Risky Faith: Trusting God In The Midst of Danger - Nathan Rages

[@illbehonest]

0:00 - Is the life of faith risky? 4:46 - Six characters from Hebrews 11 who exercised faith in God. 18:30 - Do you think about the faith Jesus exercised? 20:50 - How do we apply this to ourselves? 1) These are not examples of blind faith. 24:54 - 2) These are not examples of reckless presumption. 26:52 - 3) They were actually the safest when their actions appeared the riskiest. 30:40 - 4) Expect challenging tests in your life. 35:38 - Can I believe those same promises for myself?

[@littlefordschoolhouse]

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[@faithijn8338]

A good WORD for all of us. It's easy to be confident of our trust in GOD. I have come to know I must be in prayer and the WORD to keep Anchored in Christ for the days when sudden danger comes so I know without hesitation to have Confidence and Trust in the hour I NEED HIM most! I must be faithful and not get distracted by the world or by fear and risk stumbling.

[@betheyajacobson2863]

Yes bro!

[@meeks4004]

I was into witchcraft and Due to my own stupidity, a group of people who i angered, conspired to kill me. Out of fear my family abandoned me and i had no hope of staying alive. I knew if i died i would go to hell bkus i lived a life of willfull opposition to Christ. I didnt think Hed forgive me but Out of my desperation I called out to the Lord for help and he answered me and saved me. He helped me to leave the state and brought me to a faith-based program where I turned my life over to him. He delivered me from divination and spiritism and forgave me for my rebellion. Now almost 8 years later he has blessed me above what I could ever imagine. And the blessing is this-that i have the opportunity to know him and be loved by him.

[@leahnotter6391]

Beautiful testimony. God is truly so good.

[@judithmainer9622]

This is so wonderful.. welcome to the family of God

[@gordo13371]

God bless you. What was it like when you had the spirit of divination.?

[@meeks4004]

@@gordo13371 at first it made me feel powerful, unique, and set apart. I knew alot of things that I wouldn't be able to normally know within my own human understanding, especially about other people. It gave me insight and the demonic version of "words of knowledge" for people. I've heard people say that the devil cannot know your thoughts, but I'm not all too sure how true that is because when I had this Spirit of divination there were times that I knew people's thoughts of verbatim.. it wasn't anything that I could control or willfully do myself, but when it happened I often would verbalize what the person was thinking and they would freak out... The spirit would speak to me in many different ways but one of them was through the number 11 and multiples of 11. Like 11, 1111, 444, 333, 2222.. it told me to get the number 11 tatood on my throat before it started speaking to me in this way. I hear Christians many times Express that they think God is trying to speak to them through numbers such as these but in reality God only speaks through his word and these numbers sequences that people seem to see everywhere are really spirits trying to deceive and distract them into a rabbit hole of foolishness, and from the true wisdom of the word of God. Another thing that would happen to me is that almost every single night I would have a dream about the near future that would inevitably come true. For example, I might have a dream about a girl named Sally who has a white dog and lives in a blue house up the street. In waking Life I would know that my dream was going to happen soon.. so I would go through life, and one day I would meet a girl named Sally, and the dream would immediately come to my mind, and I would know the rest of her life according to my dream that I had about her. I would then tell Sally everything that I knew about her and this would scare or amaze her. I would use this gift to influence people's lives.. basically after performing something so supernatural and telling people things about themselves that they never revealed to me, the person would be ready to listen to whatever I had to say to them... So I would tell the person that God was the one who gave me the information about them and ultimately deceive them. This is why if a prophet or a dreamer of dreams ever comes to you and tells you that God told them to tell you something, always run it by the Holy Spirit first or you could be in danger of being deceived or doing something completely out of God's will. After a few years this spirit tormented me alot. I started to hate going to sleep because I knew I was going to have a dream about the future. I would feel like my life was predetermined and no matter what decisions that I made the things that I dreamed of would have to come to pass, which made me feel like I had no Free Will at all. This made me suicidal but The spirit would constantly remind me that I was going to hell when I died and that I was destined for hell no matter what I tried to do, so I might as well continue to serve the devil.. my life was literally fueled by hatred for mankind and for myself, but you would never have known it because I was a very charismatic and seemingly compassionate person. Since I knew I was going to hell my greatest goal was to take as many people as I could with me. I started realizing that the more I deceived people the more abilities and spiritual understanding I started to accumulate.. it was almost like a reward system. I had always wanted to make a difference in the world or at least in my life but I felt I was incapable of being or doing anything in life that would ultimately matter... I understood that ultimately nothing had any value outside of eternity, so i found delight in the ability to affect other people's eternity. About this time I had given my body as a vessel to any spirit that wanted to inhabit it, in order for them to operate in the physical realm. I thought that by giving my body to these spirits they would love me. Its soo strange because my dad was a Christian so I knew all about the bible, satan, and Jesus. I knew that Satan was incapable of love, but after years of witchcraft you start to become so deceived, and all of a sudden your understanding of God is totally perverted. I believed Jesus hated me and deaired to send me to hell, but Satan loved me. At first the spirits acted like they loved me, but it wasn't very long until I realized that they didn't care about me at all and they hated me. They would constantly remind me of how I was going to hell. They would tell me that I never had a chance and that from the beginning I was made to go to hell. They would make me jealous of people who I felt were going to heaven. They would cause me to cry for "Cain" (who murdered Abel) bkus they told me that just like me, Cain was predestined for hell. After realizing that the spirits had no love for me, i became satisfied with the fact that they gave me many abilities outside of human capacity, and oftentimes they blessed me with different things that made it seem like it was worthwhile to fellowship with them. I know this sounds very strange, but one of the things that they blessed me with would be alter egos and personas. There would be periods of time that would last maybe a few years where a spirit would live through me by a certain name, who seemed to he a person thatvonce lived before.. For instance, for a few years i was a man named "Flat top" flattop, came with a slew of mannerisms, elegance, and a demeanor that i had never experienced or thought of before.. the reason that this persona/spirit seemed to be a blessing was because people loved, respected, and followed Flat top. the respect i was given while living in that persona was impeccable. But eventually situations arose that caused people to want to kill Flattop, which caused me to flee the state. This all just goes to show that any gift that the enemy gives to you is really a backdoor curse and always backfires on you. During this time I was so tormented, but i was good at keeping at together that no one ever knew. I felt so alone because of all these spiritual things that I experienced I didn't know a single person who could relate to my experiences, much less believe me and not think that I was mentally ill. 😂. I had never told anyone that I was into witchcraft because there was power in the secrecy of it. One night I had a dream that I saw the Lord Jesus walking towards me. I tried to assault him but he kicked me. When he kicked me I seemed to fly back light years at the speed of lightning. When I awoke the Bible verse from Luke 10:18 came to my mind where Jesus said, " I saw Satan fall like lightning." I woke up terrified and for one of the first times in my life I was able to conceptualize what it meant to be in hell forever. During this time there was a group of people who wanted to kill me and I realized that if I died that I would go to hell. In my terror i started reading the Bible and I asked God to please save me. I really didn't have any hope that God would save me because I had lived years in pride and arrogance against God, but I was desperate. Long story short the Lord led me to a faith-based program called the "Los Angeles dream center" in Echo park area. After entering into the program I met a pastor named Mike Connor. I ended up revealing to Mike Connor all of the things I had been involved in because it seemed like he would believe me. He agreed to do Deliverance with me and walked me through a book of simple prayers called "Seven steps to freedom in Christ" by Neil t Anderson. We would meet every Thursday for about 4 months. Pastor Mike would say the prayer and I would repeat after him, and there was another man who would pray in tongues interceding for the both of us while we did it. It was one of the craziest things that I ever witnessed in my entire life as so many spirits started coming out of my body and manifesting themselves in different ways. Some of the spirits like the spirit of divination was so stubborn that it wouldn't come out easily so I would have to fast and come back. It was after this experience that I realized that the power of Jesus was very real. I didn't know that Jesus had power that was stronger than Satan and it made me have confidence in the Lord. After I was delivered from all of these spirits I was completely changed. One of the most prominent changes was I had a real capacity for love and true compassion towards people. Another thing that changed is I finally had the ability to believe that I had a chance to get into heaven. All of the mental torment went away and all of the gifts that the spirits have given me ceased to happen. Because of this I gave my life to the Lord and years later I even received the baptism of the Holy Spirit! I've had lots of ups and downs and there has even been times that I had literally completely given up and went on to try to live a normal life without God out of discouragement. But all praise be to the Lord because even though he should have left me he went out and sought me and brought me back into right standing with him. The Lord never forced me but, she drew me back in ways that caused him to be completely irresistible. The Lord has caused me to forsake my sin and to delight in his ways. I love him so much and I love his family!

[@gordo13371]

@@meeks4004 brother is suffer from the spirit of divination too. Everytime I still see numbers and the demon can hear my thoughts. Could the spirits hear yours? Is there a way I can contact you to get some more information about this? I want to be free from this spirit but it just won't leave, I've closed every possible door I can think of. Every night I suffer attacks as well and I keep thinking I'm going to hell. What your talking about, Cain, is exactly what they recently try to tell me. I get dreams of me being a dog for them and images of me being a wolf in sheep's clothing but I'm trying to live for Jesus, but it feels like Jesus don't know me. I read his word but I don't practice it like I should be, right now I'm in Matthew trying to live life by the beatitudes and His teachings.

[@dubyredburndarling6334]

Thank you for this much needed sermon 🙏❤️

[@fahmiahmed8398]

Bless the Lord, Bless the Lord, thank you

[@brdhus]

Amen, thank you so much.

[@thankGodforJesus116]

Amen & thank you so very much, I really needed to see & hear this on this very day today ❤️🙏

[@fightthegoodfightoffaithmi8676]

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

[@lukewagner8871]

Can the prosperity gospel even coexistence with the following scriptures? Hebrews 11:34-40 KJVS [34] Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. [35] Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: [36] And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: [37] They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; [38] (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. [39] And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: [40] God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

[@JeremiahIsacc]

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." When a well packaged web of lies has been sold gradually through time to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled. No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. This truth will free you to seek for the Living God in the Spirit and to truly KNOW GOD instead of just knowing ABOUT HIM. The GOSPEL is NOT written with ink, nor on tablets of stone, but on our hearts by the Spirit of the Living God. The gentiles who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, then they are a law unto themselves. Under the New Covenant we are to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the bible. I was searching for truth when Jesus told me, "The bible is an idol" which completely changed my direction. After that I only sought for Him in the Spirit and He has taught me many things on life's journey. The most important of which is that He died so we could be regenerated by the Holy Spirit into sons and daughters of God. The gospel is simple, repent from living after the flesh, ask Jesus to fill you with the Holy Spirit and then be led and controlled by Him through the Spirit. The bible is only history and has absolutely no authority from God to control us, the outward law was under the old covenant. Jesus died to redeem us from the curse of the written law because we were unable to keep it. Have a great journey through life with the Living Christ guiding you. When Jesus words are written down and Satan is using them, then the bible becomes the word of Satan. Constantine (1st) beast compiled 50 bibles, legalized Christianity and set up the false prophet (pope). King James (2nd) beast, born 6/1566, 6th of Scotland, authorized a bible in 1611 that now has 66 books to control people with, an image of God's word they make to speak (the bible says). By having faith in the bible which has been made into an idol, they break the new covenant of having faith in the Living Christ through the Holy Spirit, who is the true word of God. THE BIBLE IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST Ask Jesus -Yeshua for the Holy Spirit. Link To Blog Site Book: Book 1 THE BIBLE IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST bibleismarkofbeast.blogspot.co... BOOK 2 THE BIBLE IS AN IDOL bibleismarkofbeast.blogspot.co... KZbin Channel: kzbin.infovideos 🕊💖•••••

[@Mediterraneangun]

Get out of here with your false accusations ,web of lies and divisions.

[@thankGodforJesus116]

@@Mediterraneangun well said 💪

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