WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.800 Hi, welcome back. 2 00:00:03.800 --> 00:00:05.680 So are you ready to find out more about your heart? 3 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:10.080 Are you ready to find out where all these lies came from that are just hanging out in 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.680 there like squatters, just squatting in your heart? 5 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:14.960 We got to evict them, right? 6 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:19.360 We got to get rid of these enemies of abundance because they're keeping you from a great life. 7 00:00:19.360 --> 00:00:21.400 You know, God's not holding out on you. 8 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:23.960 He doesn't write sad, boring stories. 9 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:27.960 The story that he's written about you and for you is an epic adventure. 10 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:33.840 It's full of all kinds of amazing twists and turns and opportunities, and he wants 11 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.160 you to be living that life. 12 00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:40.640 But first we have to get rid of all of these lies that are keeping you stuck. 13 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.160 Now I've already taught you that you're spirit. 14 00:00:43.160 --> 00:00:44.320 And so what does that mean? 15 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.480 That means that there's spirit realm, right? 16 00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:49.360 A lot of times we take that for granted. 17 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:54.540 We just live according to what we can see and hear and taste and touch and smell. 18 00:00:54.540 --> 00:00:58.340 And we don't think about all the things that we can't see that are going on all around 19 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:02.340 us, but there is an unseen realm all around us. 20 00:01:02.340 --> 00:01:06.940 And a lot of what happens in that unseen realm really affects us. 21 00:01:06.940 --> 00:01:12.500 And the opposing forces that are part of that unseen realm, they've got it out for us, right? 22 00:01:12.500 --> 00:01:15.420 We're public enemy number one, the children of God. 23 00:01:15.420 --> 00:01:21.340 And so there's a lot of what we call spiritual warfare happening all the time in those places 24 00:01:21.340 --> 00:01:23.420 where we can't see. 25 00:01:23.420 --> 00:01:27.700 And so a lot of you already know that there's a lot of different names for the opposing 26 00:01:27.700 --> 00:01:33.620 forces, devil, Lucifer, Satan, accuser, tempter, the great dragon. 27 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:39.520 There's all different types of names that describe the devil, Satan. 28 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:42.580 And one of those names is a name that you don't hear very often. 29 00:01:42.580 --> 00:01:49.620 You might've heard it in a movie once, like maybe some kind of scary movie, Beelzebub. 30 00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:54.600 But that name actually means Lord of the Flies or the Father of Lies. 31 00:01:54.600 --> 00:01:55.980 And so I don't like flies. 32 00:01:55.980 --> 00:01:59.220 I don't know about you, but I will save a spider's life. 33 00:01:59.220 --> 00:02:00.500 In fact, I often do. 34 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:05.540 I have a pool in my backyard and all different types of insects get stuck in the pool. 35 00:02:05.540 --> 00:02:07.380 And I'm always out there with a net saving them. 36 00:02:07.380 --> 00:02:10.820 My husband thinks I'm ridiculous, but I'm like, come on, I'm going to save them. 37 00:02:10.820 --> 00:02:11.820 They're drowning. 38 00:02:11.820 --> 00:02:13.820 I like to play hero in that way. 39 00:02:13.820 --> 00:02:19.460 And so beetles and ladybugs and caterpillars, and once a lizard, a little baby lizard got 40 00:02:20.300 --> 00:02:25.020 in the pool, spiders, even big, ugly spiders, saving them because I know that they do something 41 00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:27.660 very special and they're important. 42 00:02:27.660 --> 00:02:31.300 But flies, I will kill a fly anytime. 43 00:02:31.300 --> 00:02:35.540 We have those electric fly swatters in our house that sizzle them when they come in. 44 00:02:35.540 --> 00:02:39.140 I just don't like flies and I don't like them because they're gross. 45 00:02:39.140 --> 00:02:41.220 And when I think of them, I think of gross things. 46 00:02:41.220 --> 00:02:42.900 I think of cow manure. 47 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:47.540 I think of decomposing roadkill because that's what flies do. 48 00:02:47.540 --> 00:02:50.380 They find something that is wounded, something that's injured. 49 00:02:50.380 --> 00:02:56.460 A lot of times you'll see flies on the back of animals, livestock, in the farm. 50 00:02:56.460 --> 00:02:57.460 And why? 51 00:02:57.460 --> 00:02:59.700 What are they doing? 52 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:02.900 They are in the sores on those animals. 53 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:03.900 What are they doing there? 54 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:04.900 They're laying their eggs. 55 00:03:04.900 --> 00:03:09.360 They're laying the eggs in the sores on these animals or in some other kind of decomposing 56 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:15.920 organic matter because then they're young, the larva that's going to become a fly someday, 57 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:19.240 it has an unlimited food resource when it hatches. 58 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:21.520 And just thinking about that's really gross. 59 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:26.340 But that is what Beelzebub, the father of flies, does. 60 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:28.600 The Lord of the flies, the father of flies. 61 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:30.220 That's what he does as well. 62 00:03:30.220 --> 00:03:31.360 He looks for an injury. 63 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.760 This is what it means to add insult to injury. 64 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:35.120 He looks for an injury. 65 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:39.100 That trauma comes in our life and it's not enough that that trauma has come. 66 00:03:39.100 --> 00:03:43.920 Here comes the opposing forces on the tail end of that trauma trying to make it worse 67 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:44.920 by what? 68 00:03:44.920 --> 00:03:49.960 By sowing the seed of lies in that trauma. 69 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.000 And so let's give an example of that. 70 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.520 So maybe your father left your mother. 71 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:56.520 That's my story. 72 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:57.520 And it's unfortunate. 73 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:58.520 It's a lot of our stories. 74 00:03:58.520 --> 00:03:59.520 The family broke up. 75 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:01.280 Your parents got divorced. 76 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.320 Maybe your mother left your father. 77 00:04:03.320 --> 00:04:05.400 Doesn't matter what scenario it is. 78 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:06.400 It happened. 79 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:08.200 And then it's very traumatic. 80 00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:14.060 But what happens after that trauma is that we believe a lie about that trauma. 81 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:17.019 And in my instance, I believe that I was abandoned. 82 00:04:17.019 --> 00:04:19.140 I believe that I was fatherless. 83 00:04:19.140 --> 00:04:21.820 It looked like I was fatherless because my natural father left. 84 00:04:21.820 --> 00:04:24.420 I had no idea that I had a heavenly father. 85 00:04:24.420 --> 00:04:25.900 That's an example of the greater truth. 86 00:04:25.900 --> 00:04:26.900 This is a fact. 87 00:04:26.900 --> 00:04:27.900 My father left. 88 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:31.620 But the greater truth is that I have a heavenly father that will never leave me or forsake 89 00:04:31.620 --> 00:04:32.620 me. 90 00:04:32.620 --> 00:04:33.780 But I was too little to know that. 91 00:04:33.780 --> 00:04:34.780 So I'm traumatized. 92 00:04:34.780 --> 00:04:35.860 I'm abandoned. 93 00:04:35.860 --> 00:04:37.940 It thrust our family into poverty. 94 00:04:37.940 --> 00:04:39.020 So now I'm abandoned. 95 00:04:39.020 --> 00:04:40.020 I'm unwanted. 96 00:04:40.020 --> 00:04:41.380 I'm unworthy. 97 00:04:41.380 --> 00:04:42.380 Is it my fault? 98 00:04:42.380 --> 00:04:43.460 I don't know. 99 00:04:43.460 --> 00:04:47.540 There's all kinds of different lies that come as a result of that trauma. 100 00:04:47.540 --> 00:04:50.580 And the trauma doesn't even have to have happened to you. 101 00:04:50.580 --> 00:04:52.500 It can happen to someone else. 102 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:56.340 Maybe it was your grandfather that left the family or his father. 103 00:04:56.340 --> 00:05:00.020 And even though it didn't happen to you directly, it affected the people that left. 104 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.000 that raised you. 105 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.280 And so because it affected them, it affected you. 106 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:05.680 And a lot of times that's inherited trauma. 107 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.400 And those are emotional debts 108 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:10.520 that are passed through generations. 109 00:05:10.520 --> 00:05:13.680 And so those lies will be passed down as well. 110 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.640 That men leave, that men are not, 111 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:19.280 they're not stable, they're not reliable. 112 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:20.960 You can't depend on them. 113 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:23.840 And then over time, that lie will mature. 114 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:25.720 It will mature and it will grow 115 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:27.800 and it will take up more space. 116 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.520 So just like the fly lays its eggs 117 00:05:30.520 --> 00:05:32.600 in that decomposing organic matter, 118 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.560 it doesn't stay eggs. 119 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.960 It turns into larva and then it turns into flies 120 00:05:36.960 --> 00:05:38.200 and then it turns into more flies. 121 00:05:38.200 --> 00:05:39.600 It expands, it grows. 122 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.500 And that seed that is sown into the traumas of our lives, 123 00:05:43.500 --> 00:05:47.440 those lies as seed, they don't stay seed either. 124 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:50.000 Over time, they mature and they get bigger 125 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:51.080 and bigger and bigger 126 00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:53.240 and they get more and more reinforced. 127 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:55.560 And that's what's happened to all of us. 128 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.360 Those lies have gotten reinforced. 129 00:05:57.800 --> 00:05:58.920 And so let's look at the process 130 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.680 of how those lies get reinforced. 131 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.040 So the trauma comes and then the seed is sown, 132 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.440 I'm abandoned, nobody loves me. 133 00:06:08.440 --> 00:06:11.040 Men or women can't be trusted. 134 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.140 I can't depend on anyone. 135 00:06:13.140 --> 00:06:16.080 So those are mental scripts that we begin to rehearse 136 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:19.600 from a very young age, if that's when the trauma happened. 137 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.200 Whenever the trauma happened, 138 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:22.820 we begin to rehearse the lies 139 00:06:22.820 --> 00:06:25.000 that we're believing because of it. 140 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:26.960 Proverbs 23 seven tells us 141 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:30.080 that whatever we believe in our heart, not in our head. 142 00:06:30.080 --> 00:06:33.520 This is why those activations and those confessions 143 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:36.800 and all that positive mental attitude that you have, 144 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.960 that's why it doesn't really change your life 145 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:42.960 because it can't come from here, it has to come from here. 146 00:06:42.960 --> 00:06:45.400 All that truth has to get down in here 147 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:47.340 to where you really believe it. 148 00:06:47.340 --> 00:06:50.160 Not believe it here, but believe it here. 149 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.080 And so whatever we believe in our heart, 150 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:55.200 Proverbs 23 seven says we become. 151 00:06:55.200 --> 00:06:56.240 How does that happen? 152 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:57.640 How do we become that? 153 00:06:57.640 --> 00:06:59.740 Well, whatever gets in our heart, 154 00:06:59.740 --> 00:07:01.720 it doesn't just stay in our heart, does it? 155 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:03.080 It multiplies. 156 00:07:03.080 --> 00:07:05.560 Remember, the heart is a womb, it's a garden 157 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.840 and whatever it gets in there, it reproduces 158 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:12.400 and then it produces the quality of our life. 159 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:13.900 Remember that lesson? 160 00:07:13.900 --> 00:07:16.520 So it's reproducing like little bunnies. 161 00:07:16.520 --> 00:07:18.520 I have a student that raises bunnies 162 00:07:18.520 --> 00:07:20.660 and those bunnies, I feel like every time 163 00:07:20.660 --> 00:07:22.220 she takes a picture, there's more bunnies 164 00:07:22.220 --> 00:07:24.300 and more bunnies and more bunnies and more bunnies. 165 00:07:24.300 --> 00:07:26.740 And so the lie gets in there and it starts to grow, 166 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:29.020 it starts to mature and pretty soon 167 00:07:29.020 --> 00:07:30.660 it's spilling out of your heart. 168 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:32.380 How is it spilling out of your heart 169 00:07:32.380 --> 00:07:35.960 as it's reproducing and expanding through your mouth? 170 00:07:36.860 --> 00:07:40.480 The word of God says that out of the overflow of the heart, 171 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.800 the mouth communicates and so pretty soon 172 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.100 that lie that was unseen and unheard 173 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:49.060 that was just living in your heart, 174 00:07:49.060 --> 00:07:51.340 now it's making its way out of your mouth 175 00:07:51.340 --> 00:07:54.780 and you begin to say things like I'm abandoned, 176 00:07:54.780 --> 00:07:56.740 nobody loves me, nobody wants me, 177 00:07:56.740 --> 00:07:58.480 men or women can't be trusted, 178 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.040 I can't depend on anyone or rely on anyone. 179 00:08:02.900 --> 00:08:07.480 So we believe the lie, then we speak the lie 180 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.180 and then we become the lie. 181 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:10.980 So what we believe we become 182 00:08:10.980 --> 00:08:13.480 and then what we become we attract. 183 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.740 So we're speaking the lie and then we're attracting 184 00:08:16.740 --> 00:08:19.780 that very thing that we're saying is true. 185 00:08:19.780 --> 00:08:22.020 We're attracting people who aren't there for us. 186 00:08:22.020 --> 00:08:23.540 We're attracting men or women 187 00:08:23.540 --> 00:08:25.740 who don't take care of their children 188 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:27.980 or don't take care of their responsibilities 189 00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:30.300 and because that's what we're attracting, 190 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:33.220 we think that that's the only thing there is. 191 00:08:33.220 --> 00:08:35.020 I remember once I needed a red dress 192 00:08:35.020 --> 00:08:38.580 and I set all the filters on the clothing apps on my phone 193 00:08:38.580 --> 00:08:40.960 to show me only red dresses. 194 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:42.260 I didn't wanna waste my time, 195 00:08:42.260 --> 00:08:46.020 I just wanted to see those red dresses and nothing else. 196 00:08:46.020 --> 00:08:48.140 Well, those stores had lots of other dresses 197 00:08:48.140 --> 00:08:51.460 and blouses and pants and all different types of clothing 198 00:08:51.460 --> 00:08:54.200 but the only thing that those apps would show me 199 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.760 after I set that filter was red dresses 200 00:08:58.760 --> 00:09:00.940 and it's not because it was the only thing that was there, 201 00:09:00.940 --> 00:09:03.620 it's because it was the only thing that I could see 202 00:09:03.620 --> 00:09:06.340 and so that's what happens in this scenario. 203 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:08.860 We will only see what we already believe. 204 00:09:08.860 --> 00:09:10.460 So what we believe we become 205 00:09:10.460 --> 00:09:14.340 and then what we become we continue to attract 206 00:09:14.420 --> 00:09:16.620 and as we continue to attract it, 207 00:09:16.620 --> 00:09:19.600 it will continue to reinforce that lie 208 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.940 and that lie will grow stronger and stronger 209 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:23.620 and stronger over time 210 00:09:23.620 --> 00:09:26.740 and that's why we call it a stronghold. 211 00:09:26.740 --> 00:09:28.540 That's what we call strongholds 212 00:09:28.540 --> 00:09:32.020 and we can't see them but our lives show 213 00:09:32.020 --> 00:09:33.460 the areas that we're stuck in, 214 00:09:33.460 --> 00:09:35.420 the areas where we have a stronghold, 215 00:09:35.420 --> 00:09:38.660 the area where that lie has become so mature 216 00:09:38.660 --> 00:09:41.380 that now we can't see anything but it. 217 00:09:41.380 --> 00:09:43.700 It causes blind spots and filters 218 00:09:43.780 --> 00:09:46.860 and those blind spots and filters are ticking time bombs. 219 00:09:46.860 --> 00:09:49.260 They're just waiting to go off at any spark. 220 00:09:49.260 --> 00:09:52.380 Anytime there's a spark, there's going to be an explosion 221 00:09:52.380 --> 00:09:54.300 because that bomb is waiting 222 00:09:54.300 --> 00:09:56.540 and so we need to defuse those bombs. 223 00:09:56.540 --> 00:09:59.560 We wanna defuse those bombs before they go off. 224 00:09:59.560 --> 00:10:01.760 We wanna make sure that we have a stronghold. 225 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.540 Make sure that we are allowing Holy Spirit 226 00:10:02.540 --> 00:10:05.160 to come alongside us and show us. 227 00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:08.280 This is the revealing for healing that I was talking about. 228 00:10:08.280 --> 00:10:10.720 Show us these lies that we're believing. 229 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:13.520 Help us unpack those boxes 230 00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:16.640 and help us to see what's really in there. 231 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:19.440 What's behind all these problem areas in our lives? 232 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.120 What's behind all these areas 233 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:23.880 where we just can't seem to get off first base? 234 00:10:23.880 --> 00:10:26.480 There are things that have matured over time, 235 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:29.880 but now it's time for those things to get the boot. 236 00:10:29.880 --> 00:10:32.000 It's time for them to get on out 237 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.280 and to make space for truth. 238 00:10:34.280 --> 00:10:37.080 We can't erase what we have believed, 239 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.280 but we can replace it. 240 00:10:39.280 --> 00:10:42.160 And truth always trumps fact. 241 00:10:42.160 --> 00:10:44.720 So maybe your dad did leave or your mom did leave. 242 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.020 Maybe you had a broken marriage that was abusive. 243 00:10:48.020 --> 00:10:49.840 Maybe you did lose your job. 244 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:51.280 Maybe someone lied about you. 245 00:10:51.280 --> 00:10:55.560 Maybe a relationship in your life went sour 246 00:10:55.560 --> 00:10:57.440 because of something that you did. 247 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.260 Maybe you did make that mistake. 248 00:10:59.260 --> 00:11:03.300 Maybe you were the one that is the villain of the story. 249 00:11:03.300 --> 00:11:05.500 Regardless of what the facts are, 250 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:09.640 the truth is that God is greater than the facts, 251 00:11:09.640 --> 00:11:11.100 that his love is greater. 252 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:12.660 Even when our heart condemns us, 253 00:11:12.660 --> 00:11:14.460 he is greater than our hearts. 254 00:11:14.460 --> 00:11:17.660 The truth is that he still has a plan for us. 255 00:11:17.660 --> 00:11:21.960 Jeremiah 29, 11 says that God knows the plans 256 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:23.440 that he has for us. 257 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:24.500 That's not one plan. 258 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:25.780 That word is plural. 259 00:11:25.780 --> 00:11:27.180 It's more than one plan, 260 00:11:27.180 --> 00:11:29.740 which means that if we mess up the first plan 261 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:33.180 or the second plan or the 50th plan or the 150th plan, 262 00:11:33.180 --> 00:11:36.140 God already has a new plan waiting 263 00:11:36.140 --> 00:11:39.020 to get us back to where he needs us to be 264 00:11:39.020 --> 00:11:40.660 to be able to bless us. 265 00:11:40.660 --> 00:11:43.100 But first we have to do our part. 266 00:11:43.100 --> 00:11:45.100 He's inviting us to do our part, 267 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:48.120 and I'm inviting you to go forward with me 268 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:49.660 into part three, 269 00:11:49.660 --> 00:11:52.420 where we're gonna start unpacking these heart boxes 270 00:11:52.420 --> 00:11:54.500 with the divine help of Holy Spirit. 271 00:11:54.500 --> 00:11:56.860 I can't promise you that it's gonna be easy, 272 00:11:57.540 --> 00:11:59.220 but I can absolutely promise you 273 00:11:59.220 --> 00:12:00.460 that it's gonna be worth it. 274 00:12:00.460 --> 00:12:01.420 I'll see you there.