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Leaving Yesterday Behind
Drawing from Paul's powerful imagery in Philippians 3, we explore what it truly means to forget "those things which are behind" while "reaching forth unto those things which are before." This isn't about denying your past, but refusing to be defined by it. When Jesus proclaimed His mission to "set at liberty them that are bruised," He offered freedom that many believers have yet to fully experience.
Pick your Bibles up, lift them up and wave them around. Let's get into the Word together. And then the Holy Ghost has always got the right to do something after that, anything he wants During that. Interrupt whatever he wants to do, he wouldn't be interrupting. Let's wave them around, make Jesus glad, devil mad. Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, glad to be here on Sunday night.
Speaker 1:I'm hungry and thirsty for more, more of your presence, more of your glory, more of your word. I want my faith to grow. I want my spirit to develop. I want to be in position, in this year of milestones, to receive all the good that you have for me so that I can do good in Jesus' name. Milestones to receive all the good that you have for me so that I can do good in Jesus' name. We're blessed to be a blessing, aren't we All right? Let's look at a couple of places. First, let's look at Philippians, chapter 3. And then you can find Luke, chapter 4. We'll start with Philippians, chapter 3.
Speaker 1:Paul is speaking and we'll pick it up midway through the verse 12. And he says but, but I follow after if that I may apprehend that, for which also I am apprehended of Christ, jesus, brethren, I count, not myself, to have apprehended, but this one thing I do forgetting the things which are behind and reaching forth under those things which are before. I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. And that word, you know, reaching forth is like a runner reaching for the finish line. You know how they lean to break the tape. That's the. You know. He's kind of using the games. Paul often used running and the games the Greeks were big on the precursor to the Olympics, and he often uses running, a race. And so he gives you that imagery of the strain. I mean you're straining everything you can to break the tape. And that's the image of what he's saying. He's pressing, pressed toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, forgetting the things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. All right.
Speaker 1:And then Luke 4.18, jesus is speaking in his own hometown synagogue and he's 30 years old and he's now officially a rabbi and he quotes Isaiah 61. He found the place where it was written. One translation says he found the place where it was written. One translation says he found the place where it was written about himself. You know, it's good to find what the Word says about you. And he basically said this is me. They didn't like it, but this is what he said. He said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to preach the gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to set at liberty them that are bruised. To set at liberty them that are bruised. And so tonight I have a message entitled Leaving Yesterday Behind. Leaving Yesterday Behind.
Speaker 1:You know, jesus said in John 16, 33, he didn't say it this way, I'm saying it life is a fight. He said it this way. He said in the world, you shall have tribulation, but be of good courage. I said it this way. He said in the world, you shall have tribulation, but be of good courage. I have overcome the world. The amplified says I. I have deprived of his power to harm you. I have conquered it for you, but nonetheless, we do have a contest, we do have conflict. He said you shall have tribulation. The tribulation means pressure, anguish, disappointment. You're going to have it. It comes with the territory. It's not necessarily anything you did wrong, it's not anything that you missed. I mean, it just comes with life on earth because we're opposed. Everything we do is opposed.
Speaker 1:As believers, I like what Brother Osteen used to say there's no great faith without great tests, there's no great victories without great battles. And the fact, you know, the word testimony comes from tests. But God is not the one that tests us. Oh, he's not. He's not the tempter, he's not the tester, but he won't waste it. He didn't send it but he won't waste it. Whatever you're going through, he'll never waste the trouble, he'll never waste it. And uh, you know, sometimes in life there are battlefield. You know, we're seen as good soldiers of Christ. That's kind of an imagery that Paul talked about to the Galatians, you know. And soldiers suffer battlefield wounds.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you can get bruises, and it's unlike natural bruises. Spiritual bruises often worsen over time. I mean, at my age now, it just seems like if I just hit the door jamb you know I'm not paying attention I walk through my house and I hit the door jamb. Well, I don't think anything about it. But later, when I get ready to take a shower. I'm looking at my arm and it's, you know, it's purple, it turns green and yellow and I mean, my God, what's wrong? I mean I didn't even hurt, it doesn't even hurt. But spiritual bruises are different. Spiritual bruises don't go away. I mean it goes away eventually. I mean it doesn't even feel like I'm hurt, but it goes away. But spiritual bruises now, they're supernatural and they tend, if they're not addressed, if they're not mollified, if the anointing is not applied to them, they get worse. They can putrefy, they can really what Jesus said? He said set at liberty them that are bruised. You actually, when you're bruised and nothing happens to correct that bruise, you go into bondage Like wearing shackles.
Speaker 1:You ever watched Cool Hand Luke, paul Newman? You know, he's a prisoner, you know, and he keeps breaking out. He can't stay in prison. He breaks out of prison. So the warden shackles him, puts shackles on his ankles. He's only got about 18 inches of chain between these steel things on his ankles. He breaks out anyway and he's running along like this until he gets to this gas station out in the country and these two little black boys are there watching the station and he gets them to go in there and get an ax. And so he comes out and he chops that chain in two with an ax between his feet, you know and gets the. Now he's still got the shackle in the chain, but then he ties the, gets a piece of string, takes the shoelaces off his shoes and ties the chain up on his calf and now he can run. See, he can run. It's hard to run when you're shackled. It's hard to move when you're bound.
Speaker 1:And Jesus said he was sent to preach deliverance to the captives, to set at liberty them that are bruised. Paul said that he had to forget his yesterdays. Paul said you know, I just I forget about yesterday. He had some victories yesterday as well as defeats, but he forgot about it and he just didn't want to be distracted about his rearview mirror, he just wanted what was ahead of him. He wasn't even satisfied with where he was right now. In fact, really, where he was right then was just the same as yesterday. What is he doing? He's pressing to a new place. Everybody say a new place, but what do you got to do to get to the new place? Well, you got to leave yesterday, which includes where you are right now, behind.
Speaker 1:This is the comfort zone. This is easy to stay. It's easy. It's easy to stay a victim when we've been victimized. It's easy to stay victimized. It's easy to just say, well, that happened to me and I'm kind of a victim. And have you noticed our society has turned into a victimhood society. Everybody's a victim.
Speaker 1:Mothers against drunk driving why are they against it? But they could. Probably because they've got a child that was a you know a victim of, of drunk driver, and so they're mad, and they're gonna. They're mad. M-a-d-d. Parents of murdered children how would you like to be part of that group? What kind of a meeting must that be like? We call them angel families now, where the families have suffered a horrible and you hear them all the time. They are up testifying in Congress about what an illegal alien did to their daughter. It's heart-wrenching. But boy, they're bound, they're defined by this tragedy and I just want to scream at the television hey, there's a better life than what you're pursuing right now. They're bound, they need to be set free.
Speaker 1:So Hebrews, chapter 12, let's run over there real quick. Leaving yesterday behind Verse 1, chapter 12, verse 1, wherefore, seeing, we also are encompassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. That cloud of witnesses are the people he talked about in Hebrews 11, I call it the hall of fame of faith. These were the Old Testament saints, all the saints, whether Old Testament or New Testament. When they're up in heaven, they're called the mighty cloud of witnesses. Jesus is coming back. He's going to come back in the clouds. He's not talking about cumulus clouds, he's talking about the cloud of witnesses. Yeah, cumulus clouds will be up there. Maybe I don't know what kind of clouds, but the cloud that he's talking about coming back in is a cloud of saints. So we're compassed about with these testimonies. We're compassed about with a rooting section. They've been rooting us on, they've been cheering us on your mama's in heaven. She's cheering you on Seeing. We're also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.
Speaker 1:Let us lay aside the weight, every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us, looking unto Jesus, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. There's that imagery of running, again looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. So let's lay aside. And again, that has a significance. In the Greek games they would run in competition and they normally wore robes that came close to the ground and they obviously couldn't run. And obviously couldn't run in that I mean the Greeks ran naked in order not to have anything hinder their race. So that's the sense of the message here is to lay aside, take it off of you, take the weights.
Speaker 1:Weights and sin are two different things, but I mean to me it's the same thing as let's get rid of the shackles. Let's get rid of, let's get some anointing on the bruise that's holding you in yesterday, where you can't get. I mean it really kind of relates to the word Claire had, because maybe your calendar has been kind of lean and maybe your success has been a lean too. Well, you know it's a new day. I mean let's make sure there's nothing holding us back. Let's lay it aside. Can't run with shackles. You have to leave yesterday behind so you can achieve what God has you on the earth to do.
Speaker 1:God's got lots of things for this church to do and every one of you I mean I just look at the future of what we're going to be doing and it's just. You know, I mean in the natural it could be intimidating, but see, I've got to stir myself up to look at it in faith. I've got to know that if he gives us this to do, he also gives us the ability to do it. But we can't do it bound. We can't do it like this. We're going to have to be free. So what is hanging on you from yesterday? What's attached itself to you?
Speaker 1:Bruises from a failed marriage, infidelity, bruises from a failed marriage, infidelity, abuse lots of that it's in the church. It's nothing to be ashamed of, it's something to get delivered from. You're never going to get belittled in this church. When you have bruises, you're going to get the anointing to remove that bruise, that victimhood, when we remove it. It's not denying what happened, it's not saying it was okay. It just gets the devil out of it. Wounds from childhood. A lot of people they get wounded in childhood, especially if their parents had a marriage that fell apart because of infidelity or abuse. If there was, you know, a bunch of conflict in your home.
Speaker 1:I used to watch a lot of Dr Phil. You know he's a good old Baptist. He used to think he was too liberal, but you know he's come out on the right side. You know, living in Hollywood and being around Oprah, he was too liberal, but you know he's come out on the right side. You know, he's living in Hollywood and being around Oprah. He was Oprah, really Oprah's the one that discovered him. He was Oprah's lawyer when Texas cattlemen sued her for saying that ground beef will kill. You See, that's what you know. These liberals, they're always speaking out of their nuts. If ground beef was going to kill anybody, it would have killed me a long time ago.
Speaker 1:I've eaten a ton of it and I keep eating it. I'm going to like it. I'll eat it every day if I need it, whatever, I don't get tired of it. Hamburger hamburger steak, remember, you know, shrimp, barbecue shrimp, lemon shrimp. Well, you can say the same thing about hamburger meat Hamburger helper, hamburger helper. No, I draw the line. No, I draw the line.
Speaker 1:Well, I used to listen to him and he would chastise parents. He said you know, when you argue, this might be reserved for the marriage family series. I'm probably speaking out of turn, but he said this. He said, you know, and I heard it, he would do marriage seminars on his program and I'd watch him. It was interesting. He was really.
Speaker 1:He come at it from a psychological standpoint. We have minds that need to be renewed to God's word and it was amazing how much of what he was saying was in the Bible, because he is a Baptist, he knows the word and he had good advice for married people. But he said you know, when you argue in front of your children, those children are changed. It changes who they are. And he said they have and this is my experience exactly. He said they have an uncanny ability to blame themselves for trouble in the home. You parents are arguing and they start looking at themselves. What did I do to cause this? Yeah, this tall, and they're blaming themselves. Is that what you want? Does it really have anything to do with them? 99% of the time it doesn't, but yet they are thinking that and don't have the ability to speak it. But you know what they can carry that bruise. For a long time, pastor, I didn't know this was going to be a psychobabble cycle. No, it's not psychological. This is demons. This is spiritual. Are you with me now?
Speaker 1:Death of a loved one. Sometimes people get mad at God because they prayed for their loved one and the loved one died anyway. Well, you know you don't. It's between them and God. In many cases, I mean, a person dies for reasons that are beyond your control and you don't even know, you're not cut in, you don't know all about it. I mean, we're right to pray and agree with our loved one as much as we can, but have they done everything they could to have a long life? Or did they smoke like a fiend 14 packs a day? Or did they drink like a fish? Or did they just fill in the blanks?
Speaker 1:We live in a society that's. I mean, hey, you know, we've got all these chemicals. You can't even eat bread anymore. The bread is filled with junkous. I bless my food. I'm not worried about cancer because I bless my food, no matter what, I bless it. But if you, you know, you, you're, you're surrounded by these kinds of things and, uh, god does hear and answer prayer.
Speaker 1:But we, you know, we really don't have the right to blame God when somebody goes to heaven and so we get bruised, we get offended and then we get bound. Are you with me now? Betrayal of a friend. Somebody goes bad on you, a good friend, and they, you find out they betrayed you. Somehow, some people's church betrayed them. Some people go into a church for years and years and all of a sudden the pastor's up there talking about woke, talking about well, we're all guilty of white privilege. They drank the Kool-Aid what a bunch of baloney. And a whole lot of people, millions of people across the country have given themselves permission because of their offense at the pastor that their church left them. And now they say, well, I just, I'm just not even going to bother going to church. Well, you know you, you need to get set free. You're bound. You probably know somebody like that. So this, this will be a good message for you to put in your arsenal to help people get free. Amen. You're here on Sunday night, so obviously you're not in that league.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, you know, one of the deceptions associated with these bruises is the strong emotional component of victimization. In other words, there's a payoff. There's a payoff. If I'm a victim, then that gives me an excuse not to go to church. It gives me an excuse not to trust people, gives me an excuse to be superior. I'm superior to everyone I know and they don't. And what are you doing? Are you walking in love then? No, you're not. Your bruise is taking you and it's bound you to where you're not doing what Jesus said to do and walk in love. Forbear one another in love. Give people the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1:I've had people so messed up at their previous church. They come into my church and they don't trust me, they don't give me the benefit of the doubt, no matter what you know. I say, well, it's their loss. I mean, they're the ones that are going to lose. I'm not going to lose because I'm not going to change what I say just because you don't like it, or just because somebody else said it and different. And now they're gone and you got offended and see some people, just church. They hop from church to church, grasshoppers, and they're offended all the time. Hey, will you get off the merry-go-round? Come on, let's get healed, let's get the anointing on that mess and let's get set free so we can go on with God.
Speaker 1:But it can be addictive. Grief is addictive. Jesus took grief. He took our griefs and carried our sorrows. It's one thing for mama to die and we cry and we miss mama, but when you go into that terrible, have you ever known somebody just grieve, you know, go out to the graveyard and sit out there. I know, I know somebody that goes, takes a long chair out to their wife's grave and sits at the graveyard and cries. And they're they're Christians, but they hadn't been taught anything. That's wrong. That's bondage. It's addicting. It means he doesn't have to do what he should be doing as a grandpa. He's not doing anything for God, he's just frozen in grief. It's addictive.
Speaker 1:Often people who are bound in their bruise become manipulative and controlling because they want to control the environment around them so they're never hurt again. That's always a joy to meet people like that. I've met quite a few and unless you're invited into their mess, they're not going to receive. Most of the time They'll find a way to blame you so they can stay above and they can stay way up here and everyone else. It's all their fault. Thank God y'all have never met anybody like that. Y'all keep living right. Maybe that'll be the way it goes. There's lots of them out there. So it reminds me of what Ilka Pay was preaching when they were here.
Speaker 1:That was such a powerful message about bleeding. You remember she cut her finger. That was so powerful. I kept waiting. Okay, where's the altar call? She didn't have an altar call, so I'm going to have one, Because this just goes right with what she was preaching that night. I mean, you know she used the illustration that she cut her finger and she didn't want her little girl to see that blood, you know, and she was trying to, you know, wrap it up but it would kept bleeding and kept bleeding and just messed up all the towels in the hotel room. And she went out by the pool and there's a trail of blood all the way around the swimming pool and she's just bleeding, bleeding, bleeding, and so the pastor's wife says, hey, you know, let's get that, let's go to the emergency. Oh, no, I'm with the emergency room. Oh, how about some liquid bandage? She'd never heard a liquid bandage. So we got some liquid bandage tonight. We've got the liquid anointing tonight to get on that where you're not bleeding all over everybody that had nothing to do with the wound. Boy, that was powerful. People bleed over everyone that had nothing to do with cutting them. Boy, that's a law.
Speaker 1:I wanted to stand up and do the altar call myself Already too late. For some people they're already gone. I like what Paul said in one of the gospel I one of the epistles, I I didn't fail, I didn't remember to look it up, but he said who will deliver me from the bondage of this hurt? I thank, uh, my god, the lord, my jesus christ. Well, he's the one that delivers amen, he's the one who whom Amen. He's the one who, whom the son sets free, is free, indeed, and uh, so, uh, he can put an end to the hurt.
Speaker 1:You know, in uh John, chapter five, verse six, the pool of Bethesda, jesus came upon this man who was lame and he's laying by the pool and God, just sovereignly, would send an angel in a season we don't know how often the season was, we don't know if it's once a month, once a year, what it doesn't say. But they're all huddled out there waiting for the angel to trouble the water and whoever was in the pool first got healed and everybody else didn't get healed. I mean, that's pretty rough. You've got all these people and it said they were withered and infirm. Boy, I've seen withered people, I've been to india and they were withered, waiting on the meeting to start there in new delhi, in the, in the new delhi stadium, the sports stadium, the soccer stadium, 100,000 people, and it was two hours before the service started and I was there for a sound check. Brother Osteen asked me to sing. I was there for a sound check and there we were, and there were already about 20,000 people just sitting there waiting for things to start, two hours before the church started, before the service, withered, curled up, lame, all kinds of skin issues, you know, blindness. It was a horrible scene, desperate, and some of them got healed that night, a lot of them got saved that night. And lot of them got saved that night.
Speaker 1:And so here he was, and Jesus came up to this one particular man and said will you be made whole? Are you willing to be made whole? He said, sir, I don't have a man. I'm waiting here. I don't have a man that can get me down to lame. I got to have a man to take me down to the water and every time, you know the angel, somebody else gets down there. I don't have a man to take me down to the water and every time, you know the angel, somebody else gets down there. I don't have a man. I'm looking for a man and see, he didn't know the man was there. He didn't know he didn't need another man. Jesus is there. Will you be made whole? And Jesus just bypassed all that. He said rise, take up your bed and walk. And instantly, he'd never walked, instantly took up his bed and walked. And so that's the question Will you be made whole? Will you be made whole? Have you got something that's holding you back? And yesterday, keeping you from going into the next place, keeping you from pressing toward the mark of the prize, of the high calling of God, christ Jesus? And so there's four things that you need to think about tonight. Will you be made whole? So recognize, you got to recognize when you're bruised, recognize it, you know.
Speaker 1:Number two repent. And repent has nothing to do with sorrow. It has to do with changing your mindset. Repent just means turn around. That's all it really means. Repent doesn't mean oh, it just means hey, I'm through with this thinking of victimhood, I am repenting, I'm turning around right now. So you recognize, repent, receive and then resume, resume, see, that's that's basically what jesus did to that man. He said take up your bed and walk. And he walked. And that led through a whole bunch of persecution and his parents got kicked out of the synagogue, you know, and he was confronted because he got healed on the Sabbath day and all of that kind of thing. But when Jesus found him in the temple, he said go and sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you. So he had to make some adjustments. I said he had to make some adjustments to keep what God gave him. So, number one recognize.
Speaker 1:Everybody say recognize, see, light reproves darkness. There's light in here, there's a morning in here, this word and the spirit, the anointing, is shining. Will you be made whole? See, it's a decision, he had to make a decision and Jesus made it for him. He didn't even answer the question. I love that Sometimes, jesus, he'll ask you the question and he just went ahead and did it anyway. Will you be made whole?
Speaker 1:My experience in these things is, unless somebody invites me in, I can't do much. I can know it, I can even say it to them. I have, but then they don't want to recognize it for themselves and so they don't want to do the things they need to do to get free. And there's nothing I can do, nothing Jesus could ever do. If this man had said, well, jesus, just leave me alone, I'm still looking for that man. Well, he'd have left him alone. Thank God he didn't say anything, didn't run him off.
Speaker 1:Number two repent, change your mindset. You have to say to yourself I'm not continuing one more minute as a victim. I forgive those who wrong me, I forgive myself. Now I've met people that were in such a shape for so long and they had gotten over into this controlling spirit, this manipulating, conniving, always trying to make people feel guilty, always trying to use their victimhood against people. I mean, it's just, it's demonic. Some of you were even raised in houses like that, when the parents were like that One or both parents. Boy, it's devilish. It can leave a lot of damage. It can leave a lot of bruises. Is it anything to be ashamed of? Not at all. It's something that you get delivered from.
Speaker 1:Jesus was sent to deliver, to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, recovering our sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. Then, number three receive, receive, receive. Got this verse here, revelation 3, 7. And the angel of the church in Philadelphia write these things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David. What does keys represent? Authority? He has the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth. So tonight, part of receiving is for you to open the door to your future. Walk through it and close it behind you. That door would lead back into yesterday and you're going to use the key of David. You're going to use the name of Jesus to unlock that door. It's been locked because of your bruise. It's been locked because you're shackled. He, he, he captured you in this place where he can keep afflicting you and he can keep stealing from you. Are you with me now?
Speaker 1:I heard today's, at this church I don't have any meetings. I had with individuals with marriage trouble, problems with kids, problems with emotions, you name it. I would have a one-on-one meeting. I go through everything we're going to go through tonight and I found a better way to do it. Let's just do it right here, right now, under the anointing. I don't have time to meet with everybody where I would be dead today if I'd have kept doing that. That's just not my job. To sit there and meet with people and have a session and every one of them take two, three hours. No, I'm telling you, god's anointing can snap all of that off of you, break it off of you.
Speaker 1:And I discovered, you know, after a while, that most of the people I was spending all that time on weren't coming to church all that regular anyway. I mean, most of them weren't Word of Faith background. Most of them were charismatic or Baptist, and they just didn't have the background I did and they just kind of go into days. You know, this is working. Everybody say I believe I received tonight.
Speaker 1:So we're going to use prophetic acts. We're going to use prophetic acts. We're going to get up and unlock that door and walk through it and go back and shut it and lock it. We ain't going back the other way. We're not going back to victimhood. We're not going back to yesterday. We're leaving yesterday behind and then finally resume, take up where you left off, continue with your freedom.
Speaker 1:You'll find that God's going to start speaking to you about some specific things that you've been missing out, on, things that he wants you to do. He might renew some things that you had in your heart years ago and all of a sudden now they become fresh and all of a sudden now they become possible to you. You haven't really been able to consider those things because of where you were at. You were in this dark room, this lousy room, this room of hopelessness, this room of failure, this room of repetitious stuff going. It's just like going around and around in circles. You're not really making progress. Now you're busting out into God's territory.
Speaker 1:This is a year of milestones. It's the year of exceeding abundantly above. It's the year of his grace upon grace, amen, favor upon favor, woo, hallelujah. So you continue with your freedom and you harness your thought life. See, you'll have to discipline your thought life. Your thought life will try to keep picking up where it's been. It's going to try to come back. This thought pattern, this internal dialogue, I call it. It's like an eight-track tape. I say this all the time.
Speaker 1:But Gladys, when we were first married, worked at an insurance company in College Station. We'd been married a few months. We moved to College Station for me to finish my junior year. She got got a job at this insurance company life insurance company the only girl in a 10 guy office and they were kind of cheap and they had an eight track tape player and they played one tape. They bought one tape.
Speaker 1:Roger Miller, you can't roller skate on a buffalo herd all day long. Dang me, dang me, take a rope and hang me High, high as a tree. Here I heard Roger Miller, most of you are too sanctified. You've never heard of Roger Miller. Don't pursue it. I mean you can do a YouTube video. You can learn all you need. Just think about her listening to that all day long, every day. It's an eight-track tape, endless loop. I mean ten songs. All ten songs are continuous Monday, Tuesday, wednesday. It's amazing that she had her right mind after that was over. But see, I'm talking about an internal dialogue. Like an eight-track tape it's playing over and over.
Speaker 1:You have a habit pattern of thinking a certain way. You're going to have to capture that thought and pull it down in the name of Jesus and bring it in captivity to the obedience of Christ, the anointed one who has delivered you resumes and you don't wall yourself. You know you've had a habit of wallowing yourself off from people, not really swearing with them and don't say that much about it, and when you do, you talk victimhood. Well, you're going to have to change how you talk. You're going to have to change how you see yourself. You're going to have to change. It's going to take a work. It's going to take a little work and discipline on your side after this to keep what God does.
Speaker 1:But how many of you are ready for it tonight? Amen. And you know I'm not trying to get you to confess bondage if you don't have any, but I think it would be good for us to practice how to do it so that you can help people. That's my main aid. Of course, if there is anybody, I'm not going to ask you if you're one that's bound, it's none of my business. But you can get free tonight. How many of you want to be free? How many of you want to set other people free? Amen, I mean that night when Ilko was preaching that man I wanted an altar call.
Speaker 1:But you know, she's so respectful of her husband and her husband had the other part of the service and that's only the second time they've come here and I know that they told us they've never been in a place like our place, because it's just like an open heaven here. When they step up here to start preaching, it's just like and all things are possible and sometimes it's hard to know where to land. You know, and I know that, I know that that's the way it is around here. That's what happens when y'all get around, and especially on Sunday nights, for some reason. All right, you ready to get started? All right, let's all stand up.
Speaker 1:And I'm not trying to get you to confess bondage on yourself. If you're not. No bondage, just basically, you can consider it like just practicing the ministry. This is like just a little seminar how to minister deliverance to people that have been bruised. And if you have been bruised, this is a good place to get free.
Speaker 1:So everybody, face to your left and just stay. You know, stay in a straight line and you're going to be taking a step forward. So maybe two steps. You've got room to take two steps. The person in front of you has got to take two steps, otherwise you're going to walk up their back. Not yet. I'll tell you when to start. Hold on, hold on, hold on. We've got to unlock the door first. You're in the room.
Speaker 1:Everybody say I'm in the room called yesterday. I intend to leave this room forever. I am not going to be bound and I'm leaving behind yesterday. So, in the name of Jesus, I take the key of David in my hand and I place it in the lock in the door ahead of me. It in my hand and I place it in the lock in the door ahead of me and I turn that lock.
Speaker 1:In the name of Jesus, now door you open. Now open the door and take two steps through it. Two steps, okay, stop. Say. In the name of Jesus, I thank you for this new room. This is the room of blessing, this is the room of freedom. I'm never going back to yesterday.
Speaker 1:Yesterday has nothing in common with me. I leave it behind. I've received my full, complete deliverance. No more shackles, no more chains. I am free. Now, in the name of Jesus, I'm going to turn around. I'm going to close the door to yesterday. Take two steps back, the other direction, so that you can shut the door. Shut the door in front of you, say I shut the door to yesterday and I lock it with the key of David and now, in the name of Jesus, face me. Now, thank God, I'm free. I believe I received my complete deliverance. Amen, amen. See, I believe in prophetic acts. I believe it's real. I believe when we do what the Bible says to do, we can have what the Bible says we can have, and we don't have to work. We don't have to live defeated. We don't have to live victimhood. Amen.