How Strong Are You?

July 10, 2024 by Mark Stalnaker

So today, I have a question for you: How strong are you? Have you ever met one of these self-made men and women? They seem so strong. They built their lives with their own strength.

Did they do it all themselves? Are you trying to do it all yourself?

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How Strong Are You?

Self-made Successes?

So today, I have a question for you: How strong are you? Have you ever met one of these self-made men and women? They seem so strong. They built their lives with their own strength.

They rose up in their own wisdom and knowledge and did it all by themselves. They put in what was needed and kept going. Have you ever met one of these people? Actually, no, you haven’t because they don’t exist.

Because nobody overcomes by themselves. So today, I have a verse for you. 

1 Corinthians 4:15 For you might have ten thousand mentors in Christ, but you do not have many fathers: for in Christ Jesus, I fathered you by means of the gospel. [GBMV]

Doing it Ourselves

Now, I’m talking to you, the GBM Academy students, about overcoming. A lot of times, we think, well, to overcome, we really have to put in a lot of effort. And a lot of us get into this trap.

We’re like, we got to do it ourselves. We can do it ourselves. You know I can do all things, right? And you do all things.

You do all the things, right? You read your bible, you get up, you journal, you pray, you speak in tongues, you worship God, you go to church, right? And you’re in this academy, and you’re doing the chats, and you’re going through all the courses, and sometimes, for some reason, you just keep hitting a wall. You just keep hitting a wall. You don’t know if it’s finances, it’s getting in the spirit, it’s relationships.

Whatever it is, it seems like you hit one wall after another. And you can’t figure it out. And it’s because you’re too close.

You Can’t See it

You can’t see it, right? And we’ve been studying bad mantles. And we’ve been looking at bad mantles and where they come from and the influences and the families and all the contacts and children and adults and breaking bonds and breaking links with people, right? And we see all this, and we’re trying to do all this, and yet we still keep hitting a wall. Because a lot of times you can’t see it.

You can’t see it. You can’t see the bad mantles. You can’t see the things that are affecting you.

You can’t see how you’re acting, but other people can, right? So, what I’m trying to tell you, and I have learned this, is that no one can walk this alone. No one can overcome this alone.

You Need Someone Who Can Help

You need people who can help you. You need somebody who knows you. You need somebody who cares enough.

You need somebody who cares enough to tell you the truth and somebody who will give you their heart in that truth. And you need someone who can flow in the spirit and has maybe a gift of inner healing that they can have God work through them and get you the ability to overcome, to see what you can’t see. Somebody with the gift of inner healing? Yes, someone who can hear God and speak into your life.

Who could that be?

Now I wonder who that could be. We all have access to this person. We are GBM Academy students, and you may say, well, I know you’re talking about that.

That describes Jesus. Well, yes, it does, right? But I’d say to you, as a GBM Academy student, that also describes Les Crause. Now I’m here in South Africa currently, and you know, it’s winter here.

I mean, I just came out of the summer in Florida, just went here, so I’m wearing this big thick sweater. And just in a couple of days, what I couldn’t see and what I couldn’t do by myself, right? I had so much overcoming in just a few days. Les could see it. Daphne could see it. 

They prayed with me. And I overcame more in two days and got more deliverance in two days than by myself in a year.

So, this is what I’m saying to you: You need to get help. You need to have people help you.

You will not overcome by yourself. It’s not going to happen. So, we all have access to Les Crause.

Take the Gift!

If you’re an Academy student, just get ahold of him. He has an open heart. He is a gift to you.

The gifts are for us, and the gifts are given to people for us. And those people are given as gifts for us. It’s a body.

Les Crause is a gift to you. He can help you, so you have to be willing to open your heart.

He will open his heart to you. Remember, you can’t do this alone. All you have to do is reach out and accept the gift.

You can video chat with him. He will pray for you. And you can open up and see the deliverance and overcome these mantles to see where they are, to see things you can’t see, to have the power of God in that agreement and corporate anointing to deliver you.

Don’t try to do it by yourself; We are a Body!

So, what am I really telling you right now? I’m telling you one simple thing. You can’t do this yourself. We have a whole body of help, right? We have pastors, teachers, prophets.

We have all this body here to help you. And you have one of the greatest gifts, I think, in the body of Christ right now as a student in this Academy. So, what do I say to you? I say, reach out, take the gift, and stop trying to do it all yourself and try to understand it all yourself and try to figure it out all yourself.

Remember, you cannot overcome by yourself. Nobody can, and nobody has. So, Jesus, through the gift of the people in the body, in our case, I recommend Les Crause, who will help you overcome.

When you overcome, remember that the most important thing is that now Jesus will use you to help others overcome, and your life will never be the same. 

So, I urge you again to reach out. Don’t try to do it all by yourself. Run this race with your brothers and sisters in Christ and help each one overcome as one in him.

Amen? Amen.