Understanding the Old Covenant is the foundation for the New Covenant we have with God. The Bible can seem overwhelmingly complicated and hard to grasp, but truly, there is an order to how the different books have been laid out. This teaching will give you a general overview and understanding of the Old Testament.

The scary thing about deception is when you are deceived, you don't know you are deceived. If we want to know the truth badly enough, God will pull you out of the lies step by step. Deception says, "I'm right!" With no heart to hear or learn anything. Deception is the blind spot, but truth is the spot remover. We all need truth from God's Word and truth spoken by close friends who can see our blind spots.

Joy is the Lord's strength for these chaotic times. Joy is not an emotion; it is a character trait of God. Learn how to stay in the joy God has given you. 

There are many different ways to hear God's voice. God does speak audibly at times but there are other ways that are usually more common. Sometimes, we can be so stuck on hearing God's voice audibly that we are missing how He is speaking to us. Don't put God in a box. He has many ways He wants to speak to us. 

Have you trained yourself to know what is coming from the voice of God and the enemy? We must learn to adjust our hearing from listening in natural to listening in the Spirit. There are some secrets to learning to focus and position ourselves correctly while we are learning to discern God's voice. 

Please listen to this teaching as many times as it takes to start truly overcoming the enemy and getting his schemes underneath your feet. 
It is vital that believers learn to walk in their God-given authority. God put mankind in authority over the earth, but we handed it over to Satan in the garden. Now, through what Jesus did on the cross, we have been given authority over satan, sin, sickness, self, and situations. 

Prayer should be fun. It should not be ritualistic. Prayer is a conversation with our heavenly Father, who loves us. Just like we enjoy having long talks with our friends or earthly parents, we can have an even greater enjoyment in our relationship with God. 

Jesus is different than every other religion. Every other religion's principles could exist without their founders, but Christianity could not exist without Jesus. Christianity is not simply a doctrine; it is a person. It is more than rules; it is a marriage with Jesus that changes us from the inside out. 

Our battle is not won by fighting in our own flesh and blood strength but by fighting the enemy in God's strength. Even though we are fighting in God's strength, it is still OUR struggle. It is OUR warfare, and we must learn how to fight and overcome the enemy. If we don't know we are fighting with principalities and powers, we are already losing. Until the power of Satan is broken, there are different strongholds over individuals, homes, churches, communities, regions, and nations. According to 2 Corinthians 10:5, it is OUR job to pull down strongholds that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God. 

Self-pity is a magnet that draws bad things to you. It keeps you immobile, always looking inward and rarely toward God. When God didn’t approve of Cain’s offering, he got into self-pity instead of asking God where he was wrong. He continued down the road of self-pity and then self-destruction.