Day 38 (2011)

58:30 - Live by the Spirit - It's not living by a textbook - It was discernment. It’s living by the Spirit. It’s not a technique. It’s as you go. As you go preach the kingdom. As you go things pop up. Every situation is totally unique. People are unique. We are textbook people. The gospel is not like that - living by the Spirit is not like that, not living by a textbook. It is not 1,2,3, it’s discernment. We would rather it be 1, 2, 3. It’s discernment, being genuine, walking in love.

59:32 - When things don’t change - Stick with truth and don't budge - we don’t know how to stay with truth, if we aren’t careful. We grab for straws. We try to find what is going to work. Instead of sticking with truth and taking what we have from Him and staying there and refusing to budge.

100:20 - A spirit in the house and touching my kids - I saw it - they don’t expect you to see them.

102:25 - Kingdom ministry is not a textbook thing. You need discernment. You need to walk by the Spirit. There are no rules in this thing. Just live sanctified, don’t be unaware of his devices, give him no place.

Violated Conscience Subverts Authority

102:40 - Give the devil no place - Christians get their consciences violated - they don’t receive mercy and love - they start living in levels of condemnation. We preach stuff we are not living. We open up access. And then the water is muddy when we need to minister authority in the kingdom. And then we turn around and say where are you God? We did this, it should work.

103:00 - Keep a clean conscience - A violated conscience subverts authority - Jesus is clean. You are clean through His blood. Stay clean - by staying in His presence and giving no place to the devil. As you do that you walk in discernment. As you do that, your conscience comes into agreement with the authority on your life. If your conscience has a little reverb in it, your authority is shattered because the conscience reverb isn't’ assured of authority because you are wondering. For the lack of a clear conscience men shipwreck their faith. So now they are praying and their conscience is telling them that God might not be able to move through them because… and it subverts authority.

103:45 - Restore your conscience quickly - and don't look back -Your conscience is amazingly important. Protect it, keep it. And if you violate it, get it restored quickly in the love of God. The fact that you want it restored means that you qualify. The fact that you care means let it be restored. God loves you. Now you are wiser, sharper. Don’t go there again. Live in the light as He is in the light. And let it be done and never look back, never revisit.

104:45 - The fact that you talk about it, think about it means that you haven’t received mercy and love, haven’t forgiven yourself. And now your conscience is still vibrating. And yet the kingdom is inside of you and all authority is inside of you. But you can’t manifest it because you are still vibrating. He is still saying, Go therefore. And you are saying, who me, but I can’t because of… At best you will get reduced to trying to apply principles. You’ll get reduced from relationship to methods.

105:50 - See yourself in Him - Jesus had zero identity crisis. Zero insecurity. He had no need for men to bear witness of Him. He knew who He was. So He was in the perfect position to love. And the perfect position to move in total authority. And He wants us to see ourselves in Him and through Him so we can follow Him.

The Power of Love (Cont.)

106:20 - Participant’s comments - kids at camp manifesting while preaching the pure love of God.

110:15 - Sing a song over her - curled up in a ball - not a method. It worked for Dan, it ought to work for me. It’s not works. It’s a relationship. It’s receiving His love continually in the face of anything and everything.

111:25 - John G. Lake - openly talked against doctors - statistics. Chapter title - Do Christians have the right to pray “if it be thy will”? Blows that out of the water.

113:00 - John G. Lake - We have to do something quickly - They say I am going to die. “Die if you must but don’t let go of God.”

114:20 - Boy with broken neck. Unbelief because of what we see. Visuals. Man in coma 6 months.

116:20 - With regard to demons - I want to teach walk in love. Live by the Spirit.

116:40 - Summary of participants experience - A year ago he got shaken because a demon spoke to him from a manifesting young person during one of his youth camp services. He ran to get help and they dealt with it. But he was trying to do everything he was ever taught. This year he was ministering truth very clearly. Things are manifesting because of the level of truth. Because that level of truth is there, the authority, the impartation and all that is real in him, it’s now just a natural response in the Holy Ghost. And these things have to submit.

117:40 - Boy (continued) - his father’s prayers were answered. Answers like that shouldn’t even surprise us.

118:50 - There are testimonies that David Hogan won’t share in America because he says people don’t even believe the things he does share. He’s not trying to stumble people. Decapitated pastors in body bags. All they know to do is pray. What we are seeing is overpowering what we say we believe. But we know God raises the dead. Closed the bags. Body bags came alive.

120:40 - Visuals - eyegate - what you see is above where you have grown. Many of us have not seen a lot in the way of healing. But we have seen a lot in the way of natural destruction. There are times I know my eyes have so gotten in the way.

122:10 - Love is more powerful than the enemy - Fewer crazier things happening - manifestations - when you are moving in love. Love is unstoppable. A lot of times it goes crazy because we are moved by that - we are intimidated - it gets empowered by how we react - trying a bunch of tactics. When love is the most amazing thing on the earth.

122:45 - Love doesn’t have to take them through an alignment of things. When the girl manifested to me. Holy Spirit told me to sing this song and it was the girl’s favorite song. As I am singing the song, her heart is melting. Inside she is going, I want to come home. I’m so sorry. It is like she becomes teflon in the spirit and the demon slips right off of her. All of the sudden she becomes nonstick because of repentance.

124:00 - Authority comes through grace not works - Some books teach that if you walk in greater holiness you will walk in greater authority. And there is obviously a scriptural principle there. But that is backwards. You are not trying to be holy to gain authority. You are receiving God’s love, wearing His righteousness, His grace towards you, it’s changing your life and authority is found in that place. It’s grace, not works. It’s not I am going to try to live holy to walk in more authority. No, I am accepting my righteousness. I am a son. I’m staying in the presence of God. And as I wear my righteousness I produce fruit to holiness and authority is just found in that place - it’s spontaneous.

124:35 - It’s like how faith works through love. We are trying to have faith, proving that we don’t. Faith is the spontaneous result of knowing Him.

Generational Curses

126:00 - Generational curses - Your bloodline has changed - We have made a monster out of generational curses. And we fear them, honor them, worship them. And we just need to change bloodlines and understand that the blessing comes to  a thousand generations. There is nothing my forefathers could have done that can touch me now. Nothing - don’t even bother me with it. That’s deception. It invokes fear. And it’s a mess.

126:40 - Schizophrenia in family line. So it’s obvious there is a curse there. It’s not that we are denying they are real - of course curses are real. You can see the alcoholism through the family. But when one turns to righteousness, he is blessed to a thousand generations. We don’t ever preach that part. We preach the curse to the third and fourth generation as if Jesus hadn’t come and shed His blood. It’s the same thing as yesterday in class. The OT in the face of the NT. It’s just wrong thinking to think that because my forefathers did this and this, I am doomed to suffer - this thing is going to track me because they opened the door. What if Jesus slammed the door in his face and I believe that.

Have No Grid For Being Slimed

127:45 - Slimed mentality - Don't have a grid for being slimed - This stuff has power according to what you believe or don’t believe. If you believe that if someone touches you, what’s in them can get on you, you are going to live in intimidation and fear and you are going to watch over your shoulders. If you don’t believe that and have a grid for that and are established in truth, and it’s not just a hollow confession, but you realize that you are not vulnerable... Jesus didn’t seem to be bothered by everyone touching Him. Christians have this slimed mentality. If it matters what others are into, how could you ever go into the darkness - how could you ever go ye therefore.

128:40 - Non-Christian work environment - Jesus needs you to shine where you are - That’s why Christians are praying for Christian atmospheres and Christian work places. That’s the number one prayer requests for pastors - change my work environment and get me around Christians. No, Jesus wants you where you are at. I won’t pray that. Self-serving little prayer. You just want to surround yourself with Christians. “But I don’t like the way they talk.” Then grow in the Lord. You’re supposed to love people, not run from them, not save yourself, come down from the cross. No, carry your cross.

129:45 - Slimed - Prayer request - slimed at hair and nail salon.  People say, “It happens Dan.” People get slimed because there is vulnerability in the heart of the people. Your belief is what empowers it. You live by faith.

130:25 - Flip it - believe that what is in you gets into them - What if you believe when someone touches you, the power of God, the illumination of the Spirit is going to flow into them.

130:50 - Lady and man trying to infiltrate church through home groups - doctrine sneaking into home groups like poison - lady praying in tongues holding Dan’s wrist - she was praying that I would come into agreement with this, not block this - I felt the power of God shoot out of me - she spazzed out, screaming and fell on floor - I was targeted as the authority - I didn’t even know what was going on - Holy Spirit stepped in and slammed that thing.

134:00 - I don’t have a grid for being contaminated.

134:55 - Story (continued) - Small group leader called because this lady and man were coming. I showed up unannounced. They were supposed to be sharing. I interrupted and exposed the twist. The doctrine: if you don’t repent immediately, or unknown sin in your life, you are going to hell. But they had become the very thing they were preaching against.

137:45 - BREAK

Books on Deliverance?

138:30 - We have enough info to get the job done - So keep it simple - Cast out demons - Jesus seems to believe He gave us enough to go on. So don’t get hung up asking questions that you just have to have the answers to. Stay simple. Just cast out the demons. And don’t worry about what happens to the demons when the pigs drown themselves.

139:45 - Books on deliverance - I am not a fan - I was struggling in teaching on casting out demons. I’m not trying to come against what people are trying to do. I am not a fan of a lot of books on exorcism. A lot of books are not written by God, we are just a book society. Everybody says, the Lord led me to write a book. Time will tell how many books are written by the Lord. One book will completely contradict another just creating more controversy.

141:00 - Write a book? - The book is already written - People ask me every week, why haven’t you written a book? You need to write a book. God is not saying write a book. It’s already written. There are so many books saying so many different things. People are major book readers and they get confused because they let so many lines of thought into their soul. Why not just get alone with Jesus and ask Holy Spirit to unfold truth in your heart.

141:50 - Read a book - Sometimes He will put a book on your heart or tell you to stop reading a book - If He tells you to read a book - really puts it on your heart... That’s happened about 5-6 times in 16 years. Sometimes He doesn’t want me to read a book that I start to read - intercession. Why? He doesn’t want me to get knowledge and try to apply it. He wanted me to seek Him on the topic (intercession). He wanted to teach and train me. It built confidence in me that I can be trained and taught by Him. Just get alone and let God teach you.

143:00 - Thanks for teaching me God - Father, thank You that this Bible is life. Truth is my best friend. Holy Spirit, You open the eyes and hearts of men to write this stuff. There was blood shed to get this into my hands. It's amazing, through the whole dark ages, through the whole nine yard of history, that this book is in my hands and You saw fit to get it to me. God, I honor this. There were so many things that could have been written that if they were written one by one that Jesus did, yet You saw fit to record them in this book. Come and father me. Open up my understanding. Thank You that as I read this book that I begin to see and know truth.

144:00 - We often want the easy path to truth so we grab a book - Search out truth by Holy Spirit - We tend to just grab a book on the subject we are interested in. Probably because we think the work is already done - the easy way.  But I like finding treasure in God’s word by the teaching of Holy Spirit - searching out truth.

144:20 - Ask Jesus for understanding in an area - Why put yourself through changing opinions with each book? We don’t have to. Ask Jesus that stuff. Just seek Him. It’s called relationship.

145:00 - Invitations to churches - Don’t ask me if you should go. You have a yes unless you hear no. Don’t ask questions about the church. It doesn’t matter how many are there.

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145:20 - We have a green light to pray for the sick - Unless He says no - It’s a yes and amen gospel. I’m going to pray for the sick unless I hear no. You’ll rarely hear no from the Lord. Because He loves people. Most of the times when you think you hear no, it’s because you are self-conscious. You want to approach them but you don’t. You say, the Lord is not leading me. No you are talking yourself out of it most of the time.

146:00 - 2 times when the Lord said no. One in NY being too aggressive approaching a lady in a parking lot. Had to do with culture and fear. Happened again on my way out. Holy Spirit didn’t explain just stop.

No Compromise

148:30 - Luke 11 - Jesus was casting out a mute demon. Crowd marveled. Some speculated, It’s got to be by the devil that He is doing this. They were trying to find something wrong with what is right. Others sought a sign from heaven…

149:40 - v.17 - But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.

Never live in compromise - This verse has bigger significance than what you might hear at first. Divided - If He says don’t eat from the tree and you eat it anyway, your conscience gets messed up. If you don’t get that straight through mercy it brings desolation.

150:30 - There is no fellowship between light and darkness - between Jesus and the devil. He is saying never live in compromise. You’re sanctified. That doesn’t mean you’ll never make a mistake. But live out of the purity of your heart. Live true to your conscience.

151:00 - No one can serve 2 masters. He’ll be devoted to one and despise the other. See that as an individual.

Lies Building Strongholds - Replace Lies with Truth

151:30 - v.18,19,20 - If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges .But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. - He didn’t even say He cast them out by the hand of God but by the finger of God. The devil is thumped.

152:50 - Your faith is in the finished work of Christ - Not methods - One of the risks in ministry is putting our faith in methods of ministry instead of the finished work of Christ. It creates a mess. It wraps around the identity of the ministers. It’s the finger of God that should be at work.

153:30 - Lies are trying to build strongholds - Replace lies with truth - The trauma and pain of life - feeling rejected - is not just trauma and pain, there are lies attached to the pain to constrain the person and build strongholds in their life. Somewhere along the way we started believing that we needed to start coming against the spirit of pain and minister to people instead of teach them how none of that is the truth about who they are. It’s the fall of man - it’s the suggestion of life - the lie that you are rejected - trying to reproduce itself like a cancer into your soul and that’s not you at all.

155:10 - It's a truth issue, not a ministry to feelings issue - A lot of areas of ministry, especially casting out demons, it’s at the cost of truth. We minister instead of instilling truth. If you look at it there is no strong ministry of truth. It’s a ministry to make people feel better. The devil can just back off and the person say I feel so good. You feel good? Yay, praise God! No truth, nothing to take the place of of the devil. Just leaving them hanging out to dry living by their feeling. Three hours later they are not feeling so good. Then what?

156:00 - That’s like cleaning and sweeping a house but it not being occupied. It’s still empty.

The Strong Man - His Palace - His Goods - His Armor

156:25 - v.21 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. -

157:00 - The strong man gets his strength from us believing his lie - crush the lie with truth - We are so busy relating the strongman to the devil when what makes him strong is the lie. Is the devil strong or is it the lie that strengthens him? The lie. So what’s the strongman, the devil or the lie? The lie. We’re chasing the devil. (We should be crushing the lie.)

157:50 - Guess what’s stronger than the strong man. You say, Well he is talking about the devil and Jesus. He’s talking about lies and truth. Continue in the truth and the truth will make you free. He doesn’t say continue in ministry, ministry will make you free. Truth is stronger than a lie.

158:35 - As you minister the truth and expose the lie…

158:45 - We tend to strengthen the lie - Don't make much of what you are going through - Make much of Jesus - We don’t realize how much we make of the trauma. We have to tell everybody the detail of how we feel and what we are going through. And the whole time we are doing it we don’t realize how much we are making of it (strengthening the lie). No, you make much of Jesus (Truth). Make much of Him in the face of your adversity.

159:00 - We’ve got to get that spirit of rejection off of you. It’s not a spirit of rejection. It’s a lie that’s allowing them to be rejected. It’s not a spirit named rejection. It’s a lie that allows them to believe that. We are like, spirit of this and spirit of that… it’s lies.

159:45 - The palace doesn’t belong to the strongman.  His goods - He’s talking about people. He is guarding people. His good are in peace - As long as the lie is in place, everything he is desiring is in full operation - at peace. But when a stronger comes - when one starts speaking truth, devils start to manifest. Why? Because a stronger One came. And all of the sudden the palace isn’t at peace anymore. Light is exposing darkness. And the thing that is holding them captive (the lie) is being broken and shattered and cut away. It’s not a come out of them devil, it’s a ministry of truth. The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth. You will know the truth and the truth will make you free.

201:15 - People defend ministry techniques because what they are doing has become who they are - I spent about 5 years interviewing, talking to people and talking to ministers. I’ve seen people hold up moments of freedom when they are suffering and hurting. They exalt moments when they felt the glory and yet they are still crying themselves to sleep two years later when they are telling the testimony of how many people are being helped. I saw hundreds of situations like that. And then people who are going that route feel defensive because it has become who they are. And you are threatening who they are when you are touching what they are doing. Because what they are doing is who they are. It makes it very difficult to address this stuff. We are taking a long road and accomplishing little, when truth is our best friend.

202:50 - We are ministers of truth - not ministers to feelings - Jesus is THE truth. Full of grace and truth. Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Study to show yourself approved. The word of God is upheld even above God’s name. And we have turned into ministers. We should be truth bearers. We should be giving people truth, not so much trying to cast the devil out of people. (As truth is conveyed, the devil slides off because there are no more foot and hand holds.) Expose the lie that empowers. Show them who they are in Christ and what Jesus did for them. We are ministers of truth.

204:00 - Don't chase after manifestations of the Holy Spirit - Pursue truth - Manifestations are a dime a dozen. If you are looking for them they will show up everywhere. And it doesn’t mean they are God. You can open a door so wide that anything comes through and goes peekaboo. And you think because they are manifesting, Jesus is moving. You might be out of bounds - enticing things. Be very careful chasing after manifestations. Heaven is not impressed with manifestations. Heaven is impressed with truth. We follow Holy Spirit and He is the Spirit of Truth.

205:10 - The strongman is the lie - So who is the strongman? The devil or the lie? The lie. What empowers the devil? The lie (The deception in your life - feeling rejected when He has accepted you).

205:35 - The strongman’s goods are the lies that come with him - What are the strongman’s goods? Everything that comes with him - hopelessness, suicide, depression, rejection, despair, “I deserve this”, “I made my bed I’ll sleep in it.” “Yeah, but I knew better.” I’ve heard that a thousand times. Yeah, but you are sorry now, stop. You thought you knew better but you sure know better now. Sounds like you grew. We hold ourselves to judgement and condemnation and Jesus is saying, go free, go free. And we are trying to come up with a reason why we should be staying bound. Just continue in the truth and truth will make them free. There is nothing else - no other answer. Or I could minister to their feelings and try to get them to feel better and teach them if they feel good they are doing good.

207:50 - If I sow a seed of truth, God says it will grow. And if I don’t sow, there is nothing to grow.

208:45 - Jesus didn’t get discouraged. We are sitting here because of it.

209:25 - Don't bother to debrief - stick with truth and keep pounding at the lie - Weighing our results - We debrief. And try to come up with another way (besides truth). “Yeah but if what you were doing was right wouldn’t they be free by now?” What are you talking about? When did this turn into a method?

210:00 - Pound any rock in the way with the sledgehammer of truth. We try to find some other tool - something that works better. Your word is a hammer - able to break the heart of stone. Give them what He has already said - His word.

Living at Odds with Kingdom Purpose

211:30 - v.23 - He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. -

Don't let your life be lived contrary to the kingdom in which you say you believe - That is not a condemning or legalistic statement. It’s a paradox. You can be free from the intent of wickedness, you can come to church faithfully, fail to encounter, receive and walk in truth and let your mind be renewed through the word and live contrary to the purpose of God and actually work against the kingdom you want to belong to. There are people that see their need for a Savior, call Him their Savior but don’t allow truth to impart integrity, understanding, honor, diligence, faith in them, separate themselves from the old sinful nature and live contrary to His purposes and actually let their life work against Him instead of being a minister - just constantly needing ministry. Let me show you...

213:15 - For example, we chase devils - Generational curses - When we should be preaching truth - We are chasing devils and we need to be preaching truth. The devil loves when you chase Him. It empowers him. He loves when you believe all of this generational curse stuff. He loves when we explain lack of healing with some generational curse explanation and send them away feeling under a curse. The people are living under a curse in their minds. There is a block. The block is your failure to receive His love and mercy and forgiveness. Just come home now. You are just failing to believe that you can come home.

215:10 - Nothing can keep you from Him when you want Him. It just deception, feelings, emotions. It’s the only things the devil has to play with. So now we are ministering to people’s feelings and emotions - impressions, memories, sensations, flashbacks and none of those things are grounded in truth. And we are chasing those things and they are staying one step ahead of us. They develop to be strongmen because they are lies. They just need to be overcome by truth.

216:00 - Jesus didn't minister to people's feelings like we do - The things we do to get people healed on the inside and delivered and free from demons you can’t even find in the life of Jesus - the methods. He didn’t minister that way ever. It was the finger of God. And everybody is qualified to be free.

216:45 - Healing comes with love - Because we walk in low levels of love we try to compensate with methods -  I’m not saying some of this stuff hasn’t worked. We go through a whole question list. Who do you see Jesus doing that to ever? It’s because His love is greater than all of that. And all of that will work out in the wash, once the love comes. But because we walk in very low (levels of) love, we are trying to compensate with other stuff (methods) - very low power because of that.

217:15 - Blame shifting to the person in trouble - So we tend to put it on the people in trouble - so if they do this, confess this and do this they can be ok. Which means that if we don’t get them to the place of freedom, they are the ones responsible for their bondage and now they are even a little more condemned in their heart. It’s truth that makes us free.

217:50 - Stick to what the Bible says - The Bible is plain and clear. The Bible doesn’t say the stuff we say. “Well you just can’t receive God’s love because you were never loved.” None of us were ever loved. The best day we were loved, there was still a selfish slant to it. We still have the ability to disappoint people around us. On the days we did wrong, we knew it immediately (because we were told so). On the days we did right, it was just expected.

218:45 - Hindrances to intimacy - We have so many reasons why we can’t seek Him. And there is not one good one except a lack of faith. Unbelief is the only thing that can keep you from intimacy. The door is wide open. The high priest is sitting on your behalf saying, “Come on in.” The only thing that is keeping you from going in is you - period.

219:20 - Replace lies with truth - “Yeah but…” Every one of those yeah buts is the lie. So what’s the answer? To pray so that they get free enough - so that they get confident enough - to walk into the presence of God? Or to chop up the lies and keep teaching truth and keep pouring true identity into people.

All Things Pertaining to Life & Godliness

219:40 - 2 Peter 1 and reading - v.3 - According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: - He has given us all thing that pertain to life and godliness.

220:10 - v.4 - Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Precious promises - assuring that who He is comes to live and dwell inside of us - that I am lacking no good thing - that the heart and nature and life of God is on the inside of me. And if He loves, I can love. The promises assure that I become one with Him - that I partake of His divine nature. Lust - selfish desires, self-seeking living.

220:45 - v.5 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; -

We are restored back to life - Not just a prayer to go to heaven but I am putting off the old man and I am putting on the new. I am putting off the degenerated and being regenerated, re-fathered, revived and coming to life again, the way God intended me to be from the beginning. I am being restored back to life. So I am called out of darkness into Him.

221:00 - For this very reason - this is my motivation. Because I understand who I am and why. It actually teaches me to defend against the lie. I am not just living for heaven some day. I am living sanctified, called into the light, living in love, giving no place to the devil. I am not a house divided. I am going to stand and stand therefore. It puts diligence and integrity into you when you understand why you are a Christian.

222:00 - You are transformed - You are not just rescued. You are transformed. Purpose has changed. Perspective has changed. Identity has changed. It’s brand new life. Old things are going. Behold all things are new and they all pertain to life and godliness. For what reason? The fact that we have received all of these things - precious promises and the guarantee of partaking of His divine nature. That’s a big deal. Who knows that you have to believe that, not FEEL that. God forbid that we keep ministering to each other’s feelings and we start teaching faith.

223:00 - It's not about your feelings - It's about living from the truth - Stop telling me your feelings. Your feelings are irrelevant to me. When I am alone with you I will talk to you like that, if that is the strongman. And we will overcome him if you stay in a place of wanting change.

223:30 - Marriage counseling - Die to self, be born again. Are you Christians because you are not acting or talking like Christians? You seem like you both need to be born again. Love allows me to do that. It’s the greatest truth they can hear to get them sober. So they aren’t just religious. Holding a spouse to Christian principles but not becoming those principles themselves.

224:00 - You are either going to be Christian when I counsel you or you are going to get saved or I can’t help you. It’s not he said, she said, it’s Christlikeness.

224:30 - Bickering - it’s the strongman that is keeping you that way - and you’ll never find the right one, because your eyes are fixed on you. And the best day of your life is when you become love and can see clear for once. If everybody owes you something to be ok, you’ll never be ok. There will always be a reason - 10 things may be wrong, but there will always be that one thing that is wrong. And there will always be a reason to be less than who you are in Him. And man is still determining your life instead of the Spirit of God on the inside.

226:00 - That’s where you find out if you are really ready to die or if you are just employing a Christian confession.

226:15 - Dying to the old - My life is Yours. Let grace overtake me. I don't want to hurt another day of my life because of this stuff. I don't want to live my own life. I don't want to love my own life. Teach me great Holy Spirit what it means to not love my own life...

227:00 - UnChristian language, speech - that’s the evidence of the strongman trying to win the palace (that person).

227:10 - Back to v.1,2 - Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, -

Receive how God sees you - What gives me my motivation? I have been made right in the sight of God. I was lost, now found. I was dead, now alive. I was unlovely and now I am so loveable. Where did faith come from? The righteousness of God through Jesus. So faith is working through the love. For God so loved the world, He sent Jesus to make the world clean and righteous. That’s where faith comes from. So if you aren’t receiving righteousness, that’s why you are struggling with faith. If you’re still condemned or guilty or you see yourself less than how He sees you through the cross, no wonder you are struggling with faith, because faith comes through receiving what God says about you through His Son - period.

228:35 - v.5 - Don't wallow in excuses for seeing yourself less than how He see you - Don’t give your soul to excuses. Yeah but brother you don’t understand. You are saying that my circumstance is greater than the word and what it is telling me.

229:10 - virtue - high moral value, excellence of character.

229:28 - v.6,7,8 - And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You are in the world but not of it - You are realizing what you have become - These are all the fruits… You are realizing I’m in the world but not of the world. I am in the light. I am a man of God. I have no room for this, no time for this. I give it no place. All of the sudden, in your process of relationship and faith, holiness rises up in your life and these are the fruits and responses of it.

230:00 - Satan comes and pressures you. You aren’t dead to yourself. You still love yourself. You’re still a complainer. You will still grow weary in well doing. I’ll press you and find out what you are made of.

230:20 - Godliness - because when I don’t cave to pressure, my true colors are shining. The devil’s provocation reveals the true me.

231:00 - v.9 - But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

You are either in or out - righteous or unrighteous - He rules His kingdom from the place of righteousness. Everything hinges on righteousness or unrighteousness. You are going to be one or the other in your mind and a house divided can’t stand. You are either right with God or you are not. You are either in or out. Why not put Him on and say yay I’m in - not hold yourself to perfection but live from purity. Because if you live from purity, God will align your life.

231:40 - If you stumble - Run to Him - be free from sin-consciousness - And if you stumble, run to Him. But let Him love you. Let Him cleanse you continually in your conscience. Let the blood sprinkle you clean from an evil conscience. And stand and be His child.

232:00 - If you are not living this way, the Bible doesn’t say it’s for all these other reasons. It says it’s because you are still dealing with sin-consciousness. I honor the Bible over what we think. If you honor what you think you’ll come up with excuses and the word has given you your answers. And you’ll be a "yeah but" Christian and sell yourself cheap. You have forgotten you are sons.

232:50 - v.10 - Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: -

Be diligent to stand in this truth - It will keep you from falling - Be diligent to stand in this truth and don’t let anything move you away because that’s the strongman in another camp. If you give yourself to this truth you will never stumble. - Blasphemy! Everybody stumbles. - It’s not talking about making mistakes. It’s talking about going backwards. Losing your identity for a month. You’ll never stumble. I am going to go after that.

234:40 - v.11,12 - For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. -

Peter repeats the message to remind the hearers - This is the reason for preaching the same message over and over. I’m not going to be negligent to remind you of these things. I’m not going to grab for straws - shift - plan As, Bs, Cs. I will not grow weary because I’m not doing it for me. I’m doing it for His kingdom and for you. And I will reap a reward if I don’t give up. He is writing to a church that is already established and walking in what he is writing. He repeats the message so that they never go out of bounds or off that road.

236:50 - v.13,14 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. - I’m not going to be here much longer. So while I am here, I am going to do my best to make sure that you know this.

237:10 - v.15 - Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. Peter did a pretty good job. I’m reading this to you 2000 years later. God honored his heart. Peter was crucified upside down. His wife was crucified before him. And the whole time that she was being crucified he was yelling, “Remember Christ dear.” Not, “Oh my God, my wife - why are you letting this happen God? Where is your protection?”

239:25 - Closing prayer - build the stronghold of God in us - like David in the stronghold