Breaking the Spirit of Fear - Part 1 of 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Have you ever felt afraid or even felt like fear
was consuming your very life? Well, Stephanie and I say, hi, steph.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hi, everybody.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
We're going to talk a little bit about breaking the
spirit of fear. And I really believe this will be
part one. This is going to be like a series,
because when you think about fear, would you agree with me?
Fears in about everything we do.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah. I think we're inundated with messaging that promotes fear,
that tries to catalyze fear in our hearts and minds.
For sure.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, when I think about fear, anytime you're thinking about
holding back, fear is involved. I like what Jesse Duplana says.
He says fear is faith contaminated. Wow. And that's a
really good statement to remember. And So a scripture that

(01:13):
I want to be like a jumping off point is
two Timothy one point seven. God has not given you
a spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind.
And there's a lot of fear in today's world. For
those of you that are listening now, I don't know,
if you drive in your car, you probably notice that
when we talk, we don't talk about political party, and

(01:35):
we don't talk about politics. We're just trying to give
a message that brings hope and encouragement in a world
that's kind of upside down right now. So we want
to be a voice of hope and reason in the
midst of a world where there's darkness. But yet it
says in Isaiah, a rise shine, for your light has come,

(01:55):
for the glory of God rises upon you. So when
I see darkness or I'm feeling fear, I realize it's
an opportunity for faith.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yep. So yeah, so you're talking about that. When you
first started the series, I immediately thought, it's perfect love
that casts out fear. I mean, you would think it's logic.
You would think maybe that it was facts, or maybe
knowing better or fully understanding or having a connection with
a person that maybe you're afraid of. But that's not it.

(02:24):
The scripture says perfect love cast out fear. So really,
the only thing that casts out fear is God himself
knowing who he is, understanding his ways, understanding his love
for us, and then settling in that reality day in
and day out, regardless of what's coming against us. So

(02:45):
sometimes we're in these dark valleys of the soul or
these circumstantial or national situations that just seem impending or
filled with doom looming over them, or chaos, potential chaos
coming at us our lives circumstances. And the best thing
we can do in those situations is really begin to remember,

(03:06):
meditate on, or maybe for the first time, learn who
is God, How did he promise to protect me in
the situation, and what does that look like for me personally,
to apply it to this thing that I'm feeling afraid of,
to apply it to this person. I'm feeling afraid of
the situation. I'm feeling afraid of the circumstance. I'm feeling

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afraid of this potential national crisis that our nation is facing.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
So I have a Bible story in mind now, like
I share with you on programs. I hope that you
go to your Bible and look these stories up for yourself,
because honestly, if I had to read the whole scripture,
it would take a long time. So if you've got
a Bible, get it off the shelf, dust it off,
open it up, and read the story. So in the

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Book of Daniel Versus sixteen to twenty three, there's a
story of Daniel in the Lions then, which honestly I
loved the story because Daniel was alive in a very
political time. He was and he was a leader that
got promoted and people loved that he got promoted. No

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they didn't, they didn't like he got promoted. But Daniel
had a habit is three times a day he would
go to his room, open the window toward Jerusalem. He
would kneel and pray. He prayed faithfully to his God
three times a day.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Then what happened, Stephanie, Well, persecution started to come. There
were those that were jealous about the favor that he
was getting, about the doors that were being open, and
there was some really I think wounded though some might
say nefarious individuals who surrounded him and were really jealous
of the favor that he had on his life because
of his relationship with God. So they began to plot

(04:56):
and scheme to see how they could get Daniel and trouble.
And what was very interesting as they said, well, there's
nothing we can bring against him because his integrity is
so good. So we will actually put a policy in
place that will come against the one things that we
knows he won't compromise on, which was praying to his God.
They had a law pass that anyone that prayed to

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his God or to the God of Israel or Jerusalem
would endure, of course some problems, persecution in or be
in trouble.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
But the law specifically said there was a period of
time that people could only pray to the king. Well,
Daniel didn't pray to the luck king. He prayed to
the king of kings. He prayed to his God. And
so they knew what Daniel will do. So they were waiting.
If they would have had video recorders, they would have
been videoing, they would have been.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Taking peaking outside.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh yeah, they were watching. And you know, so the
king thought this was a pretty good idea and he
improved the policy.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Not realizing because he was good friends with him.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
It would do to him, right, yeah, setting Daniel up,
you know. And so the next day, like normal, they
knew it, Daniel went to his room, opened his window,
faced towards Jerusalem and prayed. And then they went back, Oh, King,
look forever somebody has disobeyed your law. Who is that?
It was Daniel. And the king was devastated because it

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was the law of the Means and the Persians, and
it couldn't be repealed. And the rule was that anyone
that got prayed to anyone else but the king will
get thrown into a dead alliance. Now I need you
to understand. These aren't just any lions, all right, These
are starving lions. I mean, these are lions. They're looking

(06:45):
for lunch. They're looking for lunch.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
They were ready, ready to devour.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
And so Daniel was arrested. And I don't know, it
might have caused me some anxiety to think I'm going
to be thrown in with the lions, because they know
they don't get fed very much. So I know they're
extremely hungry and they don't mess around and food house
food comes in the pan. And so so Daniel is

(07:12):
bound and he's thrown alive amongst the lions. Then what happens, Stephanie.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I love it well. I love the part that talks
about the king and his prayer on the way there,
and he actually prays on the way to the lions
and says, if you are real God, save my friend Daniel, right,
keep him, protect him while he's in there. And it's interesting.
Then he gets thrown in a lion's den. So this
man genuinely didn't know the Lord, but he had a

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heart for his friend and didn't want to see him harmed.
And he realized he'd been tricked by flattery. And so
many times the enemy will come in and flatter us
and get us to do something that we don't realize
his contrary to the heart of the Father. So he
praise for his Friendy. He has to do what he
said because it's an unrepealable law. It throws him in
the den. And it says that God shut the mouths

(08:01):
of the lions.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well, no, Daniel could have been in fear. You know
the message the enemy had for Daniel in this situation,
what's the message, I'm going to kill you. You're not
getting out of this one alive. Yeah. Again, those cats
are going to eat you. And so he gets thrown in.
And I like the part where the Bible says that

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God dispatches an angel and the angel shuts them off
of the lions. Now the lions aren't hurting Daniel. Maybe
maybe he had a soft, fluffy pillow to Leon. I
don't know how it worked.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Maybe a lion.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Mean, yeah, I don't know how it worked, but you know,
he was with those cats and they weren't even And
I bet I was hoping Daniel could see the angel,
because what a miraculous story. He had to stand up
for what's right though.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, took a lot of courage, oh, a lot of perseverance,
a lot of faith.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
I'm thinking, someone, you feel like you're in the lions,
then right now that are out there, you feel like
you got lions surrounding in. You don't know if you're
gonna make it. Well, we say to you, you're gonna
make it because we serve the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, God Jacob Man's amazing. So I love it.
The King didn't get no sleep that night. He is

(09:21):
restless about his friend Daniel. You know what he's wondering.
I wonder if he's got saved or if he become
a lion food, you know. And he runs early in
the morning, you know, the minute it broke daylight. He
was on the way to get Daniel. You know that, right,
He wasn't gonna leave him.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
In longrem play, but I want to see did God
keep him? Was he able to stay? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
And I like how he cries out, Oh, Daniel, was
your God able to save you?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yes, Yes, come on, and Daniel's humble. He said, okay,
live forever. My God sent an angel to shut the
mouth of the lion. Now that means Daniel so saw
the angel. Yeah, my God sent an angel to shout
the mouth of the lion. Now, now you know that
set in another chain of events. So he calls in

(10:12):
the guys and have them arrested. That made this crooked law.
And he said, you know what, guys, now we're throwing
you in the lions. Then. Now, I bet they were
a little afraid because the lions they didn't need Daniel,
and they're about they're still hungry. So when they threw

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the Bible says when they threw them into the den,
they were dead before they hit the floor. The lions
had them and ate them immediately. And you know what
the end result of this was. People don't think about this.
We don't like to go through trials US Americans are
pretty soft, to be honest with you. The end result

(10:54):
was national revival. People began to place their faith in
the God of Daniel because how Daniel was saved from
the lion. From the mouth of the lion. I remember
learning this as a kid. I just really loved this scripture,

(11:16):
and this is the one. I really want to focus
on this for this time because if I was Daniel,
I think I got a little nervous. You're gonna throw
me where into the lions. Then, you know, the enemy
probably said to Daniel, you know, just skip praying this day.
You don't got to pray today. You just let it go.

(11:37):
It'll be okay. God will forgive you. But you know
Daniel didn't compromise. You know there's that song there to
be a Daniel dare to stand alone. Have you heard
that dare to make his purpose true? Well, sometimes you
have to dare to be a Daniel in your workplace,
in a situation where people want you to compromise, and

(11:59):
you to stand up and say no. No. You might
want me to compromise, but I'm not going to compromise.
I will not bow down to a Babylonian God. I
will not bow down to the Babylonian system. I'm going
to be like Daniel. I'm going to stand for what's true.
I'm going to stand for what's right. Yeah, you know
that does take courage.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
It does take courage, And I think the enemy sometimes
tries to come and say, well, you'll lose your job,
or you'll be humiliated, or this that or the other thing.
But it was like Daniel was so trusting God that
when he went down into the pit, the Lord preserved him.
But then when he came up and out of the pit,
the Lord promoted him. So we never give anything to

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God that he doesn't multiply on our behalf. You know,
Christ went to the cross, and he was resurrected and
seated in the right hand of the Father in heaven. Right.
You know, every time David or Deborah or Yehu or
Elijah or anyone in the scriptures obeyed the Lord, he
always blessed them. He always gave them back more than

(13:06):
they gave to him. Because God is good. He's the
source of all good. He's the source of all love,
he's the source of all truth. He's the source of
all glory, and he will get the glory. But he
also rewards those of us that diligently seek him. So
maybe you're in a situation where you're like, man, I
need this money for my family, right, Like, I gotta
do this. I can't risk losing my job, I can't

(13:30):
risk losing my reputation. But the Lord wants you to
know he always protects his own and what the enemy
meant for harm, he will work out for your good
and great will be a reward.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
There was a scripture I read this morning that I
really like. I like all the scripture, but this one,
particularly Jenesis twenty eight fifteen, where God says, I will
be with you wherever you go, and I will take
care of you, and I'll take you to where I promised.

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Someone needs to hear that. That's listening. I will be
with you, I will take care of you. I'll get
you to that place that I promised you. And so
we as believers, we don't like suffering. The Bible says
that we are the fellowship In the sufferings of Christ.

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We get slanterered a little bit, and we start whining
that we got slanterered. Well, not that I want to
go out there and do something purposely to get slandered.
I'm not looking to do that. But I do want
to tell you that Jesus loves you, that he cares
for you, he wants to have a relationship with you.
And you might be saying, well, you don't know who

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I am. I don't need to know who you are
because Jesus died for you, whether you realize it or not.
And you know what, He's standing with his arms open
wise and I want to share this with you. I
was in the church not too long ago and I
was doing an illustration and the girl standing in front

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of me. I was just talking about how good the
Father is and I was saying, hey, you need to
come to the father's house. My dad has an amazing house.
I was really talking about John fourteen. And she says
to me, I can't I have a past? I said,
you know, my father told me you'd say that, and

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he sent his son and took care of your past.
And she starts bawling. She's like a nineteen year old.
She is bawling. So she's standing three feet away from me,
and I hold my arms out, but I don't move.
And no, she came right in and laid her head
on my shoulder and just sobbed and sobbed and cried.

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You know what I'm saying to you out there today,
He's standing with his arms open wide to you, and
he's saying, come to me, all you who are weary,
have you laiden? I will give you rest. And he's

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saying I'll forgive you, I'll cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
If you just come to me. You can come to
be with me at my house John fourteen. I go
to prepare place for you. So if you're not right
with God, just pray this person. Jesus, I asked you
to come into my heart, be my savior. Forgive me

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of my sins. Lord. I want to know what it's
like to walk with you each and every day in
Jesus' name. Amen. And that girl when she walked in
and she wasn't she's from a different nationality. I didn't
know how the response would be. I held my arms
out like a father, and she walked in like a dog.

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And I just wept because how much God loved this kid.
And I love it when he says I go to
prepare a place for you. There's no excuse if you
know the way to the place is through Jesus. If
you come to Jesus, there'll be a seat at his
table for you. I really like that, you know. It

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reminds me of the illustration I had done. That illustration.
I had three plants in the congregation. What I mean
is I had three kids picked out that I would
do a skit with. When I got to the last
kid who said, I can't come to the Father's house,
I'm not ready, and she'd be like, cry, I can't ready,
I can't come to the father's house. As she ran
out in the back door of the church, you could

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hear pindro and then I heard her crying, and I said, Jesus,
call me here to call your sons and your daughter's home.
I gave an altar call, and I was so shocked
because ten to fifteen people rushed the altar weeping and

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crying because they wanted to go to Dad's house because
of the love of the father, you know. And my
team said, wow, Gail, you were being really prophetic. You
knew their name, you knew their favorite color, you knew
what they'd like to eat. I was a setup, I said.
I wasn't being prophetic. I was being pathetic. It was

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even the pastor.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Didn't romantic demonstration.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
The pastor didn't know either, and he's like looking at me,
like what's going on in my church? And you know,
and that's why we're on the radio, that's why we're
here or on podcasts. This is a season where God
is calling his sons.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
And daughters.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Come to Dad's house. He's waiting for you.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
And it doesn't matter how old you are, or are
far you've run away, or how long you've been gone there,
just like Gail, whether with his arms open wide, you
just have to take that first step and run into
his arms and let him love you. You have nothing
to be afraid of.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Stephanie, why don't you pray that God would break the
spirit of fear people that are bound, Because I know
there's a lot of fear out there today. I mean,
I could give examples why they're fear, but I know
one give enough examples, so I'm not going to do it.
So if you could pray that, through the power of
the blood of Jesus, God would break the spirit of

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fear that's on people's lives.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, So, Father, we thank you that your son paid
the full price that all things that are not of
you can be broken and put under his feet. So
we just loose the finished work of Jesus over every
single person listening, over every single home and house and
workplace where the sound is going forth. We bind the
spirit of fear, the false prophet that lies and whispers

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and tries to get people to not come to you,
to not fulfill their destiny, to not step out in
faith in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, and we
lose the spirit of your love and your power and
a sound mind. We bind every spirit of confusion, every
spirit of shame, every spirit of delay that would try
to keep people from moving forward into who it is

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you created them to be and who it is you
call them to be. We thank you for granting them
the courage and the might, and the hope and the
vision and the grace to say, I choose life in
Jesus' name.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Amen in Lord. For those that are suffering with physical
healing in mental torment, Lord, in the name of Jesus,
I pray that you would release healing over the airwaves
right now. And I pray that people would feel and
sense the presence of God wherever they're at, whether they're
in their car, they're in their room, wherever they're listening. Lord,

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I come again. It's those that are suffering in pain.
I come against the spirit of pain and infirmity, and
I bind it through the name in the power of
the Blood of Jesus, I say, infirmity be gone, Pain
be gone and healing come. I pray for those that
are depressed that even maybe they're up listening and they've

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been suicidal and they didn't know they were going to
hear this message. Lord, I say to them, choose life,
not death. And we break the power of suicide in
those tormenting spirits that come to try to convince people
to take their life in the name of Jesus, because Lord,

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the only thing the enemy does is lie to us,
and when you take the lie away, the enemy has
nothing left. So Lord, if he's been telling people they're
no good and worthless, you know they're valuable and there
are a great treasure. And I pray that people would
understand how loved and how valuable they really are in

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Jesus's name.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I'm seeing a picture right now of someone who's sitting
there and saying, but you don't know, you don't know why.
And I see the Lord reaching his hand and washing
all the way back to the source of the pain.
He said, I saw it. I did not allow it,
I did not want it. It was not my will.
But I'm going back to the source, and I'm uprooting
the original reason why you feel this way, and I'm

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going to make you whole from today for it. I'm
going to make you else. To speak to every spirit
of trauma. I speak to every stock emotion. I commended
to come out and go to the foot of the
True Lord Jesus Christ and never return to them. Holy Spirit.
I asked to have filled that place, that original place
where that pain came in, with your healing power, with
your love, with your peace, and with your shalum in
Jesus' name. Today's a new day and a new beginning,

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and that original place is being healed by the hand
of the Father right now.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Amen, Well, I would love to hear from you to
know how you're liking the program. Would love to hear
of any subjects that you might want to hear Todd
on or talked about. My email is share at Healing
Begins Radio dot com. Share at Healing Begins Radio dot com.

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I'm so glad, We're glad, yeah, that you chose to
join us. Always say God bless you. God loves you.
You're a treasure. You're wanted, you chose, and God you
know what.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
You're fearfully and wonderfully made.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
He loved you so much he died for you. So made.
The Lord bless you. May the Lord keep you. May
the Lord cause us face to shine upon you and
give you peace. And may you know that you are
a treasure. Well, Dyl and Stephanie, we're out. Good night,
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