How to Defeat Anxiety & Intrusive Thoughts

and before you even know what's happening you're already having these thoughts and i'm going to tell you this right now we're going to show you in a moment from the scripture how to overcome these things let me tell you this right now the intrusiveness of the thought is directly related to how you handle the thoughts that you are aware of in other words you actually condition your mind to think a certain way or to allow certain thoughts without even realizing it so that when a thought does come and it seems intrusive it's actually a result of the choices you've been making which we'll show you in a moment then there's ocd type behavior now ocd is is a little bit different there's varying degrees of this but this is compulsive disorder now as someone who struggles with the problem of perfectionism i can tell you this this is like i i can i can tell you that there are some times where i think i don't think i have ocd but i can i think i can relate in some ways to people who have this for example when i'm writing my books i'm sitting at the computer i'm saying lord i want to communicate this message in the way you want it communicated and i want to communicate it with the most excellence i possibly can so as i'm typing i'll write every sentence out and once the document is done people don't know this but i reread my books 30 or 40 different times before i even turn it into the publisher i rewrite my books at least a dozen different times before i give it to the publisher so every book you have of mine has probably been written and rewritten 15 to 20 different times and the way i go through the sentences is i will read every sentence word by word at this pace i'm using now that's the pace i read my books looking for words combing through trying to find the best possible way to word it now if i'm not careful i get so focused on that that i can actually feel my body tensing i feel like i have to take a deep breath like i almost like i'm not breathing because i'm so focused on these words and and i'll shut the document i'll say okay i have to tell myself diega you did your best you combed through it 30 times it's okay to give to the publisher now and i'll tell myself well maybe i missed something just one more read through and it's like that for every single book and actually every single blog that i release now i have to bring that into subjection because that can go to an unhealthy extreme but there are people who deal with this and sometimes even after head injuries people will deal with this ocd-like behavior to where they obsess about a detail or about a thing wondering if it was done right wondering if it will come back to harm them and having to focus hyper focus on that thing i'm going to tell you something right now and it might shake you up a little bit but true worship is intense attention hear me now worship is the giving of intense attention to something that's part of worship and what we don't realize is that this can be rooted in the worship of perfectionism the worship in the perceived control that we have on things we think we can control it if we obsess about it enough i'm telling you we're going to get deep today so then there's paranoia catastrophizing every little thing that you see or deal with it becomes this big thing it's never just the issue that's being dealt with it's always some big issue that becomes a major problem and it's always blown out of proportion that's paranoia somebody seems a little tired and instead of just thinking maybe they're a little tired you're thinking they're mad at me they're upset at me they did something i did something they didn't like or somebody text you hey i need to talk to you and instead of anything else that it could possibly be your mind automatically goes to the worst case scenario this is catastrophizing putting your yourself in the worst case scenario every single time and if you're not careful that can begin to rule your life now there is such a thing and it's a term that i've coined here it's called religious anxiety now even what i'm about to talk about right now may cause people to understand where they are in life and i'm going to give you scriptures in a moment because everything i give you i want to i want to back it with scripture but right now all i'm doing is assessing anxiety which is why i haven't given any verses yet i'm just assessing the problem and i'm trying to basically how would i put this i'm almost giving you a diagnosis so we're sitting down together and we're looking over these different things and maybe you see yourself in some of the things i'm saying and so if you see yourself in some of the things i'm saying then you need to hear this message so this is a term i've coined it's called religious anxiety remember this write this down and moderators put it in the comment section superstition is religion disguised as spirituality going to say that again superstition is religion disguised as spirituality now watch this say it again and then i'm going to explain what i mean superstition is religion disguised as spirituality ocd in some sense is a form of superstition superstition comes about when i don't understand the difference between correlation and causation in other words people would develop superstitions like they would imagine that they have to sacrifice people in order to get you know the proper seasons so they can have their agriculture succeed they would sacrifice humans hoping it would rain and they would sacrifice people in ancient cultures they would sacrifice people until it started to rain not realizing that their sacrifice that people had nothing to do with the weather it just so happened that they stopped when the weather was right and so in the same way we start to associate all these connections if i don't do this then that's going to happen if i don't if i don't say this then that's going to happen now hear me now because this this is key superstition is religion disguised as spirituality and the problem is we're adding to our religious superstition instead of getting into the simplicity of the word of god we're adding to the superstition by wanting specific prayers by wanting specific methods of freedom did i did i renounce everything from when i was seven and when i was eight when i was nine and when i was 10 and when i was and so on did i did i pray specifically enough did i name that demon by name i mean why stop there shouldn't you know what type it is shouldn't you know what rank it is shouldn't you know where it's been how old it is i mean aren't why just the name you see we start to really dig in on these things and the problem is that superstition can disguise itself as spirituality under the guise of religion religious thinking is superstitious thinking and so the problem is compounded because we become paranoid about our paranoia we cut we become obsessed about our obsessions we become bound by our worry to being bound it gets very complicated very fast the moment you introduce superstition so then all of these things that we deal with how do we confront them in the light of biblical truth because you were called to live in peace god didn't create you to live in depression god didn't create you to live with anxiety god didn't create you to live in confusion god didn't create you to suffer with ocd with paranoia with intrusive thoughts god did not create you to suffer mentally and emotionally you can overcome these issues these things can be something that one day you'll say i used to struggle with or in my past i had battled with and you will be saying that i'm telling you you will be saying that one day and i think it's one day soon you're called to live in peace if you don't have peace then yes it's true something isn't right something about the thinking is off so let me read a few verses to you and then i want to show you how to be free from this galatians 5 22-23 but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace you hear that piece patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control against such things there is no law so god has given us everything that we need to live in peace to have self-control romans 14 17 for the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy ghost peace belongs to you jesus died to give you peace colossians 3 15 let the peace of christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body and be thankful now watch this here in colossians 3 15 that is such an interesting way the scripture words that let the peace of christ rule in your hearts in other words it's something you have to allow the peace of christ is available the peace of christ has been given to you but you have to allow it to rule okay so how do you do that let's keep looking at some verses here matthew 11 28-30 this is jesus speaking come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me for i am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light isaiah 9 6 for a child is born to us a son is given to us the government will rest on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father prince of peace isaiah 53 5 but he was pierced for our rebellion crushed for our sins he was beaten so we could be whole he was whipped so we could be healed isaiah 53 talks about the suffering of christ that brought about our freedom do you realize that the bible refers to christ as the prince of peace i believe he was crowned the prince of peace with the crown of thorns for when he bled on his head it was symbolic of the liberation that would be brought to your mind with the crown of thorns he was crowned the prince of peace so those are the problems that we assessed earlier and then we read some scriptures so on one hand you see the struggle on the other hand you see the scriptures on one hand you're living in the problem on the other you see what's available in the promise what do you do when your life doesn't reflect what the scripture promises what do you do when the bible gives you promises but life gives you problems what do you do when you know you're free but you feel bound what do you do when you know god has given you peace but you still feel confused tormented anxious and fearful number one key number one obey john 4 18 says this such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear if we are afraid it is for fear of punishment and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love now watch this let me read that again because this is so key such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear if we are afraid it is for fear of punishment and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love so the trouble is not with god offering his love the trouble is that we're unable to receive it so we have to learn what the scripture says and when we don't experience the promises of the scripture we have to ask ourselves why am i not receiving not why god are you not giving but why am i not receiving the bible says let god be true and every man a liar so if my life doesn't line up with what god promises then there's something that i'm doing that's wrong there's something that i'm believing that's untrue first john 5 3 says loving god means keeping his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome let me just be straight with you here you cannot do evil and have peace you cannot live in sin and live in peace the sin in your life contradicts the peace in your mind i'm going to say that again the sin in your life contradicts the peace in your mind first peter 3 11 says turn away from evil and do good search for peace and work to maintain it isaiah 48 22 says but there is no peace for the wicked i'm going to read that again isaiah 48 22 but there is no peace for the wicked says the lord by obeying god you eliminate most of the anxiety in your life because when i'm right with god when i'm walking in perfect connection with him what do i have to fear i don't have to fear punishment as first john 4 18 tells me i don't have to fear hell i don't have to fear death so if i don't have to fear punishment for my sin and i don't have to fear death and i don't have to fear hell and i don't have to fear the judgment of god what on earth do i have to fear who can do what to me i mean if i should be killed by some disease if i should be killed in some accident if i should experience some tragedy with my health what do i have to fear yes there's temporary pain which is a major discomfort and something we as humans tried to avoid but even the pain is only temporary so what ultimately do i have to fear if i'm right with god if i'm right with god then anything that happens to me will work out for my benefit it's only when we live in sin that anxiety is produced let me tell you something secret sins like pornography will produce anxiety in you i'm going to say that again secret sins like pornography will produce anxiety in you undealt with lust will produce anxiety in you why why why do why do sinful habits and sinful thought patterns produce anxiety because it causes us to question our right standing with god and when you question your right standing with god well there goes all your peace so the first key is obey if you can learn to obey his commands if you will choose to do as his word says if you will commit yourself to obeying the statutes and the commands of god you will eliminate most of the anxiety in your life i was just with a friend of mine a pastor who a couple years ago lost his daughter and then a couple months ago lost his wife both of them were sudden and unexpected deaths and so i went and ministered at his church and i had lunch with him and this man was not shaken in fact at the funerals i can recall him saying things like lord we celebrate your will concerning us at his daughter's funeral i witnessed him stand on the platform praise god and say weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning there was sadness of course that was sorrow of course but the man was unshaken the man was still serving the lord the man was at peace the man was filled with joy he wasn't walking around with this heaviness on him and the sorrow in his heart he wasn't anxious and fearful for what might happen next he was at perfect peace and i talked to him about this and he began to explain to me that he's just trusting the lord wow what am i what a man of god but it shows you the power of the holy spirit to keep us during even the most trying of situations and so if you will obey god you've eliminated 99 of the problem if you just walk in obedience with god toward god i should say you've eliminated most of the problem disobedience is a door for anxiety to enter your life not enter your body again i'm not talking possession here this is this is a way for anxiety the mindset to become a stronghold in your life something you believe that causes you to feel and therefore to do what you believe will become what you feel what you feel will become what you do what you do will become how you live if i can eliminate and hold captive those thoughts then i'm given the power to overcome anything that comes my way if there are believers who could overcome death if there are believers who can have joy in the midst of a cancer diagnosis if there are believers who could have peace in the midst of a loss of a loved one then you can have peace even as you battle with these things that attack your mind psalm 119 165 says those who love your law have great peace i love that i'm going to read that again psalm 119 165 those who love your law have great peace and nothing causes them to stumble what a promise nothing causes them to stumble so i'm seeing some of the comments here in the youtube comments section because i is writing that old song joy joy joy joy down in our hearts down in our hearts today resurrection tv says the man was like job yes he was and he didn't curse god he praised god i see see alfonso and all things acknowledge god malowit writes come on say it brother if god is for us who can be against us and then i see various other comments coming in it looks like god's people are really being blessed by the truths from the scriptures so i'm glad that you're seeing the biblical perspective now that's key number one walk in obedience key number two and this is going to sound trivial not because the concept i'm going to discuss is trivial this is going to sound trivial because you probably heard people say this to you and you've almost taken it like an insult look as someone who used to battle with anxiety i remember how it felt to feel like you were being brushed off people say things like oh just get over it oh just think positive oh just pray about oh just take it to the lord and while i understand the sentiments behind the things that they were saying i also know that some of these things require a little more attention they require a little more strength than just not thinking about it so at the risk of sounding dismissive i have to tell you the truth because as i said the bible says let god be true and every man a liar let god be true and every man a liar what does that mean that simply means that these things work i don't care how many times you've tried them these things work so number two pray yes i know i can already hear it but brother david i've already prayed brother david i've done i've done nothing but pray brother david i've done nothing but seek god i i prayed and i prayed and i prayed and it wouldn't go away here's the problem many times we pray out of frustration instead of faith let's let that sink in for a moment we pray out of the flesh instead of out of faith if you went to pray and you got all tangled up in yourself and you were saying god why does this always happen to me god please just take this from me already okay you're praying out of frustration remember when paul the apostle went to the lord and he said that he was given a messenger of satan to to torment him and he went to the lord saying lord i need you to take this from me lord take this from me lord take this from me three times he asked lord please take this from me and god didn't take it from him instead what did the lord say the lord said my grace is sufficient for you what was he saying he was saying i'm going to give you the strength to endure and overcome this i'm not going to remove it from you and that perhaps is one of the most disappointing responses that we can receive from the lord not because it's something that we don't need sure we need these things that the lord puts in our lives to shape our shape our hearts and i'm not saying that he causes us to sin or tempts us or even causes tragedies in our life i'm saying that he uses these things that seem to be working against us and this is the benefit of being connected with the lord because even in those circumstances you can have the grace to overcome what the enemy meant for evil so number two is pray philippians 4 6-7 says this don't worry about anything instead pray about everything tell god what you need and thank him for all he has done then you will experience god's peace which exceeds anything we can understand his peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in christ jesus so again let me be very clear here when i talk of god using things in our lives i'm not saying he doesn't do miracles i'm not saying he can't bring about a sudden breakthrough i'm not saying he can't do a dramatic transformation he often does that what i am saying is that there are some issues that can't be cast out but there has to be discipline you can't have you cast out of you some of these issues that you're dealing with are going to come about through disciplining the flesh yes some of these things are rooted in the demonic you know how you know something isn't demonic i'll tell you how you know something is very very very simple and you answer it by looking at the scripture so if you look to the scripture you see any time jesus or the disciples dealt with something demonic if it didn't come out right away they went and they fasted and then they came back and the thing was gone period it wasn't months and months and months of dealing with an issue it was if it was demonic it either left instantly or it was dealt with through prayer and fasting and so in this particular instance concerning ocd anxiety and all these types of fears that come upon us pray against it pray that the mind set me broken pray that the influence be broken from off of your life fast if that doesn't work and if that still doesn't work i got news for you it's not the devil it's the flesh it's not the devil it's life circumstances so we have to stop it's kind of like what do they say the definition of insanity is doing something again and again and again hoping something changes okay same thing here if you've already done according to the scripture and rebuked this thing and then you went and you fasted and prayed because jesus said this kind this kind only comes out through prayer and fasting well then you've already taken the two steps to get rid of that type of influence in your life and if those two biblical steps that you were given don't work then it shows you it's an issue with the flesh this is why prayer is so important otherwise you're gonna get stuck in a loop in a paranoid loop of frustration and questioning your faith and questioning if god hears you or not the problem is you're putting a lot of energy into something that isn't the answer so this is why i say pray don't worry about anything instead pray about everything tell god what you need and thank him for all he has done then you will experience god's peace which exceeds anything we can understand his peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in christ jesus so i have to take these things to prayer psalm 103 14 says for he knows how weak we are he remembers we are only dust so these things that begin to grip our lives they can lose their grip through prayer you weaken the flesh through prayer i've never met anyone hear me now i've never met anyone not a one i've never met anyone who had a strong prayer life a strong devotion to the word who obeyed god that was under the pressure of these issues never met a single one somewhere along the line something is lacking if these issues have you now it's one thing to have anxiety i mean some people get anxiety getting on a roller coaster it's a natural human response to certain things but it's different when anxiety has you it's one thing to have fear it's different for that fear to have you so i'm talking about living in freedom despite the responses and emotions that we may have to circumstances of life now here when i talk about prayer i'm talking about the weakening of the flesh if there is an issue of the flesh there is a lack in either prayer devotion to the word or obedience toward god period now this is not to demonize anyone this is not to make anyone feel like they're not a true christian this is just to point out an area in your life that needs adjusting prayer works for every moment you are praying you are changing for every moment you are praying you are transforming it's impossible to accomplish nothing in prayer if you are praying something is breaking from off of your life some things are transforming now it may take you weeks it may take you months it may take you a year or two but if you will commit to prayer and truly commit to prayer i'm not talking about oh i prayed 10 minutes on monday morning tuesday i forgot wednesday i forgot thursday i forgot friday i forgot and then saturday i prayed for five minutes in the afternoon and sunday i went to church and i was mad because my bondages weren't broken well then there's an issue there that's like saying i ate on monday i didn't eat the rest of the week but i felt weak on the weekend well yes of course you're not doing the basics you must commit yourself to prayer if you're going to see true breakthrough in this area it's impossible to accomplish nothing in prayer if you will pray god will work on your behalf now you may say again brother david i tried that brother david i've done that everyone tells me just pray just pray just pray just pray you know why they tell you that because it works and again you have to be honest with yourself see we like to say things like oh i did try that and the truth is some people want freedom some people want attention that's the reality and you have to ask yourself which it is you have to ask yourself do i want to continue blaming outside circumstances or do i want to take responsibility for what's happening in my life because the reality is the reality is sometimes it's easier to blame an outside force than it is to take responsibility for the spiritual disciplines in our lives which is why we like to say things like oh they already told me to pray and it didn't work for me are you kidding me the bible says let god be true and every man a liar so the reason you're going through these same cycles again and again because you're giving yourself the same excuses again and again now again this may sound harsh this may sound insensitive this may sound like i don't truly understand the problems of anxiety and all these things but that's not the case that's not the case at all i used to battle heavily with all of these things anxiety paranoia ocd panic attacks this was a heavy thing on me until i learned that if i put into practice the scriptures and the promises of god will work period i used to use the same excuses oh i had every pastor i could pray for me oh i fasted oh i went for counseling all and i i threw the excuses out as if they actually excused me from finally trying to take hold of my life and be broken away from these mindsets you have to realize that prayer works you're not the exception to the rule so you have to determine do i want attention or do i want freedom because if you want attention you'll keep saying that i've already tried that already tried that or tried to retread that and some of us are addicted to the struggle because it's only in the struggle that we get the attention and the love and the affection that we crave i want to say that again some of us are addicted to the struggle because it's only in the struggle that some of us receive the love and the attention and the affection that we crave not realizing that we don't actually want to be free we tell ourselves lies like i already tried that prayer is not something you try like a medication prayer is something you either commit to for life or you don't and if it didn't work why did you stop prayer works when it is persistent and i'm talking in terms of the death of the flesh your flesh dies when you're praying and if fear is where the flesh is rooted then when your flesh is weak and that fear is weakened too remember it's either circumstantial demonic or carnal if it's demonic you should pray and if you pray once once once once it will go if that prayer doesn't work there's only one other step to take and that is fasting and if that fasting doesn't work it's not demonic go to the next one it could be circumstantial could be a mental health issue could be something to do with your surrounding circumstances things you're facing maybe taking on too many pressures once you adjust in those areas it's the flesh and by the way circumstantial and carnal roots of anxiety intertwine with one another which is what makes it all the more confusing when dealing with these things which is why you need simple discernment but my point is this if you'll pray it simplifies the whole thing if you're on your face every day before god saying lord help me in this area help me in this area and and accepting that strength not just slouching and expecting god to do it i'm talking about spiritual slouching i mean for example i can't tell you how many times i've laid hands on a sick person who comes to me and just stands in front of me and they kind of have this attitude of like okay do your thing i'm going to stand here and i'll pray for them i say do you sense god doing anything like i don't feel anything god's not doing anything i still feel the pain and i'm thinking these people aren't going to get healed they're not even coming in faith they're expecting me to do my thing so to speak they almost come in like like it's like a treatment like you you do your thing i'm just going to stand here not realizing they have to be in faith they have to be the ones that go to the lord believing for their miracle for the most part yes there are exceptions in the scripture but for the most part generally speaking jesus said your faith has made you whole and god can by his sovereignty override that at any moment but people typically don't get healed just coming and saying okay do your thing preacher all right i'm just gonna stand here you guys lay hands on me no if they're not they're not even praying i'm thinking lord they're not even engaged in faith as you required in many instances so how are they gonna be healed and the problem is many of us treat things like anxiety in the same way we come we sit in our prayer lord set me for you do it and yes in a sense he will do it but there's no faith engaging there's no there's no true travailing and this is not me speaking of trying to persuade god to do anything i'm speaking again of the death the flesh the longer you're in prayer the weaker your flesh becomes it works it works it works it works the reason it doesn't work for you is because you bought into the lie that well this thing doesn't work for me and so you give up on it and i know this because this has been my experience and this is also what's backed up in the word so number one is obedience or obey number two pray number three trust matthew 6 25 matthew 6 25 says this for this reason i say to you do not be worried about your life as to what you will eat or what you will drink nor for your body as to what you will put on is not life more than food in the body more than clothing look at the birds of the air they do not sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them are you not worth much more than they and who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life and why are you worried about clothing observe how the lilies of the field grow they do not toil nor do they spin yet i say to you that not even solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these but if god so clothes the grass of the field which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace will he not much more clothe you you of little faith do not worry then saying what will we eat or what will we drink or what will we wear for clothing for the gentiles eagerly seek all these things for your heavenly father knows that you need all these things but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you so do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will take care of itself each day has enough trouble of its own remember this worry is a useless attempt at control worry is a useless attempt at control anxiety is an attempt at control you have this anxious feeling because you don't you're worried it always has to do with the future or what's going to happen or something is not right or not knowing what the future holds fear is rooted in the need for control ocd is rooted in the need for control you you do that thing again and again because you're trying to control something maybe something that happened to you in your past your your your subconsciously searching to control the situation or control the outcome you got to double check and make sure or something bad might happen that's the overall sense that you get from these things now again i understand everyone deals with these things in their own nuanced detailed ways and unique experiences are actual experiences i understand that but i'm speaking in a general sense the spirit behind these things is that attempt at control philippians 4 8 and now to your brothers and sisters one final thing fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise so the bible here is telling us to fix our thoughts now think about that the scripture itself is commanding you to fix your thoughts i thought that wasn't possible we need to learn to take responsibility for our thinking we need to learn to accept responsibility for our thinking thoughts are the actions of the mind and if the scripture commands you to fix your thoughts then it's possible for you to fix your thoughts i don't care how it feels you're in control of your thoughts the problem is we've bought into the lie that our thoughts just can't be controlled my thoughts are just my thoughts no that is a lie please hear me and that's what you need that's the truth that's going to set some of you free it may feel like you can't control your thoughts but that's a lie the bible says to fix your thoughts you choose to fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right whatever is true slow your pace hurry and worry destroy you learn to trust relax just relax know that people deal with this because if i put out a message on the end times brother david am i going to be raptured did i sin is the lord going to leave me behind it's never for some people who deal with anxiety and i know what this is like nothing's ever positive you hear a message on how god wants to use people or who are surrendered instead of being inspired and saying lord i want to surrender you think oh my goodness am i surrendered enough for god to use me or you hear a message on heaven and how wonderful it is anxiety doesn't say well what a wonderful message i can't wait for heaven one day anxiety says what if i don't go [Music] or every time a preacher preaches on something you pin it on yourself every time there's a challenge to do something you pin it on yourself this is how anxiety works it causes us to lose that trust for god to think that we have to fix everything we have to keep everything under perfect control and supervision otherwise we're doomed trusts one of the most spiritual things you can do is relax trust them now number four so number one is obey number two is pray number three is trust trust is a choice trust is a choice not a feeling number four is worship isaiah 26 30 says thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee how can i be thinking about what worries me when i'm thinking about the lord how can i be thinking about what concerns me when i'm thinking about jesus you see if my mind is focused on him if my mind and my thoughts my attention is fixed on him i'm free i'm free to think about jesus when i worship he grabs my attention he has my heart it is not possible to truly be worshiping jesus and also be battling with fear and anxiety not it's just not possible it's just not possible if fear is a fire then worship is an ocean that fire will not last the fire will be snuffed out if fear is a fire then worship is an ocean demons cannot swim in the depths of god the flesh cannot swim in the depths of god anxiety cannot swim in the depths of god it's all drowned out fear is always based and based on and tethered to the things of this life in this world so when i ascend far above the things of this life in this world i'm ascending above all of the things that cause fear and anxiety thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee when i worship him by giving him my attention it's not possible to be anxious i'm speaking for even those who have those deeply rooted issues because here's here's the problem that we we have we think that we have to talk it out we want to sit with someone tell them all our fears and we want to go down the list one by one and address every single fear we have do you know what would happen if you addressed every single fear that you had you would come up with a hundred more so we we want to we want to go we want to sit pray with me listen to my dreams um oh okay well i have i have a family member they're practicing this is that gonna affect me well no because this isn't this and then okay our mind is automatically off to the next thing well you know one time i said this was that the blasphemy the holy spirit no it's not the blasphemy holy spirit okay good oh but but maybe maybe if i have this sin that i haven't uh repented of or if i haven't spoken out loud of course you have to repent of your sins but you may say i have this sin that i never confessed out loud to someone is god gonna forgive me of that an unconfessed sin well of course he's going to forgive you if you repented of it and we just start to bombard ourselves and our mind just searches for all these things to worry about you don't realize that the more you worry the more you teach your mind to worry you're training your thoughts deeply rooted issues here guys deeply rooted issues the moment we resolve a fear another one is going to come up until you deal with the root this is the obsession of it we really i mean i can't tell you how many times my heart has gone out to people who will come to our services i'll talk to them after they say brother david i was worried about this this and this and i'll show them in scripture why they don't have to be worried about that they breathe a quick sigh of relief and then their mind goes well what about this well what about that well what about this and they don't even realize they're just surrendering their mind to the next thought and the next thought and the next thought and the next time the cycle will never break until you realize you don't need answers to all your questions stop obsessing about these things is this the mark of the beast are we in the last days did i offend my angel i had this dream and what does it mean for my life and we have all of these fears that just are worked up again it's superstition coming in the disguise of religion to pretend that it's spirituality and we obsess and the only way to stop is to grab hold of your thoughts stop doing that to yourself stop reaching for the next fear you don't need answers to every single one of your paranoid questions in order to be free you don't need a hundred prayers each one specifically renouncing a specific thing in your life that's religion and it's going to destroy you you need to be free from that you need only one thing that will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee just get lost in the worship of god trust him we have all these issues tangled in our hearts and all of these issues that we want to address he doesn't want to untie the tangles in your heart he just wants to throw that out and give you a brand new heart it's that simple we've got to simplify and worship number five think truthfully stop catastrophizing so again you don't need answers to every one of your paranoid questions i i've counseled many people and i'll sit across the room from them and they'll say for example and this is not anyone in particular i'm just throwing a generic example out there someone will say something like oh i i had this really strange dream i'm afraid that now a demonic being has influenced and infiltrated my life saying well let's pray against all demonic influence father we break all demonic influence in jesus name amen okay well my aunt was practicing this one thing and maybe maybe maybe maybe that's another door we have to shut right now say okay well let's pray for that too we'll pray and they literally will go through the whole thing thinking they have to go and pray all these specific prayers thinking they have to address every problem or even a theological in nature can i lose my salvation am i one of the elect did i commit the unpardonable sin all of these things how do i avoid being that person in matthew 7 up to some degree there's a healthy fear of not wanting to disobey god but on the other hand there's also very unhealthy fear where we obsess about things that probably don't even apply to us i mean if you're that worried about committing the blasphemy of the holy spirit it's most likely that you probably never did commit the blasphemy of the holy spirit never mind that the logic is thrown out the window and it's all about feeling and thoughts that come to the mind if you want intrusive thoughts to stop having power over you then stop giving them your attention every time they come into your head and you don't even realize you're doing it i used to deal with panic attacks as i said earlier one of the things that would happen is it actually my most severe panic attacks began to happen when i first got that first series of the apple watch that checked your heart rate the first time i got that thing every 10 minutes i was checking my heart rate so if i was walking didn't matter that i was walking and that's what caused my heart rate to go up i thought i was having heart problems and i realized i have to stop checking this thing so obsessively because otherwise i'm going to create this scenario in my head where i'm having a heart attack every 10 minutes and so that was an issue in my life that became a problem wasn't demonic in nature there was no sin in my life all the doors were closed yet i was having these random physical reactions to these thoughts that kept coming into my mind so every time i check my heart rate on my watch oh there's another heart attack you know what's funny is once i took that thing off i stopped having fake heart attacks and i thought wow how interesting that it was all my mind working it up that's what ocd does that's what anxiety does that's what paranoia does we create the problem in our minds focus on the thought that is untrue and then we catastrophize and create a scenario that's completely outside of the realms of reality that's what i began to do then i realized i have got to stop questioning my health every 10 minutes just because of this little thing i wear on my wrist and the moment i started doing that and i put that away all the symptoms stopped all the issues went away and i i did not have another panic attack like that since then and i thought isn't that amazing how powerful the mind is i thought i would never overcome it i'm telling you it was like three months where i was having one or two panic attacks every single day every single day i called my pastor friends i said you gotta pray at spiritual warfare one of the pastor friends says it's not a demon that's your flesh the moment he said that i felt liberty and i realized he's probably right because i thought where would a demonic being get influenced in my life there was none there was no open door and so once i dealt with the thoughts themselves the discipline of dealing with thoughts you can do it stop believing the lie that you can't and so that's how it happens we don't think truthfully john 8 32 says and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free say it again and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free wow if you just think soberly about the situation just for an instant if you just think realistically biblically truthfully about the scenario just for an instant it's amazing how free you can feel it's amazing how liberated you'll become just by changing your thinking this is why i'm i'm not all for some of the religious ways we approach freeing people from these mindsets because i think sometimes we make the problem worse take a person with ocd give them a list of a thousand ways that a devil can possibly possess them and i guarantee you they'll find every single one of those at some point in their life and they'll believe it give a person with paranoid thinking or the tendency for paranoid thinking tell them that there can be an open door that they're not even aware of and guess what they're going to be looking over their shoulder going where's that open door and because of the fear that open door fear is going to come on their life and that's going to ultimately cause that cycle to continue and intensify and because of the fear of the open door they feel fear and therefore they think oh that must be an open door not realizing it all began with the belief in a lie a belief in a lie you're filled with the holy ghost you belong to jesus stop with the religious paranoia you're not going to be free if you keep going down there you're going to get stuck in a cycle every three days you're going to need another deliverance every three days you're gonna need another renouncing session every three days you're gonna need to go read another book you're gonna need to go and find out how to uproot that thing when you don't realize that you're free you think like you're bound we have to stop obsessing and again even as i'm talking you know this is you if you're coming back to well what about this well what about that or brother david i've tried that but let god be true and every man a liar the bible says this works either we believe it or we don't which brings me to my sixth and final point persist galatians 6 9 so let's not get tired of doing what is good at just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up don't give up this works say it out loud this works i'm serious say it out loud right now this works there's a difference between having anxiety and anxiety having you even to this day my personality type is such that i tend toward controlling the little details of every situation and because of that it works up a tension in me if i'm not careful see when i walk with the holy spirit or when he walks with me because let's face it he's way more faithful than we are i'm at peace i'm calm i'm relaxed there's no tension the power of god moves when i start to just step slightly into the flesh suddenly that tension comes back why because if we're not in step with him we're going to be in step with the flesh and whatever our inclinations are in the flesh those are the things that dominate our lives so if you have an inclination or a tendency toward being a little anxious the moment you start to lack in your prayer life guess what's going to pick up its head you start to lack in your reading of the word guess what's going to gain a little more power in your life for some people it's lust for some people it's anger for some people it's greed for many of us it's fear and anxiety but you overcome that the same way you overcome these other things don't get into the weeds stop going off on tangents and all these weird remedies just get back to the basics because the basics work keep going stop telling yourself this doesn't work stop telling yourself that you've already tried this again i tell you i've counseled a lot of people on this and even as i'm sitting in front of them i'll say you know god's gonna give you breakthrough yeah i believe it but he didn't last time i say okay well you gotta apply the scripture okay i'll apply the scripture but i've applied the scriptures before and again they want to talk or maybe that's you you want to talk everything out you want an explanation from every angle about everything and check everything off the list and then you'll be at peace no it's not going to happen because the more explanations you get the more explanations of explanations you'll want let it go you're dealing with ocd those intrusive thoughts here's what you do you obey god you pray you think truthfully filter that thought is this true is this what god says am i catastrophizing am i blowing this out of proportion and you see what happens you'd be amazed at how much freedom you'll experience simply by allowing yourself to believe the truth i'm reading the comments right now tk writes well so true i noticed this a few days ago started feeling anxious because i didn't pray for two days resurrection tv as we move out of the holy spirit chaos enters so true carla arvelo writes go back to the basics and then a green check mark yes i love it pam mays let it go let it go and i see various of the comments of affirmation uh kyla marie one of the things god pressed in my heart was i am not the judge i don't get to conclude based on what i see very good observation marilyn coffey i think i was more free before more self-centered now than before trying to find my own righteousness yeah that's a dangerous place isn't it holy spirit ministries this works i can testify to that malowit writes this works always christie says this works i'm a living testimony janelle gonzalez yes i know this is me bible verse for the day this works so many of us testifying to the fact that this works and it does so remember i told you that believing the truth is what will bring liberty and one of the lies we believe is this doesn't work another lie we believe is this doesn't work for me another lie we believe i've tried this before but if you tried it before it would have worked so again it comes down to this do the basics i'll read them to you one more time number one obey number two pray number three trust number four worship number five think truthfully and number six persist persist persist you have to persist these things work if you persist in them these things work if you put them into practice don't get caught in the cycles of patterns religious thinking paranoid thoughts these things work i'm going to take your questions in just a moment and i think we're going to attempt to take some of them on zoom we'll try that in a little don't don't do that just yet i want to talk to you just for a few minutes i want to read a portion of scripture to you but first let me actually pray for you first father in the name of jesus i pray for those who are receiving this word right now and holy spirit i pray that you would take this truth and make it revelation cause this word to become revelation lord not that they would only hear it but that they would receive it in the mighty name of jesus we pray you break us free from these thought patterns of the flesh and of the world in the name of the one whom we serve and i want you to say because you believe it say amen and that prayer we offer of course in the wonderful name of jesus i want to read a portion of scripture to you because i want to challenge you to do something here in mark chapter 12 i'm going to read verses 41 through 44 very short portion of scripture here it says this jesus sat down near the collection box in the temple and watched as the crowds dropped in their money many rich people put in large amounts then a widow a poor widow came and dropped in two small coins jesus called his disciples to him and said i tell you the truth this poor widow has given more than all the others who are making contributions for they gave a tiny part of their surplus but she poor as she is has given everything she had to live on now one misconception about this portion of scripture that people use to justify their lack of giving is they'll they'll say well the lady gave a little bit and it pleased god so the less we give the more pleased he is that's not the point of the scripture i actually had a friend who used to do that you know he was blessed he had a job he was doing well and he would just throw in like two coins and say the widow threw in her two might that pleases the lord more than anything else everyone's giving i'm thinking no man you missed the point completely it's about giving out of your surplus because it's in proportion to your giving proportionate giving is the point of this scripture so some people think real religiously you see why put in a dollar you should be happy with that god should be happy with he's pleased by my dollar when they have a surplus of so much more and that actually is rooted in greed in the spirit of mammon because we haven't surrendered that part of our hearts to the lord yet what i'm talking about here is giving in proportion to what god has given you you see there are some who are struggling financially and the moral of this story is that not even they are excused from their giving jesus didn't stand up and go wait stop you're a poor widow that's all you have you can't possibly do this no he let her do it and then he brought attention to it and then he gave her praise for doing it and those who were watching said wow that's the heart of a giver and those who have much the scripture tells us to use our wealth for the sake of helping others that's why god has given you much that's why god has blessed you it came from him it doesn't even belong to us nothing we have belongs to us it all belongs to him so i want to challenge you this with this portion 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we're building that new studio in austin so for the time being if you're watching this live what we do at the end of every month at the end of every month if there's a surplus we take a percentage of that surplus and we put it toward project etv so help us reach that surplus this month help us reach it above and beyond now is the time to give many wonderful opportunities happening for our ministry so when you give it's going to go toward creating media it's going to go toward the live streams it's going to go toward the events it's going to go toward the holy spirit school a portion of it's going to go toward the new studio in austin and then the money of course also goes to help support everything else that the ministry is doing administrative general costs there's so much more that needs to be coming in to help run this ministry so i'm challenging you now to go and do it and i'll actually see it right here on my phone i can see the super chat givers i can also see those giving at 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is worship with mr stephen mark de zuma we're going to play a worship clip for you and then we're going to come back and i'm going to take your questions right here on viral revival let's go now and worship with mr stephen makazuma you love with no reservation you're not looking for perfection [Music] and there's no need in me pretending i'll give you everything i'll give you everything you deserve my full attention [Music] nothing less than my devotion [Music] speak to me and i will listen i'll give you everything i'll give you [Music] you can everything my heart [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] i'll give you everything i'll give you everyday [Music] oh [Music] oh you can have my heart [Music] holy holy holy lord god [Music] our song shall rise [Music] merciful [Music] [Music] blessed [Music] holy holy [Music] holy lord [Music] [Music] song shall rise to thee [Music] holy holy [Music] holy [Music] cut in three purses [Music] blessed trinity blessed trinity [Music] [Music] before we get into that q a by the way beautiful worship with mr stephen montezuma i do want to thank pam and galen mays for their generous gift dominique gandara and then i see devonte and i see preetha ebenezer latoya i see nicole badenhorst beautiful name there eva cortes thank you for your support and many more gifts coming in on here and the super chat i see let me think here nebulous mcnarly just gave a generous gift in the comment they wrote let me see here i love that last name if that's your real last name that's a great last name let me see here george moore fearless christian eva cortez all joining us in the comments section mallowing holy spirit ministries hey guys we're going to try something new here i want to start by taking your questions on zoom so if you look right over here on the screen there's some people who've already joined in i didn't announce this because it's something we're trying brand new here and they're letting them in as we go look at the comments over in the comment section here on youtube and you're going to come up here on the screen if you use that information so right in the comments section on youtube my team is posting access information for zoom and this is how we're going to be taking your questions over on zoom so if you have a question over here on zoom just raise your your blue hand or wave at us or put a thumbs up just notify us or put in the comment section that you want to ask a question live right here and mr rubin vargas will get you to unmute yourself and we'll bring you on to ask a question so is there anybody on right now who has a question as the people start to come in we'll give them some time to join us and get settled in here so this is something we're going to try doing from now on on viral revival let me say this next month on viral revival it's next month right tim prophet rob sanchez my friend prophet rob sanchez will be here i'm going to have him give words to the people joining on zoom and on youtube so make sure you're tuned in next week he'll be here and we'll have steve marcus zuma back in studio uh but i can see everybody here if you have a question just go ahead and indicate to us that you do and mr vargas let's just bring them on do we have anybody ready for a question okay so we're giving you some time to get settled i see i do see some questions in the comments section in youtube i haven't forgotten there uh fearless christian q a can we make our own anointing oil absolutely remember when it's talking about the oil in the old testament not to be duplicated this was an old testament law specifically for the people who were working and serving in the tabernacle now if you're uncomfortable with that you can alter the ingredients slightly and therefore it be in keeping with that commandment if you believe that that commandment has carried over but yes you can make anointing oil and you can use it as a point of contact for your faith really to demonstrate your faith as you pray for people the oil is an act of faith how it works the dynamics of it all i'm not quite sure but i do know that there's something about oil and prayer and the act of faith that produce tremendous results and then i see here more questions coming in let me just kind of get situated here with the comment section over on my phone here eva cortez living translation how can i know all the sins lurking in my heart cleanse me from these hidden faults psalm 19 12 oh they posted a scripture it was a scripture worded as a question so i thought it was a question for the q a but it was a scripture and a powerful one at that george moore how do i repent if i don't know how i sinned okay well this is a very good question let me see how we might break this down if you do something that offends god but you didn't know it offended god and you later repent and begin walking in a lifestyle that's pleasing to the lord number one god will eventually reveal that what you're doing either through your conscience or through his word that what you're doing is wrong but if you repent to him in a general sense lord i'm turning from my sin my wrongdoing help me obey you help me please you that's the heart of repentance and the heart and the posture of repentance covers past sins so in that case you would be covered mr vargas do we have anybody ready over on zoom yes sir let's bring them on they can't hear you on the mic by the way okay nicholas gonzalez all right nicholas gonzalez my friend we're bringing you on how are you very well uh it was so amazing you your teaching it was like a body shaming but in the osd like you you were saying things like yes it's so stupid that why i'm doing this again and again well i'm not gonna start but thank you so much because you have been so so powerful or you're all what you have to teach us today well i appreciate you saying that my friend and while you were watching this broadcast did you sense that you were being set free from certain mindsets yes in the way you have just said in ways down my mind things because it's so i'm not gonna wanna say stupid but it's so logical that the mind tries when and that's my question uh i have felt freedom in many times in my life in these obsessive thoughts and when they come to my life and i have feel peace but there comes a time and when and maybe i let my guard down or maybe i wasn't um as you have told us watching and praying and praying because i have felt yeah it's done why should i keep praying that but then it come again and i thought okay maybe i was lacking something maybe why i'm giving power to the demon i don't know and i was so relieved when you give these six steps because it's it's something that i need to take into account that i was free but i still i am is something that i have lost but this comes my question what what do you suggest that we do when this those and maybe i'm losing in my freedom maybe i i don't know maybe i'm thinking that this demon is bigger than jesus i don't know what i i again i know you give us this six step but in this precise moment when you feel all overwhelmed by those thoughts what would you suggest to do find the truth and you won't believe the lie it's really as simple as recognizing the truth knowing that as you said jesus is bigger than any demon you see spiritual warfare i think we imagine sometimes is the holy spirit wrestling with some demonic being and the demonic being gaining some ground and the holy spirit gaining some ground and the demonic being gaining some ground look it's not the case when the holy spirit comes against a demonic power that demonic power is broken and if it's not then the power of resistance is not coming from that demonic being it's coming from that person's flesh hanging on to that bondage and that is what's broken by prayer and fasting now in regards to this specific question of what do you do in that moment when you're so overwhelmed that you begin to think these thoughts as difficult as it is you have to learn to practice these disciplines despite the feelings that's what's so great about spiritual disciplines you see when you get a sense of emotion like enthusiasm or inspiration or encouragement or spiritual ambition that comes and goes as an emotion but when you have a spiritual discipline that causes you to say here's what i do and think and believe despite how i feel then when that overwhelming sense of deception comes over you you keep your mind focused on the truth and it's practice you keep your mind focused on the truth and that discipline keeps you going despite your feeling and you put it you you hit the nail right on the head when you said you were so relieved to find that this is not some new form of possession i don't think that's the case here when a demonic being influences you with these thoughts it has everything to do with your mindset now how a demonic being affects an unbeliever is completely different than how a demonic being affects a believer when a demonic power affects a believer it has to do with belief and thought patterns so spiritual warfare for the christian is simply the fight to believe god's truth over the enemy's lies let's take the next question mr rubin vargas aurelio we're going to ask you to unmute yourself and then we'll take your question all right thanks so much david um yeah this message was a blessing because i've struggled with ocd and like panic attacks for like the past eight years and i feel like it's robbed me of so much life and that leads to like shame and like when will i be able to get on the plane when will i be able to travel i guess for me it's like i know the truth like i write down the scriptures but for me it's like when you get that anxiety and those feelings and like your body like i hate the pain like i know you say it's temporary but um i guess what's your advice on that like you got these phobias or this obsessiveness let's keep him unmuted and and you're gonna you're gonna remain unmuted because you and i are gonna have a conversation right now if you don't mind um okay so walk me through for you let's say uh what's one of your fears because i know you mentioned airplanes but i don't imagine you fly much if you have anxiety of getting on a plane because i used to have that heavily i i i broke it to the power of the holy spirit of course but by continuing to get on airplanes but give me another example like the airplane thing what's another thing that causes you anxiety like this um it all started off with uh i got a job cleaning i got it like at age 23 it started as germaphobia and like just picturing stuff like wiping like once i find out about lysol i was like oh i can disinfect things like my mind went crazy um and then it led to the the fear of uh being far from home like panic attacks um like i called the ambulance like three or four times like like i just felt like this intense like i ended up in the yard twice but um and then i ended up end up going like secular counseling and like taking meds um but but the most transformation i've found is in the word but i do get frustrated on how long the process is taking you know it's been like eight years now so some of the practical advice i can give you as far as panic attacks go uh this is something i used to practice when i had them and i would get them i was like you i would go to the er quite often and then you feel like you know and forgive me for using this word but this is how you feel you go you get them then you just feel really stupid afterwards like ah i did it again you feel silly you feel embarrassed i can't my friends have had to take me my wife would have to take me and you know because you really think something's happening something's going on and you tell yourself ah but this time it's probably really happening you know one of the things i found is in those moments right then and there our tendency is to try to disconnect and not fill what we're feeling but what you have to do in those moments is embrace what you're feeling now this is probably contrary to what most people will tell you um they'll say oh just ignore it i'll try not to think about it no no no what i would do is i would focus on my heart rate i would focus on my sweaty hands i would focus on the the the blurry vision and the tingling sensations going up the sides of my head i would focus on that and i would embrace it and i would tell myself this is scary but it's not dangerous and in that moment you ask the holy spirit this is these are moments when the friendship with the holy spirit became real to me in the middle of that moment saying holy spirit help me right now like right now i need you right now and instead of tensing myself and walking around and trying to get my mind off it i would i would literally i would close my eyes and i would feel everything i was feeling i would allow myself to just fill it and then i would say here's what i'm feeling here are the sensations i i can my heart is pounding my head is hurting my vision is becoming blurry whatever the symptoms may be and i would say holy spirit help me deal with it now and in that moment you sense his strength in that moment you sense his peace but what you're gonna have to start doing and nothing's ever gonna change until you do you're gonna have to start doing those things that make you afraid yeah you're gonna have to and it's gonna begin today and he walks with you and and he steps with you and the holy spirit will be there with you you're a spirit-filled believer i can see it and so he's going to be walking with you in those moments i used to have this terrible phobia of airplanes do you think i could fly around the world preaching the gospel if i still allowed myself to succumb to those phobias and fears no do i still get a little nervous yeah because it's unnatural we shouldn't be flying through the air in chairs at 30 000 feet but hey we do it but you know what in those moments get a little nervous but it doesn't overcome me anymore you'll still feel it oh believe me you'll still feel it but you don't have to have it own you it doesn't have to control you you can choose to act despite what you feel and the moment you start doing that you're going to feel that restriction start to break off of you and the barriers are going to be pushed back further and further and further and you fill your mind with the scripture and the moment those things start to happen call upon your friend and say holy spirit now i need you now and and he'll be there i promise you amen yeah because um that was the main thing is like it's like man in those intense moments of anxiety um i'm like i used to be able to fly i used to be do be able to leave home and i really appreciate that david and i guess last quick question is when you said get to the root like you said like new thoughts come up every day what did you mean by that getting to the root discover the lie that you're believing so when you get on when you get on a plane and you're having a panic attack what's the lie that you're believing right then that i'm gonna suffer and die alone well you could suffer and die that's possible because people have actually died on airplanes so what's really behind that lie god's abandoned me that's it so you see it's not the actual thing itself there's always something deeper that's what i mean by the root so instead of oh i'm afraid of crashing and dying no no no what you're afraid of is death why are you afraid of death because the enemy causes you to doubt what god has told you about eternal life so when i get on a plane yeah i can get a little nervous and yeah i realize it's a possibility a very i mean the odds are that it's not going to happen very very very slim chance but there's still a chance same thing when i get in a car you mean you could wake up tomorrow and ha i don't mean to agitate your anxiety but you could wake up tomorrow and have a a brain aneurysm it's all i mean that's why i tell people you can't go through your whole life being afraid because the truth of the matter is any of us could go at any time so just trust the lord recognize that you're in his hand and that even in death there's nothing to fear you overcome that fear of death my friend and you get a revelation on i am the resurrection and the life you get a revelation on behold i go prepare a place for you you get a revelation on to be absent from the bodies to be present with the lord and that breaks the power of the fear of death over your life so for you the root cause is the fear of death and the moment you get a revelation on the resurrection and the life it'll bring you total freedom amen god bless you my friend appreciate it thank you of course so mr vargas we're ready for another person to to mama okay reuben vargas says that tamama's coming on hello god bless you reuben's going to ask you to unmute yourself can can we hear you hello i can hear you faintly hello i can hear you there you are yes faintly so you'll have to keep yelling at me i'm sorry thank you um hi brother david and thank you i just wanted to ask i uh i'm a welfare worker and i work with mental health clients but most of them do not believe and afraid i've always prayed for my clients i just don't find ways to uh you know minister to them so you're asking me if i'm correct you're asking me about loved ones who don't know the lord is that what you're asking me about how to minister to them you know how can uh i reach out to them okay how to reach out to them excellent questions and they have mental health issues so the ones that you are talking about i'm really aware of both of the mental health issues and more but i just don't know how to reach out to them and i do pray for them and all but um they are limited in i'm limited in the systems um requirements like we are not allowed to share about our bond and stuff i see so so um i i'm having a little bit of trouble hearing you so forgive me if i'm off topic but from what i'm hearing what i was able to hear is that you want to know how to witness to somebody who doesn't know the lord and it sounded like there were some restrictions on that in the place that you're at uh okay so when it comes to these situations where a christian is in a workplace and they want to spread the gospel but the restrictions at that workplace are such that they're not allowed to share the gospel specifically then i would say that find yourself a way to connect relationally to your co-workers or to anybody who might be under restriction in a certain circumstance so if i'm at work and i can't specifically at work tell people about the lord by the way your lunch break is your lunch break and you're allowed to talk about the lord on your lunch break at least in the united states then that means that i need to find a place outside of work and this is where it comes to relational evangelism so you'd be tactful about how you go about it so if i'm on the clock and i'm supposed to be entering information into spreadsheets then i need to enter information into spreadsheets and as a good christian i'm not going to commit time theft by preaching the gospel when i should be working so the boss would have a right to fire you in that case but that also means that i'm going to have to look for ways to connect with my co-workers outside of that certain situation and i'm going to have to get creative about it so build a relationship connect with them take them on the lunch breaks talk to them there but be a good testimony while you're at it so you present the gospel you have to preach the truth you've all heard the saying preach the gospel and if necessary use words it's nonsense the gospel is a delivery mess it's a message delivery with words specific words about the life the death the resurrection of jesus christ repentance from sin the atonement the cross the blood so forth freedom from sin forgiveness of sin these are things we have to communicate and no one's going to hear that message just by us being kind and loving and gentle toward them so the first key is to actually present the gospel message find the place you can present it and present it in love the gospel message then pray for them pray for the person who's received the word pray for their salvation as paul prayed for the salvation of the jews so we can pray for the salvation of those we love and come into contact with so you pray for them so number one communicate the gospel clearly number two pray for them persistently and number 3 love them unconditionally when you demonstrate acts of love towards someone who you're ministering the gospel to what you're doing is watering the seeds of the gospel acts of love is how you water these actions are how you water the seeds of the gospel truth okay reuben let's go on with the next question kyle we're bringing you on hello kyle hello god bless you so so i have a question uh it's um when jesus was telling his disciples um that this kind only goes off by prayer and by fasting was he talking about a demon he wasn't talking about faith or unbelief for sure he was no i i and i've heard this before i don't know and keep him unmuted reuben i don't know where people get the idea that he was talking about unbelief you'd have to really stretch it to make it say that so i mean it's very clear that he's talking specifically about a demon this kind this kind of unbelief did he ever mention kinds of unbelief no he talked about this kind of demonic power comes out through prayer and fasting so the text is very clear this is why it's so difficult to answer questions like this because the text is absolutely clear why someone would insert no he was talking about their unbelief being cast out you'd have to show why that's the case as opposed to what as opposed to the other idea that it is the demonic being he's talking about because that's what's the most clear and that's what the context is teaching and that's what the scripture is saying anybody who reads it any scholar who's looked at it will tell you it's talking about that demonic power so someone would have to show you why is it not the demonic power and why is it he's talking about unbelief so um so yeah to answer your question specifically he's definitely talking about a demonic being does that answer your question yeah all right my friend thanks for joining us kyle and kyle's one of our regular viewers we appreciate you man so reuben let's bring on uh somebody else we got someone with a question kate we're gonna bring you on kate we uh we have you on the screen i don't know if she can see us uh oh she turned her camera off kate we're gonna have to unmute you kate do you have your microphone on are you there okay well let's go with someone else reuben i don't know if kate knows she's on with us okay tanya johnson we're gonna bring you on tanya be ready tanya johnson hello god bless you can you hear me i can hear you loud and clear can you hear me okay um so my husband and i want to get into ministry we don't want to be pastors or anything like that um but we have a burden just to be what the the bible says we should be as believers um and you know the burden is kind of overwhelming for me when i go out and i see people i get i don't know burden like i want to burst out crying or i want to go pray for him but i don't feel like i'm ready yet spiritually is that a valid excuse to have because i feel like as a believer especially in this day and time we should have a certain standard and you get what i'm saying so oh absolutely i don't know ready well i love that i love that you made the distinction first and foremost between being a christian who's in ministry and then being someone who's assigned to a leadership role like ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 and 12 where it lists the five-fold ministry well some would say the four-fold and that the pastor and the teacher are the same timothy talks about the qualifications for a deacon or a leader or an elder and those qualifications are a standard that the scripture lays out for us very clearly but that's talking about church leadership that's talking about spiritual authority which is something that's not really talked about a lot these days what you're describing is more along the lines of mark chapter 16 where everyday christians go out and share the good news about jesus christ and pray for the sick and drive out demons that's something believers should be able to do period jesus said he that believeth on me will do these works and even greater not he that is ordained as a pastor he that is ordained as an apostle he that believeth on me acts 4 13 the religious leaders saw that the disciples had no special training in scripture but that they had been with jesus the bible gives us commands very clearly do the work of the evangelist love one another pray pray without ceasing exercise your spiritual gifts spread the gospel around the world love one another the bible is very clear that every believer has been given a list of commands and i would say step out and do those things that you know the scripture has given you the authority to do and i love again that you made that distinction between church leadership and being a christian who does ministry so no there is no um there is no prohibition on an everyday christian if you can word it that way going out and ministering to god's people so go out preach the gospel lay hands on the sick go cast out devils do what jesus told you to do if you have the holy ghost in you there's your qualification to do all those wonderful things now the moment you come to church authority church leadership okay that's a different thing there's a laying on of hands you have to be appointed there's understanding the line of authority in the church but as far as what you're describing i'd say go for it god bless you okay for those who can't hear ruben is telling me the names of the people as he brings them on thank you mr vargas hello and god bless you we can't hear you there's something wrong with your microphone still can't hear you we'll come back to your room and let's find another person who's got their hand up okay somebody named iphone iphone we're bringing you on hi hi god bless you hi um i have a question so um i don't know if this is gonna make sense but there's a lot of preachers that i've been seeing um that do this thing that like is common in certain like creatures my mom says it's called like a hack i don't know but it's like when while they're preaching they're going like um and god said like i don't know it's kind of hard to to re rein that was a great reenactment of it i think i think that was that was perfectly accurate um uh like yelling type of of preaching and i saw this guy doing it the other day and it i'm gonna be honest he was a white guy and i felt like he was like putting it on it didn't feel genuine to me and i just wanted to know your opinion about like preachers who kind of do that like it's like an over-the-top kind of like theatrical thing in my opinion but i could be completely wrong because i think my mom kind of disagrees with me uh so i just want to know your opinion that's a great question um to answer your question in short um i don't see anything wrong with it um you have to realize that that communicating on a pulpit is a heightened expression it's a heightened form of expression so you don't say to the worship leader oh you're singing that song but that's not how you talk in real life they're using a heightened form of expression to communicate something to the body of believers so this is why the scripture says preaching not talking and there's different preaching styles and these are the way these guys were trained or these are the ways that they they are familiar with these are their modes of communication there's many different styles i don't talk to my wife the way you see me talk on the pulpit you know sometimes i get into these modes i drag my words really long and i my voice goes really um goes much louder than it is in everyday life and that's not me putting on an act it's like this flow i come into and it's it's the way the spirit comes upon me and causes me to communicate so as far as judging people's genuineness i couldn't say in a general sense that oh everybody who does that is fake or everybody who does that is genuine even some of the quiet ones are disingenuous but i would say don't look at the methods look at the message and that's the best way to judge a preacher some of my favorite preachers do that what you would call the hack as they preach so no i don't see any issue with it just discern the message not the method but great question thank you for asking it all right oh we just lost the one iphone okay mary's iphone we're bringing you on mary here we go hello hi mary reuben let's bring the spotlight onto mary's iphone please it's okay we can still bring her on because you can't see me i can't see you it's still on um the previous question asked there it is okay um thank you reuben mary go ahead and ask a question [Music] oh there you are hi yes hi everybody and who's that behind you that's my husband hi to the both of you guys good to see you yeah thank you so thomas has been a great fan of yours he watches every single sermon that you do um my question to you is i've been battling some health issues for the last year and a half i have uh i've been diagnosed with cancer and um it has been you know it's it's i've been taking medications it has been getting better spreading sometimes my question is god you know god says stand on the word stand on his promises you know confess his promises and we do all that but instead of seeing the promises manifest how does one not be anxious or keep up the faith when things are progressing and getting worse i know that there is no fault with god i know it i believe it his word is true but the manifestation or what i see with my eyes is contradictory to what i know what the lord said will happen i don't know if you understand my question but i i i can say i understand the question at least mentally but you know mary i want to say i i don't understand what you're going through and i think it would be insulting to say to you oh i understand i've never been diagnosed with the terminal illness and even those who've been diagnosed with the terminal illness have never been you diagnosed with the terminal illness every experience is different and first i want to say i'm sorry for what you're going through and we're going to believe with you for your miracle and your healing but i think to your question which is i think a really profound question is what do you do in these instances where the promise of god doesn't line up with our reality what do you do when what you're experiencing seems to contradict what the scripture says should be our experience so i first want to say i admire your faith i admire the fact that you acknowledge that it's not on god it's not his fault per se and we know it's on the lord if he wants to do a healing but we trust him when things don't necessarily go the way we imagine they said it should so so there are two ways to answer this question one i could show you in the scripture all the different reasons why someone's not healed you know you in the book of corinthians they took the communion unworthily some were sick because of it some even died so okay there's an example of sin causing sickness acts 10 38 jesus went about doing good healing all who were oppressed of the devil and there we see that demonic powers can cause sickness and then we see in the book of psalms instances where disobedience causes sickness and there's all these different things that you can deduce and say okay is it a demon is it sin is it unbelief is it something else and once you've gone through your checklist theologically and you've addressed every issue you know okay it's not sin you know okay it's not a demon you know okay it's not because of unbelief because i believe in healing and you address all these issues then you're left with only one answer and that's not an answer that we as humans like to hear often which is we simply trust god i believe in healing i believe in miracles i believe that god wants to heal you but any doctrine or theology or ideology that doesn't make room for the sovereignty of god is probably heresy and so as it goes with your circumstance let me very clearly say i don't know and i won't pretend to know because i think it'd be insulting to you and i think it'd be insulting to the lord to pretend i have answers to these profound questions in life all i can tell you is that it sounds to me like you're doing the right thing in trusting him you're believing for your healing and you're not seeing that healing manifest so in that moment you're you're trusting him and you're saying lord i may not see with my eyes what i want to see it but i'll trust you and the truth of the matter is he will fulfill his promise he always does maybe not in the ways we want him to but he will fulfill his promise and so all i can tell you again is i don't know as far as your specific situation why it hasn't manifested but to answer your specific question what you can do in the meantime is just continue to trust him continue to ask him for the healing so persist in prayer ask for the healing pursue that miracle yes but on the other side of that as it is in your case as it hasn't manifested yet continue to pray and trust you can believe for a healing and trust him when it hasn't happened at the same time and so i think you're right where you need to be you sound to me like you have a very biblical view on this and that's all we can do we pray we believe the rest is on him and we trust him let's all pray right now for mary for complete and total healing so father in the name of jesus i lift my sister to you and i ask you lord to bring forth healing let the healing virtue of christ flow through my hands and touch her right where she is in the name of jesus in the name of jesus i want everyone who agreed say amen thank you mary for joining us and thank you to all of you who joined us here on zoom and on youtube um i'm going to do better next time on addressing the youtube questions we we're we're trying to balance taking the zoom questions and also the comments i i didn't do such a good job today of also keeping up with the chat uh i don't have my co-host um good mr stephen makta zuma here who would probably have kept me up with the comments but this is something we want to do from now on on viral revival is include all of the people here on zoom so good to see all you guys joining us we love you all and uh thank you all of you for joining us here on youtube remember not this weekend but the weekend after that we're going to be in orlando florida may 15th and 16th for two nights of powerful meetings don't miss them and then on may 30th we're going to be in orange california for any information on any of these events and to see our full event schedule go to davidhernandezministries.com events and that is it for this edition of viral revival the holy spirits live stream until next time remember nothing is impossible with god [Music] you

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