Aug. 26, 2025

The Forgotten Power of the Church in the End Times

The Forgotten Power of the Church in the End Times

Send us a text Freedom isn't found in managing symptoms—it's experienced through complete deliverance in Jesus' name. This powerful episode tackles the critical yet often neglected ministry of Pentecostal deliverance, revealing how the authority given to believers on the day of Pentecost remains our inheritance today. Rick confronts the stark reality of our current spiritual landscape where addiction, depression, and demonic influence flourish while many churches retreat into comfortable mes...

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Freedom isn't found in managing symptoms—it's experienced through complete deliverance in Jesus' name. This powerful episode tackles the critical yet often neglected ministry of Pentecostal deliverance, revealing how the authority given to believers on the day of Pentecost remains our inheritance today.

Rick confronts the stark reality of our current spiritual landscape where addiction, depression, and demonic influence flourish while many churches retreat into comfortable messages that lack transformative power. Through compelling stories of real people set free from fentanyl addiction, uncontrollable rage, pornography, and depression, he demonstrates that deliverance isn't theatrical performance but authentic spiritual freedom that medication and self-help can never provide.

The contrast becomes clear: while churches around the world embrace the full power of the Holy Spirit with life-changing results, the Americanized version of Christianity often dismisses deliverance as "too extreme" while its members remain bound. What if the issue isn't that some believers do too much, but that most do too little? The same Jesus who cast out demons throughout the gospels commissioned His followers to continue this essential ministry—not as an optional add-on but as core to the Christian mission.

For those feeling isolated or criticized for believing in the power of deliverance, this message offers validation and courage. The fire that fell in the upper room hasn't diminished; it burns brighter in those willing to stand against darkness. Whether you're seeking freedom yourself or called to minister deliverance to others, this episode equips you to walk in authentic Pentecostal power during these last days. Share this truth while there's still time—text someone a link, visit renewedmindsets.com, and prepare for Jesus' return by staying watchful, holy, and renewed.

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Be An Encourager...Not A Discourager!

Chapters

00:44 - Intro

01:45 - What is Deliverance?

02:50 - Why Deliverance is Needed!

04:53 - The Biblical Pattern

06:12 - Why the Church must Return to It.

08:06 - The Process of Deliverance

09:40 - Cultural Parallels for Today

10:47 - For the Remnant

14:37 - Challenge

Transcript
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The world is changing and time is running out.

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This is Renewed Mindsets, where we confront biblical truth head-on no sugarcoating, no compromise.

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We expose false doctrine, reveal fulfilled prophecy and shine light on the demonic deception of these last days, but we also stand firm on the hope of Christ's return, the call to holiness and the urgency of true salvation.

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It's time to renew your mind.

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There's not a lot of time left.

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Let's go, boys.

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Hey, welcome back to Renewed Mindsets.

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I'm Rick and I'm so glad you're here.

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Today we're dealing with a subject that too many churches avoid, but the early church couldn't survive without it Deliverance.

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Pentecostal deliverance is not an extra ministry, it's the ministry of Jesus Christ and it's alive in the church today.

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Now we're living in a world that's darker than ever.

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It's preaching witchcraft, rebellion, self-worship, and the church?

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Well, the church is just preaching comfort and tolerance.

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But on the day of Pentecost, god didn't pour out his spirit so we could run polished programs.

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He gave power to cast out demons, heal the sick and preach with boldness.

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And that same power is what we need in the end times.

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Now.

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In a word, deliverance is freedom.

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Freedom, it's the breaking of chains, of demonic oppression, strongholds, addictions and torment, through the power of Jesus Christ.

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In Luke 8, jesus confronted the man possessed by legion.

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No chains could hold him.

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He lived among the tombs, tormented, but one encounter with Jesus set him free.

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I'll be talking about real-world examples today.

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So, along that line, there's a young woman that was trapped by fentanyl and she kept going through rehabs and programs that medicated her but never really healed her.

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But she went to a Pentecostal service and the name of Jesus was spoken over her.

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She was delivered.

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The cravings left her mind cleared.

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That's deliverance.

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Deliverance is not theatrics, it's not a performance for the camera.

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It's the power of God destroying the grip of hell on a human life.

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So why do we need deliverance?

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Well, bondage is everywhere Addiction to drugs and alcohol, pornography, depression, anxiety, generational curses that haunt families for generations.

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These things are spiritual, not just psychological.

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Sin opens up doors to the enemy and self-help can't close them by themselves.

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Now, in our culture today, young people are turning to witchcraft through TikTok trends.

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Tarot cards and crystals and astrology apps are downloaded by the millions, and some of us remember the uproar of Harry Potter 25 years ago.

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Well, that was yesterday's seed.

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It seems kind of tame now, doesn't it?

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But today it's full-blown occult discipleship for a generation.

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There's laws that are being passed in our country that normalize what God calls abomination.

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We're raising children in a system that calls good evil and evil good.

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That is not just politics, that's demonic influence over a nation.

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Deliverance is needed not just for individuals, but for the church itself.

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So here's a story of a man that's tormented by uncontrollable rage, and this man is about to lose his family.

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He's gone to counseling, he's been on medication.

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It's all failed.

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But when spirit-filled believers prayed in the authority of Jesus, the rage left, peace entered this man's life and he walked away free.

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This is why deliverance is needed, because the church has people sitting in pews, bound and tormented, while pastors preach sermons that sound like TED Talks.

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Have you noticed anything in the Bible?

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Jesus never ignored demons.

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He confronted them Everywhere he went.

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He cast them out.

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In Mark, chapter 1, he silenced an unclean spirit in the synagogue.

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In Mark 5, he restored the man with legion.

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In Luke 13, he set free a woman that was bent over for 18 years, oppressed by a spirit of infirmity, by a spirit of infirmity.

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And then in Mark 16, verse 17, he gave the church this promise these miraculous signs will accompany those who believe.

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They will cast out demons in my name.

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Around the world Africa, south America, asia.

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Pentecostal believers expect deliverance to happen.

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They expect it and it does.

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People are freed from witchcraft and torment every week, but here in America we call it too much.

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They're doing too much, yet our churches are drowning in depression.

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Yet our churches are drowning in depression.

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Pornography, divorce, suicide.

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The difference is not God's power, the difference is obedience.

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The church needs to return to the basics of the Bible.

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We're living in the last days.

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Darkness is flaunted in music and television and politics and movies.

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Social media celebrates rebellion against God.

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Children are taught confusion as truth in our schools.

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There are Pentecostal churches in America that are still preaching deliverance and in those churches demons flee, the oppressed are healed, the Holy Spirit moves in power, but most of the so-called Christians in this country dismiss it as extremism.

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Christians in this country dismiss it as extremism.

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They say that's too much.

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That's just too much.

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They don't need to do all that.

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No, what's too much is a powerless church that bows to culture and preaches only comfort.

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Pentecostals are called Pentecostal because of what happened on the day of Pentecost.

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After Jesus ascended, his followers waited in the upper room.

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The Spirit came across, or came as tongues of fire.

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On each one of them.

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They spoke in other languages.

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They received gifts of the Spirit.

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They received power.

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That power was not for hype, it was for deliverance, it was for the gospel, it was for the last days.

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Yeah, today the Americanized church says God is love.

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Just be nice, do good things.

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But the Bible says God is holy.

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The Spirit was given to make us holy and powerful, not to be comfortable and popular.

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So what's the process of deliverance?

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Well, I'll tell you.

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It begins with repentance.

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You must be repentant of your sin.

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A person has to renounce sin and close the doors that were open.

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Then, through prayer and the name of Jesus, demons must flee.

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I got an example of a man that was addicted to pornography and he confesses his sin and believers pray in Jesus' name.

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The spirit of lust is cast out, the Holy Spirit fills him with purity, accountability keeps the door closed.

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That is real deliverance.

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Sometimes deliverance is instant.

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Sometimes it's a process.

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A woman plagued with depression gets prayed for.

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The heaviness lifts, but weeks later, bitterness is revealed to her by the Holy Spirit and she releases that bitterness that caused the depression.

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Now, over time, freedom grows.

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It's a miracle and a journey.

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And here's the contrast.

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The Americanized church says just manage it with therapy, with drugs.

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But true Pentecostal power says be set free in Jesus' name.

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One leaves you coping, the other makes you free.

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Indeed, sit back for just a minute.

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Listen.

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This is our world.

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We got technology where we live in a world where children carry portals to darkness in their pockets, phones, they're filled with pornography, witchcraft, rebellion.

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That's why deliverance is not optional.

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We live in a political world more than ever.

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But our leaders call evil good.

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Sin is legalized and celebrated.

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The spirit of Babylon is alive in America.

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Sin is legalized and celebrated.

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The spirit of Babylon is alive in America.

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The church has to rise in deliverance power or be swept away in compromise.

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You know I'm going to talk about entertainment TV shows, music, movies.

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They openly glorify demons and possession.

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They laugh at what Scripture takes seriously.

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The church that does not practice deliverance is soon going to be no different than the world that it entertains.

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Now I'm talking to you.

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If you're part of the remnant that still believes in Pentecostal deliverance, take courage.

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You're not outdated, you're not extreme.

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You're walking in the same power that shook the upper room on the day of Pentecost 2,000 years ago.

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You might feel mocked by your friends and family, by the Americanized church that says that's too much.

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But you need to remember this the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in you.

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The fire of Pentecost did not die with the apostles, no matter what you've heard.

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It's alive in every spirit-filled believer who's willing to stand in faith and confront the works of darkness.

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You notice, I said spirit-filled believer, not just believer, because you're not born again until you're filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Deliverance is part of that process.

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Deliverance is not a fringe ministry, it's the ministry of Jesus Christ.

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When you cast out demons, when you pray freedom over the addicted, when you watch chains break off the oppressed, you're carrying out the command of your Savior.

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You are not too much.

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You're right on time.

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But here is the challenge you can't stay silent.

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If you've seen the power of deliverance, you need to speak about it.

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You need to share the stories of chains breaking and lives being restored.

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Tell your family, tell your co-workers, tell your neighbors.

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Too many people around us are bound up and have no idea that freedom is even possible.

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The world tells them to cope, to medicate, to manage Powerless churches and that's the majority of them, I'm telling you Powerless churches that just play church.

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Tell them to just try harder.

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But you know the truth.

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Jesus sets people free.

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Invite them, bring them into the house of God where deliverance is happening.

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You can't let fear of ridicule keep you quiet.

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Every person you bring into a spirit-filled church has the chance to encounter the same fire that fell in the upper room.

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Deliverance isn't something to hide.

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It's the proof that the Holy Spirit is alive and active, and when people see it, they see the gospel in power, not just in words.

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When they hear testimonies of freedom, their faith rises to believe.

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It can happen for them too.

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So I encourage you speak up, bring people testify, be bold.

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The world is growing darker, but the fire of God burns brighter in you and in these last days God is raising up Pentecostal believers who will not bow to culture, who will not compromise truth and who will not be silent while people are enslaved.

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Take heart, you are walking in Pentecostal fire and that fire is exactly what the end times church needs to survive and to overcome.

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I'm back.

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If you're bound, jesus can set you free.

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If you're tormented, his name is stronger than every other name.

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Deliverance is not about demons leaving.

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It's about Jesus filling every empty place.

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The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

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They're mighty, through God, for pulling down strongholds.

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This isn't extremism, it's Christianity.

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This is Pentecost.

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This is the power of God.

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The church today, at this point in history, doesn't need another program.

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We need Pentecostal fire, we need deliverance.

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We need the spirit that was poured out in Acts, chapter 2, alive and burning in the end times.

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Church today, the executive producer of Renewed Mindsets is Christy McCurry.

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That's all for today, but I'll be back with more unfiltered biblical truth and undeniable prophecy.

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The time to wake up is now.

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If today's episode challenged you, don't keep it to yourself.

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Tell someone.

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Please.

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Text them a link.

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Share the truth while there's still time.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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Stay watchful, stay holy, stay renewed.

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Until next week, I'm Rick.

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Be an encourager, not a discourager.

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Until next week, I'm Rick.

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Be an encourager, not a discourager.

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I love you.

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See ya?

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The intro and outro music for the Renewed Mindsets podcast is Are you Ready?

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By Floodgate From the album Are you Ready.

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Copyright 2002, offbeat Ministries.

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Incorporated Floodgate can be found on Apple Music and iTunes.

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Music used with permission.