November 24, 2023 • 23 mins
Buckle up as we journey from the depths of despair to a triumphant victory. I, William Carroll, take you alongside my spiritual battle when my son fell severely ill, revealing the raw power of prayer and the profound darkness that tried to engulf us. We tackle the painful fear that seeped in during my son's suffering and the overwhelming presence of darkness. But, this is not just a story of despair, but one of resilience. As we worshiped, we learned to combat fear and darkness, finding strength in our faith.
This episode unravels the harsh reality of spiritual warfare and the cunning ways of the devil. I share my personal encounters during this terrifying period and how we used the authority of Jesus' name to fight back. We explore the potency of God's defense, the significance of praises, and the assurance of victory when God is on our side. As we conclude, we fervently discuss God's plan for redemption. We speak of a God who rejoices over us, who lets no harm come to us. We revel in the belief that what was taken from us will be restored sevenfold. Join us in this powerful testament of faith, prayer, and divine victory.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, good morning and welcome to Faith Walk
podcast with William Carroll.
I'm your host, and on thispodcast we talk about how God
has moved in my life and thelife of others around me, with
signs, wonders, miracleshappening, and I really want
people to understand that whatGod's done for me, he can do for
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you if you get Him out of thebox that we put Him in.
God's vision puts God in a box.
Relationship releases Him to beGod.
So I wanted to talk about Godreminded me of when my son was
little.
He got a very common sickness,a whooping cough, which is
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usually a three day virus, andhe went longer than three days.
Now I had the pastor come over,we prayed for him.
He was still just really badand I mean it just got worse and
worse.
So about six days or so we tookhim over to Shreveport Hospital
and he was sucking so hard.
He's about two years old, maybe, maybe a little younger, and
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when he would go to breathe hewould suck in so hard that his
chest would indent and you couldsee his bones and you could see
right below his ribs.
You could see an indentationand you know he couldn't breathe
.
He couldn't get his breath.
So we took him and they weregiving him breathing treatments
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and every time they came in tothe respiratory therapist to
give him breathing treatmentsthey would hold him in their lap
and he would just scream andholler and just I mean get all
upset and he couldn't breatheanyway.
And they said, oh, this is good, this is good he's breathing in
the medicine that we want himto breathe in.
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So it's alright that he screamsand hollers.
And you know it wasn't alrightwith dad.
I said no, it's not alright.
I said why don't you just lethim sit in my lap and let me
keep him calm and let himbreathe in, like he needs to
breathe in.
So they said yes, and they gotover there and they let me give
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him the breathing treatment.
It was just a nebulizerbreathing treatment and we give
him breathing treatments oh,every couple hours or so, I
don't really remember.
And you know he really didn'tseem to be getting any better.
So after about two days theytold us they said, look, this is
a whooping cough, that's all itis.
He will be fine.
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There's nothing more that wecan do for him here.
You can either stay here or youcan go home.
I said let's go home.
So me and my wife, we gatheredhim up, we took him home and we
were there at the house and, boy, I mean, he was still pretty
bad and I called brother Jerry.
I said, brother Jerry, come onover and pray for him.
So he came over and we prayedfor him and now the last night,
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the last night, got really,really bad.
He was in the.
I went to put him in bed.
I put him in bed and he justcouldn't breathe.
It was so heart wrenching to meand I was sitting there in his
room and as I was in his roomand you know, at that time we
had a trailer house and therooms, the ceiling wasn't very
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tall and it was a small room andit just felt like it was when I
went in there that night,because I could hear him and
every time he take a breath Icould hear his lung popping
through his mouth, you know pop.
And they said that was hisdiaphragm popping.
And so I went in there and Iwas just praying.
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I was praying to God.
Lord, touch him, touch him inhis body, lord.
Thank you, lord, that you justput your hand upon him and touch
him and give him relief.
You know, heal him.
You are the healer.
The same yesterday, today andforever.
Well, while I was standing thereand I was standing over his bed
and I had my hand on him and Iwas praying for him, and it
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seemed like darkness.
It seemed like that little roomwas so dark now I had no lights
on, so normally it's dark, butyou know, it had a white ceiling
, it had white walls and itusually it's pretty light in
there.
It wasn't always really dark.
The light from the night lightwould come in through the window
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.
But I mean there was a darkness, a dark, dark presence, and it
seemed like the ceiling and thewalls was closing in on me.
And I picked him up and I hadhim in my arms and I was praying
for him and then I felt thisdark presence as it was coming
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up From my feet up to about myknees and it to me it felt like
death.
To me it felt like Death.
That's all I can tell you.
I said, man, you know, it's kindof like the death angel coming
after someone you love.
You know, and when the spiritof God comes on me, it comes on
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from the top of my head.
I can feel it just from the topof my head.
I can feel it coming down on meand it's, it's joyous, it's
rejoicing.
Sometimes it makes you want toshout, sometimes sing, sometimes
run.
But this was darkness and all Ican tell you was fear.
It was fear and it felt likedeath and in my mind I said, hmm
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, death is trying to come andtake my son.
So have you ever been praying?
And it seems like you're in aDark kettle with a lid on it and
it's just kind of it, just kindof just going In the lid.
You know we'll never releasethe pressure and you're going,
lord, I mean, you know I'm notgetting through, I'm not getting
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through to you, god, lord, I,you know I'm praying, I'm
praying and I was praying.
Listen, I was praying for himand it, this presence, just got
stronger and stronger and thefear just began coming up on me,
you know, and I had him in myarms and I'm not gonna let, I'm
gonna let, not let the spirit ofdeath get my son, okay, and so
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I'm sitting there and I go, andall of a sudden it just came to
me praise him, praise him.
So I just started praising him.
I started singing Praises intoGod.
I started singing praises thatare made up.
I started singing songs, Istarted singing the Psalms.
I just started, man, I startedpraise and as I praised him, I
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could feel this presence justGoing back down, going into the,
you know, getting off of myfeet, and then the presence was
still in the room, but it feltlike the presence lifted up and
was, you know, at the ceiling.
Yeah, I know you think I'm crazy, but I'm gonna tell you.
If you've ever been there,you'll know what I'm telling you
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the truth.
You see, the devil is real.
He is real and he's coming.
He's the thief.
He comes to still kill anddestroy.
He was coming that night tosteal the life of my baby, to
destroy my life, and I wasn'tgonna let him.
So I started just worshipingand praising him and then, when
I'd stop and I'd lay him down, Icould feel this presence in the
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room just getting darker anddarker and it and I couldn't,
you know, it's like I couldn'teven see the light from the
window outside and again I wouldfeel the presence coming up.
I'd snatch him up out of thatbed and I'd have him in my arms
and I could feel the presenceComing on me.
Now.
I knew it wasn't attacking me,but I knew what it was coming
after.
This presence was coming after,after my son.
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You know, the devil is real.
He revolted against God.
He's not God.
He's not equal to God.
He was created by God.
He was an angel, but heconvinced one third of the
angels of heaven to revoltagainst God.
All right, and God kicked himout of heaven.
What way you think he landed?
I Believe he's landed righthere and I can show you in the
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Bible sometime.
I don't have time today, butlisten, I was, I was just
Praising him.
A man, I would sing amazinggrace, I would sing Blessed is
the Lord.
I would sing.
I sing every, every song, everyworship song, and it was.
I was singing it from my heart,you know, and everybody else in
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the house was asleep.
Well, it was at that time.
It was, it's just, my wife andmy daughter wasn't born yet, and
and so I, just, I was justworshiping and praising him and
every time I'd worship him andpraising, that spirit would just
, it would.
It would go away, the spiritaround us would go away and it
would go back.
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It was like it was recedingback through the roof, is what
it felt, like you know, andevery time I stopped and I
thought, well, this is good, andI laid him down.
I could feel the presencecoming back and I could feel it
coming and I pick up my son andI would hold him in my arms and
I would just start worshiping.
Now, look, during that time Itried praying.
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Every time I'd start prayingand praying, you know, and it
just seemed like my prayers wasin one of those Kettles with a
pressure release kettle.
You know, you could hear itgoing, but it just wasn't
getting nowhere.
You know, and I know that Godheard my prayers.
But listen, psalm 22, versethree.
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Psalm 22, verse three, and Iwant to go there right quick and
I want to show you what wasgoing on.
Psalm 22, verse three.
Psalm 22, verse 3, 22 3 says butyou are holy and you that
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inhabited the praises of Israel.
Well, you know, when we weregrafted in to the children of
Israel through our faith inChrist, that scripture there
says what it means is Godinhabits the praise of his
people.
God inhabits the praises of hispeople.
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So see, it is like a, it's likea nuclear warhead going off
when you start beginning to pray, if you're praying and you're
praying and you can't get abreakthrough and you're going.
Oh Lord, you know I'm praying,I'm praying, I'm having a hard
time, I can't, it doesn't seemlike I'm getting a breakthrough.
We'll quit praying and startpraising, because it's fatal.
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It's fatal to the enemy, it'sfatal.
It destroys their plans, itdestroys their strategies, it
destroys their attack againstyou.
Yeah, we are in a battle, thewar has been won, but Saint
wants to convince us that, forone, he wants to convince us
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he's not real.
Well, you know, we know he'sreal, I know he's real.
Jesus knew he is real.
He tempted Jesus in the desertwhen Jesus went into the
wilderness and that was in,let's see, that was in Matthew,
chapter four, and Jesus said getthe, get the away from me,
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satan, or get the behind me,satan.
Some versions say you know, whenhe was tempted and listen,
listen.
Jesus called him.
He said he was a liar and thefather of all lies.
If the devil says you're goingto die, tell him.
He's a lie.
He's a lie.
He's a liar.
If he says you're going to look, you know that whatever he
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tries to tell you, go and findthe word that backs up what God
says is gonna happen to you.
You know, the devil is a liar.
He's the father of all lies.
That's what Jesus called him.
He's also called him Matthew 4and 3 the tempter, because he
tempted.
The tempter came and temptedJesus in the wilderness.
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Who's that?
That's Satan, and he's calledthe serpent in Genesis.
He's in a revelation.
He's called the dragon, the oldserpent.
You know and that's arevelation is 2020, 20, verse 2,
and so got.
So Jesus knew.
Jesus knew that Satan was real.
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You know, one of his greatestlies is that he tries to tell us
he's not real, that the devil'snot alive, he don't have demons
.
He don't it.
We're not in a spiritualwarfare.
We are in a spiritual warfarethat we cannot see and we need
to learn our enemy.
See, he's had many, many yearsto perfect his lies in our
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hearts and in our minds.
And see, it's our minds thatSatan can attack.
He plants a thought in your mind.
You take it as your own, youtake it to heart and you start
acting on it, and that's how hegets you.
You know, he has no power tomake you do something.
If you're a born-again child ofGod, you have authority over
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him.
What is your authority over him.
It's the blood of Jesus.
Man, you can plead the blood ofJesus.
You know now, that night Ididn't plead the blood of Jesus.
It didn't come to my mind.
I was a young Christian.
You know you can use the nameof Jesus, you know you can say
get the behind me, satan.
But in my mind all I wasworried about was my baby.
I knew that there was apresence coming and there was a
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presence that wanted to take myson's life.
You know, now the world saysit's just whooping golf, it's
just a three-day virus, but ithad lasted over seven days and
it wasn't getting any better.
But I just kept praying and Ikept praising God and I kept
worshiping him and singing and,like I said, every time I sang,
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every time I gave God the glory,I mean the presence would just
back up, because God inhabitsthe praises of his people.
That means God's presence isthere when you praise him, god
is there.
You know, and I tell you, let me, let me turn over right quick,
as, as we're going on, I want to, I want to share Micah right
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quick, micah, chapter 3.
Let's go to that right quickand and see if I can find that
before.
So I don't have a lot of deadspace in here, but I hope this
is talking to your heart.
You know, I hope this is reallygetting to you and you're
starting to see that.
You know, religion puts God ina box.
Relationship takes him out.
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Relationship I have arelationship with God, all right
.
And here it is.
Here it says that, uh, let mesee here dad, I'm having to skim
through here Wow, let's see.
Hallelujah, jesus, come on,come on, show me where this is,
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show me where this is, lord.
Oh, my goodness, I know it'shere.
I just looked it up the otherday.
Okay, so I'm not gonna be ableto share that one because I
don't want to spend a whole lotof time looking for it.
And, uh, I see here, maybe Ican search it right quick.
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No, I can't, I can't, I can'tfind it.
Okay, so I'm gonna go onbecause I want to keep a roll on
this thing and I want to keepit going.
I don't want to cause a lot ofdead space and and I want you to
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I don't want to lose my saintand my, my, my brain, my thought
.
I don't want to.
I don't want to lose my thoughtof where we're going.
Okay, so it is.
It is in Zeppin 9, chapter 3.
I'm sorry, it's in.
It's in Zeppin 9, chapter 3,and, and this is what it says,
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the Lord God is with you, he ismighty to save, he will take
great delight in you, he willquiet you with his love and he
will rejoice over you withsinging the God.
God rejoices over us withsinging.
So, man, in my mind, when Ibegin to praise God and he
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begins to inhabit my praise, godstarts singing.
And listen, when God sings, hesings bass.
And when he sings bass, herattles the foundation of earth
and the foundations of the world.
And listen, when you begin toworship him and praise him and
start singing unto him, like Idid that night, he began singing
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to and darkness and evil couldnot stand, it could not stay.
Now, listen, it took me a littlewhile.
I mean, I was in there forhours, I, you know, and I went
to bed early in the morning, butI wasn't gonna leave as long as
I put him down.
And when I put him down I couldfeel that present, still there,
trying to sneak up.
You know he was.
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He.
He's a liar and a thief and hetries to sneak up on us and he
tries to sneak up on the onesthat we love.
And he and he tries to kill,still and destroy.
You know, I want to go rightover here to, because I spoke
about it a lot.
So I'm gonna go to John,chapter 10, verse 10.
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And it says the thief listen, hewas kind, he was coming to
steal.
He was coming to steal mybaby's life.
You know, you can convince mehe wasn't, because it was so
real, it was so real that night.
And the thief comes, not but tosteal, to kill and destroy.
I come that they might havelife and they might have it more
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abundantly, for I am the goodshepherd.
The good shepherd gives hislife for the sheep.
All right, john 10, 10, andJohn 10, 11, and John 10, 12.
Well, 10, 12,.
It goes on, but I'm gonna stopright there.
So John 10, 10 says that thethief comes to steal, kill and
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destroy, but he comes, that hecan give us life, and that more
abundantly, more abundantly.
Life is pretty good most of thetime, but he wants us to have
more abundant life.
We can have an abundant lifethrough Jesus Christ.
See, we gotta learn the tacticsof the devil.
We gotta learn the strategiesof the devil, because he has
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some.
You know the devil can't beeverywhere, in every place at
every time, but he had a thirdof the angels that fell with him
and I don't know how many thatis.
He has a kingdom.
See, god said how can Satan beagainst Satan?
Because a house divided cannotstand.
Jesus understands that Satan.
When you say Satan, you'respeaking to the kingdom that he
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has and those that are underauthority underneath him.
So when you call it Satan, thedevil's attacking me.
You know the devil can't beeverywhere.
He can only be one place at onetime.
He's not God, but he does havea kingdom of demons which used
to be angels, which are fallingupon the earth to do his bidding
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.
So when we say Satan, we'respeaking to the head.
We're speaking to head of theproblem.
We're buying you.
Jesus cast out many demons.
He cast out devils.
He tell them to hold theirpeace because they know who
Jesus was.
They knew who he was.
And listen, the devils know whoyou are if you're a child of
God.
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But you know you gotta learn towork in the power and the
authority of the anointing ofGod on your life.
You gotta quit saying that, well, there's really no devil.
It's not good and evil.
I mean there's good and evil,but I don't believe there's a
devil.
Well, listen, the devilsbelieve.
I don't believe there's a hell.
Well, the devils believe, causethey're gonna be cast there one
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day, you know, and God didn'tcreate hell for his children.
So what in the hell do you wantto go there for?
Why do you want to live likehell?
To get to the big party in hell?
Because there isn't going to beone.
It's going to be total darkness.
It's going to be fire.
It's going to be gnashing ofteeth.
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There's going to be no light.
The fire is going to burn witha fire, but there's going to be
no light.
It's going to be total darknessin nationalism, you know, and
you ain't going to be able tosee them party girls when you
get there, because even if youdid see them, you wouldn't want
to see them.
All right, so listen, god lovesyou, I love you.
I hope this encourages you.
I hope you, if you have aproblem like this, that starts.
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You know, start praising God,start singing him.
See, if God doesn't inhabit thepraises of his people, if you
don't know Jesus, I'm going totell you right now.
You need to ask him into yourheart.
Romans 10 and 9 says if youbelieve with your heart and you
confess with your mouth, youshall be saved.
You know, and we want you to besaved.
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We want you to be grafted intothe children of Israel.
We want you to be saved inheaven so that we can see each
other.
We're going to have a greatfamily.
Be there and all the familythat you know that went on
before.
You will see them again andthere's no sickness, no sin and
there's no tear in heaven.
Now, until next time, I justwant to say I love you.
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I hope this is encouraging toyou.
I hope you're getting somethingout of it.
If you are, share it.
Share it with those that youknow, because you never know,
even if it's not.
You say well, I like listening,but you know it's kind of over
my head or I don't really.
You know, believe to all thethings that you say.
That's okay.
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Get in the word and find out.
Get in the word and find out.
I want to stir your heart upnot to believe what I say, you
pastor say or anybody else say.
I want to stir your heart upthat you get in there and you
dig into the word and you learnthe word, you learn to walk the
word, you learn to be a man anda woman of God Because, see,
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that's how the word was spreadthroughout all the time they
didn't have a Bible.
We have a Bible and we won'teven look at it, we won't even
open it up, we want somebody tospoon feed us like a baby.
Well, it's time for theChristian church to grow up.
It's time for us to startwalking and talking like men and
women of God and putting thedevil to flee.
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You know, a lot of people saynew level, new devil.
I'd say new level, new devil todefeat.
And that's what I plan on doingbecause, see, god's got my front
guard and my rear guard.
God goes before me, his bannergoes before me, you know, and
how can I win?
How can I, how can I not winwith God on my side?
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Amen.
Well, listen, I hope thisencourages you, I hope it lifts
you up, because I'm on firetoday.
I'm on fire.
I want to be on fire every daybecause the, because the devil
stole three and a half yearsfrom me, sitting in a rocking
chair, not being able to doanything, not being able to to
remember scripture, or or orplay the guitar, play, worship,
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sing, worship.
The devil stole that from meand he's going to pay me back
sevenfold.
That's 24 and a half years.
He has to pay back for thethree and a half years that he
stole from me.
Amen, amen, until next time.
God loves you and I so do I.
Well, good morning and welcome to Faith Walk
podcast with William Carroll.
I'm your host, and on thispodcast we talk about how God
has moved in my life and thelife of others around me, with
signs, wonders, miracleshappening, and I really want
people to understand that whatGod's done for me, he can do for
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you if you get Him out of thebox that we put Him in.
God's vision puts God in a box.
Relationship releases Him to beGod.
So I wanted to talk about Godreminded me of when my son was
little.
He got a very common sickness,a whooping cough, which is
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usually a three day virus, andhe went longer than three days.
Now I had the pastor come over,we prayed for him.
He was still just really badand I mean it just got worse and
worse.
So about six days or so we tookhim over to Shreveport Hospital
and he was sucking so hard.
He's about two years old, maybe, maybe a little younger, and
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when he would go to breathe hewould suck in so hard that his
chest would indent and you couldsee his bones and you could see
right below his ribs.
You could see an indentationand you know he couldn't breathe
.
He couldn't get his breath.
So we took him and they weregiving him breathing treatments
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and every time they came in tothe respiratory therapist to
give him breathing treatmentsthey would hold him in their lap
and he would just scream andholler and just I mean get all
upset and he couldn't breatheanyway.
And they said, oh, this is good, this is good he's breathing in
the medicine that we want himto breathe in.
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So it's alright that he screamsand hollers.
And you know it wasn't alrightwith dad.
I said no, it's not alright.
I said why don't you just lethim sit in my lap and let me
keep him calm and let himbreathe in, like he needs to
breathe in.
So they said yes, and they gotover there and they let me give
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him the breathing treatment.
It was just a nebulizerbreathing treatment and we give
him breathing treatments oh,every couple hours or so, I
don't really remember.
And you know he really didn'tseem to be getting any better.
So after about two days theytold us they said, look, this is
a whooping cough, that's all itis.
He will be fine.
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There's nothing more that wecan do for him here.
You can either stay here or youcan go home.
I said let's go home.
So me and my wife, we gatheredhim up, we took him home and we
were there at the house and, boy, I mean, he was still pretty
bad and I called brother Jerry.
I said, brother Jerry, come onover and pray for him.
So he came over and we prayedfor him and now the last night,
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the last night, got really,really bad.
He was in the.
I went to put him in bed.
I put him in bed and he justcouldn't breathe.
It was so heart wrenching to meand I was sitting there in his
room and as I was in his roomand you know, at that time we
had a trailer house and therooms, the ceiling wasn't very
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tall and it was a small room andit just felt like it was when I
went in there that night,because I could hear him and
every time he take a breath Icould hear his lung popping
through his mouth, you know pop.
And they said that was hisdiaphragm popping.
And so I went in there and Iwas just praying.
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I was praying to God.
Lord, touch him, touch him inhis body, lord.
Thank you, lord, that you justput your hand upon him and touch
him and give him relief.
You know, heal him.
You are the healer.
The same yesterday, today andforever.
Well, while I was standing thereand I was standing over his bed
and I had my hand on him and Iwas praying for him, and it
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seemed like darkness.
It seemed like that little roomwas so dark now I had no lights
on, so normally it's dark, butyou know, it had a white ceiling
, it had white walls and itusually it's pretty light in
there.
It wasn't always really dark.
The light from the night lightwould come in through the window
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.
But I mean there was a darkness, a dark, dark presence, and it
seemed like the ceiling and thewalls was closing in on me.
And I picked him up and I hadhim in my arms and I was praying
for him and then I felt thisdark presence as it was coming
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up From my feet up to about myknees and it to me it felt like
death.
To me it felt like Death.
That's all I can tell you.
I said, man, you know, it's kindof like the death angel coming
after someone you love.
You know, and when the spiritof God comes on me, it comes on
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from the top of my head.
I can feel it just from the topof my head.
I can feel it coming down on meand it's, it's joyous, it's
rejoicing.
Sometimes it makes you want toshout, sometimes sing, sometimes
run.
But this was darkness and all Ican tell you was fear.
It was fear and it felt likedeath and in my mind I said, hmm
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, death is trying to come andtake my son.
So have you ever been praying?
And it seems like you're in aDark kettle with a lid on it and
it's just kind of it, just kindof just going In the lid.
You know we'll never releasethe pressure and you're going,
lord, I mean, you know I'm notgetting through, I'm not getting
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through to you, god, lord, I,you know I'm praying, I'm
praying and I was praying.
Listen, I was praying for himand it, this presence, just got
stronger and stronger and thefear just began coming up on me,
you know, and I had him in myarms and I'm not gonna let, I'm
gonna let, not let the spirit ofdeath get my son, okay, and so
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I'm sitting there and I go, andall of a sudden it just came to
me praise him, praise him.
So I just started praising him.
I started singing Praises intoGod.
I started singing praises thatare made up.
I started singing songs, Istarted singing the Psalms.
I just started, man, I startedpraise and as I praised him, I
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could feel this presence justGoing back down, going into the,
you know, getting off of myfeet, and then the presence was
still in the room, but it feltlike the presence lifted up and
was, you know, at the ceiling.
Yeah, I know you think I'm crazy, but I'm gonna tell you.
If you've ever been there,you'll know what I'm telling you
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the truth.
You see, the devil is real.
He is real and he's coming.
He's the thief.
He comes to still kill anddestroy.
He was coming that night tosteal the life of my baby, to
destroy my life, and I wasn'tgonna let him.
So I started just worshipingand praising him and then, when
I'd stop and I'd lay him down, Icould feel this presence in the
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room just getting darker anddarker and it and I couldn't,
you know, it's like I couldn'teven see the light from the
window outside and again I wouldfeel the presence coming up.
I'd snatch him up out of thatbed and I'd have him in my arms
and I could feel the presenceComing on me.
Now.
I knew it wasn't attacking me,but I knew what it was coming
after.
This presence was coming after,after my son.
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You know, the devil is real.
He revolted against God.
He's not God.
He's not equal to God.
He was created by God.
He was an angel, but heconvinced one third of the
angels of heaven to revoltagainst God.
All right, and God kicked himout of heaven.
What way you think he landed?
I Believe he's landed righthere and I can show you in the
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Bible sometime.
I don't have time today, butlisten, I was, I was just
Praising him.
A man, I would sing amazinggrace, I would sing Blessed is
the Lord.
I would sing.
I sing every, every song, everyworship song, and it was.
I was singing it from my heart,you know, and everybody else in
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the house was asleep.
Well, it was at that time.
It was, it's just, my wife andmy daughter wasn't born yet, and
and so I, just, I was justworshiping and praising him and
every time I'd worship him andpraising, that spirit would just
, it would.
It would go away, the spiritaround us would go away and it
would go back.
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It was like it was recedingback through the roof, is what
it felt, like you know, andevery time I stopped and I
thought, well, this is good, andI laid him down.
I could feel the presencecoming back and I could feel it
coming and I pick up my son andI would hold him in my arms and
I would just start worshiping.
Now, look, during that time Itried praying.
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Every time I'd start prayingand praying, you know, and it
just seemed like my prayers wasin one of those Kettles with a
pressure release kettle.
You know, you could hear itgoing, but it just wasn't
getting nowhere.
You know, and I know that Godheard my prayers.
But listen, psalm 22, versethree.
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Psalm 22, verse three, and Iwant to go there right quick and
I want to show you what wasgoing on.
Psalm 22, verse three.
Psalm 22, verse 3, 22 3 says butyou are holy and you that
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inhabited the praises of Israel.
Well, you know, when we weregrafted in to the children of
Israel through our faith inChrist, that scripture there
says what it means is Godinhabits the praise of his
people.
God inhabits the praises of hispeople.
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So see, it is like a, it's likea nuclear warhead going off
when you start beginning to pray, if you're praying and you're
praying and you can't get abreakthrough and you're going.
Oh Lord, you know I'm praying,I'm praying, I'm having a hard
time, I can't, it doesn't seemlike I'm getting a breakthrough.
We'll quit praying and startpraising, because it's fatal.
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It's fatal to the enemy, it'sfatal.
It destroys their plans, itdestroys their strategies, it
destroys their attack againstyou.
Yeah, we are in a battle, thewar has been won, but Saint
wants to convince us that, forone, he wants to convince us
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he's not real.
Well, you know, we know he'sreal, I know he's real.
Jesus knew he is real.
He tempted Jesus in the desertwhen Jesus went into the
wilderness and that was in,let's see, that was in Matthew,
chapter four, and Jesus said getthe, get the away from me,
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satan, or get the behind me,satan.
Some versions say you know, whenhe was tempted and listen,
listen.
Jesus called him.
He said he was a liar and thefather of all lies.
If the devil says you're goingto die, tell him.
He's a lie.
He's a lie.
He's a liar.
If he says you're going to look, you know that whatever he
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tries to tell you, go and findthe word that backs up what God
says is gonna happen to you.
You know, the devil is a liar.
He's the father of all lies.
That's what Jesus called him.
He's also called him Matthew 4and 3 the tempter, because he
tempted.
The tempter came and temptedJesus in the wilderness.
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Who's that?
That's Satan, and he's calledthe serpent in Genesis.
He's in a revelation.
He's called the dragon, the oldserpent.
You know and that's arevelation is 2020, 20, verse 2,
and so got.
So Jesus knew.
Jesus knew that Satan was real.
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You know, one of his greatestlies is that he tries to tell us
he's not real, that the devil'snot alive, he don't have demons
.
He don't it.
We're not in a spiritualwarfare.
We are in a spiritual warfarethat we cannot see and we need
to learn our enemy.
See, he's had many, many yearsto perfect his lies in our
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hearts and in our minds.
And see, it's our minds thatSatan can attack.
He plants a thought in your mind.
You take it as your own, youtake it to heart and you start
acting on it, and that's how hegets you.
You know, he has no power tomake you do something.
If you're a born-again child ofGod, you have authority over
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him.
What is your authority over him.
It's the blood of Jesus.
Man, you can plead the blood ofJesus.
You know now, that night Ididn't plead the blood of Jesus.
It didn't come to my mind.
I was a young Christian.
You know you can use the nameof Jesus, you know you can say
get the behind me, satan.
But in my mind all I wasworried about was my baby.
I knew that there was apresence coming and there was a
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presence that wanted to take myson's life.
You know, now the world saysit's just whooping golf, it's
just a three-day virus, but ithad lasted over seven days and
it wasn't getting any better.
But I just kept praying and Ikept praising God and I kept
worshiping him and singing and,like I said, every time I sang,
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every time I gave God the glory,I mean the presence would just
back up, because God inhabitsthe praises of his people.
That means God's presence isthere when you praise him, god
is there.
You know, and I tell you, let me, let me turn over right quick,
as, as we're going on, I want to, I want to share Micah right
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quick, micah, chapter 3.
Let's go to that right quickand and see if I can find that
before.
So I don't have a lot of deadspace in here, but I hope this
is talking to your heart.
You know, I hope this is reallygetting to you and you're
starting to see that.
You know, religion puts God ina box.
Relationship takes him out.
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Relationship I have arelationship with God, all right
.
And here it is.
Here it says that, uh, let mesee here dad, I'm having to skim
through here Wow, let's see.
Hallelujah, jesus, come on,come on, show me where this is,
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show me where this is, lord.
Oh, my goodness, I know it'shere.
I just looked it up the otherday.
Okay, so I'm not gonna be ableto share that one because I
don't want to spend a whole lotof time looking for it.
And, uh, I see here, maybe Ican search it right quick.
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No, I can't, I can't, I can'tfind it.
Okay, so I'm gonna go onbecause I want to keep a roll on
this thing and I want to keepit going.
I don't want to cause a lot ofdead space and and I want you to
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I don't want to lose my saintand my, my, my brain, my thought
.
I don't want to.
I don't want to lose my thoughtof where we're going.
Okay, so it is.
It is in Zeppin 9, chapter 3.
I'm sorry, it's in.
It's in Zeppin 9, chapter 3,and, and this is what it says,
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the Lord God is with you, he ismighty to save, he will take
great delight in you, he willquiet you with his love and he
will rejoice over you withsinging the God.
God rejoices over us withsinging.
So, man, in my mind, when Ibegin to praise God and he
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begins to inhabit my praise, godstarts singing.
And listen, when God sings, hesings bass.
And when he sings bass, herattles the foundation of earth
and the foundations of the world.
And listen, when you begin toworship him and praise him and
start singing unto him, like Idid that night, he began singing
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to and darkness and evil couldnot stand, it could not stay.
Now, listen, it took me a littlewhile.
I mean, I was in there forhours, I, you know, and I went
to bed early in the morning, butI wasn't gonna leave as long as
I put him down.
And when I put him down I couldfeel that present, still there,
trying to sneak up.
You know he was.
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He.
He's a liar and a thief and hetries to sneak up on us and he
tries to sneak up on the onesthat we love.
And he and he tries to kill,still and destroy.
You know, I want to go rightover here to, because I spoke
about it a lot.
So I'm gonna go to John,chapter 10, verse 10.
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And it says the thief listen, hewas kind, he was coming to
steal.
He was coming to steal mybaby's life.
You know, you can convince mehe wasn't, because it was so
real, it was so real that night.
And the thief comes, not but tosteal, to kill and destroy.
I come that they might havelife and they might have it more
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abundantly, for I am the goodshepherd.
The good shepherd gives hislife for the sheep.
All right, john 10, 10, andJohn 10, 11, and John 10, 12.
Well, 10, 12,.
It goes on, but I'm gonna stopright there.
So John 10, 10 says that thethief comes to steal, kill and
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destroy, but he comes, that hecan give us life, and that more
abundantly, more abundantly.
Life is pretty good most of thetime, but he wants us to have
more abundant life.
We can have an abundant lifethrough Jesus Christ.
See, we gotta learn the tacticsof the devil.
We gotta learn the strategiesof the devil, because he has
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some.
You know the devil can't beeverywhere, in every place at
every time, but he had a thirdof the angels that fell with him
and I don't know how many thatis.
He has a kingdom.
See, god said how can Satan beagainst Satan?
Because a house divided cannotstand.
Jesus understands that Satan.
When you say Satan, you'respeaking to the kingdom that he
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has and those that are underauthority underneath him.
So when you call it Satan, thedevil's attacking me.
You know the devil can't beeverywhere.
He can only be one place at onetime.
He's not God, but he does havea kingdom of demons which used
to be angels, which are fallingupon the earth to do his bidding
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.
So when we say Satan, we'respeaking to the head.
We're speaking to head of theproblem.
We're buying you.
Jesus cast out many demons.
He cast out devils.
He tell them to hold theirpeace because they know who
Jesus was.
They knew who he was.
And listen, the devils know whoyou are if you're a child of
God.
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But you know you gotta learn towork in the power and the
authority of the anointing ofGod on your life.
You gotta quit saying that, well, there's really no devil.
It's not good and evil.
I mean there's good and evil,but I don't believe there's a
devil.
Well, listen, the devilsbelieve.
I don't believe there's a hell.
Well, the devils believe, causethey're gonna be cast there one
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day, you know, and God didn'tcreate hell for his children.
So what in the hell do you wantto go there for?
Why do you want to live likehell?
To get to the big party in hell?
Because there isn't going to beone.
It's going to be total darkness.
It's going to be fire.
It's going to be gnashing ofteeth.
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There's going to be no light.
The fire is going to burn witha fire, but there's going to be
no light.
It's going to be total darknessin nationalism, you know, and
you ain't going to be able tosee them party girls when you
get there, because even if youdid see them, you wouldn't want
to see them.
All right, so listen, god lovesyou, I love you.
I hope this encourages you.
I hope you, if you have aproblem like this, that starts.
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You know, start praising God,start singing him.
See, if God doesn't inhabit thepraises of his people, if you
don't know Jesus, I'm going totell you right now.
You need to ask him into yourheart.
Romans 10 and 9 says if youbelieve with your heart and you
confess with your mouth, youshall be saved.
You know, and we want you to besaved.
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We want you to be grafted intothe children of Israel.
We want you to be saved inheaven so that we can see each
other.
We're going to have a greatfamily.
Be there and all the familythat you know that went on
before.
You will see them again andthere's no sickness, no sin and
there's no tear in heaven.
Now, until next time, I justwant to say I love you.
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I hope this is encouraging toyou.
I hope you're getting somethingout of it.
If you are, share it.
Share it with those that youknow, because you never know,
even if it's not.
You say well, I like listening,but you know it's kind of over
my head or I don't really.
You know, believe to all thethings that you say.
That's okay.
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Get in the word and find out.
Get in the word and find out.
I want to stir your heart upnot to believe what I say, you
pastor say or anybody else say.
I want to stir your heart upthat you get in there and you
dig into the word and you learnthe word, you learn to walk the
word, you learn to be a man anda woman of God Because, see,
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that's how the word was spreadthroughout all the time they
didn't have a Bible.
We have a Bible and we won'teven look at it, we won't even
open it up, we want somebody tospoon feed us like a baby.
Well, it's time for theChristian church to grow up.
It's time for us to startwalking and talking like men and
women of God and putting thedevil to flee.
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You know, a lot of people saynew level, new devil.
I'd say new level, new devil todefeat.
And that's what I plan on doingbecause, see, god's got my front
guard and my rear guard.
God goes before me, his bannergoes before me, you know, and
how can I win?
How can I, how can I not winwith God on my side?
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Amen.
Well, listen, I hope thisencourages you, I hope it lifts
you up, because I'm on firetoday.
I'm on fire.
I want to be on fire every daybecause the, because the devil
stole three and a half yearsfrom me, sitting in a rocking
chair, not being able to doanything, not being able to to
remember scripture, or or orplay the guitar, play, worship,
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sing, worship.
The devil stole that from meand he's going to pay me back
sevenfold.
That's 24 and a half years.
He has to pay back for thethree and a half years that he
stole from me.
Amen, amen, until next time.
God loves you and I so do I.
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