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Satan's Future Attack
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| Satan's attack against you will always be in regard to your future, not your past. | |
| That's right. | |
| Satan's attack against you will usually be in regard to your future, not your past. | |
| Your past is done. | |
| You've already lived your past. | |
| Your past is finished. | |
| The history is written on it. | |
| Everybody knows about it. | |
| It's finished. | |
| Who cares? | |
| But the future is why the devil will attack you because he sees your future path. | |
| Not attacking you over your past path. | |
| So one day I was going through something and I was so weary with attack. | |
| I was so weary, you know, just people that I had loved and respected and given money to their ministries with some of the very people that the devil was using to attack me and Steve during the Brownsville revival. | |
| And it was really just a painful thing to have to endure. | |
| And I said to the Lord, I said, Lord, I'm so weary of attack. | |
| I'm so weary of being attacked by people that I love and people that don't really even know me. | |
| They don't even know the details. | |
| And they're talking against me like they know me. | |
| They don't even know me. | |
| And I said, Lord, how long is this going to last? | |
| And the Lord said something to me I'll never forget. | |
| He said, son, he said, you know, you go into a grocery store and you pick up a can or you go to the meat department and you pick up the meat and you look on there and there's a date on there. | |
| And he said, that date tells you when that can expires and it tells you when that meat expires. | |
| Don't fool with it after that date. | |
| He said, every attack that you go through has a shelf life. | |
| Take a big sigh of relief. | |
| Just take a big attack that the devil brings against you is not open-ended. | |
| It will not last forever. | |
| It has a shelf life. | |
| And when that shelf life is up, time's up. | |
| Things are going to change and start evolving for the better. | |
| It may be a month. | |
| It may be six weeks. | |
| There at the end at Brownsville, I got to where my attacks lasted about two years, almost two years. | |
| My attack got to where when I would go through them, it would have about a two-year lifespan. | |
| But after that two years, here's what I came to understand. | |
| I was sitting on the platform one day and the newspapers had just about tried to destroy me and Steve. | |
| And I was sitting on the platform. | |
| I didn't hardly know my name. | |
| I mean, I was there, major revivals at my church. | |
| The world is coming. | |
| Planes are landing in Pensacola. | |
| Buses are lined up outside. | |
| Thousands of people outside. | |
| Some can't even get in. | |
| Major things are happening. | |
| Souls are being saved. | |
| Bodies are being healed. | |
| I'm sitting there as a pastor. | |
| I don't even hardly know my name because I'm under such attack. | |
| And I remember Brother David Ravenhill came over to me when I was sitting on the platform and he kissed me on the side of my head and he spoke in my ear and he said, Brother John, he said, I'm going to tell you like my daddy, Leonard Ravenhill, told me. | |
| He said, you never come into your fullest anointing until you go through your greatest attack. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| He said, you never come into your fullest anointing until you go through your greatest attack. | |
| He said, I promise you, he said, this is going to work in your favor. | |
| And what I thought was going to destroy that revival, it was so vicious. | |
| The newspapers was so vicious. | |
| And they called Steve a liar. | |
| And they said that me and Steve got together before the revival started and we planned the whole thing. | |
| And that we paid people to come in and act like that they were healed and all this kind of stuff. | |
| I did good until I passed by one morning to go to work at Brownsville, and my son was reading the newspaper. | |
| He was getting ready to go to school and had the newspaper spread out on the kitchen counter like this right here. | |
| And he had his head in his hands like that, and he was reading the newspaper, and I noticed that the newspaper was wet, and it was his tears. | |
| And he was reading things about his dad and about the evangelists that he loved and about that revival that was going on in his church. | |
| And tears was all over the newspaper. | |
| And whenever he read all that, it so affected me. | |
| You know, it just so affected me. | |
| And I thought, how in the world can they do this? | |
| But what I thought was going to destroy the church actually was fuel. | |
| It didn't destroy it whatsoever. | |
| Matter of fact, it didn't even turn it. | |
| That thing had gotten so much momentum, it began to leapfrog into greater and greater and greater. | |
| The crowds grew, the miracles grew, and the presence of God grew. | |
| So don't be discouraged. | |
| Don't be discouraged. | |
| I don't care what you're going through. | |
| And I don't care what the devil intends to destroy you, and he means it for evil. | |
| God will take that thing and use it for fuel to bless you. | |
| Be encouraged today. | |