 Did you know there's an area of your life the enemy really wants to control? Stay tuned on today's Move Your Mountain. You'll learn what that is and how you can gain victory there. We're also gonna have some anointed worship that's gonna bring the presence of the Lord. We're gonna take Holy Communion so make sure you get your elements to join us. And then as always, we'll conclude at the altar of the Lord praying for you. What our sins and griefs to bear. Welcome everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in to Move Your Mountain today. And you know, this is such a wonderful time of the year. We are right now celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. We don't want you to miss our special with Dr. Larry Huck. I know it will bless you, but we are here today to welcome the presence of the Lord and just allow him to have his way so that you can be ministered to and receive whatever the Lord has for you. I'm Pastor Gary Mitrick here with Pastor Myra Bell, Pastor Jonathan Schaefer, Pastor Rebecca Luker, and Pastor Rebecca, I love this time of year. I need to. There are so many different reasons because we realize that God is in control all throughout the year, but then in the fall we're reminded of there's things in our lives that have to die and spring comes and there's newness of life. I loved all the things that go along with fall. Like you said, all the Feast of Tabernacles and all of those things that go along with our faith that we can just look to and be reminded of the faithfulness of God that he is present at any time in our lives. So it is, it's a great time of the year. Yeah, yeah. And here in Pennsylvania, one of my favorite things with fall is the changing of the leaves. And maybe you're watching right now and you're at a place where they don't have seasons or the leaves don't change, but it's a beautiful reminder like how Pastor Rebecca said that not only are there things that have to die, but even in the death of things, beauty can come out. And so maybe you're holding on to something right now in your life and the Lord is just trying to let that die so that it can create a beautiful vision for the next season of your life. And so I love driving around with my wife and my kids. We usually go up a little bit north here in the state of Pennsylvania just to walk in the woods at this time of the year. But it's a great time just to get closer to God and be reminded that he died for our sins and rose a lot again. Somebody's watching from another country saying, what is he talking about? And I'm not walking in the woods. But I was driving on the highway the other day and I saw a, the trees were green, but in the middle of all those trees, there was one tree that had begun to turn. And it made me think about in the midst of everything going on around us, we can still bloom because of Christ. We can still be all that we can be because of Christ. Well, we want to remind you that our prayer partners are always available to pray with you, whether it's something we will be sharing today or anything or anyone that's on your heart, don't carry that care, cast it, release it on the Lord's shoulders. The number is there 888-665-4483. And we're also gonna take Holy Communion. I know many of you tell us how you look forward to that time. So get a cracker, a piece of bread, some juice in a cup and get ready so that you can participate with us. Well, we're gonna get into a great word today in 2 Corinthians chapter 10. The apostle Paul begins by saying in verse three, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. You see, you and I have to understand we are in a battle in this life. We are at war. We have, Peter says, an adversary. That word means an opponent, somebody who opposes us. But we have to remember that our family members, our boss, our friends, our people at church, they are not our enemy. Number one, our battle is not against flesh and blood. And that's one of those weird things that we have to remember, especially when we see the state of affairs, particularly with politics. This becomes a big thing. And we're entering another election cycle. And this is an important time of year, but it's so easy for us as believers, first and foremost, to get wrapped up in the fear, the anxiety, and even at certain times, the hatred towards the opposing party. And we have to remember that it's not these people, but these are demonic policies. There are things that are operating behind the scenes, not just in the United States, but all around the globe because our enemy is real. He is a global enemy that wants to see death, decay, and destruction. And so rather than just bickering online or getting upset at our neighbor because of what sign they have in their front yard or whatever, we have to remember that there are principalities, there are forces of darkness at work, and not to get locked in on hating the person that we need to share the gospel with and love on and pray for, but binding these principalities and coming against these spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places. Yeah, and not only on that spiritual, the political front and things like that and the culture that's going on, but even in your own family, there may be situations that you're facing in your family that you feel like, well, they just, they know how to push my buttons. Can I tell you yes, the enemy lurks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. So he knows those things that are gonna set you off. He knows how to push your buttons and he allows, he uses people to do that, but it's not the people that's the problem. It's the enemy that's the problem. So recognizing whatever it is that might be troubling you, whoever it may seem like is troubling you, understand that behind the scenes, it's the enemy at work. It is not your family member. It is not your friend. It is like Pastor Gary says, it's not your boss, though you may have issues with that. It's the enemy at work because he wants to bring destruction in your life. He wants to cause fear in your life. He wants to cause unrest in your life because if he can, then he takes your eyes off of God. He takes your eyes off of the one who's able to solve the issue and puts it on the problem, on the adversity that you're going through right now. So in all that you're facing, remember, get mad at the enemy. Don't get mad at your friends. Don't get mad at your family. Don't get mad at your boss. Get mad at the very enemy that is allowing you to go through this and putting it on you right now. Get mad at him. He's the one who deserves our anger and our hatred. As you were talking, I think about it so easy for us to, because we can't see into the spirit realm with our natural eyes, we don't think about what's going on behind, behind the scenes or in the spirit realm, but we deal with it all the time. Nobody has ever seen the wind. Nobody has ever seen it. We see the effects of it. I know I walked outside of our house after a windstorm and I'm looking in here laying across the walkway, it was big tree. I saw the effects. We see the effects and one of the effects is of the enemy is his working through people toward us or trying to work through our flesh. But when we embrace that, we can't see the battle, but the battle is going on. And even if you don't like to fight, we have to fight. We are in the battle years ago. We used to sing a song. I'm in the army of the Lord. And if I die, let me die in the army of the Lord. The battle is not against flesh and blood though. The battle is not, it's against what you can't see. So just like we will prepare, we will put coats on, we will buy heavier sweatsuits and that sort of thing. We have to prepare during the time of peace, prepare for the battle. Prepare, prepare our minds, prepare our hearts for the battle that we are in. Because if the enemy could get you to keep the battle in the flesh, he's gonna win. Because he's getting you out of the spirit and into the flesh. And that's why you and I, if we wanna win this battle, we've gotta remember who our real enemy is. There's several of you watching, but there's someone watching. You're having a real animosity with one of your neighbors. And you two have just been going at it and they're doing things that really are just getting under your skin and you've just been angry and furious and just in the flesh about it. And today is a word for you. It's a rainbow word for you. That there's others of you. You're just clashing with somebody, but you're clashing in the flesh and you gotta get your eyes off of that person and get back in the spirit. Yeah, when Pastor Rebecca was sharing and you just brought confirmation to it, I felt like I heard the Lord say that when specifically people, they're decoys because there's a reserve of spiritual ammunition that you have. And the enemy would love to set up these people as decoys so that you launch all of your volleys of ammunition and attacks against those people. And so that you don't have anything to then fight the real battle. Because we see in Daniel chapter seven, I believe it's verse 25, where it reminds us one of the enemy's tactics is to wear out the saints. And there was the great boxer, Cassius Clay. His mama named him Clay, I'ma call him Clay. But he in one of his fights employed a tactic called the Ropa dope tactic, where he got, I believe it was Joe Frazier who was just a puncher to punch himself out. Clay just kept dodging and different. And he got him to wear himself out by expending all of his energy on attacks that weren't going to hurt him. And once he had gotten him to wear himself out, now he was ripe for the attack back. And the enemy right now would love for you, setting up people, family members, situations, situations at your job, your neighborhood, as decoys for you to launch your attack, spend your energy and effort there so that he can creep in through the back door and have his way with you. But today you've heard the word, like Pastor Gary said, you're not gonna let it happen because our fight is not a fleshly flight, it is a spiritual fight, and that's where the reserve and the resources for fighting rest. All right, so if you need prayer, why don't you call the prayer line 888-665-4483? Then Paul goes on to say in 2 Corinthians 10 verse four, for the weapons, we have weapons of our warfare, they are not carnal, they're not fleshly. Oh, but they are mighty in God, mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds. See, Satan does not travel alone, he travels in a pack in clans. And there's always a leader. Matthew 12 calls him the strong man, the main leader of that pack. But you and I, and what does he do? He sets up strongholds in regions, in areas. What is a principality? It's a prince, a demonic spirit over a region or an area of your life, whether it's over your family, whether it's over your church, whether it's over your city, you know, it's a principality that he likes to set up a stronghold. But you and I have the weaponry to, number two, shatter that stronghold in the name of Jesus. Yes, and that power that we possess is just phenomenal. I think about, a lot of times people will say, well, I've been praying, and they'll get an attitude with you. I've been praying about that thing. I've been praying about that neighbor. I've been praying about this situation and that situation. But the thing I think about is the passage in scripture where it says, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, and he will exalt you in due season, casting your cares on him, for he cares. They go together. When you come to the end of your self, then you're a good candidate. When you come to the end of yourself to really pray, because then you're in a place where you know you can't fix it. We don't know what to pray. The scripture says we don't know what to pray as we ought. But when we come to the end of ourselves and allow our God to make all the difference, to direct our steps, to word our mouths in his wisdom, or sometimes he will tell you, just shut up. Just be quiet. No, you just hold your peace. Hold your peace. But he'll tell you, zip it. Whatever it is, that prayer, prayer is one of our weapons. And God requires us to come to the end of ourselves in our hearts. So that he can work. Be still and know that I am God. He said, I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. Yeah, and that's one of the things too, because I know a stronghold for a lot of people, and maybe you're watching right now, is anxiety. And the enemy would actually love to get you to pray anxious prayers. To where you become that person where I'm praying, I'm praying, I'm praying. And there are times, like Pastor Myers said, just be still and know that he is God. Come out and see the salvation of your Lord. There are sometimes where you just have to understand the text we just read, it's, they're mighty in God. Sometimes you just have to know that you're in God, and the fact that you spoke it, the fact that you requested it, means that it is already taking place. But that does not give you the right to remain passive. We have a responsibility. Strongholds require stronger people. And so that means that we need to be strong, not just in understanding or wisdom, but strong in God, strong in a fear of the Lord, because that is the beginning of understanding and wisdom. And so sometimes we just have to find ourself in God and know that the battle's already won. It's not our fight to begin with. He wants to see it happen more than we want to see it happen, and just let him do it, and sit back like the psalmist says in Psalm two, takes the posture of our God who says, why do the nations rage and the people plot in vain and gather together against the Lord and is anointed? How many of you know, if you're in Christ, you're the Lord's anointed right now. And it says that the Lord sits and thrown in the heavens and he laughs. Amen, that's it. And it should give you peace to know that God is watching out for you. When we know that he is the one who is going to take care of the battle, that he's going to take care of our enemy, not enemies, people-wise, but our enemy-wise say, and he's already destroyed him, he's already defeated him. So the things that are happening right now are just trying to get us upset, as we've been sharing, trying to get us upset. So you as a believer need to take that stance as a Christian and say, I recognize what is happening. See, it's easy just to let things go. It's easy to just enter, engage in reacting in a fight instead of responding by saying, God, I see what's going on here. I know that the enemy is at work and I know that he's using my neighbor or he's using my family member. He's using others around me. He's using the culture to try to get me in a upheaval inside, but I am not going to do it because I know that you have already given me victory. I don't have to get anxious. I don't have to get fearful. Can I tell you, you are in the army of God. You are a soldier. Soldiers just don't lay down and play dead. Soldiers are prepared. They're ready for battle. They get the training that they need. They get the training before the battle happens. So if you haven't even reached that battle state yet, which I pretty much know that each one of us as Christians have reached a battle state at some point, but during that time where you have a little bit more peace, spend that time digging in and gaining your ground, gaining your armor, gaining your weaponry, that strength that you need as a child of God. So that way when the battle comes, you're able to recognize that you aren't battling with flesh and blood, but it's a spiritual warfare that's going on because Satan knows that God has something great for you. And as long as you are in tune with the Holy Spirit, you will accomplish what God wants for you. But when you start laying your spirit man aside and letting your flesh rise up and seeing the things with your own, your fleshly eyes in the kernel, then you're gonna end up giving up and saying, okay, well, I don't care. And then the enemy wins. Don't allow him to win. Christ has made you more than a conqueror today. You can overcome, you will overcome because greater is he that's in you than he that's in this world. Sometimes we're waiting for God to do something. And he says, wait a minute, I'm giving you the authority. I've equipped you with the weaponry. You shatter that stronghold. You address those principalities, those powers. You know, someone once said, don't complain about what you permit. You have a key of authority. Whatever you bind shall be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose shall be loosed in heaven. And then he goes on to say in 2 Corinthians 10, verse five, casting down those arguments. King James says, imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. And then here's the key, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. I spoke to you earlier, what is the area of your life that the enemy wants to control the mind? The third point is the battle ground for Satan is the mind. Whoever controls the mind, the Bible says as a man or woman thinks, that's eventually what you act out and become. So you've got to win the battle in your mind. You've got to take authority. You've got to discern thoughts. And if they're not God, if they're contrary to his word, they oppose the knowledge of God, then don't dwell on them. Don't nurse them. Don't rehearse them, cast them down, cast them out and replace them with the truth of God's word. What you feed will grow. That's just a principle. It works physically. It works spiritually. And the mind is the headwaters of the river in your life. And that's why the enemy would love to get your emotions flustered. That's one of the big places where I see, especially now, you can work people up into a lather and get them upset about a thing and doing all of this and that. Now their emotions have overtaken their mind. Satan knows that your mind is the control center for your entire being. And so if he can get you there, whether it's through your emotions or whether it's through the things that you allow into your mind, into your ears, into your eyes, these are receptors. But if you get the word of God in front of you and you allow the word of God to renew your mind, you now have weaponry for recalibrating, resetting, putting your brain into right alignment so you can walk in the spiritual things that God has for you. That's why it uses terms like the NIV says, lofty opinions or imaginations or ideas because the world knows, the enemy knows that he can captivate our minds through what we see on our phones. He can captivate our minds through what we digest through the news. He can captivate our minds, someone says, oh, this individual just looks so captivating. These are all tricks of the enemy. But allow your mind to be captivated by the word of God, the presence of God, the things of God and see how that takes root in your life. Yeah, our minds. I'm very visual. I'm a visual learner as well. And I think about our hearts being like a conference room. And if you think about a conference room, a lot of times there'll be a waiting area outside of the main area. So the main part of us being our heart, but the enemy will throw thoughts into that waiting room hoping you will take the thoughts that he said, the things that he wants you to do. He has power, no doubt about it. But we have power and authority. We have the ability through Christ because of his living in us through his spirit and greater is he that's in us. We have the power, but we also have the right to exercise that power. So we can cast out of that waiting room, the thoughts of the enemy. We don't have to embrace it and take it into our thought processes. Jesus said, why think you evil in your heart? We think about things and we decide whether we're gonna do them, not do them out of our hearts. There's a lot of players in our heart, our spirit, our conscious, the word of God in there. But we have the power and authority to walk in God's word, to exercise God's word. And guess what? It works. If we will employ the word of God, we will employ those things that he said, bring every thought into captivity, run after that thought, the enemy crazy. Forgive my vernacular. But the enemy will do, he will throw anything, decoys. He will throw anything, false flags, misinformation. He will do so many things, but we have the power and authority to bring every thought into subjection. That's right, and you know, it's sometimes difficult because we have to be active in doing it. We can't just lay back and just allow things or just think that things are just gonna fall into place. We have to be actively participating in what God is doing in our lives. You are a soldier in the army of Christ. God's spirit is within you. You have everything you need to be triumphant, to conquer. You have it within you because Jesus is living and dwelling in you. You don't need to succumb to the forces of the enemy. You need to rise up and say, I'm tired of feeling this way. I'm tired of these attacks going on in my life. And take that, stand and say, it's not gonna happen any longer. You have to take those thoughts captive. I'm reminded of that, the man in Mark chapter seven who his son was going convulsing. He was possessed and he went to Jesus. He says, I believe, help my unbelief. He recognized that he believed in Jesus, but he also recognized there were thoughts there. There were unbelieving thoughts. And he said, Jesus, help my, he was taking that thought captive in your life. What is it that you have allowed? What thought have you allowed to just grow and become bigger than the God who was able to conquer that thing? We do that so many times. We put our problems, we put our circumstances above God. And he says, don't you know who I am? Don't you know that I created this universe? Don't you know that before you were born, I knew you and I had a purpose and plan for you. Don't you know that? Don't you think that I can take care of that? I wanna encourage you today, know that he can. He is a faithful God. As we do our part, take those thoughts captive, don't allow them to escape. Do our part and actively participating in this relationship with the Lord. You are going to see that you are able to conquer every giant that you face and they will be defeated by the power of God. Amen. Pastor Rebecca, we're gonna ask you to slip over to the worship set. Pastor Rebecca's gonna sing for us a song that so ties in to what we've been talking about. How we have weapon, we have authority. But where is our authority? Well, it's in the name. Our God is strong and bad and our God will never fail through him on. Knowing that you're watching move, but it's not against flesh and blood to pull down, to shatter those strongholds and the battle ground for Satan is our mind. We've got to take those negative, ungodly thoughts that oppose the word, the truth of God. Put a lasso around them and pull them down so they don't, we also want to remind you that in just a few moments we're gonna take Holy Communion and we want you to join us. Please get some elements, a cracker, a piece of bread, some juice in a cup so you can join and participate. The prayer line is open 888-665-4483. If you need prayer, make sure you call because we're gonna end our time together at the altar of God. We've had so many people call in and then they called back because the Lord answered their prayer. We love answers to prayer. They encourage all of us. They're like faith builders and stepping stones for us. Stanley called the other day for his daughter, she was scheduled for open heart surgery. He called for prayer. The prayer partner agreed. She went in for the surgery. The doctor ran another test and said, wait a minute, she doesn't need open heart surgery. There was another doctor, Dr. Jesus, that intervened and touched her heart, praise God. Yes, I thank God for Stanley. Thank you for calling back. Thank God. As the scripture say, tell of his wondrous works. Tell, you encourage somebody when you call back. So when God does it for you, maybe it's not the way you want it to be, but you know that he interceded on your behalf, call us back. I know I tap into the prayer partners, Pastor Gary. I love that. If something's going on in my body, I will tap into the prayer partners. They've prayed for me. They've laid hands on me and prayed and God did it. God did what was necessary in my life. So if you want to call in, please do so. 888-665-4483, call in and tell what the Lord did. Amen. And then Mary called for prayer for her daughter because her granddaughter left the house. They didn't know where she was and where she went. She called the prayer line. The two of them agreed together. She said in a couple of days, her daughter called her mom and said, mom, I'm coming home. Amen. Thank you. Two prayers for children right there answered. What's going on in your family? Do you need the Lord to intervene? Pick up the phone. God is in the business of putting families together. So give us a call 888-665-4483. The prayer partner's gonna pray. And as we always do at the end of our program, we're gonna pray over it at the altar of God. But man, what a powerful, powerful testimony. Restoration is God's will. And then McKayline called. She was having terrible pain in her knees. She called the prayer partner. Then it says she called back and she said the pain is completely gone. She's walking around without any pain. She's rejoicing in the Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord for his healing power. McKayline, I'm so thankful that you called in just as all these other ones did. You know, you may be at home sitting and you may be saying, oh, it's great to hear what God has done for other people. But I don't know that he can do that for me. Can you just rewind this a little bit later and remind yourself you need to cast down those imaginations? Because the same God that healed them is the same God who will heal you if you ask him. Provide whatever you are needing right now. All you have to do is ask him. It was provided for you through what we're going to be doing right now in communion. Amen. So if you have your elements, let's get them now. And the Bible encourages us before we partake of Holy Communion to examine our own hearts. Make sure we're not holding on to unforgiveness against anyone. Remember what we said? The battle's not against flesh and blood. If you have to forgive somebody, now's a great time to do it. If you're holding an offense, or maybe you've just been wounded and rejected by someone. And it's just really caused a hurt and a pain that you've been carrying. Now is the time, now is the time to get your heart right with God. If you would just say, Dear Jesus, just say that, Dear Jesus, I choose to forgive anyone that's hurt me, wounded or rejected me. I release out of my heart all unforgiveness, any grudges, offenses, all ill feelings. Cleanse my heart now and set me free in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. And then after we've done that, Pastor Jonathan, now we can ask the Lord to cleanse us, right? Yeah, especially if you've never accepted that cleansing from the beginning. Let's just be honest, this is a piece of cracker bread and grape juice. But when you truly receive the Lord Jesus, this now becomes His body broken for you and His blood shed for you. And so if you've never made that decision, if you've never said, I want Christ to come and forgive me, it's impossible to truly forgive until you've truly been forgiven. The Bible says we love because He first loved us. And so right now, if you're watching, you've never truly received the love of Christ by inviting Him into your life to be the Lord and savior of your life, casting not just your cares, but your sin upon Him and receiving His Lordship, His rulership in your life, then don't go another moment. Just ask Him right now and say, Lord, I'm a sinner and I repent of my sin. I turn away from my evil and I turn to you. I trust in you. I throw myself on your mercy now and I acknowledge you as my King. I acknowledge you as God. That means you now rule my life. I don't want to live my own life. I want to live yours. And I receive your life now. I receive eternal life through my faith acknowledgement of your Lordship and your salvation in Jesus' name. Amen. We're in for us. Father, we thank you for loving us so much that you gave your only begotten Son. And Jesus, we thank you for being so willing to come down to throw off your glory and come down to give your life in our stead to be the propitiation, the substitute for us so that we could have life. So we remember now what you did by the eating of this bread. We remember, we think about and remember what you did and we just appreciate it so much. And so we give you glory for our being able to remember what you did. Take your cracker, your bread and wait for eat of it now and be healed in the name of Jesus, the Christ of Nazareth. Thank you, Lord. Just let healing virtue go through your body now in Jesus' name. Pastor Rebecca, pray over the cup. Father, it's in these moments that we have opportunity to reflect on everything you've done for us, God. How many times we've rejected you yet you were still consistently calling us and drawing us to you, Father. You didn't spare any expense when you went to Calvary, but you gave every ounce of blood that you could so that we would know that we are redeemed and we are saved and you loved us that much that you gave everything for us. And God, we just thank you for the stripes that were on your back, for your body being broken and your blood that was shed for our sins so that we do not have to pay the penalty any longer because you took it for us. Father, we thank you and we rejoice and we remember with all grateful hearts what you've done for us in Jesus' name, amen. Take your cup and drink and be washed and cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. Thank you, Lord. Well, if you are blessed by programs like Move Your Mountain or the lineup of in-house programs we have or our national programs, some we carry once a week, some every day, I'd like to encourage you to pray about planning a seed into this ministry. Let me give you our address. It's Cornerstone Television Network, One Signal Hill Drive, Wall, Pennsylvania, 15148-1499. We also want to remind you that we have a monthly newsletter that if you would just call our prayer line, 888-665-4483. This is free. We'll send it to you with no obligation. You'll enjoy. There's articles. It has our lineup of programming. There's always testimonies, recipes in it. I know it will be a blessing to you. We also want to rejoice with Overton who called from Denton, Texas. And he prayed and rededicated his heart and life to Jesus Christ. We welcome you and celebrate with you. Well, we're gonna go over to Pastor Rebecca as we head over to the altar while she sings this powerful hymn, Great Is Thy Faithfulness. What do you say besides wow? Praise the Lord. He is so faithful, Pastor Gary. He's faithful in giving us salvation. He's faithful through our walk with him throughout the years. And he's faithful that one day we're gonna see him face to face in glory. So I don't care what you're going through right now. God is faithful and he can do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think. Just keep trusting and praying and seeking him. Amen. You know, Deuteronomy 7 in verse 9 says, for the Lord your God, he is a faithful God. He is the faithful God showing mercy and grace to a thousand generations. Yeah, yes. I can say I was young, now I'm old, but I've never seen the righteous forsaken. God is so faithful to us. I thank God for that song because it resonates in me. He is faithful and he will be faithful to you. He will be faithful in the midst of your trials and in the midst of your tribulations. If you turn to him, don't go to the alcohol or chemicals to soothe. Our God will take care of anything and everything that touches you. Yeah, and there's some of you watching right now and you're just like, well, I've been so faithful to him, why do things here? Cause I look at these prayer requests and I see faithful followers of Jesus. And I just want to remind you, it was actually Job's faithfulness and righteousness that caused the enemy to want to attack him and God allowed it to happen. Why? Because it proved his faithfulness. And so whatever you are going through right now, whatever is happening right now, it might not be because you've messed up or sinned. It might be because you have been faithful and God, just like gold Peter says in 1 Peter 1, is refined by the fire. So too is our faith refined by the trials of persecution and difficulty. And so I just encourage you, your faithfulness will be tested and proved. And his faithfulness will be proved to you as you bear up under these difficult things, knowing that God has good in it for you. That's right. Well, we're going to pray together. The altar is filled with many of your requests you've called, you've written in. These are all the requests that have just come in recently. So join your faith with ours, even if you haven't had a chance to call. We tell you all the time, there's no distance in the Holy Spirit. Pastor Myra is going to begin and lead for us. Father, we thank you and we praise you for the privilege. And so we ask you in the name of Jesus to touch, move on the behalf of every single one who has exercised their faith. We ask you in the name of Jesus, that powerful matchless name of Jesus that you move on their behalf. We ask you to strengthen those who are discouraged by the way, who are discouraged by trials and tribulation. Remind them that many are the afflictions of the righteous. Many are the afflictions, but you deliver your people out of them all. And so help us to rejoice about what you have done, what you're doing and what you shall do. And we say thank you. Amen. We say thank you. Would you slip over to the piano so you can lead us in a time of worship? Pastor Rebecca. Father, we just thank you that you are mighty God. You are powerful God and you are the only one who can undergird us with strength to be able to overcome and conquer everything that we are facing right now in this moment. And Father, there are those who have called in that are needing healing in their bodies, healing in their family's God. And Lord, there are even those that this message today has resonated with them because they are under an attack of their mind. And Father, I pray right now that every lie that the enemy has spoken to them, every bondage that he has tried to place on them that you would lose it in the name of Jesus, that their thoughts would be thoughts that you put in their minds, that they would take those negative thoughts captive, Father, and that they would begin to think like you would think, like you want them to think. Father, I pray that you would allow your word to take preeminence in their lives, God, that they would dig in, that they would seek you, Father, knowing that you are the only answer. Counselors are good, pastors are good, but God, you are the source of everything that they need. Help them to be compelled to spend time with you. Lord, take away every distraction so that they are forced to spend time with you, God. And when they do, let them find the refreshing power of your Holy Spirit is there to bring victory and triumph over their situations. God, I pray that you would set them free from addiction, set them free from the bondages of self-loathing, Father. Lord, whatever it might be, you come in and intervene and make it right. And we thank you because you are a faithful God. You are going to do it according to your will. In Jesus' name, praise you. Father, we thank you that you care for us. You care for us. Yes, you do. Your word tells us to cast our anxiety on you because you care for us. And so, Lord, we just lift up right now each and every person that is watching, each and every need that is represented here. And we ask you to release, Lord God, the evidence of your care. Maybe it's a specific thing, a financial breakthrough, an item. Maybe it's a relationship being restored. Maybe it's just as Philippians 4 says that your perfect peace would come and guard hearts and minds, but whatever it is, you know the need because you care. And we ask you, Lord God, to allow your care to be tangible and present and invigorating right now in the lives of your people. Lord, we thank you, not only for the opportunity to pray for these needs, but we thank you for the faith to bring these needs before you. And we surrender ourselves in these needs to you now and to your care, trusting you in Jesus' mighty name. And Lord, help us all to realize our battle is not against flesh and blood. Lord, we bind that strong man Satan over our lives, our family, our health, our finances. We shatter every stronghold. And Lord, I just plead the blood of Jesus over every mind, emotions, subconscious that we would take every thought captive that opposes the knowledge and truth of your word in Jesus Christ's name, amen and amen. Well, we're gonna go to Pastor Myra as she takes us out in a time of worship, just welcome his wonderful presence as she ministers to us, open our eyes. And then life gets the best of us, and we need a reminder to keep calm and trust God. Simple, but striking, the keep calm and trust God box of blessings provides messages of reassurance to help carry you through tough and challenging times. These small cards fit into the palm of your hand and will turn your focus to the one who is in control of everything. Inside, you'll find 51 colorful double-sided cards featuring a combination of inspirational scripture verses and faith-based quotes. 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