 Hi everyone, welcome back. We'll get started. Okay, so we have several scriptures talking about the Lord, you know, saying, just like how we see the Lord saying, you know, do not fear, do not fear, do not fear. Like every time he comes and we see that the Lord says, meeting people do not fear, if you're not. Similarly, we also have scriptures where he says, do not remember or do not dwell on the past. Do not remember the former things. Don't consider the things of Isaiah 43. I will do a new thing. I will make a road in the wilderness and deserts in the desert, rivers in the desert. The Lord is saying that I will do some new things, some impossible things, which will actually change the circumstance, right? So, which will bring hope and healing. So, we see that, right? Isaiah 61 verse 7, you know, instead of your shame, you shall have double honor. And instead of confusion, they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore, in their land, they shall possess double everlasting joy shall be theirs and so on, right? So, we see the Lord reminding of not holding on to the past, right? Okay. Any questions on that? So, now, while we see that, okay, these things are the reality, it requires some amount of work from our side. Now, it requires some amount of effort from our side in order to appropriate this truth and apply it, okay? But once we apply it, we see that, okay, this truth is capable of breaking down any kind of strongholds that we might have in our minds, right? Any kind of wrong thinking, wrong ideas in our minds are set right, right? Because our thinking is renewed. Then, if there is any kind of lie apart from the truth, any kind of lie that we are believing, holding on to, the truth sets us free from that, right? Truth gives us a discernment and sets us free from that, right? So, this isn't something that we ought to do. We cannot escape from it, right? We ought to do that even as we go through life, right? Okay. Any... Asad, this, I say, do not remember the form of things. So, this is only applicable when we get the forgiveness, when we repent. Only in that case are, because of our sins are forgiven, so we should not remember or in that case. So, for our own sins, right? So, I don't stress this. Since God has already... So, we say, we don't remember. So, don't bring it to memory. Don't continue to dwell on those things in the past. Let's just read the answers. So... This is a lot, who makes... I'm just reading 16. It says, who makes for the chariot and the cause, and then it goes on, they do not know the form of things. So, he's talking about... See, the context is that he's talking about people who are actually well-planned to, and he's talking about elements of it. Now, it is applicable for us, and this proof is that we say, you are reminding me of the response. We can apply it in the sense of what has already happened, what has been done on the cross, and therefore, whatever things for which we have asked for forgiveness, and what has already done it, he's already moved it out of the way. So, do not again go back. So, that is one way of applying it. It is a done thing. It's already been done. It's already been washed, mixed. So, don't revisit. Don't remind yourself. Don't control the forms. But the other thing is also, as we go through this, maybe certain things have happened, maybe it doesn't require forgiveness from your side in the sense of even taking this, asking God for forgiveness. These are the things that have happened, which have hurt us, or offended us. You want to say, okay, you've already dealt with it. Don't go back. So, that was it, guys. There is already something that I want to be dealt with in terms of the leasing of forgiveness, in terms of even repenting. So, in that case, in that case, it won't be anything. In what case can we understand, what other things can we understand? This is for me. Yeah, we can't use this to justify it. We can use this to justify something saying, okay, God is not asking you to deal with it. And don't go back to let that past continue. Even as a reason, as whatever we last made, don't go to revisit and remind yourself of it and anchor yourself to it. Don't remember it, because the Lord will... He comes from a place of having dealt with it. So, if you've not dealt with it in terms of either asking forgiveness or releasing forgiveness, then there's no point. There's no way of moving forward. Yeah, you want to ask something? This is a one-person-share-experience like this. He's a believer. He's when the Bible grows and so on. And he went away from God. He came back. He asked for forgiveness. So, that's all. But after some days, he felt like guilt and wherever he goes, the thoughts will come. But he didn't want to go back. Now in the prayer life, everything is there, but the thoughts are disturbing him. He became very stressful. So, don't you talk to that believer? So, the thing is that, maybe it's because of the intensity of the deed which was done. So, the thing is this. So, that seems to be louder or that seems to be bigger than the truth of God's forgiveness. So, maybe in his emotions, he's still not come out of it. He's still not set free in his emotions. So, the only way to deal with that is to point that person back to the truth. This is already done. There's no point in revisiting what is already done. Now, already done in a sense, God has already cleansed, forgiven, healed. There's no point in going back to it again. So, you look at the life of Paul, the Apostle Paul, even before he came to know Christ, he did a lot of things. He did a lot of things which were, he was a murderer. He put people in prison and prisoned those days, no sense of justice. Families were maybe separated, etc. He persecuted the church in all these kind of ways. And he was there when Stephen was being stoned. So, he's seen murder and killing upfront, very close. So, I always think, these things come to haunt him after becoming a believer. But the fact is, what Jesus did for him, he just accepted it so fully so that he could actually walk in freedom and wholeness and just do the things. He understood grace. So, even for this person, you just need to have an understanding of grace and saying, God has healed, forgiven in His fullness. It's not like holding something against you. So, when He does not hold, we have no right to hold it against ourselves, no matter what it is. No matter what it is. If God has forgiven and forgiveness, we receive by faith. We receive by faith in Him. So, yes, there will be challenges like this sometimes. But we need to get back to God's Word and say, okay, and deal with it. Say, this is under the blood of Jesus. This has already been dealt with. So, I will not think about it or let my prison be affected by it. Yeah. Sir, in case the situation may be the influence of demonic... See, Satan doesn't want you to walk free. It can be a demonically energized, these kind of things. Maybe it comes like a dream. Maybe it comes like, you know, that thing. So, that's why we need to get fully healed. Fully rooted in the love of God. Understand God's love that it's unconditional. And when He loves us, He loves us fully, not like human love, and also our identity. We have changed and this is what has happened, etc. The thing is, when a person is an unbeliever and has done something and has come. Now, whatever is done as an unbeliever, it's easy to say, okay, I came to the cross. I was forgiven of all my past. I'm a new creation now. But as a new creation, when you mess up, and it happens consistently, frequently over a period of time, then it becomes a struggle for us. But for God, it's nothing. For God, it's nothing to heal. He's the same God. But for me as a believer, I'm thinking, I was like that, and God changed me. After changing, I've done this with God, really forgive, with God, really love. As a human being, I have all these reasonings. But with God, He's the same God. His love is still the same. He never changes. So that's the thing. That's what we struggle with as human beings. But we need to come to the truth. So the thing is when we come to the truth and receive fully, that places us in a place of strength. It puts us in a place of strength. Grace always does that. So our identity, our righteousness and everything puts us in a place of strength where we can live our lives. Everything, our thinking pattern, our behavior, everything is affected by that or influenced by that. To live as an overcomer. So that's very necessary. If I don't deal with it, then it will always come back to trap me and put me in prison. So yeah, that's okay. Any other questions? Yeah, yes. Nina. Pastor, these references, Isaiah 43, what we are looking at, do not remember the former things. We have, so, I mean, we've kind of been touching on, mostly on wrongs that we have done and, you know, in the past. Which we have, we need to come out. But the, here, the, I mean, God, I mean, in this particular context, I'm sure, of course, that is definitely there, that we always have to come out of that. But here it is talking about, this is the Lord, this is what the Lord says, he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who did all that. Forget the former things. So is it also that we can look at, okay, we can, we don't only need to look at the past victories also, because God can do even something greater. You mean that also, here? Oh, don't, don't settle and look at the past victories. Just enough, I mean, that's not just it, I mean, the Lord can do so many, because he says, I mean, after he says, who drew out the chariots and horses, army and reinforcements, he's talking about them. Then it says in 18, forget the former things, do not dwell, because I'm doing a new thing, it springs up, do you not, I'm going to make a way in the desert and stream to the wasteland. So is that also, I mean, apart from the negative, I'm saying. Yeah, so the thing is, if the past victory or past accomplishments kind of hold me back, then definitely I think we need to not allow that to happen. If it's the former things, when you're looking at it, even if it's a victory, that is holding me back. Normally, when we look at former, when you say former things and let's say we're talking about victory and accomplishments and things that actually turn out to be a testimony about the Lord, as a testament to the Lord's faithfulness, goodness and his power in our lives, then these are good things. We can always remind ourselves that as, like the God himself says to Joshua, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. So he's reminding himself of he's actually, the Lord is reminding of the former things that he did in Moses' life and he's saying that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. So when it's a testimony of God's goodness and faithfulness, these are things that actually enable us to go further forward. Put our faith in him knowing that God who did this will do it again in my life. But if there's an accomplishment or something that is holding me back or that's making me complacent. Now I don't know practically how this could happen but maybe I'm attributing it to my strength and the arm of flesh rather than God. Then in that case I could just become complacent or I could just dwell in that and that actually prevents me from doing other things or I can't think of a practical incident but if it does not help me move forward, then yes, then really I should not consider those things. Okay, okay, thank you. Anything else that you can think of? Okay, so let's look at chapter 6 then. Okay, 6 talks about staying emotionally whole. So there will be an overlap of whatever we have studied in the past the 10 steps that we looked at and the 4 steps which dealt with the lifestyle change. There will be some overlap so I'm just going to quickly go through this. So the first thing is about so we're looking at how do I sustain this? The Lord heals me. The Lord delivers me. Now how do I walk in that healing or sustain that in my life? Okay, so which means that as a human being I'm going to face I'm going to face some situations which refer to the past like Francis just said I'm going to face some of those things or I might face some new pressures new challenges, new trials which actually test that very thing, identity just like Satan did and are you really if you're the son you will do this if you're a child you will do this and are you the child and you did this things like that I might have to face you call yourself a son call yourself a minister, a pastor and look at the words you spoke to your wife things like that So we need to in order to hold on and walk in that healing and hold us we need to have some things some spiritual disciplines and in our lives So these things first one would be to renounce the lie How do we know something is a lie when we know the truth then so how do we know the truth there is truth there is truth you can use the mic So the thing is truth we know what truth is because it's defined by God defined by Jesus because he says I am the way the truth and the life so Jesus is the truth and Jesus defines what truth is he's a reference point for us for truth so you can always go with the word for what truth is and also truth goes beyond the facts of life in the sense that's the thing the facts can say this far and no further but truth takes us higher it is supernatural so what is even restrictions to the natural truth takes us beyond that okay so anyway so truth we we would be able to identify truth when we have God's word as the reference point God's standards as the reference point okay and so which means that's why scripture talks about okay let there be a rich deposit of the word of Christ in your heart right and then there will be an overflow of that so truth of God's blood also the Holy Spirit enables us he will lead us into all truth Jesus said this is one of the things that the Holy Spirit does that he will lead you into all truth progressively right he's a teacher he's a guide he's a counselor he will lead us into all truth means that it's a journey ongoing journey of being led into the truth so the Satan does exactly opposite of that Satan is called the father or the author of lies okay and lies can be very deceptive especially when it's half truth right so when truth is mixed with lie when it always becomes very very difficult so that is why we need the Holy Spirit and we have God's Spirit in us to discern the lie and then to show us what the truth is okay so let's look at the words of the Lord Romans chapter 8 31 and 32 Romans 831 says then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him so which means these Jewish people they came to the Lord so he's telling them if you are a true word you are my disciples indeed which means you're going to stay with the word stay with my teaching, stay with my instruction if you abide in the word you are my disciples indeed verse 32 and you shall know the truth so when you abide in the word you're going to know the truth what the truth is and look at that last part and the truth shall make you free okay so lie has a way of imprisoning I have as a way of constraining restricting right the truth has a way of liberating us right and releasing us into freedom okay so so that's the thing so walking with Jesus walking with Jesus where we are abiding in his word is a way where we constantly can be discerning the lies okay so renouncing the lies would be discerning the truth and discerning what the lie is so we need to once we know that something is a lie don't let it deal with you I mean don't let it dwell with you let the truth dwell let not the lie stay there so it can be in many forms you know it can be about ourselves it can be about God it can be about the neighbor it can be about your future right so when you know today this thing does not have any basis does not have any scriptural basis okay it's then you know it might be it might look so big but it still does not have a scriptural it's like a big balloon might be blown so much right might look so big it's even you know the balloon is so big that it's you know you can't see beyond the balloon it's so big but still the truth of God's it's like that you know whatever you prick that balloon there is a pin then it goes you know you realize oh it was it was a smoke screen it was something that was blocking but it had no weightage right it had it had no no solid quality to it because it was a lie right so that's the thing so Spirit of God is in us we are anointing we have received 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 27 especially you know it says the anointing which you have received from him abides in you that you do not need anyone to teach you okay so here you know this is the thing you know teach what okay so he's actually specifically talking about discerning the false teacher or the antichrist right so he's saying you do not need anyone to teach you anointing teaches you concerning all things and it's true it's not a lie and just as it has taught you will abide in him when you read through 1 John 2 in context you realize that he was talking about discerning what is false and what is of the truth okay so renounce the lie that means that means how do you how do you renounce the lie how do you renounce it sorry by speaking it you tell yourself you know this is a lie okay you tell yourself this is a lie I'm not going to think on these lines anymore it might be so attractive it might be so I don't know so it might seem like your own thought but you decide saying okay this is a lie I renounce it I push it aside I'm not going to entertain this line of thinking I'm not going to entertain this discussion this is a lie I renounce it okay I'm not going to act on it that's how we renounce it right I'm not going to act on this suggestion I'm not going to act on this invitation it's a lie so I the door is closed okay and be very clinical about it right clinical you know very surgical and saying okay I cut it off okay so then you realize that the lie loses its power the more we reason the more we entertain that is when we realize that hey it's it's gaining in power right how James talks about that right that whole pattern of falling into temptation right there is this whole thing of maybe we can just very quickly look into that okay James after one right okay he says verse 14 each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed okay so there is enticed that word is snare or trapped so he's drawn away by his own desires it means that he has actually thought about it and maybe he's reasoned with it he's drawn away and he's enticed and when desire is conceived it gives birth to sin and desire and sin when it's full grown brings forth death okay so that's the thing so we are drawn away by our desires there is some time where we are when we have our reasoning and analyzing and considering which is fine but when you know that something is not of the truth we have to renounce it okay the second thing is to speak blessing and cancel curses okay so we speak blessing over ourselves we speak blessing over the ones even over those who have wronged us speak the blessing of God speak the promises of God speak the word of God and pronounce that blessing cancel every curse I recently had a very interesting conversation with a couple and so that person both of them are want to really very passionate about God want to see God's power in their lives and want to see God's transformative power in their own lives and through them right so so much so they've been praying about certain things okay so suppose somebody has told anything negative okay which is contrary to God's promise so the husband comes and tells the wife you know I'm going to tell you something but you rejected in God's name okay you rejected in Jesus name this is what I'm going to tell you so that person says I was having this conversation and this person said that you know what we are doing etc you know that will never happen that opportunity will never come that opportunity will never highly unlikely we don't have any chance of you know maybe going to this place or doing this okay then the wife says I rejected in Jesus name he's actually passing out that information whatever someone has sold but even in that you know the spouse is rejecting you know we've worked out a strategy okay we're not going to entertain anything that is not of God so I'm going to cancel you know everything that was pronounced as a curse as a negative blessing I'm going to cancel that so which means that when it comes to cancelling curses when you speaking blessing we understand right we declare cancelling curses we do the same thing we just cancel those pronouncements that were made over us like for example when I was growing up my grandfather that is my father's father he always said don't give if it means okay carrying some plates and putting it on the table we used to meet in their house every afternoon every Sunday afternoon for lunch so he'll say don't give this guy you know these glass glass tumblers or glass you know the plates he's butterfing us he'll always drop it he'll break it so don't give it to him so I believe that about myself and I'll say okay don't give it to me I'll break it as I'm growing up then I think it was my mother who said no no no you'll be fine just go do it don't say you can't so I had to tell myself I'm actually careful so I will not take up any other big responsibilities like that what if I fail what if I drop it so I had to tell myself I can't so I had to cancel those negative things that were spoken over me so maybe some things were spoken over our lives right and it does not have any it does not have its root in truth right cancelling this all the curses so like when Jesus Christ died on the cross for us are they not cancelled on that time or do we have to speak it again sorry the thing is this so he took our sin and the consequence of sin on the cross but still we how did we enter into life by believing by receiving and every time we did sin we go back repent of it and we renounce it yeah so the thing is which means that every curse he has taken upon himself everything every negative blessing every curse he has taken upon so that is cancelled in the sense in Jesus name but for some reason if we still see an outworking of it if you see symptoms of it we don't know the good thing to do is to cancel it to say that I reject it it will not have anything to do with me it ends at the cross it is under the blood so I cancel it that's the thing so what we are doing is actually saying this is what happened on the cross you are going back to that and so it stops it does not have any power you are reaffirming the truth that's it that's it there any way like after they become the believers the people who are believers also what we can I mean how we have to consider if these curses are working in their lives from generation I mean how we no one family asked me about their family they are my relatives only it was there from their four fathers like in their family one person used to die so from the generation in their grandfather one died and their father and their sister so he have a family now so he is asking what if something happens now in my generation because they were believers only but what they used to tell is because of the sin that my grandfather did it came on to father so he died and his father also used to have some illegal things doing and it came came on her sister came on his sister same position and then now he was asking what if now he have a family he have two kids so I mean we believe that everything I mean all the sins and curses were taken in the curse but their believers only that how we can I don't know it's because of the curse or somehow it's happened but it's happened from the generations some doorway some legal axis so the thing is this so I don't know about the past we can't really assume something he did wrong she did wrong we can't say and it's not right for us to think so the only thing that this person needs to do is to be strong in the truth that if there is fear if there is fear then it brings places that person on very shaky ground there's no person maybe sometimes there is faith and then but if that fear comes over and still thinking okay will it happen will it not happen so the person has to be absolutely sure of what happened on the cross now and not think about how did the previous previous deaths happen because there are too many factors too many factors yes generations they did but this is the truth that we have been set free from the empty ways of our forefathers and every curse has been dealt with every curse that we see Utonomy 28 versus 15 onwards till the end of the chapter it's you know it covers every curse I think very exhaustive list maybe that person can go there and say okay Christ carried this on the cross for me it has no it will have no effect on my life okay and I close that doorway whatever doorway was opened I close it in Jesus name say it has no legal access and by the blood of Jesus every doorway is closed and be strong about it in faith you know we absolutely aggressive in faith about it because this is what has happened this is his inheritance long life is his inheritance right to fulfill the plan and purpose of God is God's will and desire so to be absolutely sure of God's wish and desire for him as a believer right now we don't know whether the previous generation did that or not we don't know and there's no point in just visiting going there right what they did right what they did wrong but this person can be absolutely grounded in the truth and be sure of it and exercises authority and say you know this is I will walk in confidence I will walk in faith I will not give in to fear because fear is an open doorway doesn't come from God yeah there's another thing like is there any possibility that like because of not knowing the identity who we are in Christ and what Jesus did for us in the cross because of not knowing all these things is there any possibility that these things to enter in our life like satan tries to hit the truth every time because I mean he want us to not to know the authority what we got is there any possibility like for the believers also because of not knowing what they are capable of and what they are and is there any possibility for continuation of these curses or any beautiful thing is that the Lord has called us to intimate relationship with him right and in that intimacy in that walk with God he will he brings about a revelation right about himself about us and so on okay so this lack of information or this lack of revelation about my own authority and all the inheritance that I have at my disposal yes it places us as an advantage but if I am actively seeking the Lord seeking the heart of God the Lord will reveal like you know all this it you know it's from a place of intimacy it's from a place of walk with the Lord that we have this and it's all there in Scripture right so which means the person reads it and then says hey that's me you know Second Corinthians 517 okay I see it and then I say okay that's me it's just that the person has to really you know stake it and then make it part of their lives and apply it in their lives so that's not so lack of information lack of revelation does place us in you know that thing but that is why the grace of God covers as God covers and God also takes us to a place of knowledge and understanding even as we grow in the knowledge grow in the understanding of it that we make sure that we don't forget it parallel of the so the word comes but because of persecution we release it you know we don't hold on to it because of the difficulty right or because of the cares of the world the cares of the world lust for other things you know worries choked the word says so God is constantly speaking giving revelation understanding but you know yeah so the short answer is yeah it could be because of I mean I may not walking in the revelation that he is you know giving me and revelation is possible when we walk in journey with him all the time yeah speaking out blessings and cancelling these all curses through our words what we can say like it's because of we to remember things and we should not forget these things that's why we are speaking out these these and all or there is any other so every time we say speak it out speak it out declare it so what we see when we especially when we learn about faith and what we see is that the Lord has actually put in the principle of speaking what you believe what you believe in your heart to actually declare that speak that out and there is what is called heart mind ear connection like an ENT you know ear nose throat something that infects the whole thing you know you feel some richness and then affects your hearing and all that so yeah there is that connection heart mind throat voice connection which which is why the Lord says you know Mark 11 23 says have faith in God and then he goes on to talk about okay this is the out working of your faith that you will speak to that mountain because of faith in him so there is this principle of declaring speaking and even the what the spirit of so sorry the sword of the spirit being the reema word of God you know which is again how do you use it of course I think about it I meditate on it but I also speak it out yeah so yeah sorry can same death pattern can be of course same like same circle in generation like what the previous our forefather generation dealt with is the same we are also going through is it because of the curses same difficulty same kind of like same challenges same financial losses same see most of these patterns are because it could be also because of learned learned what do you call yeah so we like for example no we kind of learn those things from our from the previous generation it's a learned habit okay like for example how do I how do I treat the women in the house okay maybe the you know the men folk of the previous generation they this is how they dealt so it's it's not I learned this I became a habit nobody taught me saying okay this is how you need to do it but I observed and I learned it and I'm passing it on you know I'm behaving the same way right so so it could be and also maybe spending patterns financially you know this is how it was and I saw that and maybe I didn't even think too much about it but I learned it myself right so I started living that way and so so it need not be a very deeply spiritual thing but it can even be learned behavior just by observing and you know like for example like if if the parents don't have a great marriage let's say there's always conflict at home always this thing this so the child comes to certain conclusions like about marriage and it's like that it's just a thing that I absorb in life and I pass it on or I make some decision I'll never things like that so it could be that also so specifically about the manner in which they die okay so one two things one we also know that genetically certain things are passed on okay so maybe they are thrown to certain kinds of diseases and it's because there's been passed on but there's something that is greater than that which can break that which is the yeah which is the the blood of Jesus and what he has done for us on the cross so so the thing is it can end there it need not affect you you need not pass on to the next generation so so that's how it is so what are we doing about it right so that's the thing like people might say okay that person passed off like that the grandfather passed on and then saying so it's as if you know that's expected the assumption is that yeah this will carry on but you don't have to you can say you know it stops it stops here it doesn't affect me because I'm a recipient of you know so maybe the other thing is like like Anand asked okay what if they were all believers you know didn't they have access to the truth didn't they live it out like that so I don't know you know I don't know how they built with it but as far as me and this generation goes this is what I can do I can decide now that I have the truth now that I have the revelation I choose to walk in the authority of it and the reality of it yeah okay so so we you know as people we need to be careful what are we speaking what are we declaring over our family or ourselves and so on and change that right yeah okay third one is guarding against negative emotions okay we'll stop here with this guarding against negative emotions okay see emotions are part and parcel of life okay so emotions are let's say our response to what we experience what we hear what we see okay we laugh we feel happy maybe we smile it's a response to something that we have experienced something maybe it's a trigger in our mind and something that we think about and it's we feel that emotion it could be it could be happiness it could be sadness etc okay but when it's negative emotion and if it's going to be part of our life over a period of time okay so we know that negative emotions can happen as a trigger okay and in fact it need not be a bad thing in the sense you there is a sense of it shows you that maybe there is a sense of injustice you know you feel anger you feel you know some kind of you know anger because something did not go right you did all the right things and then this person you know so it just shows you that justice was not done there's injustice so because of which we feel we feel anger now is that good or bad what do you think this anger holy anger which is coming because of something that didn't go well that didn't go right okay it's a sense of so it shows you that there's injustice so you feel that but what do you do with it so that's the thing so what do you do with that emotion because it's an emotion it shows you something it's an indicator right something is not right but what do you do with it emotion do I throw the plate you know at the person or yeah that's the thing right so my action in response to that emotion matters and do I continue to harbor that emotion that's the thing you know because Ephesians 4 talks about anger right I think we've read that verse many times Ephesians 4 okay it says verse 26 be angry and do not sin do not let the sun go down on your anger on your wrath okay so it's indicated it shows you something is not right but let it be an indicator to show you fine something is not right but don't sin because of that and don't let the sun go down on your wrath so what does that show us time okay deal with it yeah so we don't have to say okay I have to wait till sun down you know it's just to show us that you be prompt about dealing with it right okay okay we'll stop here and then we'll continue I guess we'll again touch upon this guarding against negative emotions right okay okay thank you God bless