"Passive Agreement with Fear" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole
We are caught in a world of hostility, where fear paralyzes us. We are challenged to not believe in the goodness of God and are afraid to use our powers to bind (forbid) and loose (permit) the will of God into the difficult situations we find ourselves in.
We wait for God to do something when God has directed us to take action to declare His will be done instead of falling for the dictates of fear. So many times, we are making a passive agreement with fear instead of "submitting to God and resisting the devil." (James 4:7-8)
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind." -2 Timothy 1:7
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"Because There Is A War For Your Soul"
00:00 - Emergency Opening / Call for Location
00:24 - Station ID & Intro Declaration
00:28 - Opening Prayer and Thanksgiving
01:05 - God’s Promises & Authority Over the Enemy
01:29 - Binding the Powers of Darkness
02:10 - Theme Introduced: Fear Is the Name of the Game
02:55 - Scripture: 2 Timothy 1 (Context)
04:06 - Key Verse: Not a Spirit of Fear — Power, Love, Sound Mind
04:52 - Effects of Fear: Anxiety, Control, and Passivity
07:01 - Passive Agreement with Fear & How the Enemy Operates
08:43 - Using Your Words: Bind, Loose, Forbid, Forgive
12:59 - Authority Over All the Enemy’s Power
14:43 - Responding to Dire News: Don’t Passively Accept
16:17 - Spiritual Warfare: God vs. Satan & Our Role to Intercede
22:43 - Stand Still and See the Salvation of the Lord
26:12 - Perseverance & Timing: Galatians 6:9
28:47 - Calling, Gifts, and Increased Attack
31:56 - Invitation: Repentance, Redemption, and Moving Forward
33:31 - Recommended Resource: Doing Relationships God’s Way
35:09 - Closing Declaration: This Is a War for Your Soul
0:00 I have an emergency, what is your location? There's a war going on. I guess my radio's dead, I think. I think we're all going to die over there. 3, 2, 1... Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, indeed, the war goes on. But you have won the war. The battle belongs to the Lord. And thank you, Father, that this day belongs to you. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth and in through us.
0:40 As is being done and declared in heaven, I thank you that Jesus also did your will. He says, I can of my own self do nothing, but only as I see the Father. That's what he did. And so, Father, we ask that you would also guide us to do only those things that you have given us to do. And I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us. I thank you for your salvation you bought and paid for our life, our eternal life, with your own precious blood. And I thank you for that promise that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that no word said, deed done, or action taken will be able to be used by the enemy. Because you have given us power over all the power of the enemy. You said you should tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy.
1:21 You also said I give you power to bind and to lose, to forbid and permit, and to forgive. And, Father, I thank you for all these superpowers that you've given us. We bind the powers of darkness now. That will come against each or any of the members that are listening to this radio broadcast, Father, that your spirit would give them courage, give them victory, and give them the revelation of the truth that will dispel the lie that's been holding them hostage. And, Father, God, we bind the spirit of fear, worry, anxiety, confusion, distress, all of those things that are pressing down on the people in this world. Father, the spirit of fear is being replaced by the spirit of love. Perfect love casts out fear. So thank you for guiding us, giving us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive the revelation of your love and your truth.
2:06 In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Well, there's a lot of fear going on. Yes, it's about the name of the game. The name of the game is fear. Order of the day. I said to Adam and Eve when they first, when they sinned at first, what would they do? God comes and speaks to them, and they said, where are you? It wasn't because God was lost. Didn't know where they were. Oh, where did they go? He said, where are you? What is your state? What is your situation? And what they did was, Adam said, I was afraid and hid myself. So fear was the first thing that came in. Fear was the first. You know, they disobeyed, and then fear came in.
2:46 And that's been prevalent in the history of mankind ever since. Yes, that's the order of the day, like I said. And I wanted to start here today sharing a little bit. First Timothy, chapter, or second Timothy, rather. Chapter one, beginning with verse one through verse seven. Just to get the setting here. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, a beloved son. Timothy was his son in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from the God and Father of Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day.
3:30 Greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears. So he's going through a hard time apparently, Timothy is. That I may be filled with joy when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, for I'm persuaded is in you also. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Now it's interesting, he's received the gift of God. We don't know exactly what that is, but he's received the gift of God, but he's not using it.
4:15 He's tempted not to move forward with what God has given him because of fear. The word fear there, it means timidity. His name is Timothy. Or dread, yeah, Tim and Timothy he was at this time, but he turned around and turned out really well. It means timidity or dread. Dread, it means fearful and also can mean faithless. You're not faithless. You don't have anything to base your faith on. It's also very common to all of us in this element of fear. Fear is the bottom line on everything that oppresses and distresses and tries to tear us away from God is fear because perfect love casts out fear.
5:01 So fear is the bottom line on everything. A lot of times people are very, very anxious. You're probably anxious right now or worried or panicky or stressed or frustrated, exhausted from the battle and the struggle. Some people are paranoid. When we're paranoid and fearful, we try to control things. We're insecure. We don't know who we are. We don't know that God is good. We don't know that God's for us. So it's up to me to do all of these things. So that pushes us into that arena of fear where the enemy then puts us on that torture rack. I'm afraid. I'm going to die. I'm afraid it's not going to work. I'm afraid I'm alone. I'm afraid they don't like me. I'm afraid I'm not going to get the job. I'm afraid, whatever. And so then on one side, he's pushed you. Fear has pushed you in that situation.
5:42 And then the other demon, demon number two, gives you a solution to that fear, which is usually something like control, take matters into your own hands, or despair completely and give up. So a lot of times we are in that stuck position. We're stuck. We're not making any progress towards God or against God because we're just stuck in the middle. And the devil loves that. Yeah. And a lot of the fear has to do with uncertainty. We don't know what's going on. We feel unsafe. We feel very unsafe because there's so many things. We just think of the world, the world around us. It's pretty much everything's about fear.
6:23 Even, you know, even the Weather Channel talks about, oh, it could be hell. Trauma, fear, anxiety everywhere. They give you the worst case scenario. And if you're in the habit of watching television or something, you have all these different drugs that are advertised and all these different things that could go wrong with you. It just surrounds us. Oh, you got this and you could have this and you could have that. You better take this and you better take that or it's not going to be well with you. Well, one of the things that God has been showing us a lot lately is the how the enemy uses that fear to get us to make a passive agreement with it. A passive agreement means you do not submit to God and resist the devil.
7:05 It means you just, you know, go with it. Oh, no, it is what it is. I can't stop it. It's too late. It's a generational curse. It's my fate. It's bad luck. And we just don't resist the issue. And then it becomes a passive agreement because Satan has got to tell us ahead of time in a passive agreement. He has to tell you ahead of time what he's going to do. And then you don't do anything about it. You don't resist it. You don't stop it. You don't bind it. And then when he goes to God to explain why he did what he did, he says, well, I told them and they didn't stop it. They didn't resist. They didn't do so. The key is in these areas of fear, first of all, is to recognize what the fear is. What is the lie that fear is telling you?
7:46 And then use your mouth to declare the opposite and bind the spirit of fear. Binding that spirit that would try to undermine you or destroy you. Because it says in this verse that Jerry just read, he says, God has not given us a spirit of fear. So there is a spirit of fear, or many, but of power. So the power that we need to recognize that we have is the power against the fear. The power to bind. The power to loose. A permit or forbid. The power to forgive. So we are not using our power. We're not using our words. We're not submitting to God and resisting the devil because that's what Jesus said to do. He says, you know, whatever you bind is bound.
8:27 Whatever you loose is loose. Whatever you say no to is no. And a lot of times, look at this too, not just in, you know, the weather reports that we can bind and loose and forbid, but also in all kinds of negative news reports, all kinds of calamities, wars, rumors of wars. You and I can begin to resist and participate in this drama by saying no to the devil and yes to God. And a lot of that entails repenting too and asking God to forgive us for believing all the lies that passivity has taught us. Being passive. We're not passive. You cannot be passive in a war where they're beating down your walls of your city. They're running through your streets.
9:07 They're killing your children. They're sneaking into your house, busting the door, raping your children. We cannot be passive and, you know, frozen, paralyzed in that spirit of fear anymore. Yeah. And what happens, though, Marjorie, is that so many times these things, fears come upon us. There's a passage in Psalms. I'm not sure exactly where it is, but it says, do not be afraid of sudden fear. It says in the King James. Yeah. Sudden fear. Shocking things. So what happens is that. Things that are unexpected. Yeah. What we do is we get breaking news. Right. Yeah. Bombshell reports, all kinds of things.
9:47 Yeah. Yeah. It's like, oh, this is happening. This is happening. There's an earthquake here and there's a storm here. And the war over here. And there's a war over here and there's a shooting over here. And it's like everything around us. We're living. It's crashing, shaking. It's just from every direction. But you see, here's the thing. Temptations to fear. But you see, there's two sides to every issue. Two sides. God's side and the devil's side. And so, you know, God and Satan are both working in the same place at the same time to do the opposite thing. And God needs us to give him permission, so to speak. Not that he needs it, but cry out, intercede, pray, ask. He said, ask and you shall receive. So all of these things that we are permitted and encouraged to do.
10:30 Don't just give up on something. You know, because the devil says it's going to happen. You go to the Lord because when we pray or intercede or bind it or forbid it, then God is permitted to act on our behalf. And so we don't understand that. We're actually essential in the answers to prayer. We're essential. I can't tell you how many people, you know, men and women of God in the Bible, when God was going to do something, they made an intercession. They said, oh, God, please deliver us. Oh, God, don't don't do that because you're going to look bad or whatever it was. Moses did that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking of some if I can find it real quick. Psalm 94, I believe it was where they were in trouble and and they cried out.
11:14 And he made the intercession for them because they said, was it not that that if you don't do this, he says. That if God doesn't do it, if God doesn't help, then God is going to look bad because his people are not doing it. Because his people are not being protected. And so we want to make sure that God gives his opportunity to protect us. And that's what they would say, God, if you don't do this, the enemy is going to say, look, you can't do this. You couldn't deliver them. And so now God's going to look bad. So this is kind of the way we petition God to intercede. But God is also saying this. You must help me by asking.
11:54 You must declare. You must, you know, understand that I love you. So the second word God has not given us this bit of fear, but a power. That's the power to ask the power to intercede, the power to declare, the power to forbid. But power and love. And so the second thing is. So God wants us to know that we are loved. Perfect. Love casts out fear. And first, John four. Yeah. And and that love is what you and I stand on when we're asking God to help us because we know that we're his children and he loves us. And he's not going to forsake us. He's not going to leave us high and dry and abandon us because that was never God's intention.
12:34 His intention was never to just cast us off or to leave us to our own devices or abandon us. Like we've been abandoned by our human human fathers and mothers. He says, you know, the love is what gives us courage to to enforce or call on the power. Because God says, Jesus, I have given you power over all. All. Think about that. All the power of the enemy. Nothing shall be in search of that word. All is big. It's a little word. That's a very big word because all you have power and authority over chemtrails. You have power and authority over radio waves and 5G and aliens and all the all the secrets and the and the vile things that are now being exposed.
13:22 God is bringing to light the hidden works of darkness and people, you know, they despair. But that's actually a good thing because God and Satan, like I said, are working the same place at the same time to do the opposite thing. God is bringing. He has to bring all this vile, wicked iniquity to the surface before it can be judged and right and rightfully judged. So if it's all hidden and we were all happy when it was hidden because we could just live our little little lala lives. And now we can't do that anymore because everything is got to be dealt with. And, you know, a lot of us don't know want to. I don't know how to deal with the crisis and the tragedies of other of our lives or of other people. You know, that's what you're saying.
14:03 What happens is it's fear comes upon us. And it's just I mean, how many people just, you know, we live our lives in fear. You know, what are people going to think? What's going to happen? Will I get sick? Will my husband leave me? Am I going to die? My kids just go derelict or whatever. The doctor says I've got five days to live. Yeah. Yeah. But so what happens is that what what happens is that this sort of stuff comes upon us. It sort of pounces on us fear. And we don't know what to do. Yeah. We think we just think, OK, I'm afraid. Oh, my goodness. This is getting crazy. And we just kind of go down and do nothing. Here's the thing.
14:43 So if, for example, you know, the doctor and they have pronounced over you a diagnosis that's deadly, fatal or you're going to die in four days or whatever it is, you don't have to accept it. You do not. I mean, yeah. Oh, the evidence. Oh, the x-rays. Oh, the CAT scan. Oh, the blood test. Oh, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All of that is very scary. It's meant to be scary. It's meant to take the wind out of your sails. It's meant to buckle you at the knees. It's meant to take you down. But if you know that God loves you, then this diagnosis, this prognosis, this word curse over you, this and it doesn't have to be just sickness or disease.
15:24 It can be anything that, you know, these words are powerful. Death and life and the power of the tongue. So what you you know, the thing that backs us up when you're especially in a crisis of any kind is the love of God. God, you said you will never leave me or forsake you. God, you know, I look to you. God, I've turned my life over to God. I'm trusting you to deliver me. And this is this is the challenge that God is allowing you to be challenged with. Do you trust God? Do you trust in him? Satan is trying to get God to believe. He can't, but that God cannot save us. Like with Job, Satan says, let me test him.
16:07 Let me test him. And I'll prove to you that he's not he's he's just going after what you because you give him everything he's going after you. So there's this war between God and Satan, this challenge. God is constantly being challenged by Satan through us. Satan attacks us, assaults us and tells God there's no way he can keep us. And God can keep us, obviously. And many times he does, even though we don't know we need to be kept at some point. He's delivering us from tragedies or accidents or something. We didn't know there was an accident on the schedule or a car crash or whatever it might be that the enemy is going to attack you. But at the same time, we must know that God loves us. God is for us.
16:47 And God is faithful. I think that's a real important thing for us to know that our faith is based on the faithfulness of God. And God doesn't lie. God doesn't lose. God doesn't give up. God doesn't change. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. And he's totally aware where you're at right now. He knew it from the foundation of the world where you'd be right now listening to this podcast and that you'd also be in the predicament you're in and fear is beating down your door. And God is saying, but trust me. I was just reading this morning, Jerry, about the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, you know, and they were just going on into that furnace saying, we're going to trust God.
17:27 We praise you, God. They were confessing the iniquity of their sins of their generations. But they were also just looking to God. If we perish, we perish. God is for us. We're going to go in and see. And they weren't testing God. They weren't challenging God. They hadn't set up this situation to try to test God. They were just in the middle of this test that Satan, I believe, had set up around them and in them. And they were thrown into the fiery furnace. And, you know, what really happened in there is that they didn't die. God sent an angel, I think it says. And what did that angel do? I don't know what he did. He quenched the fire. He made it cool. He put on the air conditioning so they didn't feel the flames. Whatever he did, they weren't even singed.
18:08 Deodorized them, too. They didn't even have the smell of smoke on them. Yeah. So how God, this is our God. This is the same God that you and I serve. This is not a different. This is not a fairytale God. Our God is that same God. And he loves us. And therefore he wants to use your power, your powers in your words, your powers in your prayer, your powers in saying no to the devil so that he can give us a sound mind. Because I think the devil goes after our mind to make it all fearful. And if we would just catch that fear, catch that fear, recognize it's coming upon us and we just say no to it. And there are things that just come. I just think of you in this past week.
18:49 There's things, people that we've seen that were healed and then some other things coming upon them to bring a setback. There's a temptation to fear. There's a temptation to fear instead of, OK, you can choose. You can choose. This is a battle. You can choose to fear or to trust. And, you know, you can say that the glasses is half full and it's not instead of it being half empty. A lot of it is just how we look at life. And we just look at life. It's just a fearful mess. You're scared of something, scared of something that's going to happen.
19:29 Misperception. Satan puts a misperception. And basically the world is run on fear. Yeah, absolutely. And that's how they sell things. That's how they move forward by fear and control perceptions. And I believe Satan is set up a lot of lenses and filters and experiences that we look through to look to the next thing. And we're already judging the matter through the fear that we've learned from the last incident or event. And so we're just moving forward with deepening fear where we have to now look into the word of God, look to what God, who God is. You've got to know who he is, that he has not given us a spirit of fear, but love, power and a sound mind. And a lot of us were trying to figure out the answers from our mind.
20:10 But we have to go into our spirit and listen to God's spirit with our spirit. Yeah. And so Isaiah 35, verse, verses three and four, strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are fearful hearted, be strong and do not fear. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you. In other words, he says, you know, don't fear. All through the Bible. What are the common threads of the prophets to his people, through the angels, through the prophets?
20:50 Fear not. So where did you read that? Don't be afraid. Isaiah 35, four, especially. Say to those who are fearful hearted, be strong and do not fear. That's what Paul is saying to Timothy. He says, you have a tendency to be timid, fearful. You're kind of sickly, you know, not really physically strong. But he says, be strong. And God has not given us a spirit of fear. Don't give in to that timidity, that dread, that fearfulness, that faithfulness. He says, be strong. Do not fear. Why? Why can we not fear? Because the Lord, your God, will come with vengeance.
21:31 He is going to come and take care of it. He will save you. He's going to save you. With the recompense of our God. He will come and save you. So in the midst of this, that it's okay, Lord, I'm trusting you. Isaiah 35. No matter what. Yeah. Isaiah 35, four. And then he goes on. When you find scriptures like this, you can either memorize them or say them back to the Lord. Lord, this is what you said in Isaiah 35, four. You can give God back his word, preach it back to him, declare it back to him. And I tell you what, he loves that. He loves it when we use his word against him to bring him to do what he wants to do to help us.
22:13 It's not like he doesn't want to help us. It's like we have to overcome fear by going back to saying, God, but God, you're faithful. God, you didn't just do it for the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace. You can do it for me. He will. He is God. And you know what? As the days get more intense and the days get more, you know, full of crisis. And they are. They have. God will also become more and more intense. God would put me more intentional, more available, more there for you as these days get worse and worse. And I do believe that God is sending the angels. I know the demons are with us, but I know God's sending the angels as well to be with us. And this great crisis in the time of the, you know, when the children of Israel have been released from Egypt, they're standing by the Red Sea.
22:57 They got mountains on one side, the Red Sea on the other side and the Pharaoh's army coming at him. What did what did Moses say? He said, stand still and see. Don't fear. Stand still. And that's good. That's a good piece of advice. Salvation of the Lord, which he will give to you this day, this day. So for those that are listening this day, God is here to deliver you from fear and put trust in your heart. And what again, what Paul said to Timothy, he's given us the spirit of what? Power, love and a sound mind. And he doesn't tell Timothy to do something.
23:39 He just reminds them who he is, to be something and to know who he is. So a lot of times you stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. We always are fearful and anxious and jump ahead to try to do something to deliver or turn the event around or whatever or intervene. But you know what? Many times our true answer comes not in a passive, you know, denial, but in a in a purposeful waiting, waiting for God. The timing, timing with God is everything. Like in the story, the book of Esther, timing was everything. Just the night before she was going to, you know, have the feast for the king and tell him what he was doing.
24:20 The king had a bad dream and in the bad dream. Well, in the dream, it wasn't a bad dream. He they they woke up and they read the story of Mordecai to him. And then he had. So the timing is that now he's got the king's life. Yeah. So Mordecai from us had never had never been acknowledged. And so the king wakes up and says, let's go find this Mordecai. And this is honor him. Yeah. And so what happened was and then just the next day or the same day, not even sure. Haman was the one who had to go honor Mordecai by letting him ride on the horse and leading the horse and, you know, putting a robe on him or whatever he all did. But that next day is when Haman came to try to partition the king to kill all the Jews.
25:10 And so but see, the thing is, all of the timing in that book is so amazing. The timing in your life is so amazing. You know, nothing is by accident. And God knows every hair on your head. He knows every word you're going to say, every word that's going to be said to you. He knows where you are right now. And the most important thing for you to do is not to lose heart, but to listen for God. Listen for God and fear not listen to God because he has the plan. It's a plan for your victory. It's a plan for you to bless you and not curse you to prosper you. And, you know, that's what we. In the middle of the battle, we look at the enemy wants to look at him and say, oh, no.
25:50 But God wants you to look at him and say, no way. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. It says, oh, he says, don't. In Galatians chapter six, he says, let us not grow weary. The verse nine in while doing good for in due season. Marjorie, there's the timing in due season. We shall rape if we do not lose if we do not. So the thing is, when you're going through some of some of you listening today, you're going through a crisis, maybe with your marriage, your family, your life, your health, whatever, your job finances, whatever it is. Don't freak out on it. OK, just say, OK, Lord, I know this is crazy.
26:33 There's times you maybe need to just resist the devil. That's discouraging and trying to bring you into all kinds of fear and trying to get you into doing something stupid to remedy the situation. When the Lord wants you to just trust and stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, because the Lord can turn things around for you so quickly. Yes, things that he wants to actually. Yeah. And sometimes what I find with the Lord is that sometimes you wait for something, wait for something. Things just look bad. Nothing seems to be happening. And then all of a sudden things can just turn around. The tide can turn so quickly.
27:13 God can give and he'll give you the desire of your heart in due time. He says again, Galatians 6 9. Let's not grow weary in while doing good because we can get discouraged. What is discouragement? That's another form of fear. Giving up, throwing down on your hands. In due season, in the Lord's time, we shall reap if we do not lose heart. So fear helps us just to lose heart. And we say it is what it is. It's bad and it's getting worse. And all that. And God is saying to us, trust. Know that he's faithful. Paul reminded Timothy, he says, you've got a calling. You've got a gifting of God.
27:55 The more gifting we have, the more we're attacked. That are listening to this. We have a gifting. We have a calling of God upon our lives. And what happens is the enemy tries to nullify that by bringing us into a spirit of fear and timidity. Oh, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if this is going to work. I don't know if I can't. But Timothy, Paul was encouraged that Timothy had a foundation in the Old Testament scriptures. He had a foundation in the word of God from his grandmother and his mother. There was there was the word. There was faith in his family line, in his generations. And Paul knew that he was going to turn out well.
28:37 And he became one of the great elders in the church at Ephesus. Right. So going back to what God said in Timothy, but God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love and power and a sound mind. When you go back to First John, you see the same thing. And it says, First John 4. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a start with 16, 15. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him and he in God. And we know and have believed that the love that God has for us. God is love and he abides in love, abides in God and God in him.
29:17 Love has been perfected among us in this that we may have boldness, not fear, but boldness in the day of judgment or boldness in the day of trial. Because as he is, God is. So are we in this world. There is no fear in love. So as you're getting more and more in that place of love, fear will have to decrease. It says there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. So if you still have fear going on in your heart, you're going to have the Lord wants to cast that fear out of your heart. But he does it by beginning in your spirit to stand and having done all to stand. Knowing that God is good, God is faithful and you choose to believe him.
29:59 So he says, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. So if there's still fear going on in our hearts, we're not yet perfect or resting in or abiding in or confident of God's love for us. Because we're still in that place of torment. And torment uses fear to disarm us, deceive us, divide us, destroy us. And so perfect love casts out fear. We love him because he first loved us. So this whole journey, this whole situation with God, with us, is because of God's love for us. You know, in First John, not First John, I'm sorry, Romans 5, 8.
30:45 But God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more having been now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. That's the greatest statement of love. Go back to that. Go to that every day. And in that love, you can rest. You're not going, well, I don't feel loved. Don't live in your soul. Don't live in your mind, will and emotions. I don't know if I feel love. It's not a feeling. It's a fact. It's an unchangeable fact. It's a demonstrated fact.
31:25 He demonstrated. So you can never. Jesus. God doesn't love me because God has proved it. He proved his love for all of us, not because we got to be so wonderful and good, even though we're created in his likeness and image, we've fallen away from that. But while we were still alienated from him, he separated from him. He died for us. He made a way for us, made a way for us to come back, to come back to him. So, Father God, there's many here listening that think they're far away from you, but you know exactly where they are. So just pick up right now with the Lord where you are.
32:06 You don't have to go back. You don't have to backtrack. Yes, you may have to confess some sin. Yes, you may have to repent of some unbelief and some lies that you believe. But just go now forward with God. You don't have to say, I'm such a loser. I got to go figure it out and make it all good so I can be OK. You can't make it OK. It's already been made OK by the blood of Jesus Christ. Your pride has to go. The pride has to go. Say, Lord, I can't in my own self do nothing. Thank you for saving me. I've been deceived. I've been believing lies. Forgive me. Confess those lies. Turn, repent, and follow Jesus right now today where you are. You don't have to get all worried about, well, I was so bad for 50 years, and now it's so late, and I got no time left.
32:46 Just be where you are that first 25, 30, 50 years, whatever it was. God was also there writing his testimony of faithfulness in your heart, and he's redeeming that 25, 30, or 50 years as well. So just get up and go forward now. And let the joy, Lord, let your revelation come to them right now that they don't have to go back and try to make it right. Just stand here, repent, confess, and rejoice, and go forward in the love of God. And I pray that your love for them, Lord, would be so real. Yes, real, according to your word, according to your own character, that your love would be poured out on the remnant, poured out on those who seek your face, Father God.
33:27 In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, amen. I just want to just turn your attention to the book, Doing Relationships God's Way. A lot of times that relationships, bad relationships, just relationships in general can be something, can be kind of a source of fear, broken relationships and so forth. Tell us about that book. Well, in that book we talk about our relationship with ourself, which is the basis of every other relationship you're ever going to have, including the one you have with God. It's how you see yourself. That's primary. That's the bottom line. And so then our relationship with God, with others, with sin, with difficult people, with, I don't know, troublesome situations.
34:12 So how these relationships provide the opportunity or the crucible of the testing where we are refined, where love is refined in us, because relationships, the bottom line is you either hate them or you love them, or you try to get rid of them or become offended or whatever. So doing relationships God's way, you can find it on Amazon or you can also find it on our liferecovery.com website. God bless you guys, and we'll see you next time.
35:09 This is a war for your soul.
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