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And if you could see in the spirit realm, you will see something that came from way over somewhere somewhere else with the same objective. We're going to eat against anybody who has the trauma of being raped, the trauma against molestation, the trauma of being having a baby out of wedlock, the trauma of even slavery or indentured servantthood, which is poverty. Every time you put your hands to something, it gets snatched from up under you. Them swarming locust are all around you. You may see somebody in your family with a whole bunch of little ones around them just crawling around, crawling around.
But your ground, your good ground, but from your ground, we're like trees planted by the river of water, which is the word who produces fruit. Our branches come out. What do you think is eating on those branches? >> Okay. Come on, ladies and gentlemen. You are now tuned in to Ja's Mike, home of the world's toughest leaders. It's a pleasure to have you today. I'm excited because I got somebody I've been wanting to have on this platform since before I even met my wife. Okay? This phenomenal spirit that I met at Starbucks.
And when I tell you in our first interaction, I just knew that this was a powerful woman of God. She poured into me. She gave me words of confirmation. And in the future, I would end up meeting her again as she prophesied to myself and my wife. And today, I have the privilege and the honor of introducing you all to the one and only Yolanda. And she has a message for you today. And the title of this message, my leader, is preventing future trauma. trauma.
The reason why we're even speaking about this, Yolanda will go deeper into it, is there are things going on right now, she's going to really get into the root of things that tend to grow that cause us to not be healed and cause us to not be delivered. And I want y'all to know if we're going to move to where God wants us to move in this next season, we're going to have to heal from the trauma. So, I have a special guest. So, without further ado, my leaders, I introduce you to Yolanda. [Music] [Music] Bless the Lord, my leaders. I am so happy to be before you on today.
One of the things that God has ensured is that we would move from glory to glory. And in order for us to do that, we have to make sure that what's going on on the inside of us is steady and steadfast being pruned by him. He chastised those that he love. And then he provides correction, protection, and even more information. With the information, he tells us to not only just get information, but have an understanding of that information. With that understanding, there comes some revelation with that understanding.
And in in that that helps us to be able to pray and move accordingly to continually annalate every kind of stronghold, chain or preventive measure or even assignment from hell that continuously comes against those of us who are in the body of Christ. My leaders, again our topic today is preventing future trauma. I am Minister Yolanda Gunter and today I want to ensure that we think on the things of God.
Not just so much of what's on the outside, but with us being in him that we also think of how he is housed on the inside of us and what it takes to keep the enemy from having any cause to prevent his movement on the inside of us so we can be even more effective outside of the four walls of the church and in the world and do exactly what Jesus told us to do. Before he ascended to heaven, he told us to go. And before we can do that, we got to make sure our goal is straight.
We make sure we have gas in our car and our brakes are made done right. We have our oil changed before we travel and go do anything. We make sure we have the snacks that we need before a road trip and the clothes, our toothbrushes. We make sure we have our hair stuff, our bonnets if you're a woman or a man even. We make sure we have all of these things in place. But when it comes to the spirit realm, we like the lolly gag. No, baby. Today we're going to pack up.
We're going to pack all our essentials, what we need on the inside of us so that trauma, trauma, past and present, cannot move into our future. future. >> The word is going to be coming from Joel 1 and4. Now, you can look it up on any version that you want because it doesn't really matter. It's still the word of God. Whatever version is good for you. Mine is always the King James version. And we're also going to be coming from Joel 2 and 25. Now I want you all to read that for yourselves. And what we're going to be discussing are four destructive pests.
And these pests attach to us in the spirit realm and their whole point is to destroy. Now we know the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. We also know that in this word in Joel 1:44 and Joel 2 and25, it is stated that these are God's great armies. armies. But then let's not get sidetracked. God still gives us authority to combat against anything that contends with us. He even contends with whatever contends with us. So we have authority. And just like hell may have a cause, we have the authority and the cause to say, God, no, I am walking in the abundance that you promised me.
So in the name of Jesus, we are going to command each and every one of these pests, these destructive pests to stay off of us. >> The food is trauma. Hell sets up situations and circumstances inside of your past so that you can walk and live traum. traum. But Jesus came to give us life and give us life more abundantly. So that includes freedom from trauma. But first you have to be able to recognize it.
So as we walk and ask God to forgive us of our sins, as we forgive those who sinned against us, we also need to ask God to allow us to move in grace with ourselves for self forgiveness. forgiveness. >> And when we're doing that, we allow the Holy Spirit to remind us of situations and circumstances that are so traumatic that we've repressed them and pushed them down so low that we didn't even forgot it happened. Well, I can bet you hell hasn't forgotten. And while hell hasn't forgotten, hell still has a cause.
The cause to prevent you from moving and living in a life that's abundant that Christ has already promised you. Now, one of the pests that we see in Joel 1:4 and Joel 2:25 is the locust. locust. >> The other one is the cankerorm, the caterpillar, and the palmer worm. And I'm going to use my notes because we're going to show how each one of these pests can actually be applied to a season in our lives. And we have to destroy them. And why do we have to destroy them? Because God promises a restoration. restoration. >> Yeah. >> Of those pests.
So we use our authority to get them off of us and keep them off of us. And not just us, but our entire bloodline. We get them off. We keep them off. We ask the Holy Spirit to be the pesticide that we need to get them off of us. If you could open up your eyes and see spiritually, you will see a swarm of locust coming at you, swarming, devouring, I mean swarming all around you. You would see those locust around certain people and they'll be going through hell at the moment. I mean, they come in and they come in fast and they have their own cycle.
Do you not know? You should study it. Just like in science, so in the spirit realm, a locust can lay dormant for 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 years in a soil. And when the conditions is right, it'll hatch. >> Yeah. >> Are you not soil? Are you not good ground? Haven't you considered yourself as good ground? Well, and considering yourself as good ground, you're soil. And if you can see with your eyes, you can see where the enemy done planted a locust lava, a egg, and it's just waiting for the right condition.
So the hell that we are not going to use as imps to create situations and circumstances, most likely through human beings and sometimes through our flesh. That's why we have to kill the flesh. >> Yeah. >> And keep it dead. So you don't make actions happen where you're walking in rebellion and then the enemy has a cause. Remember the devil is legalistic and he does not care. He will find any kind of means necessary to continue to interrupt your life. But we're going to put a stop to that.
I got some scriptures for you and some promises to help us put a stop to that after we learn about these locusts, about the caterpillar, about the cankerorm, and about the palmer. We are not going to continue to be devoured from, destroyed, and set down to live and sit in the unproductiveness of trauma. trauma. >> And when we see what's on our hearts that we need to forgive ourselves for, we will allow the Holy Spirit to bring up. We don't say, "Oh, I rebuke that thought blah." No, you're mature enough to handle it now cuz you are a leader.
And as a leader, you don't just intercede for others, you intercede for yourself. This is about self-care. And this is also about self-preservation. This is not about selfishness. When you get on a plane, the first thing they tell you to do is put the oxygen mask on yourself. yourself. >> So this today, we're putting the oxygen mask on ourselves. Now, when this locust come, it swarms and it starts eating everything, destroying every single thing in its path, in its path. The baby locust, they're born, they form, they don't even have wings yet. But wherever they go and they hop, they eating. They're hungry.
From the time they hatch until they're able to get their eyes straight and get those legs moving, they hopping and they're eating. They're devouring whatever they can reach until they mope and they stay still for just a little while and then they emerge with wings and then they have the capability to fly in swarms and not just walk along the ground but then go up in the air and move across territories. Now, if you could see in the spirit realm, you would see something that came from way over somewhere somewhere else with the same objective.
We're going to eat against anybody who has the trauma of being raped, the trauma against molestation, the trauma of being having a baby out of wedlock, the trauma of even slavery or indentured servantthood, which is poverty. Every time you put your hands to something, it gets snatched from up under you. Them swarming locust are all around you. But we're going to ask the Holy Spirit right now in the name of Jesus to be pesticide. Holy Spirit fire come down and defeat and tear up this the whole swarm. We see nothing but Holy Spirit blue fire going around and around and around and around till all of the locusts are gone.
Oh, but that's not it. Because that great army, that's God's great army that God is going to restore us from from the inside out in the spirit realm. Well, it has a friend. >> It's called the caterpillar. >> Good. >> Now, we love caterpillars. They just as cute. They fuzzy. Some of them are not. They even turn into monarch butterflies, and we just think they're cute. But if you could see in the spirit realm that caterpillar is crawling around you. You may have a whole bunch of little ones. You may see somebody in your family with a whole bunch of little ones around them just crawling around. Crawling around.
But your ground, your good ground. But from your ground, we're like trees planted by the river of water, which is the word who produces fruit. Our branches come out. What do you think is eating on those branches? If it ain't the locust, it's the caterpillar. because it has to eat. When you look at any National Geographic film, you see the caterpillar eating. It is eating. But we're not going to continue to let the caterpillar destroy our branches. Cuz some of those branches need to develop so fruit can come from them.
>> How can you produce fruit when your branches, when they're seedlings, when they just fresh branches are being ate up by a caterpillar? >> Yeah. Yeah, >> more or less a swarming locust >> which garden already destroyed. Now let's think about childhood trauma. Anything when it comes back up inside your mind and you know you forgot about that, you thought that was done and over. We're not rebuking those thoughts because of the maturity level that you in my leader. You have got to allow yourself to see it for what it is and allow the Holy Spirit to heal you on the inside from it.
How can he heal you if it's not exposed? >> Good. >> Wounds have to be exposed in order for them to get cleaned out. Wounds have to be exposed in order for the cells to be able to regroup and regenerate. >> They can't stay under a bandage. >> Yeah. >> Because there might be some infection growing in there. It has to be cleaned out. The infection right now is the caterpillar. caterpillar. We got to get those things destroyed. We can't let those caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies. Because if you haven't noticed, the butterflies, they eat, too. They are munching the whole time. Yeah, man. Those butterflies are beautiful.
Even the little yellow ones that flutter around the flowers and stuff. And oh, you just think they're so cute. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they're eating. They're devouring. They're preventing any kind of leaf that forms to turn into a branch that starts a piece of fruit from even happening. So, Holy Spirit fire, we thank you that you are pesticide and you're coming after that caterpillar. Oh, yes, you are. Now, it could be slow unnoticed drains on your life, that childhood trauma. But when the Lord brings it up to your remembrance so that you do notice it, that's so that you can destroy it.
You can destroy what it did, how it happened, and then where it came from in your bloodline. And then where you may see married or not, how it can happen to your children or how you can marry somebody and trauma bond cuz you need to be able to recognize in the spirit trauma in other people. people. >> That's why we date so we can get to know a person, talk to them and let them be open about what it is that has happened inside their lives and then we can lead them to be healed. Yeah.
>> And if it's a situation that you cause for yourself, then move in self forgiveness. Cuz when you forgive yourself, then the Holy Spirit can really do the deep work. Cuz it's hard to forgive ourselves for what we've caused ourselves. >> But if we done it in ignorance and we didn't know, we would press that thing so far down that it's only the act of the Holy Spirit that when we come to him and we admit that we wrong, we sinners and everything else. Okay. Well, we admit that we when we were young, we were ignorant. We admit that we didn't know no better.
We admit that we put ourselves in situations that we don't have no way of getting ourselves out of. >> But when we call on the name of God, he hears us and he heals us. >> When we apply the blood of Jesus to any wound within our bloodline, it becomes pure. It becomes healed. So by the name of Jesus, all things are set in order. By the name of Jesus, those caterpillars and they butterflies when they in the cocoon, oh, they just they just revving up. They revving up to emerge. They even take time to dry out. We not giving them no time. We burning the caterpillar.
We burning the lava. We burning the cocoons. And we burning the butterflies. We not entertaining pretty butterflies. butterflies. We're not doing any of that. And if you have a butterfly tattoo on you, okay, we understand that. But apply the blood of Jesus over it because it means something more than that. A lot of us were saying we've emerging or we evolved because of trauma. >> Go back and visit that. The whole reason why you got the tattoo, >> go back and visit that. It's not a bad thing. You did what you could with your flesh. flesh. >> Yeah. >> And with what is the world had given you.
Now let's allow the Holy Spirit to fix it. Yeah. >> Let's allow the Holy Spirit to pull that thing up by the root >> and destroy it. We're preventing future trauma trauma >> by taking care of what's already there and repressed from the past and for the present. I don't care if you went through something last week. We're giving it to the Holy Spirit because we will not have no lava. No lava from not even a Palmer worm. A palmer worm is a root destroyer. >> Come on. >> Now, it targets the very roots of plants and then it ensures that no regrowth is possible.
So, we talking about after the locust done already bit off stuff and after the caterpillar done already bit off stuff, here goes the Palmer worm. >> And it prevents the regrowth. Oh, no. We growing in God. >> Amen. We growing in God and we growing with God. We're going to grow and increase in the anointing in our lives. Not so much to preach, but to prepare ourselves for whatever it is hell thinks it's going to present to us. >> Amen. >> We're going to see those traumas when they come.
We're going to be able to discern the motives of men and women around us so that we're not offended by it. it. Who else would be better able to understand that person and where they coming from? Even though their motives, if hell bound, even though their motives are ill, >> ill will towards us, they can't help it. We're not fighting against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers in high places. Yeah, >> if you could see in the spirit realm, you would see that Palmer worm crawling around them and then jumping over into your soil because the caterpillar and the locust is gone.
So, it's saying what it's a possibility of some regrowth. So, hell just picks it up, puts it over on you. It says something to you that you don't like like and you're offended. You got a Palmer worm on you now. But we're preventing all of that because we're not going to allow the enemy to stunt our regrowth. >> If we rededicating our life to Christ, we got to regrow. We don't go back to where we was in Christ. We go in an elevated place. We elevate. And as we elevate, we're thinking on new levels. We're looking back at how the enemy had us to backslide. >> Yeah.
>> And we're saying, "No, we're not doing that anymore. You can't fool me that way. way. >> Come on. >> But you got to remember, hell is very subtle and very, very intelligent. Hell has hierarchies. >> Yeah. >> You think the army or the navy or the marines or the United States government has hierarchies? Baby, it's a whole kingdom. >> Yeah, >> my leader, we cannot allow ourselves to be naive to think that because we gave our life to Christ one time, that's all we need to do. No, baby. You want to render that heart every single day because these caterpillars, they're not playing. Them locust, they weren't playing.
You seen your whole life turn around around and then it's a continual cycle. But you never did get past it. There was no regrowth cuz it's a palmer worm that's eating on you. Not allowing you to regrowth. Not allowing you to continue and produce more fruit or regrow those fruits and those branches or those leaves that we're going to produce much fruit. And it's not the pruning of the Lord. Don't get it twisted. >> Come on. >> This is the devouring of a destructive pest because of trauma and offenses.
We're not going to worry about if the person that brought the offense that let them have a millstone wrapped around in that. We're not worrying about that. We'll let Jesus take care of that because he already said it's as if a millstone they should. It would be better if they did. But we're not going to move in that because he didn't already died on the cross and came back and gave us life more abundantly. And the same grace that he gave us, that's the same grace we're going to give to those that offend us. But we're we're preventing future trauma.
So when the offense come, we see it and we're like, "Oh, you listening to the Holy Spirit cuz you've been watering the word inside of you. You've been watering the seed of the word inside of you and there's some regrowth that already started and you're not supposed to accept no palmer worms in the spirit on your body. You're not supposed to accept it back in your heart. heart. >> You're definitely not f to accept it to get to the root and start eating and destroying your roots so you won't grow. Without a root system, you're not your branches ain't going too far. >> Come on.
>> You need a root system. When you propagating your plants, the first thing you have to do is get the root system started. When you see those roots, that's when you pick it up out of the water or the propagation uh unit that you're using and then you put it in a bigger plant or a bigger pot holder, a bigger pot holder so that it can grow so it can go ahead and get tall and the roots will have room to spread. But baby, the Palmer worm is after those roots. What did God tell you the first time?
Go back to what he told you the first time and go do what he told you the first time >> because that's still up in heaven. That's still up in the air. There's no anointing on it because you haven't activated it. But we're not allowing the palmer worm to tear up our roots. >> Come on. >> We're applying the Holy Spirit fire. We're saying the water of the word that we are like a tree planted by like a by a river. >> We are like the palm tree. No matter how the wind blow, baby, we may bend, but we don't break. >> Amen. >> Cuz our roots are deep.
>> Amen. >> Our roots are wide. We're not getting blowned over like a oak tree. God ain't told us nothing about no oak tree. He said we just planted like a tree. >> Yeah. >> By a river. If anything, he used palm trees as an example. example. And ain't so much of what kind of tree are you? It don't matter. Where's your roots? roots? >> Yeah. >> Are you watering with the river of the word? Are you opening your Bible, your Bible app? Are you writing down what the Lord is saying to you in the mornings, throughout the day? Are you spending time?
Have you found a prayer line, your own line anywhere you scroll through Tik Tok? Have you found a consistent prayer line to get on to set your alarm on and get on and pray every morning before you start your day? Water your roots. Yeah. >> Water your roots. Cuz when you apply that water of the word on your roots, baby, there's no way a palmer worm is going to stay in that Holy Spirit fire. >> Good. >> So, Holy Spirit, we command in the name of Jesus that you go out.
We allow you room and space to burn, burn amongst the roots that we have that where the root of your word is in our hearts. It's written on the tablet of our heart. and burn out all the burn out every last one of those palmer worms in the name of Jesus. And it is so. >> Amen. >> It is so. It is so. Now, these can represent attacks that cut deep, childhood trauma, spiritual, generational, or foundational destruction. destruction. These are when the enemy attacks your identity, your faith, or your core values.
Again, when you rededicate your life to Christ, you need to pay attention to how you got off in the first place. How did you get off track, the Palmer Worm came after your roots of salvation? Came after when you called yourself giving your life to Christ. Well, we going to see. We going to see. So, he done set up situation and circumstance after situation and circumstance. Or you thought they was a friend or you thought Sister Watermelon was cool and they did this. Well, I don't even like going to church no more. Baby, we cutting out all of that. We're not going to church to be prompted by people.
We're going to church to lift our hands and praise God. >> We're going to church to worship and to get some water from the word. >> Amen. >> Remember, human beings are all fallible, including you, my leader. The same grace that saved you is the same grace you have to administer to every human being that you come in contact with, contact with for the rest of your life. Because what you're not going to do is allow a palmer to continue to eat away at you at your roots, at your core value out for who you are. >> Yeah.
>> If molestation happened to you, well, all you need to do is thank God that you survived. Now, Father, show me how to forgive and then forgive myself for allowing, not allowing your word, but allowing the enemy to continue to replay it to keep me from bringing it up and before you. Cuz I'm bringing it up before you now, Jesus, and I need you to heal me. Go get therapy. Do whatever it is you need to do so that the root work of the enemy cannot continue through the palmer worm and eating at your roots. >> Do what it is that you need to do.
Now the last one is the canker worm. This is a slow eater. H it consumes vegetation gradually destroying over time those raggedy friendships that you just will not let go. >> Y'all went to elementary school together. Y'all went to high school together. Baby, we're we're not in high school anymore. And if you are in high in high school, but you see how people change and switch up. Start asking Jesus for new friends. Get your hand like this open. Cuz if you keep your hand closed, this is my friend. This is my friend. This is my friend. How is God going to give you new friends when your hands is closed?
You can't receive nothing with your hand closed. Your hand got to be open. So open up your hand. Open up your hand and fellowship. Be nice to other people so people can be nice to you and you can have friends. Don't be so guarded. >> Yeah. >> It's okay. How are you going to learn? If you could see in the spirit realm, you would see the cankerorm crawling around your room. >> You got branches of love just reaching into your room where you where you sleep at. branches of holiness, branches of opportunity, opportunity, >> branches on the job. There's a there's a whole big old plant growing from your desk.
desk. >> Branches in your school system, where you going to school at, where you study at, where you're going to pursue a higher education. There's branches just trees flourishing. And here's an old canker worm just chewing over time. You don't notice it because it's been ongoing. It's generational. It's been ongoing. That old friendship, you need to let that go. You know, it's not feeding into who you're growing into being in Christ. It's not watering you. It's not You're not getting no revelation from it or nothing. And you're just for the sake of keeping them pleased when it's not pleasing you.
You're accessible to them, but but they're not accessible for you. That's not friendship. Friendship is about reciprocation. >> Yeah. >> When we're friends with Christ, the friendships in Christ are about, "Can you pray for me? I need you to pray for me." And they say, "Oh, well, I I'll pray for you." That's not your friend, babe. Because a real friend will be like, "Okay, well, let's pray right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, bam, bam, >> we come against the enemy over their lives in the name of Jesus. Not nothing that they put their hands to will fail in the name of Jesus. They're going to pray instantly.
And all you have to do is be friendly and allow the Holy Spirit to present people to you. >> Sharpen your discernment by learning God's character. If you know in Galatian 5 it tells you what the fruit of the flesh is, then you'll be able to recognize when people are moving in their flesh. And quit putting expecties on people that you won't put on yourself. >> Yeah, that's the pastor. But the pastor is also a husband or a wife, a father or a mother. They might work. If you're not a toddler, they sure work. You don't give no offering. They got a job too. So they bocational.
They may be in management at their work. So they not only dealing with sheep at the church, but they also dealing with people being people at the job and they managing that. Give them grace. The same grace that God has given you when he brought you to himself to save you, to clean you, to to get you ready and steady steady and then walk without a chip on your shoulder. You ain't arrived. Don't nobody care how gifted you are. What point does it make and you don't have no fruit? fruit? >> What difference does it make if you got a whole canker worm eating around you?
What difference does it make? >> It's slowly just eating, eating, eating, and you don't even notice it. old past relationships where you reminisce on how it used to be is just eating eating eating eating eating away from you eating away from you any possibility of growth cuz you're drawing back when you should be progressing and moving forward. God said to move run that race run the race run the race. Are they running backwards in a race? No, they're not. They're running forward in a race. So run the race. Run to get to the finish line. and you're moving forward. You're not moving backwards.
So, we're preventing any future trauma by allowing the word to be so far inside of us that we understand grace, unmmerited favor. We understand the grace that's been bestowed upon us. That's the same grace we need to apply to others. And we need to be able to discern what's for us and what's not. And then make ourselves friendly. friendly. That's just moving in the fruits of the spirit and of spirit. That's just putting on your whole armor. Putting on your helmet of salvation so your mind is right. >> Get into church. Get into worship and worship him and thank him. And it don't matter what nobody else is doing.
Don't nobody care whose life are you saving by worrying about somebody else. >> It don't matter that so so and so didn't come to church. That's not that's not where it's at. You're in church. So you pay attention to the word. You get your stuff together and get ready to write your notes. >> Yeah. >> Be listening for the word of God. >> Because it might be that word on that Sunday Sunday to prepare you for what's coming on Monday or even later while you on your way home from church. >> Yeah. >> Don't let the canker worm be in your car just chewing off of you.
Sitting on the passenger side just chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing. You just barely got a new leaf and it you just got out of church. You got a whole leaf growing and it not already chewed that leaf right on back right on back down to a nub. And it was going to be the most fruitful branch. branch. But you have got to make sure that you don't allow offenses, however they come, >> to be so established on the inside of you because you done set these expectations of people that you don't even put on yourself. mind your own spiritual business.
The Bible says that we should be working out our own salvation with fear and trembling. trembling. >> And anywhere, I mean, you can go and replay the parts where I've said the Bible says. Go and Google where the Bible says, where I said the Bible said, so you can find a word for yourself. Everybody's not going to always give you where the scripture is because you need to study. >> Yeah. >> For yourself. Make yourself approved unto God. Don't just believe me. Go back, replay it, and then pause it and then go Google it and find out what the words say. >> So that your root system can be healthy.
So that when a canker worm come up to bring up some past and then try to make you offended because that happened to you before, you're not offended anymore. You know what it is? Oh, that's a canker worm. Got to go. That's a canker worm. The blood of Jesus. >> Come on. >> That's a canker worm. Holy Spirit, fire, burn this canker worm out. Because remember, every last one of these pests, they have cycles or they have a life cycle. Some of them are all year round.
Again, the locust can lay dormant 20, 40 years, a whole generation and then come up and come out and in every area of the life cycle, they are consuming. They are chewing. They are breaking things down. They are destroying along the way. But we're not going to continue to allow that because now the enemy has been exposed. >> Yeah. >> The thief has been found out according to Proverbs 6:30 and 31. Now, we don't despise a thief when they steal cuz they hungry. But we also are mindful that the enemy, the devil, roams around like a lion, seeking whom he can destroy. Yeah. >> Seeking whom he can devour.
just like these four pests. But the promise is in verse 31 of Proverbs 6 is that when the thief is found out, it has to return sevenfold what it stole. Even it even if it depletes its entire substance or existence. So if all of hell is banked up because it has to restore sevenfold all that it has stolen from you, we want the tinker to throw up. release. Throw it up. >> We want the locust to throw it up. We want the palmer worm to throw it up. >> We want the caterpillar to throw it up. All up. All of it. Throw it up. Regurgitate all of it. Earth.
Open up and throw up all that has been stolen because they have internal systems >> and when they eat it goes through their system and they eliminate waste and it's left on the earth. We want all of that back sevenfold in the name of Jesus >> to be manifested in our time and in our grandchildren's our children's time, our grandchildren's time and our great-grandchildren's time cuz you're not going to live long enough to receive all of that. All of that restoration, all that restitution, all of that recompense from Jehovah Gamola. You're not going to be able to receive all of it. it.
So prepare yourself by allowing the Holy Spirit access to your heart fully so that you can see areas where there was a exboyfriend, exgirlfriend, ex-husband where your children's other parent has been in your life and it didn't work out and it was toxic. Not only forgive them, but forgive yourself. yourself. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> a lot of us we blame ourselves. Well, we're done blaming ourselves. Now we're asking for forgiveness of ourselves. And we're giving ourselves forgiveness. We're moving in that same grace. And we're forgiving ourselves.
And we're allowing the Holy Spirit to give us the robust provision that that sevenfold return of all that the enemy has stolen for us establishes. Robust provision, sustained breakthrough. There's no other way to get it. It requires a deep work. >> Yeah. >> So, if you could see with your spiritual eyes open these four pests and yourself as a tree, you would see even after this word, even after pausing and crying, get your tissue, blow your nose, whale out, do whatever you need to do, and then replay this word >> so you can allow the Holy Spirit to do a deep work. You would see your tree sturdy up. Yeah.
>> Just like a season change. And it's been raining. It's so green out here >> cuz it's been raining. So when you water yourself like the world, you'll be greener than these trees. Some of these trees got new leaves. Some of them even got berries and stuff on them. >> You will see yourself with new fruit growing out. >> You will see yourself with more love, fruits of the spirit. You will see yourself with more patience. You will see yourself being more gentle, more kind, more self-controlling. You're not popping off. You would see yourself moving more steadfastly to do and obey the word of God. >> Yeah.
>> You would see yourself becoming green and strong. First, that work will be down in the roots so you can get ready so your trunk, your core can be steady for growth and for those branches to go to go out and then you will see in the areas of your life where Jesus will come and correct you while you're growing and healing and you receive it. And that's just a little pruning. We're just going to take off a little bit over here because that branch is growing wild.
It's just a a belief system that no longer is in existence or can s can be sustained because your core is doing something different in Christ. If you could see in the spirit realm, there'll be no more bugs. There'll be a whole shield of faith. The swarm would come, but it wouldn't prosper. >> Yeah. It wouldn't be able to penetrate your shield shield cuz you're covered from the front, the top, the back, and on the right and on the left. You're covered because there's nothing better than praying for prevention and preventing future future trauma. We don't get saved to get back in trauma.
>> There's no such thing as church hurt. It is people peopleing in the church >> and causing you to be offended and then you making a decision. Oh, well, I'm not going to go to the church no more. When they offend you on your job, you still go back. >> So, how much more so do you need to take your hips back to the church? You don't have to necessarily apologize to anybody. Anybody done something to you, but you walk with your head up high and go back and get your word. Go back and get in your spot.
Go back and go learn and do what God called you to do. Enough of that excuse with church hunting. That's why I don't go to the church anymore. Okay. Well, let the pest continue to eat on you. >> Yeah. >> And then stay away from other people who are doing the work that needs to be done. So your pest won't be transferring over to them cuz you offended and you want to base your opinion off of what you see that you could be doing, but your inefficiencies are keeping yourself from doing what it is that God has called you to do.
So, you're talking to somebody else who's doing the work that they need to do do >> that they're preventing future traumas. >> Yeah. >> And you're talking to them and being so decisive about what it is that you want to do and literally almost causing discord because now they're thinking, >> well, you know, here comes a a worm coming into the start chewing and remind them of something somebody did a long time ago. So, now they're on paranoid at their own church. And then the enemy goes move through another human being after you done sew a seed of discord. >> Yeah.
>> Stay away from other people then if you're not going to do the work. >> Yeah. >> Stay to yourself. Well, I just watch online. Okay. If that's what you want to do, then do whatever it is you want to do. But I bet you won't do that deep work so you can prevent future trauma. you traumatized now, but we're doing what we can to give you the word, my leader, so that you can do what it is to stay set free. So you can walk in robust provision, so you can have sustained breakthrough. Cuz don't nobody love you like Jesus love you.
>> Nobody loves you like Jesus love you. And nothing can separate you from the love of God according to Romans 8. Nothing. Nothing. >> Yeah. So whether you thinking in your mind or or or or set in your heart, no sweetie, not even that is making God back off. >> Yeah. >> Cuz he'll continue to send people around you so that you can move and do the necessary root work inside your heart to prevent future trauma. >> Yeah. >> God bless you. And as God continue to work on you and you accept this word and you say to yourself, Jesus, I'm ready to do the deep work.
I'm mature enough because I'm even listening to this podcast. podcast. Give me the grace to be able to do the even deeper work that you're calling me to do because I see this podcast. >> I'm not seeing this podcast or hearing this podcast by coincidence. There's a reason why this subject is before me right now today. Because I do need to do the deep work. I do need to let you be God fully inside of my heart. >> Amen. >> I need you to be my full savior, my whole the savior of my whole being. Not just the parts I want to give you, but all of me.
>> I give you all of me. get back to the heart of worship and allow the Lord to do what it is that he needs to do because we're doing everything we can to prevent future trauma. God bless you.
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