Our Guest Leif Hetland

SID: What about the fact that when you’re going through a battle with a giant, you get weary.

 

LEIF: I think there’s four primary things, and you can know more about it in the book, about fatigue. The enemy is trying to wear us out and he continues to hound over and over, and then when fatigue comes in, fear comes in. And now when fear comes in—

 

SID: That’s a big giant.

 

LEIF: That is a big giant. And then the next thing the enemy does: failure. Now you feel you’ve failed. You are the only one that is here and then forsaken. He isolates you and this is part of the strategy of the enemy. He comes to kill, steal and destroy.

 

SID: You get offended with all your best friends and now you’re isolated.

 

LEIF: Yes. So he isolates you. And that’s why it’s so important sometimes for us to enter into the hard work of rest and rest becomes your weapon of warfare. So even there, it’s the lamb’s nature.

 

SID: Wait. That came out too fast. How do you enter into rest?

 

LEIF: Enter into rest is just when I have a tendency to lean forward to fight and it’s wearing me out. I just lean back and I find rest because when I become a resting place, I become a resting place where the presence of God can rest upon me, and what that does it renews, it recharges you, it fills up sometimes just your emotional tank, especially when you’ve had this battle going on for a long time. But the second thing that is very important, there is time in my life, and I’m sure in your life, where I cannot see. There’s time in my life when I cannot even hear the voice of God. There is so much noise around. I just had one of those incidents not long ago that the key also, and I have chapter that is dealing about memory stones, where the enemy never can take away. So right before I came to talk to you, I looked at the picture when Randy Clark prayed for me. I looked at one of my greatest creative miracles I had ever seen where this guy is totally bended over for 17 years, and Jesus straightened it out. I had a whole bag full of pictures with me, just a memory stone about what God did. Because if I’m even, as I’m looking at some people and I know there’s giants that they are facing, I will go back again to those memory stones and talk about what God has done, and his faithfulness, his goodness, his kindness in the past. And when I’m looking at those memory stones my hearing always comes back. And after a while, my vision comes back and then I take a new look at the same giant, but now I don’t see how big the giant is, but I see how big God is. So this is another key that I have learned over and over again because in a matter of moments, from the sun is shining and it seems that everything is a promise, and then the dark cloud comes in. And suddenly you lose your vision, and you’re losing, as I’m saying, your hearing. And then the fatigue, the fear, the failure, forsaking comes in, but at that moment, stop for that moment. Find your memory stone. This ring is a memory stone of the spirit of adoption supernaturally given to me. Everything I have is memory stone about what God has done. And when I then stop to rehearse those memory stones, your hearing comes back, your vision comes back, and now in the next moment as a giant slayer, you don’t see how big Goliath is, but you see how big God is. And at that moment you’re ready to move forward again, and now you’re not burning flesh, you’re burning oil.

 

SID: And what I absolutely love, I mean, this is going to drive the devil nuts. Every one of your points that you have in your new book is going to drive the devil nuts. But in particular, every giant you face and overcome is a new upgrade in your walk with God, new intimacy in your walk with God, new power in your walk with God. That drives the devil nuts. We Jewish people say meshuga.

 

LEIF: It’s very clear. Where is it that I’ve been attacked the most? Fear. Why? Because of when I’m receiving perfect love. So the opposite of fear is perfect love.

 

SID: In fact, it’s a clue to your destiny. Wherever you’re attacked that’s where you’re supposed to be a giant slayer.

 

LEIF: That’s right and that’s what’s happening. Every time fear comes against me, I get excited because it leads to an upgrade in love. And the perfect love I receive now is what I get authority over. So if the enemy hadn’t attacked me in that area I wouldn’t have the upgrade in that area. And when I start to see that you consider joy even when somebody twice comes against you because you’re recognizing that this giant here now is going to lead to another upgrade in my life.

 

SID: Why did David, in the story of David and Goliath, not take Saul’s armor?

 

LEIF: Because David had to be David. David had to be an original. And this is another thing that I want to encourage everyone here. Be you. And I bless everybody to be you because everybody else is occupied. So let’s be original. David had to be David. He had to be a shepherd boy. He had to be a boy with a heart that had been so overwhelmed by God. As soon as we take on somebody else’s armor we end up as a copy and the giant is going to win. But it’s automatic when you’re stepping in to be you and how God has made you to be, with the gifting of God has given you, and that’s what David was clear about. He was very confident in a God that was confident in him being himself.

 

SID: It’s time to pray.

 

LEIF: I just wanted to invite each one of you right now to just name your giant. I want you to be specific. If that’s health, if that’s finances, if that’s your family, perhaps you’re dreading going to work or perhaps in the community or even being overwhelmed what’s going on in the world. I want you to name your giant at this very moment. I’m going to release the very lamb’s nature, the very love of God, first of all, to take away all fear in your life. So Father, I come to you in the precious name of Jesus. I thank you, Jesus, that you are the ultimate giant slayer. I thank you that you, you came to give us life and life more abundantly. And I’m speaking now to the Goliath that is trying to come to kill, steal and destroy. I thank you at this very moment on, rise and shine, you giant slayers because your life has come. It is time for you to show up and to receive the very love of Papa God. I know you believe in him, but he believes in you. And I just release at this very moment on the lamb’s nature that holds the authority of the lion. I release the courage, what is needed to be able to see God, to be able to see you and look at the giant, and look at this very moment, and be encouraged, because it’s about to be a stepping stone towards your next miracle. So congratulations, your upgrade has been confirmed. Show up. Show up with the love of God. Be you and I bless you to be you as you continue to share your journey, as you’re killing giants on a daily basis, in Jesus’s name, in Jesus’s name. Amen. Amen.

 

SID: You’re called to be a voice for God, not an echo. You are called to be an original. You are called to a life of greatness.