In this sermon, the preacher addresses the issue of God-loving people being oppressed and discouraged by the enemy. He emphasizes that God is looking at this situation with disbelief and questions why His people are allowing themselves to be walked over and their names blasphemed. The preacher reminds the listeners that they should not fear man and should not allow others to bring depression, fear, and bondage into their lives. He assures them that God will deliver them from their afflictions and plead their cause. The sermon is based on Isaiah 51 and 52 and encourages the listeners to stand firm against the devil's attacks.

This message is one of the Times Square Church pulpit series. It was recorded in the sanctuary of Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York City. Other tapes are available by writing World Challenge, PO Box 260, Lindell, Texas 75771 or calling 903-963-8626. You are welcome to make additional cassettes of this message for free distribution to friends. However, for all other forms of reproduction or electronic transmission, existing copyright laws apply. My message this morning, devil, you can't walk on me anymore. Open your Bibles to Isaiah 51 and 52 and just open your Bible and leave it, lay on your lap, open to Isaiah 51, if you will, please. Hallelujah. It's going to be a very powerful week for the Wilkerson family. We have the conference and then next Sunday, 50th wedding anniversary. And we're looking forward to that very much. Devil, you can't walk on me anymore. Heavenly Father, we're not going to rail against the devil this morning, but we're going to take your authority that you have given and you ask us to take in command. And Lord, we pray that you open your word this morning, that you anoint us. Lord, you have prepared a message, especially for some that have gathered here, perhaps for the first time, others who are part of this body, who are going through a great dark night of the soul, going through a testing time. Lord, you always have a word in season. And I ask you, Lord, to deliver it from my heart as you gave it to me, to speak to my own heart as it comes out of my mouth, that I will apply this to my own life. And it will not just be theology, it will be something, Lord, that's worked into the very fiber of our nature. Lord, quicken us to hear the word of the Lord, I pray. Lord, I need your help. Do help me, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen. Isaiah 51-1, hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord. Now, stop right there for just a minute. These are captives he's addressing. The prophet Isaiah is speaking. The Lord is speaking to the prophet Isaiah, and he's speaking to those who are in Babylonian captivity. But they are followers of righteousness, and he's speaking to a remnant in this great captive audience. And he said, I'm going to speak, I want the ear of all of those who hearken to me, that pursue after righteousness, ye that follow or pursue after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord. And look at me, please. This is for this congregation this morning. You wouldn't be here unless you're a seeker of the Lord. You wouldn't be in this church, particularly, if you weren't a seeker of the Lord. You wouldn't last. The Holy Ghost would have convicted you so by tonight you'd either humble or run. You wouldn't be coming here. You're here as a pursuer after God's heart, and you love Him. And he said, I want to speak to you in particular. He first addresses them as followers after righteousness, and in verse 21, then, he calls them afflicted people, drunk but not with wine. 51 verse 21, if you'll look at that, if you will, please. Therefore, hear now this. The same people he's speaking to that seek after righteousness, thou afflicted and drunken, but not with wine. He said, you're righteous, you're holy, so don't think for a moment that what has come upon you is just the result of sin. He said, you're a pursuer after God, but you're drunken. In other words, you're drunken with a situation that's come upon you, a crisis, and it's put you in some kind of a spiritual, physical stupor. It has affected you physically, mentally, or spiritually. And he said, there's a drunkenness, not with wine. In other words, you have not transgressed in this matter, but you are righteous, you are holy, and this has come upon you. And he said, I want the ear of every God-pursuing person who is drunken, but not with wine, who's afflicted in some manner. Now, I don't know what your affliction may be when you walked in here this morning, but I do know for those who are, and those who are going through a trial, those who have a dark night, maybe dryness, deadness, whatever it may be, testing in your home. It could be with your children, could be with your family. I don't know what it is. I don't need to describe it. God knows it, and you know it. But the Lord has brought forth the word this morning, especially for you. He said, I want your ear, I want every spiritual-minded captive, I want every one of you who have been accused or tormented by the enemy to hear me. He said, I want your attention, all godly servants, all of you who perceive that you have failed God in some way. You're under the weight of some kind of a crisis or sin or problem. Therefore, verse 21, therefore, hear now this. I have a word for you. I've come to deliver you. I'm going to bring you a word now. You're righteous, you're a seeker after me, and I want you to hear me. And he said, I make you a promise. I'm going to take out of your hand the cup of trembling and put it back in the hand of those who have afflicted you. I'm going to take it out, and you'll see it, verse 22, thus saith the Lord, the God that pleaded the cause of his people, he said, I'm here to plead your cause. Now, folks, he said, I'm not mad at you, but I'm here to plead your cause. Behold, I've taken out of your hand the cup of trembling. You've been trembling under this, even the dregs of the cup of my fury. Thou shalt no more drink it again, but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, which have said to thy soul, bow down, that we may go over, and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over. Now, in plain language, that says the devil, for some of you, has been successful in getting you to bow down. You're facing the dust down on the street, and he's walking all over you. Bow down. This is what the enemy has said to you. Bow down, that we, all the demon powers and all of those men who are used by the enemy, may go over you. You've laid your body to the ground and to the street, to them, plenty that walk over you. The Lord's saying, I want you to hear me. I'm on your side. I've come to deliver you. You've been allowing the devil to disturb you. You have been allowing the devil to take his own way with you. And he said, it's enough. You have laid your body down in fear. You've laid the street in despair. You have allowed them to walk over you. God looks at this incredible scene. He sees sincere, God-loving people that are bearing burns they need not bear. He sees people that are discouraged, that need to be encouraged. And he says, very plainly, 52 verse 5. Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for naught? They that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord, and my name continually every day is blasphemed. He's looking at this in disbelief. He said, what do we have here? What is this, that my people are being so harassed? My people that love me, that seek me, are allowing the enemy to walk over them. He said, what do we have here? What do I have on my hands? And he says it very lovingly. How is it that Satan is taking my people for nothing, ruling over them, blaspheming my name, causing them to howl in pain? Now, if you just open your heart to the Holy Spirit, you'll see it right there very clearly. God again speaks to His bowed down people in 51 verse 5. My righteousness is near, my salvation has gone forth. Look at verse 5 in chapter 51. My righteousness is near, my salvation has gone forth, my hand shall judge the people. Now that means judging righteously. Now look at me please. I said, what do we have here? We have a people who are seeking my name, who love me, and they're still walking in oppression from the enemy. He's having his free course. He's walking over my people. They have bowed their back and allowed this to happen. And then he comes with this message. He said, now, I want you to know, and he said, and this is something God wants every one of you that are suffering this morning to know, God says very clearly here, my righteousness is near you, my salvation has gone forth. I have already spoken the word of deliverance. I've already given the word. And folks, I've always said the hardest part of faith is the last half hour. Just when God has already spoken the word, we've become the most burdened down. And at that time, we're on the street and we're in the dust with our face in the dust. And the Lord said, please, you've got to know now, lest you give up. You've got to know now even while you're in this state. I've already spoken the word. I've already given the word. You're going to be delivered. He said, I'm going to comfort you. Verse 2, 51, verse 2, verse 3. For the Lord shall comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places. He will make her wilderness like Eden. You see, you're in this wilderness now, and you're in a waste place, allowing the enemy to deceive and overwhelm you. And the Lord says, I'm going to comfort you in the midst of this, and I'm going to make your wilderness like Eden, and your desert like the garden of joy of the Lord. And I'm going to bring joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. He said, while you're in this, get this in your mind. I've spoken the word. You don't have to let the devil walk over you anymore, because I've spoken the word, and you're going to come out of this, and you're going to sing, and you're going to make melody in your heart, because I have said the word. I've given the word. Hallelujah. God loves His people. He said, you have your head bowed down. You've laid your body to the ground. He said, I've got to make this clear to you. I want to deliver you, but I've got to tell it like it is. And I'm telling you, you have laid your body down. You are allowing this in your life. God seems incredulous in verse 12, chapter 51, verse 12. I, even I, am He that comforteth you. He said, in the light of all my promises, in the light of my sending the word, and I've given you the word. Folks, you've heard the word from this pulpit time and time again, the promises of the covenant, the promises God has made to you that He's already spoken the word. He's already got the plan of deliverance. He's already got all the joy, everything you need. But He says, who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the son of man which shall be made as grass? He said, what's going on here? Why are you afraid of man? Why are you afraid of what people think of you? Why do you measure yourself with other men? Why do you think you're a failure because you don't measure up to what you think is some standard? Why are you letting people walk all over you that the enemy is using and you let them bring depression and fear and bondage into your life? He said, who are you in the light of my promises? And he says it lovingly. Who are you or why do you allow this when I've told you never have to fear man? I'll never put you to shame. And he said, I'm going to take the cup of trembling they tried to put in your hand. I'm going to put it in their hands. I'm not, I'm not talking about any kind of spirit of revenge or anything as God has told us clearly that the devil uses people. He possesses people and they'll come to harass you. Ungodly, wicked people will come and harass you and try to cause you to tremble. Verse 7, hearken unto me, 51-7, hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law, fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings, their gossip, their talk can't hurt you. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Don't be afraid of man. Don't be afraid of the wicked. Don't be afraid, the Bible says, of the raging of the heathen. He said, you brought a reproach on yourself. You bring a reproach on yourself when you don't take your spiritual authority. God said, you have, verse 13, look at verse 13. I think it's verse 13, 15. Here it is. He said, you have feared continually every day. You've feared continually. That's in verse 13. You've laid the foundation there and has feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy. Where is the fury of the oppressor? You know what God is saying? Look back over history. Show me, God says, any time I have failed my people, I have failed to deliver those who are under the oppression of the enemy. Where is the fury? Look all through history. You will not find God ever failing. And God has never once failed you in your trial. He's brought you out of many, many trials up to this point where you are now. You look back and say, he's faithful. I stand at this time in my life after 50, more than 50 years of ministry and 50 years of marriage, and I can tell you, I have walked through fires and I've walked through floods and I've walked through afflictions and distress, but my God has never once failed me. Never once has he failed. And he's not failed you. He has not failed you. He said, you have feared continually every day. David said, I'm feeble, I'm sore broken because of the disquietness of my heart. Some of you right now, you're feeble and your heart is disturbed. All over the world now, you find broken, bruised people, especially in the ministry. Many ministers have already quit and others are anticipating leaving the ministry. They live in this continual fear God is talking about, especially their wives who see their husbands in such turmoil, not just in the ministry, but everywhere else from the job and pressure on the job. They fear poverty. They fear they're going to be unemployed. I'm going to lose my house. I'm going to lose this. What are we going to do in this terrible fear of the future? For many ministers, this discouragement is because they see so little fruit, not just Christian workers in general. And those who are serving the Lord, they see so little fruit for their labors. I have two preacher sons and one of my sons called me a month or so ago and he said, Dad, what do you do when you've done everything right, but nothing seems to turn out right? What do you do when you're prayed up? You're walking in holiness. You're trusting God with everything in you. You have everything in order in your ministry, in your life, in your home. You're full of faith and God makes you promises that are dear to your heart and you don't see them coming to pass. And he says, when you put so much of your time and effort into people, you minister and give your life to them and then for no reason at all, they walk away. Even worse, they turn on you. He said, what do you do then? What do you do after you've done everything right? And I began to think about that. I thank God that my son has worked his way through that because God was doing a marvelous work in his heart and he was answering this to other ministers. God's given ministry of counseling and God was working this out in his own life. What do you do after you've done everything right and nothing seems to turn out right? And there are many of you sitting here. You've done everything. You've got the situation on your hands. You have fasted. You have prayed. You can't see any sin in your life. You're under the blood. You're walking in the righteousness of Christ and yet you don't see God answering your prayer. He made you a promise and now time goes by year after year after year goes by and that promise does not seem to be fulfilled. A Lutheran pastor talked to me recently and he said, our whole city, our whole area, all the pastors are discouraged. We used to meet monthly. Now he said, now there's a few come because the meetings were so down and the pastors are saying we see so little fruit for what we're doing. They're working harder than ever and see so little fruit and people are falling away and they say, what should we do? Their wives are discouraged and now here in New York, in the United States, we have a whole nation under distress. Stress everywhere you look. Newsweek magazine this week said I think 65 percent of American people can't anymore. And here in New York City, fear of bioterrorism, fear that the tunnels or bridges will be blown up. Now it's nuclear. We may have a dirty bomb. Now over in Long Island they're afraid that the atomic plants will blow up. There's fear on every side and stress on all sides. Folks, we've got to get some word from the Lord. We've got to start putting our trust in him once again. And in this time of terrible distress, God says you feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were going to destroy you. Folks, I'm going to tell you, there is no scenario that you can paint. There's no situation of terrorism or anything else you can paint where the devil or any enemy can destroy you. That doesn't mean that you're not going to die in one of these things or I'll die. It means that if I go in instant glory, I am not destroyed. I'm getting a new body. It's nothing to fear because I pass from death into life. We Christians should be examples in this last day for people all around us who are stressed. That's one of the greatest testimony that you have the rest of Christ in your heart. You're at peace with the world. You're at peace with God. Live or die, I am the Lord's. Folks, there's no other way to rest but say, I don't care. I'm his. Put your life in his hands. In chapter 52, verses 5 and 6, the Lord makes a promise. In the day that your enemy walks over you, in that day when you howl and cry because of fear of the enemy, therefore in that day they shall know that I am he that doth speak, behold, it is I. The Lord says, in the middle of your trial, your fear, God says, I'm going to appear. I'm going to appear and say, be still. Don't be afraid. Be of good cheer. It's me. It's your Savior. It's Christ. And folks, that was literally fulfilled in Matthew 14 in the middle of a storm. Disciples are in a boat that's tossed by wind and waves and Jesus comes toward them. Folks, every time we're in some kind of a trial, Jesus is always coming our way. He's always coming. Hallelujah. And in this time of tossing, in this time of fearfulness, the Lord said those very words, it is I. Be not afraid. Be of good cheer. You know, I got to thinking about that and he says, be of good cheer to men who think they're about to die. Be of good cheer. And the word means be relieved and be happy. Be released from your fears. And he expects because of who he is and the promises he's made, he's expecting us to act on his word alone by faith. Just to act on his promises. There's nothing else. I can't see anything else in the scripture that would bring you out. The Lord puts his finger now on the cause of our fear and our discouragement. He puts his finger right on the cause in verse 13. He said, you afraid of man and first thing and forget us the Lord thy maker that have stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundation of the earth. Look at me, please. He said, let me tell you why you've allowed the enemy to walk over you with all this fear. Because you're forgetting who I am. You're forgetting that I reign as king of kings and Lord of lords. You're forgetting my majesty. You have forgotten that in your crisis, you've forgotten who I am. And folks, if you'll stop and look at where you're at today, the fear that you brought into this house with you, you remember, you've forgotten the Lord thy maker that has stretched forth the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth. Verse 14. He said, the captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, that he should not die in his pit, nor that his bread should fail. Now, look at me, please. I'm not going to yell at you. I'm going to say it clearly and quietly. And that's the Holy Ghost to drive a wonderful place, drive it deep into the innermost part of your being. The Lord said, because you don't have your eye on my majesty and my power, because you're not looking to me as a God who can work out all your problems and you're not listening to my word, you're not hearing me because you're so anxious to get out of your problem. You're a captive now by this thing. You hasten to be loosed. God, get me out of this, rather than ask God to show you his majesty in the trial, his delivering power in the situation that you're in right now. God, just get me out, because I'm afraid, Lord, that if it goes on, I'm going to spin out, I'm going to get lost in this pit, and also that my bread's going to fail, that I'm going to lose my livelihood, and I'm going to be in poverty. And God says no. God said, David expressed the heart of God when he said, I'm old and gray, and I've yet to see God's people beg for bread. God's always going to feed you and clothe you and take care of you, or he couldn't be a loving father. So that's no reason whatsoever to fear. Now, God commands his people in chapter 52, he commands his people to wake up to the fact that they're being walked over, and he says, wake up, put on thy strength, O Zion, verse 152. Put on thy beautiful garments, shake thyself from the dust. He says, get up. You're laying in the dust. The enemy's walking over you. He says, now, get up. I am God. I'm reigning as king of kings and lord of lords. You don't have to let the devil walk over you anymore. Get up. Rise up out of the dust. It's an act of faith. Get up. And he says, now, put on your beautiful garments. He said, you're still righteous in my eyes. You've allowed the enemy to tell you you're filthy, you're dirty, you're unclean, and you have no right to put that garment on. He said, put it back on. Walk in faith that I am righteous in the sight of God. He's my lord. He's not forgotten me. And he said, get up and sit down as queen. Put your garment of righteousness on and sit down as reigning with Christ. Oh, Jerusalem, the holy city, for henceforth thou shalt no more come into the uncircumcised and unclean. He said, the devil's not going to have access to you as he has in the past. Now, let me tell you plainly what I believe it takes and how God worked in my life to stop this bowing down to the enemy and allowing him to walk over me. No more. No more bowing down. First of all, I learned that all my springs are in Christ. This is Psalm 87, 7. Don't turn. All my springs are in thee. I found out after all these years that my wife, as much as I love her, she can't satisfy this thing that's so deep in my soul, crying out for... there's a hunger and a thirst that only Christ. He's the spring and I have to dig down into Him. I have to get my satisfaction from Him. I don't get my satisfaction from my family. I love them. They'll hopefully tell you that I'm a good father and husband. I don't get my satisfaction from my ministry. I thank God for the ministry to give me and I love to preach His word, but it's not my ministry per se. It's nothing I've ever built. Folks, you can take every book I've ever written. You can take every building and every institution the Lord's put in my heart to build. You could take any major success I may have been given by the hand of God. You can take it all because none of that satisfies. The only thing it satisfies is that God comes and gives me a revelation. You can have all that if you give me a revelation and let me draw a little closer, see Him clearer and understand His ways a little better. That's what makes me shout and what makes me jump for joy because God has shown me something about Himself. He's revealing Himself inside. My satisfaction comes from drinking in this one well, in Christ. And when you come to that place where all your springs are in Him, you're not looking for your husband or wife to satisfy you. You're not looking it from your job or your career. You're not looking it from any ministry, how big or how small. You're not looking for anything from man or from this world. You're not looking for satisfaction out of being somebody. You're satisfied because Jesus is talking to you. Jesus is revealing Himself to you. He's manifesting Himself in you. When you come to that place, I really believe you have to come to this place where you say, Lord, it doesn't matter to me anymore whether or not you change my condition or my situation. I don't like it. But Lord, I want to be in the place where I'm drawing everything out of you and I'm not looking at my condition no matter how bad that condition is. You said you have a supply of grace that's equal or above everything that I can endure and you won't allow me endure anything more than I'm able through Christ. So you come to a place where He brings you above your circumstances. They're still there. You know, it's an amazing thing when Jesus goes to pray three times, Father, let this pass from me. And after the third time, an angel comes and ministers to Him and strengthens Him. You know what the next word says? You see, it's like coming to church. You're in a crisis and you hear an encouraging word and you're so, this is wonderful and there's a flush of freedom and thanksgiving. And you go out the door and your condition is the same. Because after the angel came, you know what the next word was? And he'd be in agony, prayed the more earnestly. Because he'd been strengthened by an angel. And the next word, and he'd be in agony, prayed the more earnestly. Jesus knew the secret of overcoming all the powers of hell. I'm going to keep praying to my Father and I'm going to pray more earnestly. Amazing. When the agony is still there, you go home, you may get some deliverance in just hearing the word and the word will wash over you. But the agony may continue and that's when the devil comes because the agony is there. Say, well, there's no deliverance. Yes, Jesus was strengthened. That strength took him right through to victory, all the way to the cross. It helped him to drink the cup of pain that had been handed to him. But there's still agony. But the Lord was, the Father was more than sufficient. The Holy Spirit was more than sufficient. It has to come to the place where you say, Lord, I want deliverance, but I'm not hastening to be loosened. I want to know you in my crisis. I want to know. And I want to trade all my dreams for the reality that is in Christ. Let me tell you a story in closing. A beautiful story that was given to me two nights ago. A telephone call from a pastor. Pretty well explains what I'm trying to bring you this morning. He has a young lady in the church that was born with a disfigurement in her face. Pretty severely disfigured. And yet all of her teenage years, she prayed that God would send a man, a husband, when she was old enough, who would love her in spite of her disfigurement. And she prayed for years. She wanted, first of all, the Lord would give her somebody that would love her and that she could have a child. And for all her teenage years and into her twenties, she prayed that prayer. This was her dream. And last week she came to the pastor with a bar of soap and a baby rattle. She said, please take this off me, off my hands. She told him the story. She said, all my life. And so I said, now this bar of soap. When I was a little girl, my daddy would say, honey, go get me some soap. And she would go get her daddy soap. And she identified that with being needed and wanted a man in the house. And she identified that with a loving husband who one day might say to her, honey, bring me a bar of soap. Just so she could respond in love. And she said, the rattle represents the baby that I wanted. And she said, I've carried this dream all my life. My face is not ever going to change because there's no operation, nothing can change it. She said, there's my lifetime dream. She said, I want to tell you something, Pastor. I laid that down months ago. I laid that dream down and it's been replaced by another dream that's far greater. Jesus has become my husband. And she said, if you notice now, all the children flock to me. I have so many children. And the pastor said, she's not fighting that dream anymore. She's not carrying that weight anymore. She said, Pastor, I'm so free and I want to get rid of these symbols. Now, please take them. So he took them. And he told me, Pastor told me, he said, she's the most loving woman in our church. She is so happy. The Lord has restored everything the cankerworms have eaten. She is at peace. The whole church loves her. Children flock to her. And she said, I couldn't be happier. You see, you may be carrying some kind of a dream, just like the pastor's dream, who suddenly he realized how selfish his dream had been, that God hadn't given him a bigger church and his congregation wasn't growing like he thought. And he always dreamed of having, you know, a good-sized church. Not selfish, but he just wanted a bigger church. And he wanted fruit and all of that. And then when he saw what was happening, he listened to a woman who came home from vacation and she's on the beach, sitting there in a beach chair, watching her husband waving. He's out there swimming deeper in the sea. Big wave came and took him away and they never found him. And so she comes home with this pain. And he's thinking to himself, all of this selfishness in me, all of this drive that's in me. He told me his most tender words. He said, I have no more dreams about a large church. I just want a loving church. I just want people who love each other. I want to minister to those I have and stand before God, knowing that I produced, by the word, a loving family. How small or how large it may be, that's what it's all about. Sometimes our foolish dreams, we cling to them and cling to them and we don't trade them for Christ. If they're to be restored to us in his time and his way, he'll do it. Otherwise, he said, he wants you to live in peace. He said, I have commanded your deliverance. He said, stand up now, rise up, get up out of the dust. It's an act of faith. He said, I've empowered you to do that. The enemy can't hold you anymore. Will you stand, please? As you get ready to sing that song, God is good and his mercies endureth forever. Friends, if you're here this morning in the Annex and here in the Mayan Auditorium, and you came into the service this morning in a struggle, in a battle, and something that was said this morning ministered to your heart, either convicted you or encouraged you or ministered to you, I want you to respond as the Holy Ghost would lead you. A minister said to me the other day, he said, Pastor Dave, what's happening? I've never seen so many hurting people ever. Many of the pastors are coming to this conference are hurting, deeply hurt. Some on the brink of just saying, I can't go another step. I can't handle it anymore. And especially the wives. But it's not just the ministry, it's everywhere. People are stressed out, burdened down. And if you're here this morning, say, Brother Dave, I walked in here this morning really under a heavy burden, and I've been down. I've been depressed and oppressed. The oppressors come to put something on me and I can't seem to shake it off. In other words, the enemy's been walking over you. I'm going to ask God to deliver you from that fear. I just want to repeat this word from the Lord. He said, Rise up now, shake yourself from the dust and put on your robe, your garment of righteousness. Folks, every day I get up, the enemy tries to come. Just a word, you're not worthy or something, just right out of the pits of hell will come at you. Not every day, but there are times that that'll just happen. And you have to say no. And you, by an act of faith, put on your robe of righteousness. I am made righteous in Christ Jesus, not any good thing in me. I put that on devil. You're not going to tell me I'm unworthy, or I'm dirty, or I'm filthy, or I'm lost. Not anymore. You can't do that. You can't walk over me with those lies. And put it on by faith and let the joy of the Lord come into your heart. When you take that step of faith, and I want you to take that step of faith right now. God has ordered, He's spoken the word for my deliverance. He's promised me beauty from my ashes. He's promised me joy, thanksgiving, and melody in my heart. In prayer all week, I've said, God, just pour in my heart the joy of the Holy Ghost. There's a joy that becomes our strength, the joy of the Holy Ghost. And He wants to replace whatever you're going through right now. You can move through all of that cloud. You can move through the darkness by a step or leap of faith right now. Just a leap of faith. Just on what He said. Just what He said. Will you do that with me now? Raise your hand to the Lord right now and say this with me. Jesus, I am tired and I'm weary of the enemy taking advantage of me. I'm tired of the lies and the accusations. I hear what you said. You are reigning in the heavens. You are still king of the flood. So I come to your word and I accept what you said. I need not fear, not man or devils. I believe God is on my side. And now by faith, I have confessed and I have moved out of the enemy's territory into the love of God. I am saved. I'm sanctified. Now, Holy Ghost, fill me with faith. I accept you, Jesus, as reigning in my heart. Devil's a liar. God is on His throne. Now give Him thanks. God, you are on the throne. You are on your throne right now. You reign supreme. You've spoken the word of deliverance. You've got to say now by the power of the Holy Ghost, I reject this. I will not receive it because the Lord by His Spirit has said He empowers me. This is the conclusion of the message.