There’s something spreading around the planet, and it’s more dangerous than the Coronavirus. This was transcribed from a message by Kris Vallotton called The Obedience of Faith. Kris Vallotton is a prophet, and the senior associate leader of Bethel Church, Redding, CA. I wholeheartedly agree with this word! The following is from Kris Vallotton’s message.
I don’t think the Coronavirus is the worst thing that’s happening.
I think there’s a virus of fear that is spreading across the world.
And I think the goal of that virus is to shut down the nations, and destroy economies.
And I really believe that there’s something else behind this virus, that’s much more devious and demonic than the actual physical virus.
We have to obey our faith, and we must not become slaves to our fears.
Romans 8:15
For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
We are not afraid, because we have a daddy.
We’re not afraid because we have a good daddy.
It’s important that we trust God in the midst of this spirit of fear that’s on the world right now.
We would never trust a person who lied to us as much as our fears do.
Fear is a fantastic story-teller, and a better movie-maker.
It’s not what happens in life that bothers me, but the stories I make up about what I fear will happen to me, that scares me.”
I love what Winston Churchill said:
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
I think it’s really important that we are wise, and take precautions, and not act like medieval fools, who ignore science, and ultimately help spread the virus.
I love this verse, Proverbs says
The horse is prepared for the day of battle,But victory belongs to the Lord.”
David said this:
A horse is a false hope for victory;Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength.” Psalm 33:17
This is a crazy conflict.
The horse is prepared for the battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
A horse is a false hope for victory!
It cannot even bring victory by its great strength!
So I’m thinking… ‘Do I prepare the horse, or not?’
I love this verse, because the Lord says:
‘Prepare the horse! …we’re not using it.’
Remember when Jesus told the disciples ‘Get swords.’?
‘O.k, I want you to get swords. Sell your coats, sell your things, and get swords.’
The disciples said ‘Well, here’s two swords.’ And Jesus said ‘Well, that’s enough.’
We don’t know who got the second sword, but we know who got the first sword.
Peter.
Few hours later…
Hundred soldiers come and they try to arrest Jesus.
And Peter takes his sword out, and cuts off a guy’s ear.
Now how many here know that he’s a fisherman.
You can’t tell me he wasn’t trying for the head.
I don’t think Peter denied Christ because he was afraid to die.
I mean he just challenged a hundred soldiers with a sword.
Jesus says ‘Get swords!’
Peter uses it.
And the Lord’s all ‘What are you doing?’
‘But you said ‘Get swords!’’
‘I never told you to use it.’
‘But why would you want me to get a sword if I wasn’t supposed to use it!?’
Because the victory is in obedience.
‘Prepare the horse for battle!’
‘O.k.! I got the horse!’
‘Awesome. We won’t be using horses.’
I think often times the victory is in obedience.
Often times the Lord gives us something to do, and you do that, but then God says ‘We’ll be doing it this way.’
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the ]assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hope feels.
Faith sees.
And love never fails.
Hope is the deep sense that something good is about to happen to me.
Hope is that thing (I don’t want to say feeling, because I’m not talking about an emotion), but hope is that thing that’s deep inside of you, that you wake up in the morning and you think ‘Something good’s about to happen to me today.’
‘What is it?’
‘I don’t know.’
If you know, that’s not called hope, that’s called faith.
Because faith sees, but hope just feels.
Hope is what gets me off the couch to the front porch so faith can be looking for what hope felt.
You’re supposed to get your hopes up!
People say ‘Don’t get your hopes up!’
That’s anti-biblical. That’s not extra-biblical. That’s anti-biblical.
The bible says “If you hope in the Lord, you won’t be disappointed.”
Get your hopes up!
A foreboding spirit
The opposite of hope is the foreboding spirit.
That foreboding spirit says ‘Something bad is about to happen to me.’
It says ‘If we’re having a good day… then a bad day is coming…’
I remember when I came here, before Kathy and I actually came on staff.
We were doing a class on the prophetic once a week, driving down from Weaverville.
Which is supposed to be exhorting, encouraging, and comforting.
I said ‘I’m going to put me in the middle, and you are going to all prophesy over me, and I’m going to tell you if you’re good or not.’
This particular friend of mine, who is my friend now, but I didn’t know her at the time, started snapping her fingers around me.
I asked her what she was doing, and she said
‘there’s a foreboding spirit on you. I’m casting it out.’
‘What’s a for-boating spirit?’
I didn’t know what it was. Like for-boating? I can’t swim. I don’t go boating.
She said ‘No. Foreboding means and impending sense of doom.’
I said ‘oh, o.k.’
She did that to me. I didn’t feel anything happen.
We were driving home. We had an hour drive home.
I turned to Kathy and said:
‘You know that foreboding thing, that lady snapped out of me? I think it’s gone.’
She said ‘What do you mean?’
I said ‘I never knew I had it. I’m like a drunk who never knew he was drunk until he saw himself sober. It’s like I’m sober, but I never knew I had it because I always had it.’
A familiar spirit
You know what a familiar spirit is?
It’s an evil spirit that gets so attached to your personality, that it becomes a part of the way you think.
And actually half-way home, I actually got a revelation of how it came to my life.
My father drowned when I was three.
A three year-old does not know what death is.
So all those years I thought that my father abandoned me.
So I used to go into my mothers room, up until my teens, two or three times per night, just to make sure my mother was there.
I’m actually a very optimistic person, it’s just the way I”m wired.
Even before I knew God.
So I’m not walking around like “oh, something is going to go wrong!’
Kathy and I started nine businesses, but below the surface there was always this nagging (I don’t want to say it’s a voice), it’s a sense: ‘Something bad’s about to happen to you… you’re about to lose someone special to you… your kids… someone’s about to hurt your kids…’
And it was always in there nagging at me.
I never knew it until it left.
I never knew that other people didn’t think like that.
And I think that there’s a foreboding spirit on the world today.
I think that there’s a foreboding spirit right now pressing in to the planet.
I think that people have this deep sense that something terrible is going to happen to them.
And then we Christians have got scriptures for it.
‘The mark of the beast is coming! Watch your forehead! One third of the earth is going to die by the plague!’
And every time we hear about a virus, we’re like ‘There it is right there! Black Plague! The beast is coming! Who is the beast this time?’
And instead of feeding hope into the nations, we feel this fear, this foreboding evil spirit.
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