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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
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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
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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