May 8, 2024 • 40 mins
Welcome to an illuminating episode of Faithfully Feminine Podcast, hosted by Imani. This episode dives deep into the compelling concept of spiritual authority, designed to empower you to make bold decisions and bring positive reinforcements in your life.
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Imani not only engages her listeners in understanding faith-based authority but also assertively challenges them to break unhealthy patterns and take charge of their lives. The episode centers around a critical scripture from Luke 10:19, emphasizing the spiritual power and authority that Christ offers us. Imani signifies the importance of understanding your spiritual rights and defending them against any form of opposition.
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The power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience is authority.
Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, it girls. I hope you all are doing amazing.
Welcome to Faithfully Feminine Podcast, where I, your host, Imani Bailey,
shares all things faith, all things feminine, and practical ways to transform
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yourself through navigating womanhood.
While sharing lessons God has taught me along the way, sit back,
relax, and let's get into some things.
Oh girl oh boy oh boy oh boy we are
definitely getting into some things today as you
can tell by the title we're talking about your authority and the authority that
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you have and if you're listening to this this is not by accident go ahead and
share this with a friend sign up for my community and girl get up somebody needs
to hear this get up all them little tears all this
feeling sorry for yourself, all this pity party,
all this, oh my gosh, I'm in cheat.
Oh my gosh, I'm tired of another horrible date. Oh my gosh, I'm tired of dating.
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Oh my gosh, I can't find no friends. Oh my gosh.
Whatever complaint you have been complaining and been murmuring to yourself,
your friends, your mom, everything in between your close friends on Instagram,
your TikTok, your Twitter.
I'm still calling it Twitter. I don't care what nobody says.
Your instagram your youtube your whatever get up get up and listen to this because
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i have a word for you and we're gonna start this off really smooth though on
this leg i know i just came out,
guns out of the holster this morning guns are out of the holster this morning
because i'm i'm not coming to play with y'all hell is upset hell is upset and
they gonna they've they've been put on on notice.
Hell has been put on notice when concerning me and my bloodline and any of my
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followers. Satan is on notice.
And so right here, right now, this is your reminder that you have authority within Christ.
And authority, I started off the podcast with it, but we're going to say it
again, is the power or right given to someone to give orders,
make decisions, and enforce force
obedience emphasis with the enforce of obedience because I feel like and you
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know like growing up your parents or your guardian or whoever watched over you
had authority to do certain things as a child you don't have much power over
your life oh my goodness every time I get on the podcast Morocco tries to play
with his toys and I'm like no,
Again, Satan is put on notice and he's trying to distract me from giving y'all this message.
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But I really want to hone in this episode on enforcing obedience and really to give right orders.
Now we make decisions every day and especially as you grow up in your adulthood.
I mean, we make decisions as children too.
But once you become an adult, the decisions you make, you feel them a lot more.
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It's not fun. It's a little ghetto. It's a little ghetto.
I miss being a child. But at the same time, now that I know more about authority,
I'm like, ooh, was it really that fun being a child? I mean, it was.
But if the people who were watching you, watching over you, did not exercise
the proper authority to protect you from certain things, you were just a sitting Duh. And was.
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And was. Because a kid cannot comprehend everything there is to know about authority,
especially when society is
telling them that they don't have the right to go drive if they want to.
They don't have the right to fill out paperwork on their behalf.
They don't have the right to give orders, to make certain decisions,
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and to especially emphasize, enforce obedience.
Now, Luke 10, 19 says that God gives us power from the King James Version.
And then in the New King James Version, it uses the word authority.
So turn, well, depending on how you're listening to this, I'm going to read out Luke 19.
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And we're reading from the new King James Version. I'm going to get to the King James Version though.
It's something about the super saved Christians that read the King James Version.
And I'm starting to realize why I really am.
But for this sake, we're going to read out of the new King James.
Let me get to it. Luke 10, 19.
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Okay well we're going to start at 17 the 72
returned with joy and said lord
even the demons submit to
us in your name he replied this is jesus speaking i saw satan fall like lightning
from heaven i have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and
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to overcome all the power of the enemy.
Nothing will harm you. Verse 20, however, do not rejoice that the Spirit submit
to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
It's actually a very beautiful verse.
But King James Version says, Jesus says, I give you the power.
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Now, when they translated it, they have put the word authority.
So I had to look up the concordance. One of the Greek translations of power
is the power of authority, which is also influence and of proper privilege.
So influence, proper privilege, the right.
Why does this matter? Why does knowing your authority matter.
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Because when you know your authority over certain things that go on in your
life, and you know those things are not of God, you can speak to those things.
Whether it is sickness, whether it is mental health, whether it is feelings
of procrastination, whether it is laziness,
whether it is anger, any spirit that is not and or counterproductive to what
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God's word is saying is not of God.
And that way it may have either a stronghold over you trying to knock at the
foot of your life to get you to fold and submit to it or come into agreement with it.
And that's when people are saying things like, I know this was me a couple of
months ago, like, oh, I just have ADD or I just have panic attacks or I have anxiety.
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And it's like you start claiming these things over your life and submitting
to it without knowing that you have the power, influence,
and proper privilege to give orders and to enforce that spirit's obedience.
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Ooh, let's get into it. Why does it matter? The fact that,
of dealing with things falls on you at the
end of the day and it sucks but it
does and as harsh as it sounds that's the reality why do we fold when life gets
tough by crying or panicking and relying on fear someone with authority knows
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their rights and the only way to understand the rights of the
land here on earth is to read the rule book.
And I've gotten like engulfed by force into rules.
I consider myself well-versed in employment law now.
It's also starting to bleed over to tenants' rights of DC.
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Although I'm not a lawyer, I have spent countless hours researching my rights.
And there's this old saying that when
you take someone's voice away you essentially take their power
away and that's what satan has done to
some of us to some of you all listening to this he has taken your voice away
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or he has replaced your voice with his voice and because you don't know the
difference you ultimately have given your power up to understand your power
much like police police officers,
or lawyers, or doctors,
or nurses, whatever you do in life, you have the power to do certain things, right?
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And to understand your power in the spiritual realm, there are a couple things you have to do.
So I want you to write this down and also save this episode and also send this to a friend.
One is to read your Bible. Your Bible is the rule book.
And let me tell you something about this Bible real quick because I could get into it so deep.
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Oh my goodness. The word of God is like, what's the verse? The word of God is
like a double-edged sword.
I don't know what verse is the verse in the Bible, but you can combat the enemy's
voice and silence the enemy's voice with the promises in the word of God.
But if you don't know those promises in the word of God, you're not going to exercise it.
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A lot of people don't know that, so they don't exercise size that right. You get what I'm saying?
If you don't understand your rights, if you don't read the rule book of your
Bible, you will not understand that actually all men do not cheat.
Actually, I literally, I keep going back to this story because the audacity
of some of these men out here, which is not, it's the spirit within them.
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Literally, I was at a pool party.
Hi, my name is Imani. Hi, my name is so-and-so. I don't know how we got into the topic of marriage,
but this man literally came out of his mouth, I kid you not y'all,
and literally told my friend that she will not get married if she does not subject
herself and allow her husband to have threesomes.
He literally said that and he was like very serious
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about it too like he that was his belief like he was gonna
die about that he was like oh yeah you never gonna get married that's literally
what he said he said you never gonna get married because you don't want to have
a threesome ain't no man gonna marry you and I said that is not the word of
God not the devil is a lie I don't know what demon is speaking out of you right
now but let me tell you something that's that's not what love is,
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I know what marriage is because my god tells me what marriage is I don't know
what the hell you got that from but wherever you got that from you I will damn
that word right to hell where it came from basically.
That's where it came from That's really where it came from and in that moment,
I literally said god forbid the devil is a lie What he is saying is a lie because
I saw something in her because he was so like he said it a couple of times I
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saw something in her that started to like say, you know
you look at somebody's face and she started to second guess herself like am I wrong like.
Some of y'all have been listening to the words of some of these people and some
of these demons that speak from within them for so long that you all are forgetting
that there is a God who promises things to you some of you all have listened to the voice of COVID.
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And the voice of CNN, and the voice of Fox more than you have listened to the voice of God.
Some of you all have listened to the voice on some of these men on podcasts,
or some of these sprinkle, sprinkle women telling you you have to do X,
Y, and Z more than you have listened to the words of God.
Because God didn't say, some of you all have been saying, yeah,
and that's why I know new friends, know new people in my life.
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That's why you can't have guy friends.
That's why you have. God ain't never said that.
Be for real. So to understand your power, you have to read your Bible.
You have to second, get into community. I speak about this all the time because
sometimes when you slip by yourself, it says in the Bible, it is not good for
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man to be alone. What verse is that?
I know the verse is off my head. It's not good for man to be alone.
Hold on real quick. let me find the verse for y'all. It's Genesis 2.18 when
speaking, when God was talking about Adam being alone and he made Eve from his rib.
The Lord God said, it is not good for man to be alone.
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I will make a helper suitable for him.
So when you hear men or somebody or women or whoever tell you and speak these
little word curses over you saying that,
oh, you're not going to get married because you don't you don't do threesomes because
you not invite this is this is what I heard I heard
the sound of Satan come out
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that man's mouth and said you're not going
to get married and you need to invite me into your bed you need to invite me
into your covenant right but instead of word of different that's literally what
I said so instead of hearing some of the things that some of these people are
saying you need to back it up with the word of God instead of hearing.
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Another example I have, I was seeing a therapist, right?
This is before I had moved to DC. I was seeing a therapist and you know how therapists do.
She wasn't a faith-based therapist, but she was just like, you know,
getting a survey of the land, i.e. my mind and my experience and everything.
And which I don't fault her for.
But she had diagnosed me with, I had shared this on the part, distorted thinking.
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And I had did a whole episode about like, Like distorted thinking had like catastrophizing
events and stuff like that.
And it really matched up to the things that I was doing.
But distorted thinking, I remember her saying like, oh, like you think things
are always black and white when they're, you know, things are not always black and white.
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It cannot always be good or bad.
And something came over me and it kind of reminded me. I know it was the Holy
Spirit at the time, and I just discredited it because I was listening to a therapist
more than I was listening to the word of God. You see how easy that happens?
And so the word of God says there's only two kingdoms. There's the kingdom of
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lightness and the kingdom of darkness. Ain't no in between.
So because I was raised on the word of God, because I grew up in the church,
I have this thinking of it's either good or it's either bad. There is no in between.
And so when she was saying, oh, that is not a mental disorder,
but a psychological thought process that I need to break down and I shouldn't be thinking about,
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the Holy Spirit was knocking on my heart like, girl, first of all,
no, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, that's not it,
so get into your community because things that might slip through you,
there's a reason why assembly workers,
there were multiple workers standing in a line.
And there's a reason why things have to go through quality control whenever
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a product is built because something might slip through.
And if your eyes don't get on it, then maybe your friend's eyes might.
And your friend will say, hey, girly, I don't think that's it.
That's not the word of God. That doesn't align with the promises that he has
for you. It just does not make sense.
You were born this with asthma. You're always gonna have asthma.
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But God said by his stripes, I am healed. So that don't make sense. It don't make sense.
And so the third thing is to study Bible stories like, oh, my goodness,
I am still in the Old Testament and I kind of been jumping around like in my
studies for up and coming episodes that I have for you all.
But something about that Old Testament do hit now.
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I totally disagree with anyone who says like, oh, if you don't know where to
start when reading the Bible, I think you should start with,
first of all, every book of the Bible is great. So even if you're just reading
the Bible, that's great.
But I disagree with people who say, oh, if you don't know where to start reading
the Bible, I think you should read your Bible in like Matthew.
Like you should start off with the New Testament. Like wherever you see red,
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whatever Jesus is talking, start with that.
No, I strongly believe you should start in the beginning.
Genesis one, verse one, In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
I think you need to start at the beginning.
Just like when you start a movie, just like when you start a TV show,
just like when you start a book, you don't open it up halfway through the end
and be like, oh, let me read this because I want to get to the climax.
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No, you got to see the build up. And that Old Testament hit,
it's going to hit every time.
That Old Testament is just like, oh my goodness, this is crazy.
So study Bible stories, like actual stories.
Stories and ask the Holy
Spirit I know when I first read my Bible I
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was just reading it I was like I don't even know what this
is getting into like I see the text but do I truly comprehend what the story
is giving me because a lot of this stuff can be applied to my life but I'm looking
like what does what are them having to do a goat on the mountain and cut the
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goat and make the tabernacle,
like what that got to do with me?
Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you and give you revelation while you read your Bible.
And you will soon come to have revelation while you read your Bible. I promise you not.
And next thing is to journal, journal down your resolutions,
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your resolutions, your reservations, journal them down.
Like after reading a story, I remember if I did the episode on Esther and on
beauty maintenance, that was a revelation that I received from God.
I have read and listened to and watched the movie Esther like so many times in my life.
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And every time I read the story or hear someone else talk about it,
I'm getting a a new revelation from it and
me realizing through the Holy
Spirit that beauty treatments and
beauty maintenance as a woman is important and
not to discredit or discount that when there I've heard like I've been dating
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and I would run into men that's like oh like I don't I remember a guy should
call myself call himself trying to humble me right I don't like women that wear
makeup and do all this stuff and spend all this money I mean it's such a waste
of time it's such a it's such a Don't waste that money.
Oh my gosh. Why you just can't even be, are they really that beautiful?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Real funny how in Esther, in order for her to be queen, she had to go through
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six months of beauty treatments.
Actually, every woman that was lining up to try out to be queen and gain the
king's favor had to go through six to eight months of beauty treatments.
And every time she went to see her husband, the king, she had to go through a beauty treatment.
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Isn't that funny? money. So whenever you hear men or women or your parents say,
oh my gosh, you should not be, oh my God, I don't know why you waste money on this.
Oh, you shouldn't even, oh my goodness, why are you being so vain?
That's what some people don't, you being so vain.
Ask the Holy Spirit for revelation. Journal down your revelation because you can't forget it.
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And then the last thing is is to use your words.
The Bible says that there's life and death in the power of the tongue.
Speak life, but not only speak life, in order to use your words,
in order to give authority, in order to give orders, make decisions,
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and enforce obedience, like from our definition, you have to use your words.
Especially when it comes to these spirits, you have to enforce force obedience
and to give orders to these spirits.
If you just bow down to it, well, I mean, I guess I do have depression.
Then you're going to have depression. That spirit got a hold of you, baby.
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It's the, okay, I know this does not align with the word of God.
God says with him, there is joy.
In him, there is freedom. In him, there is peace. I have peace.
So the fact that I feel feel depressed, the fact that I'm hearing a voice telling
me that I am not good enough and I will never, that needs to leave in the name of Jesus.
You have to go. You don't have authority here.
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Leave in the name of Jesus. And so to understand who God is by reading your
word and doing all these things I told you, when you know that God handles everything
when you're his child, it's just like when you were a kid.
Like when I was a kid, I didn't have to worry about certain stuff at all
my parents had to I didn't have to worry about certain stuff
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they worried about it you gain or you
lean into that and you call out and you
uproot any spirit that is not of him how do
you know what is not of God when you don't know him it's
really folks and Tiffany Montgomery said this
that are like walking dead like I always thought like the
enemy's you know plan is to still kill and destroy I have a podcast episode
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about that but it's like the plan has always been the plan but when I used to
think about this I would be like yeah and he he wants to kill people the enemy's
plan is to kill you literally I'm like but why some of these people ain't dead.
And she has said it, they are dead. They're just the walking dead. They have a dead spirit.
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They have riches or they might have fame, but they are literally dead.
They have no discernment. They don't sleep good at night. They have no good relationships.
Failed marriage after failed marriage after failed marriage.
Failed date after failed, well, okay, failed dates are, but failed dates happen.
But failed marriage after failed marriage, failed business after failed business.
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You might see the most richest people and they
it's just not even together they just the walking
dead it's death to their spirit and it
was from the deliverance book it was a line in there I had highlighted
I said oh my goodness because a child had asked like well how
come you know if God gives us riches how come there are some people who are
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impoverished and impoverished oh my in poverty yeah how come there are people
in poverty and how come some evil people are rich.
And God replied to her too well one it is
our duty to like give to the poor for one and two
poverty is a spirit too again
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if you don't know the word of God you can't speak on it you succumb
to it and then three they've met might have
made covenants altars and come
in disagreement with certain curses where it yielded poverty
and they had not broken that covenant or curse
or maybe their mom did and they are
suffering for the sins basically or the covenant of what their parents have
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done and when you read the old testament you will see this all throughout the
book of judges oh my goodness every paragraph it was like and he did good in
the sight of the lord but he did not turn down tear down the altars and because
of that his children's children's children the third
generation suffered, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So there's many reasons why there is poverty still, even though someone may
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be Christian, they might not have used and exercised their authority and broken certain covenants.
However, God also has said and responded,
he had gave someone riches because he knew and understood that that person would
go to hell and that the best thing that That they would experience would just be the richest on earth.
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Even though they had no real friends. They had no marriage. They had nothing
else. They just had riches and fame. And I was like, wow, that's deep.
God was like, oh, I just want them to have a little good time now.
Because unless they repent, it's given some people, this is just,
it's like, what is it called?
It's like the people who peak in high school.
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They peaked in high school, babe. I have a whole episode, like,
they peaked in high school, babe.
This is a long game. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
People sprinting because they don't think nothing is after this.
Whole gag, once they pass, they're like, whoa, wait, this continues?
Yeah, it do, babe. And you didn't get into the kingdom of heaven.
Don't let that be you.
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So yeah, certain spirits, sickness, disease, panic, fear, anxiety,
doubt, manipulation, control, pride, lust, jealousy, envy, anything that is not of God.
There's so many, oh my goodness, there's so many spirits. I already said lust.
There's so many spirits that are not of God. And I highly,
like I really want, if y'all sign up for my community, because
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we are sisters we stand together hey okay yeah the fruit the fruit of having
the holy spirit is god is within you and your holy spirit is your adversary
your intercessor your helper your bestie gang gang and you can read more about it in my posts ghosts,
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but the worldly way of thinking will make you not have control over these aspects
of your life and you will bow down to them.
I struggled with anxiety and panic attack for years.
It's no surprise. I've literally talked about it so many times.
And if this is your first episode, hey girl, hey.
But I studied with anxiety and panic attack for years. My first panic attack
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literally came after, if y'all hear some construction, I'm sorry.
Living in downtown DC is crazy.
So I want to say it came after, what year was that? Junior year of high school.
I started experiencing a lot of just panic. Oh my goodness.
Panic, anxiety, where I literally felt like I couldn't have control over my body, over my thoughts.
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And it was just depression. It was just like, it was terrible.
I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, even though I ain't got no enemies,
but I wouldn't wish it on anybody. body.
And then I thought that I had beat it.
I thought that I was delivered from it.
And I don't think I was delivered for, honestly, I think it just lied dormant.
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And sometimes Satan, and it says this in Mark chapter five,
I believe from memory, Mark, yeah, Mark chapter five, it talks about,
that's the story where Jesus had casted out demons in a person and he had like a legion.
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And a legion is like the person had 2000 demons in them. Do you know how crazy that is?
2000 demons in them.
And I really felt like all these demons were not at work, right?
Some demons Demons are not at work all the time.
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Some of them literally lay dormant. They're always there, but they lay dormant.
And that's when the head demon in charge, which is called the strong man.
If you watch a YouTube video that will be linked down below called expect a
visit from the strong man.
Oh my goodness. Watch that YouTube video like three times.
That video, it's like a podcast video episode, but it might be like two hours
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long, but y'all I'm telling you watch that video.
And so the strong man is like the head demon in
charge over those 2 000 demons that
was in the person and so the head demon in charge will basically that
okay you depression you go up next okay pull that bum back pull that back she's
she's praying depression away pull back pull back okay you anxiety come up next
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come up next i mean because y'all cousins anyway okay you poverty now that she
just got this raise boom hit her hit her with the poverty okay pull it back
pull it back back, pull it back.
Okay. So that's literally how I imagined it.
The head demon in charge is really telling all these other ungodly, unclean spirits.
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When to go on the court, when to come up off the court and have,
you know, a little breaky break and a sip of drink and when to come back and
when to sub certain spirits out.
And so with that, I was like, okay, I'm not having any panic attacks or anxiety.
Like physically it's not happening.
So I'm good, but I wasn't truly delivered from it. It laid dormant.
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And so some things in your life can lay dormant and then come back.
And it wasn't until I realized I literally tried almost everything that the therapist had told me.
I mean, from medicine, from manifesting, from positive affirmation,
you will never, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy three times in the mirror,
out, out, depress yourself.
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It's just not going to work. I'm just, I'm sorry to say it's not going to work.
From grounding techniques, from the journaling is good. Journaling is great,
But it was not the cure to my depression.
It was a good outlet to get my thoughts down.
But it wasn't a cure. I literally tried everything.
The only thing that worked was truly the word of God, learning my authority,
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denouncing it and getting delivered.
But from being delivered, I had to pull down the strongholds of certain covenants
and certain curses that have been over my life, whether it was by my calls or not.
So yeah, watch that YouTube video. And the last thing I want to talk about is
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just using your words and kind of how to pray.
Because I think some people get very discouraged when they're like, I don't know how to pray.
Or my prayers don't sound super elaborate.
Or maybe I should call somebody who knows more.
Like God cares about your heart. Like I have in times just sat and cried because
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I didn't even have the words to come out of my mouth.
And I literally just said, God, please hear my heart. I am heartbroken.
And the Bible says that the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. Like I am broken.
Hear my heart. Help me.
I ain't even got much to say today. Not today.
But Tiffany Montgomery says something about praying and missing.
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And I've also heard this other pastors
have said that but she I kind of
follow her she didn't
say this verbatim but as she prays I've listened to her prayers I've said her
prayers and I'm like wait there's a there's a order of this right and so I'm
like I need to stop with this stop with the now I lay me down to sleep like
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that that's still a good prayer but it's like girl you need to pray about something.
And so the Bible talks about thanksgiving. The Lord always wants thanks because
there's always something to be thankful for. He gives us so many blessings throughout the day.
Like I would always talk about even the smallest things. I promise you the smallest things.
So to begin prayer, this is the order. And again, this will be on the blog and
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this will be to your email box. You sign, you can save this.
The order of importance is one, One, thanksgiving.
Two, repentance, repenting for things that you have done. Three, renouncing.
Renounce, disagree, divorce, whatever you have done.
And then four, replacing it with God's word and God's covenant.
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So I'll give y'all an example.
At the end of this podcast episode, actually, we will say a prayer.
But that's the framework that I learned from Tiffany and it makes biblical sense.
The more you read your bible the easier praying will
become that is true as well and then too
sometimes you're just brokenhearted and you don't have the words to say and
you can just say like thank you and the
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last point i want to make with using your words in prayer it doesn't you don't
even have to go through all this however if you go through repenting you you
have you need to be renouncing what you agreed on and what you brought into
your life and replacing it with the blood of jesus but sometimes you can just
pray and just say thank you you can just praise the lord and say thank you.
I spent time in prayer just thanking the Lord for things and just giving him
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his glory because that's what he deserves.
And the last part, I don't want this to get too, too long, but it's to learn your inheritance.
There are promises in the God. I think someone said there's like over 280 promises
that God has given us in the Bible.
And it's almost like when there's a reading of the will, somebody passes away, right?
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Family gathers around and they figure out what they get from that person dying.
And sometimes it is a complete mess. Like, oh, so little Jimmy said that I was going to get the house.
And it's like, why you got the house? Like what in the world?
And then they find out that little Jimmy contested the will when somebody pissed
him off. It's really crazy.
But in the Bible, that's again, that's what I think about. Learn your inheritance.
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Like Tiffany said, we are failing an open book test.
Your inheritance is in the Bible. And the fact that you don't even know your
inheritance, this is not a reading of the will.
You don't get read the will when you die and all of a sudden you find out,
oh my gosh, am I going to hell or not? No, the Bible tells you if you're going to hell or not.
It do. It ain't no surprise.
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So read your inheritance. Learn about the things that you inherit by becoming
a child of God, a woman of God.
There are promises that God has
for me. And if they don't align up with my reality, something is wrong.
And it's up to me to say, hey, God, what is wrong here? What did I do?
So I can repent and I can replace it because you made a promise to me.
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Your child these folks is messing with me and I'm your child you said whoever
messed with me as I'm in covenant with you is messing with you and so it's it's
looking like they messing with you God what you like are we gonna do something
about it and God actually might be like actually,
you need to denounce aka we gonna get into that in a second I'm just dropping all types of bombs,
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actually you need to come out of agreement with that cult that you didn't realize
was a cult and I'm like okay yes I'm denouncing yes yes I denounce repent replace and divorce from that,
we'll have more information about that in the coming weeks or two not even.
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And so, yeah, so we're going to end with a prayer, y'all. And there's a little
more information on the blog post for this episode.
Sign up for it. And we're just going to, Father God, thank you so much for giving
me the voice, for giving me the revelation of reading some of these verses and reading these stories.
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And thank you, Holy Spirit, for recalling these verses and stories from my memory
so so that I can communicate this to my audience. I want to thank you for waking me up this morning.
I want to thank you for, I thank you for your knowledge, Lord,
because it says without knowledge, your people perish.
And God, now that I have this knowledge, I'm going to use it and make sure that
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I apply, well, that we apply it.
God, we want to repent for bowing down to and listening to therapists more than
we listen to you and your word.
We want to repent for bowing down to the spirit of fear because that is not what you gave us.
That is not what our inheritance is as your children.
We want to repent for bowing down to anxiety.
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We want to repent for unforgiveness, which is allowing some of these strongholds
and some of these demonic spirits to take precedence.
We also want to repent for any idolatry that we have succumbed and bowed down
to and kneeled in the idols.
God, we want to repent for allowing social media to be an idol.
We want to repent for allowing fornication to be an idol. We want to repent
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for allowing porn or masturbation or anything else that is not of you to become an idol.
We want to repent for allowing our jobs to become an idol or money to become an idol.
We also want to repent for allowing friends to become idols or boyfriends to become idols.
Lord, we want to repent for anything that we have put in the place of you and
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spending time with you and feeding ourselves with your daily bread that you've gifted us, God.
We want to come out of agreement and renounce all spirits of fear.
We want to renounce the spirit of anxiety. We want to renounce the spirit of panic.
We want to renounce the spirit of fornication. We want to renounce the spirit of lust.
We want to renounce the spirit of Leviathan, which is pride.
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We want to renounce the spirit of anger, of unforgiveness.
We want to renounce the spirit of idol worship and creating false gods and coming
into evil agreements with evil demonic covenants, Lord.
And we would replace those. We want to replace every spirit that we have just
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renounced and came out of agreement with, divorced and separated with the blood of Jesus Christ.
We're going to put on the full armor of God, our helmet of salvation to protect
our mind, our blessed prey of righteousness to protect our chest and our heart,
our belt of truth to protect our loins.
We're going to fit ourselves with the shoes in the gospel of peace.
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Peace we're going to hold up our sword of the spirit which is
the word of god in which we stand on and also hold
up our shield of faith to fire every fiery dart that
is sent to us by the evil one lord and with all of these things we thank you
we ask for your blood to nullify and neutralize every evil covenant we just
broke just as it never happened god when satan comes to try to collect his payment
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let your blood be the payment that was already shed for it is written it is finished in your name,
Jesus. We also thank you for this.
This armor that you've allowed us to put on and fight in the spiritual realm.
We thank you for your mercy.
We thank you for your grace. We thank you for your love.
And we continue to strive to be more God-like like you.
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In the name of Jesus, I pray over everyone under the sound of my voice that
we are replacing all things that are not of you, that are things that are of
you. Make us more Christ-like, God.
Make us more steadfast, more faithful, more hopeful, more gentle.
Allow every tree that is not bearing fruit
to die off every stem to die off and uproot
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anything in our lives that needs to be uprooted lord god
i also ask that you shine a light on anything else that anyone under the sound
of my voice needs to continue to pray for and sever the ties of satan in the
name of jesus i pray amen and amen y'all i love y'all so so much i hope y'all enjoyed this episode.
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Share this with a friend. And after this, just ask God to uproot anything.
He will uproot. I promise you, he will uproot anything that needs to be uprooted
that you might need to pray over that you or someone in your bloodline has done and taken part in.
And whether it's your fault or not, if you read the Old Testament,
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you will see people's daughters, daughters, daughters, daughters,
daughters suffered because of some evil covenants that somebody made long ago.
So ask for the spirit of revelation and you will receive anything you ask for in his name.
You will receive not like a BMW 360 or something. Like it needs to align with his rule.
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We're going to get to that in another episode, but I'll see y'all later.
The power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience is authority.
Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, it girls. I hope you all are doing amazing.
Welcome to Faithfully Feminine Podcast, where I, your host, Imani Bailey,
shares all things faith, all things feminine, and practical ways to transform
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yourself through navigating womanhood.
While sharing lessons God has taught me along the way, sit back,
relax, and let's get into some things.
Oh girl oh boy oh boy oh boy we are
definitely getting into some things today as you
can tell by the title we're talking about your authority and the authority that
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you have and if you're listening to this this is not by accident go ahead and
share this with a friend sign up for my community and girl get up somebody needs
to hear this get up all them little tears all this
feeling sorry for yourself, all this pity party,
all this, oh my gosh, I'm in cheat.
Oh my gosh, I'm tired of another horrible date. Oh my gosh, I'm tired of dating.
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Oh my gosh, I can't find no friends. Oh my gosh.
Whatever complaint you have been complaining and been murmuring to yourself,
your friends, your mom, everything in between your close friends on Instagram,
your TikTok, your Twitter.
I'm still calling it Twitter. I don't care what nobody says.
Your instagram your youtube your whatever get up get up and listen to this because
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i have a word for you and we're gonna start this off really smooth though on
this leg i know i just came out,
guns out of the holster this morning guns are out of the holster this morning
because i'm i'm not coming to play with y'all hell is upset hell is upset and
they gonna they've they've been put on on notice.
Hell has been put on notice when concerning me and my bloodline and any of my
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followers. Satan is on notice.
And so right here, right now, this is your reminder that you have authority within Christ.
And authority, I started off the podcast with it, but we're going to say it
again, is the power or right given to someone to give orders,
make decisions, and enforce force
obedience emphasis with the enforce of obedience because I feel like and you
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know like growing up your parents or your guardian or whoever watched over you
had authority to do certain things as a child you don't have much power over
your life oh my goodness every time I get on the podcast Morocco tries to play
with his toys and I'm like no,
Again, Satan is put on notice and he's trying to distract me from giving y'all this message.
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But I really want to hone in this episode on enforcing obedience and really to give right orders.
Now we make decisions every day and especially as you grow up in your adulthood.
I mean, we make decisions as children too.
But once you become an adult, the decisions you make, you feel them a lot more.
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It's not fun. It's a little ghetto. It's a little ghetto.
I miss being a child. But at the same time, now that I know more about authority,
I'm like, ooh, was it really that fun being a child? I mean, it was.
But if the people who were watching you, watching over you, did not exercise
the proper authority to protect you from certain things, you were just a sitting Duh. And was.
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And was. Because a kid cannot comprehend everything there is to know about authority,
especially when society is
telling them that they don't have the right to go drive if they want to.
They don't have the right to fill out paperwork on their behalf.
They don't have the right to give orders, to make certain decisions,
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and to especially emphasize, enforce obedience.
Now, Luke 10, 19 says that God gives us power from the King James Version.
And then in the New King James Version, it uses the word authority.
So turn, well, depending on how you're listening to this, I'm going to read out Luke 19.
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And we're reading from the new King James Version. I'm going to get to the King James Version though.
It's something about the super saved Christians that read the King James Version.
And I'm starting to realize why I really am.
But for this sake, we're going to read out of the new King James.
Let me get to it. Luke 10, 19.
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Okay well we're going to start at 17 the 72
returned with joy and said lord
even the demons submit to
us in your name he replied this is jesus speaking i saw satan fall like lightning
from heaven i have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and
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to overcome all the power of the enemy.
Nothing will harm you. Verse 20, however, do not rejoice that the Spirit submit
to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
It's actually a very beautiful verse.
But King James Version says, Jesus says, I give you the power.
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Now, when they translated it, they have put the word authority.
So I had to look up the concordance. One of the Greek translations of power
is the power of authority, which is also influence and of proper privilege.
So influence, proper privilege, the right.
Why does this matter? Why does knowing your authority matter.
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Because when you know your authority over certain things that go on in your
life, and you know those things are not of God, you can speak to those things.
Whether it is sickness, whether it is mental health, whether it is feelings
of procrastination, whether it is laziness,
whether it is anger, any spirit that is not and or counterproductive to what
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God's word is saying is not of God.
And that way it may have either a stronghold over you trying to knock at the
foot of your life to get you to fold and submit to it or come into agreement with it.
And that's when people are saying things like, I know this was me a couple of
months ago, like, oh, I just have ADD or I just have panic attacks or I have anxiety.
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And it's like you start claiming these things over your life and submitting
to it without knowing that you have the power, influence,
and proper privilege to give orders and to enforce that spirit's obedience.
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Ooh, let's get into it. Why does it matter? The fact that,
of dealing with things falls on you at the
end of the day and it sucks but it
does and as harsh as it sounds that's the reality why do we fold when life gets
tough by crying or panicking and relying on fear someone with authority knows
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their rights and the only way to understand the rights of the
land here on earth is to read the rule book.
And I've gotten like engulfed by force into rules.
I consider myself well-versed in employment law now.
It's also starting to bleed over to tenants' rights of DC.
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Although I'm not a lawyer, I have spent countless hours researching my rights.
And there's this old saying that when
you take someone's voice away you essentially take their power
away and that's what satan has done to
some of us to some of you all listening to this he has taken your voice away
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or he has replaced your voice with his voice and because you don't know the
difference you ultimately have given your power up to understand your power
much like police police officers,
or lawyers, or doctors,
or nurses, whatever you do in life, you have the power to do certain things, right?
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And to understand your power in the spiritual realm, there are a couple things you have to do.
So I want you to write this down and also save this episode and also send this to a friend.
One is to read your Bible. Your Bible is the rule book.
And let me tell you something about this Bible real quick because I could get into it so deep.
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Oh my goodness. The word of God is like, what's the verse? The word of God is
like a double-edged sword.
I don't know what verse is the verse in the Bible, but you can combat the enemy's
voice and silence the enemy's voice with the promises in the word of God.
But if you don't know those promises in the word of God, you're not going to exercise it.
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If you don't know that you can get unlimited free samples from Sephora,
you're not going to exercise getting unlimited free samples to Sephora.
If you don't know that you, if you are a VIP Rouge member of Sephora,
and instead of giving 500 points to get $10 off on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time, if you log into the rewards bazaar, you can use 2,500 points for $100 off.
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A lot of people don't know that, so they don't exercise size that right. You get what I'm saying?
If you don't understand your rights, if you don't read the rule book of your
Bible, you will not understand that actually all men do not cheat.
Actually, I literally, I keep going back to this story because the audacity
of some of these men out here, which is not, it's the spirit within them.
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Literally, I was at a pool party.
Hi, my name is Imani. Hi, my name is so-and-so. I don't know how we got into the topic of marriage,
but this man literally came out of his mouth, I kid you not y'all,
and literally told my friend that she will not get married if she does not subject
herself and allow her husband to have threesomes.
He literally said that and he was like very serious
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about it too like he that was his belief like he was gonna
die about that he was like oh yeah you never gonna get married that's literally
what he said he said you never gonna get married because you don't want to have
a threesome ain't no man gonna marry you and I said that is not the word of
God not the devil is a lie I don't know what demon is speaking out of you right
now but let me tell you something that's that's not what love is,
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I know what marriage is because my god tells me what marriage is I don't know
what the hell you got that from but wherever you got that from you I will damn
that word right to hell where it came from basically.
That's where it came from That's really where it came from and in that moment,
I literally said god forbid the devil is a lie What he is saying is a lie because
I saw something in her because he was so like he said it a couple of times I
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saw something in her that started to like say, you know
you look at somebody's face and she started to second guess herself like am I wrong like.
Some of y'all have been listening to the words of some of these people and some
of these demons that speak from within them for so long that you all are forgetting
that there is a God who promises things to you some of you all have listened to the voice of COVID.
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And the voice of CNN, and the voice of Fox more than you have listened to the voice of God.
Some of you all have listened to the voice on some of these men on podcasts,
or some of these sprinkle, sprinkle women telling you you have to do X,
Y, and Z more than you have listened to the words of God.
Because God didn't say, some of you all have been saying, yeah,
and that's why I know new friends, know new people in my life.
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That's why you can't have guy friends.
That's why you have. God ain't never said that.
Be for real. So to understand your power, you have to read your Bible.
You have to second, get into community. I speak about this all the time because
sometimes when you slip by yourself, it says in the Bible, it is not good for
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man to be alone. What verse is that?
I know the verse is off my head. It's not good for man to be alone.
Hold on real quick. let me find the verse for y'all. It's Genesis 2.18 when
speaking, when God was talking about Adam being alone and he made Eve from his rib.
The Lord God said, it is not good for man to be alone.
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I will make a helper suitable for him.
So when you hear men or somebody or women or whoever tell you and speak these
little word curses over you saying that,
oh, you're not going to get married because you don't you don't do threesomes because
you not invite this is this is what I heard I heard
the sound of Satan come out
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that man's mouth and said you're not going
to get married and you need to invite me into your bed you need to invite me
into your covenant right but instead of word of different that's literally what
I said so instead of hearing some of the things that some of these people are
saying you need to back it up with the word of God instead of hearing.
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Another example I have, I was seeing a therapist, right?
This is before I had moved to DC. I was seeing a therapist and you know how therapists do.
She wasn't a faith-based therapist, but she was just like, you know,
getting a survey of the land, i.e. my mind and my experience and everything.
And which I don't fault her for.
But she had diagnosed me with, I had shared this on the part, distorted thinking.
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And I had did a whole episode about like, Like distorted thinking had like catastrophizing
events and stuff like that.
And it really matched up to the things that I was doing.
But distorted thinking, I remember her saying like, oh, like you think things
are always black and white when they're, you know, things are not always black and white.
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It cannot always be good or bad.
And something came over me and it kind of reminded me. I know it was the Holy
Spirit at the time, and I just discredited it because I was listening to a therapist
more than I was listening to the word of God. You see how easy that happens?
And so the word of God says there's only two kingdoms. There's the kingdom of
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lightness and the kingdom of darkness. Ain't no in between.
So because I was raised on the word of God, because I grew up in the church,
I have this thinking of it's either good or it's either bad. There is no in between.
And so when she was saying, oh, that is not a mental disorder,
but a psychological thought process that I need to break down and I shouldn't be thinking about,
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the Holy Spirit was knocking on my heart like, girl, first of all,
no, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, that's not it,
so get into your community because things that might slip through you,
there's a reason why assembly workers,
there were multiple workers standing in a line.
And there's a reason why things have to go through quality control whenever
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a product is built because something might slip through.
And if your eyes don't get on it, then maybe your friend's eyes might.
And your friend will say, hey, girly, I don't think that's it.
That's not the word of God. That doesn't align with the promises that he has
for you. It just does not make sense.
You were born this with asthma. You're always gonna have asthma.
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But God said by his stripes, I am healed. So that don't make sense. It don't make sense.
And so the third thing is to study Bible stories like, oh, my goodness,
I am still in the Old Testament and I kind of been jumping around like in my
studies for up and coming episodes that I have for you all.
But something about that Old Testament do hit now.
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I totally disagree with anyone who says like, oh, if you don't know where to
start when reading the Bible, I think you should start with,
first of all, every book of the Bible is great. So even if you're just reading
the Bible, that's great.
But I disagree with people who say, oh, if you don't know where to start reading
the Bible, I think you should read your Bible in like Matthew.
Like you should start off with the New Testament. Like wherever you see red,
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whatever Jesus is talking, start with that.
No, I strongly believe you should start in the beginning.
Genesis one, verse one, In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
I think you need to start at the beginning.
Just like when you start a movie, just like when you start a TV show,
just like when you start a book, you don't open it up halfway through the end
and be like, oh, let me read this because I want to get to the climax.
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No, you got to see the build up. And that Old Testament hit,
it's going to hit every time.
That Old Testament is just like, oh my goodness, this is crazy.
So study Bible stories, like actual stories.
Stories and ask the Holy
Spirit I know when I first read my Bible I
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was just reading it I was like I don't even know what this
is getting into like I see the text but do I truly comprehend what the story
is giving me because a lot of this stuff can be applied to my life but I'm looking
like what does what are them having to do a goat on the mountain and cut the
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goat and make the tabernacle,
like what that got to do with me?
Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you and give you revelation while you read your Bible.
And you will soon come to have revelation while you read your Bible. I promise you not.
And next thing is to journal, journal down your resolutions,
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your resolutions, your reservations, journal them down.
Like after reading a story, I remember if I did the episode on Esther and on
beauty maintenance, that was a revelation that I received from God.
I have read and listened to and watched the movie Esther like so many times in my life.
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And every time I read the story or hear someone else talk about it,
I'm getting a a new revelation from it and
me realizing through the Holy
Spirit that beauty treatments and
beauty maintenance as a woman is important and
not to discredit or discount that when there I've heard like I've been dating
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and I would run into men that's like oh like I don't I remember a guy should
call myself call himself trying to humble me right I don't like women that wear
makeup and do all this stuff and spend all this money I mean it's such a waste
of time it's such a it's such a Don't waste that money.
Oh my gosh. Why you just can't even be, are they really that beautiful?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Real funny how in Esther, in order for her to be queen, she had to go through
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six months of beauty treatments.
Actually, every woman that was lining up to try out to be queen and gain the
king's favor had to go through six to eight months of beauty treatments.
And every time she went to see her husband, the king, she had to go through a beauty treatment.
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Isn't that funny? money. So whenever you hear men or women or your parents say,
oh my gosh, you should not be, oh my God, I don't know why you waste money on this.
Oh, you shouldn't even, oh my goodness, why are you being so vain?
That's what some people don't, you being so vain.
Ask the Holy Spirit for revelation. Journal down your revelation because you can't forget it.
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And then the last thing is is to use your words.
The Bible says that there's life and death in the power of the tongue.
Speak life, but not only speak life, in order to use your words,
in order to give authority, in order to give orders, make decisions,
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and enforce obedience, like from our definition, you have to use your words.
Especially when it comes to these spirits, you have to enforce force obedience
and to give orders to these spirits.
If you just bow down to it, well, I mean, I guess I do have depression.
Then you're going to have depression. That spirit got a hold of you, baby.
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It's the, okay, I know this does not align with the word of God.
God says with him, there is joy.
In him, there is freedom. In him, there is peace. I have peace.
So the fact that I feel feel depressed, the fact that I'm hearing a voice telling
me that I am not good enough and I will never, that needs to leave in the name of Jesus.
You have to go. You don't have authority here.
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Leave in the name of Jesus. And so to understand who God is by reading your
word and doing all these things I told you, when you know that God handles everything
when you're his child, it's just like when you were a kid.
Like when I was a kid, I didn't have to worry about certain stuff at all
my parents had to I didn't have to worry about certain stuff
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they worried about it you gain or you
lean into that and you call out and you
uproot any spirit that is not of him how do
you know what is not of God when you don't know him it's
really folks and Tiffany Montgomery said this
that are like walking dead like I always thought like the
enemy's you know plan is to still kill and destroy I have a podcast episode
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about that but it's like the plan has always been the plan but when I used to
think about this I would be like yeah and he he wants to kill people the enemy's
plan is to kill you literally I'm like but why some of these people ain't dead.
And she has said it, they are dead. They're just the walking dead. They have a dead spirit.
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They have riches or they might have fame, but they are literally dead.
They have no discernment. They don't sleep good at night. They have no good relationships.
Failed marriage after failed marriage after failed marriage.
Failed date after failed, well, okay, failed dates are, but failed dates happen.
But failed marriage after failed marriage, failed business after failed business.
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You might see the most richest people and they
it's just not even together they just the walking
dead it's death to their spirit and it
was from the deliverance book it was a line in there I had highlighted
I said oh my goodness because a child had asked like well how
come you know if God gives us riches how come there are some people who are
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impoverished and impoverished oh my in poverty yeah how come there are people
in poverty and how come some evil people are rich.
And God replied to her too well one it is
our duty to like give to the poor for one and two
poverty is a spirit too again
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if you don't know the word of God you can't speak on it you succumb
to it and then three they've met might have
made covenants altars and come
in disagreement with certain curses where it yielded poverty
and they had not broken that covenant or curse
or maybe their mom did and they are
suffering for the sins basically or the covenant of what their parents have
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done and when you read the old testament you will see this all throughout the
book of judges oh my goodness every paragraph it was like and he did good in
the sight of the lord but he did not turn down tear down the altars and because
of that his children's children's children the third
generation suffered, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So there's many reasons why there is poverty still, even though someone may
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be Christian, they might not have used and exercised their authority and broken certain covenants.
However, God also has said and responded,
he had gave someone riches because he knew and understood that that person would
go to hell and that the best thing that That they would experience would just be the richest on earth.
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Even though they had no real friends. They had no marriage. They had nothing
else. They just had riches and fame. And I was like, wow, that's deep.
God was like, oh, I just want them to have a little good time now.
Because unless they repent, it's given some people, this is just,
it's like, what is it called?
It's like the people who peak in high school.
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They peaked in high school, babe. I have a whole episode, like,
they peaked in high school, babe.
This is a long game. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
People sprinting because they don't think nothing is after this.
Whole gag, once they pass, they're like, whoa, wait, this continues?
Yeah, it do, babe. And you didn't get into the kingdom of heaven.
Don't let that be you.
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So yeah, certain spirits, sickness, disease, panic, fear, anxiety,
doubt, manipulation, control, pride, lust, jealousy, envy, anything that is not of God.
There's so many, oh my goodness, there's so many spirits. I already said lust.
There's so many spirits that are not of God. And I highly,
like I really want, if y'all sign up for my community, because
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you will get a lot of these like books and everything sent to
your email box straight to your email box like straight like that girl because
we are sisters we stand together hey okay yeah the fruit the fruit of having
the holy spirit is god is within you and your holy spirit is your adversary
your intercessor your helper your bestie gang gang and you can read more about it in my posts ghosts,
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but the worldly way of thinking will make you not have control over these aspects
of your life and you will bow down to them.
I struggled with anxiety and panic attack for years.
It's no surprise. I've literally talked about it so many times.
And if this is your first episode, hey girl, hey.
But I studied with anxiety and panic attack for years. My first panic attack
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literally came after, if y'all hear some construction, I'm sorry.
Living in downtown DC is crazy.
So I want to say it came after, what year was that? Junior year of high school.
I started experiencing a lot of just panic. Oh my goodness.
Panic, anxiety, where I literally felt like I couldn't have control over my body, over my thoughts.
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And it was just depression. It was just like, it was terrible.
I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, even though I ain't got no enemies,
but I wouldn't wish it on anybody. body.
And then I thought that I had beat it.
I thought that I was delivered from it.
And I don't think I was delivered for, honestly, I think it just lied dormant.
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And sometimes Satan, and it says this in Mark chapter five,
I believe from memory, Mark, yeah, Mark chapter five, it talks about,
that's the story where Jesus had casted out demons in a person and he had like a legion.
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And a legion is like the person had 2000 demons in them. Do you know how crazy that is?
2000 demons in them.
And I really felt like all these demons were not at work, right?
Some demons Demons are not at work all the time.
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Some of them literally lay dormant. They're always there, but they lay dormant.
And that's when the head demon in charge, which is called the strong man.
If you watch a YouTube video that will be linked down below called expect a
visit from the strong man.
Oh my goodness. Watch that YouTube video like three times.
That video, it's like a podcast video episode, but it might be like two hours
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long, but y'all I'm telling you watch that video.
And so the strong man is like the head demon in
charge over those 2 000 demons that
was in the person and so the head demon in charge will basically that
okay you depression you go up next okay pull that bum back pull that back she's
she's praying depression away pull back pull back okay you anxiety come up next
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come up next i mean because y'all cousins anyway okay you poverty now that she
just got this raise boom hit her hit her with the poverty okay pull it back
pull it back back, pull it back.
Okay. So that's literally how I imagined it.
The head demon in charge is really telling all these other ungodly, unclean spirits.
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When to go on the court, when to come up off the court and have,
you know, a little breaky break and a sip of drink and when to come back and
when to sub certain spirits out.
And so with that, I was like, okay, I'm not having any panic attacks or anxiety.
Like physically it's not happening.
So I'm good, but I wasn't truly delivered from it. It laid dormant.
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And so some things in your life can lay dormant and then come back.
And it wasn't until I realized I literally tried almost everything that the therapist had told me.
I mean, from medicine, from manifesting, from positive affirmation,
you will never, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy three times in the mirror,
out, out, depress yourself.
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It's just not going to work. I'm just, I'm sorry to say it's not going to work.
From grounding techniques, from the journaling is good. Journaling is great,
But it was not the cure to my depression.
It was a good outlet to get my thoughts down.
But it wasn't a cure. I literally tried everything.
The only thing that worked was truly the word of God, learning my authority,
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denouncing it and getting delivered.
But from being delivered, I had to pull down the strongholds of certain covenants
and certain curses that have been over my life, whether it was by my calls or not.
So yeah, watch that YouTube video. And the last thing I want to talk about is
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just using your words and kind of how to pray.
Because I think some people get very discouraged when they're like, I don't know how to pray.
Or my prayers don't sound super elaborate.
Or maybe I should call somebody who knows more.
Like God cares about your heart. Like I have in times just sat and cried because
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I didn't even have the words to come out of my mouth.
And I literally just said, God, please hear my heart. I am heartbroken.
And the Bible says that the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. Like I am broken.
Hear my heart. Help me.
I ain't even got much to say today. Not today.
But Tiffany Montgomery says something about praying and missing.
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And I've also heard this other pastors
have said that but she I kind of
follow her she didn't
say this verbatim but as she prays I've listened to her prayers I've said her
prayers and I'm like wait there's a there's a order of this right and so I'm
like I need to stop with this stop with the now I lay me down to sleep like
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that that's still a good prayer but it's like girl you need to pray about something.
And so the Bible talks about thanksgiving. The Lord always wants thanks because
there's always something to be thankful for. He gives us so many blessings throughout the day.
Like I would always talk about even the smallest things. I promise you the smallest things.
So to begin prayer, this is the order. And again, this will be on the blog and
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this will be to your email box. You sign, you can save this.
The order of importance is one, One, thanksgiving.
Two, repentance, repenting for things that you have done. Three, renouncing.
Renounce, disagree, divorce, whatever you have done.
And then four, replacing it with God's word and God's covenant.
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So I'll give y'all an example.
At the end of this podcast episode, actually, we will say a prayer.
But that's the framework that I learned from Tiffany and it makes biblical sense.
The more you read your bible the easier praying will
become that is true as well and then too
sometimes you're just brokenhearted and you don't have the words to say and
you can just say like thank you and the
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last point i want to make with using your words in prayer it doesn't you don't
even have to go through all this however if you go through repenting you you
have you need to be renouncing what you agreed on and what you brought into
your life and replacing it with the blood of jesus but sometimes you can just
pray and just say thank you you can just praise the lord and say thank you.
I spent time in prayer just thanking the Lord for things and just giving him
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his glory because that's what he deserves.
And the last part, I don't want this to get too, too long, but it's to learn your inheritance.
There are promises in the God. I think someone said there's like over 280 promises
that God has given us in the Bible.
And it's almost like when there's a reading of the will, somebody passes away, right?
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Family gathers around and they figure out what they get from that person dying.
And sometimes it is a complete mess. Like, oh, so little Jimmy said that I was going to get the house.
And it's like, why you got the house? Like what in the world?
And then they find out that little Jimmy contested the will when somebody pissed
him off. It's really crazy.
But in the Bible, that's again, that's what I think about. Learn your inheritance.
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Like Tiffany said, we are failing an open book test.
Your inheritance is in the Bible. And the fact that you don't even know your
inheritance, this is not a reading of the will.
You don't get read the will when you die and all of a sudden you find out,
oh my gosh, am I going to hell or not? No, the Bible tells you if you're going to hell or not.
It do. It ain't no surprise.
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So read your inheritance. Learn about the things that you inherit by becoming
a child of God, a woman of God.
There are promises that God has
for me. And if they don't align up with my reality, something is wrong.
And it's up to me to say, hey, God, what is wrong here? What did I do?
So I can repent and I can replace it because you made a promise to me.
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Your child these folks is messing with me and I'm your child you said whoever
messed with me as I'm in covenant with you is messing with you and so it's it's
looking like they messing with you God what you like are we gonna do something
about it and God actually might be like actually,
you need to denounce aka we gonna get into that in a second I'm just dropping all types of bombs,
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actually you need to come out of agreement with that cult that you didn't realize
was a cult and I'm like okay yes I'm denouncing yes yes I denounce repent replace and divorce from that,
we'll have more information about that in the coming weeks or two not even.
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And so, yeah, so we're going to end with a prayer, y'all. And there's a little
more information on the blog post for this episode.
Sign up for it. And we're just going to, Father God, thank you so much for giving
me the voice, for giving me the revelation of reading some of these verses and reading these stories.
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And thank you, Holy Spirit, for recalling these verses and stories from my memory
so so that I can communicate this to my audience. I want to thank you for waking me up this morning.
I want to thank you for, I thank you for your knowledge, Lord,
because it says without knowledge, your people perish.
And God, now that I have this knowledge, I'm going to use it and make sure that
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I apply, well, that we apply it.
God, we want to repent for bowing down to and listening to therapists more than
we listen to you and your word.
We want to repent for bowing down to the spirit of fear because that is not what you gave us.
That is not what our inheritance is as your children.
We want to repent for bowing down to anxiety.
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We want to repent for unforgiveness, which is allowing some of these strongholds
and some of these demonic spirits to take precedence.
We also want to repent for any idolatry that we have succumbed and bowed down
to and kneeled in the idols.
God, we want to repent for allowing social media to be an idol.
We want to repent for allowing fornication to be an idol. We want to repent
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for allowing porn or masturbation or anything else that is not of you to become an idol.
We want to repent for allowing our jobs to become an idol or money to become an idol.
We also want to repent for allowing friends to become idols or boyfriends to become idols.
Lord, we want to repent for anything that we have put in the place of you and
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spending time with you and feeding ourselves with your daily bread that you've gifted us, God.
We want to come out of agreement and renounce all spirits of fear.
We want to renounce the spirit of anxiety. We want to renounce the spirit of panic.
We want to renounce the spirit of fornication. We want to renounce the spirit of lust.
We want to renounce the spirit of Leviathan, which is pride.
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We want to renounce the spirit of anger, of unforgiveness.
We want to renounce the spirit of idol worship and creating false gods and coming
into evil agreements with evil demonic covenants, Lord.
And we would replace those. We want to replace every spirit that we have just
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renounced and came out of agreement with, divorced and separated with the blood of Jesus Christ.
We're going to put on the full armor of God, our helmet of salvation to protect
our mind, our blessed prey of righteousness to protect our chest and our heart,
our belt of truth to protect our loins.
We're going to fit ourselves with the shoes in the gospel of peace.
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Peace we're going to hold up our sword of the spirit which is
the word of god in which we stand on and also hold
up our shield of faith to fire every fiery dart that
is sent to us by the evil one lord and with all of these things we thank you
we ask for your blood to nullify and neutralize every evil covenant we just
broke just as it never happened god when satan comes to try to collect his payment
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let your blood be the payment that was already shed for it is written it is finished in your name,
Jesus. We also thank you for this.
This armor that you've allowed us to put on and fight in the spiritual realm.
We thank you for your mercy.
We thank you for your grace. We thank you for your love.
And we continue to strive to be more God-like like you.
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In the name of Jesus, I pray over everyone under the sound of my voice that
we are replacing all things that are not of you, that are things that are of
you. Make us more Christ-like, God.
Make us more steadfast, more faithful, more hopeful, more gentle.
Allow every tree that is not bearing fruit
to die off every stem to die off and uproot
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anything in our lives that needs to be uprooted lord god
i also ask that you shine a light on anything else that anyone under the sound
of my voice needs to continue to pray for and sever the ties of satan in the
name of jesus i pray amen and amen y'all i love y'all so so much i hope y'all enjoyed this episode.
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Share this with a friend. And after this, just ask God to uproot anything.
He will uproot. I promise you, he will uproot anything that needs to be uprooted
that you might need to pray over that you or someone in your bloodline has done and taken part in.
And whether it's your fault or not, if you read the Old Testament,
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you will see people's daughters, daughters, daughters, daughters,
daughters suffered because of some evil covenants that somebody made long ago.
So ask for the spirit of revelation and you will receive anything you ask for in his name.
You will receive not like a BMW 360 or something. Like it needs to align with his rule.
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We're going to get to that in another episode, but I'll see y'all later.
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