This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick, Lead Pastor/Apostle of 5F Church, in Los Angeles on June 7, 2026. To watch the full video, scroll to the bottom of this post. We pray this teaching blesses you and equips you to walk as a powerful vessel of God. 

There’s a saying that goes: “New levels, new devils.” Whenever God lifts you, the devil will always be angry. But that doesn’t bother us because his anger has no power over us or over the victory and the lifting that God is bringing. We are not bothered by the devil's increased anger when God brings the lifting. In fact, we should only be encouraged. Because whenever you find the enemy being angry at you, through attacks coming through people, for the most part, you should know, “The devil is angry right now because God is using my life for His glory, to advance the Kingdom of God and destroy the devil's kingdom.” You really should be encouraged any time you can see, “This is the devil's anger.” Because that means that you are walking in your purpose and that people are being freed and healed and saved and encountering God’s love because of your obedience to God! 

That is the greatest joy—to have the revelation that because of your obedience, God can move where he couldn’t move before. He can touch more people’s lives; more people will be saved and not go to hell; more people will be delivered and healed because of your obedience. And when you find the devil angry at you, this is an opportunity to have even more revelation of how powerfully God is using you.

Even in a moment when the devil's rage is in your face, this can even be a moment that the enemy intends for evil but God can turn for good (Genesis 50:20). You can allow God to turn it for good for you by immediately being in the spirit and being encouraged and thinking, “This is evidence that God is using me, that I’m in His will, that God is pleased with me, that the anointing is moving through me, and that I’m really advancing God’s Kingdom.” 

This is being spiritually minded: to really know the tactics of the devil and what’s going on in the spiritual realm when you see these attacks come at you. This is how we are able to always have peace and joy through Jesus. It doesn’t happen randomly. No, it’s up to you to renew your mind to think spiritually and to see spiritually: the truth of what’s going on spiritually. When you see the truth, it always brings victory. The Bible says, “You are more than conquerors. You have overwhelming victory through Christ” (Romans 8:37). That’s not just 5 percent of the time. Overwhelming victory means you always have victory through Christ!

If you can renew your mind and live in the spirit every moment of every day, you’re constantly seeing victory. You’re seeing, “I’m going higher. I’m seeing the devil manifest and get angry” instead of, “Oh no, what’s going on? This is annoying.” No! You think, “Hallelujah, he’s angry! I have grabbed the attention of the devil. He’s worried about me. Hallelujah! He sees now that he has to try to stop me. That means he sees me as a threat. Yes! Hallelujah! It doesn’t matter that he may try to stop me because he can never stop me. Never! So let him try!” 

There’s nothing to fear. God gives you the victory every time. The devil can bring all of his weapons and all of his schemes but he still he can’t defeat the God who is with you. 

We are going into higher levels of spiritual maturity today.

When God lifts you, the enemy is always going to be angry. 

Genesis 37:5-11 

One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever. “Listen to this dream,” he said. “We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before mine!” His brothers responded, “So you think you will be our king, do you? Do you actually think you will reign over us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dreams and the way he talked about them. Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!” This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him. “What kind of dream is that?” he asked. “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow to the ground before you?” But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.

God gave Joseph this dream, to show him where He would take him. God would take Joseph to the highest position in all of Egypt besides the pharaoh. He would be such a blessing. He would not randomly be in this high position—God would put him there to bless the people of the land, to help them to not die when there was a lack of food, and to have the wisdom for how to keep the people fed and alive. Joseph would be helping the people. And when the time would come for him to be lifted to this high position, the people would honor him, not just because he was in this high position, but because he was anointed by God and God was using him to bless the people. They would survive because of his obedience to God. 

So in this dream, God was showing him that he would be lifted for God's glory—that God was choosing to anoint him and that people would be honoring him. The people would honor him through bowing because in the Bible, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, we see that people bow to show honor. Sometimes, if they bow to show worship to a person, they are scolded and reprimanded, like by Peter and the disciples, for example. But there are many people who, when they bow down, are bowing in honor, not in worship to a man. This is the way honor is shown in many cultures today, such as in Africa and Asia. People bow or move their body in a position of reverence and honor. So whenever you see that, it’s a person honoring a servant of God. If a servant of God can discern that the person bowing is worshipping the person, then they should correct the person. But if they are meaning it in honor, why would they be corrected when they’re doing something that is pure? It’s not corrected in the Bible when it’s done in a pure way, and so it should not be corrected today when it is done out of purity of heart, to show honor. Because God says give honor where honor is due (Romans 13:7). 

When Joseph shares this dream with his brothers, he’s just sharing the dream. He’s not saying, in a prideful way, “Haha, I’m going to be above all of you.” No! He’s just sharing the dream that he had. And immediately, his brothers hear lies from the devil, like, “Why should he be above you? Why should he be more favored than you?” They saw him in the wrong light, as if he was pridefully wanting to be above people and for people to bow to him in respect and honor. But that wasn’t Joseph’s heart. He was just sharing this dream that he knew God gave him. He was excited that God had given him a dream about his future and a promise, and he was sharing it with purity. 

God was lifting Joseph by speaking to him about where He was taking him, and it became publicly known once he spoke about the dream. So the devil came immediately, angry about this lifting and this prophetic dream, and he looked for willing vessels. It’s easy for the devil to find willing vessels—they’re simply those who aren’t totally surrendered to God, who aren’t quick to crucify their flesh and reject the devil's lies. They are those who will allow themselves to be lukewarm and to be pulled in different directions, worshipping God some of the time and going along with their feelings, influenced by the devil, another part of the time. 

The enemy looked for these vessels that he could use to influence with anger and jealousy because of Joseph’s lifting. And then we see how Joseph’s brothers decided to kill him. This is how intense the devil hated and was angry about Joseph, and how intensely he was putting these hateful thoughts into the brothers.

If you don’t reject the devil’s lies, you give him authority to keep sending the lies and cultivating the lies. You give him authority to make the lies grow bigger. So Joseph’s brothers allowed the enemy's influence and they tried to kill Joseph by throwing him in a pit. Then they changed their minds when they felt conviction, so they decided to sell him into slavery.

We see the devil’s anger at Joseph’s lifting and how this anger of the devil manifested. But what did Joseph say? Once he saw the promise fulfilled, that the devil could never stop, he experienced the great victory of God over his life, and he said, “What the devil intended for evil, God intended for good” (Genesis 50:20). It led to the salvation of many lives. Joseph had to get to Egypt in order to save many lives, and God used this transportation of the slave owners to get him into the right place, where the promise would be fulfilled. God wasn’t really concerned about the devil's influence over the brothers, because He knew that He would use it for good and to bring victory. 

If you ever get this feeling when you see someone elevated—“I don’t like this; I don’t like that they’re being lifted”—and it’s a fellow believer that is being lifted, where you see victory happening in their life happening—you should know that the devil is influencing you. I’m talking about a true believer. I’m not talking about Pharisees being lifted. We should love Pharisees, but we don’t have to be excited for victory in their life. But if this is a believer, who you don’t have evidence is being used by the devil, and you think, “I don’t like this,” you’re being influenced by the devil. 

You need to know that when you encounter this in your life—when you find people being angry  and jealous and acting weird toward you when you are seeing the victory of God and are being lifted—know that the enemy is sending them lies and they aren’t rejecting them. You should be aware of this so you know what’s going on when you experience things like this—when you experience attacks, hatred, jealousy, people acting strange after a lifting. This is what’s going on. Just as in the time of Joseph, the devil is looking for people he can influence because of his anger and jealousy that you have been lifted by God. 

People do not have a problem with you when you are on the same level as them. But the moment that God lifts you above their level and starts using you more powerfully than them—as anointing is seen more in your life and God showers more blessings upon your life and brings rewards upon your life—people will have problems with you. And this is the devil's influence. The devil is angry at the lifting, so he sends these feelings and these thoughts to people. 

The devil has no problem with believers who do not have the anointing. He is not angry with them. There are so many believers who are going to church, to big mega churches, but they’re stuck in bondage. We heard Christine’s testimony about how she became a believer, but then she was backsliding. It wasn’t like there was a problem with her heart—it was because there was no power of God at the church to deliver her. So who’s winning in that situation? The devil, not her. The devil sees her going to that church where there’s no power, and she was absolutely no threat to him there. He saw that he was winning over her. That’s how the devil sees believers who are in bondage because there’s no power of God in the church. That’s how the devil sees ministers who don’t carry the power of God. He doesn’t see them as winning. The devil is winning through the spirit of religion. The pastor is lukewarm and has bondage in their life, and therefore the rest of the believers do too. So they are not a threat to the devil. The devil sees, “They’re not winning; I’m winning,” so he doesn’t even bother. He doesn’t even try. He’s not angry with them. But when he sees you carrying the anointing, he sees that you have power over him. He sees that you are destroying his kingdom. He sees that you are winning. He sees that you are walking in overwhelming victory, and he’s angry. 

I was a believer my whole life and very rarely did I see the devil angry with me. I only encountered a couple of experiences of jealousy with girls in high school and college, things that I think we’ve all experienced. But it wasn’t the vicious anger of the devil that I experienced once I carried the anointing. Then I saw the devil was VERY angry at me, at what I was doing, and at where God was taking me. There was a big difference. 

You must understand, especially those of you who are new in this army of God and in this revival, that the devil is not going to just sit by. He is angry that you’re free now. He is angry that you are testifying about your freedom and about what Jesus is doing in this revival. He is angry at the great lifting that has come for you and for 5F Church and for this revival. He is very angry! But remember, it doesn’t matter if he’s angry. It’s a great thing that he’s angry!

Our attitude should not be, “Great, here’s the lifting; now the devil is going to be really angry and we have to deal with his nonsense.” That should not be our attitude. Our attitude should be, “Hallelujah, we are making the devil even more mad. Yes! This lifting is real! This victory we’re walking in is so real! It’s so powerful. This increase of anointing that God has brought is real, and it’s opening up eyes!”

This lifting that God has brought is opening up people’s eyes all over the world. That’s why the devil is angry. Hallelujah, he’s angry! Praise God! That should be our attitude, because that’s the attitude of a victor. That’s the attitude of one who is a champion of God. When they win, champions don’t focus on the loser, on the one who is defeated. The moment they win, they are not suddenly looking at their opponent, following them into the locker room and watching them cry, and being influenced by their sadness. They’re not following them! They are rejoicing! They are jumping in their victory, dancing in their victory. They are 100% focused on the victory—on the celebration, on the joy, on the promise fulfilled, and on praising God! And as champions of God, that’s how we should be! We should be so focused on praising God!

This is the scheme of the devil: he wants to get you distracted. He wants to get you out of the state of walking as a champion and praising God, giving God glory, and walking with such joy in your step as a victor. He wants you to turn instead and look at him and at how he’s feeling and come over to his pity party and be influenced by his anger and sadness and frustration. That’s what he wants. So we have to be aware of this scheme so we don’t become stupid and fall for it. You have already won! You have already been lifted! We have already been lifted. We can’t go back.

When God brings lifting, that’s because He has decided to bring the lifting. When God brought the lifting at Five-Fold Church and in this revival in 2021, when revival broke out, we suddenly had a big global 5F Church family and audience. And it kept increasing every day, even through social media. I didn’t even realize until yesterday how God has been so faithful to keep bringing increase on social media and to our global family. We now have people planted from 171 nations. Even when there was so much persecution and so many false accusations and planned, targeted, strategic attacks from the devil, influencing people to speak against this move of God, it didn’t slow down or stop anything. The growth just kept on going. It kept increasing, no matter what the devil tried to bring. As I look back, I see the wider picture and what God did in the midst of it: it’s overwhelming victory.

If you just put your focus on the devil and forget about all the victories of God, then you’ll have an attitude of, “Well, there are still billions of people who are blinded, and all of these Pharisees of today have blinded and held back a lot of people from receiving.” And it’s true, but you can be forgetting the great victory that God has given us every single day—this constant increase globally, this constant increase of pure hearts. We see this every year at the 5F Church annual conference—this constant increase of pure hearts in this revival army.

I was thinking about when God brought that lifting in 2021—even when the persecution came really hard shortly after that lifting, there was no going back. The devil could not undo what God did. God brought that lifting by His hand—His mighty hand came, He acted, and it was over for the devil. Yes, the devil attacked and ended up blinding people; yes, things hurt, his attacks hurt; but he couldn’t undo what God did. And he couldn’t stop the constant victory and the constant growth that has happened ever since that lifting. That’s how great our God is. That’s how massive His power, His strength, His almightiness, His sovereignty, and the victory He gives us are. The devil is so defeated. But you must see spiritually to see this real truth. If you don’t see spiritually, you’ll say the opposite.

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

That is the devil: there is no truth in him. He is a liar; he is the father of lies. We know from the Word that we are in a spiritual war. Until we go to heaven, we will be in this spiritual war. There will be times when the enemy attacks. How does he attack? What is his ammunition? What are his weapons of warfare? Lies! Every time! Lies!

Sometimes the devil’s lies come in your mind. Sometimes they’re speaking against yourself. Sometimes they’re speaking against God. Sometimes they’re speaking against your future, against your calling. Sometimes they’re speaking against the true move of God. Sometimes they’re speaking against the ministry where you’re planted, because the devil doesn’t want you to thrive and prosper. Sometimes these thoughts that come in your mind will speak against true servants of God. 

Sometimes the devil brings lies through people. This is one of the biggest ways he can then come in your thoughts—when you don’t reject the lies coming through people and you have a door open to other people. He’ll use people to speak lies about you, to speak lies about your future, to speak lies about God, to speak lies about the move of God on this earth, to speak lies against the anointing and the power of God that saves, heals, and delivers. He will speak lies through people about anointed servants of God. This is what the devil does. This is the war that we are in. This is how the devil works. You have to be aware of this. He is the father of lies. He lies and he lies and he lies. He influences people to lie. 

But the truth is where the victory is. The devil is a liar and therefore he is a loser. Anyone who lies, who partners with the devil and lies, loses. If you partner with the devil, you lose. You lose your peace of mind, you lose relationship with God, you lose blessings from God, you lose your health, you lose freedom, you lose salvation, and you lose eternal life in heaven with Jesus. Lies always lose. But with Jesus, there is victory. The Bible talks about it over and over again—the victory we have with Christ, overwhelming victory!

Romans 8:37

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us].

When you reject the father of lies and you confess the truth, meditate on the truth, hold firm to the truth, speak the truth, and believe the truth, you will have victory. You will have victory over the devil and gain access to the glorious abundant life that Jesus has given you when you walk in the truth and live in the truth. God has plans to expand His kingdom and destroy the works of the devil upon this earth. We are here to fulfil His plans on this earth. We are not put here to be in this even match with the devil, wondering, “Will God have the victory?” No! We were sent here to walk in the victory of God and to fulfill God’s plans. We were sent here to be champions of God.

God has plans for His revival to expand all over the US and all over the world. And this plan is being accomplished now. And each day it will be accomplished more and more, until we go to heaven. And then it will keep being accomplished in the next generation. 

God has this great plan, and every day we are fulfilling it more and more. The devil tries to stop us and to hold us back, but there isn’t a day when we don’t advance God’s plans and fulfill God’s plans more and more. There isn’t a day that this revival doesn’t expand more and more. There isn’t a day that people’s eyes aren’t being opened. Every day, eyes are being opened and people are being saved and stepping into this revival and being healed and delivered. Every day, Sauls of today are turning into Pauls of today. Every day, you warriors of God around the world are growing and increasing in the anointing and are being more effective for the Kingdom of God. Every day, you are sowing seeds that are contributing to a great harvest. Every day, we as laborers are bringing in more of the harvest. Every day, we are walking in this victory! It doesn’t matter what the devil does to try to stop us. We can’t be stopped! We can’t be held back! We can’t go back. We are moving forward every day. Every time the devil lies, he loses. Every time the devil lies, God uses whatever he’s doing and turns it for good. Every time! 

I have grown in confidence of this truth of the victory I have in Christ, as I’ve seen God prove His word in the Bible and in the prophecies through my spiritual father. I’ve seen God prove His word again and again, in 2016 and every single year since then. I’ve seen God bring victory again and again, and I’ve seen God bring lifting again and again. I’ve seen new devils in these new levels again and again, but I’ve also seen that it doesn’t matter that the devil’s attacks are bigger. It doesn't matter how big the new devil is in the new level. It’s still no match for our God! I’ve seen this, and I can testify of this. And I refuse to let the devil influence me in any way with his lies. God has given me this glorious life of peace and joy and abundant life and victory. Why would I want to step out of that and be influenced by the enemy’s tactics of fear and intimidation? When you live in the truth, you are innocent and you have victory. The innocent, the pure shall inherit the land (Psalm 37:11). They shall always have the victory.

The devil has sent lies through people, even back in 2018 when I experienced persecution and the devil coming through people to speak lies against me, my ministry, and my spiritual father. I experienced this in many different ways, for many years now. At first I could see the devil's intimidation tactics and I could feel the grossness and the darkness of the devil trying to intimidate me. Glory to God, I did not give in to that, but I could feel it, and it was uncomfortable.  But, glory to God, I don’t even feel that anymore because my revelation of the devil's lies has grown so much—the revelation that they are pure lies and these lies have no power; they can never win. Our God is the God who delights in justice. He will never let the liars win. I didn’t feel so strongly that way back then, but now, glory to God, by going through what I’ve gone through and seeing victory after victory, I just feel peace in His will. 

When you are innocent, you should have nothing but peace. That’s where the peace of God comes—in God’s will. There’s nothing to fear because you’re swimming in His grace and you’re surrounded by His grace when you’re in His will. When you’re in His will—innocent and pure and not doing something wrong, not doing what people are accusing you of—you’re surrounded by His grace. So what is there to fear? That would be giving into the devil's lies. It’s silly, because we could be having constant peace since we’re innocent and in God’s will and not doing anything wrong.

So it’s time now to not allow the enemy to intimidate you when new levels and new devils come. This is one of the devil’s schemes: to derail you from your calling and to derail you from the lifting by intimidating you. 

He wants you to give in to his lies instead of staying focused and moving forward and walking in the confident faith of God in your life and what God is calling you to do. He wants to derail you by intimidating you, by making you afraid of those who persecute you, of those who speak false accusations and lies. That’s his scheme, and you have to be aware of it. If you feel that intimidation, you have to know, “He’s trying to derail me, and I’m not going to let him. These lies have no power—they will not prevail, and God will reveal the truth.”

Revelation 3:8

I know all the things you do …

God is saying this about you: “I know all the things you do. I know that you’re innocent. I know you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re in my will. You’re not doing what those who accuse you are saying you’re doing.”

Revelation 3:8-9

… and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me. Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet. 

By the way, this is the New Testament, and God is saying, “I will cause them to bow down at your feet.” Obviously, God is not saying He’s going to cause them to worship man. God is saying “bow down,” meaning “in honor.” 

Revelation 3:9

They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love. 

God is saying that these people who lie about you, who say they are believers of God but aren’t really—they are actually working for the devil and on the devil’s side. He says, “I will force them to come and bow down at your feet,” meaning, “I will force them to bring you honor. And I will force them to see the truth.”  

“They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.”This is our God, who makes the truth to be seen. We have to wait on Him. Many times, it’s not as fast as we want but, believe me, God will make the truth to be seen and known. You have nothing to fear. Don’t be afraid of their lies—the lies will lose. Always. 

So be aware of the scheme of the devil to derail you through intimidation. Refuse to be intimidated. It's time now to confidently walk in the truth that God has revealed to you. He’s counting on you to be a confident son or daughter who knows who you are in Christ, who knows what God has revealed to you, who knows where you’re going, who know the truth about His move and about His anointing and the healing, freedom, and salvation that He’s bringing in His move. He’s counting on you. This is how you shine brightly—when you are living fully in the truth, not letting the devil get you to question the truth, but fully living boldly in this truth. 

I also want to reveal this scheme of the devil to try to distract you through his lies.

Nehemiah 6:1-4

When word came to Sanballat, Tobias, Gresham the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to this time I had not set the doors and the gates—Sanballat and Gresham sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were scheming to harm me; (They were lying to him and were actually scheming to harm him—who was doing the Lord’s work) so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.

This is how you need to reply to the devil and his nonsense, because the devil will influence people who will try to harass you. They will try to bother you, and sometimes those people will be speaking against you and against the work of God. You need to know right away what the devil is doing: “This is the devil’s scheme to distract me so that I would fill my mind, my time, and my attention with this person harassing me instead of doing the work of God and renewing my mind with what God has just done, with the way I have encountered him like never before, with the way I’ve seen him do so many miracles, for so many people, like never before.” 

As God brings the lifting, we have to stay laser-focused on how great our God is, on what He has done, and on the victories He has brought us and the miracles He has done, because this is the Bible coming alive today. This is staying focused on the truth: “This is what God is doing, I’m on fire, and the world must know our Jesus, must know that He’s alive, must know that revival is now. God did this for me, and he did this for me, and He healed this person, and He delivered this person.” When you stay laser-focused on the testimonies of what God is doing today—that’s what your calling is: to reveal what God is doing today, that He is moving in power today, that revival is now, that you can be healed and delivered now. So you need to stay focused on what God is doing today, because God has not sent you to go out and just only share the written word of God with people and say, “Hey, did you know that 2000 years ago, Jesus was doing miracles?” No, we have to say, “Look at the Bible: this is our Jesus. This is what he was doing 2000 years ago. And look: this is our Jesus. This is who He is. He was alive, but look at what He’s doing today, and let me tell you why I know this!” 

That’s why here at church we share testimonies every Sunday, because so many testimonies are happening every week! And many more are happening that we don’t even know about, because this revival army is huge. And not just the army, but the way the army is going out and touching people who aren’t even part of the revival army yet and they’re receiving miracles. But we have to know what God is doing. We have to see what God is doing and stay on fire and excited and remember how active our God is and the victories He’s bringing and the abundant fruits that keep multiplying. 

So you have to be aware of this scheme of the devil to distract you from what God is doing today that fuels your fire. “Do you know what God is doing today? Do you know God is alive? Do you know revival is now?” The devil wants to distract you from being present and aware of what God is doing now. That’s where your fire comes from to spread revival. And the devil wants to distract you from the work of God that you’re doing. He wants to distract you from being filled up with Jesus and with your relationship with God so that you can pour out into others. So you have to be aware of this scheme. Don’t see the enemy as so powerful that you should give him the time of day. It’s nonsense. Don’t let him distract you. 

2 Timothy 4:14-18

Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message. At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

So Paul is saying that Alexander the metal worker did him a great deal of harm, and that he opposed what he was preaching: this message of salvation and revival. But Paul continued to do the work of God. He didn’t let Alexander drain him with the evil that he was doing. He stayed focused. He said, “The Lord stood by my side and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.” 

Paul is professing that Alexander was doing him harm, but it didn’t stop the work of God. And all the Gentiles were even hearing it. This is how much the devil is defeated. And he says, “The Lord gave me strength.” Paul was accessing God’s strength and joy by not allowing Alexander to drain him. This is the last scheme of the devil I want to share with you in the new levels and new devils: He wants to derail you, he wants to distract you, and he wants to drain you. 

You have to see this scheme of the devil. You have the responsibility to protect your peace, your joy, and your fire. God has given you such peace, such joy, such fire, and such passion for others to experience revival. It’s this childlikeness that the enemy would sometimes want you to forget how precious it is. This childlikeness that you have in you—of exuberant joy, peace, and passion for revival—this is childlike faith. This is the joy and zeal that God is calling you to. The victory we walk in is simple; it’s not complicated: it's being like a child. It’s staying in this simple truth—staying focused and staying locked in. That is the victory that God brings us. And so if you start to notice that the enemy is attacking in some way, that he’s using somebody, and you think, “Oh, this is frustrating. Oh, this is annoying.” You will start to feel a heaviness. Pause and know you’re letting the devil drain you. Stop. Emergency. Don’t let him. Don’t let him take your joy. Why? He’s a loser! So you should not let him take your joy. You should not let him get that attention, and start going along with the feelings he’s trying to influence. They’re all lies. There’s nothing to fear. The devil can’t stop or hold back anything in this revival. The devil can’t stop the growth. He can’t! So all the feelings related to these things you’re giving into are his lies. 

Spiritual maturity is being aware to know that whenever you’re allowing yourself to be influenced by the enemy, you’re going over to his team. I don’t mean that you’re being used by him, but you’re stepping outside of the truth. And you’re stepping into the territory of lies. What are you doing over there? At this point, you know better. You know his schemes. Be sharp; be quick, and realize, “Oh! That’s the devil, I reject you! I am serious about staying in the will of God, about staying in the truth! I must stay in the truth! I must live in the truth! I must speak the truth! I am serious about being in the spirit! To be spiritually mature—this is what pleases my Father!” 

So I want to encourage you that whatever city or nation you live in, if you are hungry for revival in your land and you are believing God for great revival in your land but you’re not seeing it yet and maybe it seems small right now, the enemy might come and speak lies and false accusations about you and about this move of God. But don’t let the devil intimidate you! Don’t let the devil distract you! Don’t let the devil drain your fire! Don’t let him take you from the truth that you know! You need to stand in faith for your nation and your city and your state! You need to believe with all your heart that if God did it in LA, God is going to do it in your state, in your nation. Because every human on the earth is made in God’s image, and God loves every one of them, and God is pursuing every one of them. So don’t fall for the lie of the devil that your town is just too dry or your nation is just too dry. If God can get you, He can get more for Him. 

This is just a testing that God is taking you through. I went through it when our church went from twenty to fifteen to ten to five to two. So you will experience this. You will experience lies, false accusations coming against you in your nation, in your state, in your city. I want to encourage you to look at your spiritual leader. You see how God has never forsaken your spiritual leader all these years. So it shall be the same for you. I look to my spiritual leader, Prophet GeorDavie, and it encouraged me so much as I saw how God lifted him. And through all the persecution, the devil could never stop him; he could never stop God’s plans for his life. And I look back in the Bible and I see Joseph and David, and God never foresook them, and He will never forsake me. So if you ever start to hear the lie of the devil that brings fear or worry or doubt about revival spreading in your nation, your city, or your state, you need to remember the people in the Word of God, like Joseph and David. But you also need to remember your spiritual leader. Look at my life. Remember what God has done, how He has never forsaken me, how He has always brought victory. 

Glory to God! It’s time to walk in this spiritual maturity. It’s time to walk as confident sons and daughters, as champions of God—fully aware, knowing that you have overwhelming victory! You are living in the truth, and you were sent to open up people’s eyes to see this truth! You are a champion. You are unstoppable. You are at a higher level of spiritual maturity now. This joy can never go. This fire can never go, but it can only grow in you. And this revival is only going to keep on expanding with greater and greater speed in LA, in California, in America, and in every nation of the world.