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0:00 Today on a peaceful edition of fixing the money thing.0:05 Did you know that fear is grabbing the world as we sit here through all the media broadcast and all the events happening? And, we as believers need to take a correct posture in days like0:16 this. Now, do you know of anyone that has authority over demonic influences? I think the church of Jesus Christ can weigh in on that. What do you think? Now, this is what the church is called to do.0:28 This is what this anointing is all about. When Jesus anointed you to do, be a witness of the kingdom of God, he gave you the power to represent his government in the earth realm and to destroy the0:40 works of the enemy.0:41 From Faith Life Church, Gary Kasey, and you have the authority. Now on fixing the money thing.0:51 I'm Gary Kasey, and for 9 years, we lived in a financial, chaotic, stress filled, visionless life. I cried out to1:02 God. He said, you're living like many of my people are, living in debt. He said, I want my people1:11 financial freedom is closer than you think. America's financial coach, Gary Kasim, shares the kingdom principles that changed his life, defeated his debt, and set him free.1:23 Financial problems, they're slow death. We're trying1:26 to change the way you think about money. This is Gary Kasim, fixing the money thing.1:36 Well, of course, as you know, fear is grabbing the world as we sit here through all the media broadcast and all the events happening. And we as believers need to take a correct posture in days1:48 like this. And so I felt it was imperative that we talk about it today. And I believe that caution is prudent. Of course, anytime you have something interfering with life and1:59 hurting people, you need to be prudent about that, but I don't believe panic is warranted. I don't believe panic is warranted, especially for the believer. You say, pastor, isn't this a2:11 major issue? Well, it's an issue. To put it again in perspective, we had over 600000 people die of cancer last year. We had almost 900000 people die of 900000, you know, of heart disease.2:23 And so there's all kinds of issues in life, isn't there? I mean, we we're you're faced with issues. There's there's problems. There's issues, you know, in life. But as a pastor, I need to remind2:35 you of who you are today in Christ. Right? And anything that, of course, steals, kills, and destroys is of the enemy. Now do you know of anyone that has authority over demonic influences?2:47 I think the church of Jesus Christ can weigh in on that. What do you think? I think so. But pastor, how are we gonna stop it? Well, I agree that this, I give credit to the scientists, our medical2:58 profession, you know, obviously that's, they're doing a great job, and I wanna I wanna salute them, because you know, anyone who's against disease and sickness and death is on God's side. Jesus said, if3:10 you're not against me, you're for me, and so if you work in that field, wanna salute you today. You're doing a great job, and we appreciate that. But I believe that this is the hour for the church to rise up with the3:22 authority given to it to deal with situations just like this, and I'm here to remind you today of doing that. So our scripture's Acts chapter 10 verse number3:33 38. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing a few. All.3:45 The ones that begged the most, cried the most. You bet you better check it. Look at it real close. Now in your dictionary or your vocabulary, what does the word all mean? All.3:57 Are you 1 of them? Yes. Okay. So let's just settle it. So Jesus went around and healed all who were oppressed or under the power of the devil. So who who's the problem4:09 here? The enemy. Satan is the is the author of sickness and disease. Right? But he had the power to bring an answer. Jesus went around doing good and healing all because4:21 the Bible says, God was with him. And you remember this happened at the river Jordan as the Holy Spirit descended upon him, and the power of God came upon him, and then his ministry began. Right? Right.4:33 Okay. Now, Acts chapter 1 is speaking about the church. Jesus told his disciples to not leave Jerusalem until they received this power from on high. So we find this in Acts chapter 14:45 verse 8. He said to them, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Same thing that happened to Jesus. Exactly the same power, the same Holy Spirit has come4:57 upon the church. Right? And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. So the same power has come upon you, my friend. The same authority, the same anointing has come upon5:09 you. So let's read that scripture again in the 30 eighth verse, and let's make it personal. How God has anointed me. That's what you would say. How God has anointed me with the by the holy with the holy spirit and5:21 with power, and how I go around doing good and healing all who are under the power or oppressed by the devil. Now this is what the church is called to do. This is what this anointing is all5:33 about. When Jesus anointed you to do, be a witness of the kingdom of God, he gave you the power to represent his government in the earth realm and to destroy the works of the enemy.5:46 The Bible says you shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. You shall cast demons out. You'll tread upon scorpions and serpents, meaning that the power of the enemy has no power over you. Satan has no5:57 power over you. Absolutely 0. 0. It always bothers me to hear Christians talk about how the devil's been bothering them all week. Well, it's been a tough week. The devil's been on my case. Well, have you been on his6:09 case? You see, you have the authority. He doesn't. He's gonna try to make you believe he does, but he doesn't. And, you know, so we have a problem. Either you don't know you have the authority or you don't know how to6:20 use your authority. And we have to deal with that because if we don't deal with it, the enemy's gonna deal with you. We gotta find out who we are in Christ, what the Bible says. Luke chapter 10 verse 17,6:32 then the 70 returned. Jesus sent his disciples out on a mission trip. They came back and said, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name or your authority. And he said to them, I saw Satan fall6:44 like lightning from heaven. He has no authority. Why are you so amazed? Basically is what he's saying. Behold, I give you authority. No. The authority. I give you the6:56 authority to trample on serpents and scorpions over all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall harm you. Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this that the spirits are subject to you,7:08 but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. So let's review this. You have been given authority. The Bible says you are seated with Christ in the heavenly realms. You're seated with7:19 him. You're seated with him. You're seated with him on the right hand of the father spiritually in a place of authority. You have the same authority Jesus had. He has deputized you, if you will, with7:31 his authority, anointed you with that spirit of God to go out and do exactly the same things he did. In fact, Jesus said the same things you see me do, you'll do. That's what you're that's what we're to7:43 do. Right? He said, I give you authority to trample on scorpions and serpents. I like the word trample. I mean, when you walk, you're not concerned about stepping on ants, are you? You're walking. And if a scorpion7:55 happened to get in your way, you just crush it. You wouldn't even think twice about it because you're not focused on where you're stepping, you're focused on where you're going. And if the devil can get you so caught up8:06 in a fear based thinking, you'll never get anywhere. Right? But he says, you trample on. He has no authority over your life. 0. You hold all the cards,8:18 You hold all the cards. Now Satan knows this, and he also knows how the kingdom of God operates. Adam handed Satan the the earth realm, if you will, when he when he chose to8:30 follow after him instead of God. And he did it this way, he said, did God really say? And Adam and Eve came to a conclusion that God was not trustworthy, and they decided to follow after8:42 Satan. And when they did, they came under that curse, and they brought, they they lost their authority in the kingdom to rule the earth on behalf of the government of God, and they became subject to Satan, and we know8:53 all the rest. Sickness, disease, death, poverty, all the rest. Their whole earth was cursed as it lost the blessing of God. But now, Satan knows how that happened. How did it happen?9:05 Adam and Eve were convinced of what Satan said instead of what God said, right? What is faith? Faith is simply being fully persuaded of what God says. Faith is required because because Satan has9:17 the legal dominion in this earth realm, in the kingdom of men. God can't come busting in here unless those that have authority here, men and women, have the legal jurisdiction of the earth realm unless they are fully9:29 persuaded of what God says and represent his government in the earth realm bringing his authority to bear. Now Satan knows, just like Adam, he has to convince you, did God really say, is God trustworthy?9:41 Is that really true? And if he can convince you that God is not true, that's called fear. Fear is simply faith in the wrong thing. It's being fully persuaded of of the lies, the perversion9:53 that Satan has propaganded. It's called fear. Faith is being fully persuaded of what God says. And so Satan wants you to be afraid because it takes you out of faith, out of the10:05 kingdom's jurisdiction of protection, and allows him to kill, steal, and destroy in your life. So this scripture, he knows this. The Bible says, be alert and of sober mind, your enemy. Notice it says your10:16 enemy, the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Now friend, this is something you need to realize, the Bible says your enemy. This is a personal thing. You can come to church10:28 all day long, but you know what? You walk at these doors, you need to realize that you have an enemy. You personally have an enemy. Satan wants to kill, steal, and destroy in your life. He wants to minimize God's impact,10:40 wants to nullify your testimony, and he wants God not to be honored or glorified in anything that you do. He is against God, always against God, because of God he's against you. You're made in the image of God, you bear10:51 his name, he hates you, and he's gonna be against you. Now that then that then produce fear in your life because you have all the cards, you have the authority, and you know that you can trample over him. You're not to11:01 you're not to be concerned about him because he lost his authority. He has nothing to to to offer you as far as any kind of credibility except what the Bible says here. It says here in first Peter 5 8, to11:13 be alert, sober, your enemy prowls. The word prowl means to stealthily undercover, like looking for prey. Think of something looking, you know, sneaking11:25 up. He's gonna try to to sneak up on you when you're on a when unexpectedly expect things to happen. A lion's roar. He's like a roaring lion. Now I've read11:37 this, I've never heard a lion's roar, and I wanna ask, has anyone here been on a safari that actually heard in real life a lion roar? Anyone here? Thank you, yeah. We had, I think we had what? Zoo.11:49 The zoo, okay. Yeah, well that's true, but if you're out in the wild with no cage around that thing and it roared, you might think differently, okay? But anyway, they say that a lion's12:01 roar if you're in the wild is the scariest sound in nature. Now that's just what they say. But anyway, so Satan is roaring like he has that potential. He's gonna intimidate you.12:13 Right? He's gonna bark. He's gonna yell. He's gonna he's gonna scream false things. He's gonna make himself bigger than life. Right? Come on, say yes. That's what he does. But, you know, you have to know that is a roar12:25 that cannot harm you. But your enemy is going to roar, and he's gonna sound like he has authority. He's gonna he's gonna sound like he can hurt you. He's gonna remind you of your past. Gonna tell you that you don't have12:36 any authority, that the word of God's not gonna work, and he's gonna bring you into agreement with him. When that happens, the kingdom of God's authority is cut off from your life. Well, you're going to heaven, but12:46 you'll have a rough time here. You'll have a rough time here.12:51 It started out on the sofa being sick 1 day, but it started a couple hours before that where I was just having it out with God. I was totally disenchanted with my life where and I had a good life.13:03 I married a wonderful man. I had a wonderful daughter. And what I found is that everything that I was doing, I wasn't going anywhere. I felt defeated. A13:15 dream? Every dream I had, it just never got there. So opportunity doing. Just told God I didn't know if I believed him anymore. And13:26 I actually fell asleep on the sofa. And I actually awoke to Pastor Gary, who I did not know at the time. He was on Sid Roth's show. And when I woke up, he was13:38 giving answers to these questions I had just talked to God about. I immediately went to my computer, and I am not computer savvy at all, but I Googled Pastor Gary and13:50 I found him on YouTube. It was like I was on a mission. I was like in a graduate program. I listened to every 1 of his, YouTube videos because I was so14:02 hungry and I was so deficient of any knowledge of what he was talking about this kingdom thing. Being in church, had no idea. I had the rules down path. I was going to church all the time.14:14 I thought I was good a good Christian person. It was like the scales that were cemented on fell off, and I couldn't get enough. What is he gonna say next? I felt14:26 like it was a suspense novel that I was getting answers to as I was going along. And I was it was, it was addicting. I didn't even know that he had this church. I figured, oh, this online thing.14:38 And I started going to his church online. So he was like my new pastor. His teaching was so simple and easy for me to understand that it just opened the door of14:50 you need to know who God really is. Because I always thought the Bible was a history book. It gave me the account of everybody's life, but it wasn't really living. It15:02 wasn't it what did it do for me? It gave me just stories. So I decided to give God a challenge. And I said, God, I'm gonna stand on 1 of your scriptures. And I'm gonna15:13 ask you and I'm gonna know that if I stand on this scripture which was 1 John 5 14, you know, this is the confidence we have that if we ask. Right? And I'm gonna believe for the first15:25 time in my life that what I'm gonna ask you right now, if it comes to pass, then I know I'm in the right place. And so what I asked for was something that15:37 I knew was impossible for me, but it was something that I really wanted to do because I'm an interior designer. I said, I wanna decorate the White House for Christmas.15:49 That was what I wanted to do. I knew it was impossible. I didn't even know where to start. So what I ended up doing was, okay,16:01 now that I ask God this, I decided, okay, I'm gonna write to Mrs. Trump because she just, you know, became first lady, but she wasn't in the White House at that time. She was still in New York with her son.16:13 And I go, well, if I send this to the White House, she's never gonna get it. But I knew Ivanka was in the White House, so I go, you know what? I'm sending 2 letters. I'm sending 1 to Ivanka, and I'm sending 1 to missus16:23 Trump. And Lord, you're gonna you're gonna make it happen. It's gonna happen. I sent them very late. It was in August. And, 1 day I was in a hurry. I had to go to a client's house. So I go on my16:34 computer and all of a sudden I see White House. And I go my heart just started going crazy. So I clicked it on and it16:46 said, congratulations. You have been accepted to decorate the White House. And I was 1 of 70 chosen across the nation to do that. This was the first16:58 time in my life I literally, I felt electricity through my whole body. It was like, thank you, father. It was transformational.17:10 It was like he was right in the room, right in front of me, giving me this gift. And that changed my life. It just changed my life because then I knew at that point, life was never17:22 gonna be the same. 1 last hurdle I had to go through. I am petrified of flying because I had had a very bad experience. And here I17:34 was gonna have to go by myself. My husband wasn't able to go with me, and I was gonna have to be on this plane by myself. And I will tell you, I came so close to saying, No, I can't go. No, I can't do this. Again, the17:45 devil was there to say, you're gonna fly by yourself. You know, he's putting those little, little comments in my head. And as I'm sitting on that plane, looking out the window, I closed my eyes and17:57 I prayed, Dear Jesus, you need to be here right now because you know how scared I am. And as I got my eyes closed, I feel somebody sit next to me. And I opened my eyes and it's18:09 this young man and his name was Samuel. And I go, a nice biblical name. And as we're talking, we had talked the whole time until we landed in Washington18:21 DC. I hadn't even realized that I had taken off. I hadn't even realized I was really up in the air, nothing. So he sent me off to Washington DC, fully18:32 equipped and fully ready for the adventure that I would have with decorating the White House. In the White House, you're there 718:44 days. You're there during Thanksgiving, so you give up your Thanksgiving for your with your family. So these people that are obviously from across the nation, I had to meet, right? And so, we're in little small groups,18:56 and I was fortunate again to be chosen to do the official White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room. I talked to maids and secret service19:08 and the electricians and everybody because I'm kind of a very person and I wanted to know because you know the climate of the Trump White House and I was a little nervous about that because you know you everybody19:20 couldn't say enough things about the First Family. Like I said, I felt God was just reassuring me and just giving me He just gave me peace and comfort, and it just made me really think about19:33 life and where God put me and why did He put me here. You know, was kind of I was conflicted because there was so much going on in this whirlwind of this wonderful experience,19:45 really. It was like I said, we we decorated for 7 days and when it was done, missus Trump gave us a wonderful, wonderful banquet. I mean, it was literally19:57 like we were the king and queen of England. It was a spread you would you wouldn't believe, and it was such a gift from God. The Bible no longer is this history20:09 book. This Bible is a living, breathing document for me. It's like the constitution, a living, breathing document that I can count on because God is there. And he's in those words, and, hey, I'm20:21 taking it to the bank. I can't thank Faith Life enough. I really can't. Pastors Gary and Drunda have taught me to run run to Jesus, seek20:32 thee first, the kingdom. Right? So I'm running first to the kingdom before I do anything. The20:44 media volunteers to broadcast fear, but you have a choice to listen to it and feed on it. If you feed on it, you're gonna come into agreement with it,20:56 that's how you're created, the spirit of man, what you feed on, you're gonna incubate, you're gonna meditate on, and you're gonna begin to imagine. And that's how that's how it works. But there's an answer. You say,21:08 pastor, what can I do about it? You need to roar back. When that lion, when that voice roars at you, you need to have an answer for that. You don't go, oh my goodness, you need to answer, no.21:20 In the name of Jesus, let me tell you the truth. And you need to have a scripture, God's word, you need to counter it immediately. Alright? Counter it immediately. So resist the devil. James chapter21:32 4 verse 7, submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he'll flee from you. How do you resist the devil? Say no. When he tells you a lie, say that's not true.21:44 No. And you tell, you speak back to that. The problem is so many Christians don't know the truth. I mean, you may have seen in the news this week about the 7 year old that's having her tonsils removed and died on the21:56 operating table. Has anyone, you might have seen this, it was on the news. 7 year old, her heart just stopped. They don't even know why her heart stopped, but she died at 7 years of age. Now that part, you know, that22:06 part happened, but the part that troubled me worse, and that's a horrible situation, but the part that caught my attention was the father's response regarding this story. He said, well, the comforting thing is, I knew22:17 God did it, so I know it was the plan of God and I have great comfort in that. I'm thinking, my God, if God's against you, who can who can ever win? I mean, why would you wanna serve22:29 a God like that? Kills your 7 year old daughter? That's comforting to you? I mean, if there's nothing else out there, man, you're in trouble because what else could there be? If the God that made everything is trying to22:40 kill your kids, then we got a problem, right? So people don't know. They don't know that the roar is not true. They don't know what the facts are. They don't know the truth, but the22:52 church needs to tell people the truth and demonstrate it. People are waiting for the truth of God. They're waiting to see God's answer. They're waiting to see a good God. They're waiting to see answers for life's23:02 problems. But the Bible resist the devil, he'll flee from you, not just back up, he will run-in terror. The Greek literally means flee from you, because you have the authority. Amen?23:13 So how do I resist the devil? I say no, and you counter it with a voice, you stop it, you don't pick it up. You know, the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 6 that the shield of23:25 faith quenches every fiery dart. That fiery dart is a thought. Now, quenches means it has no impact. And the shield of faith, the shield is held outside your23:37 body, so it never enters into your, where you live, your person. No imagination. It's quenched before you pick it up in your thought life. It's quenched before you begin to imagine. It's quenched before you begin to23:48 pick up those pictures and begin to imagine what would happen if that happened and that would happen. You begin to no. It stops it. It just stops it out here. It casts it down as something crazy,24:01 something not worth the time. It's just like, that's the nuttiest thing I ever heard of in my life. Because you're so convinced of what God says, you walk free from that thought.
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