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hey family i’m pastor torre

i’m pastor sarah and listen you’re

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before we even get into the message

let’s just have a moment of prayer

heavenly father we thank you we thank

you for this moment oh god

lord get a moment that we can call upon

your name is a moment for divine

encounter

and so lord i just pray that you would

have your way

that there would be no distractions oh

god for what you have the ability to do

in this time that we have together and

so lord do only that which you can do

not what man can do

but bring things to our understanding

lord god speak to us in a manner that is

unique to

each and every individual that is

watching and paying attention to this

lord god we pray for healing we pray for

transformation we pray lord god

for revival in our lives in our spirit

and awakening of god of truth in the

name of jesus

so we thank you lord for what you have

purpose to do in this time

in jesus name nothing can stop

what you have purpose to do i love that

song that we just came into

all the promises of god yes and amen

actually i love there’s a scripture that

really talks about that

about that the promises are yes and god

and our amen through christ

what i love about that so much is that

god has already said yes to it in heaven

god has already established and ordained

what it is that he has purpose for your

life

but that this is that place of agreement

that our amen that so shall it be

that indeed it is so it’s such a

beautiful thing because this actually

we will dig into this a little bit in

today’s message

and so before we get into it let’s start

with the scripture

so i’m going to be reading from genesis

chapter 3

from verse 1 to 13. and it says now the

serpent

was more cunning than any beast of the

field

which the lord god had made first of all

how many cunning serpents were they or

cunning animals

but he was more cunning than any beast

of the field which the lord god had made

and he said to the woman has god indeed

said

you shall not eat of every tree of the

garden

and the woman said to the serpent we may

eat of

the where eat the fruit of the trees of

the garden

but of the fruit of the tree which is in

the midst of the garden god has said you

shall not eat it

nor shall you touch it lest you die well

god didn’t say you

need not say anything about touching it

but let’s go go on

then the serpent said to the woman you

will surely you will not surely die

for god knows that in the day you eat of

it your eyes will be opened and you will

be like god

knowing good and evil so when the woman

saw that the tree was good for food

and it had um it was pleasant to the

eyes and the tree desirable to make one

wise

she took of the fruit and ate it she

also gave her husband

with her and he ate now this is so

interesting because

adam was there right adam was right

there next to eve and

this whole time you know i know we’ve

been blaming e for a long time but let’s

just continue actually before i get back

into this

and it says you know so then the eyes of

both of them were

opened and they knew that they were

naked and they sowed fig leaves together

and made themselves coverings

and they heard the sound of the lord god

walking in the garden of the

in the cool of the day and adam and his

wife hid themselves from the presence of

the lord

among the trees of the garden

then the lord called to adam this is one

of the a very famous scripture

where are you and he said

this is now adam speaking i heard your

voice in the garden

and i was afraid because i was naked

and i hid myself i was afraid because i

was naked and i hid myself

and then he said who told you that you

were naked

it’s so interesting to me in this moment

because adam being afraid wasn’t the

issue

it was adam being the awareness of being

naked

to bring to cause him to be fearful

there’s something so much of this i need

to just go through this scripture before

we get back into it

but it’s so powerful to me because god

didn’t say to him adam

where did this concept of fear come from

he said who told you you were

naked um it’s almost like that the idea

of the awareness of fear had existed

even before even way back in the garden

of eden

it was not the awareness of fear that

was the issue but it was what put what

it produced when you lean into it

that when we begin to lean into our

fears when we begin to engage with our

fears

that all of a sudden it produces a

different type of outcome

that i was afraid we realized that we

were naked we realized that

oh my gosh do we feel worthy of the

presence of god we were leaning into

the fear of what does it mean for god to

see us in this

so god said who told you you were naked

i need you to go to the root of this

thought

and then he said have you eaten from the

tree of which i commanded you that you

should not eat

then the man said the woman whom you

gave to be with me

she gave me of the tree and i ate

and the lord said to the woman what is

this you have done

and the woman said the serpent deceived

me

and i ate now there’s so much to unpack

in this

but before i fully go into this story

let me actually take you on the journey

to a personal story

you know a few weeks ago probably a

couple weeks ago maybe

two months ago the lord had given me a

dream now one of the ways that the lord

speaks to me is through dreams

especially when it’s an instruction that

i may start questioning and so he would

just

lock it in a dream and say stephanie

you’re not fighting this one

and so there was a dream that the lord

had gave me and in that dream there were

these

instructions i knew that i was supposed

to go to atlanta

immediately and i knew that something

about atlanta was connected to going to

teleparry studios and so i was like

okay this is a very interesting

instruction but

there are moments when you know that you

know that god you

are speaking to me and you want me to do

this and i’m like

okay you know so i bought a ticket

i went to atlanta for the weekend and in

my

natural mind i’m like god there has to

be something else that you want me to do

while i’m in atlanta now this was not

the first time that i had gone to

atlanta on an assignment by the lord

and so i’m like there has to be

something else like is there something

you want me to do the first time that i

went

um there was a friend of mine a member

of our community

and she had lost her nephew and i

remember that morning i was

it was a sunday morning i was so

burdened by it and i was like god this

is not okay this was a child of promise

and that as i was burdened and talking

to the lord about it that morning he

said then go to atlanta and meet with

the family

i said you know what lord i don’t know

this family i know her

i don’t know her the family of the of

the nephew but the lord said go

and i’m gonna send you to be to

represent me there were things that the

lord had assigned me to do and i bought

my ticket that day and i went to atlanta

so again the lord is talking to me again

about atlanta that

i have sent you there’s an assignment

there’s something i want you to do in

atlanta and i’m thinking like okay there

has to be something else right

so i go to atlanta um i plan my trip for

three days and so i’m out there

the one thing that i knew that the lord

had assigned me to do was to

go to the tyler perry studios right but

i’m like i’m thinking there’s something

that i’m

actually supposed to do you know it’s

not

nothing you know nothing that serious

and so the day that i’m leaving

i actually finally go to telepara

studios

so when i got there we were i was so

confident i’m like okay we’re gonna get

in

and then we see the signs that due to

covey that it’s closed i said well the

lord’s set

you know he sent me here on the mention

i’m sure we just need to talk to the

security

and we went up to the security say hello

sir and we’re here to

come in he said i’m sorry it is closed i

said wow this man must not hear the

voice of god

and we try to talk to him nothing so i

said okay lord

i’m here you know and we can go in so

what do you want me to do here and the

lord told me to just stand

and look and so i started looking as far

as my eyes could see

i’m like wow this place is beautiful

that look at the empire that this man

had built now if you’re not familiar

with tyler perry’s story there was a

moment in his life where he was

homeless and living in his car but now

today tyler perry has built a successful

empire an incredible filmmaker and this

lot that i’m looking at i mean there are

people there are established studios

and there are lots combined there’s not

even equal to what this man has done

in atlanta and i’m looking

at just what whatever i could see from

just standing outside and it’s

beautiful i’m looking at the different

buildings that i was at least the ones

that were visible to me

and i’m like god what am i looking at

and he said just stare at it

and as i was staring at it all of a

sudden there was this

word that this this question that kept

coming into my heart

and that question said who is greater

than god

and i understood that this question was

connected to the awareness that god

you are a god of possibilities there is

nothing that is impossible for you

that i am literally looking at a miracle

that it’s not just about a studio that

this is a miracle

that i am watching a miracle that has

unfolded

i am watching the testimony of another

man this

this is incredible who is greater than

god who can move like god who can do the

things that only

god can do this was the question that

was in my heart as i was looking at this

and it dawned on me i said god there is

nothing that is impossible for you

that when you speak to us when you give

us a vision and what is interesting

is that around this time the lord began

had been speaking to me about something

that he has assigned to me

and it seems so big that you start

questioning you start doubting god you

know

are you sure it’s in this time are you

sure and as i’m watching this

i’m all of a sudden my faith is

activated god who is like you

when you speak a word you are able all

by yourself to accomplish it

all you need is someone who would

believe you

and as i’m looking the lord said i sent

you here

to remove the limits of your mind

i sent you here to remind you of who i

am and what i can

do if you simply believe me

that’s stephanie i know what i’ve showed

you i know what i’ve spoken to you

it might it might cause you to have

doubt but do not be afraid

that this is not the time to engage in

your fear this is the time to

simply believe me you see when we think

of fear the truth is that fear has many

faces

fear can look like insecurity it can

look like doubt

it can look like anxiety it can look

like depression

fear has many faces fear can look like

even jealousy

and so when we find ourselves engaging

in our doubts and engaging in all of

this what we don’t realize

is that we’re losing the very thing that

causes us to be believers and that is

our faith

that there is a place that i can engage

and believe and partner with the lord

when i was looking at just the the

little that i could see

the lord is speaking to me my daughter

do not be afraid

do you know that the commandment fear

not is literally like the most repeated

commandment in the bible

fear not it we see it from the old

testament to the new testament

because this is the type of fear when

when you engage it again it’s not the

awareness of this fear

but it is when you engage it when you

begin to interact

with it when you begin to lean on it

this is the type of fear that causes you

to start questioning who god is

the truth of jesus’s identity the truth

of what he’s already made available to

us

this is the type of fear that causes us

to be crippled

that causes us to be crippled in the

very things that god has called us to

that causes us to be crippled in order

to embrace the promises of god

and to walk it out now earlier you might

be wondering what does this have to do

with the scripture that i just read

right what does this have to do with

adam and eve in the garden we know the

problem was eve

for centuries we’ve blamed eve but what

if i told you

that the fall of humanity was not about

eve being deceived but that the catalyst

for the fall of humanity

was fear you see the scripture tells us

i want us to go to

verse 12 and verse 13 i want us to look

at this again

now it says that then the man said

this is after the whole thing right

satan you know he’s right there he’s

he’s talking to eve he’s engaging eve

and he’s like hey you know this would be

you know the lord doesn’t want you to

have all this wisdom

right and eve is like wow this looks

good you know this

this looks like it’s just about right

right and eve takes the apple eve or not

the apple

it’s so funny because we call it an

apple we don’t know what it is it could

have been a mango tree it could be the

fruit that doesn’t exist

you know if there was a fruit that was

in the garden of eden it was probably a

dragon fruit all this weird looking

fruit right

but we don’t know what it is it was just

a fruit

and so we see that eve ate the fruit and

she gave it to

adam but look at this right it says that

when god confronted

adam and he said hey what what is going

on here

who told you you were naked have you

eaten

of the fruit of the tree that i

commanded you not to

look at this dialogue that happens in

verse 12

it says then the man said the woman

you gave to be with me she gave me of

the tree

and i ate and it continues

when the lord now said to the woman what

is this you have done

and the woman said the serpent deceived

me

and i ate you see eve was deceived but

adam wasn’t

eve was deceived by the enemy but adam

wasn’t deceived adam was right there

when everything was going on

and in my personal life i’ve noticed

that when a person is silent in the

midst of chaos they’re thinking

we don’t see adam you know having any

conversation with the enemy the enemy

was talking specifically to eve

but i’ve always read this scripture and

i used to think that it was about you

know blame

shifting they were being shady they were

being petty but then i realized

that maybe pettiness wasn’t in the

garden of eden

that what if adam is literally saying it

like it is

when god said adam who told you

adam is like god

you gave me a woman when i didn’t find

anyone that

that matched me you see in in in the

beginning of

before eve was formed adam in the bible

is naming all the animals

and the lord is watching and the bible

says that he was watching

to see what adam would call it and

everything that adam named it that was

its name so adam was moving in this

place of alignment with god

so when adam was naming the lion and the

tortoise and

and the sheep and all of that what was

happening was not just that adam was

giving them names but adam was also in

this place of discovery

that they all have their own mates but i

have not found someone like me

that this is a lion this is a sheep this

is a dog this is a cat

this is all this stuff but there is no

one that matches me and then finally

god you gave me eve and you have told me

you see adam and god had a different

conversation about this

tree they adam had the understanding

that look

if we eat of this tree we will die

and if he’s watching this woman this

jewel that finally i have someone in my

life who

who matches me i’m not trying to mate

with a donkey

don’t do that right and he’s like

whoo eve is here and if eve when eve ate

of the fruit

what if while adam was silent he was

thinking could this mean that i would

lose eve if i don’t if i don’t join her

in this thing what does this mean for me

do

am i gonna lose my companion you see

because satan is cunning

that’s what the scripture even tells us

the very the very animal the beast that

was used was a serpent and it says the

most cunning of all the beasts and so

what that tells us is that satan does

not show his cards in the beginning

eve was not his target

it was not his main target all the while

adam if it was his main target then he

would have done it when adam wasn’t even

there

but adam is standing right next to eve

and his thinking

could it be the moment that the lord

revealed this to me could it be that

while adam was there he was thinking

about

i don’t want to lose this woman and in

his

fear he ate of the same fruit

adam wasn’t deceived by the enemy

i don’t moved from a place of the fear

of loss

what if this caused me to lose

the very person that god you gave me

you gave her to me you gave her to me

and i’m supposed to protect her i’m

supposed to but adam what if that meant

you know you should have stopped her

but was there fear in that from that

very first place because you see

in the beginning i talked about how i

believed that fear was not

the awareness of fear was not foreign in

the garden of eden

because the same way that satan had

access to the garden of eden

when god allows certain things it also

shows you who you are

why was it that satan had access because

he was not a threat

because god recognized that adam and eve

have given you

dominion and when you have dominion what

we call a threat is not a threat

because you have dominion over it

and so satan could have access to the

garden fear could exist in the garden

but

they had dominion over it

and so it was normal if adam had

the awareness of fear that what if this

could cause me

to lose eve the problem

is when you engage in that fear and you

act out of it

could it be that fear was actually

the catalyst to the fall of man

you see what i’m learning because as we

look at this story

is that fear is a distraction to

dominion

now what do i mean by this i want to

take you into a scripture

in genesis 2 15 because

before all of this nonsense actually

even in the midst of this nonsense

the scripture we read the first

scripture we read it shows us that

you know eve eats the uh the fruit i’m

gonna call it an apple you know

eve eats the fruit nothing happens

their eyes were only opened when adam

also ate of the same fruit

could it be that the very thing that was

causing adam panic and and fear and

okay what if i lose god you gave me this

woman

what do you expect me to do she ate the

apple or the fruit

she ate it and she gave it to me what do

you want me to do you gave me her

but then again if adam realized

that it was only open something only

shifted

because you gave in

fear is a distraction to dominion and

what do i mean by this you know many

times

if you’ve been you know if you’ve been

watching messages and all that stuff

that you may have been familiar with

this idea of you know in the fall of man

satan had

took dominion satan had authority over

the world you know the bible

calls him the prince of the age why one

of the questions i’ve always had is

you know when was this exchange when did

it happen

when did they give the keys of of the

world to satan

but then it dawned on me because when

god placed man

in the garden of eden this is what took

place

in genesis 2 15 it said then the lord

god

took the man and put him in the garden

of

eden to tend and to keep it

dominion started in the garden of eden

when god placed man in the garden he

said

now you’re supposed to tend it and have

dominion over it

the enemy understood if i could get him

kicked out

of eden there would be a vacuum created

for dominion and the truth about

spiritual laws and principles

is that there is no emptiness in the

spirit

and so when there is a vacuum satan has

rulership

satan was not cast down on earth with

any form of authority

his authority exists where there is

unclaimed territory

and so when we don’t claim our territory

satan says

well now i have authority here

where there is unclaimed territory satan

is a ruler over

that is why they call him the ruler over

darkness

this has been left abandoned it is it is

exposed and now he steps in

he understood adam if i can get you

distracted

then i can take your dominion

if i can get you distracted by your fear

then i can take actually what belongs to

you

i need you to ask yourself right now

what is distracting you

how is fear distracting you from the

place of your dominion

in god you see our pastor preached the

message not too long ago he taught he

talked about

the the difference a day makes

and it was so profound because it even

enabled us if you haven’t watched it you

should

but it gave us this insight about an

understanding of the power that each day

holds

the power to bring manifestation the

power to

to you know bring forth the promise and

the purposes of god

each single day and some of you actually

you might be watching this message

you woke up this morning and you just

felt like you’re waiting for the day to

be over

you woke up this morning and your mind

was under attack

a warning when your mind is under attack

whenever you lose inspiration

for the day for your assignment for the

things that god has called you to

your mind is under attack

and so some of you you’re watching this

right now and it was even a struggle for

you to

to to get engaged in this because you’re

just like god

it’s over i’m done i don’t want this

anymore

your mind is under attack

and you have to get to the place of

recognizing

this fear this doubt this disbelief

it is a distraction to my dominion

you see even just today while i was

getting ready

to come and preach the gospel

i was at home getting ready and all of a

sudden

the alarms are going off in my apartment

building

and it’s the the fire alarms and so in

my mind i’m like okay maybe

you know they found a weird time of the

day to do an emerge

uh uh what do they call those things

when they kind of like test the

evacuation or whatever

you know i can’t remember what it’s

called but yeah a fake

drill right a drill

[Laughter]

so i’m thinking that okay maybe this is

one of those random things right

so i called the manager i called the

apartment manager i said hey is

is there an actual fire going on in the

building he’s like i don’t know i’m

going to check

and so my friend also lives in the

building and i call her i’m like hey

what what’s going on in this building

i’m like do you smell smoke or anything

so

finally she’s like oh no i smell smoke

and so

i had a friend in the in in my apartment

with me because we were just i was

getting ready we’re coming here

and so she opens the door and there is

the whole

hallway is filled with smoke

and so all of a sudden the reality kicks

in

wait there is there could be a fire in

this building

and it’s somewhere close to me because

even just

taking it in i’m like i’m i start

coughing and it like for maybe about two

minutes straight

but i was like wait there could be a

fire so my friend is literally she’s

like

stephanie we have to go we gotta go and

the only thing i’m thinking about is i

gotta preach

i i have a word i need to deliver there

is an assignment

on my life today there is a place that

god has

given me dominion over i can’t be

distracted by this fire

because you see there is the narrative

the enemy wants you to believe

that i could be in a place of panic and

say wait um

i need to wait and see what happens my

belongings my things these things are

immaterial

i looked at my home and i said the only

thing that actually matters to me

is that i wear something quickly i can

grab my laptop

actually i forgot my laptop initially

and i need to get

to the house of god and so i was like

okay

i’ll grab my passport because no one

wants to go through the headache of not

having an identity

okay and i looked at everything i said

god

all of this is material you could give

it back to me

if there’s a fire which it looks like

there’s a fire in this building

and i lose everything it doesn’t matter

because the day

that you have made there is an

assignment in this for me

and i’m not going to allow the threat of

destruction

to distract me from dominion

you see many times we find ourselves so

shaken up

and we don’t realize that the enemy is

playing us like a fiddle

that i could be like oh my gosh god how

could you

how could how could he do what if i lost

everything

so what there are people that don’t even

have a roof over their head

and they still find a way to praise god

there’s a scripture in the psalms that

says this is the day

that the lord has made i will

we will rejoice and be glad in it it was

a decision

it was not that this is a day that the

lord has made and he

has favored me and i have met my destiny

helpers

and the doors are open not shut and i

met my boo

my boaz or my roof whichever one you

want to have it it

didn’t say all of that it just said this

is the day

that the lord has made and we will

rejoice and be glad in it

i have made a decision with my mind

that no matter the circumstance no man

of the cause

i will find a reason to rejoice and be

glad

in it because my mind

is focused on the lord

today could have gone very differently

you know it’s crazy because

we’re all running outside i’m like let

me just wear some real quick and

grab everything and just run because

this it was crazy

so we get down i’m downstairs the uh the

firefighters are there and all that

stuff and it dawns on me i’m like oh my

gosh

i left my laptop and my mindset

is literally this i said god i’m looking

because you know movies be

messing with you in the movies all of a

sudden when they escape then the fire

just

i’m like okay lord this is not the day

so i look up the

look at the windows i’m like is there

any fire coming anywhere

and i’m like okay lord i just need to

get my laptop because i need to preach

and so if there’s a fire please hold it

back i’m not going to die like this

i need there’s a word you’ve assigned me

to my mind was not about

things that were immaterial my mind was

about my assignment

and the moment i went back upstairs

because at this point i was

i was ready to leave the apartment the

moment of going back upstairs and saying

god

whatever it is just protect me let me

grab this and get out of here

all of a sudden it was revealed that

this threat had no weight it was

actually

my neighbor so this is not just in my

building

this was happening in my neighbor’s

apartment

and it was just it was food that was on

the stove

somehow i don’t know what happened maybe

people were asleep i don’t know

and it just went really bad

so in coming back upstairs and saying

god

i will put my life in this moment at

risk

for you for your people

because at the end of the day if i

should die

i would rather die in my assignment than

in my fear

if god would call me home i would rather

that god

found me in the place of my calling and

not in the place of hiding

and so in that moment all that mattered

to me is that god

if this is what it would take i just

need to grab this

unless you just want me to go without

knows that’s fine so we can do that

but i understood that this fear is this

this this fire or the threat of a fire

is not a threat to my life

it’s not a threat to my joy it’s not a

threat to my ability to serve the

purpose of god

and we have to get to a place where we

would make up our mind

you see there is a scripture that says

with my mind i will

serve the lord with my mind

i would serve the lord with my mind

because you see so many times we’re

focused on filling our spirit

but the mind is that place the mind is a

place of worship

the mind is a place of intimacy because

you see the mind is your creative realm

the mind is a place where you have

intimacy with the creator

the mind is the place it’s it’s what

pulls from what has been deposited in

the spirit

so you can be filled in the spirit but

if your mind

is not activated to believe what god

placed in your spirit nothing happens

with my mind i will serve the lord

you see many of you have to make a

decision today

that god with my mind i would serve you

that i’m not just going to serve my lust

and and my

unforgiveness and all these things with

my mind

i will serve the lord it’s a decision

it’s when you begin to find yourself

diving into the word of god god what

does it mean to serve you

what are thoughts that i should not even

engage myself with

but i should rebuke it because i realize

that this is a place of worship

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the mind there’s so many scriptures we

find about the mind even when paul talks

about putting on the

the armor uh um the the armor of god

the very first thing he talks about is

the helmet of salvation

the mind what protects your head what

protects your

mind with my mind i will serve the lord

is that going to be your testimony

you see i know that we came out of 2020

and

you know it may seem like 2020 made us

feel panicked

like god what is what is real what is

stable what is you know what is going to

be

what what can last in my life but that’s

the wrong perspective

the wrong perspective is to look at the

year prior and say

oh this makes me afraid of the future it

makes me afraid of

of knowing if i will be stable or not

2020 should have been the year that

ignites your fear of the lord not your

fear of man or structures or systems

it should ignite you to say who is like

the lord

because in this moment the only thing

that i can find

rest of my identity is in god it should

actually reveal to you that

all things are fleeting and easily

passing away

but the lord is going to be the rock of

my salvation

he is the one that i can hold on to he

is the one i can lean on

it is only in him that my identity can

stand

only the lord has the capacity

to manifest who i am not a job not a

person

not a relationship it is through the

lord what people do is when the lord can

send someone

who has the grace and the surrender to

commit to what he has purpose for them

to do in your life

and if they say no god will find another

person

if you came out of 2020 with a fear or a

panic

feeling like god i don’t know what i can

put my trust in you missed it

2020 should have been the year that we

say who is like the lord

it should have been a yet that brought

us closer to the place of the

fear of god that only god can keep and

sustain me

only the lord can truly be my provider

and so my things for you today my

assignment for you today

and if i fail the assignment i couldn’t

preach about it

if if in the moment of thinking that my

apartment would have been burnt

i wouldn’t be here right now be

somewhere shaken up or panicking i would

not even flow in the manner that i am

doing right now

but even when a threat came i said lord

even if the fire

showed up so what

even if i lost everything so what

you see sometimes we’re so spoiled by

what we call blessings and there are

blessings

that we we forget that the only true

gift

that my exceeding reward is not in what

god

gave me it is in god

he is my exceeding reward he said that

to abraham

and he echoes that through every

generation that came out of abraham

he echoes that to you that he is your

reward

you’re so hung up on the things you feel

like you lost

but you didn’t lose god you didn’t lose

your relationship with him

with my mind i will serve the lord

what has fear been distracting you from

you see as i was praying i said lord

what does it look like to have

deliverance in this area

because one of the things that is that

we we understand is that

when a person feels bound by their

mental life

your mind should be your safe space not

the place of opposition

not the place of affliction

and as i sought the lord what does

deliverance in this look like

what he showed me and i’m going to apply

that in my life and i’m inviting you

to join me in this that for the next

21 days that you become intentional

and disciplined to move in the very

thing that fear has crippled

you from whatever it is

make a decision do something each day

that moves you in that direction

you see the lord showed me something and

it shocked me

that think about this like a fast you

see when we think of a fast

we only think about food right most of

us food or social media

and during the fast we’re like okay you

know i’m i’m on this fast to build

you know my intimacy with the lord and

and to build my spiritual life and that

is

very good and beautiful but the lord

began to show me another type of fast

because just as being filled up in the

spirit is important

having a healthy mind is important

because if your mind is not healthy

it cannot draw from the spirit what god

has deposited in there

and so think of it like a fast for your

mind

i want you to look at this 21 days

that god i’m fasting my insecurities

i’m fasting my doubts i’m fasting the

shame

i’m fasting the guilt i’m fasting from

jealousy

i’m fasting from comparison i’m fasting

from the things that are

toxic to my mind i’m on a mental fast

i’m on a fast that says no to toxicity

and yes to truth if you can

fast food i want you to fast your

insecurity

if you can find joy and courage and say

i just did a 40-day fast but what is a

40-day fast if you

literally the next day you’re back

in the bondage of your mind

and so god is filling up your spirit

with so much

wisdom and so much blessings but your

mind cannot receive it because it is in

bondage of the enemy

a mental stronghold is very similar to

what happens when

there is a vacuum in on earth and the

and the devil takes dominion

a mental stronghold they are the areas

of your thinking that are unchecked

the areas of your thinking that are not

guarded and

in those places satan has dominion

that is really what the stronghold is

about

we have to be right now our pastor has

been teaching us in a series

called starting over and that series has

been about

equipping us to be able to manifest the

promises and the purpose of god

and connected to that is your ability

is the discipline to guard your mind

you have to be as diligent about your

mind as you are about other things in

your spiritual life

the ability to guard your mind it is

pivotal

to your walk as a believer because

there’s a scripture i want to share with

you

i don’t know if i gave this note but let

me see if i have it in here

it is in

let’s see let’s and if i don’t i would

explain to you what the scripture talks

about

and i don’t i might not might not put it

in my notes

because i want to give you what the

verse actually is

actually i do have it it’s ephesians 1

and this verse 3

and it says blessed be the god and

father of our lord jesus christ

who has blessed us with every spiritual

blessing in the heavenly places in

christ

everything you need is deposited

in what is called a spiritual blessing

but if your mind is not healthy that’s

why i actually call this message help

my mind is a mess because if your mind

is not healthy if your mind is filled

with the mess

of fear and doubt and all of that

then the spiritual blessing that has

been given to you by god cannot be

activated or accessed you see jesus

would often say something like your

faith has made you whole your faith has

healed you

but but what what does that mean in that

moment you see that the person

first of all you have been given the

spiritual blessing of revelation

about who jesus is that this is the son

of the living god when peter said to

jesus

when jesus actually asked peter he said

who do men say that i am

and then he says to peter who do you say

that i am and peter says oh you are the

christ the son of the living god

and then jesus said wow flesh and blood

has not revealed this to you

but my father who is in heaven has

revealed this to you

but you see peter had revelation in his

spirit

he could communicate that revelation but

then all of a sudden

peter in another moment is called satan

when he was having a when jesus is

talking to them and jesus is talking

about you know what i must go to the

cross

and all this stuff that he has to do and

peter rebukes the lord and jesus says

get behind me satan and he says your

mind is focused

on the things below your mind is focused

on

earthly matters your mind is not healthy

peter

you can speak revelation but your mind

is not healthy to actually activate this

revelation

because if your mind could receive what

you said

you would not rebuke me in this moment

you would recognize that

if i am speaking it’s not for you to

question me

in what i’m about to do it is for you to

seek understanding

lord what do you mean what does the

cross represent this is a

this is a teaching moment not a rebuke

moment

so you might be the person who can

recite all the scriptures

you might have done the the one year

bible plan

every year since you were 20 or 18 or

seven i don’t know

you know if you grew up in uh your

parents were pastors maybe you know

you started reading with the bible

but just back to focus the point is

that can be revelation that you speak

you can talk about what god has said

about you

you there’s a revelation about your your

identity and your destiny and

you share it with your friends you’re

like wow you know god has set this

concern in my life

god has set that concern in my life but

in the moment of opportunity

you run because your mind is not yet

healthy

to activate the revelation you have

received in the spirit

and so join me in this 21 day you can

use

hashtag activate21 child you know in the

beginning of this year

pastor talked about how 21 is the number

for deliverance and what i’m believing

and what i’ll be praying during this

time

is that during this 21 days that you

run towards your fears you run towards

the thing that you felt like you were

too

insecure to do the very thing that you

felt like i’m not the one for the job

the things that you feel unworthy for

that as you run towards them

that it would break every mental

stronghold of the enemy

that you would walk in freedom and that

you will walk in dominion

that you will begin to discover what god

has assigned to your life

and you would walk it out you know for

me i’ll tell you what i’m doing you know

something i really share with people

because

when this happened i had this encounter

a couple years ago

and in the encounter i’m receiving this

message that is connected to my calling

but it was something that

i just didn’t see how it fit right at

the time but but then the lord began to

explain it to me

so in the encounter there’s a person of

you know a person of faith that has gone

to be with the lord

that i admired so much and during his

time

he taught a lot about fasting and all

this stuff right

and so i’m seeing him he’s in the gym

and he’s like you know lifting weights

and all that stuff

and he looks at me and for a second

actually the whole moment i forgot that

he has actually gone to be with the lord

and he starts speaking to me and he’s

talking to me he said you know what

during my time and he’s

he’s talking to me as someone who was

saying like you know obviously my time

has ended but

it was so the the reality of his

presence was so strong

that i forgot that he has actually

passed on and so he was talking to me

and he said during my time i talked a

lot about fasting

and i said yes i’ve watched actually

watched a lot of your messages and i

listened to your sermons

and he said the one thing that god had

called him to do but he didn’t lean into

was in the area

of fitness right and i was like oh

that’s that’s interesting because in

in the in the encounter he was buff i

said wow you know

do they lift weights in heaven

but i believe god was just trying to

show me an image of something

so he starts talking to me he said

fitness

was part of his call because

he was talking about even the with

healing and all that stuff because one

of the things that i know that is

assigned to my life

is to reveal the healing power of god

and

when i when i talk about the healing

power of god we all think that

immediately supernatural right

in the name of jesus and of course

but also the discipline of what it takes

to take care of our body

things it’s not a spiritual battle

for healing some things could be a

change of diet it could be

working out some not everything but some

things right so he begins talking to me

about this that

you know during his time he was supposed

to do this thing and he was

fitness was part of his calling and that

now that

one of the things that he has seen in my

life connected to even when it comes to

just um you know healing it was a

different i’m just summarizing this

conversation right

and he said now stephanie i am

entrusting this mantle to you

and i said to who because

first of all i like you know the idea of

a six-pack

but um i’m not sure how i feel about the

reality of of making it happen

and so when i came out of the encounter

i was talking to the lord i said god

um you know i’m cool with preaching the

gospel you know i’m cool with

certain things but fitness is not my

place

and the lord said who are you to say

what is your place or what is not

because at the end of the day everything

i’ve called you to i revealed

to you and so this is a place that i’m

calling you to embrace i’m calling you

to walk out i’m calling you to embrace

the the what it means to walk in in the

essence of healing

not just saying you are made well but

that your life communicates health

and that to me if i’m honest with you i

have not seen myself as someone

who is worthy of that i feel like it’s

the people who love going to the gym

it’s the people who like you know when

i’m talking about maybe i’m talking

about

stock market they’re like you know what

let’s pound this protein shake real

quick

uh that’s not me i don’t know ram this

is just my head

but i have felt unworthy i’ve doubted

myself i’m like god

i’m not the person for that actually i

sometimes

emotionally eat i say you want me uh

lord no

you got a wrong and as i was even

studying for this message the lord says

stephanie i’ve not changed my mind

you thought you could bury it and just

forget about it but i’ve not changed my

mind concerning what i said to you

and i had to realize that that

unworthiness

is a distraction to a place that god is

saying i’m giving you dominion

and so for me for the next 21 days i’m

doing no days off right

sounds better than it’s gonna feel i’m

gonna work out every day

it’s very simple you thought maybe i’ll

say something spiritual no

but it’s spiritual to me because if i

don’t take care of my body i mean how am

i going to carry out the things that god

has called me to

and nowadays of does not mean i’m going

to be going crazy some days it could be

you know a stretching

party but i’m going to work out every

day

i’m going to be intentional about eating

clean and all of that and feeding my

body like i love myself

and so for you i don’t know what that

looks like it could be that you

god has called you to be a voice and you

just feel like god no one wants to hear

what i got to say

and maybe every single day you go live

on instagram or something

and you have a talk whatever it is that

pushes you towards the place of what you

have been afraid of

that maybe you’re one that said god you

know what preaching was for my parents i

don’t want to do that start preparing

your message

maybe there’s a business you want to you

you know that god has called you to and

the fear of failure

has crippled you start working towards

it whatever it is my prayer

is that god will reveal to you what is

the area

that has crippled you from your dominion

how has fear distracted you from the

place of your dominion

the bible says that call to me ask of me

the nations

ask of me and i will give you the

nations as an inheritance

but who has the boldness who has the

courage who has the belief

that god in a pla in an area in an

industry in something that i’m not even

familiar with

and something that i could be a baby in

you can give me authority and dominion

because that is just who you are who is

greater than god

who can do what god who can do the

things that god can do

who can who i mean we’re talking about

their stories i read in the bible

and when i realized the reality of it

that god would look at the sea

and cause it to part so that his people

can walk on dry ground

so i’m walking on dry ground and right

and you know nemo is somewhere we

finally found him

right he’s right there in the water

we said where is nemo he was at the red

sea

just you know swimming along dory was

somewhere crying

[Laughter]

but the thing that you fear who is

greater than god

in my head god if you can part a red sea

if you can if you can cause the sun to

stop simply because your son believed it

there was a man named joshua

who called who asked for the son to

stand still and god

listened to him simply because joshua

believed

god you see when it says god listen to

him god

listened to the belief god listened to

his faith

it was not just empty words joshua knew

that what he was asking for

with his whole self he believed in it

don’t be one who just says things be one

whose mind is healthy enough to activate

it

because if i can believe it i can become

it

you can’t talk your way into becoming

you believe your way into becoming

what has god said about you and is fear

distracting you from dominion

no more join me in those in the next 21

days i’ll be sharing my journey

you know the days where maybe i will

have a chicken leg walk i don’t know

but whatever it is if you’re joining me

just put in the comments right now i’m

in i’m in i’m in

family i’m going to be praying for you i

believe that god is going to do mighty

things

i believe that every lie is going to be

broken

because i recognize that in this moment

you have to make a decision

that your actions have to back up the

posture of your heart to say god i don’t

want to stay in this any longer

i don’t want to be crippled by this fear

any longer i don’t want to be crippled

by this thought because you see the

threat

has no power i believe that god even

allowed what took place the enemy

thought

if i didn’t have the right perspective

he could have used this

for his agenda but the lord understood

stephanie

this fire is actually just a threat this

smoke

is a threat there’s no fire there’s no

fire

this is just a a a deception

[Laughter]

it’s no fire and family guess what even

if there was a fire

so what god is with me

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god is with you even if you

fail so what you have to have this

mindset that

even if my fear is failure

and i fail but you have to realize that

then failure in the hands of god is not

failure

in my life it may look like failure but

if i put my failure in the hands of god

then i would hold on to the promise that

said he uses

everything to work together for my good

so even that failure

god will look at it and say hey actually

you can learn something from this

this can be and this could equip you it

could teach you something

you have to come to the place of

shadrach meshach and abednego

that says even if he doesn’t save us

from the fire

it’s all right you know

you have to get to that place with your

mind

you will serve the lord with my mind

i will serve the lord my mind is a holy

ground

that is why the enemy i’m just getting

this the enemy attacks

a lot with the place of things like

pornography things like

lust because it is to distract your mind

your mind is holy

ground your mind is spiritual

with it you will serve the lord not

serve the desires of your flesh not

not open doors for the enemy to just

come in and say you gave me access

jesus said something he said the satan

comes to me but he finds nothing in me

there is nothing that he can use as an

open door

in my life that he finds nothing

in me there is no hole there is there is

nothing

satan what you want because it ain’t

here

and i’m praying that for you and so

heavenly father

we thank you lord jesus for your word

we thank you lord god that we are making

a decision today that with our

mind we will serve the lord that we

are going into a 20-day fast for the

mind

a 20-day fast from our insecurities and

our fears and our doubts

and the lies and the narrative that

comes straight from the pit of hell

that we are taking a fast away from

everything that is toxic

to believe and to hold on to what you

know about us

thank you jesus thank you jesus i’m just

sensing that there are some of you that

you’ve been having there are two people

that god has shown me some of you you’ve

been having dreams

this reoccurring dreams of being

pregnant

reoccurring dreams you keep seeing

yourself pregnant and it has no

natural um no no no no literal

symbolism to you like in the in your

natural life it doesn’t mean anything to

you in regards to

you know you might not even be in a

relationship so you’re like god why am i

seeing myself pregnant

but it’s because and the lord is showing

me that you are over

to deliver what he placed in you and

you’ve allowed fear to you but

this is the day

that you choose to say no more that you

choose to fight back

that you choose to take territory where

the enemy

has been taking dominion because you

left it unchecked

this is the day that you fight back you

said no no no it’s

my mind it is the mind that god has

given me

and the only thing that should have

influence over my mind

is the mind of christ it says take on

this mind the mind of christ should be

in you

that is the only thing that should

influence me

thank you lord thank you lord and there

are some of you you’re watching this

message

and you haven’t yet made a decision to

follow jesus

you know him you talk about him but you

haven’t made

a decision to follow him so you still

dabble in other

things you know jesus and you know that

but on this day you feel a conviction in

your heart

you feel a burning in your chest you you

you understand that i want to know you

more i don’t want to live this flimsy

life

with your mind you will serve the lord

but it begins by following the lord in

order to serve him

and if that is you just put in the chat

i’m coming home

i’m coming home i’m coming home

i’m coming home and just say these words

with me

lord jesus

i believe that you are the son

of god you died on the cross for me

and when you were raised up i was raised

up to

on this day i say

yes to follow you

and you alone i will serve you

with my mind i will follow you

with my life i surrender it all to you

make my heart your home give me the mind

of christ

in jesus name amen

amen family we love you

you