Battle Ready: Getting the Demons Out of Your Marriage by Pastor Dean Odle
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In “Battle Ready - Getting the Demons Out of Your Marriage by Pastor Dean Odle,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about demons and deliverance, marriage and covenant, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from James 4:7, James 1:21-22, Luke 13, Luke 8, the teaching emphasizes that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order.
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Odle focuses on marriage and covenant. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on grace and mercy. The message argues that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant while working through James 4:7. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through James 4:7. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance while working through Luke 13, Luke 8, Luke 7:21. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to examine the heart, receive correction, and finish faithfully.
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My wife actually, she I never gave her a title. So, she put this title, getting the demons out. And I said, you know, I kind of like that. So, I started making the little demons. Get the demons out of your marriage. you. And so as I got in praying about this and preparing for it, I just felt like, you know what, that is the dial because um we don't realize, you know, there's a there's a saying that goes around when you start talking about demons. Anybody talks about spiritual warfare, deliverance, those kind of things. Uh oh, you're looking for a demon behind every bush. And those of you who listen to my deliverance teachings, I tell everybody, they're they're not behind bushes. They're your house. in your bedroom. Uh they're in you. Um unless you've been through deliverance thoroughly and they're always trying to put thoughts, images, imaginations, ideas into our minds that are not true or that are exaggerated or maybe they're even true, but God wants us to let go of something that we're holding on to. Um, so you know what? I got to do something before we go further than this. Um, sometimes this happens. I have no control over it. Um, but uh the Lord just gives me words from people sometimes. So, I'm going to give him to But Julie, when you guys were singing, man, the anointing was all on you and the Holy Spirit came on me and the Lord just want me to tell you that you will sing before governors and presidents and kings and you're going to see amazing things. your day and phone and you'll remember this when you're singing before leaders of other nations and uh our leaders. It's going to happen. What's that? [Laughter] [Applause] Uh but I just felt that very strong for you guys. And um Becky, the Lord told me sometimes she that he's going to heal that broken heart of church about your mom. And I know it doesn't feel like it's going to heal anytime soon, but it will. Dad can and only he can heal it. Your husband can't fix it. I can't fix it. Nobody can fix it for Jesus. But you just stay with him and he'll heal that all been there. Okay. And those you
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don't know, she lost her mom. There was some weird circumstances and uh it's been a very painful thing for her. So y'all got to pray for that. Okay. And that'll put stress when when one person's heart is broken. And that'll put a lot of stress on the marriage as well. Um but uh he's going to heal your heart. Cuz see, you know, I went through that. I had a broken heart for about 7 years. I mean, it was completely shattered, broken, and I could not do what God wanted me to do. I wanted to do the right thing, but it literally crippled me from doing it. And uh that's where you just have to have a tenacity in you that I'm not letting go of Jesus. I'm not letting this take me from Jesus. And I'm not letting this cause my marriage to go bad even because what happens when you're hurting it like that is all the little issues get magnified 100 million times. And I know because I've been through it. [Music] Um anyway, oh yes, and you two, Caleb and Sicilian, you're going to come out for a minute, but the word, every time I look at you, and I may have told you this before and I don't remember, but every time I look at you two, I see this big word evangelism written across the team and that God's going to use you mighty as as evangelists that you follow him. And I don't know when that door or day of release is fully going to come for you. You're maybe doing some on the job training now and learning how to do it. But I see it in a big way in your life in the future. All right. So, so let's get back to it. Now, pastor, I think it was Pastor Troy stole my verse from me. That's what happens when you get to go first. Somebody gets to go last. But I am going to focus on another part of this. And it says here, of course, two are better than one because they have good reward for their labor. And then it says, for if they fall, one will lift up his fellow, but woe to him that does a lone health. And I want to say I truly did experience that when I had co my my wife would come in there and yell at me at 3:00 in the morning to get up and walk around the house so my lungs would not fill up with fluid and close up and uh and I would fuss at her and say I don't want to get up and uh but she did lift me up and uh I thank God for a godly wife that has helped me so much that I can't even get into words. Um, and then he says, "If two lie together, then they have heat." And I think about that, you know, we forget about that. Uh, what's winter mean? It
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means the time that there's no fruit, there's no crops. Um, you know, you're going through the time where there's maybe the valley of the shadow of death. Uh winter uh can be cruel, but together we can make it together better than by yourself. And this is why God wants us to have a good spouse in our lives. Uh that's loyalty was no matter what happens. Uh loyalty is a thing that's just not talked about very much. But the one reason I can trust my wife in anything, absolutely anything is that I know she is truly loyal to me and to and to to Jesus first and to me 100%. I can trust her with anything. Now we of know I was married before. That was not the case last time. Okay? And it's tough when you're in a marriage and you can't trust the other person. This is why we all need to become trustworthy. Right? But this is the part right here. It says, "If one prevail against him, two shall withstand him and a three-fold Lord is not quickly broken." So y'all come up for a second. But the reason I'm going back to this verse, even though Pastor Troy covered it, is because y'all turn and face the camera there and hold hands like I told you. All right. Uh, I thought I'd get the youngest couple here and the most newly married couple. And um, you know that word right there says if one prevail against him, what that word prevail means is to be absolutely in assaulted with the intent of pulling me apart. That's like me if I was still playing football and middle linebacker coming in here and trying to push them apart. See, I just mean you're getting attacked. Told you I didn't want to. That's why I didn't want any old people up here. But see, the three-fold cord, as Pastor Troy said earlier, husband and wife and the Lord's strength. Yes. To stay together no matter how much the devil assails you. You hear me? because he is going to fight. Okay, he is going [Applause] to and he's going to assail you individually. He's going to assail you as a couple. And it will take you, your spouse, and both of you loving Jesus and going in the same direction. Yeah. Come on. Amen. if you're going to be able to say it again.
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Um, I can't express to you and especially as Christians, if we're Christians, we are supposed to be a people who understand that unity is where the power is. Amen. The reason that Nancy and I can walk in such unity is because we both have said to the Lord and committed our lives to the Lord before we were married, God, your will be done, not mine. Whatever your will is, I will do it. And that's why I don't ever have to worry. I don't worry about telling my wife, "Yeah, I'm going to run for government, baby. or the Lord taught me to run for lieutenant governor or the Lord said start a school of ministry or the Lord said for me to uh have a conference called Skyfall and where she has to do most of everything she'll go what is this we stuff hey I'm arranging speakers do something. Um, but the I guess what I'm getting at is that we both are willing to go in the same direction. Just like the first time I I thought I had no worries about telling my wife when I had figured out that the earth is flat and we have a firmament dome. Okay. Now, that may blow some of your mind. I don't know where all of you are on that. But when I saw it, when I studied it out of scripture for 3 days, I kind of disappeared. She, you know, she knew I was still alive, but I and she finally walked in, I think on the third day, and I was just going through. I had Lexatrons everywhere and videos playing on phones and computers and she walked in. I was like, "What are you doing?" I said, "Babe, I think the Earth is fall. And I said, "And the Bible says it." This was her response. Well, if it's in the Bible, then that's the way it is. Amen. Amen. [Applause] I didn't ask you showing her anything because she fully trusted me and she trusts God's word. Yes. And see, we're like because we are in unity that God's word is supreme. Amen. See, we don't have to if there's a difference between us and God's word says, "No, this is the way it is." Then we both go, "Okay, I'm wrong. You're wrong. This is the way it is." You understand? And when you can be in that kind of unity, then you're going to be able to defeat the demons. Mhm. Problem is a lot of you
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