Andrew's Live Bible Study: Psalm 91 - Andrew Wommack - November 26, 2019

Andrew Wommack leads a live Bible study on Psalm 91, exploring God's protection and blessings with interactive viewer participation.

Key Takeaways

Psalm 91 reveals God's comprehensive protection and blessings for those who trust Him.
Faith is activated by hearing and speaking God's promises aloud.
God desires to prosper believers beyond minimal expectations.
Interactive Bible study allows real-time engagement and deeper understanding.
Multiple learning options are available through Caris Bible College including live, online, and iPad-based courses.

What the video covers

Andrew Wommack hosts a live Bible study session focusing on Psalm 91, emphasizing God's protection and plans for believers.
Julianne Harris introduces the e-Caris program, an iPad-based first-year Caris Bible College curriculum.
Viewers are encouraged to submit questions live and participate in a free drawing for Christian teaching materials.
The study highlights the faith principle that 'faith comes by hearing' and encourages repeated reading of scripture for deeper insight.
Psalm 91 is presented as a powerful passage showing God's desire to bless, protect, and prosper believers beyond average expectations.
Andrew reads and explains Psalm 91 verse by verse, emphasizing the conditions and promises of God's protection.
The study addresses common fears and unbelief, encouraging believers to speak faith and trust in God's word.
Examples from scripture and history illustrate God's protection during trials and plagues.
The interactive format includes answering viewer questions about faith, speaking forth promises, and obedience to God.
Additional information is shared about Caris Bible College events and partnership opportunities with Andrew Wommack Ministries.

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What is the main focus of this Bible study?

The study focuses on Psalm 91, exploring God's protection, blessings, and the faith required to receive them.

How can viewers participate in the live Bible study?

Viewers can submit questions in the live chat or Facebook comments and fill out a form at awmi.net/bible study to receive notes and enter a free drawing.

What is e-Caris and how does it work?

e-Caris is a Caris Bible College first-year curriculum preloaded on an iPad, allowing students to study at their own pace without internet access.

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[Music] Welcome to the live Bible study hosted by Andrew Wommack Ministries and Caris Bible College. Tonight, you'll learn truths from the Word with believers around the globe. Submit any questions you have in the comments and share this broadcast tonight with your friends.

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Hello, I'm Andrew Wommack. Welcome to our Tuesday night live Bible study. Great to have you with us this evening. We've been doing this now for over a year and a half, and we have people watching from all around the world. I think nearly

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every state and usually around 20 countries. And it's just a great time to sit and study the Word. And tonight I have Julianne Harris with us. She is our host, and she's going to be giving you some information. But we've just been

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visiting. Julianne's got a great testimony. I'm glad it's her testimony instead of mine. Yeah. Praise God.

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But Jesus has saved this woman, and she's just a blessing. And you actually now oversee our e-Caris. Tell them what that is.

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Yes. So e-Caris is the entire first year of Caris Bible College all preloaded onto an iPad. The iPad comes with it.

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And also, Julie, share with Julianne, share with them about how they can get involved. This is a live interactive Bible study.

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Yes. So, how you would get involved is to go on to awmi.net or you can log in on Facebook. But if you want the Bible study notes, is that what you're referring to? So, the Bible study notes and also to get the

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How to Hear God's Voice. Is this a DVD or CD? I guess we should—I think that's CD. And I just re-taught this on television. It hadn't aired yet,

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but this will be coming out, and I taught this over in the UK at the end of June, and it was—You were there?

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Yes. It was really good. It's fantastic. Also, one of the things I wanted you to share with them is they can send in questions because we'll teach for about 25-30 minutes, and then we'll interact with their questions.

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Exactly. So, you want to fill out under the live chat in the live chat section or put in a comment on Facebook, and whatever questions are relevant, I'm going to go for the relevant questions or the ones that he hasn't answered

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already in the teaching, and so we'll try to get to all the questions that we possibly can. Next, I wanted to also mention that if you're not able to come to Caris Bible College, nor are you able

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to do Caris on an iPad or our distance learning options, you know, we have about every different way you can do Caris Bible College.

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You probably live next to a campus and you're unaware of it. So, I just want to put a plug out that this Saturday, July 27th, you can attend Caris Day, and it is only at all of our extension

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campuses throughout the US and some of our international locations. So, if you want to know more about that, if you want to register, I believe the info is on carisbible.org and also awmi.net, and you can find out, and I'm going to be ministering, but

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also I think we're going to have some of the other instructors because I know that Mike and Carrie, Mike and Carrie, and Wendle and Wendle.

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So, everybody loves Wendle. Everybody loves Wendle. He's the greatest. He's a blessing. So, it'll be a great way for you to get a taste of what Caris is all about and go out and check out one of the local

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locations and get to know the people that run that, and it should just be a good time.

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Amen. So last week, I want to mention who won the drawing last week of your signed book of How to Find, Follow, and Fulfill God's Will. And that was Irish Nellums.

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Irish Nellums. Sounds—It does sound Irish or pirate. That's the only—that's the only thing I can do. And also, this is a viewer-supported broadcast. So, I would encourage you to give. If you haven't been listening to Andrew this week about

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And also, if you need prayer at any time during this Bible study, please call 719-635-1111.

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I won't do 11-11 because some people might look for that. That's right. I don't know if you've picked it up, but Julianne's got a great personality. She's just a fun person to be with, and so we're going to

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have a great time this evening. Yes. You got anything else, or is that it?

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I think that's it for now. All right. So, tonight I wanted to just go through Psalms chapter 91. I know that many of you probably are aware of this, but you know, the Bible says faith comes by hearing,

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not by having heard. And one of the things that I do constantly is just go back over all of the things that God has taught me. And I always get something brand new out of it. Matter of fact, I

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just read through Psalms 91 right before we came out here in preparation. And I was sitting here thinking about some things that I've never really seen or if I've seen them, I just hadn't latched on to it the way I should. And I just

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get something out of the Word every single time I read it. So Psalms chapter 91 is a passage of Scripture that just really lists some of the things that God wants to do in your life. And it is way

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over and above what the average person is believing for. The average person, for some reason, believes that God is hesitant to bless us or to protect us or to prosper us and stuff. And so they feel like, you know, what is the minimum

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that I can ask God for? I don't want to bother God. Psalms chapter 91 will show you that God has an awesome plan for you.

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And I think that if you just go through this with me tonight, that this is really going to impress you about how God wants to move in your life. So, what I'm going to do first is just read

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through the entire psalm. There's only, let's see, 16 verses. So, I'm going to read all of these verses so that we can get the overview of it and then go back and look at some things specifically. Psalms chapter 91 verse 1,

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He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God. In Him will I trust.

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Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for

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the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and 10,000 at thy

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right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

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Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High thy habitation.

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There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou

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shalt tread upon the lion and the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him. I will set him on

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of scripture are so phenomenal that most people just think that this is unobtainable. But this is scripture. And matter of fact, Satan even used these verses right here to tempt Jesus was he when he was on the Mount of

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Transfiguration and he quoted some of these exact verses and Jesus straightened him out on his misapplication of them. But this is just powerful. So, let me go through and just look at closer at this. In verse one and

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two, it says, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high." And verses 1 and two are kind of the conditions that all of these other promises are based upon. Some people might read this and think, "Well, I'm a

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believer and man, I love God and yet these things aren't coming in my life.

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I've got pestilence. I've got fear. I've had people come out against me. These things aren't working. It's not so." But in verses one and two, it puts some qualifications on it. It says you have to dwell in the secret place of the most

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high. And I could spend a large amount of time uh trying to amplify and explain exactly what this is talking about, but in a nutshell, this is just talking about you got to have an intimate relationship with the Lord. This isn't

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talking about a person who just cried out to God in a period of distress and said, "God, help me." And then you know God saves you and you just go and do your own thing and you're living completely contrary to God's

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instructions. This is talking about a person who has a relationship with the Lord dwelling in the secret place of the most high. You abide under the shadow of the almighty. So this is talking about a person who is seeking the Lord. A person

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who is yielded to the Lord and cooperating with the Lord instead of rebelling at the Lord. And then this is really important in verse two. Now, pay attention to this because this is where a lot of people miss it. It says,"I will

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say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I trust." Here's the way that I say this, that all of these promises of God are voice activated. You have to speak forth your

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faith. And again, I could spend I've got probably five or six hours worth of teaching on your words and how that God spoke the worlds into existence. That everything was created by words. It responds to words. And for these

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promises to work in your life, you not only have to be seeking the Lord and have a relationship with the Lord, but you need to be speaking forth your faith. These promises are voice activated. And this is where so many

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people miss it. You know, just take the example of like u sickness. Somebody will go to the doctor. The doctor says you're going to die. You got six months to live. So somebody says, "How are you?" And instead of you saying, "I'm

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healed in the name of the Lord." See, and activating the promises of God by your words. You'll sit there and say, "Oh, I've only got six months to live.

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I'm dying and there's no hope." And you start speaking forth your unbelief. Proverbs 18:21, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue. and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. So there's many people that have a

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relationship with the Lord, but they don't understand how important your words are. And so you're hung by your tongue. This says that you have to say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress. You have to speak forth your

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faith, not what your fears are, not what people are saying about you and things like that. Now again, I could spend an hour on that, but I want to go on through some of these other promises that are here, but don't skip over that.

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This is voice activated. And then in verse three, it says, "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence." The snare of the fowler is just talking about the enemy. We've got an enemy

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that's trying to snare us. Satan cannot force anything upon you. You know, everything here. I could preach on this for hours at a time. I can't believe I bit off this whole thing in one little 30 minute lesson. But

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anyway, Satan cannot force you to do anything. His only power is deception. He has to lay a trap for you. And if he can get you to buy into his fear and start speaking forth your doubt, your fear, your unbelief, then he has taken

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you in the snare of the fowler. But if you are dwelling under the shadow of the Almighty, if you are speaking forth your faith instead of your fears, well then you will be delivered from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome

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pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. This is a description of like I've heard people use a chicken, but any type of fowl that have wings. You know, when it rains, uh, the mother hen will

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spread her wings out like this, and the little chickens will come get under her and and it's a word pitcher. And this is what God does with all of his ability and all of God's power. He has all of

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this available. But you know what? He doesn't necessarily run after you and force this deliverance on you. The mother chicken will spread her wings out like this and the little chickens run there for help. You have to run to the

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Lord. But God has protection for you so that you he'll under his wings shall you trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. And of course the truth here is talking about the word of God. John 17:17, thy word is truth in Ephesians

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chapter 6. You know the truth is the sword of the spirit. And you use that and the shield and buckler is talking a buckler was like a utility belt that a soldier wore that he kept his uh things

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on. Today we would talk about it's where you keep your ammunition, your hand grenade or something like that. So the Lord will be your defense and your offensive weapon when you dwell under his protection. In verse five, it says,

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"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence, let me turn my page here, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at

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noonday." Now, I'm not saying any of these things to be critical of anybody, but I'm just trying to point out that most Christians aren't even uh they aren't even trying to appropriate the promises right here.

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Most Christians believe it is absolutely normal to fall apart like a $2 suitcase when the doctor tells you you're going to die. When the banker says that you're in financial needs, when your mate is upset with you and they just get into

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fear that they're going to lose their family, they're going to lose their marriage, they're going to lose their h health, how are we ever going to make it? And they live with this because most people don't let the Bible get in the

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way of what they believe. They just look around and sad to say, they look in the church. They look at some of the Christians around them and they're all sick and they're all poor and they're all worried and they just think that

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this is normal. I'm telling you on the authority of the word of God, if you appropriate what this is talking about, you can reach a place to where you are not afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day, nor for

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the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. In other words, this is saying that you should not be afraid. of people attacking you and doing things like this. You know, I've been in situations

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where honestly it was a bad situation and my life could have been at jeopardy, but I just don't have any fear. Perfect love cast out fear. And you can literally get to where you are dwelling under the shadow of the Almighty and God

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is so much with you. It'll go on to say right here that he gives his angels charge over you and you can get to where you are so secure in the Lord's protection that you aren't afraid. Now, this doesn't mean that you do things

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stupid. It doesn't mean that you expose yourself to things that you shouldn't be exposed to, but at the same time, you aren't afraid. Like, here's an example that when 911 happened and we had the terrorist attacks, you know, we had a

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meeting scheduled in Charlotte, North Carolina. And so I had to drive there because they had canceled all the plane flights. And when we got to Charlotte, of course, this was on everybody's mind.

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They were wondering about where is this leading to? Are we in a a war? What what's going to happen? And Christians were panicked. They were absolutely fearful.

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And there was a lot of people that I talked to says, I'll never fly again.

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And you know what? If they would have allowed us to fly, I would have got on a plane the next day and have flown because, you know, I didn't believe it was going to be to this uh total

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destruction the way some people anticipate it. But there are many Christians that are just as afraid of what's happening here on the earth as unbelievers. And this shouldn't be. You shouldn't be afraid of things. They have uh pestilence come out. You know, they

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had this thing called the bird flu or the swine or the aven flu. And a guy over in England was predicting that onethird of the world's population would die within two years from aven flu. And in the first place, I did not believe

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that. But even if that had been true, which it turned not to be, I the last I heard there was only 12 people maximum in worldwide that died from this aven flu. But even if it had turned out to be

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the way that he said it, well, that means twothirds of the people were going to live. But see, some people just hear a report and they they say there's a 5% chance that this could kill you. Well, it means there's a 95% chance that it

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won't. But some people are just completely fear motivated. They live their life just trying to avoid anything that could cause a problem. And this is contrary to what these verses are saying. If you have a relationship with the Lord, if you really dwell in a

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secret place with him, if you ever understand how much God loves you and all of these promises, you can live a fearfree life. And that is something that not very many people tap into. It says in the next verse, "A thousand

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shall fall at thy side, and 10,000 at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee." Again, this is saying that even if there is a plague, you might have a thousand fall over here and 10,000 over here, but you'll be the one

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that comes through it. Amen. That's the way that I feel. You know, if something happened, I guarantee you, uh, I remember this guy, Mike Warkey. Did you ever hear Mike Warkey? Anyway, he was a Christian comedian and he went through Vietnam and

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he told this story about getting hit with a phosphorous grenade and he was on fire and his body was burn. He's he's uh disfigured because of it. And they actually picked him up and put him on a stretcher to take him off. And he was so

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on fire he burned a hole through the stretcher. I do remember him. Yes. And fell on the ground. And finally they got him in the helicopter. And I think I I may get some of this wrong, but the

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helicopter got shot at and the helicopter crashed and and people were just died all around him and he says, "My God, I'm going to be the only person to live through this." And see, that's that positive attitude.

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That's the way that I feel. It doesn't, you know, I was over in um Ireland, southern Ireland, and uh I was there and I had a whole group of people with me and we went to a meeting and and anyway,

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there was one guy in the car who had the flu and every single person in the car got it. Nobody could go but me and I didn't get it. And I because I sit here and I say these things that no plague

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will come n my dwelling. And I say things like this and as a result other people get sick all around me. People that I'm laying hands on. I've had people with AIDS spit in my face. I've had them cough on me. I've had them do

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all kinds of things. I just I am not going to be sick. I was talking to some good friends of mine, you know, Derry and Karen Jolly.

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Yeah. And I was talking to them one time and they were I forgot how we got off on it but they said something. Do you ever get sick? And I said no. I said I don't believe in getting sick. And they just

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were like you don't believe in getting sick. And I said no. And a lot of it's because of right here. And I know that many of you think you can't live that way. Pay attention to what this is

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saying. Listen to this. A thousand shall fall at thy side and 10,000 at thy right hand. But it talking about the pestilence and the destruction shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shall you behold and see the reward of

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the wicked. In other words, you aren't going to be a partaker with the wicked as they suffer because you are following God. And look at this. Because thou has made the Lord which is my refuge, even the most high thy habitation, there

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shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Man, that is awesome. You know, either this is the Bible, this is scripture, and it's true, and you can believe it and get set free, or you ought to just

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cut it out of your Bible. I believe it. I believe that no plague comes n my dwelling. And I believe that. I heard a testimony about during the bubanic plague back in the middle ages.

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I forgot now the exact figures but uh it was a huge percentage 25 to 50% of Europe died. Hundreds of millions of people died and it was just sweeping through and there was a a minister in a smaller village that the plague was just

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coming through and he stood on the boundary of his village and stood on these verses and said no plague will come nigh this village and there wasn't one single person in his village that got the bubonic plague. And then there

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was John G. Lake. He was dealing with some plague. I'm not sure which one it was up in uh where was it? It's not Seattle.

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Spokan. Spokane. Spokane. And he was up there and he had helped so many people and so many people had gotten healed that they actually closed down one of the two hospitals in his town and they gave him a medical license, not because he had

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ever studied medicine, but he was more effective than the doctors. So anyway, they had this plague going and they had something like a gymnasium or something where they were treating these people that were dying of this plague. And one

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man just convulsed and foamed at the mouth and had this foam all over his mouth and then he died. And this doctor that was working with him says, "Aren't you glad that we have a vaccination?" And John Lake says, "Who has a

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vaccination?" And this doctor was just like, "You can't be working around these dead people without a vaccination.

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you're going to die. And John Lake based his faith on this. He says, "No plague can come n my dwelling." He says, "No germ can touch my body and live." And this doctor, of course, was operating just on, you know, medical science. And

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that was completely contrary. So, he just rejected the whole thing. He says, "You're a fool." And so, John Link says, "I'll prove it to you." And they took one of those little glass slides that you put under a microscope and he wiped

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some of that foam off of this guy's mouth that had just died and he put it under the microscope and you could see the germs just moving all in it. And then he said, "Watch this." And he just

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touched his finger to that slide and instantly all of the movement stopped. Praise God.

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And it's because no plague could come n his dwelling. And specifically he says, "No germ can touch my body and live." And you know there's people watching this that you're thinking that's not the way it is. That's because you've been

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listening to the 10 spies network and you have been listening to the way that only a carnal person, a person that doesn't believe in Psalm 91 believes.

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And so because of it, every time the flu comes around, you get the flu. Every time you know something happens, the weather changes, you get your joints hurting and you have accepted this.

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You don't have to live that way. These are some of the promises. Man, I could just stay on this a long time. Let me hurry up through some of these things.

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It says in verse uh 11, for he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Man, this is

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talking about supernatural protection. My life has been saved. I couldn't even count. But I I can guarantee you it's at least a dozen, probably over two dozen times I easily could have been killed.

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And God has supernaturally protected me. I remember one time in Vietnam, I went out with the chaplain. I was a chaplain's assistant. We were supposed to travel in a convoy and we didn't do it. The chaplain, nobody could tell the

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chaplain what to do. So, he wanted to go out and visit this pastor out in a village. So, I got a Jeep and I drove him out there and we were sitting in the pastor's house having lunch and the

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chaplain just asked the pastor, he says, "Is there any Vietkong around here?" And he said, "Oh man, a lot." He says, "This is a center." And the chaplain says, "Where?" And he pointed out the window and he says, "Right across the street.

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That is a Vietkong stronghold." And we looked and there were guys everywhere with AK-47s, which was the Russianmade uh deal. And the chaplain got so scared.

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I mean, he nearly wed his pants and we just we got out of there and he says, "Drive." And I backed up and we drove and there was four or five Vietkong standing there with their AK-47 and they saw us because when we came

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they just moved to the side and let us through. And we didn't have a chaplain's emblem or anything on the jeep. It was a US Jeep with a big old American symbol on it. and the Vietkong just stepped

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aside and let us go right on through and we drove out. We don't know what happened, but you know what? He gave his angels charge over me and they protected me. I could tell you dozens of times.

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And somebody says, "Well, I don't know that that's ever happened to me." Probably it's happened to you and you don't even know what God's protected you from, but I'm telling you, these things are voice activated. You have to say

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that God is your refuge. You have to believe for this. It doesn't just automatically happen. You can prove that by just taking any Christian and people who truly are born again, but they have a lot of really bad things happen to

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them because they don't take their authority and mix it with faith and speak these things forth. And I wish I had time to go through the rest of it, but we've got to take some questions. I tell you what, I hope that you read this

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and go back and let the Lord speak to you. I think that we are leaving so many of the promises of God that he's given us on the table and not taking advantage of it. We need to start living in the

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abundance that God has for us. So Ruthie on chat, she's all I think she's she's always she's awesome. I love it. So she has great questions. So Ruthie on chat asked, "If you meditate and stand on Psalms 91, can you expect to not be

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physically persecuted? For example, if someone tried to torture or kill you for the faith, can you expect to be saved from possible death like how Daniel was saved from the lions?

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No. And the reason is because you are redeemed from sickness. You're redeemed from disease. You're redeemed from a lot of things, but you are not redeemed from persecution. It says in 2 Timothy 3:12 that all those who live godly in Christ

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Jesus shall suffer persecution. And I believe that the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 12, he was actually trying to walk in Psalms chapter 91 and uh because he was persecuted everywhere and the Lord told him that no, he asked

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for the Lord to take away this thorn in the flesh and people have said that that thorn in the flesh is sickness, but that's not it. The thorn in the flesh is a term that's used three times. Once in

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Judges, twice in in or excuse me, once in Joshua, and twice in Judges. And it says if you don't drive out the unbelievers, then they will become thorns in your sides and pricks in your flesh. So it was a scriptural

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terminology talking about people persecuting you and coming against you. And he said, "Remove this thorn in the flesh." And the Lord said, "No, he wouldn't remove it because you aren't redeemed from persecution." If you were redeemed from persecution, well then the

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Apostle Paul would have never become the Apostle Paul because he was persecuting Stephen. And if God would have just struck all of your enemies, well then we wouldn't have had the Apostle Paul. So God has not redeemed us from

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persecution. Now there are examples where he has delivered some people from it, but it's not something that you can always claim. In Daniel chapter 3, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said, uh, our God is able to deliver us from

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your hand and he will deliver us, but even if he doesn't deliver us, we aren't going to bow down. So right there, they showed that they knew God could deliver them out of the fiery furnace, but they said, "Whether he does or not, we aren't

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going to serve you." So I don't, Ruthie, I don't believe that you can uh avoid persecution. If you can, well then I've I've failed in that area because I've words kill you, I'd be dead. I have a lot of people come out against me. So, I

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believe God will protect you through it like the fiery uh uh you know the Hebrew children that went through the fiery furnace and God protected them. But no, you aren't redeemed from persecution.

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You're redeemed from sickness, from disease, from poverty and on and on, but not persecution.

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So, Peg on uh Facebook, she kind of had the same kind of question. So, it was how did the disciples come to such terrible ends with these promises?

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Because they aren't redeemed from persecution, right? And again, the logic behind it is if God just like like say for instance killed every person that was going to persecute you, he loves those people. He doesn't want to destroy them. And I

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believe that that's the reason that we go through persecution because you know when the Lord appeared unto Paul or at that time he was Saul on the road to Damascus. He in Acts chapter nine he said Saul Saul it's hard for you to kick

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against the pricks. And some people, you know, that's a terminology that we don't use a lot. But if you go back to Acts chapter 7 when uh Stephen was testifying and giving his defense before the elders, it says they were pricricked in

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their heart. And it was talking about they were convicted. And when he says, "Saul, Saul, it's hard for you to kick against the pricks." Saul was convicted by seeing Stephen make this defense and then ask God to forgive the very people

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that were stoning him to death. And so God used the persecution of Stephen to actually uh prick Saul's heart and he got born again and because of it wrote half of the New Testament and all of these good things came out of it. God is

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not going to take away persecution. All right. Um so I've never heard that before. That's amazing. I always wondered the same thing. Good. So you answered my question.

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So you're learning something. I am learning. Praise the Lord. So, Reapacheep on chat on chat says, "How do you speak forth?" I think when you were talking about the all promises are voice activated, how do you speak forth if you

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can't talk? I don't know. Why can't you talk? Say somebody that's deaf, they can't quite speak. Or maybe somebody that's mute.

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You know what? I've not really thought about that. The first thing I'd do is get you healed so you could talk.

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Amen. But I I'm sure that the Lord would deal with you based on what you can do, not what you can't do. If a person physically could not talk, I'm sure that you believing you could still activate and

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receive these things. Praise God. So, did we stump you, Ben? Well, I don't know that I'm stumped.

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It's just something I've never thought about. I had a man one time who couldn't talk. He didn't have any vocal cords.

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His father brought him and he wanted me to pray for him. So I prayed for him and I tried to get him to talk and he had opened his mouth and nothing had come out. He couldn't make a single sound. He

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was like 25, 30 years old. And u I said, "Do you have the baptism of the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues?" And he shook his head no because he couldn't talk. So I laid hands on him and prayed

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for him and he just immediately started speaking in tong. No way. And he didn't have any vocal cords. So anyway, if I was talking to you and if you couldn't talk, I'd get you healed and then tell you to start confessing

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the word. That's what I start confessing Psalms 91. That's right. Praise the Lord. Okay, so uh McKenzie on chat, she has asked, "I've heard teaching quote unquote abiding is obeying.

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Does that mean if we aren't obeying then God won't protect us?" Well, that's a good question and it's not got a simple answer. You don't have to obey 100% in order to receive. If you did, nobody would receive anything because all of us

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have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And technically speaking, God does not move in your life based on your performance. He moves in your life through your faith in what Jesus did.

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And so I agree. I believe that. But at the same time, if you are willfully just disobeying God, like say for instance, he told you to be faithful to your mate and you don't like your mate and so

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you're just shacking up with somebody else and you're living in total disobedience. That doesn't mean that God hates you. It doesn't mean that God's forsaken you. But it does mean like Romans chapter 6:16 says, "Know ye not that to whom you yield yourself servants

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to obey, his servants you are, to whom you obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness." So if you go out and just are living a life of willful rejection and disobedience to the Lord, you have just opened up your

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arms and invited the devil to come in, steal, kill, and to destroy. And if that's so, well, then you aren't going to see Psalms chapter 91 work. So yes, there does need to be obedience, but don't come under this thing that somehow

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or another by obeying the Lord, you are somehow or another earning these blessings. No, you get everything through Jesus. But you can't be saying, Jesus, I love you and I want all of these things and at the same time

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embracing the devil over here. They're in opposite directions. And so if you are living a willful uh life of rebellion towards God and loving the things of the devil, you are hurting yourself and you're just giving Satan inroad that's going to hinder the

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blessings of God in your life. So that kind of leads into Tammy uh on Facebook. Her question says, "So then uh why are there Christians that die from sudden accidents?" It's kind of the same line.

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Well, there's multiple things involved. I I believe that if you were walking in Psalms 91, God would protect you of accidents and it's happened to me. I've actually had God I was getting on a plane one time and the Lord told me not

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to get on and I didn't get on and every person on the plane died.

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I've had other stories like that. There's a man Steve Green who was a singer and I mean super popular, wrote a bunch of really strong Christian um songs and stuff and he and I forget how many of his kids but a number of his

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kids were on a plane and his wife Melanie told him that she had had a dream, don't get on this plane. It's u it's you're going to be hurt. And she warned him.

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The pilot told him not to do it and he just said no. and they were over uh loaded and they weren't able to get off the runway and it killed him, the pilot and all of these kids. I think like four

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of his kids if I'm not mistaken. And somebody says, "Well, then why did God let that happen?" Well, God told him.

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Yeah. Gave his wife a dream and he knew better. The pilot told him not to do it and yet he didn't obey it. Again, if I believe that if we're dwelling in the secret place, the Lord will speak to you

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like me. Don't get on that plane. the Lord will tell you not to do something.

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And but does everybody obey that? No. And because of that, I believe that you do have Christians who really love God and are great people, but they just aren't listening as they should. I believe that God would warn us against

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things that are accidents. Now, again, persecution and people uh arresting you and, you know, crucifying you as they did Peter and things like that. I'm not sure that you can avoid all of those things, but accidents, you could totally

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avoid them or or be protected through them if you were walking in Psalms 91.

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That's why you need to get you're teaching how to hear God's voice, right? Amen. Very good plug.

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Hey, I'm doing my best. So, Judy on Facebook says, "So, what is the extent of my dwelling? Can I believe that my children, parents, or friends are part of my dwelling? I think you can influence other people, but you cannot

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take total responsibility for them. Now, if it's a young child that hasn't yet got to the place that they are willfully accepting or rejecting the Lord, I think you have 100% control over them. But as that child grows, uh you have to start

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relinquishing control to them. And you cannot control another person with your faith. And there's a lot of Christians that believe that you can. They will take Psalms chap I mean not Psalms Acts chapter 16:31 where the Philippian jailer says sers what must I do to be

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saved and they said believe on the Lord and thou shalt be saved and thy house and they will just say see you can right there claim your house for salvation no that's not saying that you can get them

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saved off of your faith it's just you believe on the Lord and you'll be saved and if your house will believe on the Lord they'll be saved but you can't you can't dictate salvation to your husband to your wife to your children, to your

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friends, your relatives. You you can't do that. A lot of people will teach it, but you can't do it. If you could do it, well, then Jesus uh was negligent in not teaching us that. And that's contrary to

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what the scripture says. Over in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, Paul was talking to the wives about that didn't have believing husbands. And it says, "How do you know, oh wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or how do you know,

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oh husband, whether you shall save your wife?" He didn't say you can claim your husband or your wife and you can guarantee their salvation. No, all you can do is live a godly life in front of them and through your prayer you can

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release um conviction towards them. You can bind the devil and the demonic powers that influence them, but they have more authority over them than you do. And say for instance, you're praying for an unsaved person. You can bind the

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devil and command reason to come and all of a sudden their mind will clear up.

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God will go to speaking to them. But if they reject it, well then you got to pray the same thing again tomorrow because they rejected that prayer and they have more authority over them than you do.

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All right. Praise God. Okay. Um so now we are with Carol on Facebook. Uh just kind of shifting a little bit, but it's all within Psalms 91. She says, "I am a nurse, so I see sickness all the time."

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She says, "How do I get sickness out of my mind?" You know, that's hard, Carol. And I've I've actually had people who are in the medical profession, and they are the hardest people to get healed because they've had it ground into them that

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when you see this physical symptom, that means this is going to happen. And it is so much a part of them that they just can't get beyond it. It's like, I can't believe I've seen people die from this.

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How do I deal with this? And the only way that I know to do it is 2 Corinthians 10:es 3-5 says, "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down

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of strongholds, casting down of imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." You do have the spiritual weapons to take those thoughts captive, but it's it's

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going to take a lot of effort on your part. And the way that I do it is when something begins to occupy my thinking and I begin to start thinking and being drawn that way contrary to what I know

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in scripture, I will just turn off everything. I will focus exclusively on the word and just overdose on the word to counter that. It's the only way I know how to do it. You can't just say, "I'm going to do quality time." You've

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got to do quantity time to be able to counter all of the stuff. And medical people have been so grounded in a certain way of things going that it just takes a lot of effort, but you can do

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it. Matter of fact, we got David Riffle, who is now the director of our practical government school, and he was a um chiropractor, and he heard me teach on it's God's will to be healed. and he started praying for his patients and he

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started seeing hundreds of people healed. He came to Bible school, graduated, and now he's back as one of the instructors in our practical government school. And I was just talking to him last night about how he he lays hands on people all the time,

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but it it was an effort for him to renew his mind. You know, you have an amazing teaching out there of keys to staying full of God, and you talk about an imagination and how that imagination can be vain. So I

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can see her as a nurse. It's a battle, right? To keep your mind from That's very good.

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Working against you. So keys to staying full of God. You guys need to get that.

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Amen. Very. We got room with time for one more. We got one more. Okay. So, um, David Lee on chat says, "Is meditating in God's word in our minds and hearts just as effective as speaking his word out loud?

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Should we do both?" I think we should do both. Meditation is really important and there's certainly times that you can't be speaking out loud all of the time. So meditation is important. I got I just happen to have a

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great teaching on that and I'm not by any means discounting that. But meditation is more about your heart and establishing your heart. Speaking is about taking authority over demons and over circumstances and things like that.

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So you need to do both. Matter of fact, in uh Joshua chapter 1 vers8, this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night, implying that part of meditation is speaking it over and over.

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You know, when you hear yourself say something, you hear differently when it's you speaking. Like I have you ever heard yourself on tape?

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Yeah, I don't like it. Well, most people don't. And it's because you know what? You hear you differently. You're hearing with your inner ear, but when you hear a recording of you, you're hearing it through the outside, the way everybody else hears

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it. But when you hear yourself, you're hearing it on an inner level that has a greater impact on you. So part of meditation is to speak forth the things you're meditating on and you hear it and it enters into your heart. Faith comes

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by hearing, even if it's your own mouth. Praise God. I'll watch my own program sometimes and I've had God speak to me through my own programs.

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That's awesome. Through hearing it. So that's awesome. You're a blessing, Julianne. Thank you for hosting tonight. We appreciate it.

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And thank you for joining us and being with us. And praise God, I pray that you will go study Psalms 91. Also, we still have people standing by at our phone center. The number is 71963511.

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