 Okay, welcome back. Hope you had your cup of coffee. Alright, I think someone has added something here. Okay, that's very interesting. And there's written, I like to eat slate pencils as a child, but it wouldn't go. Then I started opposing every urge with the Word of God and I was delivered. Glory to my Master. He empowered me. I'm free. Amen. I have one of my relatives has a similar testimony. So she was very anxious as a child and she used to bite her fingernails. So, you know, she's as close to me in my age, but she would continuously bite her fingernails. And there was a period of time that, you know, she was just seeking the Lord for something else. And she was just, she had kept herself for a couple of days, was fasting and praying and was just in the presence of the Lord. And after that point of time, she never experienced the urge to bite her nails. And she said she, that was not been one of the prayers that she had, but just the presence of God took away whatever anxiety that she felt, you know, that would make her bite her nails and now she doesn't bite her nails anymore. Yeah. So amazing. Thank you, Anita. That's a lovely testimony. Yeah. Good. Okay. So we were looking at the third point of healing and deliverance coming as a result of certain things we need to do through our active resistance. And we did look at how we need to resist the devil. The second action point that we need to look at is found in 1st Peter 113. It says, therefore, gird up the loins of your mind. Be sober, rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, you know what this gird up the loins, gird up the loins means, I think, especially for those who, you know, who, who don't belong to the Indian culture, you know, in India and a lot in the south. We people wear long robes and this was this this actually came by because even warriors in in the times of the Bible, you know, they would have long. What do you say they don't they have they have robes that that they would use and they would have to, you know, they would have to tie it up with bring it up and tie it so that they could run. And you cannot run with a flowing rope that's there. So you gird it, you actually bring it out and you gird it. And if you see, you know, especially in South Indian movies, you will find that, you know, as soon as the hero wants to fight someone, the first thing that he will do is he will pull up his lungi. It's called a lungi pull up his lungi and he will tie it and then he goes to fight. So gird up your loins means in a sense of being prepared, being prepared to do the fighting. So we hear it saying gird up the loins of your mind. That means be prepared, get ready, become watchful, be there to fight whatever is coming with the enemy. And it says be sober and rest your hopefully upon the grace that is to be bought. So how you gird up your loins is being prepared to ensure that you resist the enemy and being in a place of sobriety sobriety means being able to stand in what God wants you to do. So these are those two action points that the more that you get to a place of offense. Okay, it's not defense. It's offense where you're going ahead of the attack of the temptation of the need to think those thoughts of the need to open that door to habitual sin is you're going into that action step going to that offense and being prepared to fight so that you're And through doing so your healing comes by. So what we've just presented here are three specific pointers for our healing and deliverance. The first we spoke of was what happens as a result of our regular consecration, our regular sanctification, our healing and deliverance that comes just with the presence of God. Just with the anointing of God. And we looked at how we can actively resist. Now we also want to bring about some things we can do by praying or by bringing coming together in Jesus name. Now there are a couple of points that if you would look down in the notes you would see around 14 points that are there. Now even as we're going to go through this, remember this is not like an equation or a formula that you have to do it step by step or one after the other. And it's not even necessary that you need to do all of them. But the idea, the understanding is to apply the situation wherever in whatever situation you are applied to a person that may be involved. These points is why we focus on this is to keep the house tidy and the house clean. So we need, like we said, it is important for us to engage in that place where we are bringing about healing and deliverance for yourself. Especially when you know that maybe certain areas that need to be washed out, that need to be completely cleansed, that slightly gets open to the enemy. So we do these points and if we're looking down at the points that are one to 14 points, we're just going to be looking at the first four points today and we will take the rest up next week. But the first 10 points are things that we do as we engage in prayer and the last four points are ones that require changes in us, that require transformation in the way that we live our lives so that our healing can be maintained on and on. And after these points, there's also a time of prayer that we can engage in at this point of time so that we apply what we are learning and we receive our healing right here and now as we go through our prayer. So even as maybe I'm praying or someone else is probably praying that there are some prayers that have been noted down in the notes if someone's praying, you can use your own words also to pray. Okay, so let's review the first four points and we can take each one, we can even pray as long. There are sample prayers that are given here which can be used and of course you're more than welcome to say it in your own language or maybe let's review this. The first point that we're looking at is to come to a place of repentance. Okay, now we all know that repentance is like a turning away from the life that is the life of that area in your life that is ruled by sin to an area that is characterized by submission and obedience to God. So, and even as your certain areas come to your mind, remember that the Holy Spirit, maybe as we're talking and as we're sharing right now, the Holy Spirit is the one who brings a convicts us of some areas that we may be in sin and convicts us to a place of repentance. So, repentance is what we know is a sincere turning away and that is in your minds, in your hearts, you're turning away from yourself to God and this involves a change of your heart, a change of mind which leads to some kind of an action. It is the turning away from us from a sinful cause to God. So, a person, someone who is truly repentant, definitely recognize that God is the most important factor one in the life of the individual. So, recognizing what is wrong and turning away from it and you're also and when you're doing that, you are also choosing to turn to God and His ways. Okay, so as we see in Isaiah 55-6-8, these are what's written on in your notes. Okay, just to just to quickly read that out. Speak the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake His ways and the unrighteous man His thoughts. Let Him return to the Lord and He will have mercy on Him and to our God for He will abundantly pardon. So, knowing that there is an area of sin in our lives and we come to a place of returning to the Lord because when we do that, we know that we have mercy from Him and from Him will come pardon. Okay, so I just want to take maybe a minute or two of just some quietness for you to put down or write down any thoughts that you may, any kind of wrong thoughts or any patterns of habitual thoughts that you engage in or things that you keep believing about yourself. That is in true contrast to God's Word. Okay, or also think of some things that you have said about yourself, you know, words of defeat, words of death, words of shame, words of hate towards yourself. If there's anything that you can remember that you've said, you know, even things like, and I'm not going to do, I'm not going to be anyone, I can't do this, you know, I will never succeed in this, those words, those kind of statements that you make where you say never always ever, you know, that. So, just spend some time to think if there is something like that you've engaged in and, you know, take a pen and a paper and write that down, or if there is any kind of a habitual sin that you are engaging in right now, whatever it may be, it could be something that the Spirit convicts you about, put that down, or it can be even your involvement in any kind of practices, any occult practices, any kind of false practices that you know is not in line with God's Word and whatever it can mean something as believing in a superstition or it could be, you know, reading a horoscope or looking at the stars or, you know, maybe some things that may not, you may have not even thought of as occultic or as evil or even, you know, chanting some kind of a, maybe a word or a prayer or something that you've probably been used to. Anything, anything that you feel you've involved something that's false or something that's occultic, put that down. Let's take a minute to do that, just giving you all, and this you do it on your own, you don't, don't please put it up on the chat. This is something that is just between you and God because we are receiving our healing and deliverance. So just take around 30 seconds to do that and I'd like to pray together with you all as we submit this and repent and confess what we have been engaged in. Okay, 30 seconds. Okay, let's just take time to just pray and I think even as I'm praying, you know, I'll probably give some space in between so that you could wherever you are just take some time to pray on your own, confessing specifically, you know, specify what is it that that that you are you're confessing be specific about your confession also and you know those thoughts that you are aware of or those words that you're aware of. So specify that even as I'm praying, probably leave a few seconds of gap so that you could do that. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you that we can come to you at your throne of grace right now. Father, we come in confession, Lord. Lord, we confess and we repent of every thought that we have engaged in that has been outside of your thoughts for us. Lord, we know we read that the thoughts you have for us is far more glorious than the thoughts we think about ourselves. We come to you and confess and repent of every negative thought of every thought that has been filled with self pity with self loading with self condemnation. We come to you and ask you Lord to forgive us for engaging in us engaging in that. Father, we pray Lord very specifically for thoughts that that harm ourselves, harm our spirits, harm our souls. Lord, the thoughts that we think of about who we are Father and all of this we recognize a sin. We confess and we repent that Lord. I'm just going to give you a couple of seconds to do this in your own words specifically to confess and repent on the thoughts that are specific to you. So take this time to make that confession and repent. Lord, we confess and we repent of all the words that we've spoken against ourselves, those prophecies that we have said over ourselves, those negative, those harmful prophecies that we declare of ourselves. The way that we've inflicted ourselves with wrong words and commenced. Father, which we may have heard as a result of our past that continues to play in our minds. Father, I come against all of that Father and we confess it Lord right now in Jesus name. We confess and we bring before you Lord our hearts and say we are sorry for how loosely we have used those words against ourselves. And right now just words that are coming to my mind are failure, you know certain words that people may have called you that have been derogatory, you know, and there could be words like dumb, idiot, stupid, all of that that we've heard and that we play over ourselves. Lord, we confess this, we repent. I'd like you to take some time to specifically bring the words that you have spoken over your life and ask the Lord or come to the Lord with repentance confessing. Lord, we come to you and confess Lord and repent over the sins that we participate in over that which we know keeps us away from you. Father, whether it be the sin in the mind, in our thoughts, in our words or in our deeds, we come to you and we truly repent. We confess that we have hurt you, that we have pained your heart from engaging in things that have kept us away from you. We confess and we repent. Lord, we confess any form of gossip that we have engaged in, slander, malice, pornography, any kind of sexual addictions, thoughts that have been defiling, acts that have been defiling to our own bodies and our own minds, pictures, images that we've replayed in our minds. We pray, we confess and we repent. We turn away from our ways, we look to you. I'd like you to take some time yourself to specify any specific sin that the Holy Spirit is convicting you in. Lord, we confess and we repent over practices we've engaged in. Even if we've done it inadvertently without our knowledge, without our understanding, we confess and repent. If there are articles in our homes that we've kept, if there are practices we've engaged in in the past, if we've gone trusting in superstitions, in old wives' tales, Lord, we repent, Lord, we confess that we have done that which is displacing to you. When we have looked at hope to something else other than you, thinking they will save us, Lord, we repent. Lord, when we've kept objects as good luck charms or some things that we carry around, instead of our faith and our devotion to you, Father, we confess and we repent. Take this time to specify anything, any practice or any kind of a false religion you've engaged in and repent and come to a place of confession. Okay, we move on to the second point that we look in after we confess and repent. It is to ask the Lord for forgiveness. We know that when we ask Him, He is quick to forgive us and we read in so many scripture around us that all that we need to do is believe and confess and ask for forgiveness and He has mercy on us. The way that He demonstrates His love to us is by taking away the sin, whatever we've confessed today in this last five minutes, He's taken away that sin and redeemed us. So we come to a place of asking for forgiveness and asking that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from whatever we have confessed and we have repented of. We see it in scripture. It says, when we walk in the light, 1 John 1, 7 and verse 9 says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Okay, so let's just take this time to ask for forgiveness. We spend some time repenting and confessing. Now we will just come. I know I'm just breaking it up just so that we can be in the presence of God and through the healing even as we are doing this. Okay, let's just pray once again. Heavenly Father, we thank you that your word says when we confess, you are faithful. You are just to forgive us. You desire, Lord, to give us forgiveness and Lord, we confess and we've repented of things that we've engaged in thoughts that we've had, words we've spoken, deeds we've done, false things we've believed in, held on to his anchor. Father, we pray, we ask for your forgiveness. Lord, we believe that you died for us to take away our sin and we come to you knowing that what we have placed on the cross, Father, you have redeemed us. You have given us. You have exchanged it, Lord, for our life and for our freedom and for our joy. Forgive us, Lord. We want to be in right standing with you. We pray for the empowering of your Holy Spirit to Lord, to not just forgive ourselves, but to receive this forgiveness from you. You have gladly given it to us, Lord. You hold nothing back, Master. We thank you. We thank you that you have bought us to a place of rightness with you. You have clothed us with your righteousness even as we've confessed and repented. You have taken away our sins as far as the east is from the west. So far have you removed our inequities from us. We praise you. We thank you for forgiving us. Jesus' name. Amen. The third thing we understand and we look at is now it is a believing and receiving what Christ did for us on the cross. Now this is the only one and only reason why you and I can be made free and be made whole and be made well, you know, just because of what he did for us on the cross. And we continue in this journey knowing that because of the cross, we do not have to be, do not have to succumb to the place of sin. If when we look at Isaiah chapter 53 verses four and six and I and I just want to read that out, it says surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. Verse six, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the inequity of us all. Now because of what he did on the cross, all that we just confessed and repented and spoke about right now is something that he has borne for us. He has carried for us and he was stricken. He was smitten. He was afflicted on the cross. So because of that work for us, we are let free or we have our freedom because he took the inequity of it all. And Ephesians one seven also says in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. It's not the intensity or the or the level of what we've done that forgiveness gets needed to us, but because of what of the shed blood of the land because of the shed blood of Jesus. And it is only because of that that you and I have redemption. You and I have freedom for that. So let's again just take some time to pray and come to a place of declaring what he has done for us on the cross and declaring that we have been cleaned and washed and redeemed by the blood of Jesus. Knowing that it is only because of what he did on the cross that we have been made complete made whole that that whatever he suffered and whatever he went through brought about our healing and our wholeness. Okay, and we will what we will also do is to declare some areas that you need healing and deliverance for. Okay, so you can take this time to speak and pray over those areas and declare the work of the finished cross over your life. Okay, so let's let's just take some time to pray. Thank you, Heavenly Father. We thank you for the cross. We thank you. We thank you. Lord, we believe that on the cross you took away every one of our sins. You suffered. You were afflicted. You were smitten. You were bruised. You took every burden and curse of our sins upon yourself so that we could be set free. We believe what you did on the cross bought our wholeness. We believe what you did on the cross made us free, gave us joy, brought about our wellness and our wholeness. Lord, we we know that we because of what who we believe in because of what you did for us on the cross because of our redemption Lord. We stand washed. We stand cleaned. We stand sanctified. We stand consecrated. You have made us holy because of what you have done on the cross. You have washed and cleansed our thoughts. You have washed and cleansed our words, our mouths. You have washed and cleansed our attitudes, our deeds, our behavior. You have purchased the price of it all and we stand declaring that what we have in you and because of the cross has bought us our freedom. So you can take some time to specify some areas of your life that you want healing and deliverance and stand in belief of what Christ has done for you. Lord, I just come against and just let in my spirit to pray for a few things. Lord, we just come against strife that is in relationships that creates a lack of peace in our hearts. Father, you came to give us freedom, to give us joy. Lord, to build your togetherness and your unity, Lord, in our homes. Lord, I pray, Master, we believe that you have taken away everything that keeps us bondaged to places of strife and disunity and disharmony. We exchange your joy for all that comes against us. You can take time again to pray or if any of you feel led to pray for something that the Holy Spirit is putting in your hearts, you could unmute and pray something that God's put in your heart, some specific area that may not necessarily apply to you, but you sense that applies to somebody maybe in the room, somebody in the call. Please unmute yourselves and you can pray for somebody else. You don't have to call out the name if you know who that is for. You could just call out what the issue is and pray. Exercise what God's given you and pray. Lord, we just come against anyone who experiences mistrust towards somebody else that there is this feeling of doubts and paranoia that keeps engaging them. Father, we know that you have bought about healing in these areas, a place where they're not able to delegate to somebody else but takes on extra pressure by taking on more things, fearing that it wouldn't be done well or fearing that they cannot trust another individual Lord, we release your healing power and your deliverance from a mindset or an attitude such as this that may create again hardships in that relationship. Lord, we pray God, Lord, because of the work of what you've done for us, Lord, what you've done for us on the cross that you will release your peace, your shalom, your faith over this individual. Lord, I come against thoughts that are repetitive. Lord, we come against Lord those obsessive thoughts that keep lingering over and over again that does not allow us to focus on the things of God. Lord, to whoever this may apply to, Father, I pray, Lord, by the freedom you have given this individual on the cross, Lord, I ask that they be healed, delivered from obstructive thoughts, from thoughts that are repetitive and obsessive. Lord, we break these chains because of what you've done for us, Lord. They are called free every bondage, every chain. Lord, we break right now in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, we'll go on to the last point here, which is to be able to release forgiveness. In your journey, we know that there can be people who have hurt. They've caused you some pain and some things that stay deep within. They may be people who you're still living with and are those who you may be seeing over and over day after day. But our healing also comes when we release forgiveness to not just ourselves, but also to those around. Matthew 6.12 says, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespass. So we will take some time to receive healing, not just for what has happened to you because of the experience you've gone through that has hurt you, but also to release forgiveness to someone else, to that person who has hurt you. And also receive healing for any disappointment and rejection that you've had for those who, for any kind of expectations that have gone unmet. Okay, so I'm just going to lead us again through the prayer. The prayer is there on the notes and I'm going to refer to that because there are a couple of things there. So if you want you could also do that alongside with me or just close your eyes and just be in the presence of God and ask the Lord to bring forth to you people in your life who have hurt you. And I'd suggest right now maybe in that paper and pen, write those names down. Whoever the Holy Spirit is bringing to your mind, write those names down and submit to the Lord and ask that He gives you the power to forgive and that you will be able to release forgiveness to them in turn, whether they have hurt you intentionally or unintentionally. Let's just take time to pray. Lord Jesus, we just come to you and we thank you because you have brought us to this moment where just you and us are here, each of us in our own spaces. Lord we pray that you will release your healing over those events that we've gone through in our lifetimes. Those experiences that have been unexpected that have been sudden. Lord that we may not even have had a choice over. Lord we pray God for your healing. Lord we just call upon your healing over those who've been abused as children, over those who've been violated as young adults, those who've been bullied as young people, those who've been made fun of, been teased for their abilities, for their looks, for their status, for their stature. Lord we ask that you release your healing right now. Lord we pray for those homes who've grown up through negative experiences, where there have been wrong models, where there's been compromises in the way a family has been led. Lord if there have been anyone who've been victims of violence, Lord of divorce and separation, children who've come out of single parenting, who've come out of significant economic crisis. Lord for where there has been physical ill health, where they've grown up in homes or been in homes where there has been mental health concerns. Lord we release your healing, where people would have grown up in environments where there have been constant fights and quarrels, physical violence, grown up in homes where there's been poverty. Lord there's been lack. Father we release your healing over each one of us. Like you to take some time to specify anything that has hurt you and brought you pain. Specify it and receive your healing right now. Lord we come to you and we pray that we will release those who we've held captive in anger, in bitterness, in pain, in our hurt, those who we haven't released, those people who've hurt us and said, done things to us. Lord we release them from our own clutch father. We do not want to hold on to them. They have no power over us. We release the bitterness, the anger, the pain, the struggles, the fear. We feel towards them. We release it and we declare and we ask that you give us the power to forgive so that we can extend mercy to them as you have extended mercy to us. Lord when we consider what you've done for us Lord for how you've forgiven us, how much more are we in places to release our brothers or our sisters who've sinned against us. Teach us Lord to release. You can take some time to specify or mention people whom you would specifically like to release. Lord we also take this time to receive healing for disappointments or rejections we have felt because of expectations that haven't been met. Lord we would have walked into places and relationships thinking of a lot, expecting a lot but been rejected and hurt over and over again. Lord this has caused us emotional pain and hurt. We receive your healing in these areas. And Lord that we will look to you only to be satisfied. You will be the fount which fulfills all our thirst and our hunger and we would look to know other Father. Lord we also release forgiveness to those who've hurt us, to those who have not stood according to their promises or stood according to their words. We release them. We take them away. We unbind them Lord from our minds and from our hurts and from our pains. We release and ask that the love of God fill us so that we can love them in return. I'm speaking specially to homes where in marriages where there's been a lot of expectations that you've had walking into marriage or expectations you've had of your children. Just to find out and to come to a place that a lot of them go unmet. I call to those of you who are in that space today to release them, forgive them, have your healing, ask the Lord to heal you, to take away that rejection and pain you felt and commit to seeking the Lord as your provider for everything. If there are people you would like to release and call out as you pray, please go ahead, take the time to do that. Lord we come to you Father and ask that you will heal us from things Lord that we have engaged in, from mistakes we've made, from choices that we've made that has brought us into wrong consequences too. Father we pray that you will heal us from those Lord. Lord from places we've been in our foolishness, in our immaturity where we have not sought you at the right time and done and chosen the wrong things. We pray for your forgiveness, we pray for your healing. Lord we also pray that we will learn and we will be in a place to forgive ourselves for the mistakes we've made, for the choices we've made. Lord we know that we are in you, that we are sanctified by you, that we are righteous in you. And Lord when you look at us as your precious children, Lord may we not condemn ourselves. Lord we pray that we will stand in the boldness knowing that we are washed and cleansed and redeemed by you, that we are loved by you, we are chosen by you, we are called your own. And if you look at us with such pride and such joy, Father maybe never make the mistake to look at ourselves otherwise, but to look at ourselves through your word. Thank you for the worth that you have built in us. Thank you for the value that you have purchased for us. Thank you for the cross that brings about our healing, that brings about our deliverance, our wholeness. We are ever grateful to you, Heavenly Father. We speak in joy and we thank you. Just like to spend a minute just to thank God, just come to a place of gratitude and thank God before we close. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for your love. Thank you for healing us. Thank you, Lord, for taking away everything, Lord, that is not of you. Thank you for bringing us to a place of wholeness and freedom in you. Holy Spirit, we just give you praise. We give you glory. We thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Do you be all glory? Do you be all power? Do you be all honour in Jesus' name? We pray. Amen. Amen. Alright, thank you so much for joining in today. I truly hope that just through this time of prayer that each of us have been blessed and walk in freedom. We all have freedom and let's walk in that. God bless. We'll meet you next week. God bless. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye-bye.