 My guest Jacob Coyne says that he saw Jesus in his dad's eyes. And this was a big part of his testimony, a turning point. What you're going to hear is a story of how God took someone from battling thoughts of suicide, battling depression, battling anxiety, you might find yourself in that situation now, to walking in victory, from suicide to set free. I want to welcome now Jacob Coyne to the broadcast. Jacob, my friend, it is a blessing that you're joining us this evening. Thank you so much. It's a privilege to be here. Thank you guys for having me. Now you have a tremendous story and I think it's so important that we talk about this issue because let's just be honest, people avoid this topic many times because of the stigma that surrounds it and because of the spiritual intricacies that are involved in this particular topic. You know, there are emotional elements. Mental elements, spiritual elements, demonic elements that all sort of wrap around this particular issue and sometimes it's complicated. It's only complicated when we don't approach it by the word. But where there is that lack of knowledge, where there is that lack of revelation, there is this fear to address it. So you now, after having overcome this and you're going to share your powerful testimony, you guys listen, you're going to love this testimony. Jacob, you're going to share your testimony and then we're going to talk about these issues. We're going to talk about depression. We're going to talk about anxiety. We're going to talk about the spiritual elements and then now God is using your life in a tremendous way to where you're helping others who battle in this area, to where you once battled with it. Now God has positioned you to see others delivered from these horrible assaults of the enemy. And then of course we're going to talk about how people can get involved. But I want you to begin by telling us your story, your battle with anxiety, your battle with depression, these sorts of issues that began to play you. Take us back to the beginning, Jacob Coyne who's battling in this area. What happened? Yeah. So I grew up in a Christian home and when I was a teenager, my parents kind of let me choose whether or not I wanted to go to church or not and that led me down a pretty rough path. I tried just about anything that a popular, the popular crowd would do in high school. I was drinking, smoking, trying different things. And that led me to go down a huge path of shame because I did grow up. I grew up in a Christian home. I knew what I was doing was wrong and I had tons of guilt because of it. I thought I was going to hell. I thought there was no chance for me. So I struggled with insomnia. I struggled with suicidal thoughts. I was plagued by them. Once I got my driver's license, anytime I'd be driving at night, I would hear voices in my head that would tell me to go drive into oncoming traffic. Go drive onto the other lane. Drive through that red light and let somebody hit you and take your seatbelt off. Just go through the windshield and see what happens. I had these thoughts constantly. We lived in a very busy neighborhood with cars going really fast right in our driveway. And I always heard voices just say, go walk through your hedge. Get hit by a car and end your life. Thank God my dad came to a Bible study because my parents were going through a rough time in the marriage and my dad, to try to save the marriage, went to a men's Bible study. And when he got home from this Bible study, everything changed in my life in an instant. I didn't know where he was. I didn't know what he was doing. I just knew that he was with my uncle and he was studying the Bible, which is completely different. That's not who my dad was at that time. But when my dad got home, I was playing video games with my brother. We were in our downstairs basement. The lights are off and he goes, he walks into this downstairs basement. He says, hey boys. And when I look at him, there's something completely different about him. Something changed in my dad. And as he got closer to me, it looked like his eyes and his face were like, literally glowing. That might sound crazy for some of you watching this. And I had no grid for the supernatural, but there was something about my dad that was supernaturally different. He was a different person. That depression that he even carried, the anger that he carried, the sorrow that was always on him, it was gone. And this guy was full of joy. And as he got closer to me, I got more and more uncomfortable because I knew that it was Jesus. I knew that he went to a Bible study and now his face is glowing like he's so bright. I knew that I had to change. I knew that there's something in me that needed to change. I couldn't live in a house with someone like that. I had to repent. So I just told my dad straight up, Dad, I've been doing this. I've been doing that. Save me. Help me. Whatever happened to you tonight, I need it. So that began to change everything for me. I had to wait one week to go to the Bible study the next week. And when I got to this Bible study, everyone else looked the same. Everyone's all like you're full of life, full of joy, full of peace, no anxiety, no anger in these men and they're all these middle-aged men just studying the word of God together. So in walks is 16-year-old and my brother was 13. We walk in and as soon as I walk in, I feel the tangible presence of God and I just start to cry. What did that feel like? You said you felt the tangible presence of God. What were you sensing when you walked into that place? It wasn't just like, you know, you know, sometimes when you hear like Adele sing or like someone with a good gift, you might get the goosebumps when you hear them sing. It wasn't just, it wasn't the goosebumps. I felt like this heavy weight fall on me, this heavy weight of love. I felt the hand like it's so hard to explain but it's like a blanket that just fell on my body and I knew that I was welcome. I knew that I was loved and this man that was leading the Bible study there, 70 plus years old, his name was Elden Blanford. He preaches on forgiveness and I needed to hear that message. I had so much unforgiveness towards other people. I had unforgiveness toward myself and that was one of the reasons why I struggled with anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts because I was so ashamed of myself. I was so mad at myself for the decisions I was making as a teenager, rebelling against God, rebelling against my parents, hiding all these secrets of things that I had done. So I needed to hear the message that Jesus forgives me. Therefore, I can forgive myself and I can forgive others. And after I heard this, I raised my hand and I said, I just want to accept Jesus. I want to give my life to Jesus again. I gave my life to Jesus when I was five years old. So I thought when I was five years old, I had a little Jesus squirming around in my heart when I invited Jesus in my heart. I needed to rededicate my life to Jesus and I needed to make this real that night. So he comes over to me, the 70 year old man and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he says in the name of Jesus Christ and as soon as he said that, I don't remember anything else he prayed. I got delivered. There was this darkness that I had led in my life. What was that experience like for you when you got delivered in that moment? It was really intense actually. I felt this tightness in my chest and I started to scream and I felt literally like one by one, these things leave and I knew exactly what they were. I knew it was the anger that I always felt, the uptightness, the anxiety, the want to die, the suicidal thoughts, the lust, the shame, all of that stuff. They just left me and I felt so empty. I felt like a hollow shell after that. It was such an interesting experience and I was crying and he said, okay, now you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. So then he puts his hand on me again and he says, father in the name of Jesus baptized Jacob in the Holy Spirit. That's all he prayed. And I had my eyes closed, 16 years old. I'm just, I have my hands together like this in a religious pose. I didn't know what to do. And all of a sudden I feel again another tangible presence of God. It felt like there was something thick, like honey falling on my head and I thought, what are they doing? Am I in a cult? Like are they pouring oil or honey on my head? So I opened my eyes and no one's touching me. There's nobody near me. They're just watching this happen. So that shocked me and for me, for when I experienced that right there, I knew that this was real. I knew that this was biblical. Like when Jesus cast out demons and the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, that's what happened to me. Now I had read Acts two, the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I knew that that was also happening to me. So I let it happen. I began to speak in tongues. I felt the love of God just flow through my body in and out, in and out. And then I had a vision of myself preaching the gospel to millions of people and that's 12, 13 years ago when that happened to me. And now I have preached the gospel to millions of people. I am still burning for Jesus all these years later and so many of those things that I was delivered from, they've never touched me. Now those things, they try to come back. That's the struggle of a believer's life. Those are familiar things that try to come back, but I'm full of the Holy Spirit and it's easy to just say no and combat those same things that try to come back and taunt you and haunt you. So that was an incredible experience. Now, even as you're talking, I can sense a flow of the Holy Spirit's power. Listen, you're watching this right now. Maybe you're struggling with these same things. Maybe there's that internal torment perhaps you're struggling with anxiety, depression, or any one of these things that could be afflicting your mind. You can be set free. So I want you in the comments section right now to write simple words. Let it be a declaration of faith, a public prayer that you offer. Set me free. Write those three simple words in the comments section right now and those who are watching now live or on the replay will come into agreement with you. But I believe that many will be set free. So make sure you're also sharing this because you never know who needs to hear this. Look, Jacob, I'm sure we'll get into this in a moment, but people who struggle with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts often do so in silence. You never know who's struggling with something like this. That's why messages like this need to be just spread far and wide. So now that you kind of gave us the macro look, the wide-angle lens look at your testimony, I want to kind of dig into some elements of your story because I found a lot of interesting things there. Number one, the fact that you had grown up in church yet weren't connected with the Lord, the fact that you had, you know, I think you said something to the effect of your parents were even involved in the church, correct? Yeah, most of my family was involved with the church. We had family members on the worship team. My grandma was going like, we were always, that was a normal thing that we all go to this church together. So it was, I just couldn't recall a moment where I actually enjoyed it. There was always something in me that just hated being there. I always was going to the bathroom for 30 minutes during the sermon. I've walked around the lobby. There's something in me that always wanted to avoid this. I wanted to avoid the message. Do you think that was the demonic? I really, I honestly do. I really do because as far as I can remember in my own childhood, I was, I had anger. I resisted God. There was a fascination that I had toward God. Like I wanted to know if he was real. I like to talk about him. But it was, it was, there was something in me that wanted to avoid actually living a right life, a righteous life to actually, actually follow him. I wanted to know about him, but I didn't actually want to know him and follow him on that note. Something I had dealt with something similar. I don't know if you've heard much of my testimony, but you know, I also dealt with anxiety and depression. This is actually something I'm going to be talking about more. So in the coming years, I'm releasing a new book that's going to come out next year. But in that book, I'm going to go in a little more detail about it. I can recall at the peak of that affliction before I was saved that demonic influence would cause me to be uncomfortable in church services. So when you talked about the fact that you could see something different on your dad, you could see that there was the presence of Jesus on him. You were drawn to that. And what's interesting to me is you were drawn to that at the same time that you wanted to get away. And that I think is a testament to the conflict that was going on inside of you. Yes. Yeah. And that's the difference between the flesh and the spirit all throughout scripture. But somewhere along my life, I had allowed in demonic influence. And I had to make a decision. It's like the man at the Gaderians in the book of Mark where he sees Jesus from afar and he runs to Jesus. This man had thousands of demons inside of him, but still he was able to have the willpower to run to Jesus even though he was so afflicted. That's yes. Yes. And that's what I did when I saw my dad. There was still something in me that was like, get away from me. I'm uncomfortable. I don't want this. But there was something that shouted louder. And I said, dad, help me. I want Jesus. I always found that interesting that when you look at the demonic acts described in scripture that even though they were tormented by the Lord, they were actually coming to him. And I thought it wouldn't possibly be. It couldn't possibly be the demonic spirits willing these people toward their freedom. They wanted to remain parasites on their physical bodies, which actually shows us that their wills were still intact. Now, you mentioned the man with the Legion of Demons. I believe that the man heard the Lord speaking to the storm because it was as they were crossing that Jesus speaks, peace be still. And he probably was a witness to this man speaking with a booming voice and that voice probably echoed across the waters. And then he saw the storm dissipate and he said within himself, this is what I truly believe that he said within himself, if he could do that to the storm out there, I'm sure he can take care of the storm. I mean, I don't think he worded it exactly like that, but that was probably the conclusion that he drew. And so I thought that was interesting that you had experienced that conflict and I love that he was delivered and then of course the Lord saved him. It was that deliverance that led to his salvation in a beautiful culmination that demonstrates God's love and mercy. And so I think that's a beautiful aspect of your story, but also intriguing in that there was a part of you that wanted that and then another part of you that was resisting that. And I think that there are actually some people watching now that may be dealing with that ebb and flow of one desire over another. And I think that's a good segue into talking about what we want to talk about in more of the how to let's let's get into now discussing some of the aspects of mental illness, spiritual assault and battles with the flesh because there are many different aspects when it comes to these types of struggles and then of course in a moment after we go over those things, Jacob is going to share some of the testimonies that he's been seeing and they are powerful. Jacob has been seeing people now set free from the same things he battled. So Jacob, let's get into this. This is not and I love the bride of Christ. I would never speak in a way that would put down the church as a whole. I think the church as a whole is doing a great job, but let's just let's just be real here. We could do so much better in terms of talking about things like depression, anxiety and so forth. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, we need to talk about it more. If you look at church history, you you see and find out that it was actually Christians. It was the church that invented the hospital. So I believe that the church should be leading the charge in mental health and mental health recovery, mental health awareness. And I think that we will get there. I believe we will get there and we will see a great awakening to see people set free from terrible issues of trauma, grief, anxiety, diseases, disorders, depression and suicidal thoughts and self harm. We want to see God do this, but I think the church at large, we just don't know what to do. We've been grown up. We've grown up thinking that I think I think all I knew about mental health was growing up in the church was if you take your own life, that's an unforgivable sin. You're going to hell no matter what. That's something that that I always heard growing up in church. So because of that, we don't like to talk about suicide. We don't want to talk about depression and anxiety because it's such a taboo thing. It's seen as an unforgivable thing to a lot of Christians, but I had to dive into it. And the reason why I was as a youth pastor, I lost two students to suicide. My uncle, Greg Sweet, he took his own life in 2015. He was a believer. He struggled with Parkinson's disease. And I believe that that really took him out. He lost a lot of his cognitive thinking because of that disease. And then I had a friend, Jared Wilson, who was a pastor in Orange County. He took his life in 2019. And that's when I knew I had to do something about this. I can't just sit on the sidelines anymore. There are friends of mine, youth, family members, mentors, pastors that are taking their own lives. And you know, if you see pastors taking their own lives, you know that this is a big deal. This is an epidemic that's going on in America and across the globe. It's one of the leading causes of death. And since 2020, it's become the leading cause of death in Gen Z, in Australia and in Canada. We don't know what it is in America. We don't have those statistics yet, but we see some stats about anxiety and depression that would lead us to believe that suicide is going up and up in the rankings with causes of death. So what we do to combat this and how we see people set free is that it all comes from John chapter five. We use science. Obviously we use practical tools, but in John chapter five, there's a story where Jesus goes up to a man who was crippled for 38 years. It's a story of the man at the pool of Bethesda and Jesus comes to this crippled man who's sitting on a mat and he says, would you like to be made well? Or another translation says, would you like to be healed? And the man says, I can't, sir. Nobody picks me up. Nobody throws me in the water when the water bubbles up. No one helps me, Jesus. And then Jesus says, stand up, pick up your mat and walk. And the man does. He sees something in Jesus. So he goes from complaining and grumbling and having excuses to in one moment after that saying, okay, I'm going to try this. I'm going to stand up, pick up my mat and walk forward. And he does. He gets healed. He walks and then as he's walking, the Pharisees confront him and they say, what are you doing carrying your mat on the Sabbath? Who did this to you? I love that. I love that Jesus told him to pick up his mat and walk. People could have said, just stand up and walk. But Jesus knew it was a Sabbath and he knew the Pharisees were going to get mad. So he said, take that mat with you because what Jesus was doing to the man was he was giving the man authority over the thing that used to have authority over the man. So what we use with stay here is we use this story and we take, we make an abbreviation with this story. Ask, convince, take action. And we have a training where we teach people how to find the warning signs and risk factors with anyone who's struggling with anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, self-harm or suicidal thoughts. And when you find that person, you ask them. That's what Jesus did. He asked the man, do you want to be free? Do you want to be made well? Do you want to be healed? And a lot of us today, if we were asked a question like that, we might get offended when we might say, you don't know my story. You don't know what I've gone through. You don't know the years of trauma. You don't know what the doctor has said to me. You don't know how many pills I've taken to try to remove this depression. This is just a part of me. But Jesus doesn't go into the details of the man's story. He just says, stand up, pick up your mat and walk. And on that, on that, I think it's interesting that problems like anxiety and depression actually as strongholds in and of themselves work very hard to defend themselves from being uprooted so that someone who's depressed, they get stuck in cycles of, oh, I already tried that, already did that. I already attempted to do what the word of God says. Now, I know you got other parts of this acronym and we'll get into those in a moment. But you had mentioned that part of that asking comes after you see certain signs of suicide, suicidal ideation, depression, self-harm and so forth for our viewers so that they can be equipped to kind of recognize these things. Can you just give us, I know there's probably a long list of things, but can you give us some of the major signs that are key in identifying somebody who's struggling with things in this area? Absolutely. Can I tell you a story? Please. Yeah, because this guy had a lot of them. So here's a few warning signs and risk factors and I'm going to just tell you guys a story and testimony. So when we created this training, this happened actually a week after we built, we created this training. It wasn't live yet. We didn't release it. We just made the curriculum. So I'm totally able to tell this story with his name and everything. His testimony is on our website if you guys want to watch it. But we had a drummer at our church named Robert and Robert texted my wife and I after Sunday where he was drumming and my wife was the worship pastor at the time. And he said, Hey guys, that was my last Sunday drumming. I'm done drumming. And that was weird. So that is a warning sign right there. If you ever see someone who's gifted at something who has a talent and who's been doing something for many years of their own life, maybe they play football, they sing, maybe they're a pastor, whatever it may be. And all of a sudden they just quit without any reason. It's not because of a transition in their life. They're not moving. They just say, I'm done. That is a huge warning sign. That's a huge warning sign. If you ever see someone just stop something that they're good at, you should definitely ask them, are you okay? Why are you quitting this? What's going on in your life? Can I help you? So that was number one. Then we find out that there's trouble in the marriage. They're getting in arguments all the time. That's a risk factor. That's a warning sign. If there's turmoil in your own home, if there's abuse in your home, if there's arguing, if there's yelling in the home, that's something that you should be looking at as a risk factor and warning sign for people to be going through anxiety, depression, or suicidal thoughts. And then another one was, I knew that Robert had attempted to take his life before, and that is a risk factor as well. So statistics say that anyone who has previously attempted to take their own life, they are more than likely to try it again. So those are a few. And then one more. I have a meeting with Robert to see how he's doing, and Robert doesn't show up. He misses the meeting. He's not there. So I text him. He's not responding. I text him again. He's still not responding. Then I find out that his wife didn't know where he was. He didn't come home from work that day. So then I just go straight to the conclusion that something is seriously wrong with Robert. And I just text him this message and I say, Robert, if you're thinking about hurting yourself, if you're thinking about leaving us all, I want you to please call me before you do. Please, Robert, we love you. Your wife loves you. Your daughter loves you. You belong here on this planet, Robert. God still has a plan for your life. If you're thinking about taking your life tonight, please call me. Please just tell me where you are and I will drive and find you. So he doesn't respond, but he reads all my texts. So he just left me on red. Later that night, he sends me a pin to his location. We were living in Vancouver, Washington, right bordered with Portland. So we have a bridge in between the two cities. He's there at the bridge. He says, Jacob, I don't want to do this. I'm so scared. Help me. So I said, Robert, if you are able to drive away from that place, I just want you to leave where you are right now. If you're not able to, I will drive to you. But can you keep your location pinned so I can see where you are? Can you meet me at church? It's a way safer spot. So he says, yes, I meet him at church. We meet 15 minutes later. I drive, race to church and Robert had cut himself multiple times. His arm was bleeding. He had a razor blade in his hand. He's shaking. I said, Robert, put it all down. Just put it down. Give me everything you have, every weapon you have any pill, whatever it is, just give it to me. So he gave me all of his razors. We walk upstairs and make sure he's, he's all cleaned up and Robert and I just, we talked for two or three hours and I just start by opening up in prayer and then he tells me a story. I just said, Robert, if you can tell me why you want to take your life, just tell me why. I believe that I can help you to not do it. I just want to know why. And I think that that's the issue with so many people, so many people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, self harm or suicidal thoughts. They don't think that anyone wants to listen to their story and when you're isolated in pain, you are stuck in that pain and if you can't share your struggle with somebody else, how can you be healed? You cannot find healing from something that you're hiding on the inside. So that's the first thing that we do after we find these warning signs, we ask the question, do you want to be free? Are you struggling? Are you hurting? Can I help you? And we were in this safe place where I was able to help him and Robert experienced some form of deliverance that night, but I knew that that's not the end of the journey. It was really powerful, the encounter with God that he had there. But then I said, Robert, we are going to do a couple more things. I'm going to tell everyone on staff at the church here that you were thinking about doing this. You attempted tonight. Is that okay? That's okay, Jacob. Robert, you're going to go home and you're going to tell your wife everything you told me. Are you going to do that? Yes, I am. Robert, are you going to go to marriage counseling and personal counseling? I want you to go to a doctor and get a checkup. You're 30-something years old. Just go get a checkup and see what's going on in your faculties here. I want to make sure you're healthy from the inside out. Can you commit to doing all those things? And can you commit to meeting with me weekly so that we can make sure that you're doing these things? And I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life. And I know that you can't either, but for the next six weeks can we do this together because you matter this much? Robert followed through with all those things and now Robert is free. So Robert, his marriage is restored. He loves who he is as a man of God. He's drumming again. He is confident in himself. He is a free man. So he did experience freedom that night, but there was a process as well to recovery. And that's what we do with the act of training that we give. We ask, then we convince Robert to receive prayer, go to counseling, go to a doctor, and then T, we take action on those things. I made sure that Robert was held accountable to the things he said he was going to do. I walked him through those things and he found freedom. So you said that you met with him weekly for six weeks and you were able to talk with him and help him to understand some of those things that were going on internally. So somebody watching this right now may be wondering what were some of the things that you said that helped him? Because somebody clicking on a video like this, they're going to want some... Obviously, there are certain elements of these struggles that progressively get better and that it takes some work to overcome. And this is why after you share this, I'll even share a little bit of some of the dynamics that go into a struggle like this. But what are some of the tools that you give people? Biblically based spirit-filled tools that help them to overcome certain struggles in these areas? Yeah. The approach that I do might be different than most, but I personally believe that Jesus says you will know the truth and the truth will make you free. And when Jesus said that, he means it. And if you know Jesus, who is truth and you know his word, which is truth, you can find freedom. So when I met with Robert, we started off by just... I asked him, how are you? What's going on? Are you struggling with these thoughts anymore? Or are we back to square one? What's the progress like? Every week there was progress. And then after I followed up with them to just see how he was, we got into the Word of God. And I think that as believers, we don't hold the Word of God as high as it should be. There is so much power in knowing the truth, being renewed in your mind with the truth. And the word repentance even is not just going to the altar. The word repent in Greek is metanoia. Change the way you think. Stop thinking your way and start thinking God's way. So what I did with Robert is anytime he had some stinking thinking, anytime there was a thought in his mind that was alive from the enemy, we found the truth in Scripture. And it brought freedom to him. I asked Robert to even look in the mirror and tell himself every single day, I am Robert. I am a man of God. I am dearly loved. I am forgiven. And I am right with God. That was one of the struggles that he was experiencing was this shame. He didn't think that he was good. He didn't think that he was pure and clean. And I said Robert, the Bible says you are. You are clean. You don't even need to have a feeling. You don't need to have an experience to prove that to you. Jesus already made that happen 2,000 years ago when he died on the cross and rose again. This is a fact, Robert. You are free indeed. You are pure. You're cleansed by the blood of Jesus. Your sins are forgiven. God doesn't hold your sins against you. You are a beloved Son of God and you are right with God. So if you don't believe that, you need to believe that. Start saying that. Look at yourself in the mirror and say it until you know it's true because God's not going to change His word and your feelings are lying to you. So many times we have bad feelings and we think that our feelings are demons a lot of the times. But sometimes we just need to wake up and look into the word of God and know the truth and the truth will make you free. It's been even my own life where I've had bad days. I've woken up tired. I don't feel like a Christian when I wake up sometimes. But that doesn't change who I am. I am a Son of God. I'm a Christian. So that would be something that I would say for all of you watching this is your feelings should not be able to dictate who you are. The Bible dictates who you are. What Jesus says dictates who you are. What Jesus did for you 2,000 years ago dictates who you are. It seems to me that many believers are waiting for an experience to validate what they should already know that's in the truth of the word of God. And when we wait for an experience to tell us something the word of God already tells us we've elevated experience above the authority of Scripture. And so I'm so glad that you're touching on this because this is an important this is an important dynamic to understand that the word of God is the highest authority and whom the sun sets free is truly free. Now I'm going to say something and when I say this it's going to sound insensitive. It's going to sound like it lacks compassion. But really this can be a statement that can be taken either way depending upon the perspective that you have. The truth of the matter is that if the Christian life was not meant to be one of defeat. Now I'm going to expose the enemy here because there are certain very subtle lies that Christians believe in regards to what they embrace as a part of their everyday life that they shouldn't. Look, I understand that some believers do struggle with these things. I struggled with these things. I battled these issues. Jacob battled these issues. So we're not shaming anyone. And when I say that that's not the life of the believer I'm not saying that to condemn you and tell you that you're not a true Christian. I'm simply saying that there's hope for you and that there's something to aspire to that God wants you to have that God wants to give to you through the obedience to his word and to being led by the Holy Spirit. That's how ultimately freedom comes about. So when it comes to these types of battles these types of struggles many times we become confused because of wrong thinking and because we are embracing certain elements of our struggle as if they're meant to be a part of who we are. And this is what I'm going to get at here. I think that sometimes we wear our struggles as badges of honor when in fact they were never meant to be a part of the Christian life. Persecution, yes. Rejection by the world, yes. Trials and tribulation, yes. But we've almost somehow become convinced that the worse off that we are the more tormented that we are the more downtrodden that we are that that's somehow a sign that the enemy is really attacking me because I'm so special that he has to attack me and you know we wear it like a badge. This is just my struggle and we embrace the depression. We embrace the anxiety. We embrace the mental torment and we say things like well that's just what God wants from me because I'm just the enemy can see what God wants to do with my life and therefore he's attacking me in this way. And so in a very interesting way when someone tries to tell us no actually you don't have to struggle like that we get upset because they're taking away from us the thing that we think makes us special. I can't tell you Jacob how many times I've had believers come to me and say I want to be free of this thing and I say you can be free and you don't have to struggle with this and then they get angry with me. Yeah, like it's like it's it's an odd like I said the these struggles have this odd way of defending themselves. So I think that we have to come to an understanding here biblically speaking that there is a natural element to these things. I mean Paul wrote to Timothy a little wine for the stomach say will do you good? Why didn't he just heal him? Well, maybe they did pray for him and God and his sovereignty in that particular instance didn't specifically take away the sickness in the miraculous way that they had hoped. And then we take another parable that Jesus told or at least an analogy where he talks about the fact that it's not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick. And in saying this Jesus is endorsing the medical profession because he would never use something that's a bad example to communicate a spiritual truth. He was always consistent even in his allegories and parables. So biblically speaking medical professionalism is not something that's the enemy. And I think sometimes in you know superstitious Pentecostalism I'm a Pentecostal but I have to admit that in our circles sometimes we imagine that if you go to the doctor that you have very little faith that if you take medication for some problem with your kidney that somehow you're not relying upon God but medical professionalism is a gift from God as well. So there is an element to be considered in regards to the very deeply rooted psychological effects that come about as a result of trauma bad experiences certain things that you see in here that deeply affect you emotionally and mentally. So there's that element. There's the spiritual element the enemy constantly harassing you Paul the apostle wrote of it. Now I don't know if Paul the apostle was specifically talking about an actual demonic being but even if he was he called him a messenger in other words the assault was in the words that the demon spoke. And so Paul didn't necessarily go through an exorcism. God says to him my grace is sufficient. So even in that there's an element of overcoming that demonic attack with spiritual power. But once that demon has been subdued once that power has been exercised there is work to be done. I used to Jacob. I'll be honest with you. I used to very arrogantly say things like well you're trying to counsel it out of them when you should be casting out of them and you you're counseling it out of them because you lack power. I said that and I was was very arrogant in my counseling works and casting demons out works. That's that's all a part of you know the the the the way these dynamics come together. But for the believer the fight really is to believe the truth second Corinthians chapter 10 verses 4 through 5 is what I was thinking about when you talked about quote stinking thinking that is what I call the faith filter or using the scripture as this filter that we don't let the thought pass through unless it can be validated consistently with scripture. And so if we are tearing down those strongholds through the subjection of our thought patterns and we're experiencing a level of freedom so demonic beings leave instantly demonic harassment stops instantly but then there's work to be done in the flesh. I mean Christians don't need to be possessed if we're going to believe the lies of the enemy and do all his work for him in our lives anyway. So he basically plants a lie before we're born again plants a lie and if we just keep believing that line we act according to it. We're going to destroy our lives in the same fashion that any possession ever would have. And so this is why I say we have to draw very distinct lines between the way we describe things like for example mental illness. That's an element and then there's another element of possession that's before you're born again afterwards it's assault spiritual attack attacks from the outside and we allow those lies to be embraced and deception does not come about until you believe the lie a lie only becomes deception when you believe it so I believe it and then I begin to think according to a certain way that thought pattern is developed I begin to feel according to a certain way and then I start to act according to a certain way and we call that bondage and ultimately believers try to address the emotion and the action will never addressing the route like Jacob's talking about. So I want to feel better and yeah maybe you can feel better if you have a wonderful encounter in the presence of God but you're just going to go back to it until you unless you address the root cause and this is why so many people go through cycles and God didn't call us to go from deliverance to deliverance but from glory to glory. So we address the root problem namely the lie Jacob how do we do that? How do we assault that lie? Yeah, I'll help I'll help you guys with a story. So this is a personal story of mine. It's actually happened in 2021 for me. So I was starting to see a lot of breakthrough when I was preaching in public. I would see healings it almost seemed like every person that needed healing got healing or people were getting deliverance everywhere. People were screaming in the middle of the message getting delivered. It was pretty wild. What was happening and somewhere along that time I started to get intimidated by the enemy and I gave into fear and I thought that I needed freedom. I thought that I needed prayer. So I started texting all my powerful holy spirit believing pastors. I started texting people like Mike Signorelli and others asking for prayer and freedom and then I went to a meeting where I don't know if you guys know who this speaker and leader is. His name is Dan Moeller. I went to a Dan Moeller meeting and he's a big truth guy. He just believes the finished work of the cross and I go to his meeting and I come up to him and I told him what was going on. I said, Dan, I'm seeing all these people get delivered from demons everywhere I preach. I'm seeing healings happen. I'm seeing breakthrough. God's doing incredible things in my life, but I think that I need freedom. I think that something's wrong with me. I have this crazy fear and I'm starting to even experience anxiety. I need help and Dan looks at me and he says, please don't tell me you're asking all your pastors and your friends to pray for you. I said, I am. Why wouldn't I do that? He said, because you're giving the enemy power. If you're going to if you're asking all these pastors and your friends to pray for you, you are therefore saying that something's wrong with you. Why would something be wrong with you if that's the fruit of your life? You're literally seeing freedom and you are living in freedom. You're not living in sin. And he looked, he grabbed my face like this and he said, I don't see any darkness in you. There's nothing wrong with you. Stop it. And I was like, okay, okay, but you know, I would love to tell you that I walked away from that and I was like, all right, I'm fine. Right. I got in my car and I still felt the fear. I still felt the anxiety. So I thought, man, maybe Dan's wrong. Maybe I need more prayer. But I got home and I just made my mind up. I said, you know what? I'm going to believe this. What am I doing? I am living. I'm trying to get an experience to get this other experience away. That's not biblical. I need proof. I need the word of God and I need the finished work of the cross in my life. This is already stuff that Jesus has dealt with. So I started to just dive back into the word of God and I started to seek God just to seek God just to seek his face and that was it. And in doing that and in getting into the word and seeking the face of God, all that stuff broke off and I think that there's so many Christians who go to the altar and you're going to all these deliverance meetings again and again and again because you had a bad week. You had a bad feeling and all along you've been free this whole time. You've been whole this whole time. But you're giving into your feelings and your emotions because in this generation we're such a feely touchy generation. But it's time to get some faith in you and believe that what Jesus did for you is greater than what you're feeling inside. Jesus is greater than your issue and what Jesus went through is so much greater than what you're currently going through. If you look at the cross more than you're looking at your external circumstances, you can find freedom. It's ironic that the being set free from the belief that you're under the power of the enemy is just as liberating as being set free from being under the power of the enemy. And it's what I say. I don't I think a bigger problem than demon oppression in the church is demon obsession and I've had people come to me. They they're freaking out. The enemy is attacking me. I'm getting these thoughts. He said and I say, okay, it seems to me that you're more tormented by the idea of being attacked than you are at the attack itself. You don't think the enemy tries to assault me, tries to lie to me, tries to tempt me, but it's in knowing that truth that we combat the power of the enemy. Otherwise we get emotionally wrapped up in all of these things that actually become spiritual tangents and distract us from ultimately walking in the freedom. This is what I tell people. If it is true that the believer who walks according to the word of God will walk in freedom, then let's focus on teaching people how to walk in that freedom and we're giving you those keys. It's connectivity with the Lord and it's not just knowing the truth. It is believing truth and to some this may sound overly simplistic to some this may sound like, well, you know, you're being dismissive or I used to say these things Jacob like when I would teach the opposite. Again, very arrogant. I was very arrogant. I would say things like, well, you just haven't gone deep enough yet. You're not really and I used to equate the bizarre with deep like, oh, that guy is going deep like, no, he's just being weird is what he's doing. That's what I was doing. And so, you know, I would say things like that are you haven't really dealt with a true principality and power like me the the expert of the spiritual realm. You know, and that's how I referred to myself was just ridiculous. And I realized it was all spiritual pride and I was trusting in my knowledge of the supernatural rather than my knowledge of the truth of the word of God and I found that the real break because I would go to I would same thing, Jacob, I'd go to different pastors, they'd like hands on me. I'd fall on the floor. I'd shake. I'd go home and I'd deal with the anxiety all over again. I found that when I began to choose to grab hold of those thoughts, not just one time and then throw up my hands and say, well, it didn't work for me. So I need to go back to the meeting. I mean, some Christians go to these meetings like like people go to the chiropractor like it's constant adjustments. Like did you get your demons out this week? And so it's like this this this very we have to grow past that we have to come to to the mature way of the Holy Ghost where the where there's real power. And this is where I found the real power real power is is entrusting the truth of the word of God and then you walk in that truly believing and that is the battle because we develop these thought patterns. Like I said, depression will defend itself because it's so negative. It will say, well, I tried that before anxiety will defend itself because it's so pessimistic about the future that when solutions are presented, all you're worried about is what if it doesn't work and you're so obsessed with the fact that it might not work that you never really actually implement the exercise of that truth in the mind. So there's all this clutter, all these emotions, all these things that are wrapped up in these struggles and we come to believe that we really are just totally immersed in darkness. I was having a conversation with a friend today. Brilliant, brilliant man. He might be watching now. Steve and I were at the house with him. He's visiting from California. You know, we're talking, I sit with this guy and I feel like I need to learn the Bible all over again. This guy is brilliant. Like ever sit with someone like that, Jacob, just brilliant, brilliant mind like not just deep but like deep, deep, deep, deep, deep like really understands history and the original language and you know, the writing patterns of Paul and the writing patterns of Matthew and he told me today. He says, you know, he was talking about how he said, I like the way you drive out demonic powers. It's very simple. He says, I think today what we've actually done is reversed engineered Satanism. We've reversed engineered New Ageism and then implemented these tactics and they're not even scriptural. I love what you're talking about. This is why I brought you on, Jacob, because you're helping people walk in the truth in a way that's not going to get them wrapped up in a new way to be tormented. Right. And this is what this, this is why I'm so passionate about it. And again, I used to struggle with this. This is why I'm so passionate because I know how I used to torment myself with certain things. I mean, I couldn't read the Bible without being tormented. That should tell you something and how the enemy will twist and turn with the word of God and try to, I mean, that's what he did with Eve. That's how he caused her to fall. So you're actually now seeing people walking in this truth. You're seeing testimonies of people who are getting set free in the ministry. God is entrusted to you. Yeah. Yeah. This was so while I was preaching at a Gateway Student Conference in Dallas just two weeks ago. And I did a suicide prevention training during the day before I preached at night. And there is a few thousand people at this training and the first person as I've wrapped up the first person that came down, I just said, I'm going to hang out if anyone needs prayer, if anyone needs to talk to me, if anyone has any questions or objections to this, let's talk about it. So because I'm talking about you can be free, you can be free. And it's not a one size fits all thing. It's not just Bippity Boppity Boo and Jesus' name be free. It's not always how it goes. So sometimes there's a process and there's counsel, there's meeting with others. There's sharing the struggle. But I said, come and talk with me. The first person that comes to me, her name was Nicole and she's crying and she says Jacob on July 12th this year, I was going to kill myself and this is such a Gen Z thing that she does. She says to calm myself down before I did it. I wanted to watch a few tiktok videos. So she opens up tiktok and she said Jacob, the first video that came on my for you page was you. Wow. And you were talking about freedom and I just start crying. I'm crying so hard. She's crying and I just hugged her and she said, thank you for saving my life. I just I decided to write that in there. I didn't want to take my life and she experienced so much more freedom even at that conference and she's she wanted me to share her story. So I posted about it and stuff because she's free. She's free and that's just one of so many stories. Man, can you share another one, please? These are. Yeah, I love that. I love it. This is such a crazy one. So there was a girl who went to a Mariners game. Seattle Mariners game and she was 19 and she was going to kill herself that night. So she decided to go to a Mariners game to look for a sign to not kill herself. She wanted to give herself one more chance and at that game was one of stay here's partners someone who decided to wear one of our Gen Z will be suicide free t-shirts to the game and she's so she's wearing the shirt that says Gen Z will be suicide free. Her name is Jocelyn. Jocelyn goes down to go get some food and she crosses paths with this girl, this girl who's looking for a sign to live who wants to kill herself sees Jocelyn wearing that shirt. It's in bright red. Gen Z will be suicide free. She's shocked and she goes up to Jocelyn and she says, tell me about the shirt, please. Jocelyn tells her about what we do, the ministry and then Jocelyn tells her about Jesus and this girl says I was going to kill myself tonight. When I bought a ticket to the game looking for a sign to live and this is my sign to live. I'm not going to kill myself anymore. That's just crazy. Right there from a t-shirt from just a t-shirt and the way that's how we read this generation is for freedom. They're just looking for someone to say I have your sign. I am your sign. I have Jesus in me. Just keep living. This is an awesome testimony to also from that conference I was just speaking at the pastor of the youth ministry named Charlie Elliott. I was on the phone with him yesterday and he said that there was someone who had severe anxiety who was at the conference. The host home Maan who is hosting her along with a lot of other people said that it was hard for her to even function. She wouldn't look people in the eyes. She was always having anxiety attacks during that week of the conference and she went home the night after I preached and she went home that night without any anxiety. It was completely gone and she just all she did was she just went to the altar for the altar called cried but she went home free of all that anxiety. She then went the next week on a vacation with her family to Mexico and she went parasailing zip lining and scuba diving things that she would never do with that anxiety. Yeah, that yeah with the anxiety would not let you do any of that. So I just feel the chills. That's just what Jesus does, man. That's what Jesus is doing. You know, there's so many other stories. I've got I want to tell one more. This is my favorite one. So this is another some person who just found a tiktok video. Like if any of you guys are doubting evangelism on social media. This is your sign to start in the goth talk is important too. I mean, I had Christians when I posted in the YouTube community one time. Hey, we have a tiktok account now. And they said why are you on that platform? It's it's filled with filth and they said that from their YouTube account, which I thought was ironic. But anyway, I digress. This is a story about how tiktok is also impacting lives. Yeah, it's the most used app right now. I mean, we should be preaching the gospel there because it's full of filth. We need to be light in the darkness. So there's a young young woman named Camilla. She's 16 and she is suicidal. She is cutting herself. She has all sorts of other addictions that I don't want to mention on here. And she stumbles upon one of my videos on her for you page and it was a video of inviting the Holy Spirit to touch you and to fill you. So she she looks at the video. She's an atheist when she looks at this, but she saves it on her phone and she decides I'm going to listen to this every night before I go to sleep for 30 days. And if something changes in 30 days in my life, I'm going to pray what he prays. I'm going to repeat after him just like he says. And after 30 days if something changes I'm going to start following Jesus because she's desperate. She wants to kill herself. She's cutting herself. She can't get free from addictions. Nothing else is working. So she's just wanted to try this out. I love Jesus for this on day 30. She finds freedom on the last day. She finds freedom. She encounters the Holy Spirit in her room. She gives her life to Jesus. She decides to buy a Bible for herself. And then she starts looking around for churches and she asks her parents to take her to church. Her parents notice the change inside of her. So they want to hear more about Jesus. So they go to church with her. Then her parents give their lives to Jesus. They all get baptized in water together on the same weekend. And now they're hosting a house church in their home. That is the power of Jesus right there. She goes from suicidal self harm full of addiction full of all all sorts of issues. She's she's she needed an overall to freedom now leading others into freedom. Well incredible. I mean we could go on for hours and hours listening to these testimonies. There's something very energizing about hearing these stories. I mean that in the spiritual sense just this life. It's life giving to hear these types of testimonies. And so just before we pray I just want to recap to that one watching right now. So that you understand I'm just going to try to tie together the threads of the things we've discussed throughout this live stream. Even if you're watching on the replay the same anointing that's here right now that's eternal. That that that has power to set you free even as you watch this on the replay. But what we are saying can be summarized quite simply in that there is hope for you. Even if you you've given up hope and you can be free in discussing the ways that we can do better as the church. We've discovered that there are many elements to these struggles. Yes, sometimes it is demonic. We have to acknowledge that I practice deliverance I cast out devils and we pray for breakthrough for the believer. Some say everything's a demon. Some say nothing is a demon but the Bible teaches that some things are demons. We have to be balanced in that regard. And so yes, there are demonic elements. The way you deal with demons is by taking authority through prayer and then it's dealt with. The other element is the mental and emotional side. And this is where we say sometimes there's work there's practice with renewing your mind learning to reconfigure the thought patterns that you've allowed yourself to embrace and allowing yourself to think according to the word and to filter the thoughts that are not of God and reject those and choose to embrace the truth. You can be victorious. You are seated with Christ in heavenly places. Now, Jacob, let's pray. I want you to pray first and then I'll pray and let's believe God right now for that anointing to break the bondage. Yes. Yeah, you're struggling with mental illness with your mental health. I want you if you're watching this right now to just put your hands on your head the Bible says that you are promised a sound mind. You don't have to live in fear anymore. Jesus will set you free right now from the spirit of fear from the spirit of death that's been plaguing your life. He can set you free. So I want to pray a prayer of freedom for you and I want to pray for you to be courageous to step out and ask for help. That is the next step for your journey. If you're struggling and you're alone in this I want to pray that God would give you courage. So Father in the name of Jesus Christ we come against the enemy and his schemes right now. Lord we thank you Jesus that when you died on the cross and when you rose again you took our shame. You took our guilt. You took our condemnation. You took all sorrow, anxiety, depression. You took death upon yourself Jesus and you laid it in the tomb. So Lord in the name of Jesus Christ I command the spirit of suicide, self-harm, self-hatred, anxiety, depression and darkness that's plaguing these people to get off them, get out of them and leave them in Jesus' name. Holy Spirit I pray that you would come and fall upon them and fill them with the love of God. The Bible says that perfect love casts out all fear. God I pray right now that your love of a Father would fill them and surround them as they're watching this and I pray that fear would go. Holy Spirit come right now. Lord I thank you that whom the sun sets free is free indeed. Lord I thank you that his chains are falling right now. That anxiety that's been plaguing people for years doesn't have to come back. Let these people stand up, pick up their mat and walk forward as free people in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you Lord. So Father we thank you for the power that is present. Completely set free and deliver. And Lord I pray right now that by your Holy Spirit that one watching and believing would be filled with your peace. Peace I give unto you. The world cannot take it away. Thank you Lord that you're breaking every demonic bondage. You are silencing the lies of the enemy. Now Holy Spirit we pray as Paul did Father we trust in your grace. Give us the grace Lord to live and to think according to your truth and word and Holy Spirit help us do it. I thank you Father that you've given your people victory in favor and righteousness and power. I thank you Father that you've given us authority to the name of your Son Jesus. Holy Spirit I pray that the manifested touch of your power come on. Some of you watching right now are feeling like electricity moving through your body. Others are feeling like a heat some like a weight. Some may not be feeling anything at all. It's only a side effect. It's not the purpose. It's not the purpose but it is happening to many of you. That is the touch of the Holy Spirit's power flowing through you. I want you right now people of God just begin to pray. Ask him he'll do it. Ask him and he'll do it. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord for your presence and for your power. And you know I've never done this before. With Jacob the Lord the Lord is moving me to speak to you. I'm telling you I've never done this before. Father I thank you for your servant Jacob and I thank you Lord that this will be a season of growth beyond comprehension. I hear the Spirit saying I put you in a place. I've put you in a place that you might know I and I alone was the one who did it who raised you. I see in the spirit Jacob it's like you're pushing up against this brick wall and that wall just won't it won't budge it won't move and everything in your efforts to move that just doesn't seem to be moving it. God has given you a vision. God has given you instruction and it seems like you can't get past that place and the Lord is saying I've allowed it to be so I've allowed you to do what you can. I've allowed you to try your best to prove to you when it happens when it moves when that wall breaks to prove to you that I and I alone was the one who took it down. Yes. And this will be a season of grace and favor and growth and expansion. I thank you Father that you are raising this man. I thank you Father. I want everyone in the comment section right now begin to pray pray for this man of God as he's blessed you and ministered to you. I want you to pray and bless him too. Lord I thank you. This is a season where he's highlighting you, Jacob. He's going to raise you to two places that that are just going to wow you. Walk forward. There will be this will be a season as you step into this you will know it because there will be a season where it will go from striving to flow. There will be just an open I know that that we use that word open door but I do see that I see a door just opening and you walking right through it. Thank you Lord. I give you the glory and the honor and the praise and all of God's people said amen. Well, if you want to get involved with what Jacob coin is doing and his ministry. This is just I love by the way my friend Gen Z will be suicide free. Yes. I love that. That is that and I truly believe that that can be a reality. You want to get involved with what Jacob is doing. Go to W. W. W. I said W. W. Who says W. W. W. Anymore but stay here. Dot live stay here. Dot live S. T. A. Y. H. E. R. E. Dot live. And that website will give you information on what they're doing to help reach not just Gen Z there. They're focused on but it's not limited to just Gen Z. But that's that's a big part of what they're focusing on and they're taking that message of hope the gospel specifically to people who are struggling with these with these problems. Now Jacob, what can they expect to see on the website? Yeah, on our website we have resources. We have a chat line for you. We have counseling services. So if you need counseling online, we have that. We also have a free suicide prevention training. We want to train one million people 10,000 churches and 10,000 schools. So we made this thing free because the time is urgent. So please go to our website. It's not going to cost you anything. It's just going to take 45 minutes and you can get certified in suicide prevention and you could be a light in your community or your school or your workplace. So that's all on our website. Also, if you want to book book us to come out and do a training or speak on this topic. There's my booking page and anything like that. So partner with us. Join us. I recommend you do this, guys. Get behind this ministry. Again, stay here dot live. And Jacob, thank you so much for being the blessing that you are to our live stream audience to the many who will watch this on the replay. We appreciate you. We love you. We honor you. And thank you for joining us here this evening on viral Bible. Thank you. Good honor. It was an honor. Now, I want to talk to you. Don't turn this video off. 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And so I certainly do appreciate your support. And again, I'll read the names as they come in from around the world. And thank you for doing that. Well, if you enjoyed this teaching and it was something that blessed you and you really do believe that God is setting you free in this area and this is something that maybe you yourself are working to overcome. Then I want you to take a look at my video titled How to overcome depression and anxiety. In this teaching, I share a little bit of my testimony and then I give you very practical Bible tools to overcoming the demonic mental and emotional aspects of both anxiety and depression.