This episode dives into understanding Godly order—a key principle for living with authority and purpose. Carlie Terradez explains how recognizing your position in God’s spiritual hierarchy empowers you to rise above challenges instead of being weighed down by them. Whether it’s health issues, financial struggles, or relationships, aligning with God’s order allows you to operate from a place of authority and leadership rather than simply reacting as a follower.

By living in God’s order, you can access the blessings and authority He’s already given you, transforming the way you approach life’s obstacles.

🔑 Takeaways

• Understanding God’s spiritual order is essential to exercising your authority in Christ.
• Believers are positioned as the head, not the tail, symbolizing leadership and influence.
• Embracing God’s order empowers you to overcome challenges and navigate life with confidence.
• God’s blessings flow when we align our lives with His Word and commandments.

🔗 Links from this episode

• Terradez TV: https://www.youtube.com/TerradezTV
• Email: info@terradez.com
• Phone: 719-600-3344

Welcome to Power Hour, where we believe it is God's will for you to be.

Well, I'm your host, Kylie Terradez, and this podcast is created from the weekly live streams that I do every Thursday at 1pm Mountain time.

Whether you tune in live or listen later, this message is something that you can receive today.

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Well, hey, everyone, it is that time again.

It's time for Power Hour.

So glad to be here in my usual spot this week.

It is good to be home.

We've had a really busy traveling season, but, you know, last week we had a great time.

We were out there in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Gastonia.

We had a powerful camp meeting.

And so if you tuned in last week, you will have noticed that I was in.

I was in some sort of hotel room, but here we are.

It's good to be home, good to be with the family, good to be back in my office in my chair and joining you from here.

So go ahead and let me know where you're watching from.

I'd love to give you a shout out.

One of the things I love so much about Power Hour is that we just get to.

We get to see and chat with people from all over the world, which is pretty awesome, really.

This week we're going to be going through the A to Z of healing on the way all the way through the Alphabet to you.

I think it's like the 20th letter or something.

I might be wrong.

Don't count them.

But we're almost.

We're coming up to the end.

My, my aim is to get the Alphabet finished this year.

But you.

And we're going to be talking today about understanding godly order.

Now this is going to.

This, this sounds intriguing.

It's going to be really exciting.

I'm excited about this one.

It's going to be good.

It's going to be powerful.

Father, that I thank you.

That you give us ears to hear, that you give us a mind to understand and a heart to receive everything that you have for us today.

Lord, we know that you only have good things for us, that you're always trying to speak to us, you're always trying to impart to us, that you only have good for us.

And Holy Spirit, that you're always leading us into truth.

And Holy Spirit, we ask you to help us to, to just see the truth in your word.

Say that you have for us and to take it and to apply into our situation into our lives today that we might get the full revelation of the word that we hear.

And it isn't just head knowledge, but it becomes alive on the inside of us.

Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you're, that you, you are, you are a teacher today, that you are helping us in this area.

You are a helper.

We believe and we receive in Jesus name.

Amen.

Well, today we're going through the A to Z of healing.

Now last time, you know, each, each time we do this, we, we gather, we just get revelation on a particular letter.

So today we're talking about you.

And you is understanding God's, God's order, godly order.

You know, there, there is an order in scripture set out by the Lord.

And this is, you could call this a hierarchy, but really it's an order of authority.

And it's so important for us to understand God's order, God's the way that he.

He releases authority in the earth today.

Because what that does is we, when we have that understanding, we'll begin to walk in the full measure of authority that God has given to us as believers.

And it'll change our circumstances, it'll change how we start, how we respond to challenges.

It'll change how we, you know, face sickness, how we walk through trauma and trials and tragedies and all of those things, how we deal with circumstances that come against the promises of God in our life.

How do we, how we manage our finances, I mean, how we raise our kids, how we approach our marriage, how we walk in forgiveness with people, you know, the met God's order in our life today and understanding that is really critical to walking in, in the full measure of authority and resisting the enemy.

All of these things are tied together.

Now I want to start today's message here from a verse in Deuteronomy 28, verse 13.

Now, this whole chapter is a really interesting chapter.

And the first part of the chapter is talking about the blessings that God has on our life.

You know, there's so many blessings and many of those are actually mentioned in the confession, one of our confession cards and the identity confession card.

Many of those are in there.

But the first half of that chapter applies to us today as New Testament believers.

Now the second half of that chapter, chapter 28, talks about the curses.

And these are, these are blessings and curses that will come upon the children of Israel.

Now it's really important for me to preface this a little bit because, because of Jesus, only the blessings apply to us today.

So you can read through the second part of that chapter and read the curses and rejoice knowing that you've been redeemed from Those.

Okay, but I want to focus on this one.

In Deuteronomy 28, verse 13, I'm reading this out in New King James, is it?

And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail.

And you shall be above only and not beneath.

Let me just stop there for a moment.

He says he's going to make you the head, the leader and not the follower.

Above only and not beneath.

So only above.

Only above.

And he says if you.

And there is a condition on here because remember the Old Testament, the law had not yet been fulfilled.

And so there's a condition.

I'm going to read the end of the verse here.

It says, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and be careful to observe them.

Remember, remember, in the Old Testament, the children of Israel lived under the law.

Okay, so there's a.

The law was there.

It was given to Moses and the tablets and he, you know, he wrote them down.

But the law is given to, to Moses to really help the children of Israel.

You know, stay.

Be set apart and not enter into sin.

Because the, because sin was such a cancer.

They didn't walk in authority like we have today as believers.

And so they had a set of boundaries.

The law was like a boundaries really to keep them safe.

But there was, there was conditions here and there.

If people sinned in the Old Testament, there had to be a sacrifice, a blood, an animal sacrifice, a blood sacrifice to atone for those sins.

You know, all of the promises of God were conditional based upon their ability to keep the law.

They.

Now that's exhaustive and exhausting.

Today we live in the New Testament.

We live on the age of grace.

Galatians 3:13 says that Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

And all that means is that Jesus fulfilled all of the requirements that the law had.

So now anytime we mess up, it doesn't affect the blessings of God flowing into our life because those blessings have been paid in full by the blood sacrifice of Jesus.

That's a very important distinction between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

And it really does affect how we approach this godly order and where we fit into this understanding.

I'm going to, I'm going to show you in Scripture, God has given us, as believers in the New Testament, believers in Jesus, authority that the believers in the Old Testament didn't have.

Okay, really important to know.

But this Deuteronomy 28, it lays out all of the blessing and curses before Jesus.

It's in the Old Testament, okay, Before Jesus.

And verse 13 is one of the most powerful promises.

God promises that his people are going to be the head and not the tail.

Even in the Old Testament, the head and not the tail, only those.

And that.

So that is being under the circumstances was never an option for believers, even in the Old Testament, because there was a blessing of God that had already been provided for them.

Now, this is really interesting.

I don't know how many of you, when something had gone wrong or maybe you're going through maybe sickness, maybe you, you know, or maybe you've had something tragic happen, a difficulty.

People would often say with, with empathy, you know, sympathy, well, how are you under the circumstances?

You know, and really what they meant is, with everything terrible that's going on in your life, you must be so depressed, you must be so inferior, you must be so anxious.

How are you possibly surviving?

You know, there's really much more sympathy involved in that than there is an empathy, maybe.

And we heard this phrase, how are you under the circumstances?

In light of all of this terrible stuff that's going on, how are you really?

You know, when, when we were going through challenges, when our daughter, Many of you have heard of our daughter Hannah's testimony.

She.

She had an incurable disease, autoimmune disease that was gonna.

Was.

Was on track to be fatal.

Very shortly.

She was at the very end of her days at three years old, she was sent home from the hospital to die.

And people would say to us all the time, well, how are you under the circumstances?

Because they could see everything that was going on in our life.

They could see how difficult that was, and they wanted to connect with us and show us some love in the only way that they really knew how.

And the problem with that statement, while it's a sweet statement, as believers, we have no place saying this, because when we understand that God has spoken a blessing over us for being the head and not the tail, above the circumstances and not beneath them, we should never be trying to meet people underneath their.

The position that God has placed them in the godly order.

We should never be relating to other believers below the circumstance.

That's completely out of order spiritually.

So as believers talking to other believers, we need to encourage them.

You're already above your circumstances.

You're going to win this.

You're going to be victorious.

You're the head and not the tail.

You're the.

You're the leader.

You're not the follower.

There's a different.

There's a different way, a different point at which we meet people when we're speaking from a believer to a believer.

So I want to encourage you.

Maybe, maybe.

I know I've said this in the past.

How are you under the circumstances?

But I want you to be.

Just.

Have an, an understanding so that when you address people that we, we bring people on in a place of faith rather than meeting them in a place of unbelief.

Right.

Really important.

This is a picture of victory.

This is a picture of leadership, of promotion.

You know, God never designed for us to be below our circumstances.

And even if we're ministering to somebody where it seems like the enemy has had the upper hand, maybe, you know, a lot, maybe we've had a loss, maybe we've had.

Somebod has passed away.

And you know, the good, the, the thing we, we.

We can take heart in, in remembering is if they're, if they're a believer, they have got the victory.

You know, sometimes in this life temporarily it looks like the enemy has an upper hand.

But I want to comfort you in this.

The enemy will be made to pay for all of the trauma, all of the loss, all of the destruction, all of the thievery, all of the lying, all of the betrayal that he's.

Don't for a moment think that he has won.

He never wins.

And if somebody, the moment that somebody puts their trust in Jesus, even if in this world, for whatever reason, and there's so many different things that come against us, it looks like they were taken out of this world early.

You know what?

They got the victory because they entered into the presence of God.

They still get to be a winner.

They still got to walk in that victory that Christ paid for them with.

Amen.

So what is, what is ahead?

I'm going to look at this scripture a little bit more closely.

What is, what is this understanding of ahead?

Well, ahead represents leadership.

It represents direction and it represents authority.

A tail, on the other hand, is reactionary.

A tail is drug along.

A tail doesn't think for itself.

A tail is always following and it's driven by others.

And this is the distinction between believers and unbelievers in this world today, as believers in Jesus, it means we have the victory.

It means we have the upper hand.

There is a godly order.

The moment that we believe in Jesus, we're seated with him in heavenly places.

We're given power and authority over the things of the enemy.

We didn't have that before.

We put our trust and our faith in Jesus Christ.

Here's the one that leads us to victory.

So just simply believing in Jesus puts you in the head.

It puts you up the chain of God's order, right?

It makes you ahead, it makes you a leader.

It gives you direction and it gives you authority.

Until that point, you were part of the tale.

You were, you were, you didn't have that authority over the enemy.

So you were, you were there to be played with like a. I think I use this analogy last week, almost like a kitten playing with a ball of wool, right?

They just, they just tap them around, you know, and so we're pulled in different directions.

Purposeless, often visionless, often just bouncing around in this world, victim to the world.

That's, that's the picture of the tale of somebody being below the circumstances.

That is not who you are as a believer in Christ.

You know, let's look at this in, in Luke 10, verse 19.

This is a, you know, this is a powerful scripture, Luke 10, verse 19.

And it said, this is Jesus talking to his disciples.

We're.

We're his disciples.

I'm just going to back up a little bit here into 18.

Jesus said to them, his disciples, I saw late Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

I saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Jesus was eyewitness to the downfall of Satan, and he plummeted fast, right?

He says, look, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all of the power of the enemy.

And nothing shall by any means harm you.

Nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Man, this is really powerful.

He goes on, he says, nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

The moment that you put faith in Christ Jesus, you know your name is written in heaven.

And this, this, this power and this authority becomes part of who you are in Christ.

You're adopted into his family.

You're chosen.

You're part of a chosen, a chosen race, a chosen nation, a holy people.

You're taken from the kingdom of darkness, placed into the kingdom of light.

And immediately you become above your circumstances, not beneath them.

The head and not the tail.

He gives you the power and authority to trample on every lie of the enemy that is the serpent.

He's the, he's the, he's referring to the serpent in the garden that was the downfall of mankind, that Adam and Eve listened to and shouldn't have done.

But also, not only do we have authority over the serpent, we have authority over the scorpion.

That's the sting.

That's the sting of death.

That is the backbiting of the enemy.

That is the word out of the mouth of the accuser.

You think about, my husband and I were talking about this the other day.

You think about what, you know, the differences between a scorpion and a serpent.

A serpent is like a snake.

It slithers, it's subtle, it's sneaky, it's crafty, it's constricting.

It wants to poison, it wants to wrap around, it wants to choke the life out of.

It wants to constrict, it wants to put people in bondage.

That's some of the nature of the enemy that we have power and authority over.

The other thing that we have power and authority over is this is the scorpion.

That is the voice of Satan, the voice of the accuser.

The, the.

The sting of the enemy.

One thing, the.

The power of the scorpion.

It comes in the tower and it bends around the back and stabs you in the back.

Isn't that just like something the enemy would do?

He's the.

He's the.

That is the.

I believe that that is the voice of the accuser, the back biter, the back stab, sting of the enemy.

He's the.

This is when you know the is the enemy that causes us to have a sick experience, sickness and disease.

But one of the, the 1, 2 punches of the enemy, the serpent will convince you to buy into the lie of the enemy of sickness and disease.

And then the voice of the accuser, the school PR, will come around and say, oh, it's your fault.

He'll bring condemnation.

That comes with it.

You know that, that those are just the character.

That's the character and nature of the enemy right there, that twofold punch.

But the being the head and not the tail, being above and not beneath, being part of God's.

God's order in this world today.

His spiritual, godly order means that immediately we're above those things we have the ability to trample on, to put ourselves over this scorpion and the serpent, to trample those things like there were nothing to dust under our feet, man.

There's a lot of power in that.

That same power and authority that Jesus gave to his disciples, he's given to you and me today.

Hugely important.

Because if we do not know, if we do not know the authority that we have in Christ, we will never use it.

Super important.

So the tail represents leadership, it represents direction, it represents authority.

And that the head rather represents lead, leadership, direction and authority.

The tail being reactionary, that's always following along, driven by others.

To be the head means that you're positioned in Christ to influence, not to be drug around by circumstances.

You're above those circumstances.

You know the word above to be above the circumstances.

It's talking about your victory.

You're above, you're over, you're beyond.

You have, you have a perspective that's higher up and you have favor.

You know, think about this, think about eagles.

They fly above the storms where other were other.

While other birds might hide.

You know, in Christ, we're lifted up on wings like eagles to fly above the storms, to fly above the turbulence.

This is truly what it means to be above and not beneath.

You know, when I.

We fly in airplanes a lot and, you know, getting all over the world and one of the things that the pilot's always doing is looking for smooth air.

They're trying to get above the clouds, they're trying to get above the turbulence.

And sometimes, you know, you might go through a bit of the turbulence when you're going through the clouds, when maybe you're know, going through a storm.

But once you pop out above the clouds is always blue sky.

It's always clear, smooth sailing, right?

Smooth flying, clear air.

You can see for miles and miles and miles and you see the glory of the sun up there.

I'm telling you, when we get, when we get ourselves positioned above the circumstances, it's like rising up above the turbulence.

We can look down and see the turbulence.

For the turbulence doesn't move us, it doesn't shake us around, it doesn't make us fall to the ground.

It doesn't get us afraid.

Sometimes going through turbulence can be scary.

If you've ever been on an airplane where it hits that pocket of turbulence, you know, it can make your heart jump, your things fly everywhere.

It can be scary.

But when we pop above the turbulence, that means we refuse to be moved from our position in Christ.

That places us above the turbulence.

And instead of being moved by the effects of that, we, we're observing it, we have a different perspective.

That's a place of peace, that's a place of faith.

That's a place of power and authority in God's divine order.

You know, BO is being beneath something that, that's talking about being defeated, that's talking about being oppressed, that's talking about being right in the middle of that turbulence.

So how do we walk in the blessing?

Right?

That's what, that's what people know.

How do we walk in the blessing?

I'm just going to read the Scripture again because I know there's twice as many people now as there were at the beginning.

Is our key scripture today.

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail.

You should be above only and not be beneath.

And if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today.

And be careful to observe.

And now we've talked about that.

There's only the first part of that that really applies to us because we're living in the blessing.

Okay, so under the old covenant, blessing required you to be obedient.

But under the new covenant, Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law on our behalf.

That's Galatians 3, 13, and 14.

He says that he fulfilled the curse of the law.

Now, our obedience, our obedience today isn't to fulfill the law, isn't to keep all of the commandments.

That's impossible.

Jesus did that for us.

Our obedience today is to believe in Jesus and to walk by faith.

That is to agree with who he says that we are.

To take his words at face value and say, I believe that.

To put our trust and our confidence in him, even if we don't always understand it.

That is.

That is.

That's obedience.

Right?

So how do we live as the head in our daily life?

How do we live.

How do we start living above the circumstances?

And, you know, you could put whatever circumstance you want, and maybe the circumstance that you're dealing with is sickness.

Maybe it's disease, maybe it's a financial lack.

Maybe it's, you know, marriage problems or relationship problems.

Maybe that's the circumstance.

How do we walk above those circumstances in our daily life?

Well, in our home, I think one of the highest callings that we have is to walk in love with the people that we love, to walk in love with the people that are around us.

Right in our workplace.

What does that mean?

I think that's walking with integrity, and that's walking with favor.

Walking with integrity.

How do.

How do we show.

How do we place ourselves above the circumstances in our workplace?

Well, how about not getting involved in gossip?

How about not getting involved in slanderous conversations?

How about telling the truth?

How about, you know, this is how you set yourself apart, by the way, this is how you walk in favor.

This is how you position yourself for promotion.

How about when everyone else is slacking off and, you know, they're on the clock, but they're just not putting in their full effort?

How about you putting your full effort 100%?

How about being Integrous to shop, to work on time.

How about just not stealing?

You know, sometimes people steal from their employees.

They still, by putting in less effort than is required, they.

They still buy, you know, clocking in, but not really working right away.

They're still eating.

You know, they're stretching their break out on the clock an extra five minutes.

Or maybe they're taking stuff from the workplace, they're taking supplies home they shouldn't be.

You know, we can still, in different ways, maybe we're sharing ideas that we haven't been authorized to share.

Right.

We're stealing intellectual property.

There's all different ways that we can walk in a lack of integrity.

But by walking in, integrity in our workplace automatically puts us at the head.

It automatically inserts it into that godly order when we do our work as unto the Lord, it's a form of worship.

You know, the word worship in Hebrew and the word worship and work are used interchangeably.

It's the same meaning.

To worship is to work.

You know, the Jewish people understood that work is a blessing, it's not a curse.

And because work is a blessing, their blessing is on their hands.

Their blessing becomes whatever they put their hands to.

The work of their hands became blessed, and they did it as unto worship us unto the Lord.

Man, this is.

This is really walking in excellence.

That's a great point.

You know, this is really interesting in today's society, I think in the last five years, maybe since COVID but it's almost like there's a whole lot of standards in the workplace that have started to slide.

You know, people.

They don't really want to put in a full week's work.

They don't.

They want to have all of these.

All of these conditions just have to be made perfect for them.

People just seem to that the standards of excellence.

And I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old, I don't know.

But it felt like you could.

The service, especially in the service industries, that there was a level of excellence that's kind of missing today.

Like that companies have cut corners with things.

And not just cut corners with things that they provide.

They've got corners in customer service.

The training that employees maybe receive isn't what it was.

And it shows.

It shows up in the attitude of their employees.

You know, these are easy things.

If you have a business, you're a business owner.

Today, the blessing of the Lord is on your business.

He's called you to be above and not beneath.

He's called you.

I believe God calls us to walk in excellence.

And if you want to see, if you want to see your company and your products excel and that favor and that promotion take you higher, all you need to do, I mean, the world has set the bar pretty low.

It's just been tegrous.

Just, just, just care for people, genuinely hear people, genuinely put the customer first.

Genuinely do your best to give the best service and the best product and really serve the people.

That's another way we love people in our workplace, by serving them with the best of our ability.

When we do that, I'm telling you, the blessing of the Lord flows.

There's a commanded blessing right there, super powerful actually.

The giveaway today is our teaching on the commandee blessing.

So there's more on that.

If you get that teaching, okay, but that's how we walk in as the head above the circumstances, not beneath them in our workplace.

What about in our spiritual life?

How do we set ourselves above the circumstances and really, and really absorb that blessing that is already, that's already available for us rather than being under the circumstances?

Well, I believe that that affects our prayer life, that affects our quiet time.

You know, when we're praying, when we're coming to the Lord in prayer, what does that prayer life sound like?

Does it sound like oh Lord, will you just intervene?

Does it sound like oh Lord, please will you bless Auntie Flo?

Please will you take this away, Please will you do that?

Does it, does it, does it sound like approaching God from an Old Testament perspective or a New Testament perspective?

Remember, as New Testament believers, when we pray, you know, our prayers have, they have authority, our words have power.

And there's sometimes where we need to use that power and pray with authority rather than with that kind of begging mindset.

You know, when we understand, when we are in God's order, we're going to run boldly into the throne room of grace, jump up on the Father's lap and say, you know, dad, I'm home.

I've come for, I've come from to find help and grace in my time of need.

There's a boldness there where there's not a timidity.

When you pray, don't pray with timidity.

You are not given a spirit, spirit of fear and of timidity, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Amen.

When you pray, you can pray with confidence.

Pray with confidence.

Know that your Father in heaven always listens to you.

He always hears you.

And then when you speak in your God given authority, things move.

You move things you move circumstances, you move the devil out of the way.

When you speak with authority, man, that's how we start to be the head and not the tail in our home, in our workplace, and in our prayer life.

Really important.

Three things there.

Amen.

That's right.

Our prayer is from the right side of the cross rather than the left side of the cross.

Right.

That's after Jesus, not before Jesus.

Super important.

And then, you know, Romans 8:37.

I love that scripture.

It says that we are more than a conqueror through Christ.

This is somebody, a conqueror, somebody that understands where they are in God's order of things.

So what about marriage?

Now this.

You know, we talked a little bit about that.

The home.

But what about our married couples on here?

I know I have a lot of people that are married on here.

Well, I want to read you this scripture.

This is in Ephesians 2, 22, 23.

It says, Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife.

And also Christ is the head of the church, and he is the head.

That's.

Jesus is the head.

That is the savior of the body.

You know, there's.

There's a lot in there, but headship.

It says that the.

The husband.

Wives, submit to your husband.

This scripture has been so abused that oftentimes people just skip over it.

But submission's a hard issue.

It means to bring your will under somebody else's.

You cannot be made to submit.

Or it's control and manipulation.

It's not submission.

Submission is so powerful.

It's.

It.

In the Greek, it's hypotenic, means to put your will under somebody else's.

To say, not your will be done, but mine.

And, you know, we see this.

Jesus was a man that walked in supreme authority on the earth because he was also a man that was submitted to his Father in heaven.

He said, I only do what I see my Father doing.

I only do.

He says, let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Not my will be done, but yours.

Lord Jesus was a submitted man, submitted to the Father.

And because he was submitted to the father, he James 4:7 comes into play.

Submit to God.

Resist the enemy, and he'll flee from you.

Our authority comes from our submission.

When there is not submission in a godly marriage, there is a.

There is often a miss.

A misappropriation of authority, and people will find that the enemy uses that to creep in.

When there is not submission in a godly marriage.

Okay, this is important because there is a power and A blessing that is released and authority that comes through submission.

You know, and if.

Maybe I've got some husbands on here that say, well, my wife doesn't want to submit to me, or maybe I've got some wives on here that saying, well, you know what?

That man, okay, women are created to follow in the godly order of things.

We're created that way.

But if there is a resistance there, ask yourself why?

Because, you know, in, in if.

If you have a woman that is a godly woman, it's within her to submit to her godly husband.

But if there is a problem there, then there's probably a lack of security, there's a lack of love, there's manipulation, there's control.

For some reason, the very.

Even though the very nature of women is to submit to her husband, if, if that's out of order and, and isn't in place, she won't want to do that.

And there's always a reason behind that.

So rather than, you know, you can't force somebody to submit, ask yourself, why isn't that in place?

Why is that out of order?

In my marriage?

Why don't I feel confident to submit to my husband's authority?

You know, sometimes there's a deep down question mark that wonders, will he really protect me?

Does he really love me?

Does he really have the best for me?

Is he competing with me?

Right?

Will he, will he come through on my behalf?

Will he provide for me?

Because when women feel confident in those areas, submission is never an issue.

It's only an issue for people.

When there is a heart problem.

Maybe there is a track record, maybe there is betrayal, maybe there is unforgiveness, whatever.

There is always a reason why submission is struggling in an area.

Okay, that's a, that's a, that's a red flag.

But it says.

But look at this.

More than that, it says for the husbands, as wives, submit to your own husbands.

Let me just throw this out.

It doesn't say anyone else's husband, okay?

This is really important.

Wives are not supposed to submit to any man.

They're supposed to submit by choice to their own husband.

This scripture, like I said, has been used as a, as a rod to beat and to oppress and to.

I mean, you wouldn't believe the amount of hateful comments I receive as a woman in ministry.

And men, you can really help here, okay?

Because for women to defend themselves in ministry is, is out of order.

But men, we're relying on you to step up and be the leader in that area, okay?

And Protect your women.

Because God has called women.

If he didn't include women, he wouldn't have used women all the way through scripture, a woman was the first person that Jesus appeared to after his resurrect.

Jesus came by a woman, right?

I mean, they're half of the population.

So women are not second rate.

But this because of some of these scriptures, people have twisted them.

Okay?

So it says, for the husband is the head of the wife.

Also, Christ is the head of the church and he is a savior of the body.

You know, husbands are called to mirror Christ's love.

And wives then honor that leadership.

There is, you know, no one has a problem following godly leadership.

If somebody will not follow you question, rather than questioning their obedience, question your leadership.

There is a real issue here, and sometimes it's just devolves to finger pointing.

But you cannot demand obedience from people.

Look at your leadership first.

Look at how you're leading.

Are you leading with love?

Are you leading with integrity?

Are you modeling Christ?

Are you loving the people in your care as Christ loves the church?

Really important to model that love.

Because when godly order is embraced, there is a blessing that flows through the household.

And the enemy loves to come against the family unit.

He loves to come and cause strife and division.

And I do believe the family unit is really under attack.

Marriages are really under attack.

I mean, not just marriages, but you look at how many.

If you just look at crime, okay, just in certain communities, crime is off the chain.

And it comes down to the fact that in those communities, most of those kids are growing up without dads in the home.

There's a huge population that have grown up, whole areas of society that have grown up without fathers in the home.

And so that.

That family unit has broken down and then we just evolve into crime and violence, right?

And it's so sad, but it's because the enemy attacks.

You know, the family unit is.

Is a picture of God's union.

It's God's designed.

Marriage is God's design.

And that's why the enemy hates it.

Marriages are under attack like never before.

And that.

And part of that is the enemy knows that when we are submitted, when there is a godly order in our marriages and therefore in our homes, it flows from the head all the way down to the children.

And children become blessed and children walk in their authority and they become confident.

And the enemy just hates that, right?

They just, they just.

It's.

It's so.

It's so difficult.

So there is a godly order when we embrace it blessing flows through into the household.

Let's look at this.

Look, look at authority and unity in God's order and God in godly order in the marriage covenant in First Corinthians.

I'm going to read this First Corinthians 7, verse 3 before it says the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.

And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Now this is really important.

This is talking about when we get married.

It isn't, it isn't a hierarchy.

It is a, it is a partnership.

There is a partnership.

The wife has authority over the husband's body.

The husband has authority over the wife's body.

You know, this is so powerful.

This is why I believe God designed, you know, Adam and Eve.

It said it wasn't good for, for man, for, for Adam to be alone.

And he created an equal part.

You know, Eve was not lesser than he.

She was equal to Adam.

Really important, equal to Adam.

And when they, when they joined together, you know, when we get married, we become one flesh.

There is a union, a holy union that happens.

Imagine this.

Imagine if you had two sheets of paper and you covered one in glue and you stuck it together.

And then after that glue was set, you know, those papers become inseparable.

They're one paper now.

They're not two papers anym, they're one paper.

Those single papers have passed away.

They are now a double sheet stuck together.

Now imagine what happens in divorce.

There is no way to separate those papers without literally tearing each other apart.

If you separate those glued sheets of paper together, you're going to rip each other apart.

That is why divorce is so painful.

After you become one flesh in the marriage union.

And this is why the enemy loves to create strife.

He loves division because he wants to destroy everything that God has created and, and called blessed.

But within this measure of authority, the reason that Adam and Eve and, and just, you know, God sent them out in twos.

Even in the ark, there's a power in the, in two.

There's a power in two.

So when we have, when one is weak, the other one is strong.

This is another reason.

And I've got people on here that are single.

You know, you're better off being single than marrying crazy.

Don't marry someone that's crazy.

Don't marry someone that's controlling.

Don't marry someone that won't.

That doesn't know how to lead.

Don't marry someone that doesn't know how to protect.

Don't marry women don't marry someone that doesn't know how to provide.

These are, these are godly institutions.

I say this, you know, if you're a single woman, you know what?

You better wait for your boaz rather than settling for lazy as or dumbass or broke ass or mean ass.

Right?

Don't go there.

Don't go there.

You know, Adam had a job before he had a wife.

Really important.

Wait for the one that God had.

God has a help meet for you.

He has someone for you.

Amen.

And there's such a blessing in, in the unity in the covenant of marriage.

It's God's design, but you're better off being single than marrying someone that's crazy or that's not godly.

Really important.

So it says here, a marriage is a.

Is a mutual common, a love and responsibility.

Husbands and wife, we belong to each other.

I belong to Ashley, Ashley belongs to me.

We become one flesh.

The husband's role is to in godly order is to lead with love.

The wife.

The wife's role is to respond with honor.

There's a flow that goes through that.

And when you have a husband that's loving and honoring and nurturing his wife, you know, there's nothing, there's nothing more exciting than to love and honor and respect your husband.

It's easy to do that.

If we have a wife that doesn't want to love, honor and respect her husband, there's always a reason why, because it's within her nature to want to do those things.

Right.

There's a red flag otherwise.

Together, husband and wife walk in unity.

The blessing on the head goes from the head and not the tail.

It doesn't flow down to up, it flows up from down.

And so that's why there is a spiritual leadership, responsibility on the head of that whole, on the head of the household.

Very important.

I remember.

I'm going to give an example of a husband and wife's unity.

Okay.

I prayed for somebody is a gentleman that came to a conference when I was ministering in Phoenix, Arizona many years ago.

And he came to the prayer line and he wanted me to pray for him because his wife was sick in the bed and she was bedbound, she was bedridden.

She was not able to get up and come down to the meeting.

She was in the hotel.

And he asked me to pray for her and you know, the first thing I noticed when I looked at this man was his countenance.

And it was.

He was just full of fear.

I could see that he was just really afraid of losing his wife.

And his motivation in that moment wasn't necessarily faith, but fear.

You know, fear is a.

This is a massive subject.

I have a whole book called Fearless that addresses this.

But fear is subtle and it creeps in and it takes over everything.

And it can be a motivator.

It can motivate people to run towards healing because they're afraid of being sick or they're afraid of death.

But faith is how we access the promise of God for healing, not fear.

So even though fear motivates, it doesn't receive.

It's not going to receive the promises of God like faith will.

So when I spoke to this man, I knew that I had to deal with the fear first.

And he didn't ask me to pray for fear to go.

He asked me to lay my hands on his hands and pray for his wife.

His wife pray.

Anointing in his hands that when he got back to the hotel, he could lay hands on his wife.

Right.

That's what he prayed for, but that wasn't what he needed.

And the Holy Spirit is so smart.

He knows exactly what we need.

Right?

So in that moment, the Holy Spirit had me address the fear in that man's heart first.

And just to rebuke fear, you know, perfect love casts out all fear and just speak the supernatural peace that surpasses all understanding to fill his heart and mind in Christ Jesus.

And as I started to do that, his countenance began to change.

You could feel the.

You could see the physical weight of that fear, that bondage lifting off of him.

It was really powerful.

And, you know, we prayed at the end for his wife.

And off he went when the next day, the next.

This was in the evening, I think, and then the next morning he came down and he said to me and explained to me what happened.

He came down with this woman.

He says, I need to introduce you to my wife.

I mean, it was.

It was like something had gone on here.

I honestly didn't really entirely remember it.

I'd prayed for a lot of people in between then, and.

But he said to me on the way up in the elevator, the power of God hit my wife in her bed.

And that power was so great that every symptom in her body left in an instant.

This woman was.

Thought she was.

She was fit to die.

She was in bed.

She.

She couldn't Move.

She couldn't care for herself.

She was completely bed down.

Strength came back to her body.

Every one of those symptoms left.

And by the time he got up, back to the hotel room, she was up and in the shower.

Hasn't happened in years.

She needed a carer for everything.

And, you know, she.

They came down to the meeting that next day and explained what had happened.

And, you know, I'd never seen something like that with so much power before.

And what the Holy Spirit demonstrated in that moment was what happens between a man and a wife.

You see, he had authority over his wife's body, but fear was holding him back.

When she spoke to me, she explained that she really wanted to trust Jesus, that she really wanted to take some steps of faith.

But he was so afraid.

His fear was literally holding his wife captive.

That is how much the blessing, the anointing flows from the head down to the tail, right?

There's a godly order in this.

When we broke the spirit of fear off that husband, the wife was set free.

What an amazing thing.

When God moves in the life of a husband, the wife is set free.

When God moves in the life of a wife, the husband is impacted by that also.

Man.

There is a divine union that happens in marriage.

We are forever connected the moment that we're married, man.

This is.

This is really important because I want to encourage you.

I know many of you are on here today, that you have spouses that are sick in some way.

And I want to encourage you there is a godly order that you have authority over your spouse's body.

It's more than just your authority that you have as believers.

This is part of tapping into the supernatural power of God that goes beyond just a regular believer's authority.

You know, as believers, we have authority over every word of the enemy.

Yes.

But something very powerful happens when a wife lays hands on a husband or when a husband lays hands on the wife.

Really important.

Don't let the enemy steal that from you.

You have authority now.

Their heart has to be submitted.

It's, you know, there's two flesh here, okay?

There needs to be a submitted heart to the will of God, which is healing for them.

You know, if somebody does not want to be healed, you can't force them into receiving.

Okay?

But if their heart is submitted to the Lord in that area, they want to be made.

Well, you have authority.

So I want to pray for you.

If you are standing next to a family member, if you're a spouse and your spouse is with you, it'll also work if you're with your child because you have authority of your children, I want to pray for you right now and I want you to lay hands on your child or your spouse and we're going to pray for their healing.

Thank you Lord.

Thank you Lord.

Right now, in the name of Jesus, I thank you Lord that all power and all authority has been given to these wives, to these husbands, to these moms, to these dads right now and right now as they lay their hands on their children, as they lay their hands on their wives, as they lay their hands on their husbands.

Lord, I thank you that power and authority is fully in effect and in Jesus name we take authority over all sickness and over all disease and we command it to leave right now.

Right now.

Symptoms go in Jesus name.

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