God's will that you not be artificially maintained if I may speak for God it's his will that you not be maintained by the enemy because the drugs are a well I did a teaching years ago I think we get it on it on a CD over here or DVD about pharmaceutical drugs and the title of the teaching was cure or cover up cure or cover up do the drugs produce a cure no they're a bridge to another body to come back into homeostasis to go back into functioning correctly but if you bring something artificial the body does the hath to work for you and then you come into an altered state of biological memory which is your new body then craves that because it's out of balance so you go to depression because all the depression is by definition is a result of a chemical imbalance in the body so if you want to get depression get a chemical imbalance in your body you can get that through serotonin deficiency or you can get it through this withdrawal and everything else so we're the victim of our ignorant or the victim or biology were the victim of things that are external but the will is important here absolutely take it away well I mean that there was a I I figured this this really dovetails great into this quote that I found well it was it was not a quote it was a it was from an article where the author is making an observation about opioid a use and misuse and addictions and stuff and they're asking questions around why for instance Hydra code on that this was a couple years ago that Americans consumed more than 99 percent of the world's supply of it this was according to the UN report that and they were trying to figure out why that was so years ago Dave hunting somebody way back in the 80s wrote a book called it America the source was new apprenticed America has become the sorcerer they're no longer an apprentice and and the you know I read an article yesterday from the head of a drug company he said it is my moral responsibility to raise drug prices by 400% it was in the news it is my moral responsibility we've lost our way go ahead well what was interesting was actually another statement made in the article because it does go it targets mindset I think that's a big question mark because as we go through this and as we look at some of the findings around addictions hang on I know you interrupt you but hang the word mindset yeah so as the man thinks in his heart so is he that's a mindset go ahead yes because I felt like this was really important it says no this is a Washington Post article I believe let's see yes it is but here's what here's what it said this is from that article says cultural factors may augment US opioid consumption as well relative to Europeans Americans have more faith that life is perfectible for example all pain can be avoided and it's I just thought that was an interesting wording all pain can be avoided instead of Americans well that there's this suggestion the author's making oh it's maybe part of those so all pain can be avoided yes for example as an example and and I think that is such a huge problem because it I mean I mean I I was just listening to some doctors talking about pain you know just in a that deal with painting and what I loved is one doctor right up front said something very important and very simple he said pain is not a negative thing if you didn't feel pain that's a more dangerous situation because you could have damage to your body and you would never know what's happening you could die without having it your same pain as a form of wisdom yes it wouldn't be horrible to have a problem your body you couldn't feel it didn't know where to look for it and you died because of your ignorance that would not be good and in so we there it is important that we understand what the point of pain is and also I want part of what I found in a lot of the studying that I was doing was that I was looking at medical studies I started looking at articles first but I found that a lot of the news articles this is my perception may not be reality but this is my perception that a lot of them are very sensationalistic it may have taken elements of truth and kind of pushed them to places where it got it became a lie so it started as truth and it kind of veered off into stretching the truth liberal use of of exaggeration and the reason why this is important is because this really goes into the topic today is that a lot of people mistake dopamine as producing pleasure when in fact it is really much more closely aligned with wanting and desire you gotta listen I I had to make some adjustments in my own unites conversation I had to modify my teachings for years because we're all we're still learning right you learned and you learn a little bit more I've all I've I have considered dopamine to be the pleasure neurotransmitters body released in cocaine released in sexual activity and so on and I've taught it but this bit of information where we're going now has transcended my own thinking has brought me back to basics is is read what you just said there it's not about pleasure it's about what it is involved in wanting and desire wanting and desire now here's a case where the enemy is going to use what God created for natural movement of fulfillment and he's going to take and use it against the person but leaves drugs to give the fulfillment not the blessings of God normally now wanting and desire are elements of faith you know when it wouldn't when Satan said I will be like the Most High God he's a master understudy of what God created he's incredibly intelligent he knows your bodies better than Mayo Clinic he knows everything about you he knows every body part in how it functions and he knows how to tweak it but needs your personality needs your spirituality in order to make it work because he can't overtake you against your will but it can take you over take you in your ignorance come on now so we're talking about a perversion of what what was the two words a wanting and desires and wanting and desiring what is faith the substance of things hoped for isn't that wanting and desire he'll give you the object of your faith so so how can we see how the enemy is taking something replacing the natural spiritual movement of receiving and giving us a counterfeit go ahead keep going I like so yeah so so this is this is my own observation not necessarily from the research but here's the way I describe it it is a chemical involved in expressing faith biologically that's the way I describe it now say that again a it is a chemical involved in expressing faith biologically expressing faith biologically but the faith is not really cool because it only surrounds pain and the freedom of it or the diminishing of it to say that your pain has been diminished doesn't mean you have been healed but in addictions just any type of release or reduction is considered the drawing card for more drug because you're not you're not ready to die to self you know are ready to exercise your will you're not ready and so we end up being puppets on a string being manipulated by biochemistry and balances and the desire to be free of what bothers us yes absolutely and in fact so so the key here and I we do on time I do want to make this distinction only because we're gonna go into the understanding the reward system of the body is that it is important to understand that dopamine is involved in what's called I'm sorry let's see but what was the terminology incentive salience and wanting incentives not necessarily the liking explain the word salient and all that business I'm I'm gonna slow well it's basically a matter of what's important to us what where do we what are we looking for them what are what are we where we focused on what are we trying to get and and how how how vital something is in the acquisition of what we want let me put it that way and and so it helps us to really pare down rethink and try to figure out how to get what we want and what what the reason why this is so important though is because the issue around opioids from what I found and in the research is that we have parts of our body there's a part of our kind of I was unclear as to its part of the brainstem I think it's part of the junction between the brainstem and the brain well in the I'm sorry and the spine kind of v how able to put this it's the anyway the point that I'm making is it it it's known as the periaqueductal gray and what it would uses you Harry aqueduct I'll gray is low we're slow now Perry aqueduct old gray what is that I I don't I don't know at all it the key is that it's basically at the juncture between our spine and our brain right in that in that area now now a lot of thought goes down through the brainstem and goes down to different parts to the brain we deal with PTSD and then maybe in the amygdala in the swelling on the amygdala so there's a lot of things that happen in the hypothalamus and down to that whole area I think we as a church body in the world don't understand the soul yeah we don't understand the composition the compartments as a soul that allow us to to contain memory and and emotion and thought yes I think we're really in the dark ages and if you rely on psychology to define it for you you will become more acclimated to what you can see yeah and you'll never see the invisible part of thought moving yes and I don't want to make this overly complicated and overly intellectual but the point being is that this juncture is really important to Pain Suppression because basically what happens is that we there are a lot of opioid receptors and what the opioid receptors do is they just shut down the transmission of pain that's coming from our our body parts if something's happening in our body somewhere in our body it stops it from going to the brain and coming from the brain it's just it shuts down the signal as dr. Henry was saying it doesn't actually mean your body's better you just don't know your body is having problems right now we're just one of those piece piece but there is no peace yes so what you're doing you're being biologically micro managed as if you so you have a reward you you have a return you have some relief but you haven't solved the problem that's why it doesn't heal it's so cultic innocent conclusion that's why it drives you back to the drug in order to has some type of peace yes is that true yes so it's it's it's it's really seems to be of a help but in fact you're being conditioned to have more of the same so is your trust in God anymore are you looking for route issues in your life are you dealing with things your life that would cause this to happen or you now just being micromanaged by false hope false peace I think we're at the time you guys take over we'll see you in about 30 minutes and I welcome you back to the addictions conference I'm here with Scotty Wu Hoshi member of our team in a panel that I thought would be important to look at some of the biological and scientific material behind addictions we can spend some time looking at some of the spiritual principles so on but how how the enemy does it and the connection between biology and and drugs and and so on is a interesting field so I'm going to let you begin Scotty okay in taking off with some of this research to lead us in a direction to see well how this works alright so the where I want to begin is I actually want to begin with a diagram that I prepared for this and this I will say is not and not like super accurate this was just basically to convey very important concepts for today and one of them is that I show the pre the prefrontal cortex we're gonna be talking about that later on so that is just more for reference of where things go but the two key dots that you see on this diagram I'm going to describe them only because they are very important in why addictions can be so difficult to overcome especially when you're dealing with some form some chemicals it could be alcohol it be opioids it could be various different things nicotine could even be included in that various things and so what what I want to just describe about these and why why I made a point of showing these is the first one is known as the VTA there or the fancy name is ventral tegmental area but honestly if you search for VTA you should come up with that on Google or something but it's called the ventral tegmental area so why is this so important well this is a site a site at which there's a the dopamine released into the reward system of the brain the mezzo limbic pathway is known as the reward pathway basically okay so the the issue around this is that this reward pathway is great when you're doing things that are positive when you're doing things that are potentially life-affirming that are I mean honestly the way that I felt a lot of that over the last maybe two months that we've been working together is based upon learning and challenges because whenever I would talk to him there would be some new discussion and question he would keep pushing the conversation further and I remember being challenged where I was like I don't know where to go with this but at the same time I will say it was very fulfilling when I started to explore and started to understand and I believe that that started tapping as part of that reward pathway of learning and unexpected reward in fact that is a very important part about how our reward system works I was telling dr. Henry that the that a good way for a casino to go broke because this is about a behavioral addiction is make it so that people put a dollar in let's say $1 worth of coins in every time they pull a slot machine okay it doesn't pay out every single time but every fourth time it pays out $3 that would be a good way for that casino to go broke people would recognize it works and it was they'll be turning a profit because people putting $4 in and getting $3 a return but that's not how the reward system works in fact a lot of what psychology has found is that that we we're interested in and rewards that we can't predict which is very interesting and there I think the reason why that's so interesting is because that's part of faith it's part of the journey of faith we can't predict how and when and what God is gonna do in our life how he's going to speak to what you're saying apart from the unknown of the reward if you know that every fourth spin you're going to get rewarded you'll become bored in doing it at all yeah even though you have a return because it's taking the thrill of the big return exactly and the risk even the risk yeah so now the next area that I want to point out so the ventral tegmental area is very important because it is the point response for releasing dopamine into the reward system in fact especially when you're talking about opioids okay around the reward system part of what's so dangerous about them is the way the fact there are opioid receptors on the VTA and that's where dopamine is released into the reward system and that leads us along this pathway to the next dot which is called the nucleus accumbens the nucleus accumbens don't ask me don't ask me what that means all I know is it's a thing in the brain that is also known as the pleasure center of the brain and this is where a lot of the problems come from because of the chemical reactions around nucleus accumbens that's where people like things that's the liking and pleasure issue in fact there have been many documented studies where some of this honestly seems kind of barbaric from back in the 1950s I remember them doing I sing one with a woman who actually had been hooked up with some electrodes in the brain and they had her press a button she was pressing buttons on this either just like a tape recorder but I'm sure it wasn't tape-recorder being that this is the 1950s what was giving her a let an electric stimulation and whenever she pressed the one that would trigger around the ventral I'm sorry around the nucleus accumbens she's like oh I like that one and she'd press it again there was even mice where they would they were hooking them up and whenever they would press this lever switch it would give them that pleasure and they would keep pressing it in fact I think they had to actually stop them from pressing it because they just would keep doing that and they wouldn't even eat they would just be like oh this is great I'm feeling great but but that but we could see how that could be a problem the reward system in and of itself is not the problem but the problem is of course if you're trying to avoid consequences avoid things in life that are unpleasurable if you find a substance that helps you to feel pleasure you're probably to do that instead of everything else in fact those mice were like a drug addict their president because no I don't want to eat I like feeling good let me keep feeling good don't let me feel bad and that's where this goes back to that mindset we read earlier about the idea of avoiding pain because that doesn't necessarily mean physical pain necessarily in fact what we're what what we're finding with a study that I found that was really phenomenal for my thinking was the fact that it starts to show that life experiences that pain is really part of the known susceptibility to drugs that life circumstances in pain that we carry around with us can make us susceptible so we're not talking about a physical neurological pain yes or we're talking about a feeling yes that was the feel like pain in fact I would say that is the complexity that I've heard so I have a lot of empathy for these these doctors and these researchers and scientists and as I was looking into the subject I'm just an observer of what's going on here but what I empathize with is the problem is we all have problems up here and in our bodies and trying to detangle those especially around things like opioids because see one of the really major dangers around opioids is when you take it I'm sure the medical community would love if you take the opioid and it only stays in the part of the body they want to deal with unfortunate goes to everywhere that you have opioid receptors so a person might be getting treatment for a real physical issue they broke their hip or something but then at the same time they feel this euphoria and they start to notice a lot of their unpleasant feelings are going away without what that point it's hard to detangle what part is physiological and what part is mental so then we become like a mouse yes we disregard the essential things of life and pursue that pursue that which gives us that kind of euphoric feeling yes in fact what I think was what was so wonderful about this next study that I'd like to look into is because see they keep bringing up in the study the mesolimbic pathway so it was important for you guys to just basically understand we're not gonna go into super depth in detail about the brain just simply know there's a there's a pleasure Center and then the VTA or a ventral tegmental area sends signals over there and these signals then also past other parts of the brain so it's not just these two areas but these are the initiation points that are really a big part of why people have trouble with addictions so if I have I don't like myself and I feel rejected by people and I had this battle with self then I'm not at peace so I had this internal conflict which is a form of pain yes and so then I need high relief I need a release so that I can avoid these feelings yes go to a place that I feel good yes so I don't have to deal with these feelings so that's the occulting part of drugs is that well the teaching eight years ago is cure or cover-up is it really doing what we think it should or is it giving us a very bad placebo effect yes and it's not really a placebo it's a planned event to control us by the enemy and so God is not in control we're not even in control yes because we're pursuing a almost hedonistic way of thinking feel good yes at all cost well and what we will find as we look at the examples and we're there are there's quite a bit here it's important to understand that this is part of people having really tragic and fortunate life circumstances and simply not being taught correctly perhaps not having even having the Word of God as part of their life so what they do in these situations is try their best to survive it which means that if I'm feeling suicidal well I'm going to try to find something that just are looking for something that doesn't makes me not feel suicidal that's all I'm looking for right now does that make sense like I'm not as yeah I'm not I'm not looking for somebody to actually fix the situation I'm just looking for a way to not I don't want to deal with unpleasant feeling exactly so I must go into an altered state of consciousness at any level I can't do that naturally yes because my mind is still there the feelings are still there it's when a good day to go a place where that part of me that is my will and my emotions are suppressed and I live in a altered state of consciousness chemically to avoid those feelings is that what we're trying to say yes yes we're we're trying to numb out we're trying to not experience these bad situations and and I I think what what is a really important takeaway in all this so we don't just get lost in wow there's a lot of stuff is to really remember that this that this draws us to a point of having to make a decision are we going you continue to run away from these circumstances or we're going to choose to trust God in facing and pursuing a solution with him according to the word well that then takes us to a refocusing yes of who we are our identity yes and and we find that people that are predisposed to pursuing all verse states of consciousness chemically really have a problem with our identity yes it is and and they don't know what to do with the feelings they don't know what to do with the self rejection yes they don't know what to do with the fear and so they have to have peace somehow because I can't stand it and for many of them suicide is not a viable alternative there is built into at least ninety percent of the population this antipathy towards suicide yes so it's not an option so since we're not going to go to suicide which is the ultimate xscape we're going to take some pathway that we can exist in spite of ourselves so we're not really facing ourselves yes or no only pursue their true identity we're living in a quasi world of chemical maintenance yes well I remember in our conversation when we were going over the studies when you when you mention about what they did at that dumplin rehab situation and I thought that was so phenomenal in its simplicity because basically if I was understanding you correctly what they were doing what these men is teaching them how to be correct humans in very basic ways to be thankful to God to learn how to pray learn how to read their Bible so in the in the cold turkey which we use the term cold turkey which produced lots of withdrawal they were being taught how to live and come back to a proper chemical basis in spite of their feelings yes so as they're being reformed in their thinking and beginning to accept who they are in God and they're being taught that they are now what's being removed is that drawing towards the chemical counterfeit of peace so that all they have left has gone to themselves yes and there's where they find their piece and here's the thing is that we have to believe that there is a God there's a holy spirit that is that's gonna bring us the peace jesus said peace give on to you but not as the world gives give I unto you and that comes right down to the understanding of our value as a human yes you are incredibly valuable I'm telling you if you just knew how important you are to creation and how God really needs you for all of creation to help created beings learn these principles yes that's what being a king and a priest is in the Millennium is helping the natural people rule over understand the principles of life and death understand the principles of love the principles of the existence together and forgiveness well in what's phenomenal about what you're talking about here is going back to what you're talking about with Jesus in terms of making the decision to go forward with going to the cross was that that wasn't based on convenience or comfort it was based on understanding the outcome and the importance of that outcome well that Jesus had not used his will and submitted his will to the Father we wouldn't be here today yes so the whole hope of mankind rested in one man's decision to choose yes this is incredible and he didn't want to go there that prayer proves it he said if possible father take this cup from me yet at the same time he released his will that's the part where Satan couldn't break him yes it was that part that took him to the cross it was that part that the Bible says if the god of this world had known that by crucifying the Lord of glory the way he did that he would have lost he had have been smart enough to do us some different way yes so the wisdom of God took this pain took this decision took this will and we're here today because of that decision yes now so that was Jesus well who are you a human yeah but but but what Jesus was not human when he says he was tempted in all points such as we are that's not true temptation is just temptation you don't have to follow your temptation feelings your whole body can shake yes your whole body can be in their withdrawal but you don't have to yield because your will have to be given Satan wants your will to match his will not God's will but you have the Holy Spirit he's the comforter he's the one that has given you the the the Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit that we are the sons and daughters of God the Holy Spirit bears witness that were accepted yes why would you believe a lie that you're not accepted why would you believe that a drug is a counterfeit for the Peace of the Holy Ghost hello this becomes a theoretical challenge yes don't go down under my challenge please so the first thing I would like to do as we're moving forward is I'm gonna look into this study that involves stress and a susceptibility to addictions and it's very interesting because it goes into life's circumstances so it's not just an intellectual pursuit but I would like to verbatim read their definition around stress so we understand what their defining this has so I'm just read this from the study it says the term stress refers to processes involving perception appraisal and a response to harmful threatening or challenging events or stimuli stress experiences can be emotionally or physiologically challenging and activate stress responses an adaptive process to regain homeostasis so people have something bad happen to them and they're trying to figure out how do I get back to normal that's basically even chemically or otherwise examples of emotional stressors include interpersonal conflict loss of relationship death of a close family member and loss of a child common physiological stressors are hunger or food deprivation sleep deprivation or insomnia extreme hyper or hypothermia and drug withdrawal states in addition regular and binge use of many psychoactive drugs serve as pharmacal pharmacological stressors that means that you know something that somebody took recreationally could actually cause them torment subsequent to that original experience I saw they they had some kind of weird trip in there they're not doing well now so now what I'd like to do is is bring us to now I want to summarize this rather than reading everything they have there because it gets very deep but I thought what was very interesting is that there are different types of stress that makes us susceptible to addictions including life events this may be patterns as well as single traumatic events so I'm going to read that they describe three types of chronic stress okay now there could be a cute situation that a person house now what does that mean it's a single incident maybe something super traumatic happen in your life okay you are in a traumatic car crash and one of your and your best friend died in that that could be something that haunts you and it could be a single incident but what they also find is there's a lot of the chronic circumstances and it's very interesting how they describe it can really impact us and now the first two categories that I'm gonna read about make sense but the third is a very interesting one I'm kind of given adding a little hint in here so you're interested as we go along so number one of these three types of chronic stress talks about adolescents going through recent hi negative events can show vulnerability you know let's say they're being ostracized by their peer group and they're embarrassed or something bad happens in their life and and because of what's happening surrounding them in the circumstance they become more susceptible to an addiction okay that's one type now the second one is another one that we're aware of which is association between trauma and mental treatment and chronic distress as and in physical and sexual abuse so if somebody's in a seriously physically abusive environment and let's say it goes on for years and years and it's an ongoing pattern that could put put somebody potentially in a in a compromised state but now what's interesting about number three and this is the part that really struck me when I showed you this this study because unfortunately this involves all of us on some level and that's where we can all have a type of susceptibility it says cumulant cumulative that's a hard word to say cumulative adversity may not be one type of trauma but be maybe many diverse circumstances that lead to vulnerability and they even talked about this they use the fancy words proximal and distal events so but what basically this means is it could be stuff way in the past stuff that happened yesterday it could be a bunch of small things and a couple big things but because of life circumstances accumulating people can eventually become more susceptible to addictions I I know where we're headed with this but I gotta remind you of a scripture in first John 4:18 we quoted it this morning for parts there is no fear in love this is all dealing with the breakup of relationship it is there is no fear in love if you're not been loved or accepted properly from childhood you're going to have fear yes but how do you get rid of fear this comes out of the application perfect love casts out fear if if I don't love you are you gonna be afraid of me yeah you know vocally if I love you are you gonna be afraid of me no do I accept you gonna be afraid of me but when you look at these patterns in these case histories people that go into addictions apart from the inherited one our people who have suffered at some point with adverse connections with other people yes beginning in childhood with parents grandparents siblings on into on into puberty I mean even even in in the school system the kids aren't kind to each other yes and you have this incredible outburst of scoliosis which is coming out of conflict between children and so we're then deal with the reason for complex with children we just put rods in their spines we're in the dark ages yeah and so we move ahead that perfect love casts out fear but fear has torment now fear has torment is the is the fixation yes a persona yes the fixation of personality so we actually allow ourself to and how we think our personality becomes one of fear yes and the fear demands a place of peace because no one can handle this constant high level fear enough try to find a way of escape yes because it's too much now part four of first John 4:18 is is let me see how it goes he that is after the earth yours you know you're coming yeah I'm catching up he that has fear is not made perfect in love so what this is saying if you have these kind of historical fears from bad relationships not only you're predisposed to addictions yes you are unable to give and receive love without fear yourself yes and that puts you into a box and this box is oppressive because you were created by God to give and receive love and when that's taken from you you're tormented because in your heart the deep recesses of who you are as a human being spiritually your design to love God is love you're created in His image love so here we come down into the formation of someone who is addicted to drugs yes so because it's a way of escape yes now it all has to do with relationship that's what we quoted the greatest commandment this morning is that you're to love God with all of your being yes and you love your neighbor you say you don't understand my neighbor as yourself well I don't love myself and you can never love your neighbor you may have a fabricated personality you may put on the dog as they say you may act you may be jovial you may be happy but deep inside you're tormented because you have a fabricated personality yes and you must have an escape for that yes yes and that's why many times some of the big stars and in movies and music and so on become addicts because there are performers they have fabricated personalities but no one has taken time for their personal lives and they're stranded so who they are is what they do know who you are is not what you do and this becomes the big battle of performance and that becomes our way in their minds it becomes a mindset that my value is in what I do they're buying the curvature of life I'm not able to do what I used to do so I my value has decreased because I don't have and all of a sudden your value again is based on what you do and many many of famous people have committed suicide and killed themselves and gone into drug overdoses because they're not at peace with themselves while their fans say they are gods this is a real problem that not true amen what don't you got there yes well I I you had that list and I want to read yes well that's where I was gonna go let's go well would you like to read I would love to read the letter all right then I read the list and these are various life events that can accumulate over a lifetime so it may not be isolated this could be over years most most of the problems that we begin to develop begin in unsafe home some childhood you know I get into certain diseases and disorders that afflict teenagers and young adults because all their life they've been performing for a parent their value isn't how well they did something they never got a smile unless they did something perfect and to do something wrong and not get straight A's was unacceptable and there was trouble in the home no child is expected to be a straight-a student you can tell every educator in the world I said that you are crazy you are creating a world full of paranoid schizophrenic and psychotic individuals because God never I want to say this folks God never intended this planet be inhabited just by white collar people yes I just had a thought as you're speaking because I I think sometimes we talk about making an allowance for failure but really another way of looking at this is also making allowance for learning because learning is requires that we take risks and refine what's going on in our life that means we have to not do it right and learn to do there has to be a provision for failure and there is no provision for failure in education or sports so we're creating a nation of paranoid individuals and families because who you are is based on your success I mean I used to be a t-ball coach years ago little kids I loved it can you imagine how many parents would come out and rage at their children who missed the ball at the top of the tee because they were thinking he was some superstar ready for the NBA or something or whatever is and I was I was shocked to find these parents making their children cry because they were just learning how to hold a bat that is our society that's producing disease and producing and driving us to addictions I'm telling you it is yes because we had this mindset even here in you know I'm I head up a very small organization here and you know being health and hope of the generations I am the whenever I am here and and but I have a management philosophy we want everybody to excel at the level they're able to excel but I have a management philosophy that would get me kicked out of Harvard Law you know School School of Business you know what it is if we get done anything if we get anything done today at all it's a miracle and it's more than we ever done yes get done yesterday so you do the best you can today we don't allow people to take work home overnight you've put in your day you go home with God in family or see you tomorrow is that not our management style here because we don't need you burn out for God because if you get burned out for God you're going to be going out looking for a fix somewhere it won't be the right place to get the fix and so we must think like God if we're creating His image so can I read these things getting carried away here get excited that's good now these these are things that produce and you'll find this and I have a list over here of addictive personalities and they really go hand in hand they go we're know what my list went to but I have a list here oh here it is right here and like we're looking for stuff these are some of the things that will drive you to drink or to whatever I get into in a minute because it becomes part of our personality as a response to our torment our torment requires a response and it is not pleasant when it when it manifests yes and it manifests in order to create that everybody get high on something why to avoid each other because there's no peace so you read these are saying types of adverse life events you read that trauma chronic stressors loss of a parent I've seen people sometimes go down under that physical neglect negative emotionality parental divorce and conflict physical abuse by a parent or a care caretaker or a family member spouse or whoever poor behavioral control isolation and abandonment single-parent family structure is an addiction maker why I want tell you something it's not the mother that is sets the standard of peace in the family unfortunately has become that or they try to but the father was designed by God to bring the stability and peace to a family unit in fact in fact science has told me that the man's daughter the female daughter in the home that her father sets the standard for her emotional growth and stability not the mother we have a nation of fatherless families even though there may be fathers and husbands in the home it is upside down it is dysfunctional and some of you ladies are asked to do the men's job emotionally and spiritually in your homes don't quote me too soon because we're upside down an ungodly order and certain cultures over 50 or 60% of the families there's not a father at home at all just a mother and God bless the mothers but you're being asked to do something that God didn't ask you to do but thank you for your consistency emotional abuse and neglect forced to live apart from parents and sexual abuse it does carry on into more okay oh my goodness loss of a child by death sexual assault unfaithfulness of a significant other or husband or wife unfaithfulness loss of a home - natural disaster death of a significant other or family member wife husband victim of gun shooting violent acts observing violent victimization happening to others will create trauma events and memories in your mind now these are things that are part of the failure of man to love you we we live in a world that is far fallen from God's purposes than his plans and his design and so were the fall out you know I often I I often wonder there's a there's a scripture and I think in Proverbs and I don't know where it is exactly but it talks about and I asked the question he is - a guy used to be on Christian radio and I asked some trivia questions and I asked this question one time is it okay to give strong drink to somebody and get them drunk and what and people call you and everybody said no you never contribute to that I said the Bible doesn't say that now the Bible makes a statement you find a strong give strong Greek to them that are perishing you ever find that one their gift strong Greek to them can you have somebody find it let me know where it is oh you geeks it's proverbs 30 I think or 30 yeah 31 I think you're right you got you got to hear this because this is going to show you what we're talking about that's in the Bible and I think it is Proverbs can you give me a moment to look it up I thank you for your generosity of time I think it is proverbs 31 as to what let me old's mother said is that where it is lemuel mother let mewls mother I was Lamia noise I remember 31 I'm getting close pray for me pages are turning here we are yes yes what verse is it verse 6 verse 6 it says it is not for kings Oh Lemuel it is not for Kings to drink wine nor for Prince's strong drink lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts let him drink and forget his poverty remember his misery no more Wow if you ever saw altered state of consciousness yes yes right here God is not advocating this he's making a statement about the futility of those that end up in this state they have no hope and so you see that even in this case those that have no hope and those that are all that that they would take strong drink and wine and so on to enter into that altered state of consciousness biologically that they could forget their misery that's the power of sorcery that's the power of addiction that's the power of what we're talking about yes is avoidance escape not facing the reality producing the pain that is what dries people rather than Facebook we started this morning talking about facing the issues developing your will because if you don't develop your will you'll stay in this state you won't get up and fight for what is right yes I see many people trying to come out of addictions that will not fight for their life all they want they're tired of the shame they're tired of the guilt they're tired of all the stuff waking up you know but they will not take the steps to get free and stay free this is a tragedy how much does it cost you to exercise your will nothing wasn't that simple do you need to be trained in how to exercise your will not really it's a decision we get into the latter part of this teaching today we're going to talk about choice decisions yes let's keep moving here this is your this is you because that's that's where this gets really interesting yes let's keep going so now the the next thing that I wanted to point out in this is that these drug issues go beyond well beyond opioids because we're not just trying to single out a single drug in fact many of these have very similar actions on the body they I might be slightly different but the point is that makes people feel checked out alter state of consciousness they don't feel as bad as they previously did in fact what's listed in this study as being being things that people could fall into it talks about susceptibility including various drugs psychostimulants alcohol opioids nicotine and other illegal drugs they didn't cover because in their study they couldn't be using illegal drugs which makes sense at a university they wouldn't be saying hey we're gonna try using heroin to see what happens to people okay so but but they did find a lot of these are similar now their receptor sites I want to the opioid receptor sites for heroin are the exact same ones as marijuana so if you take marijuana the receptor sites opioid receptor sites are activated that marijuana is a quick switch over because they're activated the same way so the the next thing that I wanted to read and I think this is a very interesting interesting part of this study here was that they were talking about what happens with people who are into cocaine and what I thought was very very interesting about it was what is not happening in their brain versus a normal person it's what is happening and what is not happening gives you a lot of interesting pictures about what's happening this person so I'm going to read from the study then I'm going to make sense of what I'm reading says although healthy controls and cocaine dependent individuals show similar levels of distress and pulse changes during stress exposure brain responses to emotional stress in the paralympic regions and now what's interesting about this you don't just necessarily need to know what these are but I'm going to I'm going to point out something about these it says such as the anterior cingulate cortex and hippocampus they're both relates one is relate to impulse control and the other one is about regulating emotions and parent parent parahippocampal regions was greater and healthy controls during stress so the activity is greater to deal with impulse control and regulate their emotions and a normal person now here's what happened in a person who was addicted to cocaine in contrast cocaine patients had increased activity in the caudate and dorsal striatum regions during stress that was significantly associated with stress induced cocaine craving ratings so basically what happens and it happened is instead of them dealing with a stressor and starting to have to face basically this is about facing recognizing this may not feel comfortable but attempting to build a strategy to deal with it instead of doing that what they do is I need some cocaine you start craving that thing to get them out of the situation now it may not physically take them out of the situation but they want something that numbs them to what they're feeling in that situation may I ask you a clinical question so you're saying that the cocaine stimulates dopamine well here's here's what I here's what I found out I actually did research a little bit further that that what I what I found is it's called an indirect agonist what does that mean it means that it binds to dopamine transporters what are dopamine transporters well dopamine transporters when dopamine is released in the system they're responsible for recollecting the excess of dopamine so it's not just in the system as well as stopping the flow of dopamine that was started ok he's like kind of clamping it down it's not entirely done well done away with but you know regulation is about regulation of the system so what cocaine does is actually attaches itself to this dopamine transporter and indirectly causes it not to the dopamine not to be real excuse me it causes dopamine not to be taken back up into the system and so there's an excessive buildup as well as the fact that the faucets still on basically in the body so it indirectly does cause more dopamine to be in the system two ways well the result is that people do feel euphoria they feel better that dopamine is the same one that God uses to help you work and it'll release faith yeah this time it's being used for improper purposes interfere with God's hope for your life it's amazing how the enemy will take what God created and then use it for clandestine purposes and so rather than having your hope based on the Word of God and the faith of God is based on a chemical euphoric response yes by a part of the body that it was designed by God to be used for your faith isn't that being used to reinforce the need for cocaine am I saying that yes yes no no here's know here's where this I I I must say this that what one thing I loved about doing this research with dr. Henry was the fact that it was a creative process as somebody asked me earlier what my background was well I used to be an illustrator used to draw comic book for a living so science was not necessarily science was something III generally tried to avoid along with anything else that made me think too much so you know but what but what was great is that this was a creative process so I just let I allowed myself to go on an investigation and wherever that investigation pushed me is where I went even if it seemed like I was going way off into this weird place but in allowing any and you allowing me to go there without fear that somehow I was gonna do it right I actually found things that tied directly back in to the themes that we were talking about and one of the things I saw repeated around addictions and stress was that they were talking about disruption of the prefrontal cortex remember I had it on the diagram about the prefrontal cortex and it talked about executive function I believe it is is it is a terminology it's like the prefrontal cortex what is that I don't know what it is but so I only read about from a study that talks about addictions in the prefrontal cortex and then I'm going to show you a study that relates stress and the prefrontal cortex and you'll start to find the addictions come right back into the picture as well as an an inhibiting factor that basically blocks us from making appropriate decisions when we live with a certain mindset so here's what I this is one thing that really tipped me off in one study and I just want to read a couple lines from the study but it says disruption of the prefrontal cortex and addictions underlies not only compulsive drug taking but also counts for the disadvantage disadvantageous behaviors that's an understatement that are associated with addiction and the erosion of free will so a lot of the insanity that you see that people are really addicted to drugs will will pursue relates to what parts of their brain are active and not active all right where they I mean Daris part of it is them acting animalistic alright at times but what we're gonna find is that it's interesting because this led us into an investigation of the prefrontal cortex and yes this is well III I tell you what I'll spell it out all to read from mine I actually wrote this down in my notes what what is it prefrontal cortex yeah what is it ok so let me read about because I think what you're gonna see when I read about the prefrontal cortex these are all good things they're all good things we want our brain to do so and this is various parts of the prefrontal cortex I'm just taking various things that I found in diagrams and I accumulate them there are different regions that control different parts but the point is the concept these are good things we want them to happen in our life this is some of the complexity of your soul these are some of the pathways of thought conclusion and variation as such your soul is always in a static condition of learning or dis learning and then what you meditate on long-term will become part of your memory so there's a lot of static activity goes on here as you process information good or not so good yes good so so they're they're very basic topics but super big things that here are some things that the prefrontal cortex does reality testing ok we need that right when we're going to new circumstances so this part of your brain allows you to to know reality of what is right what is wrong then yes so that's Justin is ingesting ok so it gives you the ability to draw conclusions would you say that's ability to draw conclusion absolutely we get in it we get into alpha beta theta then we can get perhaps into the alpha waves which is where deductive reasoning is a min product and deductive reasoning yes which we meditate on deductive reasoning you see the writer is wrong many people have wrong thinking that the thing is right yes yes many people have right thing in this right yes you know is it right or wrong well we as believers we litmus test against the word I have a lot of people say well I don't understand how to think read proverbs the first place that cengiz proverbs that'll help you think reality because proverbs defines reality as best it can be had in the Bible so ready for the next one the next one is Error monitoring we need to know hey every month error monitoring so that that's cause and effect yes that's deductive reasoning yes that's drawing conclusions weighing and considering right that's not bad is it no I mean another word I mean if some of us confused about it error monitoring or like let's just say mistake monitoring right making mistakes doing things you didn't know he had all these are the thoughts running around up here to prefrontal cortex did you there there here's another important one top-down guidance of attention and thought I want you to really listen to this because you're talking about top-down versus bottom-up yes oh this is good go on yes so top-down guidance of attention and thought that means we start to prioritize what we're going to do based upon a thoughtful assessment of the situation all right like let me see but what would be Scripture choose this day what you shall have life or death choose see isn't that a decision absolutely etat stopped down yes so you're not letting your circumstance dominate your personality your circumstances are dominated your circumstances don't deep dictate who you are but who you are dictates the circumstances on how to meet them how to greet them how to avoid them how to defeat them how to embrace them yes so you must know I have a scripture coming let me interrupt you this is no no no no in in in hebrews chapter i think is hebrews chapter whatever five I hope it is it says that strong meat belongs to those who by reason of you have their senses prefrontal cortex have their senses exercised gonna take some practice to discern both good and evil now here's a factor there are many sects of Christianity says if you think about evil you you and you endorse it your view is named Satan you give me him power no I'm sorry it's not true you're identifying so so you must know the difference between good and evil but the Bible talks about a people whose consciences are seared they become darkened to God and so we must be awake to God to have sanity yes your sanity is in direct relationship to how much scripture you know your sanity is in direct relationship to how much scripture you know and our doer of by up your heart any thought that you have and I want to just say this and you thought that you had that does not match God's Word is a form of insanity there's a way that seems right unto a man but the end thereof is destruction that means that thought line that thought process didn't take them to life it took them to destruction yes and the thought process behind addictions will not take you to life no because it doesn't point towards God yeah whatsoever that doesn't alright continue all right top down I'm excited now yeah what will your moving us right along because the next thing that the prefrontal cortex does is inhibition of in appropriations inhibition of inappropriate actions it stops it like it's our way like let's say that you hear a loud noise and you have a thought that says run away as fast as you can you go you stop and you don't know I'm not gonna do that you recognize that would be the most inappropriate thing to do to start screaming loudly and running all over the place okay and then here's another very important part of the prefrontal cortex regulating emotion I have a headache already thinking about it no I don't you know I don't have a headache thinking about it because because the Holy Spirit is here to embrace truth God wants you to know how you function that you can function according to his will in his word yes but we're not taught how to function with God we're really not taught the ways of the enemy we're not taught these things about hey can I hold every thought captive we're here I think the Holy Spirit which is here needs the ability to talk to us here yes not just here so that a Holy Spirit can help us he leads us into all truth right so he's gonna lead us into all truth why not give him equal opportunity in inspiration huh what you got there I love excited so I'm gonna I'm gonna tie these two together because remember we I just read a little earlier that problem with the prefrontal cortex are implicated around addictions we've looked at stress in addictions now what I'd like to read is an observation that was made in this study it says however it is also also the brain region that is most sensitive to the detrimental effects of stress exposure even quite mild acute uncontrollable stress can cause a rapid and dramatic loss of pre frontal cognitive abilities and more prolonged stress exposure can cause architectural changes to the prefrontal cortex means you literally do think differently as a result of of what you're practicing that's why God is not giving a spirit of fear but power love and a sound mind do you have fear and you constantly move by fear you do not have a sound mind that means you're unable to make quality decisions in defeating the enemy you're a responder to your circumstances if circumstances should be moved by you now you move by your circumstances so now here's here's where we're moving to you around this because it's important to understand that nothing like God gave us is evil or wrong but there is a balance to how our body including our brain functions and one of the things that's important about the homeostasis or the balance between parts is the amygdala especially and our prefrontal cortex serve to balance one another we're not robots so the Migdal is very important we have emotions that's not a negative thing but at the same time we cannot be ruled by those emotions and the danger around how we deal with stress is the difference between acting irrational out of control losing impulse control or making appropriate decisions so I want to read directly from study I don't really don't want a paraphrase because it says it right here I'll define some things but here's what it describes in this study it says under conditions of psychological stress the amygdala activates stress pathways in the hypothalamus and brain stem which evokes high levels of noradrenaline and dopamine release now this impairs prefrontal cortex regulation but strengthens amygdala function thus setting up a vicious cycle so what is the vicious cycle that happens well stress impairs high order prefrontal cortex abilities such as working memory memory and it's an attention regulation dealing with situations the chicken with your head cut off kind of actions we describe that is part of this amygdala takeover know what's amazing them is one of the phenomenas of humans is in public speaking and exposure to people and we can't remove learned something we can't recall what we've learned because fear causes us that pathway to be blocked we have an example about that do you give it you know let me finish this go ahead then we'll go to that all right good we do have a great practical example in fact it started a lot of the research around the prefrontal cortex so you're gonna hear very practical examples here but now uh now here's where this gets a bit to be very interesting stress impairs high order prefrontal cortex abilities such as working memory and attention regulation thus attention regulation switches from now here's the interesting wording they used from thoughtful top-down control by the prefrontal cortex that is based on what is most relevant to the task at hand to bottom-up control by sensory cortices whereby the salience of stimuli for for example whether it is brightly colored loud or moving captures our attention the so what does that mean I'll pause before just keep reading this that means that instead of prioritizing based upon what we need to address we address whatever's in our face in the moment so we're not looking at the cause we're just chasing the effect exactly we're just this is this is terrible what instead of having a sane mind we have a sound bottom yeah well well we started acting irrational I mean we really aren't we really aren't thinking Darris I mean it's so far is first many years are the led by the Spirit of God that's top-down yes are the sons of God fear will keep you from exercising who you are as a faith being yes it will make you become a being that is of the lower order the lower order would it be the order of animals yes which are based on stimuli fight-or-flight survival survival the fittest and so you end up reacting to your stimuli yes wear their armor in Ephesians is not bottom-up no it's not helmet of salvation sort of the spirit breastplate of salvation right there you are engaged in faith by the Word of God and and this is where the addictions profiles will keep you from being an overcoming Saint yes it will make you a reactor to Satan's power to control you biologically yes in fact part of acting correctly in situations that are stressful is about retaining your peace regardless of the situation wait a minute my peace is when nothing is going wrong see if your will can only be exercised without resistance you don't need a will there's no resistance the will sets your jaw like a flint against things that are not right for you your will is incredibly powerful and the enemy doesn't want you to know you have a will he wants you to be a responded to stimuli he wants to control your bottom up so that you don't defeat him top down yes that's why God's not giving you a spirit of fear but power love this epitome of love and a sound prefrontal cortex yes you got it yes yes so to conclude it says the amygdala migdal a-- also biases us toward habitual motor responding rather than flexible spatial navigation that's the habitual part of addictions yeah that's the habit that's the we fall into patterns that are easy not difficult so we're quick to run to relief rather than victory yes that's how we're trained and here's where this so that this this really nails it and brings it home says thus during stress orchestration of the brains response patterns switches from slow thoughtful prefrontal cortex regulation to the reflexive and rapid emotional responses of the MiG doula and related subpart achill structures instead of being the head that rules you the tale that's wagged yes and we become wagged all over the place and call the kingdom of whack well well and so now I'm gonna give you the example of where a lot of this these studies began you might be wondering well where did they start making this connection well well part of it was during World War two yes it's a some of the first studies on the effects of stress on cognition began after the Second World War based on observations that pilots who were highly skilled during peacetime okay these people these guys were the cream of the crop they knew their stuff often crashed their planes in the stress of battle owing to mental errors they're trying to figure out well did we not train them well enough why are they doing these things that they clearly were never doing before and that's when they started to realize the stress shifted the way they were thinking they weren't trained in fighting the enemy you know when you're when you're in the battle you have to have a skill to have the peace of mind to win the victory and and I'm coming on scripture coming to me I wish I could quote it tribulation worketh patience patience work with experience and experience work with hope that maketh not ashamed so tribulation is where you learn the piece of right here can you look the enemy straight in the face and not be afraid of him can you look your circumstance can you go into valley of the shadow of death can you face your greatest fears can you face yourself and not be afraid of yourself so this is the battle that God has called you to be overcomers yes he that overcomes shall inherit all things there is a battle for mankind Jesus gave us the keys and now the battle is still in our hands we are we are the life of God in the earth and we will rule and reign they were not afraid I don't know what we're gonna do in the Millennium when those people don't like us I'm gonna run goes a Jesus are we go here we go say Jews rule rod of iron go deal with them no they don't like me they frowned at me they hollered at me oh I feel so defiled in this what's coming ma'am once you got well this is uh I want them to really yes oh my Annie okay but I want you to get this top-down versus bottom-up because most of the time in addictions in these problems we don't face the enemy from top down we react to him from bottom up we're always looking for somebody to deliver us well you know you know or something to release us well I feel like this is a great place if you don't mind my doing so I like share a testimony related to this because in the middle of doing this research my wife was gonna have a baby we were gonna have a baby who is actually here today yes Simon our son Simon and one thing that was I figured this stuff is very exciting so and this is good I'm actually leading into the last point but I foil it right up front but then I'm gonna back it up with some research is on the way to the hospital my wife was starting to labor and such as we're as we're talking the vehicle I said okay honey I've been reading about the prefrontal cortex been reading about how our body supposed to function so I want to see if this works right it's better for it not to be a theory let's see what happens okay and thankfully what my experiment was wasn't to yell profanity in her face or do something to freak her out during during the delivery so nothing weird happening there but here's what it came down to and this is actually where going I'm gonna the next set of research I'm gonna read if some of the medical community can't do anything with the scientific community they can't substantively deal with this apart from faith I basically told my wife we need to stand peace I know and III we've had five children before him so it wasn't the first time I know what my wife's body's going through I know it's a lot it's very stressful on the body it's taxing it's labor okay so I'm aware of that fact but here's the one thing that I said I just want us to agree on one thing one thing father God is always in control even when I'm not in control and you're not in control Emily you don't know what's gonna go on we're gonna trust that he is still on the throne he is still going to work with us in fact during this journey we were actually texting pastor hanger Pastor Donna about it because you're going whoa what's going to happen and but the full stressor of this yeah this child was coming preterm and doctors need this child to go to full term to full development yes and so you got this dresser when you get stopped wait wait wait Don and I are Nova Scotia now I learned something and we're going to do this today in prayer is there's no distance in the spirit with God yes I learned that for the Centurions servant I said to the Lord simply speak the word my servant shall be healed so there's no distance in faith yes there's no distance in declaration now we were in Nova Scotia and yours somewhere in Georgia when when we realized the battle going on for this premature child we stopped and began to very specifically talk to the Father but this child come into full term it was a miracle and the premature labor things to stop and you know your battle in and out in and out and in it and it happened the child went to falter and you went to full term that's her I went to full term and it was significant because we went from around thirty five and a half weeks he stayed in my wife didn't have the pain and the contraction she had been having all the way to roughly 39 weeks right and it was a normal healthy delivery but but and so that day we did text you as we were we were going we didn't even know where they were out because we were kind of in and out ourselves I mean you know when a baby's coming I suspect there's not as much prefrontal cortex activity as I might hope there would be let me put it that way you hope for the best but you're recognizing sometimes you slip up but but what was really remarkable in all this is that God really didn't meet us a lot in fact what was even more awesome was the fact that it led us to a place of honesty that's really what what it would it led us to is that in order to keep our peace we we couldn't fake it we had to be honest with each other we had to be honest with God I mean right in the middle of it I would I would tell my wife just talk to your father about this you don't have to have a bunch of words it wasn't a eloquent prayer but when she was in the midst of it she would just start praying and talking to him and I was right there with her I was right in her face and I was right there with her and I will say this this is me observing my wife is that after that delivery which was it was labor there again it wasn't like he just came out immediately there was a little pain maybe not pain but in in that there was certainly work now in her conversation you started taking us on a journey before I interested I want to go back to your journey well it that that that the decision that we made to believe and trust that God was in control led us to the decisions that was important so you weren't you weren't moved by fear no even though I spoke to you yeah oh yes oh yes just say you never tempted is ridiculous but you don't have to yield to the temptation of the thoughts do you that's a yes is it not a decision absolutely no we we could have done everything that the world does but at the same time I would bring us back to that right in the moments when we felt like we were gonna spin out of control I said wait a minute I would actually say it and I was trusting you guys are praying to help to be reminded so you were operating not from bottom up not bottom up you are pretty from top down exactly this is how it is to be an overcomer yeah God wants to work with you if you work with him yeah and a lot of it has to do that's why we talked about addictions this morning you cannot defeat the addictions unless you utilize your will exactly it's not possible I will to be free yes I will defeat the enemy I will live and not die I quoted that 70 years ago to declare the glories of my god and so we we have to know that that this whole subject is key actually nobody usually taught in Christianity like they should be how to be an overcomer we're told we should be but are we told really how to hold every thought captive but we always shown tools of how to you had to hold some thoughts captive oh yes you can't you couldn't be moved by what the doctor said you couldn't be moved by the premature you had to hold true to your confession and that confession wasn't vain it was your faith and what is faith of things you're hoping for so is to move into this addictions through this whole thing and if you're listening and for your friends and maybe yourself you're struggling with with addictions we want to give you tools to understand that God understands your battle yes but you can't do this by yourself it's not mind over matter it is not God wants to join you in your victory but he doesn't want you to have the victory just because he's victorious yes you will not learn anything about being an overcomer if God does everything for you come on now you don't like to hear this this is work called the work of the ministry yes God wants you to activate he wants you to take ownership he this is your planet he gave it back to you through Jesus now you are the sons and daughters now you're the ones that make a decision can you make a decision prefrontal cortex your friends around you may be talking to you bottom-up oh yes yes you have many many friends of joke as I was thinking about they call you friends yes they have all the right answers for you but that is still your journey yes and you can't defeat this thing just based on the cheerleading of your friends this is a personal personal journey well you know it was so important that process I'm thinking about it is well what our mindset was about this was that God will cover us in the situation but we still have to do our part which is to trust him you have to do your part you have to activate yes see the forces within people with addictive personalities won't let them activate it's too much effort so they're trained to go to the placebo piece that intermediate halfway house of chemical masking which is what it is only to resurface with nothing changing same thoughts same feelings same doubts same fears I tell you I've been around addictions and for years I have found no one that has really defeated addictions unless they willed to do so they make a decision I've had enough if they've not come to that place where they've had enough their will will not be subjected to God God cannot work with a double minded person God cannot work with a person who will not let him serve them we don't realize sometimes our Father in Heaven wants to serve us or his kids and he wants to help but he wants us to mature he wants us to grow up yes he wants us to learn to live a life that he designed and not be moved by our circumstances that's bottom up yes yes and by what others say that's bottom up friend's a joke and so we want you to win this one and we have about eleven twelve minutes do you have anything else yes why I didn't want to read this as a go ahead because here can the metal community doesn't know what to do with this particular insight but this goes back to what I said remember I said I told my wife father God is in control so that we can have our peace that's how I don't have to take care of everything in the moment the reason why I said that is because I read this and it's yeah I'm gonna read directly from this and some these are some early studies that says these early studies also pointed to the essential role of the subjects sense of control over the stressor subjects you felt in control of the situation even this if this was an illusion we're often not impaired by stress exposure whereas those who felt out of control were impaired the second part of this I'm going to skip down says the reduction in prefrontal cortex functioning that occurs during stress is highly relevant to understanding human mental and physical health loss of control during stress exposure can lead to relapse of a number of maladaptive behaviors such as drug addiction smoking drinking alcohol and overeating but of course see it's interesting because if you don't believe in God you have to basically be delusional you have to say I'm in control the situation even if you don't believe it but thankfully I don't have to tell myself a lie I could say God is in control and but then here's what's wonderful it frees me up to be human and the scripture said of our weakness he has made strong I know this is that that's a powerful little secret out of our weakness he is made strong it's just a powerful understanding obviously where I started this morning is right on target and that is the will even though I read the you read this the those that would at least exercise an attempt to control their circumstance or more successful than those that didn't yep the Bible is very clear that when you resist the devil he shall flee do you really understand what that means that means the source of your thoughts may not be yours may not be from God and that's why you're told in second Corinthians tend to hold every thought captive cast down every imagination every high and lot to thing would exalt itself against the knowledge of God in your obedience to Christ your obedience to Christ there's a lot to learn isn't there I mean this has been a little complicated this afternoon I think you got it didn't you you kind of got the picture I hope it's hard to deal with technical stuff and not get lost in the shuffle I do too and as long as you can come to the conclusion if we can give an impartation and you bring to a conclusion that you can see the depth of this you can help yourself and help others yes God wants to work with you it's your birthright he's your father but but God is a good father in this way and he's not going to live your life for you it would make you a puppet on a string yes that would violate your free will that would mean that he rules you in spite of your thoughts I've learned something about God from the beginning thank God even didn't interfere was Lucifer's rebellion he judged him after it but when Edwin Satan exercised his will and said I will exalt my throne above the stars I will exalt my throne above the clouds I will be like the Most High God God did nothing to stop him one-third of all angels all of creation ladies and Jeremiah for I know we want God to live our lives for us know he joins us in our journey by faith by obedience the blessings come from obedience folks obedience we learned in 2 Samuel is better than sacrifice for rebellion is a sin of witchcraft it's right there in Samuel 15 so we have to make our up our mind are we will sis are we over comers come on now I asked a legitimate question are we would sis I just learned that word this year then I pronounce it right wishes my wife's trying to help me yes are we a wuss no or do we have a spine spine you have a spine you have a will even the devil can not overrun your will yes so you we have a sovereignty with God as believers as sons and daughters that we don't really act like sons and daughters like we should we act like orphans we act like we're codependent with ways and because the enemy is now so skillful in giving you chemical counterfeits to the Holy Spirit we don't even need God we just need a drug to get our possible peace then we haven't solved the problem heavily so we cannot say he who the Sun sets free is free indeed we must be that's our testimony you have a testimony about facing your fears in the premature birth and and God met you yes well but you know what I will say that that I felt was so important about that yeah is when we were when we initially have the preterm labor then we I think we called you guys and I was on the phone with you and I said to my wife I knew they were praying because I started to be convicted about issues that I needed repent around and and I I do think it's so important that people not have the wrong idea because III do I would never want people to believe that the journey that I've had where many miracles have happened just happened because we prayed the prayer of faith oftentimes we've had to repent for dead works for the permanent work those who've been taught how to overcome when we prayed for you and we were Nova Scotia we didn't give a little gentle pat on the butt prayer will God bless and make sure the baby because everything bottom up yes we specifically made declarations for your benefit we specifically spoke to the father about you and your family and your wife we specifically decreed things by faith for your behalf and and I'm not bragging but something happened yes and I'm sure that people are praying oh yes I'm not taking any credit here but everything that we prayed thousands or hundreds of miles away whatever it is everything happened exactly as we decreed it but it matched your faith it matched your heart and something happened and visible in you and your wife that took you through that portal of Satan's resistance and you ended up with the term Mendes testimony in a victory yeah there are more for you than her against you you must remember this do you have anything else in the scientific part now honestly I think we we really did cover cover the material and it was but I I do i I do want to thank you for this because this journey was what was important about it wasn't just the information it's really about how we learn in fact IIIi will freely admit that the process of putting this whole thing together with you was really exciting but also very challenging because I was working I was walking through this material not just the information but my own journey with it because a lot of times I didn't know what I was looking at I didn't know what would I was reading I didn't I didn't know if it made sense I remember give you is said take this rabbit trail take that rabbit show look this up look that up yeah and every time I said it you ended up with information yeah yeah so it was inspiration of God knowing where the research needed to come from yeah and you did a good job you will never be the same as a son of God because you applied your heart to wisdom you were faithful in the pursuit and what you learned isn't just for this audience anyway the foundation of your own journey you've already proved it works so that's a testimony no yeah well thank you for a good job thank you thank you yeah yeah I think I'm going to move ahead now it's almost in the next half hour we're finished and I'm going to go into some aspects of getting ready to be free and then and I don't think do we have another breaker we don't brakes I'm broken already no no I mean do we have a break it no we're done the transition straight in all right so I'm going to finish from here to 5:30 with preparing to be free and you can sit here and listen to me and kicking if you want you're welcome to stay here I like I feel covered there's a lot of things we didn't cover today because time is you know limited and we won't get into some of the manifestations of addictive personality because most people are I've already been exposed to them but I I might want to read down through a few of them because you may see some of these things manifesting in other's lives I won't say you that's too close to home but if the shoe fits recognize it these are some of the characteristics of manifestation coming out of an unloving spirit or out of addictions and if you find any of this in your life don't look at others this is time for you all of us to some degree under the power of the sorcerer we're under the power of a false peace our our society is filled with it you medical community makes no provision for spiritual freedom doesn't understand it so everything is bottom-up the entire industry is bottom-up never top-down and so here's some of the characteristics that are quite a long list there would be key issues behind addictive personalities one is cruelty cruelty is I've been around a person that was just cruel it's so defiling rage rage these are things have you seen to this thing in your life and I'm talking to those that are watching around the world on live streaming we're not here as an indictment we're not trying to say you have any of this we're just trying to cover the territory as I go through the list I want you if you recognize any of it in your life it's very simple to tell the father you're sorry for allowing it to manifest through you take responsibility father is here by his Spirit in Jesus name the father knows the thoughts of your heart this next 45 minutes is all ministry related I'm going to speak there's no distance I'm gonna lay hands anyone you don't need hands later on you need to embrace truth and then make the change God wants to work with you at the same time conviction has to be part of your life if you're not in conviction no Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit is here not only to guide you into all truth but to convict you of things that are not of God do not be afraid of conviction the enemy can use conviction to accuse you don't let him do it your Father in Heaven is not mad at you okay so quit making the father a problem he's really waiting if I know God's nature by scripture and also by application he's really waiting for you to be honest one of the things about addictive personalities is there's a lying spirit that will not let that person be honest they can they can smoke your brain they can tell you all the things you want to hear but they'll never do it so we want to be honest with God do we not just tell him I hate this in my life and repent to him dad sorry father I repent to you I want it gone see King David learned that lesson he took responsibility with the Lord said against youn against you alone O Lord have I committed this sin Psalm 51 is a powerful model for forgiveness and relationship none of you probably have gotten a married woman pregnant had her husband killed yet King David did yeah he's a man after God's own heart why because of that no because he took responsibility he took responsibility I'm thinking of a scripture oh it's an axe 319 can I take a moment look up at Scripture I mean since acts 3:19 I hope so I want to quote it right that's why I want to go here rather than just paraphrase it yeah it's 3:19 I was right oh thank you Holy Spirit listen repent ye therefore and be converted now this is not talking about salvation this is talking about Reformation there are things that we need to remove from our lives would you agree this is your time this is a time of grace and mercy this is a time where God gives you and influences your heart concerning your life I think as you measure time to repent and deal with it God is long-suffering his mercy endures forever don't let the enemy make you afraid of your father in heaven he's a liar he's the father of all lies so you take this moment and accept your father in heaven who knows your thoughts knows everything about you as faith for you in spite of your bondages he loves you if you can embrace that then fear can be broken in your life if you constantly stay afraid of God the Father fear will rule you forever don't let fear separate you from the love of God I know you're all goofy and God loves you so get over it repent you therefore and be converted that means be transformed be formed that you can be transformed that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord we need those refreshing --zz see those refreshing czar better than any drug that place the peace inside of you in your spirit man has nothing to do with your soul or your body it has to do with the positional place there's a man thinketh in his spirit event in his heart so is he out of the abundance the heart the mouth speaks father as we come before you today all over the place we just release our self to you by faith in Jesus name thank you for loving us thank you for listening to us when we talk to you and when we say father were sorry we repent the Bible says you're a faithful to forgive if we confess our sins you are faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us it's a very simple thing we just trust you you are greater than the sin father you defeated it through Jesus you're the author of life and sanity we are your children if we're born again and we're not born again we should be so we come to you today asking you for that time of refreshing so anything we have that's rage and anger within us we take responsibility if we have the ability to use verbal abuse on others and victimize them with our mouths or repent to you for not loving with our tongue we repent to you feelings of retaliation in getting even because of the injustice done to us bothers from childhood perish the thought father we give it up Jesus you taught us to forgive even as you're being murdered you were forgiving so do we understand that what's in people is not them it's a sin that lives within we learned that from the Apostle Paul in Romans seven we have a right to hate sin but we don't have a right to hate the people we don't avoid people we avoid sin self-hatred we repent to your father for not accepting your love not believing it not receiving it you love us so how can we hate ourselves and hating ourselves we call you a liar and loving us God forbid thought that we call you a liar that's idolatry they would set our self over you your love and we embrace your love we embrace it regardless of the accusations of the enemy against us we embrace your love regardless of our failures and the failures of others towards us we embrace your love even though we feel we're at the bottom of the pale we embrace your love and say that you are true in loving us release our self from feelings of violence and doing damage to others who have damaged us release ourself from all slander against others word spoken that we're not forgiveness in love all malice gossip by the way all of these things I'm reading are part of a generalized profile of addictive personalities people with addictive personalities at some point will manifest one or more all of these personality characteristics all manifesting at different times at a different stimuli to create the most damage so a person doesn't the reason so the person does not have to receive love and forgiveness from others including God that's that that's the deal because you set yourself not to us not to accept forgiveness and love by others you have to go to an altered state of consciousness to avoid the conflict you now have with yourself in your loneliness in your despair and there's where drugs fills the gap you're being deceived it's you're at peace perfect perfect peace belongs to them whose minds are fixed or stayed on the Lord sleeplessness a nervous stomach butterflies in your stomach nervousness irritability headaches red eyes physical illness poor eating habits nervous breakdowns cirrhosis of the liver anxiety fear being rejected paranoia fear of failure resentment fear of being unwanted built-in security self-hatred intimidation hopelessness hatred of others inability to give a receive love without fear impairment of judgment that's top down stuff indecision top down problems shame condemnation depression inability to communicate slow thinking feelings of worthlessness despair sorrow feelings of emptiness jealousy madness despair torment all of these are classic manifestations and addictive personality I have found them one or more and every addictive personality that I have known from the beginning that I began to minister these personality characteristics are not of God God is not the author of confusion God is not the author this is a stuff that came in the garden when Adam and Eve decided to follow bling which is what they could see that would give them self fulfillment personal over evaluation well the first thing they lost was their ability to walk with God in the cool of the evening I don't think they everybody bothered them I've really walked with God Nicole didn't even walk with a serpent talking to me but they didn't consider it a value then begin the journey of victimization in the beginning of iniquity in which Adam blamed his wife is that woman you gave me Lord in here we go five thousand seven hundred forty three years of men blaming women and women blaming men my god help us quick and we'd have sanity topped down and we realize our battles not with flesh and blood our battle is not with each other my battle is not with any human but with the kingdom their rules humans the sin that lives within that Paul taught in Romans chapter 7 do we understand and have discernment you and I've been pastor Donna did a teaching that was so incredible a few years ago I think is available in the bookstore is you got it here with her statement is you gotta know who to blame and you gotta know who to glorify you gotta know who to blame and you gotta know who to glorify I'm able to forgive people because I knew I know it wasn't them but it was a sin that lived within them manifesting so I could still hate the sin in that person who victimized me but I could love them how many of you love still love people that don't like you now of course you do do you miss those jerks I mean those friends I miss people that became enemies I miss my friends than listen to the devil I can't have fellowship with them because they're unrepentant but does I say I miss them yes I miss every single one do you think that the Lord missed his fellowship with Adam and Eve in the garden oh he went from walking in the cool evening to no walks that's a tragedy that's a tragedy whatever is your master you are its servant whether of life unto death - to death whether in the life or underneath is that right where is your master you are its servant romans 6 12 and 22 says you're to set your affections on things that are above whatever you set your affections on is your addiction it's where your treasure is whatever controls you you're not in control one of the things we read here is being in control of fear let's top down I don't let fear rule me it can talk to me I don't listen my wife will tell you she lives with me I'm afraid of nothing I'm not bragging I've learned to be an overcomer this fear speak to me of course this fear trying to get my attention oh yeah do I follow it and does that influence me no so I am top down not bottom up so you're gonna be ruled by the Holy Spirit topside not by bottom up those things that are bottom up are according to scripture devilish and sensual they're from beneath remember that scripture I'm quoting scripture you probably remember it I could look it up and quote I don't have it here in front of me do you have it is this I want to really like to read it if you have it you have it you're checking it's in here somewhere there's all kinds of papers over here somewhere well here it is yeah James three-fitty thinks this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sent and devilish things from beneath that's bottom-up fear is bottom-up thinking faith is top side down thinking without faith it's impossible to please God you must believe that God is and he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek after him set your affection on things above not things on the earth Colossians 3:2 so we have to realign our thinking the question I would ask you and beginning to exercise your will is do you have the mind of Christ you're told in Scripture as a challenge to have the mind of Christ that's a tough one isn't it or is it if you don't have the mind of Christ how can you be a doer of the word because the word is the mind of Christ and the mind of the Father jesus said I only say the things I heard my father saying that's why he's the Word of God eternally he said I only say the things I heard my father saying having the mind of Christ is to know the will of the Father we've done a a teaching and we just did the a I advanced insights conference here called his ways versus our ways if you don't have this teaching that I've done years ago it's a major teaching I think one of our elders did it in his home a few years ago took 13 or 14 weeks to go through it and it's called his ways versus our ways it is a litmus test of conclusion our ways God's ways if your ways are God's ways then you have the mind of Christ and if you have the mind of Christ you then become a doer of the word not just a hearer I want my mind to be topside I don't want to be ruled by the beggarly elements this world I don't want to be moved by dopamine rushes I don't want to be moved by anything that artificially stimulates my biology the joy of the Lord is my strength I am a happy Henry I am I don't go around behind his his money-grubbing oh woe is me and oh my god is he gonna boo boo I am positive do your thing that's you having been the program director during that program what astounded me about that teaching is that it does show it shows us elements of our life so it does show surface things that are going on our life then you also dig into the foundations of why these things or either of God or not of God and how we can start to rectify them that was so important because we sometime we do need to start with behaviors but then we also start after address that foundation of why we go to these places very godly behaviors are the result of thought either correct thatr incorrect thought is that not correct your children on their misbehaving are the byproducts have been correct thinking well we're no different as adult children for God we either be same in behaving or misbehaving and when you're not doing the word the Bible says this if you know to do good and you don't do it you are self deceived so go around tell your friends I am self deceived I know truth but I'm not gonna do it buzz god no no no no I can do it I've been doing but I can tell you all the people around me that should be doing it if you know to do good and you don't do it you are self deceived that is a incredible scripture you know I encourage you to read your Bibles if it's a lamp unto your feet a light into your pathway it is sanity I mean I don't know how to say this without beating a drum or something but we're so busy watching as the world squirms on TV we forgot to know truth we're so interested in the upheaval of things around us we forgotten the stability of God's mind the by you you're concerned about what's happening in the world in America that they don't be upset because the Bible teaches that everything can be shaken is going to be shaken let it shake why because it'll be status quo it would be another 6,000 years of redundancy and stupidity so somewhere the God has to come and give us some sanity he's going to and so don't be upset about what you see and you know you see on TV my lord have mercy I don't care if it's false news fake news or squirrel news you keep your eyes on the journey because God has everything under control and they said why does God allow it no it's why do men allow it and the hearts of men are being tried in every generation as to why they allow evil to rule and they will be judged in their time in the meantime there is a people it's called the remnant in fact it's called the residue maybe you don't want to be known as a residue it is a remnant or residue of people that understand and hang on to God's purposes and his plans and his pursuits I know where God is going if you ever wonder about the future and void the fortune tellers I've got a teaching here what's called what next on planet earth the two gatherings and two judgments it's on DVD and CD comes with a lot loin chart I considered to be from my perspective you can judge it the most accurate timeline of the future that can be had it's worthy of your pursuit because it shows you from Scripture the future in the world and the nations that are involved and where God is and were you the church are and it is a powerful time to bring sanity to the insanity of ignorance so I encourage you this is a promo and kiss it wasn't intended to be but I I encourage you to probably pursue that teaching us on DVD and CD is called the two gatherings and the two judgments and where is the church where are we and where is God what's happening on this planet there's a tremendous there's a tremendous upheaval going on in the world of nations are aligning either one way or the other and what is really interesting is Saudi Arabia whether you like him or not is finding their place in prophetic timeline for the future as they're being prepared to be a hiding place for Israel from the Antichrist in the future and you know I was listening to a teacher years ago talk about this conflict in the Middle East and I said to him I said you know what the big battle is don't you between the Arabs and the Jews it's not Islam he said what is it I said you have one son of Abraham has rejection Ishmael that rejection has passed down so that one brother is at variance with another brother one was accepted one was rejected but the Bible says the sons a Kadare shall be gathered into the fold under Messiah who's the sons occur they're sons of Ishmael so there will be a gathering Saudi Arabia will defend is real from the Antichrist it's really in Scripture yeah Petra the whole thing it's gonna be interesting but don't let your heart be troubled you know these are exciting times to find ourself in prophetic timeline and besides the good news for you is this whether you live or whether you die you're the Lord's they don't sweat the small stuff affections so we're gonna in this conference we're going to begin to think we're going to have our frontal cortex activated which is a seed of our soul that we can activate choice decisions you know you you you get into the word it says choose this day what you shall have life or death blessings or cursings we're going to make choice decisions we're going to set our affections on things that are above we're not going to be moved by things that are shaking don't be afraid what is that it's fear I feel so much despair why the Bible says you see these things coming up on the face of the earth look up your Redemption draweth nigh don't be troubled don't all that touch your heart be troubled when you see these say shaking in the earth and earthquakes and tribulations for these things must surely come to pass relax yeah but yeah but there's a goat you're not go to your sheep no yeah buts allowed all right I'm having fun with you anything that you cannot lay down or stop as an act of your will will make you a servant of that thought speech or deed or action anything you cannot lay down as an act of your will if you cannot stop you are a servant of something you're either a servant of sin unto death or a servant of God under life your choice life or death I would say I think I'm going to exercise my prefrontal cortex top not bottom up a top down then I'm gonna let God be true and every man a liar I want to take my piece I'm going to exercise my will to resist the devil and if it comes to the place your greatest fear that I would ask to be a martyr or deny the faith I want to tell that person holding that gun or whatever take your best shot I'm ready because I understand life after death whether I live or whether I die I'm what DBF in the body is to be what so why sweat the small stuff what is this so we don't have to go into all the states of consciousness to avoid even temptation I think I want to read something I'm at the point I got 15 minutes to end into the prayer time I think I want to read something I think I want to read Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 15 through 20 if I may thank you very much for allowing me to do that Deuteronomy I appreciate this audience today it's a very tough subject and I didn't want to teach it in a way that would make anyone feel guilty or ashamed even if you have an addiction that would not be God's heart that would not be my heart but neither am i afraid not to address the issue I wouldn't love you if I didn't address the issue would I know I'll let you stew in your stuff and hope you made it Deuteronomy chapter 30 what I say what verses I don't remember now verse 15 to the end alright here we go because I want to pray for you in this next few minutes we have in this conference those of you that here in the audience those of you that are online here and around the world I hope this has been a meaningful thoughtful journey today technical at times but I hope there was enough information that was concise enough that you can begin to exercise your will to defeat the enemy that wants to control you you're to be in charge not the enemy that's the power of the Cross you no longer have to be a servant of sin sin needs to obey you tell it tell it you're not you you're not ruling me any more I'll listen to you you can say what you want I suppose that wasn't good verse 50 see I like the way this starts I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil see this is the part of deductive reasoning this is a part where you defeat fear based on knowledge because faith comes by hearing not fear faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God so whatever fear says to me that's different than the Word of God I cast it down as an evil imagination and I bring up what the Word of God says and I make it part of my prefrontal cortex way of thinking my long-term memory I meditating the Word of God I mix my faith with it and I believe what was written in the scriptures that makes my faith with it and then I command you this day to love the Lord your God there's that love business to love yeah but I don't feel worthy there's the enemy well there's none righteous no not one but in the middle of this no not one God loves and no not one he loves you goofy will you join him in the journey I use a term often called pilgrims in progress we're all on a journey or goofy is a three dollar bill we're filled to some degree of iniquity and all kinds of stuff of the enemy but we have a heart for God we have a heart to change we have a repented heart repent of heart because we understand we want the times of refreshing to come from the presence of the Lord and we desire it that's better than any drug the peace of God that passes all understanding they would dwell in your hearts they love the Lord your God to walk in his ways theirs as his ways versus our ways to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments why that you may live and multiply that's for your children that you may live and multiply and the Lord your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it but these are words that we don't like a scripture if then in but we don't like the if then about scriptures they irritate us so bad because we don't want conditions put on us we don't want us we don't want to have to decide we don't want to have to exercise prefrontal cortex thinking that's very good I got it today but if your heart but if your heart turn away so that you will not hear but shall be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them i denounce unto you this day that you should surely perish and there you shall not prolong days upon the land where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it I call heaven and earth to record this day against you what day any day this day is any day then I have set before you life and death this is big folks this is why I started out with a conversation on will this morning choosing life or death false peace our real peace synthetic peace or true peace from the move from within I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both you and your see that your children and your children's children may live that you may love the Lord your God and that you may obey his voice and that you may cleave unto Him for he is your life in him we live and move and have our being not in the enemy not in a halfway house not in double mindedness but in full assurance of being single-minded in our decision regardless of your circumstances regardless of your temptations regardless of your bondages you're gonna have to make decisions even while you're still in bondage as if you were not in bondage and if you're wanting to get free before God meets you you're wasting your time he wants to meet you right in the middle of the battle he's the best at that he is the best in him we live he is the way the truth and the life he is the way the truth and the life if he is the way truth in life I must know how he thinks I must know his ways I must get my mind renewed have a scripture coming a man who has no rule over his own spirit is like a sieve as walls broken down having there I met a scripture coming having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves therefore from all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit perfecting holiness in the sight of the Lord are we prepared to cleanse ourselves spiritually and intellectually from a mindset that's not of God that's and then tea with God are we prepared to leave the mindset of the world in its decadence and its debauchery and its stuff and are we prepared to enter into that promised land of thought there is a promised land of sanity and it comes from being a doer of the word said I don't want to be a do of the word you already are do or some word you got to serve somebody you got to serve somebody whose thing is ohm bump Dylan you got you got to serve somebody you do don't you what I leave off no chapter man yeah I'm here somewhere chapter 30 yeah that you may love the Lord your God that you may obey his voice that you may cleave unto him for he is your life and the length of your days that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore under your father's to Abraham Isaac and to Jacob to give them father there's a lot to ponder you said very clearly to the Apostle Paul in Romans six that we should not be a servant of sin then we should not serve sin maybe we should not let sin have dominion over us nor should we let sin rule our members and our souls and our spirits and our bodies but the key challenge is that we don't allow it father we dedicate our hearts today to take responsibility for our lives when we feel like it or not because it has nothing to do with our feelings it has to do with our faith and father help our minds be renewed may we have the mind of Christ concerning our journey and our relationship with others that also are bound by sin that oppress us make us afraid don't love us properly let us have the ability to forgive them let us no longer be victims of the sin that's ruling through them give us a harder forgiveness that the Lord had at the cross and we can say Father forgive them they know not what they do their thoughts aren't sanity their thoughts are insanity from the enemy father give us the ability to exercise our will it's part of our creation it's part of that sovereignty that you built into us that makes us a free will agent it gives us the ability to choose it gives us a no that's a yes or no because you don't want kids that are just puppets on a string you want a family that's just yes dad yes dad yes dad yes dad but they hate bad you want sons and daughters that love you as you love them you're raising a family for eternity that one day we'll be kings and priests in the Messiah now one day we'll rule the new heavens and new earth under Messiah and we will establish proper thinking for mankind natural that come to the Tribulation Period to millennium in the new heavens new earth and we will be on assignment that the earth can be inhabited in righteousness that will be our assignment father we've got a ways to go thank God we don't have to live prophetic timeline just yet but in the meantime today is the day of salvation now is the appointed time truth has come today in a way to help us make decisions not to force us but to challenge us if we don't have a hatred for sin we will never defeat it if we make a provision for sin it we will establish it and become codependent with it so father do something within us beyond our addictions beyond our souls beyond our bodies release your Holy Spirit to bring conviction and guidance for our lives let us listen to that small still voice of conviction take not your Holy Spirit from us father because that there's no conviction there's no Holy Spirit and no Holy Spirit we have nothing in checks and balances for us let us develop a desire to have that relationship with you father in Jesus name as a work of the Holy Spirit then we can be thoughtful prefrontal cortex thinking topside not bottom side up but top side down then we can defeat everything is bottom side up that you we can have them mind of Christ and we can make firm decisions for that's best for us and for our families and those around us let us meditate and think about these things let us understand the Faculty of the human will and how the enemy does not want us to know we even have it he wants to suppress us intimidate us they will never defeat him we'll never stand up we'll never take a stand we'll become codependent and victims because we won't take a stand against him we must apprehend the scriptures that say resist the devil there'll be his kingdom and he shall flee that's an act of our will we will resist we will say no we will say yes to God and notice in Father forgive us for our weaknesses but you know we're weak yeah you said that of our weakness you're made strong father be strong release your holy spirit to give us inspiration unction to resist let us crucify the flesh let's put it to death that did not exist let us give no more life to death let us give no more life to an enemy who wants to kill us let us give no no quarter to the devil and his kingdom no quarter no place we say no no more are you gonna rule me no more are you to control me through false peace through drugs and addictions no longer are you going to give me an altered state of consciousness to avoid the responsibility to establish and have dominion in this earth that's our calling father increased my faith give me the ability to meditate on these things that I've heard that I may have the strength in you none of my own strength I don't have it but in you that when enemy comes in like a flood you by your spirit are gonna raise a standard against the enemy and count me in count me in I'm ready I'm tired I'm tired to being used I'm tired of being abused I'm tired of being a puppet on the string I'm tired of false peace and false security I repent to You Father that had not received your love are apt for I repent to you for arguing the fact that I was even born I perish the thought I'd ever had that thought that I'm here by mistake I'm here by design some 139 said before even my parents were conceived you knew me and by your spirit you've called me in as a son and a daughter I've responded and I accept it I accept the fact that I am a love son I'm a love daughter and I don't need counterfeits I don't need chemical substitutes to prove it father I ask that everyone listening here and around the world through the medium of live streaming shall make this their prayer that they can become free father give them the strength to exercise their will but that will come based on the word that understand the importance of the word in defeating the enemy that they can say for it is written for it is written now listen to lies no more I will listen to for what is written but it give me a hunger for what is written it's my sword it's a sort of the Lord for what is written in Jesus name father deliver them give them comfort and leave them the paths of righteousness for your name's sake in Jesus name I pray this father amen David in kasi you

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