'BEHOLD I GIVE YOU POWER' - LUKE 10:19 Today I used the power of the holy spirit, with a remarkable result; You're going to love this, and use this.

My goal with writing these posts, is to empower you. How are we empowered?

FIRST - By knowing that Jesus Christ overcame this ‘present evil world’ - not just for himself, but for all who believe.

THEN - By understanding that our empowerment, more often than not, is made manifest by the WORDS of our mouth.

Friend, how often do you rewind in your mind, and reconsider the words that you have just spoken. In our house we pay attention to the things that we say, even noting that which is said by anyone visiting.

If need be, we will politely erase (out loud) something untoward that someone has said. VIZ: If you would not let someone come into your house with a loaded gun, why would you let them come into the house and sling words around that bring harm?

• Words can be as dangerous as a loaded gun being handled by an untrained operator.

• Words can be as powerful and effective as a loaded gun handled by a trained sniper.

The more you learn how to operate the ‘sword of the spirit’, which IS the WORD of God - the more you will manifest power from on high.

MANIFESTING POWER IS ABOUT NOT BEING AFRAID TO SPEAK

October 31st, 1978, Fort Jackson SC, in my first ever army formation, I was introduced to what a drill seargeant does; they SCREAM; This one shouted - (not at me, but the effect was the same) → ‘TRAINEE!@!”.. “Don’t be afraid to make a MISTAKE.. EVERYbody makes mistakes. - JESUS made a mistake”. [unquote]

I returned silently to the barracks, which represented the last time I copped out of an obligation and opportunity to set someone right. Jesus never made any mistakes. The guy thought the crucifixion was Jesus’ ‘mistake’.. not knowing the Scriptures (Isaiah 53) or the power of God. (Ephesians 1:19,20) That man needed to know that, and I failed him.

Immediately after that ‘fail’, the Lord commanded me - ‘Be not afraid of their faces - for I am with you to deliver you’. From Jeremiah 1:8 (My Bible’s margin notes said the word ‘faces’ was the Hebrew word - ‘rank’. It just doesn’t get any more specific than that!)

(NOTE: You can’t help your opponents either, if you’re afraid of them.)

Then the Lord gave me the ‘offer I couldn’t refuse’.. He added Jeremiah 1:17..

‘Thou therefore GIRD UP thy loins, and arise,

and SPEAK unto them ALL that I COMMAND thee:

BE NOT dismayed at their faces, (rank)

→ LEST I CONFOUND THEE BEFORE THEM’ Jeremiah 1:17

Some choice huh? God will deliver you from your opponents, or confound you before them. Which would you choose?

In fact, this commandment of the Lord is to all of the Lord’s disciples. There is no one that was ever put into service for God, that He didn’t first command - ‘Be strong and of Good Courage’.. or “FEAR NOT”. Even MARY was told - ‘Fear not’!

Friend, if you haven’t received that commandment yet, you have yet to be commissioned. If you are afraid to SPEAK as directed; either afraid to lose your job, afraid to be mocked or rebuked, or afraid to lose friends, or afraid to offend a family member, etc, you can be of no service to the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s who told you that his mother and his brothers were “those which hear the word of God, and do it.” And he said that right in front of his mother and his brothers.

WHY was such a directive never given to the Children of Israel? Two words: ‘HOLY SPIRIT’ had not yet been given; for CHRIST had not yet come, and had not yet been raised. (John 7:39)

‘But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive:

for the Holy Ghost was not yet given;

because that Jesus was not yet glorified.’ (raised to honor)

(We really do have a much better covenant, built upon better promises!) (Hebrews 8:6)

But, what about David? What about Samson? They had holy spirit…

God put spirit UPON them, on the condition that they would obey Him.

Samson lost his ‘spiritual annointing’ for a time, and David nearly did, but begged God to ‘not take it away’. (Psalm 53)

Why did God give His spirit to them, and not to others?

God has His own reasons for what He does, which I will not guess at; except to say that both David and Samson fearlessly carried out His will. Did God in his foreknowlege choose them because of their faithful willing hearts? Perhaps; Yet, He put spirit on Solomon too, knowing that eventually Solomon would fall into serious apostasy.. Hmmm..

Many of us are given a chance to serve God,.. and do so for a time. He will give anyone that chance. The Lord addressed this in more than one place..

Here’s Matthew 13: 20,21

‘But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

‘For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be TAKEN AWAY even that which he hath.’ Matthew 13:12

Our power in WORDS

How is power demonstrated?

More often than not - in words. When Samson slew a lion in his bare hands,.. and when David killed a bear - they were both exercising SPIRITUAL POWER. Both of them KNEW they could never have done that in their own strength. There is something overwhelmingly empowering to know you have SPIRITUAL STRENGTH!

Yet, when David was faced with the challenge of a lifetime- as he approached the giant.. and SHOUTED. HE WON THE BATTLE WITH HIS WORDS, BEFORE MAKING A MOVE WITH HIS SLINGSHOT.

HE WON THE BATTLE WITH GOLIATH WITHOUT LAYING A HAND ON HIM BY SAYING:

“Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee IN THE NAME of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.”

This day will the LORD DELIVER THEE INTO MY HAND and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and HE WILL GIVE YOU INTO MY HANDS!

And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David HASTED, and RAN FORWARD to meet the Philistine.!

The rest you know. God will NEVER DISAPPOINT a man or woman with that much trust in Him. NEVER.

As Jeremiah 1:8 says - HE HAS OUR BACKS.

Our FIRST job is to know His will. THAT’S WHERE THE CONFIDENCE COMES FROM.

‘For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.’ James 1:6,7

How do we know His will?

1. HIS WORD IS HIS WILL. KNOW IT INSIDE OUT AND BACKWARDS.. From there the Holy Spirit can remind you of everything Jesus ever said - which words at any given point, may be your commandment. (As Jeremiah 1:8 was to me so long ago)

2. Be born again, baptized in the HOLY SPIRIT - and on talking terms with the King. He will TELL you his will, which will never contradict with Scripture.

WHAT I DID TODAY WILL BLESS YOUR SOCKS OFF; IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, AND AGGRAVATION; AND TRAIN YOU FOR GREATER BATTLES..

Do you see the screen shot above of a clip of my cell phone log from earlier today? That’s just ONE screen shot out of a few weeks of non stop spam calls.. one after the other -after the other -after the other..

Every single call shown above on screen, is a spam call. And it does not include the whole of this week, or last week. It’s just the ‘TIP of the ICEBERG’.

On October 30th, I’d already noticed an astronomical leap in the number of spam calls in a given day. 20+ a day - to where I wrote a post called - ‘I have a New Friend, That Calls Me All The Time, His Name is Suspected Spam’.

(In the post, I showed a photo of our house phone - which ALSO rings with spam continually.. But nothing like the last 2 weeks. Something I’ve written on Substack (or am writing) must have triggered something. The annoyance calls have been through the roof.

763 703-2637

680 206-9244

315 684-1072

516 724-9985

914 201-9864

518 633-3312

585 460-6618

845 397-5684

(I’m not hiding the phone numbers, because none of them work. None of them are registered numbers. Go ahead and try any of them).

What I understood was this was just one more assault in a lineup of assaults that dates back to when I first started writing on geopolitics, Biblical truth, and medicine, 16 years ago. There are specific devil spirits behind such nuisance things.

WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT - YOU ARE HALFWAY TO THE CURE.

Romans 1:20¹ teaches that everything physical on earth that God made, people, places and things - are a pattern of something spiritual - that the ‘thing’ may illustrate a ‘spiritual truth’.

‘For the INVISIBLE things of him from the creation of the world are clearly SEEN,

being UNDERSTOOD by the things that are MADE,

even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are WITHOUT EXCUSE’.

In this case, with nusiance spirits - think of a ‘mosquito’. They can be very irritating can’t they? But they’re also easy to ‘eliminate’ if you use your greater power.

OK GETTING BACK TO TODAY.

When I want a short refresher course in POWER, a REMINDER of my SONSHIP rights, I turn to Daniel Olukoya. His ministry focus is the POWER CHRIST GAVE TO HIS OBEDIENT DISCIPLES.

Today I read 2 of his sermons: (Links attached for your benefit).

>SHEEP AMONGST THE WOLVES

>DEDICATION THAT SPEAKS AGAINST YOU.

(Pastor Olukoya has 15 pages of tremendous online sermons. ENJOY! → LINK)

OK SO, after I read those 2 particular sermons (that the Lord LED me to) - I stood on my feet and spoke loudly and firmly the declarations and prayer points Olukoya listed.

THEN I DEDICATED ALL THE PHONES IN THIS HOUSE TO GOD.

After dedicating them, I also soaked the phones in the ‘FIRE of the God of Elijah’. You know God is a CONSUMING FIRE.

What does He consume? Evil. As the 3 young Hebrew men in Babylon learned, THAT WHICH IS GOOD comes out of the fire. All else is consumed!

It just struck me why ‘God put His spirit on Samson’.. His parents DEDICATED HIM TO GOD! RIGHT!

REMEMBER SAMUEL? HIS MOM DEDICATED HIM TO GOD, and Samuel became one of the greatest prophets of all times!

BUT - DO YOU SEE HOW THESE THINGS ARE DONE WITH WORDS?

I spoke these WORDS around 1:30 pm today.

The phones have been SILENT all day. (Save for friends and business calls).

SINCE I DEDICATED THE PHONES TO GOD EARLY THIS AFTERNOON - NOT ONE SPAM CALL HAS COME IN on ANY PHONE - .

And I’m closing the chicken house door with WORDS, so no possoms can come back.

God bless you, and teach you how to SPEAK for Him,

Victoria

1. Romans 1:20 is my banner verse. It’s the reason my blog has always been called ‘The Parallel Universe’. The point is that the Spiritual world and the Physical world - MIRROR each other - so that the one can explain the other. This is how we know SICKNESS (visible) equals SIN (invisible). The Lord shared with me years ago, that a man’s physical health is a MIRROR of his spiritual health.