 And we are continuing this series this month. This month is a month of love, as everybody knows it. It's February, it's a Valentine's Day. So as our costume and our tradition, in a sense, that every February of the year, we take four or five weeks to talk about relationships, to look from God's perspective on a relationship, how God views relationship, how God views families, how God views marriage. Because we live in a world that, we live in a world that perverted and twisted the views of relationships and marriages. And if we look at our society today, the statistics are staggering, the statistics are scary. 45% people end up in divorce. Every second marriage, statistics has about 65% chance of divorce. And the third marriage, if they make it to that, 75% it goes up and the statistics go up from there. And so when we look in any area of our life, we need to not think of our own ways to do it, not look at how Hollywood shows us to do it, not look at how the world presents that idea. But first we go into the word of God and we discover for ourselves what God says about relationship, what God says about marriage, how God says about family, and just what God speaks about every single area of your life. Amen Church? And so this month, I believe Pastor Vlad he has one more message that one that he didn't finish. He's right now actually in Kiev at the conference. He's very pumped and excited. I've spoken with him, he's really excited about what's happening here today. He's sharing a lot of great things and God has put in new things in his heart. As he there at the conference in Kiev, Ukraine, he's just, God is doing some awesome things in his spirit. So when he's gonna come back, he's gonna share and he might finish, do one more series, one more message on relationship. But today I'm gonna continue to speak about relationships. And I wanna, I want to, this subject is not really easy to come and explain. So I want you to pay very careful attention and I'm gonna talk about relationships and family and marriage from a spiritual perspective. A lot of, through the past four, three weeks we've learned a lot of practical things on dating, on relationships, on marriage and families. But today I wanna go a little bit deeper and I wanna talk about the spiritual essence of all of these things. Are you ready, church? So the title of my message that I called it, I called it Under the Microscope. And there's a saying in like, we're watching you like under the microscope or it just, I came about this article about, about microscopes and the significance of them and you can't believe how much impact that they have over in our lives. So I was, a friend of mine was gracious to find one for me to show you from a school, useful to have teachers in our church. They can find you all kinds of good stuff. Amen. So I'm gonna start off talking about a microscope and I'm gonna try to present in the best way I can the spiritual world that we live in today, okay? So I wanna tell a little bit about a microscope. We have to first of all understand that the world we live in today, the world that we see with our naked eye is not all that there is to this world. There's much more to this world than what we see with our naked eye. For example, let's take a microscope, okay? When microscope was invented, it gave us an ability to see beyond what we can see with our natural eye, all right? So Anton Van Leon Won Hoek, my goodness, something to that. He was actually a guy that invented a microscope that we know of today. Now, go on, if you've tracked the history, there's people they made who actually invented it. You know, they can, some people they made it started with Romans when they started to discover that glasses started using magnifying glass, but it all was, this was all magnification at best up to nine times, okay? This guy, I'm not gonna repeat his name, in 19, sorry, in 1632, he discovered a microscope that used 500-some lenses, that's crazy, in a tube, okay? And so let me read it to you so that I don't mess it up. This guy was the first person to invent microscope that we know of today. His new lens tube had magnifying power of 270 times, and it could view object one millionth of a meter. Other microscopes at that time were likely to achieve 50 times magnification, okay? Now you say, well, what's the significance of the microscope? Well, actually, let me continue to read about a microscope. The theoretical minimum size able to view by an optical microscope is 200 nanometers as defined by this guy, Abe. Since optical microscopes are only able to focus on an object that are at least the size way of a length of light, that's pretty small, okay? And there are other types of microscope, they can, an electron microscope in contrast can magnify images a thousand times smaller than even this microscope, so you can imagine how deep can it can get. The method of visualizing the structure is very different, electron microscopes use electrons, not photons, meaning light rates for visualization. With first electron, microscope was constructed in 1939, so the new microscope that we use now was literally invented in 1939, 1931, and they are very recent invention. So you say, well, why are you talking about microscopes? What's so significant about microscopes and what you're gonna be talking about? And how does the microscope relate to our lives? Let me read to you, benefits of the microscopes allow us to see things which are smaller than are naked eyes to see. Nearly all diseases are caused by microscopic life forms such as bacteria. Many important parts of the body are too small to see, also such as individual cells. Medicine did not really become an advanced science until the microscope allowed research to discover a whole universe. No one knew existed in which many people refused to believe in years afterwards. And microscopes, they allow us to see a world beyond what our physical eye can see. If you would think the significance and that the world that the microscope has opened up for us, and from that point on, we see all the inventions, everything in your house, from your car to your house, to your cell phone, to everything you have literally in your life was somehow influenced by the microscope. If you take your car, your gasoline, your oil, your tires, everything was on a micro level, on a nano level was chemically fashioned and designed to have what you have today. You look at your iPhones, your phones, you look at the screens, the little pixel dots on there are so carefully manufactured and put together because of the microscope, okay? Worse in this world changed because we were able to, because of the microscope, we were able to look at the molecular structures, we were able to change them and make bigger, greater weapons like atomic bombs and nuclear bombs and all kinds of things. So microscope showed us the world and opened us the world of possibilities that we never had before. And so you're saying, where are you going with this? Just like we can't see that world with our naked eye, there is a spiritual world that as much affects every single part of our life. It affects our money, it affects our relationship, it affects your mood, it affects your character, it affects your family, it affects your relationship, it affects every single part of our life. And it would be foolish for us to ignore and say, well just because I don't see on the microscopic level, just because I don't see the germs, they don't exist. Just because I don't see cell cancers, that means they don't exist and they can't hurt me. Just like the microscopic world, the nano world includes our physical world and actually builds our physical world. So is the spiritual world, is above our physical world and everything begins in our life. Everything begins from a spiritual world. Everything is fashioned in spiritual world and then it's manifested in our physical life. It would be foolish for us to ignore the discovery and the tool of a microscope and to still live in ignorance, pretending like germs don't exist, like diseases on microscopic levels don't exist and things like that. And not to take it into advantage, into our own advantage and like we did with the medicine field and all other fields, discover cures and discover ways, discover the principles that our bodies work, ourselves work and everything else and use it for our good. In the same fashion, if we are ignorant of a spiritual world, if we are ignorant of the world that is unseen, but yet influences our physical world, it will be foolish for us to know it, to know that, but to ignore it, not to learn the principles of it, not to learn how it operates and works, not to know the things that can hurt us and live in being oblivious to the fact that spiritual world exists, that there is the world of angels and the world of demons and that world influences our life on every day and every fashion. In Mark chapter nine verse 14, they bring a little boy to Jesus. And this boy with our physical eyes, he has a sickness, what we in America call it epilepsy. He begins to vomit out of his mouth, he begins to shake and fall into, and he begins to convulse. And on top of that, he can hear and he is mute. And so with our physical eyes, we look at it and we say, yes, this man has a physical infirmity, he has a physical deformities and this person is just the way he is. But when Jesus comes on the scene, because Jesus has a view and understanding of the spiritual world, he comes to this person, ask the father a few questions like how long has been happening, what's been happening with this boy? And when the boy sees Jesus, he begins to go into convulsion and Jesus comes to this boy and rebukes the demon and he says, you death and dumb spirit, leave him now. Boy convulses, falls like the Bible, says like the dead. Everybody thinks he's dead. Jesus picks him up and this boy is made well and he is good. So what seed from outside as a physical problem, because people were not aware of the spiritual world and were trying to deal with the problem that was spiritual on the physical level, Jesus came knowing the inside, knowing the spiritual world was able to cure the person like this. In Luke chapter 13, he comes, Jesus' first sermon, he begins to preach in church and then there is a woman that for 18 years he has a hunchback. She's like this and she can't straighten herself up. Her spine is curved and this how she lived for the rest of her life. So Jesus looking at that woman, everybody would come and probably say, well, this woman has a deformity. This woman has a physical issues. Maybe she was born like this. Maybe if she fell and broke her back or whatever the cause was for that back, Jesus gets up and he says, you spirit infirmity, I commend you to leave this woman right now. And the woman straightens up and is healed right at that moment. So what happened? Jesus was aware of what is behind the physical problem, what is behind the problems of people. He was looking beyond what the natural eye can see and he was able to deal with the root of the issue, cast out the demon that was causing the sickness and the woman was made well and healed. Behind every problem and behind every trouble in our life, there is evil spirit. There is an affluence of evil spirit and they do not play games. The Bible says that the Satan came to kill, steal and destroy. But Jesus says about himself that I came to give life and life with more abundance. So we need to not be oblivious to the schemes of Satan and what he's came to do in our lives and who is behind the troubles and tribulations in our life and that when we face troubles in our life, when we face sickness, when we face setback, when we face an obstacle in our life, when we face things that we can't physically change, we are disciplined, we are smart, we are educated, we do everything on our end that we can. But at the end of the day, we hit the wall and we don't know how to overcome the problem. Behind our problem is an influence of demonic spirit and it can be overcome with the name of Jesus. There is no problem that is too great that Jesus cannot solve. There is no demon too strong that Jesus cannot rebuke and cast out on the cross Jesus got an ultimate victory and today as a children of God, today as people of God, we are entitled to live in freedom. We are entitled to live in blessing that God has for us. Amen church. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. You know, Lewis, he got, where is Lewis? Wave your hand, right there, his mom is here. Let's put our hands together for his mom, his first time. When Lewis, when my brother David ran into Lewis and he shared the gospel with him in Sonam and it really touched him and Lewis began to make positive change in his life. One of the things that was that he was addicted to weed and like Sam said, if you think that weed just because we legalized weed and just cause people say, oh, it's not a drug and you can't be addicted to it, it's a lie from the enemy and it is a drug and it's addictive and the problem is it doesn't stop there, it leads you to the next. And as you've seen, three people testified today from their life experience. You never stop at weed, it always takes you further but Abraela Lewis, he, even though he quit smoking he began to kind of make positive change in his life. He began to stop hanging out with the friends that he is hanging out and he quit smoking drugs but he had craving and even though he tried, he tried he tried to stay away for the next period of, for the period of five, four, five months starting from November when he came to church he keeps slipping back occasionally into smoking weed and he really tried and prayed and we prayed with him and we say, why don't you come to one of the Sunday prayer lines and we'll pray, we're gonna come against every influence of devil in your life and we're gonna see that you're gonna be set free. So sure enough, Lunis, one of the Sunday in March he came to a prayer line and he received the simple prayer of faith. Lunis didn't manifest, he didn't shake, he didn't fall nothing really on physical part happened to him but something happened in a spiritual realm. That spirit that was causing him provoking the feelings to smoke was cast out in Jesus' name and from that moment on it's been already, it's gonna be a year in this March that Lunis didn't have cravings again for those drugs and never smoked again. Let's put our hands together for Jesus. What happened in the beginning? He tried to deal with it on his own strength, with his own discipline and yes, we do have a part to play. Yes, we do have to stay away from those companies that Bible says bad companies corrupt good morals. We have to stay from people that are not influencing us in a positive way and all that stuff. But after Lunis done everything, he still could not overcome the cravings and that thing, the voices that keep pushing him to do it. And because we understand that behind addictions there is spirit that pushes people to do it, we were able to come against it in Jesus' name and bring solution to his life. Amen. Another story. It was happened in a revival with Wiseman Harry. When we had the Wiseman Harry come for profit in the Joshua Ministry and we had this crusade attract that we were hosting. There was one particular man, I believe his name was Nabil. And this man was sick with leukemia. Every single month was a 5,000, 7,000, I don't remember the number. 7,000 every single month, he was paying for his medication to be able to cope, not to cure, to cope with his leukemia. His life was miserable. His life, he knew that his next day was not guaranteed. He tried all the treatments, he tried the doctors, he tried the medicine, but nothing could help him until he knew that there was that problem was spiritual in his life and he came to that service that we held three years ago, two years ago, three years ago in the track with Wiseman Harry. And one of the prayers as Wiseman Harry stretches his hand and begin to pray and begin to come against every spirit that was causing people to suffer. He began to feel uneasy with himself. He came to the front and he began to throw up weird substances, weird things out of his body. You say, wow, this is weird, what just happened? With physical eye, you would see, well, he just felt bad, probably ate something bad and that's why he was throwing up. But in a spiritual world, that something happened, that spirit that was behind his sickness, behind his suffering was removed out of his life and that man came six months later with his medical report proving from the doctors that was examining him that he is leukemia free and hasn't been taking medication for months. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. Then later on he came back a year later or something, still came back to testify that he still is leukemia free and he is living his life for the glory of God and sharing the gospel that what Jesus has done for him. We have to understand that the world we're living in is not as what we see with our naked eye and we need to be people, we need to be smart enough, we need to be wise enough to understand that there is a spiritual world and if there is a spiritual world, the next plausible question that comes up, the next thing that comes up is like, well, how do I know more about it and how can I learn more about it so that I know how it works and operates? And this is what we're here today to learn and to discover. And second Corinthians, if you can pull up that, second Corinthians 2, 11, Apostle Paul says this, so the Satan will not outsmart us for we are familiar with his evil schemes. What he's saying that devil's work, devil's schemes, devil's tactics are not unfamiliar to us. That the word of God, just like the microscope is a tool to see into the micro world, to the nano world, the word of God is a microscope into the spiritual world. The word of God reveals, Bible reveals the spiritual world, who's behind sickness, who's behind poverty, who's behind setbacks and who's behind blessing and who's behind health and prosperity and all the good things. The word of God is like that lens, is like that microscope that shows us the spiritual world and shows us the principles of the spiritual world so that we can operate in it as the children of God. You have to understand that we as people, we were created in three parts. We have a spirit, we have soul, and we have a body. What you see is a body here. This is not real me because when I die and I lay in a casket and you're gonna pass by my grave, hopefully you will be dead as long with me then by that time, so I'll live longer than all you were just saying, but if my time has come and you walk by and you look at the body, you will not say that this is Ilya. You'll say this is his body because Ilya is gone. My spirit is gone. So God created us in three parts for simple reason. He gave us body so that we can relate to a physical world. He gave us a soul so we can relate with each other on emotional level and he gave us spirit so that we can operate with him in a spirit world. Does it make sense? Okay, so I want to look today at few schemes of Satan in relationships since we are talking about relationships because Bible tells us that his schemes are for us to be not ignorant but to us to be aware of them. First thing that I want to address and I'm just gonna give you three simple things. There's more things. I just wanna tackle these three things because of the time that we have today. And I'm gonna go quickly. So just write down the notes, write down. This is kind of more of a teaching and we'll get to our preaching and finish and we'll be praying. So first thing that we have to be aware of is a curse. What is a curse? Curse is an influence of an evil spirit in a negative way over our life or particular area of our life. Okay? Curse, the way curse comes into our lives is through sin. Sin opens the door for Satan and for his demons to influence our life. That's why Bible tells us not to sin is not so that we feel limited or we feel like we are not having much fun or we're not, the God is depriving something of us. No, God has given us righteousness and he's given us his commandments so that Satan and his agents will not have access to our life. And so when it comes to relationships, we need to be aware of a curse. What is a curse look like in relationships? A curse can be grandparents who are divorced, parents who are divorced and you can't put any relationships together in your life. Curse can be any area. It can be in relationship, it can be financial, nobody went to college from your past generation, nobody's going to college now and you can't seem to go to college, always something comes up, no money, you gotta do job, you gotta family, you gotta bills to pay. Curse can be anything on our life that limits us, that influences us in a negative way and it's all the work of Satan because we know that God came to give life and life with more abundance. Everything that's short of it, that's not from God. And so curse can be, relationships don't work out. Curse can be curse of loss, curse of perversion, there's constant, just in a bloodline, there's this perversion, there's this pull towards perverse things and all of these things and we have to be, as Christians, we have to be aware of what's going on in our life and to be able to deal with that issue on a spiritual level. And so if you begin to notice in your life that, oh my, I'm coming from a family that's broken apart, that you don't begin to deal with yourself, that you don't begin to deal with your issue, with your family issue on a surface level, meaning begin to yell at each other, begin to accuse each other, begin to say, oh, it's because of you, it's because of you I'm this way, it's because of this, but then we, as Christians, we are mature enough and that we go beyond of the physical problem and look what's behind it and solve the issue behind the problem, the root and begin to, once we solve it and the problem will be, once we solve the root, then the problem will be solved in our lives. I wanna share something that's very personal from my life and I haven't shared publicly with anybody and it infected my life and my family in a very devastating way. I got married at 21 and my wife was 19. We were high school sweethearts, everything was going great, everything was doing good. We got married, things were great and some were two, three years down the road in our marriage, things begin to get really tough, things begin to, our life, our marriage, begin to hit rock bottom and it got so bad and I don't have the time to share all the details but it got so bad that it came to the point where we were on the edge of divorce and the thing is this is that I was a pastor son and I grew up in church and I was somewhat even involved in the church. This just shows you that devil, Satan and his agents don't care about your status, they don't care about how much money you make, they don't even care if you're pastor or pastor son or if you are in Christian family, if there is a door and if there is a legal right in your life, this will come into your life and will destroy you regardless who you are and what you have in your life and that just shows us even more that we gotta begin to deal with our issues on the spiritual level and I just wanna invite my wife just to share a few quick words about her life and how she was at that moment and what she realized at that moment and how we begin to deal with it right now. Hello everybody, how are you guys, everyone being blessed so far, amen? Well, just to finish what he started about our relationship is we got married and about within a two or three years of our marriage what began to happen was like he said, it was a hit rock bottom. We were on the verge of divorce and actually we just stated we're gonna get divorced and I packed my bags and was heading to my parents and just to let you guys know a little bit more of a familiar side of my family is that I came from a family that everyone was, my parents were still married but all of my cousins were divorced. Absolutely every single one. If they didn't get divorced in their first year it was the other person in three years. If it wasn't the other one, it was at seven years and some of you guys are probably thinking, man, just your family doesn't know how to deal with relationships. You could probably just think that and for a while I was thinking it's just a coincidence, right? Coincidence that just no one knows how to function in a relationship until it hit me. And I was going into our second year of marriage and I realized that the curse caught me, it found me and it didn't matter that I was a Christian sitting in a pew or being a pastor's son, it found me but I will remember one day as we separated our ways and I packed my bags and was going to my parents and I was in the car and I was crying and I was yelling because I was like, you know what? This is one thing that I said. I'm like, I will not be divorced. I said, God, I refuse to be divorced. As the curse was saying you are next, God was telling me that Jesus Christ said it is finished and I was knowing I was in a battle. I could be following into this curse or I can go into the blessing that Jesus Christ has fought for all of us here tonight. I don't have to be divorced. I didn't have to go under that curse. And so I fought and I was led to pray and fast from our marriage until I saw results. Now, my circumstances didn't look so good, okay? It was getting worse but I kept fighting because I remembered and I was being led to the cross on Jesus Christ saying that I have paid the price for you. You do not have to be divorced. Even though the curse was chasing me down, I was going to the cross. And I want to let you know I am standing here today and we're going to celebrate our eight years of marriage. Amen. Amen. And the reason why I wanted to share this with you tonight is because the part that I was led to pray and fast and I prayed earnestly until I got an answer. And this beginning of this year for a majority of you guys now I gave birth to my lovely baby daughter, amen. And I was attracted to this name called Eliana. Now, all of you guys probably know that it was a combination. I was, oh, this is cute, a combination of Elia's name and Marianna's name, you know, Eliana. And he at first didn't, he was like, are you serious? You want to name our kid that that's kind of lame. But after about two years, because I liked it two years ago, and then we came upon it again when I was eight months pregnant and I was deciding to name my daughter Eliana and he fell in love with that name. And I looked up what that name meant and it said, God answered my prayer. God is good and all the time. But what happened in our life, she kind of missed you details, is that your time is going by quick and you can't cover all these things, but my, our pastor, which happened to be my dad, I remember he sat us down and he said, look, you guys, you guys can, you guys can patch your ways. You can fight each other. You can be, you can have miscommunication. You can't seem eye to eye, but you don't understand, there's something behind it that's hunting you down that just wants to break you apart. And he began to show us testimony after testimony, where marriages were restored, where that spirit or the curse was confronted and was rebuked and that people were restored. And we began to slowly by surely begin to get hope, begin to get hope and things were not looking so, so, so well. We were going through, we were going through a counseling and this and that, but I can describe those times and those moments in our life as like, have you guys played with magnets? You know, there's a side that really pulls together, right? And there's the opposite side when you cry. The harder you push together, the further it falls, further it wants to, you know, shoot apart. This is kind of how we were until we began to deal with the spiritual issue in our life is that the more we tried getting together, the more we tried following the steps of how to have a successful marriage, the further we wanted to be apart from each other, the more we didn't stand each other. But when my dad or pastor began to explain to us and help us to deal with the spiritual issue in our life, begin to confront that curse that was running in our family and in her family, and we came against it, we broke it, then life, then literally our emotions, our attraction, our everything about our life and our marriage flip from negatives to positive. We could not wait to get home, we couldn't wait to be with each other. I mean, we were like, before we were dating, we would go into sit in Applebee still two, three o'clock in the morning till they close. Our life changed completely because something was shifted in the spiritual realm. So what I'm talking to you today is not some fairy tales, it's something that I've lived through personally my own. And there's a lot more to share from where this comes from, but time does not let us and permit us. And so you have to understand that if you come in, if you come in from a family that's been broken, if you come in from family that parents were apart, or maybe there was constant fighting, constant, just think, constant repeating cycles. Don't fall into panic, don't say, oh wow, I guess there's nothing I can do to make it better. No, yes, there is. Jesus died for you, Jesus carried the curse. Bible says that whoever is hands on the tree is cursed. So Jesus hand on the tree so that you can be blessed today and you don't have to carry those things over your life any longer. Amen. Amen church. Second thing, cast curses. Cast curses are simply negative words spoken by our parents, others, or self. You have to be aware of the words that you speak in your life. We can pronounce a curse over ourselves or parents can do that or others. If we can say in ourselves, oh, I'm nobody, I can do nothing. I'm always gonna be lonely. I'm not attractive. Nobody's gonna like me. Nobody's gonna marry me. Guess what's gonna happen? This is what's gonna come into your life because God has created the world with His words. You create your world with your words. You either, your words either be blessed into your life or your words bring curse into your life. That's why we have to be sharp. We have to be wise enough. We have to be smart enough to understand the schemes of the enemy and that in our lives we have to protect what comes out of our mouth. That means if you're a parent, you can't say negative things over your children because as an authority over your children, that will come to pass in their life because you have authority over your children. As a spouse between each other, such a thing as divorce shouldn't be even, on your mind, neither should be coming out of your mouth. You need to speak opposite to what you feel, to what you see, and what's happening in your life. Curse is spoken by others. We have to understand this truth. That undeserved Bible says that undeserved curse cannot come upon you. So I remember the story that from Pastor's Mantan's church, this gentleman, he was in his young years, he was dating a gal and things did not work out. I don't know what happened, but I don't know the details, but they broke up and she said something in his face. He said, you will never get married to anyone besides me. And so years and years went by, 20 years went by, this guy for all these time tried all these relationships and he come to the point of taking the next step in the relationship and things would fall apart. Either he would lose the feelings, the girl would lose the feeling and things just would not work out. He was a very established man. He had a business, he had money, he had great things, but this area of his relationship was under the curse. And so not until he came to one of the services, to one of the conferences and Pastor Mantan was praying and he began to break the curses over relationships. And as he was praying and breaking the curses, this guy was standing in the sanctuary, was listening and as Pastor Mantan was praying over the sanctuary, this picture came into his mind. This girl from the year a long time ago that said, you will never get married besides me. And he said, I felt like something lifted me, that image was broken in my mind. The funny thing is, right before that, he was trying to be in a relationship, he was already in church, he was saved, he's trying to be in a relationship. As they were about to take the next step in their relationship, all of a sudden, he said, just feelings disappeared completely. I have no feelings, no attractions, they have no pull to that person. Obviously, I mean, you're not gonna take that step into marriage if you don't have that peace and that things. And so what happened? After the prayer, he went back to the girl, things just sparked back up and literally three months later they were married and now they're years married into it and happily and everything is great. What happened? Not what we see with the physical eyes, but the spiritual root was uprooted and dealt with properly and today he's happy. In your life, you have to examine your life, you have to understand and see what is happening in your life at this moment. Do I have something in my life that's stopping me? Do I see a consistent cycle in my life? Do I see something that's stopping me from moving forward? Maybe it's relationship or maybe it's finances. You're working hard, you're educated, you are smart, you are strong, you are disciplined, but things just do not go forward in your life. You have to understand and you have to be smart enough to know that there is something behind it, come against it and watch what God will gonna do in your life. God is light and there is no darkness in him. Anything negative in your life is darkness. When darkness is automatically removed, there comes light. If there is darkness in this, turn off the lights and when we've completely dark, we switch back the light. When light comes in, darkness automatically feeds. You don't have to work for it. Okay, so we have to be very careful, we have to be very careful of our words, what we say, parents, what you say over kids, what you say over yourself. And today we're gonna pray and we're gonna break every negative words you've spoken over yourself. You're gonna pray and you're gonna break every negative words spoken over you by parents. Every negative word that you've spoken over your children and today we're gonna step into a new season in your life. We're gonna step into the blessing that God has on the cross died for you today. Amen. You know what? Let's skip the other one, no time. I wanna share quickly the steps to solution, three steps to freedom. Open with me to Revelation or read it on the screen. Revelation chapter 12 verse 11. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives to death. It speaks of Satan that they overcame Satan. So three things that you need to over to overcome and break any influence of Satan over your life. Number one is, it's all actually, all three of them starts with C. First one is cleansing. The way you can overcome is by the blood of Jesus. As you can be washed by the blood of Jesus. Jesus hand on the cross so that you and me today, we will not live under curse. That means if you don't know Jesus Christ, first thing you'll have to do is you have to accept Jesus Christ in your heart. You have to have His blood wash your sins, cleanse every sin and every influence of sin in your life. So number one is cleansing. You need the blood of Jesus. And by the blood of Jesus, you can break every repeating cycle in your life. By the blood of Jesus, you can break every curse because Jesus was cursed so you can be blessed. Jesus was bound so that you can be free. Number two, confession. Word of the testimony. It's declaration of your legal position in Jesus Christ. They overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of the testimony. That means just like you used your words to destroy yourself, to speak negative things over your life, to say how things, you will not amount to anything or people spoke over you. Just like you said that I'm nobody, I'm not, things, I'm not gonna make it. Nobody's gonna like me. I'm not good enough. Then you have to do the opposite and begin to declare what the word of God says about you. If you want to walk in freedom, if you want to walk in victory, you have to take the legal position that Jesus Christ has for you. Let me give you a very clear example. Right now we have a tax season, right? How many of you guys done in taxes? Okay, well, you have till what? March 30th, right? April 30th, 15th, April 15th to do it. So you'll understand what I'm talking about. You have to understand that the word of God, some people say, well, if you get saved, you can't be cursed. You can't be under an influence of evil spirit. You can, kind of like once you're saved, everything is gone. Well, that's not true because Bible does say that we can come under influence of we can come under influence or there can be curses over our life that we have to come against in our lives. Let me explain this. When we have, we have a tax seasons and you know that in our government gives us tax credits, tax discounts that you can take. Right? So you can fill out your taxes and you can legally, for example, if you have a child, right? You can legally get a credit, tax credit for, what is it, $7,000 or $5,000? Something like that. Five or $7,000 tax credit because you have a child. Tax right off, okay? But you can just ignore that fact and not claim it on your taxes. Even though legally it's yours, but practically you didn't claim it in your life and therefore it's not a reality in your life. Does that make sense? For example, my brother went and did taxes with somebody else last year and got a hundred bucks, $100 back, right? And so this year he's like, well I don't wanna pay that person, I barely got anything. Could you do my taxes and maybe I'll get something out of it you know, for, you know, all this stuff. I'm somewhat familiar with tax laws and tax things and so I began to do his taxes and to now that at the end of the day I was able to secure him $3,200 discount. So $3,200, right? And don't ask me to do your taxes because I won't, okay? What happened? The things that he could have claimed last year he didn't therefore he just got $100 back and that's all he could enjoy of which you could have probably got a lot more. And this year because he, well I knew his legal position in rights was able to claim it for him and he was able to get the tax refund. The problem is in a spiritual world nobody can claim a blessing for you. You have to claim it for yourself. Nobody can claim what's legally yours, what Jesus Christ has died for. You have to understand it as 7,000 promises some say eight, some say six, whatever, it's a lot. Promises of God in a Bible for you for every single area of your life so that you can be blessed, so that you can be healthy and whole so you can have joy, peace, harmony, all the things that you can think of. Just open chapter 28 of Deuteronomy and read first half, don't read the other half, it gets pretty ugly, but just first half chapter, the blessings that God has for you, for your life, for your family and everything you do. It's up to you, are you gonna claim that? Are you gonna take it? That's why in a revelation said it's by the blood of the limb and the word of their testimony you have to speak positive things in your life. You have to speak God's word into your life. You have to align your speech with what God says into your life. And last one, commitment, the overcame not loving the lives to death. There's certain areas in your life you will only be able to overcome and break unless you commit. For example, if you come from a family that's constant divorce and you've ever seen a good example where parents are in harmony together, where parents are not fighting, where there's a harmony and you can break the devil all you want and cast him out. If you don't make it conscious, if you don't consciously commit to stay in your marriage and say I'm committed to solution, it will not happen to you. But commitment, three things. Commitment to relationship with the Holy Spirit. Commitment to the word of God and commitment to his church. If we want to walk in the life of victory, we have to lay our life down and have to live a life of commitment to the Holy Spirit. Live our lives in commitment to his word. We have to read his word. We have to declare what God has for us. And we have to commit to coming to church, coming to home groups and committing our ways so that we can live a life that God has for us. So that we can have people. I'm telling you, if me and Mariana in our difficult times of our marriage, if we were not in church and if we didn't have people around us, if we didn't have a pastor, my father and family and other people around me, my close friends, pastor of God, if I didn't have them around, I would not have strength on my own to overcome and to be today, eight years into marriage, be happily married. Because I was committed to church, because I was committed to the vision. I was committed to home groups. I was committed to mentorship. My life was rescued. My marriage was rescued. And so I wanna encourage you today. Maybe you seemed a little bit on a down note today. You're like, wow, this is overwhelming. This is so much, you look back in your life, you say, wow, I got a lot of things to think about it. I got a lot of things to look through. I got a lot of things to consider in my life. And you might be feeling even hopeless looking at your situation, whatever the thing might be. I wanna tell you today that Jesus is down in the cross for you. Jesus suffered a brutal death. And like Andre shared today, this incredible testimony, that Jesus said, you don't have to carry it. Think about it, no other religion in this world has their God that they claim their God. Come down to earth. Become nobody, not only become nobody. Be beaten, be mocked, be called names, bleed out, die on the cross, carry the crown of thorns, receive 39 lashes so that you and I don't have to suffer in our life. So that you and I, we don't have to, we don't have to, so that you and I, we won't be under constant limitation in life, under constant setback, that we don't have to live with the limits that our parents live, that our grandparents live, so that we don't have to live with the limits that we spoke over ourselves, so that we don't have to live with the limits that our parents spoke over you or others spoke over you. So that today, so that today we can have a blessed life. Jesus said, I come to bring life and life with more abundance. Jesus does not come to bring sorrow and pain. He's not an, even if you wanted to give you sorrow and pain and suffering, He has none, He can't give it to you. The author of sorrow and pain and suffering is Satan and his agents, his demons. And they're the ones that inflict in pain in our lives. But today, Jesus on the cross is offering a solution to us. He's offering the cross. He's offering to break every chain of Satan of our lives. He's offering to break every curse and every influence of Satan so that you and I can enjoy the blessing that he died for, for us to live. Jesus said, I've seen Satan fallen and therefore I give you authority to trample over all scorpions and snakes and over every evil power in your life. You have authority. You've been given right to walk freely, whatever the addiction is, whatever the cycle of your life is, whatever you're facing in your marriage and your relationships, in any area of your life. Jesus has paid it all on the cross. You don't have to do anything but accept what He has done for you. Jesus says, whatever you lose on earth will be lost in heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. God has given the authority and He's given us the right to live the life that you always dreamed of. It is possible and He has it for you. All you have to do today is accept Him into your heart. You have to accept His blood that His blood was shared for you for a reason so that you don't have to live under the curse. You have to confess with your mouth, your righteousness. You have to confess your position. You have to confess your legal authority and your legal promises that belong to you so that they become a practical reality in your life and you have to commit. Commit your relationship with the Holy Spirit. Commit your life to spend every day talking to Him. Commit your life to knowing Him every day. Get into the Word of God. Let Him speak to you. The Word of God will never put you down. Word of God will always bring you up. It will always elevate you. It will always tell you how good you are, what God has planted in your life, how God has destined you for great things in your life. Word of God will always elevate you and always will bring you up. And number three, commit. Commit to church. Commit to home groups. Commit to mentorship. Commit to having right people around you. If the corrupt company corrupts morals, if a bad company corrupts morals, then can we flip that other way around? A good company encourages good morals. Encourages good relationships. Encourages good marriages. Encourages prosperity, blessing. Encourages to be a blessing to others. Commit your ways to God. Commit your ways to come in and dedicate in your life to church. You see these people that we watch today. There's four people that get baptized. Andre, they share the testimony. You know the reason why it's possible because there are people that committed their life to serving God, to loving God and to make Him known to all the other people. I wanna tell you that Jesus is on your side. Holy Spirit is on your side. God hates sickness. God hates divorce. God loves people. Loves people that are divorced. But he hates the fact. He hates the pain of it. He hates the suffering of it. He hates every bit of suffering and pain that Satan inflicts in your life. That's why he couldn't wait until he would come down from earth to die for you and me so that you can enjoy and partake of his suffering. And the life of bliss.