 Because God is wonderful. God is beautiful. He is miraculous. He is perfect in all of His ways. And He is here this morning. He has blessed us with His presence. He has blessed us with His goodness. Somebody give a shout of praise this morning and give a hand clap to God because He is good. And He is here to rock His house. Like this. Come on. Hey! Come on somebody. If you believe right now is the moment, just slip up your hand to God and say, God, I need your help. And if it's your first time coming to Hungary again, and maybe this whole thing is just loud, crazy, expressive, when we raise our hands, it's like a baby that's raising their hands to the Father and say, pick me up. You say, God, pick me up out of my situation. God, pick me up out of my dilemma. I'm really excited to have church this morning. This is going on. There's a lot of people coming into town, but today we are... Do we know who the winner is? And that winner, his name is Jesus. Come on. Can I get an amen? It goes as well, but the Bible says you are seated in the heavenly place. You are seated in the heavenly places above every principality, above every throne, and every power. Amen. Amen, amen, amen. What we're getting ready for at the church on the last Sunday of every single month, we can bring the sheets already, is that we're believing for revival for our people who don't know Jesus Christ. I want to let you know that Hungry Jen's vision is to see the lost people come to know Jesus. I have a verse in Luke chapter 15, Jesus tells us three parables. And it's interesting when he says that a woman lost loses his coin. You know, when people come to church, a lot of times we say that you're a lost person without Jesus. And that's true, right? Can I get a witness? How many lost people were here? You were lost, but now you're found. But you know what caught my attention the last few weeks? Is it Luke chapter 15, Jesus tells us three parables. The lost coin, the lost sheep, and the lost son. But you know what he says about, he says that it's not the coin that got lost. It's the woman who loses the coin. So it's both. What does that mean? When the lost person is lost, it's also God's loss. Not only that's my wallet that's lost, I also lost something. I'm also losing. Every person that is lost is God's loss. And when they come back to him, not only they find him, but God gains. God wins. God, if you find your wallet again, guess what happens? You get the stuff back. You're also enriched. See, God loves to save people, not only just to bring them to heaven, but because their loss is his loss. I watched this video about a week ago. Man, it moved me into compassion. He can play the video right behind me. And if we can, is this the goal of that? He's stuck in the fire. And you know, this woman goes to the forest, crosses through all of the stuff. We can't please close. We can't get out of here. Just see this little poor little animal. And you know, you cannot watch stuff like that without your heart being... When this animal is about to be destroyed by fire, and somebody... Don't put him in the blanket and bring me out of the box. Goes and rescues the animal, gives him water. You know, you watch that, and you're like, yeah, that's it. Even just an animal. But there's an instinct within each one of us to save, to rescue. But I want us to pray for it. Before we pray for the lost, I want us to pray that our heart today will be filled with compassion. As Hungry Jen, we don't want to be known for what we're against. We want to be known for what we're for. And we're for souls. Yes, we come against the morality. We come against the godlessness. We come against indoctrination of children. We come against all of that demonic agenda in our generation, my friend. But that is not who we are. Who we are is we are for souls. We are for homosexuals to be saved. We are for thieves to be saved. We are for religious people to be saved. We are for children that are backslidden from the church, who've been hurt by the church to come back to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are for teenagers for the single moms. We are for people who are maybe standing on the edge of suicide for them to be saved. During last Thursday's stream, as we were live streaming, a young man was streaming pretty much. He says, within the next 10 minutes, I'm going to take my life. My life has no meaning and no purpose. And as we're doing an interview with Brother Hung, we started to evangelize right to that young man. He gives his life to Jesus Christ toward the end of live stream. Messages the next day and he says, something just came out of me. I feel the light of God. I'm a new person. I'm no longer taking my life. I'm laying my life for Jesus Christ. Church, this is what this is all about. Come on. Those of you in the sanctuary and everybody online, I want you to place your hand up on your heart right now. And I want us to get ready. I want us to say, God, give me the compassion that this woman had toward that animal. Give me the compassion toward people like that, toward my family members, toward my coworkers. Remove the self-righteousness, remove the judgmentalism. Remove that hate God. Give me love for people. Come on, from the back to the front, from the right to the left. I want you to close your eyes and I want you to ask God for that compassion right now. Come on, just say, Lord, give me compassion for my employees. Give me compassion for my coworkers. Give me compassion for my employer. Give me compassion for my family members. We ask you right now in the name of Jesus that your compassion will begin to grip our heart. We ask in Jesus' mighty name that your compassion will begin to saturate our soul. We pray, God, that everything that we do as a church, God, that we're not going to try to prove right or try to judge or belittle people, God, but that we will live with the compassion that Jesus had. That we will understand that people are lost without God, but God is also experiencing the loss without these people. That it's His loss as well and He feels compassion and He feels love and today, Holy Spirit pour that love into our hearts. Some of us, Lord, we have more compassion for our dog and for our cat than we have for people and we repent for that. Some of us have more compassion for our environment, for the trees and oceans than we have for people and we repent for that. Feel our heart with compassion for people. Feel our heart with compassion for those struggling today, for those that are separated from God because of their sin. Give us love for people in Jesus mighty name. Make us witnesses. Make us the light and the salt in our workplace. Make us the light and the salt in our family. Make us the light and the salt in parks and restaurants in all the public places that we go to God in Jesus name. And right now, I want us to do one more prayer and this one that we ask for compassion. If you feel that compassion in your heart, I'm going to ask you to do something bold. I'm going to ask you to come out of your seat and now let's begin to pray for other people. If I can have Joe, I don't know where Joe is, if we can get Joe here, I want Joe to help me pray. So if you feel the compassion, begin to come out of your seat already and begin to pray for these sheets and we welcome everybody. If you have compassion in your heart, if you don't have compassion, keep on praying for that. But if you have compassion, even if there's going to be not enough room here, we're going to find room. Secondly, if you have somebody that you want to be saved, your co-worker maybe, your friend, we have on this side and Brian, can you raise your hand? You can come out there right now and sign their name and we're going to pray for their name. If you're watching us on live stream and you would like us to pray for people that you're believing for salvation, drop them in the chat right now. Drop their names in the chat and say, hey, I'm believing for this person to be saved. I'm believing for this person to be saved. If we can have two people signing at the same time, amen. As we get to right now, ask the Holy Spirit. Come on, everybody, stretch your hands. Everybody else who are not making way to the front, stretch your hands forward. Begin to pray right now. Begin to ask the Holy Spirit for compassion. Open up your mouth. Come on, we're from the gospel church. We're loud. And so begin to cry out to the Lord. Begin to say, God, I want revival for these people. I want salvation for these people. Come on, let's begin to come against the enemy's plans. Everybody on live stream, begin to keep dropping the names. Right now, let's make this into prayer. If you can grab the microphone. Let's begin to cry out right now for salvation of people. Begin to keep writing the names. Right now, let's release the compassion by praying for the lost ones. I see people creating groups. Even in a sanctuary, you can do that. Pray with your family. If you can't make it to the front, pray right now that God will bring salvation in Jesus' name. Father, right now we declare we believe, Father, that our families, our friends, our coworkers are for you, Father. We believe that every name represented here, Lord. Every family tree, Lord, will be, Lord, saved in Jesus' name. Lord, we declare the city for you, Lord. From the high schools, Lord, to the work environments, we declare Jesus' name over every single environment, Lord. From Damien and Heather, Lord, and Jose and Christina. Father, every name, every last name is connected to a person, is connected to a family. You are sending messengers. You are sending us, Lord, as convoys of hope for the lost. We declare salvation in this generation, Lord. The members right now, we bring up people who don't know you God, as we stretch our hands toward these names. Lord, as we stretch our hands toward people's names, right now they're being written, they're being typed on the chat. Lord, we believe for the family's salvation. Lord, we believe that nothing you can make away in dreams and visitations, God, people on the other parts of the world. Lord, God, maybe those we lost contact with, those, God, that we don't have any influence with, Lord, God, that you are able to touch them. Those that are lost in their sins, God, that you'll be able to reconcile them to you, Lord, through the blood of your son, through the working of your spirit, Lord. We invite your work, God. We never want our church, God, to become only for the insiders, God. We want our church to see new people every weekend, give their life to you, radically change, from death to life, from darkness to light. Lord, God, from being lost to being found in Jesus, God, we pray for that in the name of Jesus Christ. And everybody said, come on, church, we believe we are church of revival. We will see many people come to know Jesus, amen. You may go back to your seats, and as you do that, give somebody a high five, let them know that salvation belongs to this generation. We're gonna see a greater move of God in Jesus' name. Let's fix our eyes on the screen as we watch announcements. Hey, what's going on? What's up, Humvee Jen Family? Welcome to today's service. I hope you're enjoying yourself with testimonial here, all that God is doing in our church and in our community. This upcoming month of August, it's gonna be absolutely phenomenal. We have some amazing things planned for all age ranges. And so next week at 11 a.m., say 11 a.m., say 11 a.m. That's a little more like it. At 11 a.m. in our gym, we are having guest lunch. Now, what is guest lunch, you ask? Well, thank you for asking. Guest lunch is a time where we fellowship with people who are just getting to know our church and we talk about our history, where we've been, where we're at, and really ultimately where we're going. And you're part of that. So we'd love to invite you and lunch is on us. So we encourage you to come, get to know us, we'll get to know you and we'll have a good time next week in our gym at 11 a.m. Now, every single weekday, Monday through Friday, our doors at our church open at 5 a.m. You heard it right, 5 a.m. for your early birds. And so our church is open at 5 a.m. for prayer and intercession and we're believing for God to do the impossible in our city. And so you're more than welcome to come every weekday at 5 a.m. Also, on Wednesdays and Fridays, we meet corporately at the church at six. So feel free to come and let's pray together. Also, in just a few weeks, we're going to have our youth conference. Youth conference is an amazing time for young people to connect with God to experience the impossible in their lives. And many of them have a touch from God for the very first time. And so if you are young, am I young? Yeah, if you are young, I want you to sign up. I want you to sign up your children and bring them to experience what God has in store for them. Last but not least, water baptism is the next step after salvation. Maybe in the last few months, you've declared Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You're going to follow him for the rest of your life. Yes, the next step is a public declaration of that inward decision. And so even if today at the end of the service, when they're calling out and you want to make the decision, this is in store for you. This August on Wednesday, August 24th, we're going to have a water baptism at the park. The details are going to be below. But we are believing that God is going to get the glory when we declare him as our Lord and Savior. And so if you are not registered, go ahead and fill out this QR code right next to me. For more information, we'll reach out to you. We'll get you a shirt. It's going to be absolutely fantastic. You're going to have your family, your friends. We're going to have the whole church there out in the river at the address below. And because many people are getting saved and have questions about, is baptism required for salvation? Or what are the next steps that I should do after I get saved? We have created and created an e-course completely around the subject of water baptism. And that course is absolutely free at the link below. Yes, we have an online free digital school with information about baptism, about leadership, about deliverance that we're coming out with shortly. And so if that's you, go ahead and sign up. It's going to be awesome. If you're getting baptized, it is important. You check that course out. Highly encourage that you take it so that you can see and know the next steps in your Christian life. Now, help me welcome the next person to the stage. Amen, amen. Good morning, church. Okay, I'll ask someone else. Good morning, church. You guys doing okay? Come on, we're doing amazing in this place. Church, today I'm going to be talking just briefly about giving, about offering. And I was actually, I was planning. I was like, Lord, what do you want me to say today when it comes to this topic? And actually it was during prayer. It was, it hit me very hard. When I heard Pastor Vlad say the words that he was saying and that he was moved by compassion and that's how Jesus was when he was walking this very earth. I was reminded of a little over six years ago. I was in a very, very broken place in my life. I wasn't living here in the Tri-Cities, but I was very lost. I was living a very lukewarm life and just there's brokenness all around my life. And I came to this point where I was like, Lord, I know, I know you have a plan for me, but I need, I need breakthrough. I need help. And what do you know? You know, it's, it's around April at this time and I look on Facebook and I see Hungry Jen is hosting what's called the Race to Deliver Conference. And I decided, and I was like, all right, I don't even know what this is. There's this guy named John Chi coming. I've never heard of him before, but you know what? Let's look into this a little bit. And I felt this impression on my heart from the Lord saying you need to go to this conference. At this conference, your life is going to completely change. And I was just, okay, you know, I'll sign up and I've had the privilege to know Hungry Generation for over 15 years now at this point, you know? And so I've always loved this ministry, but then I got to come and attend this conference and I was able to actually be impacted. I received deliverance. I received freedom and actually it was that weekend that my life completely changed and turned around and a month and a half after that, I moved here for the Hungry Jen internship in 2016. And I share all this church because what Pastor Vlad was talking about and what we talk about every single week is it's about the vision of this house for thousands to be saved locally and millions saved globally. And that's what I want to speak on just briefly. I was one of those thousands locally that was lost that Hungry Jen was praying for. And in Hebrews 11, 6, it says this, but faith without faith, it is impossible to please God for he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder for those who diligently seek him. Hungry generation, we're about seeking the face of God. And what I saw back then six years ago was a church, a people, a group of people that were seeking the face of God that were chasing after and pursuing everything that he wants for their lives and for this world. And then I was able to be able to see the breakthrough in my life come to pass through this ministry. And when I speak on offering, when I speak on giving, I want you to know that's what you're giving into. That's what you're sowing into. You're sowing into a ministry that's not just going, passing around buckets and just collecting money. What I love to see is whenever my wife and I, whenever we get paid, when we choose, where do we want to give today? Do we want to give to the new building fund? Or do we want to sow into the youth ministry? Or do we want to give into free indeed, which is seeing amazing numbers, people showing up with addictions and they're being set free. I want you to know, church, you're sowing into not just good soil, I will say this great soil. I've seen it happen in my life. I'm standing here at testimony. I'm not who I once was. I was a lost person, but because of the diligence of seeking the face in this ministry, I was able to see and it took a step of faith for me to say, God, I'm gonna go to this conference. I don't even know who much of these people are. But what I do know is I'm chasing after you as well. And I saw the change in my life and six years on, I can only say it's only getting better, church. So I wanna let you know, if you're here today and you're dealing with any type of struggles, I wanna encourage you. I wanna encourage you. I know it takes a lot to be able to give and take your money. Maybe you don't have a lot. And I know what it's like to have little, but with the little that we have, we can still give just a little bit of that because God doesn't look at the amount. He looks at your heart. And I want you to know, when you diligently seek the Lord, his word says, and I just read it, Hebrews 11, 6, he shall reward. In Jesus' name, okay? So really quick, there's five ways to give. You can text any amount to eight, four, three, two, one. There's also the QR code behind me. There's cash app, there's Venmo's. If there's Venmo and other apps. And also the church center app, which is my personal favorite way on giving, you can go to hungrygen.com forward slash give. And last but not least, there's an envelopes in the pews in front of you or behind you. And you're gonna put those in the buckets when they're passed around. So with that being said, church, you just wanna lift up your seeds that you're sowing today. And I just wanna pray over them. I wanna pray that God has his hand upon you. In Jesus' name, Father God, I pray, Lord, I just pray for favor right now. I pray for favor in the households right now in Jesus' name. I pray for favor in the workplace as God. God, I pray in the name of Jesus that those Lord that may be struggling with lack, Lord God. It's in you, Lord. You are our great shepherd and we shall never lack in you, Lord. You are the Jehovah Jireh. You are the El Shaddai, Lord. The Lord our provider and the God that is more than enough, Lord God. So I pray over every single seed that is being sown today. And I ask, Lord, that you bless it. Bless it in Jesus' mighty name. And may your hand of favor be upon every household, every couple, Lord God, every person that is giving, Lord God. In Jesus' name we pray and everybody said, amen. And without being said, church, may you please fix your eyes on the screen for the video. From North Carolina, tell us what God did for you. So I had really back neck pain and back pain and like tension on my shoulders. I spent a lot of money on the chiropractors and like no one knew what happened or what caused it. So that happened in 2019, but I have no pain right now. You were prayed for yesterday, right? And then how are you feeling right now? I'm like completely fine now. And it would hurt like every time I walk into the sanctuary but I've been fine like all day. Come on, give God some praise in this place. Hallelujah. Aren't you guys always empowered by the testimonies that we share throughout our raise to deliver conferences through our streams, our Wednesday streams, Pastor Vlad's Thursday streams. We are reaching literally people all across the world through our conferences as well as through our streams. So as you have known, we have, we came to the time of our testimonies. We have an extremely powerful live testimony. So without further ado, let's welcome our live testimony to the stage. Please share with us your name and where you're from. Hallelujah. All the way from North Carolina. So Malika, before we get into your deliverance testimony, how did you come to know Jesus as your Lord and Savior? So I go to Christian college, but there was a Christian organization on the college campus, I guess like a club and they would have like this annual youth conference that we did. And at that youth conference, I gave my life to God and actually felt like a encounter with God during that time. Praise God. Praise God. So as you gave your life to Jesus, when did you start to realize that there was still some things that were not of God operated in you and what drove you to seek out deliverance? Yeah. So actually within this ministry, they did deliverance. It would be like a thousand to 2000 like young adults that would gather at the conference and they did deliverance like, but it was like in a back room. See like this here screen is like while you're sitting down. And so we would go every year. And so that was every year through college and towards like the end of my time at college, I kind of helped out with the team. So I would be around deliverance and like I would see like the things that people got free from and like and they would get free from or like the things that they had to like renounce and it'll be like in my head like small things and I was like, they need deliverance for that and I don't know what I need deliverance for. So that was kind of like the start and I would say like around middle school I would really battle with depression and anxiety. I was like a joyful kid, but around middle school like I think something happened where I was just like just always down and then from the time I can remember like I would always have like nightmares from like four to five just really bad nightmares of just like people dying or like just really bad nightmares. So yeah. Hallelujah. And so as you were witnessing people get delivered when did you realize that you needed deliverance for yourself and what was your process to receiving that freedom? Years later, I think that question always was brought up in my head. I wonder if I need to. And so there was this one time where like I was I graduated and I was like kind of by myself like new job, new state like was away from my family and friends and the depression and the anxiety that pretty worse and suicidal thoughts. So I so yeah, I was wrestling with that for like a good a good while and would really struggle with that. And there was this one night I was like very desperate and I was like very like suicidal. So I like I it was like 1150 at night and I was on Instagram and I saw like this church was doing like a revival not a revival night, but it was like a like a night vigil, I guess. And I went, I was like, I'm just going to go and see what like say I need deliverance and see what they say. So I went and I was like, do you guys do deliverance? And they're like, no. So they just prayed for me. And I remember going back home just feeling so hopeless just like just kind of done. And it was just one night where I was like, hey, I'm just going to go for it. Like, I don't know. I'm just going to try. So I went to like my prayer closet and was like, okay, God, there's anything there. Like come out and Jesus me. So I was just like doing that and saying that over and over again. And then out of nowhere, like I just started like growling and like manifesting and like speaking this ancient language and like my body was moving and then it stopped. And I was like, oh no, I was like, oh no. Like I was like, I meant it, but like not really. So yeah, that happened. And then thankfully, I guess like a week before my friend sent me a video. It was Isaiah Saldavar and he was speaking on like tongues or like different things praying in tongues and speaking in tongues. So I watched that video like a week before, but since I watched it, his channel started popping up on my YouTube. So that next day, like I was like on YouTube and I saw like defeating Leviathan or like all his videos and I would watch a video and start manifesting again. So that happened like throughout the whole weekend. And yeah, so I was, I was watching, watching that and just kept manifesting. I was like, okay, like I don't know what to do. And just kind of, and that kind of happened through maybe three to four months, just being like tormented. It was like, since they knew, I knew that they were there. Like it seemed like everything just like intensified. The depression, the anxiety, everything like literally got worse. And I would say that like, even though like I knew that they were there, I think in a way I was kind of like relieved because like, I was like, okay, like these things I thought was me that I thought were like my personality or like things I had to struggle with like forever. It was, it was a relief to me because I was like, okay, like this isn't me. Like this is something else controlling me, you know. So that's what, that's what kind of happened. And then I found out that Isaiah was coming to North Carolina like in February. So I went and I was like, okay, it was like 45 minutes from me, so like I drove there kind of believing for deliverance, nothing happened. And again, that feeling of hopelessness like, okay, this is, I don't know, like just feeling hopeless. And then I found out he was coming another time the next month and I went there and I would say at this point, like I really, I think I could tell that there was like a difference between my voice and the demon's voice. It would, it was like, I don't know, like the lights came on and it's like I saw like the roaches, you know, it was, it was like a good thing. So I remember going to that revival night and I was at the altar call and just being on the ground and like all the voices like you don't want to manifest in front of everybody, you know, like you're going to look crazy. I was here with my friends, I was like going to look crazy and at that time, like I knew the difference of the voices. So I was just like in my spirit, I was like, okay, today is the day of salvation. And then after that, like just started manifesting like crazy and it lasted like three to four hours being free of like anxiety, depression, leviathan, spiritual spouse, like just every, like doubt and everything. And I would say this deliverance was like, cause I've been through a few different journeys. I've been, this one, what the next day, like I felt drastically different. Like I woke up like not really knowing like where I was, like I woke up and I was like, man, I have a dog. Oh, I have an apartment. Oh, like, like I really, I feel like I had to relearn like how to think. I was like, like what do normal people think about cause all of the, the intrusive thoughts and like all of the, the things that were there from like the time I could remember was gone. Praise God. Hallelujah. So I just want to emphasize on one thing that she struggled with depression with anxiety with these suicidal thoughts before she gave her life to Jesus as she gave her life to Jesus. And as she was on this journey with Jesus, they actually started to increase in a sense. But this is the aspect that was happening. As she was getting closer to Jesus, she started to be more aware of the spiritual realm that we don't fight against flesh and blood, but we do fight against the spiritual powers and authorities, right? And as we come into that, to the acknowledgement that a sermon, it started to intensify. And then she knew that that was when she was prepared and desperate to receive her freedom. Amen. So Malika, as you have received that freedom, how has life been now? It's been really good. Kind of like what you were saying, like I, like I, it felt like I would try to take like five steps forward and like just be yanked back with my relationship with God. But now like I have like just more clarity and thought like no, no more confusion, no more depression. I think at that time I was seeing like a Christian counselor and like I can't, I don't, Christian counseling is good, but like at the time like I didn't, I really felt like I didn't need it anymore because it was more still spiritual for me. And just like clarity and thought, and I feel like now I'm just like running and like just more focused and like all the, like literally like with the chains that were pulling me back or like gone and I can actually pursue the relationship I always desired with God. Yeah, I don't, I kind of like encourage, I just want to encourage, I guess like everyone like during that time of being tormented, there's two scriptures that I would really stand on. One of them was in Genesis when God was talking to Moses in the burning bush. He was like, I heard the cry of my people so I came down and that was something like I had to like hold dear to my heart. Like God like I'm crying out to you and I know that you're going to come down for me. And the second one is Psalms 18. It just talks about how God, how God reacts when we cry out to him and how he reacts like when, when his children like cry out to him and it says the earth reeled and rocked because the Lord was angry. And then it says he delivered me because he delights in me. So I stood on those two scriptures. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you so much, Malika. Praise God for that amazing testimony. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Wow. Jesus Christ is your deliverer. He is more angry that you are tormented by demons than what you are. So go to him and he will set you free in Jesus name. But with that, please place your highs on the screen for a quick video. An e-course called Deliverance Prayers is now available on Vlad School. This e-course goes through 14 different prayers where you can recognize the signs of demonic oppression, repent of sins, release and forgiveness, renounce oaths, renounce soul ties, generational curses, word curses, spirit of fear, heaviness, lust, infirmity, python pride and bondage. So pretty much some of the best prayers that we prayed, I put it into a short e-course where you can peel layer by layer demonic infiltration in your life and experience freedom. This e-course is completely different than any other e-course that we've ever produced. And I believe it will help many people find freedom through Jesus Christ. So enroll today. It's free of charge as always. All of our e-course is at VladSchool.com. On somebody. Right away, before we say anything else, I am pregnant here today and there is a word that is burning in my belly. And I am really excited to share with you. God, I pray right now, Lord, that as I share this word, Lord, that I'll not be too excited so I can't talk properly, Lord, in Jesus' mighty name. Praise God, you saw the announcement of VladSchool. I encourage you greatly to sign up for that. If you are watching us online, you don't know how... You don't have a church around you to go for deliverance. Sign up for those deliverance prayers today and there is a wonderful surprise for you at the end of that e-course. God bless you guys in Jesus' mighty name. How many were excited by the testimony that was just shared here? Can we put our hands together for Jesus? It works perfectly with the introduction to my message that I had thought of actually because I was at a place last week, I think it was, or two weeks ago, with one of my friends here in the church. His name is Evret, and some of you know where this is going already when you say his name because he has a certain passion in his life and that passion is in his basement. And I'm gonna explain a little bit to you about it because I went there and it's sauna that I'm talking about. How many like sauna here? How many sauna people do have in the house? Few people. Nobody was enough to shout. You're not that excited, okay? Evret, he's pretty good at what he does, okay? So I like sauna a lot and when I get to a sauna and always when I'm inside a sauna there's something in me that wakes up and that's the fact that I need to tell everyone that I ever go to sauna with that I am half Finnish just so they know I'm half Swedish, half Finnish. And then I ask them, do you know where the word sauna actually comes from? Do you know the origin of sauna? And I ask everyone that. And so the origin is Finland, okay? Sauna comes from, it literally means earth pit in Finnish language. So sauna came or at least that version of sauna. I know there are sauna in many parts of the world. So every time when I tell people about sauna I always end up eating up my words because they want to show me the real sauna, okay? They think that I'm experienced just because sauna came from my country kind of. So same thing happened that time with Evret. It was intense. He has a whole training procedure. You go out and you run in the sun from the sauna. You don't go and jump in the water. You run in the sun. Man, it was tough. So my point being this, some people are good at sauna. Some people are not as good as sauna. Me, I'm not that good. When the heat starts going up all I can think of is leaving that place, okay? My mind is like, I can't concentrate until I'm outside of that. And do you know that deliverance is just like sauna? Deliverance is just like sauna. What she was experiencing here, the reason why the demons began to manifest more and more and she noticed them more and more is because God was pouring water on those rocks. Heat was getting more and more and those demons begin to be like, oh man, it's hot in here. No, I can't resist. I can stay a little longer. Oh man, it's too hot. Oh, I gotta get out. And that is exactly what happens during deliverance. Let me tell you something. I have my brother Pastor Ilya. He's also really good at sauna. When the rest of us are like, are we gonna take a break right now? He will be like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, let's go. It's as if he doesn't even phase him. But one thing I know and hear me out, it doesn't matter how professional you are at sauna. It doesn't matter how many sauna sessions you have gone through in the past. You too have your limit where the heat gets so much that even the most experienced sauna bathroom has to get out of that sauna. I'm telling you, that's exactly what's about to happen at the prayer line here in a little bit. We're gonna turn up the heat and some people you have gone for many deliverance sessions. You're like, I'm not free yet. Well, it's because the heat wasn't enough, maybe. Maybe their experience to the heat, they can resist it to some degree. Today, we're gonna put the full fire. We're gonna pour the bucket on it. There's not gonna be anyone able to stay in your heart after today in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah. I am excited today. I am super excited. But the most exciting message will come later. Today, I'm gonna talk about something else. It's regarding deliverance as well. I'm gonna talk about the title of the message is Our Firewall. How many know what a firewall is? Only a few of you know what a firewall is. Literally, everyone has it in their house. How many know what a firewall is? So in the beginning, maybe you couldn't hear what I said. A firewall. Is that better? A firewall. From the beginning in the 1960s and even earlier than that, the original term of firewall was a wall that would separate an apartment from another. The wall was built of a different material. A material that could withstand the fire. So that if a fire broke out in one apartment, the people in the next apartment would have time to get out or time to stay there until the fire is quenched or whatever. It's walls that separate one apartment from another. So the fire does spread. Okay, in the 1980s, in the middle of the 1980s, the term was transferred and started being used in technological sense instead. Where a firewall is actually a device that stops malicious internet traffic from entering a computer network at home. Everyone has firewall in their home. At least you should have if you have a computer. Otherwise, you're probably infected with viruses, okay? So there are different kinds of viruses. We have biological viruses. We have internet viruses. We have some spiritual viruses. We believe that today they're gonna get cleaned out as well. So praise God. I'm gonna talk about the firewall that we all have and that we need in our lives today. First of all, a computer that uses a firewall. So that firewall basically blocks traffic from going into a computer. Internet traffic from spreading malicious stuff to enter the network. And there is about 65,000 ports in a computer. 65,000 tiny entrances that different programs uses to go in and out to connect to the internet. And a firewall closes off all the ones that aren't being used so that something can't sneak through an open port in the system, okay? And for those of us who are experienced in internet technology, you know that there's about three different types of firewalls. And it actually works perfectly in the spirit too. So I'm gonna share with you three types of spiritual firewalls that you and I should have implemented in our lives already. If you haven't, today is the day for you to do so. Okay, how many are ready? If you're ready, can you wave at me? All right, some of you are not ready. I'm gonna go ahead anyway. Praise God. Praise God. Ready or not, here we come. So the first firewall that is known among men in the internet sector is something that's called a hardware firewall. It's an actual device that you have at home that connects to your internet. And before the internet reaches your computer, this hardware firewall stops malicious traffic. It's a tangible something, something that you can touch, but the enemy that this physical thing stops is not something that you can see. And actually it looks about like this. This is about how an internet hardware firewall looks like sitting at home, okay? So if you have an device that looks like this. So for us as Christians, what do you think is something that is a tangible item that we can touch, that we can use, but that helps us to stop malicious traffic? Any guess? Oh yeah, I kind of gave a clue there, right? The word of God right here is our hardware firewall, okay? And just like a firewall can sit at home and if it's not installed properly, it's not gonna serve its purpose. The same goes with the word of God. This is something that you can actually see. Most of the things in our Christian journey, there are things that you can't see. There are things that you can't hear. There are things that you can't feel with your physical body. It's things that comes by faith. Here you have something that you can actually see. The word of God is many things. It's a lamp to our path. It's a sword in the spirit. It's what guides us. It's what leads us. But something that I like to use for today's sermon is that the word of God is like an instruction manual. Can you say with me, the word of God is my instruction manual. What is it an instruction manual to? It's an instruction manual to the heart of God. It's an instruction manual to walk in authority. It's an instruction manual to have a prosperous life. It's the instruction manual to have a successful life. Whatever you are looking for today, the word of God is the instruction manual for that. And all of this, the entire hardware, the most important instruction in this manual that you need to implement is one single verse. And I'm gonna read it for you. But first I'm gonna do a little demonstration here. So there's something here, guys. This is a stain remover. I borrowed it from the cleaning department. I apologize for that. Kind of snook in and took it. I'll return it. This is a stain remover. How many know how to use it? You know how to use a stain remover, clean your countertops, clean whatever, clean the carpet or something. And at the back here, there's an instruction manual. And it says directions for use. Before you use it, it's always advised that you read the instruction manual so you understand how to implement what is on the inside. Now, many people go and be like, not for human and animal consumption. Wow, that's good. Use only as direction. Wow, do not inhale mist. Okay, avoid eye contact. Okay, those are really good revelations. But then they go ahead and they don't follow what is in here anyway. And then you have a viral YouTube video of someone who's being really stupid putting flames on this thing or something, you know? You have to also do what the instruction manual says. You can't just read it. You have to apply it to your life. The Bible verse I'm talking about here to properly install our hardware firewall can be found in the book of James chapter one. This is one of my favorite Bible verses. I always say that every time I preach, sorry. James one verse 22, it's a very short Bible verse and that's literally the directions for using what is in here. It says this, but be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. Many of us have the word of God available in our life. We read it occasionally, but we don't actually do what it says in here. If you want to have the promises that God has given you in this word, if you want the word of God to be able to protect you from the attacks of the enemy, you need to do what it says. This is your instruction manual and trust me, you know, when you order something from Ikea, how many used to order stuff from Ikea? My wife does it all the time. She never assembles it though. It's always me orders stuff and then she's like, babe, the package has arrived. Uh huh. You know, you order it, right? And Ikea instruction manuals, those of us who are experienced carpenters, for you is like, yeah, you don't even need to look at it. But for some of us, that stuff is like Greek. Literally, it's so complicated. It's like putting this, which one is G? Literally, they don't even have their numbered and here's A to D or whatever. Some people think that they can install things without reading the instruction manual. If I would do that, I would fail miserable. And whatever I, let's say I'm putting a table together, if I want to put any kind of weight on that table, it's gonna collapse. The only way that you can install a hardware firewall in your life to protect you against the enemy is by following the instruction manual, step by step, doing exactly what it says. Taking the steps that Jesus Christ has told you in Jesus' mighty name, hallelujah. I'm gonna jump to the next firewall here. How many know what the second one is? I mean, some of you should know. The second firewall that is implemented preferably in a computer network is something that's called a software firewall. Now, the hardware firewall and the software firewall normally work in tandem. You have both of them installed, but some people don't have software firewall. They trust the hardware firewall to do the job. Well, occasionally stuff will sneak through the hardware firewall and that's why you need to have a software firewall installed as well. What is our software as Christians? Can you imagine, not just as Christians, as human beings, what's your software? It's your mind. Right up here is where software hard firewalls are installed in your body. How does it happen? How does it work? How does it software firewall get installing? Like it depends. What are the thoughts that are running through your mind? What are the habits that you develop as a Christian? Whatever you want to build in your mind, it will come by building it through habits. I believe as a Christian that good habits is literally our spiritual immune system. Good Bible filled habits is your spiritual immune system. Develop good habits to install a software. If it's not configured properly, it won't work. You have to configure your mind so that the software firewall in your mind can protect against the attacks of the enemy. Now I want to give you an example. I'm going to be really vulnerable with you here. When I was in Sweden, there was time when there was no proper software firewall installed. I was angry, I was bitter, and those things I could have overcome that if I had greater measure of habits in place. But I want to let you know something. The lessons that I learned from that experience is that if you don't develop good habits in advance, those good habits aren't coming later. If you are here struggling with lust today and you say, yeah, if someone sends me a pornographic message on my social media, I'll be able to resist it by then. If you don't have a system in place already, how are you going to defend yourself? You can't put on your life best when you're already in the storming water. You put it on first so that if you fall into the storming water, you will stay afloat. And they are meant to be strictly followed during tough times. You set the standard for the life that you want to have. Nobody that goes out hunting lions is going to say, oh, there's a lion there. Let me put bullets in the gun. Lion is coming. Let me put bullets in the gun. No. You make sure your gun is ready before you get out. I encourage you today, develop, raise your standard as a Christian. What are the habits that you follow today? What is the habits that mark your life? Develop those habits. It's going to be your software firewall when attacks come your way. When temptation penetrates the word of God. When things come and you begin to falter, what is in your mind determines the outcome of your temptations. I want to give you an example. There's a guy who has won the Balungoro football many times in the world. His name is Cristiano Ronaldo. How many know Cristiano Ronaldo is? If you don't know him, he's on the screen behind me right now. There we go. This is MVP right here. He plays football. Okay, guys, you know football? I know. I know. Don't worry. He plays soccer. Somebody sent me since the dollar became stronger than the euro. It's now soccer. You can never call it football again. So a little bit of an internal joke there. But yeah, he's a soccer player and he's known to be the best footballer in the world. Okay? He has an extremely high, highest level. When he's at his A-game, he scores like something else. Hat tricks, four goals a game. He's insane. And for those of you who don't and know who this is or you don't like soccer, there's some other random guy that I'm putting up on the screen right now. So this is like the world's best American football player according to what I googled. So Peyton Manning. Oh, he's not up yet. Peyton Manning. So these guys, if you are into sport, you know that the people who are really, really successful, they have high, highest level. But one thing about Cristiano Ronaldo that is his biggest weakness is when he is having a low season, he's really low. I'm talking about when he's having a bad game, he'll be walking around on the field. He doesn't even run. Someone gives a pass and it's slightly to the side. He's like, yeah, I'm here. I'm here. You can't pass here. He doesn't run. He doesn't do anything. He's just complaining about everyone. So his lowest level is actually lower than most of his teammates. Some of his teammates don't have as high of a highest level but they have a way more consistent lower level than him. As Christians, we all focus on our highest level. When all is well, when you hear God's voice clearly in a season, you're so close to Jesus. You're fasting like you don't even feel it. Everything is going good in your life and you're like, oh yeah, God, I want to press closer to you right now. I want to be better at prophesying. I want to grow in my strongest area. But then when we fall, we fall so far down to our lowest level. Don't be like Cristiano Ronaldo. Don't be famous only for your high seasons. Work on your lowest. What I mean is when you're in good times spiritually, when you're feeling strong, don't focus on being even more loud in worship. That's good, but that's not what's important. Make sure that you cover the weak links. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. How far do you fall in your low season? How low do you go? Do you begin to open those random people's DMs when you're having a really bad time? How far do you go? You struggle formally with anger and you thought you had overcome it. Finally, by low season, you go right back to where you used to be. Equip your lowest. Train your low area. There's a proverb by the Navy Seals and I love this. I love this so much. It says, I modified it slightly just to fit us as Christians. It says, in times of temptation and hardship, we don't rise to the occasion. We fall to the level of our training. You think that when that temptation comes, I will resist it. I'm a man of God and God will be with me. When that hardship comes over, I will be able to resist it and stand strong. No, you're not going to rise to the occasion when the devil comes knocking. You're going to fall to the lowest level that you allow yourself. How low can you go? Work on your lowest level. Develop greater habits so that you are equipped with guns, Bible verses that you have memorized. So when a situation arises, you speak that Bible verse over that situation. When a temptation comes, even if you're feeling weak, you're like, no God, you devil, I identify you even with my eyes shut. Your habits configure that software firewall. Hallelujah. And the third one, the third firewall to us as Christians, this is the best one. To those of you who knows what's coming, I love this. Get ready, guys. We're getting to the time of rounding up here. The third firewall that is commonly used today. It's a firewall. It's cloud based. Come on. The third firewall is cloud based. That means that someone else takes care of your protection. You don't even need to work for it. Someone else is in charge. You don't even know when the attacks coming because they take care of your defense. They will protect you. They will disarm. They will destroy the enemy. And you don't even know in your sleep, it will happen. That is our cloud based firewall. Right there. Hallelujah. Oh my God is in charge of your protection. And the best way to protect yourself as a Christian is a three fold firewall. You've got the cloud based firewall. You make sure that you're paying for your subscription so that the protection will continue in your life. How do you pay for the protection of Jesus? All you need to give is your time. He wants your time. It doesn't cost nothing. Give him your time and you are renewing the cloud based subscription of firewall in your life. Have the hardware firewall. Let this be close to your heart. Let this be your everything. Desire it. Hunger for it. Go deeper in it because you know it will save you one day. If your life depended on knowing the Bible, how long would you survive? Let's say for every Bible verse you know, you get one breath. How long will you live here? Every Bible verse you know, you get another breath. Some of us have already started holding our breath. Build yourself up. This is real. This is living. There's nothing religious about reading the Bible all the time. Read it. Meditate on it. Memorize it. Let it be part of your life. Install good habits. So that when temptation comes, you are already armed and ready for it. Nothing's going to track you down. Nothing's going to take you down because you know already even though he's slimy, he is my Lord. It doesn't matter if he gave and he takes away. Blessed be your holy name. Build your lowest level. And don't wait until you're in the wilderness to develop a water system where you can recycle water. Do it now. When water is accessible to you, build it up in your life. Hallelujah. But there's one more thing that I want to share with you. I was reading the Word of God and God showed me this. And this is the best part. I really love this part. The Bible talks about everywhere in the Bible. It talks about growth. It talks about growing up. Expand. Multiply. Go out and increase. Look around you, God told Abraham. As far as you can see, it belongs to you. In God said in Isaiah 54, expand your tent plugs. Expand it. He told the people of God in Genesis go out and multiply. The Bible talks in the New Testament in the letters from Apostle Paul. It's time for you to grow up. Go up in the power that God has given you. It's not enough just to think that you're going to live a life where you're going to have a firewall and you're going to be safe inside your city. I want you to be with me right now if you can rise to your feet right now as we are rounding up this message right now. Our lives is like a city. You live in a city. Some cities worship Jesus. Some cities worship idols. Some cities are growing. Some cities are shrinking. Some cities are calm. Some cities are noisy. There's a lot of crime rate in some cities. Our life is like a city. And I want to read a Bible verse for you. Just like the firewall protects us from foreign invaders. It protects us from thieves that comes to steal, kill and destroy. But that is not all. God has told us I want you to grow. I want you to multiply. I have given you everything to walk out and step on snakes and scorpions. It's time for you to multiply. Increase. Let the Word of God in you grow. Let the Spirit of God in you grow. And there's a Bible verse that I came across from the book of Zechariah chapter 2. I don't read Zechariah a lot, but this is good. It says the vision of the measuring line. Zechariah 2 verse 1. Then I raised my eyes and look and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said where are you going? And he said to me to measure Jerusalem to see what is its width and what is its length. And there was the angel who talked with me going out and another angel was coming out to meet him. Who said to him run speak to this young man saying Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. The promise of God is for you to begin to grow. It's not enough for you to just live in your safe little incubator covered by everything. Nothing can get to your own local area network. It's time to take a step out. And when you grow up as opposed to when I was a child I thought as a child. I reasoned as a child. But when I grew up I left childish ways behind. He stepped into what he knew God had for him. So just like the seed of Jerusalem cannot contain the livestock and the people in it because it's growing it's expanding. Some of us are just like Jerusalem today and I love the final verse. Don't read it before me. This is really good. I love it so much. God Almighty doesn't want you to just live in the seed and have a firewall. It says here in verse 5 for I says the Lord will be a wall of fire all around her and I will be the glory in her midst. It is not enough to just live a life and playing defensive Christianity. It's time for you today to step out and begin to play some offensive Christianity. The devil is not taking breaks. He's not taking pauses. You can't continue living in your city around you. People on the inside from what's happening on the outside by the firewall it's meant to burn anything that gets close to you stop thinking that you're a victim as a Christian stop focusing on how much the enemies are attacking the name of Jesus that you have received the wall of fire is all around you I promise that God has for you in Jesus mighty name I want to give just a second here right now I feel the presence of God is here right now there's someone who's here and you know that you you're a firewall Christian right now you haven't switched from defensive Christianity to offensive Christianity come forward real quick and we want to pray with you right now if that is you and this message is touching you right now come forward right now maybe you're struggling with you feel like oh yeah I've got the firewall working but what else I encourage you right now come forward also if you're a Christian here today and you don't have your firewall in place at all there's two categories of people those without firewall and those with a firewall that needs it to switch into a wall of fire I encourage you to come forward here right now we're gonna say a really quick prayer in the mighty name of Jesus we're gonna wait just another moment and why these people are coming forward we're gonna pray as well and you're like I have no clue of anything I just came to church to listen to something about God I don't know what I'm doing here maybe you have never known Jesus Christ and I want to take and invite those people here in just a minute before we pray for the people up front here if you're here today and you haven't received Jesus Jesus is knocking on your door or you know that you have backslidden you're no longer following his path you're no longer protected you have gone way outside of what is written in the Word of God I want you right now with every head bowed and every eye closed right now God might be calling you right now knocking on your heart saying today is your day of salvation maybe you don't understand any of this but you know that Jesus doesn't live in you right now I want you to raise your hand at me if you're watching us online right now put your hand emoji right now put your hand emoji in the chat right now if you're in this place and you need to accept Jesus Christ in your heart we're calling you right now God is calling you raise your hand right now thank you very much thank you very much online I'm going to give you another second right now if that was you and I couldn't see you I encourage you come forward here right now a couple of people are saying online right now that they haven't accepted Jesus I want you to say this prayer with me right now church join me in this prayer say Lord Jesus here I am a sinner in need of your divine forgiveness forgive me all my sin wash me with your blood make me white as snow Holy Spirit I invite you in my heart be my guide and be my friend thank you Jesus for my salvation in Jesus mighty name we prayed if you pray this prayer right now please reach out to one of our workers here we want to see you, we want to talk to you we want to connect with you right now the people that are watching in the front here right now we're not going to do laying of hands but you came forward to show that sign I want you to raise your hands in surrender right now raise your hands in surrender in the front here and people in the church feel free to join as well I want you to say this prayer right now say Lord Jesus in the control of my defense system make my firewall a wall of fire consume every dirt in my life and consume every demonic attack from the enemy right now in Jesus mighty name Lord we thank you for your presence right now we thank you for your presence right now we touch every person who came out right now to show their willingness to move forward in their journey like Lord fill us up with your spirit right now thank you Lord for touching souls Lord thank you Lord for setting people free thank you Lord for saving souls Lord in Jesus mighty name we're rounding up today's service here this morning session remember we have prayer on Wednesday 6am in the church here battle 6am we open the doors prayer every day of the week Monday through Friday starting at 5 join us and pray for the forward movement of the kingdom of God in Jesus mighty name and with that being said I want to wish you a wonderful weekend better is not good enough the best is always yet to come