I GAVE MY SOUL TO THE DEVIL BECAUSE I WAS MAD AT GOD, WILL HE FORGIVE ME? HOW CAN I FORGIVE AND FORGET? IS IT VAIN TO HAVE A PREFERENCE FOR A MATE?
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- [Pat] Let's go.
- Okay, we've got email questions.
This is Tim who says, "Igave my soul to the devil
because I was mad at God.
Will he forgive me?
I was so young, but nowit's catching up to me."
- Listen, (laughs) what was the,
The Devil and Daniel Webster?
Was that a play or whatever
(mumbles) Daniel Websteris trying to argue
with the devil, you can't have his soul.
Look, foolish indiscretionswhen you're a kid,
God's not gonna hold themagainst you if you repent
and say, Lord, I renounce it.
But you've gotta renounce it,
I mean, renounce it clearly.
I revoke that grant of authority.
I mean, speak it clearly.
I revoke it.
Satan, you shall not have me.
I belong to Jesus Christand make that commitment
and make the transfer.
You transfer the propertyand watch what God will do.
- This is Rebecca who says,
"How can I forgive and forget?"
- Well, as far as theeast is from the west,
that's therefore God willtake your sins from you.
How can you forgive?
How can you forgive you?
You forgive by realizingthat God has forgiven you.
And the Bible says,
"When you stand praying, if you have ought
against any, forgivethat your Heavenly Father
might forgive you."
If you want to see a miracle in your life,
you've got to forgive.
And how do you forgive?
Instead of saying, I forgive him,
the fact that he beat me upand that he lusted against me,
or he raped me or hecheated me or whatever.
Instead of going through allthat stuff, you start saying,
God, I ask you to bless him.
I pray your blessing.
I ask you to bless and you begin,
you're on the positive side now.
You're saying, please blessthose that have hurt me.
And I pray your blessing upon them.
And all of a sudden,instead of a negative,
you were fighting a negative.
You are now on the side of positive, okay?
- This is Sharon who says,
"Given the fact that COVID-19 attacks
the respiratory system,why are we not hearing
anything about smoking?
Why is this contributor tothe virus being ignored?"
- I don't think it's being ignored,
but I guess people havegot their hands full
with everything else.
You know, the incidence of smoking
has gone down dramatically.
Once it got to be less than 50%,
then all of a sudden you'vegot the warning on tobacco,
then you've got everything against it.
There's no question.
The United States isstill subsidizing tobacco
and we shouldn't do that.
We ought to find someother way to help farmers,
instead of having them grow tobacco.
But you know, why aren'twe talking about it?
I guess we've got too muchelse to talk about it.
- This is Rick who says,
"Is vain to have a preference for a mate?
For instance, I have afew Christian females
that are interested in me,but I'm not attracted to them.
I do not have a specific type I seek,
but do know when I'm physically attracted.
Is it wrong to have that visual part?"
- I don't think so.
You know, chemistry is an amazing thing
and romance is an amazing thing,
and we have certain sensorsthat attract us to people
at particular times.
It's amazing.
We can sense, for example, a mate,
the perhaps is going tobe able to bear children.
I mean, there's a lot in oursubconscious that's there.
So I don't think there's anything wrong,
but I tell you what,just don't wait too long
for the perfect one,
'cause the perfect onemight not come along.
And if you're looking for perfection,
you will ruin perfection whenyou get involved with it,
so just keep in mind (laughs).
- This is Barbara who says,
"I've suspected my 20year old granddaughter
is demon possessed for about 10 years.
My daughter put a taperecorder in her room
and it recorded a demonspeaking in a voice
that didn't sound human.
It kept saying, 'You're going to die.'
Where can she go to getthis cast out of her?"
- Oh, you can just doit in the name of Jesus.
Look, we have authority over demons.
I don't wanna spend a lot of time,
casting out demons, but I have done it.
You say, in the name of Jesus,Satan, I bind your power.
You bind his power.
And in the name ofJesus, I cast you forth,
loose this child.
And you know, the Bible says,
this kind goes up by prayer.
So just let the Lord take it.
If you want to say, God, help me,
help me take this thing out.
And then, in the name of Jesus,
but don't play head games with demons
and don't getting into abig dialogue with them.
When Jesus was dealing with the devil,
he said it is written, itis written, it is written.
Say, in the name of Jesus,I quote this scripture.
The Bible says you are defeatedand I command you to leave.
Do it with the word of God.
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