All right. Welcome back to Steps of Freedom. Great. So we're in class tonight. This is our 12th week. No, is it? It's our 11th week. 11th week. And so there's a few things. So the miracle list, if I took both of the miracle list, right, and I combined them. And so the miracle list that I'm going to give you that complete copy has got 18 items on it. Now, a few of those items are encouragements like, keep going. Don't give up. Don't stop this process. Maybe you feel like you were, you had a lot of momentum in the beginning. And now you're like, oh, everything's quiet. Maybe I'm done or I don't have to keep going. No, keep going. Don't give up. Another encouragement that he gives is, once you start this process, you started with Mike Smith's miracle list. And the Arizona Deliverance Center, stay with it for a time. I'm not saying you have to stay, I'm not, I'm not saying stay with us, you know, infinity. I'm saying, just stay with us for a time. Work the Deliverance Program. And at some point, God will let you know, yeah, move on. But right now, while you're in the process, don't get on Isaiah Saldivar. I just, I'll just begin with the top.  I love that guy. He's awesome. He talks 100 miles an hour. I love it. My brain loves it. The problem is, he's shooting out all this information and you're going through the miracle list, which is a slow step by step process based on repentance. And he's, he's, he's speaking to the masses, literally the masses, right? It's going to confuse you. It's going to bring confusion. So save him for later. He's great. I think he's great. He's got some people on there, Pastor Vlad, Vladimir, from Hungry Generation. I love that guy too. Just save him over here. Okay. Stick with Brother Mike's teachings. Or you'll get confused. That's, that's the only thing he's saying. Stick with us for a time. Get things straight in your mind. Go through the list. Work, work your deliverance. And then, you know, and then there's a time where you can branch out. Okay. So that's, that's, I'm just saying that. That's one of the items on the miracle list that I didn't write a chapter for, right? So why, it's not necessary to do that. I'm excited about all the prayer requests that we stated that you all stated. We collected them the second week of class and now over, I believe half of them have been answered in just a short amount of time. A lot of people say, wow, I pray and God's not hearing me at my prayers are not getting answered. But you can tell me, right? Your prayer, some of your prayers have gotten answered in a very short amount of time. As you focused on the Lord, you've been working on yourself, you've been forgiving the people in your life, catching those offenses, you know, not going to sleep, not going to bed with anger still brewing, you know, maybe you still feel that anger, but you're not adding to it. Right? We all got to work. We're working it out. So tonight is the 11th week and we're on self-deliverance. And Brother Mike has, you know, he has a website, hardcorecrushanity.com. And on that website, there's a teachings and there's a deliverance tab up at the top. And he says, go down to self-deliverance. And that's what this chapter is that I put together for you. Psalm 344 says, I sought the Lord and he heard me. And he delivered me from all of my fears. Sister Jennifer's got a testimony. I'll just summarize. Is that okay? She went to a church. She wanted to go to church. And, you know, going to church can be difficult these days because there's a lot of churches that don't preach Jesus. They're preaching another Jesus or they're adding to Jesus. I used to go to church where they said, Jesus plus nothing. Jesus plus nothing. We are only going to focus on Jesus of the Bible. We're not adding angels and, you know, numerology and personality tests and the antegram and we're not adding all those things. We're just going to focus on Jesus. And that's it. Anyway, she went to a church and this speaker at the church was talking about angels calling up on your angels to help you. Well, if you have the Holy Spirit inside of you, which is God, what do you need an angel for? What do you need that for? You have authority to trample on snakes and scorpions. You have authority over the enemy. You have the Holy Spirit of God in you. You got Jesus praying for you, interceding for you. You got the Holy Spirit interceding for you. You got you reading the Bible, interceding for yourself. Yeah, we all have ministering angels. There's one little mention of it. They're there. I'm glad for them. Him. I don't, there's never mention of a female angel. So but we don't need to call upon the hosts of heaven to help us. We have God. We have the Holy Spirit of God who is very powerful. We've seen it in this room. We've been set free by that power alone. Anyway, she goes to this church and the woman's talking about angels, right? Calling upon angels. Is that right? Okay. So she's thought, she's like, wow, I don't think I should be here. She went home that day or this week. I don't know. So a couple of days later, she was just meditating on the word, you know, the word of the Lord and just kind of resting in his presence. And she started to feel sick. And she ran to the bathroom and started throwing it up. And she said, is it possible that was deliverance? It felt like deliverance. I said, yes, it is. It's called sovereign deliverance. The Lord is our deliverer. I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me. He's the deliverer. We come in agreement with him. We come in agreement with God's word. And that's how we have authority over all the power of the enemy and nothing by enemy shall hurt us or harm us, right? So we're talking about self-deliverance tonight. And there's a couple of things that I want to address before we get into that. So and on the very first page, it gives you the website. And even if you have done self-deliverance before and everyone in here, I believe, has gone through a measure of deliverance. So this includes all of us. I still encourage you to read through the instructions and glean something new from it. So now that you've finished the list, it's time to really engage in self-deliverance, okay? But the introduction starts. It says, number one, can a Christian have, no, can a Christian be demon possessed? You should know the answer to this question. The answer is no. You cannot be demon possessed, not a Christian. To be possessed means that the evil spirits are living in your spirit and not and are in almost total control of the person. Okay? Well, the Holy Spirit lives in the spirit man and the demons cannot get into that area of the person. All right. So number two, can a Christian have spirits or be demonized? Yes, we know the answer. Okay, so we have the Greek word there. I'm not going to try to pronounce that word, but it's translated as possessed in the King James Version, which means to be under the spirit, under the control of a spirit or in some varying degree. So demons cannot, can enter into the body or the brain of a Christian many different ways. They may be inhabiting the body or brain prior to salvation and were never cast out after being born again. It might cause us carryover. And so you can read more about carryover on the website under the teaching tab. All right. So spirits may have entered the body or brain when the Christian back slid or turned their back on the Lord to return to temporarily to sinful lifestyle. Let us see. They may have entered the body while in the womb through a family or generational sin, word curses or witchcraft curses. Let us see. A person may be oppressed and the demons may not be inside the body or the brain, but around the person. They may be attacking from the outside only. 100% of all Christians face this daily. Number three, it says, does it say anywhere in the Bible that Christians cannot have spirits? No, it doesn't. Teachings that a Christian cannot have demons is an old wives tale and has no biblical support. Jesus called deliverance the children's bread in Matthew 1526, meaning it was God's children. It was, you know, it's for God's children. Deliverance benefits. Deliverance benefits were paid for in the atonement. Delivering centers from demons can be dangerous because they have no spiritual weapons to fight the spirits with. So when if a nonbeliever expels spirits, they don't have any way of keeping them from getting back in. So, so it's dangerous for them to be delivered. If the spirits re-enter the body of a person, of a person, the condition can become worse than before the original deliverance. That's in Matthew 12, 43 through 45. Number four, can a Christian self deliver from soul wounds, spirits, physical illness, diseases, mental illness? The answer is yes. The ministry of laying out of hands applies to all believers, including oneself. Mark chapter 16 verse 18. Okay, so how do we do this? So in preparation, you must be desperate and determined to be delivered. You must want the spirits out of your life more than anything else in the world. You have to hate them. A casual approach is not going to work. It's not going to work.  Number two, in preparation, you must have repented of all your sin with tears and deep sincerity. A casual repentance will not work.  Matthew chapter 6 verse 24, Luke chapter 16 verse 13. You must be willing to give the Lord everything you have and make a complete surrender of your life to him without reservation. You cannot hold back Luke 14, 33. I'm going to stop a second here because there are some people who get in an obsessive type of thinking that I repent of all my sin and they think really more and they're writing lists and they're obsessing over this, over and over again. There's no need for that. The Holy Spirit will tell you if you're missing something. He'll tell you. Do not go in search of the sin that you haven't repented of. Leave it to God to remind you to tell you. I call it God's spotlight. When I first became a Christian, I noticed that there were certain areas of my life God, like I said, it was shining his spotlight upon it. I kept recognizing it over and over and over again and I was like, oh my gosh, it was God pointing it out in my life telling me I want you to deal with that. Deal with that. If the Lord showed us all of our sin all at once, I think it'd kill us. Do not be so hard on yourselves. Remember, Jesus died on the cross for our sin, right? It's forgiven. It's washed into blood.  I want you to deal with it. You know you've sinned. You know you cheated. You know you lied. You know you blessed in God's name. You know you got to deal with that. It's on your mind. Don't push it to the side. But then again, you don't have to go thinking, what did I do in eighth grade? Oh, gosh, eighth grade. I made a lot of mistakes. Let me think about them. Did I cheat on that? No, wait, was that seventh grade I cheated on the spelling test? Forget about it. That's the devil. Okay. Don't do that. Let the Holy Spirit bring it to your mind. Okay. All right. Next, number three. You must be ready to fight for your life. Indeed, the kingdom of God must suffer violence and the violent take it by force. We've done war tongues in here and that's taking it by force. Let me tell you, some people who I've worked with them, they have, they were in, if you're involved in the new age, let me just say this, if you were in the past, involved in the new age or in witchcraft, you are in for a fight.  They will put bruises and scratches on your body. They do not want to leave. You better be ready. They will fight you and you have the power and the authority to fight back. You might feel afraid. Don't worry about that. You just push that feeling to the side and then you fight because they don't want to leave. They have a hold of you. You might be born again, doing things well, but they got you. You just keep fighting. You keep renewing your mind. You have to renew your mind. You have to accept God's word as your truth. It has to be your truth. Yes. So is that why it delivers? It's so painful. It is extremely painful. Yeah, literally painful. Painful in the body. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. If you were involved in the new age or in witchcraft of any kind, there you go. That's witchcraft. Okay. So if you were involved in that, I mean, I heard a testimony of a man tell me. He's like, it felt like somebody was inside my gut squeezing this part of their body. He's like, I was in a ball screaming in pain. It was so pain, sweating profusely. It would not let go. Yeah, those are new age spirits. Those are witchcraft spirits. Those are terrifying spirits. And yeah, it's painful. Anxiety. I mean, I've been in the hospital twice because I thought I was having a heart attack. The pain was so great. And those are spirits. They're all spirits. Yeah, sometimes people get delivered. Those spirits throw the person forward. I hurt my shoulder. It's still kind of sore. I was holding that woman in the chair as these things were launching her forward. They were very powerful and it hurts. That's a lot of times tears come because it does hurt. But you don't give up. Do not give up. Keep fighting. Keep fighting. Keep renewing this. I was first being delivered at the old place in Orlando. Yeah, House of Healing. Yeah. So I was in the room and I was actually teeth. I was on my knees and I was holding on so I wouldn't be pulled across the floor. It was intense. Yeah, that's witchcraft. And when Mike did it with his wife, I felt the little things jumping on the bed. And I still see them in pictures, like the demonic things. I can see the images. Keep fighting. And I'm not scared. I'm totally not scared of it, but I will let you know before I delivered myself from alcoholism and drinking and smoking cigarettes almost two years ago, I was putting it off because I knew how painful it was. It is painful. The last time I did it, it was it was treacherous.  And I don't know if anybody else has that reservation. It's like, oh, I don't want to do because this is easier. And going through deliverance is to tell people the trip that is painful. It's not easy. Yes, thank you for that testimony. You're right. It is painful. Deliverance is painful. Yeah. And that's what a lot of the tears that are about.  It doesn't feel good when they're coming out. It doesn't. But you feel so much better afterwards. You feel so much better and you can think and and I was saying this earlier, you may not feel anything for a while. You might not see any changes in your life, but you know they're in there and you just keep going because you will get your breakthrough and that is breakthrough. And then you know it's breakthrough, right? You're like, I keep fighting. I keep casting these things out. I keep renewing my mind. I keep catching my thoughts. I keep casting down imaginations. I keep choosing love over hate. I keep doing it, you know, and then one day your healing will break forth like the dawn. It will quickly appear. It will happen.  And I don't think many break to say stay connected to the body. Stay connected to like minded believers because when you're, you got to hang on because this thing is thrashing you. Who are you going to tell? Who are you going to tell? You better know some people.  So I'm so glad that you have all stuck it out. This is amazing. You've been coming every week and and we're going through it together and listening and you're praying for each other and it's really awesome because we need each other. I really believe that do not forsake the assembly of believers. We are believers. We are really like minded believers assembling together and we can relate to each other. This is real stuff, you know. So thank you for that Angie. Yeah, you got to be ready to fight for your life. If you won't fight, the demons won't have to fight. They won't have to fight to stay. They'll just stay. You know, you reap what you sow Galatians 6 verses seven and eight. Number four, spend as much time in prayer as you can prior to your deliverance date and ask a couple of close friends to pray for you for you in preparation. Keep fasting to a minimum. Get plenty of rest. You must show the Lord in the kingdom of darkness. You are serious. If you don't show them, they will continue to show you sickness, misery, suffering, sorrow, frustration, disease, guilt, shame, confusion, headaches, heartache, and premature death. I talked to a sister today. She's got brain demons and she calls me every once in a while and I told her, I said, look, if you won't fight, if you won't take these thoughts captive, it's a negative thought. It's an outlandish thought. It's tormenting you with fear and worry. If you don't take those thoughts captive, you'll die in this condition.  She's like, what are you saying? Spiritually die? I'm like, no, physically die.  It'll never change. You have to keep fighting. So that's that. Number four, okay, warning. If you have not repented of your sin, of all your sin and forgiven everyone in your life and are unwilling to make restitution where applicable, meaning you call that ex-husband and you say, you know what? I am sorry that I cheated on you. I am sorry that I didn't give the marriage 100%. I'm really sorry. Please forgive me. It's not easy. I know. I did it once. Yeah. He didn't say he was sorry though, but it didn't matter. I was calling to say, I'm sorry. I messed up. I'm sorry. Forgive me. Sometimes we have to do that. Sometimes we can't, right? But if you can, apologize. If you are not willing to do that, do not proceed. If you continue, you proceed based on your own faith in the Word of God. You need more than that. If you continue, you'll proceed based on the personal, you know, you'll be proceeding based on your own self and not the help from the Holy Spirit. Because if you have unforgiveness or awe or you got some stuff that you haven't dealt with in your life, you don't get the Holy Spirit to help you in the process. It's just you doing it. So you need the personal presence of the Holy Spirit. Number six, under no circumstances will you hold any, okay, so this is if you come here to hardcore Christianity or you go through this, you're not under no circumstances will you hold any representative of hardcore Christianity incorporated responsible for any kind of benefit or detriment you may experience during or as a result of this process. You understand no monies are to be paid to hardcore Christianity for services freely. We have received freely. We give hardcore Christianity does not charge fees for God's benefits. Donations, however, are accepted and appreciated. We're in this room. There's air conditioning on. There's lights. I made these copies. Some of you feel compelled. You're directed by the Holy Spirit to give love offering to whatever, but there's no fee. There's never a fee. And I like that. That's a great model that Mike has established. And all the ministers here, we go by that. And God has blessed tremendously. Yeah, it's great. All right. The deliverance procedure. So first you want to worship the Lord.  Invite the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit into the room. Relax while worshiping. Be relaxed. This is not something you strive to do. Okay. You want to keep yourself calm. There's a reason for this. You don't want to mistake the presence of God for evil spirits being conjured up. So keep yourself calm. Keep yourself relaxed. All right. Relax while worship. Take your time.  Number two, you can lay down in a comfortable area in a quiet, dimly lit room. You can just lay in your bed. You don't have to be, you know, on your face, praying and crying. No, just relax. Just relax. Relax and meditate on the goodness of the Lord and his word. You want to bring your heart rate down. You want to quiet your breathing. Okay. You place your hands on your skin. Maybe you're lower abdomen. You could put it on your forehead. Okay. And silently in your mind, begin to cover yourself by faith with the precious blood of Christ through your groins, hips, internal organs, worship and glorify and magnify his greatness and thank him for his blood as intensely as you can in your mind. Do it all in your mind.  Focus on the broken body of Christ. He willfully gave for your healing. Pray in your mind only, not audibly. When you speak audibly, the spirits know what you're saying. Just do it in your mind. Okay. Did you speak in tongues? Yeah, but don't speak in tongues when you're doing this process. When you run through deliverance? Yeah. This is, I'm just, I'm reading you what he said. So don't speak in tongues yet. Okay.  Thank you, Lord. Thank you for your blood. I apply your blood to my body.  Spend several minutes on each area, silently praying, meditating on the precious and powerful healing, delivering and enriching blood of Jesus. Okay. So you're silently praying, you're meditating on God's His blood. It's a spiritual thing. Right. So the blood of Jesus has got all this power. You're doing this as sincerely, but aggressively also in your mind. Okay. And the reference there, Matthew 3. These are the areas spirits usually reside in the body. So that's why you're focusing on these areas of your body. Don't worry about your feet. Worry about your core, your back of your neck, your head, right? Worry about that. Now, manifestations may begin, may, they don't always begin. You may fail something unusual in your body, such as pain or twitching. You might start shaking, quivering, aching. You might have pain. You might feel coldness, cramping. You might feel paralyzed, a paralysis. You might feel some numbness, some tingling, nausea. You might feel some movement, something moving around in your body. You may have strange thoughts racing through your mind. You might begin to see pictures. These are spirits manifesting. These sensations indicate that you have the anointing. Okay. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is what? Freedom, liberty, right? So the anointing breaks the yoke of bondage. These things don't like the anointing, so they start to move. They start to get, try to distract you. So that's what's happening. The demons are moving in fear and the Holy Spirit is present and exposing the spirit. So keep going. Your faith is working.  Start there. This is a slow down process. Okay. Be aggressive. You can just think right in your mind, like, and then switch to verbal commands when the spirits start to come out. And so how do they come out? They come out through tears. They come out through yawns. They come out with burps. They come out through coughing. Okay. They can scream out. Yeah. You probably won't go from zero to screaming. You might, but you might be experiencing something else before you get there. But once they start coming out, switch to the verbal commands. Okay. Use your mind commands and verbal commands in unison. So you're thinking it and you're saying it. Okay. Well, how can you say something you didn't think, but you just want to be conscious of what your mind is thinking. You want to stay in control of your mind. You don't want the spirits to take over control of your mind. That's why he's saying this here. Okay. I've seen many people, they go, they start screaming and they are cussing and they lose control of their mind. You have to call them back. Okay. Come. Hey, sister, come back. All right. Now you're present. So, hey, you don't have to do all that. Don't let the demons thrash you. You don't have to say the F word comes to mind. You don't have to speak that word. Okay. They'll tell it to you and it'll be a strong, you'll have a strong urge to say it, but stay present in your mind and don't let those spirits control you. Now it's not always possible, but give it a strong effort. Okay. I had a guy one time.  I know I'll continue this stories. So I had this guy, I was new. He got out of his chair. He starts pacing and he's coming right up to me. He's tall too. And then he was, I don't know, it's in the chair.  I'm in the office.  I'm like, hey, Rick, come here. Need some help? So we just went in there and he's like, hey, brother, brother, hey, hey, hey, don't let the spirits do that to you. Stay present. You fight them. And I was like, oh, you can do that. Okay, great. You know, we don't know, right? They start to take over. They start to shake. They start to tell you things and the person speaking, no, just re really aggressive and stay present in your mind.   And it keeps them subdued and they'll come out a lot easier. Okay. So don't let them take over your mind. The more you use your fate, the more you please your heavenly father. Okay. Caution, if you experience violent shaking, severe cramping, frightening visions or images, loud voices, if you have material objects move or fall in the room, stop immediately. Discontinue this time and seek assistance from someone you trust. Okay.  Because once that happens, they're now in control and you're out of control and you could get hurt. So get help. Okay. Okay. They want to hurt you. Yeah. Someone you trust and has experience expelling demons. You know, if they could be a Christian 20 years, but never have done this before. So you know, go to someone who has experience. Okay. So now we're at the point where expelling these evil entities, these evil spirits. So demons are subject to the name of Jesus. They don't like the name of Jesus. They're subject to the blood of Jesus, the cross of Calvary, the resurrection of Christ, the word of God, the Holy Spirit and your childlike faith. Christ came in the flesh and now is your prophet and high priest in heaven. He is praying for you. He is interceding for you. He is in on this event when you're casting out. You're not alone. When the spirits leave, you may experience something physical, pressure lifting out of your head or body, a dissipating coldness. Maybe you had, your hands were really cold. You might feel it leaving, coughing, vomiting, burping, spitting, yawning, wrenching in your stomach or shaking and releasing. When they leave, you may feel euphoria, body warmth or lightness.  This is a sign the spirits are leaving or have left your body. Keep going. You're not done. Don't stop even though it's really awesome. Don't stop because another wave is coming. You are winning in Jesus' mighty name, so keep going. Number three, you want to speak directly to the spirits, Mark 11, and your physical and mental illness. Does anyone have a physical illness in here? Okay. What is it? End stage renal disease. Okay. You would be speaking to that renal disease and saying, come out of me. You just speak right to it. Put your hands on your kidneys. Get out of me in Jesus' name. Angie, what about you? You have physical illness? Yeah. I just been really, really bad lately. I've been huge. I haven't really bad issues getting up and walking my feet. Yes. What is it that you have? I try desperately to get rid of diabetes. Diabetes. Okay. And it's huge now. It's like to the point I was going away a little bit because I've been getting rid of the bitterness in my life. I've been sleeping like in the bathtub. It's that severe. And since I got laid off of work, I don't have insurance. And so it's, at least she's uncomfortable, but it's just I get up and I can't walk. It just hurts so intensely. It's B6.  I don't want to become that person. Yeah. At all because that's just not worth living. Right.  I don't do anything bad at all in my opinion. Yeah. Okay. In her opinion. Yeah. Okay. So are you doing self-deliverance every day? Every day. Okay.  I've been blessing. I've been thanking God a lot lately. Okay. So diabetes works a lot like an autoimmune disease from what I've read. And it has to do with not liking yourself. Oh yeah. And that's since I was born. Since I was born. Okay. So try it. It's not, it's not in here. This is for me. Get yourself some oil. Could be canola oil, olive oil, just say a little prayer that I mess with her. Just pray over a little bit. And then just every morning as part of your routine, anoint yourself with oil and bless yourself. Pray for yourself. You have to be kind to yourself. I thought diabetes was like bitterness and like the root of it. I think there's a lot working there. I don't know everything. I just know that diabetes works a lot like an autoimmune disease because it's not, it's not allowing the body to function. It's holding, it's withholding instead of attacking, right? Or is it attacking also? Wouldn't that be attacking like when my feet are pumped up and I can't move? Definitely. Definitely. That's attacking. So that would be like a, your body is attacking itself. Okay. Yeah.  Yeah. It's nerve damage. Yeah. And I know that my drinking didn't help at all.  And I was fighting against it. And my mom came in, my room, I go, get out. I'm right in the middle of this because it was really bad because I didn't want to go to the pain. But now she says, Deem, and I don't care what you do to me. I do not care. You get out in Jesus name, right?  Right. Right. Yeah. Those thoughts still. Okay. There's no condemnation in Christ. It's not even your thought. Those are not your thoughts. Right. We catch them. We say, no, that's not my thought. I'm not even going to take responsibility for that thought. All right. This, my feet hurt. This is terrible. I don't like it. Lord, this is terrible, but you're helping me, Lord. And I'm going to keep speaking to my feet and I'm going to keep blessing myself. If you have a physical illness, really, you annoy yourself with oil every single day. Take communion. I mean, do it all. Get people to pray for you. Cast out. Keep reading. You know, you got to keep doing it. We should not be sick. You have to fight.  Sister in the back. Yes, Susan. My experience with the bottom of my feet hurting was my, one of my daughters had given me, or my other, my granddaughter, money to go to get our feet dead. And when we go to those places, they have all those idols. And so I don't really like going in there, but I did it because all my granddaughters were going and so I decided to go with them. I was hesitant to go, but I went. And I never had this experience before, but when I went in, you could see the incense and everything. I just had them done, but right after that, and this has been a couple of months where the night that I went, I had extreme pain continuously, 24-7, and the swelling of my feet from that day that, the day that I had my pedicure done. And then we did deliverance and it was taken from me. So it just showed me that I have to be careful to not trade areas. So let me ask this side of the room, what happened to her? She went into that experience. Okay, but what actually happened? She picked up a transfer. She went into a nail salon, had a pedicure done in the place, probably Vietnamese place, right? They got their idols, their incense, their oranges, and they got their stuff and you picked up a transfer and then it had to be casted out. Good testimony. Thanks for that. That goes along with the sages too. Yes. You've got to be careful. That's for sure. Let me continue on this. So you're speaking directly to the spirits. You're speaking directly to your physical illness. You're speaking directly to the mental illness. If you have some type of mental illness, anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, eating disorder, anorexia, bulimia, you speak to that thing. It's a thing. It's a person in your body. You tell it to leave in Jesus' name. It will take over. Okay. You start using your mind and then you transition to verbal commands. Do not pray anymore. You cannot pray demons out. You have to cast them out. So at this point you've already prayed and God has said yes. God is not withholding from you. I'll say that again. God is not withholding deliverance from you. Take command and use your authority. Luke 10 19 and Matthew 18 18. Remind the demons that you have repented of all your sins, that all doors of sin to sin have been closed and that they have no legal right to damage or hold you in bondage anymore. If God gives you the name of a demon or their number, you can use this information to command them out to leave as Jesus did in Mark chapter five versus eight and nine.  Get out. Numbness in my feet come out. Get out of me in Jesus' name. Disabilities, depression, pain, lust, anger, envy, confusion, fear, cancer, bipolar, ulcers, OCD, PTSD, et cetera. Okay. Flashbacks come out. Sadness come out. Exhaustion come out. It's two o'clock in the afternoon. You just had lunch. You shouldn't be exhausted. Our culture has trained us to believe that we're supposed to be tired at two o'clock. Cast it out. You'll see what happens. You'll be awake. All right. So you can remind them the Lord came to destroy their works and the devil is defeated. John chapter 12 verse 31 and chapter 16 verse 11. Command them to listen and leave. I command you to listen. You combine them. You can tell them to separate one from another. Stop communicating with each other. You have been given power to crush the serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and the owls and the screech owls. I was reading about that in Isaiah today. You have the power. Cast them out. The porcupines and the pelicans. I'm in the Old Testament reading and I was reading about that. You will not be hurt.  Rebuke them sharply. Bind them. Command them to lose you. No. Stop causing me pain. I rebuke you in Jesus name. Get out. Leave me right now. Demons can be beaten down by godly commands and the Holy Scripture. Quote Bible verses about the power of the blood and the glory of the cross. Excuse me. Number five. Renounce any spirits that go into your body through religion or church denominations. Catholicism is a ton of idol worship and Catholicism. Renounce that. Renounce the rosary beads. Renounce the praying to the saints. They're dead. That's necromancy.   Saints that have, you know, died. No. Faults, Protestant churches, Mormonism, the Amish, Christian science, the Advent Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah Witnesses, Hindu, Islam, Buddhism, the Masons, the Shriners, the KKK, a different cults, anything like that. You got to renounce this stuff. Maybe you know it's in your family line.  Channeling, hypnosis, talking to the dead. I just mentioned that. Astrology, religious rituals, new age, Christian new age, angel numbers, angel numbers, angel feathers, renounce it, in Jesus' name, terror cards. Yes, angel cards. Sorry. Jewish roots, the Hebrew Israelites. My goodness. Use wisdom, everybody. Renounce any spirits that entered your body through sexual intercourse, heterosexual, homosexual, with someone who was also infected with these spirits. You get transferred spirits, right? Next, renounce and reject any sin. It's kind of repeating, but I'm going to read it anyway. The masonry, free masons. The free masons. I'll say it again. The free masons. The pyramid with the eye in the middle. I'm sure my family will never see this video, so I'll just say, my brother and his wife, they got married in a church above the altar. I think it was a free mason church. I don't know. Maybe they were in the free, I don't know, but I'm just like, wow, that's free masons. It's the free masons, yeah. I mean, it's associated with the Luminati, right? Okay. So I'm reading here. Iniquity. I'll stop a minute and say, you know, renouncing iniquity. Iniquity is the thing that we inherited from Adam. We all have iniquity every single person, right? It came from our parents. We know what iniquity we have special to us because we just look at our parents. Fear, oh my gosh, depression, iniquity, trusting fear over trusting God. Illnesses, disability, child abuse, wickedness, witchcraft, poverty, curses passed down to you from your sinful family tree, renounce any generational sin or curses, going back 10 generations. If you were born out of wedlock and you have not, in the name of Jesus and under the influence of the Holy Spirit and you have not renounced that curse, you have not broken that curse of being born out of wedlock, your life is affected. Now that curse, the Bible says, carries down for 10 generations. Next time you're in the presence of the Lord, just break it because somebody in the last 10 generations probably got, had babies out of wedlock, then your product of that. So just break it. Break it in Jesus' name. If you have a child and you were not married when you had that child, you need to repent. You need to repent. I didn't even repent if you got conceived that child out of wedlock. Repent. Good deliverance. Okay, so after you are delivered, you're going to go through, okay, what's he say here? You're going to go through the procedure section. It's on the website. Again, to be sure they're all gone. Okay, so you're going to go over this procedure again.  If you're still yawning, they're still coming out. Now you might not be able to do all this in one night. You won't be able to do this. Yes. It was just what you're saying. All of this in one sitting or is this like a process? This is a process. They came in layers. They're going to leave in layers. They came in over time. They're going to leave over time.  Okay.   Give God time to work in your life. I meet a person.  It's the first time they ever did it. I say, okay, now you've begun your spiritual recovery. Minimum give God a year. Stay out of a relationship. I was engaged to be married when I first started deliverance 10 years ago or a little over 10 years ago. And I broke off that engagement. It was hard. And I kind of waffled back and forth regretting it and being mad at the people who told me to do that. And I'd be honest, I did. But God showed me about a year ago how that saved me from a horrible, horrible life. Yeah. Yep. And off camera, I'll share that. But so yeah, you want to keep going. You got to keep working on this. So you keep going through self deliverance, give it a year, stay out of relationship with a man or a woman.  Okay, stick with the program. Don't go out there looking at different ministries, trying different techniques, you know, it's very important that you do the Bible study number eight, very, very important to complete this Bible study right away. And so for the YouTubers, I will mention the scriptures. So Acts 19, read all of Acts 19, Romans 12, one and two, first John chapter two, versus 15 through 17, Ephesians chapter four 20, versus 21 through 32, Ephesians chapter six, versus 11 through 18, Second Corinthians seven one, John chapter five, versus 14, chapter eight, verse 11, Matthew chapter 12, Luke chapter 11, Hebrews chapter 12, verse one, James chapter one, verse 21, first Thessalonians chapter four, verse seven, and the Apostle, the Epistle of John, the Gospel of John chapters 14, 15 and 16. I can't tell you how long you need to just stick on those scriptures, but you did need to do it for a time. Read it over, read it in the morning, read it at night. You could do a Derrick Prince, God's medicine bottle, read it in the morning for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Get healing for your body, get healing for your mind. Okay, the last portion of this, and thanks for staying with me, it's been an hour already, post-deliverance. I'm just going to read this. Now that you've been delivered from evil spirits and or a mental, emotional, or physical illness, you must take several aggressive and proactive steps to maintain your healing so that you will not become reinfected with demons and sickness and or sickness. This is your new 12 step program. This one actually works. Read it carefully. Many people who are delivered from spirits become reinfected. Many people. It's not fun. It can be avoided by building an intimate relationship with Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit through the word of God. Healing and deliverance are not a cure all. I'm going to read that again. Healing and deliverance is not a cure all. You must renew your mind and fulfill your destiny. You must be proactive and aggressive. You cannot be passive. Okay, so here are the next steps. So number one, I'm going to go through these quickly. You need to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. One of the evidences of having received the baptism of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues. That is not the only evidence, but it is one of the evidences. Okay, so you want to release your gift of tongues. This is so important. Every believer, if you're born again, then you have the ability to pray in the Holy Spirit. You have the ability to speak in tongues. And this is an unknown language to yourself, but perfectly understandable by God. And it's going to help you fight. So if you need help with that, ask somebody here at the center. I think everyone in here has got it. Yeah, if you don't have your gift of tongues yet, you can talk to me and I'll help you with that. So there's a lot of reasons why people don't have it or they haven't released it yet because of the confusion, doubt or false teaching they've received. There's a false teaching out there that says, no, we don't speak in tongues anymore, but that's false. Without the baptism of the Spirit, your chances of being permanently healed and delivered diminish. So it is a conduit to the gifts of the Spirit and the dunamis power of God. That's the power of God. Okay, so if you go on our website on the teaching page and you look up Glosa, it will give you the breakdown in the scriptures that talk about speaking in tongues. All right. Number two, please get rid of all traces of sin in your life. Sleeping around? No, negative attitudes. Get rid of negative attitudes, complaining, negative words, negative behaviors, hobbies, interests and recreations. They all must be eliminated right away.  You have to catch your thoughts. You start to complain. You start to gossip. You start to be negative about yourself, about your situation. You've got to stop it. Number three, forgive and release negative emotions or thoughts for anyone who's ever hurt you. Okay? We dealt with that in the beginning, right? So you got to keep up on that. Unforgiveness, awe and bitterness are the main routes of demon reinfestation. You get deliverance.  Catch it. You got to catch it. You got to be aware. 48 hour rule. They're going to have your car breakdown. Somebody at work is going to make you mad.  Just take a step back and be like, oh, that's spirits working right there. I see it. I see it. I'm not going to fall for it. I'm not going to get upset. I'm not going to be offended. I'm not going to get my feelings hurt. Okay? And if you do, you just catch it right away and get rid of it. Okay? It's called maintenance. Any negative feelings or thoughts like ought about yourself or others must be removed and released to the Lord. You got to keep working on that. Regret. Man, why did I do that? 20 years ago, man, I should have, I should have finished. I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody right now. 20 years ago, and I didn't finish that degree. I didn't take that job. I didn't marry that person. Ah, I vey, right? Oh my gosh. Stop it. Let it go ready. The Lord is moving you on, moving you forward. That is in the past.  It's gone. And you know what that thing you thought was so great back then? I bet it was a delusion. It was never that great. Over time, your mind has morphed it into something really great. It's good. Okay. The Lord will remove them if you agree to release them. You have to come in and agree. God loves partnership. Partner with God on this. He wants you to go, come with me. Let's do it together. It's not beautiful. He says, I, I'm your, I'm your partner. I'm your partner in this. I want to help you release this. You agree with me and I'll help you release it. Okay. I had a person in my office today. He's like, yeah, if I'm a good person and I do things right, then I'll deserve my spot in heaven. I said, well, that's, that sounds good, but that's not correct. That's wrong. You don't do much of anything. All you do is say, okay, I accept this free gift of salvation. I partner with you. Help me, Lord. Help me to not sin. Help me, Lord. I think that's my prayer like every day. Lord, help me. Help my friends. Help my family. I'm not, I'm not doing specific prayers anymore. It's all just help them, Lord. I don't know what, what you want for them, but please help them. Help my mom, Lord. Help my brothers. Help my friends. Okay. He will do it. The battle belongs to the Lord. He is our deliverer. He is our strong tower. He's our defense. Okay. Taking offenses will ruin your spiritual life. Okay. And it's going to break down your health. It's going to break down your, taking offenses. Oh, I can't believe that person said that to me.  Someone ate my lunch. Oh my gosh. I can't believe they did that. That's a good example. Okay. Unforgiveness and are the root causes of autoimmune diseases. Unforgiveness and ought. We forgive here. We release from our emotions. All is that yucky feeling you got for somebody. Okay. So you just think if your ex walked in the door right now, how would you respond? You look old. That's great. What are example, what are autoimmune diseases? Arthritis. Arthritis is autoimmune. It attacks yourself. Right. Lupus. Fibromyalgia. Yeah. That's a big one. All right. Number four, start attending a solid hardcore spirit filled full gospel church or home group. If you find one, let me know. Okay. Friend you knows of one on Saturday nights. It's a good one. Yeah. So here he's listed some places to stay away from. Okay. Yeah. You got to find one that believes in the spirit world and understands the moving of the Holy Spirit and demons. Okay. This is going to be difficult. You will need their prayers. Okay. So you, you started deliverance. You're going to need to be plugged into, like I said, some type of fellowship, some type of people that know what you're going through because, like Angie said, it can be physically painful. Yeah. It's scary.   You need somebody to talk to. They can encourage you to keep going. That's right. You know, you got to be plugged in. You got to be plugged in. You got to be. All right. So it's motivation. You got to find a place. Maybe you need to start a place. No. Finish your deliverance first. Don't do that. Finish your deliverance. And what do I mean by that? I kind of don't like the terminology of finishing your deliverance, but get through at least a year. Get through a good part of it where you're feeling a lot better. You're thinking more clearly. God begins to use you. I don't really know anybody that doesn't have to do self-deliverance still. You still got to maintenance, right? So, but, but get, um, David Middleton, the Jesus and Lord Outreach Seven.  Well, we'll cut that out. All right. So, that's the only one I know, though, that has the same belief system that I. They are similar. They have similar beliefs. Is this place correct? Uh-huh. They do. I'm going to stop. So non-full gospel denominations are usually powerless against demons. Okay. So number five, please remove close relationships with carnal friends and relatives who lead you into doubt and sin. Okay. This is going to be hard. So if you're living with the person, don't talk about demons with that person. Stop it. Stop talking to them about your spiritual recovery process because they will not understand. So, so here it is. The spirit of rejection sets you up. Okay. It gets your spouse to ask you a question about how you're going and your spiritual journey.  Don't take the bait. Okay. Don't do that.  I think it's good. Give God a year. Okay. Find other brothers and sisters that are like-minded. Do not talk to your family members about this. They don't get it. You pray for them, but don't talk to them about it. Even if they're interested. Exactly. Right. So the spirit of rejection wants to set you up to get you in a position so you can get rejected. They put a thought in your mind that, oh, my husband's interested in this. He asked me a question. My husband asked me, so how did your deliverance go? It's a setup. It's a setup. Just say fine. What do you want for dinner? Change the subject. Do not talk, right? Do not talk to them about it. Wives, am I right? Okay. Good. Thank you for support. That's a good church. Yeah. I'm glad you like him, honey. And just keep moving. No conversation at that point. Great. We love Brother Mike on Sunday mornings because he's calm. He's teaching. He's doing it from home. It's a podcast. Yeah. So I'm reading here. I'm like, okay, where am I at? Okay, demons get back in through soul ties. Now, not all soul ties are bad. That's it. I'm going to say they get back in through romantic relationships. They can come back in through unsaved relatives. Holidays are coming. They come back in through carnal best friends. Even if they're Christians, carnal best friends, sinful work associates and anyone Satan can use to encourage you to behave, play or sin or talk sinfully. Okay. Be careful as spirits almost always use close associates to wound your soul and distract your mind from the word. If you won't let these relationships go, the demons won't let you go. So you can let go of a certain measure of that relationship, especially if that person's living in your house, spouse, child. You just know at this time you can't share that intimate spiritual conversation with them. Just can't do it. Okay. So for now, you put it on the shelf. It's a prayer request. Lord, one day that's my hope, my prayer to have that conversation with my husband, with my children. But while I'm going through this deliverance process, I'm not going to engage in that conversation. Little backfire, I promise you. Yeah. So number six, attend Bible studies worship service. Okay. Church, once you find a place, now, even if you're going to a church that doesn't do deliver, a gal asked me, well, can I go to church even though they don't believe in deliverance? Sure. Don't let them pray for you or put hands on you. Go in a worship. You want to be careful about the church that you choose.  If you're here in Phoenix and come here for service while you're in this process of deliverance.   It's very powerful. It's very powerful. I'm always tempted to go to the Baptist church because I went to a Southern Baptist college, a university at Chapel. We sang a lot of those songs and so it makes my heart feel good, my soul. So I'm always tempted to go back just to hear that encouraging message. But I know where my food really comes from. It comes from me and my Bible in the morning with a cup of coffee. That's where my food comes from. I supplement it with some Brother Mike. I supplement it with some Brother Rick sometimes. No, absolutely. If you are in Phoenix area, I would come here as often as you can sit by yourself. Sure, why not? For now, right? For right now, just get here, go through the deliverance service at the end of the message. Yeah, absolutely. Just keep going. And then God will make it clear to you when it's time to move on. Maybe you move to a different church or you start a terror cell. Mike talks about those where you go in, right? You've learned about deliverance. You've gotten your healing.  Meet one. Forget another person that go with you who believes like you do and pray for them and do some deliverance on them. Help them get healed and then go to the next one. Okay. And then I'll just finish that by saying then you get kicked out. Because they don't like that. They don't like that. And then it's really a promotion.  All right. That's what Mike talks about. It's funny. All right. So delete any kind of demonic or fleshly recreation you previously enjoyed. I'm just going to read down the list here. So worldly or fleshly movies, things that appeal to your flesh, lustful fantasy. Okay. While you're going through deliverance, you want to get rid of that. And then when you're on the other side of it, you won't even be interested in those movies anymore. You won't even want it. Music. Okay. Sports. Anything metal hip hop, garage rock, psychedelic rock, gangster rap, techno, country rock, acid rock, indie rock, grunge, glam, punk, hard rock.  He died for us. And so I don't really know why I would be singing any other song that didn't give some gift of love to my savior. Why? I don't know. So, you know, I'm saying that in general. I'm saying it for me. We're all individuals. I used to, before I got saved in 1992, I saw Metallica in concert that summer before I got saved. Skid Rose a band. It's a very heavy, heavy rock and roll band. That was like my favorite band. I listened to Queen's Rite and Pink Floyd and, you know, kind of softer like Led Zeppelin, a little softer rock. But I was all into that music. And then God got my attention. I was looking around for him. And then finally, he made it really clear. And at that moment, there was music playing. And it was a guy by the name of Keith Greene. And that changed my life.  Keith Greene's music, it's on YouTube. I found it recently. And it's a good quality. Anyway, he's passed away, but he was a very anointed man of God. And he loved the Lord. And he taught Bible, he taught the Bible stories in his music. And that's how I learned Bible stories because I never went to Sunday school or anything. So in one year, actually in six months time, I went from Metallica to like Keith Greene, which is like, do Keith Greene, which is like folk music. Okay, I went from like this, this metal hard rock and political music queens were like a very political band out of England, I believe. And I was very into them. But I went from that, God changed my heart. I became born again. And I had different desires. And so that's what that's what happens.  Is MTV still around? No, okay. You know, video games, Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, there's, there's all kinds of different stuff out there to steal your attention. Carnal TV shows, comedy clubs, bars and happy hour. You need to stop doing that. It's no place for a Christian. It's no place. Any recreation that distracts your affections and attentions from the Lord and is used by spirits and does not glorify God. They must leave. If you ride the fence, the demons will ride you right into a trench. If you're going to have one foot in the world and one foot in the church, those spirits are going to make your life really miserable. Okay. Okay. So you want to delete your unsaved boyfriend? Okay. Delete your exes. Can I say that? Delete your exes. Saved or unsaved. Just let them go. Fiances. You got to delete these people, girlfriends. He wrote it down on here. I'm going to just read it. DL group, live-in lovers, friend with benefits, et cetera. God has a wonderful soulmate picked out specifically for you.  Any form of homosexuality, transactivity, drag, bisexual or pornography will allow spirits to re-enter your body and brain. Movies, internet chat rooms, magazines, phone techs, all that stuff. You must flee fornication. Is there another page? Yes. Is there more of these? Sorry. Thanks. Sorry about that. Okay. Is this the last two I'm on now? Read the Bible? Yes. Okay. You got to read the Bible every day, right? Pray in solitude. Some people have noise on all the time. It's really hard to hear the Holy Spirit when you have something playing all the time. Just take some time to pray in solitude and silence. Solitude daily in addition to your worship service in group Bible studies. Speak in tongues on and off all day long for self-education and power. It must become second nature to you. Memorize a couple of scriptures every month and quote them daily. Start serving the Lord. Do you have to be completely delivered before you start serving the Lord? No. No, you do not. Serve them with your time, your talents, your treasures by helping others, working in a ministry, participating in an evangelism program, praying for the sick, seeing others delivered from demons and illnesses just like you were. You need to adopt the Holy Spirit lifestyle based on freely you have received now freely give. Once you get into deliverance, there's no going back.  You have to continue on. If you don't continue on, it will get much worse for you. Number 11. So don't start if you're not going to finish. Thank you, Sister Robert. Okay, your old lifestyle was a breeding ground for sin, evil spirits and evil spirits. Your new life must be one of adoring worship of Jesus. Yeshua. Your body must become the temple of the Holy Spirit, a shrine of holiness. The Son of God is not just a buddy or a pal. Your Heavenly Father is not your pop. He's not your dad. He's not your papa. He's not your daddy. But your eternal sovereign King and Divine Heavenly Father, they are to always be addressed and treated with the utmost respect. Okay. The Lord will communicate with you intimately. And there's an intimacy there. But to address him casually, oh, you know, my daddy in heaven will take care of it. You've got to be careful of that. Be careful. What about Abba God? That's his reference to you. I didn't say that in there. Yeah, but I know that's what I'm asking about. Jesus said that we should address him that way. So that's a nice Abba Father, a term of endearment, right? Because it means as a papa or daddy. Yeah. So I just think the spirit of the message here is not to be casual with how you're addressing the Lord. Okay. And I will say this. I would be careful if you do use terms like Abba or Daddy God, you know, kind of like in that intimate, you do it between you and God. Don't let other people hear you because you don't know where they are in their journey. And that could bring a fence. Okay. So just keep that in mind. You know, what God permits for you and your relationship with him may not be for that other person. And it can cause a problem. I had learned that the hard way. So number 12. So this here, again, is your initial Bible study. So there's a Bible study right after you do deliverance. And then the post-deliverance after you get through all this that I just read is another one. It will renew your life. So you want to read Romans 8, Romans 12, 1 and 2, 1 John chapter 2, verses 15 through 17, Ephesians chapter 6, 11 through 18, 2 Corinthians 7, 1. These are some repeats. John chapter 5, verse 14, and chapter 8, verse 11. You must learn spiritual warfare to maintain your healing. Find your spiritual destiny and obtain God's perfect will for your life by his grace and your obedience. You will walk in the spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh, the lust of your soul and body. Your new life of power and joy starts now. You've been called by God to fulfill your specific purpose in life.  The gifts of the spirit are within your reach. 1 Corinthians 12. Seek diligently the ones the spirit wants you to have. The spirit will reveal to you the ones that he wants you to have. Okay. You don't need to take a personality spiritual gift test to figure it out. Okay. Don't do that. Don't worry about it. Don't ask 10 people either. What do you think my spiritual gift is? The Holy Spirit will tell you. He will communicate it. You'll begin to see it flowing through your life and then you'll know. Okay. The most important gift is to be your strongest one. 1 Corinthians 13, the gift of love. Okay. If you need additional prayer, come to the Arizona Deliverance Center. Number 14, please discontinue watching Deliverance Ministers on your YouTube. I said this already. This is while you're in your process, right? But be mindful. Tick tock. That hurts the brain. Discontinue that Instagram, et cetera. Over 90% of them have familiar spirits and they will distract you. So if you're here, stay here.  Don't run over here to that breakfast.   Do not get involved with prophetic ministries. For example, Bethel, Sid Roth, Kat Kerr, the new apostolic reformation, et cetera. These ministries are heavily infected with familiar spirits and will allow you to pick up transfer spirits. It happens really easily and really quickly. So keep going. And then number 15, please consider supporting our ministry. And there's a donation page there. And he says, love to all, Brother Mike. So thanks for this. So that concludes that chapter on self-deliverance. We're going to do some practice, but we're not going to videotape that. So thanks for watching.


Hello and welcome. Thanks so much for joining us today. You have tuned in to another episode of The Non-Profit Show. I'm Jarrett Ransom and today we have Mouhi Kwaja with us. Mouhi serves as a trainer for Fundraising Academy, but there's so much more to this gentleman and you'll learn more here soon. But he's here to share with us about social media and the new secret donor, Prospecting Strategy. So he's gonna drill down into this conversation with us today. But before we dive deep, we wanna remind you who we are. Julia's taking a day off. So I hope you're enjoying that. Julia Patrick is the CEO of the American Non-Profit Academy and I'm Jarrett Ransom, her sidekick, non-profit nerd CEO of the Raven Group. And we are honored to continue these conversations. Thank you so very much to our amazing presenting sponsors. 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Welcome back. Thank you so much, and Jarrett. Really happy to be here and just learning with you and sharing with you and everything, so happy to be back. Absolutely, and there's a lot going on this year. We talked about it being end of year season, we are in Q4, believe it or not, Q1's gonna be here. And so as we talk about communication strategy, social media strategy, let's start off and talk to us about why nonprofit communication and social media is even a thing and why it's important. Yeah, so social media is such a new age concept for many of our organizations. And as nonprofits came into the internet world and realized the potential for online donations, then soon it was around online communication. And, you know, face-to-face is always going to be king, but think of how the pandemic changed that. Think of how going forward, it set the tone. Our donor's gonna wanna meet face-to-face going forward. Our donor's going to want to touch base with organizations in the same way. So we really have to think of how can we leverage the tools that we have to continue our prospecting, to continue our engagement. And a lot of us as major gift officers, as prospect managers, as individuals with portfolios, we have metrics that our teams want us to hit, but how can we redefine what an engagement is? Yeah, we can make a phone call, but who wants to answer those these days? Yeah, we can respond to an email or do email outreach and that's probably the least invasive, but oftentimes it just ends up being not even opened or deleted and same thing with direct mail. So social media provides such a unique opportunity for engagement, for virality, for the opportunity to build a relationship and also find more about our donors.  That 10% is really just what I don't wanna share with my dad. Sorry dad. Yeah. So, you know, think about the different tools like my generation, we started Facebook 15 years ago now and then slowly moved to Instagram and now to TikTok and these other formats, but where are your demographics pointing, you know? And what is it about the mission that you wanna share? This is all about storytelling and there's such a unique opportunity. And with social media, it's about consistency, it's about messaging, it's about building a connection to your followers. And you know, we can get into the how of increasing your followers and asking your donors to follow you and like you and subscribe to you. And all of those things are super important to deepen the relationship with them. So I'll pause there. Yeah, no, that's really good and important.  One of the age old challenges that I've heard of in my career over the last 20 plus years is the aging donor demographic, right? And so I think of social media, Muhi, and I think of it as a way to engage, you know, a diverse audience, an age diverse audience, a geographic diverse audience. And to me, it just sounds like a win-win opportunity. But my question, again, all unscripted is there's so much noise in our world today. Social media is a very noisy place. How do we even capture the attention of our audience, right?  And we're bombarded with tens of thousands of images every single day. And oftentimes it takes seven attempts for something to resonate with us. So think about that in your messaging. What's that hook in the first five seconds of a video? You know, our attention span is still limited. These days we get frustrated when an ad comes on and it lasts for 10 seconds, right? Oh, yeah. And we look forward to being able to skip on the ad right away. So even commercial marketing is still limited in the sense that it needs to have that hook, right? And think of the Super Bowl ads. Those are the ones that we actually look forward to because they're funny, because they're catchy, because they're interesting and engaging.  And that's how you should be communicating with your donor. Oh, I love that. I love that. If we had, yeah, that 30-second potential. So let's, I love that so much. And let's talk about, you know, the potential donors coming to the nonprofit. How do we help them get there? I love the Super Bowl analogy.  We always think of, okay, you have just a fine amount of time to capture this person's attention and their interest. So how do we help potential donors come to our nonprofit? And I'm assuming this is related to using social media channels. Yeah, definitely. And, you know, as a trainer for Plunderaging Academy, I have to plug our book. Yes.  I know I was looking. I know I have it too. So. It is such a fantastic book. And there's a whole chapter on prospecting and how to find qualified donors. And if you don't have this book, definitely worth the investment to really easily read along. It's such a, you know, it's not as much of a technical book as it is like a hot book. And there's so many little gems in here. And a lot of it in terms of finding and connecting with your donors is doing your homework. It's trying to pinpoint and get your organization to show up in FDO searches on Google. It's about creating a consistent blog. It's about even at the end of your emails linking your social media, of course, but in your one-on-one outreach linking your social media and literally creating messaging around following and supporting your organization. So that's one way in which you can help potential donors come to you. But you also have to do your homework because if it's about prospecting and trying to see who's following you and maybe even look at your portfolio, a lot of CRMs, customer relationship management tools will have social media integration. You can run your donor portfolio through this integration and it will then based on their email address or whatever information that you have access to say, oh, this social media profile is associated with this email. So then you can find their social media account. You can put it in their donor profile and this is where prospecting comes into play because if you then see that Muji Hwaja has been to Guatemala and Mexico, you know he loves to travel. If you see that he's been posting about philanthropy and other nonprofit causes, you know, he's inclined to be civically engaged. You saw that he just voted earlier this week and all of these different things that you can find out about your donors before having a conversation with them. And when you're in that one-on-one meeting, it's not to say, oh, I saw that you posted. No, it's a little tidbit for you to develop a perspective on how this donor thinks on how this donor would want information presented to them on how you should go about developing a relationship with this potential donor. And you get to ask those discovery questions when you get that one-on-one meeting. And that's what prospecting is all about. It's about qualifying them as a donor and as somebody who's connected to your organization. Qualifying them, absolutely. And I love that you're bringing up all of these data points, right? And I hear from people often, they're like, oh, I just stalked this person. And I was like, no, no, that's called prospect researching. It's big difference, you know? But in our language, the vernacular is prospect researching. And you can find a lot of this, as you mentioned, Muhy, through the social media outlets. Talk to us more about these outlets, the social media outlets, because there's a lot of them and how we can expand our reach within the market. So if you're at a small organization like American Muslim Community Foundation, our staff is overstretched. We have part-time staff. We have full-time staff. We have the very limited time to do a lot of things. So we try to do a few things well. And oftentimes marketing advice is stick to one social media channel and make that your holy grail, right? Yeah. And if you can and have the capacity to slowly introduce another outlet. So of course, I would say the top four are likely LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And if you can focus on one of those well or utilize a platform like Hootsuite that allows you to schedule and manage and post virtually and all that once in one place, then you have a solid way to attract and expand your followers. And if your admin or staff member has time to schedule posts out, it makes their life a lot easier. It creates consistency and all of those things and the best time to post and figuring out just like with email marketing, they say Tuesday mornings or certain dates and times, all of those things are so critical in social media as well. And you can market test AB, okay, let's try post at 10 a.m. versus 1 p.m., which one gets more engagement. And each social media platform is gonna be different as well. So things like Hootsuite gives you analytics and it also has something called smart scheduling. So it tells you when the best time to post on that said platform is. So there's so many benefits and Hootsuite is a free service. If you link more than three social media accounts, then I think it's a paid platform, but it allows you to magically do a lot of this stuff. And if you have the time to develop the content, create the content, then you can schedule it and it makes your life so much easier. Yeah, I agree. The schedulers are fantastic. I feel I would be remiss, Moohi, if I didn't ask, how do you recommend we tap into ambassadors, other individuals that are engaged with our nonprofit to also serve as an ambassador online? Because when we think of outlets and expanding our reach, I think that's a fantastic audience for us to tap into. Yeah, definitely. I just saw a video sponsored add another way for social media to work. It was Rami Malik, the actor, and he was sharing a short video about why he supports international rescue committee. So, you know, of course, with celebrities and large national organizations, they maybe have the reach and capacity to build those larger connections. But even with an ambassador that who knows, might be a social media influencer or somebody who's a board member and has a following of lawyers because they're a respected lawyer in town or somebody who just wants to help your organization. They don't even need to have a following, but can create content and become an ambassador for you so that it's easier for you to develop that content and tell your story. I think, you know, having worked at the American Red Cross, we oftentimes had a few big name celebrities. And again, it's easier for those larger organizations to find those ambassadors. But I would encourage small organizations as well to see how they can find a local ambassador that can help them be the face of their social media. And why not make that an intern who's right out of college, who's a Whippet snapper with all of these social media tools and understands these metrics and can learn more about your organization. Like, there's so many creative ways that you can share your story and have somebody help you with that. Absolutely. I love, you know, tapping into the interns, volunteers, things like that. But how can we understand our social media metrics? Can we nerd out about this for a little bit? Because not only are platforms changing, are the KPIs, like the key performance indicators, the metrics, are those changing? And what do you recommend we track? Yeah, so this is beautiful. And if each of your nonprofit social media pages is set up like a business page or even in Hootsuite, they will give you analytics up the wazoo. They will tell you demographics. They will tell you what location your followers are in. They will tell you... Like the time of day, right? Like the peak time of day, yeah. They will tell you the age bracket. They will tell you pretty much when and how your followers engage with you. So that information is critical. And what you do with it is cater your messaging to the largest audience. Oh, they're females ages 40 to 50. What's gonna resonate with that audience?  And maybe even finding that ambassador who meets your largest demographic, so it's more engaging and more connected. So those are all things that the metrics can help you think through. And then, obviously, the easy metrics are how many shares, how many likes, how many new followers are you getting, and all of those to track over time. And I would say for KTIs, especially when it comes to social media, is, you know, we wanna grow our user base or our followers by x-centage year over year. And then what you do for fundraising is you say, we want x amount of new donors to come from social media. And even double down on that, you can be putting unique URLs in your social media posts and then track the hits to your website from those unique links. So all of these things are super integrated. And if you have a marketing team, or if you are just a one-person marketing team and development team and you're struggling to do everything, learn about Google SEO, about Google AdWords, about creating customized links. And your website often has these metrics built in, Google Analytics. So look at how Google Analytics can connect with your social media, which can then connect to your website, which then can connect to your donation form so that you can really track the progress of each post. And when you use that link, did it generate clicks and likes and all of that? So there's so much that you can do with online marketing, with Google AdWords, like every nonprofit should be taking advantage of it. And all of that can be pointing to your social media as well. So there's so many things about social media, engaging your prospects, doing a little bit of research before you have that meeting about who your donors are and seeing how you can best engage them and tell your story to them. That is so fantastic. And I think of like, all the things that's going on integrating this, having a way to track it. I love the URL link. Like that's seemingly an easy solution, but you can track that, especially when it comes to end of your campaigns. Maybe you're participating in Giving Tuesday, right? Like that can be a separate link there. And I just think that's really important. Is there a way, Muhi, because you hit the nail on the head, there are so many organizations that there's a one person, that kind of does all of these roles. Do you recommend outsourcing any of this? And if so, what might that look like? Yeah, I'm getting exhausted thinking about those one person development teams and how much they have to do. I used to be that person. I was burnt out after so many years of being that person. So I would say, try to recruit board members who are experts in these areas. Try to find volunteers who know what they're doing. If there is a local marketing firm in town, see if they can pro bono help your nonprofit. And if you do have a budget, then yes, try to work with organization or company that will help you with your Google analytics, right? Google SEO and AdWords, they give you as a nonprofit $10,000 a month for a budget. If you don't know how to use Google ads, you can do like online certifications. But if you have a budget to pay somebody a few hundred bucks a month to manage it for you, you'll see instant boost in your SEO, in your hits on your website, in your links to social media and all of that. So it's a matter of getting your nonprofit to show up on Google's page on the first search at the top and to do that naturally and through ads. And that's what Google SEO and ads can help you do. So I would highly encourage you trying to find a marketing expert to join your board, again, to maybe find an intern that understands it better than you do. And even if you do have an understanding of it, but don't have the capacity or time to, then outsourcing it to somebody that does.  Solid advice. And I would say too, when it comes to understanding the social media metrics, this is best practice to measure the same metrics over and over, right? So like monthly, quarterly, annually, and that's how you track and analyze success, what's working well, maybe what's not working. And just like getting a consistent rhythm and cadence with these metrics is really important. So understanding that I think is key. Yeah, like, seeing how Q4 of 2022 performed in how many likes you got versus Q4 of 2021, how many new followers, how many donations from online did you get? Social media posts and all of those things are so critical. And if you can put a magnifying glass on those things, you can better understand how to increase it over time and what a realistic KPI is because I've been at and seen so many nonprofit organizations that just say, oh, well, we raised $600,000 this year. Why don't we raise a million dollars next year? Yeah, that's great. But what data do you have to support that that's possible? So not to say that it can't be done, but if you look at year over year growth, that's a much better indicator of what to expect the next year. So yeah. And then we have to look at, yeah, and then we have to look at what happened that year that might have increased the opportunity for that, decreased the opportunity for that. There's a lot of moving pieces, I think, that we need to put into play because obviously, March of 2020, there was a big life event that happened for all of us and just to map that on the metrics, I think, is worthwhile. Muhy, you're always so fun for me to chat with. I really enjoy our conversations. Again, Muhy Quajar. Yeah, thank you. Joins us. He's trainer for Fundraising Academy and also co-founder at the American Muslim Community Foundation. So check them out as well here with National University Fundraising Academy. Follow us on our social media. Yes, what a nice plug. Yeah, and then let's also visit the online learning portal and that is online.fundraising-academy.org. So many good things and resources here on this portal. Definitely worth taking a look at. And I'm gonna give another shout out and a plug for that book because Pearl did send me a copy of the book, Muhy, and I love it. It's, you know, it's right here. So easy to read. Yeah, it's fantastic. And so, you know, I encourage all of you watching and listening to take a look here at the online learning portal, but also in general, what Fundraising Academy is providing. Again, Julia Patrick missed out today, but I hope she's having a fantastic day. I'm Jarrett Ransom, her fun sidekick and really just honored to be here with you, Muhy, for today's conversation. Also extremely grateful to have the ongoing support from our amazing presenting sponsors. And they're really here for one purpose, and that purpose is your mission. So thank you to Bloomerang American Nonprofit Academy, Fundraising Academy at National University, where Muhy joins us from today. Yes, thank you. Be generous.  These companies keep us going and growing day in and day out. And I have to share, Muhy, we are fully booked for this year. So we are currently fully booked with all of our guest speakers, our nonprofit thought leader episodes, and just so grateful to have these ongoing, high-level intellectual conversations. So thanks for joining me today. Oh, it was a pleasure and looking forward to the next one. Yeah, absolutely. Well, hey, you and I need to catch up offline, but really that just depends on social media. I know we connect today quite a bit. LinkedIn, by far, is my number one, but yeah, it's been a really good conversation and thanks for sharing your expertise with us. And for all of you that joined us, thank you for joining us for today's drill down with Muhy. Join us tomorrow. It's Friday, it's Veterans Day. We will be here. So yeah, thank you to all of our veterans that have served. We will be here if you miss it. That's okay, you know where to find us. But please do stay well, so you can do well, and we'll see you back here tomorrow. Thanks.


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Today when conflict is urban there is an enormous amount of and very different type of evidence that we have access to. Some of them are language testimonies of people. We can speak to people, they can upload material online. Others are a little bit less traditional but I think we know now that we feel the enormous amount of images and data that conflict especially conflict happening in cities produce. This require this enable us to create accountability when we are not able to actually reach the ground but the problem of open source investigation is collecting that material verifying it, seeing that those videos are genuine and that they are from the area where we think we are and then synchronizing them in a way that can tell a story. So what you see here behind me is a kind of perhaps less than five percent of the images that forensic architecture collected of a single day of war in Gaza in the summer of 2014 the Israeli army invaded Gaza. August 1st was the one day of this war where most civilian casualties were sustained and Amnesty International the organization that actually commissioned us to do it was unable to enter the Israeli government banned the entry into Gaza. So we started collecting and receiving material from many people on the ground but sometimes the amount of material does not equal clarity in some images we see tanks firing in others we see buildings getting hit by shell we see civilians running we see bomb clouds etc how to compose and to create a narrative from all these the wealth of this material. The biggest problem is that of metadata when you collect material from open sources they come without the metadata which mainly for our purpose is the space and time in which those images were taken so we need to find other ways to do it we need to find what we call physical clocks within those images it would allow us to understand what time they were taken. One of the techniques in which art historians were always trying to establish the time location on images was meteorology looking at clouds and here adopting that technique we decided to look at bomb clouds understanding that each one of them has a unique signature in time and space we are able therefore to collect clips from different parts of our archive and to synchronize them by seeing the precise development of each cloud I showed you three but we allow to sync up hundreds of those videos simply by looking at the sky above but you need an anchor and anchor could be provided by satellite imagery imagery there was one satellite imagery of that day of August 1st it was taken at 11.39 in the morning and by chance it captured a bomb cloud just as it was exploding we spent days looking for precisely that cloud and found it on the ground here and had to verify precisely its dimension and location when we are content that this is the one we're able to time that image and then via triangulation the rest of the images of the battlefield so in fact looking at the development of bomb cloud in the sky allowed us to create a narrative and to create a timeline of that day and to start seeing what is happening to civilians on the ground I mean you would see how the timeline actually develops how those synchronizations would happen this is done manually but now we have systems and techniques to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to actually accelerate our work that always has a human dimension to it then we need to verify where those images are this is a photograph taken from near a hospital in Rafa and we see a bomb landing very closely we know it is there because we can match the image within our model the model becomes a way of navigation through the space looking at the cloud so closely we start noticing other things in fact we start noticing bombs in midfall splits of a second before they hit the ground and in this particular occasion killed according to Amnesty's researchers 16 civilians Amnesty lawyers asked us to see if we could actually tell which bomb it is and who is the manufacturer we could freeze those in mid air build the dimension of the photograph into the model measure the photograph put a grid behind them measure those bombs split of a second before they come and find out exactly what ammunition was used and that enables further legal work or corporate accountability work so forensic architecture is almost like a pathology of a building and in a sense it is a kind of skill that had to emerge why buildings because wars most conflicts right now take place in urban areas and when they do take place in urban areas buildings are the targets and when they are the targets analyzing buildings analyzing the rubble allow us to be something like perhaps archaeologist of the present and of course architecture is also the medium that allow us to look synchronize and locate the images in space I personally maybe you hear from my accent grew up in Israel and was very much involved in the around 2000 the year 2000 in activism and human rights work concerned with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza all those buildings that you see here might look like nice suburbs but they're actually violation of international treaties and human rights in fact these are kind of architectural crimes happening on the drawing board and analyzing them and analyzing the relation to Palestinian built fabric became very important in that work a big part of that research relied on drawing what was at the time the first map of settlements in the occupied territories these are in blue marked in blue here on that map the area in lighter blue are the areas of their expansion and what you see in lighter brown are the areas left for Palestinian semi-autonomous areas around you see that the problem is a problem of form and formal analysis becomes incredibly important here we're responding at a time to the call of a great Palestinian scholar called Edward Said who called for counter cartography he said cartography is usually the tool of the dominator it is the tool of the colonists it's the tool of the imperial powers in the since the 17th century onwards counter cartography is a way of inverting that cartographic gaze somehow the development of satellite imagery and the social media imagery that I showed you before has made made it necessary for us to turn counter cartography into counter forensics use forensic tools really to investigate alleged state crimes and human rights violation but sometimes we don't have images or perhaps only a satellite image this is the Syrian prison of Said Naya run by the Assad government it is one of the most notorious detention center when different human rights groups confirmed death in custody executions and torture are happening there and we wanted to reconstruct that prison but there were no images no reporting organization was allowed in and there was no journalism inside we know that memory has a spatial dimension to it we know that we recollect things when we return to places where they have happened but sometimes you cannot take survivors back to the scene of the crime it's simply impossible to do also survivors memory is a complicated thing survivors are usually traumatized and trauma does strange things to memory sometimes blackouts repetition it stretches spaces and time in unpredictable way together with forensic psychologists we have developed an entire methodology of interviewing survivors within 3d environments we would build with them 3d models and the process would evolve through a feedback loop and the model will be built through what they can describe to us and the memory would be rebuilt by being placed in those in those spaces the problem in Said Naya was that they were that most prisoners were led blindfolded into the prison they haven't seen it we had to work with acoustic engineers here with Lawrence Abu Hamdan in order to give our model sound properties reverberation and echo modeling and through that we could approximate the spaces locations and distances that we later corroborated with the satellite imagery and others I'm going to show you two short clips and how how it works when one models architecturally sometimes very mundane things and a traumatic memory might emerge here the Palestinian architect on our team Hania Jamal asks the detainee to model the hatch on his solitary confinement room he tells that the hatch is a bit bigger than his face he relates the size or dimension of his body with architectural ones and and then she asks what has happened and apparently the story that he has not told on normal interviews kind of sprang up where he was in the solitary confinement cell and the guard on the other side wanted to punish him ask him to push his head through that hatch and then his head was kicked and stamped upon on the other side he fainted and but but you could see that that most traumatic memory needed a very technical sometimes architectural question to emerge what we then we we placed that online in a kind of an interactive environment where people could actually experience some of those testimonies we managed to reconstruct the architecture of the prison for sound and and memory you could navigate through it go to the cell and listen to a testimony it was one of the very much viewed human rights report and it led Assad to be questioned on it and this is what he had to say the report that you mentioned you have mentioned it was a report made by Qatar and financed by Qatar you don't know the source you don't know the names of those victims nothing verified about that report it was paid by Qatar directly in order to vilify and smear the Syrian government in the Syrian army there are a lot of eyewitness no one who knows who are they you don't have anything clear about that it's not verified so no if we were indeed offered Qatari money I don't know we might have a dilemma but we were never offered that and in fact what is interesting in it is that you see that in human rights work or in counter forensic work increasingly people go look for who who is your funder we are funded by the ERC and European Research Council grant we funded by human rights and technology grants we funded sometimes by commissions from our client such as human rights watch or MNST but indeed all those donors do not exercise authority over our fines or our methods but increasingly we find that people try to use a certain relativism as camouflaged as kind of like healthy skepticism in a sense in the principle of post-truth is precisely that there's a kind of a new propaganda around now unlike the propaganda of old is not trying to convince us of this ideology versus the other but trying indeed to create a perceptual blurring by which we would not know anymore what is true and what is not and therefore verification becomes an incredibly important and arduous process verification is a process that must take place not only technologically but must build a diagram and a relation of institutions and experts people on the ground that suffer violence those that film and record it those that write about it the human rights organization that are sent to to write report about it university research centers like us that are able to contribute technologically to it and perhaps the media that could amplify our voice these are the kind of the network that are absolutely essential for us of maintaining truth at at this moment in time when truth becomes such a precious commodity I wanted to show just a very last sequence here about American involvement or us involvement rather in a military base in Cameroon the Salak military base where again reports of torture and execution have taken place the American military said they do not know anything about it they have no access to those places and we know that Facebook Facebook is spying on us but it also could be a good resource to counter and look at violations of others we build a model in order to match the Facebook photographs of an American service personnel simply forgot to switch off his location manager and we can see exactly where this person was because we can match it within the model and we can see that that person has an access right into the military base we could see American service personnel training Cameroonian soldiers in vat night vision equipment and we can see a film that could almost be comical if it would not be so sad of American military personnel in Cameroonian one playing football with night goggles equipment bumping into the building where detainees are held and questioned and tortured according to again amnesty here so these are the places where American service personnel were seen these are the areas where we know from the photograph where they were these are the detention cells where people died in custody also and this is where they are tortured and I think that these kind of superimposition make it make our cases strong amplify those testimonies of detainees and allow us to actually present solid cases that open in that case a full American african investigation thank you for listening