Podcasts about his fullness

How can One (Jesus) who "fills all in all" have something (literally some ones) that He considers His "Fullness"? How does the Church fill Him who fills all in all...the wonder and amazement of this is covered in this sermon.

The presence of LOVE, of God is here right now,  and He wants me to tell you that HE is  rejoicing over your life, and that He is passionate about you, and that HE is dancing over you with love  songs of singing.   JESUS LOVES YOU! SAY THIS WITH ME: JESUS LOVE ME! Have you ever stopped to think about that? He's passionate! Have you ever seen someone who was “passionate” about something? God is passionate about you!  He never stops working for you.   He never stops! God SEES you!  He sees what you are going through and I am telling you, His love WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE, if you open your heart and receive HIS FULLNESS of LOVE! BELIEVE IT WHEN YOU SAY IT.  WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT, IT BECOMES PERFECTED IN YOU!   Are you persuaded today? Are you convinced? Have you been affirmed in his love today? Because this kind of love will cast out the spirit of fear! If you are being tormented with fear, then hear this, and open your heart today to hear what the spirit is saying! God loves you!   You may be saying, “I have never experienced this kind of love…..nor do I even know how to give it” It's because you can't give what you have not received.   THE SOURCE OF RECEIVING THE LOVE OF GOD COMES FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT   Romans 5:5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.   LISTEN TO WHAT THE LORD HAS TO SAY ABOUT YOU! For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you. I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. I will rebuild you, my virgin Israel. You will again be happy  The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness: his mercies begin afresh each morning. Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise you! But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness. For the Lord your God is living among you, He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs     Romans 8:31-39 New Living Translation Nothing Can Separate Us from God's Love 31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us. 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep. 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

His Fullness

Excerpts of today's spirited Daily Star Devotion audio podcast dubbed - JESUS CHRIST GIVES THE BEST ALWAYS is by Pastor Mike S. Banda of Glorious Trinity Synagogue (G.T.S) in Accra, Ghana. God is the best giver and He has the best of best for you too in every aspect of your life. Therefore, invite God and come to Him by Jesus Christ who was God manifested in human flesh. The story about Jesus Christ, His Attributes, Power, Dominion, Manifestation etc will never change because He's the same yesterday, today and forever. Invite Jesus Christ into your life, be truly born again, depend on Jesus Christ in His Fullness, His Spirit, Word and Provisions, be full of Him and you will have the best of the best and also be the best of the best because Jesus Christ is the best & further gives the best of the best. It doesn't matter your worse stories, current season, opposition or experiences still invite Jesus Christ because He is able and can turn the worse into best. Don't focus on what's going on or against you to receive the best from because the best of life and all things are always found in Christ Jesus. Have a good relationship with God through Christ to receive the best of all things in Jesus. For all enquiries & related issues. Contact Pastor Mike S. Banda of Glorious Trinity Synagogue (G.T.S), on +233266450929 (whatapps) or thewatered @aol.com.

In todays episode, Rick and I discuss the problem with Fear within the church body, as seen by the actions of the last 2yrs and the approaching evil days.  Why was the spirit of fear so prevalent in the church and why are we not raising up a generation that know how to Bind and Loose as Matthew 16:19 tells us. Bible puts it, “Whatever you bind [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on earth will have [already] been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose [permit, declare lawful] on earth will have [already] been loosed in heaven.”www.ricknorrismusic.nethttps://rumble.com/vofn0t-where-has-christs-authority-gone.html?mref=ijkk3&mc=a98jb-His Books are available at:Restoration Preparing for His Fullness   https://amzn.to/3k1GwvCWhen Heaven Speaks Out Loud   https://amzn.to/3k1pj5vFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rick.norris.1694 Gary Duncan  0:39  All right. Welcome back to remnant Revolution podcast with your host, Gary Duncan. I'm here again with my friend, good friend, Rick Norris. Rick is an author of a book called restoration, preparing for his fullness, and wanted to get his thoughts on where we are with the church and the world that we're living in, right in this day. And if you're listening to this five years down the road, or whatever, this is 2022 in July, and we're coming off the back end of a pandemic, per se, vaccines and all kinds of stuff going on war and in Ukraine and Russia, and just a lot of stuff in other countries in our country that are happening. And so I wanted to talk to him today, Rick, about fear. Because I know fear has been one of the things that to me, this country has been gripped with, especially the last couple of years. But even the church has been gripped in fear. And so you're, again, your book you wrote this years ago, but it is so pinpoint for where we're at right now. Everything that we're going through has some piece in that book, it seems like, give us your thoughts on that. Rick Norris  1:52  Well, you know, for someone like me, if you ask a question, like, where are we at now? It's just like, it couldn't get scattershot, I'll just try and give a panoramic view. Gary Duncan  2:05  What is your what do you see as fear? Rick Norris  2:07  Yeah, that's what I was gonna give you a pin since you started. Yeah. And you wanted to pinpoint the fear issue. And as we should, that, that's a major, major priority, much more than people realize. And the reason is, it's the only remaining weapon, if you think about it, it's the only remaining weapon that the adversary had. And we get a progress if we allow ourselves to be taught correctly. And we don't cling to the old we don't cling to the old wineskin, of going to a comfortable church and making sure that nobody's confronted with anything, nobody gets their feelings hurt, and sin is not confronted. And a new understandings of the word that are still true to the word are still rejected, because we have our status quo, or the leadership has their status quo, and they're controlling everybody, blah, blah, blah, you know, if we're if we're afraid of, in something new, it's still fear. Right? So the only weapon that Satan and his minions have left is fear. And God uses us uses that fear against us. For us, you know, he uses all the attacks of the enemy, he works at all for good, that's the way he is. That's his thing. That's just, you know, He's God. And, man, there's several chapters devoted to this when you when you think about it, but some of them are direct, some are indirect. But so the progression of our growth or maturity in Christ is supposed to be built on predicated on a revelation of the fact that our enemies are defeated. All of them. He said, Behold, I give you that means us all of us. authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and nothing shall by any means harm you. And elsewhere he said, similar things, and that word, all the power of the enemy. Over all what you know, please, whoever's listening, stop and think of that for a minute. You know, don't just brush over scriptures like this. All does not have a synonym in the original language all means all. So we have authority over all the power of the enemy, right? And it's a progressive revelation, sometimes you get a sovereign revelation of it, I had to have that. Because you know, sometimes he'll want you if he wants you to learn to swim, he'll throw you in the pool. If he wants you to learn warfare, he'll throw you in the arena. And that's what he did with me. And I had learned fast. And he was there, of course, you know, early on, boy, was he there. You read the second book, it'll blow your mind. And is Christianity is either supernatural, or it's a fairy tale. Right? So they can really get scary I've had, I know what Paul meant when he said he wrestled with demons. at Ephesus, I know exactly what he meant. And other there are other people who, you know, they might have a bent or an emphasis in their calling where they have to be on the frontlines all the time. Or a great deal of the time. Usually intercessors, mature intercessors will break through and suddenly they're dealing with principality. And I want to come back to I'm headed somewhere with this answer. It's not the scenic route, it's definitely important for us to understand. And so we get this progressive revelation of the fact that we're fighting a defeated foe, but there's so as you progress, and as you get deeper into the Lord, and as the supernatural, you get, you start getting your breakthroughs and the gifts start happening and the miracles start happening and stuff like that you're a bigger threat to the kingdom of darkness, and they're gonna break out the big guns. And the big guns still only have fear. So I've had them show up in the most heinous manifestations you can imagine. Most people, you know, some people have heart attack. Some people just pee their pants, and run seriously. Gary Duncan  7:11  And do but most people actually even see that Rick Norris  7:14  well, they don't press in far enough to be a threat. They're too afraid. That's the point. Right? We we've allowed? Well, okay, I'll give you an example. I was saving this. Because I was Lee, I was headed there, I better cut to the chase. I'll give you an example. Example of where that progressive revelation of how defeated our foes are and how endowed we are. That's the other thing. We're blessed with all spiritual blessings. I mean, you could sit and meditate on that for days. What all spiritual blessings we don't even know that's eternally big. And it's going to take eternity to step into that and understand it. But so here's a picture, if you will, this actually happened to, and I'm sorry, I can't remember if it's Spurgeon or Luther, one of the early preachers that came out of, you know, stepped away from the Vatican and got persecuted. He was in jail for preaching the gospel in a place he wasn't supposed to. And he was asleep facing the wall. and an evil so powerful that, you know, it's you can't hardly describe it, it was glowing evil, you know, emanating evil, and it was so palpable and powerful in the cell. He was in that it woke him up and he rolled over and looked and here was the, again the most heinous manifestation, fangs drooling picture, the scariest, you know, demon face, whatever you could come up with. And he rolled over and he looked at it, Oh, it's you. And he rolled over and went back to sleep. Now, what does it take to get a revelation of the fact that you know when Satan obviously that was Satan himself. And that shows how important that man's destiny was because Satan is not omnipresent. Right? So he singled this guy out of all the people on the planet to try and scare away that but but my point is this. The man again, I think it might have been Luther now I dug on it. I embarrassed it. I can't remember which one is so many church fathers. I've studied out there. And some of them really got some testimony, man you don't hear about Got a bit Whoa. Anyway. So he, he knew that this was this was a scare tactic. And this was the last ditch, last best effort. So it was really he was saying sorry, we're out of candy, they're triggered treat. Sorry, we're out of candy and I don't play. Gary Duncan  10:21  So it's more about identity and understanding your place in your identity. I mean, I think back about, you know, if we lived in King Arthur's day, and we're the son of the king, you know, the prestige and the power that we would yield because of our father. How that how different that would be, or if you were coming to a king, and you're not of the king, but you're coming to him? Because you have treated somebody poorly. And the king didn't like it. Can you imagine the difference? The difference is gonna, it's there. I mean, the think thought about that many times you feel what when we say, King, we can Americans? We can't, we can't really picture that. A monarchy. Yeah, because we're not we didn't grow up in that and all that kind of stuff. But I mean, we see the movies with kings and King Arthur, and all this gladiators and all that. But when you really think about, okay, get down to the nitty gritty of it. There is some power behind the authority of that King. And so if we're the Son of God, and he's our King and our Lord, then it seems that we need to understand how our, the way we act, and then we're how we treat each other and how we walk on this earth should reflect that. But I don't see that at least in myself, I don't know, I'm sure. You just don't see that, in general, from the church from Christians, because we don't really get our identity. If we did, we would walk in that power all the time. Rick Norris  12:13  The real, the Yes. And the real word is authority. The power behind the authority is another issue. And there's another word when it says, you know, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. That's a different word from power. That's its cause, which means the original Greek as is coos, which means, you know, the full fullness of the might of God, which is, you know, we can't even remotely get our head around that but but that gives you an idea how powerful those words are. And of course, you we've heard sermon after sermon and teaching about, I heard when yesterday about dunamis. You know, the power word dunamis in the original language, which we get dynamite from, but the other word that gets kind of ignored, is Kratos. Kratt, tosses dominion. Now, we are kind of tangent here. But it's not really a tangent because the authority of the believer is the issue. And you're right, if we had a full revelation, of who we are in Christ, and and what was delegated to us, which is his sword. It's his sword, the sword of the of the living God is in our mouth. When we bring, you know, whatever we buy, he says whatsoever things you, that you folks, that's us, you bind right on earth shall be bound in heaven. He said that Jesus said that, he said, What's your things you? That's you that's us, loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. And so yeah, our identity is a big part of that. And nowadays we have, at least well, I would say we have two generations now. that have not been taught spiritual warfare. That's why I wrote the first book, restoration, preparing for his fullness. Now, if you think of the subtitle preparing for his fullness, what think about that, you know, and I know I say this a lot, but you put the fullness of God in somebody and they're not ready for it. Right? They'll short circuit and either puff up and start the first church or what's happening now. obey me, or self destruct with, you know, any number of grandiose projects that God didn't ordain. So, you know, we have to be prepared to walk in that. But even before we get to fullness which we're not even close, I don't think so. But we, if you'll notice, take heart. Because the people that Jesus said that too, I'd send you out, you know, among wolves. And he said, you know, what's everything's you I give you authority, whatever things you bind, our nerves should be bound in heaven. They came back member, they were rejoined. They said, Lord, even the spirits are subject to us now. And he says, Now, don't get hung up on that. Now, was Gary Duncan  15:47  it the 77 777? It went out? Rick Norris  15:52  Yeah. And and they said, uh, we, you know, even though he said, Don't get hung up on that. I mean, we got people all over the country saying, Oh, I have a deliverance ministry. I've started the new big deal, deliverance ministry. Well, no, you don't have a deliverance ministry, you have ministry. And the demons are subject to you don't get hung up on that. And you've made it a big deal. Because when you were young, you cast out a demon or two, he said, these signs shall follow them that believe that can mean a child. If a child has a revelation of the authority, which I've seen him, do it and healing, God will use the foolish things of the world to confound the so called wise, right. But, you know, he said, Don't get hung up on that, because he knew we were going to, you know, start the first deliverance, big deal thingy, you know, we just can't help ourselves, we have to find an identity and be somebody. It's just, that's not what ministry is, Jesus left the throne of the universe, and came down and allowed himself to be humiliated, over and over, and then ultimately humiliated at the cross and mutilated. You know, he was greatest among us serves the rest. So that's all I'm gonna say about, like, for us, we say it's all sorry, but not for us. Because we're, you know, identity is only part of the equation here. And one of the chapters in my book is know your enemy. Right? If you know how your enemy thinks, you know, how your enemy operates, you know, there are subtle without that you don't have any advantage. Gary Duncan  17:48  But some people would say, Well, I don't want to focus on the negative. Rick Norris  17:52  Well, sure, and that's fine. Too much attention on the devil. But what I understand and that I hear that kind of dunghill all the time, right. And the and the fact of the matter is, is that's not what I'm doing what I'm trying to say is all he has is fear. I was going somewhere and that is his arsenal is all about the Boogeyman. And he Yes, he can physically manifest stuff. I a lot of that stuff that you see that have real which not one of those, you know, want to be witches, but a full on real grand witch or Warlock that's been at it, their astral projecting they're levitating. They're doing all kinds of stuff. That's by the power of Satan. And it's real, because he's a counterfeit. Well, yeah, well, no, he was given power. And you know, the gifts and callings that Gods are without Gary Duncan  18:50  repent. Everything he does is like the opposite of what God? Well, yeah, of course. So he's like, I heard it the other day. Somebody was saying these. The devil has his own Trinity. Rick Norris  19:03  Yeah, he mimics everything God does. Gary Duncan  19:05  Yeah. So he's got his own train. He's got the he's got off guy. But it was interesting. I was like, oh, never thought about, hey, mimics everything. It's got his demons. He's got himself as the Grandmaster and as witches and stuff on it. Rick Norris  19:21  So but the point is, it's real and people get, you know? Well, let me let me Gary Duncan  19:29  believe it's real. They just think it's Marvel movies and DC movies. Rick Norris  19:32  Well, they kind of do or some are that far gone. Some are just as far gone. But in a different slant. It's more subtle, and that's where we get into trouble. Let me share an example what I mean by that. I recently was asked the to join a prayer team. That is the elite of the elite intercessors supposed to be in a high place in In the city. And when I say high place, literally, you can see all of the midsection of the state. And, and I got there. And I've always wondered to so many promises over the that region, I was always wondering, why is it still being held back? Right? Well, I get there and I find out, God tells me shows me plainly that the high places still matter, not because they matter to him or matter in the spirit to us, but because they matter to the evil ones. Because there is when Satan fell, I mean, when mankind fell, and when the angels who followed Satan fell, we all inherited Satan's God sized ego. And they especially because they were sons of God, whatever that meant, then are meant meant meant for them. You know, the fallen ones, it's in their genesis, right? That they, you know, they had power before they were worshipped in heaven. To some degree, not like, you know, our God, the Trinity. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, but there was something like that going on even even Satan was it was glorious beyond where he was the covering. He was the glory over and canopy over the throne of God. That's how he got puffed up. I mean, you know, he was in charge. He was a rock star in heaven. He was the big deal. Right? As far as appearance goes, but he was a little creative being you know, he just didn't know that. Or he forgot. But my point is this. I get there. And and I'm doing this kind of like a my first time out with this crew. And it's really, really young people. Unknown Speaker  22:01  Millennials that because you're really really old. Older. Rick Norris  22:08  Yeah, I'm a relic. Yeah, yeah, I'm a relic. So I was there with in the Jesus people days with, you know, the likes of Keith melody Green. And, you know, back in the day with all the Jesus bands, and everybody, and a lot of those folks are friends. And so but anyway, so I'm old. And but that's not the point. The point is, when you're old, you know, stuff. And when I was young, I knew stuff. It's just I couldn't handle that kind of knowledge, they got puffed up and went sideways. God had to bring me back in. That's why I call seminary cemetery, because knowledge really does puff people talk about your rabbit trail. But so the point is, they said, well, we don't do binding and loosing here. Now this is the high places. And when Satan fell to the earth, he didn't eat, they set up in the second heaven. We've shared this. I've shared this many times. This is in both books. But the second heaven is where they set up because they could block this prayers of the saints going forward and prolong the inevitable, which we're coming up on. He's going to be judged, so he knows it. But, and I'll wrap this up, they said we don't do binding and loosing here. This is the one place it should be done. Because when you're praising when you're binding, and you're losing, you're coming against the powers and principalities, and spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. And they said, well, we don't believe you're supposed to be going after the principalities and powers because they're the big deal. And you'll stir things up. It'll, it'll get messy. They literally said that. And my jaw dropped. And I had a person that came with me. And I didn't say anything to that person. And later they called and said, I can't believe it. Well, now I know why the strongholds. Remember. Paul said, we're tearing down the strongholds and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and what certain things you bind on earth and buy down in heaven? Why would he say heaven? What is binding here have to do with binding in heaven? And why did David say when I send the heavens were like brass. Right? There's a lot of little hints and pictures, you spin up time to where you start to put this thing together. And so and they're saying, No, we don't want to stir up any problems. That's like, Okay. The first time one of them came to me before and I did I realized that he was being coached later, but he came in he said, Look, man, we had people coming in here, trying to take over Same with this binding and loosing thing. And we don't want to do any of that because you're stirring stuff up. And even, you know, we don't want we've had enough problems and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So fear he's Yeah. And I said, I said, I said, and he's, you know, 2425 Maybe. And he said, and I said, You know what you call that he was what? I said, Fear. And he stopped. He couldn't say anything, because he's got a good heart harder goal. And he's just kind of looked around, he went, you know, it caught him completely flat footed. And I said, you know, we son, you got to get some skin on. We're in a war. Whether you fight or not, you're gonna get shot right out of the saddle. If you don't stand up and fight. So you're in a war, Satan hates your guts and wants to kill you. And he's saying, well, we don't want to fight back because we don't want them to be angry with it. It's kind of like the woke crowd. Right? Well, don't be islamophobe. Gary Duncan  26:03  Let's still speak truth. Yeah, let's get yelled at. Rick Norris  26:07  Yeah, let's not be an Islamophobe. To the terrorist, because they might get mad. Gary Duncan  26:15  Yeah, well, no. And that's a real fear. I mean, I remember years ago, when they were really the ISIS and everything was going on. And it's like, somebody and I think Europe, England, wrote just did a comic and they firebomb their, their building. And it's like, that's the there's a reason they call it terrorists. But if you think about, you know, how many churches would stand up and speak truth about Islam? I don't think none of them would, because they don't have the backbone to do it. Yeah. Because the fear that Islam has perpetuated within society, and they'll just kill you. Rick Norris  26:58  Yeah. And the fear of rejection of those around them that are so mushy, Gary Duncan  27:03  right, because we're trying to give a good witness. We want to be a good witness for Jesus. And we don't want to project meanness or the truth, which might offend them. Rick Norris  27:13  Yeah. That's all predicated on fear. Gary Duncan  27:17  What do you mean, I can't speak truth. Yeah. No, and that's kind of where we've, we've come out of the last two years is this fear mongering of a of a cold that developed and it turned into something big because nobody wanted to use simple solutions. They wanted to push an agenda. A boy did and now that now we've got vaccines that do the same thing. Yeah. And I mean, I was just that was looking at some people yesterday, I mean, they were two years later, okay. And we've got 20 Somethings still walk around with masks. So I'm like, dude, Rick Norris  27:59  well, and the, you know, the mainstream media I don't know how they have continued to be have any credibility at all. Because it's so blatant what they're doing. They've become an extension of CCP and the who and the NH now national health institution Gary Duncan  28:21  is to be system the whole system are part of that's it. Rick Norris  28:25  Yeah. And there really is a cabal and I like somebody the other day said, I'm gonna have to get some new conspiracy theories because all my other true all the other ones came through. I love that. This that's a whacked our world is this stuff's really happening. Gary Duncan  28:44  And it's all it's all pepper. Dee Dee. It's all Rick Norris  28:50  perpetuated. There Gary Duncan  28:52  you go. It's all perpetuated on fear. Oh, predicate, predicate, predicate all built on fear. Yeah. And, I mean, I'm affected by there's things that I won't say or do because I'm fearful. I haven't broke through that level yet. But my biggest, you know, my biggest issue has been about how the church went through this whole thing. And, you know, it's, it's just over fear. It's fear of turning people away offending people, because we're not wearing masks during the time that all the higher beings are telling us to wear masks and, and, you know, all this kind of the more think about how we didn't, how we shut down and closed up. And there was nobody bold enough with courage to stand up who there was one or two. Yeah, in my city, there was one or two to stand up and just say, No, you know, we're not shutting down. We never shut our doors. We've been through wars and we've never showed doors. But if you want to come to or you can come if you don't want to come to church, you can stay at church, you know, at home, we will have a zoom, but we're gonna have in service no matter what. And that's not a Western thing. That's that's a God ordained thing that we're to gather. Does it is there anywhere in the Bible tells us not to gather out of fear? That we might catch a cold or catch a virus? Or, Rick Norris  30:22  or and Don't? Don't? Don't battle the principalities because they might get upset at you? Yeah, he might Gary Duncan  30:31  just wonder where in the Bible does it tell us to not assemble, to worship Him and to edify the church when the Bible doesn't say for us not to symbol, and that anywhere, anywhere? I mean, if people are listening, and you can find it in the Bible, please. Yeah, it's not there. So. So why would we do it now? Rick Norris  30:56  Why did we do it? Yeah. Well, it's fear. Yeah, that's unambiguous. But Gary Duncan  31:00  I'm showing because I talk about that. I want to I want to get answers. I want to hear reasoning and understanding of why do we do that? And they have yet to hear churches repent because of that. Yeah. We're even having a discussion about Rick Norris  31:14  Yep. Yep. And that's, that's why I have several chapters dedicated to the fear factor. In fact, that's the name of one of the chapters, the fear factor, all right, because that which is not a faith is sin. And faith is the opposite, exact opposite of fear. And vice versa, obviously, so. So we have the here we have coming back to that experience I just had recently with those young folks well, because they were never taught true spiritual warfare, spiritual warfare for them as Oh, Lord, just bless what's his name? And, and what's your name and cause them to, to come to know you more deeply and, and Kumbaya. That, you know, they might sing some praise, which is always good, because, you know, praise inhabits the praises of his people, he isn't thrown on the praises of His people. I recently was walking down, driving down 14th Street, and well, it doesn't matter where I live and cast a demon out of a young man. I mean, one of the most dramatic changes in human being before and after. Gary Duncan  32:39  That's the one where you screaming out the window. Yeah, I love to see that. Rick Norris  32:44  Oh, it was amazing. And the changes what was amazing. I mean, I've seen a great deal of that in my life. Because it's just part of my calling, and it's not all deliverance ministry, it just, you know, whatever, you know, we're also these signs shall follow them that bully in my name, they will cast out demons. All right, people are afraid to step out into this isn't that fear? In my name, Jesus said this, they will cast out demons, right. If you believe that middle cast out demons will speak with new tongues. You know, Gary Duncan  33:21  laying drink, poison will not harm you. Yeah, Rick Norris  33:24  you'll lay hands on the sick, they shall recover, and so on. So, so here's Gary Duncan  33:29  what was that just for the Jews that wasn't for Gentile. Rick Norris  33:33  So, and, and people I literally have people all times that will I just don't believe that? Well, I just tell them say, well, it's not for you. You know, it says it. It's for those who believe those who believe in my name. Those who believe Yeah, and if you don't believe, I'm sorry, you're out of luck. You just don't get them. You know, and they'll turn around, you know, the next week and say, you know, I can't understand why I don't have any miracles in my life. What? You know, but anyway, so that's a little bit of a humorous tangent, Gary Duncan  34:05  for those that believe humorous, but it's just, you know, for those who believe, but fear, I believe it. But I'm gonna, I'm not walking around, casting demons out. And well, Rick Norris  34:21  that's another subject Pete, you can appropriate that kind of power. That's the other thing that nobody's getting taught. And then another reason why I wrote that book. There's, I've had three people come to me on occasions, and say, I've been in the church for 40 years. Right? And I'm repeating this for a reason, because it's so appropriate to what you just said. And they'll say I, you know, I've never even had a prophetic word, a vision, much less a miracle or a healing or cast out a demon. What am I doing wrong? And these are people that you know, really want God and really are seeking God? Or they wouldn't have asked for one thing? I said when's the last time I asked him to rhetorical questions when the last time you spent three hours praying in tongues? All right. And by the way, if you're one of those people that doesn't believe in tongues, go do some homework. It's an idiom, praying in the Spirit is not what the liberal theologians have tried to play it down to be it's an idiom from the first century, it means praying in tongues. And and it says right there in the word, do not despise praying and tongue. So are prophesying, which is another idiom, but we won't go into that. So now Gary Duncan  35:47  our gun at Paul said that Paul was telling us, yeah, you know, he'd rather pray I'd rather prophesy than Rick Norris  35:57  Well, that's yeah, no, that's a different question. Correct? What's the kind of stuff that does quote to you when you say that? And it's a mis representation of the context, you know, you're taking it out of context, the context there that you just mentioned is, hey, if you're going to stand up and give a word in tongues, you better have an interpretation. Or you're out of order, because the idea is to edify the bride. And if if everybody was to get the interpretation, that'd be fine. But I've never seen that happen. I've seen interpretations, many times back, and especially back in the day, but not so much these days. But and that's part of the plan. Some Gary Duncan  36:39  of them say, well, that's not for the church. That was that was just for back then. And now that's Rick Norris  36:43  denominational. Yeah, that's John MacArthur's Gary Duncan  36:45  that way. Rick Norris  36:45  And, well, there's a lot of old school denominations that believe they've had to say that because their theologians that went to cemetery, as I call it, started playing games with the words because they didn't have that in their life. So they had to find a way to justify the fact that that wasn't in their life. It's Christianity, again, is either supernatural, or it's a fairy tale. And if you haven't broken through it to the point where you're starting to get into the miraculous that and be a threat to the darkness, so it manifests, and all and you can deal with that and bind all that. If you haven't had miracles in your life, if you haven't had the gifts manifest in your life wins is coming back to what I was saying. In all three cases, I said when's the last time I came it down, brought it down to one thing, when's the last time you spent one hour praying in tongues? That's all you did. And and, and they said, I've never done that. And I said, try that and get back to me. And shortly thereafter, they had a breakthrough. And into the supernatural was like something happened that they knew was supernatural. And it was for them so that they would do and it was incentive to encourage them to make the time. See, we're not supposed to take the time to do this. We're supposed to make the time to do this. Gary Duncan  38:10  Even Jesus said, you know, about those 70 that came back or, you know, some things only happen because of prayer and fasting and fasting. Yeah, that's a tough one for me. We're gonna have to do a podcast on fasting because I like to eat. Rick Norris  38:27  Okay, err, hands on my ears, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la. Yeah, no, I don't want to talk about that. So I'm kidding. Of course. Yeah. It's, it's tough at my age, and I have, you know, dealing with the effects of carbohydrates at my age. And so, you know, fasting is really, Gary Duncan  38:50  you know, prayer and fasting and praying in tongues as prayer. Yeah. Yeah. So, Rick Norris  38:56  okay, so what are we in? We're talking about spiritual warfare. And how fear negates it. Fear will allow the adversary to come in and kick your butt. All right. So why did why did he say prayer and fasting? Well, it's an actually an act of violence. And, and the Lord said, Remember the word says the kingdom of God suffers violent and violent men take it by force. Gary Duncan  39:30  Yeah, explain that because I always get a little bit confused because I'm thinking the enemy is the violent one and the violent take it by storm but yeah, speak to that a little reason Rick Norris  39:40  you think your brain goes there? Yeah. Is because the what you've been taught and not taught the back of back page of my first book, it addresses that in a basically a rebuke and it's a rebuke mostly to leadership. I know that sounds heavy, but I feel called to rebuke leadership. Because we aren't we have two generations that are anemic. And the devil is handing them their butt and popping the bag and eating their lunch arrive with all those cliches. And the reason is, is there. They didn't teach them the other side of who Jesus is. Jesus is not squeamish about drawing a sword, or drawing blood and we have no concept of that part of him Gary Duncan  40:33  or chocolates, chocolate soldiers. per day. Rick Norris  40:38  Yeah. Well, and so the devil comes in and, and he, he's not like us, he always knows what he's gonna get, like a box of chocolate soldier, and he's gonna eat Yeah. Right. So unless you stand up and fight, you know, and what's funny is about those young people that told me, you know, I, that we don't do binding and loosing because it stirs up trouble. That's an indication that you realize that there's a real supernatural effect in the spirit realm. Hello, right. So wake up to what you're saying. And they'll say, Well, yeah, but you know, we're, what it is, here's an example. I'm gonna have to say, this is gonna go, this is gonna make some folks upset. Well, I'll tell you what, I won't use his name out of love and respect. Because we all make mistakes. He's gone. Now. It was a man that a prophet, you know, some call them the problem is a lot of self proclaimed prophets out there these days. And he wrote a book, and that claimed, and I'm not even gonna use the title of a whale, maybe? Well, the title of the book was needless casualties. Right? And his premise was, well, you don't want to fight against the big boys. You know, don't fight against the, you know, the principalities and stuff, because I mean, they're just too big for us. And he does it in, you know, subtle ways. But that's the premise. And the fact of the matter is, is only one area that I agree with him on that, and that's if you're right out of the box, you're a brand new baby Christian, you don't, you know, you might start to get a revelation of the authority of God and you go out and pick a fight with something that four out of your weight class, you could get in trouble. Now, I've also seen God intervene. In my life, I was a brand new baby Christian and three of my friends took me out in the vehicle in the boonies to have a debate. And, and they were seducing me. I mean, they were actually good. You know, Hey, man, like, you know, they were like, into the new age and drugs and everything. You can Yeah, man. God's cool. You know, you can like have both worlds. And, and, and you can get in and God was showed up defendant and nearly took that vehicle apart. The girls were screaming stuff that's in my second book. I didn't share some of that stuff for 50 years, because I didn't want to end up in a funny farm. You know, miracles of biblical proportion in my life. And it's only because of these revelations, not because I'm all that, not because I'm spiritual and special. Or it's just, you know, in fact, he, Rick rhymes with thick. He had to work me over man. I spent so much time in the wilderness. I got some friends in California that call me the park ranger. So the bottom line is, these kids were saying that we don't want to battle against the principalities and powers because they're too big in them. We don't want to bind and loose because it'll stir stuff up. Well, Paul says, we don't battle against anybody else. That's exactly what we are battling. We battle against powers, principalities, and spiritual wickedness darkness in heavenly places. Well, the question is, what is spiritual wickedness doing and heavenly breezes? And why are we told to tear down the strongholds? And why does it say that the principalities are already defeated? Right. Well, I have people say, Well, where does it say that? Well, it says in Ephesians. Also in Ephesians, it says, Having disarmed Are you listening folk, Having disarmed Prince abou apologies? Look at the wording there, you know, and powers. He made a public spectacle of them. triumphing over them in it. That's Ephesians. All right. So what that depicts is, you know, when a king would conquer another king and back in the day, they would put them in chains and marching through the streets of the town to show their victory. And so that's what that's alluding to, you know, Jesus openly publicly shamed. Satan and his minions defeated them utterly, completely. Hello. Sound like I'm preaching here. And so, so they're saying, we don't want to fight the principalities. And that's the very ones that we're supposed to be fighting. And they're disarmed. Having disarmed principalities and powers. Right? So but they have some power. So they'll show up and, and scary it, you know. And if you if you're like most folks, your hair stands up, get goosebumps all over again, you can't hardly move. Gary Duncan  46:03  The thing that I'm seeing, I mean, I'm not seeing demons flying around and all this kind of stuff. I'm seeing people that are demon eyes, that are attacking us. Rick Norris  46:15  best weapon. That's, Gary Duncan  46:16  that's the thing. We're in a culture right now that I was listening to. Yeah, I was just listening to a Senate hearing. Just a clip of it, where Senator Holly was interviewing some some woman. I'm listening to it. And it's so basically it means if you have any disagreement with my belief that people drank chant transgender people. Rick Norris  47:36  Oh, that Congressman was yes. Oh Gary Duncan  47:39  my gosh, it was like he's like, Ma'am, are you saying that? Are Rick Norris  47:43  you insane? Gary Duncan  47:44  Are you Yeah, it was crazy. And it was like, You have no argument against them. You can't say anything? Or else you'll be labeled as a terrorist a bigot transpose transphobic. Wow, that is such fear that she was propagating to him which he was going to take. Yeah, just a normal person totally exposed. Oh, guy did but but that that's just a subtleness of what Rick Norris  48:09  this defining subtle, it's so stupid. Well, yeah. Insane. She Gary Duncan  48:13  was just a total idiot. Yeah. But she was possessed had to be possessed, because of the ludicrous of what she was saying. Yeah. And so looking at that they're using that ludicrous see, to put fear in people's hearts to just even to a question. Yeah. Did God really make man and woman? Yeah, even the question. And what was interesting, and I'll go off track here for saying, we went and saw the newest Thor movie. And, and I'm sitting there watching this, and this really, you know, demonic looking guy, the bad guy, of course, you know, you got your good guy and your bad guy, your evil eye. And it was all about how the gods really didn't care about the minions. The people. Yeah. And I thought sounds like politics. And so it was really this guy is up and won't tell the story. Because people probably me if you see those movies, fine. But it was saying that God's and so you could just take that and go, the God, Jehovah, Jesus God, the Holy Spirit. You could take that and replace it with what this movie is preaching. Or, you know, fantasizing about is that you can't trust Gods because they won't take care of you. Yeah, they'll let your children die. And they'll let this happen. And he went on a war war page to kill all the gods. And I thought Hollywood, Hollywood likes to mimic what they believe. So is Hollywood, trying to implant in people's minds, of course, that God will not take care of you. God does not like you he lets you perish. And because the God that set this whole thing up in the movie He was was a real jerk, you know? And this guy was worshipping this God all the way to his last breath. And then when he met the guy in heaven wherever that the God just laughed it. So it's like, oh, I can see how Hollywood would do that. Yep. Anything against God so that just that, you know setting up well against God. Yeah. So anyway that mean that's the way I was thinking as I was watching the movie and, you know, improperly reinforcing the reinforcing what they believe Rick Norris  50:32  the fear, the fear the insecurity is Gary Duncan  50:35  but if you're not paying attention to what the enemy is doing, you don't know your enemy, you're not going to realize that they're trying to implant fear into your heart while you're being entertained. And some people say, Well, why do you even waste your time and go to those movies? I asked myself that question a lot. Why don't I entertain myself? Rick Norris  50:56  Yeah, I, I don't I had to get away from television and movies and stuff, because I really enjoy a good one. Now that all of that is coming back to what you were talking about is predictive programming. That's what that's cool. And it's always been there. It started with Fantasia Fantasia was the first real animated Big Deal production. Gary Duncan  51:21  Now you're getting into conspiracies? Rick Norris  51:24  Yeah. Well, I have a new one, like I said, because the other ones all came true. Gary Duncan  51:29  In case six, I'll it early, Rick Norris  51:34  all that stuff happening, man. What anyway, so we got to stay on track. Because what's happening right now is we have two generations that have not been taught that Jesus has a sword in his hand. And when He returns, he returned, it says he will. The Lord comes with fire. And every man's work will be every man work will be tested. Right? This is real. And, and the so you know, read Isaiah 30 You know, the voice of the Lord comes from afar bring in his anger and his Furies and it's like a turret torrent of fire up to the neck. You look at the Hebrew there, it's amazing. And he's bringing his sifting the nations in his seeds of death, see the destruction but isn't that the old guy and but right in the middle of that I want you to bring me back to them. Very important. Right in the middle of the most fire and brimstone you know, scriptures in probably the Bible, but definitely Isaiah, right in the middle of it says but you will have a song as in the night when one goes to the mountain of the Lord for a festival with a flute and joy of heart. And then it goes back and the Lord's gonna burn all of us in your back into this, you know, fire damnation and he's gonna, you know, do all this and that and judge the nations and fury and blah, blah, blah. And then it says an everywhere that the rod of His punishment passes will be to the sound of stringed instruments, and timbrels. So there's your praise and worship element again. He inhabits the praises of His people remember in that one battle in Israel, where they went, they said, you know, send in the Levites singing, you know, singing, His mercy endures forever. Well, I know I'm a veteran, I know a little bit about combat, you don't send singers in against even small arms. Because small arms are moving about 2300 feet per second. And when they go through, I had a buddy that got shot through the hand and he was in shock, of course. And he looked it was daylight right through the middle of his hand. And it was smoking. You know, that's how hot those rounds are. Right? It was smoking. And so you the point is we are we're in a war. I can't really it's so hard for me. It's so frustrating, because I can't make people understand the reality of where we are now. You said something a second ago Gary Duncan  54:43  about Well, that was the old god. Okay. Yeah, this is really what we're talking about Jesus, Rick Norris  54:47  this is really important. And this again, is in the first book and very, very important. Alright, so this is, this is a real Your eye opener and I know we're going long, but it's so important. Alright, so who is the real Jesus? Right? He's a priest and a king. We've been taught till we're blue in the face about the priests because that's comfortable. And love. It's safe. It's safe, and it's loving. And it's comfortable. And it's don't offend anybody that and unless they're in the temple doing making it all about Gary Duncan  55:30  money makes it everybody feel good? Yeah. Rick Norris  55:33  So okay, so they'll say, Well, why do you why do you always teach about this warfare thing? Well, I don't, I most often don't. But now we're at a crisis point, because we have a war, an onslaught of Satan, a defeated enemy that everybody's afraid of. And it's a wave. It's like a tsunami coming out of hell on the earth right now. And Christians are clueless, they don't know they can bind. They can defend themselves, they can defend their families, they can defend their church, they can bind it and render that stuff powerless. They have no clue. And they get a little pain right here and the demon starts whispering in their ear and they buy into like all kinds of diseases and sickness and it's real. This is how we operate. Now it's it says in Scripture, the spiritual rock that led them in the wilderness was Christ. That that hang for a minute, I'll repeat it. The spiritual rock rock of ages remember that song? The spiritual rock that led them in the wilderness? Right? Was Christ. Okay, so here we Gary Duncan  56:56  are Old Testament. Yeah, that's the Old Rick Norris  56:58  Testament. I mean, I mean, the account is in is in Hebrews. But it's saying the word of God the Bible's that that was Christ leading them in the wilderness, or what did he lead them to do? Everything from warfare to genocide. So he's, he's a warrior's warrior. That's why he said, You asked David, hey, what do you do? I kill people. What? Well, I'm a soldier. I mean, just what Gary Duncan  57:33  God Yes. Like, how do they reconcile? Rick Norris  57:35  And, and so I'll lose my train of thought. Gary Duncan  57:40  I'll lose my do. Rick Norris  57:42  We always do this one retired. So, so this, so the spirit, you know, what I'm trying to say is, he's a warrior. And we don't know that side of him at all. Right? So why would he leave? Why would Jesus Jesus meek and mild, right? lead somebody to, you know, nail, an entire culture, you know, do what is the equivalent today of genocide? Well, the reason was, is because those cultures were part of the Nephilim bloodline. We don't know about that. Member. Well, when the spies went in, they said, they're giants in the land. So there's the there's the confirmation, all those cultures were tainted with the blood of the Nephilim were the sons of God went into the daughters of man's son of God means the Fallen One. If you do some real heavy homework, you'll find the word Anunnaki. In the earliest gret early cultures, and that word means the Fallen month. So they when they had sex, they weren't supposed to have sex with women because they weren't of human full human origin. Had I don't know how to put that. Yeah, we don't really understand that they were angels. They were angels, and many ways not entirely. Meaning there had to be some, some other stuff going on there. But I, I don't know how that work. Gary Duncan  59:12  You were there mixing they mixed to namely different species species. Rick Norris  59:17  Yes. So. So here, you have women that are having babies that grew up to be giants, some, you know, the Smithsonian keeps hiding the bones, but the cats out of the bag there too. Now, you know, some are like 15 to 20 feet tall. And we you know, they're they were all over North America and all that and I won't get into all that. But you do enough archeological homework on that issue. And it's overwhelming evidence is just that they keep. They don't want to have anything that would mess with the vindicate the biblical narrative. So they started that early, really early. All of a sudden, all those bones they had just disappeared. All right. That's why they won't let them dig up the mounds, those big mounds in wherever that is Ohio. I think it is. Because they'll just oh, well, that's sacred ground for the American Native. That's not American Native grant. Even the American natives say that's not ours. And, um, but they won't let them go in there. That's a bit of a tangent also. But the point is conspiracy. Yeah. Oh, there's another conspiracy thing, conspiracy alert. And that, and that cats out of the bag, the evidence, is there empirical evidence. So anyway, the reason I share that is because that's why he had those cultures eradicated. Because they were that bloodline was demonic. The bloodline was actually going to was an attempt of the adversary to take the worldwide bloodline, so there wouldn't be a bloodline like marriage. It was preempted. And so anyway, I won't go into that, except that people say, Well, that's an exception to the rule. Well, not really, because if you want to see the Jesus, the same Jesus in the New Testament, you can go to the letters to what was not Smyrna. One of the seven letters like right now, I can't remember which one of the seven letters to the churches is Jesus speaking? You ask people, What is the book of Revelation about, oh, man, it's about like prophesy, and in times and stuff? No, it's a revelation of Jesus Christ. And those other things, he's showing what's going to happen in the process. And there's a lot of breaking it down, well, how it's going to happen. Bring me back to the white horse. And I'll share some of that. And I guess we'll have several pots, again, but it's important stuff. So you want to see that same Jesus, that is the spiritual rock that led them in the wilderness. Look at the seven letters. He says to one of the churches, in one of the letters, he says, I, you know, He commends him a little bit, but then he says, But I have this against you, that you have allowed this Jezebel in your church. And she's a witch, by the way, Jezebel is a witch. And it's a it's a controlling spirit that's rampant in all just about every church. And we're unaware of it. People, you know, it's like, doesn't mean church lady, it usually is, but it can mean just as easily. There's a guy with control issues, it becomes a demonic stronghold, and lot of your really big churches where there's a lot of accountability, function, technically function like a call. Because if you stand up, go, hey, you know, your scripture here wasn't quite lining up with, you know, something in the Word. They'll they'll blacklist you running out of dodge. Right. And I won't go into that. Gary Duncan  1:03:15  Yeah, that's another podcast. Yeah. Rick Norris  1:03:16  But here's the deal. Gary Duncan  1:03:19  Oh, fear? Well, that's Rick Norris  1:03:21  what I'm saying is that we fear that Jesus is a little more monarch than we care for. He scares us. And we worry about him being arbitrary. That's us doing using a big word, anthropomorphizing. We're projecting human attributes on the God. Right. But that's not who he is. He's He's the same yesterday, today and forever. And part of them is the soldier Warren King. We've never been taught because it's uncomfortable. And so here we find Jesus saying, Okay, you have that Jezebel, I'm going to throw her on a bed of sickness. Wait a minute. You know, one minute he's raising them off a Betta sickness next minute, he's throwing them on one. Right? And he says that I will kill her children with death. That's Jesus speaking, folks. Now, the reason you never heard that is because it's uncomfortable. And not a pastor out here wants to jeopardize his budget. And there's a few that are bold. But and truthful, true to the word. Now you say Well, Jesus would never kill children. Well, again, remember what he did when he led them in the wilderness? Well, these children from Jezebel are the Jew direct, demonic and or satanic progeny. They are the children of the devil. She's in the devil's bed. spiritually. She is a Any guy, any guy in the church that she happened to have sex with? Is that progeny? That child is got, technically spiritually 50% Demon bloodline, say, Satan's bloodline, because she's a full blown dedicated, blood sacrificed. In other words, she's like necromancy, and I hate to use that word, but I mean, it's it's a gross as it gets, but she has given herself totally over to Satan and death and is a plant, if you will, she's a spy from hell. So, and there's bunches of that in the churches and nobody's even as a clue, man. But the point is, Jesus is not afraid to do warfare, and he hates fear. And to wrap us up on fear. In Revelation, I believe it's 21 He lists who's going to the lake of fire. Right, and it's the usual suspects. adulterers, idolaters, liar, liars. You know, extortion or pervert. And what's the first hint right in the middle of that? Yeah, right. Even at the front of that is an all cowards and fearful. I wanted that to soak in for a sec. All the cowardly and fearful will be in the lake of fire with that other lineup. Those other characters. Wait a minute, what? So that's how much God hates fear. And the reason he hates fear is it is the exact demonic opposite. It of faith, it's faith in the devil. Gary Duncan  1:07:01  Because he didn't give us a spirit of fear. Right? Yeah. So if we have fear, then he says like, okay, within you didn't get the spirit of the Holy Spirit because you're in fear. Rick Norris  1:07:14  Well, even if you've got it, give you a spirit of Gary Duncan  1:07:17  fear. Yeah. sound mind. Yeah. Rick Norris  1:07:21  And there's been people I've seen a lot of people you know, digress, regress, died, degenerate, whatever you want to call it. So they don't spend a lot of time alone with the Lord. They don't pray in tongues, and their spirit atrophies. And pretty soon they're right back in fear, having already been baptized in Lagos. And some of them even had a revelation of all of this and just atrophied. Let their faith go weak because they weren't pursuing God. So well, let's wrap this up. And if I can, I pray? No, okay. No, pray. Gary Duncan  1:07:55  Leave this in fear. As you can pray. Rick Norris  1:07:58  Lord, you know the bride, you know your people. And, you know, I've been terribly verbose again, because you've rise in me in that wave of holy love that you have for your people comes through and you you're so passionate about your, your bride knowing how to defend yourself and others for what's about to happen on the earth. I asked, Lord, we asked, Are we intercede from our hearts with tears? Or we ask that you please give your bride the the commensurate Revelation the revelation commensurate to stepping into her new battle dress, armor. Please, Lord God, we're gonna get blindsided. You know that that's why we're having this pod. Lord, you're the only one that can wake your bride up to realize what's coming, and how to defend herself and to do whatever it takes a crash course visitation, dreams, visions, and bring your bride to the place where she realizes we have all the armament, we need all the arms. We need to bind and loose and decree and declare and establish that your word and your kingdom on the earth. Please, Lord, help us. Rescue your bride from all this fear and cause us to remember that you did not give us the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. We ask it in Jesus law, according to your great love and mercy, Lord. Gary Duncan  1:09:57  Well Rick again appreciate enjoy conversations with you. And please, folks share this podcast with others that might be going through some times of fear, trepidation and just struggle. And that hit the like button, do all that kind of stuff to help get the word out. And till next time we appreciate it and God bless Transcribed by https://otter.ai 

Acts 2:1,2 - ...they were assembled together in one place. When suddenly there came a SOUND...This sound was released from a gathering in Oklahoma City, OKlahoma, USA.The sound is the collective frequency produced by Artists, Flaggers, Muscians, Dancers, Drummers, Shofars, and the Voice.The flow is deep & rich. This "sonic-quake's" epicenter was Oklahoma City but the vibrations will impact all structures on earth.Listen and let your structure shake.The SOUND also opened doors; it's time to cross the threshold and enter into HIS FULLNESS!

 Two WorldsPart 4 2/13/22 Everything about this series hinges on the reality that the moment we give our lives to Jesus we're born into a new world, into the Kingdom of Heaven, all while still confined to this natural world. But here's the deal, most of us, most of the time are more aware of and committed to this natural world than our new world because its just easier, it's more real to us. It's what we're use to. And until we get to the place where spiritual things are a reality, they will stay this, mysterious will of God kind of thing. This is what I love about Ephesians, it provides clarity for our new world. And the number one reality Ephesians drives home is that the church is His body, us in Him, Him in us, expressing the fullness of His reality. Ephesians 1:22-23,NKJV-  He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. We have to understand, being successful in our new world isn't any different than being successful in this world. Remember what God says in Jeremiah, When you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed.” This is one of Paul's key points in this letter in Ephesians. He isn't praying for God to do a something new, he's praying the we can see, that we can comprehend what God has already done. In chapter 3, he makes it very clear that the moment we're born again we become fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ. Don't forget, His intention from the very beginning was a to display His fullness through us, His church.And this is Paul's second prayer that takes things to another level. Ephesians 3:14-21,NKJV- For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,15, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,16, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,17, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,18, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—19, to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.20, Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,21, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.  Remember, to Him be the glory!And make no mistake, God will never share His glory. That way no one can say, we caused God to move because of our great faith. Everything about His creation, His Kingdom and His grace all points to Him. His grace has been poured out, it's the same towards everyone, but be sure of this, the more we expose ourselves to His grace, the more our souls are transformed through faith, we wont stay the same toward Him. Think about this, God told Paul, “My grace is sufficient” Here's the deal, there's still revelation we need to take away from chapter 3, and going into to chapter 4 has very specific instructions concerning our day to days, so we'll circle back next week to some of Paul's most divinely inspired realities. But as we continue our journey through Ephesians, because we're going into to Valentine's Day, how fitting that chapter 5 deals very clearly with the subject of marriage. The import thing to remember is that Ephesians wasn't written in chapter and verse. This is a letter written from their shepherd on embracing their born again lives in Christ, right in the face of humanity. And after giving very specific instructions in chapter 4 about embracing our new, born again nature, Paul starts chapter 5 with this very profound statement; “Imitate God as dear children” Ephesians 5:2,AMP- Walk continually in love, that is, value one another—practice empathy and compassion, unselfishly seeking the best for others, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God. Listen to me very carefully, if you ever plan on walking in the spirit, it starts with walking in love. Because God is love and God is spirit. Something else to stay aware of is the fact that there's nothing we can do to make God love us any more or less. But I promise you this, the closer we walk with Him, we will absolutely love Him more. Ephesians 5:17-21,NKJV- Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.18, And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,19, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,20, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,21, submitting to one another in the fear of God. Ephesians 5:22-32,NKJV- Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.23, For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.24, Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.25, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,26, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,27, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.28, So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.29, For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.30, For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.31, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.32, This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.  Genesis 2:24,NKJV- Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. God ordained the institution of marriage as an eternal memorial of His covenant between Him and His creation. He calls it a covenant. It's sharing life, discovering life, united as one, even though still acknowledging our individuality. Striving for that unity in the faith. Ecclesiastes 4, “Two are better than one.” Seriously, every young couple I counsel, I tell them marriage is a full time job. There are no great marriages on accident. But here's what's really sad, way too many wonderfully born again, heaven bound Christians don't think they need any help being a better husband or wife. And the enemy will do everything in his power to make sure you stay there. He knows that if he can destroy the family, he can keep the church weak. Remember what Paul told us in v.32, This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. As a matter of fact, go back to v.17, Do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And that includes His will for marriage. Anything we're good at, we invest in. In other words, if you're going to be great at it, you're going to have be on purpose about it. 99% of marriage problems can be answered in Ephesians 5:22-32. Stop allowing the world, stop allowing television and social media to tell you how to treat your spouse. In Matthew 7, Jesus said, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them. So the next time you're mad at your spouse, go back to this scripture and ask Jesus what He thinks. Stop playing your selfish, childish mind games because you didn't get you're way. What's sad is, the more selfish we become, the more judgmental we get. And do kid yourself, it's impossible to be a judger and a doer a the same time. So a a person of faith, use it! Stop allowing selfishness to destroy what God designed to be great. Just like Christ and the church, marriage is an on purpose adventure. Remember, God said it in Genesis, and Jesus said it in Matthew, “The two shall become one.” At the end of the day, marriage is a covenant founded on love, the nature of God Himself. Remember, chapter 5 starts with love. Ephesians 5:1,AMP- Therefore become imitators of God, copy Him and follow His example, as well-beloved children imitate their father. MSG, Watch what God does then you do it! Everything about this series hinges on the reality that the moment we give our lives to Jesus we're born into a new world, into the Kingdom of Heaven, all while still confined to this natural world.

The Beauty of God's Love changes your heart through an intimate relationship with Him, pouring His Tender, Unfailing Love in your innermost being so your heart overflows with His Love for you to Love others as much as He Loves you. His Divine Love in you gives you the power and desire to Love others as He Loves you unselfishly. God is Love! His Love changes your heart to be gentle and kind, not to demand your own way, to keep no record of past wrongs, and never to give up because He never stops loving you. His Extravagant Love continues to pour into you, filling you to overflowing with all His Fullness, the Richest Measure of His Divine Love.

Whatever the cost, I want His Fullness.

www.ricknorrismusic.nethttps://rumble.com/vofn0t-where-has-christs-authority-gone.html?mref=ijkk3&mc=a98jb-His Books are available at:Restoration Preparing for His Fullness   https://amzn.to/3k1GwvCWhen Heaven Speaks Out Loud   https://amzn.to/3k1pj5vFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rick.norris.1694Rick Norris  0:00  We have lost touch with not only the former dominion but the extravagant power, authority and might that's been delegated in the church. And that book restoration, preparing for his fullness, think of that title for a minute. Preparing for his fullness. Gary Duncan  0:52  Welcome to remnant revolution. I'm your host, Gary Duncan. And we're doing another installment of restoration with Rick Norris. And how's it going, Rick? Rick Norris  1:03  Gonna make it can't tell me no miracles. I'm still here. Gary Duncan  1:08  We're going over talk a little bit about his book restoration preparing for his fullness. And is it was written probably what you say about 2008. You said, Rick Norris  1:20  Well, that's when it was published. It was written many years before that. And edit. It was edited a little bit as I was getting more revelation. But I'd say about 10 years before I even published it. So but that's because I'm I stay on the big red phone. Any pipes it down? So Gary Duncan  1:41  Well, what I what I find amazing about this book is is you know, you wrote it so long ago, but it was kind of a forethought of what's here today. I mean, we're we're living through what you've talked about in this book. And you know, it's it's really something that we all need to be aware of. And, and, you know, we talk from time to time a lot. You're kind of like my spiritual father and a yarmulke spiritual father, so but I was, we're going to start doing some of these, we're just hop on the phone and start talking. So it's kind of unrehearsed. It's an unedited, you know, so if we mess up some words, that's just part of it, we're going to we're going to roll with but we want to get through and talk a lot about this stuff. Because it's, it's such an emergency situation in our country. And we have got to talk about it. So you got a spot in your book here. Talk about mama God is, is one of your sections when you make a statement that I keyed in on because, you know, the podcast kind of came out of a picture God gave me six years ago about a shipwreck, a battleship that was stuck in a harbor. And in this, this passage, you say this inability to recognize it, this inability to reconcile the very harsh realities of this physical world we live in. And a steady diet of only the comfortable teachings of Jesus, eg the Beatitudes has shipwrecked many believers, faith, especially in the modern church, again, often the confusion and cynicism formats into anger and bitterness of God. And it seems like, you know, we're living in a time that the Beatitudes are, are kind of have helped us well knows, like, we'll say that but the Jesus that we've grown up on, I feel like I've grown up bone is the loving, nurturing, fathering type of Jesus and we're coming into it, we are in the time, that righteous ness and and just a Jesus that's going to come back as a lion, not as a lamb. And we need to start really standing up for that. And I think a lot of it's because we've lost our lost our identity. And what I want to get to is the point in your book where you say, God has delegated dominion and stewardship to mankind, our disobedience surrendered it Satan. When the Lord went to the cross, He restored the form of dominion. We have his authority along with it all. Again, we're, the church has got so much power in this country. But yet we're not yielding it just like that battleship, that battleship is created to destroy evil. And the church is created to destroy evil and save the last. And we're not there. We're not We're not understanding our d&d. So I want to kind of get your, your thoughts on that and, and about how we as Christians can really start to take back, you know, not just make America great again, or free again or whatever. It's to really take our authority that was given to us You know, what? The founding of our country? Rick Norris  5:02  Sure. Gary Duncan  5:03  Well, we're not the founding of our country, but founding of of the beginning of time, both but as a country, we've been ignored that. Right. Rick Norris  5:13  I get you, I get you. Well, yeah, it's the book itself is written largely about that stuff. And the former dominion that you mentioned, we'll start there. First of all, a general answer to what you're inquiring about is that the church the reason the book was written was because we've lost several things, the fear of God, the true fear of God, we've lost our understanding of spiritual warfare. We think we know what that mean. And we've been taught certain little uncomfortable things about it. And there, if you read the back of that book, it talks directly to that, saying that we there have been sins of omission, from our pulpits for, you know, over a century. And the reason is, of course, what we now call political correctness, which is really a capitulation to the comfort zones of the people in the pew because pastors over the years did not want to jeopardize their salaries and budgets, you know, by making people uncomfortable and sharing some of the harsh stuff. So we've atrophied over the years especially and people in that same chapter people you know, they've been given a an over time they've given been given a view of Jesus as their own personal little Santa Claus. Right? Remember goofy? Yeah, course there's a Sani Gary Duncan  7:19  compartmentalize them into a genie in a box, and make you three wishes to come true. Rick Norris  7:25  Oh, man, and and that's what we need becomes our own little genie little wish box, right. And we go to church sit in a big giant church, where nobody knows, you know, the sins in your life. And you don't know if the guy next to you is an Axe Murderer. Big giant churches that God never intended to have. And because nobody knows anybody stuff and nobody ministers, but and, and so we don't grow and and I could go further that direction. But coming back to the former dominion. It's says that he, as I mentioned it, where you were reading there, that's pretty well into the book there. But the former dominion was what we had in the garden, simple, simply. And, you know, at the cross that was restored. So we are in, in authority on the earth. We are tending this garden. And people say, Well, wait a minute, you know, how come there's so much war and death? And well, let me finish that. See, Jesus is so extravagant. God is so he can have themself he's so giving. So other He's not like us remotely. He's so extravagant in the way he gives. And the things that he does, that he gave us his authority on top of that. And it's because mainly because we're in a war, and that war necessitates us moving in an authority beyond merely the former dominion, we're gonna have to have some major firepower, obviously. So He gives us His authority. He said, Behold, I give you authority. And if your folks if you're even a nominal, Christian, much less mature, you should be using that authority daily to defend yourself and others. He said, what certain things you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Right? What does that mean? What does that look like? Well, means binding the enemy binding spirits, right? And people say, Well, how does that work? Well, you know, casting out demons, that kind of thing. And most Christians today are completely out of touch with that, that's like, well, that's one of those cares, mania, Pentecostal things, you know, how about Mark 1617 and 18. These signs show follow them that believe. Think of that as I go forward. These signs shall follow them that believe in my name, they will cast out, it's his authority has to be in his name. We don't have any right? In my name. They will cast out demons. They'll speak with new tongues, they'll take a serpent. And if they'll lay hands on the sick, they shall recover. And if they drink any poisonous thing, it won't hurt them. So people just kind of Kak at that. Like, what? It's like some metaphor. It's analogous to that. Well, part of it is, for example, taking up serpents doesn't mean dances with rattlesnakes. In some camp in the woods, it means spiritual warfare. It's, he said, You will I give you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Think of that one for a minute. All. All the power of the enemy. Well, yeah, Vision says that. Having disarmed principalities, speaking speaking of Jesus now, having disarmed principality, okay, so the principalities are disarmed. What? Having disarmed principalities, right, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. What does that mean? Well, in the classic sense of warfare, throughout history, when a king destroyed a kingdom, he would take the kings and princes and marched them through the street at the, you know, to tout the victory for the Gary Duncan  12:17  night, kind of what we're seeing the Taliban do. Rick Norris  12:20  Yeah. Gary Duncan  12:21  When you said that I'm thinking okay, so they cuz it recently an article read where the Taliban had strung up six people that had gotten called for trying to kidnap somebody or something. And they hung them up in the square after they beat him to death. Yeah, and that is a deterrent, you know? Yeah, the crime. And it's like, it's kind of rough. Rick Norris  12:45  That's the world we live in. See, and we come full circle. If your Jesus is a Santa Claus, you're gonna go Oh, will he? And let's pray for them. Well, yeah, pray for them. But, you know, the Word says, Do you not know that the loving kindness of God leads you to repentance? Well, but what we what we don't hear is if that doesn't work, he might spank your butt. And people I just the other night, I was prayer walking down by the dam, near the on the river duck river here. And there was a young lady there and the Lord said, you know, go give it a try. And I I kind of asked her because I could tell God was up to something and I asked her where she was at with the Lord very blatantly and she you know, didn't take long you know that Father's heart rose and, and and she felt it and then the anointing came forward and she was sobbing and I let her do the Lord right there but she was, she was, she said, you know why? Even her daughter and her little daughter had asked her why is God allow all these hard things in your life? Since you're such a good person? And she's crying she can't figure out she says, I feel like God hates me. Right? And you'll have to bring me back to the Dominion thing here. This is important. And you know, I said well, if you're standing on the curb with your little one, in you know, say New York or somewhere and there's a you know, 60 ton truck coming by loaded down heavy at you know, 40 miles an hour and your little ones about to step you know, 12 inches into the road and get an end up a stain. You'll do whatever you have to do, you'll break that little ones arm, yanking them off the curb, and hurt them. If you You have to to save their mind. Do you know that pretty blatant simple analogy, but that's how God is He loves us so much. He will not let us remain in death. And stay, you know satiated and, and stuck in that cycle of, you know, self destruction. And the lights went on she accepted the Lord she got right right there in the parking lot. It was awesome. night before that the same thing happened with exact same thing happened with a young man who was tweaking if you know what that mean. He was on meth, you know? And he was delirious, absolutely delirious. And he wouldn't stop talking about bla bla bla bla, but you know, kind of like we represent the lollipop girl, you know, he was just, oh, it's horrible. And I couldn't get in on every once while I get a word in and he started, you know, it was affecting him. But he couldn't help but the demons finding that I had had enough. I said, if you don't want to hear this trouble, he said, I'm done traveling. But it was after he came back, he actually left those spirits that we got to get this guy out of here. He came back. And while he's talking, I can't get a word in. I said, well, in the name of Jesus Christ, I bind the spirit of confusion. And I bind the spirits that are blinding the eyes and ears of his heart in the name of Jesus right now. And he became rational. And he you know, he was still tweaking a bit. But he started listening. And I said, you, you know, you've come back to talk to me, there's a reason for that you got set up? Jesus just set you up. Do you want to do this? You know, yeah. And he slumped down against the pillar under the overpass, which is the name of one of my songs. Rick Norris  17:13  There at the dam and, and he accepted the Lord right there got right. And was rational. When he left his sister came and picked him up. Long story. I'm actually condensed, but that's an example of the authority that we've been given. And the church has completely lost touch with that stuff. It's like, you know, there's a few, you know, charismatics, and people who actually spend time praying in the Spirit that get it and get those opportunities. You know, I have people all the time asking me, How come I don't have miracles in my life? Like you? You know, as you know, the second book, my second book, when Heaven speaks out loud is my testimony. And it's so over the top, a lot of Christians just shake their head. They can't even relate. And there it is. Yeah. And, you know, for decades, I didn't share that stuff. Unless I was in an outreach situation, literal, captive audience like a prison where a, you know, mission or something. Because it's so over the top, I've seen miracles of biblical proportions, many times, and experiences in the heavenlies that, you know, I don't care what people think anymore. I'm not worried about it. And I shouldn't have been before I speak, perhaps to my shame, for not being more forthright with some of those experiences. But there are people ask me, why don't I have those kinds of miracles in my life? I just say, when's the last time you spent at least an hour praying in the Spirit? And as I said, in one of my videos, I do a video series by the title of that second book here Gary Duncan  19:04  on YouTube, right? Rick Norris  19:05  Yeah, periodically. It's when Heaven speaks out loud with Rick Norris. But you know, I there as I shared in it. There was a an effort by liberal theology starting even 100 years ago, say, and it didn't catch on till later, but to discredit what praying in the Spirit mean, is all that that doesn't really mean what people think, Well, what it means is praying in tongues. And that's a controversial controversial issue. You know, denominational traditional Christianity they kind of bristle they don't want to hear about it, because they can't understand why they don't have it. Well, okay, one scripture what I just shared the Science shall follow them that believe now either the Bible's pure or it's not right. And I spent, you know, 55 years now making sure it what, and not only archaeology, historicity or the historicity and archaeology stand, but all the sciences point to the validity of the Bible prophecy proves. But I'm trying not to rabbit trail here. The point is, they said that praying in tongues that is praying in the Spirit does not mean praying in tongues. Right. And, and Paul said, Well do all pray with tongues. You know, he also said, I wish that you all prayed in tongues. And the reason he said do all praying that not everybody has the faith to step out of that boat, you know, onto the water. He didn't say they couldn't write, I have people say, Well, you know that stuff there? And Mark 16 1718? I just don't believe in that. Oh, okay, well, then they're not for you. Sorry, you, you don't get them? You do believe not for those who don't? Okay, so you just talked yourself out of those things. So, and what I tell people is, well, you know, I've shared this with you before, how these young men, two of them were young one was a little older. And they said, You know, I said, you know, pray ducks for an hour a day, right? And then get back and let me know that God because they wanted to get to miracles, they had jumped through all the hoops 40 years in the church. And I'm trying to show the authority you asked about, in case this seems like a rabbit trail, this is the pragmatic plant, acting out the reality of how these things apply in the real world. So they got back to me two days later, the first time ranting on the phone, you're not gonna believe what doesn't happen, have their first miracle and change their life. Right, two days. All the pent of pent up gifts of God were just, you know, waiting to burst into this person's life. And few days later, the same thing happened with another young man. He said the exact same thing. Ban through the church group manager at bow didn't jump through all the hoops, never even a prophetic word or anything. What am I doing? I said the same thing to him. And the same thing happened. Called the day and a half later, call me back, Randy, you're not gonna believe. So he had his breakthrough miracle. And then another gentleman, older gentleman had the same experience. Now, I I said all that to answer that question. All right. We have Rick Norris  23:04  lost touch with not only the former dominion, but the extravagant Power Authority and might that's been delegated in the church. And that book restoration, preparing for his fullness. Think of that title for a minute. Preparing for his fullness. Right? Well, the first part of that title restoration demands demolition. If you're going to do a restoration, you know, we hear about we're gonna have a revival, of course, if we're going to have a reformation you know, but the truth is, we're going to have a restoration, because the only way he can pull our fat out of the fire at this point, we're so far gone. He's going to have to do some demos for that restoration project. Right. And I hope this is clearing that question up, because it's huge. And I know it, I'm going long, but it's so important. And this, these revelations will bring faith. They build faith people go out, we met that's in the Bible. How come I never was shown that? Well, because, you know, there's a status quo out there folks. In AI, does that. I mean, you know, that pretty much covers it, I think, Gary Duncan  24:28  no, it talks Well, you know, that's why we're hearing a lot more talk about the remnant church and the remnant people and because the the widespread church is still working the old ways of the way it's always been done and the remnant church is looking more at you know, the original intent of the church which is you know, you go into the each of you principal and in the fivefold ministry and and we're going to I have a episode on that coming up as well. But I think that the important part of what you're saying is that America might, it seems like that we're all in a time of that. That jerking back of that child from that. oncoming truck. Oh, yeah. And it's a very painful. Yeah. And it shows itself in so many different ways. Whether it's, well, a lot of stuff, and we can go off on a wild track on, um, you know, the vaccine and Black Lives Matter, and the CRT and education system and all that, that God's just saying, you know, you're going to you, I told you not to touch the fire, and you're, you're not going to listen, so I'm going to let you get burned. And I mean, that's what parents do. They allow their child to, to learn from experience sometimes, you know, Rick Norris  25:59  yes, and judgment begin at the house of God, that scripture, and we are in a time of judgment, I have written songs about it, I got a revelation in the 80s, that if we didn't repent, we were going to get judged, at least in some way. And that was 2001. That was when the towers fell. And the songs speak verbatim of the terminology and redundant reports that were coming from ground zero. And we could I could share that sometime if we have time. And, you know, no one wanted to hear it, because it just sounded so harsh, especially then, because we hadn't had any judgment for decade as a nation. You know, and 911 was in those songs. And they well anyway, if you go to Rick Norris music.net There's a music video they're called One nation under fire. At the at the site, the first songs you come to is a string of singles that are outreach singles prophetic. But the but that that video is one nation under fire, music video, and it's one of them that talks about and I went on TBN and share those the Lord had me share those and they literally at that time mocked when we got off camera, laugh and when mock literally laughed and mocked at it. And, and then, you know, when we got the redundant reports from ground zero, I say redundant because they kept saying the same thing. We can't get in until a smoke finally clear. Right? That's literally verbatim from one of the songs. And you know, the ashes in the dust. You know, the last part of the first song is I found a coin lying in the ashes in the dust. Pain beyond description as I read the inscription, in God, we trust Gary Duncan  28:29  you wrote this many years prior, right? Rick Norris  28:33  Yeah, sorry. Yeah. And I, for years, I couldn't sing him. I could hardly get through them. You know, emotional control was hard. But, uh, you know, and a week, I got so wounded, by the way, they dealt with me on on TBN. And I just, you know, shrugged it, I've dealt with that kind of stuff before and I, I was driving, I was on the road, and it was like, the Holy Spirit, put an elbow in my arms. It's, you're not getting it, because I had ground zero on the radio. And they were still trying to dig it out, you know, still trying to get to anyone that might still be alive. And they kept, you know, he said, you're not getting this. I said, luck, Lord. But, you know, he said, listen, and it says, We can't get in, you know, to see what's going on until the smoke finally clear. You know, report after report. They said that exact same thing over and over for a week at least more. And, and then the other one, they kept saying we can't get in through all the ashes in the dust. Because the thing kept collapsing. Right. And again, that was almost two weeks for that thing, just smolder you know, And No at all. And that was just God trying to encourage me that I really did hear from him. And, you know, who cares with those, you know, people, I found out later that, that the, he had me sing those two heavy duty, Keith green kind of messages, and the name of the program was the joy. Gary Duncan  30:24  So I was really don't want to guess what they were thinking. You think? Anyway, now you do tell us a little bit about your I mean, your your background is is was in the Gospel, the Christian artistry back in the 70s when it first started, and you were instrumental in some things there. And so, so on your website, Rick norris.net Rick Norton music ignores music dotnet you know, it's, it's free, right. But I mean, Rick Norris  30:58  why my music you? I don't believe in the 32nd tease. Yeah, right. Are you and then you you're kind of whet your whistle and you got to pay to hear the rest. Okay. Yeah. You know, Jesus said, freely ever received freely give. So all these years, I came from that whole Keith green second chapter of Acts, you know, Larry Norman, you know, Maranatha. I watched Calvary Chapel get birth when it was in a tent when we started. Die had a sovereign conversion like Saul of Tarsus, in the 60s. I was the criminal and the frontman for a rock band, and God showed up and blew my game out of the water. But then the, you know, in the 70s, I watched all the Christian music explode. And I know many of those folks that you know, are from their dear friends, and they're, I they're all vital. They're all still walking with the Lord. That movement that Jesus people move and change the world. People don't realize. But so yeah, I was there. At the beginning. I watched Calvary Chapel get born. And back then it was organic. It wasn't it's almost like a dot denomination now. It's so established. Back then it was organic. Everybody shared and everybody had a word of problem the each of you thing, right. And it wasn't a one man show and, and like most church today is we need to do a thing on that too, at some point. But yeah, I helped my little part of pioneering what is now CCM and I've groomed artists, Christian artists that have you know, I've done a&r artists and repertoire and grooming artists, mostly vocally, but also in songwriting, and some have gone on to have number one albums with then your music group back in the day. Anyway, I'm tanging. Now. Yeah. So Gary Duncan  33:06  So So what I'm wrapping up here, so what would be the looking at where we're at, you know, the restoration and, you know, like, I've been in construction. So when you restore something, you either tear it down or you strip it down to the bare bones as a Christian and looking at where we're at. What what are you think the first few things that we need to be doing? That are keys to, to that restoration in our own lives, that we can be strengthened, you know, understanding our identity, understanding the power that we actually have through Christ, to combat the evil that's just all around us. This evil is just Rick Norris  33:50  like a flood. Yeah, it's coming in. And word says when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord lifts up a standard against that standard is a banner, that means we're going at it folks, it's it's a call to to arm. Well, the arms we have, there's a there's a section, one of the part sections in my book is called our arsenal. We have an arsenal, we're in a war of words, right? You need to speak the word of God over your life. And I know we're going long. The the dominion that we have is real, it's powerful. You can have the miraculous come into your life. But you have to, you know, the Word says that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. How come we don't think that through? And what does that diligence look like? People said, well, we can't earn anything. Well, no, but he said that sacrifice and not talk. I'm talking about obedience. Right? With that scripture, you know, obedience is better than sacrifice. Right? We're not diligent, you know how how many people do you think, are like those young men? And those people that came to me and said, How come I don't have miracle? I have faith? Well, you haven't really broken through. Right? We need to break through, we need to get on our knees, we need to make Jesus our lives all about Jesus. We think about it, we talk about it, we sing about it. But we didn't do. America is fat hearted, spoiled, distracted, addicted to so many different things, entertainment, you name it, you know, and distracted to the point where we, our idea of Christianity is running to church on Sunday to appease our religious conscience. So we can rush home to watch the game. Right? And we just, you know, we might as well you know, a God, the Bible Jesus thing. No, we, it's, it's, it's not what he's called us to an eternity loom. And we are in judgment for it, because we abdicated allowed the devil to come in take over our government. And long before that, we allowed him to come in and murder 60 million of her baby. Plus, and, and then all the debauchery and the squeaky wheel. If the squeaky wheel is allowed to get the grease, if you know what I mean, the squeaky wheel is the one that makes all the noise, but there's a whole other car that's involved. And if the bulk of the people never say anything, the squeaky wheel, whether it's you know, gay rights mother, a woman's choice, or, you know, transgender or, you know, some other, you know, unheard of abomination. We don't respond, we just Well, yeah, whatever. Don't you know, and, and, you know, we worship the rapture of the Lord rather than the Lord of the rapture. It's like, well, we're out of here anyway. No, we're stewards. We're supposed to be stewards in both realm. And the authority and the Dominion, are our is ours. And we've lost touch, because I'm sorry, but the pulpits of America have been guilty of sins of omission. They don't share that Jesus is a Warren king. And that he is going to rule the nations within scepter of iron says, look this stuff up. I don't know. If it's not in the word, I'm not going to share it, that's for sure. Right? And they don't know him. That's what the book is largely about. What if we know the Jesus we know, is only 50%. of who he is. You know, the priest says he's a priest and a king. Well, he's made us priests and kings. And he's given us authority on the earth to to do three things. Save the Last edify the bride. Right, and destroy the works of the devil. And so judgment begins with the house of God, that's what you're looking at. I could keep going. debacle bottom line is, you know, we've got a lot of profits. I love those guys out on the wall. All of them. I mean, except for what's false ones. Pray for them that they get, you know, Gary Duncan  38:51  yeah, we can do. We could do an episode on deciphering but discerning between the true ones and the ones that aren't true. Rick Norris  39:00  Yeah. But I love them and but they're saying we're gonna make America great again. All right. Well, what does that look well with where we are and how far we've digressed and degenerated as a nation. He has given us reprieve after repeat over and over World War One World War Two, and the politically correct wars in Korea, Vietnam, so on, and he always pulls us out of it somehow. Right. And but now, we've had all our reprieves, President Trump was a reprieve, look at what happened to the economy and everything came back together. And now we've allowed the devil to come in with his trickery and do what he did. And here we are, and it's judgment. God has lifted his hand to get our attention. And yet it's possible we could have another reprieve, but we can't go back to who we were. Prior to this, because that's what God's after. That's what he's demoing. That's what that's see he's judging our nation, he may have to strip us all the way back to who we were in 1780 Hundreds, before he's done to get a pure remnant. So, I'm a little bit like Jeremiah, you know, I, I think that the Lord is going to continue to judge it. But it's all for good. It's not. It's him pulling, you know, hurting that child's arm to get him off the from stepping in front of that truck. It's not because he's mad at us. It's because he wants to save us from ourselves. Yeah. And, Gary Duncan  40:41  and I think there's, and that's why I sense this and in my own life, and just just listening and hearing other pastors and people that are coming out and talking more about the remnant church and the way it, you know, way the church needs to wake up about our history, the, you know, the fivefold ministry, and what the Church used to be like, and what it was originally intended, which is what, you know, a lot of what you're talking about, in that so we'll go into that in our one of our next episodes, just talking about the fivefold ministry and how the church was in was originally intended. Prior to Constantine Correct. You know, Constantine had a lot to do with the way we are today are in and how well, is that working? You know, lives are being saved? Yes. But, you know, we're in a war at this point. Yeah. And, you know, if we're not fighting with one hand, and and, you know, spreading the gospel at the other, you can do both. I mean, it's possible to do both. So we'll get into that. On our next one. And, again, Rick, it's always fun to talk with you. And I know, we talk a ton more on the phone than we do on camera. But we'll start doing a lot more of that. Because I think every time we we get together, it's it's at least an hour long conversation. Rick Norris  42:02  Yeah, I tried it. I tried to go as fast as I could. Because there's so much you know, to share. And but yeah, let's, let's plan on following up on this because the fivefold and. And all those issues you just mentioned are so important right now. Gary Duncan  42:20  Yeah. Way. Exactly. And so um, you know, as those everybody listening and across the country in the world, actually, you know, I'll put some show notes and links in the show notes for Rick connection with Rick and his music and the books. And we just appreciate the time you give us we'll do it again. Thanks for listening, folks, if you'll share, I don't know how to do all this stuff. Because I'm not a marketing guy. But whoever's listening, you know, I know you guys are listening. So I actually got somebody in Finland, listening, which I think is pretty cool. So for you that that one guy, it's in Finland, would you go and share this to somebody else now to people who can share it posted on your Facebook and all your social media stuff. Just get the word out. There's a lot more coming. We appreciate. Unknown Speaker  43:13  Thanks again for listening to this episode of remnant revolution. If you liked what you heard, please leave a comment and rating in iTunes and Google Play. This helps us get heard by more people. And don't forget to share the podcast with your friends and family. Be sure to visit www dot remnant revolution.org to join the conversation, access the show notes and keep up to date on important events and programming. To catch all the latest from me. You can follow me on Instagram at remnant revolution. 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Aug 23-29-DC-“Receive of His Fullness.” “The glory of God is light and truth. Set in order your house.” The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth. Light and truth forsake that evil one. And that wicked one cometh and taketh away light and truth, through disobedience, from the children of men, and because of the tradition of their fathers.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rosa-o-garcia/support

John 1:14, 16-17 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, FULL of grace and truth. And of His FULLNESS we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 

Discussion about Come, Follow Me, Doctrine and Covenants 93, "Receive of His Fullness." This week I'm joined by my cousin and dear friend, Sierra Williams.

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Ephesians 5 — Walking by the Spirit Is the Key to Godly Living - An Introduction:In our study today we learned what Paul the apostle of the Gentiles reveals in chapter 5 of this great letter to the Ephesians concerning our current circumstances under which we are living today with the fullness of God's wonderful grace a reality. There are three aspects to our teaching today: Things are not really as they might seem! The “moment” must be gained for Christ for the days are evil. His Spirit and empowering are essential for this and the God-given hierarchy of authority must be honored. The whole structure of our living is to be re-oriented according to God's ordained hierarchy, whether in marriage, regarding the family, or in our relationships outside the family. Walking by the Spirit with His Fullness is the Key to Godly Living, as we shall see. Marriage and that relationship in Christ is so much more that it might seem to be as we shall see today. It is all part of the sacred secret, Paul writes, and that is all about Christ and the church which is His Body. Our outline is simplicity itself:It Is Our Privilege to Redeem the Time for the Days are Evil, Verses 1-16 xThe Walk of the Believer Is Enabled by the Spirit, Verses 17-20Membership in the Church Which Is His Body Promotes Submission, Verses 21-33

More information about Rick and his work:https://www.ricknorrismusic.net/His Books are available at:Restoration Preparing for His Fullness   https://amzn.to/3k1GwvCWhen Heaven Speaks Out Loud   https://amzn.to/3k1pj5vFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rick.norris.1694The fivefold ministry is what is the word say? apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. All right. So what does that look like? Well, up until Constantine, we had those cylinders firing to the five-cylinder engine running on one cylinder all these years putt putt putt instead of wrong, you know? And so that's why it's taken 2000 years, right? People say, Are you saying that we are the reason that God has waited? Oh, yeah. People get really upset when you say that. It's like who show me that in Scripture? Well, if you live this way, you hasten the day of the Lord's coming. Well, we haven't been living that way ever since that was written in the first century. All right, well, you know what I'm trying to say. Right, so the fivefold ministry, so you get a young minister, here's the best way I can explain it. I'm not dissing anybody. All right. except for us in general, we missed it. We need to repent, we need to get led by the Spirit of God. Again, the main goal of what I'm sharing is intimacy with Jesus time alone with Jesus, it's the answer. And we could you could, we could come back to that, but I can, praying in the Spirit and that kind of thing. Right?That's, that's eating from the tree of life.Yes. That's the difference right there. It's time alone, like those two young men that I told you about that at the braised in the church, and never had a miracle came to me desperately. I'll share that in a minute if you remind me. But I want to finish this thought on the fivefold ministry. So a young minister, you know, he gets out of what I call the cemetery. seminary. I call it cemetery because, by the time liberal theologians get done with you, you're lucky to be a Christian anymore. Yeah, they'll mess you up. But so, you know, knowledge puffs up it's real. So But anyway, so he gets out of these gonna go and rocket into world evangelism. Right? He's all excited. Started church and what do you do a rental hall? preach his buns off. All right, preach, preach, preach and pass the hat. See what happened? Right. And I'm being a little flip with it. But you know, and then it starts to take off, you know, people say, Well, he pretty good teacher. And, you know, when he got to go there for a while, just by proxy, you know, I live close or whatever. So things started to take me. Well, he gave men you know, he took captivity captive and gave gifts to men. That's the Scripture. Right? So what gifts to give apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and then and then the other gifts, right? And so, let's say that this young man is an evangelist. Alright, okay. Or a prophet, or even an apostle? Right? Young apostle, a lot of people you'd be surprised how many people in the body of Christ think that there was only 12. You know, it's an office, it's a gift. It's a calling to this very day, and it was like 20, some named in the New Testament. But anyway, so. So he goes out and he gets a church. He starts in charities, preaches every Sunday, right? But he's not a pastor. So pretty soon he's got counseling going every day. He's got dad is delegating all this stuff to all these people. He's got, he gets caught up in the ministry thing, and he does the only thing that's out there. So when a guy comes out of the cemetery, out of seminary, and he goes to start his Adventist formal ministry, he's only got one place he can go pulpit. Okay, because that's what we inherited from Constantine. But the other four gifts. We haven't heard from them. And the reason we haven't matured the way we should have and wrap this thing up so that the Lord would see that his bride was on track, mature without spot or wrinkle, and come back is that those other four-cent cylinders weren't firing in that engine. Now, you say, Well, wait a minute, well, let me put it this way. When the printing press came out, right, and well, really, when the 95 theses went up, right when Luther said, No, no, no, we've had it with this whole Vatican thing. You know, you're not going to control us anymore. We can read the Bible. We can, we can understand we can be like we were in the first century. That's basically what he was saying. And he had his issues that everybody does, you know. And, but so when the printing press came out, here came all this Christian literature. Well, the different Christian authors, some were prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and apostles. And they would write from that slant. Okay, that kind of Revelation, you know, each one of those gets, you have a little bit of different slant, you know, and, and once Christians began to not only be able to read the word, which is infinitely more important, that's what started things, you know, people because the Vatican wouldn't let anybody read the Bible except the priests. And can you imagine that?Sounds familiar? Let's see, there's, yeah, I won't go there. Anyway. So like where we are right now in the world. So true, cannot be spoken. Unless one party speaks it? I'm sorry, what truth cannot be spoken unless one party speaks it? Oh, you mean? Yeah. In the church in that? No.And? Well, what I was thinking when you said that is that, you know, the conservative Christian voice cannot be spoken. Because the people that have the mic, are in control. Oh, I see. Yes, I'm saying so there that is up there, up there in this corner in the media and the social media. Yeah. Political parties involved. The only truth that can be spoken is what they think is true. Yeah, well, yeah. And everybody else has to sit in the Pew and take it and so well, that principle has worked itself out into that's the fruit of what I'm talking about. And, and a lot another way we could go there. That's a whole nother thing, because what we've done in the process of losing the other five other for gifting, right, was we abdicated, we no longer understood that we were supposed to be in the gate. Meaning, you know, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood up against Hitler. Because he understood this. Christians are supposed to influence the world, we're some this world should be we're salt and light, we should, this world should be under the influence of the church not you know, and we've abdicated, we've let we've surrendered our influence and authority and authority. Absolutely. But what's coming, and that's where you're talking about what where we are now, what's coming is the is that what we're in is the reestablishment of the apostolic.We've been in the prophetic restoration, which came with the charismatic renew. And now, for some time now, we've been in the Apostolic restoration of that, that gift is being restored. With that one comes authority. We're going to see manifest authority and apostolic means explain that a little bit more.Well, apostolic a lot of people think well, an apostle plant churches. Oh, that's true. But that's just one of the things that app, app stock person does. He also has authority for oversight and, and, you know, teaching, put it this way, you are an apostle, it can fire on the other cylinders because Jesus is in us. And this is true for all of us, right? A lot of people don't realize this in the body don't realize, either. It's the Spirit of the Lord that does anything. You know, like we were praying before we started this like, it's the anointing the bricks do. Right? This is not about good teaching. Paul said so he said, you know, the gospel is not about clever words of men's wisdom, but about the demonstration of the spirit and power. Well, we lost power in the Fourth, third century because of Constantine. Right, and he took over and we've been a mess ever since. But coming back to that fivefold ministry thing, when Christian literature came out, they you know, this is God, because for me to come back and remember where I was, anyway, Christian literature brought those other parts to the surface, yes to the bride, so she could go, oh, wow, never thought of that. And then we start getting the whole counsel of God. What does it say about the fivefold ministry? It's why was it given? Right? For the edification of the bride? Right. To we all come to what the fullness is a statue of Christ. You can do that. Wow, that's Ephesians and Colossians. Right there, maybe. But anyway, so I wanted to complete that thought it's so important. Right? Well, so in the last special, especially 50 years, there's been this explosion of Revelation. Coming, especially with the reestablishment of the charismatic Well, with the Charismatic Renewal renewal came the prophetic perception, which is not just the telling, for telling, it's telling for you have teaching profits, and you have Sears, you know, that kind of thing. But anyway, so, I know, this has been very long-winded, but it's so, so important that we get these three, or four things in, in our perception in our knowledge. You know, it says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. So they're going to be people that, you know, face him on that day and say, Hey, we did miracles in your name, alright. And he's gonna say, I never knew you. He's going to reject those people. And they pray, and they pressed into the word so far, they found that there's intrinsic power in the word itself. What do you mean, you could get a miracle without really hanging out with Jesus? The Word of God is so powerful. It's creative. It's the Word of God. It's so powerful that given a certain element of how would you diligence, right? You can hard work? Yeah, yeah. Just, yeah, just applying the Word of God on a certain level. You can he can break through and start to get you to know, something on the other side. That is the supernatural. That's how they did. They were casting out demons. I mean, there's power in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I command you to come out, they're going to come out. I mean, if you do that enough, right. And people get deliverance ministries and stuff. That's not a fivefold ministry, by the way, that's just happening. By course. That's why the Lord said, don't get hung up on that. Right? Hey, you know, they said, Lord, even the spirits are subject to our name, right? Well, he gave him that authority, that authority came to them before the resurrection. We forget that. Yeah. So there's power and intrinsically, there's power in the Word of God. And these people were using that separate from an intimate relationship with the Lord. Well, you know,if you think about it, what we, you know, what are we doing? You know, what, each Sunday we go, you know, Honey, what time is it? Are we're gonna miss the game? You know, he, what is he done? Yeah, you know, hide in the pews and the big church and all that stuff. I'm kind of tanging now, but well, you get the point. So where we are, is that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, right? Right, is what we do, and often, not always. And what we've done so far is we have worshiped the Ministry of Lord rather than the Lord of the minister, both in the pews and in the pulpit. And we find our identity in ministry. You know, it's like a pastor, Pastor. So, if you look at history, the first three centuries, we go We could just be like the early church. Oh, really? Well, the pastor was back man, the pastor was supposed to work himself out of the job. And he wasn't supposed to have a whole bunch of people. Because then you can't tell, you know, the church then was small, all of them because you know, everybody's stuff. And that's how you grow. But in a big church, I mean, you could be sitting next to an ax murderer and you wouldn't know it. Do you know? You could hide there and a drug addict or bad marriage. Well, yeah, no, unless, yeah, yeah. And the relationship with them.So but the point is, we've made our own train, get on the train. Okay. Sorry, I lost my train of thought.Anyway, so but this is so serious, you know, and I don't mean to be flipped with it. I tend to get very colloquial, and, you know, but that's just because I want to, I want to make sure people, my brothers and sisters are realizing I don't have an agenda. I'm not trying to be somebody I am. I'm desperate to fulfill my calling. Right. And it? My, you know, I, I don't want to get into that. But so that book restoration, preparing for his fullness, discusses this. All right. And we have to make sure we have to get along with the Lord, we need to repent, not only for what we've allowed happening in our nation, in the murdering of 60 million children, right. Not only do we need to repeat for repent for all of that stuff, but we need to get along with Jesus in a way we've never done before. All right,I'm hearing that I'm, you know, as I'm seeing different people leaders out there speaking, it's amazing how many are saying the same thing or saying, you know, it's really getting down to where it's one on one, it's in that closet, in that bedroom, and that on that couch, wherever you would out in the world, Lord Jesus, you know, just you and him. Yeah, that's it. I mean, that we've gotten away from that so much.Yeah. And that's the answer across the board. Because you can't, you know, it's the anointing that breaks the yoke, you can't you know, if they came to this, Lord, you know, we can't cast this demon out. Right. And he said These come out by prayer and fasting. So there's an element of diligence involved. He doesn't want robots. Right? He wants a family.So, so looking at good and evil in life, then everything we tend to be doing here. You know, is found in intimacy on the other hand, this is pure intimacy. Yeah. Client mystery. Hmm. So if you go climb a tree, which tree are you climbingYeah, day, and climbing that tree. That's a whole nother teaching there. It's like, you know, some people, they have a religious experience, they feel the warm cookies off the presence of the Lord or something. Right. And they that's Christianity for the rest of our life.Yeah. And they never get baptized in the Holy Ghost, they never come to the next level. They never spend time alone with him. And it's just once a while they read the Bible and feel good about themselves. And that's, that's the bulk of Christianity. I hate to say it, but and we can't do that. And then another now that next level is people going to church all the time being diligent, you know, and doing this stuff. And they're still not alone in the Jesus lot. And, and we get it. I mean, I get, it so hard for a lot of people sometimes. Oh, yeah, five kids, you know, job all day. It's not easy. No, it's not to say that it is easy. It's not easy, but that's what's most important.Well, and what you know, in one sense, it's easy because if you get to a certain point, and you say, Lord, I can't, I can't do what I'm supposed to do. I'm, I'm weak and worn out. There's too much at Hill and you I lay it at your feet and he lifts it. This Christianity either says supernatural or bunk, right? If you're not having the supernatural in your space, something is Wrong. You know, now that's a radical statement for many Christian. But check this out. Remember the two young men I said, bring me back to writing Wow, this is God, I remember thatGuys gee did I used to use the 70s back for an excuse, you know, now I can use senior moment. Let's a friend that I have been disciplining him and his family for years now. He came to me one day just desperate. He says, You know, I hear about all these miracles that you've seen. And in my second book is my testimony that all these over-the-top miracles. Yeah, but I won't go into that because it is way over the top. But it's, you know, it's the truth. So he says, How come I don't have those kinds of miracles? 40 years and the truth? I've done it all done it everything I can they say I'm supposed to do never even had a prophetic word or dream. Right. So what am I doing wrong? And I said, well, when's the last time I rhetorically asked two questions, actually asked three, the last one not being rhetorical. I said, when's the last time you spent three hours praying in the Spirit? Right, before you get answers, and When's the last time you spent two hours praying in the Spirit? Before you get answers, andWhen's the last time you spent one hour praying in the Holy Ghost praying in tongues. And he thought about it because I've never done I said try to get back to me. But two days later, he called me ranting. He was going off. You're not gonna believe what happened. And he was so excited, just ready to pop it out. And he had his first elaborate dream, prophetic dream, you know, when it's God and when it's too much pepperoni, right. And he is he went into he described it to me the whole time. He's talking Lord's giving me the interpretation. And so I won't go into it, but it was elaborate. I mean, it was so obvious what it was. And it was like a what they call a poltergeist in the world, you know, a legion if you will. A stronghold. Very in their house. We all knew something was wrong. So this young man, he, he said, I've never you know, I've never done that. So he did it. And we had this he had his first breakthrough. And two days later, and it's just going on it was in the dream, he described, like a Medusa kind of thing, grotesque creature, and I knew what it was. And I And the Lord said, there is something in your home that you need to get rid of immediately. And, and I had, I was privy to it. They were missionaries before. And they had bought this wonderful, beautiful little fold-up handmade table. And it had the Mayans Zodiac on. Well, the Mayan Zodiac is like a pentagram. And it's such an established stronghold. That, you know, it's like, what a couple 1000 years of cutting the hearts out a little girl. Well. I wonder if there are any demons on that. And, and he should Lord, show me exactly what it was you get that thing out of your house right now. Right. And first of all, in the dream, he did so well. He bound the thing and went after it. And it was awesome. I mean, I'm leaving everything out. It was really, really elaborate and wonderful. But so he I think he took it out use it for target practice.Right? It's good.Yeah, it's awesome. So the exact same thing happened with one of my loved ones. He was my family, part of my family. He was raised in the church, the same thing about 40 years of obedience, you know, did everything he's supposed to do? And they a little digression. And his team's like we all do. And but he said the exact same thing. This is only like a week later, came up said the exact same thing to me. I said the exact same thing to him.And you've said the exact same thing to me.Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right. You forget that. And because you said the exact same thing. That's right. forgot about that. But so, day and a half later, after I told him you know when's the last time he prayed in tongues for an hour, right? He never did that. He did it. Dana, half later ranting on the phone, you're not gonna believe and again, exact same thing happened, it labored dream that actually saved my daughter's car from being stripped. It's too much to go into here, elaborate, very clear interpretation. And so she was able to sell that car she wanted to sell at that time, and she wouldn't have been able to if it had been stripped. And second, it's a long story, not a good neighborhood be stripped. Right. So what you're saying,Yeah, yeah, her car was being they were stripping her car, a very high-end car at the time and putting in the second market, where they call it second market, part aftermarket part. And so it would have been a piece of junk when she got it back. And the Lord showed the whole thing. Even showed the guy involved really well, it was amazing. But anyway, so you know, I know we've gone very long, but this is very important information for where we are right now. We've just crossed over all wrap it up here. We've just crossed over into that home stretch. And the bride is being given a crash course. And if you haven't noticed all the prophetic teaching guys out there. I mean, a lot of them are doing that in-time stuff. And that's, that's appropriate. Definitely. But even the teaching prophets are saying all the same things. They're all getting the same stuff. Right?And they're not calling it Hey, what did you get this week? Oh, I got this. And this. No, it's, I mean, I'm getting that stuff. And I'm not anywhere near that. And that's seeing in my spirit, and I'm like, then I hear somebody saying, I'm like, wow, that's what I'm hearing.Yep. Like the 90% thing. I was talking about that front end of it. So he's going to have us on the same page, because we have the mind of Christ, and the heart of the Father, hopefully, that's my constant prayer. And I, I encourage my brothers and sisters, to ask continually ask the Lord, for the mind of Christ, and the Father's heart. Keep asking for wisdom, and Revelation, in relation to these things. Be but most of all, just being intimate. spend time alone with him. Check the places in your life where you're eating from the evil tree. And it all seems so good. And ask him to show you those places where you're doing religion, instead of Jesus. There is a place of breakthrough, there is a place where you can step into the supernatural, and you need it, you're going to really need it really fast. You do need it right now. We all need it. Right now we need to be able to stand in the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. We need to be able to pray for someone to have them get healed. What a concept. You know, these signs shall follow them that believed. Think of that statement first for a minute, these signs shall follow them that believe in my name, they will be with new tongues, they'll cast out demons. Right? they'll lay hands on the sick, they shall recover. If they take in any poisonous thing. It won't hurt them. You know, these signs shall follow them that believe. Well, people say well, I just don't believe that. Well, then they're not for you. You don't get them. So it's pretty simple. Yeah.Well then wrap this up in prayer then. I mean, that actually sounded like a great prayer right there. Yeah, really. Let's just close in prayer. And till next time,Yes, Lord, God, thank you so much for who you are and how you are. Thank you that you're not like us. Not even remotely like us except in the image. We're created in your image. Lord, we repent. We repent for being distracted. We repent on behalf of our nation, we stand in the gap. Lord, please have mercy. And lift your hand up judgment off our nation, Lord, and purge our ranks. Let the tears be harvested. But we repent order and for distraction. Let me interrupt this prayer for a minute. If there's any of you out there that don't know the Lord, you don't know Jesus. She never did that. He's a lot of Yeah, he's been chasing you your whole life and you know it. And you have now a sophisticated justification system. La la la la la la la. He's calling, he loves you, he's crazy about you, and he just wants you. And I want you to ask Him to forgive your sins. And they come into your life and be the Lord of your life. You can do it alone with him. You don't need me or anyone else to help you with that. But then find a place of fellowship, so that you can find out what's really in the instruction manual. Okay. Lord, coming back to this prayer, Lord, we ask that you would move by your Holy Spirit in and through and around your bride internationally. That you would rise within your believers rise up, both in and upon and descend upon your bride internationally that she the body of Christ would stand up. That is, your body would stand up your people would stand up and harvest them or make disciples and not be distracted by ministry or Madison and Avenue renditions of it, and that you would help us get back to intimacy with you and moving in the power. Pour out your spirit. Pour out your power, Lord, as you promised, that you would do in the last days pouring out your Spirit on all flesh, and that we might harvest the or edify our brothers and sisters and be a joy to your heart. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.If you would go to Amazon and check out the book restoration, preparing forcefulness. It's by Rick Willis Norris.

Episode NotesYou can connect with Rick at:https://www.ricknorrismusic.net/Youtube Channel :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOu_fMZ9XX37jIa9UveyzQHis Books are available atRestoration Preparing for His Fullness   https://amzn.to/3k1GwvCWhen Heaven Speaks Out Loud   https://amzn.to/3k1pj5v The body of Christ will soon stand and "prepare the way of the Lord", harvest the earth, and be the "more than conquerors" God's word sassy we are!.  Yet, many Christians today have been given into fear and passivity. It's time for a change, these are the answers as to why so many Christians are struggling so desperately to find their place in the Kingdom.Alright, Rick, hey, great to have you, Rick.  A good friend of mine and just one thing on your bio. is you know, you've got Mr. Biloxi Vox is it Biloxi box? How do you say bluesy, bluesy Vox, you are a blues artist?Well, I'm considered Yeah, vocally, I go there a lot, came up through the r&b ranks, and in on grew up, you know, through the clubs and did the circuit and then the constants are good in blah, blah, blah. And my roots always come out in a lot of this stuff. I write and record and produce and perform 40 years in the business. You've seen a lot, I'm sure well, over actually. Quite a bit. Or you're still a young guy. I like it. Yeah, yeah, stop. With the girl do stop bringing it up. Like, I'm glad you accept this invitation, sit down and talk a little bit about the sacred place, but especially what we're going through in this day and age. And just for those watching. This is my closet. This is where my clothes are nothing fancy. But this is my secret place, a place that I commune with God that I see it and listen and look to hear from what he says work. And so, you know, hey, wherever you can find a place to hear God. Quietly without distractions. Go do it. That's what the Bible says. And that's what I'm doing. So what we're talking about today, is how God is speaking to his people. As they're in the secret place as they're spending time with the Lord. And what is he saying during this time of quarantine, if you're viewing this or you're hearing this podcast 20 years from now, or 10 years from now we are in we're in a major quarantine pandemic virus is going on this country in this world? It's pretty much shut down everything except hospitals and grocery stores, and some takeout restaurants. So where we're at in this, I'd like to hear from those that are really seeking after God's heart, in his voice as to what he's saying, you know, all across the globe, actually, whether it's in business, in politics, and government, in church, and religion, and just to hear what he's telling this world. So that's why I brought Rick and, Rick, you've got a couple of books out you've written but the one that I've been reading is the restoration book. And which you wrote back in 2008, I believe 2006 2008. And just the first chapter. So you, I mean, it's like I'm reading, something you wrote that long ago, is like spot on today that we're dealing with. So what is God saying to you right now, in this in this time, we're in what's been saying to you about personally, and then saying to the church, and then saying, what do we need to do out of that? Well, I know that's a lot of questions. You may repeat.  fine. Yeah, no, I, I am dragging my knuckles into the 21st century. So you might have to meander back in here. Seriously. You know, the main thrust of where we are right now, a lot of there's a lot of commentaries, a lot of prophetic guys out there. saying it's this, it's that it means this it means that and some are on and I'm sorry that summer, you know, just doing fluff and but, you know, let me put it this way. When Jesus you know, when he was 12 he went into the temple, right and chided and exposed and humiliated that fat cat theologians hanging around the temple at that time, with revelation way over their heads and they were astonished. Well, he, you know, he went home and he realized what I've got a hold, you know, for the rest of his until he was 30 he might as well been holding a full braided bridle of 12 Clydesdales that wanted to run, you know, all the revelation wisdom and zeal you can imagine why it says, the zeal The Lord has consumed. And he had to hold that in till he was 30 Well, when he came out, you know, he went into the wilderness to be tempted when he came out of the wilderness, you would think, to start his formal ministry, who would think the first thing out of his mouth would be pretty, pretty heavy on his heart and the main thrust of what he where he was going to go with the first thing he said out of his mouth was repent. And, you know, that's an archaic word to us today. You say repent to the average person and they in the go different places it mentally but the general you know, subconscious imagery is on, you know, dirty homeless guy with a big placard walking back and forth in front of City Hall or something right, movies have done good for breaking that habit. Oh, yeah. And so they've relegated that to, you know, something irrelevant to our culture. And it's the most relative, I mean, the relevant thing we, we need to do it well, so anyway, that's the big picture. And why would he lift his hand of protection? why that's big question. You know, like, why did he live to lift his hand of protection? And, you know, he's always done that. You know, the Bible, the Old Testament says, These things were written for our admonition upon I mean, New Testament says these things were written referring to the Old Testament these things were written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world have come so what it's really saying there is that hey, you're supposed to learn from our mistakes and any over and over redundantly he dealt with Israel this way. You know, he would bless Israel so heavy, they would get distracted. busy. self-centered, self-focus, myopic, right? Like I always say it it's easy to kill a whitetail deer from trees dang they never look up. Right? Yeah. And that's you know, and so, Mister what I call Mr. Damage Satan. He's, he's up in that tree, you know, and most people are just, they're just going about their business, fixing this and making that being somebody replaces Ah, spiritual warfare in higher places. Yeah, he's up there. You know, and I, in one of my recent videos, on one of my other channels, I mentioned that, you know, when Satan fell, you know, well, let me back up and say, you know, people will say, Well, yeah, what's going on right now is Satan's getting kicked out there's war in heaven and Satan getting kicked out of the third heaven? No, no, he was already kicked out of the third. He's when he fell he he said they set up in the second heaven because there's a they could block the prayers of the saint and set up stronghold now. For those that might not follow that talking point, I guess, are just the three types of heaven. Heavens. Yeah, right. Paul mentions that and then second Heaven is where powers and principalities rule. Yes third heaven is where Jesus is.Yeah, okay. And a lot you'd be surprised that many Christians don't have a clue about this right there in front of them the whole time. That's why Paul said we battle not against flesh and blood but against powers principalities, spiritual wickedness and heavenly places. And that last word in the Greek is crowd Cosmo crowd ploy. And I you know, it sound important, I just had this fancy seriously, it's all Greek for all these years.But seriously, and this is hardly the time for levity with what's going on on the planet. So I have to watch myself. I'm a combat veteran, I found out humor helps keep the troops morale up. But so David said, when i sin, the heavens became like bread. Right. So if we break the communications God can't get through because he's delegated While he, ultimately he can, of course, you know, lift his hand and protection, but what we're looking at is God is delegated free will to us, because we have responsibility. We're being groomed to rule and reign with Christ. So we have a privileged mandate to bring those strongholds down. Right in the second half. That's what Paul is talking about. Right? He says, you know, we, we, after he says that about tearing down the stronghold, you know, and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. Right. So that's part of our mandate is to bring all that down. And of course, people say, Well, if Satan was completely defeated at the cross, right, how come the devil is alive and well in my neighborhood? Yeah, good question. Like, why was there a snake in the garden? We're not gonna go there. I can break that down. I do that in my first book. But the point is, God gave is so wise. He did two things. He's grooming us to rule and reign with Christ forever. Right. So this is our privileged participation in the fight. This is our training ground. Yes, it's an apprenticeship. And a guy named Paul Billheimer, one of the brilliant theologians Paul Billheimer wrote a book many years ago. And he will he wrote, several, you know, don't waste your sorrows. And But anyway, that's what he addresses is, this is our apprenticeship, right? destined for the throne is the is the book. And it's amazing. And so we have this privilege of tearing down these strongholds there, you know, it's like a map of operation. That's what spiritual warfare is, is about, well, if you buy into fear, you step out of out of faith, you step out of faith and faith, that which is not a faith, it's sin. And of course, there's grace. You know, as we grow through learning how that work. There's a lot but lots of fear in this world right now. Oh, man, and that's why I'm going on I know,  And so, but But anyway, so what's happening right now is very pragmatic, really, spiritually and tangibly, we're supposed to be on our knees doing what is called identification of repentance. As John Dawson in his book, "Taking our cities for God" wrote, identification, repentance is we are identifying with the sins of our nation, which are many. And we're asking the Lord to forgive us. We're repenting and behalf of our nation, to bring us back to where we were when at our inception. You know, I can prove to you that we were a Christian nation, or that's a popular thing right now. Oh, yeah. Nobody, nobody wants to hear that.Well, what's amazing, your God is calling us to repent, at the same time. The other side is beating the daylights out of Christianity and marriage and, and those foundational principles that we believe in. And it's through media, it's, I mean, we see it, you can't turn the television on without feeling like you know, being a Christian is a bad thing, or being wealthy is a bad thing or, or believing that marriage is is the right way to go, man, woman only and that's a bad thing. So yeah, there's definitely a war going on, too. It's a cultural war. And the way from what I see, but you know, we're fighting two types of wars. You know, we got the spiritual part, but we also have where we're on the earth, trying to do good.Yeah, yeah. Well, it always, you know, ends up on terra firma. whatever is going on in this in the heavenly will manifest here. Very few people ever put that together. They don't press in far enough to breakthrough.Explain that just a little bit deeper.You know, CS Lewis. Right. First time you read the New Testament before he got you know, saved. He said, Oh, I see. The universe is at war. Right. And Churchill, he saw the connection. Churchill. Why would he quote, what we've been talking About here in Ephesians, as the allies are crossing the channel to go invade Normandy and World War Two, he quoted we battle not against flesh and blood, but against power of principalities, spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. Well, why it sounds like he's, he's endorsing nonphysical combat. In other words, it, you know, it sounds like a contradiction. Well, what he was saying is now we're going to the source baby. They knew, yeah, me people don't know this. Hitler was in radically into the occult. I'm talking Satan. He had necromancy going on to add human bones in the rituals, all of that's historically documented. And many and many of his cadre were involved in. And so he, he, he had the spirit of the world. And the devil himself helping him to sail take over the planet. Sounds familiar? It sounds for me. Yeah. And, yeah, so the bottom line is they knew what they were dealing with. So in answer to that, you know, we're, we're in a war, Satan hates your guts wants to kill you. Yeah, that sounds trite. And but this is real. This is real combat. And it's actually a privilege to be involved.You, you say it's kind of trite. But that, you know, when you read the word, and it says, we're in a spiritual battle, I don't. I mean, I look at that, and I go, hold on just saying it. Let's you just love this. You set your clocks not to go off and you get a reminder that I got to drink my water. Got a drink of water, so many gallons a day or whatever. Oh, you're on a regimen. Yeah, I'm just trying to be healthy. You know,I got it. Hey, when I said try it, what I meant was that cliche, not what we're talking about, obviously.Well, you know, as I look at that, look at reading that, and experience, this culture we're in you, it really brings it home, when you look at that, and you say this is some of the stuff we're coming against right now. Is so above our heads, that logic can explain it sometimes. And you're like, this is just crazy. And that's what the second book is, I'm trying to reveal in the second book. And so as we as regular Christian, I call them regular Christians, you know, we that when I say regular Christians, this just my own thinking, I got you is that we're kind of like this when I was out at the store, one of the local hardware stores, you had people that were covered with masks and gloves, and just like, thought we were under attack. And then you had other people that were just walking with no protection and people of older age, which are more susceptible to what's going on to the war that's going that's attacking the older people, mainly, they were walking around with no protection, it was kind of like, it was a surreal situation where you had two different worlds in the same space, two levels of fear, two levels of fear. One may have not been fear at all just like yeah, that's what I meant. You know, I was one of those crazies that didn't wear masks and gloves and I'm like, you know, I guess I could be bad for that but at the same time you know, I try not to use religion as any kind of protector but I don't know it's just it's I wasn't going to succumb to the fear that was being perpetrated upon the people to this country you know, that we're seeing really pushed on this country's a spirit of fear on this country has gripped the world and at some point, you look at it you go How much is that is really manufactured fear and how much of it is actually you know, be smart wash your hands, don't cough in people's faces, you know, don't lick your hand and smacks me in the face something you know some stupid just drip just protect yourself because our bodies have to fight off naturally or God creator bodies to fight viruses. No and healthy people can fight the virus and it actually helps them from what I understand is because you create an antibody and you in your body naturally fights it off. It's the people that can't because their immune system and their bodies are struggling. Anyway, did I go off a path there but anyway, it just was it struck me Well,no, it's not. That's not going off the path because What you just touched on is one of the most important things that you can know as a Christian or period. But an unbeliever is not going to even give it credence. So, as as a believer, let me just say, to the body of Christ, that the only weapon I think of this now, the only weapon that the devil have is fear. Now, that doesn't mean you can't use other people against you that are in neutral. You know, if they're, if they don't know the Lord, they're neutral, he can jump in and drive around, try running over, you know, but you know what I'm saying so, so, but the only thing he has is fear. And I'm, this is gonna sound a little over the top, but I am in a way, deal with it. My life has been over the top, I mean, just miracles on miracle. And, in the process, I have had to deal with everything from principalities, to emps in the spirit realm, you know, spiritual warfare on a scale that most people don't even know exists. Even most Christians. discerning a spirit, the real gift not, not the one that a lot of people claim they have in the church. You know, where, anyway, I won't go there. But so, the, you know, I've had, um, come on, and do things come at me and do things that are, you know, in the physical realm.What did Paul mean, when he said he wrestled with demons and emphasis? Will you ask most people, even those Christians to go, Well, he we had issues, we all have issues. That's not what he was talking about. And you'd be surprised what he was talking about. There are physical attacks. I mean, I, I've kept a little survey personal survey going for years about people who have had certain I don't use a word. Well, the same pattern of attacks, physical attacks, from the fall, the fallen ones, it demons. And they all describe the exact same thing. Hundreds of right,yeah, there's, I mean, I've heard that many people, there's one guy I listen to occasionally. I'll think of it in a minute. But he, he talks about that very thing being physically attacked by the demonic.Yeah. And most Christians are so nominal in their, in their, they lack intimacy with God, that's the best way to say it. They lack intimacy with the Spirit of the Lord. Because they just haven't spent time with them. You know, they, they do Christianity and go to church, they're involved in the church, they do stuff in the church. And it's, you know, and they pray they, you know, have a little devotional time and, you know, that kind of thing, but they don't press.There's not a massive encounter. What was the difference between  there's a difference between believing and, and even pursuing? But and what you'd the word you used, and that's an encounter, you want an encounter, and you pursue an encounter, eventually, you're going to breakthrough, and he's going to show up, and, you know, he'd blew my little game out of the water. I had a sovereign conversion, I was a criminal. And he showed up. Oh, and it was a whole nother ballgame then. 

You can connect with Rick at:https://www.ricknorrismusic.net/His Books are available at:Restoration Preparing for His Fullness   https://amzn.to/3k1GwvCWhen Heaven Speaks Out Loud   https://amzn.to/3k1pj5v This is a continuation of the restoration series. And today we're going to be talking with Rick Norris, about two trees in the garden. Now, I had read a book by Rick Joyner, it was called there were two trees in the garden. I mentioned that to Rick and it kind of sparked a conversation that we sat down and recorded. And so one to read something out of the book, though, I thought was very telling and actually, Rick Norris, my good friend, we'll go into that a little more as we talk but talks about.Bonhoeffer said at one point is, is what was said of the righteous Abel, Cain and Abel can now be said, A Bonhoeffer though he is dead, he still speaks his life continues to challenge true believers to rise up and boldly stand against the darkness of their time. Now it may seem clear that the Germans churches, superficial understanding of redemption, opened the door to this terrible deception, meaning, we're talking about the tree of good and evil. The good that is of man will never redeem him from the evil that is in him, it is still from the same tree, its poison will result will always result in death. The system which appeared so good to the German Christians shocked the civilized world with its evil deeds, but its nature had actually not changed.The good in man is just the other face of the evil in man, Satan is capable of using either good or evil as a tool to bring about his purposes. So when we eat of the tree of good and evil, we see what that can produce. So the question is, are we eating from the tree of life? And if we are, what does that look like? So I hope you enjoy the conversation we have this is part one of part two. And so if you like it, shoot me an email at remnant revolution610@gmail.com. So I hope you enjoy it. And thanks for listening. We were talking the other day, and the trees in the garden came up and I thought I'd make a great segment. And the first tree that we have is what? Well, the first tree is the tree of life. And that of course is the lord. And any really what seemed to be a tree of death, which is that cross was the tree of life in it. I'm speaking metaphorically Now, of course, the other tree is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And years ago, many years ago now, by some standards, Rick Joyner wrote a book called to trees in the garden. And he points out what I'm going to share. And it's I don't know why that book set for 10 years, he wrote it, like in the 80s, I think late 80s. And, and it sat for like, a decade. And then when it was time, the Lord does bone that thing took off and, and Rick was an airline pilot, commercial airline pilot, he just well heard me want to use this, you know, as he should lay things at his feet. See what he wants to do with it like we're doing here now. But um, so the bottom line is, he wrote the book, and he puts it better than I can. But it's a very important thing for us to be prepared to understand these two things, these two trees. The premise of that whole teaching, not just Rick's but in general, is that the two trees the first tree, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, of course, in the garden, the Lord said don't eat of it. It's poisoned. It'll kill you, basically, with what he was saying. And the reason it's poison is that the good of the tree is one with Life in the tree and that the knowledge is one. The good and the evil are one. And to give you an idea how one they are the sap in a tree, the root system, there's only one root system in any tree. And it's and so whatever's in the tree, genetically, is, in fact, one. So the good is evil as the evil and the evil can look really good. And the best way Yeah, and the best way to depict that the best way to make people understand the importance of that is that it what is the most? How good can the good of the evil tree, the tree, the tree of knowledge of good and evil? How good can I get? How good can it be? If it's good enough, by worldly standards day, and you know, the day to day life standard? It can we can take it hook line and sinker as being from God. it's inconceivable for us say that again? Well, best way to say it is, and this is hard for people to receive if Mother Teresa, I mean, you think what's the goodest thing that you could run into on the planet? Goodness, the good, the good thing that you can think of, for lack of a better way of saying it is, what comes to mind for me is Mother Teresa. You know, and I don't know whose mother she is not mine. Like I would say, but anyway, so I give her that anybody that spends 80 years in the gutters of Calcutta, right, with the poor, helping the poor, and helping them the terminally ill and the socially rejected and, you know, there's that's love and love covers a multitude of sins. So there's that. But putting that aside for the depiction of what, what I'm trying to say? What if a God never led her to do what she did? What if, you know, there's many it says in the word to as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the children of God. Right? He put it that way. It's like on top like a stipulation. Put the emphasis on day, right? We say, do many led by the Spirit of God, the children got to Scripture, it's the truth. Well, what if you say, to as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the children of God? Oh, yeah. That's kind of student everybody else? Oh, well, maybe you know, and I don't know where to draw that line. I'm not trying to be inordinately harsh for the sake of also Terek esoteric austerity, right? I don't know what that meant. But it sounded sounded. Still can't spell illiterate after all that study. But anyway, so. So if God never led her to do that, and she did it out of just youthful zeal, and, you know, love for other kids, and a pure heart and everything, but she went out there and she was gonna do something, you know because she loved God. And she had an experience with the Lord and whatever. And she went out and did what she did. But he never led her to do it. And he had a whole nother it says, he has a destiny for us that he chose before the foundation of the world. Right. So if he had a destiny for her, maybe he wanted to be a Sunday school teacher, maybe he wanted her to be a teacher, or something else. So he might have had a destiny for her completely different than what she ended up doing. And so that good that she did, in that context, you know, would be evil when it see we have no concept of that. That's like we go. How could anything like that be evil, and that's where you get into love covers a multitude of sins, but even that's the grace of God. You know, it's  about being intimate with the Lord. That's what this is all about. We have entered a season on the planet where we have to be Very, very intimate, very, very close to the Lord. That's the bottom line, everything else is secondary. We're not going to fulfill our destiny, we're going to go and do good stuff. Right? For not careful. And the only way to be able to discern what is God and what is good, you know, we like take one of the O's out and capitalize the G and put it on what we're doing. Right. All right. Well, you know, the Lord helped me build this ministry know, you built it by manipulation, you know, people that that's what you want to say, let me put it this way. years ago, I got this thing from the Lord. And he said, you know, 90% of what I mean, the revelation you get from this revelation of the two trees, is that 90% this is what I got early on, years ago. 90% of what's built in the name of Jesus Christ, He never commissioned. That's, that's insane. That percentage, and when I got it, I went now that's got to be me. That's I'm tripping. I must be, I must think a little higher, higher myself than I thought. Do you think that and I watched myself real close. I was almost felt guilty for thinking, who do I think I am? Anyway. Alright, so. And then, a few years later, Rick Joyner, again, said the exact same as reading one of his things early on, I think it was the harvest. He's written some wonderful literature. Most of its some of its didactic tutorial, teaching prophetic teaching, but a lot of it is analogous metaphorical, that kind of thing. Anyway. He's he said that exact thing in his book is 90% of what's built today in the name of Jesus, and I didn't talk to him. All right, yeah. God never commission. And they went, you know, cuz I respect the man. And I, yeah, I said, Well, maybe I'm not crazy grant are puffed up. And so then, about 10 years later, another author, John Eldridge, who I take issue on some things we could talk about that sometime. But the good author wrote the very same thing, independent, both of us 90% out of the mouth, and two or three witnesses, the thing is to establish with the words. So think of that for a minute, wait a minute, well, how could that happen? How could you have 90%? of everything gets built in the name of Jesus, he never commissioned? How could that happen? Well, the reason is, is because we lost, this is may seem like a rabbit trail. But this is, this is important. I'm sorry.Well, if you if you look at that, and you're thinking, well, then is all this stuff. Bad? Like what we're doing right here, I'm stepping out and creating this, you know, session of talking about things. You know, God didn't send an angel or, I mean, I felt it in most my spirit to do this, you know, does it? How does somebody rationalize? Well, maybe I'm not doing what actually God said to do, which is what you're saying? Yeah. Like, how do we? How do you know what the 10% is? And maybe you can get to the answer as to Is it that bad if we are doing? I don't know if I'm getting questions out, like,Well, no, I get it. And yeah, you may play and the question is, it puts the simply the question is, how do you know the difference? Between the zeal and desire to do something, and being led to do something? Well, I know you and I, we've had hours of discussions on this kind of thing. And I know your heart, he knows your heart. And every time you try to walk away from this, it just come back. It's right in your face to do it. Right. And there's a difference between what you're doing and what, how we got in this condition.The reason we got in this condition is because we haven't been intimate with Jesus. Now, I say we because we've all nobody has arrived. You know, this all can sound very condescending. on my part, right, who do I think I am again? anyway? You know, how are you the 10%? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So and but intimacy is the answer. And what we do is we, if even if we're landed, do something, let's say you're in the 10%, that that is led by the Spirit of the Lord. What happens is you go out, you do the thing, you get gone, you get some friends, and everybody gets going, and you're doing, it's going, Yeah, and the thing gets going, and it perpetuates itself. And then you start to worship the ministry of the Lord rather than the Lord of the minister. And so even that can go sell spiritually and look really good. You know, I love Mario Marella. What he says he, we make it all about big-screen skinny jeans and fog machines, right? We left first-century Christianity A long time ago. Right? But so how did we get in this condition? There are other factors. And this is the main one in my book,Restoration, Preparing for His Fullness, That book is the first book I wrote, is about a great deal of this covers in great detail how we got in this condition and how to get out and what to do to, you know, clean things up and get the bride ready. We have to get ready, man, we're on the cusp, but everybody's feeling it. Everybody knows that even the world Lynx, even unbelievers are going wow, that weird stuff though, all those Christians are talking about happening. What do we do now, you know, like I said in one of my other videos, but how we got here is until the biggest temptation to church ever faced, right? The Church at large over history. in history, the greatest temptation that church ever came up against was being legitimized. And by the time Constantine came as the emperor of Rome, Christianity had pretty much the, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was so powerful miracles, they were still raising the dead into the fourth century. People don't realize that. I mean, small remnants, by the fourth century, they were pretty much getting, you know, the church, which became the Vatican was wiping that out as fast as they could, because they had a plan. Talk about not the good of the tree. But anyway, so. But the point is, at the end of the second century, beginning of the third,, and he realized that God and Christianity had pretty much destroyed Rome took over wrong, all right. And it was politically expedient for him to be a Christian. And so he offered Christian fathers, you know, legitimacy to be a state religion. Well, as soon as they became a state religion he took over, and even the programs that we have today with the altar, and the one-man show one guy doing all the talk, I tell everybody what's going on? Don't that's not the first century. We got all that from him from Constantine. How many people know that? Does God still show up yet? At our services, you know, one-man show or not? He still shows up. Why is that? Well, he's his bride is there is remnants there, not everybody's on? And His Word is there. Right? He's going to honor his word. He's going to go after his bride and try to edify his bride. Right.So he can still do it. Well, yeah, it's through the 80%. But it's not exactly what he was hoping for.Absolutely. It was we have no idea just how, how far off the mark we Yeah, yeah, we just don't. It's by that's why the scripture says, of course, you know, because of his great mercies. We're not consumed. He's way more loving and tolerant. And you talk about enlightened tolerance. Boy, those people on that other side of the aisle aren't really they don't next podcast. We won't get into that. All right. So but yeah, you can't really even get close to that kind of enlightened tolerance. But, so, the point is, when you know, we this is how we got here. The body of christ I say has drifted from the first century to almost the beginning. And when the Vatican got ahold of the churches and made it one church with one guy, you know, the one-man show up there pontificating From then on, we went into, I mean, what it's the fruit of that. The Dark Ages, rightly named Dark Ages.Yeah. Because when I was in, in high school, I went to Europe for a month. And we went to some churches like Denmark and England and places like that. We'd go into this church and had the, you know, the little corner shrine thing up there where the guy would sit in or stand. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like, and he was the only one with the Bible. Right. Everybody else was kind of sitting in the pew. And, and absorbing from me. Yeah, absolutely. And, and it's not, you're not. Some people may take this as Oh, you're just bashing pastors and people like that?You're not right. Yeah.That will lead me But yeah, I'll explain that because people are probably going off the deep end maybe. Well, sure. He's wearing you say you're saying pastors are, you know, needed?Yeah. Well, no, here's, here's the deal. See, the fivefold ministry? Is the answer. 

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It's my prayer that God shift your perspective to see things through His Eyes, Giving You His Mind to Hold the Thoughts Feelings and Purposes of His Heart, Hear the Good Shepherd Voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”‭‭John‬ ‭10:27‬ ‭ so You Know Those Things That Please Him and Have a Desire to Want to Do Those Things He Directs You to Do.‬‬In Today's World Many People Are Self Absorbed and Self Focused. Culture Pushes a Focus on M. A What's in It for Me Mentality. However, God has a Different Instruction. God's says: Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Philippians ‭2:3-4‬ Another way to put it is…Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, and in a True Sense of Humility, think of others as better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. Philippians ‭2:3-4‬ This can only be done by letting the Holy Spirit guide your live, when you habitually let the Holy Spirit respond to and control you; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh, the human nature without God. Galatians ‭5:16‬ God instructs in Philippians 2:3 To HUMBLE yourselves, under the mighty hand of God, that at the right time he will honor you.1 Peter ‭5:6‬ You humble yourself by putting God first.Putting God First is an Act of Humility that GOD HONORS; He Tells you: Humble yourself, to Show Humility, to Lower your Estimation of Yourself, what you can do in your own strengths, and resources and talents. This Happens by Being FULLY DEPENDENT o on the LORD – Dismiss Self-Reliance upon self, self-governance, and EMPTYING your carnal ego. This EXALTS the LORD as your ALL IN ALL and prompts the Gift of His Fullness in You as a Believer.1. You Can Rest Assured of Your True Value in Christ Jesus, As God's Own Child. And that is what you are! 1 John 3:12. Draw Your Energy from God and Not from Man for Others. God alone is your source. You are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus, draw your energy from Him. He gives you Strength for ALL THINGS, Who Empowers You by Infusing Inner Strength into You, Making You Self-Sufficient in Christ Sufficiency. So You're Ready for Anything and Equal to Anything through Him. Philippians ‭4:13‬ When you put others first instead of you, looking out for their own best interest just as you would your own; then your for filling the Word of God.In Isaiah 58:1-12 there's an example of a pious Me Centered generation.No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people. Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help. 1. Then your salvation will come like the dawn, 2. and your wounds will quickly heal. 3. Your godliness will lead you forward, 4. and the glory of the Lord will protect you from behind. 4. Then when you call, the Lord will answer. ‘Yes, I am here,' he will quickly reply. 5. Remove the heavy yoke of oppression. Stop pointing your finger and spreading vicious rumors! Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. 6. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, 7. and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon. 8. The Lord will guide you continually, 9. giving you water when you are dry 10. and restoring your strength. 11. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring. Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities. Then 12. you will be known as a rebuilder of walls and a restorer of homes.‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭58:6-12‬ ‬

1. God is for you.Then In Romans 8:31 the Holy Spirit writing through the Apostle Paul asked a question. If God is for you, who can be successful against you? The Answer Is No One, Since God Is for You. This is an Affirmation the Holy Spirit.Then to Make Sure You Understand That God Is for You the Holy Spirit Reminds you that: God who did not spare even his own son, but gave Him up force all, and He Also, along with Him, Graciously Gives You All Things. (Romans 8:32) Since God has manifested so Much Love to draw you and call you to Faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, Who is all the while effectually at work in you, energizing and creating in you the power and desire, both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.‭‭(Philippians‬ ‭2:13‬)‬The Holy Spirit is making very clear that no one can bring a charge against God's elect, You His Chosen Child. When It Is God Who Justifies You, Declaring You Blameless and Putting You in the Right Relationship with Himself. (Romans 8:33)The Holy Spirit then asked the question in verse 34: Who Is the One Who Condemns you? In Asking the Question He's Telling you that No One Condemned you. For in Romans 8:1-2, The Spirit of God Tells You Directly and Frankly: There Is No Condemnation, No Guilty Verdict, No Punishment for you herein Christ Jesus, Who Believe in Him as your personal LORD and Savior. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus, the Lord your new be, Has Set You Free from the law of sin and death.What the law could not, that is overcome sin and remove its penalty and its power, because it was weak by man's flesh in nature without the Holy Spirit, God did: He Sent His Own Son in the Likeness of Sinful Man As an Offering for Sale. And Thus He Condemned Sin in the Flesh, He Subdued and Overcame in the Person of His Own Son, Jesus Christ. So Now the Just and Righteous Requirement of the Law Has Been fulfilled in you who have been born of the Spirit of God, for Now Your Life is Now Live by the Prompting in Ways of the Spirit, Guided by His Power. (Romans 8:3-4, John 3:5-7)It is are no longer living in the flesh, controlled by the sinful nature, but in the Spirit, if in Fact the Spirit of God Lives in You, Directing and Guiding. The Very Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. And the Spirit Himself Testifies Confirms Together with Your Own Spirit, Assuring You That You Are a Child of God, and He is With you, For you and Acts on your Behalf. (Romans 8:9-10, 17)2. God is with you.The LORD is with you, He Never Leaves you Nor Forsakes you, He Tells you to be Strong and Courageous. He commands you, to Be strong, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:5,9; Hebrews 13:5) So you can take comfort and be encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The LORD is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm. I will not fear or dread or be terrified. What can man do to me? Psalms 27:1, 118:6, Hebrews ‭13:6‬ You can say, with David: THE LORD is my Light and my Salvation–whom shall I fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life–of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm ‭27:1‬ The LORD is on my side and takes my part, He is among those who help me; therefore I see my desire established upon those who hate me. It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Psalm ‭118:7-8‬ 3. God Acts on your behalfFor since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seenseen a God besides You, Who works and shows Himself active on behalf of him who earnestly waits for Him!. Isaiah ‭64:4‬ As it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for you who love Him. He reveals them to you through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. I Corinthians ‭2:9-10‬ The Key is to Wait and Hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord. Psalm ‭27:14‬ When you wait for the LORD, you Expect, Look for, and Hope in Him to Renew your Strength and Power, making you ready and equal to anything through Him Infusing Inner Strength into you. For you are Filled with All the Fullness of God, who lives in you. You run and are not weary, you walk and do not faint or become tired, by virtue of you being in the LORD Jesus Christ.-Hebrews 12:1-3, Isaiah ‭40:31‬, Philippians 4:13, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 2:6God wants you to Depend and Rely on Him, to Trust in Him. – Dismiss Self-Reliance upon self, self-governance, and EMPTYING your carnal ego. This EXALTS the LORD as your ALL IN ALL and prompts the Gift of His Fullness in You as a Believer. Put Him First in everything you do. Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his Direction in ALL you Do, in all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths to take. Proverbs ‭3:5-6‬ Fix your eyes on the LORD Jesus, looking away from all that will distract to Him, looking completely away from this world – and to the upcoming redemption of your body. Hebrews ‭12:2‬

Pam Micca  is my guest on today's "A Book and a Chat". Pam  is the author of Come into His Fullness. She has been a therapist for more than twenty-five years and is an expert in the treatment of eating disorders. She is a speaker and writer on various behavioral health and spiritual growth topics. She has a powerful desire to see women overcome difficulties or barriers that prevent them from more completely appropriating the purposes that they were originally designed for. Her intimate relationship with God has sustained her through various life struggles. Ginger Smith has edited the book to insure scriptural accuracy. She is a Bible-study facilitator and mentor to her sisters in Christ. She believes that older Christian women have a responsibility to meet younger women where they are at, in order to help them understand themselves in relationship to God.