Dr. Kevin Zadai 11-13-2022
The Enemy Has to Pay You Back
"satan is going to have to pay you back for everything he steals from you, and you need to demand it from him."
~Kevin Zadai
“The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Exodus 14:14 ESVDISCUSSION:
When you’ve been tested and tried, and the devil has stolen from you, he has to pay you back. I’m believing God that there’s going to be recompense. When you’ve come to the place where you just want to give up, I want you to know that is where your miracle is. Your miracle is on the doorstep when that happens. So don’t give up. Remember that satan will have to pay you back for everything he steals from you, and you need to demand it from him.
Joel 2:25-26 NLT:
The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you. Once again, you will have all the food you want, and you will praise the Lord your God, who does these miracles for you. Never again will my people be disgraced.
• God will repay you, and the enemy will have to repay.
• He said, “All the food you want will be given to you, even though these locusts came in.”
• Joel is prophesying that you will have all the food you want.
• God says, “I am the God who does miracles among you.”
Proverbs 6:31 NLT:
But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house.
• It’s saying when the thief is caught, he must repay seven times what he stole.
• That means he has to give up even the belongings in his house.
Proclaim Proverbs 6:31 for yourself, and remember what Joel is saying in chapter two. Take this word and know that the enemy, when he’s caught, is going to have to repay. You’ll make him repay because God has said it in His word.
Why do you think God didn’t stop the army of locusts from coming? How is it that He didn’t send the locusts, He didn’t stop them, but He says that all the food the people want will be given to them?
VICTORY THROUGH FAITH
1 John 5:4 NLT:
For every child of God defeats this evil world and we achieve this victory through our faith.
• In the Old Covenant, God sent His word through the prophets and people, sent as deliverers.
• We have deliverers in all these people that were used of God. We can name them all, and God used them.
• They spoke for God, and on behalf of God, to the people.
• In Exodus, God wanted all the people to come up on the mountain to meet with Him, and the people wouldn’t do it.
• It surprises us to read that story, but at the time, people didn’t engage with God intimately.
• God would always use somebody as a deliverer.
In the New Testament, we’re called children of God, just like the children of Israel as the children of God.
• We have been given the ability to walk in authority and give out commands, and we can obtain victory.
• It’s not just through individuals that are over us. We all can be this way.
• In the New Testament, everything is done through faith.
• In the Old Testament, people spoke by the word of the Lord.
• Words were delivered from a designated person, and then the people would disobey.
• If they obeyed, everything went well.
• You had good kings, and you had bad kings. You had good priests and bad priests.
• You had people that listened and people that didn’t listen.
In the New Testament, we have a real emphasis on faith, and in this dispensation we live in right now (which is grace), God has spoken, and He wants us to respond.
• We’re being tested and tried by the devil because we’re the body of Christ on the earth.
• It’s no longer the apostles and the prophets and certain individuals.
• It’s the whole body on the earth now. His whole body is on the earth.
• In the New Testament, we do everything by faith, but we do it as a body.
We have all the five-fold ministry of the church, but it’s no longer just relying on the prophet to speak for God.
• We all are children that can hear from God.
• In order to hear from God, we have the five-fold ministry of the church that teaches and preaches and prophesies, and there are certain governments in place.
• However, we all have the Spirit, and we can receive our instruction from the Lord that He can teach us Himself.
We’re all to be built up into unity, which is the purpose of the fivefold. It’s to build us up in the unity of faith, but the goal is that we as a whole would be the governing body, not just certain individuals.
• We’re still in this mentality that we’re waiting for some sort of deliverer or some sort of hero or leader to lead us into the next move of God or the next step.
• We are the move of God on the earth because we’re the body, and the five-fold is supposed to build us up so that we all agree in the unity of faith.
• Then we start to take things back as a body by agreeing, forbidding certain things, and allowing certain things as a body, which was the plan.
The enemy shouldn’t be coming against individuals who are in leadership.