Our Guest Joshua Giles

SID: What are some of the advantages for you from that fasting?

JOSHUA: The fasting was a clarity of mind. I was able to think and articulate things. Strategies were coming to me. It was like God was able to clearly speak. I was able to hear and understand that it was him. It’s almost like the old radio dials where you are tuning in and you hear the static. You’re trying to find your favorite station.

You’re like, “I can’t hear it, but I knew I’m hearing a sound and then you lock in.” Fasting really opens up your perception to the things of the spirit. It makes it a lot easier to flow.

SID: Even during the fast, you then moved into 700 days of visitations and training by God. It reminds me of when he was in baseball, he put every fiber of his being into baseball. When you realize Jesus was real, you put every fiber of your being into Jesus. Tell me about some of these visitations.

JOSHUA: Man, it was wild, so to speak. Most of the encounters were not fun. They were training grounds of encountering the demonic and witchcraft, and principalities would visit me. I could literally go to another state, just on a visitation. If we’re going to….

SID: Why would God allow a witch to visit you as a new believer? What was he doing?

JOSHUA: He was training me just like David was trained with the lion, the bear, Goliath, Saul. There was training grounds in the spirit that God was building my resume. I didn’t understand that. Through that perspective, I began to learn secrets on how to engage the enemy and not lose. There’s a lot of time to where I would go into a scenario and I would mess up because I’m being trained.

I would come out of it and the Holy Spirit would begin to tell me, “You should approach it this way. Next time this happens, do this.” I began to write out everything that he showed me. Learned it in the natural and just meditated upon it so that when the supernatural experience has happened, I went in with a different authority.

SID: What did God show you about fear?

JOSHUA: Fear. Oh, man.

SID: That’s the number one spirit that people are dealing with today, worldwide, fear. That’s his name. Go ahead.

JOSHUA: Yes. Fear is an illusion. Satan is a master illusionist. He wants to come out and look so much more powerful than God. So much more scarier than you knowing who God is. Any time you fear, you automatically disconnect yourself from the fire of the Holy Spirit, from faith to overcome the situation. I learned through an encounter, one of the first times God took me into a battle was I was on fire.

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