I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in Him I will trust. And then in Job chapter 3 verse 25 we read these words for the thing that I greatly feared has arrived and what I was afraid of has come to me. Today I want to speak on the subject of overcoming fear and panic.

Now satan has succeeded in creating something that's caused the whole world to be full of fear. Now he's doing this all the time but right now there's a new threat which we're all aware of called the coronavirus or the COVID-19 which has got the whole world in a panic. Many changes are taking place in daily lives of people around the world because of this thing.

Business is being affected, ministries are being affected, people's daily lives are being affected. But more than anything satan is spreading fear and panic among the nations of the world and this is one of his fortes. It's what he loves to do.

Now through the years there have been many different sicknesses and diseases that have arisen and each one has brought a new fear and panic. Man tries to seek a cure but actually none of them can truly be cured by man. Otherwise they would have stopped wouldn't We can alleviate the symptoms, we can assist the body to heal itself but all healing comes from above and some of that is built into us because we contain within us a piece of God in our spirits.

The whole ploy and the purpose for these things is to get most of us to live our lives in fear. We wait to see if we might become a victim of one of these diseases. Perhaps when I'm not looking it might jump in.

I feel the symptoms and the first thing I do is run to the doctor to find out whether I've got it. What have I got? Have I got cancer? Have I got something incurable? Have I got AIDS? We live in fear. Now most of these major diseases ultimately lead to death.

Diseases like cancer and AIDS are quite obvious. We fear them. We fear that if we should catch them we're going to die.

But actually one of the most common illnesses which probably kills more people than we realize every year is known as influenza. The plain old flu. But we live with the flu.

We get it every now and then. We shake it off. We carry on and we think oh well you know it's that time of the year.

I'll probably get a cold. Maybe catch the flu this year. You realize how many people have died and die every year from plain old flu.

And the world right now they have what's known as a pandemic. Kind of sounds like panic doesn't it? Pandemic. Panic, panic, panic.

Oh boy. I've never seen something like this before in my lifetime. Haven't you? You just didn't notice.

Do you know these pandemics come every 10, 20, sometimes the most 40 years? There's been many of them. Many of them. I looked it up on the internet to find out especially flu pandemics.

How many there have been and what effects they had. One of the worst was in 1918. Yeah that's the kind of bit before our time.

They say anything up to 100 million people died from flu in that pandemic. They couldn't cope with the bodies. They were lying rotting.

It was worse than the Black Plague. That's flu. Well later on we got the Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu and those were small.

They only took about four million lives. Are we panicking about all the serious diseases and we don't realize that what we are living with continuously is a disease that has the power to kill millions of people. But we kind of got used to it and for most of us well we weren't one of the statistics.

So we don't think of flu as being a killer. The current pandemic, the figures right now, granted they haven't had much time, but actually they're not quite as serious as we think they are. If you look back on some of the histories of the early flus like the swine flu, the Spanish flu, and the bird flu.

Oh boy they've all got different names. All different kinds. Those were pandemics folks.

Those things had the same effect as the coronavirus is having right now. They spread throughout the world but we've learned a little bit since then. We've learned a bit more about how it works and so greater precautions are being taken now to stop the spread of this thing.

But ultimately it's flu. Have you ever had the flu? I've had it many times. I found out that flu has three stages.

Maybe you haven't been through all of them every time or maybe you just didn't even notice. I've been there often enough to actually identify it almost exactly when each stage kicks in. The first starts as a basic cold, a bit of a head cold and you feel terrible for a few days, maybe up to five days or a week and then it clears and you think wow that's awesome.

Ah it's gone. You find something starting to move down here into your lungs. You start to cough and wheeze and you get a whole new set of symptoms which are actually a lot worse and you fight that one and you fight it and it seems a great battle but finally you conquer it.

Finally my voice clears. I was hoarse. I couldn't even speak.

I had laryngitis. I was loaded with phlegm and coughing and now finally it clears. The third stage.

The third stage goes right deep down here into your lungs and produces the effects of bronchitis, pneumonia and very deep pain and suffering and this is the most dangerous one of all. I'm one of those people who has cornered the world supply of phlegm. I've got more phlegm than half of the city put together.

Lord knows why but that's the stage when phlegm begins to get coughed up out of my lungs because if I don't I can't breathe. Now I can go on for weeks before that thing finally clears. Oh you know I grew up with this.

I had all the childhood diseases when I was small and it all seemed to follow the same stage. Cold flu, bronchitis, eventually pneumonia. At one stage I'm told one of my lungs collapsed.

I don't remember the physical effects. I just remember my life with doctors. I remember waiting in doctor's rooms and in those days the good old family doctor would come to visit you at home with his little box and open up, pull out his stethoscope, stick things in your mouth and tell you say ah and all the usual things the doctors do.

He's right there in the home. So I know sickness and disease. I've grown up with it, been with it for many years but as God began to teach me and show me things and I began to move into the spirit, I began to realize that it's not just germs and viruses that cause disease and as I began to move into the spiritual realm and God began to show me that they are demons that are specifically associated with sickness and disease which we call spirits of infirmity.

I've shared often some of my experiences. Now my daughter had a kidney infection. When I prayed I saw a spider sitting on her kidneys.

Since that time God had begun to reveal to me when I pray with people who are sick I actually see their diseased organ almost like on an x-ray, almost like it's cut open I can look right at it. Definitely in our first marriage she couldn't fall pregnant. I took a ride down her fallopian tube in the spirit and I saw there was a blockage and I wanted to open and after that she fell pregnant.

But God would show me two things. He would show me the state of the body and then he would show me very often that there was a demon associated with it. Now I began to struggle with high blood pressure.

I saw that there was a tube going from my brain down to my heart and my brain was trying to regulate my heart to make it beat correctly and to maintain the right pressure but right in the middle of it I saw a tap and on that tap was sitting a little monkey. My heart was saying heart beat differently. The heart was not getting the message because we were being blocked by spirit of infirmity.

I learned to do this put one hand there one hand there and I say you spirit of infirmity you demon of darkness you let go of me you get out of here now and I see the monkey running out the door and say okay brain send the message heart listen. I feel my whole system begin to calm down. My blood pressure begin to stabilize.

Well you run to the doctors they just give you pills and more pills and pills which cause side effects and they give you pills to counteract the side effects that counteract the side effects and they make you into drug addicts. When I came to the flu I eventually got fed up with this. I said lord what's happening here because I noticed that when I got to the second and third stages of flu it became more than just feeling sick.

I began to get depressed and discouraged. I began to feel spiritually overwhelmed and blocked. You think back on it you'll realize that's what's happening to you too.

Why is that? Because there are three demons associated with flu. One for each of the stages. Three different kinds of spirits of infirmity.

It's the flu triad I call it. I can't find that medical books. I've never heard any preacher ever teach on this but I know it and I can feel when the next one kicks in.

Not only physically but I feel it spiritually. See the longest time I thought it was inevitable if I went near the first stage the second and third would follow because of such a strong fight that I gave up. First sign of feeling a burning in my nasal passage is I knew here it comes.

First stage there it is. I began to realize that these were demonic powers and I knew that God had taught me and showed me that we as believers have authority over every level of demon right from the smallest principality to elucidate himself in the name of Jesus. I was trying to fight the virus.

You know demons have to work through living things. You know that because demons don't have power of themselves. They're disembodied spirits.

They need to inhabit a living thing in order to have power and that's why they try to inhabit our bodies. Do you know that a virus is a living organism? It's a living organism and Satan uses that living organism to work through to attack your body. Now if you can take away the power behind the virus, the virus loses its power and your body is designed to kill it and to get rid of it.

These things are in the air around us all the time. We're panicking now of what we touch and yes all the advice that they've given is true can be communicated through droplets and through touch. We need to be cautious and we don't realize there's far more to it than that.

There are demon powers associated with it. I find that I catch the flu or a cold. Usually when I come to a place of being down emotionally or spiritually, I faced a lot of stress, a lot of conflict.

I'm feeling overwhelmed. I've come to a place of total exhaustion. When I reach that place of total exhaustion, I know sure as nuts flu is around the corner.

Why? Not only because I've let down my body resistance and allowed my immune system to be weakened and that is true, but it goes deeper than that. It goes deeper than that. We are fighting not a physical enemy, fighting a spiritual enemy and if Satan had his way, he'd be using these viruses to kill every one of us every day.

Now how does he get in? How does he gain entrance that we give him license to take these things and to use them against us? How should we as believers be reacting to what's going on round about us into all the bad news that we get? What should we be doing? That's the main thrust of what I'd like to share today. Now when God made man and he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, there was no sickness and disease. God created us to have a life of blessing.

Adam and Eve lived a life of luxury and pleasure. They had good relationship with each other. There was no conflicts and they were created to live forever without sickness or death.

But it all changed when Adam and Eve sinned. When they sinned, they opened this world to a curse. They took off the tree of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.

They opened a spiritual Pandora's box. You know the old fable of Pandora's box. But the box was opened and all the evil came out.

They opened a door to bring Satan into this world. And the whole of creation came under a curse. Satan and his demons came and they took control.

And things have gone from bad to worse ever since. You can read it there in Genesis. You see how it starts small and then it gets worse and worse and worse until the evil is so bad that God says, let me just wipe out this people that I created.

And he has to just take Noah and his family as a small piece that he can keep. And he wipes the rest out. But God made a plan.

He made a plan to come down and take upon himself the form of man. Jesus came as another Adam, a new Adam. He came in the same condition Adam did.

He was not born with the sin that we inherit as a result of the sin of Adam and Eve. Jesus did not come from human parents. Sometimes you like to think that his mother provided the egg and God provided the sperm.

No. Then he would have been half human and half sinful. Now God provided both.

Mary didn't conceive Jesus. She was purely a surrogate. These days we know what a surrogate mother is.

God implanted that ready fertilized embryo right in Mary's womb. And Mary carried Christ and he was born as a new Adam free of the taint of sin. Jesus passed all the tests that Adam failed without sinning.

Then he died and he rose again to bring us a new life of blessing instead of cursing. We grew up under a curse. He brought us the opportunity now to have a blessing.

So isn't that awesome? Now that Jesus has come to give us a blessing, there's no more curse. Oh that that were true. But it's not.

Because the curse remains in the earth. Part of that curse is death. The scripture says the last enemy that will be conquered will be death.

This is yet to take place in the future. The curse will be here until Jesus returns and God creates a new earth. We still face those effects until we get rid of this old body that's tainted with sin and put on the new body.

It's not going to be like Jesus' body. Until then we now have two things to choose between. A curse or a blessing.

And they're both there all the time antagonistic to each other. They're like two dogs. Somebody once said, I've got two dogs in me.

A black one and a white one. And they're always fighting. And somebody said, well which dog wins? Says the one that I say sick them to.

That's the one who wins. It's my choice. I can choose.

Now what does the curse look like? I've taught all this in so many places. But I find I taught it and put it out there and nobody's read it. I see as I minister to people all the time a total misunderstanding of curses and how to deal with them.

So I want to give you a quick rundown. I won't be long. The curse has three main elements.

Oh, isn't that interesting? There's three demons in the flu, eh? Three main elements in a curse. The first one is theft or loss. Well, how does that manifest in our lives? Poverty, lack.

The second one is conflict and strife. How does that affect our lives? Bad relationships with other people. The third one is destruction.

How does that affect us? Sickness, bad health mostly. If I knock off a glass and drop it and it breaks, I see destruction. Most of us will say, oh stupid clumsy me.

I don't. I stop and I say, is there something more here? Is there a curse operating here? Why did I do that? I don't normally knock glasses over and break them, especially if they're nice expensive glasses. Why did I do that? I caught in a motor accident, crashed your car, you rode into a wall.

Why did you do that? Bad driving. Perhaps, but more than that, what made you drive bad? There's a spiritual influence there. It's called the curse.

In your life, when you start seeing theft, when you start seeing debts coming, cars breaking down, extra expenses that you didn't anticipate, not getting paid the money you're supposed to have, people not keeping their promises. It's theft. It's a sign of a curse.

You find yourself getting into conflict and strife for those near to you. Sometimes for no reason at all, stop and take note and say, hang on. Why did we just have that violent argument? What caused it? Where did that come from? We were doing great.

We were getting on so well. How suddenly we have this big blow up of something stupid. Stop right there.

Look for the others and you'll find all the time one, two or more of them will be manifest in your life. When you see that, God knows for you, you're operating under a curse. Blessing also has three elements.

The first one is provision, prosperity and wealth. God wants you to prosper. He wants you to have an abundance of good things.

When you're walking in blessing, these things come upon you and overtake you as the scripture says. God wants us to live and walk in harmony and in peace and in good relationships with one another. It's a sign of his blessing in our lives.

And he wants us to be protected from sickness and disease and bad health and all the evil things that come with it. These are signs of blessing. And if we are walking in blessing, these signs naturally manifest in our lives.

We don't have to try and create them or look for them. They come as a natural consequence of the blessing of the Lord. But if you're operating in a curse, those three bad things are coming as a natural consequence of a curse.

Well, how do these things get in? Each of them comes in via a spiritual doorway, which when it's opened invites them in. You open that door to a curse, you don't have to invite it in. It will come uninvited and force its way.

And you open the door to blessing. Blessing comes in as a natural result. What are these two doorways? Here's a good blessing first.

Blessing is always released through faith. When Jesus was bringing the blessing of healing, he said that it comes with faith. In Matthew 9, 28, it says, And when he had come into the house, the blind man came to him.

And Jesus said to him, Do you believe that I'm able to do this? He said to him, Yes, Lord. And he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, let it be to you. Faith will always bring the blessing of God.

Whether it be provision, whether it be harmony and good relationships, or whether it be protection and destruction in your life. Well, you know what the door to a curse is. We saw it there in one of the first verses we read today.

Job said, The thing that I greatly feared has arrived. What I was afraid of has come upon me. Fear is the door that opens the way for a curse to come in.

Quite frightening, isn't it? Hmm. Fear, you see, is faith in reverse. And actually, we get it the same way we get faith.

How do we get faith? Faith comes by yearning, yearning. If you are continually yearning the positive promises and good things of the Word of God, you begin to have faith. It comes naturally without any effort.

If you are continually being bombarded with positive good things, with God's own words, faith comes as a natural result. Well, fear comes by yearning too. Fear comes by yearning the latest news bulletin.

Fear comes by reading all those new articles on coronavirus and how many people are dying and how it's spreading all over the world. And it's now arrived in our country. Oh, you know what? Just down the road from us, somebody got it.

I'm next. Fear is what Satan wants because he loves the curse. Satan wants you to operate in the curse.

And he's a master at creating fear. He's a master. He puts on a special little horror movie for us, a special play to convince us that we should be afraid.

You need to be careful, you know. You need to use common sense. It's not as common as you realize.

Fear. Right now, the whole world is full of fear. Do you know what? Curses are happening left, right, and center everywhere.

And it's going to get worse. Satan is having a heyday. You see, God is a faith God.

And you know, we can accomplish amazing things with faith. Just go read Hebrews chapter 11. And finally, I allow all the heroes of the Bible accomplish amazing things just using faith.

Now, when it comes to God, there's two principles we need to understand. And I like to take two promises from the word and combine them together into a simple little statement that I can make over and over again to build my faith. All things are possible with God.

Now, the United 26th, Jesus looking at them said with humans, this is impossible. But with God, everything continues to be possible with God. The second principle, all things are possible to those who believe.

Mark 23, Jesus said to him, if you receive the ability to believe, anything is possible to the one who continues to believe. I like to combine these two together. And I say it over and over again, especially when I'm filled with fear.

And I say it like this. With God, all things are possible to the one who believes. With God, all things are possible to the one who believes.

With God, all things are possible to me who believes. With God, you see, don't leave God out and try and make it your own faith. You need his power with your faith.

With God, most things are possible. Many things are possible. All, you know, all the pretty embracing, all embracing words.

All. Do you mean my financial problems being solved? All. You mean my sickness and disease being solved? All.

You mean my loneliness and not having a partner and somebody who cares? All. All. All things are possible.

With God, if you will believe. Now, Satan, he works through fear. He wants you to give in to the power of the curse instead of to the blessing.

He wants you to say sickened to the black dog instead of to the white one so that he can overcome and overwhelm you. To do that, he's got to get you into a place of fear and that's why he uses terror tactics. You know, even the modern warfare of today is known as terrorist war because you win the war before you even attack somebody.

You get their hearts filled with fear and get them terrified of you. Open the door wide. That is why God tells us over and over again to fear not.

Fear not is repeated in the Old Testament and in the New Testament over and over again. Now, when God says fear not, he's not saying, you know what, fear is a bad idea and I really suggest you stop doing it. The grammatical structure in the Greek is known as an imperative.

You know what an imperative is? An imperative is a command. It's not a suggestion. He doesn't say, I don't think you should fear.

He says, hey, stop fearing now. That is a commandment. So, if you disobey that command, guess what you're doing? Sin.

Man comes to Jesus, his daughter's sick and as Jesus is still talking, some people arrive to let him know that his daughter's died. Read it in Luke 8 49. While he was still speaking, someone arrived from the ruler of the synagogue's house saying to him, your daughter is dead.

Stop troubling the master. How did Jesus respond? It says, when Jesus heard this, he responded by saying, do not fear. Fear not.

Do not fear. You only need to believe. Nothing more.

You only need to believe and she will be made whole. You got to cut out the fear first. You got to shut that door and then open the door to blessing through faith, through believing God.

You do that, all things shall be possible. You see, faith and fear are choices, folks. Now, fear creates very strong negative feelings.

It can overwhelm you. It can even paralyze you. But you don't have to give in to them.

I know it's hard. It's very difficult to resist those thoughts that are bombarding your mind. We always visualize the worst.

You can choose to have faith instead of fear. And what is faith? Faith simply means taking God at his word. Take a promise from the word.

Speak it out loud. Claim it as yours and then act on it. Is that so hard? No, but we're claiming the promise that we heard in the news bulletin.

We're claiming the promise of the foremost medical expert in the world, or the country, and what his opinion is. And that's what we're putting our faith in. You know, if we read the word as often as we read news bulletins and surf the web to find out what's going on and all the junk that people post on Facebook, you may find yourself having faith more often than you have fear.

There's nothing juicy about the word of God. Oh, there's latest new juicy things. And you know the new thing they discovered about the coronavirus? Oh, we want to keep up to date on what's happening.

Keep building the fear. Keep building the fear. Keep building the fear.

It's tempting. You're going to have to make a choice to shut that door. You don't shut it, fear is going to come in and the curse is going to overwhelm you.

So how do we respond to this, this panic that's in our lives today? First, you need to recognize that it's a curse on the enemy. So it's not created by God. The Lord didn't send this to us as a means of blessing.

I heard people just blithely say, all things work together for good. That's true. But that verse doesn't say everything that happens is designed for our good.

It says God will take all things and turn them around and make them work for our good. And yes, God is going to take this thing and make it work for good. How could that possibly be? All over the world now, especially in countries that are badly hit, they are discouraging large group gatherings, a close interaction of people.

I think in Italy, they've even asked the churches to close down and no longer hold public meetings. Isn't this just so of Satan? Yes, it is. But maybe it's not so bad.

Because maybe now believers will start to gather together in small personal groups and interact more closely with one another and get to minister and love one another and build a real body. For years, our only ministry was online. Still is.

We've perfected it. We can create websites in minutes, the drop of a hat. With our programming knowledge, we can make that website do whatever we wanted to do.

Suddenly now all of these big churches have to find a way to get online. Some of them have already done it and used a bit of it. And now they've got to invite their congregations to go and watch them online.

Oh, but you know what? We can't pass the offering plate online. Man, oh man, this is so destructive. These big churches are going to suffer.

And it's not God that's creating it. But you know what? Good is going to come out of it. Some years ago, I had a vision, a very powerful one, given to me in my sleep.

And I published it online and I called it the coming storm. And in my vision, I saw these huge ships in the ocean and a great storm coming on the ocean. And these big ships couldn't handle the waves and they were turned upside down and sank and were destroyed.

And then I looked closer as the storm abated and I saw hundreds and hundreds of little boats coming forth. There were these big wrecks of these big ships. Can't even be used anymore.

But there were hundreds of these little boats who were virtually unsinkable. The Lord said to me, watch all the big mega churches, the big ministries who've boasted in their greatness. The time is coming when they will sink.

I've been waiting for a few years for some sign of that. I believe this is one of the first signs of that. And I looked to the Lord and said, Lord, how do I respond to this? He said, rejoice, it's a gift to you.

Because now what you do good is going to be used more. And you'll be able to reach more people and help more people and take some of those ministries, which those small boats are a picture of, you'll be able to help them get online and do what can be done. We don't have to be limited to one place.

We don't have to be limited to buildings and the cost of buildings. We can go international on the internet, reach the nations. And with modern technology, we can speak to them on video.

We can even speak to them live, what power there is. And you know, it's fun standing up preaching to a thousand people. It's very self-exalting.

I watched a video last night of Trevor Noah, great South African comedian who's now overseas. And it was his last meeting with the crowds that he draws because of the coronavirus. He said, from now on, I'm going to have to try and speak to you personally.

He said, but it's not the same. He said, I get a kick. I've seen your reaction.

More and more, God wants to reach the word to places that it's never reached. What chance do you have of taking your ministry to the countries of the world and to countries that are hidden away and have limits and restrictions? There are still some restrictions on the internet, but everybody, even in those countries like China, have access. We have Chinese people who purchase our materials and watch our videos and do our courses.

We have one lady, she keeps saying, can't you put your stuff on your personal website because I'm not allowed into YouTube. Chinese will not allow it. Yes, there's still limitations, but if we publish it on our website, we can give her the link.

She can go and watch all of our stuff. We're sitting right there in a country that is restricted and limited. We're going to see a change in the body of Christ, amongst other things.

From what I read on the history of pandemics, they usually take about a year at least before they're over. Perhaps this one will go quicker because they've taken so many precautions. Some extreme, like President Trump, blocking all travel from Europe to America.

We're going to see many more of these. Italy especially has banned all group meetings above a certain number. Can't do it.

It's illegal. You can't hold big church meetings. Finally, we're going to see the and leading people to the Lord and just building small little home fellowships where they can get together and share the word and build the body of Christ like the early church did.

Well, do we choose to see the bad news or do we choose to see the good that can come out of it? Is there temptation to panic and to fear? How do we ourselves personally respond to this threat? Firstly, prepare to walk in blessing, not in the curse. Take care of your body. Keep it in good health.

Take the hygienic precautions that are necessary to prevent contamination of diseases like this. It can be transmitted so easily. But don't stay there and to take care of your soul also.

Keep your soul in good health by feeding it on good things. What are you feeding into your mind every day? You know, everybody's so paranoid now. We've got to keep at least a meter distance from somebody to avoid contamination.

People are putting on masks, doing all sorts of things, but we come into the presence of an unbeliever or a bad believer whose life is filled with contamination and evil and curses, and we interact with them and open our hearts to them without fear. Don't you realize that the spiritual contamination that you pick up from other people is even more deadly than the coronavirus? Don't you realize it? God, I understand why this curse is manifesting. I was serving the Lord faithfully.

I was doing everything right. Now suddenly everything's gone wrong. Have a look who you've been interacting with lately.

Have a look who you've been socializing with and opening your heart to. There's the source of your curse. It doesn't only affect the soul.

It affects the spirit especially. I have a simple little procedure that I follow. When I've had contact with anybody, if I know they're under a curse or I sense there's something or if I'm just not sure, I might do it with you if I think you're under a curse.

You mean we can pick up a curse from each other? Absolutely. How? Through speech. Because speech comes from the spirit.

When we speak words and we listen to their words and receive their words and mix them together, you pick up spiritual coronavirus. Bam! And you don't feel it immediately, just like you don't feel the coronavirus. But after a while, things start to go wrong in your spiritual life.

Where did that come from? The curse, folks. You start seeing those three symptoms of theft, strife, and destruction. Say, where did that come from? Well, you know, that old friend of mine that I haven't seen in many years, she buzzed me the other day and we had a good old catch up.

Come to think of it, ever since then, things have started to go wrong. Bam! You mean I shouldn't be friendly with people? You mean I shouldn't interact with people? Well, let's look at that in the natural. Should I not talk to you in case you have the coronavirus? Should I avoid you like the plague? No, no, I'm just careful.

I'm just careful when I approach you that I don't allow myself to be influenced if you're carrying it. See? And we learn to do that spiritually. They have less curses in our lives.

You've created a spiritual bond, a spiritual link with that person. And when you do that, that curse is transmitted to you. It begins to affect you.

So, I do a very simple thing. I stop and I say, who have I interacted with? See, when things start to go wrong and I see all those three things, I think of everybody I've interacted with. Everybody I've spoken to in recent times.

Everybody I had fun with. Everybody who's close in my life to start with before I go further. And I say, could there be a curse in their life that I've picked up? It's a simple procedure.

See? We separate. And I'll pray something like this in the name of Jesus. I break spiritual links with John now.

I refuse any contamination or any curse that's in his life. I refuse to have it affecting me. In the name of Jesus, I break it.

Doesn't have to be a long prayer. Very simple. Now, there's some people, especially family members, you need to do this with all the time.

My late mom was a saint of God. She served the Lord all her life. So fervent in the Lord.

When I tried to share with her about curses, she refused to listen to me. She didn't believe that. She was riddled with curses from her own family generations and other things.

Yet she was fervent for the Lord, full of faith. Continually fighting, fighting, fighting, because she didn't know how to deal with the curse. And all I could do was pray with her and encourage her.

Pick up the phone and we'll chat. Hi, mom. How you doing? I get the organ recital.

All the things that she's suffering, all things are going wrong. Mother, she'll be firm, but I'm trusting God. I'm standing against the devil.

Right, mom. Keep doing that. Every time I fellowship, show her love, pray for her.

When I put down the phone, first words that come out of my mouth, in the name of Jesus, I break links with my mother spiritually now. I disassociate myself from every family generation curse and every curse that's in her life, and I refuse to be a partaker of it in the name of Jesus now. And it's gone.

If I don't, it's a matter of days. It starts to creep in. That virus starts to manifest.

The symptoms start to appear. See, I didn't change my attitude towards her. I loved her.

I respected and honored her until she went to be with the Lord. But I wasn't going to take her curse for anything. Be very careful, folks.

Most dangerous thing that you can ever do is to need from somebody else. Don't ever need from anybody except the Lord. Don't ever need.

Because the moment you become needy and need somebody else to recognize you and accept you and love you and appreciate you, the moment you need and you look at a person and say, I wish what they had, and I'd love to get some of that. Be careful. You're going to get the good with the bad.

They'll come mixed. You cannot afford that curse. So whenever these things manifest, we follow James 4 verse 7, which says, Submit yourselves, therefore, to God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee. A fresh submission to the Lord, breaking all spiritual ties with any other person, because Satan always works through people. You know, Lucifer himself can stand here and attack me, and I don't have the least qualm to say, hey, in the name of Jesus, get out of here.

And he has to go. But when Lucifer speaks to me through you, he's not only using his own power, he's using the power of your spirit to attack me. That's why we need to be very careful in our relationships with people.

We cannot afford bitternesses, because bitternesses keep us linked to that person. As we keep thinking in anger about them, we keep linked to them. And as we link to them, we're picking up their curse.

I don't fear any demon, absolutely. I don't fear Lucifer. But if your spirit is contaminated, that's my danger.

Be very careful. So as you go now, putting on your masks and washing your hands, keeping not too close to people to avoid the coronavirus, and just think about that. Every person that you meet carries a spiritual contamination worse than any virus.

It may carry a lot of good, and you can receive a lot of good from a lot of people. I'm open to be taught from anybody, believer or unbeliever. I read books all the time.

There are times when I read a book where I can sense the spirit of the author is contaminated. And even though I may have got good knowledge from that book, when I'm finished, the first thing I do is get that book out of my room, otherwise I can't sleep. And once I read it, I get rid of it.

And I immediately cut all spiritual ties with the author. That might sound like I'm being paranoid, but I can't afford a curse in my life. Especially if I'm going to stand up here and minister to others.

All I'm going to do is transmit that curse to them instead of blessing. Can you see that? Now, all that's happening right now, we can see the evil. Don't be caught in it.

Don't allow yourself to give in to the fear, but look beyond that now and see what a wonderful opportunity we have to reach the world for the Lord. While everybody out there is terrified and filled with fear, we have a message of hope and of faith and of love that we can give to people. People out there have no hope.

We do not have no hope. We have the King of Kings living inside of us, and he's available to them. Perhaps now that we're not so busy with our big activities, we'll have the time to start interacting personally with people and realize they need the Lord and begin to share the gospel with them, minister to them.

Let God turn this thing for good, because the only one who can offer us true hope is the Lord. Get into the word, fill yourself with it. It's positive and it's faith-building, and you should be so full of it that when people come near you, they get contaminated by it.

See, there are some people you want to catch the virus from. It's good stuff. You want to pick up some of their anointing.

You want to pick up some of the good stuff that they have. Well, I want to be one of those, don't you? If God's called you to ministry, you must be that shining light that dispels the darkness wherever you go. As you see all the latest news and the latest statistics on how many people are dying, don't allow your heart to be overwhelmed with fear.

And if you feel the slightest symptom that you think may be it, don't run off and say, please tell me if I've got it. You take your stand, hey. Don't you dare.

Don't you dare, Satan. I'm not even letting you get to the first stage, never mind the third one. The third one is the one that kills.

Coronavirus is only killing people in the third stage and mostly people that are elderly. None of you guys need to have any fear of it at all. It's just going to be like normal flu to you, probably not even a serious flu.

Autopies like me, yeah. You got some underlying disease like diabetes, makes it worse in the natural, but I don't have to look at the natural. The first sign I'm saying, don't you dare, Satan, in the name of Jesus.

You don't get in the first step in that door and I'm slamming it in your face. Get out. Get out right now.

Oh, as you know, we look in the natural. Oh Lord, I can feel it. Oh, there it comes.

All the signs. No, no, my head didn't hurt. Only a bit of a fever now.

Oh yeah, they say that's the first sign. Am I coughing? Yeah, I must have it. Don't do it.

Even if you do get it, I believe that in the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. Every knee must bow. Take your stand.

You resist it. When you resist Satan, he has to flee and go out there and take that power to the world. Give hope and turn this world upside down for the Lord.

Let's produce a good virus that people start to catch. Let's get the anointing of God going, a revival power that attracts people and turns their life around. That's where I want to be.

Amen. Hallelujah. Father, I thank you for your word.

I share it as you gave it to me. I pray that your people are encouraged and motivated, that faith is built in their hearts. I pray for those who've allowed fear to enter in and are being overwhelmed at this time.

I pray for those who may even be manifesting symptoms of this disease and are afraid that they might die. I ask you, Lord, to allow them to shut the door of fear and show them to open that door of faith now that your blessing may come flooding in. That abundance and the abundant living that you designed for us will become their portion.

I pray for each one of your people that is hearing this word right now, that they will learn that you desire us to live a life of abundant blessing, Lord. And I pray that abundant blessing will become their portion. Help me to continue to teach them how to do this as I myself learn how to do it, Lord, as you are teaching me.

And as I overcome, I can show them how to overcome. And they in turn will be able to show others how to overcome and will spread a blessing that contaminates the whole world until this whole world is turned upside down for the kingdom of God and is ready for you, Lord. It's my prayer.

Thank you for it in Jesus' name. Jesus' name. I'm just going to pray before we end, especially for folks that are watching this right now.

I'm going to stand with you in agreement against the fear. I sense that some folk are there. They're trying to resist the fear, but it's overwhelming them.

That's because you're attacked by specific spirits of fear who are attacking your mind. So in the name of Jesus, I command that spirit of fear that's attacking you to lose its hold. You're a liar, Satan.

You must know the scripture says, Satan is a liar and the father of lies. If Satan is telling you that you're going to die, you know you're not because he can't tell the truth, even if it's right. So when he whispers his lies in your mind, you say to him, Satan, you're a liar.

Take your lies. There's the door. Get out.

Reach for the word of God and start claiming God's promises. You'll be blessed going out and coming in. Whatever your hand touches shall prosper.

Go read there in Deuteronomy 28, the blessings that God gave to Israel. And we've got so much more than that now under the new covenant. Go find God's promises of blessing in the word and meditate on those and fill your heart with it.

I thank you, Lord, for removing those demonic influences of fear now. I break every curse now. I take the rod that you've given me and I break the curse on your people.

I neutralize it now. Kabbaloh see. Kabbalah.

Kabbalah. Your curse will be broken. Now speak your blessing.

In the name of the Lord Jesus. The abundance of blessing that comes. May your anointing fall upon your people now.

Right now, in Jesus' name. May the anointed God come upon you now. Reach out and touch him and you'll feel it.

And you'll sense it. You'll sense his peace filling your heart right now. Right now from deep within.

Right from deep down. It's like deep down inside you, all that restlessness stops. Just stops.

All that turmoil, like a bubbling inside of you, it stops now. Can you feel it? It's happening right now. It stops.

The peace of God which passes all understanding will keep your hearts and minds, Christ Jesus, the scripture says. And you hold on to that peace. And you go out of that peace in your heart.

And the moment you feel it shift, you stop and you get it back again. You'll not need to walk in fear anymore. And when you're not walking in fear, Satan has no license and no curse shall come upon you.

You will be dwelling in the secret place of the Most High. You will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. No plague will come near your dwelling place.

All the evil things that come against you will not come near you, the scripture says. Because you're in the palm of his hands. Thank you, Lord.

May your people rise up now and be victorious in you. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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