Inner Healing Prayer for Feeling Broken and Unworthy

In this Disarming Lies session, Christopher Gomez leads prayer and inner healing around the lies “I’m broken,” “I never have enough,” and “I’m unworthy.” This video is for believers who feel stuck in fear, comparison, rejection, or spiritual discouragement and want to renew their minds with truth in Christ.

• The lie “I’m broken” can lead to fear, sloth, and avoidance in calling, work, and relationships.

• Psalm 139:14 is used as a truth to replace the lie that God made someone broken.

• Comparison and overwhelm are addressed through gratitude and learning to see weakness as a place where Christ is strong.

• Boundaries are presented as a healthy way to protect the heart while still loving others.

• The session closes with prayer for healing, renewed hunger for Scripture, and freedom from lies.

All right. Welcome back, beautiful people of God, to another session of Disarming Lies of the Enemy. I am your host, Christopher Gomez, and I am grateful to be here with everyone.

For those of you who do not know and are joining us on social media, on the second Monday of every month, the As It Is in Heaven team gathers to do prophetic deliverance ministry. Throughout the month, we also do first deliverance sessions as one-on-one ministry. Then, on the second Monday of the month, we do prophetic deliverance ministry for usually about seven people.

On Monday, two people had to cancel at the last minute, so we had five sessions. We thank God the Father and the Holy Spirit for the ability to do that.

Usually, the Wednesday following that Monday night can be a pretty full session. We have four people here with me today, and I am excited to dive in.

I noticed that Moenda and Ryan were the first two to join, so I am going to call on either of you here in a second. The agenda for today is to pray, disarm lies for roughly three people, give some announcements about the ministry, and then close in prayer. We begin in prayer and we close in prayer.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Lord Jesus Christ, we love you and we praise your name. We love you, Jesus. Thank you, Father God. Praise your name, Lord Jesus Christ. Father God, thank you for helping us enter into the Spirit and pray in the Spirit. Thank you, Father God.

Father God, we stand angels over this meeting, and we thank you, Lord, that there will be no demonic interference with the technology involved. Thank you, Father. Praise your name, God.

Lord God, we stand up angels over this meeting, and we thank you, Father God, for going before us, covering our twelve and our six, and surrounding this meeting with angels of protection. Surround this meeting with your Holy Spirit and surround us through the intercession of the saints.

St. Joseph, terror of demons, pray for us. St. Anthony of Padua, help us to find the name of the demonic spirits we are praying against today. St. Benedict, pray for us. St. Francis of Assisi and St. Francis of Paola, pray for us.

Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father God.

Lord Jesus, I offer this prayer, this meeting, and all the prayers through the intercession of your beautiful Holy Mother Mary, that you would bring all of these prayers and this time of gathering on a golden platter to the King of Kings, our blessed Lord Jesus Christ. May every single prayer be answered, and may there be great amounts of grace on this meeting. I pray this all through the mighty name of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

For those of you in the meeting, and for the sake of the people on social media, the format of this meeting is that when I call on you, please try to refrain from talking through the discernment at first.

First, identify the worst version of yourself that you have been suffering with over the last couple of weeks. Second, we will work together to discern the lies you might be believing about yourself, about other people, or about God that cause you to act that way. Third, we will disarm the lie through an inner healing technique.

Thank you, everyone in the chat, for letting me know the music is too loud. One second.

Is that better? Let me move the mic too. I went back to an old First Fruits on Monday, and the music was quiet, so I turned it up more today. Can Moenda, Elizabeth, and Samantha hear me?

Yes, I can hear you.

Praise God. Hallelujah. The music volume is fine now?

Yes, it is.

Praise God.

Moenda or Ryan, if you want to move forward, I saw you were the first two on the call. Feel free to step up and share. Just going back through what I shared before, we start with the worst version of yourself over the last couple of weeks. Then we discern what the lie is attached to that. We will do that work together. Then we will discern whether the lie is toward yourself, toward God, or toward other people. Then we will disarm the lie through an inner healing technique.

Ryan or Moenda, do you want to jump in here?

Hey, Chris. Good to see you.

Ryan or Moenda, you were unmuted before during the prayer, so I do not know if you are struggling to get unmuted again.

Ryan is off mute. All right, Ryan, you win. Go ahead.

Okay. I think the area of my life I have been struggling with the most has been taking initiative or feeling like I am capable in my work, relationships, and moving forward with my life, both professionally and personally.

It feels almost like a paralysis of not taking action. I feel called to my ministry as a faith-based therapist, and I feel a calling toward marriage. I am not really falling into those ways because of sloth. I hope that makes sense.

It does. Thanks for sharing. To summarize what you shared, you are feeling a kind of paralysis. You are a faith-based therapist, and you feel called toward marriage. I am assuming and reading between the lines that you are talking about choosing lesser things to do with your free time instead of going into social gatherings where you might meet a spouse, or doing the things God is calling you to do. Tell me more about that.

Yes. Even in my profession as a faith-based therapist, I have just been setting it up. I am at the point where it is now set up, but there are more actions I need to take to really get it going, meet God halfway, and allow that ministry to start.

As far as marriage, it is also about taking those steps and having the faith to nurture relationships or find the right one I am called to marriage with. I hope that made sense.

It does make sense. I think I am starting to land on the lie. Thank you to everyone on the call who is not giving this example. Everyone but Ryan, thank you for your intercession too.

Let me ask you this, Ryan. Why do you think you are falling into these slothful patterns? You said lack of faith, but if you had to put a name on the lie, what do you think it is?

The lie is fear of success, fear of failure, and fear of not being enough or capable of marriage. I fear that somehow it would go wrong, or I would discover something that would not allow it to happen.

In essence, even if you step forward, you believe you are going to fail, right?

Correct.

I do not know if you have watched any of these episodes before, but usually what I like to do is keep probing deeper and see how the waters feel. I am discerning the state of your heart, Ryan.

So I want to ask a follow-up question. What do you feel like you believe about yourself as to why you are going to fail?

The lie would be that I am incapable, not worthy, or damaged. Damaged beyond repair.

Broken, I think, is the word you were looking for.

Yes, broken.

All right. That is bad news. You do not want to have that. It is saying my internet connection is unstable, so I speak to any demonic spirits trying to stop this meeting from moving forward. Leave this meeting right now in Jesus’ mighty, holy name. Thank you, Father God.

So, “I’m broken.” That is bad news, obviously. As I shared last week, if you are feeling like you are broken, then what is the point of trying to date? You may think, “I am just going to break it. I am just going to fail the woman.” What is the point of trying to be a therapist? You may think, “I am broken, so they are going to be broken. I am just going to break them.”

These are the ways these lies can keep manifesting and creating more dysfunction in a person’s life.

So, “I’m broken” is a lie. We can dive into Scriptures that run counter to that. There are countless examples of what Scripture says about who we are in Jesus Christ as resurrected beings.

But let us say that was true, that you are broken. Then what would that say about the person who created you? Would that mean he created you to be broken?

Yes, I would say that he is broken or that it was a mistake.

Imagine Geppetto creating Pinocchio, and he creates Pinocchio without a right foot, without a left ear, and without an eye. Kids throw it in the trash and say, “This is a broken toy.” What would we say about Geppetto as a toy maker?

That he failed.

Why did he fail?

Because he made something broken.

Yes. But if someone repeatedly makes broken things, then what would you say about that toy manufacturer?

They do not know what they are doing.

But why do they not know what they are doing?

I do not know.

I think you do, Ryan.

You have been saving up all this money as a little kid. You are excited to finally get a Power Ranger toy or a Pokémon toy. You have been working hard at lemonade stands. Then you finally buy the toy, unwrap it, and see that it is missing a leg, an arm, a nose, and an ear. It looks like trash. It does not look at all like the advertising said it was supposed to look.

What would you say? This toy manufacturer clearly is what?

Yes, it is terrible. They are not good.

They are not good at it. I think a nice, charitable way to say it would be, “They stink,” right?

Right.

So, brother, that is a way your heart is positioned toward God. I could be wrong. This is your own discernment. But that is what I am seeing on my side of the table.

Yes. I think that feels true. Almost like if I fully trust, then I am going to be led down a bad path. Does that make sense?

Right. This is the pathway. God stinks at creation, specifically me. He broke me, and I am broken. He made me to be a broken human.

So, because he stinks and because I am broken, why even try to find a wife? She will likely just be broken too. Or maybe he is such a stinky creator that maybe I am made to always be single and never find happiness.

The same thing applies to creation around your career and vocation.

Yes. What is coming up for me is this idea that because of things that happened to me at a young age, even though I know how God is using so much of that for good, it almost feels like I will never truly be freely healed of those things to be what he created me for.

Ryan, I love you. Just so you know, that is actually an additional set of lies we would have to deal with. We could probably dive into that by way of a deliverance session. Thank you for coordinating into that. But let us just deal with these two messes, because we have other people waiting. After that, if you want to dive deeper into that secondary conversation, that likely requires more time.

Do you know the inner healing approach we teach, or do you want me to walk you through it?

You can walk me through it.

No worries.

The first thing is confession. I realize I am Catholic, but we have an ecumenical grouping of people on today’s call. From a Catholic perspective, this is the way I teach people to go to confession. You can say, “Father, forgive my sins. I have been believing the lies that I am broken and that God stinks.”

If the priest prompts you to talk about the correlated dysfunctional pathway of procrastination or sloth, you can do that. But I find that when you go into confession and confess the root lies like this, you make greater headway. You are not just confessing the broken limb on the tree. You are pulling the maple tree out from its roots so you can clear the land.

Catholics believe you can go into the confessional and confess in this way to God. We can also say, “God, I am sorry.” That is part of this process. For those beloved children of God on this call who are not walking in the Catholic faith, they may be comfortable confessing directly to God.

The first step is this. Ryan, repeat after me.

God, I confess the lies that I am broken and that you stink as a creator. I know that when I believe these lies, it breaks our relationship, and for that I am sorry.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I bind up the lies that I am broken because you stink, and I send them to Jesus Christ for Jesus Christ to deal with them as he wills.

Holy Spirit, come into my heart and heal these places of my heart that have been believing the lies that I am broken and that God stinks.

Holy Spirit, those are lies. What is truth?

Now, Ryan, I have been devoted to reading the Bible, but not everyone may have the same devotion. What I usually do at this point is wait on the Holy Spirit to bring my mind to a Scripture passage that runs directly opposite of the lie.

If you are not familiar with Scripture, another way to tackle it is to ask the Holy Spirit to give you a memory that runs counter to the lie that you are broken. Maybe it was the day you graduated from college. Maybe it was a day you did incredibly well on a test. It is a moment when you really felt that you were not broken, that you were actually succeeding.

When you start to have these memories that say, “I’m broken,” you can recognize, “That is the broken highway to hell, and I am not going to keep riding that highway.” Instead, you take the exit. When you start to feel, “I’m broken” and “God stinks,” instead of staying on that highway to hell, you take the exit and choose truth. You choose to feel and remember that you are a success in the Lord Jesus Christ. Does that make sense?

Yes.

While sharing that, do you have any Scriptures the Holy Spirit is identifying to you?

No, not at the moment.

If anyone else on the call has dealt with this lie before and feels like there is something hitting them, feel free to pop on.

Ryan, write this down: Psalm 139:14.

Thank you, God. I just got affirmation on that. I am feeling the Holy Spirit lighting me on fire like a Christmas tree. That Scripture is, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

I am not broken. I am wonderfully made.

Chris, I was totally getting the same thing.

Thank you, Lord. The Holy Spirit is hitting me. I am getting hot and starting to sweat.

“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well.” That is the full Psalm 139:14.

Your works are wonderful, God. You are wonderful, and I am wonderfully made.

Ryan, by way of meditation, when you realize your car is back on the highway to hell and you are starting to feel like you are broken and God stinks, take the exit ramp. The way you take the exit ramp is to renew your mind.

“No. I am wonderfully made. God, you are wonderful. I am wonderfully made. You are wonderful, God. Thank you. Praise your name, God. I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and you are wonderful.”

Sit there and praise God for how he has made you fearfully and wonderfully, and for how he is wonderful.

It is like Jesus in the desert, Ryan. When Satan came to tempt him three different ways, Jesus pulled out Scriptures. He said, “No, this is what you say, but this is what God says. You are a liar, so get out of here.”

Then he will leave, because he is not a creator. He is a thief. He tries to steal what God has created, but he cannot. I hope that is a blessing for you, brother.

Thank you so much.

Chris, I cut you off. Did you have anything else to add?

No. I am sorry I interrupted, but I was getting the exact same Scripture. Literally, you took it out of my words.

Ryan, I want to encourage you. If you journal, or even if you just think about it, think about the evidence of how God shows up in your life. His works are good and out of love. Sometimes, by nature, we focus on the not-so-good things. So, affirm yourself every day. Try to focus on where you see God’s loving push and how he shows up for you every day.

I can promise you he is there. God whispers, and the world is loud. Wherever you put your focus, it is going to become bigger. So just try to find the good.

Thank you, Ryan.

The prophetic image I was getting is this. My wife told me she wanted me to mix it up this Valentine’s Day. Usually, I just get her flowers and a card, and maybe I say something nice in the card or give her a prophetic message. But this year I decided to mix it up.

I was walking through the supermarket trying to find what I was going to buy her. I saw the biggest gift, a life-sized teddy bear holding a gigantic heart balloon. It was cartoonishly large. I drive a Mustang convertible, and it was so big that I could not fit it inside. This was in winter, in February, in Chicago. So I put the top down and drove home with this giant balloon.

It was ridiculous. I saw one woman behind me taking a video. I live a couple of blocks from the supermarket, so I was not doing something stupid or dangerous. I put on the hazards and drove slowly to get home.

I feel like the Lord wants you to know that you are not broken and that he loves you mightily.

You carry a heavy weight as a therapist. If you are in the business of therapy, you are in the business of dismantling Satan’s works. My sister Jules runs a therapy practice in Chicago called Grace Integrated, which is amazing. She has told me countless times that she sees things, even in the midst of therapy sessions.

Ryan, God loves you mightily to call you into such a ministry as your primary job. In the same way that I offered that weird and unique gift to my wife, that gigantic teddy bear and gigantic heart-shaped balloon, I sense that God is going to do something amazing for you in the next week. It will be a unique way to show his love, and it will confirm this word that you are not broken, that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that God is wonderful.

As a wonderful Father, he is going to do something wonderful and loving toward you. I speak that right now in Jesus’ mighty and holy name. I bless you, brother.

Thank you so much.

No worries.

The next person on the list was Moenda. Are you there? Hey, Moenda.

Last call for Moenda.

He dropped off the call, so he is not there. How about Samantha or Liz?

I am still here, but I am driving. I am going to pick my daughter up from school.

Do not worry, Samantha. What is going on, Sam?

I thank God for the session I had with you last week. The affirmations you gave me, the mind always plays tricks, but after we spoke and you told me to look at myself in a different way, as a queen, beautiful and honored by the Most High, I keep affirming those words to myself anytime I feel like I am not worthy or not good enough.

But I am still struggling with comparison. I look at others and wonder, “Why am I not like them?” I look at myself and feel I am educated. I know my stuff. But why am I just not like them, or the way I am supposed to be?

Sam, what are you supposed to be?

I think you are touching on something I believe we all suffer with, but I want to hear from you.

I told you I am in business. Probably because of the model of the business, I feel like I should not be where I am. I should be at a much higher level, given the time I have spent there, the knowledge I have, and how I have helped others grow. I feel like I should be in a better or much higher place compared to where I am.

Even in family life, I sometimes feel overwhelmed because I feel like I am taking on everything for everyone. I just feel like I should maybe have some break.

Samantha, give me one second. I am trying to process for a second.

Praise God forevermore.

There are a couple of things coming to mind for you, Samantha. One is that I know we have a prophetic deliverance session scheduled for you in May, and I know for a fact that it is going to help you immensely with the overwhelm and taking on too much.

Second, we are in the process of shifting our workflows. The first deliverance session is more of a one-on-one session, like the one you experienced with Dan. For the prophetic deliverance ministry, I really feel in prayer that God is calling us to move that into an actual healing program called Heaven on Earth.

In that Heaven on Earth program, the beginning and end of those meetings are prophetic meetings. The first prophetic meeting is to cast out the strongman demon. Then, after doing some inner healing work, the completion is prophesying the function of the believer’s guardian angel.

If Satan steals the guardian angel function through a strongman demon assignment to the believer, then once we get that out of the way, the question becomes, “What is the actual function of the guardian angel?” That will tell you the way God is moving in a person’s life. Where they are weak, God is strong.

That is how the program ends. In between, there are over eight hours of teachings. You are assigned a guide. You watch one of those teachings, pray, discern through what the lesson is about, and then dive deeper with the guide to ensure the lesson goes deep into your spirit.

One of those lessons is on the bruise. I really feel like one of the things you keep stumbling on is that. Chris on today’s call could really speak about how, if you do not clarify the bruise, you could still find yourself feeling this way even after you do the discernment work.

You may disarm the lies: “I’m stupid,” “I’m not good enough,” “I never get what I want,” “People don’t like me,” and all that trash people can believe about themselves. Once you have discerned and disarmed those lies, what remains is the bruise. In the Heaven on Earth program we have created, we will help people identify and address that.

I am looking forward to being able to support you in that way, Sam. I think it will be powerful and impactful for you.

As an overarching summary, the question you need to ask yourself is what St. Paul speaks about: “When I am weak, then God is strong.”

Part of renewing the mind is recognizing how Satan is bullying you into feeling like things are not good enough in your life and that they should be better. If that keeps recurring, and you have tried to disarm it, and it is still sitting there, then the question becomes, “So what?”

May you consider, my dear sister, that all the apostles, except Judas, wrote in the New Testament about how they abandoned Jesus in the midst of his greatest suffering and need at the cross, except John and Mary.

Why would they do that? They wrote this amazing New Testament. They did not have to include that. If we were trying to be prideful, we might say, “Let us pull that part out of the New Testament. Let us not tell people about the time the rooster crowed three times and I abandoned God. I am the first pope, and I abandoned God.”

But St. Peter still allowed that in. Because where St. Peter was weak, now God is strong.

What I am trying to say is that you need to work on renewing your mind. Right now, the pathway in your mind is, “I am weak. Bad.” It needs to become, “I am weak. Good. Because where I am weak, Christ is strong.”

Sister, I am excited that we are continuing to put the finishing touches on the Heaven on Earth program. It will be available to you after your prophetic deliverance. We will certainly have that done by the time you receive your prophetic deliverance in May. If you choose to go deeper in that way, we would love to walk alongside you and guide you through those revelations into total freedom, authority over demons, and partnership with angels.

My heart goes out to you.

As we were talking, does anyone have any prophetic words to share with Samantha regarding what she is dealing with?

I am just creating space, Sam, for others to step up. I am also taking another second to sit with the Lord.

One thing coming to mind that I feel the Lord is highlighting is that my wife and I did this exercise when we were stretched. We had two babies, and they were such a blessing to us. But my wife had heart complications, and there were things going on with Athelia’s birth and Penelope’s inability to communicate. It created a lot of strain on our marriage.

We were working with a spiritual director to help us. We were stretched and at the point where we needed God’s grace. We were walking on the water and starting to sink. We were in a place where we were not used to being this deep in ministry and this deep in walking with the Lord. We needed a friend to walk alongside us.

What came to mind for us was the assignment of writing on our mirror with a dry erase marker: “God, I am grateful for...” Every day, we would write something else we were grateful for about the other person.

My personality is driven by having fun and getting things done. I like to have fun and get things done. Sometimes I get those things done in a fun way.

My wife’s personality is more driven by compassion. She is very pastoral. She is slow, present, and compassionate. She can see people’s suffering and does not move on. For me, I can be like, “You are suffering. Sweep it under the rug, and let us get back to having fun.” For her, it is, “Let us get into the suffering. Let us really make sure they are okay.”

Those two personality types can clash.

I had to realize that my wife’s gifts to me and to our family are her love, compassion, and songwriting. Because she is compassionate, analytical, and slower than me, she can write lyrics and share her heart with other people. God has given her an amazing voice, and she can sing these worship songs we are creating together.

When I learned to become a finder of goodness instead of a finder of her faults, I started to have a lot more fulfillment and enjoyment in the marriage.

So I encourage you, sister, to take the opportunity to write those things out on your mirror so you have to look at them every day. Ask, “God, what am I grateful for? What should I be grateful for?” Keep writing that out. Start your day that way.

Then, when you are driving around and seeing people’s houses that are bigger than yours, you can say, “God, I am grateful even for these houses that are bigger than mine, because if you did it for them, you could do it for me. Praise God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.”

That way, you are not allowing ungratefulness to separate your heart from God.

Thank you.

I hope that is a blessing.

It is. Thank you.

I wanted to create some space there. Anything else you wanted to hit on regarding that?

I also wanted to testify from last week, regarding what you told me about people calling me to ask me to do stuff and to inquire from me.

On the very same day, a business partner called and asked if I could speak at a forum, which I am doing this Friday. Two others also called with many inquiries.

One of them was feeling bothersome. But after the Monday First Fruits session, when you said that we are going to have the heart of Jesus, that sank into me. She called me so many times, and I remembered the heart of Jesus. I said, “This week, we are to have the heart of Jesus.” Afterward, I felt at ease with her calling me, and I called her to show her what she wanted to know in a proper way without feeling bothered.

Also, my sister was unwell. She was taken to the hospital, and she asked me to drop off her phone. I thought, “But it is so far. How am I going to drive again?” I thought of the heart of Jesus, and I drove there and came back in time for my daughter’s pickup. That is the testimony I wanted to give from those two encounters.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ. Praise your name, O God. I am grateful that we can discern how God is moving in our midst for the week as a community and family, and then see these things play themselves out in our work week.

Jesus was with the Samaritan woman at the well, and they said, “Jesus, are you hungry?” He said, “No, I have food that you do not know about.” Samantha, what you just shared is that food. Seeing the fruit of the ministry is amazing. Thank you, sister. That is such a blessing.

Hey, Stacy. I changed your name for anonymity. Stacy, are you there?

I do not see her coming on. She might not know I changed her name to Stacy, so she might be confused.

Chris, good to see you.

Thanks. You too.

That is a beautiful blue, by the way.

Thank you.

It reminds me of the Sisters of Charity.

You have that Mexico tan rolling right now.

Although I was inside. It was a work trip, so I was indoors for various meetings for probably half the time I was there.

Hard to focus when you are in Cabo and indoors for work meetings.

I was thinking, “Can we not just meet by the pool?”

Exactly. Everyone could have an in-ear system so they could be outside and still hear the information.

When did you get back?

I finally got back Saturday morning. My flight was delayed three times out of Atlanta. I did not get back to my house until 5:00 a.m. Saturday morning. It was crazy. Then I had a super busy weekend. I think I had three hours of sleep.

Oh, dang.

It was all good.

Thanks for coming and being in today’s meeting. I did not want to bypass you. Anything you wanted to pray into, Chris?

Yes. It is interesting how we all battle. There is a battle for our soul all the time. There is a lot of good happening. We have all heard the phrase “new level, new devil.” The evil one knows exactly where to penetrate me.

As good things are happening personally and professionally, a lot of good things are happening. But there was a situation within my family. To put it in context, I experience a lot of parental alienation. I have two kids, and my younger child, who is twenty-four, has not talked to me in three years.

There was a lot of abuse that I left. My daughter is getting married this year, which is fantastic. I think with that stress over her, she is leaning back into some old comfortable behaviors. I am the parent who gets the brunt end of things. I think I am the easier one to push off to the side.

That discard is so pronounced as part of my past family story. That extreme discard came up heavily on Sunday afternoon. She waited until I came back and then reamed into me, but she would not do it over the phone. She did it all over text. I said, “Please call me,” and she would not.

That led right into feelings of unworthiness and “I’m not good enough.” Those thoughts wanted to penetrate. Thank God, in my growth, the gap does not stay open too long. I used to ruminate in those thoughts, and it would really trash me. Now I understand the battle. I understand that in the middle of the night, I can disarm them. But it takes a lot out of me mentally. I am tired.

I feel like I am just coming out of that. Even though I am busy getting back into work after being gone, I knew hopping on this call would be important. Keeping ourselves realigned in the truth and acknowledging where we are in the battle, and how it affects us, is important.

Thank you for providing this safe place to acknowledge the battle. I think it is hugely important to acknowledge it, name it, and disarm it so it does not linger in our lives, and so we can get back to being exactly who we are.

During this Lenten time, I am listening to things that continuously focus on emptying yourself so I can be filled and used in the right way. That is really all I want to do.

Ryan, to your point, I am developing a new business myself. There are all kinds of mindset shifts, impostor syndrome, and all of that. It is all baloney. It is about staying in alignment and staying present daily. Getting knocked over by the discard was really hard over the last twenty-four hours.

Chris, a couple of thoughts. Are you open to feedback?

Yes, absolutely.

I remember a professional like Ryan once told me, when our divorce started, that my children used to lash out at me too. I was so confused because I was offering financial support on both sides, taking them to Chuck E. Cheese, being present to them, dying to self in the midst of being a single parent, launching a business at the same time, and everything that was going on.

Every time they would lash out at me, sometimes they would say, “Maybe we should just go live with mom.” They were pretty young when the divorce started. They were about four and two, or five and three. I was thinking, “What the heck?”

I made sure I was meeting with a therapist, so I had an accountability partner. I was also in a men’s group. I feel like God had connected me in so many ways, like you are talking about, Chris.

One thing that someone shared with me was this: they are likely lashing out at you because you are the safe one. They know they cannot lash out at mom because she is unwell and will not be able to be present to comfort their dysregulated emotions. So they probably stuff those things with her, and because they are so stuffed, little things trigger them to blow up toward you.

That really helped me realign my thinking. Instead of allowing those things to separate our relationship, I could run into the midst of their emotions and help them disarm lies too. Even little kids deal with lies. Satan is not discriminatory toward just one age group or people group. He wants to steal, kill, and destroy humanity. Being present for them in the midst of that was one thought that came to mind.

The second thought is that I have had a situation recently with someone doing something similar. Not yelling at me over text, but texting too much. I had to put up a boundary and say, “Do not text me anymore. I want to talk to you about this. It is not helping me to have this conversation over text. Please call me, and let us talk about it. Otherwise, please stop texting me.”

That creates a boundary. As you shared, you have to guard your heart because you are a temple of the Holy Spirit, Chris. If you allow someone to emotionally abuse you like that, then you are allowing them to trample all over God, because you are a temple of his Spirit.

It is important to put up those boundaries. Yes, you want to be a safe space for your daughter and be emotionally available to her, but not at the cost of your own well-being. If these things happen in the future, I encourage you to put up that boundary: “This is unacceptable. I want to talk about it, but let us talk in person. Please stop texting me about it because this is not helping us.”

Those are the two things coming to mind.

Prior to this call, I had literally just reached out to a Catholic therapist I was working with. I had not talked to him in probably over six months. I reached out to him this morning and said, “Hey, we need a catch-up call.” That is scheduled for Monday.

I would like to take a second to pray into this situation. While you were speaking, I was already praying. I want to take a second and see if there is anything else to hit on, Chris.

No, I think it was just affirming. You already affirmed what I was thinking about boundaries and that it is okay to put boundaries in place. You affirmed that for me as well.

With the strongman demon we delivered you from, as I shared in the video that summarizes that demonic spirit, that is the number one thing you have to do. Its focus is to have you do this, this, this, this, and this until you are so overwhelmed that you are in every leadership position of everything you are doing.

That is where the devil wants you: overwhelmed and unfruitful. But God wants you connected to the things he is calling you to, not necessarily saying yes to every single thing, but setting up boundaries so you can be incredibly fruitful for the kingdom of heaven.

If you are so overwhelmed that you are spread in ninety different ways, how can you possibly provide fruit for the kingdom of heaven that way?

The other thing coming to mind is that I do not know if we specifically put a name to your bruise, but what you are describing in the interaction with your relative could be defined by the bruise. It is important to put a name to it so that, even though you feel that way, you know feelings can be misleading.

Ultimately, regardless of how we feel, the truth is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for you, loves you mightily, and nothing can take away the fact that God became man so you could become the resurrected form of Chris Capetti.

So take that, Satan. Even though I feel rejected or unworthy, the truth is that God still died for me. That is the truth. I praise your name forever, God.

When you choose not to focus on the bruise, but to focus on the reality of the situation, your heart stays connected to God. Where we are weak, he is strong. Where you are feeling unworthy is likely the place where God can bring the greatest fruitfulness for you in the kingdom of heaven. Amen.

I know we are over the time, so I want to close us in prayer.

Announcements. Ryan, Samantha, and Stacy, feel free to visit our website URL, /generalinfo, to be aware of all of our ministry gatherings. If you scan the QR code, it will take you directly to that URL.

As an announcement, I am going to be at the Catholic men’s conference for our diocese, where we have both a table and a room for ministry. Last year, we just had a table. This year, they are giving us a room. This is a traditional Catholic men’s conference, so they like deliverance, physical healing, and prophecy, which are things they do not know as well. I am grateful they are so open in this way. Praise God for that.

Because of the Catholic men’s conference, where last year I was basically a helping hand and not a leader, I thought I could probably be away for ninety minutes while we do Consuming Fire. But this Saturday, I will not be present for Consuming Fire. We will resume the following week.

On Mondays, we do First Fruits at 9:00 a.m. Central Time. We do Disarming Lies on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. Central Time. Consuming Fire is Saturday mornings at 7:00 a.m. That is an accountability group, but it is certainly an amazing resource for helping us become the best version of ourselves in everything we are doing.

All this information is accessible through that link. There is also a place to donate to our ministry if you feel God has blessed you through our ministry.

Those are the announcements.

To close in prayer, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Praise your name, Lord Jesus Christ. We love you, God. We love you, Jesus.

God, I pray for covering and blessing over all the things we disarmed today. May these lies no longer manifest. God, create a group of believers that believes your word is true, that we encounter the risen Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the word of God, and that we understand the importance of having a community that rests in the word of God and lives and moves and has its being through the word of God.

That is our cornerstone and foundation of everything we do. We live in God’s truths and not in the lies of the enemy.

God, in the same way you have given me the grace to read the Bible cover to cover and keep reading different versions of the Bible cover to cover, I pray you would do the same for the people in this ministry.

Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ. I release that in Jesus’ mighty and holy name. Increase the hunger and desire of the people on this call and the people watching on social media to read through the Bible because they know it is transformative for their lives.

Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ. We praise your name, O God. We love you, Jesus, and we give you our hearts.

Thank you, Father God. I pray that angels would come down and minister to each person on this call. May holy tears fall as their tears are wiped away. May all those wounds be wiped away. May tears flow because there is greater healing inside each of them.

May they encounter God in a mighty and new way. May there be a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord cover the gaps.

Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ. We praise your name, God. We love you, Jesus. We pray this all through the mighty name of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

I love you all. Hope you guys are blessed.