WEBVTT 00:00:15.580 --> 00:00:19.830 Grab your Bible, put it in your hand. 00:00:19.830 --> 00:00:22.902 Media team. 00:00:22.902 --> 00:00:27.169 You done it this morning and you know the pastor tried to get y'all on the slide. 00:00:27.169 --> 00:00:28.545 Just laugh, it was cute. 00:00:28.545 --> 00:00:32.865 This time it's not on the slide, this time it's prophetic. 00:00:32.865 --> 00:00:34.206 Throw it up there real quick. 00:00:34.206 --> 00:00:40.785 They need to see the title, cause we getting ready to shift at a normal place, we getting ready to shift different. 00:00:40.785 --> 00:00:42.009 Just throw it up there. 00:00:42.009 --> 00:00:43.823 I'm looking for the sermon topic. 00:00:43.823 --> 00:00:45.426 Come on, follow me. 00:00:45.426 --> 00:00:52.759 Come on, follow me when you at yeah, go Okay, because this is what's got to happen. 00:00:52.759 --> 00:01:01.510 We can plan, we can strategize, but what God does, reverend Shank? 00:01:01.510 --> 00:01:11.548 He takes our natural and we collide with his supernatural, which is the anointing, and it's the anointing that destroys the yoke. 00:01:11.548 --> 00:01:15.390 You can't go into war if you ain't got no anointing. 00:01:15.390 --> 00:01:21.340 We ain't tag team preaching, but you can't go into war if you ain't got no power. 00:01:21.340 --> 00:01:28.694 So I need to grab your bible, grab the scripture, ephesians 6 we getting ready to preach. 00:01:28.694 --> 00:01:30.040 I'm not, but he gonna preach. 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.644 I ain't flowing that way. 00:01:32.644 --> 00:01:36.790 Ephesians 6, ephesians 6. 00:01:36.790 --> 00:01:39.754 Y'all ready? 00:01:39.853 --> 00:01:40.334 Verse 10. 00:01:42.299 --> 00:01:43.701 You ready? 00:01:43.701 --> 00:01:44.103 Y'all ready? 00:01:44.103 --> 00:01:45.965 Come on, I need to hear you. 00:01:45.965 --> 00:01:46.365 You ready? 00:01:46.365 --> 00:02:02.593 Let's read A final beat in the Lord and it is put on all of God's people so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies. 00:02:02.593 --> 00:02:07.899 Read, for we are not fighting against the flesh and blood. 00:02:07.899 --> 00:02:09.986 Wait, read it again. 00:02:09.986 --> 00:02:13.079 We are not fighting against the flesh and blood. 00:02:13.079 --> 00:02:15.067 Wait, read it again. 00:02:15.067 --> 00:02:17.659 We are not fighting against the flesh and blood. 00:02:17.659 --> 00:02:21.905 Tell your neighbor I'm no longer fighting against you, I'm fighting for you. 00:02:21.905 --> 00:02:26.564 Y'all don't hear me. 00:02:26.564 --> 00:02:28.587 I said tell them I'm fighting for you. 00:02:28.587 --> 00:02:34.088 Let's keep reading, but against evil rulers. 00:02:48.289 --> 00:02:52.020 Read Breathe. 00:02:59.519 --> 00:02:59.719 Breathe. 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:22.378 Come on, yes, sir, read, saints, read. 00:03:22.378 --> 00:03:23.000 Stop, stop. 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.849 Ask your neighbor why you tripping and why you ain't got no faith. 00:03:25.849 --> 00:03:36.140 How are you going to combat against what's coming to you when your faith is real small? 00:03:36.140 --> 00:03:42.945 Some of y'all have put your faith under your pillow and you've been using your tears as a weapon for you. 00:03:42.945 --> 00:03:46.062 But tell your neighbor I'm getting ready to pull my faith back out the bag. 00:03:46.062 --> 00:03:48.710 Tell them I'm pulling my faith back out the bag. 00:03:48.710 --> 00:03:52.486 Tell them hold on to the confession of your faith. 00:03:52.486 --> 00:03:56.939 We gotta keep reading verse 17. 00:03:56.939 --> 00:04:07.560 Read Verse 17, read Read. 00:04:12.395 --> 00:04:31.201 Uh-huh, yes, sir, read, read, read. 00:04:31.201 --> 00:04:32.086 Last verse read. 00:04:58.252 --> 00:05:00.417 Now I need you to lift your voice, and with a loud scream. 00:05:00.557 --> 00:05:02.059 I need you to shout in the monitor please. 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:04.367 This means war. 00:05:05.281 --> 00:05:07.708 This means war. 00:05:07.708 --> 00:05:08.411 Come on, family. 00:05:08.411 --> 00:05:11.009 This means war. 00:05:11.009 --> 00:05:14.048 Listen as you take your seats in the presence of the Lord. 00:05:14.860 --> 00:05:20.975 One thing about spiritual warfare, or warfare in general, is that war is never fought alone. 00:05:20.975 --> 00:05:27.670 I just want to celebrate and honor the gift of our executive pastor, pastor Quintero Smith. 00:05:27.670 --> 00:05:50.375 That we celebrate God for the gifts that are in him, as we celebrate what God is saying and doing through him, because what we have to do today, it requires all of the saints, it requires all of the clergy that are gathered here, it requires all of the laity, it requires everybody, you know, because we can't fight this one by ourselves. 00:05:50.375 --> 00:05:56.302 This means war. 00:05:56.302 --> 00:06:08.822 I want to help everybody to get on the same page, because some of you may be familiar with the term spiritual warfare and some of you may not. 00:06:08.822 --> 00:06:13.588 It may, it's nothing to be afraid of, it's nothing spooky. 00:06:13.588 --> 00:06:23.925 The truth of the matter is you have been in spiritual warfare your whole life and some of you don't even know it. 00:06:23.925 --> 00:06:32.802 So now, today, you're, the lord is about to deposit in you something that's going to help you to fight the battle. 00:06:35.045 --> 00:06:38.110 Last week, we celebrated pentecost. 00:06:38.110 --> 00:06:48.631 Pentecost was the God keeping a promise to pour out his spirit on all flesh. 00:06:48.631 --> 00:06:51.286 We celebrated Pentecost. 00:06:51.286 --> 00:06:54.247 Thank you, amazing worship ministry. 00:06:54.247 --> 00:06:55.564 Let's celebrate them as well. 00:06:55.564 --> 00:06:57.209 God be the glory. 00:06:57.209 --> 00:07:06.310 Pentecost was a promise that God made. 00:07:06.310 --> 00:07:27.274 That was first prophesied by the book of, by the prophet by the name of Joel, who declared that, in the midst of drama, trauma and pain that his people were going through, that a day was coming where God was going to resolve the problem by pouring out his spirit on all flesh. 00:07:27.274 --> 00:07:33.552 The problem that they had was in the natural, and they had a problem in nature. 00:07:33.552 --> 00:07:38.230 In the natural, they were struggling, just like you and I struggle. 00:07:38.230 --> 00:07:51.011 They had enemy all around them and in as it relates to nature, they had these insects called locusts that were devouring everything. 00:07:51.011 --> 00:07:53.355 In the spirit. 00:07:53.355 --> 00:08:01.113 We are still dealing with locusts because there's something surrounding so many of us that are trying to devour everything. 00:08:02.641 --> 00:08:10.834 Some of you have been giving a foreshadowing of what locusts look like, because we're looking at their cousins every day. 00:08:10.834 --> 00:08:16.792 Y'all know who the locust cousins are Cicadas. 00:08:16.792 --> 00:08:39.929 They're literally pretty much the same insect, and it's interesting because, as we flow today and go into spiritual warfare, I'm learning to be thankful for the things that inconvenience me, because it could have been the thing that was devouring me. 00:08:39.929 --> 00:08:49.020 Cicadas are an inconvenience, but locusts still exist. 00:08:49.020 --> 00:08:59.519 Did y'all know that locusts are still real in Africa and other places, cicadas they keep you up at night, but locusts devour everything that you need to survive. 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:03.519 But locusts devour everything that you need to survive. 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:08.145 So I've gotten to the place in this spirit. 00:09:08.145 --> 00:09:14.165 While I'm thankful, in the midst of my inconvenience, that it's a cicada and not a locust, but in the spirit there are some of you. 00:09:14.165 --> 00:09:19.610 The reason God has given me this message is because some of you are dealing with locusts in your family. 00:09:19.610 --> 00:09:24.503 Some of you are dealing with locusts in your family. 00:09:24.503 --> 00:09:30.341 Some of you are dealing with locusts in your bank account and, to be honest with you, some of you are dealing with locusts in your mind. 00:09:33.564 --> 00:09:37.929 What is God's response when locusts are devouring our future? 00:09:37.929 --> 00:09:49.681 When locusts are devouring our future, when locusts are trying to kill our vibe, when locusts are trying to steal our dreams, whenever there's something that's trying to kill us, god starts to speak through prophets. 00:09:49.681 --> 00:09:53.452 That's why we embrace the prophetic in this house. 00:09:53.452 --> 00:09:54.796 You don't. 00:09:54.796 --> 00:09:56.300 You ought to try to change your life. 00:09:56.300 --> 00:10:07.587 That's why, when pastor Q is flowing today and we are tag teaming in spiritual warfare, I called him over there and I just said flow, man of God. 00:10:07.587 --> 00:10:14.451 Flow Because perhaps he was going to be able to say something to somebody at a time when they just needed it the most. 00:10:14.451 --> 00:10:20.026 Because that's how God gets down when we are going through the worst times of our lives. 00:10:20.026 --> 00:10:22.849 He sends a prophetic utterance every time. 00:10:22.849 --> 00:10:28.942 Every time, you know, there's something interesting about the, about being prophetic. 00:10:28.942 --> 00:10:32.191 The same thing that happened in biblical times happens today. 00:10:33.520 --> 00:10:38.152 Some people receive it and other people respond by saying I ain't buying what you're selling. 00:10:38.152 --> 00:10:43.326 I wonder what your response going to be today, because this is a prophetic flow. 00:10:43.326 --> 00:10:49.449 I pray that you'll be able to receive it, but I understand that'll be a crowd that say I ain't buying what you're selling. 00:10:49.449 --> 00:10:57.410 But that's cool too, because I want you to know that God loves you enough that if you don't catch it today, he going to say it again tomorrow. 00:10:57.410 --> 00:10:59.324 Isn't that good news? 00:10:59.324 --> 00:11:04.985 Because reality, every last one of us has been to a space where grandma said something and we didn't catch it the first time. 00:11:04.985 --> 00:11:07.086 Well, god said it again. 00:11:07.086 --> 00:11:12.407 That's why I'm not too worried about somebody who don't catch it on Sunday, because the Lord of Key might catch them by Tuesday. 00:11:12.407 --> 00:11:14.787 My job is just to drop it right. 00:11:14.787 --> 00:11:18.426 My job is just the water, but God will give the increase. 00:11:18.426 --> 00:11:22.041 And so that's what Joel did. 00:11:22.061 --> 00:11:26.081 Joel said I understand y'all dealing with locusts, you're dealing with adversaries, but there is a word from the Lord. 00:11:26.081 --> 00:11:28.066 May I encourage you that there's a word from the Lord today. 00:11:28.066 --> 00:11:29.830 Joel said this. 00:11:29.830 --> 00:11:32.444 He said that, uh, I see how God is going to fix this. 00:11:32.444 --> 00:11:38.284 He's shown me something he he's going to pour out his spirit on all flesh. 00:11:38.284 --> 00:11:39.446 What does that mean? 00:11:39.446 --> 00:11:49.776 That means God who once dwelled on the outside, god who you had to go to the temple to worship, god who, uh, was, was, was close, but still far away. 00:11:49.776 --> 00:12:01.192 A day would be coming where he would dwell in the inward parts of humanity, that the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead would be available unto us. 00:12:01.192 --> 00:12:03.179 And he says I see it coming. 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:14.401 That's one of the things about being prophetic you often will see things before people can see it for themselves and you find yourself getting excited about stuff and people looking at you like they're looking at Joelle. 00:12:14.401 --> 00:12:15.785 Joelle, what's wrong with you? 00:12:15.785 --> 00:12:17.509 What you're celebrating for I'm? 00:12:17.509 --> 00:12:19.801 I'm dancing with expectation. 00:12:19.801 --> 00:12:24.772 I'm I'm dancing not because of where we are, but because where we are going to be. 00:12:24.772 --> 00:12:27.949 You see that the locust ate the cabbage greens. 00:12:27.949 --> 00:12:35.704 But I see a harvest that is overflowing and I need some people this day that don't see what the locusts are doing. 00:12:35.704 --> 00:12:38.107 But you can see the harvest that is on the way. 00:12:38.107 --> 00:12:39.668 But you can see the harvest that is on the way. 00:12:39.688 --> 00:13:00.351 I decree and declare in this house that God is moving in a supernatural way and a harvest is about to hit for everyone who can be obedient to the move of God, because God is saying I need you to have a harvest because you are called to be the lender and not the borrower. 00:13:00.351 --> 00:13:04.384 You are called to help people and not always need help. 00:13:04.384 --> 00:13:15.353 You are called to be the head and not the tail and if you're going to live that way, an overflow has to hit you so that you can be a blessing to your neighbor. 00:13:15.353 --> 00:13:26.054 I wish I had some people that can see themselves being a blessing to humanity because of what God is about to do through you. 00:13:26.054 --> 00:13:31.145 He sees it and he prophesies it. 00:13:31.145 --> 00:13:37.586 Psalm received it, psalm accepted it and Psalm said we ain't buying what you're selling. 00:13:37.586 --> 00:13:42.269 Joel prophesied that in Joel chapter 2. 00:13:43.700 --> 00:13:47.391 But in Joel chapter 3, you see something interesting happen. 00:13:47.391 --> 00:13:56.625 You see a conversation shift from the spirit of God being poured out on all flesh to a conversation about warfare Doesn't make sense. 00:13:56.625 --> 00:13:58.524 Well, actually it does. 00:13:58.524 --> 00:14:04.531 When you look at it, you see a conversation going where they've been filled with the spirit, in Joel, chapter 2. 00:14:04.531 --> 00:14:08.169 And then in Joel, chapter 3, you're talking about warfare. 00:14:08.169 --> 00:14:12.129 At first I thought it didn't make sense, but now it started to make a whole lot of sense. 00:14:14.400 --> 00:14:24.642 What I'm trying to get you to understand is this the reason that we celebrate being filled with the holy ghost is because there is one reason, and one reason alone. 00:14:24.642 --> 00:14:38.308 That god takes time out of his day to make sure that but those that are willing to receive are filled with this power is simply because you are being filled to fight. 00:14:38.308 --> 00:14:41.492 Somebody say I'm being filled to fight. 00:14:41.492 --> 00:14:46.200 Say we are being filled to fight, come on. 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.510 Somebody say I'm being filled to fight. 00:14:49.510 --> 00:14:50.994 Watch this, I'll show it to you. 00:14:51.616 --> 00:14:54.544 Ephesians 6, verse 10, is right here in our text. 00:14:54.544 --> 00:14:55.386 A final word. 00:14:55.386 --> 00:14:58.220 This is the apostle Paul writing to the church at Ephesus. 00:14:58.220 --> 00:15:03.209 He's talked to them about a whole lot of stuff, but he wanted to save the most important thing for last. 00:15:03.209 --> 00:15:04.673 He says a final word. 00:15:04.673 --> 00:15:09.911 He tells them to be strong in the Lord and mighty in his power. 00:15:09.911 --> 00:15:13.441 Many of us and they had heard also being strong in the Lord. 00:15:13.441 --> 00:15:15.466 But how are we strong in the Lord? 00:15:15.466 --> 00:15:20.063 The only way that we are strong in the Lord is when we are mighty in his power. 00:15:20.063 --> 00:15:22.407 Well, how are we mighty in his power? 00:15:22.407 --> 00:15:25.693 When we are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:15:25.693 --> 00:15:28.829 Now, why does he want us to be mighty in his power? 00:15:28.829 --> 00:15:34.399 Because there is a war that you are fighting and it's your time to win. 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:38.751 I want to remind you in this season you are being filled to fight. 00:15:38.751 --> 00:15:45.285 The reason that God is filling you is because in Joel, you need his spirit, but in the second chapter. 00:15:45.285 --> 00:15:47.168 But in Joel, the third, the chapter. 00:15:47.168 --> 00:15:49.973 This means war. 00:15:49.973 --> 00:15:52.424 I'll show it to you again. 00:15:53.065 --> 00:15:54.207 Acts, the second chapter. 00:15:54.207 --> 00:15:56.913 Finally, the fulfillment of what was prophesied. 00:15:56.913 --> 00:16:03.589 There had been a lot of conversation about when this would happen and on the day of Pentecost the Lord kept his promise. 00:16:03.589 --> 00:16:06.954 He poured out his spirit on all flesh. 00:16:06.954 --> 00:16:16.091 We see that they were together with one accord and they were praying in the upper room and they were waiting on God. 00:16:16.091 --> 00:16:18.741 And I want to encourage somebody not to give up too soon now and wait on God. 00:16:18.741 --> 00:16:22.061 That's a word for somebody today that don't give up too soon. 00:16:22.061 --> 00:16:24.026 Wait on God, it's about to happen. 00:16:24.026 --> 00:16:26.010 Watch what happens in that upper room. 00:16:26.010 --> 00:16:30.989 Experience the spirit comes upon them and they are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:16:31.390 --> 00:16:34.987 Now Peter is bold and he's moving under the unction of the Holy Ghost. 00:16:34.987 --> 00:16:42.711 He's preaching in a way that he's never preached before, because when you are filled with the Holy Ghost, you can do things that you have never done before. 00:16:42.711 --> 00:16:46.746 I'm no longer timid, I'm no longer afraid, I'm no longer worried. 00:16:46.746 --> 00:16:56.392 I'm walking in the doors and not worrying about what's on the other side, because I understand, under the power of the Holy Ghost, that the Lord has gone ahead of me. 00:16:56.392 --> 00:16:58.260 That's Acts, chapter 2. 00:16:58.260 --> 00:17:00.641 But I told you you were being filled to fight. 00:17:00.641 --> 00:17:03.503 In Joel, the second chapter, they were filled. 00:17:03.503 --> 00:17:06.625 In Joel, the third chapter, he prophesied war. 00:17:06.625 --> 00:17:09.126 In Acts, the second chapter, they were filled. 00:17:09.126 --> 00:17:11.788 In Acts, the third chapter, you see, war. 00:17:11.788 --> 00:17:13.430 What do you mean, pastor Walt? 00:17:13.430 --> 00:17:15.691 I don't see bombs, I don't see munitions. 00:17:15.691 --> 00:17:18.732 I told you this was spiritual warfare. 00:17:18.813 --> 00:17:22.855 Spiritual warfare is fighting in that unseen realm. 00:17:22.855 --> 00:17:25.836 That's why some of us ignore spiritual warfare. 00:17:25.836 --> 00:17:28.877 But you need to understand what spiritual warfare is. 00:17:28.877 --> 00:17:41.109 You see, when we go into spiritual warfare, we go into that place where the enemy does his most dangerous work. 00:17:41.109 --> 00:17:51.634 We go into that place that the Bible tells us that Satan in the throne room, satan in heaven, got beside himself one day and started to see himself on equal footing with God. 00:17:51.634 --> 00:18:05.947 It's dangerous to be wrong, but it's more dangerous when you get a third of the folks in the room to start thinking like you think I want to talk to somebody and say you better be careful of group think, because you got to be careful of the group that you're in. 00:18:06.840 --> 00:18:13.253 The Bible says one third of the angels started to believe that Satan should have been on equal footing with God. 00:18:13.253 --> 00:18:17.971 And if you want to get God mad, start thinking you're on equal footing with him. 00:18:17.971 --> 00:18:21.144 The Bible says that's when the furniture started moving in heaven. 00:18:21.144 --> 00:18:26.073 The Bible literally says that it was at that moment that Satan was cast out. 00:18:26.073 --> 00:18:29.347 And for the new Bible scholars, how many other angels went with him? 00:18:29.347 --> 00:18:33.403 A third, one third of the angels went with him. 00:18:33.403 --> 00:18:34.767 So check this out. 00:18:35.367 --> 00:18:38.134 Do y'all know what we call fallen angels? 00:18:38.134 --> 00:18:41.186 Somebody said it. 00:18:41.186 --> 00:18:42.589 We got a Sunday school crowd. 00:18:42.589 --> 00:18:45.082 A fallen angel is literally a demon. 00:18:45.082 --> 00:18:46.567 That's all it is. 00:18:46.567 --> 00:18:54.549 So if you believe in God and if you believe in angels, you got to believe in demons, because demons are just the fallen angels. 00:18:54.549 --> 00:18:58.044 The demons are the ones that made the wrong choice, to be on the wrong team. 00:18:58.044 --> 00:18:58.807 And now they mad. 00:18:58.807 --> 00:19:02.385 And since they imagine and since it's over for them, you know what they're doing. 00:19:02.385 --> 00:19:04.803 They say I'm gonna spend the rest of my life giving you hell. 00:19:04.803 --> 00:19:07.472 If I can't have none, you can't either. 00:19:07.472 --> 00:19:10.261 Crabs in a bucket like you ain't never seen before. 00:19:11.022 --> 00:19:21.688 And so the problem is this the biggest trick of the enemy is to make you think that your problems are a person in the bed with you. 00:19:21.688 --> 00:19:29.752 The biggest trick of the enemy is to make you think that your problems are the one that you gave birth to. 00:19:29.752 --> 00:19:39.481 The biggest trick of the enemy is to make you think that your job would be better if you had a different supervisor. 00:19:39.481 --> 00:19:46.414 The biggest trick of the enemy is to think that you'd have a better time at church if she didn't show up. 00:19:46.414 --> 00:19:54.333 But the Bible is clear that we wrestle not against flesh and blood. 00:19:54.333 --> 00:20:01.168 In other words, your neighbor is not your problem, but what you see is the fruit. 00:20:01.168 --> 00:20:05.068 But we're not dealing with the root. 00:20:05.068 --> 00:20:08.828 The root is spiritual. 00:20:08.828 --> 00:20:16.453 The reason that she always gossipy is not because she a bad person, but there's something happening in the spirit. 00:20:16.453 --> 00:20:40.867 The reason that you operate in fear is not because you woke up deciding to be a fearful person, but there's something going on in the spirit and the enemy has decided that, if I can keep the people of God from ever understanding that this is spiritual warfare, they'll spend their whole life fighting the wrong fight. 00:20:42.283 --> 00:20:47.788 There are some people in here you've been trying for the last 10 years to change some stuff in your life. 00:20:47.788 --> 00:20:54.461 But I'm here to prophetically tell you it's not the fact that you're not a fighter, you are a fighter, matter of fact. 00:20:54.461 --> 00:20:57.145 You ought to pat yourself on the back for just being here today. 00:20:57.145 --> 00:21:00.224 If ain't nobody tell you that they proud of you, pastor Walt, won't? 00:21:00.224 --> 00:21:00.525 You know? 00:21:00.525 --> 00:21:03.832 I'm proud of you Just because you are here today. 00:21:03.832 --> 00:21:11.206 They don't even know what it took for you to just get out of the bed this morning and I just want to celebrate the fact that you're here this morning. 00:21:11.206 --> 00:21:16.286 But I want to free you today and let you know you are a fighter. 00:21:16.286 --> 00:21:23.945 But I want to talk to you and let you know that the reality is you've been fighting the wrong fight. 00:21:23.945 --> 00:21:30.005 You've been fighting people, when the bible is clear that we wrestle, not against flesh and blood. 00:21:30.005 --> 00:21:32.610 You've been right fighting the wrong fight. 00:21:32.610 --> 00:21:37.065 I know I'm talking to many of you in here wondering why God has not answered your prayer. 00:21:37.065 --> 00:21:43.486 God, god said I've been answered the prayer, deliverance is yours, but you've been fighting the wrong fight. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:56.365 Some of y'all that know me know I love the old school hip hop genre and one of the songs that I shouldn't have been listening to as a boy had it on tape, got it from a friend at school. 00:21:56.365 --> 00:21:58.746 My mama wouldn't let me buy nothing like that. 00:21:58.746 --> 00:22:00.265 It was the ghetto boys. 00:22:00.265 --> 00:22:01.234 My mama wouldn't let me buy nothing like that. 00:22:01.234 --> 00:22:01.720 It was the ghetto boys. 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:03.264 My mom playing tricks on me. 00:22:03.264 --> 00:22:05.089 Anybody remember the ghetto boys? 00:22:05.089 --> 00:22:07.085 I know we got a few. 00:22:07.085 --> 00:22:10.125 Anybody remember Bushwick building them? 00:22:10.125 --> 00:22:13.566 Listen, when that video came out. 00:22:13.566 --> 00:22:18.046 I think that video had more impact on my life other than that other one. 00:22:18.307 --> 00:22:20.291 Hey, little Walter, because you know I'm named Walter. 00:22:20.291 --> 00:22:21.684 We're the school of the children. 00:22:21.684 --> 00:22:22.327 You're the best with me. 00:22:22.327 --> 00:22:23.665 Something's going to get you, little Walter. 00:22:23.665 --> 00:22:28.932 But the other song the hell, I'm joking brother. 00:22:28.932 --> 00:22:34.027 But the song that stuck out from the Ghetto Boys, my mind playing tricks on me. 00:22:34.027 --> 00:22:37.809 I believe it was Bushwick Bill's part that stuck out the best to me. 00:22:37.809 --> 00:22:39.720 Because Bushwick Billills part that stuck out the best to me? 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:44.787 Because Bushwick Bills started talking about how that wing fell on the weekend and me and Ghetto Boy were trick-or-treating. 00:22:44.787 --> 00:22:47.486 Y'all remember robbing little kids for bags. 00:22:47.486 --> 00:22:48.229 They were doing wrong. 00:22:48.779 --> 00:22:55.383 But all of a sudden he looked up and it was this figure in his face and he said he wasn't an ordinary figure. 00:22:55.383 --> 00:22:56.163 Y'all don't know the rest. 00:22:56.163 --> 00:22:58.567 He said he stood about six or seven feet. 00:22:58.567 --> 00:22:59.729 Anybody know what I'm talking about. 00:22:59.729 --> 00:23:01.811 Y'all know y'all got to help your kid folks out. 00:23:01.811 --> 00:23:04.494 He said the dude stood about six or seven feet. 00:23:04.494 --> 00:23:13.743 He said that's the type of so-and-so you see in your sleep. 00:23:13.743 --> 00:23:19.071 He said so we, in a nutshell, a fight broke out, we'll say it like that Started dropping them fifth ward beads on him Anybody from Houston, 5th Ward. 00:23:19.071 --> 00:23:26.003 But all of a sudden he started swinging and he said then blood flew. 00:23:26.003 --> 00:23:32.685 Then he said the man disappeared and his friends that was fighting with him disappeared too. 00:23:32.685 --> 00:23:36.865 And he said oh man, homie, what'd he say? 00:23:36.865 --> 00:23:39.508 My mind playing tricks on me. 00:23:39.508 --> 00:23:44.849 For those that never seen this, heard the song, seen the video, you got an individual that's in a street fight. 00:23:44.849 --> 00:23:48.640 So he thought, and he fighting with his friends. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:58.650 So he thought and he's swinging with everything he got and he wondering why he's not winning the fight and after a while his hands getting bloody because he's been swinging. 00:23:58.650 --> 00:24:05.889 But sooner or later he realized not only does he not have any friends fighting with him, he realized he fighting the wrong fight and he punching the concrete. 00:24:07.402 --> 00:24:13.630 Can I tell you that's why we got to talk about spiritual warfare, because some of y'all are like Bushwick Bill, you've been swinging. 00:24:13.630 --> 00:24:19.185 You thought you had folks with you, you thought they was praying for you, you thought they had your back. 00:24:19.185 --> 00:24:23.767 But you realize that you by yourself, and you realize you're swinging at the concrete. 00:24:23.767 --> 00:24:29.506 And I want to tell somebody that the powerful spiritual warfare is first thing the spirit does. 00:24:29.506 --> 00:24:41.734 It helps us to realign our battles, it helps us, he helps us to know when to fight, where to fight, why to fight, how to fight and when to be. 00:24:42.635 --> 00:24:45.400 Still, I want to talk to some people in here. 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:49.330 Let you know that spiritual warfare is real. 00:24:49.330 --> 00:25:03.943 You know that you are dealing with spiritual warfare when you have something that has a a hold of you and no matter how much you try to break it, you seem like you can't get let go of it. 00:25:03.943 --> 00:25:09.177 Spiritual warfare happens in the spiritual realm but it manifests in this world. 00:25:09.177 --> 00:25:11.667 You know what it looks like when it manifests in this world. 00:25:11.667 --> 00:25:25.629 It can manifest looking like anxiety, it can manifest looking like depression, and while is good, all medicine does is deal with the fruit, but medicine can never get to the root. 00:25:26.921 --> 00:25:35.108 I want y'all to understand this, because my father's a pastor, my father's a counselor and we have many great counselors here. 00:25:35.108 --> 00:25:37.807 We send people to counseling all the time. 00:25:37.807 --> 00:25:40.307 I recommended the counselor to somebody this week. 00:25:40.307 --> 00:25:48.504 But this is what I know about counseling and again I had to say that because I don't want to get taken out of context saying don't go to counseling, go to counseling. 00:25:48.504 --> 00:25:50.639 Let me say it one more time Go to counseling. 00:25:51.302 --> 00:25:52.086 But here's the problem. 00:25:52.086 --> 00:26:01.014 If what you are dealing with was birthed in the spiritual realm, counseling will help you to deal with the fruit of it. 00:26:01.014 --> 00:26:06.991 But counseling can't always necessarily get to the root of it when it's spiritual. 00:26:06.991 --> 00:26:07.772 Does that make sense? 00:26:07.772 --> 00:26:10.488 I'm not saying that everything is spiritual. 00:26:10.488 --> 00:26:10.868 For sure. 00:26:10.868 --> 00:26:15.392 There are sometimes a counselor that can't help you get to the root of a natural problem. 00:26:15.392 --> 00:26:20.480 Would y'all agree that sometimes a counselor can help you get to the root of a natural problem. 00:26:20.539 --> 00:26:22.607 But I came today for spiritual warfare. 00:26:22.607 --> 00:26:25.548 I came to talk to the people that have been to the counselor. 00:26:25.548 --> 00:26:28.108 I came to talk to the people that have taken the medicine. 00:26:28.108 --> 00:26:35.625 I came to talk to the people that have done everything that they told you to do, the way that they asked you to do it, and it's still not working. 00:26:35.625 --> 00:26:44.770 It's because, not because you don't have the greatest counselor, not because that you don't have the greatest medicine, but this thing is spiritual and you fight in the wrong fight. 00:26:44.770 --> 00:26:54.596 We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but we are fighting against principalities and darkness and wickedness and high places, generational curses. 00:26:54.596 --> 00:27:00.022 It's spiritual warfare. 00:27:00.022 --> 00:27:05.032 Abuse that happens to us sometimes can be spiritual warfare. 00:27:05.032 --> 00:27:14.236 That thing that's happening in your marriage that has you all thinking about whether or not you should stay together it can be spiritual warfare. 00:27:14.236 --> 00:27:18.639 That thought that has you thinking do I, should I even live anymore? 00:27:18.639 --> 00:27:21.248 Do I even have any value anymore? 00:27:21.248 --> 00:27:32.245 I'm going to let you know that it's spiritual warfare, but I want to talk to you today to let you know that you have been filled to fight. 00:27:32.245 --> 00:27:33.008 Remember what I said. 00:27:33.008 --> 00:27:34.892 Joel chapter two they are filled In. 00:27:34.892 --> 00:27:37.263 Joel chapter three he fights, goes to the war. 00:27:37.344 --> 00:27:39.027 Acts, chapter 2, feel. 00:27:39.027 --> 00:27:41.371 Acts, chapter 3, warfare. 00:27:41.371 --> 00:27:43.501 Where is the warfare in Acts, chapter 3? 00:27:43.501 --> 00:27:53.421 The warfare in Acts, chapter 3 is the moment that, after they are filled with the Holy Ghost and the church is operating with one accord, they make their way to the place of worship. 00:27:53.421 --> 00:28:01.575 And on the way to the place of worship they encounter an individual laying outside of the worship place. 00:28:01.575 --> 00:28:16.927 Bible said he'd been laying there a long time and he had been begging for money, begging for food, begging for what he thought was going to make his situation better. 00:28:16.927 --> 00:28:23.782 One of the things about spiritual warfare is that we don't deal with fruit anymore, we deal with root. 00:28:23.782 --> 00:28:30.804 The apostles are going in and they see the dude out there begging hey bro, let me get a dollar. 00:28:30.804 --> 00:28:32.711 Say, bro, let me get a dime. 00:28:33.554 --> 00:28:39.288 If you love the King James poetic version of the Bible, you may be familiar with what the apostle said. 00:28:39.288 --> 00:28:49.316 Next they looked at the man intently and the Bible says they declared what Silver and gold have I? 00:28:49.316 --> 00:28:49.756 None. 00:28:49.756 --> 00:28:53.924 This is what spiritual warfare looks like. 00:28:53.924 --> 00:29:01.529 You're asking for what you think is going to solve the problem, but the Holy Ghost will reveal what you really need. 00:29:01.529 --> 00:29:08.529 I want to talk to some people in the house and change the way you pray, because you've been asking for what you think will solve the problem. 00:29:08.529 --> 00:29:17.394 You've been begging for what you think is going to fix it, but the Holy Ghost is going to give you what you need Silver and gold have I done? 00:29:17.394 --> 00:29:20.347 In a nutshell, my check ain't cleared this week, bro. 00:29:20.347 --> 00:29:24.287 I really don't have no cash on me because I usually have an ATM card. 00:29:24.607 --> 00:29:26.815 Silver and gold have I? 00:29:26.815 --> 00:29:32.448 None in reality, bro, you don't need another handout, you need something that's gonna really pick you up. 00:29:32.448 --> 00:29:34.944 Can I talk to the people in the house of God? 00:29:34.944 --> 00:29:37.937 They say you don't need another handout, you need something. 00:29:37.937 --> 00:29:39.604 You need something that's gonna pick you up. 00:29:39.604 --> 00:29:42.050 That's what spiritual warfare does that? 00:29:42.050 --> 00:29:44.057 That, when you're filled with the holy ghost, I'm. 00:29:44.057 --> 00:29:46.143 I'm no longer begging for crumbs. 00:29:46.143 --> 00:29:46.884 I'm I. 00:29:46.884 --> 00:29:48.326 I am the bread maker. 00:29:48.326 --> 00:29:58.467 When, when I'm filled with the holy ghost, the spirit of god operates through me in such a way that I can resolve issues like nobody's business. 00:29:58.467 --> 00:30:01.731 Silver and gold have I? 00:30:01.731 --> 00:30:04.634 None, but such as I have. 00:30:05.155 --> 00:30:08.129 Can I talk to you about what it means to be filled with the Holy Ghost? 00:30:08.129 --> 00:30:11.945 It means that you will use the spiritual gift that you have. 00:30:11.945 --> 00:30:23.363 You may not have the spiritual gift that I have, but you will use the spiritual gift that you have to touch and agree to let somebody else be blessed by our Lord and Savior in the Spirit. 00:30:23.363 --> 00:30:25.627 I ain't got no money for you, bro. 00:30:25.627 --> 00:30:27.510 Silver and gold have I? 00:30:27.510 --> 00:30:30.282 None, but such as I have. 00:30:30.322 --> 00:30:37.463 Do I have any people in this house that know that you are filled with the Holy Ghost and that God has given you some gifts? 00:30:37.463 --> 00:30:44.269 You may not have everything, you may not have everything that you prayed for, but God has gifted you with something. 00:30:44.269 --> 00:30:53.447 Do I have at least 200 gifted people in this house that don't mind making some noise that said I got a gift and I'm going to use my gift. 00:30:53.447 --> 00:30:57.010 I'm going to use my gift until my family gets better. 00:30:57.010 --> 00:31:00.550 I'm going to use my gift until my marriage changes. 00:31:00.550 --> 00:31:01.601 I'm going to use my gift until my children gets better. 00:31:01.601 --> 00:31:02.202 I'm going to use my gift Until my marriage changes. 00:31:02.202 --> 00:31:04.067 I'm going to use my gift Until my children get better. 00:31:04.067 --> 00:31:08.208 I'm going to use my gift Until I change the community where I live. 00:31:08.208 --> 00:31:12.847 I'm going to use my gift Until I see a shift in the school that my children go to. 00:31:12.948 --> 00:31:15.444 Silver and gold have I none. 00:31:15.444 --> 00:31:26.687 But such as I have, see, that's what spiritual warfare looks like, because God has given you a field, with the Holy Ghost You've been filled with, to fight. 00:31:26.687 --> 00:31:37.765 And if you feel, with the Holy Ghost, you have some power, you have some gifts, you have some authority to be able to deal with some stuff, we got to be a people that learn to deal with some stuff. 00:31:37.765 --> 00:31:39.629 Silver and gold have I none. 00:31:39.629 --> 00:31:50.352 But such as I have, I give unto thee and he says to the man rise, take up thy mat and walk. 00:31:50.352 --> 00:31:54.505 I pray y'all can see it in the spirit we have been filled to fight. 00:31:54.505 --> 00:31:56.128 Joel, chapter 2, filled. 00:31:56.128 --> 00:31:59.563 Joel, chapter 3, war Acts, chapter 2, filled. 00:31:59.563 --> 00:32:03.827 Acts, chapter 3, war, because we war in a lot of different ways. 00:32:03.827 --> 00:32:07.024 Some of us are in warfare as it relates to our health. 00:32:07.024 --> 00:32:11.267 Some of us are in warfare as it relates to our future. 00:32:11.267 --> 00:32:13.565 Silver and gold have I? 00:32:13.565 --> 00:32:13.966 None. 00:32:13.966 --> 00:32:18.848 But such as I have, I give unto thee. 00:32:18.848 --> 00:32:20.806 The Lord said give chosen city, what you got this morning. 00:32:20.806 --> 00:32:21.207 That's what I have. 00:32:21.207 --> 00:32:21.589 I give unto thee. 00:32:21.589 --> 00:32:24.582 The Lord said give chosen city, what you got this morning. 00:32:24.582 --> 00:32:36.904 What I have is a God given ability and a God given authority to remind every last one of you of who you are. 00:32:36.904 --> 00:32:38.730 That's what I have. 00:32:38.730 --> 00:32:41.003 I know I can do it. 00:32:41.003 --> 00:32:46.404 I can encourage you, not because of me, but because of the gift that the Lord has given me. 00:32:46.404 --> 00:32:51.024 And the Lord said use the gift to tell them this morning they've been where they are long enough. 00:32:51.024 --> 00:32:56.650 He said use the gift to tell them that they are fighters, but they've been wrong fighting the wrong fight. 00:32:56.650 --> 00:33:02.826 He said use the gift to tell them that I'm going to strengthen them and they will see victory. 00:33:02.826 --> 00:33:08.144 But some of them in the room need to make sure that they are filled before they leave this place. 00:33:08.144 --> 00:33:11.529 See, I told y'all we were filled to fight. 00:33:11.529 --> 00:33:18.429 But here's the caveat If you're not filled, you can't fight. 00:33:18.429 --> 00:33:24.771 I can't make the assumption that every last one of us in this room are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:33:24.771 --> 00:33:32.894 That always gets sticky because that means a lot of different things depending on what reformation that you were raised under. 00:33:32.894 --> 00:33:48.090 But I'll tell you the Bible is clear that people that are filled with the Holy Ghost there is evidence in your life, because there are things that you are able to defeat that won't keep you bound forever. 00:33:48.090 --> 00:33:52.389 That's the Bible. 00:33:52.389 --> 00:33:55.445 So can I ask you a question. 00:33:55.445 --> 00:33:58.601 Y'all remember in school the teacher gave you a little test, said self-grade it. 00:33:58.601 --> 00:34:00.445 You know, pass it up to the front when you finish. 00:34:00.445 --> 00:34:01.769 Can I give you a test? 00:34:01.769 --> 00:34:03.051 Here's your test. 00:34:03.051 --> 00:34:05.565 It's self-graded and you ain't even got to pass it to the front. 00:34:05.565 --> 00:34:06.087 Here's the test. 00:34:06.087 --> 00:34:15.994 Is there something in your life right now that has a grip on you, like really has you on lock? 00:34:15.994 --> 00:34:24.923