Faith Walk / William Carroll
We will be talking about the word of God and how he moved in my life as I stood on his word. His signs and wonders that I have seen during the last forty years praying for my needs and the needs of others. I hope to encourage a new generation of believers to pray the word of God and to believe that He will move on their behalf. God answers prayers!
Faith Walk / William Carroll
Ep 80 The Holy Spirit: Your Divine Comforter in Times of Struggle
What happens when oppression feels too heavy to bear? When illness stretches beyond months into years, when toxic bosses make each workday unbearable, or when mental torment steals your peace night after night? Today's episode dives deep into the nature of oppression and reveals the supernatural resource that changes everything.
Drawing from personal experience with a four-year health battle, I share the critical difference between healing (a process) and miracles (instantaneous events). This distinction transforms how we pray, how we persevere, and how we perceive God's work in our struggles. While Solomon observed the oppressed with "no comforter," believers have access to the divine Comforter promised by Jesus himself.
The Holy Spirit—our paraclete—brings supernatural strength when our circumstances overwhelm us. We explore John 16 to understand this Comforter's role and authority in our lives. For those facing workplace oppression, I share a powerful spiritual strategy based on 1 John 4:4 that disrupts oppressive spirits operating through authority figures. When you declare "Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world," something fundamental shifts in the spiritual atmosphere.
Many autoimmune conditions and persistent illnesses represent spiritual oppression that requires spiritual solutions. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you—and that changes everything about your situation. Whether you're fighting illness, workplace toxicity, or mental torment, this message will equip you with biblical truths to stand firm until your breakthrough comes.
Well, welcome back to Faith Walk. I'm William and listen, we were just talking. Earlier this morning I had did a podcast. It was episode 79. It was on oppression, and the Lord had just been working on me ever since then giving me some more scriptures, giving me some more direction on that, and so I wanted to continue with talking about that. So let's go to the scripture. Well, let's go to Lord in prayer. Father, open our eyes to see as you see. Open our ears to hear as you hear. Open our hearts to feel as you feel and open our mouth to speak as you speak. Let my hands be your hands, let my feet be your feet. Take me, lead me, lord, to those who need a touch from you today, in Jesus's name. Amen. That prayer will change your life if you pray it every day.
Speaker 1:Now we were talking about oppression and we were talking about how that sickness can be an oppression, and I had told you about a couple of my friends that was oppressed, and even my own testimony of how I was oppressed and God turned it around. Look, he didn't do a miracle and turn it around in one day. This has been about a four-year process for me and I feel better today than I have in four years actually longer than that and I mean, god has turned it around and I thank him. Has he used some doctors? Yes, he has, and I thank God for doctors, but I know ultimately it's him that has done the healing. See, a healing starts and then it takes place over time. A miracle happens right now, and so when you pray for a healing, don't expect for it to just you know take place immediately. Now. It might, you know, because God is a sovereign God, but more times than not, a healing starts and then it's a process to get to the ending, you know, anyway.
Speaker 1:So let's go on about oppression. I just want to talk about this a little bit more, because so many people are oppressed, and they're oppressed by the devil and they're oppressed by the things that they're going through, and they're allowing that oppression whether it's physical, mental, spiritual to get them down. Now listen, ecclesiastes 4 and 1 says so. I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun and behold the tears of such that are oppressed, and they had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. And I kind of had talked about the conditions in our country right now, how that those in power, they back those that are in power, even if they're weak, even if they're corrupt, and it goes all the way up. Well, you know who it goes up to, don't you? The corrupter, the accuser of the brethren, the father of lies, satan himself? You know he orchestrates that, but anyway. So it says here that he had gone and he had considered it. This is Solomon, the wisest man, and he says that they had no comforter.
Speaker 1:And I want to encourage you today that we do have a comforter. We have a comforter that is sent unto us. You know that can help us through these times. You know, if I didn't trust in Christ and I had to go through what I've been through, I mean, there was nights when I laid down and I thought I would not wake up the next day and I just prayed Lord. If it's tonight, lord, it's okay, I'm ready to go. If you're that bad and you feel so bad, you lay down. You don't even know if you're going to wake up, how do you, how do you cope? If you don't know christ, I don't know how I would have coped, you know. But anyway, listen you, we have a comforter if you trust jesus christ as your lord and savior. Let me tell you something he promised us that when he went to the Father he would not leave us comforted.
Speaker 1:All right, so let's go to John in the New Testament. John, chapter 16. John, chapter 16. Turn over there in your Bible, put your coffee down. It's time to flip.
Speaker 1:John, chapter 16, verse 7. And I'm going to read a few of the verses here. So in verse 7, it starts out. It says Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send him to you and when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. Of sin because they believe not on me. Of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me. No more of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Speaker 1:Now listen what he's talking about here the, the, the comforter. The comforter was a paraclete, and it, and, and what it means. When you look it up in the Greek, it means another. You know another like me, but not me another. And Jesus said that when he comes, he's going to teach us all of Christ, because the father will restore everything to Christ and Christ will tell the Holy Spirit to share it and to teach us it. All right, and he's called a comforter, a comforter, for in times of need, in times of pain, in times of oppression, we need a comforter and you know, the comforter that he's talking about is the Holy Spirit. He's the Holy Spirit and he was given out the start at Acts, in Acts, chapter 2, when he poured the Spirit out upon all those that was in the upper room, and there was 120 in the upper room and and god poured his spirit out upon them. And then we see through acts that, uh, the continuation we saw when the gentiles received the holy spirit, even like the apostles and the disciples in the upper room at the first. In other words, they spoke with other tongues and other people, heard their language, and and they said, oh, they received it just like us. That's how they knew that god. And they said, oh, they received it just like us. That's how they knew that God was opening a door for the Gentiles to come to salvation and anyway.
Speaker 1:So, if you're going through pain, if you're going through torment. You know, and this can be spiritual, mental. You know, it can be in a relationship. It can be spiritual, mental. It can be in a relationship. It can be at your job. You may have a boss that is just mentally torturing you because he has the authority over you.
Speaker 1:Well, listen, I just want to tell you something. Listen, I'm going to give you a scripture for that right there. If somebody is torturing you, somebody is over you and you just you feel beat down when you walk in their presence. This is a scripture I've used before Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world, and I believe that's in 1 John 4. It's greater that he is in me than he that is in the world. And you need to start quoting that scripture and you need to start believing that scripture and you need to start standing on that scripture. And I'm going to tell you something when you do, when you one day you'll walk in there and you'll realize that that the spirit that they're using to oppress you is not of God. And the greater is he, greater is he who's in you.
Speaker 1:The Holy Spirit, the Comforter, jesus Christ. There's the same spirit that, raised Christ from the dead is in you and you walk in that room, I'm going to tell you it'll be. They'll sit over there like a little child and they won't even look you in the eye because it's a, it's not a. It's not a a, a physical thing it's. It's not a natural thing. You see, it's a spiritual thing. A lot of times.
Speaker 1:And listen, these sicknesses, these auto-immunes that are coming on people, it's oppression, sickness is oppression. We go through so much oppression, you know, and we have deliverance through that oppression, through the Holy Spirit. Listen, we need to learn who the Holy Spirit is and what he is to us through the New Testament. He's our comforter, he's our lead, he's our guide, he's our teacher. You know, in one place it says we need no man teach us, but we have been given the Holy Spirit which teach us all things. Not saying that we don't need pastors, preachers, teachers, you know, which teach us all things. Not saying that we don't need pastors, preachers, teachers. You know that lead us and guide us, but we need to lean on the Holy Spirit to teach us and to show us if somebody, what they're saying, is right or wrong, or if it agrees with the word, because if it doesn't agree with the word, with the Bible, in two or three places, then I don't want no part of it. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Listen, I'm going to get off of here and I hope these are blessing you. I hope this has blessed you. The first one did. I hope this is blessing you, and I don't know what will be next. I may do some more later on. I'm going to go back, but I want to pray for you right now, father, those that are struggling through oppression. We come against it right now, in the name of Jesus, we command that oppression to take loose. We command the enemy to loose them and the Holy Spirit to rise up like a rushing well in their hearts and in their speech, father, as they begin to claim your word.
