Our Son No Longer Identifies As a Boy? - Weekly Q&A Roundup - June 1, 2021

well welcome to our tuesday live question answer program my name is rick mcfarland i'm dean of faculty here at karis bible college and we're going to answer some questions that came in from last tuesday night's live bible study and so let's get into the first question tiffany on facebook ask how do you pray for someone's healing if they don't believe and so um this question really depends on are you praying uh over them and ministering healing to them are you just praying for someone you know that isn't a believer and so if you don't uh someone's an unbeliever that needs healing and you're just praying for them well just pray for revelation upon them of the healing power of god and that god would bring someone across their path that could teach them about healing but if you're ministering to someone that just doesn't believe in healing or desires to have healing you just need to realize that every case jesus ministered to someone there was a demonstration of some form of faith and oftentimes jesus would have them do something to release their faith it said many times crowds came to him and he healed them all but the crowds came and so they had some level of faith in jesus in coming and so again every instance of jesus healing someone there was faith involved in it and so look at luke 6 17 it says and jesus came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all judea and jerusalem and from the seacoast of tyre and sidon who came to hear him and be healed of their diseases jesus taught first and then healed and so if someone does not believe the first thing they need is to be taught and then you can minister healing to him and so good question caroline youtube asks how do you know the difference between your thoughts and the voice of the holy spirit that's a great question carol and so first of all you realize that the old testament saints were different as new testament saints in the old testament only a few had the holy spirit upon them and were anointed by the holy spirit and so prophets kings and priests had the anointing upon them but the average rank and uh believer or person in the old testament did not have the holy spirit upon them and none of them had the holy spirit inside them and so you realize in the old testament the voice was external so oftentimes it was it was audible to the ones listening to it because it was external and so in the new covenant though god lives on the inside of you by his spirit and joined himself to your spirit and so now the voice of god is internal it's on the inside i call it a life voice and so he god's life his spirit has joined to your spirit and so now where would you think the lord's thoughts would register on the inside of you it's going to register in your thoughts and god's desires will register in your desires and your his will will register in your will so it's not as spectacular as the old testament but just as supernatural and so oftentimes the lord will will place his thoughts in our mind and we don't even realize it's our his thoughts we think it's our thoughts so what's the difference between our natural thoughts and the thoughts the holy spirit speaks to us first of all you realize our human thoughts are linear and connective we call it a train of thought and so i think one thought that leads to another thought that leads to another thought and so i could follow back my train of thought to where from the beginning and so that's just our human natural thinking but when the holy spirit puts his thought within us it's spontaneous and it brings light we just see something it's an aha moment and so look at psalms 119 130 it says the entrance of your words gives light it gives understanding to the simple and so those thoughts are something that brings light brings understanding and so don't discount those things that's the lord speaking to you it's not your natural thinking you have trouble finding your car keys in the morning and so you got to realize that that thought that brought understanding that's from the holy spirit and when you realize that god's speaking to you a lot more than you think and so good question debbie on facebook asked my daughter-in-law was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer has been sent home to have hospice come in she says she believes but is accepting this verdict as final i have spoken to her about her relationship with god and she says it's okay i believe god can heal her but she has to believe that what more can i do besides praying to help her see god's healing power so of course praying is where you start and so with what you how you deal with your daughter really has to come down to the leadership of the holy spirit let me say this that an answer to a million and one questions is be led you need a word from the lord on how to deal with each situation that pops up and especially in this situation because god knows your daughter knows what you'll respond to and so you need to hear from him and so you need a word from the lord quicken to you look in psalms 119 verse 50 it says this is my com this is my comfort in afflictions for your word has quickened me that's the king james for your word has quickened me and so we need a quickened word or a word that's made alive in our heart about what to do in that situation so i wish i could give you a standard answer and sometimes we want a formula or something but i can't give you that that's going to come from the holy spirit but the lord when you pray the lord may direct you to give her a book or maybe a a audio series that she can listen to and so if the lord directs you that way andrew has a wonderful book and audio series called god wants you well and so you can order that from the website at awmi.net or you can call 719-635-1111 and you can order that so that's a that's a good question lynn on facebook says how do we remain responsible for our lives and not be troubled so there's a balance between not not having worry and caring in your life but also taking responsibility of the things that god's called you to do there's a balance there so how do we find that in in philippians 4 6 it speaks about that philippians 4 6 says be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto god and the peace of god which passes all understanding will keep your hearts in mind through christ jesus finally brethren whatever things are true whatever things are honest whatever things are just whatever things are pure whatever things are lovely whatever things are of a good report if there be any virtue if there have been any praise think on these things those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the god of peace will be with you so in this passage of scripture we find the balance of casting our care not getting into worry but doing the things that we're called to do that we know to do and so first of all you're to turn your cares or your worries turn your cares into prayers and so it's not don't worry about the things of life take those cares and turn them into prayers and specifically bring them to god let your requests be known to god and then add thanksgiving why would you add thanksgiving to your prayer thanksgiving is a release of faith it's a sign of faith that you believe god has it it's taken care of and leave your cares there but you know what there are some things in the natural you're called to do and the first thing you're called to do is control your thought life and so after prayer you need to make sure that what you're thinking on is the word and so there's eight things that we're supposed to focus on after or after we pray is to think on what's true and honest and just and pure and lovely and what's of a good report and what's a praise what's virtuous and praiseworthy the only thing that can make it through those eight filters is the word of god and so we need to set our mind on the things of of god and keep our minds set on the word and then finally in verse 9 it says the things that you've learned receive heard and seen do that's basically saying what you've been taught do what you've been taught do what you know to do so there are some things in the natural you're called to do the lord won't do for you you need to do them and so again cast the care and the worry you never are called to worry and cast them over believe god in believing prayer thank god that he's got it control your thought life and then do what you know to do great question so next question is joseph on facebook when do we know we should leave a church well joseph andrew actually talks about this after he came back from vietnam he didn't really fit back into the to the church that he that he came out of and so the lord had given him many revelations while he was in vietnam that wasn't in line with the doctrine of his home church and so he just struggled fitting into that church and so he would pray lord don't you love this church that i'm in don't you want don't you want to see them saved and know the truth and so the lord really wouldn't say anything to that well of course he loved that church but andrew wasn't asking the right question sometimes we asked the lord the wrong question finally andrew asked the right question lord do you want me to leave and the lord says yes it's time for you to go and so really you need to check in with headquarters before you leave a church don't even start join a church until the lord says this is the church for you or it gives you peace about that being the church but a lot of christians they get offended they just leave a church and they don't ever ask god they don't check with hq headquarters on that they're supposed to leave they just go awol and they just leave the church and didn't even ask the lord and so again you need to ask the lord do i need to leave the church do you have something else for me and so that's yes or no or he might just lead you with the peace saying you know what the all peace about being here is left or you know what i have peace about staying so follow the inward guidance on the inside and the holy spirit will lead you and so again how do you know the difference between your flesh and what's a leading of the spirit well you delight yourself in the lord and he'll give you the desires of your heart that's psalm 37 4. so just delight yourself in the in god set aside time to spend time with god praying meditating the word praying in the spirit and the more you delight in yourself in him the more those he'll place those desires he wants you to have or those wrong desires will be removed from you and so you can follow that so kyle on youtube asked i've been getting some attacks from the enemy in my life how do i deal with these attacks well james 4 7 tells us what to do says therefore submit to god resist the devil and he will flee from you and so sometimes we're trying to resist the devil but we haven't submitted to god what does it mean to submit to god sometimes we try to to submit to god by thinking we need to keep the ten commandments or try to be under the law and try to live holy and perfect but you know what to submit to god you have to do it perfectly and there's only one person that perfectly submitted to god and that was jesus and so when we put our faith in jesus in his perfect work his perfect life is perfect death then that's seen as submission to god matter of fact look at romans 10 3 it says and the the religious jews of paul's day were ignorant of god's righteousness they sought to establish their own righteousness but have not submitted to the righteousness of god how do you submit to god's righteousness or his perfection through faith in jesus because jesus fulfilled the law as us and for us and so he is our righteousness and put our faith in him we have a solid ground then to resist the enemy so we need to submit to god vertically by putting our faith in jesus and then what does it mean to submit to god is in your situation pray and god's going to give you a word about your situation he may tell you a specific thing to do about your situation and so just by faith act on that that's submitting to god and if you'll just put your faith in jesus as your righteousness and then just do what the holy spirit says to do in your situation that's solid ground to stand on and then just resist the devil and he will flee from you good question robin on facebook says i have a son who's addicted to heroin out there on the street how do i stand strong in the promises of god he's given me over him and not be troubled i have moments knowing god has given me his word then moments i feel emotionally drained well here you spoke at two moments one moment you said that you have you have peace you you're at rest knowing god's word has spoken about your son but then another moment you talk about being so emotionally drained what's the difference between those two moments the first moment is where you're in faith you're trusting and resting what faith is is rest you're resting in god's word and god's promise with your son but on the other time you've gotten out of that faith and rest and now you've got to worrying about your son and that will drain you emotionally you're taking on the burden that doesn't belong to you taking the burden over what's happening to your son out there so what's the answer is that you need to stop going back and forth you make needs to make a decision which one am i going to do am i going to worry or am i going to have faith and we know from the word of god which one to pick you need to trust god your god loves your son much more than you love him or anyone else loves him and so he's able to reach him send people to him with the gospel to set him free you're not helping your son in those times of worry what you're helping him is getting in faith with god in that word and speaking that word and resting that god is working for your son so father i just thank you for reaching out to that to that son right now addicted to heroin and that addiction is broken in jesus name send laborers across to his path father and i thank you lord that we know lord that you are right there and you're able to bring him back father i thank you for the promise that you've given to us lord that train up a child in the way they go when uh the way they should go and when they're old they won't depart from it lord i thank you for that in jesus name all right next question comes from ruthie on chat can you explain what jesus means in john 14 30 which says i will no longer talk much with you for the ruler of this world is coming he has no claim on me jesus was speaking about satan after jesus leaves left the earth it says that satan is then going to try to rule over the earth but satan he said the rule of this world's coming but the ruler of this world has no claims on me and so actually look at where this is quoted in john 14 30 it says i will no longer talk much with you for the rule of this world is coming and he has nothing in me what does that mean that there was no sin in jesus there was no disobedience there was no yielding to satan throughout his entire life there was no area of disobedience in jesus that satan could capitalize on and so there was nothing in him and you know when we put our faith in jesus and received his forgiveness for all of our sins and put our faith in his righteousness and clothed with his righteousness we've become his righteousness then there's no nothing in us that satan can capitalize on because of the blood of jesus so praise god pat on youtube says our son no longer identifies as a boy he's identifying as a girl how do we pray for him well pat we're in agreement with you that this this uh this uh deception is broken over your son in jesus name and so yes you can pray and take authority and in second corinthians 4 4 says the god of this world blinds the minds of those that he has control over but we have authority over satan and we could take authority over that in jesus name that light would shine unto him but i think it's important to pray over him but important important also to do something in the natural you can do something there's three things that you can do for your child first of all is education the second one second one is assess and the third one is control so what does that mean educate well it's your job as a parent to teach them the word of god matter of fact we quoted this before proverbs 22 6 says that you should train up a chain up a child in the way they should go and when they're old they will not depart from it and so we're not to abnegate the training of our children to the politic to the school system or to anyone else but we're to train them according to what the word says so we need to train our child what does the bible say about male and female about marriage and about sexuality the word has much to say about that so we need to set our child down from the word and by the lending on the holy spirit the grace of god to train and teach our child what the word says next of all in the natural you can assess what's that mean you need to assess whether the root of this is coming from some abuse sometimes a child has been abused sexually or some event has happened which has caused this child to turn or it might just be social messages where today it's more and more they're hearing that that's normal for a boy to be a girl and a girl to be a boy so you need to assess is this coming from some abusive situation where they've gone through or is this just social messages and so oftentimes if it comes from abuse it's much more deep rooted in you may need to have some christian counseling christian counseling to help them with this but if it's just social messaging again education of them will probably be helpful and so you need to assess and just listen ask them questions and listen to them you can find out is this from something where they were they had an event of abuse that you may not know of or was this just something they've heard at school from other people and so then finally protect what influences is your child exposed to and so if it's coming from the school then you need to get involved and ask questions what's being taught the school and so it's if it's in your school system and they're hearing from from the teachers about that it's okay for a boy to be a girl and a girl to be a boy or homosexuality then you need to get involved in that and say you know what that's not okay for my child to be taught that and so you can take him out of school on those days that that's being taught or you can or you can try to get involved in the school board or you might realize you know at this point i may just need to homeschool or bring them into a christian school and so assess you know what they're hearing in their school or what this is coming from and then uh then also you need to find out is this coming from their social circle are they learning this from their friends at school if so you can limit their times with certain friends or eliminate eliminate times with friends you know that are struggling with the same issues and so is it coming from unsupervised time on the internet so you can have control over the internet you need to know what your child's watching what they're looking at what they're involved in what they're hearing at school who their friend at school is just getting involved asking questions and so that's that's involved so father i just thank you father this child is set free in the name of jesus by the power of god and lord this is not a view and so lord we just break this deception over this child in jesus name that as parents lord i thank you they have authority to take authority over satan in jesus name and we we believe that this son is going to experience freedom and walk in the identity that you called him to father we thank you for giving wisdom to these parents in jesus name elaine on facebook says what keeps healing from manifesting when someone believes with their whole heart that by his stripes they were healed and so what can help keep healing from manifesting is that unbelief can come in and so unbelief and faith are opposite principles you can have faith and unbelief operating at the same time so what's faith faith comes from the word of god it's based on what god says not what you see in the natural unbelief comes from looking at the natural circumstances and looking at what it looks like with your eyes and your ears and what you feel like unbelief is ministered from the natural and so if you're looking at the word one moment then you turn to see if it's so and you're checking your body to see waiting for your manifestation or you're checking out the natural and just looking at the natural that's what unbelief can minister and so you can have faith and unbelief that are counter opposing one another and the manifestation can be hindered because of unbelief not because you don't have enough faith you just jesus said if you have the green a faith of the grain of a mustard seed that's a very small amount you can move a mountain so what you don't need more faith you need to remove the unbelief and so one day jesus was talking to a father of a child that needed to be free from from affliction in mark 9 24 immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears lord i believe help my unbelief so you can have both at the same time and so what's what should you do you need to focus on the word focus on the truth truth is eternal truth can never change if you look at the natural the natural is the place of facts facts will change and so but the truth can change the facts but facts will never change the truth but if you keep going back and forth back and forth that means you're doubting you're going back and forth you're not going to see that manifestation come but you keep focused on the truth and then the manifestation will come but keep your eyes off the natural don't be looking for the manifestation focusing on the natural for the manifestation keep your eyes on the truth it's just like a train that goes by it's led by a by an engine and then you have many cars and then you have a caboose and so that the engine of the train is like the truth but you know what from the time that the the the engine goes by to the time the caboose the caboose is your manifestation but in between there's time where you're waiting but but don't be waiting and get your eyes on the caboose while i'm waiting for my manifestation the more you look for the caboose you're going to minister unbelief to yourself keep your eyes off your caboose where do you need to keep your eyes on the truth by his stripes i'm healed i'm not going to focus on anything else and i'm going to let the manifestation take care of itself i don't care how long it takes i'm going to focus on the truth and the manifestation will take place but it will take longer to manifest if you go back and forth back and forth and unbelief is hindering that manifestation so great questions today and so father i just thank you the word of god was sown in people's hearts today lord to bring it back to the remembrance when they need it and we thank you that it bears fruit in jesus name well come back tonight and watch our live bible study at the six o'clock with andrew and jamie i mean andrew and carrie and so have a great afternoon you

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Published: Sat Sep 11 2021