Speaker 1: Grab your Bible, put it in your hand.
Speaker 1: Media team.
Speaker 1: You done it this morning and you know the pastor tried to get y'all on the slide.
Speaker 1: Just laugh, it was cute.
Speaker 1: This time it's not on the slide, this time it's prophetic.
Speaker 1: Throw it up there real quick.
Speaker 1: They need to see the title, cause we getting ready to shift at a normal place, we getting ready to shift different.
Speaker 1: Just throw it up there.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the sermon topic.
Speaker 1: Come on, follow me.
Speaker 1: Come on, follow me when you at yeah, go Okay, because this is what's got to happen.
Speaker 1: We can plan, we can strategize, but what God does, reverend Shank?
Speaker 1: He takes our natural and we collide with his supernatural, which is the anointing, and it's the anointing that destroys the yoke.
Speaker 1: You can't go into war if you ain't got no anointing.
Speaker 1: We ain't tag team preaching, but you can't go into war if you ain't got no power.
Speaker 1: So I need to grab your bible, grab the scripture, ephesians 6 we getting ready to preach.
Speaker 1: I'm not, but he gonna preach.
Speaker 1: I ain't flowing that way.
Speaker 1: Ephesians 6, ephesians 6.
Speaker 1: Y'all ready?
Speaker 3: Verse 10.
Speaker 1: You ready?
Speaker 1: Y'all ready?
Speaker 1: Come on, I need to hear you.
Speaker 1: You ready?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Read, for we are not fighting against the flesh and blood.
Speaker 1: Wait, read it again.
Speaker 1: We are not fighting against the flesh and blood.
Speaker 1: Wait, read it again.
Speaker 1: We are not fighting against the flesh and blood.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I'm no longer fighting against you, I'm fighting for you.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear me.
Speaker 1: I said tell them I'm fighting for you.
Speaker 1: Let's keep reading, but against evil rulers.
Speaker 2: Read Breathe.
Speaker 1: Breathe.
Speaker 1: Come on, yes, sir, read, saints, read.
Speaker 1: Stop, stop.
Speaker 1: Ask your neighbor why you tripping and why you ain't got no faith.
Speaker 1: How are you going to combat against what's coming to you when your faith is real small?
Speaker 1: Some of y'all have put your faith under your pillow and you've been using your tears as a weapon for you.
Speaker 1: But tell your neighbor I'm getting ready to pull my faith back out the bag.
Speaker 1: Tell them I'm pulling my faith back out the bag.
Speaker 1: Tell them hold on to the confession of your faith.
Speaker 1: We gotta keep reading verse 17.
Speaker 1: Read Verse 17, read Read.
Speaker 1: Uh-huh, yes, sir, read, read, read.
Speaker 1: Last verse read.
Speaker 2: Now I need you to lift your voice, and with a loud scream.
Speaker 3: I need you to shout in the monitor please.
Speaker 2: This means war.
Speaker 3: This means war.
Speaker 3: Come on, family.
Speaker 3: This means war.
Speaker 3: Listen as you take your seats in the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 3: One thing about spiritual warfare, or warfare in general, is that war is never fought alone.
Speaker 3: I just want to celebrate and honor the gift of our executive pastor, pastor Quintero Smith.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: This means war.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: It may, it's nothing to be afraid of, it's nothing spooky.
Speaker 3: The truth of the matter is you have been in spiritual warfare your whole life and some of you don't even know it.
Speaker 3: So now, today, you're, the lord is about to deposit in you something that's going to help you to fight the battle.
Speaker 3: Last week, we celebrated pentecost.
Speaker 3: Pentecost was the God keeping a promise to pour out his spirit on all flesh.
Speaker 3: We celebrated Pentecost.
Speaker 3: Thank you, amazing worship ministry.
Speaker 3: Let's celebrate them as well.
Speaker 3: God be the glory.
Speaker 3: Pentecost was a promise that God made.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: The problem that they had was in the natural, and they had a problem in nature.
Speaker 3: In the natural, they were struggling, just like you and I struggle.
Speaker 3: They had enemy all around them and in as it relates to nature, they had these insects called locusts that were devouring everything.
Speaker 3: In the spirit.
Speaker 3: We are still dealing with locusts because there's something surrounding so many of us that are trying to devour everything.
Speaker 3: Some of you have been giving a foreshadowing of what locusts look like, because we're looking at their cousins every day.
Speaker 3: Y'all know who the locust cousins are Cicadas.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Cicadas are an inconvenience, but locusts still exist.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: But locusts devour everything that you need to survive.
Speaker 3: So I've gotten to the place in this spirit.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: The reason God has given me this message is because some of you are dealing with locusts in your family.
Speaker 3: Some of you are dealing with locusts in your family.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: What is God's response when locusts are devouring our future?
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: That's why we embrace the prophetic in this house.
Speaker 3: You don't.
Speaker 3: You ought to try to change your life.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Flow Because perhaps he was going to be able to say something to somebody at a time when they just needed it the most.
Speaker 3: Because that's how God gets down when we are going through the worst times of our lives.
Speaker 3: He sends a prophetic utterance every time.
Speaker 3: Every time, you know, there's something interesting about the, about being prophetic.
Speaker 3: The same thing that happened in biblical times happens today.
Speaker 3: Some people receive it and other people respond by saying I ain't buying what you're selling.
Speaker 3: I wonder what your response going to be today, because this is a prophetic flow.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Isn't that good news?
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Well, god said it again.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: My job is just to drop it right.
Speaker 3: My job is just the water, but God will give the increase.
Speaker 3: And so that's what Joel did.
Speaker 3: Joel said I understand y'all dealing with locusts, you're dealing with adversaries, but there is a word from the Lord.
Speaker 3: May I encourage you that there's a word from the Lord today.
Speaker 3: Joel said this.
Speaker 3: He said that, uh, I see how God is going to fix this.
Speaker 3: He's shown me something he he's going to pour out his spirit on all flesh.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: And he says I see it coming.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Joelle, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3: What you're celebrating for I'm?
Speaker 3: I'm dancing with expectation.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm dancing not because of where we are, but because where we are going to be.
Speaker 3: You see that the locust ate the cabbage greens.
Speaker 3: But I see a harvest that is overflowing and I need some people this day that don't see what the locusts are doing.
Speaker 3: But you can see the harvest that is on the way.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: You are called to help people and not always need help.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: He sees it and he prophesies it.
Speaker 3: Psalm received it, psalm accepted it and Psalm said we ain't buying what you're selling.
Speaker 3: Joel prophesied that in Joel chapter 2.
Speaker 3: But in Joel chapter 3, you see something interesting happen.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Well, actually it does.
Speaker 3: When you look at it, you see a conversation going where they've been filled with the spirit, in Joel, chapter 2.
Speaker 3: And then in Joel, chapter 3, you're talking about warfare.
Speaker 3: At first I thought it didn't make sense, but now it started to make a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Somebody say I'm being filled to fight.
Speaker 3: Say we are being filled to fight, come on.
Speaker 3: Somebody say I'm being filled to fight.
Speaker 3: Watch this, I'll show it to you.
Speaker 3: Ephesians 6, verse 10, is right here in our text.
Speaker 3: A final word.
Speaker 3: This is the apostle Paul writing to the church at Ephesus.
Speaker 3: He's talked to them about a whole lot of stuff, but he wanted to save the most important thing for last.
Speaker 3: He says a final word.
Speaker 3: He tells them to be strong in the Lord and mighty in his power.
Speaker 3: Many of us and they had heard also being strong in the Lord.
Speaker 3: But how are we strong in the Lord?
Speaker 3: The only way that we are strong in the Lord is when we are mighty in his power.
Speaker 3: Well, how are we mighty in his power?
Speaker 3: When we are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: Now, why does he want us to be mighty in his power?
Speaker 3: Because there is a war that you are fighting and it's your time to win.
Speaker 3: I want to remind you in this season you are being filled to fight.
Speaker 3: The reason that God is filling you is because in Joel, you need his spirit, but in the second chapter.
Speaker 3: But in Joel, the third, the chapter.
Speaker 3: This means war.
Speaker 3: I'll show it to you again.
Speaker 3: Acts, the second chapter.
Speaker 3: Finally, the fulfillment of what was prophesied.
Speaker 3: There had been a lot of conversation about when this would happen and on the day of Pentecost the Lord kept his promise.
Speaker 3: He poured out his spirit on all flesh.
Speaker 3: We see that they were together with one accord and they were praying in the upper room and they were waiting on God.
Speaker 3: And I want to encourage somebody not to give up too soon now and wait on God.
Speaker 3: That's a word for somebody today that don't give up too soon.
Speaker 3: Wait on God, it's about to happen.
Speaker 3: Watch what happens in that upper room.
Speaker 3: Experience the spirit comes upon them and they are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: Now Peter is bold and he's moving under the unction of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: I'm no longer timid, I'm no longer afraid, I'm no longer worried.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: That's Acts, chapter 2.
Speaker 3: But I told you you were being filled to fight.
Speaker 3: In Joel, the second chapter, they were filled.
Speaker 3: In Joel, the third chapter, he prophesied war.
Speaker 3: In Acts, the second chapter, they were filled.
Speaker 3: In Acts, the third chapter, you see, war.
Speaker 3: What do you mean, pastor Walt?
Speaker 3: I don't see bombs, I don't see munitions.
Speaker 3: I told you this was spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3: Spiritual warfare is fighting in that unseen realm.
Speaker 3: That's why some of us ignore spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3: But you need to understand what spiritual warfare is.
Speaker 3: You see, when we go into spiritual warfare, we go into that place where the enemy does his most dangerous work.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: The Bible says one third of the angels started to believe that Satan should have been on equal footing with God.
Speaker 3: And if you want to get God mad, start thinking you're on equal footing with him.
Speaker 3: The Bible says that's when the furniture started moving in heaven.
Speaker 3: The Bible literally says that it was at that moment that Satan was cast out.
Speaker 3: And for the new Bible scholars, how many other angels went with him?
Speaker 3: A third, one third of the angels went with him.
Speaker 3: So check this out.
Speaker 3: Do y'all know what we call fallen angels?
Speaker 3: Somebody said it.
Speaker 3: We got a Sunday school crowd.
Speaker 3: A fallen angel is literally a demon.
Speaker 3: That's all it is.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: The demons are the ones that made the wrong choice, to be on the wrong team.
Speaker 3: And now they mad.
Speaker 3: And since they imagine and since it's over for them, you know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: They say I'm gonna spend the rest of my life giving you hell.
Speaker 3: If I can't have none, you can't either.
Speaker 3: Crabs in a bucket like you ain't never seen before.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: The biggest trick of the enemy is to make you think that your problems are the one that you gave birth to.
Speaker 3: The biggest trick of the enemy is to make you think that your job would be better if you had a different supervisor.
Speaker 3: The biggest trick of the enemy is to think that you'd have a better time at church if she didn't show up.
Speaker 3: But the Bible is clear that we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Speaker 3: In other words, your neighbor is not your problem, but what you see is the fruit.
Speaker 3: But we're not dealing with the root.
Speaker 3: The root is spiritual.
Speaker 3: The reason that she always gossipy is not because she a bad person, but there's something happening in the spirit.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: There are some people in here you've been trying for the last 10 years to change some stuff in your life.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: You ought to pat yourself on the back for just being here today.
Speaker 3: If ain't nobody tell you that they proud of you, pastor Walt, won't?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 3: I'm proud of you Just because you are here today.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: But I want to free you today and let you know you are a fighter.
Speaker 3: But I want to talk to you and let you know that the reality is you've been fighting the wrong fight.
Speaker 3: You've been fighting people, when the bible is clear that we wrestle, not against flesh and blood.
Speaker 3: You've been right fighting the wrong fight.
Speaker 3: I know I'm talking to many of you in here wondering why God has not answered your prayer.
Speaker 3: God, god said I've been answered the prayer, deliverance is yours, but you've been fighting the wrong fight.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: My mama wouldn't let me buy nothing like that.
Speaker 3: It was the ghetto boys.
Speaker 3: My mama wouldn't let me buy nothing like that.
Speaker 3: It was the ghetto boys.
Speaker 3: My mom playing tricks on me.
Speaker 3: Anybody remember the ghetto boys?
Speaker 3: I know we got a few.
Speaker 3: Anybody remember Bushwick building them?
Speaker 3: Listen, when that video came out.
Speaker 3: I think that video had more impact on my life other than that other one.
Speaker 3: Hey, little Walter, because you know I'm named Walter.
Speaker 3: We're the school of the children.
Speaker 3: You're the best with me.
Speaker 3: Something's going to get you, little Walter.
Speaker 3: But the other song the hell, I'm joking brother.
Speaker 3: But the song that stuck out from the Ghetto Boys, my mind playing tricks on me.
Speaker 3: I believe it was Bushwick Bill's part that stuck out the best to me.
Speaker 3: Because Bushwick Billills part that stuck out the best to me?
Speaker 3: Because Bushwick Bills started talking about how that wing fell on the weekend and me and Ghetto Boy were trick-or-treating.
Speaker 3: Y'all remember robbing little kids for bags.
Speaker 3: They were doing wrong.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Y'all don't know the rest.
Speaker 3: He said he stood about six or seven feet.
Speaker 3: Anybody know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Y'all know y'all got to help your kid folks out.
Speaker 3: He said the dude stood about six or seven feet.
Speaker 3: He said that's the type of so-and-so you see in your sleep.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: But all of a sudden he started swinging and he said then blood flew.
Speaker 3: Then he said the man disappeared and his friends that was fighting with him disappeared too.
Speaker 3: And he said oh man, homie, what'd he say?
Speaker 3: My mind playing tricks on me.
Speaker 3: For those that never seen this, heard the song, seen the video, you got an individual that's in a street fight.
Speaker 3: So he thought, and he fighting with his friends.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: You thought you had folks with you, you thought they was praying for you, you thought they had your back.
Speaker 3: But you realize that you by yourself, and you realize you're swinging at the concrete.
Speaker 3: And I want to tell somebody that the powerful spiritual warfare is first thing the spirit does.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Still, I want to talk to some people in here.
Speaker 3: Let you know that spiritual warfare is real.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Spiritual warfare happens in the spiritual realm but it manifests in this world.
Speaker 3: You know what it looks like when it manifests in this world.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: We send people to counseling all the time.
Speaker 3: I recommended the counselor to somebody this week.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Let me say it one more time Go to counseling.
Speaker 3: But here's the problem.
Speaker 3: If what you are dealing with was birthed in the spiritual realm, counseling will help you to deal with the fruit of it.
Speaker 3: But counseling can't always necessarily get to the root of it when it's spiritual.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that everything is spiritual.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 3: There are sometimes a counselor that can't help you get to the root of a natural problem.
Speaker 3: Would y'all agree that sometimes a counselor can help you get to the root of a natural problem.
Speaker 3: But I came today for spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3: I came to talk to the people that have been to the counselor.
Speaker 3: I came to talk to the people that have taken the medicine.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but we are fighting against principalities and darkness and wickedness and high places, generational curses.
Speaker 3: It's spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3: Abuse that happens to us sometimes can be spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: That thought that has you thinking do I, should I even live anymore?
Speaker 3: Do I even have any value anymore?
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Remember what I said.
Speaker 3: Joel chapter two they are filled In.
Speaker 3: Joel chapter three he fights, goes to the war.
Speaker 3: Acts, chapter 2, feel.
Speaker 3: Acts, chapter 3, warfare.
Speaker 3: Where is the warfare in Acts, chapter 3?
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: And on the way to the place of worship they encounter an individual laying outside of the worship place.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: One of the things about spiritual warfare is that we don't deal with fruit anymore, we deal with root.
Speaker 3: The apostles are going in and they see the dude out there begging hey bro, let me get a dollar.
Speaker 3: Say, bro, let me get a dime.
Speaker 3: If you love the King James poetic version of the Bible, you may be familiar with what the apostle said.
Speaker 3: Next they looked at the man intently and the Bible says they declared what Silver and gold have I?
Speaker 3: None.
Speaker 3: This is what spiritual warfare looks like.
Speaker 3: You're asking for what you think is going to solve the problem, but the Holy Ghost will reveal what you really need.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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?
Speaker 3: In a nutshell, my check ain't cleared this week, bro.
Speaker 3: I really don't have no cash on me because I usually have an ATM card.
Speaker 3: Silver and gold have I?
Speaker 3: None in reality, bro, you don't need another handout, you need something that's gonna really pick you up.
Speaker 3: Can I talk to the people in the house of God?
Speaker 3: They say you don't need another handout, you need something.
Speaker 3: You need something that's gonna pick you up.
Speaker 3: That's what spiritual warfare does that?
Speaker 3: That, when you're filled with the holy ghost, I'm.
Speaker 3: I'm no longer begging for crumbs.
Speaker 3: I'm I.
Speaker 3: I am the bread maker.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Silver and gold have I?
Speaker 3: None, but such as I have.
Speaker 3: Can I talk to you about what it means to be filled with the Holy Ghost?
Speaker 3: It means that you will use the spiritual gift that you have.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: I ain't got no money for you, bro.
Speaker 3: Silver and gold have I?
Speaker 3: None, but such as I have.
Speaker 3: 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?
Speaker 3: You may not have everything, you may not have everything that you prayed for, but God has gifted you with something.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use my gift until my family gets better.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use my gift until my marriage changes.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use my gift until my children gets better.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use my gift Until my marriage changes.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use my gift Until my children get better.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use my gift Until I change the community where I live.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use my gift Until I see a shift in the school that my children go to.
Speaker 3: Silver and gold have I none.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Silver and gold have I none.
Speaker 3: But such as I have, I give unto thee and he says to the man rise, take up thy mat and walk.
Speaker 3: I pray y'all can see it in the spirit we have been filled to fight.
Speaker 3: Joel, chapter 2, filled.
Speaker 3: Joel, chapter 3, war Acts, chapter 2, filled.
Speaker 3: Acts, chapter 3, war, because we war in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 3: Some of us are in warfare as it relates to our health.
Speaker 3: Some of us are in warfare as it relates to our future.
Speaker 3: Silver and gold have I?
Speaker 3: None.
Speaker 3: But such as I have, I give unto thee.
Speaker 3: The Lord said give chosen city, what you got this morning.
Speaker 3: That's what I have.
Speaker 3: I give unto thee.
Speaker 3: The Lord said give chosen city, what you got this morning.
Speaker 3: What I have is a God given ability and a God given authority to remind every last one of you of who you are.
Speaker 3: That's what I have.
Speaker 3: I know I can do it.
Speaker 3: I can encourage you, not because of me, but because of the gift that the Lord has given me.
Speaker 3: And the Lord said use the gift to tell them this morning they've been where they are long enough.
Speaker 3: He said use the gift to tell them that they are fighters, but they've been wrong fighting the wrong fight.
Speaker 3: He said use the gift to tell them that I'm going to strengthen them and they will see victory.
Speaker 3: But some of them in the room need to make sure that they are filled before they leave this place.
Speaker 3: See, I told y'all we were filled to fight.
Speaker 3: But here's the caveat If you're not filled, you can't fight.
Speaker 3: I can't make the assumption that every last one of us in this room are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: That always gets sticky because that means a lot of different things depending on what reformation that you were raised under.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: That's the Bible.
Speaker 3: So can I ask you a question.
Speaker 3: Y'all remember in school the teacher gave you a little test, said self-grade it.
Speaker 3: You know, pass it up to the front when you finish.
Speaker 3: Can I give you a test?
Speaker 3: Here's your test.
Speaker 3: It's self-graded and you ain't even got to pass it to the front.
Speaker 3: Here's the test.
Speaker 3: Is there something in your life right now that has a grip on you, like really has you on lock?
Speaker 3: You're making some progress, but you're not progressing in the rate that God would have you to progress.
Speaker 3: You're still alive and you're surviving, but you're not thriving.
Speaker 3: And the Lord is saying if you allow me to fill you with my Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: He's saying, especially for those that don't really fully understand this, because it sounds like church talk.
Speaker 3: He said you won't understand, but you don't quite understand it.
Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit is the greatest teacher of all.
Speaker 3: What you have to do is just be willing to avail yourself and open your mind and your heart and say God, I am open and I'm willing and I have a desire to be filled with your Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, we shouldn't pray this just on Pentecost or just on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Every morning you get up you ought to be praying that the Lord will fill you with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: You know why?
Speaker 3: Because if you live in this thing called life, at some point on the journey you're going to get empty.
Speaker 3: At some point on the journey you're going to give out and you're going to give so much till you feel like you're about to give out.
Speaker 3: So I need people in here to just be willing and open and say Lord, I really want to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: I really want to be filled because I've been filled to fight.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, it's a good place to do it right.
Speaker 3: I need everybody in the room that doesn't mind, just serious about it, saying God, I need you to fill me, or fill me again, because some, maybe you've never been filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: The Bible talks about believers in the book of Acts that knew Jesus but didn't know the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: They had no power.
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to tell you that God wants to fill you so that you can fight and so that you can be victorious.
Speaker 3: And you just got to get to the place where, in your mind, your body and your soul, that you fully surrender to the move of God.
Speaker 3: That is hitting this house today, because God is saying I'm filling you because you are in warfare.
Speaker 3: I'm filling you so that you can get your family back, man of God.
Speaker 3: I'm filling you so that you can get back in the right relationship with your son.
Speaker 3: I'm filling you so you can get back connected with your daughters.
Speaker 3: I'm filling you so you can get back to where you're supposed to be man of God, woman of God.
Speaker 3: But you got to avail yourself and come in every day saying Lord, fill me again.
Speaker 3: Do I have anybody in the house that's unashamed to yell that out loud?
Speaker 3: Lord, fill me again.
Speaker 3: Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 3: You're not talking to me, just got to get past the roof.
Speaker 3: Lord, say it like you mean it.
Speaker 3: You're not talking to me, you just got to get past the roof.
Speaker 3: Lord, fill me again.
Speaker 3: One of the things about God he always will answer that prayer.
Speaker 3: For some.
Speaker 3: He's going to answer it today because we saw testimonies last week about people being filled with the power of the Holy Ghost after the church was over.
Speaker 3: Some of you might be driving down the road on Tuesday when the Lord hits you and you realize that God has just filled you with his power, but I want to let you know if your heart was pure and you just said that out loud, that some power is about to hit your house.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, you ought to high-five somebody right there and say power is about to hit my house.
Speaker 3: Power is about to hit my house.
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 2: Because?
Speaker 3: I've been filled to fight.
Speaker 3: I've been where I am long enough.
Speaker 3: I've been filled to fight to shift some stuff in my own family.
Speaker 3: I've been filled to fight to shift some stuff that I I want to see better.
Speaker 3: I've been filled to fight so that I can be what God has called me to be and do what God has called me to do.
Speaker 3: I've been filled so I can fight.
Speaker 3: Now check this out.
Speaker 3: You've been filled so you can fight, but you need to understand something about warfare.
Speaker 3: No-transcript that the weapons of our warfare are not ordinary.
Speaker 3: Somebody say our weapons are not ordinary.
Speaker 3: Now, before I get to the Bible, coach Brown, I need to clarify some things because we serve a crowd.
Speaker 3: They got it yesterday.
Speaker 3: I understand when I say our weapons are not ordinary.
Speaker 3: I know some of y'all carry some heavy artillery.
Speaker 3: We hear it on Fourth of July, we hear it on New Year's.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 3: I know some of y'all come from the crowd that this ain't what you want.
Speaker 3: Pull up if you want to.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about those weapons.
Speaker 3: I understand that for some of the senior men in the room.
Speaker 3: You still got a little switchblade in your back pocket.
Speaker 3: I get it, I.
Speaker 3: You still got a little switchblade in your back pocket.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 3: Young brothers, don't run up on one of these senior men.
Speaker 3: They fight different.
Speaker 3: Now they cut you quick.
Speaker 3: Don't do it.
Speaker 3: But I'm not talking about the weapons in the natural.
Speaker 3: The weapons of our warfare for this type of war hit different.
Speaker 3: Perhaps there's some cutting that need to go on, but your switchblade can't get this one.
Speaker 3: Perhaps there's some rounds that need to be shot, but the nine, the 45 can't really get this one done.
Speaker 3: The weapons of our warfare are different.
Speaker 3: Let's look at the text First.
Speaker 3: Let's look at Ephesians, the sixth chapter, verse 11.
Speaker 3: Put on all of God's armor, so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil.
Speaker 3: Somebody say it's God's armor.
Speaker 3: Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 3: Say it's God's armor.
Speaker 3: Put on all of God's armor.
Speaker 3: The first thing that makes it different is the fact that the armor that we fight with now, it belongs to the Lord.
Speaker 3: It wasn't made in the natural, it was made Hear this.
Speaker 3: This armor was made for the battle that is keeping you up at night, was made for the battle that is keeping you up at night.
Speaker 3: This armor is made for that very thing that you wish God would fix and fix.
Speaker 3: Right now, this armor is about to change everything.
Speaker 3: Second Corinthians, the 10th chapter, verses three through six, helps us to understand that the weapons of our warfare are not of human origin.
Speaker 3: Verse 3, for though we walk in the flesh, meaning we have a fleshly existence.
Speaker 3: In other words, I'm going to be real plain today.
Speaker 3: For though we walk in the flesh, meaning that the fact of the matter is you got troubles in relationships.
Speaker 3: You got troubles in your mind.
Speaker 3: You got troubles in your health.
Speaker 3: You got troubles in your body, even though your stuff looks natural, because that's just the fruit.
Speaker 3: We do not war after the flesh.
Speaker 3: Now, before we turn, I need you to understand something the writer is making it clear.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 3: Your problems look natural.
Speaker 3: You got problems with your grown children.
Speaker 3: You got problems with your young children.
Speaker 3: You got problems problem with your young children.
Speaker 3: You got a problem with your business, and it looks like it's in it.
Speaker 3: Because it's in the natural.
Speaker 3: Your mind tells you to fight in the natural.
Speaker 3: Pull up on me.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pull up on you, right, because it looks like it's in the natural and that's what the enemy wants you to do.
Speaker 3: The enemy wants every time somebody to pull up, he wants you to respond.
Speaker 3: Every time something don't go your way, he wants you to respond.
Speaker 3: Every time something don't go your way, he wants you to go left.
Speaker 3: You know why?
Speaker 3: Because that keeps you fighting in the natural.
Speaker 3: Real talk.
Speaker 3: We think that's what make us tough, but in reality that's the thing that keeps us weak, because we keep fighting in the natural.
Speaker 3: Every time they post something on social media, you gotta respond.
Speaker 3: Every time something said, you gotta have the last word in the meeting and all you're doing is fighting in the natural.
Speaker 3: And that's why you're tired, because when you're fighting in the natural, you're swinging and you ain't doing nothing but punching concrete.
Speaker 3: But watch the next verse, watch verse 4.
Speaker 3: Here it is.
Speaker 3: I get it, it looks natural and you got to fight.
Speaker 3: But y'all look at verse 4.
Speaker 3: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
Speaker 3: I know you're dealing with some carnal people and some carnal stuff, but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty, through God, to the pulling down of strongholds.
Speaker 3: What is a stronghold of strongholds?
Speaker 3: What is a stronghold?
Speaker 3: A stronghold is a fixed position by the enemy that keeps you stuck in a place that you've been in for too long.
Speaker 3: And the Lord is saying I have designed some weapons in the throne room that are going to finally allow you to defeat what has had you stuck for way too long.
Speaker 3: I want to preach to the people that have been in church a long time as much as I want to preach to the people that have just shown up to church.
Speaker 3: I really want to preach to the people that have been in church a long time but you're still stuck.
Speaker 3: There are some things that you have not been able to overcome because you have not yet embraced the fact that you need to go into spiritual warfare to get out of the thing that has had you stuck for a long time.
Speaker 3: Can I say this and not be disrespectful?
Speaker 3: I've been in church my whole life and when I look back at my home church and see some of the people that raised me that have gone home to glory in the natural, y'all see some of the people that raised me that have gone home to glory in the natural.
Speaker 3: Y'all know one of the things that hurt my heart about some of those people I was born in 79, so I was grazed in the 80s in church in 90s, right there, and I vividly remember some of the struggles that some of those women and men had in the 80s and 90s.
Speaker 3: And then I remember seeing the obituary that some of them gone home a few years ago, that some of those women and men had in the 80s and 90s, and then I remember seeing the obituary that some of them gone home a few years ago and some going home today.
Speaker 3: And the sad report is it's the same stuff that they were struggling with when I was a little kid in the 80s and 90s.
Speaker 3: That's the same stuff that they went home with and I cannot be real with you.
Speaker 3: It's one of the things why when they, when they relatives and when the young ones don't go to church and they say why don't you come to church with me?
Speaker 3: And they say for what?
Speaker 3: Because I ain't seen nothing get no better in your life.
Speaker 3: You all I see you do is go up at that church and give all your money away.
Speaker 3: All I see you do is show up and nothing shifted.
Speaker 3: Now we know that spiritually, grandma has some greater on the other side.
Speaker 3: But the problem is some of our theology is half-baked.
Speaker 3: Some of us think that our greater is when we die, that our greater is only when we get to the throne room.
Speaker 3: But I'm here to tell you that the Lord has come, that he has given it all so that we may have life and have it more abundantly Not all for tomorrow, but some of that stuff for today.
Speaker 3: And I think that some of the people that raised me, I think they just never learned how to engage in spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3: They never learned how to get over the man that was in the church that was cheating on them.
Speaker 3: They never learned how to get over the fact that granddaddy had kids on the other side of town.
Speaker 3: They never learned how to get over the fact that they dealt with abuses and everybody knew about it, but nobody was saying nothing.
Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today and tell you, for people to be who God has called us to be, we have to engage in spiritual warfare, but the weapons that we use are not carnal.
Speaker 3: I want to talk to the stronghold, because you know what it is in your life.
Speaker 3: Some of you know what it is and some of you don't.
Speaker 3: That has you stuck right where you are?
Speaker 3: Has you stuck right where you are.
Speaker 3: He goes further in the next verse, in verse 5, look at what he says in verse 5 about being stuck.
Speaker 3: Why are we stuck?
Speaker 3: Because it's in our mind.
Speaker 3: Look at verse 5.
Speaker 3: Look at what he says in verse 5 about being stuck.
Speaker 3: Why are we stuck?
Speaker 3: Because it's in our mind.
Speaker 3: Look at verse 5.
Speaker 3: He says that what we have to do when we go into spiritual warfare, when we deal with the stuff in the spiritual realm, stuff that we didn't know about, stuff that we was born with, stuff that we was connected to, stuff that was transferred to us demonic attacks, spiritual influence that's not of God.
Speaker 3: He says that what we have to do is we have to be able to cast it down.
Speaker 3: King James Version says cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalted except against the knowledge of God.
Speaker 3: In a nutshell, bushwick Bill had it right.
Speaker 3: Our mind continues to play tricks on us and it tells us things that are in opposition to what God has decreed and declared for your life.
Speaker 3: You know how many people God has spoken to in this room, but the enemy's thoughts got in the way.
Speaker 3: You know how many people God has prophesied to in this room, but the enemy started you to think about stuff that was opposite of what God said about you.
Speaker 3: That's why the word is clear.
Speaker 3: Put it back on the screen, media team, that we have a responsibility in spiritual warfare Everything that exalted itself against the knowledge of God.
Speaker 3: What does it mean to exalt against the knowledge of God?
Speaker 3: Watch this If I get sick and I know the Lord said that he's going to heal my body and I'm laying there in the hospital room and Mr Doctor come in just doing his job, mr and Ms Doctor come in doing their job and they say we got a bad report.
Speaker 3: You're not going to make it.
Speaker 3: That could be true.
Speaker 3: But what did the Lord say If I'm in a situation I'm going through a bad season in my relationship, but you know, the Lord told you.
Speaker 3: The Lord told you that it was going to work out for you and suddenly your other half hit you with the voice papers.
Speaker 3: It don't look good.
Speaker 3: But what did the Lord say If you got a child that has turned away from the faith?
Speaker 3: But you know, when you birth this child into this world, god showed you who this child was.
Speaker 3: And suddenly you get a knock on your door on a Saturday night saying junior, back in the lockup.
Speaker 3: You can look at what the sheriff said about it, or you can ask yourself what did the Lord say?
Speaker 3: I need to talk to some people because you have a situation before you right now, don't you?
Speaker 3: And it is not looking good.
Speaker 3: The reports keep getting worse and worse and worse, and I'm not suggesting that sometimes God does not allow things to go a certain way, but I'm talking to the people that you know what God showed you, you know what God told you, and every now and then, we have to be able to stand, not on what we see, but we stand on what he said.
Speaker 3: What is the Lord saying about your situation?
Speaker 3: What is the Lord saying about your circumstance?
Speaker 3: What is the Lord saying about your struggle?
Speaker 3: And so, since I'm going to stand on what the Lord says, this is what it looks like to go into warfare when I know what God has said and what God is saying does not match up with my circumstance or situation.
Speaker 3: Watch what we have to do.
Speaker 3: First thing I have to do, I have to cast it down, but watch this.
Speaker 3: The next thing that we have to do is bring it into captivity.
Speaker 3: We got to bring it into that captivity.
Speaker 3: Here is this.
Speaker 3: Here it is Real talk.
Speaker 3: You know why a person can come.
Speaker 3: Can we just be plain and deal with issues like substance abuse or pornography, or even being unfaithful to their spouse, even spending too much money, even just dealing with fear?
Speaker 3: You know why they could come to this altar and feel good to about Tuesday?
Speaker 3: It's because they did have a real moment and a real encounter with God, but because there are demons on the loose that got you on their target list.
Speaker 3: The moment you start to get free, the moment they show back up, the moment you start to finally get to be the person that God has called you to be, the moment they say I got to step my game up to keep you bound.
Speaker 3: You know why?
Speaker 3: Because that demonic influence is still running free.
Speaker 3: It's still running loose.
Speaker 3: I don't want to lose anybody.
Speaker 3: Sounds spooky, but I'm trying to help somebody.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get you to understand this.
Speaker 3: The Bible is clear.
Speaker 3: That's why I put the Word of God on the screen.
Speaker 3: Not only must I cast it down, meaning speak against what the enemy says, speak against the statistics, speak against what the world is saying.
Speaker 3: The Bible is clear.
Speaker 3: You just read it for yourself.
Speaker 3: Spiritual warfare means not only do I bring it down, I bring it into captivity.
Speaker 3: In other words, not only do I bring it down, I place it under arrest.
Speaker 3: If I don't place it under arrest, under arrest, it's a.
Speaker 3: Your stronghold is a repeat offender.
Speaker 3: Can I be real plain?
Speaker 3: My wife sitting right there, I'm using myself as the example.
Speaker 3: If I ever say something about me, and her as an example, it's just an example.
Speaker 3: I don't want nobody to take it out of context.
Speaker 3: Now, if I do something bad, I'm going to tell you so far I did all right.
Speaker 3: But if I cheated on this lovely woman of God and I really, really felt horrible about it I mean if by somehow, someway, she forgave me, man, that would be a great day.
Speaker 3: And you would say I don't know why she forgave him, but she did.
Speaker 3: And six months later, here come Wilma Jean with the lips, the hips and the fingertips and I done messed up again.
Speaker 3: Now, ladies, some of y'all would suggest y'all would say I didn't love her.
Speaker 3: Y'all would say, if I loved her, I wouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3: And what that equates to is you fighting the wrong fight, because I'm here to tell you love ain't got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: Love ain't had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: When I stepped out the first time, I loved her.
Speaker 3: Love ain't had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: When I stepped out the first time, I loved her.
Speaker 3: Love ain't have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: When I stepped out the second time, I loved her.
Speaker 3: But the problem is, I had this stronghold.
Speaker 3: I had this struggle.
Speaker 3: It was in my flesh and because I never dealt with the root, my mind was telling me no, but my body, my body, my body.
Speaker 3: Y'all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to make it real plain for people.
Speaker 3: My behavior is no, I'm not excusing my behavior, but what I'm telling you is that if you fight the wrong fight, you'll never get the victory that you're trying to get.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all give your own children a hard time at school, come home and you discipline them in a way that you were disciplining them.
Speaker 3: But may I suggest, even when we raise our own children and they go astray, sometimes we fight the wrong fight.
Speaker 3: We ain't dealing with them in the right way and then we wonder why it's not getting any better, even with our finances.
Speaker 3: We pray for increase, we pray for overflow, but our budgeting and our understanding of finances, who taught you how we fight the wrong fight and we wonder why it's not getting any better.
Speaker 3: So the Lord is saying today Chosen City and whoever else in the world will hear this message it's no longer enough just to repent.
Speaker 3: It's not enough.
Speaker 3: We got to place some stuff under spiritual arrest.
Speaker 3: We have to take authority and say this thing ain't coming back on me.
Speaker 3: Have to take authority and say this thing ain't coming back on me In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: It may not make sense to you, but I need to talk to some people today that I know I've connected with, because I need to free you from thinking that you're a bad human.
Speaker 3: You are an amazing man and woman of God.
Speaker 3: You just got to place some stuff under arrest.
Speaker 3: You got to just really lock it up in the name of Jesus, under the power of the Holy Ghost, and lock it up.
Speaker 3: Do you know why you've got to lock it up?
Speaker 3: Because we are spiritual beings.
Speaker 3: The Bible is clear that we're spirits.
Speaker 3: Watch this Spirits live.
Speaker 3: How long?
Speaker 3: Forever.
Speaker 3: Your soul lives forever.
Speaker 3: Do you know that?
Speaker 3: Everybody understand that?
Speaker 3: The Bible teaches that our soul lives forever.
Speaker 3: Spirits live forever, and so the thing about it is if you're dealing with a spiritual attack, you're being attacked by something that lives forever.
Speaker 3: It ain't going nowhere, it's not going to die.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, jesus even declared that in the book of revelation that the day would come where he would put satan and all of his demonic uh, angelic beings Into the lake of fire.
Speaker 3: You know why?
Speaker 3: Because they are made in his image and God cannot die.
Speaker 3: Certain stuff is here forever.
Speaker 3: It ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 3: So where did Jesus say my plan is for this stuff, to lock it up and to put it somewhere it can't get out.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to tell you if you think that thing going to go away, it ain't going to go away.
Speaker 3: It's here forever.
Speaker 3: But we got some power to be able to lock it up.
Speaker 3: And I want to talk to some people today.
Speaker 3: I need some people today that's willing to lock up some addiction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we came in this year saying we're gonna help people to get over some addiction and if that's you, I want to pray in the spirit that God will help you to lock up some addiction.
Speaker 3: And I want to talk to some people that are struggling in their flesh and you understand that lust is real and that's something that you need to lock up.
Speaker 3: But guess what?
Speaker 3: I want to lock up some fear, because there are some people who have not yet to move and not yet to go forth, because fear has taken over you.
Speaker 3: But you need to take it captive, cast it down and lock it up so it won't come back again.
Speaker 3: How do we lock it up?
Speaker 3: Well, we lock it up, men and women of God, by using the spiritual authority that God has given us.
Speaker 3: We lock it up by decreeing and declaring the Word of God.
Speaker 3: We lock it up by making sure that we are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, because what will happen is, if there is an empty place in your life, make no mistake about it, it's going to show back up.
Speaker 3: If there is an empty place in your life, it's going to show back up.
Speaker 3: I don't care how spiritual you are, if there is an empty place in your life, it's going to back up.
Speaker 3: Pastor Walt ain't going to sit here and tell you to lay in the bed as a single person all night long, and that's your empty place.
Speaker 3: And that bed been cold for a long time.
Speaker 3: And you don't think, oh, old Leroy going to show up at some point he's going to show back up.
Speaker 3: We going to be real or we aren't.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 3: That's the reason that Alcoholic Anonymous they teach them.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to get rid of the substance, but what are you going to replace it with?
Speaker 3: There are too many of us that we try to stop but we don't start nothing.
Speaker 3: And if there's an empty spot you better make sure you watch out.
Speaker 3: Get a hotline going with Leroy.
Speaker 3: If you have been impacted by Leroy, you may be available for some compensation.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to tell you you want to watch.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to help you to understand.
Speaker 3: If it's empty, it's just a matter of time before the enemy tries to fill it with something.
Speaker 3: So we lock it up by filling ourselves and real talk, asking God if you have a heart's desire.
Speaker 3: Y'all, I got a testimony.
Speaker 3: I can't share it yet, but I do want y'all to know that there's an amazing woman of God who confirmed that it ain't too late, at no age of your life, to find love, if that's what your heart's desire is.
Speaker 3: Ooh, wee, ooh, I can't wait.
Speaker 3: She told Pastor Walt you better keep your big mouth closed.
Speaker 3: I said I am, but you just wait.
Speaker 3: You just wait, ooh, we because you a testimony, matter of fact, it's never too late.
Speaker 3: One of our ministers, elder Margaret, stand up when she at.
Speaker 3: Is she here?
Speaker 3: Where she at Now, you look young, you look 21.
Speaker 3: But how old are you, woman of God?
Speaker 3: 80, 83.
Speaker 3: , 83.
Speaker 3: And what you just do last couple weekends ago, what you just get, what you just get, she just at 83, she just got a bachelor's degree in leadership and ministry.
Speaker 2: I'm here to tell somebody it ain't over until god says it's over until God says it's over.
Speaker 3: All you got to do is be willing to stay in the fight.
Speaker 3: God is filling you.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine being 83?
Speaker 3: You know how many people told her it was too late to get a degree.
Speaker 3: You know how many people told her that she was wasting her money.
Speaker 3: You know how many people told her she was wasting her time.
Speaker 3: But God and I want to encourage the people to let you know that, the same way God has blessed this amazing woman of God.
Speaker 3: If you keep fighting the fight, if you keep doing what God has called you to do, you're about to see God move in a supernatural way.
Speaker 3: God is filling you to fight.
Speaker 3: Our weapons are not ordinary, and the last thing that I'm going to give you for today is simply this the one weapon I want to give you when you leave the house today is that we have to learn to persevere in prayer.
Speaker 3: If you don't remember anything else today, remember this.
Speaker 3: We have to become a people that learn to persevere in prayer.
Speaker 3: There's a lot more that I want to give you.
Speaker 3: I'll give it to you next week, but I'm going to land the plane right here.
Speaker 3: Look at this, and we out of here Watch this Verse 18.
Speaker 3: This and we out of here Watch this Verse 18.
Speaker 3: Pray in the spirit on Sunday morning and on Pentecost Is that what they say?
Speaker 3: Pray in the spirit at all times, just when I'm getting a job or just when I'm trying to figure out who I should marry.
Speaker 3: Spiritual warfare suggests pray in the spirit at all times, when and and on every occasion.
Speaker 3: I want to let you all know that, while there are a lot of things that are hard to understand about spiritual warfare, our God has made this incredibly simple for us.
Speaker 3: He says you've got to be filled with the Holy Spirit by making a confession with your mouth that you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he died for your sin, that he should soon return and pray to be filled with.
Speaker 3: And if you pray and believe, you will be filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: But then the next nugget he gives us, other than the warfare and the armor we'll talk about the armor next week is that he teaches us that we have to persevere in prayer, stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere verse 19 and pray for me too.
Speaker 3: Ask God to give me the right words so I can boldly explain God's mysterious plan that the good news is for Jews and Gentiles alike.
Speaker 3: Finally, verse 20.
Speaker 3: I am in change now, still preaching this message as God's ambassador, so pray that I will keep on speaking boldly for him as I should.
Speaker 3: I have been convicted this week that, even though I pray daily, I'm not praying enough.
Speaker 3: I have been convicted that, even though I pray daily, I'm not praying enough.
Speaker 3: As I've started my studies and doing more in-depth dive into spiritual warfare, the one thing that keeps coming up is prayer, and it says that we treat prayer like a last resort.
Speaker 3: We treat prayer as well.
Speaker 3: I don't have anything else to do.
Speaker 3: We treat prayer like let me just throw this up right quick before I bite this sausage biscuit.
Speaker 3: That's how we treat prayer.
Speaker 3: I'm just being honest.
Speaker 3: But the Lord is saying the enemy wants us to dilute our strongest weapon, because this is the weapon that changes everything.
Speaker 3: Do y'all not know that?
Speaker 3: I'm normally not surprised when we have a supernatural move in the sanctuary on Sunday morning and we see 20?
Speaker 3: Some people give their life to the Lord.
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised because the Lord has shown me a pattern.
Speaker 3: Some people give their life to the Lord.
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, because the Lord has shown me a pattern.
Speaker 3: It'll be just so happened that somebody would have texted me and said Pastor, I was driving by the church on Saturday, the door was open and I came in and I touched every seat and prayed.
Speaker 3: Now some of y'all might ask now where they had to come all the way up here and burn their gas, for Couldn't they have prayed for the church at home?
Speaker 3: That's the problem.
Speaker 3: We want prayer to be convenient.
Speaker 3: We don't want to sacrifice.
Speaker 3: We don't want our five senses to be engaged in what God is saying and doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she could have prayed.
Speaker 3: They could have prayed from anywhere.
Speaker 3: But what you're going to do when the Lord tell you I need you to take you a trip, not just to party, but this time just to pray?
Speaker 3: What you're going to do when God tell you I need you to get up a little bit earlier in the morning than you normally would?
Speaker 3: It's going to cost you a little bit of sleep, but it's going to give you a whole lot of power.
Speaker 3: What you're going to do when God say I need you to stay up late?
Speaker 3: Get off of the Instagram, get off of the Snapchat, get off the Facebook, get off the Twitter and what would happen if you calculated the time that you spent scrolling on social media and shifted that to time for prayer.
Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you everything concerning you would change.
Speaker 3: Can I ask y'all a question?
Speaker 3: I was talking to a pastor about this.
Speaker 3: He said, pastor, he said it's good, you so right that we got to be persistent in prayer.
Speaker 3: He said, but I got a concern that we don't even pray anymore at all and I said that can't be true.
Speaker 3: But the more I look at it, I started to get scared in the spirit y'all, because now the enemy has diluted our prayer life by keeping us distracted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the enemy has diluted our prayer life by keeping us busy.
Speaker 3: You see, we used to make fun of the old saints that used to pray all the time, the time before social media, but time before they had options to go on the other side of town.
Speaker 3: The time before they didn't have options to go and spend money and all they could do is pray.
Speaker 3: All they could do is spend time at that church.
Speaker 3: And when we was growing up we said we wouldn't be like them, we weren't going to spend all that time in nobody's church.
Speaker 3: We ain't going to be like them.
Speaker 3: We was going to be so blessed we ain't going to take all of that, but what has happened is that we have allowed blessings to become our blocking, because the blessings are the things that keep us from getting on bended knee.
Speaker 3: Your schedule too busy to spend a week in prayer.
Speaker 3: You got too much going on to stop what you're doing to pray.
Speaker 3: Parents every parent in the room, including myself.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question when was the last time your child saw you on bended knees praying?
Speaker 3: Your child saw you on bended knees praying?
Speaker 3: Husbands every man in the room.
Speaker 3: That's a husband, that's a boyfriend, that wannabe Listen, hey, you got to claim it.
Speaker 3: When was the last time she saw you on bended knees praying?
Speaker 3: When was the last time I see us post more nonsense on social media, responding to foolishness in comparison to praying Church folk?
Speaker 3: If we had as much prayer as we had meetings, we'd be in a different space in the spirit.
Speaker 3: We spend too much time talking about one another instead of talking to him, because if I spend time talking to him, I'm going to realize I ain't got time to talk about nobody else.
Speaker 3: I can't judge you, because now I see myself in the mirror and I stretch myself out to him and say, god, I want to be better.
Speaker 3: But I want you to know that there's some good news in the house today, that the Lord is calling us into a season of prayer like never before.
Speaker 3: Certainly we'll open up the doors and pray and that has a effect.
Speaker 3: But in this season of prayer it's a call for you, in your own house, on the way to your own job, even if you work virtual, before you get on the Zoom or the Microsoft Teams meeting, prayer has to be your lot and you got to learn to pray consistently.
Speaker 3: The problem is many of us, many of us, many of us we give up too soon.
Speaker 3: There are too many times that many of you have been on the edge of what you've asked for, on the edge of a breakthrough, and you gave up too soon.
Speaker 3: I told you about Joel, joel's prophecy.
Speaker 3: They suggest possibly it came true 800 years later, because there's sometimes we have to pray and we got to learn to wait on the Lord.
Speaker 3: Old church used to use words like tarrying, because that means I'm just waiting on God to move.
Speaker 3: And I got an answer for everybody that was asking Lord, how long should I pray, pastor Walt, how long is a good prayer?
Speaker 3: Is five minutes good enough?
Speaker 3: Is one hour in the morning good enough?
Speaker 3: Every Sunday when I leave church, is that good enough?
Speaker 3: Well, family, I need to let you know.
Speaker 3: If you've come into the house of God on today and you know that you need to go into spiritual warfare for your own self, you need to go into spiritual warfare for your own mind.
Speaker 3: You need to go into spiritual warfare for your own heart.
Speaker 3: You need to go into spiritual warfare for your own dreams and visions, or you need to go into spiritual warfare for your own family.
Speaker 3: Perhaps some of you need to go into spiritual warfare for wherever you live.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm here to let you know that.
Speaker 3: Wherever you need to go into spiritual warfare at, I got a timeline for you.
Speaker 3: Everybody ready for the timeline.
Speaker 3: Watch this.
Speaker 3: I got a timeline for you.
Speaker 3: If you're trying to figure out how long you need to pray, the answer is you don't stop praying until God stop moving.
Speaker 3: You don't stop praying until God shows up and shows out.
Speaker 3: You don't stop praying until God gives a final say.
Speaker 3: So I have visited people in hospice y'all and the family had said call the rest of the cousins in, and the doctor had said that they could have done all they could do, and I went to see some of these folks about six months ago and can I testify that they are still here.
Speaker 3: I want to talk to somebody that you don't allow nobody's report Now.
Speaker 3: If the Lord decides to call a home, that's the Lord's business, but until he makes a final decision, I won't stop believing and I won't stop praying.
Speaker 3: I need to talk to somebody.
Speaker 3: You say how much longer should I pray for this relationship?
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get it back to the place where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: I've already been served with divorce papers.
Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you until the letter is signed by the judge, until the order is filed at the courthouse.
Speaker 3: I got a sneaky suspicion.
Speaker 3: You may not be too soon to stop praying and I want to talk to somebody.
Speaker 3: Maybe yours is in the realm of finances.
Speaker 3: I know some people going through a foreclosure and I would suggest to that person that you don't stop praying until the sheriff shows up with a lock and key, Because God can move in the last nanosecond of your life.
Speaker 3: If you don't believe me, there's about five witnesses in this room that can testify that everybody had given up on their situation Everybody had given up on the circumstance.
Speaker 2: Everybody had told them to throw in the towel, but they kept on praying anyhow.
Speaker 2: It's me.
Speaker 2: It's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer, not my mother, not my father, but it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of a miracle, standing in the need of a breakthrough, standing in the need of a turnaround, standing in the need of a right now.
Speaker 3: Lord, you didn't do it last week, but I'm still here.
Speaker 3: Can I talk to some real people in the room?
Speaker 3: You've been coming to church a few weeks now and God hadn't done it yet, but I'm here to tell you there's a prophetic utterance that declares they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
Speaker 3: I hear the Lord say tell that person, who's been to church three weeks in a row and it has not happened yet that, to persevere in prayer and they are about to see the hand of God, they are about to see the move of God.
Speaker 3: Am I preaching to somebody in this house that you've been waiting on God to move?
Speaker 3: But God is saying Persevere a little while longer, you need a little bit more dirt on your knees.
Speaker 2: You need a little bit more ash on your knees.
Speaker 2: You need a little bit more pain in your back Because you're going to pray until your change comes.
Speaker 3: You're going to pray until it shifts.
Speaker 2: I don't know about y'all but I feel my prayer life shift.
Speaker 2: I feel my prayer life going up.
Speaker 2: I see myself praying in the morning, I see myself praying in the noonday.
Speaker 3: I see myself praying in the midnight hour Because I now understand that prayer is my most potent weapon and if I pray long enough, if I trust long enough, after a while family God will, he'll show up in the situation.
Speaker 2: God will.
Speaker 2: He'll turn it around for me, god will.
Speaker 2: He'll make a way out of no way.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I pray with expectation.
Speaker 2: What I used to pray, I used to pray and end in defeat.
Speaker 3: I would pray a prayer and say well, lord, I've told you about my problems.
Speaker 3: In Jesus' name we pray.
Speaker 2: Amen, but.
Speaker 3: God convicted me in my prayer y'all.
Speaker 3: I don't pray like that anymore.
Speaker 3: I tell him about my problems After I tell him.
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for him.
Speaker 3: But then, after I tell him about my problems, I end the prayer in more things.
Speaker 3: You see, I've learned to pray in a good sandwich.
Speaker 3: I thank him for what he's done, I tell him about what I'm going through, but I end it thinking and with expectation for what is on the way.
Speaker 3: Good God, almighty, if you have a sandwich of prayer, you'll thank him for what he's done, you'll tell him about your troubles, but that last piece of bread is the piece of the breakthrough.
Speaker 3: That's when you stand with expectation and say I thank you, god for what's about to hit my house.
Speaker 3: I thank you, god for what's about to hit my relationship.
Speaker 3: I thank you, god, for what's about to hit my mind.
Speaker 3: Pastor Q had it right.
Speaker 3: Every now and then we don't dance for where we are, but we dance for where we're going to be.
Speaker 3: We dance for what he's about to do and I need some people to go into spiritual warfare and give God some worship.
Speaker 2: Give God a dance.
Speaker 2: Why are you dancing?
Speaker 2: Because I read about a person named David.
Speaker 2: David went into war and David has a vision.
Speaker 2: And when David came back he started to dance.
Speaker 2: His dance looked crazy to his wife, because sometimes your praise don't look great.
Speaker 2: But if you know, like I know, what god has done for you and if you know, like I know, what god is about to do for you, you can't help but to dance.
Speaker 2: David james when he got it all back.
Speaker 2: I wish I had some dancers in here that know what you're about to get it all back.
Speaker 2: You ought to dance like it's already yours.
Speaker 2: You lost some companionship, but I heard the Lord say love is coming your way.
Speaker 2: You lost some financial resources, but I heard the Lord say overflow is coming your way.
Speaker 2: You ought to dance like David danced.
Speaker 2: David danced when he recovered stuff.
Speaker 2: Now, you ain't never lost nothing.
Speaker 2: You may not know how to dance, but if you ever lost something, if you ever lost people, if you ever lost places, if you ever lost your mind, you ought to give God some glory, because I hear the Lord say I'm giving some stuff back.
Speaker 2: I'm giving some stuff back.
Speaker 2: I'm giving some joy back.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if you dance now, I believe it's coming back Because you dance just to get something that you trust God.
Speaker 2: You dance just to get something that you believe God and I need about 50 dancers and I'll be 50.
Speaker 2: That don't mind giving God some glory.
Speaker 2: Don't mind giving God some praise.
Speaker 2: I'm dancing in my walk back.
Speaker 2: If you ever look at Samoans, they got to dance before they go in the walk.
Speaker 2: If you ever look at Africans, they got to dance before they go in the walk.
Speaker 2: I need some dancers in the house.
Speaker 2: They gotta backtrack.
Speaker 2: Your ancestors knew how to dance when they would go in the back.
Speaker 2: Your ancestors knew how to dance In the midst of the back and your ancestors knew how to dance On the other side of the fence.
Speaker 2: What a folk that know how to dance On your way into the back.
Speaker 2: What a folk that know how to dance on your way into the battle.
Speaker 2: What a folk that know how to dance in the middle of your fight.
Speaker 2: What a kind that know how to dance on the other side of your kitchen.
Speaker 2: This means war.
Speaker 2: When I put my two-step out here, I'm just letting the enemy know he has no power over me.
Speaker 2: He has no authority over me.
Speaker 2: This means war.
Speaker 2: I'm warring for my mind.
Speaker 2: I'm warring for my health.
Speaker 2: I'm warring for my finances.
Speaker 2: I'm warring for my peace.
Speaker 2: I'm warring for my joy.
Speaker 2: I'm warring for everything.
Speaker 2: This means war.
Speaker 2: You've taken it long enough, satan.
Speaker 2: I'm taking it all back.
Speaker 2: I need some people in the house that don't take it back.
Speaker 2: Take it back from me.
Speaker 2: How much longer you gonna be there?
Speaker 2: I hear a voice say it's time to take it back, take it back, recover all.
Speaker 2: Take it back, recover all.
Speaker 2: Take it back, recover home.
Speaker 2: Take it back, recover home, take it back, recover home, because this means war.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to walk around here afraid anymore.
Speaker 3: Here we are, family, here we are.
Speaker 3: The war has begun and there are some of you right now that two things gotta happen today.
Speaker 3: Well, number one you have to know that you know that.
Speaker 3: You know that you are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost because without his power you can't win this battle.
Speaker 3: The same way, you should know about your salvation, that you're saved, because you know that you confess with your mouth and you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God.
Speaker 3: The same way, you got to know that you got power.
Speaker 3: So the question is do you know?
Speaker 3: Do you know for yourself, seriously, honestly?
Speaker 3: Do you know for yourself, that you have power to defeat what the enemy has thrown at you?
Speaker 3: Do you know that for yourself?
Speaker 3: Do you really know that for yourself?
Speaker 3: The truth of the matter?
Speaker 3: That God has equipped you with what you need to have victory in every area of your life.
Speaker 3: But a change has to come here so it can come here.
Speaker 3: But the other thing is this prayer, and there are some of you today, as we all stand to our feet, you just may need a moment to bask in prayer.
Speaker 3: In a moment.
Speaker 3: We're going to do our benediction.
Speaker 3: We'll do our offering and then we'll do our benediction.
Speaker 3: But before we do the offering and the benediction, if you're a person, remember you're not fighting by yourself.
Speaker 3: The reason that when you come to this altar, we come and we just touch you sometimes, or speak words of life into you sometimes, is because we need you to know that you're not fighting by yourself.
Speaker 3: Just because you go home by yourself don't mean you're fighting by yourself.
Speaker 3: And just because you go home by yourself don't mean you're fighting by yourself.
Speaker 3: And just because you go home by yourself does not mean that you are alone.
Speaker 3: If your heart's desire is for somebody to be there with you, god is going to do it.
Speaker 3: But it starts with prayer, and I understand that you could be in a marriage and still feel alone.
Speaker 3: So when you come to this altar, the objective is simple to let you know that you are not alone.
Speaker 3: We are touching and agreeing that God is about to shift some stuff in your life.
Speaker 3: We're touching and agreeing that the first weapon of our welfare, after being filled with the Holy Spirit, is that we're going to be a group of people that persevere in prayer.
Speaker 3: They're going to say that's the most praying this church I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 3: I mean them joke of praying about the watermelons and the tomatoes and the greens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we sure do, because then that way, when it's time to pray against stage four cancer, we ain't practicing and we ain't new to this thing.
Speaker 3: This is what we do.
Speaker 3: So there may be some today that want to come to this altar.
Speaker 3: I extend the altar to you if you need to do that.
Speaker 3: Some of our clergy are standing in the in the aisles right now.
Speaker 3: If you're a person that's been looking for a church home, you need a covering, because you can't do this type of warfare by yourself.
Speaker 3: That's one of the things the enemy is doing right now is having people to think that they don't have to be connected to a church, and I get it.
Speaker 3: It's hard to find a perfect church.
Speaker 3: It does not exist, but we serve the perfect God.
Speaker 3: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 3: If you want, some want to come for prayer and the altar is open.
Speaker 3: We're going to pray for you right here at this altar, Hallelujah.
Speaker 3: And some may be looking for a church home.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for a church home, I want you to stand right here.
Speaker 3: Glory to God.
Speaker 3: God bless you, women, women of God.
Speaker 3: God bless you.
Speaker 3: God bless you, men of God.
Speaker 3: That's coming.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for a church home right here, they'll tell you.
Speaker 3: You just get to the altar.
Speaker 3: They'll tell you what happened.
Speaker 3: Next, somebody's going to walk with you Church family.
Speaker 3: I need y'all to do two things.
Speaker 3: I need you to number one, check on the person next to you and ask them if they have a church home.
Speaker 3: If they don't ask, can you walk with them to bring them here?
Speaker 3: You need a covering family.
Speaker 3: You need a covering.
Speaker 3: Every last one of us need a covering.
Speaker 3: Be obedient to the move of God, be obedient to the spirit of God.
Speaker 3: You've been fighting long enough.
Speaker 3: You've been in warfare long enough by yourself.
Speaker 3: But I hear the Lord saying he's about to give you a new team.
Speaker 3: Come on out.
Speaker 3: He's about to give you a new team.
Speaker 3: He's about to assign some new people to your life.
Speaker 3: Come on out.
Speaker 3: You just got to be obedient to the move of God.
Speaker 3: He's about to give you a new team.
Speaker 3: You just got to be obedient to the movement of God.
Speaker 3: He's about to give you a new team, you just got to be obedient.
Speaker 3: The door is open for a new opportunity.
Speaker 3: The door is open for a new blessing.
Speaker 3: You just got to give God your yes today.
Speaker 3: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, glory to God.
Speaker 3: Battles.
Speaker 3: Glory to God.
Speaker 3: This is how we fight our battles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is how we fight our battles.
Speaker 3: This is how we fight our battles.
Speaker 3: Family.
Speaker 1: This is how we fight our battles.
Speaker 3: And as they minister this song.
Speaker 3: This is what I need everybody to do, even if you didn't come to the altar.
Speaker 3: We fighting this battle today in prayer, minister this song.
Speaker 3: This is what I need everybody to do, even if you didn't come to the altar.
Speaker 3: We're fighting this battle today in prayer, so you're either praying for the people that are at the altar, praying for yourself where you are, because there's some more people that need to come.
Speaker 3: They need to connect to this Christ.
Speaker 3: There's some more people that need to surrender to the Lord, but today we're going to warfare through prayer like never before.
Speaker 3: All of our prayer life needs to increase by a hundredfold.
Speaker 3: I'm going to pray briefly over everybody at this altar.
Speaker 3: I'm going to pray briefly over this and then, brandy, I want you to keep flowing in the Spirit, brandy.
Speaker 3: We're going to sing that because we've got to learn how to fight our battles.
Speaker 3: This is how we fight our battles.
Speaker 3: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 3: Father God, in the name of Jesus, I thank you so much for these beautiful souls that have come to this altar.
Speaker 3: God, I thank you for them.
Speaker 3: God, I thank you for their coming.
Speaker 3: I thank you for their going.
Speaker 3: I thank you for everything that is concerning them.
Speaker 3: Father, god, touch, like only you can Feel, like only you can Speak, like only you can.
Speaker 3: Holy Holy Ghost, you know exactly what they needed at this altar and it's a safe space for the people.
Speaker 3: But now, god, we need you to show yourself mighty, show yourself strong.
Speaker 3: These people are strong enough in faith to make it to the altar.
Speaker 3: We don't even know what it took for them to just get here, god.
Speaker 3: But now that they are here, we agree to go to war with him.
Speaker 3: We agree to stand behind him in prayer, not being nosy for the car, but we just don't stand behind him in prayer, trusting and believing my faith that they were about to see a transformation.
Speaker 3: Trust it and believe in my faith that they're going to get a answer.
Speaker 3: Trusting and believe in my faith that you will provide a way out and a way over and a way up.
Speaker 3: Trusting and believing by faith that you will provide a way out and a way over and a way up.
Speaker 3: Trusting and believing by faith that you will do what only you can do.
Speaker 3: You know why, god?
Speaker 3: Because this is how we fight our battles.
Speaker 3: We fight our battles on bended knee.
Speaker 3: We fight our battles with tears in our eyes.
Speaker 3: We fight our battles with expectation of winning.
Speaker 3: We fight our battles not from a place of defeat but from a place of victory, and everybody that is at this altar is at a position and posture of victory.
Speaker 3: Now, god, I pray that you will breathe on them, father God.
Speaker 3: Breathe on them, father God, until they are filled afresh with the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3: Not just the ones at the altar, but there were some in the pew that wanted to come, and, god, you can meet them right where they are.
Speaker 3: So, breathe on us, father God.
Speaker 3: Breathe on us until we have new life.
Speaker 3: Breathe on us, father God, until we have new power.
Speaker 2: Breathe on us, Father God, until we have new strength.
Speaker 3: God, because we are warring for the things that you have for us.
Speaker 3: We are warring, god, to get back to the position that you would have us in.
Speaker 3: Breathe on us, father, god.
Speaker 3: We are here, humbly, god.
Speaker 3: We are here with open hearts, we are here with open minds.
Speaker 3: We are here, god, for you to breathe on us.
Speaker 3: And as you breathe on us, god, let every soul in the house know that you forgive us, because you said that if we confess our sins, you're faithful and just to forgive our sins.
Speaker 3: God has passed.
Speaker 3: I confess my sins so that you can forgive me, and I pray that, if I can confess my sins, that they can confess their sins, because we all have sins.
Speaker 3: But we come to the throne of grace, we come to the foot of the cross, we come to the altar with heads bowed Because we believe God.
Speaker 3: You want to meet us where we are, because there is no condemnation here, for there is power.
Speaker 3: God, I pray that you will fill people at this altar, in this church, with the power of the Holy Ghost like never before.
Speaker 3: Fill us up, god.
Speaker 3: Fill them, god.
Speaker 3: Don't let them leave the altar defeated.
Speaker 3: Yes, god, they got to go home and deal with some stuff, but they're going to go home with the power to deal with it Tomorrow.
Speaker 3: They got to deal with some stuff, but they're going to go home with the power to deal with it Tomorrow.
Speaker 3: They got to deal with some stuff, but they're going to have power to deal with it and, god, if you don't mind favoring them, take care of some of it for them, god.
Speaker 3: I know some of it is part of their process, but, god, take care of some of it for them, god.
Speaker 3: So it is already done and they ain't got to worry about it that you've already handled it, god.
Speaker 3: And for this, god, we give you praise.
Speaker 3: God, today we give you a name of the glory, lord.
Speaker 3: We give you a name of all the honor.
Speaker 3: We give you a name of all the praise.
Speaker 3: It's in the powerful name of Jesus we pray, and all the people of God and all the warriors in the room say amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 3: Listen, now celebrate God by faith for these amazing women and men of God, and all the warriors in the room Say amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 3: Listen, now celebrate God by faith for these amazing women and men of God who pressed their way to the altar.
Speaker 3: We decree and declare that the power of the Holy Ghost shall fall on the flesh, upon you, in the name of Jesus, it accordance with your faith in him.
Speaker 3: The power of the Holy Ghost will fall afresh upon you and you will be able to feel his power in your natural.
Speaker 3: You'll be able to feel him in your spirit and his power will guide you now, henceforth and forever more.
Speaker 3: Now, everybody at this altar, if you believe by faith, that God is giving you the power to deal with whatever it is, just give God some worship in this house.
Speaker 3: Give God some glory.
Speaker 3: Y'all just worship him.
Speaker 3: To God be the glory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is how we fight our battles.