WHY YOU KEEP FALLING FOR IT- The Hooks of Temptation. by R.C. Blakes

good evening hello hello hello hope everybody's doing well hopefully i'm coming through good trying to make sure this mic is not the wrong place hopefully i'm coming through good hopefully hopefully everybody's doing good let me know if my signal is good i hate starting and and then figuring figuring out later that it's not uh it's not coming through properly so hopefully i am how are you doing how's everybody doing tonight invite someone to um to come into this discussion tonight this stems from some thoughts i was having hello hello hello welcome welcome thank you for coming in thank you for coming in signal is good signal is good we've been struggling here in in texas and in houston with this winter storm and lisa and i have been out of power for um 30 hours power just came back on the day but it's threatening to go out again so i said well let me jump in and do this quickly just in case prayerfully the power will stay on the temperatures are very very frigid for those of you who are in those northern states i i don't envy you but we got a chance to get a little feel of what you all tolerate on a regular but i want to deal with something tonight uh why why do i why do you keep falling for it why do you keep falling into it and this this is centered around um really a conversation i was having with the holy spirit in my own heart you know as i was walking about temptation and the holy spirit brought me back to the scripture and i want to show you three hooks three hooks of temptation three areas three general areas or maybe a better way of saying that would be three avenues through which the enemy steps into our lives yours mine all of us and hooks us and seemingly continues to pull us back into a repeated state that never serves us three hooks of temptation now here's here's the reality are you listening to me are you listening to me here's the reality all of us on some level with something struggle with temptation men struggle with it of course you know men struggle with it in fact you know for for us men you don't even have to tempt us too much we ready to just you know we don't fall off the wagon we jump off the wagon uh but for women it becomes a lot different because of the way you are socialized and the way you're conditioned your social conditioning you're you're made to take things um much more seriously when you error in life when you make mistakes you you tend to take things much more seriously and you take things here's a better way of saying it much more personally in other words it's not what you did it becomes who you are and that's where it becomes toxic for you when you discover your own humanity as a woman you know when a man wakes up and he realizes that he's struggling with with sex and he he doesn't know how to you know he doesn't doesn't know how nor does he even want to stop he can go to sleep at night but when a woman wakes up and she realizes that maybe i shouldn't be living like this it's not what she's doing or what she did it becomes who she is and so now she has all of this you know emotional thing which leads to what the broken consciousness you have to begin to you have to learn how to separate you know your humanity from your identity all of us make mistakes all of us have missed it this is why i'm not a a fan of the um the rating thing that everybody seems to be talking about rate yourself rate yourself rate yourself and i mean you know some people do it and i mean teachers own we don't all have the same mindset or approach to life or whatever but i'm not a big fan of it because the reality is if if you're gonna if i'm gonna rape myself i know all there is to know about me you see you're looking at me and you're hopeful that what you see is exactly who i am or what i am because you don't see the subsurface levels of me but i know all of the subsurface levels i know all of the secrets and you know for us to rate ourselves sometimes becomes an exercise in self-abuse so why are we constantly pulled into these things like the apostle paul put it he said when i would do good evil's always at hand he says the stuff i want to do i never do it the stuff that i don't want to do are the things i'm doing what's pulling us into this stuff what's pulling me constantly into a relationship that i knew from the start was not of god and was not right for me see this is this kind of teaching is very important for you ladies for the reasons i just mentioned it's because you go way overboard with you know beating yourselves up for being human you go way overboard whereas we men we don't go far enough you know we just take it lightly and we just go on with life whereas you all you take it so seriously you you actually need therapy and counseling to work your way through it but i had to lay that out first before we get into this here all of us miss it all of us miss it all of us miss it even your friends that's judging how many men you slept with they just ain't told you about seven of theirs even them even them the super religious the super super holy people you know they miss it too they're still missing it you know living a lie but the question is why you know i thank god that i can teach this with a clear conscience because i've walked this out i've made all of the mistakes y'all i made all of the mistakes i've been as low as you can go you know what i mean um my life was a complete mess and the stuff i'm going to teach you tonight are the things that i had to get in order to bring my life to a place where if i were to die today or tomorrow i would i would pray that someone would be able to say at my funeral here lies a man that lived what he preached but there was a time that that would have never been the case but when i discovered these hooks that constantly what does the hook do every time you try to get away throw that hook out there and pull you back every time the fish tries to get away that hook is in his mouth and what does the fisherman do he reels them back there are some hooks that have been placed in your jaw that won't let you go check the noise in the background i don't have any noise in the background does anybody else hear noise anybody else here not let me know before i move forward because i don't i don't want to yes yes you do your nose hold on one second let me see maybe this mic is rubbing is it like static or okay is that better is that better is that better is that better uh somebody said tv cut the tv all the way off family all right okay thank you all for letting me know i appreciate it because i have no way of knowing unless you tell me so if we're good i can proceed with the meat of this matter right okay we're good okay good go to first john chapter 2 uh verses 15 through 17. listen to what it says love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world watch this here it is they're listed right here here are the hooks the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world and the world passeth away and the lust thereof these things are temporal in other words these things will hook you and preoccupy your entire life he says but all of these things are passing away but he that doeth the will of god abideth forever i want to deal with these three hooks tonight the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life and i didn't take time to just really dig deep into this so we're just gonna kind of skim the surface tonight and i believe prayerfully you'll get enough out of this um that will will help you but let's deal with number one the lust of the flesh why why why am i pastor why am i stuck in this situation how did i get into this why can't i come out of this hook number one the lust of the flesh the lust of the flesh all right do you all am i still good here now lisa listen to that audio make sure make certain that i'm good do you hear anything else we're good okay i just want to make sure nothing else is coming through here now all right hold on one second let me try something let me try something here i think i'm me let me see all right now that should do it that should do it let's that should do it i think i had clubhouse open sounds like someone is on the phone assurance saying okay yeah i think the clubhouse thing was open i forgot to forgot to close it okay so let's we still haven't gotten to the heart of it number one the lust of the flesh the lust of the flesh the reason you can't seem to pull away from habits the reason you seem to be drawn to problems and issues the reason you seem to constantly attract abusive people that never reciprocate hook number one it gets all of us the lust of the flesh now the lust of the flesh listen to this very carefully now the lust of the flesh centers on experiences now pay stay with me now stay with me now don't don't listen listen carefully the lust of the flesh centers on experiences we've had and are trapped in the memory of how it made the flesh feel this creates an appetite for things that don't serve us the lust of the flesh is the appetite of the carnal mind you know it's what's it's what's fed when we listen to certain kinds of music that stimulates certain thoughts within us it's what's fed when we watch certain uh movies of videos that stimulate certain thoughts in us it's what's fed when we answer the phone for people who say certain things that make us feel certain ways that bring us into certain emotions that make us behave in certain ways it's the lust of the flesh it's the flesh it's when we it's when we live our lives in a direction that is more carnal and fleshly and sensual than it is spiritual it's when you commit your life to things that feed that part of your being that keeps you you know in in a in a cycle or in cycles of fleshly or carnal behavior that keeps you stuck in certain ruts that you can't seem to break from go to romans chapter 8 verses 12 through 14. says therefore brethren we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh for if you live after the flesh ye shall die but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live for as many as are led by the spirit of god they are the sons of god what does he say we have to mortify the deeds of the body says and then we'll live now here's the big issue now let me just deal with this while i'm here i get so much pushback on the abstinence thing and and and the the weird thing is that i get the pushback from a lot of ladies that don't want to hear me talking about abstinence it's like the ladies just want to have sex now you know what i mean it's like you your your consciousness is so broken you just up front out with it you know you want to have sex you don't want nobody to tell you no different and i'm telling you that you need to sit your little self down somewhere and preserve your little body because you just went yourself out here running around here these people got you thinking you know that you got something to prove and you out here trying to have sex and and all you're doing i'm looking at you all you're doing is you you like a fish that's swimming around the lake looking for the hook you you just swimming around the lake look looking for the hook you know you just you just searching for a soul tie and you don't understand that when i tell you listen to what i'm saying when i tell you that this is a perverted male misogynistic culture that drives propaganda that breaks the woman's consciousness and makes the woman believe that it's no big deal to lay in the middle of a bed with a man you're not married to it's just no big deal you know you know it's it's eq it's equal opportunity i want to be equal so you know i so they use music they use movies they use literature they they use everything to drive the woman's consciousness to the bottom and make her feel like it's no big deal to give your body to a man you're not married to and then it's like you know 25 years later you finally grow up and wake up and you realize that you've you've left a trail of soul ties because you lived the life that was what driven by the lust of the flesh and see the big the big lie is that uh and i want y'all to hear me the big lie is that only men um only men want sex i'm learning i'm learning because i ain't not been a woman so i'm learning that women be uh you know women be wanted sometimes more than the dudes and sometimes women pressuring the dudes into having sex dudes trying to be respectful and trying to you know live out his his christianity and it's it's the sister that's pulling the brother to the bedroom but listen to what the bible says in song of solomon's and this is the message bible version i'm reading for clarity because i want you to understand this he says oh let me warn you sisters in jerusalem don't excite love you could put sex right there don't stir it up until the time is ripe and you're ready when is the time right and when are you ready the time is ripe and you are ready when you have a husband he says other than that don't stir it up you see this is why uh these little men try to they seek to stimulate the young girl's sexual appetite early because it then becomes a stronghold it becomes a stronghold physically her body becomes addicted to it and she wants the the you know all of the sensation that goes along with sex but it becomes a strong hole in her soul it becomes a soul tie because the same culture that stimulates your flesh for sex is the same culture that makes you believe that your value is attached to it and the only way you can be considered valuable is to number one give it up number two be good at it makes me sick to even think about that but that's that's the reality you're in but notice it says don't excite love or sex don't stir it up until the time is ripe and there's some of you young women on here and even some of you uh women that are a little more mature that you you know you've been keeping yourself for a while and now you got you know situation going on where you about to stir something up now you can stir that thing up if you want you can stir that thing you can stir that flesh up if you want now the holy spirit has helped you to break that you know that addiction that you break that stronghold that soul tie you had before and now you you've been kept and now you bout to stir this up again you know what kind of control you you give to a man over your life when you give a man your body women don't take that lightly men take sex lightly a man can have sex and walk away from it woman can't do that not most of y'all you it's the lust of your flesh if if you don't watch it and if you're not careful that devil has a hook in your flesh and if you allow that thing to be stirred up that devil will keep reeling you back in just keep reeling you back in some of y'all right here right now uh you got soul ties with men you don't look like nothing he ain't got no money he's dumb as a box of rocks but that nasty joker know what to do in the bedroom and you got a hook in your flesh he's dumb ugly and broke but you got a hook in your flesh that every time you try to get away from that dumb ugly broke man that hook in your flesh keep on reeling you back in and you can testify to some of these other young women on here or these other women that don't want to hear me you can play around with that bed if you want you can play around with that bed if you want but that's how you get soul ties how do you think a dumb man with a with a bad hairdo can talk a woman into standing on the corner selling her body and bringing him the money tell me about that how phd women manipulated by ged men sex you can play around with that flesh if you want you can ignore the principles of scripture if you want but you're going to pay a price for it the flesh is nothing to play with i don't play with my flesh my flesh has been out of control i thank god for delivering me and you know i thank god for delivering me that i have i have dominion over this flesh i don't play with the flesh because if the devil can get a hook in your flesh the devil will keep you constantly man you you'll be like a like a wild man like a wild woman just just driven by lust driven by it jeopardizing your reputation jeopardizing your health jeopardizing your relationships all because of an ugly dumb broke man that has learned how to manage and manipulate a woman's body listen to uh okay let me let me make this point right here along with you know under point number one clearly i only have three points lust of the flesh let me add this let me add this just for you know i think you need to know it there are some things that our flesh is um desirous of that we were not necessarily conditioned to there are there are some things that are engineered into our flesh nature now you know you go to church all of you don't but if you go to church you probably heard the preacher talk about generational curses well the concept of a generational curse is that there's something in your bloodline that passed down from great grandpa to grandpa to to to daddy and now i'm walking in this thing you know and this thing is playing out in in my life and i have these proclivities and i have these desires that i don't even know where they come from and i do believe in it because i didn't i didn't invent uh womanizing in my family that was passed down from i met some years ago he's dead now but he was almost 100 years old one of my uncles who told me about how how they were playing and running women i think back in the in the i don't know 30s or the 20s or something like that way back then maybe even the teens and um and you know i said wow man you mean way back then y'all was doing that and then my generation come along and you know all i need was that seed was already in me all i needed was somebody to water and that thing sprouted up in me you know but it i didn't invent that it was a generational thing listen to what the bible says and here's here's a word for you in psalms 51 3-5 he says if i acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me against thee thee only have i sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest watch verse five behold i was shapen in iniquity that's the word i want you to see and in sin did my mother conceive me and iniquity is a a proclivity uh that is in our nature that we were born with we were born with iniquities this is why you see certain people come out certain kinds of ways and you say now that doesn't compute because that goes against the the word of god why is that person like that and you know why is this person doing that why is he behaving like that why is she behaving like this there's an iniquity all of us on some level struggle with iniquity and that's a thing that's in your flesh that that causes you what to gravitate to stuff that does not glorify god and does not serve you all of us have it my iniquity i never was a um never was a gangster never was a robber never was a drug addict never was a was a was a drunk i just loved women i just i you know i didn't want to live no other kind of way that was my proclip that was my iniquity rather i just love women and i was in the church and all that but i said you know i said no when i read the bible abraham had him a couple of women david had a bunch of women solomon was an international player god did it for them he gonna do it for me and of course that wasn't god's plan for me and that but that was a what iniquity that thing was born in me before i even entered the world and then i had to wake up and have to realize that this thing that's in my flesh was hindering me from getting to where god told me he wanted to bring me the conversation the holy spirit and i had that really shifted my heart the holy spirit took me and had a just a real direct conversation and if you ever have to if you've ever had the holy spirit talk to you it's like a conversation in your head you know it's not it's nothing like all those no no voice in the room that that'll give anybody a heart attack and die but it's like a conversation in your head you can you know it's god because you can sense the presence of god and the holy spirit says to me this is where i want to bring in he showed me my life what he wanted to do with me where he wanted to bring me he says and then after he shows me all of that i got excited about the vision the forecast of my life but then right behind that he says but i can't bring you there as long as you're living like this and then i realized what he was saying to me is that i had to make a decision i'm either going to stay committed to the lust of my flesh or i'm going to as the scriptures just we just read in romans 8 12 through 14 or i'm going to mortify the deeds of the body so i can walk in the spirit because if i don't modify or crucify the flesh nature and its desires it will prevent me from walking in the spirit and if i don't walk in the spirit i will never step into my destiny and that's what i come by to tell you tonight it's it's it's time you you've been playing with this thing you've been you've been playing with this lust of the flesh thing you know you've been just because you keep it a secret from your friends and your parents and all of that kind of thing and your people that's closest to you um you can't keep it a secret from god and all i'm here to tell you is the same thing the holy spirit told me you will never get to where god is trying to bring you as long as you keep on allowing keep returning to that hook that's in your face in your flesh now number two lust of the flesh lust of the eye stay with me this is getting ready to get good yeah lust of the eye now now the lust of the eye deals with covetousness and not being content or satisfied with where you are and with what you have it's it's looking across the fence at your neighbor's grass talking about their grass is greener and coveting after what they have rather than appreciating what god has already given you this is how you keep getting hooked this is how you get stuck you're always looking at everything you see out there and you're never really paying attention to what god has blessed you with in here uh hebrews 13 5 says let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have for he had said i will never leave the north he says let your conversation or your lifestyle in other words you could put there for conversation let your lifestyle be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have that's why the bible says to us it's uh those that compare yourselves one to another are not wise it's because i can i can look out and start coveting what you have and i'll i will lose the appreciation for everything i have and the reality is this god graced you to have what you have and god graced me to have what i have and if i don't watch my eyes my eyes will keep me in trouble this is why i challenge you because most of you all that are on here right now you make your relational choices with your eyes you make your you don't give a man's heart you don't give a man's brain uh a chance you make your relational choices with your eyes you keep getting what your eyes sign off on and then you want to get on these social media platforms and go to talking about all men or dogs that's a lie all men are not no dogs all men are not no dogs all men are not no dogs you just have an eye for rottweilers you you keep getting what you look see your eyes will show you what you want but what you want is not always what you need you got to go deeper to find what you need your eyes can see all day what you want but your eyes cannot discern what you need and some of you all keep getting the fruit of what you're looking at and then you want to blame the world because you walking around here looking and looking and looking and making decisions making life altering decisions based on looks yeah and you go to coveting you see you got okay watch this you you'd be amazed you'd be amazed you would be amazed at how many women that i've dealt with that have had great men men that went to work men that respected them men that didn't cheat on them men that were mild mannered men that took care of them men that honored them and and looked across the office and some other um you know dude walking through there smelling and looking and all that kind of thing and messed this situation up going after something she saw with her eyes and now she she got what she wanted once she got it she discovered it ain't nothing you know like what i need i lost what i needed reaching for what i thought i wanted because my eyes told me and now what she needed is gone and she can't get it back and i've had this conversation multiple times pastor can you call him and my words to them have always been bad i'll i'll call him but when a man's heart has changed his heart has changed but how many women are stuck and can't get out of the cycle because they're living their life through the lust of their eyes yeah david made this mistake you know the lust of the eye king david if you look in ii samuel 11 verses 2 through 4 it says and it came to pass in an evening tithe that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman he what saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon and david sent and inquired after the woman and one said is not and took her and she came in under him and he lay with her for she was purified from her uncleanness and she returned under her house he had another man's wife he there now when you read the full context david was at home in the palace while the armies were out at war david should have been at war with the armies but he was out of place he was he was he was he was out of place he was disengaged from purpose and as a consequence he got distracted by something he saw whenever you are out of place disengaged from purpose your eyes will always lead you to your own destruction if he were where he should have been if he had been rather where he should have been he wouldn't have had the opportunity to see what he saw which would have prevented him from doing what he did which caused them a whole lot of problems when you read the whole story and whenever you start finding your eyes wandering and your eyes looking at everything that uh you should you know that that is is destructive uh you automatically know that i am spiritually out of place and i am presently disengaged from purpose because purpose keeps you focused when you are spiritually in place your your spiritual alignment will keep your eyes looking right on let's see something here listen to what matthew chapter six i'm gonna close this in a minute but i want y'all to stay stay with me because i want you to hear what i got to close this with it's going to help you in matthew chapter 6 verses 22 and 23 it says the light of the body is the eye the light of the body is the eye if therefore thine i be single thy whole body shall be full of light but if that i be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness how great is in other words you know whatever you're focused on whatever you're looking at is going to dominate your life and some of you can't seem to break out of certain cycles because that's what you're looking at that's that's what your eyes focused on look at what you're looking at look at what you're looking at look at what you're looking at look at what you're looking at you're all through the instagram why you think these they got these men on this instagram thing with all of them them nuts all those knots up and down and all of that swole up like that and just all like that and then they grease it all up with all kind of vaseline so it shines [Applause] and there you are you just you scroll you just scrolling you can't go to bed you you know you got to be up for seven you up at two in the morning just scroll looking [Music] come on now yeah y'all y'all know you can keep on looking at it if you won't that's the lust of the eye lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and then number three the pride of life oh this is good right here this applies to women in a way it applies to everybody but i'm talking to to women right now you see pride in a lot of cases your issue is pride yeah in a lot of cases the reason you're in the mess you in is because of pride the reason you're in a relationship you're in or the situation ship you're in is because of pride the reason you let a good man go for a bum is because of pride see pride spins around on ego and see subconsciously we like to make believe that only men struggle with ego issues no no no no no no i find that women struggle with ego issues too see because pride is about optics and impressions it's about it looking a certain way and it's about it making a certain social impact who's more driven in that direction than women and and if it looks good you got all these fake relationships you all on the instagram you taking the selfie you know how to raise the camera up you know and all this kind of thing you and you and whoever that is you got with you there with them horns sticking out his head and you they're taking the pictures because you're driven by optics and impressions and you want to impress people that you have what you don't have you just you know it's just it's just a complete mess you walked away from god you did so for you to even be in the situation you in let me show you how strong pride is in your heart right now for you to be in the situation you're in you had to disregard the counsel of your mama you had to disregard the counsel of your brothers and sisters you had to disregard the counsel of your best friends you had to ignore your pastor you had to turn the voice of the holy spirit all the way down for you to be in the situation you're in right now and you got in it because you wanted the look it was about pride you didn't want that man you didn't want that man because he he he wasn't instagram ready you wanted the instagram ready man it's about pride um let me read this here proverbs 11 1-2 says a false balance oh i love this a false balance is abomination to the lord but a just weight is his delight when pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly or the humble is wisdom when pride begins to take over your life you automatically know when pride shows up shame is around the corner and there's some of you who have made these choices and you're constantly making these choices because of pride you're trying to make something work that the holy spirit has clearly told you i didn't ordain this this is not something i signed off on it's not working you broke it it has emptied your bank account it has drained your self-esteem it has ruined all of your relationships but your pride won't let it go now here's here's a question i have well here's a statement many women are reaching for listen to this everybody says okay uh pastor can you tell me about soul mates and the same people many times that ask me about soul mates when i really get down to the nitty-gritty with them they're not looking for a soul mate at all they're looking for an ego mate it's all about ego that's that you know when y'all start talking that stuff about what you who you're attracted to and and okay here it is what your type is when you start talking well you know past everybody got a type well well i thought a type was a you know a decent person that would keep their word that would be honest that would love you and and take care of you uh you know somebody that you could look at not asking you to go find somebody that you think look like a monster well that ain't what you're looking for at all in fact about it you you talk about a soul mate but you're not engaging your soul at all you're not thinking you're not discerning you're just using your eyes it's not a soul mate you want it's an ego mate you're looking for you're looking for somebody that can feed your ego and then you wonder why is it that every relationship you get in breaks and breaks and and break [ __ ] because that's what ego does ego edging god out the more you follow your ego the further you get away from god some of you all just need to really go on a relational fast for a long time you just need to shut it down shut it down give your little heart give your little body a break because you need to just shut it down you've been ego tripping too long you need to shut it down and allow the holy ghost to purge you okay listen to what the bible says in proverbs 29 23. it says a man's pride shall bring him low but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit when you live an honorable life it will become a foundation beneath you and watch this you need to honor of course you know we read this we automatically think about honoring god we're automatically thinking about honoring our parents and those that are you know whatever whatever but you know what we rarely think about honoring ourselves when you when you when you slip off into certain levels you are dishonoring yourself and this becomes what the fuel to the soul tie a lot of these soul ties are driven by pride you know it's killing you you know it ain't no good you know it's not any good for you but you can't turn it loose because your pride loves the way it makes you look your pride loves the impression that it makes and you'll be amazed at how many women live like this they live from the lust of the flesh to the lust of the eye to the pride of life and then you come to me and you say how in the world and watch this let me show you something else stay with me right here this is going this is going to help you when you're driven by okay let me show you how let me show you how let me show you how the the skilled um man for lack of another term uses this your lust of the flesh lust of the eye pride of life stimulates you sexually and he he he toys with your flesh he presents himself watch this listen to me very well he presents himself in a way that he looks like the ultimate you know he looks like he talks like lust to the eye this is the look i want he put on a you know certain brand of clothing and he gets his hair cut and all of that he's looking like he gets a bum beneath it but he he looking like it because he even already picked picked up on you just kind of you know surface level so he just got to create a look for you you don't have to come up with no substance just a style and then he picks up on that pride and look what look what happens let me show you the danger of pride when when when an ungodly man picks up on your shallow level or your shallow consciousness that man will build you up he'll build you up because he knows you're proud and then he'll just drop you you know you'll he'll build you up and then he'll just drop you he'll start talking to you like like you trash he'll he'll he'll speak to you like you're beneath him and and the weird thing about it this anchors that ungodly man in your soul in a way that you keep coming back for it because your pride won't let you let it go your pride says i i can change him i'm going to change him your pride says i'm going to get i'm going to gain his acceptance you will never get it because he's intentionally not giving it to you because he understands that you are addicted to his approval you're caught up in the approval trap he'll never approve of you and he knows that your pride will keep you coming back instead of you washing your hands saying i made a mistake here your pride keeps you coming back and that's how you have a phd woman manipulated by a ged man it's true lust of the flesh lust of the eye pride of life there you have it that's why you that's why you can't move on that's why you stuck in this rut that's why you keep getting the same stuff you keep you keep you know lust of the flesh lust of the eye pride of life that's how you live your life you ain't discerning that you ain't thinking about nothing you're not praying about nothing very few y'all even getting the counsel on anything you just rely on the lust of your flesh the lust of your eye and the pride of life and so you keep getting the fruit of your own behavior you keep getting the fruit of your own behavior you keep getting the fruit of your own behavior all right my babies i love y'all i'm i'm a little tired listen don't forget uh before i before i get off here there's somebody that's impersonating me on all social media platforms talking about giving to some kind of an orphanage i don't have an orphanage in africa i do not get into the comments nor will i send you um dms asking you to give money to anything the only time you'll hear me asking people to give money is when i'm you know doing my pastoral duties pastoral duties for new home ministries you don't hear me asking people to give money or donate to this if i wanted to ask you to donate to something i would come and talk tell you directly i would not be sending you messages so please please please please please please you see you see my image pop up um you know just know that's not me and and uh please report it because i'm getting a lot of that and that's not who i am let me pray for you father i thank you i thank you for this time that we've had together in your word now god my prayers that you would take the truths of this conversation and adjust the hearts of your people now in jesus name i thank you for freedom i thank you for liberation i thank you for elevation in jesus name amen now listen don't forget to go to the website rcblix.com sign up for my mailing list email list and when you do it uh you're gonna have a prompt there to um download a little book that i wrote some years ago the laws of manifesting your vision and it's no longer in print uh i mean i think they're very very few copies of it should i say but you can get the pdf download of the whole book just for joining my my mailing list so if you go to rcblix.com right there on the first page there's a little prompt to join the mailing list and then it'll prompt you to download the pdf and you can download it to your device your computer also while you're there don't forget to stop by and check out my online programs yeah you know that's i love those i did that was a lot of work doing those programs and i'm getting ready to drop some more um so i push you there because i know that there's a lot of content there that can really really really really really help you so don't forget transcending the father wound soul ties some of y'all definitely need that one queenology queenology 2.0 uh wisdom for women in ministry yeah go there and and check that out while you're there and of course on amazon pick up all of my books those of you that may need counseling there's a link in the description for better help counseling i'm not a counsel i'm not a therapist i'm just a pastor and a man but we've partnered with better help and if you use the link they'll take 10 off the cost of your counseling and they will deposit a referral fee into r.c blake's ministries um what am i missing lee uh lisa wants you all those of you that always ask about the queenology shirts and sometimes you see lisa wearing the dresses and all of that all of that is at rcblakesstore.com in fact about it in the description uh there are new hyperlinks that you're going to see that you can just hit the link and it'll bring you to whatever product you want the books the programs the store i'm going it's gonna be in the description you can just go straight to the link it'll bring you right there you'll have to search for it so go check out rcblakestore.com as well and um lisa's not helping me so i'm tired am i missing anything follow all of my other social media outlets of course in the description now they have links follow that facebook instagram twitter so forth and so on and just know that we love y'all man i got some more stuff that i want to talk to you all about pray for this power and all this stuff that's going on here in houston lord have mercy and uh know that we love you know that we're praying for you i know it's something i'm forgetting i'm trying to think of what it is it's something i'm forgetting but hey i love you i didn't forget that much thank you for all of you that sold into into my life i thank you i appreciate it i never take it lightly i really really really love you and appreciate you hopefully you got something out of my little tired message tonight i had a clubhouse playing in the background lord have mercy jesus i need somebody to help me i love you all i want you to have a great one and uh just know i'm praying for you all right god bless you my babies have a good night

Channel: RC Blakes, Jr

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Length: 56min 9sec (3369 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 16 2021