Fight from your seat not your struggle.

In this powerful message from Pastor Derrick, you’ll be reminded that your battles are not about striving to win. The valley may be loud, and the battles may feel real but victory is decided on the mountain. If this word strengthened you, share it with someone who needs courage and confidence today.

Chapters

• 4:13 📖 1 Chronicles 15:12-13
• 7:05 Seated at the right hand of God
• 11:58 Climb the Mountain

Transcript

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Thank you for tuning in to Pursue Him Podcast. We are committed to serve you with the now word of God that will inspire and encourage you to be a God chaser. Help us reach out to many by subscribing, sharing, and leaving a review for us on your favorite listening app. This is Sam, your host, and this is an excerpt from a recent word ministered by Pastor Derrick. Let's dive in.

📖 1 Chronicles 15:12-13

Seated at the right hand of God

Climb the Mountain

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Encourage you not to just uh give you a word that'll remove condemnation or remove anything that you're going through, but I want to share a small word which will make you fly with Jesus. Are you ready? Okay, because remember the way the kingdom is set up, that means the way the kingdom is set up is not to beg and plead God anymore. How many of you agree? That means you don't beg and plead God for anything because God has already done things in the most orderly, most complete, most extravagant legal way for his children. Can you shout amen? That means there's no demon in hell that can get up and rob your inheritance. That's the way God secured it. Completely, accurately, full rights as co-heirs in Christ Jesus. Amen. So if that is the truth, then we have to live and we have to reason with our problems, our struggles. We have to understand that if all this is true, then the way we live the Christian life has to be different, right? Yes? Okay. Amen. You know there's a verse in your Bible. I want to start from there and uh then just quickly give it to you since I got this word. You know, there's a verse in your Bible where Uzzah was killed because he touched the ark, right? And then after that, David goes to say he goes on to say, you guys, you know, the last time we tried to take the ark, we did not do it properly. And that's why you know we suffered and somebody died. Can you imagine not taking, carrying the presence of God, not coming before the presence of God in the correct manner ended up in somebody dying. Are you glad that you're in the new covenant? Do you know how many of us would have been dead every Sunday? Literally, no jokes. There would be so many people just dying because they would not come or would not host God correctly. So I don't know if you're finding that, but it could be somewhere in Samuel, it could also be somewhere in uh Chronicles because they are repeated. But see if you can find it for me. Okay. Okay. You see here what he's saying basically, David. He's now getting ready to bring the ark again. And he's telling them, You guys sanctify yourselves, Levites, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark. Because later on he found out it should not be put in a cart, but it should be held by the Levites, right? So he's telling them, It's because you did not do it the first time. He's basically saying, You guys did not do what you had to do the proper way. Do you see that word there? Because we did not consult him about the proper order, the Lord's wrath broke out against us. Are we all clear with this? Okay, that means when you don't do things the right way, no matter how good your intentions are, you would end up probably becoming dead. Why am I showing you this method? Why am I showing you this verse? I'm not going to speak about Uza. I'm showing you this verse because I want you to know that Jesus ticked every checkbox, every T, every semicolon, every dot. And he fulfilled every law. Can you hear me? He fulfilled every law to the T and He secured our salvation. Okay, and I'm showing you this verse because somebody died because they didn't do it right. And we know Jesus didn't die because he didn't do it right, but because he did it right, and that was the way God wanted it. Are you with me? So God wanted Jesus to die a particular day, die a particular time, live a perfect life, sacrifice himself, be atonement. So Jesus did all that the proper way. Can somebody shout proper way, proper legal way? Okay? Can you shout amen? That means no one can take away what God has done for you. Now the question comes that if God did all this for us, why are we struggling? So then we got to find out that what God has done is not create a system for his children to beg, to cry, to weep, to mourn, to you know, uh languish and ask God to do things for him. But God sent his son, he did everything the proper way. I'm just going on, going to say that word the proper way, okay? He did it so proper that there was nothing left to do. He said, It's done, it's finished. That means he did everything and he went up to heaven, sat at the right hand of God, and guess what he did? He made a place, a seat for you and me. Okay, so he made a seat where at the right hand of God, and he did it how legally. That means you and I have a seat on the mountain of the Lord. Okay, you have you are seated, that's what the Bible says it's not just that you have a seat, you're seated with Christ. That means if Christ is seated there, you are seated. Are you with me? And if you are seated in Christ and Christ is with you and you are at the right hand, then what is the whole process of trying to get God to give you something? The whole idea or the whole way of living Christian life to get God to heal you, to get God to bless you, to get God to save you, to get God to make you prosperous, it entirely doesn't exist because of the placement and the seating arrangement God has made through his son Jesus. Amen. So then do we not go through problems? Do we not go through trials? Is the devil not attacking us? Do we not feel discouraged? Do we not have failures, setbacks? It is true, but the question is the reason we are falling, we are failing, we have disappointments, we have lack, we have mind battles, we have all kinds of things targeting our heart, is because spiritually you're seated, but physically there is a climbing to the mountain of the Lord. You getting it? That means your soul needs to ascend to the mountain of the Lord because it's the problem is in your soul area that the enemy is attacking you. Are you with me? So, in your soul area, the enemy will continue to fight you, attack you, make you despair, make you feel that you're hopeless, there's no hope for you, nothing's gonna happen for you, God's plan will never succeed. It's in your soul area. So it's in the valley that the devil wants to keep you all your life. Are you listening? How many of you know in the valley it's very confusing? Because in the valley, you don't know who is for you, who's against you, who's lying to you, who's cheating, because you're all on the same, and the devil never wants to see God's children rise up to the mountain. Why? At the mountaintop, raining begins. Are you listening to me? Please understand this. It's a very simple example, it will solve a lot of confusion. We are going through any kind of confusion, any kind of why, why this, why that, why it's all in your soul realm, and your soul, the devil wants to keep you in a valley. It's in the valley where confusion begins. But I'm here to lift you and tell you if you will lift your soul and walk up the mountain, you will begin to see what the enemy was really trying to do. That means that offense, that bitterness, that misunderstanding, that uh thing that you know you could not understand. Can you believe it's all in the valley? Because how many of you know when you climb up the mountain, you can see better. You can see clearly who is for you, who is against you. Oh, you can see the plan of the enemy because the plan of the enemy is always in the valley. The plan of the enemy can never succeed on the mountaintop because God won't allow it. There is no seat for Satan at the right hand, only for you. Satan cannot sit at the right hand of God. That seat has been reserved for his church. Your seat is in Christ Jesus, and the best way to get out of a problem, get out, no matter how bad the problem is, you could have lost money, you could have lost uh you know opportunity, you could have lost anything. It really doesn't matter, even if your doctor's report is the worst. Do you know you can climb up? Do you know you can climb up the mountain? And at the mountain, and this is the most amazing part. Do you know when you're in the valley, you cannot make head nor tail? Even if you're reading the word, the word of God gets confusing. Even if you're praying, it gets, you know why you're still trying to get an answer at the valley. But the answer is not in the valley, it's at the mountaintop. Remember Elijah? He was at the where? At the Junipatri. Yes, he was at the Junipatri. And do you know at the Junipatri, no matter how much he prayed, how much he sat down, how much he called on the Lord, all he could get was a piece of bread. He could get his daily needs met. Are you listening to me? That means you'll survive another day with Jezebel chasing to hunt you. But the minute he decided to take that climb the mountain, you know what happened? He got understanding of the call on his life. He got understanding of who he was, he called of got understanding of the dimensions of God. Now listen to me, throughout the throughout his story, he is known as a man. He said, if I be a man who stands before God, his whole ministry was I stand before God. So he was like openly telling you, boss, I don't know about your reign or anything, I stand. If I am a man of God, and if I stand before his whole ministry was based on standing before God. Do you know in the new covenant you are not standing, you're seated? I don't know whether you're understanding. He had to be standing. You know why he had to do a lot of stuff in Christ Jesus? Jesus done everything you can sit. You don't have to do all the 120 things right that the law demands. You gotta just open your heart and believe that the lawgiver became the law keeper, and that you, by God's grace, have been blessed to be seated in the heavenly realm. You drag your soul up that mountain, align it with the Holy Ghost position that is in Christ Jesus, and I'm telling you, you will begin to see what the enemy is trying to do in your life. You'll begin to see how he's trying to sow discord, how he's trying to sow enmity, how he's trying to sow his weapons of mass destruction in your life, and you will come down the mountain with power. Why am I saying this? There's a verse in your Bible that says that we have to rule and reign in Christ Jesus. In Romans 5, I think it is, he says, for if he says, for if by the obedience of disobedience of one man we all became sinners, how much more that through the one man Christ Jesus, the abundant gift of righteousness, and the free gift of righteousness, sorry, the abundant grace and the free gift of righteousness shall rule and reign in Christ Jesus. Reigning and ruling, remember this: you can be a Christian and God loves you, He'll never forsake you, He'll never leave you, and you can be assured of God's grace all the days of your life. That means no matter what situation you are, you can be pulled out of a valley. Are you listening to me? This is God's abundant grace. To pull you out of valleys, God will give you the grace. But if you want to rule and reign, you have to climb the mountain. Are you listening to me? I want to say that again. If you want to rule and reign, if you want grace to come out of every well that you are thrown in, you have that. God will never take it away from you. But that does not mean reigning. Ruling and reigning is not for the valley. Ruling and reigning is for the right hand of God. He says, What? Ask of me. Sit here, and I will make your enemies your footstool, right? Sit where? At the right hand of God. He says, For if by the one man's offense death reigned, he's talking about Adam. He's saying if because of Adam's failure, death reigned through the one. How much more those who receive? Who receive, that means your soul has to reach up the mountain to receive. Because your spirit is always one with the things of God. It's your soul that is stuck in the valley, it's your soul that is trying to make sense. No, this is not fair, this is not right, this belongs to me. This is a hey, you don't need anyone's anything. If you climb the mountain, you'll see the whole strategy. You'll see that that offense that the enemy is showing in your life was to keep you away from this blessing, from this opportunity. You will begin to see everything, brothers and sisters. I want you to know the devil is a liar, he will make you fight in the valley. But I'm here to tell you you are here to fight him from the mountaintop. Are you listening? Because God has given you what He's saying, those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in this life through the one Christ Jesus. That means God is saying, Listen, ruling and reigning belongs to people who can lift up your soul. Oh, my soul, do not be dismayed. Put your hope in the Lord. Oh, it has been a terrible day, it has been a horrible day, a bad day at every point of view. It was it was totally, I've lost everything. I don't feel love. I can pull my soul through the word of God and sit at the mountain. And the next time Elijah meets not one Jezebel but 50 armed men from the mountain, he sends fire down. If I be a man of God, then let fire consume you and your 50, and boom, all are gone. Why? Because now he's communicating the heart of God. Now he's communicating, he's become one with the things God wants to do. Are you listening? Fire, power, understanding, wisdom is not found in the valley. That's why the devil wants to keep many of us in the valley through misunderstandings, through division, through lack of unity. I want you to clearly understand this. You are rising up to the mountain of the Lord. Somebody shout and say, My valley life is over. I'm gonna drag my soul no matter how horrible I feel, no matter how much the enemy tells me I've lost it, you're a nothing, you'll never make it. It is meant for somebody else, but not for you. Can you drag your soul and say, Oh my soul? Do not despair. Put your hope in the Lord and drag it up to the mountain. Begin to praise God as you eat the bread. Do you know the bread was given to it was given to the prophet so that the bread could sustain him for the mountain climb. I'm giving you the bread that will sustain you for your mountain climb. Leave the juniper tree. Leave the juniper tree. Don't worry how it happened, what it happened, it doesn't matter. You could have made the biggest mistake of your life. I still tell you, you climb the mountain, you'll get the solution. Take your mind, take your body, move up. And I'm telling you, there is something amazing when you have a high place vision. Do you know when Moses and Joshua the Amalekites came to fight? Moses went up the mountain. And from up he lifted his hands in prayer and he began to pray. And guess what? Joshua in the valley was winning. But there had to be a person on the mountaintop. I'm come here to stand and tell you at the mountaintop. Right now, I declare that you shall have victory in the valley and you shall come up to the mountain. You shall have victory in the valley. Don't worry about what you lost. Don't worry about hundred people who misunderstand you. I'm telling you, when you reach the mountain, you will have clarity of thought. You'll have understanding. You'll have wisdom. You will have anointing, you will have unction, and you will do things God's way. Satan can never rob your seat. Remember, it was reserved by a king. For another king. Are you listening to me, church? I'm telling you this because we are done fighting in the valley. You're done fighting. Can you write? I'm done fighting in valleys. Now we need to fight from the mountaintop. Yeah. Elijah. When he reached the mountaintop, he became again the same man. If I stand, if I am a man who stands before God, remember there shall be no rain on your land. So what was the problem about Elijah being defeated in the valley? It was that Satan involved him in a battle on the ground. And like always, he would run up to the mountaintop, but this time he just thought that he needed to fight it on his own. It doesn't mean God will fight your battle. It means when you come up. God can give you instructions and He'll God will be fighting the battle, but you will get the victory. How does that sound? God fights it, and you get to come on the scene and say, Hey, by the way, it was a good win, huh? And everybody's praising you, but it was God and you know it. God and God alone who got that victory for you. That's why we are called co-heirs, because God doesn't want you to win a single victory without Him. That's why you're called co-partners, because God doesn't want you to fight alone. Because God knows there's nothing in your flesh that can win a battle. That's why God reserved the seat in the spirit. All you need to do is carry that soul which is depressed, dismayed, disheartened, broken. Drag it up the mountain, and I promise you, you will see something that you have never seen about your situation. And you'll be able to do something that you have never done about your situation. Clarity, I speak clarity in your mind, in your heart. Every demon that's trying to shake you, you will shake it off in Jesus' mighty name. Father, bless your children as they hear this word. Lord, may they have testimonies.

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