God has given Ray Sturdivant, an inner healing and deliverance prayer minister who has personally served more than 2,000 people, a revelation straight from the pages of Scripture that revolutionized his understanding of the dynamics of healing and delivering people. He showed Ray that there were eight life patterns common to every person with whom he had ever prayed, and those eight patterns were clearly illustrated in the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis:

• God speaks before your heart beats
• Satan plants lies in pain
• Repetition fertilizes lies
• Avoiding pain doesn’t
• God trips us to keep us from falling
• Death brings life
• Jesus is the ultimate pain killer
• Our feet walk on His words

Joseph’s story is everyone’s story—God declaring gifting, destiny, and purpose, and the enemy attacking that very purpose. It’s the story of God redeeming every attack by fulfilling the destiny of anyone with a willing, surrendered heart.

It is your story, too, if you choose to enter the journey with God. If you do, God will take the exact attack of the enemy and use it to defeat the devil and reveal your true story. In other words, God loves to beat the devil with his own stick.