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Jan. 7, 2025

"Speak To The Mountain" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

"Speak To The Mountain" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole
"Speak To The Mountain" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole
RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole
"Speak To The Mountain" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

Are you caught circling around old habits, stuck in a rut, living your life in passive un-fulfillment, up against a mountain of resistance and difficulty?

It is time to speak to the mountain, as Jesus told us and move out, into the place of the promise. For the Hebrews, it was going to reclaim the land God had promised to Abraham. For us, it is the Abundant Life, Jesus died to give us.

Getting up and moving out of the rut fear has dug all around us will require that we first identify the traps that hold us, the lies that we believed that led us to sin.

Repentance for believing those lies and surrendering to the guidance of the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us is the first step to defeating the mountains in your life.

Join us for words of encouragement and details that will fuel your victory to overcome the mountains in your life.

Get your copy of "Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life" on Amazon, and explore Marjorie's other books.

"Because There Is A War For Your Soul"

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00:28 - Opening Prayer

01:29 - Circling or Conquering?

04:32 - The Role of the Holy Spirit

06:19 - Speaking to the Mountains

08:44 - Unforgiveness as a Mountain

10:50 - Understanding Forgiveness

13:06 - Equipping for Battle

16:10 - Maturity in Spiritual Warfare

18:05 - The Revelation of Truth

22:14 - Feeding Your Spiritual Life

24:10 - Overcoming Self-Condemnation

27:49 - The Journey of Growth

29:57 - The Power of Truth

32:24 - Year of Breakthrough

32:54 - Tools for Moving Forward

0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Father God, we thank you for the revelation of your love, your victory, your truth. The battle belongs to you, Lord God. Thy will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven every day in our lives, God, that we will move forward in the things that you've called us to do with faith and courage and victory.

0:46 Father God, I thank you, Jesus, you did that. You gave us an example of how to move forward in the will of the Father, and lay hold of eternal life, breaking down the strongholds, the grip of the terrible one, releasing the captives, that would be us, from the snares of Satan, sin, and death. And Father, I thank you now for giving us, you've given us power and authority, victory. You said whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loose. Thank you, Father, for giving us divine protection and direction, Father, that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that no word said, deed done, action taken, will be able to be used by the enemy to bring forth any shame, trouble, or reproach. Oh, God, I pray, give us courage to go forward and to live this life that you've given us to live, that you've died to give us to live, Father God. In Jesus' name, amen.

1:29 Well, I've got a question for everybody here today. Okay. Are you circling or conquering? Are you circling or are you conquering? Are you going in circles or are you going forward? Deuteronomy 1, verse 6, the Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb. Is the words of Moses now reviewing with the younger generation the history of how the older generation had failed. I repeat this again. The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, Deuteronomy 1.6. You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey and go. So this is, they were circling. Challenge. God had brought them to this mountain to receive the law.

2:17 We know it as the law of Moses. He brought them there for a purpose. He gave them his word. But the word was given to them to go forward to conquer the promised land. Right. The ultimate direction was for them to go back and take back their inheritance, which was the land of the giants. Their inheritance. But basically, God had built them not to go in circles, but to go forward. Right, exactly. And there are mountains in our lives that we tend to circle around. We stay around them too long. Maybe God had brought them to us. We came to those mountains by the will of God. Some mountains we come to not by the will of God.

2:58 But either way, if we're staying around mountains, we're stuck there, going in circles for too long. Yeah, I get you. And this gets to be familiar to us. It gets to be a comfort, kind of a dissatisfaction with being dissatisfied. You're satisfied with being dissatisfied, whatever. whatever, you're not really pressing in because it's easier not to. It's easier just to sit there and wait for something to come to you. It's like anything that's worth pursuing, you have to get up and pursue it, whether it's your health. You can't sit on the couch and wish that you'd be healthy and exercise. You have to go out and do that. There has to be some energy and effort and direction and intention in our lives.

3:42 And I think a lot of people lose their intention and direction because it's a hard life. It's not easy, and people just, you know, they get tired. Well, going in circles, we're not making any progress toward a goal. Basically, what we're doing is we're going in circles, returning to the same point or the same problem again and again and again. Because we're hooked and trapped and stuck. Addicted. It's a frustrating cycle of unproductive repetition. Well, I think this is exactly what the devil wants. He wants us to become, he actually is in many ways our spiritual counselor because he's working through your mind, he's working through your heart, your feelings, your emotions, the other people's opinions, fear, to get us to stay in place, not challenge ourselves, not step out.

4:32 And the other problem is we're not being led by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not lead us around in a circle of futility. The Holy Spirit is bringing us through a process, and it may feel like you're stuck or in a circle, but the Holy Spirit has a purpose to refine us, to create in us the image of Jesus Christ, cause us to be more like Him. But most people do not check in with the Holy Spirit, I would say, very often, if maybe not at all. Most of us have routines. We have routines for work, for home, church, whatever, like that. We've got routines. And it's important to have a routine to get certain things done.

5:12 But oftentimes what happens is we get stuck in those routines, and we don't even realize why we're doing it anymore. And God, as you mentioned about hearing the voice of the Lord, our minds can get so cluttered with, you know. Failure. Stresses, frustration, anxieties, the cares of life. And we don't recognize them as anything that we need to resist. We recognize, we think it's familiar. Oh, that's just, it is what it is. That's life. And a lot of us settle with that. We resolve every problem. I'm overweight. I should be doing this. I can't do that. I want to do that. And we're just selling ourselves short and we're letting the enemy guide us.

5:57 And I don't believe we need to have goals, but we need to have a direction. and we have a destiny. And that destiny is not fulfilled necessarily by you and I check on a checklist. It's moving forward in the obedience to Jesus Christ. He has a plan for your life. It may look random sometimes. It may look like it's not going anywhere, but you are not the one determining that if you are walking in obedience. So I think for this year, I think, I don't know, but it's got to be a choice that we're going to choose to lay down our ideas, our futility, our circles, and begin to speak to the mountains. And that's the second part of being hanging around that mountain. Too long in Matthew 21, we see a story that's very interesting, and it has to do with mountains.

6:40 And Jesus, you know, he had been, he's heading, it's Passion Week, if you will, and he's just gone through the triumphal entry. You know, he's riding in on the donkey, everything looks good, great, whatever. And then a day or two later, he's going through passings, he was coming to Bethany, I think it is, or one of those little towns, and he sees this fig tree, and it was in the spring, and those fig trees were supposed to have a little yummy sap on them that was starting to form the fig. And when he came up to it, there was nothing. He was hungry, and there was nothing there. So he said, let no one ever eat fruit off of you again, and kept on walking. And the next day, they went by the tree again, and the disciples were shocked. And they He said, wow, have you seen, did you see what just happened?

7:23 There is no, this whole thing is shriveled up in one day. Usually if something's shriveling up, it'll take a couple of weeks or whatever. And so Jesus said to them, the disciples saw it, verse 20, and they marveled saying, how did the fig tree wither away so soon? So Jesus answered and said to them, assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain be removed and cast into the sea, it will be done. And all things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing you will receive. And then he said, so this is a challenge, a challenge to say to the mountain that's holding you back or the rut or the routine or the trap that you're in, to challenge that mountain with.

8:11 Your word and declaring, speak to the mountain and be cast into the seat. So the thing that's in your way, whether it's an addiction or a life-controlling problem or a bad behavior or whatever it is, we have to be able to speak to that thing with courage. But unfortunately, the enemy wants to keep us going around in a circle and in that vicious circle of whether it's spiritual, physical, financial, relational, and just kill us there. We die there. Let's talk about the mountain of unforgiveness. You know, that's something that gets in, someone has offended us, hurt us, whatever, we've taken offense and all that.

8:52 And we have that That unforgiveness in our hearts, and it just kind of stays there. We might not realize it's there, but it's there. And it's something in our lives we go around and around that way. Don't want to deal with it. We don't want to deal with it. And it just, you know. Hinders. We either have to get rid of the mountain or just leave the mountain, right? So let's talk about that for a little bit. What about that mountain of unforgiveness that's in so many of us? And it leads, unforgiveness leads to bitterness. We take offense, right, first of all. It leads to death. We take offense, then we don't forgive, and then it leads to bitterness, and bitterness defiles us spiritually, physically.

9:41 Yeah, wrecks our joints. Yeah, you know, the thing is, in Mark, we have the same story about the mountain, and it does lead into this exact what you're talking about. but he says in Mark 11, starting with verse 20. 22, we'll start there. So Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God, for assuredly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain. Be removed and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, and believes that those things which he says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them. Then he was on to say, And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him that your father who is in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.

10:27 But if you do not forgive, neither will your father in heaven forgive your trespasses. And unforgiveness is one of the biggest hindrances to faith. So there's doubt, there's double-mindedness, maybe there's also even indifference. But when we speak to the mountain, you have to have, you know, a clean heart. You have to have a heart that's cleared of unforgiveness and bitterness, like you're saying. And I don't think people really understand what forgiveness is. And I think I forgave. I hope I forgave. I tried to forgive. I forgave her yesterday. She did it again today. I don't know. So the thing is, what is forgiveness? Do you know? Can we make it simple? People write books on it.

11:07 Can we just make it really simple? What is forgiveness? Well, basically, forgiveness is releasing that issue. It's not like we recognize there's a crime that's been committed against us, but we release the judgment of that to the Lord. When we're unforgiving and we're bitter, we think that if we're bitter and we don't forgive, they'll be able to get by with it, and we don't want them to get by with it. But our unforgiveness and bitterness just basically eats us away. And blocks us. It doesn't bring any justice to ourselves or to them.

11:51 Yeah, well, the scary thing is he says, if you don't forgive, you're not going to be forgiven. Well, we might need forgiveness someday. Oh, yeah. Do we need forgiveness like every day? Yeah, because spiritually we're blind. A lot of times we are condemning and judging someone for the exact same thing that we're doing, but we don't see it in us. You know, we don't see it in us. We're spiritually blind that way, and every man thinks what he does is right in his own eyes, and so therefore we're a little bit deceived on that. But again, going back to forgiveness like exactly what you said, we're releasing forgiveness. The crime over to the righteous judge, and we're letting him be the judge to make it right.

12:32 Not necessarily fair, but right. Right is not always fair, and fair is not always right, but because many times, that's the devil's justice. You punch out my eye, I get to punch out your eye. But the Lord's justice is not that. The Lord's justice is tempered with mercy and with his wisdom and understanding. Yeah, and the Lord said, you know, bless those who persecute you, bless and curse not. And he says to do good to those who persecute you, you know, love them, forgive them, show mercy to them. So being, we're speaking to a mountain, we have to be equipped, ready. Geared up in our armor, knowing the truth and with confidence speaking to the mountain, knowing that you don't have guilt in your heart because you're holding a grudge or resentment, because that will hold you back from faith.

13:23 That will hold you back from the answer. So God says, clear the deck. If you're going to speak to the mountain, speak with integrity. Speak knowing who you are, speak knowing I am good, speak according to my will. And the Bible says in 1 John, I think it's chapter five, he says, if we ask anything according to his will, we know that he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, we know that we have the thing that we've asked of him. And this, and ask whatever you will, So, you know, these are big blank check statements about faith, you know, and, you know, yet people do not use this, these many wonderful opportunities to move forward in their life because they're afraid, because it never, they've never seen it before.

14:04 It, you know, they don't see how it can work. We're trying in our minds to figure out what God is doing in his. And if we have the mind of Christ, we're there, but we have to let the Lord God have his way in our life. And I think this is where we, first of all, speaking to a mountain, the first thing we have to do is recognize that we cannot do it ourselves. You know, you can, most people do this. They see the mountain and they get out their bulldozer, or they get out, they hire someone to take out a chunk of the mountain, or they get out their teaspoon and they say, work away at it. But this is not what God has called us to do. God has called us to speak to the mountains, speak to the demons, speak to the strongholds, speak to the spirits, because most of the mountains in your life are not.

14:45 Physical mountains. They are strategies the enemy has set up against you to try to entrap you and destroy you. So our spiritual power is coming from what Jesus said in Luke chapter 19, I mean 10, 19, I give you power and authority over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. So speaking to the mountain says, I am going to bind this spirit that's hindering, that's blocking, and I'm going to loose the power of God, the will of God over this mountain and the will of God is for your freedom. The will of God is for you to know the truth and be victorious. And again, the enemy wants to keep us going in circles, not making progress, not moving into what the Lord has.

15:27 The Lord has so much for us. And it's not just a pie in the sky, by and by. So the context here, what we read in Deuteronomy 1, verse 6, was God said, okay, I've prepared this land for you. I've prepared a good place where you can live and you can possess, you can enjoy your family. You can live in relationship with me. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will bring you into health, good health, all that stuff. God said, I've prepared you for this. I want you to have this, but you have to go in and take it. You have to go in and take it. And I will give it to you. I will fight for you.

16:10 I will do this because these mountains, you know, we can speak to these mountains, but it's the Lord really is the one that removes them. Not by might, not by power. But he works with us to accomplish these deliverances. I think one of the problems is that we're spiritually very immature. I think of the passages in Jeremiah chapter 5 where he's, you know, talking to the king, talking to the people. they're about to go into captivity, and he says... Let's see. For my people, this is chapter 4, verse 22. For my people are foolish. They have not known me. They are silly children. They have no understanding.

16:52 They are wise to do evil, but to do good, they have no knowledge. So what is happening is we're like children. We're not mature in the Lord. We're not grounded in the Lord. We're not confident in the Lord. We don't know his word. Ezekiel says, son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house. Having eyes they do not see, having ears they do not hear, for you live in the midst of a rebellious house. So rebellion closes our eyes and our ears so we don't get our direction from God. We aren't confident in what He's saying to do. We're afraid. We're just ready to just—we're going to be silly. And children are easily distracted. I mean, you can set them on some, you know, task, even in the kitchen, some simple little straightforward, okay, you know, do this, this, and this.

17:32 And before you know it, they're off doing something exactly different than that. And that's the way we are. We're children who don't seem to keep our focus, and we're easily—a butterfly flies by, a squirrel goes down the road. I mean, we're just not staying in that place of focus. And I think what we need to ask the Lord to do, ask the Lord, Holy Spirit, hold my focus. Keep me, you know, focus follows through and finish what God is calling you to do. And so remember, He wants us to grow up, not to remain as children, but take on the war. This is children play, and God doesn't want us not to be happy and joyful like children, but he also says, you know, here's your weapons, here's your armor, here's the plan, here's the strategy, here's the war. And really it takes a revelation.

18:21 And what a revelation is, it's like, you could call it a moment where all of a sudden your eyes are open and you see things and you come to an understanding of certain things. I just think of the. The prodigal son, when he was in the pig pen, finally, it says he came to himself, and he realized, what am I doing here? I could go to my father's house, and he's got plenty of food, and I'm here starving to death. He just woke up, and he said, okay. He said, what am I doing here? Right. I don't like to be here. I don't want to be here. I'm going to my father's house. And he took action. Well, he humbled himself. He said, you know, I'm sure that I don't belong in the main house anymore, but I'm willing to live in the bunkhouse.

19:09 So he was surrendering his pride, his arrogance, his error. He was repenting. And that's another thing. You identify the problem, the lie that you believe. Identify the lie and then confess the sin that came out of believing the lie. And then bring the trouble to the Lord God, whether it's you're living in a pig pen somewhere. You're not created by God to eat with the hogs. You're not created by God to be abused and misused and used for other people's pleasure. You're here to be created to bring God glory and to live the life he died to give you. So some of you, if you're entrapped in situations relationally, whether it's a job, a boss, a wife, a husband, whatever it is, there might be some changes that God wants to make.

19:58 And, you know, they're mountains and you can't make those changes without him. So I would say the first thing I would do is humble myself, surrender to God, confess your own sin of believing the lie that I could do this myself or whatever it is. Forgive that person, that situation, bring it to God, and then allow God to just begin to move in your life so that you don't get stuck in the same old rut over and over again. Because when we guide ourselves, the rut is really what's controlling you. The routine is what's controlling you. It's not any force from above. It keeps the car tire in the rut, and it's guiding the car whether the car doesn't like the rut or not.

20:40 You've got to, and the deeper it is, the harder it is to get out. So sometimes you need help to get out, but we need God to set us free. That's what it means to be set free. That means to surrender, recognize what's been going on in your life. And that aha moment where the son, the prodigal son came to himself and he recognized a couple of things. He recognized, number one, I don't like it here. Number two, I am hungry here. Number three, I don't want to stay here. Number four, wait a minute, wait, wait. And, you know, I think he'd let me come back on board as even a hired hand and I'd be better off there in the bunkhouse. So he began to have some revelations.

21:22 And it was also interesting that in that story, no one gave him anything. No one enabled him to stay in that spot. No one gave him, brought him supper or brought him McDonald's or Hardee's to sustain himself. There was pain in that revelation. There's pain in that pit with those pigs, pain. And the pain was actually a good thing because it motivated him to get out of there. So if you're in enough pain, you might cry out to God. Too many of us, though, we run off to some other supplement or some other temporary fix or some other euphoric enhancements, whatever you want to do. And we missed the whole point of true life. The true life is the life we live. And it's full of suffering. It's full of great things. It's full of beauty. It's full of victory.

22:05 But you don't get it living and sleeping on the couch. You don't get it just kicking the stone down the road. You get it by pursuing the Lord. And the first thing, if you really want to start right, is start reading the Bible. Most people, believe it or not, have most problems in their life because they don't even look at the Bible or they read it sporadically, if at all. And it's like food. It's like food. If you had to live on one meal a month, you read your Bible one time a month, maybe for 15 minutes, You lived on that meal for 30 days, 31 days. How would your body be doing? You would not be doing well. Your spiritual man, your soul, also needs to be fed. And you can't do that by living on one 15-minute devotional, you know, one snack.

22:50 Or one sermon per week on the internet or church. A sermon is someone else's regurgitated revelation. You need to get your own revelations from Jesus Christ by sitting, talking to him. You know what? the Holy Spirit's inside of you and you can have a conversation with him. You can say, you know, Lord, I don't know what to do right now. Holy Spirit, what do we do? Holy Spirit, help me do this. Holy Spirit, you know, He's right there to help you. And most of us, for most of us, He just sits there and twiddles His thumbs. And He is the power, dynamic power source that you never turn on, you never look to, you never turn to because I've got this. I'll take care of this. I don't care. It doesn't matter. It is what it is. And all this garbage that just averts you, diverts you, distracts you from tapping into the power source of the Lord God who lives inside of you.

23:35 What about this mountain of self-condemnation of people that feel that I am so unworthy, they live haunted by the failures or perceived failures in their lives in the past. Self-condemnation, I'm just not worth anything. You know what? That's all vanity. That's all. It's all about me. I'm so good or I'm so bad. I'm so wonderful or I'm so terrible. And it's all vanity because it's not, you know, that's not what your life is. And did God say that? You're so bad that I can't even stand to look at you. No, he says, you're so precious, I'm going to die for you. And so when you start entertaining, I can't do this, I'm no good, self-kind of, which, by the way, we have almost all been programmed to believe.

24:21 Programmed from the words spoken over you by those who raised you, the circumstances you were in going to school, your attempts to make a place in your world for yourself, build a home, get married, go to school, whatever. all the ways that Satan... Creates failure, futility, and frustration. Then he brings it back around and says, it's you. You should have. You need to. It's your fault. And we don't recognize that self-talk as demonic. We think it's us. And you need to learn two little words when this stuff starts messing with your head, your mind, your heart, your soul, your relationships, your mouth. You need to say, shut up.

25:01 Shut up, self-condemnation. Shut up, self-rejection. Shut up, self-hatred. Shut up, suicide. Shut up and go to hell. Because you know what? You have the authority to do that. But the problem is you don't know you have the authority and you don't even know you have the problem. Because the problem is eating away at us, eating away at your confidence, eating away at your identity, and you don't realize how much it's been. The enemy's trying to erode you and separate you from the true identity of who you really are. Yeah, that's another mountain is that we don't. We judge, we establish our identity by what other people say about us, what we think about us, what we think about us, our performance level or perceived performance level.

25:44 So we have this idea that if we don't understand the depth of how our identity corrupts our lives, our perception of our identity corrupts our lives. So to find our true identity as believers in Jesus, Christ as created in the likeness and image of God. We have to, as you have been saying, we find that out through the Word of God. Well, you know, the thing is, too, a lot of people think their identity is in being perfect in the Word of God, being perfect little saints. But you know what? A lot of the saints in the Bible were not perfect. If you read carefully, they all had flaws. They did stupid things. They were full of fear.

26:32 They got tricked. They got set up a lot of times. And so we think, okay, I missed it now. I blew it. I broke this commandment, that commandment. I didn't do it right. Now God is mad at me. That is a lie. God is not disappointed with you. God is not even mad at you because God already knew from the foundation of the world, your path and where the devil would try to ambush you and what he would try to do to you. And so God is not surprised when the devil knocks you down the road. God just says, you want to look to me and let's get up and keep going because this is a walk, a journey that Jesus Christ wants to walk with you, carry you from time to time if you need carrying, but walk with you. And so many times, I've got to be perfect to make God happy.

27:13 And that's that religious lie that I've got to earn my way to heaven. I've got to be perfect. I keep all the commandments perfectly. And even the rich young ruler that came to Jesus, he kept them all perfectly. And Jesus said, you're still missing one. And that was his attitude, his attitude of being willing to sell all that he had and come follow Jesus. So you're not the one perfecting that which concerns you. That's Psalm 138.8. It is Him, the Spirit of God in us that perfects that which concerns us. So stop being so nitpicky about yourself. If you fall down, get up. If you were riding your bike for the first time, you fall down, you get up, you fall off a horse, you get up back, get up on the horse. You know what? Get up and start living your life.

27:53 The guy who hid his talent in the sand is the one God got mad at. He was afraid he was going to lose it, afraid he was going to mess up. And so he was the only one God scolded. He was focused on self-preservation. Well, and making sure nothing happened to that little talent he had, whatever. And so he squandered it and buried it in the sand. And he was afraid of failure, afraid of getting scolded, afraid of doing it wrong, afraid of messing up. Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. Yep, yep, yep. And so perfect love. Perfect love. Cast out. What does that mean, perfect love? That means if I am in the perfect love of God, I know he loves me. I'm not perfect. Maybe I'm already messed up once or twice or five, six, seven, 12 times today. but I know that God loves me.

28:39 And I come back to him and I say, God, you know what? I messed up. Jesus, forgive me. Holy Spirit, help me. Keep the accounts and the accusations short. Don't let the devil come in and dump a load of crap on your head and make you feel like you've got to dig yourself out from under it. Rebuke the enemy, rebuke the lies, rebuke the words, and forgive the people who said them, bring it to God, and then just keep going. And again, back to the word of God, You have to be refreshed in the Word of God every day. It's almost a requirement for life down here on the planet now. What about things, there are things that we put up with too long. Get used to them, ruts. We get used to it. We get used to certain things, certain habits, certain ideas.

29:24 That would be called we get used to jail. It is what it is. We get used to ruts. We get used to pits. We get used to addiction. We get used to bondage. We get used to alcohol or meth or whatever it is. We get used to it and we think there's no way out. We get used to being gaslit. We get used to being yelled at. We get used to being controlled. And the problem is for most of us, when we're being gaslit or controlled, we don't even recognize that we're being stolen from. We don't even realize that the other person is pulling one over on us and using us for their advantage, for their situation to be advantaged. And again, the only one who can set us free, whom the Son sets free, is free indeed. He says, you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free. So the truth is the thing that we need to look forward to and keep asking, Holy Spirit, show me the truth. What is the truth?

30:10 The truth is you're not horrible. The truth is you're worth dying for. The truth is there's still hope in your life. The truth is you have talents that God wants to use to bless other people. The truth is you can follow Jesus. The truth is it's not impossible because everything you're struggling with right now is God's problem because God is with you, in you, and he is the one who is taking the test. Believe it or not, you think you're being tested by God. No, no, no. The God of the universe is being tested by the devil. The devil is trying to see if he can break us away from God and prove to God that God cannot keep us. So that's the whole challenge. If God is able to keep you, so does God pass his test? Yes. Is God able to keep you? Yes. Do you feel like you're being kept? Maybe not. But what is the truth?

30:53 The truth is that God never, Jesus never fails. Love never fails. So get back on your horse and claim this year for God. Begin to ride in the truth. Desire the truth. You are built to love the truth. You're built to love justice and truth, righteousness, mercy. And so live in accordance and in integrity, in with integrity according to who you are. God made us to know the truth, love the truth, love justice, love mercy, love goodness. That's who we are. Psalm 46, verse 10, be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us.

31:36 The God of Jacob is our refuge, Selah. Being still and know that he is God. Every present help in time of trouble. And at the same time, there's a time where we're still and we know that he is God. There's a rest in the Lord. But his call is, yeah, there's a time to stand and be still. But in those moments, he is speaking us to go forward. There's always a forward move that he has for us. Even when we're standing still and hearing his voice, he's taking us forward. It seems like everything maybe was stalemated, but he's there to move us forward.

32:16 He doesn't want us going in circles. He wants us to move forward into all the good things that he has for us. And Father God, we declare that this is the year of the breakthrough. This is the year of freedom. This is the year of restoration of all the things that have been stolen from all of us, relationships, finances, blessings, confidence, life, breath, health. Restoration, Father, we speak restoration today over all the people who are listening and breakthroughs in their lives that will bring them to a place of joy, strength, and freedom. Father God, we ask these things now in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. You've got some materials that will help people go forward. These are tools, right?

33:00 Weapons that can be in your hands. Lots of good weapons. If you check out the website, liferecovery.com, there's all kinds of books, manuals, MP3s, downloads, even the radio shows are there. There's so many. I don't even know which one to tell you. I'm just the one I'm kind of thinking about. When Life's Not Fair, when Life's Not Fair is an MP3. I think it's a 60-minute talk about injustices when things aren't fair, when it's hard to forgive because things aren't fair. And I know we didn't talk about that so much today, but I think that's a stumbling block to a lot of people. It's a mountain when there's so much injustice. Injustice. Yeah. So check that out or check out Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life.

33:42 It's a great read. I know that people who read it will be delivered. They'll get some new information that will help them fight more skillfully in this war against Satan. And so God bless you. and have a day, a decent and restful overcoming, a day of overcoming and victory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. I have an emergency. What is your location? Music. Oh!

34:25 Three, two, one.