Pastor Garid Beeler / Faith, Evangelism & Staying The Course

[Music] so [Music] show from southern california this is the ryan reese show post your questions using ryan reese on his instagram twitter or facebook are you ready ready it is going down another saturday night live in southern california i'm super pumped because it feels like summer it feels like summer today i was actually at the pool with my kids and i was tripping out going man it is really it's legit hot and we're in the middle of winter thank god for southern california summers in the winter so anyway i'm sorry i know this shows in new york city and massachusetts and all these other places where it's very cold but yes i am very excited to be out here in southern california right now even though i do enjoy going to those places sometimes in the winter and i remember going out to rochester new york one time to do an event and literally it was freezing cold i went out there as a california dude with a zip up i showed up it was literally frozen there was icicles like four feet just hanging from these buildings and i was like no way i had no idea that you can get icicles that big it's like freezing cold insane out there so i'll be praying for all you guys out there right now tonight i got one of my good friends in studio garrett beeler a lot of you guys that uh listen to the the calvary uh network stuff you guys would know him he i'm just surprised he's never been on my show honestly i'm gonna give you a little bit of background on him before i introduce him to come on the show but he's been around a long time in the calvary uh movement he i discovered him because when i got saved 13 years ago i was dead you guys heard my story where i got saved and i was like okay i'm not going to go to rehab but i'm going to go to church and i need to learn about who jesus was i was so tired of people talking about jesus and the bible and not me having any insight i don't like being that guy like out of it i want to know what's going on so i was trying to figure out where i could go to church every night of the week and i found a place on monday night i'm like man there's no way they're gonna have church on monday night well lo and behold i found out there was a study called monday night study that was going on for a very long time years and years like my dad was there greg laurie used to teach it um there were several other uh some of the the heroes of the faith of calvary chapel uh that would do this monday night study and during this time i found out that the monday night study was going on at calvary chapel costa mesa and i walked in and it was all young and it was packed and it was so cool because all these other churches i was going to it was like more like older crowds on sundays wednesdays i was even going to like calvary chapel costa mesa on tuesdays where there was a really old crowd like beehives really old crowd but i was desperate for jesus but when i was in this monday night study i was sit back there in the back because i felt like a black sheep i didn't know anyone it just kind of rolled in but it was packed with young people and this dude came up and he would start speaking his name was gary beeler and i remember gary i know you're in studio listening but i remember just being in there and you would get up there and you would start speaking and you spoke my language because i think a lot of the other pastors i was going to hear speak they were older but you were around my same age but just the lingo the street lingo that you were using at that time and what i loved is that you were teaching through the gospels and you were making it so relatable life application no compromise gospel it was funny not that you're like a prankster but you are you do have a little you have some funny uh uh definitely some funny things you're not going up because there's some other pastors that go up there that i've seen not from the calvary movement other people they go up there and just crack jokes it wasn't like that you're preaching the gospel but just some of the things that you would say were so stinking relatable to me that i'd just be busting up laughing and then i'd go how in the heck does this dude go up there and just speak for like 40 minutes or whatever and then you do like altar calls that's like you these are called invitations where you go hey man if you were moved by this message or you felt like you related to what was said tonight you want to give your life to christ and you're tired of your sin life you know basically sin is the stuff that destroys us that we hate anyway you want to come up and you want to commit your life to christ and be forgiven and say a prayer that's you would say that every time on monday night and this would be live actually on k-wave a live radio show every every monday night it was a big deal and you would do these altar calls and dude all these people would get saved every single monday night and i would trip out because i was new in the faith even though my dad's a pastor the whole thing but i'm like this is so crazy because you had this voice and you do have this voice still as an evangelist a bible teacher um and when you call for people to repent and give their life to god people get saved and that's there's not many people that that that god does that with like where it's like an evangelist calling but i saw that and i was just like dude how in the heck does he do this how does he remember all this stuff and i just was so dumbfounded by it but what happened is god used you in my life to put that evangelistic calling in my life and to see it carried out through a younger guy my age not because i think these older guys are these evangelists that you would see of course gregory get up or like my dad or these guys would get up and they'd say stuff and people get saved of course but to see a young buck like yourself get up get it done and god used you dude god used you in a massive massive way in my life so the fact that you are here in studio and i'm shocked that this is actually your first time i've had your wife on here twice you're here i just wanted to say that intro just to like say dude god used you seriously to decide you discipled me when when in a very uh young stage of my life where i would go religiously every single monday night and god used you to save two of my best friends uh to give their life to god when they would go to church nothing would happen but i've seen them go up and give their life to god with both of those guys so dude thank you so much man i can't tell you gosh i i don't even know what to say after that praise the lord but what an amazing thing uh to be back i mean in a place that was my home for so long uh it was like i haven't been home in a long time and here i am but i just want to say thank you for inviting me on your show tonight and uh what a what a blessing to be here and uh just hearing that look at you now i mean look what the lord has done in your life and there is no other way because a lot of people you know they get caught up in religion and trying to be a better person and you know you know really i'm gonna do better next time but they get burnt out and if you try to you try to be you know this person without the power of the holy spirit you eventually say like a lot of people say you know i tried the whole church thing i tried the whole jesus thing and it just didn't work out for me but you're you're a case in point where it's like you had an encounter with jesus it was a real thing it wasn't trying to stand on your tippy toes to be good enough to reach god it was like really receiving that free gift of salvation that that was made possible through jesus and now look at you 13 years down the road you got your own show you travel around the country people are getting saved you have an amazing wife you have beautiful kids i mean the lord has blessed you and it's so cool as your friend just to be able to see what the lord has done in your life and what he's continuing to do i mean it's mind-blowing but it's just one of those things that you point to the lord and you say look what god has done he does what only he can do and for anybody that's listening out there you can be the furthest away furthest way and god can change your life in an instant and set you on a path to doing great things so uh thanks for having me on the show tonight looking forward to spending some time with you did my wife pay you to say that at this time but i'll tell you you did marry up man i know i know i know you know what your wife and my my wife my wife loves your wife and she's done that show with her on this and we we love you know we love you guys our our family loves you guys my mom my dad we we all love the the bueller family so thank you again for being on and the fact that we are actually on this radio show right now doing this is it's crazy what god can do it's like you said it's what god can do and he can do it with with anybody it's just all about committing your life to him getting discipled finding a pastor that you can relate to because i related to you that you can receive from and then once if you if there's a pastor's voice that you'd like to hear as far as like the way he delivers the message and he's given the word of god that's crucial i think because when you find someone you like to listen to then you're going to continue to just burn to the scriptures to go through the bible to continue to go to church you know what i mean you want to grow because the way someone's breaking it down and you know i would encourage people to find you online you have your own church now yeah we're in the city of irvine yep so we're we actually just turned seven on january 5th so we're seven years into a church plant uh it's called vision city church you can go to visioncitychurch.com for more info or look us up on social media as well um but yeah we're chipping away and we kind of uh you know everyone's had a real hard time yeah especially in california i mean that's not to say that other states have not had it difficult our country the world but for us in southern california you know we we've been through the whole you know do you you know defy the government or do you do drive-in services do you cancel everything do you do zoom meetings you know and you know people are zoomed out man it's like if i have to watch another thing online i think i'm going to go crazy so we've been in a real good spot in that where we meet uh we have set up like remember the old vision events we used to do right out here on the field uh we actually set up a stage and it's bring your own beach chairs camping chairs blankets and uh you can spread out on this huge field where we do church at 10 30 on sunday mornings and then we have a drive-in option if you rather stay in your car and listen um or you can watch online so i think we're kind of covering our bases as far as you know reaching people where they're at what's the park where's it at yeah so this is actually uh in the city of irvine we rent a school from a school it's called orchard hills school and it's in this tucked away little community of orchard hills in irvine and we meet every sunday at 10 30 a.m dude that's perfect get there vision church yeah well you've spoken there too i have yeah that was one that was before the pandemic that was that was that was actually right before yeah lots happened this last year so you know you i feel like you got a lot of wisdom because you've lived a a life of a lot of different transitions and and starting here at calvary chapel and then you know venturing out to start your own church what's been going on nowadays with you like because we haven't even caught up just since that sense of um since covet hit yeah what god was blessed in your church and still is obviously but you uh what was the shift what happened uh when when the pandemic happened just like i want to hear kind of like what god was doing in your life and then like the shift of what god's doing nowadays yeah no that's a great great question and just to kind of fill you in where we're at four kids you know i have my my oldest son hudson who's 12 he'll be 13 in june i have my daughter ava who's 10 and she has special needs so she still can't speak or walk and so if anybody hears that out there pray for ava and so i have a special needs daughter and then we had about a seven year gap uh and then we had harrison who's three and then i have little baby georgie who's uh gonna be uh one in april so we we got a full house when you know right before the pandemic hit i mean we're just firing in all cylinders i mean the church is going great a lot of things cooking every night of the week really effectively i think uh helping people growing their walk with the lord because i think you hit the nail on the head earlier about finding a pastor that you can relate to that you can grow grow from and basically it's just finding somebody that will teach you the word of god and not sugarcoat it i mean you'll love it or you'll hate it but at least you'll know what it says and so i feel like our heritage is very the same and it is very likened that we've had that same upbringing in receiving the whole counsel of god and so that's always been my thing is i wanted to carry the torch you know i i just wanted to do what i was taught and so we we just had a lot of things going great and then we kind of had a fourth hoop to the fourth hoop to jump through where a lot of people had the state regulations and then you had your county and then you had your city and then we had a school district on top of it so yeah because you were in the school yeah so so it was very challenging and we haven't been able to be indoors we haven't been able to have any inside meetings so we had to improvise and and sometimes we were even getting our outdoor services canceled like two days before they were going to happen as regulations were changing so we did like a few saturday night services and that we just needed to keep people together yeah because people were struggling being isolated depression suicide drug use substance i mean all you name it and people were really really hurting and so i i felt just really strongly that we needed to gather the church together do you think with that said do you have you seen or had conversations or feel like a lot of people have there's been like a falling away during this time of the like with the church yeah with the actual church of people that not just going to your church but maybe even other pastors or people there's been a falling away of christians yeah knowing faith you're right you know i think a lot of times churches can be a little inflated and you'll look at like oh man these guys just have so many people or whatever but really what happened is the lord used it to refine a lot of people and and not just the the individual person because i think everybody took it on the chin i mean everyone had a hard time nobody got off last year having an easy time but i think it refined everyone but with the from the the standpoint of looking at church though it did it did separate it it really did those that were hardcore and like hey my relationship with the lord is number one they stayed committed those that had an option now hey you don't have to go to church because what happens like when you first started the online services it was like okay we gotta tune in at 10 30. and we're going to watch this and the next thing you know is a few weeks goes by a couple months goes by it becomes ambient you know in the background while you're doing other things you know and then next you're not even watching it and the next thing you know is you're six seven eight nine months down the road almost a year and you haven't gone to church at all you stopped reading the bible you stopped investing in in your spiritual relationship with the lord and then you just ended up falling off so absolutely that happened because you know with all those things said normally like when you're going to church you're like okay it's like a routine you know you're like okay so i'm going on church like we have our routine we're gonna go either on wednesday night or sunday morning or both or whatever it be and then when you're there you know oh when i'm there i'm going to actually have the fellowship aspect so i'm going to talk to my friend my fellow believers iron sharpens iron and all that but then when the pandemic happened they were like no more church and don't even be around people i mean they're trying to shut stuff down for christmas and everything so it's completely isolated people and when you're isolated and you're not in your routine and it's so easy to fall away from reading your bible or watching the webcast or whatever be and once you get in that rut as we all know as believers we can even get in that rut where we get so busy as just in ministry that you've i got to read the bible actually you know like you could be so busy with like three or four days and you're like feeling all like restless and anxiety and like why do i feel like this i'm serving god wait i haven't read my bible in four days or whatever you know life could be so crazy with but but then if you're not even in ministry or whatever you could fall away and i've seen that's what i've seen as a lot of people falling away and now it is you i feel like right now it's like if you want to be a christian you gotta go for it you gotta literally you gotta it god is accepted like the sunday christians to like the die-hard christians then they fear like a die-hard christian like a foreign you got to fight for it because it's not like you just go to church yeah you know what i mean yeah and i think you know in the old testament david just talked about how i'm not going to offer something to the lord it hasn't cost me anything and it is a sacrifice you're actually giving of your time to go to church but you're actually being obedient to the lord as it says in the word do not forsake the gathering of the brethren meaning that you just go to church because that's what god tells you you need to be doing in order to be pleasing to him to grow in your relationship with the lord to encourage and be mutually encouraged with your brothers and sisters in christ so i think it's a very very important thing for christians nowadays like you you said it there is a great separation of those that may call themselves christians and those that are truly followers of jesus because you know christian means christ-like like i'm going to live my life like christ right i've put my faith in him i've been forgiven of my sins i have the power now of the holy spirit to do that which pleases god and it is going to be difficult and no one ever said it was going to be easy i mean just to circle back to your question i mean that last year was rough for me for my family you know and and it was one of those things it was a real challenge i want to hear about this because this is very relatable because there's a lot of families that have it's been difficult uh it's it's been difficult for everyone on on all kinds of uh different levels i mean you could people whether they they've lost everything or they don't have enough money to eat then there's other people that are like used to being gone at work all day long and now and they didn't get along with their wife or husband anyway they weren't like non-christians or whatever and then also they're stuck at home with their family yeah you know there's there's there's been um there's been uh difficulties in in many people's lives but i want to hear about yours what you were going through during this time yeah well i think what is most relatable is going to be you go through a transition of maybe you can understand this because i know you're a go go go right yeah it's like if you're used to being out and doing things and and charging forward now all of a sudden you're forced to be confined so now you're staying at your house and so you get it you got to go through this you know adjustment period of getting used to being home every single day not doing anything and so i think for us it took us a little bit of time to to transition through that but then all of a sudden something that seemed to be really really hard turned into be a huge blessing i mean if you have problems with your spouse then i know you said that you had heard of people there they're put together now you're gonna have to work those things out you know i've been very blessed with an amazing wife and great kids and my time of traveling and going stopped and i had a whole year almost nine months of being with my kids every single day every single day and it was one of the biggest blessings to me as a husband and as a father but one of the things that you know you started to see is is that being around the kids they're not going to school anymore yeah parents that aren't teachers are having to homeschool their kids yeah you know guys that are in certain industries like we have buddies like in hotel and entertainment and and stuff like that where their business is just chopped and so they're left with huge overheads no income and then you know trying to put on a strong face for their kids and for their wife you know that's a very very difficult thing you know to to deal with but you know for for me i think one of the most challenging things was just not being able to to meet with people you know i think like what we do is something that's very personable and it's very relational and so when you're cut off from all of those things you know you realize that there are people that are in need and that are hurting and you feel like you're paralyzed in some respects like your wings have been clipped it has been very interesting i would agree with you because you are you are always on the go as well going around guess speaking and all that stuff and then also just get shut down so you get out of your groove but then you feel that urgency like you said to go reach people and be with people but then they're saying stay away from people but the word of god never changes you know what i mean like god has called us to go and to be with the people and to minister to them and and i mean if the disciples and them are here today jesus i don't think he'd be out continue to do it and he gave jesus gave the disciples the power he said go and they were laying hands on the sick they were they didn't get sick they went out and just did it you know they did ministry yeah and i think if you even look back at medieval history you know when the plague hit and all these different things the christians were the first one to go into the towns i didn't know this yeah christians were the first one and the name specifically escapes me but they they were christians and they were the first ones to go into the towns to help those people that were sick when everyone's like i'm getting out of here people are dying left right and center they were the ones that went into it to try to nurse them back to health and try to help them you know so i i feel like you know that's the heart of the lord is to help those that are sick to help those that are hurting marginalized isolated you know outcasts whatever they may be and i feel like it's been a real a huge challenge in having to change how you help people you know when you can't be in any close proximity to that i feel like it's uh this moving forward we don't know what's what the regulations and the restrictions and all these things are going to happen moving forward but i don't not to be like negative nancy but i don't see it going back to normal you know this year i have a lot of friends to do music festivals obviously you know that and tons of friends that are in bands and no one's has any clear dates right now of any events that are going to be happening in large gatherings and you know even like small gatherings and we're talking very very small gatherings but then are people gonna have to be vaccinated or or whatever you know what i mean we don't even know what and i'm not pushing vaccinations or anything like that i'm just talking about what the news is is talking about um but yeah we don't know so what as us as believers in the church leaders pastors evangelists i mean just christians period is we got to be very strategic on how we're going to minister and and be led more than ever by by christ and i've talked about this before it's like i think i was even talking to my dad recently about you know the the the days of the the big church institution and all this stuff like we don't know what's gonna happen so right now is the time when we need to forward think and go okay we gotta continue to do ministry and we gotta see how we're gonna be able we're going to be strategic and and pray that god shows us clearly what to do because he wants we know that he wants to continue to keep reaching people and jesus is not going to stop no absolutely how are we going to do it well jesus said the gates of hell won't prevail against it and i just said and neither will covid you know it's like it's one of those things where you got to improvise and you got to adapt and you got to keep doing what you know you're called to do you know and so i think that's a hugely important thing but one thing just for like christians i mean look what you went through you know i told this to my church on our first we call our first sunday of the month usually of the new year uh first the second sunday vision sunday and i was just like you know what look at you guys look what we went through last year you guys had the hardest year of your life and here you are today still doing what you're supposed to be doing you took it on the chin you got beat down you struggled you were defeated you didn't know how you were going to make it and yet jesus sustained you and here you are still standing you had not given up yet you are still there and you have been refined and strengthened and you didn't even realize how powerful the lord was at work in your life through all of it and you've come through it now stronger than you were at the you know at the beginning of that previous year you know and that's a huge thing that's interesting that you said that because think about it what if right now we know god's refining the church we already know that it's happening with the ones that are sticking there he's refining he's building them up and he's preparing us for what's next because we know this is all in his will he's working out his eternal plan and purpose but you think about even like paul paul was continuing to go through hell like locked up getting rocks thrown persecuted but he continued to press on continue to press on and god is he's building the church he's straight he he's basically turning this the church into into uh warriors you know and building us during this time i can tell you right now i've grown during this time you know i've you know i've had to like control because you could get all like people like us that travel a lot or speak a lot olsen everything kind of gets shut down old sudden like everything just switches up and you got to kind of like navigate through these emotions and through what god wants to do in your life you know i feel like god's just really been just working and speaking to me and just toning us down and preparing our hearts and and minds for whatever is is gonna come and he's doing that with his people as well and i think giving people a an urgency on what it is to have a true relationship with him during during this time yeah and i think i've also valued small things yeah things that i that i i kind of took for granted or that may you know at face value seem insignificant i felt like i didn't realize that some of god's greatest blessings were those like right right beneath my nose like they were right here like what like like well i i i would never say that i took my family for granted but i feel like i treasure them more than i ever have i feel like i love my my sons my daughter my wife and i felt like with all the things that got stripped away that which was most important remained which was my relationship with the lord and i think for everybody that was you know going to church and got shut down you were given a free pass to never go to church again nobody was going to be knocking on your door making sure you're logging on you know nobody's knocking on your door saying here's you know the the tithe bag you know for you to continue to worship through giving you were given a free passage just do whatever you want do whatever you want and so what you saw through it through all of what happened last year and i saw this in my own life was a strengthening of my relationship with the lord personally a strengthening of my relationship with my wife and with my children and then realizing what a blessed man i was even with what was just inside my house it had nothing to do with outside it had nothing to do with being up in front of people or traveling to different places or going and experiencing different things i was a blessed man more than i deserve even if i just had that you could literally get yeah you could miss what's what's right in front of you by just getting lost in the shiny objects of of life you know and not necessarily they're like a bad thing they're just distractions sure yeah so easy it is true that you know i agree with that 100 percent you know we're going to be going to break in a minute garrett in like two minutes but i want to give out the number triple eight five six four six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three we are in studio with garrett bieler and we are live so we wanna take some calls if any of you guys um wanna ask garrett something maybe you want prayer or whatever it is any questions we are we are here we are available again the number is triple eight five six four six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three before we go to break i do wanna share i have a book coming out soon um it's coming out in may on uh hatchet publishing and it's called kill the noise it's called kill the noise finding meaning above the madness and i wrote it during the pandemic in 2020 uh got shut down stop traveling so much and i just started writing and i came up with it and it's a discipleship book the first two chapters is how i get saved starts off with me like just in the like out of high school i get saved and then i walk people through uh what sin is what repentance is what sanctification which what's the work of the holy spirit you know what's the call in your life i just take people through the whole process to disciple them to basically it all ends with deciding if if you are true christian or you're not so like first chapter is called let the good times roll then losing control then crossroads punk rock jesus identity crisis shiny objects destroy all gods god signs in the storms living the impossible and no posers i end with no posers so you either decide if you're a true christian or you're a poser so we're gonna be back right after the break i love you guys [Music] more of the ryan reese show coming up post your questions at ryan reese on his instagram twitter and or facebook now back back to the ryan reese show all right all right i got garrett bieler in studio vision church irvine vision city church vision city church sir irvine we got a vision for our city that's right what's the website visioncitychurch.com tomorrow john the baptist yeah we're starting a great study 10 30 a.m dude i cannot wait i love john the baptist dude you remind me he reminds me a lot of you i gotta grow my beer longer like you dude that's awesome okay hey garrett you know at the first half we were talking about just uh the pandemic hit the church and then it all wrapped up like from difficulties what people were going through but then you realize that the blessings that were right in front of you because sometimes we get distracted with the things of of the cares of the world and they can't it doesn't have to be like sin just distractions you know things and you and you really miss those moments of like your kids and your wife and everything that's going on in front of you so that was a good word if you missed that go to ryanreach.com all these shows are on youtube and on our app and on our website years but backdated and i'm going to have garrett back on because he's epic and this has been an epic show but we want to take some calls right now while we have them in studio i see calls coming in from san diego laverne eastvale texas i'm gonna give the number out one more time triple eight five six four six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three we're gonna go ahead and grab this call from jessica in laverne how you doing tonight jessica hi ryan i'm doing well um by the way i met you and your wife at the park a couple weeks ago here at laverne i remember you remember me yes how you doing yeah i didn't get to say bye but hi and bye hey we were all chasing kids don't don't worry um and hi pastor garrett um hey how are you doing jessica doing well thank you um well not so well um i just called because i i just need prayer um i guess for my family for myself um i just been experiencing a lot of like spiritual attacks and kind of like i've never had before um like sleep paralysis kind of weird stuff going on in my apartment and um yeah it's just sorry i'm kind of crying because you know i i don't know sometimes i think like i'm a christian like like i've been a christian for so long like why am i having this happen to me you know and like i just feel this cloud sometimes over my head like i don't know if it's depression or just this darkness i feel all the time like i don't and i'm reading and i'm praying you know and i just i feel like god's using it to draw me closer to him but i just i don't know i'm just like always scared and i don't know i don't know what it is i i prayed over my apartment and um but i just had some really weird experiences lately and okay i have a couple questions i have a couple questions for you so yeah when when did the like the sleep paralysis and all that stuff happen um the first time it was like around november i want to say um i was like kind of like half awake half asleep kind of a thing and i i heard i thought i was i thought i heard the door open my head and i called my husband i thought he opened the door and it was like 2 a.m and then sorry i'm sharing with you all this but um then i heard all these voices like talking at the same time um you know just mumbling things but in a really ugly way and i couldn't move and my eyes were like half awake half asleep like i said and then i don't know i just felt this and then i thought i saw the light in my hallway to turn on and i tried to get up and i couldn't but i was still like half asleep and then this kind of presence came over me and i just felt you know this i guess demonic oppression and i you know tried to save my husband's name and he didn't come and then i said jesus and you know i started saying like you know jesus and everything and yeah and then that happened and it kind of happened again a couple weeks ago and i just feel like every corner i turned i'm gonna run into something or like so you know this fear okay so i mean i don't know how much you know of my story but i used to i had that happen too with demons coming in my room and choking me out and holding me down and halfway half asleep and fear and this crazy amount of like fear would would come into the room and i would see these black demons you know moving around my room and the whole thing all right so is there is there anyone like in your house because like is there anything like you guys have like supernatural films is there people in your house that are into pornography uh i mean is there any doors that could be open that are allowing this stuff uh that's always the first question is has there been stuff that has opened the the doorways if you will for the enemy to come to come in um yeah i can honestly say like i mean we don't practice any occult or anything like that like yeah i listen to stephen bankers a lot and um yeah nothing like that um i did have like this little eye decoration thing and i kind of got and i got rid of it because i thought maybe that but i mean honestly um i don't know what it was it was just like this red like rattan eye mirror and i bought it like tj maxx but yeah i just thought maybe this is kind of weird um but honestly i i mean i'll just be honest um like my husband was confessed to us that he had been smoking weed for like a few years yeah so look on and off this is the deal that stuff is the stuff that allows the enemy to come in to the house yeah so what we what we need to do is has he decided that he was going to quit or is he is in the process of yeah cool yeah i'm sorry um yeah he did you know repent and he confessed and was just like it was it was kind of weird because we went to florida last um we traveled last year and um and he was away from all of the stuff and that's when he kind of like confessed to us and you know he was crying and he just feels like he was mentally here for like the last three years and it was really hard to hear you know hear that but you know i just want to move forward but yeah i think i feel like that probably you know opened some doors and and i know he struggles with like pornography too and yeah um yeah this is what needs to be done the good news is jesus overcame that there's power in the name of jesus and he can literally come down and wreck shop in that house and clear that place very simply and very easily it all comes down to repentance he your husband and you know whoever is involved with this stuff needs to repent you need to get all the paraphil paraphernalia out of your house any pipes any drugs pills whatever anything that is attached to that lifestyle you got to clear that stuff around go around your house see if there's any supernatural films anything that the holy spirit pops out to you get it throw it away clear the house get anointing oil anoint all the walls the doors pray say in jesus name holy spirit come and clear this place bleed the blood of jesus on the house and literally if you guys continue to go after god and pray and ask him that stuff will go and it will never come back and if it does you just say in jesus name leave but it's always i've heard this story over and over and over and then what happens is because that because the enemy has a foothold or like a a key or what like it's just like a connection to this house because of these doorways that heaviness and that fogginess that depression that anxiety all that stuff it's spiritual warfare it talks about in ephesians you're basically having spiritual warfare but but remember there's power in the name of jesus and you can't be double-minded like the man in james you'll be unstable in all your ways you can't be going back and forth so there has to be clear repentance going after christ and asking god to come in and bring his holy spirit and push out all that stuff and to bring clarity so we're going to pray for you tonight gary do you have anything to say yeah i would just add for your listeners that may have you know wondering maybe wondering about spiritual battle well the bible actually teaches that there is a spiritual warfare that is taking place right now behind the scenes i mean often we'll we'll look at what we can see but there is the good versus evil the the the demonic and and the the angelic hosts of the lord that are fighting over uh this world so for when you hear things like spiritual battle spiritual warfare oppression you know people being demon-possessed that's not just the movies this is real life we both dealt with those things uh we know that the battle belongs to the lord and that through faith in jesus you are more than a conqueror and so i would just encourage jessica just to understand one simple thing is that greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world that means you filled with the holy spirit are more powerful than the worst evil entity that may try to come knocking on your door however look at what's happened in your life look at how you've pressed into the word of god you've pressed into prayer you've actually become stronger because of these things and i would even go as far to say that the lord has a great plan for you and your family and that's why the enemy is trying to shut you down and to be discouraged and be overrun by fear and anxiety so anytime you start to feel those things enter into the spiritual realm through prayer and reading so that'd be my two cents ephesians 6 says a final word be strong in the lord and in his mighty power put on all of god's armors that you will be able to stand firm against the strategies of the devil for we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world against mighty powers in the dark world and against evil spirits in the heavenly places that's the new living translation so hey i'm gonna pray for you jessica and i'm gonna pray for your husband okay is that cool of course all right here we go okay lord jesus we pray in jesus name that you will literally send your holy spirit and that you will push out all the darkness that's in her house all the enemies lord i pray that you send your angels your warrior angels to surround that house to protect them lord we plead the blood of jesus on that house god we pray for her husband that you will continue to move in his life we thank you for your grace your mercy we thank you that you don't judge people you came in the world to save people not to judge the world or condemn it lord we pray that in jesus name that you will feel him that you will fill her with the baptism and the fire of your spirit god i pray that you will break all spiritual chains strongholds footholds as the scriptures refer to it that you will break that stuff off of them lord and that the enemy will have no more access to that house in jesus name we pray for protection over their kids we pay protection over their life and god i pray in jesus name that you bring clarity that depression anxiety all that stuff that's happening it's all supernatural it's from the enemy i pray that you just break that off of them right now in jesus name because your scripture says that you defeated satan on the cross and it says that there's power in your name so in the mighty name of jesus christ we ask for freedom to reign in their house and on them in jesus name amen amen all right well i want you to check back in with us why don't you give us a call next week and let us know how things are going yeah definitely and um just say hi to your father for me because like i said i grew up uh going to church and um i love him so awesome he's my he's always my pastor heck yeah heck yeah he's awesome all right hey good to see you uh hopefully uh well maybe i'll see you again sometime yeah for sure all right you guys have a blessed night awesome take it easy goodnight jessica all right cool you know what the supernatural is real they make movies about it all the time it's real deal yeah it's not just entertainment no it's a real deal stuff all right uh you know uh stephen bankers i've heard of him so he's this ex new age guy he was like a big voice in the new age movement and he ended up getting saved and he he was like huge huge following and now he wrote a book and he's uh very interesting his stuff very biblical very intelligent smart mind and faith yeah well it reminds me i remember sitting on the first floor here and a guy came in my office he wanted to meet with me and i said hey how you doing and and uh and he he sat down at my at my desk and i had my bible there and he started tripping out he started getting all agitated and upset and uh and and he said to me he said that book right there he said the light beings told me that that is the greatest threat to mankind and i said what light beans and he said well i'm involved with this new age blah blah blah he says i i take rides and ships and all this kind of stuff after traveling and stuff yep but he said he said the light beans quote unquote said that the greatest threat to mankind is the bible and you remember what paul said that is nothing for satan to masquerade as an angel of light you know because i'll tell you right now it's it's no messenger of the lord that's going to tell you that the bible is the greatest threat to mankind but the people that get involved with that new age stuff are dabbling in things they have no idea what's really happening there but we do know jesus sets people free all the time all the time oh i thought you were going to tell that other story where uh the the demon-possessed person like jumped out maybe another yeah we'll hold out for another show all right let's take some more calls i think you shared it at a pastor's conference one time all right let's see here we go um let's see uh here we go let's go and take this call from san diego we got ryan in san diego what is your question tonight man hey what's up guys hey ron good to hear you buddy yeah i just want to say thank you for being um you guys are being bold for the gospel of jesus christ and um you guys remind me of like the real dudes like you know what i mean from the bible well i mean you guys are right but anyway so okay so right i'm a christian um i gave my life to christ like five years ago when i was in prison really and and i just took a turn you know and i just got out like two months ago and i'm still on parole yeah but um i just wanted to like just straight up ask you guys you know like yeah i know everybody's going to a switch-up right now yep but um what do you think about about like like staying inspired for the gospel you know what i mean like how do you stay inspired yeah like i know it's the word right because i keep reading it and i'm i'm constantly in it just like i was when i was inside but like um so when when when you when you be when you get used from the lord um how how does it happen when you get into it like like some sort of the enemy the enemy comes at you somehow you know like and then and then it kind of like it kind of like makes me depressed sometimes and then and then i have to like listen to a worship cd or something or like a song you know so like say you're say uh so you're reading you're getting fired up you go out you're being used and then the enemy comes in to kind of like come in and rob your joy or like discourages you yeah but that's that was that that's like biblical though like that happens with the disciples and and and you know they have that mountaintop experience that they come down and the enemy's there it's like yeah welcome to the club on that one that that means to the club you know what that means you're in the game that's true that means because if you're not getting messed with i'm gonna let you jump in here if you're not getting messed with that means you're not doing nothing yeah well a great guy told me this he said if you feel like you're a target it's because you're on target i'll never forget that an old-school pastor old-school pastor by the name of c.h spurgeon he's from the olden days he said something to the effect that the devil is never too busy to rock the cradle of a sleeping christian and it's a huge thing man if you're just you know going with the flow of the world you're not doing anything that's going to impact the world in the name of jesus you know satan will lull you to sleep cares of this world and he'll keep you busy and preoccupied with other things but as it sounds that you're doing it sounds like you're doing that if you're pressing into the word of god and you're praying and you want to be used by god and you want to be faithful that the enemy's going to come and attack you because you're a threat to his kingdom so on one one you know on one side of the coin it's kind of a bummer no one likes getting you know beaten down like that but it should also bring you some encouragement to let you know that you're fighting the good fight and no one ever said that following jesus was going to be easy it's actually the opposite you know he said deny yourself take up your cross follow after fall after me jesus said so well done man yeah amen dude i would just like to add one thing is uh the way to stay fired up and on point to continue to have that passion to keep sharing is to be in the word because when you it's i don't know it's something about it well it's supernatural it's like we i know that god fills us with the power from heaven and we get filled with the spirit and that's what wants us to allows us to share but sometimes we uh we think oh how come i'm not like fire up anymore how come i'm not like excited it's because you're probably not reading you know what i mean it's so important that's that's how we get plugged in it's god's words coming off those pages jesus became flesh the word of god came out of eternity to planet earth and became flesh jesus christ so as we read the word he manifested in our life and he brings that holy spirit to manifest and the power comes and then we want to share so continue to keep doing that and god will continue to use you to uh to love people man just remember giving the god sharing the gospel man it's just it's through relationship and just having conversations and god does it you know oh yeah amen i just want to pray for ava man and lord i just lift up ava to you and i pray that her feet and her and her um her eyesight comes back in and lord and that you would just make her healing and you just touch your lord in a mighty way in the name of jesus amen amen all right you got it well god he asked that in jesus name amen brother hey i'm stoked you're out are you plugged into a church that teaches the bible i'm over there at calvary chapel lakeside but you know what i'm saying i don't know about those guys over there no i'm just joking i don't know either i'm just kind of chill bro that's good but i'm trying to get into it you know like every like every night i want to do it like you i gotta find somewhere like that keep doing it just go yeah there's tons of stuff online that's awesome you were calvary chapel at lakeside sick brother take it easy man that's awesome man so cool um here we go you know where calvert chapel lakeside is i i don't actually you don't want to look him up i've heard of lakeside all right we have a few minutes left i believe uh garrett bieler is in studio vision city church and you're teaching on john the baptist tomorrow we're starting a brand new series tomorrow looking forward to it looking forward to it you know and one thing that that it reminded me of when your last caller was sharing is uh you know often you look too far down the road following jesus just means try to make one right decision at a time just just one right decision you know and then eventually you'll string a whole bunch of those together and you'll find that making those decisions that honor the lord they become easier as as you are committed to them you know sometimes you might think oh i'm not where these guys are or where they are it's not about where other people are it's about what god's doing in your life yeah and everybody's in their own spot but it's all one decision to honor the lord at a time yep 100 we have about four minutes left but there's a call from trish in san clemente and it says how did paul endure all the pain that he went through for the gospel i'm not going to take this caucus been on enough time but how would you uh break that down jesus gave him grace that's that's that's the very simplest form his grace is sufficient his grace was sufficient paul pleaded god would you please you know lord take whatever this was his difficulties pain his malady whatever it might be and i feel like all of us have something like that but the lord said my grace is sufficient for you my strength is made perfect in your weakness and oftentimes as christians i feel like lord i don't want your grace just get me out of my situation yeah you know change my situation but god's grace is greater his strength is actually perfected during our times of being broken and so it was exactly that from the holy scriptures was that paul was able to endure those things because of god's grace and because of god's strength i heard chuck smith say this a few times on some of his studies you will never know the you will never have the peace of god until you understand the grace of god you know god's grace is sufficient and he will get you through and like you were saying there's us as humans no one wants to be in a bad situation no one wants to experience pain no one wants to experience difficulty or any of these things but god allows us what i've learned is god allows us to go through these things because they create a testimony and we are able to share in our sufferings with people that are going through hard times you know just like even with the infertility and different things that we've that we've been through stuff that we've been through that's that's a testimony that i've been able to go on and share my story and i've seen thousands and thousands of people give their life to christ and if i didn't go through that at that time i wouldn't have that story to be able to share with people and and just even like with even like the drugs and stuff that not that i was god wanted me to go through the drugs and alcohol and all that stuff i chose that because we have free will but god brought me out of it the story is god came in through the power of the holy spirit and just transformed me yeah i got discipled got as we were talking about earlier i went to your bible study you taught me the word you taught me the jesus stories discipled me god transformed me and now i was able to go out and share what god has done and seen people's lives transform one after another but um and you're able to comfort people with the comfort you receive from the lord yeah and i feel like that's what makes a relationship with with god so relatable if you're just real with people you're cool with people you're loving with people you're chill with people but you have your own personal experiences with god that make it so relatable it's like hey i go through the same things that everybody else goes through here's what god did for me and if he did it for me i know he can do it for you and it's that simple we're going to end right here and it's that simple you don't have to be this spiritual giant in the word of god you your testimony is what god did in your life when i first started started sharing gary you know i didn't know the scripture i was just telling my story this crazy story and then like jesus died on the cross he forgave me my sins and everything changed that was my story well yeah i remember that was it it was that simple and a bunch of people get saved because it was relatable it was but i didn't know anything it was the work of god exactly hey that was a sick show thanks for being what happened man loved it we'll do it again we'll party again all right we love you guys we'll talk to you guys next weekend peace this has been the ryan reece show to connect and find out more about ryan click on ryan reece.com check us out next saturday for the ryan reese show you

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Published: Sat May 29 2021