 David had to kill a lion the bear and the Goliath lion bear and the Goliath This speaks of defeating three enemies that you have flesh world and the devil flesh world and the devil Flesh is the thing that you have inside that wants to do bad The way you overcome flesh is you feed your spirit you feed your soul The way you overcome flesh is you feed your soul means you feed your stuff with good stuff That is how you overcome the flesh number two the way you overcome the world is you flee the temptations that flee temptations meaning you put yourself out from the situations and places and Occurrences where you're gonna be tempted you know if you walk in in the mall and Victoria who has no secrets looks at you Turn your head around especially if you walk in with the girl Why because you're gonna get a slap and stuff and then she's gonna leave you alone if you are Walking if you realize your friends are hanging out together and they're gonna have alcohol there and you know And you're walking away from alcohol you're walking from away from that lifestyle as awesome as your friends are until you start Leaving that life until you start leaving those places walking away from temptations You are not going to overcome that sin you don't overcome temptations But you don't overcome the world by simply going into places where you get tempted by and simply say well I'm gonna bring my Bible and preach to them about Jesus. You're gonna come with your Bible and walk out drunk You're gonna walk in there with I'm gonna bring him to church and walk out high Because there are places you and I are weak to go to witness in those places There are places online where some of us some of us that if we even come near to those sides Next thing happens, we will sleep and fall and the goal is not I'm just gonna you know praying a spirit praying a spirit No, no, I'm gonna walk away. My power is to walk away. God doesn't anoint me to fight God anoints me to run And see God anoints me to fight the devil, but God anoints me to run from the world See Joseph when he when the potter for his wife was tempting Joseph and she started to flirt with him in the Bible So she did it continuously Joseph did not go out to her say hey woman. Can I pray for you right now? He didn't go lay hands on her He didn't go try to witness to her because they would both go to hell Joseph the Bible says he ran from her see God anoints you only when you choose to run from temptations instead of fight temptations a Lot of times young men would come and they say things like passive. I pray for me Why I'm fighting with lust and I said that is your problem. He said what do you mean you're fighting with lust? I said no one in the Bible. God says to fight with lust. God says run from lust I said why are you fighting something God called you to run from? Lust you can't beat lust. That's why God says run you can beat the devil That's why God says fight him but lust is temptations. God says run Means if that stuff pulls you down Don't try to get stronger to overcome it leave that delete that number Well, he keeps texting change your number get a restraining order Don't walk in that area change that delete them walk away from those things turn off the internet Jesus without internet change the world. You'll do just fine in the next few months When you keep slipping into the stuff on snapchat, well if you turn off your snapchat You will find out your high blood pressure will be just fine If you will not have that social media you will be just fine But the Bible says it's better to go into heaven with one leg instead of you know going into hell Living in hell with your Facebook snapchat Instagram Twitter and every other social media, but having no peace run from temptations and Well, how do we come how do we overcome the devil is we actually have to fight the demons We have to fight you don't overcome the devil by running from the devil see temptations you run from them the devil You cannot run from the devil Devil has to run from you Listen if you run from sin You will have no fear to run from the devil you will look at the devil and you will not be afraid of him Why because you've been running from sin and now you have no fear of the devil I remember when I was a a lot younger person and the first time that I had to face Demons alone in my car is when we were praying for one person and I think it was Thursday night He was manifesting manifesting demons were manifesting through him was a bigger guy and We prayed for him. He got free, but he didn't get free completely. That means there were some demons left And so I had to drive him back home There was only one problem He lived about 25 minutes from here into like parts of Pasco over there off of road 68 where you go in there Is no more lights there. There's no reception there and it's dark So here is like 19. I'm about think it's about 19 years of age or 19 to 20 years of age and driving my dad's Toyota Corolla this guy is twice my size Demons all the demons didn't leave He's driving we're driving there and as we are driving closer to his house. He begins to kill himself right there in my car He begins to choke himself So there I am I'm already scared The guy's killing himself and I'm like, how am I gonna explain in my mind? I'm thinking okay He's gonna kill himself. How am I gonna explain to his parents that I didn't do it? I mean imagine a Russian guy brings your child. He's like really I'm a youth pastor Oh, that's what all the MS says in MS 13 says they're all youth passes really I mean, how am I gonna explain I'm sitting there and I'm like and there is no reception I can't call police. I can't call my pastor the guy and the demon took over and he begins to take I think he took a pencil something and he's trying to choke himself and trying to stab himself and there I am literally faced with the devil in the car and no one to call and I had to do what I was told to do With one hand hold the wheel with another hand hold him hold his hand his hands were twice as powerful as mine and Literally, it wasn't the power of my hands, but it was the power of the word. I couldn't run from him. I Couldn't fight him And I remember put my hand over his hands and I started to command the spirit of death. I Was scared there was no lights that like not seeing lights on the streets kind of spooks me I was spooked and I remember simply saying scared to death by saying you demon you're not gonna kill him You're gonna leave he was subsided Next morning, I had to go pick him up again Bring him to morning prayer and drive him to school. I'm not exaggerating one part of the story We would pray here in the morning, and I don't see him for like 30 seconds I run up and I see behind the view under the view he starts to kill himself Because the demon would come on and try to kill him and right there nobody here and by myself a guy twice my size I had to learn that that day no matter how big that person is No matter how fierce the demon is and no matter how skinny I am Small I am inexperienced. I am Demons will be subject to you But you have to know one thing you can't run from them the moment the devil sees that you're running You already defeated even if you scared stand your ground Every hair on your back is picked up already and you shaking Stand your ground and don't let the devil see that you're afraid be afraid just inside of you Let the devil see that you lose snotty, but you know what you're doing like David 15 year old coming against glasses I know who I am and I'm gonna take you down birds will eat you for lunch, and I'm gonna destroy your whole army You think David felt that David was scared just like you were but see when you have God living in you You know you can't run from those devils if some nightmares are tormenting you You can't just escape from that get up and face that And face them If you're hearing voices Well, it's about time devil starts hearing your voice If you hear nightmares if you have attacks of the demons or stuff moving in your house you get up Don't turn on the light. You're the light Tell the devil I am your light Stop moving my chair You're not paying rent. I am when you stop paying rent then move the chair move your own chair I'm not making this up That's exactly what you have to tell the devil if he wants to move the chair He can go to hell and move all the chairs he wants to but this is your apartment This is your house, and he has no right to be there Come on somebody Amen So I want to challenge each one of you young person do not simply say well, I am not a priest I am not a pastor. I don't have this and everything listen Do that doesn't matter the Holy Spirit is in you and the Holy Spirit will use you if David could do it as a Teenager you're 20 years old you're 25 years old you 15 years of age that is enough You have to overcome the devil the Bible says stand your ground. He will run Stop running from the devil start running from sin Most of us run into sin and run from the devil the devil is a liar. That shouldn't be like that Run from porn run from masturbation run from drugs run from alcohol But stop running from demons let demons run when they see you walk into the room Let them shake let them start hearing voices because every time you praise demons are like Voices voices voices You've been letting the devil speak to you too much and he silenced you That's why during worship don't just stand there zip your lip muzzle your mouth and No, give devil a headache give him a nightmare at least for once let him shake Shiva and and be depressed Especially when you don't feel like worshiping Especially when it's a drama and hell breaking loose with your parents at home and you're coming here You're like man I'm just broken and shattered and this is why demons just sitting you sitting you get depressed more depressed more depressed and more Suicidal, but you just come up and you begin to praise you begin to worship and the devil starts leaving saying you know What these people are crazy their voices I hear voices in my head I'm not making this up the Bible says God will silence the enemy through your praise It means history is hearing voices and he will leave by the age of seven we had stopped going to church and I Just lived for myself did my own thing growing up. I was overweight and I had a lot of insecurities So I tended to do whatever my friends did it wasn't until I was 13 that I Started even considering the thought of God my sister She had just recently got saved at the time and all she could ever talk about was Jesus Jesus Jesus And it annoyed me so much I couldn't couldn't stand being around her none of the family could stand to be around her and she was always seen as the Outcast in the family. She was always inviting me to church, but I never I never decided to go then one one day I remember I remember clearly going to a rock concert with one of my one of my friends And I remember during that time I ended up having a panic attack and when you're 13 years old and you have a panic attack And you don't know what's happening. You feel like you're gonna die And I remember I had to be pulled out of the mosh pit and when I was brought to the to the edge of the stadium The ambulance they came in they they checked out my vitals and ended up saying that everything was fine with me That I just needed to rest but in that moment I remember feeling like I was gonna die and I remember the thought running through my mind that if I were to die today that I didn't know Jesus Christ and That I would end up going to hell and not heaven that scared me that reality hit me at that moment And it scared me so bad to the point where I said to God God if you let me live this day I will serve you with all my life I ended up coming down from that panic attack and everything was fine and life went on It wasn't until a couple months later my sister invited me again to go to church But this time it was a encounter retreat where they went away to the mountains and I remember she asked me and I said No at first and then it seemed like out of nowhere this thought came to my mind and and I felt like it was God at that time I didn't know it was God But I was reminded of that promise that I made to God that I would follow him with all of my life I remember sitting at my friend's house. There was only an hour left till they would leave to go to the trip I called my sister up. I said wait for me I'm gonna pack my bags and I'm going and the very first night worship began and I didn't know what anything was. I just I just knew that people were singing songs I knew that something in my heart needed a change and I remember during worship This piece Coming over me so strong so so powerful that I that I couldn't Resist but to sing along with the songs to engage myself to the point where I was worshiping God And I hadn't even given my life to him yet decided to give my life to Christ since then my life has never been the same I've been on a journey of growth and freedom Particularly in the area of my purity at the age of nine I was introduced to pornography with my friend and from the time that I was nine to the time that I was about 17 I believe I struggled severely with this addiction to pornography and masturbation and It controlled my life day-to-day. I tried to keep it hidden. I tried to not let anybody know about it I was ashamed. I was embarrassed. How could somebody in the church who's been in the church for so long Have this issue It wasn't until I was 17 that I got fed up to the point where I didn't care about who knew what I had About the skeletons in my closet. I decided that I wanted to live free I wanted to live a life with God Unpurity and holiness and my desire for holiness my desire to follow after God was more than my desire to live in this sin I remember going to Africa receiving prayer through a prayer line similar to the one that we have here at hungry generation And I was delivered mightily during that time from this spirit of pornography and masturbation the spirit of lust And what used to control my life what I used to not be able to say no to what used to day in and day out Have control over my thoughts my emotions my my body and my my actions everything I did No longer had the grip that it had on my heart when ten tations came away. I was able to say no I was able to turn from them. I was no longer being hindered I was nowhere longer had this wall over my mind and over my thoughts When trying to pray but it seemed like this veil had been lifted from my heart This heaviness had been lifted from my heart And I could serve God to the fullest and to the max and now I find myself here in the church I've been going to hunger generation faithfully for almost nine years And I serve as a worship leader and I'm a home group leader I love what I do. I love helping people and I just want to give God Everything that I have I want to be able to serve him in the ways that I know how My name is Bryson still and this is my testimony