The enemy is playing for KEEPS, but so is our GOD!

This is a message in which God wanted me to urge His people that it is a time for His people to be serious about their relationship with Him. God says it's time to go deeper, to be more fervent in our prayer life, and to be AWAKENED to attack of the enemy and to the CALLING God has placed on our lives. 

God is looking for His body to take on the steak and come off of the milk and take on the enemy head on as result of all that he is unleashing in our regions and our families. 

You are a homemade woman! You were made for this! 🤎🫶🏼

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For he is the great prophet, and he wants to meet you, and he wants to reveal himself to you. I'm talking about in a real mighty way. He wants to use you to tear down strongholds in your life, in your mind, in your marriage, in your family, over your kids, over the schools in your workplace, over the people that you church with that you only see on Sunday. He wants to mention their name at 3 a.m. when you are praying. He wants to mention their name when you refuse and push the plate away. He wants to mention their name when you get in your closet and you get on your face and you're preparing to cry out for what is bothering you, or you're getting ready to petition the Lord for what it is you seek. He wants to interrupt our day. We are literally back with another episode of the Homemade Woman podcast. Like, I'm I can't even begin to express my excitement to you guys. Oh my goodness. It has been so long. Welcome, y'all. Oh my goodness. If you are listening on Apple Podcast or wherever you may be listening, hi, if you're listening on YouTube, you can obviously see me. It has been so long. Uh but we have been busy for the Lord. We have not laid dormant over here. I know it seems that way. And for all of those who have been looking for the podcast, I am so sorry. I um I have been writing a song and the Lord instructed me firmly to lay everything else aside. And speaking of that song, it releases today. Like it is officially live in 20 plus stores, like online stores, that is. Like I am so excited, I don't even know what to do what to do. But honestly, y'all, like, I'm not kidding you. Like, I am just as excited to be sitting down in this chair and to be talking to y'all again. Like, it makes me like I'm I don't call myself a big crybaby, but like it makes me well up just thinking about it. Although I'm pretty sure my family would beg to differ. But no, I genuinely it makes me emotional because I know this thing God has called me to do, and it's been so long since I've seen each of you. Well, it's been so long since I've been before each of you, and I've missed it, but I was sitting in my room, and we'll be short because we're gonna get into what God wants me to leave to deliver to you today. I was um praying in my room. I was actually praying for my oldest daughter. I have a 17-year-old. She's my stepdaughter, but she's my daughter. And I was praying for her salvation, honestly, like just praying for God to meet her, for God to pursue her heart so heavily. Not to mention that prayer has come to pass that she has given her heart unto the Lord. Remember my daughter as she grows in the Lord, as she navigates this journey, as she navigates being a teenager in this world. Just pray for her. She's such a good girl, she's she's an amazing girl. She's she has, I guess you could call it a mama's heart. Like she's the oldest of all her siblings. So I just remember her. Uh, when you pray, if you will. So I was praying for her, and I got up and I went to my bathroom where I kind of just belch out sometimes and just sing, and I began worshiping the Lord, and I began to hear Psalms 139. Where can I go from your presence? Where can I run from your spirit? If I make my bed in the depths, you're there. Everywhere I go, you will find me. And knowing that chapter, it's obviously or has been my favorite chapter my whole life. And knowing that chapter, I just continued writing lyrics to this song, to what now has become a song that has been released today. We made it to the studio. So please go get it. Apple Music, Spotify, go listen, YouTube, YouTube Music, all the places where you listen to music. So I'm just excited because God has been so good to me. He's He's a keeper. Like, and that's what that course says in that song, and He really is a keeper. It says, Oh, how you keep me, oh how you searched me and you know my ways. Like, there's no greater companion to have in this life. Like, I just want to add that as a disclaimer, if you could call it that. There is no better companion to have in this life, no better soulmate, no better friend, no better brother, no better father, no better advocate. There's just none, there's just none like him. Like, truly, there's none like him. I'm madly in love with this man named Jesus. And he compels me to do things. And so as I began writing this song, I my husband, we were in the truck one day, and the spirit of God was just so heavy on him. And the Lord began speaking to him prophetically, and he laid his hand on my leg and he began to pray over me the benefits of having a covering, an earthly covering. Um, and he began praying for me, and he said, He said, This song that you have started will come to completion. He said, I sense though there will be a hindrance or two, but it will come to completion. I don't know from whom or for or from what this hindrance will come, but it will not interrupt this song reaching a state of completion. He said, I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, Lay everything else aside so that this song can be done. He said, I see God putting his stamp of approval on this song. Like a teacher puts a stamp on a child's test. And I was just a puddle at that point, and because I knew that God was doing something, I knew that he was birthing something, another gift, something else to steward. And I take delight in it, but I also understand that it comes with responsibility, and so I don't take the instructions of the Lord lightly either, as we should not. And so I laid everything else aside, including the podcast, so that I could focus solely on birthing this baby, literally, because it was a journey and it was a process. But I'm just so glad to be back, y'all. I'm excited. So go check out the song, and we're gonna get started on what God wants me to talk to you guys about this morning. So I heard the Lord very plainly, and this is gonna be a podcast of power. This is gonna be a podcast of urging. There's times where I may get on here and I may read the word of God with you, and I may share the knowledge of the Lord and what he would have us to do as the body of Christ or as those who seek to become a part of the body of Christ. There will be times where I share testimonials, and if you need to see more of this mission statement, you can find it on my YouTube page. But there will be times where I share things that I am going through in this life where I become vulnerable, and God wants me to use that vulnerability for the uplifting of his kingdom, which I will do. And then there will be times where he calls me to urge you, that there will be a time of urgency. There will be something that he wants me to encourage you to do strongly, which is what urging means. And I heard the Lord plain as day when he said the enemy is playing for keeps, but so am I. And that thing hit me like a ton of breaks because it could not be more true. It could not be more true that the enemy in this day, this time, this hour, is doing everything that he possibly can to attack the body of Christ. He is doing everything he can to attack even those who are not a part of the body of Christ, to those who do not know the Father. He is doing everything he can in this last day to destroy this earth. It just amazes me how vigilant he has been in seeking to devour God's people. He is busy, and so I want to encourage you that just as the enemy is busy, you have to stay busy because when you become inconsistent in your walk with the Lord, the enemy seeks to pounce on you because he delights in comfortability. I wish I could say that better, but the enemy delights in comfortability, and where he finds one comfortable, he will seek to attack. That is oftentimes also, thank you, Holy Spirit. That is oftentimes also why when God sees us comfortable also, he will allow the enemy to stretch out his hand toward us. Because the worst thing that we could possibly be in this life is comfortable. Because as soon as we get comfortable, we stop praying, as soon as we get comfortable, we stop seeking. Oftentimes, as soon as we get comfortable, we stop fasting, we stop seeing a need, we stop feeling the urge, we stop feeling the demand to seek the Lord diligently. We stop seeing the demand to pray fervently, to stand between the porch and the altar and call out our family members and call out our friends and call out the needs, and and we just we find ourselves just kind of almost sitting back a little bit. And so I know sometimes the attack of the enemy can be uncomfortable, but can all it can also be for good. It can also be the thing that births something on the inside of you, it can also be the season where God begins to truly nurture, where God begins to truly remove every contaminant that sits in your heart. It's where God begins to break you. And when I say break in that way, I don't mean break you down. I don't mean leave you heartbroken. I mean it is where he begins to break you and and pull apart the pieces in your life while he's also putting you together. It's where the it's where the the maker of our lives begins to put us on the potter's wheel. It is where the potter begins to form clay that is pleasing to him. And the word talks about that. And so there's something also so beautiful, and I don't even know if beautiful is the word, but there's something majestic, there is something powerful, there is something profound about a woman or man of God who is enduring the attack of the enemy, but is also at the same time being put on the potter's wheel and being broken before the Lord and being and being molded and and becoming mature in the Lord because in this day, in this time, maturity is required. And God does not say that, and I don't say that in such a way like it's a standard, like you better uphold it as if God is being a tyrant. No, it is an urging, He is letting us know that listen, this day and this hour, to be a part of the body of Christ, to be able to survive in this world, it requires a mature faith. And obviously, that does not apply to those who are babes in Christ who are growing, but the goal is always to bring you to a place of mature faith. The goal is always to prepare you for the next attack of the enemy. The goal is always to prepare you for the next season that is ahead of you. The goal is always to keep you steady. And of course, there'll be some seasons where we feel like, God, I weren't ready for this. But you were ready for it. It's the attack that makes us feel a little unready. And the truth of the matter is, oftentimes we're not in the spiritual sense. But then God looks upon us and says, I know what I've what I'm putting on the inside of you. I know who I've created you to be, and I've created you for such a time as this. I believe that when God said that to Esther, that He wasn't just saying that for who she was created to be, He was saying that as a result of the attack of the enemy on her people. I have created you for this crisis. I have created you for this attack of the enemy. I have prepared you for this season. Some seasons I know can be ruthless. Some seasons can leave us traumatized. Some things that happen in our life can hit us in the gut and leave us completely undone. But God is a God who does not fail to pick us back up again. Our God is not a God who fails to walk us through. If we will let Him, I urge you to let the Lord walk alongside of you. If the enemy is attacking your life, is the if the enemy has sought to destroy your family, if the enemy has sought to destroy your mind, if the enemy has sought to bring you to a place where you falter and fall under the pressures of this life, I encourage you to find out where the Lord stands in your life. Because it can easily be a turning point for you. It can be the place in your life where you say, you know what? The enemy is playing for keeps, but so is God. It is a time where you can say, I know what the enemy is seeking to do, but I'm gonna get serious about this thing with the Lord. In this season, I'm not gonna settle for just, you know, reading the verse of the day. I'm not just gonna settle for going to church on Sunday, and I'm not just gonna settle for listening to worship music on my way to school or on my way to my job. I'm not just gonna settle for those prayers where I lay down in the bed and I say, Now lay me down to sleep. I'm not just gonna settle for laying down and God, I God, I'm and because it's tempting. But I learned a long time ago that that does not suffice. And it's not because I cannot stress this enough, that it's not because God says, mm-mm, that's not enough. That's not gonna be enough for me. That's if you really wanna, but in the same way he is saying that, but because he knows the enemy is out there, he knows that there is an enemy who is roaring around like a lion seeking whom he may devour. So, yes, God is saying this will not suffice, but it's not so much that it don't please me, it's because I know that this will not be enough for the attack of the enemy. This will not be enough for the thing that I have called you to do. This will not be enough. This anointing that you have, this oil in your cup is not enough for what I'm calling you to. It is not enough for breaking generational curses, it is not enough for going into dark places and dispelling light, the light that I've put inside of you. It is not enough for the thing that I want you to birth, for the business that I want you to carry, for the way in which I want you to prophesy. It is not enough for the demons I want you to cause to flee in the name of Jesus. It is not enough for the intercessor that I am creating you to be. It is not enough. You cannot bear to just lay down and speak to me and be half asleep. I need you to awaken and understand that there is more, that there is more that I'm calling you to, that there is more in store. I need you to understand that there is a great awakening that needs to take place in your heart. There is a great awakening that God longs to take place in this realm on this earth, in his people, in his church, and in his body. And I believe I'm guessing hell too was crying out because the enemy was definitely trying to interfere here, but I guess he does not yet know that I'm mature enough to not just let anything break the moment. Let's carry on. Thank you, Jesus. There is a great awakening that heaven is crying out to happen in the body of Christ. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Awaken us, oh God. Awaken us from our sleep, Father. May the intercessors be prepared to rise up at 3 a.m. May the businessmen and the businesswomen be aware that the enemy seeks to destroy everything that they've created, that it is important that they stay obedient unto Christ. It is important that they submit their business unto the Lord, that it too might bring him glory. It is important that we make sure we carry the gospel and that we carry the Father and our relationship into every area of our lives, into every arena, that we leave no stone uncovered. That we leave no stone uncovered for the enemy. But that we cover everything under the blood of Jesus, that we cover everything under the covering of Christ, and you say, God, this is yours. God, this is yours. This area of my life is yours. It is a time where we are to be sold out to Christ. It is a time where we cannot afford to hold on to this area of our life and say, Well, God, I'm just not ready yet. God is bringing his people or longing to bring his people to a place where they will say, God, I'm truly withholding nothing. And when we say that, God will begin stripping your life, he will begin removing things from you. He may even begin removing friends from you. He may begin removing hobbies from you, things that are taking up your time that he longs to take up. Or he may begin removing things that take up your time that he would much rather be something else, such as quality time with your family, because I need more time to be taken up with your family so that this time can be took up with me. God is wanting to orchestrate the lives of his people, he is wanting to reordain how you move about in your day, he is wanting to reconstruct how you live in this life, he is wanting to re-identify with how you think. He wants you to. Like, it's as if God wants to come in and clean up something I heard the Spirit of the Lord say when I was. Preparing for this was the enemy will sift you, he will come and try to sift you like weed. But as I talk to you this morning, I feel as though the spirit of the Lord also wants to do some sifting. I knew that this was going to be a podcast where I strongly urge you, and it may seem as though I am coming off fiercely, but I know that the Holy Spirit is pushing me. I know that this is the voice of the Lord. Hearken unto the voice of the Lord because I am at a place in my life where I do not have time to patty cake, I do not have time to draw you in. I do not have time to make this sound sweet, and I do not have time to formulate words that come off a little more sensitively because the enemy is playing for keeps. The enemy is busy, the enemy is unleashing heavy attacks, traumatizing attacks on the people of God, on the people who don't who do not know God. He is positioning the people who do not know God to end up in a place where they're so traumatized they become insane. He is unleashing attacks on people that leave them homeless. I'm talking about people who should never be holding a sign. Because it seemed as though things were going good. I believe in my spirit, I hear the spirit of the Lord saying there are gonna be people who you never would have thought would have ended up there. And those are the people that God wants to mention their name. If you will make room to go deeper, if you will make room for God, I'm talking about real room. I was talking with my sisters on the way back from the studio one night, and I said, you know that they perform great miracles in foreign countries, and I believe a lot of it is because they're not as busy as we are. Things don't have to be as fancy. They find a photo up chair, they invite their family because they're desperate for a move, and they sit down in a building where they can meet God. And it's simple, and then they hear the gospel, and it's as it's almost like every time they hear it, they're hearing it for the first time. But for us, if we sit down in a church service and that word does not apply to our life right then and there, we fold our arms and we say, Well, you know, he he did okay today. The preacher, you know, he did, you know, it was. But little do you know, the very next season you will find yourself exactly where the pastor said you would find yourself. If we are not careful to hinge ourselves on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, and I'm talking about through pastors, I'm talking about through prophets, I'm talking about through the friends that we write off because they are babes in Christ, and we think that surely the Lord is not yet using them. I'm talking about the people who seem insignificant, the people that sit at the back of the church. I'm talking about that family member who might even be a sinner, that Lord, that the Lord just so happened to say, you know what, I'm gonna use their advice, and maybe then they'll hearken. I'm talking about God using the foolish to confound the wise in this day and time. I believe that God is getting ready to exhaust every gift. I believe that He is getting ready to use whosoever will. And I believe that we will think a lot of it will come out of the church, a lot of it will come out of the people who have known God for a long time. A lot of it will come out of those who look sanctified, who look holy, but those who have eyes to see and those who have ears will hear to will be able to recognize the people that God is actually using, the people whose mouths say they love God and their hearts are actually close to him and not far from him. I believe it will be the people who you would not think could have a word for you, but they were sitting in their closet at 2 and 3 a.m. that they pushed the plate away all day long just to come to you, and you would not have known it unless you have eyes to see and ears to hear what thus saith the Lord is important that our eyes and ears are sensitive to what God is doing, to who God is using, because the enemy is playing for keeps. But so is God. God is not playing about his people either. I really want to end this episode here because it is such a heavy word that I brought today, and I want it to cling to your heart, and we're gonna continue it with a part two where we get into Peter, whom the enemy demanded to have, and so God allowed the enemy to test Peter, but Peter's faithfulness turned yet again. I just commented on those verses and reminded where I was in that time in my life and freaking. And with all that being said, I also want to pray with you before we go. God, I pray for the woman and man of God who will listen to this podcast. I pray that they will understand that there is a deepening, God, that is required in their walks with you, Father, that you are calling them into deep waters, God, places where their faith has never gone, places, God, where their prayer life, God, has never gone, places that they've never known in you, Father. I believe you want to reveal yourself to your people. I believe you want to do it directly. I believe you want to do it intimately. I believe you want to do it in their clauses. Ironically, where I am right now, praying over your people, God. And I ask, God, that you would urge their hearts, God, that this word would penetrate their hearts in so much that they respond to the call to a deeper walk with you, Father. I pray for a fresh wind to take over their prayer life, their devotion life, God, that they might know you like they never have before. In Jesus' mighty name, I will see you guys in part two. Amen and amen.