Wounded

This is Ronald Hopkins, and thank you for joining the Life Center Church.

A happy Father's Day to all of the fathers that are here.

It's an honor to stand in that office of being a father, of being a protector, of being a provider, that we have the privilege to emulate the ultimate father.

And because we emulate him, we can demonstrate him to people all across our path.

So happy Father's Day.

There's a message that the Lord has placed in my heart that I'm not sure how long this is gonna last.

It started with the 12, the discipleship, and it just kind of stirs some things on the inside of us.

I'm not sure what's gonna happen.

Let the Lord do what he wants to do! Let him do what he wants to do.

Then the Lord gave me specific instructions for 2026 on how your life would look at the end of 2026.

And this next series of messages will literally cause transformation in your life like you've never seen before when you receive it that way.

Because what we're gonna talk about over these next couple of weeks, or whenever the Lord says stop, these are things that you've not heard in church.

But yet the church needs to hear it.

So if you're a first-time visitor, welcome to the Life Center Church.

We're honored that you came out to spend some time with us today.

Um, you all, let's pray, and then you all can be seated.

Father, it is an honor that we can come boldly before the throne of grace, for we know that you are the God of all grace, and your grace today, it is sufficient unto us.

So we receive another measure of the grace of God.

And Holy Spirit, we're nothing without you.

We need you here today, so we're open to the gifts and to the graces and to the anointings that you've provided for us today.

I'll decrease so that you would increase.

Use my tongue as the pen of a ready rider that will write on the hearts of your people so that their faith won't stand in the wisdom of man, but that their faith, their trust, their confidence will be in what your word has declared and what you would speak to them, even while the word is God is going forth.

We give you glory and praise for everything that you would say, everything that you reveal unto us in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Before you see that, why don't you look at somebody and say, I'm so glad to see you in the house of the Lord today.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We'll do that at the end, Tina.

Thank God for Mike holding it down for us on last week.

We were on a much needed vacation and rest.

Just much.

I remember years ago when we were in, I believe, serving at in Atlanta, there was a pastor that said, You have to treat your body like you do your vehicle.

And at the time I didn't really understand what he was saying.

He said that you need to rest.

Because if you don't, your body will shut down.

Rest is not a cuss word.

So you need to rest and not do anything.

So while we were away, I didn't think about the church, I didn't talk about the church, I didn't look at it.

Seriously, I didn't look at one email, I didn't respond to any phone calls.

Well, you just rest.

And I find out when you rest and you're really resting your mind and resting your body, then the Lord will start talking to you about some stuff.

Because now you've made a decision to get away from all other distractions, and now you're open to hear exactly what he wants you to know.

He dropped some stuff in my heart for you today, and he gave me a specific word, and I I didn't quite understand it until I looked it up and saw how it connected with this.

So we're gonna start a new series, and it's called wounds.

Wounded.

Wounded.

Wounded, but I changed it to wounds.

Wounds.

Because with these wounds, you become wounded.

So there are wounds that when we don't understand what these wounds are, then we become wounded believers.

Now, point number one, because we're gonna jump right into this.

I'm gonna be totally honest and transparent.

There's so much to talk about that for the first time in my discipline and my study, it took me longer to really follow where the Holy Spirit wanted to go because there's so much to talk about.

Um, normally I spend the time on Tuesday, my prep time is Tuesday, and by Wednesday I'm done with my message, then I meditate the rest of the week.

We were on vacation, of course, so I didn't do anything, but normally the Lord will wake me up really early in the morning on Saturday, which he did, but I didn't get done until like almost two o'clock.

Because there's so much.

Let me read the text and then I'll give you the word that the Lord said to me.

Um, point number one, you must get an understanding of wounds.

You must get an understanding of wounds.

So go to Psalm number 147.

We'll start here.

There'll be two foundation texts to this.

Psalm number 147, stanza number three, says, He healeth the broken heart.

And then notice what it says He bound up or he bindeth up their wounds.

Since God is the healer, notice he also will bind up key word wounds.

So wounds are real.

Go to Psalm number 109.

Psalm number 109.

David says this in stanza number 22, for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

So I heard this word, escapism.

Um, we were at the movies, and right in the middle of a movie, the Lord said, escapism.

And you know how you're in a movie and it's dark, and they tell you not to turn on the phone because you you can distract people that's there.

But the movie we went to see, there was nobody in there but us.

So I took my phone out and I began to look up what this word escapism means.

It's a survival mechanism used that becomes a way of life to ignore problems, trauma, past hurt, pain, and difficult feelings.

And then I heard the Lord say this there are many of my children suffering from these type of wounds, and they have been masking them.

So we're gonna uncover some things.

So this word wound, it means an injury to the heart or soul caused by painful experiences that have damaged a person's identification, emotions, your beliefs, and your relationships.

There are many of God's people that are walking around, they're saved, they love God, but they're wounded.

I'm gonna let that sit in because it's a true statement.

We act like everything is fine, and we talk like everything is fine.

But if we were able to open up your chest and look at your heart, you're wounded.

And we walk around like everything is okay because you don't want to tell anybody.

Because you think that people won't understand you, or you think that people will judge you based upon what you have experienced in life, so you hide while you go through life trying to figure out how to maneuver, but yet you're hurting on the inside and you're screaming for freedom.

And then people will mask these wounds through working.

This is a real good one.

Social media, entertainment, activities, because all these things will provide temporary relief.

But when you go back home and nobody's there, you still are wounded.

Or you created a fantasy world.

You created another life, you do things that nobody can see you doing but God, but you're masking it like you're okay.

Or then there are others that just stay busy, thinking that the busyness will take away the pain.

A wound that is not understood is a wound that cannot be healed.

So every wound that you don't understand is the very wound that will never unfortunately get healed.

And you can live your life as a born-again believer who, yes, when you leave this physical body and you leave this earth, but you leave a body here wounded.

And that is not the plan of God, that is not the will of God because our opening text says that God is a healer, so healing is provided for whatever wound you have ever experienced.

Thank you, Jesus.

Now, a wound is not just what happened, it's the pain that remains because of what happened.

And a womb is not always visible.

Although I'm gonna show you today, you can tell wounded Christians.

I've been doing this long enough that I can tell just by listening to you where you've been wounded at.

You can look strong on the outside while carrying wounds on the inside.

Okay, some men don't have a masculine problem, they have a wounded problem.

This is Father's Day, so I'm gonna talk a lot to the fathers, but at the same time, this will be open to everybody because wounds come in different types of ways.

Now, if you only treat the behavior, you're only managing the symptoms.

And this is what happens in the body of Christ.

You're trying to treat the behavior and you're not paying attention to the symptoms.

Okay.

Now, let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter 2.

2 Corinthians 2 · chapter mention

Now that I have your attention.

There's a certain place where the Lord wants to get to today.

Second Corinthians chapter 2.

2 Corinthians 2 · chapter mention

You cannot defeat an enemy whose method you don't understand.

Sir, go there, sir.

Go there.

It's very interesting that the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 6, we wrestle, we wrestle.

Ephesians 6 · chapter mention

We wrestle not.

The word wrestle actually means hand-to-hand combat.

So we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

So the hand-to-hand combat that you're fighting against people you don't understand.

You're fighting against an enemy you cannot see.

But yet, you think that it is your mother, you think that it is your father, you think that it is your children.

It is an enemy that's using them.

And yet you're trying to fight against them, and then you're struggling and you're not winning.

Break it all the way down.

That's right.

That's right.

You're fighting against something that you cannot see with your natural eye.

That's why you're not winning.

That's why you're losing.

That's why you're frustrated because you're fighting the wrong kind of battle with the wrong kinds of weapons.

So if you don't understand what he's using to trick you, then you'll just be tricked.

You'll be deceived in thinking that you know what you're doing, but yet you're messing and you're fighting with a deceiver that's been in the earth for over 6,000 years.

And he knows how to deceive.

He knows how to get you to use your faith against you.

And yet you'll think that you're winning because you may have a nice house, you might have a nice car, all that.

No, no, but you're losing the spiritual war.

Now, 2 Corinthians chapter 11 says this, lest Satan should get an advantage of us.

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For we are not ignorant of his devices.

He gets an advantage over us because we're ignorant.

The word ignorant means you just don't know.

So what you don't know can cause you to be deceived.

The book of Hosea says, My people are destroyed for a lack of, didn't say the lack of shouting, didn't say the lack of dancing, didn't say the lack of praising, instead of the lack of apygnosis, the perfect knowledge of God.

So if you don't understand God's perfect will for your life as an individual, you will be deceived.

2 Corinthians chapter 4 says Satan is the God of this world.

2 Corinthians 4 · chapter mention

He's blinded the minds of those that don't believe.

So any area you don't believe the word, you've been blinded.

You can't see, you don't know the way out.

So we're gonna talk about some of these strategies that the enemy uses against God's children.

He understands that he cannot get to God, he cannot defeat God.

So what he endeavors to do is to go after children who are ignorant.

Go after children who refuse to get into the book because I'm too tired.

It doesn't take all of that, and yet we end up living in poverty, not knowing your purpose, wasting time.

See what I find out people who don't know purpose are time wasters.

You don't understand the reason why you're here, so you waste time doing things that you shouldn't be doing.

I've come to a place in my life right now where you're wasting my time.

Because you have to be a man or a woman on an assignment.

Time is running out.

Now, the enemy looks for access points in your life.

He's looking for access points in your life, he's looking for doors, he's looking for windows for the purpose of delaying or preventing you from becoming the man or woman that God has created you to become.

So he's looking for opportunities to get into your life.

Opportunities.

When you scrolling on social media, when nobody else is watching, and all of a sudden you click on that naked lady.

He's looking for an opportunity.

When you're married and you flirting, he's looking for opportunities.

When you take shortcuts, he's looking for opportunities.

Any way he can to get into your life to delay, to prevent, to disturb what God has called you to do.

Now, I'm gonna show you a pattern today.

How he gains access and to God's children.

Number one, there's the wound.

Number two, there's the lie.

Number three, there's the agreement.

Then number four, there's the behavior.

And the behavior, once I show it to you, what it boils down to.

Is broken identity.

So this behavior that when we follow this pattern, the ultimate result is your identification, who you are, is now damaged.

Damage.

Now, let me show you a Bible example of this pattern of how the enemy gets in.

Because this pattern, as I was going through it, it's all through the word.

From Genesis to Revelation.

Let's go to Judges chapter 11.

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And the following weeks, we're going to talk about the different types of rooms.

There is the male room, then there's the female room, then there's the son room, and then there's the daughter room.

And in these various rooms, there are levels of progression that we're supposed to develop in.

So the enemy looks for opportunities in every part of this room to get you stuck in these rooms.

That's why you can be an adult that's in your 50s, that all of a sudden that womb is still hurting you, and you remember what happened to you when you were 10.

Because you're still stuck in that room, even though you're in your 50s.

Because of that womb and what its assignment was, you're still stuck.

And people grow up like this.

Stuck.

And yet you're progressing in these rooms.

That's why you can have a man, Doc, that's married and been married for 40 and 50 years, but still act like a child.

Still playing video games.

Why?

Because that was a method of escape for him.

Because you're trying to escape the pain.

That's a whole nother side.

We not we haven't even talked about the escapeism from drugs.

From medical marijuana.

Now it's legal.

But it's not even real.

It's made in the laboratory to get you hooked.

To get you dip the only thing you and I should be dependent upon is God, not we.

You cannot be upset with him because he's doing his job.

He is a master deceiver.

So we have to understand what is a truth and what is a lie.

When you don't understand what the truth is, then you will start believing the lies like it is the truth.

Now, Judges chapter 11.

Judges 11 · chapter mention

Now, Japheth, the Gideonite, was a mighty man of valor.

Let's stop right there because God already called him right here.

His identification.

So God already saw this man a certain way.

A mighty man of valor.

Question is, how did he see himself?

God already said certain things about you.

Question is, how do you see yourself?

Whether you're in line with what God said, or do you believe somebody else?

The voice of Satan can come through the voice of people.

Just a matter of who are you willing to believe.

And he was a son of a harlot.

Lord have mercy.

And Gilead begat Japhat.

And Gilead's wife bare him sons.

And his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust him out.

And they said unto him, You should not inherit our father's house, for thou art a son of a strange woman.

Verse 3 says, Then he fled from his brethren and dwelt in the land of Toab, and there were gathered vain men to Japhath, and he went out with them.

Now, let's go all the way back up because the first entry point that we see, or the access point that we see that the enemy uses is something called rejection.

And this rejection wound creates a lie.

He wasn't accepted.

It was the lie that he didn't belong.

And rejection will always turn a painful event into a false reality.

Wounds come from being rejected.

He was rejected by people that were supposed to support him.

He was rejected from his own family.

Father, mother, brothers.

It's a womb.

And many people have been rejected from folks who were supposed to demonstrate the love of God.

The danger isn't necessarily the rejection.

The danger is believing a lie.

The lie of you don't belong.

Well, who said you don't belong?

Okay, go to John chapter eight.

See, this womb tries to define you.

And this womb, if you're not aware of it, will create for you a new identification.

You will live your life believing that you're less than.

That you don't fit in.

That you don't belong all because of what somebody else thought about you.

John chapter 8, verse 44 says, You are of your father the devil.

John 8:44

And the lust of your fathers you will do.

He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

When he speaks, he's speaking lies.

And then the Bible says, not only does he speak lies, he is the father of lies.

So he'll make stuff up and bring it to you to make it seem like it's real, to see if you will accept a lie.

Question is, do you know the difference between a lie and the truth?

Because Satan is the author of lies.

He'll make stuff up just to see if you're gonna take the baby.

Okay, this word rejection is a wound created when a person feels unwanted, unloved, unaccepted, or excluded by someone whose acceptance matters.

So it mattered to you what they thought about you.

So when they didn't want you, it changed your identification, it changed how you saw yourself.

It changed your lack of confidence now.

It's a wound.

So there's the womb.

Then there's the lie.

He's been lying to some of you your whole life.

And one of the biggest reasons why it's so challenging to let people in is because of the pain.

Listen to this.

When you are rejected, you have a destabilized sense of belonging.

When you get rejected, you feel socially rejected, which prevents you from being social.

So now all of a sudden, because of the pain, now you don't want to talk to anybody.

Now you you want to isolate.

See, let me help the married people out, especially the ladies.

The reason why, one of the reasons why your husband doesn't talk is because he's wounded.

You trying to pry him to talk.

So he'll mask it by saying, I'm a provider, I'll take care of you.

And you should.

But you also should communicate.

I didn't get one amen from one man besides Doc.

He's wounded.

He was rejected.

So now he hides.

He becomes a loner.

And then what happens, because we've seen this, is now you deal with sadness when nobody's around.

It's very dangerous to live with rejection.

So you go from the wound to the lie to agreement.

Point number three.

Stop allowing your present circumstances to determine your future destination.

People are trying to fix their behavior without dealing with the wounds.

You've got to deal with these wounds.

You have to deal with these wounds.

Now, if you go back and you reread this, you will see something, especially in verse number two.

He says, Thou shalt not inherit your father's house, for thou art a son of a strange woman.

The Bible doesn't really talk about in this instance his agreement.

What it does do, it shows about how he felt about being rejected.

What did he do?

He started living like what they said was true.

And that.

How do you know if you have agreed with the rejection?

Look at your life.

That is an indication whether or not you are in agreement with the lie.

And when you think about agreement, it is an alignment.

So you've aligned your life to believe and to receive something that wasn't true.

I'll give you an example.

You will never do anything.

It is a lie, Deborah.

But how many people have believed the lie?

Because that lie came probably from a loved one who they needed to be assured that they're in love with them to support them, but they believe the lie.

So what happened?

They align their lies and do absolutely nothing with their lies.

Agreement.

How are you now living your life?

Are you in agreement with what they said?

You'll never become anything.

You'll never do anything.

You'll never change.

So guess what happens?

You don't change because you believe the lie.

And as a child, if you continuously hear that over and over and over again, you'll start believing what you hear, especially from somebody that you trust, like a parent or a loved one or a mentor.

It's an agreement.

Because whatever you agree with in your heart, you begin talking about it.

Come on, Pastor.

Because you're now in alignment with this.

You cannot get away from the heart-mouth connection.

Whatever you believe in your heart, whether it's right or wrong, it is going to proceed out of your mouth.

Matthew chapter 12.

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Watch what Jesus says.

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, the word evil there means natural, speak good things.

For out of the abundance, out of the abundance of your heart, that is what's going to come out of your mouth.

The agreement is the place where you internalize the rejection.

Your actions will reveal what you have agreed with in your heart.

Not every thought deserves agreement.

Let me say that again.

Not every thought, because the enemy has access to your thought life.

Not every thought that comes, you should not be in agreement with that.

Some of you have been agreeing with things that are outside the will of God.

And you've allowed those thoughts to become something that you're internalizing.

And because you have been internalizing it, you've been meditating on it.

And because you've been meditating on it, now you become it.

When you go back and you read this story, you'll find that Japh had two choices: rejection or identification.

Same choices that we have today.

You can reject a lie, or you can now construct your life based off of the identification that God has prescribed for your life.

In every aspect of your life.

Reject a lie or accept your identification.

Now, point number four.

Don't let the womb determine how you live.

Go back to Judges chapter 11.

Judges 11 · chapter mention

Many times the womb is speaking louder than God.

Because the pain.

Because of trauma.

Because you've been hurt.

It can if you allow it to.

Verse 3 says, Then Japhath fled from his brethren and dwelling in a land of taub.

Notice he no longer saw himself having a place in his father's house.

So what did he do?

He isolated himself.

So being rejected produces isolation.

You don't want to be around anybody.

Because you don't want anybody to know.

You don't want to talk to anybody.

Because maybe they won't understand.

Isolation can become emotional protection.

You're protecting yourself from people.

It tells you that.

Distance is safer than being vulnerable.

Let me just stay away.

The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is full of people who have been rejected.

That's why they stay away from the thousands.

By the thousands.

Because you don't want anybody to know.

So if I just stay away a little longer, I'm safe.

But when you when you read this, you will realize that when he was isolated, the enemy sent other people across his path that wouldn't help him.

That got in agreement with the rejection.

Wounded people, listen, that's how you know people are wounded.

You don't trust other people.

You have an issue with trusting people.

Tell you, I talked to you long enough to figure out what's happening in your marriage.

You don't let your husband in, you don't let your wife in, you know why?

You still wounded.

You don't want to let your children in?

Because you're wounded.

You don't want to share?

Because you're wounded.

You've been hurt and you don't want to talk about it.

So you isolate.

You do what Adam did.

You hide.

And think that nobody sees you.

Two people see you.

God sees you, number one, but the enemy sees you.

And as you hide, this is what he says, got him.

And then what happens is that when you start receiving this, there is something called the spirit of abandonment.

And now because you receive the spirit of abandonment, you start abandoning everybody else.

And now what you don't realize is that you actually just created a curse in your family.

Because you got abandoned, because you received the lie, then you abandoned everybody else.

And now we have a generation of fathers who just made babies.

But never father their children.

Because why?

They were rejected.

Can I add on another one?

Oh yeah.

I'm out here now.

You way out there.

Also, the spirit of rejection, it will also create insecurity.

Is that in your nose?

Then I'm gonna sit down.

Yeah, yeah, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

Because insecure people at times will refuse instructions.

Sorry, sir.

And when you're insecure, you want to be in control of everything.

And insecure people, because of the pain, you become emotionally numb to things.

Where you have no feelings anymore.

Because you've been hurt so bad, you've been rejected so bad that no longer do you have compassion.

So somebody's trying to explain something to you, but yet you can't even hear.

And you can't even hear.

Why?

Because you're wounded.

You're not even trying to listen.

And you can't hear because you're wounded.

And then because of that, you're suspicious of everybody.

All because you got rejected.

What's her angle?

What's what he wants?

That can't be that nobody's like that.

You just you just wound it.

You've been hurt.

And then you're harsh.

Loud.

All because of the wound.

You measure your worth by the approval of the approval of other people.

Because what what people's opinion now means more than what God said.

Because now they become a people pleaser.

So now you live your life to please others instead of living your life to please God.

Why?

Because you've been hurt.

This is happening in the body of Christ.

Just like in the natural, if you were wounded and you go to the doctor, they provide you different ointments and things like that to dress your wound.

Absolutely.

But oftentimes what happens is if you don't dress that wound, then it creates other things in your body that may be more complicated than what you came in there for.

So that's why every single day, depending on how tragic or how traumatic the wound is, you might have to dress that wound every single day.

You dress it with the word of God.

You dress it in your prayer time.

You dress that wound when you sit before the Lord and you just sit in his presence and allow him to remove all the trauma and then to bring in his peace and also his healing.

But if you don't dress your wound every single day, what you're doing is you're giving it permission to live and create everything the pastor just mentioned.

Insecurity, abandonment.

And guess what?

These are not just emotions.

They're spirits.

They're not just emotions.

And they might start off as an emotion.

Anger can start off as an emotion, but then the enemy says thank you because I have a demon that can enforce that law of anger.

So thank you for opening up the window so I can have all these come and fly in.

And it might not be just one.

You can have 50 different types of spirits of anger.

Rage, anger, bitterness, all because you were neglectful in dressing your wound.

So watch this.

Whatever you yield to will reveal what you've submitted to.

Whatever you have yielded to, she just talked about certain things.

So if you've yielded to anger, then you'll submit to being angry.

Because you've yielded to that.

And you see it in behavior.

A tree, Jesus says, a tree is known by the fruit that it bears.

So whatever you yield to, you will see that behavior in your life.

So you have to determine what and who you're going to yield to.

If you yield to Holy Ghost, then you get the behavior of Holy Ghost.

But if you yield to sexual perversion, then you will produce sexual perversion.

If you yield to a mouth that curses, oop, it just came out.

No, it didn't.

You yielded to it.

And whatever you yield to is what you will become.

Oh my God.

And we see that manifestation happening in people's lives.

So if you've yielded to rejection, you just become a wounded Christian.

But God is a healer.

Now, I showed you today that there was the process that the enemy uses.

And he uses the wound.

He used the lie.

He used the agreement.

And then there's their behavior.

And with that agreement, there was confession.

So you have to break these agreements.

Let's do it now.

If you're a first-time visitor, that's normal.

We we I know some of y'all looking like, who is this woman?

She's out of order.

I have permission, people.

I have permission.

See, let me let me let me help.

Um, because you're a first-time visitor, you may think that's out of order.

Um, we flow differently here.

How we see pastoring is husband and wife.

Most, we've been doing this for over two decades.

Most pastors will not allow their wives to speak into the lives of people because of their insecurity.

They've been rejected.

They've been rejected.

I'm secure in who God created me to be and what God has created me to do, and who God has brought alongside of me to assist me with this.

So that it's not out of order.

This is how we flow.

Because there are certain things that a father can say, and there are other things that a mother can say.

If you're only hearing the voice of a father, you might be imbalanced.

So you need both.

So that's allowed in the life center church.

So let's break some agreements today.

Let's get free today.

And every single week we will build on this because when you talk about the male room and the female room, those rooms are designed for your identification.

So what happens is that when we don't understand this male room and this female room, and then you go into the son room, and when you have been wounded in your identification, and you try to function as a son, you're already handicapped.

Because now you're trying to function as a son, but you don't really know who you are.

Then you go from a son to a father.

So imagine a father not knowing his real identification.

How can he raise godly children?

It's no way possible.

So now he's trying to father the way the natural would father.

But he doesn't understand there's God-given equipment and there's grace to be a father, to tap into that, to provide everything that your children would ever need physically, emotionally, financially.

Why?

Because number one, you understand who you are, and then you understand that there's equipment.

Well, it's the same way with females.

So that's why you would see young ladies dressing like prostitutes and dancing and twerking because they don't know who they are.

So now they're grown, working at a strip club, trying to provide because they don't know who they are.

Their identity is in all of this.

This is happening all in the body of Christ, folks.

I'm not talking about the world.

That's what they do.

They don't know any different.

So then now you go and you talk about a father or a husband who doesn't know his identification, then he'll be insecure with his wife.

He'll try to make her conform.

Because he doesn't know how to.

Okay.

So we're gonna talk about this and we're gonna uncover this because God's will is health for his people.

Regardless of what room you still may be locked in, we're gonna get you out of that room.

Alright, you all stand on your feet.

Now I need you to focus in on maybe a person.

Maybe multiple people.

Maybe it was that promotion you didn't get that you were qualified for, but they looked over you.

You've been rejected.

I need you to really lock in.

Because you have to break agreement with this today.

When we break agreement with this, there's a confession that goes along with this.

So when you break it, the power of what held you bound will no longer hold you any longer.

Some of you receive the rejection that you're alone.

That you gotta do life all by yourself.

That's a lie from the pit of hell.

Jesus says, I'll be with you forever until the end of the world.

And then not only that, he says, I'm not gonna leave you like an orphan.

I'm sending somebody just like me.

He's gonna be with you, he's gonna live in you forever.

So that's a lie.

You have to break agreement with these things today.

So repeat this in meanness from your heart.

Say, in the name of Jesus, I renounce every spirit of abandonment, the spirit of rejection, the spirit of isolation, that has tried to attach itself to my identification in Christ.

I break every lie that says nobody cares about me.

That you have to survive by yourself, that I cannot trust anyone, that I will always be left behind.

That's not my identity, that's not my inheritance.

According to the word of God, I am chosen, I am accepted in the beloved, I am not forsaken by God.

I renounce every covenant with loneliness, every agreement with fear, and every pattern that caused me to build walls instead of building relationships, I command every spirit of rejection that have influenced my thoughts, my emotions, my decisions to leave me right now in the name of Jesus.

I break the power of every wound created by abandonment.

I forgive those who left, those who rejected me, those who failed me.

I release them.

I release myself.

I declare I am not an orphan.

I belong to God, He is my father, I'm a member of the body of Christ.

I have a purpose.

Every place where rejection entered, the love of God is restoring.

Every place where isolation grew, the presence of God is now invading.

I put on the armor of God.

I stand in my authority.

I receive my identification.

The cycle is broken.

The door is closed.

The lie is destroyed.

I am accepted.

I am chosen.

I am chosen.

I am restored.

I am restored.

I am never alone.

I am never alone.

In the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus.

Abandonment go.

Orphan spirit, you leave now.

Orphan spirit, you leave.

In the name of Jesus.

The spirit of shyness.

We declare that you have no place in the lives of God's children.

From this moment forward, you will be as bold as a lion.

No longer backing down.

No longer being intimidated.

Shyness, you go now in the name of Jesus, whom the Son sets free is free indeed.

You leave now in the name of Jesus.

Anger.

Bitterness.

You leave now in the name of Jesus.

Every tormenting spirit that came in with rejection.

Every mind-binding spirit that came in with rejection.

You leave now up and out.

Up and out.

Up and out.

Up and up now in the name of Jesus.

Up and on now in the name of Jesus.

You leave now.

Jesus has given us authority over serpents, over scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.

And nothing to the enemies for us.

Luke and 19.

Up and out.

Now in the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus.

Fight for your freedom right now.

Fight for your freedom.

You tell it to leave.

You tell them rejection from your father to leave.

You tell them rejection from your father to leave.

You tell them the enemy from your children to leave.

You tell it to the life.

Tell it to live your life.

Tell it to live your house.

Tell it to live your body.

Tell it to live now in the name of Jesus.

Up and out.

Up and out.

Up and out.

Now in the mighty name of Jesus.

And every spirit that came in.

Come on, lift up your head.

Every spirit that came in, leave now.

Father, we name for the freedom that you provided.

Provided it by the blood of Jesus.

So we declare sunset free.

Thank you, Jesus.

We're free.

Thank you, Jesus.

Indeed.

Thank you, Jesus.

Never to go back.

Never to go back.

Never to return.

Never to return.

Never to feel rejected.

Never to fear.

Never to feel isolated.

But to be loved.

In the name of Jesus.

By love himself.

In the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus.

If you're free today, shout Amen.

Amen.

Glory to God.

Now, while every head is bowed and every eye is closed.

If you're in here today or you're online and you're not born again, Jesus had a conversation with a man in John chapter 3.

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And he says, You must be born again.

What does that mean?

God saved you.

God delivered you.

God freed you.

It means you give your heart to him.

It's real simple.

It's believing with your mouth and confessing with your mouth that Jesus is the Son of the Living God.

And the Bible says, not what man says, the Bible says, thou shalt be saved.

So if you're in here today or you're watching online and you're not born again, you've never accepted Jesus into your heart.

What an awesome present to give our Father.

So that's you.

Really quickly, lift your hands in the air, we'll pray with and for you.

Amen.

Yep, I see those hands.

See those hands.

Praise the Lord.

You can put your hands down.

Maybe you're here and you say, Pastor, yes, I'm born again, but I've walked away from God.

You know, God is so awesome that He provides a way out of no way.

He always provides a door of escape.

1 John 1 9 says, if you confess your sin, sin simply means I've missed the mark.

There's no perfect person that's walking the face of the earth.

We all miss it.

1 John 1 9 is for every person that's born again.

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has done a horrible job because we make people feel bad for making the right decision to choose Jesus.

If we make a decision to choose Jesus, it should be celebrated.

So if you're out of fellowship and you want to get that right, just acknowledge it.

God already knows, but one thing about God, He will never force you to do anything that you don't ever want to do.

We are morals of free choice.

He says, choose life or choose death.

Therefore, choose life.

Why?

So that you can live.

God desires that you live.

You live with Him.

And that's the place of freedom.

So if you're in here and you're out of fellowship, you want to get that right, go ahead and lift your hand in the air.

We'll pray with and for you as well.

Anybody, anybody, anybody?

And my last invitation is maybe you're here.

And maybe you don't pray in other tongues.

It's in the word from Genesis to Revelation.

Old Testament, New Testament.

Jesus says, These signs shall follow them that believe.

You cast out demons, you speak with other tongues.

The apostle Paul says, Thank God, I pray in tongues more than you are.

Forbid them not to speak in other tongues.

That's where the power comes from.

Yes, you're born again, but God's spirit lives on the inside of you.

How?

You pray in other tongues.

Acts chapter 2, Acts chapter 9, Acts chapter 19.

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It's all throughout the word.

If you're not filled and you want to receive today, man, lift your hand, we'll pray with and for you as well.

Okay.

Now I'm going to do what I said.

I'm going to pray with and for you.

If you raise your hand on any one of those invitations, I'm going to cover one salvation because most of the people raise their hand today.

Then I'm going to send them out.

I want you to repeat this prayer after me.

Say, Dear Heavenly Father, I believe with my heart and I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God.

Dear Lord Jesus, come into my heart and save me now.

Because of my confession today, I am born again.

I am and right standing with the Father in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Now, if you just prayed that prayer really.