Your Weapon

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Good afternoon and welcome to Healing Stream Waters Daily Docent. I have a message from the Lord. Hallelujah. A message, my friend, for you. It's recorded in God's word. Hallelujah. And this word is true. Look and live, my brother. Look and live, my sister. Look to Jesus Christ and live. I want to be reading in your hearing today from the 16th chapter of Acts. I'm going to start at the 25th verse through the 28th. It's a familiar chapter, and because this is a continuation on prayer, I wanted to do this verse again. We know that uh repetition is the mother of learning. And so I want to reiterate and just tell again to my friends and family that prayer, prayer works. But it says, but at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were open, and everyone's chains were loose. And the keeper of the prison, awakening from his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing that the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here. You know, a lot of time we people fight with bullets and guns and swords and spears and knives. But the most battles that I knew in the Bible was not one with any of that. Our weapons, our weapons. First of all, the Bible says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into obedience every disobedience when our obedience had been fulfilled. Paul and Silas, they wasn't in church, they wasn't on a choir, they wasn't in a prayer meeting, they were doing what they were doing in a place that wasn't normal, but they was doing what they knew to do and what they knew to work. At midnight, well, why wasn't they sleep? I don't know. But at midnight, they prayed and they sung. That was a combination, singing with grace to your heart and praying. You know, those are things that God loves, especially when it's coming from a place of purity, of honesty, and sincerity. But I just believe that they prayed and sung with such conviction that the other prisoners were persuaded to. Yeah, they did have the key. They they had the key of G, which I was told the key of G means the deliverance key. So when they sung and prayed in the key of G, those chains, those handcuffs came loose. To the point when the jailer realized what happened because all the doors was open, all the chains um were off. He thought that the prisoners had fled. But Paul cried out with a loud voice, say, Do yourself no harm, because he had a great task in his hand, keeping all those prisoners bound. But he saw the doors open, he thought they had left. Paul said, Don't um, don't do yourself no harm. We are all still here. You don't have to commit suicide, you don't have to take your life because we are men of God. We ain't gonna flee. If we're gonna, if we're gonna leave, it's gonna be leave because God set us free. We know that He who the Son sets free is free indeed. I'm not going out by no scheme, no tactic, or nothing of the of man or of the devil. I'm gonna wait until my change comes. Because when God does it, it's forever, it's not coming back. I'll praise God for He said, Life and death is in the power of your tongue, and a lot of things come out by fasting and praying. Get your combo back, whether it's fasting and praying, whether it's praying and singing, do something. Your weapon tree is mighty because it's mighty through God, and we can pull down stronghold, even the imagination, we can cast down imagination, even those thoughts and things that don't want to align and line up with the word of God. Anything that's not lining up with the word of God, not agreeing with what God said, you got the ability, you got the power, and you have the authority to bring it down. I so thank God for his word, his word is forever settled in the heaven. And when I can't do anything else, I can pray. We sing a song that says, Pray on my child, pray on my child, David. Only thing he had was his shepherd's tools, he didn't have a sword in a spear, he didn't have a big cloak of mail. Anything that God is in is always the majority. We are not the minority, and we already won. The battle is not ours, it's the Lord's. I thank God for victory in and through Christ Jesus. When the when the the people were needed water because it was a famine for their animals, because without water and food, people died. But they sent for prophets and he came and he said, You won't see wind or rain. But I'm telling you to dig the ditches, you need something for the water to go in, whatever you asking from the Lord prepare, dig the ditches. He said you won't see water or you you won't see see rain. But when you dig the ditches, them ditches are gonna be filled with what you ask for. God is a guy, he doesn't, he's unorthodox, he's past finding out, he works in mysterious ways, they they conquered things, they uh they won battles by beating beating lanterns and all kinds of things that wasn't um conducive to a battle, for real. But we can't fight this battle the way man do it. If we depend on God, he will give us unorthodox ways to do it, he works that way, whatever you're asking for. Sometimes maybe we go play a game. We may think that it's something that's over the heels. No, it's not until our voice. And if you ask God and you really want to know how to make something work, how to get something fixed, when we inquire of God, he will give us an answer. Who knew that an earthquake would come out of and a handcuffs come out of the people off the prisoners just by singing and praising? Praise is a weapon, and while he told them to send the praises out, that they would praise me in the beauty of holiness. Who would think that you'll win about a battle just with praise? But it was done. Praise is a weapon, send the praises out, whether it's you, whether it's a group of you, go out to battle in praise. I've seen it with my own eyes, I've seen it with my in my own life. He keeps every promise, and you will never be forsaken because he never failed. He did it with Daniel, he did it with the Hebrew boys, he did it with David, he did it back then, and he's still doing it now. Mary said, Whatever he tells you to do, you do that. A lot of the time we're paralyzed because we analyze, just do what God tells you to do, even if it sounds crazy, do it. If it even if it doesn't make any sense, do it because he's not trying to make sense, he's trying to make faith again. This is healing stream waters, daily doses. Pray, your weapons are powerful. Prayer and singing will get it, it will move God every time because it if especially if it's a sweet aroma going up in his ears, he inhabits the praises of his people. He comes and peeps over and see what are my what's wrong with my child. What are they what are they crying? Not so much a crying, but what's in this aroma? What are they saying to me? You know that to to praise only thing you need is to have breath. Let everything that have breath praise Jesus. Whatever you got, praise him. Prayer and praise is some powerful tools. Use it. This is healing stream water again with your daily doses. Praise God, praise God, praise God. From whom are blessings flow? God loves you, I love you, and there's nothing you can do about it.