I Denounced AKA: My Free From Bondage Testimony

Blessings to Israel presents Discerning the Times, a program committed to encouraging you to view current events through the lens of the Bible. Now, in honor of the one and only true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, please join us for today's program. On March 13th, God revealed some truth to me. He showed me how real heaven and hell is, mostly how real demons are. As a saved Christian, I stood in the fact that God loved me and would never let anything harm me. But on March 13th, I learned that as a saved Christian filled with the Holy Spirit, I was bound. The devil had some strongholds on my life, and I didn't know what those strongholds were. Welcome to Discerning the Times.

My name is Brian Thomas. Such a blessing to be with you as always. And that opening clip is the voice of my guest today who is sharing her testimony of being freed from the bondage of a sorority.

So we are really excited and looking forward to hearing from her. But before we bring her in, I want to remind you, as we always do, that your eternal state is far more important than your current state. That means if you have never received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, you are going to spend eternity in the lake of fire separated from our Lord. It is our desire that you come to Jesus Christ so that you will have everlasting life.

And your present state is not to be minimized because what you do today in this side of life is going to determine your eternal state. So please, if you have never received him, come to Jesus Christ on today. All right, folks. So again, we are very blessed today to have Brittany Boone, who is our special guest, to share with us her testimony on denouncing from AKA. So, Brittany, it is such a blessing to have you. And I want to thank you for taking time out to come on to speak with us today on Discerning the Times. Thank you for having me. So I really commend and applaud you for your stand and your publicly denouncing AKA and the fact that you stated that you were in bondage as a result of it. But before we get into your testimony, please share with our audience anything that you would like for them to know concerning your background.

Sure. So I was born and raised in a project denomination, Church of God in Christ. So I've known God my whole life, just was born into a church Holy Spirit home. But when I graduated high school, I graduated church as well. And I was just so determined to live my own life and be more on the rebellious side, I guess, because I was raised in a church home and I just wanted to see what life had to offer.

So but in my young 20s, when I was 22, I got pregnant by my boyfriend, who is now my husband. And that led me to start my own personal walk with God. When I the first time I had literally opened up a Bible, then I was a child. And since then, I've continued to walk with God and grow in God.

But this year now, I'm 32. I've just come to a new level in my spiritual walk with God and I've just been revealed a lot of truth this year. And I love where I'm at right now with God.

Amen. And that's the wonderful thing about our Lord is that he is so grace-filled and so merciful that even when we stray away, as long as we're willing to turn back to him, he welcomes us back with open arms. And so that is so great that you are at a point today in which your walk with Christ is where you are happy with. So I'm so glad to hear that.

So again, we are going to talk about your denouncing from AKA. And you posted a video on YouTube, which is where I found you. And it was such a great testimony. And we're going to share with our listeners how they can watch that video.

And the opening clip was actually a portion of that. But to get us started, you mentioned in your testimony that you went on a fast. Why did you choose to do that?

Yes. So I really wanted to empty myself and to make sure I was hearing God and not myself. I just wanted to flush out all of the noise that could pop up in my mind or in my spirit and just make sure I was hearing God clearly. And I'm glad to see that you mentioned the fast because I love to fast myself and I promoted, I'm an advocate for it. And it's interesting the number of people that I see when I say something to them about fasting, they look at me as if I'm crazy. And they say, what are you talking about going without eating and drinking? But fasting is powerful folks.

I mean, it works. And there are times in which God will really reveal things to you and show things. And that's when strongholds get broken during times of fasting. So I encourage people out there to please fast.

If it's something that you've never done, do so. And I'm very glad to hear that you chose to do that as well. And as a result of the fast, you said that the Holy Spirit led you to do something. What was that that happened?

Yes. The Holy Spirit moved very quickly because I was at the beginning of that. I told God, I was like, I'm not eating or drinking anything until I know what has me down. And that was like, early Tuesday morning and around 830 ish, I was led to search is as led, I quoted this is aka a cult.

I searched that in Google. And as soon as I searched that someone came to my mind who I had just met a couple months earlier, I learned that she was an aka and that she went to the same college I went to. And she just told me she said, Well, I'm no longer affiliated with aka like that was it. We were in a public setting. So we didn't talk much.

But we did exchange numbers. And I was like, Hey, you know, for some reason, I have this question in my mind, which is weird, because I had been inactive for eight years. And just a couple days prior, which was a Sunday, I was on aka website trying to figure out how I can reactivate my membership. So I told her all this. And that's what she told me about, that she had denounced and renounced.

And I was like, what, what? So that led me on to the journey that I went on that day. It's just amazing the way the Holy Spirit will guide us, folks.

And that's why I lead the program off with I the way that I do, for those who have never received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, because yes, I am stressing your eternal state. But also in living on this side of life, we have the Holy Spirit living within us as our guide. And it's amazing, I could give testimony after testimony of incidents in which I have been seeking the Lord about something, and the Holy Spirit will just take take the reins and guide me right in the direction that God wants me to go in. And that is something that we must trust. And when I say that, I mean, the person of the Holy Spirit, the person of the Trinity in which we can trust and he does guide us. And so as a result of that, you also then you sought out testimony from others who had also denounced correct?

Yes. So that woman that I had reached out to, she sent a testimony of one of her close friends who was a Delta. And so she was like, just watch this. I believe that God will speak to you through this. And so I watched it and I was like, oh, my goodness, I related to everything she was saying.

And at the same time, it was so new to me that I was like, when she was a Delta, I was like, let me find somebody because maybe that's just for Delta, you know, like I knew what I was like, I know I need to do now, but I still need to understand from someone who was in the same organization that I was in, too, and just hear their side of it. And so I watched the announcement video of two sisters who denounced A.K.A. and that for sure when I was like, OK, this this is nothing but God speaking to me right now.

And I watched a few other denouncement videos after that. And yeah, everyone I just God kept confirming his word and every single word one amazing. And we're going to talk about it more in a few minutes. But I want to stress to our audience that you stated you were in bondage. And so what you're speaking of right now is the way in which God was delivering you from the bondage, that process that that was happening of what was going through, what you were going through. And you also mentioned in your testimony about the two spiritual realms. And so I want to play a clip of that before we go into the next thing to talk about the spiritual realm.

And also, I want you to speak about the ritual books and the things that you went through during your time of pledging. But before we go to that, here's a clip of your testimony concerning the two spiritual realms. This led me to understand that I made some agreements in the spiritual realm. Now, let me pause right here by saying, making it very clear that our two spiritual realms, the light in the dark, God reigns in the light and the devil reigns in the dark. Anything that's not done in the light is demonic. So I pulled up the AKA ritual book that I found on Google and read through the rituals, prayers, hymns, and acts I had to do to become an AKA.

I could see these moments replayed clearly in my mind. But at the moment of doing these things, I had no clue that what I was doing was demonic. The ritual book clearly states that AKA is a spiritual organization, not a Christian organization, just that it's spiritual. All right. So Brittany, talk to us about the spiritual realm and also again, the rituals that you went through during this process of pledging.

Yes. So the spiritual realm was really just the whole reason I had initially went on the fast was because I actually it was from a movie I watched called Come Out in Jesus Name. I don't know if you've seen that, but it really as a Christian, I had always known that God loved me and that he wanted the best for me. And I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins. I just walked in grace in the grace that God provides for us. And I just never really tried to pay too much attention to the to say, you know, like they say a lot in church now, don't give the devil too much credit.

I was living off of that. I was like, I ain't trying to give the devil no credit. But deep down, I didn't realize until that movie, I think it was just out of fear of the devil because I was giving him too much credit and too much power, thinking that he was, you know, just more than he was. So anyway, from that movie, I just realized that the how real the demonic realm is.

And so I was I realized through watching a lot of those announcement videos to the rituals that we had to do. Like I said, like I stated, the book clearly says the ritual book clearly says that it's a spiritual organization. And when I was going through the initiation process, I remember it very clearly like them saying, you know, spiritual. But in my mind, especially just my young, naive mind, I'm thinking spiritual equals Christianity.

I'm not thinking anything else other than Christian. So I'm like, oh, yeah, this is a Christian organization. But no, it just says it's spiritual.

And it then takes a lot of scriptures from the Bible, not even quoting like where the scripture is coming from, but just taking the exact words in the Bible and replacing God with the word Alpha Kappa Alpha, or V, P H E E in capital letters. And so it just, it just all I don't know so much was being revealed to me in opening. I just Googled it. I didn't even have the ritual book with me. I just Googled it. And just so much as being revealed to me when I read through that again.

Wow. So, so let me get this straight. So in these ritual books, they actually pull Bible verses out scriptures, but they take God's name, they take God out and they replace it with either AKA or a T H E or the, and that's how you know that this is a spiritual battle because why would anyone want to change the Bible? Why would anyone want to take the word of God and change it? And we know that the Bible gives a warning at the end of the book of revelation concerning taken away from the words of the book, meaning anyone that changes the scripture, there's a very stern warning that God gives for that. So that makes it very clear for people out there who may be in denial, because I'm sure there are some who are listening.

They may say, well, this is just her, her perception of things or, or, you know, just the way she views it. But it should be very clear that this is a spiritual battle that has taken place between the light and the dark, because from what I've been told from others, I never actually pledged a fraternity myself, but from what I've been told from others who have, is that also with these ritual books and the things that you're doing is that there's a lot of secrecy involved. Correct. Yep.

Very much. And that should be a telltale sign because when you look at the Bible, the Bible is not secret. The Bible is open. As a matter of fact, God wants everybody to read the Bible, whether you are a believer or not, it really, we want nonbelievers to open it and read it to become a believer. So it's not a matter of, well, you have to be a Christian first before you can read the Bible. No, it's an open book for everyone. So the fact that there's all this secrecy there, that should be a telltale sign for anyone out there who, who maybe you're on the fence about this. And also tell me, Brittany, I think you mentioned also during the pledging or going through the rituals, I think you mentioned about wearing dark clothing. Is that correct?

Yes. Um, and also we wore dark clothes, but also the secrecy, like in the rituals, there's secrecy. And, um, it says that in the book, like keep everything secret. Um, and you know, even Jesus said, like you said, I have done nothing in secret. And also the underground things that happen that there's not, you can't find that on Google, like the actual pledging process that happens that is, is, um, not allowed even by the organization. You know, all of that is definitely done in secret too. So there is a lot of secrecy, um, done there. And yet in a part of the actual ritual, which is quote unquote the above ground process, which everybody has to do to become an AKA or any divine non organization. Yeah.

And part of that was that we had to wear all blacks during our intake process. Okay. So, so as the Holy Spirit is revealing these things to you, so is it at this point that you made the decision to renounce the sorority? Yes.

Yes. Actually what the first announcement video that I watched, the one that, um, my friend sent to me, um, I knew then watching her, her video that I needed to denounce. And oddly enough, like I can't even explain this cause like I said, two days earlier, I was trying to reactivate my AKA membership, but when I knew I had to denounce, I felt excitement about it. I was like excited to denounce. Um, so again, I know that was nothing but the Holy Spirit in me, just probably excited for me that I had, you know, been revealed that truth. Amen. And how did it go with your circle of family and friends when they learned about your decision?

Uh, surprisingly not well at all. Um, I didn't know what to expect, but, um, yeah, my very close family members, some who are Greek, some who are not Greek, um, they tried to stop me just because they, you know, family always wants what is best for you. And sometimes what is best for you is they don't understand it.

They will try to stop you from doing it. So they didn't see that me denouncing was best for me cause they didn't necessarily understand it, which I understand too, because when I was an AKA, anytime I heard about somebody denouncing one, I didn't want to understand why. And two, I just kind of looked at it and it was like, okay, they're exaggerating. They're taking this whole, you know, denouncement thing way too far. So I, I didn't like, I definitely took it hard. It was very hard to hear their reactions. Uh, but now since time has passed, it is definitely got a lot better.

But, um, the initial shock was just, it was just an initial shock on both sides. Hmm. Yeah. And that's the thing to follow Christ there. Sometimes we're going to be ostracized by it, even by people close to us.

And that's not, it's not easy to do. We have to admit that it is painful, but you know, when I look at the gospels, when I read the gospels and you see the accounts in which, when Jesus was appointing or designating those who would be his inner circle, the apostles, and if you recall, as Jesus approached them, he was telling them to leave behind certain things, certain jobs or, or even people in some cases to follow him. And that is something that we all must be willing to do because sometimes we do have to leave people behind and, and it's saying that it doesn't mean you completely cut off the relationship. But what it means is that even if they are in disagreement with what you're doing, you still have to put Christ first because we have to love Jesus first and foremost before everything. And again, that, that hurt that we feel though from, from those who are in a dis in disagreement.

And sometimes there are people that unfortunately will cut you off for making those types of decisions. But, um, I, I am so grateful for your faithfulness and saying, well, I'm going to just follow Christ. I'm going to be obedient to what he is leading me to do because you said that you had changes in your life as a result of making this decision. So talk to us about what, what changed in your life. How were things different after you made this decision?

Yes. So the first thing I noticed was that I was just seeing and hearing things completely different. Like literally the scales from my eyes were removed and I started looking at things that I was doing differently.

I'm like, how did I think this was okay? And I lost desires for things like drinking, secular music, my fantasies of becoming a big bad boss girl, and all that. I just live in my best life.

Um, I'll let go of all of those desires. I just, I started to view my life as eternal rather than just this life that we have here on earth. And I'm thankful for that. I just, um, you know, I, I definitely all of the decisions I make now are not of this world there for my eternal life. Amen.

Amen to that. And that's one of the things that I stress so much in this is something that troubles me a lot because I see a lot of people who profess Christ, but they live their lives as if this life is all there is to it. But this life is just, it's like a blink of an eye in comparison to eternity. I mean, the best is yet to come and we have to be eternally minded. And as you said, the, the things that you're doing, you're looking at it spiritually through the right spirit, the right side of the spiritual life, which is the spirit of light.

And it's causing you to have that, that right perspective. And it's amazing how, when you come to Christ, he takes certain desires away from you. I was listening to a radio show just yesterday, and a man was saying how he was witnessing to a non-believer about coming to Christ. And the guy said, no, he wasn't ready to do that. And when he asked him why he said, well, I don't want to give up my sin.

He said, I don't want to stop going out to the club. I don't want to stop fornicating. I don't want to stop all of these things that he, he said he enjoyed. And the man told him, he said, well, see, that's the thing though, when you come to Christ, when the Holy spirit indwells you, those desires go away. You're not going to want to have those things anymore. It doesn't mean you won't have some temptations, but those desires completely changed.

And like you said, your, your perspective and what you see and how you view things, it totally changes. And, and you also mentioned the, the freedom from, from bondage. I think you mentioned things like fear and pride and anxiety prior to this. And those things went away, right? Yes, that was something major.

I definitely noticed too. Especially the whole fear piece and pride. I think one being affiliated with AKA, I had so much pride in, in that alone. I'm sure, I don't know if you know any people that are Greek, but it's kind of like, once you become that, it's like, yeah, I'm, I'm this, I'm an AKA, I'm a Delta. It just kind of wear that, wear that as a badge of honor and thinking that that will open up doors for you.

And so that's definitely where I was. And just in everything I was doing, I had a lot of pride and fear, just fear of people. I noticed whenever I did renounce because I renounced first and I just felt a huge, like in my spirit just felt so much lighter. I was like, I don't have to care so much of what people think about me. I don't have to be fearful of people. That was always like one of my fears, just what people would think about me. And just for me to even do this, that's how I know it's nothing but God because I'm not the type of person to, you know, do things that are outside of the box or just like, I just don't like stepping on toes. I don't like being controversial.

I don't like, I'm always like known as the quote unquote, good girl, like playing it safe. And so for me to even speak out on this, that is, you know, for sure, knowing that those some of those things that had me bound are lifted. And it's not saying that I'm perfected in any way because I'm still, there's still many things that God's trying to deliver me from. But the ones that I noticed immediately was fear, intimidation, anxiety, and pride. That's powerful.

And you're right. We're all, we are all a work in progress and it's just a continual process. But as we walk in our maturity with the Lord, that walk is going to cause us to mature and grow stronger and stronger in the faith. And so to our audience, I want you to hear these words. If you're out there and you're battling with things like anxiety, and we hear that a lot today, people struggling with things concerning mental health, if you're battling with things like anxiety, or it could even be a physical ailment, maybe you're going through financial struggles.

It just seems like you can't get ahead. Or maybe there are troubles within your marriage, within your family members, whatever it is, stop and ask yourself, could it be that you are facing bondage due to your affiliation with these fraternities and sororities? That very well could be the thing that you need to do. Well, I know for sure you need to come out of it. But in doing so, you may very well find that those things that you have been in bondage to will be lifted.

They will go away. So to wrap us up, Brittany, can you speak to us about 10 things that you shared in your testimony concerning your renouncement? Share those 10 things with the audience that God shared with you.

Yes. So there were many scriptures that God revealed to me that just literally from one way or another, I came across during this whole process of coming out. And there were 10 for sure that just really got me through the whole process.

Because honestly, it was a process going in and it was a process coming out. So one of the first one was that my identity is in Christ. And that there's few, there's actually a few scriptures that speak on this. Romans 15 and 17, Ephesians 3 and 17, Ephesians 1 and 15, they speak on our identity is in Christ. But for me, what that meant was my identity is in Christ and not in my Greek letters, or not in my business or not in anything else other than Christ. Another one was that God has not given me a spirit of fear. And that really, that's Timothy 1 and 7.

And that really spoke to me about what I talked about before, just being fearful of people and caring about what they think about me and the actions that I'm making. And another one was Exodus 20 and 3, you must have no other gods before me. And this is what I was reminded of a lot when I read in the ritual book, and just literally how we are being, we were being taught to honor the organization above all else, to have it in our hearts, minds and soul. And it was really in a lot of people that are Greek, they'll tell you, I ain't worshiping my Greek organization, and the only god I serve is God. But if you really look at it, they really do have things, even if they're not active, it's spiritual. Again, it's having those things that they are putting their trust in other than God. Another one was Leviticus 4 and 13 through 14, where it talks about if the Israelite community sins by violating one of the Lord's commands, and they don't realize it, they are still guilty.

And they must present an offering to the Lord. And so that made me think about how when I went through those rituals, I was 18, 19 years old. And so I mean, that was over 10 years ago, I didn't even hardly know what I was saying.

I was like half delusional through it all. And, you know, I didn't know what I was doing. So even though but now that I know it's like, now that I know the truth, if I do nothing about it, I'm still guilty. And I was like, I don't want that guilt on my hands.

Another one was Exodus 20 and five, you must not bow down to them or worship them. For I the Lord, your God and a jealous God, who will not tolerate your, your affection for any other God, I lay the sins of their parents upon their children, and the entire family is affected, even the children and the third and fourth generation. And so this immediately made me think about my children, I have two kids, and I was like, if they are going to be cursed, you know, we've learned about generational curses all the time. And I'm like, if they are going to be cursed and bound by things that I did, that's not okay.

I'm not okay with that. And so because of my children, I was like, that's another verse that really made me realize, okay, yes, you're on the right path with it coming out. And then Corinthians, second Corinthians six and 17. It says, Therefore, come out from among unbelievers and separate yourself from them.

Don't touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. And so many things came to me when I came across the scripture. It's not just the people, not just the people that are in the organization. Still, it's the spiritual side of it. It's those demonic spirits that I allowed myself to, that I gave a foothold to in my life, those demonic spirits, I had to come out from among them and be separated from them.

In Deuteronomy 18, 10 through 12, it says, There shall not be anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who practices witchcraft, or conjures up spells, or a medium, or a spiritualist, or cause upon the dead. And so a few things came to me with this. One thing I was reminded of reading the ritual books is, one part of the ritual is where we had to get a candle. And well, there was a candle on a table, a picture of Esme Ethel, who was the founder of AKA, and ivy wrapped around the candle, and we literally had to bow to it, and say prayers to it, and sign her name in books. I didn't realize it at the time, but we were literally conjuring up her spirit to be there with us in that moment.

Also, just a part of the underground process is literally to, in order to, quote unquote, cross, you had to cross the burning sands. And so that was like a physical manifestation of what we were doing spiritually as well. And so, and also Deuteronomy 13, two through three, reads, If they say, if they say, Come, let us worship other gods, gods you have not known before, do not listen to them, the Lord is testing your heart and soul. And so that, again, was one thing is that all the Greek organizations are associated with Greek gods. And I don't know the specific ones that AKA is associated with, but I know that one, they're not God, the God that I serve. And also, just the things that the organization worships, like themselves, and everything that they're doing, not what God is doing for them, or through them, it's always them.

And I had never known of AKA before college or none of their founders that we were given all the praise to, but I did know God. And so that's why I was like, that's another thing. Another one was Galatians one and 10, where it says, For now, am I seeking the approval of man or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. And so that, again, goes back to my whole, in my mind, the devil definitely was mad that I came out.

And I faced that week, in particular, I faced a lot of spiritual attacks. And so he was definitely in my mind telling me that I was thinking too much. And, you know, just this was not necessary. And I was thinking, especially before I did the announcement video, I think, you know, I don't have to, I don't have to do this, you know, this is just taking it too far. But I was really just thinking, what are people going to think of me? What are people going to say if I come out?

What are people going to say if I publicly come out? And I was just thinking too much about approving man. And the last one is Matthew 5 and 33, but you shall perform unto the Lord your oath. And so I knew that, again, in the rituals we had to do, we were performing oath, but not unto the Lord. It was unto AKA.

Wow. And you are so right as far as these Greek sororities and fraternities being tied to idol gods. And we have some that we're going to share on the screen for those of you who are watching the video version of the podcast that, yes, that is throughout. And we know that idolatry is forbidden. We only to worship the one and only true God that is the God of the Bible.

And so you are definitely right on that. And I also want to touch on, you mentioned about the, the praying to the deceased founder of the sorority. And as you said, we are not to conjure up spirits of the dead. The Bible makes that very clear.

That's called necromancy. We are forbidden to do that. And I did a podcast a while back concerning the black lives matter organization, because that's, that's what they were doing when they would go out in the streets to protest, they were conjuring up spirits of the dead and the Bible forbids us doing that. So it is so important folks for us to know what it is that we're doing, because the Bible says in the book of Hosea, we perish because of lack of knowledge. And that is what we are here to do today. My sister Brittany, she's not here to condemn anyone or to look down upon anyone, but, but she wants all of us to, to be free from bondage.

And the way to have that freedom is to gain knowledge and to know by way of the leading of the Holy spirit that we are to come out from among these things. So Brittany, this is such a great testimony and I pray that so many will be blessed by it. What I want to do to close this out is I want to play from your video clip in which you, you give the testimony because you did a great job of putting the scriptures on the screen. So I want to share that.

So for anyone that maybe could not write them down, they'll be on the screen. So I want to share that real quick and closing, and then, then we'll come back and have you give some final words. I'm going to end with this. If you feel a twinkle or a tug in your spirit, don't ignore it. That's the Holy spirit. He wants your attention. If you feel led to renounce or someone was laid on your spirit while watching this, this next part is for you. The devil does not like to be lonely.

Anytime someone breaks ties with him, he gets even madder and tries to get them back. So keep these 12 verses near and dear to your heart. I'm actually just gonna let them be right here and you can screenshot this and, uh, make sure you read them because the easy part would be to just screenshot it and forget about it. Don't forget about it. Actually go to your Bible. If you have to use the app, if you have to search it on Google, read these scriptures for yourself and keep them in your heart and your mind. But I pray that your hearts be flooded with light in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

So Brittany, any final words that you have for the listening audience? Um, yeah, I would just say to always pray, um, about everything and go back to the word. The word never lies. Um, don't try to make the word work in your favor, but really pray that the Holy spirit revealed truth to you in the word and he will the, the spirit, uh, the Holy spirit is there to guide and to reveal truth. And like you mentioned earlier, um, you know, a lot of people that don't fully surrender to God, you know, maybe they're already a believer, but they haven't fully surrendered. Um, I think it may be because you don't want to give up certain things in your life. I tell you, I never thought I never considered myself an alcoholic and I didn't mention this in the testimony as well, but I did.

I had to have a drink of wine all throughout the weekend, every single weekend. And I didn't know it at the time, but that was nothing but a spirit, um, wanting something, some something. It just had to be fed, whether it's food, whether it's porn, whether it's alcohol, drugs, you know, there's, there could be a demonic spirit that is just needing to be fed. And so, um, but when you fully surrender to God, he takes those desires away.

And it's like you said, also, it doesn't mean that you won't be tempted, but you don't have a desire for those things. And there's so much freedom in that there's so much freedom and just living who you are without trying to drown yourself in your sorrows. Like you end up just living for God and he makes everything, he brings peace to every moment.

Um, even on struggles. Amen. That is so well said. I'm so glad that you close things out in that way because as you said, true freedom is when you bring the flesh into submission because we're in a battle with the flesh, those cravings, the desires of the flesh.

You're right. It's what those demonic spirits want us to fulfill. But when you feed the spirit, you find that those fleshly cravings will flee.

They will go away. And I'll just share this one last thing before we finish is that I was listening to someone speaking the other day, um, on a radio program and they were also given a testimony, but they were speaking about how, when we went through this whole women's liberation movement way back in the 1960s and seventies of women saying, well, they had the freedom to go out and be free to have sex with whoever they wanted whenever they want it. Like men were doing that, you know, that was the whole movement, but they were saying as, as time has gone on, as a lot of these women now are getting to their elderly ages, a lot of them are living with regret because what they have come to realize is that what they thought was freedom was actually bondage because they were, they were not saying they could not say no to their flesh. They were just given into what the flesh desired.

And so that is the way the devil deceives us. He, he tries to say, well, you have the freedom to do this and you have the freedom to do, to do that. But the thing about it is if you cannot say no to it and stop doing it, that means you're in bondage to it.

You are a slave to that sin. And so true freedom comes through our great Lord and savior Jesus Christ. So I'm so glad that you share that with the audience and people, if you want true freedom, follow the words of what Brittany is saying, because you will find it if you look to our great Lord and savior. So Brittany, I want to thank you again. It has just been wonderful speaking with you.

I pray that God will continue to order your steps into just encourage you to keep speaking the word, keep speaking the truth because a lot of people are going to be blessed by the things that you are sharing. So thank you so much. And we look forward to having you back on in the future.

Thank you for doing this and for having me. I truly appreciate it. Amen. Amen. Definitely my pleasure.

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