Podcasts about Deliverance

When you have nowhere to turn, you're not alone because the very presence of God stands with you there and will bring you through it. -------- Thank you for listening! Your support of Joni and Friends helps make this show possible. Joni and Friends envisions a world where every person with a disability finds hope, dignity, and their place in the body of Christ. Become part of the global movement today at www.joniandfriends.org.   Find more encouragement on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.

What happens when curiosity with the supernatural opens a door you can't close? In this intense, uncensored episode, TruthSeekah and Arien share their raw testimony of diving deep into dark witchcraft, spells, and the occult, only to find themselves tormented by shadow entities and demonic oppression. What started as seeking spiritual power quickly spiraled out of control.Their journey to find a safe haven and true spiritual freedom led them right into the doors of the Hosanna Assembly of God in Louisiana. Little did they know, this church would soon explode into national headlines as a cult, the very real scandal that inspired HBO's True Detective Season 1. From surviving an 8-foot shadow entity attack in an open field to coughing up blood and hitting absolute rock bottom, this is a story of extreme spiritual warfare. But more importantly, it is a story of radical redemption.Hear exactly how Jesus and the fire of the Holy Spirit provided instant deliverance, and how true Biblical mysticism differs from the dark traps of the occult.

In Ask of Me: "Deliver Us from Evil," Ray Valdez teaches us Jesus' instruction in Matthew 6 and the power of simply asking God for deliverance. Deliverance isn't proof that you're bad—it's proof that God is good. Through prayer, surrender, and daily encounters with Him, we learn to pray what heaven is waiting to answer: “Lord, deliver us from evil.”

This is an unlocked bonus episode! You can find it, along with hundreds of others, on our reasonably-priced patreon!  John Boorman directed the movie Deliverance. Because of this, he was given access to 1.5 Million Quid and told 'make another movie'. This is what he created. If you know Zardoz, you know it primarily as a punchline about Connery's outfit. But Siskel, Ebert, and Devon argue passionately for its' reappraisal. ----- HANDS OFF LEBANON Here are some fundraisers to support collective rebuilding and survival efforts on the ground in Lebanon. -Beit El-Baraka started out as a food bank, but has grown to help people afford rent, cover their essentials, and live with dignity.  https://beitelbaraka.org/donate-directly/ or donate in general https://beitelbaraka.org/donate-now/ -LiveLove was a charity for a number of other matters, but since 2024 has been solely comitted to helping people displaced by Israeli attacks. https://livelove.org/donate -Lebanese Food Bank supports displaced and impoverished people https://lebanesefoodbank.org/take-action/donate/ Solar Powered Lebanon is an initiative to restore people's power using solar panels, since larger infrastructure is at constant risk of attack. https://fundahope.com/en/campaigns/solar-powered-lebanon ----- FREE PALESTINE My friend Ahmed still needs to feed his family and afford medicine. Anything you can kick in would be hugely appreciated. https://chuffed.org/project/150817-please-help-ahmed-and-his-family-get-food-drink-and-medicine And these are some more general links you can support collective efforts with! -The Palestinian Communist Youth Union is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine https://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla https://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also https://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 ----- Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com

Mischke spends the hour with Eric Jay Dolin, author of "The Wreck of the Mentor: Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail."See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mischke spends the hour with Eric Jay Dolin, author of "The Wreck of the Mentor: Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail."See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

You often find yourself distressed over sin in your life, and over the sin that you see around you. Pastor Colin explains, from the Bible, what this says about you.

False prophets in the Old Testament were rampant among God's own people. How would you recognize a counterfeit Christian today? Find out where they can be found.

God wants you to be healthy so you can have a more fulfilling life.

God wants you to be healthy so you can have a more fulfilling life.

Part 6 of our summer series on the Lord's PrayerText: Matthew 6:13, Luke 11:4 "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."

Senior Pastor Daniel Kaira walks us through deeply practical and spiritually insightful session covering relationships, faith, ministry, and deliverance.Friendship wisdom: Have few close friends but be at peace with everyone being too intimate with many is a management challenge (Proverbs 18:24). Not every good gesture requires friendship; giving someone that level of access hands them too much power.· Relationships clarified: Know the difference between the man you want and what you want in a man, losing interest may stem from misunderstanding your own needs or even a need for deliverance.· Faith over logic: Doubt often arises when we don't walk by faith; miracles don't require overthinking. Engage faith and substitute a mind of faith for human logic.· Ministry integrity: You cannot be in ministry and exploit people, nor can you depend entirely on others, have your own source (1 Corinthians 12:16).· Understanding God: The best way to understand God is to accept that you can't fully comprehend Him, He exists outside time, space, and matter.· Deliverance insight: Witchcraft solutions for lost lovers bring back demons, not the person. Deliverance has many components, the name of Jesus, giving, service, prayer, and prolonged prayers that break oppression (Luke 9:19; 1 Corinthians 14:2).· Position yourself: Pray over this week; God wants to show you something. Position yourself for revelation (Jeremiah 33:3). Study life's patterns to master how to deal with them.

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), diplomat, activist, and longest-serving U.S. first lady “The condition of the Psalmist's mind was complex—he feared, but that fear did not fill the whole area of his mind.... It is possible, then, for fear and faith to occupy the mind at the same moment. We are strange beings, and our experience in the divine life is stranger still. We are often in a twilight, where light and darkness are both present and it is hard to tell which predominates. It is a blessed fear which drives us to trust. Unregenerate fear drives from God, gracious fear drives to him.”~Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), famed London pastor “The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time.”~Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), theologian-pastor, executed for his opposition to the Nazis Question 1: What is the chief end of man?Answer: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. Question 2: What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?Answer: The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. Question 3: What do the Scriptures principally teach?Answer: The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.~Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) “Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”~Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), Dutch survivor of a Nazi death campSERMON PASSAGE Psalm 56 (ESV)To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths.A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. 1  Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;  all day long an attacker oppresses me;2  my enemies trample on me all day long,  for many attack me proudly.3  When I am afraid,  I put my trust in you.4  In God, whose word I praise,  in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.  What can flesh do to me? 5  All day long they injure my cause;  all their thoughts are against me for evil.6  They stir up strife, they lurk;  they watch my steps,  as they have waited for my life.7  For their crime will they escape?  In wrath cast down the peoples, O God! 8  You have kept count of my tossings;  put my tears in your bottle.  Are they not in your book?9  Then my enemies will turn back  in the day when I call.  This I know, that God is for me.10 In God, whose word I praise,  in the Lord, whose word I praise,11 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.  What can man do to me? 12 I must perform my vows to you, O God;  I will render thank offerings to you.13 For you have delivered my soul from death,  yes, my feet from falling,  that I may walk before God  in the light of life.

Technology has significantly changed the world we live in. One of the areas it's changed is sporting events. Back in the day, we watched teams battle it out on weary-looking grass under incandescent flimsy filament bulbs on pixelated screens with clunky rotary knobs. Overweight and out of shape, umpires and referees were forced to make split-second decisions with no backup, inevitably leading to the cheers of fans positively impacted and the boos of fans who felt ill-treated!Today, we have instant replay scrubbing every angle of every play, reviewed on LED screens by officials stopping the game to review the action and make the absolutely correct call. Guess what, even with the latest and greatest tech, we sit back and question every call made in light of which team we prefer. He was out! That goal counted! Foul! NO FOUL!In this message, we continue our journey through the Exodus account, looking at the Red Sea. God's victory over the enemy is decisive, final, and resolute! No questions should remain, but somehow they persist! This weekend, we will be reminded of the powerful Savior, JESUS CHRIST, who is more than able to set us free from bondage and lead us into new life, with no room to question the result.Pastor Matt McCarter

Psalm 18:20–30 is expounded as a declaration of the righteousness of God's anointed king, with David functioning not merely as author but as prophet pointing to Christ. The sermon examines how God's moral character governs His dealings with men — rewarding the righteous and resisting the proud — and how the believer's confidence in battle and in darkness rests entirely on the perfection of God's way and word. Main points: - the righteousness of the psalmist before God (vv. 20–24) - the moral character of God in His dealings with men (vv. 25–26) - the deliverance and fortification God gives to the humble (vv. 27–30) Scripture references: - Psalms 18:20-30 - 2 Samuel 22 Free Grace Baptist Church — https://www.freegrace.ca Full transcript & sermon notes: https://sermons.freegrace.ca/sermons/sermon-psalm-18-the-deliverance-of-the-psalmist-part-2 Description generated by Tyrannus.ai: https://www.tyrannus.ai

The enemy says bow or burn. But if you do not bow, you will not burn, but instead the 4th Man will manifest Himself to you, and bring you through the fiery furnace, as we see in Daniel 3. Who is this 4th Man? Derek explores the themes of steadfast faith and divine deliverance, emphasising the power of God to protect and elevate those who remain true in their faith. Witness the miraculous intervention of the 4th Man in the fiery furnace, a powerful symbol of Jesus Christ's Presence with us in times of trial.

The enemy says bow or burn. But if you do not bow, you will not burn, but instead the 4th Man will manifest Himself to you, and bring you through the fiery furnace, as we see in Daniel 3. Who is this 4th Man? Derek explores the themes of steadfast faith and divine deliverance, emphasising the power of God to protect and elevate those who remain true in their faith. Witness the miraculous intervention of the 4th Man in the fiery furnace, a powerful symbol of Jesus Christ's Presence with us in times of trial.

By Scott G Thouvenin - The righteous experience many afflictions, but God has promised to deliver them out of them all. How will he do so? We consider 3 ways that God sends deliverance.

OPEN HEAVENSMATALA LE LAGI MO LE ASO SA 19  IULAI 2026(tusia e Pastor EA Adeboye) Manatu Autu: Faasaolotoga mai avega o galuega ma aoaoga (Deliverance from career and academic burdens) Tauloto Tusi Paia: Faataoto  4:18“A o le ala o ē amiotonu, e tusa ia ma le malamalama o le ao, o lo‘o tupu pea lona malamalama e o‘o i le totonu o le la.”Faitauga - Tusi Paia: Luka 5:1-7I le faitauga mai le Tusi Paia o le asō, sa fagota Peteru i le po atoa ae leai se i'a na maua. E manatu sa fememeai, ma ou te malamalama lelei i le tulaga sa iai aua ou te fiafia e fagota. E masani ona ou alu e fagota e malolo ai mai galuega, e iai taimi e na o le lima minute ae maua le i'a. Ae iai foi taimi e atoa le itula e leai ma se i'a e maua. Sa leai se aoga o le tautiga o Peteru i lea po, e le faapea sa lē galue malosi, ae ona ua lē ō gatasi mea uma ma ia. Ao ou faiaoga i le Iunivesite, sa iai se faasalalauga o se avanoa faigaluega i se kamupani ma sa talosaga iai se polofesa. Na valaaulia mai mo se faatalatalanoaga, ma ina ua taunuu atu i le nofoaga e faia ai, ua ia iloa o le taitaifono o le komiti e faia le faatalatalanoaga o se alii talavou na aoga ia te ia e lei leva ona faauu. Ina ua iloa atu e le polofesa o ia, na faamalulu iai e sesē le potu o loo iai. Peitai na faailoa iai e le alii talavou o loo sa'o lelei le potu. Na lagona le maasiasi tele o le polofesa ona e lē o le tulaga lea e tatau ona iai i lona olaga galue. O nisi tagata e lē manuia i latou galuega ma aoaoga ona e lē o le paie, ae ona o loo latou tauaveina ni avega mamafa o le tetee mai le tiapolo e taofia i latou mai le ausia o tulaga manuia. O ia tagata e lē taitai manuia tusa poo le a le taumafai. Peitai a afio mai iai Iesu, Lē tauave avega, e liliuina o latou tulaga mo le lelei. E iai se alii talavou na sau ia te a'u mo tatalo. Fai mai e tetee a lona pule ia te ia ona o lona faatuatuaga kerisiano. Na oo ina fai mai lona pule, e lē taitai siitia lona tulaga pe afai e pule pea o ia. Ona o lea tulaga, na tumau pea le tulaga e aunoa ma se siitaga i le ofisa. Na ma tatalo ma folafola i le suafa o Iesu o soo se mauga o loo polokaina lona ala mo siitaga, ia liaieseina. E lei leva, ae faasee atu lona pule i seisi lala, ona maua lea o le siitaga a lea alii talavou. E lei leva se taimi ae toe faafoi mai lana pule i le lala lea e iai le alii talavou, e oo ane i le taimi lea, ua tutusa la tulaga ma lana pule sa iai muamua. E na o le tasi le folafolaga na faia i le suafa o Lē tauave avega, na liliuina lona tulaga mo le lelei. Le au pele e, o e tumau pea i le tulaga e tasi i lau galuega poo lau aoga? Ou te folafola atu i le asō o soo se avega o le tetee mai i le tupu ma siitia o lau galuega ma le aoaoga, ia tafiesea i le suafa o Iesu. TataloLe Alii e, faamolemole faasaoloto ia te a'u mai soo se mea o tetee mai i lo'u olaga, i le suafa o Iesu, Amene. 

On the #amwriting podcast's Margin Notes, host Jennie Nash talks with Caroline Bicks, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine and co-host of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast, about her book Monsters in the Archives: A Year of Fear with Stephen King. Bicks describes how she became the first invited into King's Bangor archives after King called to meet her, and how her sabbatical became a year of researching five formative works (including Carrie, Night Shift, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Pet Sematary) to understand how horror language creates lasting fear. She explains choosing a first-person narrative that blends literary criticism, archival discovery, and her own anxiety, including eerie moments in the archive and insights into King's word-level edits, literary influences, and Shakespearean foundations, especially The Shining's ties to Hamlet.#AmWriting is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Read the Book* Monsters in the Archives by Caroline BicksTranscriptJennie: [00:00:00] Hi, I'm Jennie Nash, and you're listening to the #amwriting podcast, the place where we help writers of all kinds play big in your writing life, love the process, and stick with it long enough to finish what matters most. Welcome, everyone. This is Margin Notes, the part of the podcast where we're talking about the big decisions writers face in their work and creative lives.I'm here today with a super special guest. I'm so excited to speak with Caroline Bicks. She is the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine, where she teaches courses in Shakespeare, early modern culture, and horror fiction. And she's the author of all kinds of very cool books ... about Shakespeare, including one on cocktails.Um, and, uh, is the co-host of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast, and we are here today to talk with her about her new book called [00:01:00] Monsters in the Archives: A Year of Fear with Stephen King. Welcome.Caroline: Thank you. Thanks for having me.Jennie: So this is gonna be the strangest interview you've probably ever done. ICaroline: don't know.Because- I've talked to a lot of people around the world about this Stephen King book.Jennie: I couldn't read your book. I, I couldn't read it. I can't read horror. Yeah. Which listeners of this podcast are gonna laugh about, ‘cause I'm actually coaching someone live and they're writing gothic horror, and they're probably like, “All you talk about is horror, Jennie.”But, um, it's actually the reason why I wanted to talk to you, because you made a decision in the writing of this book that I thought was super cool. Mm. Which was you put yourself in it.Caroline: Yeah.Jennie: And you're a scholar.Caroline: Yeah.Jennie: And you've written scholarly books, and you approach this with a scholarly perspective, but you, you really put yourself in it.And, and so [00:02:00] I was reading it for that part of the story and I had to skip over huge chunks of, of the, of the work. Because what you're doing in this book is you're getting at this question of- W- what, what is scary in writing? Like, how does it actually work? How does it act- what is the magic or the function that makes us feel this thing?And you actually feel it yourself while you're going through it, and I found it quite terrifying actually. So, um, that's kinda what I wanted to talk about is how did you make the decision? Well, first of all, you were the first person, I wanna make sure I get this right, ‘cause this is very cool. Yeah. You were the first person who was invited to the archives, the Stephen King archives.Caroline: Yeah. I mean, it's, it's a bit of a story, so I won't spend too much time on it, but just the mo- Oh, no, do. It's good ... when I ch- when I took this position... So I've been a Shakespeare professor my whole adult life, ba- as soon as I graduated from grad school in the late ‘90s, [00:03:00] and I was at Boston College for 15 years.I took this position at University of Maine nine years ago as a Shakespearean. Um, so it is an endowed chair in Stephen King's name because he's our most famous alum. So when I took the position, I, it was because I'm a Shakespearean, not because I'm a horror specialist. Um, I had always been a Stephen King fan since I read him when I was 12, and he scared the beje- Jesus out of me, um, with The Boogeyman story.Jennie: Right.Caroline: Um, so when I took this position though I was told, “You're never gonna meet Stephen King. Don't even make contact with him.” I'm like, “Fine, you know, this is still a great job. I'm excited.” Um- ThanksJennie: for the money. Yeah.Caroline: Thanks for... You know, no, it's a wonderful fund. It was funded by the Harold Alfond Foundation, and it's to support the public humanities, which is an incredible mission.So, um, I get to give money away to people. You know, it's a great, great position, but I was not a horror specialist. And particu- a- and as an adult, I actually wasn't reading horror because it scares me too much. You know? Yeah, yeah. Um, but it had grabbed me when I was a teenager. So it was about four years into the [00:04:00] job when I got a call at home from Stephen King, which just, uh, uh, my jaw hit the floor.And he said, “You know, I think it's time we meet.” I'm like, you know, I, I really fan-girled because I really, I have so much admiration for him and respect. Um, I invited him to come talk to our students. He was brilliant, generous, funny, kind, and I felt so at ease that I felt like I could ask... You know, and I got to know him professionally.We had a good professional relationship that developed from there. When I had a sabbatical year coming up the next year- I could have written another Shakespeare book. I had another one in my head. I've written a bunch of them but I knew that he and Tabitha had just collected all of his manuscripts and put them in a climate-controlled space attached to their home in Bangor, and I thought, “You know, this is an incredible opportunity.I would love to dig in there and be the first one in there, and just read those early drafts of the books that scared me so much when I was a teenager, and try to just explore why. Why were they sticking in my head still?” Um, again, I am not a specialist in... I'm not a cognitive scientist. I'm not a [00:05:00] specialist in horror literature, but I'm obviously highly trained in how to do literary analysis and how to do archival work, not Shakespeare, because we don't have any of his works, but, you know, I, I understand what that process is.So back to your question about why I wanted to bring myself into it, which was, you know, I had been experimenting with first-person storytelling after I got tenure. You know, ‘cause it's a long process, Kate. Right. And most of my writing had been academic writing, but I really had always loved storytelling And I got a piece into the Modern Love column.I started to have some success with publishing my first-person stories, and I was like, “You know, I love this.” So when I had this opportunity to go into his archives, they generously said yes, was amazing. I thought, “You know, I really wanna tell this story. I don't wanna write an academic book. I want this to be the story of a literature scholar, but really the story about a scared kid.”Jennie: Yeah.Caroline: You know, you, you never lose that scare, you know, I don't... This is the thing. Fear has stuck with me with those stories [00:06:00] for 40 years. So I was fascinated, and I just wanted to understand how he had crafted the language so that it was sticking in my head still. Because when I was talking to people around, you know, whenever you mention Stephen King to people, you know, if they've read him, they remember specific lines and specific words, and I was like, “That's an extraordinary, um, 50 years on to have that power.”So, um- Well- Anyway. Yeah. Go ahead. I, I could talk about this forever, so you tell me- Oh, no, it's- ... where you wanted to pick up from this.Jennie: It's so good. Well, I have to tell you this funny anecdote, which is that my college roommate was from Bangor, Maine, and babysat his kids in that house.Caroline: Oh, that's insane.Jennie: So when I went to visit her, she drove me by that house.There you go. And I was like, “Oh, hell no- Yeah ... would I ever babysit in that house.” Like, it's-Caroline: It's ‘cause it's like a gothic, it's like straight out of Haunting of Hill House ...Jennie: actually, and like these spiderweb gates that, and you describe that in the [00:07:00] book and, and the- Yeah ... archives are in that house. They'reCaroline: in the house.They're attached to the back. I know. And it, it was so, it was, it was insane. It was like a full-on 360 experience writing this book. Um, and I, I knew, like, so I did the research for a year. I didn't even know if this would be a book. I just knew I wanted to have the opportunity to be in there because it, I knew it was a great opportunity, and I was so curious, you know?Yeah. So I, I came out of the year with just tons of notes and observations, but I didn't have a book, you know? Yeah. And then I started experimenting with writing a chapter, and I just, the storytelling just came forward and then when I got an agent and she, you know, s- I, I, I was able to get a contract based on a proposal and that one chapter I had written and I was really fortunate to have a fabulous editor, David Ebershoff, at Hogarth, who is just such a wonderful writer himself, and he really encouraged me to bring my voice in and bring my story in even [00:08:00] more.Um, so that's- And- ... that's the story of that.Jennie: Was it hard for you as a scholar to do that?Caroline: You know what? It was so freeing and so fun that it actually wasn't, you know? Because I, I knew this wasn't going to be an academic book, so once I let go of that- Yeah ... um, I was like, wow, I have the, and yet I have this skill set I can bring forward, and I knew that's what would make this unique.Um, but I can combine my two favorite ways of writing, ‘cause I do actually love writing literary criticism. Like it's, I get a thrill out of it. I wouldn't be doing it this long if I didn't get a thrill out of it, but I also love telling my own stories and drawing a reader in. And so for me it was like just a circus carnival.Like it was so fun to be able to do it. Once I had the permission and I had a contract, I was like, fine, you know? I, I, who am I writing this book for? I'm writing it for me, you know? Like this is just something I wanna do because I'm so passionate [00:09:00] about it and I, and I love Stephen King. And, um, once I got into it that way and wasn't thinking about who's gonna criticize me for this, like how will academics view this, I was like, I don't care.I just don't care. I know I've got a great story to tell that people are gonna love to read because there's so many people that love not just Stephen King, but people who love reading about how great books get written, you know? Yeah. And so that was the audience I had in my mind when I, when I was crafting it.It was really, in my mind, anybody who cares about books and writing. It doesn't have to be... So when you say, you're not the first person who's said to me, “I can't read your book,” or, “I can't read-” Oh, I'm so glad. “... Stephen King books,” you know, and I'm like, “That's okay. You can skip, you know, the parts that really scare you,” because there's plenty about just like that first chapter I wrote about Pet Sematary, just his sticky notes back and forth with his copy editor, which is so fun I think.You know, it's just like, wow.Jennie: Totally. Yeah. But the thing that you do is you- Allow yourself to confront that fear-Caroline: Yeah ...Jennie: [00:10:00] that, that I feel that the people can't, that can't read horror feel. You know, anybody that even allows themselves to be scared feels. And-Caroline: Yeah ...Jennie: and you, you do some very specific things, um, which I, I found fascinating, including tracking down on eBay the original copy of that book you read as a- Yeah, I wanted-as a teenager.Caroline: Yeah, that was part of the process for me, was I wanted to make sure I was reading... So before I would go into the archives for each work, and I'd spent like two... I only picked five, because I wanted to... First of all, I knew I wanted to make this personal. Um, and those were the five that scared me the most when I was a teenager.So I grew up in the ‘70s and the ‘80s as a teenager, so for me, it was in real time when the books were coming out practically. So it was- Yeah ... Carrie, Night Shift, The Shining, Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary. Um, I'm forgetting one of course. Uh, but I went -Jennie: The other one.Caroline: The other one. Had a huge impact on me. [00:11:00] So it was those five, and I, I knew those were the ones I was gonna do a deep dive into, and that I wanted to really re-engage with, and bring my whole self to.So I wanted to find the copies that I had read in the ‘70s and the early ‘80s. And fortunately, it's pretty easy to find them. Uh, so yeah, but eBay sometimes I had to go on, or go into a used bookstore and, you know, find the like actual 1979 paperback, you know.Jennie: Um- I mean, that- Um ... I just, there's some, there's so much to say about that because-Caroline: YeahJennie: like, I just, um- We, we just had a new bookcase built, um, which is something I've wanted to do well for eight years in this house. But it's a thing I've always wanted to have, which is like a grand bookcase, and it just was finished last week, and we had all the books packed up in storage, and we brought all the books back.Then we went through this discernment process of what goes [00:12:00] on those shelves. And I, you know, I had all those books from when I was a kid, even when I was a kid-kid, and they're yellow, and moldy and falling apart, and the covers aren't on, and they're taped and-Caroline: Yeah ...Jennie: eh, but I cannot let them go-Caroline: Yeah ...Jennie: because those...that was the object.Caroline: That's the object. This is what I feel sad for kids now, because they're not gonna have those same memories, um, of books. Yes. You know? And I don't think they stick in your head the same way if you don't have the full sensory embodied experience with a book.Jennie: Right. You know? Even when you open...I read on Kindle, which I love for so many reasons. Yeah. But you don't even see the cover.Caroline: You don't see the cover, right. And for me, it's so much. Like, I remember going to the Scholastic Book Fair and being like- Yes ... “I'm getting Summer of My German S- Soldier because Christy McNichol's on the cover,” you know?Yes. Yes. So yeah, that was part of the journey for me was I did wanna just [00:13:00] reconnect with those books again, try to h- and as much as you can, you know, reexperience the feelings of f- like The Shining, I actually... the only one I still have from 1977 is the actual Shining that I read. Um, and that's, for me, that woman in room 217.Well, I know you haven't read it ‘cause you're probably... What? But, um, it, that particular one I still have from, from when I was growing up. Um, and I love that I still have it, and it still has the photo... You know, it's the version that has the photo inserts that includes the Kubrick film photos. Oh, okay.Jennie: Okay.Yeah, yeah.Caroline: And I read it before I saw the film, so I remember being- 15 reading it and then seeing the pictures and being like you know? And that's part of the experience, but it wasn't, it's different than seeing the film, you know? And I really, I wanted to write this book as a love letter to language and to books, and not to film.Like, there's, that's a whole other category I think that enters people's brains in totally different ways. It's a very different experience. For me it's about, like going back to your original question [00:14:00] about like why, why, why do stories cause fear, and like what's the value perhaps in that? Yeah. That was something I came to after this long journey really, and talking to people and thinking about why.And also by understanding and reading more about Stephen King's books and talking to him about them, and realizing for him how much these stories are rooted in personal experiences or fears of grief and loss. And- Yes ... that was really profound for me. And like The Night Shift, which is the ur-text that I start with, ‘cause that's the one I read when I was 12, and that's his first collection of short stories.It came out in 1978. It's 20 short stories. But he ends it with a story about his mother dying, and it's, I mean, it's thinly veiled autobiography. It's about a man who's watching his mother die in the hospital. Um, but it's clearly a mirror of his own experience losing his mother when he was 26. And I'm like, wow, what's that doing in a collection of horror stories?[00:15:00] And it's like, what? ‘Cause that is of course, at least for me and I think for a lot of people, that's the core fear we first have, is that where's mommy, right? Yeah. Right? You lose the person who's in charge of taking care of you, and if you're lucky, does it well and with care. Um, but even if it's not, like Carrie, you know, the more I was looking through the Carrie drafts, I was like, right, he's really homing in on Carrie calling out for her mother even though her mother's terrible and abusive to her, right?So it's, there's just this, I don't know. It's a long way around to say I think horror, and he writes about this really eloquently, is a way for us to metabolize our deepest fears. Um, and to look at trauma not head-on but sideways. Um, and he writes about that, um, a number of different places in a really powerful way.He's just such an extraordinary human. You know, he's been thinking about this and for so long.Jennie: Yeah. Yeah. So, so your willingness to [00:16:00] confront that, those particular fear, fears in your own self and on behalf of the reader, really puts you in it. I mean, like you, there's a really lovely moment where you are reading I think it's, I think it's Pet Sematary, reading the actual book, and you have to turn it over so you- Yeahdon't see, like on your nightstand so you don't see the cover. I'mCaroline: scared, I'm scared of the cover, right, still.Jennie: Yeah.Caroline: Yeah.Jennie: And then there's moments, se- several where you're driving And you're sort of holding your breath while you drive past a place that he writes about or, or- Mm-hmm ... you know, um, well you have to tell the story, I'm sure every interviewer asks you about the, um, the doorknob in the archive.You have to, like, I was-Caroline: Yeah, not too many people have asked me about that, but I'm like, that to me was the scary moment-Jennie: Wait, shut up ... the most, theCaroline: most sturdy. I'm like, wh- uh, why did that happen? But of course, I mean, there's a reason why it happened. It's, it's, it [00:17:00] automatically locks if, you know, the, if you- Okaydon't lock it So let's, let's play- So but it just happened that we were inside the archive room. It was me and, and Julie Ugli, who is their assistant, who was helping me through this whole process. And I know, and I was, like, literally holding the first page of the first draft of The Boogeyman, the story that had scared me so badly when I was 12, about a monster that comes out of closets, and we're like in this room.And the, the archive room, it actually, it almost feels like a closet. It's not huge at all. You know, it's just-Jennie: Yeah ...Caroline: top to bottom, ceiling to floor stacked shelving with, you know, boxes of materials. And yeah, and we were in there, and I'm holding the first page, and the lock closes on its own. It just goes...And I'm like, I'm looking at Julie, I'm like, “What is, what's happening?” We don't have our cell phones with us. I'm like, “Are we stuck in here? Like, what's gonna happen?”Jennie: In the scary archive- In this, I was terrified ... in the back of the scary house. Like-Caroline: I know, I know. It was like, you can't make this stuff up.That's why I was like, I [00:18:00] couldn't wait, when I finally got a chance to write the book and sit down and write, I was like, I can't wait to tell these stories, because they just... I, I'm not a fiction writer. Like, I, I have such mad respect for- I don't know about that ... well, I've m- We'll see I don't know. I have mad respect for people who can write fiction.For me, I only can write what I know and exper- So I'm like, ah. But these stories were just so amazing. Or like when I was reading The Shining, like the first draft of The Shining, which is crazy. I mean, it's so different from the published version. And like getting to the woman in room 217, and like reading th- and literally my head w- like I thought I was having a stroke.Like it was like, like... And it's like, and then I find an interview where Stephen King writes about how he was scared to go back to that scene when he was revising it, the book, because he was dreading it. And I was like, oh, my God, have I just like had some kind of telepathic experience with Stephen King?Like- Right ... across time, space, and yeah, it was amazing.Jennie: Well, yeah. I mean, [00:19:00] it's just, um, uh, I actually made myself go through the whole book skipping giant chunks.Caroline: I feel so badly I put you through this.Jennie: I know. I, I feel like why, I kept saying, “Why? Why did I think this was a good idea?” Um, and it- I mean, even just tangentially, I, I don't know.It's interesting. I have, I'm sure you have this too, anybody who reads a lot or spends a lot of time with words, you have a capacity to sort of pay half attention, if that makes sense.Caroline: Mm-hmm.Jennie: Um, like you c- could sort of look at it without letting it all the way in. Yeah. But I, I just was, I just was riveted by the thread of, of your story and your putting yourself through that as a scholar and a human.But, but then some really cool things happen, and I, and I have flagged, um... Do you, [00:20:00] w- would you mind reading a tiny piece? It's- No, not at all ... it's on page 82, and it's the p- the paragraph that starts, “These manuscripts.”Caroline: Yeah.Jennie: That would be amazing.Caroline: Absolutely. So this is actually the moment I just described to you, where my head was like, I got...Oh, actually, I had just discovered the last 150 pages of the original Shining manuscript in a random folder in the archives, and I was like, “What is this doing here?” And I was getting obsessive about the manuscripts at this point, clearly- Yeah. Yeah ... just like the main character in The Shining, Jack Torrance, who gets obsessed with the manu- with the papers in the basement of the Overlook Hotel.But here we go. “These manuscripts are definitely getting into my head, and not just its rational part. In his memoir, when King describes books as being a uniquely portable magic, he doesn't specify what kind of magic. What if manuscripts can absorb and store more than just ink and words? [00:21:00] What if their pages can pass on dark energy along with dark stories?Ghosts have more than one way of making sure their stories are heard, of ensuring that the past is not forgotten, but rather pressed into our minds, even if we wrench our heads off the pillow and refuse to listen.” And that last is a reference to my, I used to see a ghost when I was five, and I write about that in the book too.Jennie: I mean, when I read that, I was like, “That's, that's me.” Like, these ghosts and horrors are pressing themselves into my mind, and I'm refusing to listen, and they still, they still do. And, um, King's stories in particular are so iconic, you can't really escape them. Like, you, you know the scenarios, you know the characters, you know-Caroline: YeahJennie: you know. And, and so it was interesting for me reading this book that that described my [00:22:00] experience where I was both repelled and magnetized at the same time.Caroline: That's beautiful the way you just put that. I mean, I think that is exactly our relationship also, of course, to our own fears. You know, again, what makes these stories endure, and I didn't go into this book thinking like, “This is a book about promoting Stephen King,” and, you know- Rightlike, I don't work for Stephen King. I just want to put that out there. Right. He, you know, he graciously agreed to let me go into the archives. He's been very generous about answering all my questions I had about the manuscripts, but he never at any point was like, “You can't say this,” or, “This is how you're supposed to say this.”So, but what I came away with after this process was exactly what you're describing, why we need these stories, why they endure, actually, is because they tap into our very real human fears. It's not about the monsters. It's about the grief and loss that's coming for all of us if we live long enough, you know?So you, and you have to at some point confront that, you know? So if it's- Yeah ... you can [00:23:00] try to run away from it, but it's coming, and that's part of being human. That's the human experience, obviously. Not to be glib, but it's like-Jennie: Yeah ...Caroline: you will experience loss. You will experience grief. And if these stories help you metabolize that or have a cathartic experience with that feeling without having to actually experience your worst fear, right?Um, like Aristotle says, it's cathartic, right? It's you watch a play, a, a tragedy because you experience a catharsis.Jennie: And did you, did you get to that in your own process?Caroline: That's a really good question. Um- You know, I, I think I became more aware of it. You know, I am, you know, and I write about this very openly in the book, that I was an extremely anxious little kid, um, which is part of why I think the boogeyman triggered me in the particular way it did, you know.Um, and that I grew into a pretty [00:24:00] anxious adult, you know? Yeah. I think anxiety is one of those things that, you know, I... Again, I was born in the ‘60s, so we didn't have this language for this back then. Like, my parents wouldn't have known to call me an anxious child, you know? Right. They probably would've said, “Oh, she's shy,” or, “She's whatever.”Um, so I think I, you know, like, and I as an adult, I think I've, I've found ways to manage it pretty well, but I am definitely a control freak. Like, that's part of how I manage it. I shouldn't use that language, but you know, it's like I, I like to just control what I can control, and that makes me feel that I can put the anxiety at bay.So I will say I think it's been interesting for me, Nick, now when I have those moments that are my worst fear moments that sometimes still will creep up on me just even though when I think I've figured it out, like doom s- doom scenarios. I tend to go to doom scenarios. So, like, if I can't reach... Uh, I will say Life360 has been, like, the best invention on the planet for me-with my two kids [00:25:00] and my husband. I'm like, “I know exactly where everyone is.” Yeah. It has saved me a lot of worry. Sometimes Life360 doesn't work, or sometimes a person still doesn't answer the phone, and then I have to manage my anxie- And then it's like... So I will say it's been interesting going through this process and having to confront or revisit the core of what scares me and, like, why that impacts, you know, why certain moments come forward for me still.So I think, yeah, I think it has helped me to a degree. Like, I can recognize it more clearly now. I'm like, “Oh, right, that's why I'm scared of that,” you know? Um-Jennie: That's so cool.Caroline: Yeah.Jennie: And it feels like that's the, the, um, the transformation in the book is you're exploring how that actually works and the language and the stories.Mm-hmm. But you're, you're also exploring how it works in your own self, how it did when you were young, how it does now- Yeah ... these moments when you're scared. So it- Mm-hmm ... there's such [00:26:00] a depth to it and, I mean, I just, uh, even in my half reading of it, I just loved it. Thank you. And, um, there's something that happens That's kind of crazy, which is, so you're a Shakespeare scholarCaroline: Mm-hmmJennie: And I ha- I, I know from reading Steve, a- about Stephen King, from reading his book On Writing, of course, and, um, interviews and such that, uh, I'm, I'm probably gonna say this in a disrespectful way, and I don't mean it to be so, but the, the easiest way I can describe it is that he's always had sort of a chip on his shoulder that he's just a popular writer and not taken seriously in a literary way.Mm. I don't know if that's, if that is fair to say, but that's how I'm saying it. Uh,Caroline: yeah.Jennie: And, um, what, what I found incredible was that [00:27:00] here comes this Shakespeare scholar into his archives doing proper scholarly archiver, arch- archival work, and there's this moment when you begin to see Shakespearean themes in his, in his work, and you can't ignore it, and particularly in, in Carrie and- Yeahparticularly around exactly the thing you were wrestling with, which is like a young girl's- I don't know, sense of, of not being fitting in the world or, um-Caroline: Yeah ...Jennie: right? And so that, um, there's, on page, since you have the book in your hand, um, I think it's pageCaroline: 202. Mm-hmm.Jennie: And it refers back to that passage you just read about portable magic.It's the one that's I remembered.Caroline: [00:28:00] Right. Okay. So this is going back to when I first was, um, I was in the final round of the job for the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, and I was working on a book about Shakespeare's, the girls in Shakespeare's plays and world and teenage girls and their cognition.Like, the how were people during Shakespeare's day thinking about girls' brains? Yeah. So I'd been working on this for 10 years. Um, and then I was getting ready to give my job talk. This was the first time Stephen King and Shakespeare came together for me, and it was getting ready, and this, again, this is an authentic story, like write what you know.So I was getting ready for the job talk. I remembered that King's 1974 novel, Carrie, featured a 16-year-old girl whose telekinetic powers are unleashed when she gets her first period in the school shower. I started rereading it, and within a few pages came across an uncanny phrase. When she's walking home after being dismissed early, Carrie feels her brain flexing in a new way, [00:29:00] as if her powers have been waiting below the surface for her to reach, quote, “mental puberty.”I couldn't have wordsmithed this dynamic cognitive change better myself. In the last part of my job talk, I used the phrase to connect the brain work of Juliet Capulet, who's described as being two weeks away from seeing the change of 14 years, to Carrie's newly activated adolescent mind. It felt like a moment of pure portable magic between Stephen King, Shakespeare, and me.Jennie: Ugh, so beautiful.Caroline: Oh, thank you. Yeah. I mean, that was just so gobsmacking. Like, when that happened, I was like, I ca- I can't believe it, but yeah.Jennie: And then, now I may be getting some of the things wrong here, but then you- You realize, is it Carrie that, that you realize he was, you thought he was emulating a play, a Shakespeare play?Caroline: I think you're thinking of Shining. I mean, definitely at the end of the Carrie [00:30:00] chapter I return to, I did notice echoes of Macbeth, and I was convinced that that must have been what he was thinking about. And, and what's funny is, so one of the conversations I got to have with him, I mean, he's so generous with his time, one of my last conversations with him was about the end of Carrie, and that's a book that he actually doesn't like very much.You know, it was his first published novel, he was 26, and he's like, “I think that was written by a young man who thought he knew more than he did.” So he's, it's not a book that he goes back to. He recognizes it's important, and it's important to him, but, ‘cause it started his whole career, his whole trajectory.Um, but he didn't particularly, he hasn't returned to it. Yeah. So that was a fun chance for me to sort of talk to him and say, “Hey, you know what? I think you should maybe go back,” ‘cause it's it's, there's a lot of Shakespeare in there. Anyway, but the Shining chapter, what was fascinating, so there's this first draft, which I, I write a lot about, called The Shine, that's in the archives, with a totally different ending.Um, and when I looked at it, [00:31:00] he'd also divided it into acts and scenes, like Roman numeral acts and little- Mm ... Roman numeral scenes. And I was like, “This, what is this? This is like a Shakespeare play.” Like, that's what it looked like. And then sure enough, I found out he was imagining, he was thinking of a Shakespeare tragedy when he wrote The Shining.And that was the first moment where I was like, “What? This is insane.” Like, this- Yeah ... like, ob- obviously that became, for me, the story I wanted to tell about that particular set of manuscripts, was sort of uncovering, like, what's the Shakespeare play? Like, what's the tragedy? And I didn't wanna ask him because I didn't want- I wanted to go in with my mind clear, like, of any outside influence.I just wanted to see what my Shakespeare brain, because I'm so embedded in Shakespeare. I also have a Shakespeare podcast I do with my best friend. Like, we're, I'm always thinking about Shakespeare and how it relates to everyday life. You know, and so I'm like, “Well, how does it relate to The Shining?” Which is, like, an ur-American text.Like, this, like, say what you want about horror, [00:32:00] like- I'd be shocked if people don't know what The Shining's about, even if they haven't read it even if they haven't seen the film. Like, you probably know something about The Shining, right? Right. So I was like, if there's a Shakespeare tragedy at the foundation of this, you know.And here's the thing about Stephen King that I came to learn, again, reading all of his notes and finding these edits, and I did find traces of Macbeth in the first draft of The Shine, um, that he ended up taking out. So I was like, “Oh, is it Macbeth? It feels like it could be Macbeth.” There's so many things it has in common with it, with hallucinations and with baby bashing.And, you know, all of these horrible things that are in Macbeth are certainly in that book. Um, but I really wanted to go in, like, just on an adventure, like, see what I saw. So I didn't ask him which chi- tragedy until I was fully done with all my research and I felt like I had it all done. And that's when he drops that he was thinking of Hamlet.And once he said that, of course, it became so ... I mean, I [00:33:00] had seen traces, there were references to Ophelia that also didn't make it into the final published draft. So you wouldn't know this. This is the beauty of archival work, like you're gonna see things that other people will never know about unless you tell the story.That's why I felt so passionate about this. Like, “I need to tell people-” Yeah ... “that Ophelia was in the first draft, that he was thinking of Ophelia.” ‘Cause of course, you know, again, even if you don't know The Shining, the woman in the tub, the woman in the bathtub, like a drowned woman in a tub, like ah, Ophelia.Yeah. Like Ophelia's another one of those ur, like she's so, she's such a part of our cultural air, right? I mean, like no matter what country you're in. Right. There's a reason Taylor Swift has a whole, you know, song The Fate of Ophelia. Like people know what that means. Um, so I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is, this is incredible.This is even deeper than I thought it was gonna be.” Um, but also it made me appreciate how much that book is about intergenerational trauma. Um, and it's not ... So he doesn't like the Kubrick film [00:34:00] for reasons that, you know, a couple different reasons. One is that it flattens out the character of Jack Torrance, and Jack Torrance is an abused child himself, and he passes on that abuse to his son, Danny, right?Um, but you wouldn't know that from Kubrick's film. While Hamlet, of course, is about a father's ghost coming forward. Like, “The past is a ghost,” King writes, which is so f- powerful, right? Um, here's this ghost saying, “You need to kill for me.”Jennie: Yeah.Caroline: Yeah. And that's what happens to Jack. Yeah, so anyway, that's a long way to say that wasEach chapter was my favorite in different ways, but that one I loved being able to do the deep Shakespeare dive.Jennie: And was that ... You know, so I started that question by saying I, I had heard or understood or maybe inferred that, um, you know, King himself had this sort of desire- Okay ... to be taken more seriously.Was that, that must have been, I don't know, powerful for both you and him, uh, to [00:35:00] come to that? Not like, “Oh, you're the only person that's ever made him feel that way” or-Caroline: Yeah,Jennie: no,Caroline: I agree ... or agree with that, but. Like I, yeah. And, um, I mean, I will say I think part of the reason he was always really ... I mean, first of all, he's just so generous, and any writer who's ever worked with him has the same experience.Like he just gives his time. He just loves writing and writers so much that he will just, he'll just t- like any email I would send him, he'd write back in like an hour with a response. The part about how he feels about academia, you know, and I never directly asked him that because I didn't wanna ... You know, if he wanted to bring it up, great.But I think- Yeah ... my, after going on this journey with him, he clearly loves talking about- literature. He's the most well-read person I've ever met. I'm just gonna say that hands down. Like, the guy reads- Really? ... cons- constantly and if you read his early works, like even when he was 17, he wrote The Long Walk, okay, which just came out as a film, [00:36:00] and in that, he's citing T.S.Eliot, he's cit- he's citing Poe at 17. Okay? So he's, he, he, this, he comes by this honestly. He's not just trying to seem smart. Like, he literally is constantly reading and it's clear when you read his manuscripts or when you read his published books, he's making references to all, whether it's Shirley Jackson or Wallace Stevens or, you know, uh, he's so capacious in his knowledge of literature.And, like, just a couple months ago, he sent me an email, I don't, I can't remember, we were talking about something about Salem's Lot, and he was like, “Yeah, when I was writing Salem's Lot,” which again, this is 1975 when he's writing Salem's Lot, so that's a long time ago. He's like, “I was really into James Dickey's poetry.”Jennie: Whoa.Caroline: You know, who was an American no, you know, poet laureate. Uh, he's like, “And I was reading everything I could read of, of his and then I read Deliverance, and then I went back to his poetry, and that really impacted how I wrote the chapters [00:37:00] about the Lot,” which if you've read Salem's Lot, has some very lyrical, poetic chapters about the town, like, “The town knew about darkness.The town had its secrets and knew how to kept it.” And then he, like, sends me the entire poem that he was thinking about that James Dickey wrote. So I mean, it's, he's, and it's not performative. He's not, like, he has nothing. He doesn't need to prove anything to me, you know?Jennie: Right, to anyone, yeah.Caroline: He just literally loves, he loves literature.Like, this guy, he loves poetry. I mean, he actually writes poetry. He wrote poetry as an undergraduate. Uh, it was actually the core start for him of The Stand, was a poem he wrote called The Dark Man one day when he was, like, hungover in the school, like, cafeteria. Like, so it's like he, he's been thinking about literature and living with literature and, uh, since he was a teenager, if not earlier.His mom brought him, uh, Bram Stoker out of the public library when he was nine, so I mean, the guy- Whoa ... ‘cause he asked for it. He asked for Dracula. [00:38:00] I wasn't reading Dracula when I was nine. Were you? I mean-Jennie: No,Caroline: no. I was reading Little House on the Prairie. I mean-Jennie: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Wow. So- I mean, this book, again, it's called Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Carolyn Bicks.It's just incredible, whether you're a King fan, whether you're a horror fan, um, but for sure for all writers, which are all our listeners. If you can, if you can bear it.It's very specific, um, a very specific- specific exploration of, of how good writing works really. Yeah. Right. And, and how you... You know, there's always that perennial question of how do you get emotion on the page? How do you make your reader feel something? And you, you show it very specifically, and I wanted so badly [00:39:00] to, to get into the details, and I, and I, I just, I just couldn't.Um, maybe someday, but, um, I just, I just can't recommend it enough for, for, um, this audience and, um, you know, anyone who's interested in any of these things we've talked about.Caroline: Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. And I will say, like, the Pet Sematary chapter, which is the first one, that was the first day I was in the archives.One of the things I discovered about him day one was how much attention he pays to word sounds. So I think for any writer interested in sort of doing a deep dive into, like, how one word change, right- Yeah ... can make a difference, you know? Yeah. And I didn't appreciate that about his writing until I went in there and saw his notes to the copy editor where he's like, “Nope, the word's clitter, not clatter.This is why.” You know? Like,Jennie: he's- There's a, um- Yeah ... yeah, there's a book I love, it's probably right behind me, um, called The Artful Edit by Susan Bell, in which she [00:40:00] shows examples of that kind of very careful change in, um, The Gre- The Great Gatsby and The English Patient and various works of, of literature, and your, your whole book is like that.It's, it's just amazing. Um- Thank you ... so is the next book gonna be the Shakespeare one you had thought of before? Or are you gonna- ... go in the, in the personal direction?Caroline: You know, it's such a good question. I think right now I'm just taking a break, you know, because I'm the kind... Like, I immerse myself in a project, and this has been so all-consuming.Um, and I'm back to doing my Everyday Shakespeare podcast, which I love and I missed. Um, so I'm doing that. And I, I really don't like to think too far ahead about what I'm going to write. I like to have it come organically.Jennie: Yeah.Caroline: Um, so I could go back into the archives. I could write another one of these kinds of books, but I don't know if that's the [00:41:00] right thing for me right now.Jennie: Yeah.Caroline: Um, I want to make sure whatever I write next- You know, I loved writing this book so much. It's my favorite... I mean, it's, it was such a powerful experience for me, um, because I could bring my personal experiences into it and my scholarly self into it. I don't... You know, it's gonna be hard to recreate that.Yeah. I think it can be done, but I don't wanna force it. Yeah. So I'm gonna wait and see what the next, what the next oneJennie: is. Don't you, don't you love the interviewer who's like, “Hey, congratulations. You wrote a book. What, what's your nextCaroline: one?” What are you working on now? What are you doing now? I know. And I get that.I'm like-Jennie: So mean ...Caroline: I'm just, I'm just reading books I wanna read. I'm doing my laundry. I'm getting to know my dog again. You know?Jennie: Oh, wow. Well, thankCaroline: you. But, you know, it's a fair question. Yeah.Jennie: Yeah, yeah. Thank you for coming and chatting about this, and for writing such a cool book. And- Thank you ... um, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next.Caroline: Thank you, Jennie. It was a [00:42:00] pleasure.Jennie: Well, for our listeners, until next time, stop playing small and write like it matters.The #amwriting podcast is produced by Andrew Perilla. Our intro music, aptly titled Unemployed Monday, was written and played by Max Cohen. Andrew and Max were paid for their time and their creative output because everyone deserves to be paid for their work This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

What do you do when rebellion, rejection, fear, nightmares, or spiritual oppression seem to be influencing your child? In this powerful episode of the Prophetic Spiritual Warfare podcast, Kathy DeGraw shares her personal testimony of praying through her rebellious teenager's bedroom and the drastic transformation she witnessed. Home Declarations book available at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/prayer-declarations-for-your-home/ or Amazon https://a.co/d/0cTwSJCZ Purchase Anointing Oil with a prayer cloth that Kathy has personally mixed and prayed over on Kathy's Website or Amazon. Order anointing oil by Kathy on Amazon look for her brand here https://amzn.to/3PC6l3R or Kathy DeGraw Ministries https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product-category/oils/ Training, Mentorship and Deliverance! Personal coaching, deliverance, e-courses, training for ministry, and mentorships! https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/training/# Discover how to pray over your child's bedroom, use anointing oil, and take spiritual authority over doors, windows, beds, possessions, technology, and the atmosphere of the room. Kathy teaches practical spiritual warfare prayers to bind and restrict demonic influence, break ungodly attachments, plead the blood of Jesus, and invite the presence of the Holy Spirit into your child's space. You will learn how to ask the Holy Spirit for discernment, spiritually cleanse a room without fear, and declare peace, godly dreams, prophetic encounters, protection, and rest over your children. Don't partner with fear when spiritual warfare enters your home. Stand in faith, pray with authority, and believe God for restoration and transformation in your family. Your prayers matter. Take authority, bless your child, and create an atmosphere where the presence of God can dwell. #SpiritualWarfare #PrayForYourChildren #SpiritualProtection #AnointingOil #ChristianParenting **Connect with Us** - Website: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathydegraw/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathydegraw/  Podcast - Subscribe to our YouTube channel and listen to Kathy's Podcast called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, or on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/3mYPPkP28xqcTzdeoucJZu or Apple podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prophetic-spiritual-warfare/id1474710499 **Recommended Resources:** - Receive a free prayer pdf on Python at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/python/- Receive a free prayer pdf on Anointing Oil at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/anointingoil/ - Kathy's training, mentoring and e-courses on Spiritual Warfare, Deliverance and the Prophetic: https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Healed At Last ~ Overcome Sickness and Receive your Physical Healing: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/healed-at-last/

Are you serving the purposes God has for you in your generation? Every generation has a judgment, and past generations will judge us. Jesus thinks in terms of generations and groups and the responsibility of each. Do we? We are meant to make a generational impact like William Tyndale, C.S. Lewis, Smith Wigglesworth, and the ones who have gone before us. But the crowd rarely gets it right. It takes those who are willing to stand and serve the purposes of God who have the power to turn a generation to the right path. 

OPEN HEAVENSMATALA LE LAGI MO LE ASO TOONAI 18  IULAI 2026(tusia e Pastor EA Adeboye) Manatu Autu: Faasaolotoga mai avega i le agaga (Deliverance from spiritual burdens) Tauloto Tusi Paia: Ioane 8:36 “O lenei pe ā tu‘u sa‘oloto ‘outou e le Atali‘i, ‘ona sa‘oloto fa‘amaoni ai lea o ‘outou.”Faitauga - Tusi Paia: Mareko 1:23-27A'o soifua si o'u tinā, sa ou alu i se tasi aso e asi, ma sa ave ifo ai se tamā ia te a'u faapea ou te tatalo ai. Na fai mai le tamā ia te a'u na te manaomia le fesoasoani peita'i ou te vaai atu ia te ia, e leai ma se mea o faaletonu. Ina ua ia iloa mai ou foliga le mautonu, na faapea mai ia te a'u, “Silasila mai,” sa tago o ia i totonu o ona lauulu ma aumai I fafo se mogamoga (tulou). Na ia faapea mai, “ E lē o a'u o se taulaitu. Ua na ona o'u fa'aali atu o le ituaiga malaia i le agaga o ia te a'u. Sa ia toe tu'u ona tamatama'ilima i totonu o ona lauulu ma toe aumai i fafo se isi ituaiga iniseti. Ona ia fai mai lea ou te faalogo toto'a a'o ia tuu mai lona ogalima latalata i lo'u taliga, ma ou faalogoina ai le leo o se uila afi o fa'aolaola. Ina ua maea nei mea uma, sa ou fai i le tamā lenei e tu'u lona ola iā Iesu, ma sa faapea ona ia faia. Ona o'u tagi atu lea i le lavea'i sili e afio mai ma fa'aali lona mana i le faafitauli o le tamā ona alu ai lea o le uso. I le lua vaiaso mulimuli ane, na o'u toe alu ai e vaai lo'u tinā ae toe alu ifo ai le tagata lenei vaai a'u. I le taimi lea, ua olioli lava auā ua fa'asa'olotoina atoatoa o ia. Ua pupula ona foliga ma aulelei. Ou te faatonu afai o e tauaveina soose ituaiga o avega i le agaga, ua fa'asa'olotoina oe i le suafa o Iesu. O avega fa'aleagaga e eseese ala e omai ai, o nisi o auala e aofia ai sauaga, saisaitiaga, faapologaina ma ma'i temoni. Ua ta'u mai ia i tatou i le faitauga mai le Tusi Paia o le asō le tala i se tagata na fa'ataugāina e se temoni. Ina ua ia vaai atu iā Iesu, i totonu o le malumalu na alaga atu le agaga leaga i totonu ia te ia faapea; “Aue, Iesu e, le Nasareta e! se a lau na ia te i matou? Ua e maliu mai ea ia fano i matou? Ua o'u iloa oe, o le Paia o le Atua.” Ona vavao atu lea o Iesu i le agaga leaga ma tuli ia te ia i fafo mai le tagata sa ulutinoina. Tatou te lē iloa po o le a le umi na i ai lea alii i le pologa; peita'i ina ua la fetaia'i ma Iesu, na siitia ai ma gausia le avega fa'aleagaga sa ia tauaveina. Le au pele e, o e tauamoina se avega fa'aleagaga? O lua tauivi ea ma ni saisaitiaga po o ni sauaga faatemoni? Ou te mana'o e te silafia o Iesu le tauaveina avega e mafai ona siitia lau avega mai ou tauau. Pau lau mea e fai o le faaaloalo i lana valaaulia o loo i le Mataio 11:28. Ou te tatalo ia siitia e le na te tauaveina avega uma, soose ituaiga avega o i lou olaga po o olaga o e pele ia te oe i le asō i le suafa mamana o Iesu. Tatalo. Tamā faamolemole faaumatia so'ose taupulepulega a le tiapolo e fa'ae'e se avega fa'aleagaga i o'u luga poo luga o lo'u aiga, i le suafa o Iesu. Amene.

For more Free books, Sunday teachings and bible studies or if you would like to make a love offering, please visit us at: https://www.walkinginpower.orgDr. Bern Zumpano is a Pastor and Teacher of the Word of God who has authored several books on Spirit-filled living through relationship with Jesus Christ and walking in the Power of the Holy Spirit.Bern teaches that the deaf and dumb spirit is a specific entity distinct from other spirits, such as the blind and dumb spirit, because spiritual entities typically minister only one specific affliction. Using Mark 9 as a primary text, Bern explains that these spirits are not merely biological conditions but spirit persons within the kingdom of darkness whose goal is to carry out Satan's ministry of killing, stealing, and destroying. He observes that while symptoms like seizures, muteness, and deafness appear as medical issues, Jesus consistently addressed the spirit person behind the infirmity rather than the physical ailment alone.The manifestations of this spirit are often violent, involving convulsions, foaming at the mouth, grinding of teeth, and the victim being dashed to the ground. Bern notes that this spirit can drive individuals toward self-destruction, such as being thrown into fire or water, which may be mistaken for suicidal intent. Beyond physical symptoms, Bern links the deaf and dumb spirit to mental illness and states that its legal ground is often found in the "works of the flesh" or generational curses. He also warns against religious legalism—which he terms "Phariseism"—explaining that a hardened heart and establishing one's own righteousness can lead to resisting or even blaspheming the Holy Spirit.For a complete remedy, Bern outlines that binding, loosing, and casting out the spirit must be combined with prayer, fasting, and the ministry of impartation. He emphasizes that after a spirit is expelled, it is essential to impart "resurrection life" and healing to the individual to restore areas the spirit targeted, such as the brain and hearing. Bern highlights the use of "prayer cloths" as a scriptural point of contact for the anointing to destroy bondages, drawing from the example of the woman who touched Jesus' garment and Paul's use of handkerchiefs. Ultimately, Bern counsels that while medicine has its place, believers should follow the leading of the Holy Spirit regarding their healing and the cessation of medication.Bible Scriptures Referenced: Mark 9:17–29 Matthew 12:22 Matthew 9:32–34 John 3 Matthew 15:30–31 John 4:24 Luke 11:14 John 10:10 Mark 11:23–24 Isaiah 35:4–6 Luke 9:42 Mark 5:5 Matthew 17:15 Matthew 18:18 Romans 8:11 Romans 7 2 Corinthians 1:9–10 Proverbs 18:21 Isaiah 26 Acts 19:11–12 Ezekiel (Standing in the Gap)

OPEN HEAVENSMATALA LE LAGI MO LE ASO FARAILE 17  IULAI 2026(tusia e Pastor EA Adeboye) Manatu Autu: Faasaolotoga mai avega o faaipoipoga (Deliverance from marital burdens) Tauloto Tusi Paia: Salamo 46:9 “Ua faaiua e ia o taua e o‘o lava i tulu‘iga o le lalolagi; ‘ua gagau e ia le ‘aufana ma vavae le tao; ‘ua susunuina fo‘i e ia kariota i le afi.”Faitauga - Tusi Paia: Ioane 2:1-11 O le asō, o le a ou talanoa atu i se tasi o avega, o le avega o faaipoipoga. E inoino satani i mea uma na faia e le Atua e aofia ai ma le faaipoipoga, o le mafuaaga lea e taumafai ai lava e faavevesi le faaipoipoga paia ua osia i le va o le tane ma le avā. E iai taimi e taumafai lava e taofia le alii ma le tamaitai e aua le faaipoipo ao isi taimi, e sau ma aumai faafitauli eseese e taofia ai le fiafia o lea ulugalii i le filemu ma le malologa lelei i lo la aiga. O le faitauga mai le Tusi Paia o le asō o loo faamatala ai le faaipoipoga i Kana i Kalilaia. E leiloa pe na manatu le tama faaipoipo ua saunia mea uma e manaomia mo le aso o le faaipoipoga. Peitai na faafuasei ona lē tofu le uaina. E mautinoa ua amata ona oo mai le maasiasi seia oo ina afio iai le Atua Matautia. I le 1 Samuelu 1:1-20, o loo faamatala ai le tala ia Hana e pā. Na tauemu ē na ita ma tetee ia te ia i aso uma, ma ua matuā faigata lona olaga. E na te lei fuafuaina e pā, ae na oo mai le pā, ma e leai se mea e mafai ona ia faia. Na afio mai Lē tauave avega i lona olaga ma ua ia fanauina se fanau e toa ono e aofia ai ma le perofeta tautaua o Samuelu. O Sarai foi na amo le avega o le lē fanau seia oo ina asiasi ia te ia ma lana tane Lē tauave avega i le Kenese 18:1-6. Ae lei afio mai Lē tauave avega i le la ulugalii, ua tele tausaga o pā Sara ma o le mafuaaga lea na ataata ai ina ua fai atu o le a fanau i le tausaga e sosoo ai. Afai o loo e saili pea ia maua sau pepe ma ua leai se faamoemoe e maua ai sau pepe,ou te manao ia e iloa, o Lē tauave avega, e nate saunia le faamoemoe i tulaga ua leai se faamoemoe,  ma e na te mafai ona faaofo ia te oe. I le suafa e sili i suafa uma lava, ou te folafola atu, o soo se avā e pā o faitau pe faalogo i lenei faamalosiau, ua lata mai ona e pese i le olioli. Le au pele e, e leai se luitau o ni faaipoipoga e lē mafai e le mana o le Atua ona faatoilaloina. E mafai e le Alii ona faatonu ia iai le filemu i se mea o loo vevesi ma leai se loto gatasi, e mafai foi ona ia faafilemuina soo se afā i soo se faaipoipoga. Afai ua e faaipoipo ae o loo e ui i faigata ma afā i lau faaipoipoga, ou te tatalo ia afio atu Lē tauave avega i le taimi nei, ona e pese ai lea i se pese fou, i le suafa o Iesu. Afai foi ua e matua ua tatau ona e faaipoipo ae lei faaipoipo lava, ou te folafola atu e saunia e le Atua matautia sou tofi e amiolelei e te faaipoipo iai, i le suafa o Iesu. E leai se luitau poo se faafitauli i se faaipoipoga a se ulugalii e lē mafai e le Atua ona faatoilalo, i le suafa o Iesu, Amene. 

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Every good and perfect gift comes from above, but it is how far we reach out in faith that determines what we receive. There is a measuring stick that determines how successful we will be in different areas of faith. Don't expect God to move you to a place you are not reaching for in faith. 

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OPEN HEAVENSMATALA LE LAGI MO LE ASO TOFI 16  IULAI 2026(tusia e Pastor EA Adeboye) Manatu Autu: Faasaolotoga mai avega o aitalafu (Deliverance from the burden of debts) Tauloto Tusi Paia: Luka 4:18 “Ua i o‘u luga le Agaga o le Ali‘i, auā ‘ua nā fa‘au‘u mai ‘iā te a‘u e folafola le tala lelei i ē matitiva. ‘Ua ‘auina mai a‘u e ia e fa‘amālōlō i ē loto momomo, e tala‘i le sa‘olotoga i le tāfeaga, ma ‘ia pupula mata o ē tauaso, e tu‘u sa‘oloto i ē ‘ua fa‘asauāina,”Faitauga - Tusi Paia: 2 Tupu 4:1-7O le asō, o le a ou talanoa atu i se tasi o avega, o le avega o le aitalafu. I ni tausaga talu ai, sa iai la matou teine faigaluega e usu a lana pese e faapea, ‘o le afi o loo mu ai le laau, ae lē mu le laau. E matautia lo tatou Atua,' i soo se taimi e fai atu e usu mai se pese i le taimi o faigalotu a le matou aiga. E iai se aso na ou fesili iai, i le laau e lē mu lea e fiafia e pese ai. Ina ua ou fesili iai, na ou iloa ai, na avea o ia ma tagata teufale ona o le tele o aitalafu a ona matua ua le mafai ona totogi. O lea na manatu ai e matou te totogiina nei aitalafu. Ina ua maea ona totogi aitalafu, o le taimi na sosoo ai na fai atu e usu mai se pese i taimi o tatalo, ua pese mai i se pese fou. Ua pese mai faapea, ‘ua ia faia mo a'u. O le mea e lē mafai e lo'u tamā ona faia, ua ia faia mo a'u'. Afai o e amo se avega o aitalafu, ou te tatalo ia e pese pei o le pese a lenei tinā, i le suafa o Iesu. O le faitauga mai le Tusi Paia o le asō, o loo faamatala ai le tala i le fafine ua oti lana tane, o le avā a se tasi o atalii o perofeta, ua maliu ae tuua se aitalafu. Ina ua o mai tagata o loo aitalafu ai e ave lana fanau tama e faatau o ni pologa e totogi ai le aitalafu, na ia tagi atu i Lē tauave avega, aua ua leai seisi mea e mafai ona ia faia, ona liua lea o mea uma mo le lelei. Na saunia e le Afua mea e sili atu mo ia, e totogi ai aitalafu ma ola lelei ai, ma lana fanau tama. O le finagalo o le Atua ia ola lana fanau e saoloto mai aitalafu aua o aitalafu o ni avega mamafa ma o ē aitalafu e pologa i ē o nofo aitalafu ai. O le mafuaaga lea e fai mai ai le Faataoto 22:7 e pule le mau‘oa i ē matitiva. E pau le tulaga o loo faataga e le Atua e te aitalafu ai i tagata o le alofa (Roma 13:8). Afai o ē pologa i avega o aitalafu, valaau i le Atua i le asō ma ole atu ia te ia e liliuina lou tulaga i le lelei. Poo le ā lava le aofaiga o le aitalafu, e afio mai Lē tauave avega ma fesoasoani ia te oe e te manumalo ai. Fai mai le 2 Korinito 9:8, e mafai e le Atua ‘ona fa‘afaula‘i ‘o mea alofa uma ia te oe ‘ina ‘ia faula‘i ‘iā te oe galuega lelei uma. E na te faamautinoaina e te saoloto mai aitalafu, ma avatu le mana e maua ai le oloa (Teuteronome 8:18) ma e nonō atu tupe i atunuu (Teuteronome 15:6). Ou te tatalo ia faamanuia le Atua ia te oe mai le faulai o mea mai ia te ia, ina ia e nonō atu i atunuu, i le suafa o Iesu, Amene. 

Fear can rise quickly when something feels wrong in your body, but you do not have to let fear lead. Learn how to stand in faith, take spiritual authority and pray powerful healing declarations rooted in the Word of God. Purchase Kathy's book Healed at Last – Overcome Sickness to Receive your Physical Healing on Amazon https://a.co/d/akj6IIM or at: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/healed-at-last-pre-order-now/ Mind Battles - Root Out Mental Triggers and Release Peace available at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/mind-battles-pre-order-available-january-2023/ or Amazon https://a.co/d/18blHkV Purchase Anointing Oil with a prayer cloth that Kathy has personally mixed and prayed over on Kathy's Website or Amazon. Order anointing oil by Kathy on Amazon look for her brand here https://amzn.to/3PC6l3R or Kathy DeGraw Ministries https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product-category/oils/ Training, Mentorship and Deliverance! Personal coaching, deliverance, e-courses, training for ministry, and mentorships! https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/training/# When symptoms appear, pain increases or a medical situation feels uncertain, what is your first reaction? Do you panic, search for answers or immediately partner with fear? In this episode, Kathy DeGraw teaches you how to stay grounded in faith, seek the Holy Spirit and take authority over sickness and disease. God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. You can learn to pray, declare and decree instead of allowing anxiety and medical fear to control your thoughts. Kathy shares personal healing testimonies, how she prayed through her husband's intense pain and the importance of going to the Holy Spirit for wisdom and a word of knowledge. Your faith is not passive. You must arise, pray, speak the Word of God and believe your prayers are effective. Jesus has given you authority. Stop allowing fear to lead and start partnering with faith, healing prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit. #HealingPrayer #FaithOverFear #SpiritualAuthority #DivineHealing #HolySpirit **Connect with Us** - Website: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathydegraw/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathydegraw/  Podcast - Subscribe to our YouTube channel and listen to Kathy's Podcast called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, or on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/3mYPPkP28xqcTzdeoucJZu or Apple podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prophetic-spiritual-warfare/id1474710499 **Recommended Resources:** - Receive a free prayer pdf on Python at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/python/- Receive a free prayer pdf on Anointing Oil at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/anointingoil/ - Kathy's training, mentoring and e-courses on Spiritual Warfare, Deliverance and the Prophetic: https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Healed At Last ~ Overcome Sickness and Receive your Physical Healing: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/healed-at-last/ - Mind Battles – Root Out Mental Triggers to Release Peace!: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/mind-battles-pre-order-available-january-2023/ -Kathy has several books available on Amazon or kathydegrawministries.org **Support Kathy DeGraw Ministries:** - Give a one-time love offering or consider partnering with us for $15, $35, $75 or any amount! Every dollar helps us help others! - Website: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/donate/ - CashApp $KathyDeGrawMinistry - Venmo @KD-Ministries - Paypal.me/KDeGrawMinistries or donate to email admin@degrawministries.org - Mail a check to: Kathy DeGraw Ministries ~ PO Box 65 ~ Grandville MI 49468  

1. THE SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY: Psalm 37:1 Controlling the spirits of envy, hate, bitterness, unforgiveness, vengefulness, anger, violence, rage and murder ——————————————— 2. THE LYING SPIRIT: Proverbs 12:22 Controlling the spirits of deception, exaggeration, falsehood, guile, false doctrine, false religions and craftiness ——————————————— 3. FAMILIAR SPIRIT: Leviticus 19:31 Controlling the spirits of Witchcraft, Obhia, Juju, Satanism, Divination, witches, diviners, soothsayers, Clairvoyants, Mediums, spells, curses, hexes, potions, lotions, powders, dusts, chants, incantations, sacrifices, offerings, covenants, vows and all Occult practices ——————————————— 4. SPIRIT OF PERVERSION: Ephesians 5:5 Controlling the spirits of sexual immorality of any type, fornication, lust, adultery, pornography, prostitution and any sexual practice forbidden by the Word of God ——————————————— 5. SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS: Isaiah 61:3 Controlling the spirits of depression, despair, oppression, hopelessness, fatigue, exhaustion, paranoia and all mental illness ——————————————— 6. SPIRIT OF HARLOTRY: Hosea 4:2 Controlling all spirits that compete with God, ambition in the workplace if used to put down others, good looks and beauty including cosmetic surgery, the love of money, material possessions, and corruption ——————————————— 7. SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY: Acts 8:7 Controlling the spirits of sickness, suffering, all diseases, ailments, disability, pain and terminal illness leading to death ——————————————— 8. DEAF AND DUMB SPIRIT: Mark 9:25 Controlling the spirits of Epilepsy, all fits, convulsions, speech loss, stuttering, deafness and dumbness ——————————————— 9. SPIRIT OF FEAR: 2 Timothy 1:7 Controlling the spirits of anxiety, phobias, compulsive behavior patterns, insomnia, terror, anguish, nightmares and all fears ——————————————— 10. SPIRIT OF PRIDE: Proverbs 16:18 -19 Controlling the spirits of haughtiness, brashness, arrogance, self-righteousness, refusal to listen and all aspects of the Jezebel spirit ——————————————— 11. SPIRIT OF BONDAGE: John 8:34 Controlling the spirits of domination, control, manipulation, addiction of any kind, OCD, all forms of cult and religious mind control, personal control and bullying in relationships and a corrupted core belief system ——————————————— 12. SPIRIT OF ANTI-CHRIST: 1 John 4:3 Controlling the spirits of every cult, creed or religion that rejects Jesus as Lord and Savior, rejects the Holy Trinity offering false doctrines that oppose the Word of God, comes under the direct authority of Satan.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/apostolic-deliverance-teaching--1288300/support.

OPEN HEAVENSMATALA LE LAGI MO LE ASO LULU 15 IULAI 2026(tusia e Pastor EA Adeboye) Manatu Autu: Faasaolotoga mai avega o le mativa i le oa (Deliverance from material burden) Tauloto Tusi Paia:Ioelu 2:25 “Ou te taui atu ‘iā te ‘outou o tausaga na ‘aina e le sē akerise, ma le sē aleka, ma le se kasili, ma le sē kasama, o la‘u itūtau‘a tele na ‘ou ‘auina atu ‘iā te ‘outou.”Faitauga - Tusi Paia: Hakai 1:2-8O le a ou talanoa atu i le asō i le avega o le mativa i le oa o seisi vaega lea o avega. E saili le tiapolo e tuu avega o le leai o se oa i tagata, aua e na te iloa a ola se tagata i le mativa, e faigofie i lea tagata ona paū atu i faaosoosoga o le oa. Na vaai atu le fafine ua oti lana tane i Sarefata ma lana tama ua faaitiitia atu lava la meaai seia oo ina na o le toe tasi le aiga o totoe. Ua atili ai le mafatia ona sa oge le nuu uma, ua mago le laueleele ma ua leai seisi faamoemoega e maua ai seisi meaai. O lea na la sauni ai e ai le meaai mulimuli ma sauni e oti. Peitai, na afio mai Lē tauave avega ma liliu mea uma, ma o mea sa lē lava ua lava ma totoe e tausi ai i laua i le taimi o le oge (1 Tupu 17:7-16). Ou te tatalo e faasaoloto oe e le Atua Matautia mai soo se avega o le leai o se oa i lou olaga, i le suafa o Iesu. Sa iai se tamaloa mauoa na misa ma lona toalua. Ao vevela le la misa, na fai atu le avā i lana tane, o le taimi e uma ai i laua, o le a ia savali i soo se nuu e fia alu iai. Na ata le tamaloa aua i lea taimi, e sefulu fa ana taavale o loo iai. Peitai e lei leva ae amata ona faaletonu mea uma, seia oo ina totoe na o le tasi le taavale ma le $50 tala i lana taga. Na amata ona mafaufau faapea, ‘ a ou faaaogaina le $50 tala e utu ai le taavale, o le a leai se tupe ou te ai ai. Peitai afai ou te faatauina se meaai, o le a ou savali i soo se mea ou te fia alu iai, e pei ona fai mai ai la'u avā'. O le taimi la lea, na sau ai loa ia Iesu Keriso, ona tauave lea e Iesu lana mataupu. Ao faasoa mai lana tautinoga, ua tatala ona fale e lua i le taimi e tasi. I le faitauga mai le Tusi Paia o le asō, na tetee atu Hakai i le au Isaraelu ona ua latou faatafunaina le fale o le Atua ma ua ola tau oi latou lava. Na fai atu iai latou o le mafuaaga lea o le lēlava o le oa iai latou. Na tele mea na lulu ae itiiti mea na selesele, ae o le itiiti na maua, ua tele ina mou atu. Le au pele e, afai e te fia maua le mauoa, saili i le Atua, o lona malo ma lana amiotonu ma lou loto atoa. Vaai lelei lana pisinisi aua e mautinoa e na te foai atu ia te oe le faulai o le oa i aso uma o lou olaga. Afai ua leiloa soo se oa, liliu i le Atua i le asō, e na te toe faafoisia mea uma ia te oe, e pei ona ia folafola i le tauloto mai le Tusi Paia o le asō, i le suafa o Iesu, Amene. 

IN DTWOL... TRANSFORMATION- In this dive, we discover that biblical transformation is far more than behavior modification—it is the supernatural disciple-making workmanship of the only true God, who lovingly redirects our affections, conforms us to the image of Jesus, and faithfully continues His work through every trial, triumph, and season of life. Together, we'll explore why lasting change begins in the heart, why our greatest affection must increasingly become Jesus Himself, and how every circumstance becomes another opportunity for the Great Transformer to reveal His workmanship. The question is no longer, how can I change myself? but rather, what is the only true God accomplishing in and through the transforming of me?Key verses: Ephesians 2:10; Philippians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ezekiel 36:26–27; Philippians 3:7–8; Hebrews 12:1–2. Additional Scripture references are woven throughout the Godcast and can be gleaned from the full transcript. Amen? Email: walkingtheway3@gmail.com

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OPEN HEAVENSMATALA LE LAGI MO LE ASO LUA 14 IULAI 2026(tusia e Pastor EA Adeboye) Manatu Autu: Faasaolotoga mai avega o le tino (Deliverance from physical burden) Tauloto Tusi Paia:Mataio 9:35 “Ua fa‘ata‘amilo Iesu i ‘a‘ai uma ma faoa ‘a‘ai, ‘ua a‘oa‘o i o latou sunako ma tala‘i le tala lelei o le mālō, ‘ua ia fa‘amālōlō fo‘i i ma‘i uma ma ma‘i tigā uma o le nu‘u.”Faitauga - Tusi Paia: Isaia 61:1-4I le Ioane 19:16-17, sa taitai atu e nisi o fitafita Iesu i Kolokota e faatauroina, na latou faia ia amo e Iesu le satauro mamafa. Sa matua sasaina o ia, o lona uiga sa vaivai o ia, ae na latou faia ia amoina e Iesu lenei avega mamafa na o ia. I le ala, na latou fetaui ma se tamaloa mai Kurene e igoa ia Simona, ou te talitonu na taitaia e le Atua o ia e fesoasoani ia Iesu i le amoina o le satauro i le nofoaga na faasatauroina ai (Mataio 27:32). O Simona lea o se faataitaiga o se tagata amo avega, na fesoasoani ia Iesu e amo le avega mamafa. Le au pele e, e finagalo Iesu Keriso e fesoasoani ia te oe e tauave soo se avega e ono taotaomia oe i lalo. O le mafuaaga lea e tatau ai ona e sau ia te ia ma soo se avega o loo e tauaveina ina ia faamatuu ese ma oe, ae e malolo (Mataio 11:28). E taua le maitau mai, e iai le eseesega o avega. Mo se faataitaiga, o Naamanu o lana avega o le tino, o se faamai e leai se fofō (2 Tupu 5:1). E faapena foi i le Luka 13:10-17, o loo faaalia ai se fafine ma le agaga vaivai ua faano'uno'u ai. O soo se nofoaga na alu iai, e vaai atu lava tagata i le avega o loo ia amoina, tusa poo le a lona taumafai, e lē mafai ona tū sa'o i luga. E faapena foi i le Ioane 5:2-9, o loo faamatala e le Tusi Paia le tala o le tamaloa sa iai i le vai i Petesa mo le 38 tausaga. Ua umi tele o pologa ma ou te manatu ua tuulafoaina e lona aiga ma ana uo ona o lona ma'i. Ae i le alofa mutimutivale o le Atua, o Iesu o Lē tauave avega, na oo atu ia te ia ma ua aveeseina lana avega i le taimi lava lena. Na faamatala foi e le Mareko 3:1-6 le tala o se tamaloa na iai sona ma'i faapitoa. E gase se tasi o ona lima, o lona uiga e leai se ola o iai ma e lē o toe aogā i se galuega. Ua faaitiitia mea e na te faia ona e na o le tasi le lima lelei. Peitai ina ua fetaui ma Lē tauave avega i le sunako, na oo atu lona alofa mutimutivale ia te ia ma ua faamaloloina lona lima gase. Ou te tatalo mo oe o soo se vaega o lou olaga o loo faaitiiti pea ona o se tulaga lē atoatoa o le tino, e oo atu le Atua Matautia ia te oe, ma faamalolo ia te oe ia e malolo ma le atoatoa. Le au pele e, ua e loto vaivai ea ona o se faaletonu i le tino? Aua e te faavaivai, ae alu atu i le nofoalii o le Atua i lona alofa tunoa ma lafoai atu lena avega ia te ia. E nate tauave au avega mo oe ma aveesea soo se mea o taotaomia i lalo lou olaga, i le suafa o Iesu, Amene. 

 Love Is The Answer

Parable of the Sower Pastor Lisa Unger 07/12/26

Psalm 18:1–19 records David's praise to God for deliverance from his enemies, including Saul, and this exposition traces the movement from David's crisis and cry to God's theophanic response and the rescue he accomplished. The sermon grounds the believer's confidence in prayer on the character of God as rock, fortress, and deliverer, and reads David's deliverance typologically as pointing to the greater deliverance secured by Christ the anointed King. Main points: - the psalmist's declaration of love and trust in God as his strength and refuge (vv. 1–3) - the psalmist's desperate cry from the grip of death and Sheol (vv. 4–6) - God's theophanic intervention on behalf of his anointed (vv. 7–15) - the psalmist's rescue and the ground of God's delight in him (vv. 16–19) Scripture references: - Psalm 18:1-19 Free Grace Baptist Church — https://www.freegrace.ca Full transcript & sermon notes: https://sermons.freegrace.ca/sermons/sermon-psalm-18-the-deliverance-of-the-psalmist-part-1 Description generated by Tyrannus.ai: https://www.tyrannus.ai

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Believe God for creative miracles, brain healing, and supernatural restoration as you pray with faith for yourself or a loved one. In this powerful teaching, Kathy DeGraw shares hope for neurological healing, mind renewal, and the God who restores what has been damaged. Breaking Mental Strongholds & Healing Neurological Conditions Conference Registration: https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/collections/conferences Mind Battles - Root Out Mental Triggers and Release Peace available at: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/mind-battles-pre-order-available-january-2023/ or Amazon https://a.co/d/18blHkV Purchase Anointing Oil with a prayer cloth that Kathy has personally mixed and prayed over on Kathy's Website or Amazon. Order anointing oil by Kathy on Amazon look for her brand here https://amzn.to/3PC6l3R or Kathy DeGraw Ministries https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product-category/oils/  Heal the Mind Mentorship at no cost! Personal coaching, and mentorship to get you healed and learn how to get others healed. https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/courses/HealTheMind  Noah Blake Neurological Foundation Give Today: Website: kathydegrawministries.org (check the Noah Blake box) Cash App: $KathyDeGrawMinistry Please place "Noah" in the memo line. Venmo: KD-Ministries Please place "Noah" in the memo line. PayPal: paypal.me/KDeGrawMinistries Please place "Noah" in the memo line. Checks may be made payable to: Noah Blake Foundation c/o Kathy DeGraw Ministries PO Box 65 Grandville, MI 49468 God is still the God of creative miracles, and He cares deeply about your mind, brain, and neurological healing. In this final teaching from the Heal the Mind and Brain series, Kathy DeGraw encourages you to believe for supernatural restoration while also taking practical steps to support brain health in the natural. Whether you are believing for healing from a neurological condition, brain fog, trauma, developmental challenges, memory issues, or a loved one's medical complexity, this episode will strengthen your faith and renew your hope. Kathy shares how Scripture reveals Jesus as healer and deliverer, including the man in Mark 5 who was restored to his right mind. She also teaches how neuroplasticity, prayer, repetition, regulation, gratitude, and life-giving words can help support transformation. You will be encouraged to pray specifically over brain regions, speak restoration instead of limitation, journal small progress, use audible prayer, and believe that nothing is impossible with God. Healing may be instant, or it may come as you go, but every healing is still a miracle. If you need brain healing, mind renewal, or a creative miracle, this message will help you pray with expectation and stand in faith for restoration. #BrainHealing #CreativeMiracles #NeurologicalHealing #MindRenewal #KathyDeGraw **Connect with Us** - Website: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathydegraw/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathydegraw/  Podcast - Subscribe to our YouTube channel and listen to Kathy's Podcast called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, or on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/3mYPPkP28xqcTzdeoucJZu or Apple podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prophetic-spiritual-warfare/id1474710499 **Recommended Resources:** - Receive a free prayer pdf on The Power of your Words at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/declarations-download/ - Receive a free prayer pdf on Anointing Oil at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/anointingoil/ - Kathy's training, mentoring and e-courses on Spiritual Warfare, Deliverance and the Prophetic: https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Healed At Last ~ Overcome Sickness and Receive your Physical Healing: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/healed-at-last/ - Mind Battles – Root Out Mental Triggers to Release Peace!: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/mind-battles-pre-order-available-january-2023/ -Kathy has several books available on Amazon or kathydegrawministries.org **Support Kathy DeGraw Ministries:** - Give a one-time love offering or consider partnering with us for $15, $35, $75 or any amount! Every dollar helps us help others! - Website: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/donate/ - CashApp $KathyDeGrawMinistry - Venmo @KD-Ministries - Paypal.me/KDeGrawMinistries or donate to email admin@degrawministries.org - Mail a check to: Kathy DeGraw Ministries ~ PO Box 65 ~ Grandville MI 49468  

Listen to this new podcast from a message that was preached on June 21 at Faith Connection Church by Pastor Hermes Falcao Jr. The topic was "Walking in Full Deliverance" and how the church must release the power of God to deliver people in a lost and dying world.Become 1 of the 100 Monthly Partners: http://www.revivalexplosion.com/give CashAPP $RevivalExplosionPaypal or Zelle: office@revivalexplosion.comVisit Faith Connection Church on Sundays at 11 AM Faith Connection Church2221 C E Parham RdRichmond, VA 23228 

 Live Life With Purpose From God

This is a very foundational teaching that every believer needs to hear. God's character is love, and Satan's character is fear. It is truly that simple. Jesus must reveal God's nature to us so that we can overcome and destroy the works of the enemy, following in Jesus' footsteps. Moses understood the ways of God, while the children of Israel only understood His acts. To truly know God's character, we must intentionally choose to go deeper with God, like Moses, for the ways and character of God to be revealed to us. 

Brain fog, inflammation, toxicity, fatigue, and poor focus can affect your mind, mood, energy, and ability to function with clarity. In this powerful Heal the Mind and Brain episode, Kathy DeGraw teaches how to identify hidden stressors, reduce toxic overload, and partner with God and practical health strategies for healing. Breaking Mental Strongholds & Healing Neurological Conditions Conference Registration: https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/collections/conferences Mind Battles - Root Out Mental Triggers and Release Peace available at: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/mind-battles-pre-order-available-january-2023/ or Amazon https://a.co/d/18blHkV Purchase Anointing Oil with a prayer cloth that Kathy has personally mixed and prayed over on Kathy's Website or Amazon. Order anointing oil by Kathy on Amazon look for her brand here https://amzn.to/3PC6l3R or Kathy DeGraw Ministries https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product-category/oils/  Heal the Mind Mentorship at no cost! Personal coaching, and mentorship to get you healed and learn how to get others healed. https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/courses/HealTheMind  Noah Blake Neurological Foundation Give Today: Website: kathydegrawministries.org (check the Noah Blake box) Cash App: $KathyDeGrawMinistry Please place "Noah" in the memo line. Venmo: KD-Ministries Please place "Noah" in the memo line. PayPal: paypal.me/KDeGrawMinistries Please place "Noah" in the memo line. Checks may be made payable to: Noah Blake Foundation c/o Kathy DeGraw Ministries PO Box 65 Grandville, MI 49468 Inflammation is designed to protect the body short term, but when it becomes chronic, it can disrupt the brain, mood, energy, focus, and overall health. In this episode, Kathy DeGraw shares biblical encouragement and practical wellness insight on inflammation, toxicity, and brain fog, helping you recognize how stress, poor sleep, mold, chemicals, heavy metals, dehydration, processed foods, perfumes, plastics, and overload can affect the mind and body. Kathy teaches from her own journey of reducing inflammation and making intentional lifestyle changes through hydration, rest, detox baths, red light therapy, nutrition, electrolytes, reducing toxins, and creating healthier rhythms of work and rest. She also encourages listeners to evaluate where stress and fatigue are stealing mental clarity and how simple daily choices can help restore balance. This episode will inspire you to take authority over brain fog, support your body naturally, and invite the peace of God into your healing journey. Receive prayer and declarations for inflammation to leave, toxicity to be removed, and your body to align with health, healing, hope, and wholeness. #BrainFog #Inflammation #Toxicity #HealTheMind #KathyDeGraw **Connect with Us** - Website: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathydegraw/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathydegraw/  Podcast - Subscribe to our YouTube channel and listen to Kathy's Podcast called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, or on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/3mYPPkP28xqcTzdeoucJZu or Apple podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prophetic-spiritual-warfare/id1474710499 **Recommended Resources:** - Receive a free prayer pdf on The Power of your Words at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/declarations-download/ - Receive a free prayer pdf on Anointing Oil at https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/anointingoil/ - Kathy's training, mentoring and e-courses on Spiritual Warfare, Deliverance and the Prophetic: https://training.kathydegrawministries.org/ - Healed At Last ~ Overcome Sickness and Receive your Physical Healing: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/healed-at-last/ - Mind Battles – Root Out Mental Triggers to Release Peace!: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/product/mind-battles-pre-order-available-january-2023/ -Kathy has several books available on Amazon or kathydegrawministries.org **Support Kathy DeGraw Ministries:** - Give a one-time love offering or consider partnering with us for $15, $35, $75 or any amount! Every dollar helps us help others! - Website: https://www.kathydegrawministries.org/donate/ - CashApp $KathyDeGrawMinistry - Venmo @KD-Ministries - Paypal.me/KDeGrawMinistries or donate to email admin@degrawministries.org - Mail a check to: Kathy DeGraw Ministries ~ PO Box 65 ~ Grandville MI 49468  

Dan engages in a discussion about escalating conflict within the body of Christ. He describes a climate of accusations, betrayal, public criticism, and what he calls “brother killing brother,” arguing that the exposure of genuine wrongdoing is part of God's judgment and a necessary season of cleansing before a greater move of God. Referencing Daniel 11 and Isaiah 61, he points to what he believes are prophetic indicators of extraordinary exploits and renewed Kingdom advancement.Dan also contends that the devil exploits this season by recruiting voices—whether malicious, financially motivated, misinformed, or seeking attention—to spread unsubstantiated accusations, misrepresent the truth, and defame Christian leaders. He connects these patterns to what he describes as a Leviathan and religious-spirit agenda that distorts truth, fuels division, and promotes a powerless expression of Christianity.In the episode, he encourages listeners to remain discerning rather than intimidated, to carefully examine accusations instead of accepting gossip, to reject character assassination rooted in theological disagreements, to honor faithful leaders, to peak out against slander when appropriate, and "hold the line" as the church approaches what he believes is a significant prophetic threshold.Then we ENCOURAGE you to do 4 QUICK THINGS!!Sign up to be a podcast memberwww.danduval.comBe sure to check out and like our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DiscoveringTruthNetworkSubscribe to the new podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5nxloF2rt7-dXkjppGHdFAAND Subscribe to our Rumble Channel, where we will post all of our interviews that are TOO HOT for YouTube!DiscoveringTruthNetwork (rumble.com)

What if the battle shaping our world is happening in a realm most people never see? Billy Hallowell joins Tony Merkel for a gripping conversation on spiritual warfare, angels, demons, deliverance, miracles, UFO disclosure, and AI. Billy shares personal encounters that forced him to confront the reality of the supernatural and rethink how Christians should understand the unseen realm. Together, they expose why the modern church must wake up to the spiritual battle described in Scripture. This episode is a powerful call to discernment, bold faith, and truth in an age of deception.If you're able, consider helping the Merkel family with medical expenses by donating to Lindsay's GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/b8f76890