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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 1: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. But I'd

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 1: this mother and one Sunday morning, she went in her

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Speaker 1: son's bedroom said, son, wake up, it's time to go

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Speaker 1: to church. Son said, no, Mom, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: church today. She said why not? He said, I'll give

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Speaker 1: you two good reasons. Number one, I don't like the people,

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Speaker 1: and number two, they don't like me. She said, all right, son,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you two better reasons why you should go.

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Speaker 1: Number one, you're forty nine years old, and number two,

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Speaker 1: you're the pastor. Listen you guys know oh I like

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Speaker 1: you and I know you like me. So here we go.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about invisible enemies. We all

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Speaker 1: have things come against us. People not treating us right,

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Speaker 1: or dealing with an illness or child is causing heartache.

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Speaker 1: We look in the world and see wrongs, injustice and evil.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to live frustrated and think this person is

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Speaker 1: the problem. I got to straighten them out. This group

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Speaker 1: is the enemy. They don't believe like me. We end

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Speaker 1: up fighting with people thinking they're the problem. But the

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Speaker 1: fact is the real enemy is invisible. Paul said in Ephesians,

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Speaker 1: our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but with

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Speaker 1: spirits without bodies, with the unseen rulers of darkness. Behind

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Speaker 1: the trouble, behind the turmoil is forces of darkness influencing

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Speaker 1: the person, causing them to do wrong. If you just

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Speaker 1: attack the person, the neighbor, the government, the group, you're

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Speaker 1: going to be frustrated. You're dealing with the symptoms, but

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Speaker 1: the source is where the issue is. You can't fight

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Speaker 1: a spiritual battle with physical weapons. Muscles don't matter to

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Speaker 1: an invisible enemy. Getting angry revenge, trying to make them

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Speaker 1: do right, that's just going to frustrate you. You have

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Speaker 1: to fight this battle in the unseen realm. The scripture

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Speaker 1: says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but

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Speaker 1: mighty through God. Carnal means physical or natural. Those weapons

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Speaker 1: don't affect the unseen. You have to use spiritual weapons.

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Speaker 1: You have the power were a prayer. You have the

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Speaker 1: name of Jesus, you have the word of God. You

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Speaker 1: can speak his promises over your situation. You have authority

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Speaker 1: to resist the enemy, not fight him. He's already defeated,

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Speaker 1: but you have to remind him of his defeat. And

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Speaker 1: instead of constantly arguing with your child and trying to

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Speaker 1: may have to do some of that. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: Instead of attacking your child, why don't you attack the

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Speaker 1: source forces of darkness? You will not have my child

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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. I command you to take

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Speaker 1: your hands off of him. That's doing battle where it matters,

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Speaker 1: that's attacking the invisible enemy. You have power over all,

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Speaker 1: the powers of darkness, but you have to use the

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Speaker 1: right weapons. Sometimes we're attacking the wrong things, attacking people.

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Speaker 1: The balls, my neighbor, these trouble makers, their behavior is

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Speaker 1: the symptom. There's something behind the scenes influencing them, causing

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Speaker 1: them to act out. As long as you're dealing with

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Speaker 1: It's a spiritual battle. Paul said in Ephesians, put on

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Speaker 1: the armor of God, so that in the evil day

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Speaker 1: you will be able to withstand the attacks of the enemy.

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Speaker 1: We're living in an evil day. There are forces trying

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Speaker 1: to take your peace, keep you from your dreams, confuse

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Speaker 1: your children. It's never been a time where there's so

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Speaker 1: much divisiveness and contention, people pushing agendas that are against

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Speaker 1: to get us all fighting each other, parents fighting children,

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Speaker 1: Don't be fooled by the invisible enemy. What you see

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Speaker 1: to change. Too often we're trying to fix the person,

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Speaker 1: straighten them out, defeat their agenda. That's a temporary fix.

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Speaker 1: You have to get to the source. The scripture says,

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Speaker 1: your spiritual weapons are mighty through God. Something powerful happens

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Speaker 1: when you pray, when you call out to God in

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Speaker 1: the unseen world, Angels go to work when you declare

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Speaker 1: his promises. Forces of darkness are pushed back when you

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Speaker 1: speak in the name of Jesus. Demons tremble, chains are broken,

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Speaker 1: miracles set into motion. That's fighting where it matters. And

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Speaker 1: I know we need to do things in the natural,

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Speaker 1: and of course use common sense, but the natural is

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Speaker 1: not enough. That's not where the real battle is. The

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Speaker 1: scripture talks about how before you were born, God knew

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Speaker 1: you and planned out your days. He's given you a

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Speaker 1: purpose to fulfill, an assignment to accomplish. But the moment

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Speaker 1: you were born, the enemy targeted you. He hassigned forces

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Speaker 1: to try to stop your destinies, keep you from stepping

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Speaker 1: into your greatness. And I don't say that to make

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Speaker 1: wonder why these things come against us, Why you feel

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Speaker 1: that nagging discouragement, why people are doing you wrong, why

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Speaker 1: you can't get a good break. That's the invisible enemy

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Speaker 1: trying to limit your life. The good news is he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be targeting you if he didn't know you were

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Speaker 1: a threat. He would leave you alone if you weren't

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Speaker 1: destined to leave your mark. The reason you have opposition

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Speaker 1: and you feel that pressure is because you're carrying something valuable.

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Speaker 1: You have such great attentional He knows you will do

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Speaker 1: damage to his kingdom, so he'll work over time trying

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Speaker 1: to hinder you, use people to get your discourage, circumstances

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Speaker 1: that aren't fair. Recognize what's happening. Those aren't battles you

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Speaker 1: can fight with natural weapons. That's the unseen enemy. Instead

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Speaker 1: of trying to fix it all by ordinary means, how

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Speaker 1: about declaring God's favor over your life. How about speaking

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Speaker 1: victory over your health, over your family, over your future.

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Speaker 1: How about thanking God that he's opening the right doors,

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Speaker 1: that he's bringing the right people. How about resisting the

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Speaker 1: enemy in the name of Jesus saying you have no

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Speaker 1: part in my life. I am God's property. Those are

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Speaker 1: the weapons that make a real difference. That's how to

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Speaker 1: deal with the root cause. When I was fourteen years old,

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Speaker 1: I broke my kneecap running trap. I fell and hit

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Speaker 1: And when they returned, my father came in and said, Joel,

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Speaker 1: Mother and I have been praying for you since the

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Speaker 1: time you were conceived. We've always spoken God's promises that

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Speaker 1: you'll do great things. God will give you wisdom and

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Speaker 1: protect you. But he said, Joel, now you're old enough

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Speaker 1: You have to stand against the darkness. You have to

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Speaker 1: declare God's promises. You have to use the name of

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Speaker 1: Jesus to resist the enemy. And from that day I

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Speaker 1: started doing it. I say every morning, Father, thank you

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Speaker 1: that no weapon formed against me or my family. Whatever prosper,

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Speaker 1: devil and demon forces, I command you to get out

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Speaker 1: of my path. I cancel every assignment of the enemy

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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, the authority in the unseen realm,

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Speaker 1: doesn't come from how good of a person you are,

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Speaker 1: The authority comes from the name of Jesus. That's the

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Speaker 1: name that causes demons to tremble. That's the name the

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Speaker 1: forces of darkness have to obey, the name that took

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Speaker 1: the keys of death and hell. Jesus said, I give

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Speaker 1: you all power, over all, the power of the enemy.

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Speaker 1: That's how you deal with his schemes and strategies. It's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily fighting people, circumstances, fighting physical things. It's standing

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Speaker 1: against these unseen forces. And yes, it's good to have

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Speaker 1: people pray for you and family members that stand in faith,

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Speaker 1: parents that declare God's blessing. But nothing is more powerful

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Speaker 1: than for you to resist the enemy, for you to

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Speaker 1: declare the promises over your life, for you to say

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Speaker 1: every morning, I cancel every assignment of the enemy. Today,

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Speaker 1: I serve you. Notice I am God's property. You have

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Speaker 1: authority as a believer, but it doesn't do you any

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Speaker 1: good if you're not using it. And sometimes we're using

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Speaker 1: our strength, our energy to fight people and they're doing

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Speaker 1: The truth is they're being influenced by forces of darkness.

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Speaker 1: with people, you're going to be frustrated. There was a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of trouble. Sometimes, like the bull, we're getting stuck, aggravated, annoyed.

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Speaker 1: sickness I'm dealing with. This group is so evil we

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Speaker 1: don't realize they're not the source. There's an invisible enemy

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Speaker 1: that's controlling the Cape, causing the conflict, division, stirring up prejudice, jealousy, confusion.

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Speaker 1: the one pulling the cape. Instead of going after people,

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Speaker 1: you need to go after him. You can't defeat him

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Speaker 1: with carnal weapons, getting angry, offended, trying to pay people back.

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Speaker 1: are mighty through God. When you pray in the name

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Speaker 1: of Jesus, things in the unseen realm shift. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to ask the enemy to leave. You don't say

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Speaker 1: get behind me, Satan. You have authority over all those

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Speaker 1: forces that are trying to hinder your life. You need

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Speaker 1: to tell them on a regular basis to get behind you.

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Speaker 1: You have no right in my life. Take your hands

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Speaker 1: off my children. Take your hands off my finances, take

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Speaker 1: The scripture says, when you resist him, he will flee.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't have a choice. He can't stay when you

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Speaker 1: use your God given authority Luke, Chapter thirteen. Jesus was

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Speaker 1: been this way for eighteen years. The scripture says she

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